Allison stormed out of the store, swearing under her breath. Melissa and
Eva tried to hide their amusement as they tried to keep up with her. It
was a very rare occasion that made Allison this mad, and they both knew to
stay out of her way when she was like this.
"Well," Allison started, "that takes care of the Weasley family." She took a deep breath and regained her temper. "Now, shall we go and see how your house is Melissa."
Melissa's face broke into a grin. She had not been to her family home since the three of them had left England over fifteen years ago. Not wanting to wait any longer, Melissa looked to the other ladies and ran to the Leaky Cauldron to use the floo.
Eva was the last person to step out of the fire place. "WOW!" she exclaimed. "I forgot how big this place was."
Melissa turned to her "sister" and "mother" and smiled. "Welcome to Godric's Hollow." She smiled as she walked out of the study. At last she had returned. "If only I could remember where dad kept the map . . ." Mel thought aloud. "LIZZY!"
A few seconds after Mel had yelled, an old house elf appeared. "Who? . . . Mistress Mel? . . . MISTRESS MEL you've returned." The elf hugged Mel around her knees. "Blessed Lady has returned for me. Mistress has returned to her home." The elf let go of Mel's legs and started doing the elf equivalent of a jig.
Mel looked to the elf, and tapped her on the shoulder. "Why is the house in such a mess? Lizzy, where is all the furniture? Where is my family?" Mel asked with worry in her voice.
Lizzy looked down to the floor. Tears ran freely from her sad eyes. Mel placed her finger under the elf's chin and pulled her face up. "Lizzy, what's wrong?"
"Mistress must not be mad at Lizzy. Lizzy has tried to do what she could since that horrid night." Lizzy backed up to the wall, knocking into a portrait of Mel's grandparents. "Dark man came to the house. They killed your parents, and tried to kill your brother. Your b . . .b . . .brother, . . . he killed the Dark man."
"My brother lives?" Mel looked joyful. "Then where is he? Where is Harry?"
Allison and Eva had come to stand behind Mel. Each had placed a hand on her shoulders. Lizzy looked to the other two ladies standing behind Mel. "You," she looked to Allison, "you saved my Mistress. How can I ever repay you?"
Mel again got Lizzy's attention. "Lizzy where is my brother, why is he not here?"
Lizzy went the table by the front door and retrieved a letter that was sitting there. She handed it to Mel and slowly backed away.
Mel opened the letter and read it out loud.
Dear Melissa Rose,
My name is Albus Dumbledore. I am the Headmaster of Hogwarts. If you are reading this letter, then you have returned to your family home. As Lizzy has probably told you, your brother Harry survived the attack on your home. Since we had no idea where you had disappeared to, my best guess is that Allison and Eva Weasley are with you as well, we sent your brother to the only blood family you both have left.
Mel stopped reading and looked to Allison. "He didn't! Oh, if she's done anything to him I'll kill her!"
"Calm down Mel." Allison said. "We will go and rescue him before we go back to the Burrow. Continue reading."
Looking at the letter in her hands she quickly found where she had left off.
As soon as you have read this letter, please sign the papers behind this one, and place a drop of blood in the circle on the last page. The address of your brother will appear for a few seconds, and then the papers will return to me.
Do not worry about anyone knowing about you being back. All memories have been wiped of all three of you. Even my own memory was erased. This letter will remind me, and knowing Allison she will have already contacted her family and they too will remember who she and Eva are.
Hope to meet you soon. Please call on me at Hogwarts if you have any more questions.
Albus Dumbledore Head Master Hogwarts
Melissa quickly brought the following pages to the top of the small pile, signed her name and placed a small drop of blood in the red circle on the last page. The pages rolled themselves and disappeared in an instant, leaving behind the letter and a small scrap of paper with her Aunt's address on it.
She slowly turned to Allison and Eva. "I have to go get him." She stated. "I cannot leave him there if I'm back."
"We understand." Eva whispered.
