Hello everyone out there again! Mongoose here. Continuing my story because I want to even though no one has reviewed yet (throws an evil look at all of you) well anyway, I have a few things to say before I begin the story itself. As you probably have noticed this story was meant to coincide with the fifth book (most of you are probably thinking "well duh" but I'm just checking) I am making sure some of my favorite characters are in this and if you don't like the same characters I do then tuff noogies, deal with it. Who my characters are you'll probably find out later on in the story. I think I have decided to go back and forth with the chapters between my character and JK Rowlings masterpieces. So just a note when I begin another chapter it's from where the previous one began so the times are the same (I'm probably not making any sense but I never do anyway). So without further ado, I present the Disclaimer then the actual story.

Disclaimer: I only own Lauren and Mackenzie and ermmmm... some other ones that I haven't written in as yet. But the Harry Potter characters belong to JK Rowling, Warner Brothers and probably some other people no one knows or cares about.

Family Matters

Chapter 2- Back Again

Looking out the window at the never-ending downpour of rain, Sirius Black sat in the parlor of his long time friend Remus Lupin with a cup of tea. He had been there for about a month but Dumbledore had told him to stay put for a while so he did. "Looking for anything in particular, Sirius, or are you just trying to make the rain stop." Remus asked coming into the parlor and sitting down across from him. "Both." Sirius said. Remus perked up at the short statement. "What may you be looking for in this weather?" he asked curious even though already knew the answer. "An owl." Sirius said turning away from the window and looking at his friend. "Dumbledore will send word when he feels its time Sirius. You shouldn't worry. Harry is safe." Remus said soothingly. "That's what I thought last year and look what happened!" Sirius made this statement more effective by bringing his fist down upon the table with such force that the tea set rattled. "You have to stop blaming yourself Sirius-" "I CAN'T Remus! I'm the one that told Harry that he would be safe while he was at Hogwarts with Dumbledore!" Sirius jumped out of his chair and began to pace in front of the window. "Please calm down Sirius. I'm sure we'll here from Dumbledore soon." Remus said looking at his friend. "Quite right Remus." Came the voice of Dumbledore from where he had apparated in between Sirius and Remus. "How's Harry?" was the fist thing out of Sirius's mouth instead of a formal greeting. "He's as well as to be expected Sirius." Dumbledore said looking at him. Remus shot Dumbledore a look of hopelessness that said "I tried to get his mind off it." "I actually have some news for you both." Dumbledore said excepting the cup of tea that Remus had offered. Sirius sat down and looked at Dumbledore. "Severus has been in contact with the rest of the Death Eaters and concludes that Voldemort does not plan to move quickly for once." Dumbledore ended this statement with a cruel bitterness to his voice and a flash of anger in his eyes. "That gives us time then." Remus said hopefully. "But not much." Sirius replied looking down at the ground. At that moment Dumbledore felt that something was amiss. Something he could have forgotten. All he knew was that he felt something was going to change. Another person, or people were going to come into play in this plight that the wizarding world was in. But he didn't know what. These three men didn't know that thousands of miles away (A/N I don't know if its thousands or not) a young girl had just woken up from the strangest dream of her entire life. And that she was coming to Britain. And that she and a companion would be the ones that Albus Dumbledore had had the feeling about.

Hmmm, I love a sense of mystery, don't you? Well if your reading this then be kind and review. Pretty please?

Yours truly

Mongoose