The Next Generation-Dark Marks and Troublemakers
Author's Note: This is a third part to The Next Generation. If you've read the first two, you'll know what's going on in here. But, there are four new kids, and a set of them are twins, one you'll know if you read Trouble Continued, and the third showed up in the last Chapter of Trouble continued. So read on and tell me what you think.
Disclaimer: I don't own HP of its characters, but I do own all the original characters that aren't from the books, but from my imagination. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Chapter 36
When they had returned, Harry had noticed Josh had made an effort to make sure to keep away from John and was now in the kitchen with the women, who continued to ask him to do a taste test. The younger kids were now helping Remus decorate the tree and the guys were sitting around playing cards. "We're a little low on decorations!" called Sirius, who had Kevin up on his shoulders. Fred looked up from his cards and over in the trees direction.
"There should be some up in the attic. I remember mum and dad had bought some new ones last year." said the red head and turned back to the game. Sirius took Kevin off his shoulder and ran up the stairs.
"Probably should have warned him about the ghoul." said George and the twins both grinned. Harry shook his head and ran up the stairs after his godfather.
"Sirius, are you here!" he called and looked around. He had never been up in the Weasley's attic, mostly in fears of ghoul that could be heard from Ron's room, which was under the attic. But the Weasley's attic was much different from what he imagined. There were dusty pictures of old wizards sleeping up on the walls and boxes all over, labled with each of their children's names. Each child seemed to have at least five large boxes with their name on it.
Harry looked around and picked up a picture of an attractive woman with red hair and a young enough face- she had to be twenty-three, if not younger. The picture was in better condition than the others were. Then there was man with his arms around her waist and chin rested on her shoulder. He was handsome, and there was something familuar about him.
"Harry, what are you doing here?" he jumped and turned to see Sirius looking at him curiously.
"Oh, hey Sirius. I just wanted to warn you about the ghoul."he answered.
"The ghoul? Harry, Molly and Arthur managed to get rid of that years ago." he said with a chuckle and looked over Harry's shoulder. "Ah, I see you found a picture of me and my fiancee." Harry blinked.
"Fiancee.. but I never knew you were going to get married." Sirius shrugged.
"I was... but I had to go away for a while and before I could get back to her, she was killed." Harry looked at the woman in the picture, who had now reached back and cupped the youger Sirius's chin and kissed him. "That was Arthur's little sister."
"Voldemort killed her?" asked Harry and Sirius nodded.
"She was trying to get to Lily and James and had obviously met up with Wormtail first. I dunno if she knew what he was up to or not... Well Voldemort was going to stop her from telling them and killed her..." Sirius trailed off and took the picture from Harry.
"She seemed like she was really nice..." Sirius smiled sadly.
"She was. And she had this sort of spark to her. She was fiesty, smart, and pretty... It took me five years to get her to go out with me. I proposed right after she got out of Hogwarts and we were due to get married two weeks before she and your parents were killed..." They suddenly heard the floor creak and turned to see Ron coming up to them.
"Hey you two, mum, dad, Bill and Charlie are here!" he piped. Sirius placed the picture back on top of the box Harry had found it on and nodded.
"Right then... let's get going!" he piped. Harry watched as he followed Ron out before looking back at the picture where Sirius had picked the girl up in a cradling way and was holding her hand out so it showed the fabulous diamond engagement ring he must have bought her. He looked again nad bit his lower lip.
"Harry, you coming!" called Ron.
"Yeah, here I come!" called Harry, before grabbing the picture and shrinking it to fit in his pockets without anyone noticing.
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Mrs. Weasley placed the freshly baked cookies on the coffee table where her sons were playing chess while Bill and Charlie joined the kids in decorating the tree, giving Sirius and Remus time to relax. Percy and Remus were talking about something involving education, which Hermione would sometimes join in whle Fred and George argued with Sirius over Quidditch. The women gossiped a bit and made comments on their husbands, while Harry and Ron talked about Quidditch over the chess board.
"You know, I think i've got the perfect gift for Sirius, but i'm gonna need you to help me out with it." Harry told Ron. The red head looked at him curiously.
"Yeah, what is it?" he asked. Harry looked over his shoulder and shook his head.
"Can't tell you here, but I'll show you tomorrow." Ron raised an eyebrow at his friend, but nodded.
