"You know the drill." April said as she sat looking at a few pieces of Parchment as Harry walked into her rooms with Jenny. Harry sighed and put his things down while Jenny ran over to her mum and sat down next to her. Jenny looked at the parchment that April was reading. April made no attempt to hide it and Harry sat in the chair.

"Stand up Harry." April said. Harry rolled his eyes and stood up and closed his eyes and began to shut out everything. His mind began to empty his mind when Jenny spoke.

"You're not going to reply are you?" Jenny asked slightly horrified.

"Sh!" April hissed to Jenny.

"I don't like him though." Jenny complained. Harry could just imagine Jenny crossing her arms huffily and staring at nothing in particular. He smiled at the image in his mind.

"And why not? All he does is to try and be nice to you." April said sternly. Harry felt they were talking about Sirius.

"I just don't like him." Jenny said in a slightly smaller voice.

"You're going to have to get used to him, he's your father whether you like it or not Jenny. I need to talk to you about him later, and you won't avoid me like last time." April said even more sternly. Harry wanted to peek to see what Jenny's reaction was but he resisted the urge. He just heard Jenny give a noise off annoyance

"I wasn't avoiding you, I was avoiding him" She muttered in a quiet voice. Harry scowled slightly.

"Harry, you're not emptying your mind." April said,

"Sorry." Harry said. He heard the scratching of a quill on parchment and his mind went empty. He drifted in this emptiness for what he felt was an hour.

"Where is that ruddy house elf?" April asked Jenny slightly annoyed, "Oh, Harry you can stop now."

"I think he's doing something for Hermione." Jenny said uncertainly.

"She's not in the family, why's he following her orders?" April said slightly annoyed as she put her letter down.

"She's had Shoner, Castra and Dobby doing her bidding since Christmas." Jenny told April. April shook her head

"What happened to those House elf values or vows or whatever they are?"

"New times, new rules." Jenny said shrugging. "She won't tell anyone what's happening."

"You talk to Hermione?" Harry asked Jenny. She looked at him.

"Of course." Jenny said,

"I thought you two weren't on good terms." Harry said uncertainly.

"Please!" Jenny said, "Since Christmas she's been really different. Haven't you noticed?" Harry nodded and sat down.

"Stand up Harry." April said, "Fine. I'll get an owl to send this. Now, Harry. Ready?" Harry nodded. "Ligilimens" The spell merely bounced off Harry. April smiled.

"My God he's got it." Jenny said in a posh English accent. Harry gave her a look that told her that wasn't funny.

"Well done Harry" April said, "I thought I saw Voldemort breaking into your mind on the train yesterday, I was worried that you wouldn't be as strong as usual."

"Is that bad?"

"Quite the contrary, it seems that he's just made your mind even stronger." April said happily. "Now, we can test you against a proper Legilimen" April said. She turned to Jenny, who bounced to her feet.

"So that's why you came with me." Harry said. Jenny gave him a smile and stuck her tongue out slightly. Harry looked at Jenny's lips hungrily.

"Focus now." April said noticing his change in expression. Harry blinked a few times then looked at Jenny. "Now, this will be the true test. If you can block out Jenny, someone you care for a lot, I hope, then I think you will be able to fight against Voldemort."

"Ok, I can do this" Harry said.

"So, just try and block your mind and try not to think of anything other then what Jenny asks you."

"What do you mean?" Harry asked.

"Jenny may ask you a question such as, oh I don't know, did you sleep with Cho Chang" Harry started to go red, "You could say yes and hide the truth from Jenny, to do this you have to block all memories of any of your moments with Cho and focus on lying to Jenny." April was smirking slightly at Harry's expression.

"But I didn't"

"We know that." April said, "Jenny, over to you while I sort out some Auror affairs. I'll still be in this room so behave yourself."

"Yes mum." Jenny said saluting slightly. Jenny turned to Harry. "Ready Potter?" She said cheekily.

"I think I am" Harry said. He looked into Jenny's dark brown eyes.

"Harry Potter, have you ever…had any lustful thoughts for me?" Jenny asked with a cheeky sparkle in her eyes.

"No." Harry said. Jenny grinned.

"You lie." Jenny said happily. "You have to block out your feelings and memories."

