"You mean he did what to her? Why didn't anyone tell me about this sooner?"
"Remus, calm down. This is exactly why we didn't tell you. It happened right after the moon's cycle. We were afraid of what you would have done to the child before we could have his parents collect him." Severus stated.
"But what about what he would have done to my daughter or any other girl in this school? He was here a full week before he was removed."
"That he was but, we kept him under constant surveillance, especially when he was in the Ravenclaw house."
"Albus, don't get me wrong but there are certain parts of this castle that even you don't know exist. We found this out back when we were students."
"But I am quite sure that they all appear on that map that you boys made. Besides he is gone now and he will not be returning."
"And what about the female students at his new school?"
"Remus, we learned our lesson once before, he will be attending a special school for children with his problems. You should be thankful that your daughter told Severus about it."
"That is another thing. You Severus as my friend should have mentioned this sooner, I have not been effected by the moon for the past 4 days and you didn't say one word about it."
"That is a good question. Unfortunately I was under strict orders from Albus that I was not to divulge the information. He was to have told you days ago."
"Days ago? The boy needs to be in Azkaban. Not in some special school."
"If he does it again and the girl is willing to step forward then he will be but, for now we were very lucky to get him to this school."
"Another child to step forward and only then they will do something? Hell Albus then need to do something now." Remus spat
Albus took a deep breath and said "I know you were hoping the Ministry would change their ways but because of what..."
"You had better not tell me that it's because of what I am." Albus didn't say anything else so Remus took his silence as what he hated to know and stormed out of the office.
Severus who had sat there in silence watching the whole thing pan out finally said "Albus, I don't recall anything like this happening before and I have been here most of my life."
"That is because it was long before you were even born."
"It wouldn't happen to be the same person in the sketches that I received from Mrs. Dursley would it?"
The headmaster just nodded.
"You know I was hoping that the person just resembled him and was actually someone from another school."
"So you know who it is."
"How could I not? Unfortunately I fear he has also figured it out as well." Severus replied
"There is a strong possibility that he hasn't."
"No, he knows. That is why his contacts have been watching us closer than they had before. He is determined that Harry stands by him when he is older."
"Then you need to stop these training sessions."
"Albus, you were the one who talked me into training him and the others. I cannot just stop the sessions now. Now when there has been such an improvement."
"What was before he found out that he is your son's great grandfather."
"No, I will continue to train him if for anything then so that he can defend himself. I have followed every bit of advice you have given me for the past seventeen years. You always told us that things would work out. Look at exactly how things have turned out Albus. If I didn't know any better I'd swear you knew all along that he was Lily's grandfather." The older man remained silent. "Merlin, you did know. How long have you kept this information hidden from us?"
"Severus you need to understand..."
"How long!"
"Since she first walked through those doors."
"And she graduated under the last name of Potter. You made sure that he would not know of an Evans with magical skills at all. Do you realize that if she kept her name then she would still be here today? The wedding, our lives, Harry's childhood would have been all that we had planned and dreamed it would be."
"Yes I realize that but there would have also been a strong chance that he would have tried to recruit her and then everything would have been lost."
"You claim to know everything about each and everyone of us. If you knew us as well as you claim then you would have known that she still wouldn't have followed him no matter who he was."
"We needed to make sure of that." Albus said
"So you talked her into accepting their last name when they took over as her guardians. All this time I felt guilty over her death because I was destined to be a death eater and I had fallen in love with a Muggle born. I thought I was the blame when all along the only reason she was murdered was because of her last name that you had talked her into accepting." Severus stood up and leaned over the older man's desk so that they were now eye to eye as he continued "Trust me old man. I will definitely continue to train the children. Not that they can fight in this bloody power struggle of yours but so that they will have the ability to defend themselves against anybody that may come after them."
"That is your own decision with Harry but what about Sirius' children? He will most likely want them to fight on the side of the light."
