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Chapter 11
As Ginny and Bridget walked down Diagon Alley window shopping, and trying to figure out what they were going to buy with the little money they did have, Ginny kept hearing Harry trying to talk to her telepathically, but the more and more Ginny kept trying to ignore him, the more and more her head started to hurt.
"Bridget, can we go in Medical Supplies and Remedies really quick? I need to get something for this pounding headache I'm starting to get?"
"Nah, it's ok. I've got some right here in my purse," Bridget replied back reaching into her purse to get some headache medicine for Ginny, and then she handed it to Ginny. "You still have your bottle of water we got from the muggle London?" Ginny nodded while about to take the headache medicine. "Are you sure you're feeling alright? We can go back home?"
"No," Ginny said immediately. "I'll be fine, I promise...let's just um...get some ice cream, I need some ice cream." Bridget nodded, and Ginny took the headache medicine that Bridget had given her.
"Yes, may I help you?" The man at the counter asked.
"Yes," Bridget responded back happy and very cheerful. "I'd like a chocolate chip mint ice cream cone, with whipped cream and nuts on top."
"Okay, that's one sickle and two knuts." Bridget handed the money over to the man. "And what would the pretty redhead like?"
Ginny blushed, "Um, I would like...uh...a banana split with extra chocolate sauce and I would like whipped cream and nuts, also...please."
The man nodded, "That will be one sickle and four knuts." Ginny nodded and gave the man the exact change.
Ginny and Bridget went over to one of the seats outside under a great big umbrella; they were waiting for their food to be delivered to them. Bridget's mind was going a million places per second. First, she was wondering how Harry was doing. Second, if he would get in. Third, Of course he'd get it! Fourth, ooh! That's a cute cloak...I so have to get it! A big tall boy came to put their ice cream deserts down. Not until he said or more like mumbled, "Have a nice day." They did not realize that it was Vincent Crabbe, one of Draco Malfoy's friends.
"Crabbe is working here?" Bridget groaned with disgust. "You know maybe we shouldn't eat these, he probably spit in here or put some kind other disgustingly body fluid."
"Ugh!" Ginny said totally grossed out before she even took the first bite of her delicious looking banana spilt. "Could you say gross stuff like that when I'm not eating, besides we could see if there was anything like that...and if he did do anything like that he'd lose his job...so why would he want to lose his summer job?"
"No telling, he's a Death Eaters child, there's no clue what he'll do. He'll be a Death Eater just like his father, and so will Crabbe's son."
"Did you use your seer powers to see that?" Ginny wondered. As a matter of fact Ginny's powers had been acting very weird lately, they weren't as powerful as they usually were...they were acting as if they were on the fritz.
"Uh, no." Bridget said as if it was so obvious that, that was how she saw it. "You can so tell by the way they act, and the way their family expects him to be a Death Eater and do Dark Magic like everyone else in the family has done for generations and generations and generations. Duh, that's how I know...didn't you?"
"Well, now that you put it like that. But, if their all like that do you think Draco will do the same thing? You think he's with Susan just because she's one of the precious Potters, and Voldemort is trying his best to get rid of all of you guys, or do you think he actually likes her?"
"Now, that's a question!" Bridget said smacking her leg getting all excited. "You see, now that is one I haven't figured out yet."
"Excuse me?" Ginny said totally lost.
"Well, I thought for years that Draco would defiantly follow in his father's footsteps and be a Death Eater and study the Dark Arts like so many in his family has." Bridget said studiously as if she was an expert on people in the Dark Arts.
"So what makes you doubt that he won't?"
"Many things," Bridget began. "For starters, before Draco's mother, stepfather, and grandmother died; he was very loyal to them and Adora. Obviously they all stood by good magic, as does Adora. Draco now hates his father with such a passion for killing his mother, grandmother, and attempting to kill Adora. That's from observation, now from my seer powers. Lucius and Voldemort do not want Draco with Susan, obviously because Susan is a Potter, and on the Good vs. Evil War, she's pulling for good. So obviously her boyfriend would join her, if he hates his father so much right? So that is why Voldemort and Lucius have let Draco stay the summer with Adora, so he doesn't end up hating Lucius for the rest of his life, and for them, hopefully he joins the Death Eaters...as this is his sixteenth year."
"Wow! How do you know all of this?"
"Well, Ginny. He's seeing my sister, it's still unofficial, but their seeing each other. Second, there's no way in hell would I let my sister date a guy that was pure evil and seeing her as a quest for Voldemort."
"But, how can you be so sure he's turned, Bridget?"
