Chapter 9: Convincing the Ministry.
"What is this place?" Draco asked once he stepped out of the fire place.
"This Draco is the headquarters for the Order of the Phoenix, it's also known as Black manor. Since I have an hour before Lupin makes the floo system safe I'll give you a tour. Shroner." Bailey called the new Black family house elf.
"Yes miss?" Shroner squeaked.
"I would like it if you could set up a room for mister Malfoy, preferably between my room and his mothers.Then if you could get Matten to help you set up all of the spare rooms and some of the collapsable beds in the rooms that people won't use like Sirius' office. Thanks." Bailey said hugging the house elf, Remus taught her to be nice to the house elves, they might look different than she was, but all three of them were considered outcasts.
"Will do miss." Shroner said hugging Bailey back.
"Bailey why did you just hug you house elf?" Draco asked shocked.
"Because we don't believe in being mean to other creatures since Remus and I are both some what creatures. See our house elves were released by thier Death Eater masters, and went straight to Dumbledore, they work here for one sickle every two weeks. Drake I'm not going to ask you to be overly nice to them, but please by civil, they are after all going to be watching your mum and the others. It's bad enough there are only two of them doing such a big job." Bailey said leading Drake up the stairs.
"I'll try my best, and I promise to try and get my mum to be civil to them also. So what was down there?"
"Oh sorry, the room we came out of was the dining room, the door on the side of that room is the kitchen. The other seven doors are extra rooms. The manor has four floors, the second floor holds the library, music room, the study, and nine bedrooms. The third floor holds Sirius' room and office, Lupin's room and office, My room, your room, your mother's room, and nine extra bedrooms. I suggest you stay away from the fourth floor the week before and of the full moon. Don't worry though lupin's usually harmless and we keep both the doors magically sealed." Bailey said continuing to talk up another flight of stairs.
"You mean Lupin is a werewolf?" Draco asked shocked.
"Yeah and Drake it's professor Lupin." Bailey said finally reaching the third fllor. "This is your room." Bailey opened a door to the right of the stairs.
"This room is remarkable, how did you know what my actual bedroom looked like?" Draco asked shocked,it was like he ws in Malfoy manor.
"The house elves. I told you, if you're nice to them, they'll be nice to you." Bailey said closing the door, she walked up to Draco and started kissing him. Draco kissed Bailey back and pulled her closer to him. Beofre they realized it Sirius walked into Draco's room.
"Bailey Michelle Schmidt, what do you think you're doing?" Sirius yelled, slamming the door shut.
"Sirius before you go yelling Narcissa is trying to rest up in the next bedroom, second if I wanted to snog Draco I will, it's not like we were going to, well you know." Bailey said not backing away from Draco. " I better be going, can I use your fire Drake?" Bailey asked kissing him again.
"Yeah sure, Sirius we'll talk about whose names are on that list, and then decide how to split it up when Bailey leaves." Draco lead Bailey over to the fire and handed her the pot next to it.
"Thanks, hopefully I can convince the ministry. Well I'll see you in a couple of hours." Bailey stepped in to the fire and disappeared. Instead of going straight to her house, Bailey went straight to the ministry.
"Welcome to the Ministry of Magic, American branch. Please state your name, and your reason for visiting." A cool female voice came on.
"Bailey Schmidt, I was sent by Albus Dumbledore, and Minister Remus Lupin to talk to Minister Sarah Dammon." Bailey said into thin air.
"Please put on the badge and proceed over to security." A badge appeared in thin air.
"Thank you." Bailey exited the fire place, and went over by one of the security guards. She really didn't know what to expect.
"Please put your wand on the scale for weighing." The security guard said.
"Um, I don't have a wand really, I don't. I'm an alien, my powers reside in me. I'm not evil though, I've been sent by Miniter of Magic Remus Lupin to talk to Minister Dammon." Bailey had never had to get pass security guards before.