"Don't fool yourself or even try to fool me, there is as much light on your side as there is dark on Voldemort's. This fight of yours cost Black not only 12 years of his life locked away for the murder of our best friends but also the life of his wife. When I tell him of this and what exactly your plans are he will also walk away from your Order. Our children will not be used like we were."
"Severus, my boy, I understand you are upset but don't act so rash. Remember our agreement that released you from Azkaban."
"I do remember that agreement. I cannot do anything but remember it every single day along with the one you and I made before I got the mark. You need to remember who the one person was that always told me to keep documents of everything, no matter how old they are they would one day be useful." Dumbledore's eyes widened and for the first time Severus could remember, the twinkle was actually gone from them. "You didn't think I listened to you back then did you. Not only do I have written documents but there are many pensives locked away from each and every meeting that has even taken place that I have been apart of."
Just then Harry walked in, "Excuse me sir sorry to interrupt but I was looking for my dad."
Severus stood upright "Yes Harry?"
"You said to let you know when everyone was ready to leave."
"I will be right there."
"Professor Snape if you would excuse us I would like to speak to Harry."
"I'm sorry Headmaster, as his Head of House, anytime he or any other of those placed in my care are in this office I am to be present and I am quite sure that his guardian would agree with me." Severus stated as he placed a copy of the document he had the Dursley's sign that in short stated that all legal rights and privileges of Harold James Potter were relinquished to the care of his biological father, Severus S. Snape.
Harry didn't know what to think of what he was witnessing between the two men while Albus looked over the paper that was placed infront of him. Albus then looked at the boy and said "Harry, I want you to promise you will be careful and listen to the Professor here."
"Um, yes sir. I will." realizing the headmaster was looking older and more worn out than he had ever seen him before.
"Harry." Severus said
The boy then looked at his dad who stood by the door motioning for him to leave. He then walked out the door closely followed by Severus. "Good evening Albus, as usual we shall return on Sunday."
Minerva passed the two of them on the stairway, as she entered the room she looked at her mentor and she saw something she had never seen in the man before and it had her worried. "Albus, is everything alright?"
"No Minerva, this time it's not. We've lost them."
"Who did we lose? What are you talking about?"
"We lost them. I had hoped I covered all bases but I underestimated him." Albus said
Minerva sat down across the desk from the Headmaster, "Albus, you are tired, you have gone and overworked yourself again for you are not making any sense."
"No. I worked so hard to make everything go our way. The things I did and said I never realized how much he actually paid attention. He has actually found the truth behind it all. There is no way I will get any of them back again."
"What truth did you hide from him? Albus, you have been nothing but open and honest with everyone."
"That is where you are wrong. I have hid too many lies and it's over now. He was right, if I hadn't talked her into allowing them to adopt her then she would have never died. He would have approved their union and the boy would have never gone through any of this. He knew her grandmother's name and he would have recognized her as one of his own but my foolishness has done nothing but cause them all pain."
"Are you talking of Lily again? We have gone through this before and we all know why she died, everyone does."
"No, her death could have been prevented. Tom has done alot of cruel things in his time but one thing he would never had done was to kill his own granddaughter no matter what."
"Well he did and he almost killed her son as well."
"You do not understand. I knew who she was, I never told anyone before. I am the one who convinced her to accept the change in her name."
"So she changed her last name, that doesn't mean that it caused her death." Minerva stated
"You still are not listening. When the students graduate each year I send the list of names to the Ministry. You know as well as I so that he has always had inside contacts there. That list did not include anyone named Lillian Evans like it should have. Instead it had her listed as Lillian Potter, a child of the people who fought harder against him than anyone else. I wasn't out to protect her. I was out to make sure there was no chance of her following him. I didn't care about her personality, I only cared about the blood line."
"You did what you had to do to make sure everyone was safe."
"No, I did what I had to do to make sure I won. I'm suppose to be here for the children but I haven't been for a very long time. Severus was right. I saw everyone as a pawn in a game." Albus stood up and walked over to the window. "You were right earlier, it's been a long day and I'm exhausted. If you don't mind I'm going to turn in."