"So, who shall be the one to put the star on the top?" asked Charlie brightly.
"ME!" announced all the kids at once. Bill and Charlie were obviously enjoying the presence of all the kids and were grinning brightly as they tugged on their uncles' robes and begged.
"Choose me, Uncle Charlie!" called Dennis from Bill's shoulders. "I'm the smallest!"
"Well he is the youngest of you all, isn't he?" asked Bill. Dennis grinned widely.
"Well who's ready for dinner?" called Mrs. Weasley happily. Mrs. Weasley looked up from his newspaper and grinned.
"I was wondering what that was that smelt so good, Molly." he said cheerfully. "Lets eat." The kids ran into the kitchen as Mrs. Weasley conjured up more chairs and placed them around the table.
"Looks great Molly! Can't remember the last time I spent a Christmas at the Burrow." piped Sirius, pulling a plate towards him and waiting for a large helping of roast.
"I believe it was about 45 years ago Sirius." said Remus with a slight smile. A sad smile formed across Sirius and Mr. Weasley faces.
"That's right... James, Lily, you, and Cassie were here." said Mr. Weasley with a forced smile. Fred and George stopped loading their plates and looked at their dad curiously.
"Cassie? You mean Aunt Cassie?" asked George curiously. Mr. Weasley nodded.
"Wow, we haven't heard you talk about her in years, dad." said Bill. Sirius was now chewing on his lower lip. Mrs. Weasley entered the kitchen and looked at everyone expectantly.
"What's wrong? Everyone is so silent."
"It's nothing Molly dear." said Mr. Weasley quickly.
"Yeah Gran. They were just talkin' about some one named Cassie." piped Kevin. Mrs. Weasley chuckled when Jackie threw her hand over her little brother's mouth.
"And I suppose you were all wondering who she was." she said, settling in a seat next to her husband.
"Yeah!" piped the kids.
"I assume she was a friend of yours, gran." said John, raising an eyebrow at her.
"Oh she was... as well as my sister-in-law. She was your grandfather's little sister and Sirius's future wife." A few people began choking on their food, one of them being Ron.
"No way! Sirius you're basically family!" Ron announced, a wide grin on his face. Sirius smiled and shrugged his shoulders.
"Yeah, well..."
"So, why didn't you get married?" asked Josh curiously, then a smirk crossed his face. "Wait, she left you for some other bloke, didn't she?"
"Poor Uncle Padfoot." said Jennifer, who was sitting next to him. She patted his amr sympathetically.
"Actaully, she was killed." said Mrs. Weasley, and the silence returned.
"But why didn't you protect her Sirius? I mean she WAS your future wife." said Alex.
"I wasn't around." answered Sirius, but Remus took over.
"Sirius had just come from telling James that he couldn't be secret keeper, and he and James had passed it on to Peter Pettigrew because I was supposedly away. Well Sirius had left and was at the house he and Cassie lived in together, which is where I met him and told him what I found out about Peter." Remus informed. The kids were looking at him with great curiosity.
"What happened next, uncle Remus?" asked Kevin.
"Well Cassie was obviously listening since she had been yelling at Sirius about him wanting to leave for a while, and she went to face Peter before he could betray Harry's parents."
"She was close to them too?" asked Jordan, looking at Sirius, who nodded.
"So what happened next?" asked Jake, bouncing in his seat slightly and chewing his lower lip with curiousity shinning in his eyes.
"Well she found him obviously, but he wasn't exactly alone."
"He was with death eaters?" asked Jackie.
"Worst."
"Voldemort?" asked Lily and James.
"Exactly. Well I don't know how, but Voldemort knows a lot more than we had ever given him credit for and he knew Cassie was Sirius's fiance and was coming to warn Lily and James..."
"He killed her?" asked Mike.
"Yeah... Sirius had managed to get to them all a bit to late. He took Harry and gave him and his flying motocylce to Hagrid."
"I don't see how you did it Sirius, finding your fiance dead and then your best friends." muttered Angelina. Sirius smiled a bit and shook his head.
"I still have nightmares."
"So... how about we talk about something a bit- happier." suggested Alex, chewing her lower lip.
"Sure, let's do that." suggested Remus in a cheerful tone. "So, how about you kids tell us what you want for Christmas." At once, the children began listing things.