After two hours of yelling, Allison had finally gotten Mel to realize that the house needed to be cleaned before they could go get Harry. In that time, a letter came from Allison and Eva's family.
Dearest Allison and Eva,
My dears why did you ever leave? Why have you not come straight here? We have been so worried about you. Please come home to us soon.
Your loving mother
This letter sent the three ladies and the house elf into a flurry. The first two floors had to be cleaned, and at least half of the third floor as well before any of them would see their blood family.
"Well, at least you and Harry won't have to fight for rooms." Eva laughed. "There are enough rooms here to hold every female at Salem High."
"Don't I know it." Mel answered. "I still wish I knew where that blasted map was."
At that exact moment Lizzy ran into the room. "Mistress . . . Mistress . . . I've found it." She was waving an aged piece of paper.
"Where was it Lizzy?" Mel asked as she took the paper from her.
"In your old room Mistress. Just where you left it. Under your old bed." Lizzy answered.
Allison laughed. "Well, at least it was in the one place that you lose everything." She looked over Mel's shoulder at the map. "We should have known to look there first."
Scrolled words appeared on the map. Welcome home Mistress Rose. What can I show you?
Mel stood there for a moment and thought. "Show me where the Potter account books, journals, and household accounts are."
The words on the map faded and lines replaced it. Under the picture words appeared. The books and journals are in the family vault, and the household accounts are in the kitchen vault.
All can be reached by the descending stairs in the Master's Master bedroom.
The ladies followed the directions the map gave. The main master bedroom was huge. Just under a hundred square feet with an entrance into the main office room, a connected walk-in closet and bathroom with a shower and a hot tub.
The stairs were hidden in the walk-in closet against the back wall. The map gave the password for the hidden door and the password for the stairs to appear. Mel asked Allison and Eva to stay above while she collected the items below. Mel traversed the hidden basement with caution. She remembered that there used to be creatures down here. Her father would bring her and her brother down here on Saturday mornings to rummage through some of the older storage areas.
Finding the first vault, Melissa was glad that she had not brought the other two with her. Mountains of money were pilled all around. Not only was there Wizard money, but Muggle money from many different countries. The Potter books and journals were set in the middle of the room. Mel remembered that there was some kind of spell on the table that held the many books, she tried to remember what her father had done to release them from their spell.
"Remember me, a Potter true. Just be glad your cover's not blue." She said as she remembered the laughter she and her father had shared when he had taught her the family counter-spell for many of the more important locks. Reducing the books, she stored them in her jean pockets, and headed for the kitchen vault across the hall.
Mel froze when she reached the door to the vault. This was one of the places that she had never been taken. This was her mother's place. Her father never came in here, not even to get her mother when she was late for dinner. Melissa placed her hand on the door, and slowly pushed it open. Looking around, she was amazed. This was no vault, this was a Potion Master's dream.
Quickly she ran up and down the many isles looking at all of the ingredients. All of them were in containers that you could never buy, and that most witches and wizards had never heard of called Potter's Pots. Mel remembered her mother giving her one to keep ice cream in one summer picnic. The ice cream had stayed cold the whole trip, and kept refilling itself every time the spoon had hit the bottom. Mel knew that the ingredients in the jars would never go bad. She still had that jar of chocolate mint ice cream that her mother had given her all those years ago.
Mel finally remembered why she had come in here, and started searching the shelves for the household journal. This was her mother's domain, where would her mother have put it. Running back down the previous isle, Mel reached the jars labeled with J's. Half way down the row there was a jar titled Quarterly Intelligence.
Grabbing the books from the jar, she reduced it and ran back to her waiting friends. Reaching the top of the hidden stairs, Mel was out of breath. Looking at the clock on the far wall, she smiled. "No wonder I was getting hungry. It's already twenty-one hundred (9 p.m.). Let's go see what Lizzy has prepared for dinner."
After three days of hard work, the three floors above ground were clean and the first two basement levels were just about as clean as the upper floors. Everyone decided that it was time to re-meet the families. They decided that the best way would be to get everyone together and tell them at the same time. Allison made the port key for everyone. After much discussion, they decided to send Harry's to Dumbledore and let him send it to Harry.