"Albus, are you alright?"
"For the first time since I can remember I actually am. Good evening Minerva."
"Good evening Albus." she said then started to leave the office. As she turned to close the door she saw him still staring out the window and she left him with his thoughts.
Later that evening when everyone was settled into their rooms at Snape Estates, some were up gossiping while the others were gradually falling asleep. Harry spent half the night tossing and turning trying his best to fall asleep but something was bothering him. He quietly got out of his bed and crossed the room but when he opened the door it creaked loudly and woke up his cousin.
"If you're sneaking down to see Bria I might as well warn you that it won't work. They have the second floor charmed to set off an alarm if we enter it." Jamie stated
"How would you know about that?"
"I got caught a few weeks ago. It was just after that lecture that McGonagall had dad give Ann and I." Jamie paused. "I wound up getting a second one because he felt I didn't listen the first time."
"Don't worry, I was going to talk to dad about something."
"Uh-huh, right. Just remember I warned you." Jamie replied as he rolled over and went back to sleep.
As he reached the first floor Harry heard voices form the front room. "Come on Sev, let's see how much you remember from our old dueling days."
"Sirius, it's late and I'm not up to it tonight."
"What's wrong, did all those years over the cauldron soften you skills?" Sirius teased
"No it did not soften my skills. There is just a-lot on my..." Before Severus could finish his answer he was bawking like a chicken but only for a few moments. "Back to your old tricks are you?"
Sirius just smirked until he was caught off guard then the curses started flying back and forth between the two of them while Dannie and Remus just watched and laughed at the foolish stunts.
Harry was watching from the foot of the stairs but by the time his dad was covered in puss oozing warts with a rainbow afro and wearing a purple flowery tutu with neon green spandex pants while Sirius had on some strange bondage type teddy with green slime protruding from his eyes and ears while covered in bright pink feathers and standing upon goat legs the boy couldn't hold back his laughter any longer.
Severus heard the intruder and finally called out "Expelliarmus!" sending Sirius flying backwards and ending the duel.
Remus noticed Dannie smirking while trying to hold back her laughter. "After all those curses you find that last one funny? You have a strange sense of humor."
"It's not that. The whole thing was disgusting but funny you guys are the ones with the strange humor. It's just I realized what Severus sounds like when he yelled the last curse."
"And what prey-tell do you believe I sound like?"
"You may not know of it. It was an old TV shows that papa use to watch with me when he was home. Well he sort of sounds like these metal monsters that use to chase people around yelling 'Exterminate' as they fired upon them." Dannie stated.
"I remember that. We use to watch it when we visited Lily during that summer after first year. It had that fat time traveler guy with the curly hair and long scarf." Sirius said as he sat down, dripping slime everywhere he went.
"So you have seen Dr. Who. If I remember right they were called um, Daleks."
"I do not sound like a damn Dalek." Severus grumbled
"Yes you do Sev, face it." Sirius smirked.
Severus then looked at his son for support. "Harry, when you lived with the Dursley's did you ever see this show they are talking about?"
"May I just stay out of this argument?"
"Why? It's just a simple answer." Remus stated.
"I haven't seen the show but I did listen to it and um I really don't want to be wearing what Sirius is."
"HA! Told you Severus, even your own son agrees." Sirius stated.
"He did not say whether or not I sounded like those things."
"He didn't have to come out and say the answer directly." Remus teased
"Fine, think what you want but I know I don't sound like some metal monster. Now if you don't mind, you are dripping on the furniture." Severus then pointed his wand at Sirius and said "Finite"
"Thank you. That stuff kept dripping into my mouth as well."
Severus stood there still cursed waiting for Sirius to change him back. "Well?"
"Admit that you sound like a Dalek and I'll change you back."
"Do you want the slime to start oozing out of your mouth as well?" Severus warned
"Fine, fine. You have no sense of humor. Finite."
"Very well." Severus then looked at Harry, "What are you doing out of bed? You didn't have another nightmare did you?"
