Hey everyone its me again with the next installment of my story. Since I don't know when I will be able to update this since Fan Fiction is still messed up. But anyway on to the story!!!!





Family Matters

Chapter 14- A Meeting

Lauren and Mackenzie ran right into something- that something happened to talk. "Owwwwwww!!!!!" Yelled Mackenzie as she fell back down to the bottom of the stairs. "Bloody hell!!!!!" yelled something that the girls couldn't see. Here were things as they had landed after the collision- Lauren was pinned under Harry, Hermione was pinned under Ron and Mackenzie was sitting at the bottom of the stairs dazed from her tumble. "Owwwww, my butt!" Moaned Mackenzie from the bottom of the stairs. She glanced upwards towards the top of the stairs to see what happened- and she burst out laughing. "Ummmmm, do you mind moving, I can't breathe very well." Lauren said uncertainly. Harry looked at her for a second and turned the deepest red Lauren had ever seen on a human being- except for Mackenzie. To add to Harry and Ron's embarrassment, Dumbledore Snape and Draco came around the corner from the top of the stairs and Hagrid, Lupin and Sirius (as a dog) came through the doors at the bottom of the stairs where Mackenzie was. Harry jumped off of Lauren while Ron jumped off Hermione (Mackenzie continued to laugh at the bottom of the stairs). All five of the teenagers launched into and explanation that sounded something like this, "It's not what it looks like", "It was an accident", "It was their fault really", "We couldn't see them", "Do we have any more brownies?" Dumbledore looked down to see two invisibility cloaks on the ground, "I see what happened here. Let's all just go up to my office because I have to talk to you all about something." He said and started to walk towards his office. Mackenzie and Lauren had enough sense to get underneath their cloak again just in case.

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Being in Dumbledore's office now was a lot different from before. Mainly because no one could hardly move. That was probably because there were now 11 people in the office where there had only been about maybe 5 or 6 before, and Hagrid counted for more than one person- possibly 3. "Everyone, I know this is a tight squeeze but let me see if there's something I can do about it." Dumbledore said as he took out his wand. He raised it, said a few choice words and the room seemed to grow. "Also I think it will be better with this arrangement." He said. Then he said another word and his desk disappeared to be replaced with a large round table with enough chairs for all of them. Lauren glanced at Mackenzie as if to say, "Where do we sit?" or more specifically, "Who do we sit next to?" Mackenzie looked quickly at who was in the room and made a decision based on what she saw. Mackenzie sat down next to Draco who flashed her a cheeky smile (A/N This is NOT movie version so my Draco does not look like Tom Felton in the slightest. Though I must say he played his part quite well in the movie though.) Lauren sat down on Mackenzie's left with Harry on Lauren's left. The entire arrangement moving around the table counterclockwise from Harry was Ron, Hermione, Hagrid, Dumbledore, Sirius, Lupin, Snape then back to Draco then Mackenzie. "Now, are we all mildly comfortable?" Dumbledore asked. He was met with mute nods and some stares as if to say- GET ON WITH IT DAMNIT!!! "Good. We are all here to discuss what will happen to our new friends," here Dumbledore nodded toward Mackenzie and Lauren on the other side of the table. Lauren and Mackenzie felt all the eyes in the room turn to them and Mackenzie immediately felt her face flush with embarrassment. Lauren who never seemed to blush just lowered her hazel-eyed gaze from Dumbledore's solid blue one while Mackenzie stared at a spot in the middle of the table. "No need to feel embarrassed, we're all friends here." Dumbledore said reassuringly. "Well, some of the people present know bits and pieces of the girls story but not all of it. That is one of the things we're all here to talk about. Another is the people in this room and what part they play to the fight against Voldemort." As Dumbledore said the last sentence everyone's eyes visibly flicked over Draco, Sirius and Snape. Dumbledore noticed the way everyone's eyes seemed to move towards certain people while Mackenzie and Lauren still looked straight at him. "Let's clear up apprehension's about each other right now so things will go easier between all of us. Severus why don't you go first." As Snape opened his mouth to speak the door to Dumbledore's office opened and a woman was standing there with her hair swept up into a tight bun on the top of her head. "Albus, what may I ask is going on and who are these girls!?" She said looking in bewilderment around at everyone then at the girls. Dumbledore sat and thought for a moment just what to tell his fellow teacher while Lauren and Mackenzie were looking at each other thinking "God damnit just what we need, another person!"



Sorry folks gonna have to leave it there for now. I've been working on Mackenzie's past and just how things are going to work out w/ her relatives. My muse (Commonly known to the public at large as Doon) and I have been pooling our creative energies and I believe that we have come up with some juicy sub-plots and relationships between the characters. I'm going to bring in a few more of my original characters and if you would like to know anything about the story, or myself or anything like that don't hesitate to IM me if you have AIM or you can e-mail me at: brat271@yahoo.com I'm really sorry about the short chapter though so I'll give you a peek at the next chapter: Draco tells his story along with Snape and Sirius. You get to find out why Draco is on the good side!!!!! Well that's all for now everyone.

Yours truly,

~Mongoose