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Note: This is a sequel to "Stories of the Hogwarts Sisterhood"; taken place several months later during Easter holidays, so read that first.

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Rated PG-13 for content

Chapter 15: A Recap and Another Trap

"I don't think he is my brother anymore. The one I had argued with just now is Richard Smith, a bad-tempered bastard who doesn't care for his mother no matter what, not Achilles McGonagall, the sweet boy who hugged his mother during his graduation day." said Athena flatly at the bar where she saw Achilles.

Wellard didn't know what to do but to watch Athena drunk her fifth glass of apple rum.

"How could that, that jerk......" Athena just groaned in frustration. "By the way, can you promise me not to tell Mom about today? I don't think she had forgiven Achilles yet."

"Sure."

Athena called the bartender for another glass.

"No, Sir, she is joking, don't give her another glass!" called Wellard and turned to Athena. "Athena, I think you had enough. It is time for you to go home."

"I don't want to." Athena mumbled sadly.

"Come on, your parents will be worried," Wellard coaxed and tried to remove the glass from Athena's hand. "Come on."

Athena sniffed, paid for her drinks, stood up and staggered slightly as she went. After a few steps, Wellard finally said, "Athena, want me to support you?"

Athena shook her head and as she did, her ankles gave way and she landed neatly into Wellard's arms.

***

Ding dong

Dumbledore opened the door and saw Wellard with his arm around Athena, trying to help her to stand and she had her left arm around his neck.

"Professor Dumbledore? What are you doing here? I thought this is Professor McGonagall's house." asked Wellard in bewilderment.

"I was just visiting Minerva," lied Dumbledore and looked at Athena in concern, who looked very sick. "What happened to Athena?"

"She had drank too much of apple rum." said Wellard truthfully. "Professor, could I bring her into the house?"

"Certainly." said Dumbledore and stepped aside as Wellard walked in, practically dragging Athena along.

"By the way, you are........" Dumbledore tried to remember. "Terrence Wellard, right?"

Wellard nodded, glad for a moment that Dumbledore remembered him.

Until Athena threw up on the floor and part of his trousers.

"AHHH!!" screamed Wellard at the sight.

"Oh no." said Dumbledore.

"Athena! Oh my goodness! What happened?" exclaimed Minerva when she came out from the kitchen to see what was going on.

"Minerva, I'll carry Athena to her room. I suggest that you clean Mr Wellard's trousers." said Dumbledore calmly.

Wellard handed Athena over to her father.

"Oh shit, I'm so sorry, Terrence......" said Athena weakly as Dumbledore carried her in his arms and up the stairs.

Wellard was too busily staring at his trousers to reply.

"I'm so sorry about her actions.......Come here, Mr Wellard." said Minerva tiredly.

"It's all right, Professor, I can clean it up myself........" said Wellard and searched his backpack for his wand. After a while, his white cheeks went pink. "Oops, I think I forget to bring my wand. Darn, Mr Pellew always tells me to carry my wand with me at all times..........."

"Here, let me clean your trousers," said Minerva and took out her wand. "Stand up."

Wellard did, Minerva said, "Scourgify.", cleaning up his trousers and the floor.

"Thanks, Professor." said Wellard cheerfully.

"No problem. By the way, are you Terrence Wellard?"

"The one and only, Professor." said Wellard, nodding.

"Ah, I have never seen you since you graduated! Look at you, you have grown so much!"

Wellard grinned sheepishly. "Mr Pellew trained me well, Professor."

"I shall remind myself to tell Professor Sprout.........wait a minute, did you just say Mr Pellew? As in Edward Pellew? The head of the Aurors Headquarters?"

"Yeah." said Wellard slowly.

"Are you an Auror too?"

"Yeah, but I'm still new. I had just passed my Auror tests this year........" said Wellard when Minerva grasped him on the shoulders.

"Then, then do you know an Auror named Achilles McGonagall?" she asked anxiously, looking at him with a worried look on her face.

"Uh oh." thought Wellard. If he said yes, Achilles AND Athena killed him. But then again, Minerva would be quite pitiful if he said no.......

"I don't know," he said finally. "That's lame, Terrence, really lame." he thought to himself.

Minerva let go of his shoulders. "Oh." she said in a small voice.

"Minerva, I think you better take care of Athena." said Dumbledore, walking down the stairs.

Minerva blinked for a while before she answered, "Yes," and went up the stairs.

"Come on, my boy, I think we need to talk." said Dumbledore softly and put his hand on Wellard's shoulder.

***

"Now, what exactly is going on?" asked Dumbledore as he and Wellard sat on the porch outside the house.