"No, nothing like that. I wanted to talk to you about earlier."
"Earlier?"
"When you were in Professor Dumbledore's office."
"Oh that, if you would all excuse us?"
"No worries, it's getting late and we need to turn in anyway." Remus stated.
The three of them headed up to their respected rooms while Harry and Severus and Harry sat down on the couch. "Ok, what did you hear?"
"Not that much I don't think but I was wondering if the fight you had with Professor Dumbledore had anything to do with me being related to Voldemort."
"You know about that?"
"I think I've known for a long time. The headmaster just told me it was because he cursed me but," Harry paused "nothing makes sense. He was there to kill me and he did use the killing curse but there are too many similarities in this and there wasn't a power transference spell used that night."
"You are correct, there wasn't. What kind of similarities are you referring to?" Severus asked
"There's the Parseltongue, and this connection that I have to him, and that whole blood thing last year when he had Peter cut my arm."
"I had forgotten about that."
"I didn't and when you used Dannie and Remus' blood to help heal Bria I started really wondering even more. In order to strengthen his powers he needed my blood. I know the spell called for blood of the enemy but even then wouldn't it have had a different effect on him than it did?" Harry stared at his father as the man nodded. "This whole thing has me worried though. What if Professor Dumbledore is right and I will wind up like him?"
"Harry, yes you are correct. But even though Tom Riddle was your great grandfather that most definitely does not mean you will turn out like he did. You are too much like your mum to be like him. Look at me, I'm sure that there are people that were convinced that I would turn out like my father I didn't and from what I've seen I don't expect you to turn out like me either."
"But what about what Professor Dumbledore said about Voldemort wanting me to stand at his side?"
"Just because Voldemort wants you on his side doesn't mean you will have to. That is why I am still going to train you and the others so that you can fight him if you wish. You don't have to choose sides anymore. It took along time but even I have come to realize that there really isn't any difference between Albus and Voldemort. They are out for their own beliefs only and one day you sill see things in your own way and the path you decide to follow will be completely decided by you and nobody else."
"But what of this destiny thing that everyone keeps expecting me to adhere to?"
"That is also your decision. You can chose to follow one side or the other, you can remain neutral, or even once you graduate you could break your wand and choose to live as a muggle. Although I don't see why you would wish to do such a foolish thing like that but if you really wanted to you could."
"Do you really blame Professor Dumbledore for mum's death?"
"How long were you standing outside that door?" Severus asked
"Right after Remus left."
"How many times have I talked to you about eavesdropping?"
"I'm sorry but I'm don't want people hiding the truth about me any longer and I knew that if I didn't listen in then Dumbledore would never let me know."
"In a way you are right. He wouldn't tell you unless it would help him but you still should not be listening in on other people's conversations. If there is anything you wish to know that pertains to you then just ask, I may have reasons that I do not give you the answer to your question and I will tell you so but, I will not make things up to hide the truth from you. Agreed?"
"Agreed."
"Good now get up to bed, you have work to do in the morning."
"You never answered my question."
"Just as you have yet to answer the question that I asked you earlier." Severus said they proceeded back unto their rooms.
"No, no, Ann. Not like that. You need to concentrate. Remember the object is to avoid the curse, NOT get hit by it."
As Ann sat on the ground after hit for the however many time since she lost count and looked up and replied, "No kidding dad. I was trying to deflect it like Harry does."
"Don't worry about what he can do. You and he have different powers. Just worry about avoiding it." Sirius stated.
"How do you expect me to be able to avoid two curses being thrown at me at the same time?"
"That is where you have to stay on your toes. There maybe times when you are forced to avoid three or even four curses. Forget completely about sending it back at them. If you realize at the last moment you cannot avoid them then by all means cast your shield." Sirius then looked at the other girls, "Ginny, Hermione, when you are ready then try it again."
"Professor Black, are you sure she can handle it again?" Hermione asked.
