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A/N: Holy crud! I haven't updated since… like… ummmmmmmmm…. errr…. Hmmm….

Now, this isn't full proof, but I tried my best, and I may re-update this later this weekend.

Summary: You all should know this by now, but…

It's four years after the gang graduates from Hogwarts and Harry, Ron, Hermione, Seamus, and Dean are working with a few famous American aurors trying to earn a living. They are taking a break from work when they happen to literally bump into four teenage American girls. The boys quickly make friends with them in hopes of getting better aquainted with Los Angeles, but there is some thing slightly odd about those girls……

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended. The characters that you don't know, mostly the people not from Hogwarts, are owned by me, though the people they are based off of are real. Every character in this story is based on someone I know and even some people a few of the readers know.
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It's A War
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The Northern Lights of Magic
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Harry glared silently at Ron's retreating back.

Dean moved to put a hand on his shoulder, but Harry waved him away. "She's not dead." He said forcefully.

"Maybe she is and maybe she isn't, but Harry, it's time we let her go." Dean said.

Harry gave him a hard, calculating stare then walked off after Ron.

The group was silent before Tally spoke up. "Who are y'all talkin bout?"

Dean took a deep breath, not really wanting to dredge up past memories, but spoke anyway. "About six years ago, in the middle of the war, Ron's sister- Ginny- disappeared. Along with he went his archenemy Draco Malfoy. Her and Harry had been dating and it had just gotten serious. He was really messed up after it happened."

Tally looked down at her hands. "I'm sorry I brought it up."

Seamus grunted though it sounded more like, "You'd better be."

Tally glared at him and tired not to loose her temper. "Look I said I was sorry, I'm not tryin' to start anythin' I of all people know what it's like to loose someone, so don't go getting all tiffy with me and you don't even know what you're talkin about." She snapped. Her voice hitched and she glared harder, then stormed off.

"Now look what you did." Lor said running off after her.

Seamus grunted and walked off leaving Dean to think about how odd this whole situation was. They just met five extremely odd girls who seemed to know more about what was going on than they did and something big and hairy was lying dead, thanks no doubt to that girl dressed in black…

He shrugged dismissing it for later thought and started down the hallway.
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The small group arrived haphazardly at what would have been a welcoming food court, but at the moment, it was more of a graveyard.

Danni, Hermione, and Torrance were conversing in quiet voices while Harry and Ron listened in.

They could just see Lilah's head poking up over a banister, she appeared to be having a conversation with a man with a pained expression and another smaller person standing by her side.

Tally and Lor looked at each other with knowing glances, then went to investigate.

The person standing next to Lilah turned out to be a small girl. She had long curly brown hair and deep brown eyes that seemed to draw you in.

Lor and tally looked at Lilah. "I see there is another addition to the Farstone brood then?"

Lilah whirled around on her knees and faced her friends. "Oh, hi." She shot a look at the child and smiled sadly. "Yeah." She placed a hand on the child's shoulder and gave it an encouraging squeeze. "Lor, Tally, meet Winifred Gunther. Her mother is with the dead. She'll be coming back to the manor with us."

Lor frowned and scratched the bridge of her nose. "Gunther…Gunther…where have I heard that before?"

"Sarah Gunther: Fashion Designer. She just opened that new store in the northern end." Tally smiled at the girl.

Wendy nodded and turned back to the dying man on the floor. He looked frightened and pained- like he was facing the end of his life. "It's okay." She said patting his hand in a childlike manner. "Lilah will heal you."

Lilah turned from the scene and whispered to her friends. "She doesn't know that I can't heal him. I tried telling her, but she won't listen she keeps insisting that I can heal him. He's got internal bleeding in several places and a mild concussion. I can heal the concussion, but my training isn't enough to heal the bleeding. Besides, I can only heal magical wounds and that was done with a dagger. I have to tell him." She whipped her hands on her pants smearing blood on the white jeans. Turning to the man she whispered some words to him and patted his arm. Then she looked at Wendy and placed a consoling arm on the young girl's shoulder. "Wendy, I don't think I can heal him… he is all ready half dead… the angels are calling him…"

"No!" Said the little girl desperately. "You can save him! You just have to try! I'll help you!" The young girl grabbed Lilah's hands and placed them on the man's heart and covered them with her own small palms. Lilah tired to pull back in surprise, but the pull of magic was so strong she was fool to try and resist. A white bolt of magical energy shot out of Wendy's hands and surrounded Lilah's in white gloves of light. The blue stone on her wrist began to pulse changing colors like a strobe light, faster and faster…

Lilah's eyes widened as she watched what was happening, knowing faintly what was going on.