Author's Note: This is a third part to The Next Generation. If you've read the first two, you'll know what's going on in here. But, there are four new kids, and a set of them are twins, one you'll know if you read Trouble Continued, and the third showed up in the last Chapter of Trouble continued. So read on and tell me what you think.
Disclaimer: I don't own HP of its characters, but I do own all the original characters that aren't from the books, but from my imagination. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Chapter 36
When they had returned, Harry had noticed Josh had made an effort to make sure to keep away from John and was now in the kitchen with the women, who continued to ask him to do a taste test. The younger kids were now helping Remus decorate the tree and the guys were sitting around playing cards. "We're a little low on decorations!" called Sirius, who had Kevin up on his shoulders. Fred looked up from his cards and over in the trees direction.
"There should be some up in the attic. I remember mum and dad had bought some new ones last year." said the red head and turned back to the game. Sirius took Kevin off his shoulder and ran up the stairs.
"Probably should have warned him about the ghoul." said George and the twins both grinned. Harry shook his head and ran up the stairs after his godfather.
"Sirius, are you here!" he called and looked around. He had never been up in the Weasley's attic, mostly in fears of ghoul that could be heard from Ron's room, which was under the attic. But the Weasley's attic was much different from what he imagined. There were dusty pictures of old wizards sleeping up on the walls and boxes all over, labled with each of their children's names. Each child seemed to have at least five large boxes with their name on it.
Harry looked around and picked up a picture of an attractive woman with red hair and a young enough face- she had to be twenty-three, if not younger. The picture was in better condition than the others were. Then there was man with his arms around her waist and chin rested on her shoulder. He was handsome, and there was something familuar about him.
"Harry, what are you doing here?" he jumped and turned to see Sirius looking at him curiously.
"Oh, hey Sirius. I just wanted to warn you about the ghoul."he answered.
"The ghoul? Harry, Molly and Arthur managed to get rid of that years ago." he said with a chuckle and looked over Harry's shoulder. "Ah, I see you found a picture of me and my fiancee." Harry blinked.
"Fiancee.. but I never knew you were going to get married." Sirius shrugged.
"I was... but I had to go away for a while and before I could get back to her, she was killed." Harry looked at the woman in the picture, who had now reached back and cupped the youger Sirius's chin and kissed him. "That was Arthur's little sister."
"Voldemort killed her?" asked Harry and Sirius nodded.
"She was trying to get to Lily and James and had obviously met up with Wormtail first. I dunno if she knew what he was up to or not... Well Voldemort was going to stop her from telling them and killed her..." Sirius trailed off and took the picture from Harry.
"She seemed like she was really nice..." Sirius smiled sadly.
"She was. And she had this sort of spark to her. She was fiesty, smart, and pretty... It took me five years to get her to go out with me. I proposed right after she got out of Hogwarts and we were due to get married two weeks before she and your parents were killed..." They suddenly heard the floor creak and turned to see Ron coming up to them.
"Hey you two, mum, dad, Bill and Charlie are here!" he piped. Sirius placed the picture back on top of the box Harry had found it on and nodded.
"Right then... let's get going!" he piped. Harry watched as he followed Ron out before looking back at the picture where Sirius had picked the girl up in a cradling way and was holding her hand out so it showed the fabulous diamond engagement ring he must have bought her. He looked again nad bit his lower lip.
"Harry, you coming!" called Ron.
"Yeah, here I come!" called Harry, before grabbing the picture and shrinking it to fit in his pockets without anyone noticing.
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Mrs. Weasley placed the freshly baked cookies on the coffee table where her sons were playing chess while Bill and Charlie joined the kids in decorating the tree, giving Sirius and Remus time to relax. Percy and Remus were talking about something involving education, which Hermione would sometimes join in whle Fred and George argued with Sirius over Quidditch. The women gossiped a bit and made comments on their husbands, while Harry and Ron talked about Quidditch over the chess board.
"You know, I think i've got the perfect gift for Sirius, but i'm gonna need you to help me out with it." Harry told Ron. The red head looked at him curiously.
"Yeah, what is it?" he asked. Harry looked over his shoulder and shook his head.
"Can't tell you here, but I'll show you tomorrow." Ron raised an eyebrow at his friend, but nodded.