"Well," Allison started, "that takes care of the Weasley family." She took a deep breath and regained her temper. "Now, shall we go and see how your house is Melissa."
Melissa's face broke into a grin. She had not been to her family home since the three of them had left England over fifteen years ago. Not wanting to wait any longer, Melissa looked to the other ladies and ran to the Leaky Cauldron to use the floo.
Eva was the last person to step out of the fire place. "WOW!" she exclaimed. "I forgot how big this place was."
Melissa turned to her "sister" and "mother" and smiled. "Welcome to Godric's Hollow." She smiled as she walked out of the study. At last she had returned. "If only I could remember where dad kept the map . . ." Mel thought aloud. "LIZZY!"
A few seconds after Mel had yelled, an old house elf appeared. "Who? . . . Mistress Mel? . . . MISTRESS MEL you've returned." The elf hugged Mel around her knees. "Blessed Lady has returned for me. Mistress has returned to her home." The elf let go of Mel's legs and started doing the elf equivalent of a jig.
Mel looked to the elf, and tapped her on the shoulder. "Why is the house in such a mess? Lizzy, where is all the furniture? Where is my family?" Mel asked with worry in her voice.
Lizzy looked down to the floor. Tears ran freely from her sad eyes. Mel placed her finger under the elf's chin and pulled her face up. "Lizzy, what's wrong?"
"Mistress must not be mad at Lizzy. Lizzy has tried to do what she could since that horrid night." Lizzy backed up to the wall, knocking into a portrait of Mel's grandparents. "Dark man came to the house. They killed your parents, and tried to kill your brother. Your b . . .b . . .brother, . . . he killed the Dark man."
"My brother lives?" Mel looked joyful. "Then where is he? Where is Harry?"
Allison and Eva had come to stand behind Mel. Each had placed a hand on her shoulders. Lizzy looked to the other two ladies standing behind Mel. "You," she looked to Allison, "you saved my Mistress. How can I ever repay you?"
Mel again got Lizzy's attention. "Lizzy where is my brother, why is he not here?"
Lizzy went the table by the front door and retrieved a letter that was sitting there. She handed it to Mel and slowly backed away.
Mel opened the letter and read it out loud.
Dear Melissa Rose,
My name is Albus Dumbledore. I am the Headmaster of Hogwarts. If you are reading this letter, then you have returned to your family home. As Lizzy has probably told you, your brother Harry survived the attack on your home. Since we had no idea where you had disappeared to, my best guess is that Allison and Eva Weasley are with you as well, we sent your brother to the only blood family you both have left.
Mel stopped reading and looked to Allison. "He didn't! Oh, if she's done anything to him I'll kill her!"
"Calm down Mel." Allison said. "We will go and rescue him before we go back to the Burrow. Continue reading."
Looking at the letter in her hands she quickly found where she had left off.
As soon as you have read this letter, please sign the papers behind this one, and place a drop of blood in the circle on the last page. The address of your brother will appear for a few seconds, and then the papers will return to me.
Do not worry about anyone knowing about you being back. All memories have been wiped of all three of you. Even my own memory was erased. This letter will remind me, and knowing Allison she will have already contacted her family and they too will remember who she and Eva are.
Hope to meet you soon. Please call on me at Hogwarts if you have any more questions.
Albus Dumbledore Head Master Hogwarts
Melissa quickly brought the following pages to the top of the small pile, signed her name and placed a small drop of blood in the red circle on the last page. The pages rolled themselves and disappeared in an instant, leaving behind the letter and a small scrap of paper with her Aunt's address on it.
She slowly turned to Allison and Eva. "I have to go get him." She stated. "I cannot leave him there if I'm back."
"We understand." Eva whispered.
After two hours of yelling, Allison had finally gotten Mel to realize that the house needed to be cleaned before they could go get Harry. In that time, a letter came from Allison and Eva's family.