Before Wellard could answer, Dumbledore suddenly frowned. "Ah! How silly of me. Do you want some tea?"

"No, thank you." said Wellard politely, beginning to think that Dumbledore was behaving more like a host than a guest.

"Well then, do you mind telling me what had happened?"

"Hm........." said Wellard.

"I won't tell anyone, if that's what you are worrying about." said Dumbledore kindly.

"Hm, okay," said Wellard slowly. "This is about Professor McGonagall and her son, Achilles. Professor, do you know him?"

Dumbledore nodded. "He's a good student, a very sweet, nice but playful boy. He even has his mother's temper."

"I heard from Athena that he had an argument with Professor McGonagall and left home 20 years ago."

Dumbledore sighed at the memory. "I heard it from Minerva, it was saddening."

"Then Athena was born 2 years later and didn't know anything about Mr McGonagall until she found his old stuff in the attic."

"Oh, that's how she got to know about Achilles." thought Dumbledore.

"Professor McGonagall refused to tell Athena anything about her brother but she managed to find out the whole story, through what method I don't know, she didn't tell me. She wanted to find him but had no idea how to, until she saw him the day before yesterday in a bar at Helga Road."

"What?" exclaimed Dumbledore. "Did I hear you correctly, Mr Wellard?"

Wellard blinked at his action and nodded after a while. "That is right, she saw him in a bar. But he left quickly when Athena tried to talk to him. Yesterday she came to the Auror Headquarters to find him. She found out that Achilles registered under the name "Richard Smith" instead of "Achilles McGonagall" and went to live in Plymouth."

"So that's why I can't find him." thought Dumbledore.

"So today I accompany her to Plymouth to find Mr McGonagall. Unfortunately, things don't go so well after they met."

"What do you mean, Mr Wellard?" asked Dumbledore in a worried tone. What could possibly go wrong between those two? If he remembered correctly, Achilles and Athena were very close.....

"I heard them arguing in Mr McGonagall's apartment. It seem like Mr McGonagall does not want to come back home for his mother's sake because he still doesn't know her problem with Aurors and Athena is angry at him for that. So she drank 5 glass of apple rum to keep her mind off this."

Dumbledore sighed.

"Professor, do you mind not telling this to Professor McGonagall? Athena asked me not to tell her mother about this and I promised her."

Dumbledore nodded slowly.

"Thank you."

"Hi Albus!" said a voice cheerfully and Wellard and Dumbledore turned to see the Hogwarts Sisters.

"Ooo, who is this?" asked Mandy and said to the Hogwarts Sisters. "Ladies, looks like we have stranger here in our mist."

Dumbledore chuckled while Wellard blushed.

"Wait a minute, I know him! You are Terrence Wellard!" exclaimed Georgia.

Wellard swallowed and nodded. "Yes, Professor. I'm. Very nice to meet you all."

"Hello, I'm Madam Pomfrey, I'm sure you remember me......." started Poppy when Madam Hooch rushed forward.

"And I am Madam Hooch, remember me? And you are.......a very nice-looking young man." She flirted.

Wellard blushed deeper. "T-thank y-you." he stammered.

"Oh, isn't he adorable?" exclaimed Mandy in delight. "By the way, where's Minerva?"

"Upstairs, taking care of Athena." said Dumbledore flatly.

"Athena? What happened to her?" asked Mandy in concern.

Dumbledore told the Hogwarts Sisters everything Wellard had said.

"That git! He is behaving like Percy Weasley!" said Mandy angrily.

"I think it is my fault." said Poppy quietly. "It is entirely my fault why Minerva didn't let Achilles to be an Auror in the first place. Isn't it, Mandy?"

"No it is not," said Mandy firmly. "Not really. It is because we are all too stubborn to tell Achilles the truth. That's why he is behaving like this."

"You four took an oath not to tell because it was too painful to." Dumbledore pointed out.

"See? That's my fault!" said Poppy hysterically.

"No, it is not! What happened in 1953 is not your fault!" snapped Mandy. "So, Achilles refused to come back to this part of the country huh?"

"That's right." said Dumbledore.

"And he has Minerva's temper, it is impossible to reason with him.........hm......... oh well, looks like we had to force him back here to make up with Minerva. Come on, Hogwarts Sisters! Let's come back tomorrow to get Athena! I have an idea; let's do the same thing that Minerva did to me last time! Let's go to my house, I will explain everything......"

The Hogwarts Sisters ran off.

Wellard was still for a while before he asked Dumbledore, "Um, Hogwarts Sisters?"

***

"Look, Mandy, are we really going to do this?" asked Georgia uncertainly the next day on their way to Achilles's apartment (Athena led the way and they had checked from Wellard that Achilles was at home).