"So, who shall be the one to put the star on the top?" asked Charlie brightly.
"ME!" announced all the kids at once. Bill and Charlie were obviously enjoying the presence of all the kids and were grinning brightly as they tugged on their uncles' robes and begged.
"Choose me, Uncle Charlie!" called Dennis from Bill's shoulders. "I'm the smallest!"
"Well he is the youngest of you all, isn't he?" asked Bill. Dennis grinned widely.
"Well who's ready for dinner?" called Mrs. Weasley happily. Mrs. Weasley looked up from his newspaper and grinned.
"I was wondering what that was that smelt so good, Molly." he said cheerfully. "Lets eat." The kids ran into the kitchen as Mrs. Weasley conjured up more chairs and placed them around the table.
"Looks great Molly! Can't remember the last time I spent a Christmas at the Burrow." piped Sirius, pulling a plate towards him and waiting for a large helping of roast.
"I believe it was about 45 years ago Sirius." said Remus with a slight smile. A sad smile formed across Sirius and Mr. Weasley faces.
"That's right... James, Lily, you, and Cassie were here." said Mr. Weasley with a forced smile. Fred and George stopped loading their plates and looked at their dad curiously.
"Cassie? You mean Aunt Cassie?" asked George curiously. Mr. Weasley nodded.
"Wow, we haven't heard you talk about her in years, dad." said Bill. Sirius was now chewing on his lower lip. Mrs. Weasley entered the kitchen and looked at everyone expectantly.
"What's wrong? Everyone is so silent."
"It's nothing Molly dear." said Mr. Weasley quickly.
"Yeah Gran. They were just talkin' about some one named Cassie." piped Kevin. Mrs. Weasley chuckled when Jackie threw her hand over her little brother's mouth.
"And I suppose you were all wondering who she was." she said, settling in a seat next to her husband.
"Yeah!" piped the kids.
"I assume she was a friend of yours, gran." said John, raising an eyebrow at her.
"Oh she was... as well as my sister-in-law. She was your grandfather's little sister and Sirius's future wife." A few people began choking on their food, one of them being Ron.
"No way! Sirius you're basically family!" Ron announced, a wide grin on his face. Sirius smiled and shrugged his shoulders.
"Yeah, well..."
"So, why didn't you get married?" asked Josh curiously, then a smirk crossed his face. "Wait, she left you for some other bloke, didn't she?"
"Poor Uncle Padfoot." said Jennifer, who was sitting next to him. She patted his amr sympathetically.
"Actaully, she was killed." said Mrs. Weasley, and the silence returned.
"But why didn't you protect her Sirius? I mean she WAS your future wife." said Alex.
"I wasn't around." answered Sirius, but Remus took over.
"Sirius had just come from telling James that he couldn't be secret keeper, and he and James had passed it on to Peter Pettigrew because I was supposedly away. Well Sirius had left and was at the house he and Cassie lived in together, which is where I met him and told him what I found out about Peter." Remus informed. The kids were looking at him with great curiosity.
"What happened next, uncle Remus?" asked Kevin.
"Well Cassie was obviously listening since she had been yelling at Sirius about him wanting to leave for a while, and she went to face Peter before he could betray Harry's parents."
"She was close to them too?" asked Jordan, looking at Sirius, who nodded.
"So what happened next?" asked Jake, bouncing in his seat slightly and chewing his lower lip with curiousity shinning in his eyes.
"Well she found him obviously, but he wasn't exactly alone."
"He was with death eaters?" asked Jackie.
"Worst."
"Voldemort?" asked Lily and James.
"Exactly. Well I don't know how, but Voldemort knows a lot more than we had ever given him credit for and he knew Cassie was Sirius's fiance and was coming to warn Lily and James..."
"He killed her?" asked Mike.
"Yeah... Sirius had managed to get to them all a bit to late. He took Harry and gave him and his flying motocylce to Hagrid."
"I don't see how you did it Sirius, finding your fiance dead and then your best friends." muttered Angelina. Sirius smiled a bit and shook his head.
"I still have nightmares."
"So... how about we talk about something a bit- happier." suggested Alex, chewing her lower lip.
"Sure, let's do that." suggested Remus in a cheerful tone. "So, how about you kids tell us what you want for Christmas." At once, the children began listing things.