"Now that the Dark Lord is gone, and most of his death eaters fled, we will be able to rule the wizarding world, and possibly the muggle world. What do you say Fudge?" Dumbledore asked.
"I say we take over the school first, then once we have the school under control, the death eater's will come to us, and we'll be able to take over the world," Fudge said with an amused laugh.
"Well, we have a lot of planning to do next," Dumbledore replied.
"What about the Potter girl? She'd be perfect bait," Fudge replied.
"No, she's already on to us, we need to lure the Professors' out of the school first, then once they are gone, it will be simple to take over the school," Dumbledore said with a smile.
"Sounds good," Fudge laughed.
Emily sat up in bed, waking up her kitten. She gently patted the cat's head and leaned against her headboard. Emily put her hand to her heart and felt it beating extremely fast. Suddenly a sharp pain reached from her heart to her head.
"Voldemort is dead," Emily said, clutching her head. "But why is my heart hurting?"
Emily decided to get a drink of water and felt like she would collapse before she made it to the water basin. She poured herself a drink, sipping the water slowly. She then felt too weak to walk back to her bed, so she sat down on the window seat and looked out into the night sky. The trees were slowly coming into blossom, and the leaves were turning green. The past few months had flown by rather quickly, without any odd disturbances. The only thing that had gone wrong was that Josh and she still argued constantly.
Emily's heart started beating quickly again. She scrunched up her face, trying to make the pain go away. Emily pressed her face against the cool glass window and stared up at the sky. There were a million stars shining brightly in the night sky. Emily smiled, pretending her mother was sitting on one of those stars with her grandfather and Harry's parents, watching Emily stare back at them. This thought made Emily feel better, and she fell asleep on the window seat, dreaming of her mother.
***
"Emily, what are you doing there?" Kelly asked, opening her curtains and finding Emily sleeping on the window seat, with her face pressed against the glass. Emily woke up out of her pleasant dreams with a start, and wondered why she didn't wake up from the blinding sunlight earlier.
"I got a drink of water, and I decided to sit down for a minute and I guess I fell asleep," Emily half-lied.
"Ok, we have Herbology today! It's such a pretty day to be going outside!" Kelly said. Emily smiled and slowly stood up, finding that all of her strength had returned.
Emily closed the curtains around her bed and quickly got dressed. She gently kissed Angel on the head and opened her curtains once again. Emily walked down into the common room with Kelly and Rosie, both gossiping about boys. Emily laughed softly at their conversation topic and decided to open the portrait hole.
"Emily wait!" Penny yelled, running down the stairs.
"Hi Penny," Emily said, turning around.
"I just want to say, thanks for sticking up for me last month when I was held on trial. I still feel horrible about what I did to you. I hope you can forgive me," Penny replied.
"Of course I will, have you served all of your detentions yet?" Emily asked.
"I serve the last one tonight. But I deserved getting a month's worth of detentions. I'm just afraid to go home this summer. I don't know how my parents are going to punish me," Penny answered, getting a worried look in her eyes.
"But it wasn't exactly your fault. My Dad told me about what happened to your Aunt Ginny. Your Dad should forgive you, I know your mom will," Emily said.
"My Mom forgives people easily, yes, but not my Dad. You must not know him too well Emily. He can hold grudges forever, and if what I did gets out, it could ruin his chances of becoming minister of magic someday. He wants to be Minister so badly, and if I ruin his chances, he may never forgive me," Penny said, starting to frown.
"I'm sure everything will be ok," Emily said, trying to comfort Penny.
"I hope you're right Emily, but I just don't know," Penny said, shaking her head sadly.
"Why don't you come on down to breakfast with us?" Emily suggested.
"You guys don't want to be around me, in fact no one does," Penny replied.
"Of course we want you to eat with us. No one deserves to eat alone," Rosie said, grabbing Penny by the wrist and dragging her out of the common room.
"I don't think Parker would want to eat with his older cousin though," Penny protested.
"Well I hear Emily can kick a guy pretty hard in you know where, so if he says anything, we'll send Emily after him," Kelly grinned. Emily laughed, but didn't say anything. Penny smiled and followed the three first years, her heart feeling slightly less heavy.
"Have you always eaten alone?" Kelly asked, being her usual nosy self.
"Well I used to eat with my cousins, but then they found their own group of friends, so I was left alone. They would eat with me once in awhile, but then they felt I had grown too snotty, so they just ignored me. I tried not to be so snotty, but I guess it didn't work. None of the girls my age seem to like me much, so yeah, basically I've always eaten by myself," Penny said sadly.
"Well don't you worry, we'll find you a nice cute boy," Rosie said with a smile. Penny smiled.
"But I don't think any guy would want to be with me," Penny replied.
"What about Aaron, he's 4th year, right?" Kelly suggested.
"Aaron wouldn't want anything to do with me," Penny said, getting a dreamy look in her eyes.
"I think someone has a crush on him," Rosie grinned.
"That's just gross!" Emily replied.
"That's just because he's now your brother," Kelly said, turning back to Penny. "I bet Emily will talk to him for you, right Emily?"
"I'm not really in the mood to set up people," Emily said quickly.
"Don't worry, I'll get her to talk to him," Kelly whispered. Emily overheard her and glared. Kelly just laughed.
"You don't have to Emily, I would understand if you never talked to me again," Penny said.
"I'll think about it," Emily said with a sigh.
"Good!" Kelly said with a smile. Emily glared at her again, and returned to eating her breakfast.