Mandy nodded. "Hogwarts Sisters Rule no. 11......." she started.

"We can't be afraid to do what we know we have to do." said all three of the Hogwarts Sisters.

Athena just smiled. Mandy's plan sounded good, maybe Achilles would come home after that.

***

Ding Dong

"Coming!" called a voice from inside and Achilles opened the door.

"WOW!" cried the Hogwarts Sisters at Achilles's appearance.

"Athena, you didn't tell us that Achilles has grown a moustache, now he looks like his father!" exclaimed Georgia.

Achilles frowned. "Surprise, surprise, Mom's henchmen." he said before leaving the door.

"Now that doesn't sound nice." said Poppy as the Hogwarts Sisters and Athena came in.

Achilles didn't say anything and sit down on the couch.

"You don't seem very surprised to see us." said Mandy.

"Well, of course not, once Dad or Athena or Mom saw me somewhere, it is only the matter of time before you all comes swooping in."

"Cool statue, reminds me of your Mom." said Mandy, looking at the statue of Minerva.

"Take a seat." said Achilles.

All of them sat down.

"Now before you all started, ah, I have one thing to say, it's not going to work." said Achilles firmly.

Mandy frowned. Achilles just gave a dry smile.

"Listen, Achilles, no one on Earth and I mean no one understands better than us how silly your Mom is," Mandy ignored Achilles's raised eyebrows. "We are not here to disrupt that, she is as mad as a hatter and that is not going to change!"

"Achilles, but your Mom is the way she is, if you really knew........." started Poppy.

"I know that she refused to let me to be Auror for some stupid reason and that's enough!" snapped Achilles.

"Don't you take that tone with her," said Mandy dangerously. "You want to get all scrappy, you have to deal with me."

"That is just it!" exclaimed Achilles. "I don't want to get all scrappy! I am sick of fighting! And I am sick to death to this........." he paused and frowned again. "Wait a minute, did Mom send you?"

"Are you out of your mind?" asked Mandy in horror.

"She will skin us alive if she knows we are here." said Poppy.

"We told her that we were going to a pub and you know your mother, she quitted drinking years ago so she didn't come along." said Georgia.

Achilles was silent.

"Well, looks like you really don't want to go back........." said Poppy quietly.

"See, I told you three so." said Athena.

"The point is, Achilles........." started Mandy and Achilles looked at her. "We are starving. So help us if you let us take you out to dinner, we will get on the last train tonight, no question asked."

Achilles asked slowly: "Really?"

The Hogwarts Sisters and Athena nodded.

***

At a small bar near Wisdom Street, the Hogwarts Sisters and the Dumbledore children sat together at a small table waiting for their food.

"Why are they taking so long to prepare the food?" asked Achilles impatiently and looked at his watch.

Mandy winked at Athena.

"Bro, where is the bathroom?" asked Athena.

"Over there." said Achilles, pointed at the far end of the room.

"It's too far, can you bring me there?" said Athena.

"Okay, okay......" said Achilles and got up from his seat.

When both Athena and Achilles were gone, Mandy took out a pink packet from her pocket.

"Wait, what is it?" asked Georgia.

"I got it from the Weasley twins this morning, it is a "Roofie" or something........they said it would knock him on his ass."

"No! Roofies! That is a Muggle date-rape drug, we can't do that!" protested Poppy.

"Then what? We can't conk him on the head!" said Mandy loudly as she opened the packet. "He has Minerva's blood, he can take it."

"Hurry up, here he comes!" cried Georgia.

Mandy poured the powder in and it dissolved immediately.

"Sheesh, it didn't work, the food didn't come." said Achilles as he and Athena sat down.

Mandy grinned a little at Athena as Achilles took his drink and drunk it.

"Yuck, the drink tastes bitterer than just now............." said Achilles and frowned. "Wait a minute, is it just me or the place is getting haz.........."

THUD

Mandy checked whether Achilles was really knocked out cold and when she was satisfied, she gave the Hogwarts Sisters and Athena a high-five.

"Good job, the Goddess Artemis will be proud of us........"

***

Achilles opened his eyes and yawned. He rolled over on his bed and checked the time beside his bed.

The Golden Snitch shape clock showed the time "10.30am".

Well, it was only 10.30am..........wait a minute, the Golden Snitch clock?! What the hell was it doing here in his apartment at Plymouth? He remembered that it was put in his bedroom in the...........

He sat up and yelled, "NO!"

He groaned and clutched his head as it hurts painfully. "Oh my head......" he moaned and yelled again: "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU WOMEN?!"