A.N.- hopefully the spelling and grammar errors found in the first 3 chapters have been corrected.
My amazing granddaughter has agreed to be my editor.
Now if we can just do something about my run on sentences……..
New note: I should never think I just know something without double checking.
I assumed that Scotland Yard was like our FBI. I was wrong. By the time I post this the corrections will have been made.
Trina Ray, auror, pushed back from the table and stretched. She and her newly assigned trainee had come back with so many files that they had commandeered one of the small conference rooms.
There were rumors that the tablets they used would be made compatible with all of the UK's muggle police computers. She hoped that the negotiations would be successful soon. Ms. Weasley was spearheading those talks, which gave one hope. It was ridiculous the hours spent, first by the local employees who had to make copies of the files, then by Magical Law employees who had to read and correlate the information.
She glanced toward her trainee, who was typing information in to his tablet. "Louis, fancy a cuppa? I need a break to process my thoughts. Let's secure the room and take a walk to that new tea shop. I hear they have decent croissants, I'll buy and you can tell me if they are close to what you get when you visit your French grandparents."
In Teddy 's cubicle he and Scorpius were reviewing files of their own. The younger man looked up. "Teddy, can you take a look at this? I think I see a pattern, I want to know if you see it too."
Teddy reached for the file marked, "animal control".
The Gryffindor common room was bathed in a soft rose tinted glow. Outside the leaded glass windows the fall light was fading fast.
Two red heads sat on the sofa closest to the fireplace. The boy, a strapping six foot, curly headed charmer, had his hand resting lightly on the shoulder of the girl.
She was a petite, barely five foot, beauty. With straight dark red hair that, unrestrained, fell well past her waist.
Hugo Weasley had a slight frown and was alternatively staring at his cousin's face and the sealed parchment she held in her hand.
Lily Potter, frankly, looked terrified. In her hands was a letter from John Hopkins, a premier muggle and magical medical center.
John Hopkins was located in the United States and was Lily's first choice for post Hogwarts training.
Sure Great Britain had equally prestigious medical programs but none could touch their pediatric newborn course.
She had her heart set on working with the tiniest and most at risk patients.
As her seventh year had begun Madame Chang, headmaster Longbottom and Gryffindor's head of house, professor Weasley, had worked with her to prepare her applications to her top 4 choices.
Now here, October 1st, she sat holding the possible map to her future.
Her hands shook, what if it was a no. Lily Luna Potter had rarely been scared in her life. Being one of the last pair of Potter/Weasley cousins tended to make you brave. That plus having bad ass parents. Heck her dad saved the whole freaking world at seventeen. Her mom, with her Godmother and Uncle Neville, led a student army at sixteen.
She had the DNA of grandparents, and a family, who back through time had kicked evil's ass. But this simple page of parchment had brought her to her figurative knees.
Hugo squeezed his best friend's shoulder. "Come on Lils open it."
Pulling her wand from out of her sleeve she used the tip to break the seal.
Ginny Potter was sitting in the makeup chair, preparing to guest host Lee Jordan's Wednesday evening Quidditch analysis program.
She had just read over the intro: "Hello sports fans! Ginny Potter here substituting for Lee. I want to add my congratulations to Lee and his beautiful wife Alicia on the birth of their 7th child. I got a short visit with momma and baby this afternoon and I want to tell you little Amy is as beautiful."
She felt her mobile vibrate, Hugo? Upon answering it her nephews deep voice, so like his dad's replied.
"Aunt Ginny? Lily has something to tell you."
"Mummy? I got in! John Hopkins accepted me, pending my N.E.W.T.S.! I know you're about to go on but I just had to tell you! I gotta go! Daddy's calling on my mobile! I love you! Call me after your show please!"
"Aunt Ginny, did you get all of that? She's a bit excited. Oh crap! Gotta go she just jumped through the portrait hole yelling something about telling Uncle Neville before he heads home. Love you! Bye!"
Word spread fast along the Hogwart's and Weasley network. At the school it was assisted by a fast moving redheaded blur, followed closely by her bemused cousin.
Lily managed to tell Neville, Cho Chang and Charlie Weasley all before dinner.
Phone calls to her godfather in Devon and her godmother, currently in the German alps, were made as soon as Lily has exited the great hall.
Hugo grinned and headed toward the kitchens, his cousin had hardly eaten anything. She was half Weasley and he knew that as soon as the adrenaline abated hunger would set in. He was fairly certain the house elves knew by now and would not mind sending up a snack later.
Al grinned as he disconnected from the call. He had figured the gleam in his Mum's eyes tonight was more than just the new baby. Da sounded like he was about to burst with pride.
Al had always said his little sister was the brightest sibling.
Standing up he turned to shout toward the bedrooms of the flat. "Rose! Scorp! Louis! Lily got accepted to John Hopkins! Come on! Let's head to the Leaky! First rounds on me!"