***
After lessons that day, Emily decided to head over to the library. She sat down at a table in the corner, farthest away from Madame Pince's desk, and decided to re-read Hogwarts A History. She didn't feel like doing her homework at that particular moment. Emily made herself comfortable in the chair, opening the book to the first page. After only getting a half hour of peace and quiet, her friends found her and joined up with Emily.
"There you are Emily!" Kelly said, taking a seat at the table.
"You're reading that again?" Rosie asked. Emily nodded, slowly putting the book back in her bag.
"Didn't you like just finish it?" Kelly asked. Emily nodded.
"You read too much!" Rosie said.
"Shh, quiet, it's a library," Emily said, putting her finger up to her lips. Rosie and Kelly smirked at Emily and grabbed their bags, when Emily stood up.
"Should we start our homework?" Rosie asked.
"I guess so," Emily replied with a sigh.
Once they were seated at a table in the common room, doing their homework, Kelly started talking about boys again. Emily just sighed and continued to write her report on the Goblin Rebellion's. After Kelly had said something bad about every boy in Gryffindor, Emily finished her report.
"So, Emily, who do you like?" Kelly asked.
"No one," Emily said.
"Oh, come on you have to like someone!" Rosie persisted.
"Well then, who do you like?" Emily asked.
"Andrew," Rosie muttered and turned bright red. Kelly dropped her pencil and her mouth fell open.
"You can't like him!" Kelly exclaimed once she had come to her senses.
"Why not?" Rosie asked.
"Because I like him!" Kelly replied. Emily snorted into her Transfiguration book.
"This isn't funny Emily!" Rosie snapped.
"Well, while you guys work this out, I'll go sit on that couch," Emily said and walked over to an empty couch.
"Emily, can I talk to you?" Aaron asked, sitting down next to Emily.
"Ah, sure," Emily replied.
"Good, Josh get over here!" Aaron yelled across the common room.
"What? No, I'm not talking to him!" Emily said quickly.
"You're going to have to live with him in a couple of months," Aaron said, turning to Emily.
"What do you want Aaron? No way! I'm not going anywhere near her!" Josh said, starting to turn away. Aaron stood up and grabbed Josh by the back of his robes. Josh reluctantly sat down on the other side of Aaron.
"Ok, so what do you want to talk about?" Emily asked.
"Why you two hate each other so much," Aaron replied.
"She's a stuck up snob, and of course everyone knows she's a Mudblood!" Josh said angrily.
"Don't you ever call me a Mudblood again! You're acting like Slytherin Trash!" Emily yelled.
"Josh, that's not explaining why you hate her," Aaron said, once they two of them had calmed down. "When she was announced missing, I saw the look on your face."
"She just complains too much, and acts like she's the only one who is hurting about our parents getting married," Josh replied, glaring at Emily and now at Aaron.
"Ok, this is good, now Emily, you're turn," Aaron said.
"Are you like a counselor or something?" Emily asked. Aaron just smiled. "Ok, well he insults my father, and also acts like he's the only one hurting."
"I do not!" Josh replied. Emily rolled her eyes.
"You two better get along, we're all going to have to live together soon," Aaron said.
"I don't like people who insult my father," Emily said, crossing her arms and sitting back against the couch.
"Well I don't like people who insult my mother, and who aren't appreciative of my mother's help!" Josh spat.
"Well your Mom didn't have to act like I'd never had a Mom in my life!" Emily retorted.
"I would punch you if you weren't a girl!" Josh replied.
"Why don't you just cast a spell on me?" Emily asked.
"Because it's not right to do that to a girl," Josh said.
"Well, fine! Aaron what do you think of the marriage?" Emily asked.
"I wasn't too happy at first, but I know my mother will always have a special place in her heart for my Dad, so I guess I don't mind it that much anymore," Aaron replied.
"Do you think my Dad has forgotten about my Mom?" Emily asked quietly.
"I don't think he has, I think he still loves her, but it was time for him to move on," Aaron said. But seeing the look on Emily's face he continued. "I don't think he'll ever forget your Mom, and I bet he'll talk to you about her when he feels ready to. I know your father loves you."
"I know he loves me, but I still can't believe he married again. No offense to your Mom, but I'm not ready for a Mom," Emily said.
"I wasn't either, but I think your Dad will make a good step-father," Aaron replied.
"Oh, how sweet! But do you guys care what I think? I don't want to have a father. I've never had a father, so why start now!" Josh yelled and stormed off.
"That went well," Aaron said. Emily looked at him like he was crazy. "It went better then could be expected."
"I guess. Oh my gosh! My dream!" Emily said, jumping up from the couch.
"What?" Aaron asked.
"I got to go see McGonagall!" Emily said, and dashed over to the portrait hole.
Emily ran down many corridors, dodging a few students as they went back to the common room, after dinner. Emily almost ran into Grant, Andrew, and Parker. They stared after her, shrugged their shoulders and headed back up to the common room. Emily ran into Snape as she turned a corner.
"Miss Potter! Watch where you are going!" Snape said icily.
"Sorry Professor! But I had a dream and…" Emily began, but fell to her knees clutching her heart.
"Miss Potter! What is the meaning of this?" Snape demanded.
"Dumbledore and Fudge are in the school!" Emily whispered and fell down onto her back, her hand on her heart and her face pale, filled with pain.
A/N: So, what did you think? I know Dumbledore is a bit OOC, but it's my story, and he has gone bad. I was going to write more, but I wanted tot end it like this. It's not exactly a cliffhanger, but it makes you want more. Or at least I hope it does! So write me a review and tell me what you think! I think this is only going to be a couple more chapters. Possibly, only 25. But I will probably write all of her 7 years. So go review!!