Dearest Allison and Eva,
My dears why did you ever leave? Why have you not come straight here? We have been so worried about you. Please come home to us soon.
Your loving mother
This letter sent the three ladies and the house elf into a flurry. The first two floors had to be cleaned, and at least half of the third floor as well before any of them would see their blood family.
"Well, at least you and Harry won't have to fight for rooms." Eva laughed. "There are enough rooms here to hold every female at Salem High."
"Don't I know it." Mel answered. "I still wish I knew where that blasted map was."
At that exact moment Lizzy ran into the room. "Mistress . . . Mistress . . . I've found it." She was waving an aged piece of paper.
"Where was it Lizzy?" Mel asked as she took the paper from her.
"In your old room Mistress. Just where you left it. Under your old bed." Lizzy answered.
Allison laughed. "Well, at least it was in the one place that you lose everything." She looked over Mel's shoulder at the map. "We should have known to look there first."
Scrolled words appeared on the map. Welcome home Mistress Rose. What can I show you?
Mel stood there for a moment and thought. "Show me where the Potter account books, journals, and household accounts are."
The words on the map faded and lines replaced it. Under the picture words appeared. The books and journals are in the family vault, and the household accounts are in the kitchen vault.
All can be reached by the descending stairs in the Master's Master bedroom.
The ladies followed the directions the map gave. The main master bedroom was huge. Just under a hundred square feet with an entrance into the main office room, a connected walk-in closet and bathroom with a shower and a hot tub.
The stairs were hidden in the walk-in closet against the back wall. The map gave the password for the hidden door and the password for the stairs to appear. Mel asked Allison and Eva to stay above while she collected the items below. Mel traversed the hidden basement with caution. She remembered that there used to be creatures down here. Her father would bring her and her brother down here on Saturday mornings to rummage through some of the older storage areas.
Finding the first vault, Melissa was glad that she had not brought the other two with her. Mountains of money were pilled all around. Not only was there Wizard money, but Muggle money from many different countries. The Potter books and journals were set in the middle of the room. Mel remembered that there was some kind of spell on the table that held the many books, she tried to remember what her father had done to release them from their spell.
"Remember me, a Potter true. Just be glad your cover's not blue." She said as she remembered the laughter she and her father had shared when he had taught her the family counter-spell for many of the more important locks. Reducing the books, she stored them in her jean pockets, and headed for the kitchen vault across the hall.
Mel froze when she reached the door to the vault. This was one of the places that she had never been taken. This was her mother's place. Her father never came in here, not even to get her mother when she was late for dinner. Melissa placed her hand on the door, and slowly pushed it open. Looking around, she was amazed. This was no vault, this was a Potion Master's dream.
Quickly she ran up and down the many isles looking at all of the ingredients. All of them were in containers that you could never buy, and that most witches and wizards had never heard of called Potter's Pots. Mel remembered her mother giving her one to keep ice cream in one summer picnic. The ice cream had stayed cold the whole trip, and kept refilling itself every time the spoon had hit the bottom. Mel knew that the ingredients in the jars would never go bad. She still had that jar of chocolate mint ice cream that her mother had given her all those years ago.
Mel finally remembered why she had come in here, and started searching the shelves for the household journal. This was her mother's domain, where would her mother have put it. Running back down the previous isle, Mel reached the jars labeled with J's. Half way down the row there was a jar titled Quarterly Intelligence.
Grabbing the books from the jar, she reduced it and ran back to her waiting friends. Reaching the top of the hidden stairs, Mel was out of breath. Looking at the clock on the far wall, she smiled. "No wonder I was getting hungry. It's already twenty-one hundred (9 p.m.). Let's go see what Lizzy has prepared for dinner."
After three days of hard work, the three floors above ground were clean and the first two basement levels were just about as clean as the upper floors. Everyone decided that it was time to re-meet the families. They decided that the best way would be to get everyone together and tell them at the same time. Allison made the port key for everyone. After much discussion, they decided to send Harry's to Dumbledore and let him send it to Harry.