"Miss I'm not allowed to let you through without being able to register your power source." The security guard looked amazed to see an alien.
"It's okay Bill, please let her through anybody raised by Remus would not try to destroy a branch of his ministry." Minister Sarah said walkign up behind Bill. Bailey walked up to the Minister and shook her hand.
"I have to say it's great to meet the only woman Minister of Magic. Remus Lupin and Albus Dumbledore asked me to meet with you. Is there anywhere private we could talk?" Bailey asked.
"Yes please follow me. If both of them sent you I'm figuring this is having to do with the order. So it seems you know a lot about America." Sarah tried to start a conversation.
"Yeah, when I graduated from Hogwarts I moved to California. I know a 12 year old can't raise themselves so a nice family took me in after Lupin, and Sirius did a background check. I think the 12 children the Gibson family had made Lupin and Sirius agree to it even more." Bailey opened the door to the minister's office for her.
"You mean you were raised by Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Albus Dumbledore, and Mel Gibson." Sarah asked shocked.
"Yeah and Lily and James Potter. I've had a lot of guardian since my parents died. Ok about why I"m here Voldemort has recruited Hogwarts best students as inside Death Eaters, luckily for us those insiders are spies for the order, or at least newly recruited spies. Anyways to make sure Voldemort believes they are really working for him they were given an assignment, part of it involves killing muggle born students at the school, some of them my boyfriend can save, the others well, there is no way around making them disappear. We are going to fake their deaths, but we can only have about twenty-five to thirty people at the headquarters but if I could get permission to bring them here, and a tutor so they don't miss classes. I assure you I already have a house they can live in. It wouldn't be endangering your citizens, and doing this would put five or more insiders into Voldemort's circle, ensuring that we would know more information and how to destroy him." Bailey had used her powers to show pictures and graphs.
"Ok I give you permission to bring them, here are your papers. So what do the guys think of you dating a Death Eater?" Sarah asked.
"I think they are more shocked that I'm dating a Malfoy, and that I was able to break him from his father's ideas and morals." Bailey said placing the papers into a folder and shrinking it to fit in her purse.
"Wait a minute, you mean Draco Malfoy changed his mind, and he's your boyfriend? There are going to be so many girls that are going to hate you." Sarah laughed, she knew her daughter Melissa had a huge crush on Draco, and Prince William.
"Well I better go set up the house, and get back in touch with Sirius and Draco." Bailey said shaking Sarah's hand and exiting the room.
"Ok Drake, Baiely's left what about that list?" Sirius said leaving the room and going towards his office. "What the-"
"Bailey told the elves to set up beds in your office, and rooms that are barley used." Draco said sitting down on a chair.
"Ok, I guess she wants me to go find a job." Sirius said sitting behind his desk.
"Anyways, here's the list I think there are about 20 students on there." Draco handed over a piece of parchment. Some of the names on there were Hermione Granger, Seamus Finnigan, Lavender Brown, the Weasley's, and Bailey.
"Draco the Weasleys are a wizarding family right?" Sirius knew that Molly was a second cousin or something.
"No Arthur's a muggle born." Draco looked around the office, it was definitly decorated by Bailey.
"Okay I guess we should start contacting some of these families while the floo network is disconnected from the houses of Death Eaters. Here you take this half and I'll take the other." Sirius wrote down the names for Draco and handed him the list.
"So what should I say? I'm not really good at this." Draco asked.
"Just tell them Albus Dumbledore sent you to inform the families of students whose name was on a list you were given, and tell them they have one to two weeks to quit their jobs, pack only the necessities, and secretly come to Grimmauld Place. They will be contacted later with their arrival date, and will be informed of what's going on when they arrive, at the request of Dumbledore they are to stay hidden there until further notice. If they ask any questions just say not to worry, but that you have no further information. I'll be saying something along those lines except I'll be giving the people on my list their arival times. After you're done go check on your mum." Sirius then left the room to use a different fire place.