"As long as you girls keep it in short bursts and don't hang onto the curse she will be fine. A bit sore maybe but fine. Now remember if you don't think you can avoid them then shield."
Ann nodded in agreement as she rose to her feet again.
"Let me know when you are ready."
Ann then took a deep breath and replied "Ok."
Sirius nodded to the two girls who then lifted their wands but before they could say anything Ann was surrounded by a silvery shield.
"Harry, take over for Hermione." Sirius whispered.
Harry was more than happy to oblige. "Adfligo testudo" he quickly said and as quickly as his words came out, Ann's shield fell and Ginny followed with "Crucio"
Once again Ann was thrown off guard and hit. "Damn it. Why in the world are you getting involved?" she yelled at her cousin.
"Ann I told you, only use your shield as a last minute resort. You cannot just walk up and shield yourself because then they know your not going to try to block and they will use even more power."
"But I knew there was no way that I could avoid the hits. I had to defend myself somehow."
"But you showed your defenses. You need to learn to surprise them." Sirius sighed. "Ok I think that's enough for tonight. Ann why don't you go see your uncle and get something for your injuries."
"No, I'm fine. I don't need to see him."
"Yes you do. Out of ten hits you have not avoided a single one now go." Sirius ordered.
"But dad, they don't hurt."
"If they don't hurt then what was with all the cussing?"
"Because I was getting tired of being knocked to the ground."
"Well you may not feel the pain now but trust me. You will feel it in the morning and I am not having you use it as an excuse to get out of more training tomorrow."
"More tomorrow? But we never train on Sunday's"
"We are this time, we aren't due back at the school until late tomorrow night. Now get going so that you can also get cleaned up for dinner."
"Fine but it's a waste of salve."
"You'll thank me later for it." Sirius said as they went inside.
Ann walked into the lab where Severus was finishing up tending to Ron. "Merlin child. How many hits did you take?"
"All of them." she shrugged.
"And you are still walking around? I missed two and I though I was going to die of pain." Ron whined.
"They weren't that bad. I'm just tired of being knocked to the ground."
"Didn't you try to avoid them or even shield yourself?"
"I tried by I can't move fast enough. As for my shield, dad had Harry shatter it so that your sister could hit me. I do think that I may have landed on my arm funny though. It's a bit numb."
Severus looked over the girl's arm by poking it in different places but not seeing any response. "Ann, do you ever remember feeling any sort of pain caused by injuries?"
"Not really. Pressure and numbness yes but actual pain? No I don't." She then noticed the expression on her uncle's face as he listened to her response and fixed her arm. "Uncle Sev, what's wrong?"
"Well it seems you have broken your arm in two places."
"Broke it? But wouldn't it hurt?"
"Well it seems although your ability to avoid injuries seems to leave a-lot to be desired. You do have one advantage above the others but if you don't pay close attention to the warnings it could also be your downfall." Severus finally finished mending her arm. "You have an uncanny pain tolerance. Your mum use to be able to handle a-lot of pain when we were kids but nowhere near the extent as you."
"And here dad acted like I was lying when I told him that the curses didn't hurt."
"Ann as I said, although this may be an advantage it could also be a disadvantage as well."
"How could this be a disadvantage? If she doesn't feel the pain of the Cruciatus curse then she would be able to keep fighting."
"That maybe so Ron but just like anything else, pain is a warning sign that the body is in trouble. Take her arm for instance, if Sirius hadn't sent her up here then we wouldn't have known about it. I can tell she has continued to use it after it broke the first time, which is what caused the second break. If it doesn't heal properly then she would wind up losing proper use of it completely because the bones wouldn't heal in their rightful position." Severus looked around the room. "Alright let me show you." He walked over to the bathroom and filled a goblet with water then returned and placed it onto the worktable. "Ann, I want you to try to pickup that with your broken arm and take a drink. If the numbness or pressure gets too much I want you to stop."