"I can't do that when I'm with you." Harry said with a smile.

"Well you're just going to have to try." Jenny said with a smile. "Now, are you annoyed with my mum right now?"

"No." Harry said. Jenny frowned slightly but then shook her head.

"Harry, you're still not doing it." Jenny said with a sigh. "I don't want Voldemort to win because you can't control your thoughts. I want you alive and right by my side for as long as we can be together." Harry smirked, he felt slightly refreshed by that.

"Ok, I'll try harder."

"Good. Now, would you like it if…Sirius and mum got together?" Harry pushed all his feelings away as much as he could while she asked that question.

"No." Harry said. Jenny just stared at him and smiled.

"You wouldn't? That's cool because I've been trying to talk mum out of it for AGES-"

"I lied" Harry said interrupting Jenny.

"What?" Jenny asked. "You lied, how dare you lie to me! I'm your girlfriend!" Harry looked at Jenny confused.

"I'm really sorry but-" Jenny burst out laughing.

"I'm just kidding." Jenny said. "You looked so funny." She went to Harry and played with his hair slightly. "You have to keep it messy. It's cuter that way." Harry grinned and leaned in to kiss Jenny as April came into the room.

"What did I tell you two?" She asked sternly. Harry and Jenny broke apart and Jenny tucked a strand of hair behind her ear.

"Anything you want me to find out?" Jenny asked her mum.

"Nope." Her mum said absently as she flicked through pieces of Parchment. Harry watched curiously, other then fighting against deatheaters and Voldemort this was the only time he'd ever seen her do anything but sit around but then Harry hadn't seen her that much around school because he was in lessons and she had a tendency of patrolling the lower levels of the school. Now she had help Harry noticed her around a lot more, she seemed to be watching Harry quite closely.

"Ok." Jenny said turning to Harry. "Lets carry on."

Harry lay down on the sofa in April's rooms. April had allowed him and Jenny to stay for a while after the lesson and she was currently reading through a large pile of letters.

"What are those all about?" Harry asked. April glanced at the parchment she was reading.

"Pleas to replace Fudge." April said. "I really don't see the point because honestly, I'm happy doing what I do. If I become minister then there's really no point in me even bothering to see Jenny." April said slightly annoyed. She put the parchment down and pointed her wand at it.

"So you're not going to take the job?" Jenny asked.

"No. It's between me and Dumbledore." April said "But as neither of us wants it so we've put in a request that Amelia Bones take the job." Harry nodded, not really taking any of that in. He was happy just sitting there holding Jenny. "You two kids want anything to drink? Hot Chocolate, coffee, butterbeer?" April asked.

"No thanks." Jenny said giggling slightly as she put her head on Harry's chest. Harry shook his head. April smiled and gave them a sad sigh.

"You two and your friends remind me so much of when I was in school." April said. Jenny smiled and looked at Harry, who was listening to April, for a change that night.

"What were my parent's like exactly because I've heard so many different things and I've seen Snape's pensieve and I really don't know what I should think." Harry said. April smiled.

"They were great people. James was always a prick until out seventh year when he saved your mother from getting raped. That's when they started to warm up to each other." Harry raised his eyebrows at this. "And then before that James was cursing people left and right. He did still occasionally curse people for badmouthing your mother but it was all harmless really. He liked to show off a lot."

"What about mum?" Harry asked. A dark shadow seemed to fall over April's face.

"I'd rather not talk about it but I suppose I should." April said,

"Oh, you don't have to if you don't want to." Harry said quickly. April ignored him however but she seemed to hesitate before she said anything.

"I swear, if you didn't know me more then you do you'd have thought your-Lily and I were lovers" She said forcing Harry's mum's name out, "But we were effectively sisters like you and Ron are brothers. She was always the smart one and competing against Jenny for the best marks and top awards and everything" Jenny frowned for a minute before she realised that April was talking about Jenny Chang, "She was a bit like Hermione actually, It's funny how you can relate the people in the past to the people now. Lily was always one for following rules, complete opposite to James, at first." April said with a smirk as if remembering some distant memories. "I'll lend you her pensieve one day."

"Mum had a pensieve?" Harry asked.