Power began to generate from Lilah's white-gloved hands and shots of light shot out from her in all directions. The first struck a chair blowing it into a thousand pieces. Then a table was hit, then a planter next to Tally who shrieked and jumped behind Lor.

Lor shoved her behind another planter and shouted, "EVERYBODY GET DOWN!" Then she jumped behind the planter with Tally.

Everyone else took cover as the shots of light multiplied and raced out of Lilah's hands quicker than before.

Suddenly, there was a loud scream as the pillar Hermione was hiding behind was blown to pieces. Another stream of light followed it and sank into her chest.

Time seemed to slow down as Hermione stared in shock at her chest. Then her eyes rolled back into her head and she slumped to the floor.

"HERMIONE!" Ron made to run to her, but Harry and Dean held him back.

"Ron no! You'll get hit too, then you won't be able to help her!"

Ron froze and stared at Hermione.

Yet, as this was going on, the lights continued to shoot out of Lilah and Wendy's clasped hands. They brightened and shot faster streaming lights across the room blowing objects to dust as they made contact.

One particularly bright light shot from their hands and bounced off a window heading straight for Lilah. As it struck her, the lights stopped spewing from their hands and the ones in the air froze and hung mid-flight.

Lilah's face was frozen in an expression of shock, but she made no sound. Her eyes rolled back and she too slumped on the floor. Her hands slid limply from Wendy's and hit the floor with a *thump*.

Wendy stumbled back from Lilah and sat heavily on the floor sighing deeply. A sense of loss filled her eyes and a tear trickled down her face.

Everyone was silent for a moment, then they all acted at once. Tally and Lor grabbed Wendy and drug her away checking her for injuries and inspecting her still glowing hands. Then Danni apparated away with Lilah.

Harry, Dean, Seamus and Ron rushed to Hermione.

"We need to get her to a hospital!" Ron said. He prepared to apparate, but Torrance stopped him.

"No, if you take her to a hospital questions will be asked because they won't be able to heal her, even at St. Mungo's."

"Then where do we take her?"

"To LunaSoleil." She turned from them and faced Tally and Lor. "Tally, You take Hermione, Lor take the girl, I'll get the boys there. Send some of the others back to get the cars and clean up the carnage. Also, get Vaughn if Danni hasn't sent someone all ready and send him to the both of them."

Both girls nodded and departed with sharp pops.

Torrance turned back to the British boys. "I don't know how you all got mixed up in this mess, but you're deep in it now…"

"What's that supposed to mean?" Dean asked.

"I'm not too sure. I don't know half of it myself, and I definitely don't understand what happened just now, though I know someone who will be willing to tell you. I hope she can sort this all out. Now stand still, If you move, I can guarantee that you will feel an adequate amount of pain and be dead before we reach our destination."

Before anyone could ask anymore questions, they were surrounded by a thick black fog that exuded from Torrance and enveloped them all.

The next thing they knew, they were standing in a crowded foyer of a large manor.

They looked around slightly confused until Torrance herded them up a flight of stairs and into a near-by study. The room was octagon shaped with one side longer than the other containing a life size portrait of twenty-two people, half men and half women. Five of the girls looked fairly familiar and one looked all too familiar. Old black and white photos of the same people sat on the shelves, but most were crowded with books. The rest of the walls not covered with books were covered with elaborate stained glass windows.

But what caught the eyes of the four boys was a couple sitting at a table in the center of the room. One had shockingly blonde hair and the other had hair of a deep blood red.

After one stunned moment, only Ron's voice was heard.
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"GINNY? MALFOY?"
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A/N: Okay, I KNOW that royally sucked, so none of you have to say it, but I had to get them out of that mall. The longer they stayed there the higher this brick wall around my ideas went and I was beginning to loose sight of the top… So they left… And I know that it is slightly shorter than what I usually write, but this is what it is…
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Next Chapter:
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- Why is Ginny at LunaSoleil?
- Why is she with Draco?
- Where did Hermione and Lilah disappear to?
- And the best question of all, what the HELL just happened?
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Will up date later today, maybe tomorrow morning…
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