Ann wrapped her hand around the goblet and started to lift it. She only got it about two inches off the table when she couldn't resist supporting it with her other hand and placing it back down. While Severus was getting something off the shelves she then took a deep breath and tried again. This time Ron saw the frustration on her face that caused her eyes to tear up. "Ann stop, your going to damage it more."
Severus heard the boy's warning and turned around. He then ran his wand along the length of her arm and said. "At least there isn't too much muscle damage as well." he then added a powder to the water and instructed her to use her other arm to drink it.
"She's not going to have to take that Skele-gro stuff is she?" Ron asked as Ann's eyes got wider at the sound of the potion.
"Merlin no. As I told Harry I do not believe in that crap. How cruel do you think I am?"
"Do you really want me to answer that?" Ron asked
"I suggest you don't then. Here, do me a favor and put this on her arm so she doesn't use it." he said as he handed the boy a sling. Severus then continued to grind up some resins into a powder and placed them into separate packages. As he did this he noticed how Ron was acting trying to carefully get the sling on the girl. Meanwhile Ann wanted to do it herself so she started fighting him. "Would you stop fighting with him for once and just let him help you?" he stated. Finally they finished and the three of them joined everyone else for dinner.
After dinner the kids were sent into the library to do their homework while the adults stayed in the dinning room. "There is something I need to inform you of before we return tomorrow." Severus said as the others looked at him. "Unfortunately there has been some information on Harry that has come to be known that may cause some more difficulties."
"Have you found out how his powers are so much stronger?" Sirius asked
Severus nodded. "Do you remember when after James' parents received guardianship of Lily the wanted to adopt her and Albus talked her into accepting their last name?"
"How could we forget, that was the hardest decision she ever made. She almost didn't allow it to happen. I had never seen Albus so demanding of anything before or since." Sirius stated.
"Well he had a reason behind it that he never told anyone. Turns out that he knew all along that she wasn't compleatly a muggle-born afterall. Although her mother and grandmother were both muggles, her father was in fact a squib."
"Wait a second. We met her grandparents before 2nd year." Remus replied.
"You met her grandmother and the man who raised her father, but he wasn't actually Mr. Evans' father."
"What does that have to do with him having her change her last name. Wasn't it common for them to do so in order to adopt her?" Remus questioned
"Look at all our classmates who lost their parents while we were in school. How many of them changed their names when adopted?" Severus asked
"I never really paid much attention, Lily was the only one that made it known." Sirius stated
"Exactly. The only one was Lily. It turns out that Albus was trying to hide her true identity from the Ministry and from her grandfather."
"That doesn't make sense. If Albus knew her true grandfather then she should have been placed under his care unless he was in Azkabon."
"Or he was wanted in Azkabon." Severus continued.
Remus caught on right away, "Does Harry know about this?"
"Yes he does but that is not the issue here. The problem will be when the rumors start flying again. Also because of it Albus has decided all of a sudden that since there is a strong possibility that Voldemort now has figured it out that he doesn't want the kids training any longer."
"Albus knew about this earlier and he knew that Harry would be wanted by him sooner or later then why is he all of a sudden changing his mind now?"
"But now there is the news of Harry's ancestry. There is a chance that Voldemort already has figured it out but when this gets published it will be knowledge to all."
"So in otherwords you are stating that this is the last of the training for the kids?" Sirius asked
"No I'm not saying that at all but, I am once again asking you uys to make a decision." Severus sighed then continued. "I will continue to help Harry and Draco learn not to fight like we were originally told to do but to be able to defend themselves and that's as far as this will go. I'm not going to teach them to attack or be spys or anything like that."
"But Sev, what about what Voldemort told you about the kids have to show constant improvement?"
"They will continue to improve but I don't want them involved in their war. We were pulled in and look at where it got us. Was it really worth all of it? James, Lily and Patty are all gone, Sirius you were one of the best aurors the Minstry had but you wound up on prison missing 12 years of the twin's lives, and Remus I hate to bring you in on this but you also helped out Albus and has he really made things that much better for you or even your daughter?"
"After yesterday I hate to admit it but no he hasn't." Remus replied.