"She got it as a present, I can't remember who from but in their will it said that almost everything should be left to me and Sirius and seeing as Sirius went to prison-" The rest was pretty self explanatory. April sighed. "I just regret not taking you in when she died." Harry noticed how April was now carefully avoiding his mum's name. Harry put an arm tightly around Jenny and thought about what he would do if Hermione or Ron was killed at the same time. He shuddered slightly

"Are you ok?" Jenny asked, feeling him shudder.

"Yeah, it's just it must have been really bad." Harry said to April. April nodded and sighed again.

"I managed to cope with my little one here." April said throwing a pillow to Jenny. Jenny laughed and threw the pillow back. "Which reminds me, I know it's very early but I want you to come to our Spanish Villa in the summer, after your month is up at the Dursely's. We're having Ginny and Ron Weasley round and we're currently trying to get in contact with Hermione's parents but they seem a bit reluctant to reply so I'm going to go round to their house in a few days time."

"I've never been to Spain." Harry said.

"I know, I've been watching you all your life." April said, "Also it's a lot safer in Spain then in England, Voldemort's influence hasn't quite reached there. I also have to negotiate with the Spanish aurors on their precautions of protection and stuff."

"Can I come?" Jenny asked eagerly.

"No." April said like it ended the matter. Jenny pouted angrily and crossed her arms.

"Well, I'd love to go to Spain." Harry said, "Will I be able to learn to Apparate?"

"After your seventeenth birthday." April said, "I will ensure that you get the proper training even if you are at the Dursleys. I love to watch Petunia squirm." April said.

"Do you two know each other well?" Harry asked curiously.

"Lets just say we have a few issues to sort out." April said. "Now, I want you two to go back to the common room soon. I'm going to Grimmauld place to see if Castra is there. Please could you tell Hermione to stop ordering my elf around." April went to the fireplace and soon disappeared in the now green flames.

"That's the first time she's spoken about your mum like that." Jenny said dreamily.

"Yes well." Harry's attention was going back to Jenny. "Do you want to leave now or slightly later?" He asked. Jenny looked at him and grinned.

"Slightly later." She tilted her head back slightly and closed her eyes as Harry's lips danced across hers. She felt his tongue coaxing her mouth open and she returned the kiss happily.

A/N:-Ok, I'm doing a very bad thing right now. I should be doing my biology coursework but I got bored so I decided to update. I'm stillw aiting for a review from Mel.....hehe, you can just do a reeeeeeeeaaaaally long review for all three chappies if you want, or just do one for all three, I personally dont care. I got too much stuff on at the moment to worry about reivews to be honest but they're still nice. Hmm....If you want i'll do a bulk update (like 2 or 3 chapters) because there's only like 7 or 8 more chapters left until....FORTRESS OF SHADOWS!! though i don't think the story has any relevance to the title...ah well.

I was thinking of setting up a sort of writing competition thing (I'll be posting this suggestion up on To The End as well) and I was wondering whether people would be interested in taking part. Kinda like a competition thing to a) broaden people's writing abilities (I love to experiment with writing styles) and b)just for the heck of it. Tell me what you think cause I wanna no if it's worth starting up.....Also, if you know any good fanfics, please could you tell me, I'm really bored and find it hard to try and find any DECENT fanfics (No slash!!!)

Now Review thanks:

Kordolin: Thanks for the Grammar check, I should send you my stories for Beta-ing, it would be useful. Anyway, Emma will come soon, keep your panties on (or pants if you're a boy), lol. Anyway, yeah, she'll come in and she has an even bigger part in the next story....a MUCH bigger part.

Shadowrayne: Yeah, I am getting your reviews on I just don't reply to those ones coz i get too many over there to reply to them all (as you've probs seen) and so I don't bother. Hi to you and I'm glad you like the other ones. I can't remember but have you read my next generation stories yet? I love those stories

Bloomz-baby: More will be posted, don't worry. I'm just really busy right now

Laughinggirl: Thank you...I really like you now. I try and plan the stories out in advance and the main twists and stuff that I want to put into it so that it all flows, though some things don't quite work. I meant to have more interaction between SHoner and HArry but that never happened. There will be more, there's gonna be fortress of Shadows following this and then The Adventures of the Next Generation stories, years 1 through 7. So in total there's about 11 stories in this series....isn't that cool? it's bloody torture to write though!