Book 5: Chapter 1: Life at Grimauld place.

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Selena's POV:

Dear Harry,

I cannot give too many details but I am not going to be staying at home or in America with my uncle. We are trying to solve everything and hopefully I will see you soon.

Talon says hi,

Raven.

I sigh as I finish my letter to Harry. It felt like I was always having to stretch the truth.

"Selena," mum says. "It's time to go."

I get to my feet and grab stars cage. My suitcase is already downstairs. Mum is waiting by the front door.

"Where are we going if not to uncle Andy's?" I ask her as I walk towards the front door.

"You'll find out when we get there," she explains to me.

We both grab our suitcases and head out the door. There she holds out her arm for me and I sigh. I hater apparating.

We side apparate to a village that I do not recognize. I look around and see different houses that look like there are only muggles.

Mum pulls out what looks like a cigarette lighter from her pocket. She opens it and then there is a click and all the street lamp lights disappear. I gasp.

Mum then lights her wand slightly and hands me a piece of paper.

"Memorize this Selena," she says gently.

I take the paper and recognize my grandfather Albus writing.

The headquarters for the order of Phoenix can be found at No. 12 Grimmauld place.

Once I have it memorized I pass it back to mum who burns it. I look around at the different houses. When I find no. 11 I look right and see No. 13. I look around and there does not seem to be any No. 12.

"Uh, mum?" I begin confused.

"Think about what you just read," she explains smiling.

I do as she says and as soon as I get the No. 12 there is a loud rumbling sound. I look up and see in between houses 11 and 13 another house just appeared. I glance at the occupants of the two other houses but they do not even seem to know what is happening.

Mum takes her suitcase and motions for me to follow. We go through and she knocks lightly on the door. I am shocked when my father answers it.

"Dad!" I say jumping into his arms the minute we are inside. "Oh my god its so good to see you."

He nods. "You too Raven. Come in both of you. I just made a cup of tea."

We nod and leave our suitcases in the hall. I am shocked as we go by what looks like shrunken house elf heads. I go to scream but dad covers my mouth with his hand.

"Don't make too much noise whatever you do?" He says releasing me.

"Why?" I ask.

Before answering me he sits down at the table and so do I. "This was my parents home. They're are a lot of dark artifacts around and you do not want to know what happens when theres loud noises out there!"

I nod.

"Okay next question," I say looking around. "What are we doing here?"

"This is where we will be living from now on," Mum says and I turn to raise an eyebrow at her. "Now excuse me."

She runs off to the toilet and I turn to my dad who looks worried. "She's been feeling a little ill lately."

I glance where she'd gone out the door. "I hope she's okay."


I have officially decided I hate this house.

From the moment we got here its been clean, clean, clean. The morning after we got here mum and I began redecorating the lounge. We brought new furniture including sofa's, a coffee table, book stand, a record player and a few other things.

For the color of the room we decided on beige. It took us two days to finish painting then we started placing the furniture around.

That night was the orders first meeting. I was forced to go upstairs and sit in my room reading as I waited for the meeting to end. It was horrible as I had no one to talk to.

Another thing I hated is I haven't been allowed to go outside to transform in ages either. My inner animal wants to run free.

After what felt like hours but was probably only one hour I hear a knock on my door.

"Meetings over Selena," mum says as she enters the room. "Come on there's some people who want to meet you."

We head down and the first person I see is Remus Lupin. I smile and walk over to him.

"Hello Professor Lupin," I say and I hug him which he happily return.

"Selena," he says mock angrily. "I am no longer your professor please call me Remus."

"Okay Remus," I say laughing at his face. "Its good to see you again."

A girl with pink hair approaches us.

"Selena," my dad says coming to stand besides us. "This is Tonks. She is actually your cousin on my side."

I smile at the young woman.

"Hi," I say shaking her hand. "Nice hair."

She laughs before making her hair purple and her nose into a ducks.

"WOW!" I say having read about people who can do that. "Your a metamorphmagus!"

She laughs now.

"I see you've inherited your mums brains," she says nudging Sirius.

"HEY!" Sirius says nudging her before smiling at me. "Lets eat."

Mum shakes her head. "I'll just have a coffee."

I loose my smile. "Your still feeling ill? Don't you think its been a bit long?"

Mum shakes her head. "Just the stomach flu."

I shrug before we all have dinner where I meet Kingsley Shacklebolt, Hestia Jones, Deadlus diggle and a few other members of the order.

"Where's grandfather?" I ask mum.

She sighs. "He had to leave."

"Without saying hello?" I ask again a little shocked.

"He's really busy," mum says and she shares a glance with dad.


POTTER AND BLACK:

THE BOY AND GIRL WHO LIES!

Harry Potter and Selena Dumbledore are famous for the destruction of You-know-who when they were one years old. But lately there is some question to there sanity.

Just before school finished the final task of the tri-wizard tournament took place. When the children who lie came out with Cedric Diggory it was soon discovered that Diggory had died. Instead of saying it was an accident the children who lied came up with there own story.

According to them two and Albus Dumbledore He who must not be named is back. The ministry can assure people that these are lies. I mean We are talking about a boy who has funny turns and the daughter of Sirius Black.