"In all honesty I feel as if he has done nothing but use us this whole time in this game while he sat back and watched as our lives crumbled around us."
"But you are talking about turning your back turning your back on what we were trained to do." Sirius stated
"We haven't been truely been needed in a long time. Voldemort has his contacts in the school watching our every move no matter what it is now and with Fudge being in Lucious' back pocket he's also got his eye on the Ministry. My task is simply preparing the boys and Ann to be able to fight. So they already know the curses they just need the defense now and the more they practice the better they will get in time. There is the improvement that we have. I merely want the boys to be able to make up their own minds on what they want to do after graduation and not what everyone claims they are destined to do."
"And what if they decide to follow in our footsteps or even join Voldemort?"
"I already told Harry last night, it will be his decision."
"And what about the training for Hermione and the Weasley children?"
"When I agreed to take them on as well I made sure their parents signed documents stating that they were to be included in the training as long as I and only I deamed necessary. I will offer them the choice to come along every week if they so wish but it will continue to be their choice."
Remus squeezed Dannie's hand and said. "The only reason I agreed to this in the first place wasn't because of Voldemort, it was because of Lucius. I'm going to have to stick with that decision."
"Siri?"
"What do you want me to say?"
"Open talk, whatever you wish." Severus stated.
Sirius sighed. "I was raised to be an Auror and to serve the Ministry just like my father did. Voldemort was the reason my father died but then when Lily and James died, Albus was one of the first ones to turn his back on me. Now you say he knew the truth the whole time. I'm sorry Sev but your stuck with us as well."
"Alright now. You guys do realize that Albus will be extreamly upset with you over your decisions."
"Severus, when hasn't he been upset over something that either we or even lately one of the children have done? Why change things now?" Sirius smirked.
The next evening when the group returned to the school just intime for dinner they realized that there were some changes. The first thing that was clearly obvious was that Professor McGonagall was sitting in the headmaster's chair in the center of the table. The second was that there was someone new in McGonagall's chair. At first Harry was very curious on who the blonde haired heavyset woman was that walked up and pulled his father to the side to talk to him but when they returned he quickly found out when he noticed Remus and Sirius each grab their backsides after she hugged them.
Ron noticed the way Harry was looking at her "Harry, I do hope your uncle's know who she is."
"Oh I'm sure they do. It's the cheek pincher" he announced to Ron and Bria.
"Oh my you have changed quite a bit since I saw you a few weeks ago." Arabella stated as she pinched Harry's not so chubby cheeks.
"Good evening Mrs. Figg, you have also changed." he replied with as much manners as he could stomach.
"Oh and you must be Molly's youngest ones." she said looking at Ron and Ginny before she grabbed both of Ron's cheeks. She then ruffeled Ginnys hair smiling at the two then walked back up to the head table.
"Dad why is she here again?"
"I'm not sure exactly what happened but as soon as I find out I will let you know. In the meantime Professor McGonagall is filling in as headmistress right now, so Mrs. Figg has been asked to step in as the head of the Gryffindor house and Transfiguration professor."
"You mean I have to see her every single day and deal with her pinching my cheek?" Harry grumbled.
"Harry don't complain, at least you don't have her as your house head." Ron replied as he rubbed the pain he had on both sides of his face.
"Neither one of you should be complaining. We have to deal with her in the morning meetings. Is it just my memory or did her grip actually get stronger?" Sirius said.
"It's definatly not you. Her grip did get quite strong over the years." Remus replied as Dannie glared in the direction of the woman. "Don't worry luv, she has always prefered the dark sullen type. Isn't that right Sev?"
"I would have been much happier if you didn't remind of that." Severus then noticed the smirk on Harry's face. "I suggest you wipe that look off your face and go onto your table before I call her back over here and let her have a go at your cheeks again."
"Fine I'm going but if she touches my cheeks while she is here you can expect to have me lose us house points." Harry replied then quickly headed to the Slytherin table before receiving a response.
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