Do not listen to anything they say.

I glare at the head of the morning paper. It has been a week since we came here and the Weasley's will be arriving today. First grandfather is kicked out of the confederation of wizards and now the prophet is putting bad things about Harry and I in the paper.

I am so upset and hurt. How can this go on. I absentmindedly stroke my cheek where I still have the scar from the enchanted knife Wormtail used to get my blood.

"Selena," mum says when she sees what I was reading. "You should really ignore that."

"How can I when there making me and Harry look like the biggest liars ever," I say to mum. "How are people gonna react when they see us in the street. Or at school. If our lives were not already bad enough this is just gonna make it worse. I haven't been able to become Raven either one of my forms in ages..."

Mum pulls me into a hug. She soothes me until we hear a knock on the door.

Dad answers it and a few seconds later the Weasley's enter. Mrs Weasley herself seems to be crying. I look at the others Alarmed and see all of them look angry.

"Selena," mum says and I turn to her. "Can you take the children up to your room?"

I nod and motion for everyone to follow me.

"What happened?" I ask when we get to my room.

"Percy!" Fred growls.

I sigh. "What happened?"

"Percy and Dad had a row," said Fred. "I've never seen Dad row with anyone like that. It's normally Mum who shouts.!

"It was just before we left to come here,' said Ron. "Percy came home earlier and told us he'd been promoted."

"You're kidding?" I ask

Though I knew perfectly well that Percy was highly ambitious, I was under impression that Percy had not made a great success of his first job at the Ministry of Magic. Percy had committed the fairly large oversight of failing to notice that his boss was being controlled by Lord Voldemort (not that the Ministry had believed it - they all thought Mr Crouch had gone mad).

"Yeah, we were all surprised,' said George, 'because Percy got into a load of trouble about Crouch, there was an inquiry and everything. They said Percy ought to have realised Crouch was off his rocker and informed a superior. But you know Percy, Crouch left him in charge, he wasn't going to complain."

"So how come they promoted him?" I ask them all.

"That's exactly what we wondered," said Ginny, "He came home really pleased with himself - 'even more pleased than usual, if you can imagine that - and told Dad he'd been offered a position in Fudge's own office. A really good one for someone only a year out of Hogwarts: Junior Assistant to the Minister. He expected Dad to be all impressed, I think."

"Only Dad wasn't," said Fred grimly.

"Why?" I query.

"Well, apparently Fudge has been storming round the Ministry checking that nobody's having any contact with Dumbledore," said George.

"Your grandfather's name is mud with the Ministry these days, see," said Fred.

"Dad says Fudge has made it clear that anyone who's in league with Dumbledore can clear out their desks,' said George. "Trouble is, Fudge suspects Dad, he knows he's friendly with Dumbledore, and he's always thought Dad's a bit of a weirdo because of his Muggle obsession."

"But what's that got to do with Percy?" I say to them both.

"I'm coming to that. Dad reckons Fudge only wants Percy in his office because he wants to use him to spy on the family - and Dumbledore."

I grimace.
"Bet Percy didn't take that too well," I say unhappily.

Ron laughed in a hollow sort of way.

"He went completely berserk. He said - well, he said loads of terrible stuff. He said he's been having to struggle against Dad's lousy reputation ever since he joined the Ministry and that Dad's got no ambition and that's why we've always been - you know - 'not had a lot of money, I mean -"

"What?' I growl in disbelief, as Ginny made a noise like an angry cat.

"I know," said Ron in a low voice. "And it got worse. He said Dad was an idiot to run around with Dumbledore, that Dumbledore was heading for big trouble and Dad was going to go down with him, and that he - Percy - knew where his loyalty lay and it was with the Ministry. And if Mum and Dad were going to become traitors to the Ministry he was going to make sure everyone knew he didn't belong to our family any more. We think he's going to take off."

I shake my head. I never liked Percy but to say all that is low.

"Is that why your mums so upset?" I ask.

"Yeah," Ginny says shaking her head. "We've all come to an agreement not to speak about him around mum and dad."

I nod and then there is a knock on my door.

"Come in," I say and my mum enters and smiles at all of us. "Dinners ready guys. Your mums doing better now."

We all walk down the stairs together and we eat. None of us say much all deep in our own thoughts.

If Percy is willing to turn against his own family for the ministry then I don't know what else could go wrong.


Over the next few weeks the house was starting to look a lot better. Mum and dad had there own room on the first floor and I had my own room on the second.

I had a desk, chair, bed, window seat, wardrobe, my walls were lilac and I had posters all over them. I had invited Ginny to join me and when Hermione arrived she also joined us.

The kitchen looked brand new with all new appliances and beige wallpaper.

About two days after we arrived I had met Kreacher and I can say that even though my father hates him he isn't that bad.

Harry has been writing regularly but I cannot go into details with him. I hate that we are best friends and I cannot share everything with him. But mum says soon he'll be coming to stay anyway.

But I am worried about mum. This stomach bug isn't going and she still is sick a lot. She is planning on going to the doctors next week.

I just hope everything will be okay.


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