Bridget smiled widely, "Now that's an easy answer he got a letter from The Order to join."
***
"Congratulations Harry!" Sirius said slapping his hand on Harry's back. "Arabella and I knew you could do it!" He said again, but laughing along with it. It was so nice to see Sirius so happy, so alive. It was so weird, just two years ago Sirius looked like a corpse, last year Sirius was in hiding, and now he had been free of the death of Harry's parents, that he'd never committed. Half a year ago the Wizarding World found out that Peter Pettigrew, never did die, that he was very much alive, and that he was a Death Eater and he was the one who gave Lily and James Potter's death at the hands of Lord Voldemort. Peter Pettigrew was found guilty and got the Dementor's Kiss. No one felt sorry for him, but people did feel sorry for the children that lost their parents that night, for the twin who lost her sister, the best friend who lost his.
"Very well indeed Harry," Anthony said coming up to Harry, and very much to Harry's surprise, was pulled up into a hug. "You did very well; I never doubted that you wouldn't make it in. Joining the Order at sixteen," Anthony chuckled and a sad smile came over his face. "You do know that they joined at sixteen also. As a matter of fact, the Order is how they got to know one another. They had already been dating, but once they'd joined The Order that is when they realized they really loved each other, for instance, I want to marry you, love you. Your mother and father would be proud of you. "
"Wrong," Arabella spoke up, coming around and kissing Harry on his cheek. "They are proud of you, their smiling down at you right now. Don't you ever forget that, never forget the love that they had and have for you."
"I won't," Harry replied.
"Well, how about a celebration dinner for Harry joining the Order?" Anthony asked.
"I've got a better idea," Harry spoke up.
"What is that?" Sirius said kind of worried about what an almost sixteen year-old boy thought was better than dinner.
"Anthony?" Harry turned around to his grandfather. "Do you think you could tell me the story about my mother and father in The Order and how they first came to finding the love for one another?"
Anthony chuckled, "Not what I expected, but I can't."
"Why not?" Harry asked confused and hurt.
"Because, I'd like you to hear it from them."
"But, how could I?"
"On a Magi-tape," Sirius said with a smile.
"A what?!" Harry asked totally confused.
"A Magi-tape," Arabella spoke up. "You remember the tape we showed you of your first birthday party with your mum and dad?" Harry nodded. "Well, they made lots of Magi-tapes. For all their loved ones to see whenever they were gone, so loved ones could always remember them."
"Did they think they were going to die?" Harry said worrying that they were in trouble before Harry was even born.
"No, no." Anthony chuckled, "Paranoid as much as his father always was. Well, this hall really isn't the place to talk about this? Why don't we go to the Potter Mansion and go and talk about it? Watch a few Magi-tapes? As a matter of fact, Harry you may take them to share with your sisters. There's a Floo Network just down the hallway, we'll go to the house and watch them there? Okay, Harry?" Harry nodded and they all followed Anthony down the hallway.
***
"Draco?" Came a small and weak voice from the corner. Draco jumped almost out of his skin; he didn't expect anyone to be home. Catarina was usually out spending Lucius's money, and Lucius is always working or with Voldemort. "Draco?"
"Who's there?" Draco said worrying that there was a burglar in the house that would, 'Avada Kedavra,' him.
"Catarina."
'Great,' Draco thought to himself. "What do you want with me?" Draco said walking out of the foyer and into his bedroom to pack the essentials that he would need for next week for himself to join the Order, except he was packing all of his things. Draco had already gotten his trust fund from his grandmother, mother, and the Malfoy grandparents, and last from his father. Draco had all the money in a secret account at Gringotts, and would just stay at the Leaky Cauldron while the rest of them stayed at Anthony's.
"Why are you back so soon?" Catarina followed Draco to his room, and she had bruises all over her body and a black eye.
"I forgot a few things," Draco said not looking up packing everything. "When I'm done with this I need you to shrink all of this, okay?"
"One condition."
"What?" Draco said finally looking up to see how battered him father's lover was. "Don't fall in love with Sadie Susannah Potter."
"What?" Draco said about to lose his cool, "What are you going on about...Susan Potter? Don't you dare speak her name in front of me; you have no right to utter her name, you nasty vermin."
"Draco, listen to me." Catarina tried to stress, "Do not fall in love with her."
Draco finally turned around and looked Catarina right in her eyes, "Well, you're too late. I've been in love with her."
"You're wrong, it has to be puppy love, you can't love her," Catarina pleaded.
"WHY THE HELL DO YOU CARE?! CAT IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU?! I love Susan, that's it. It's not 'puppy love,' this is the real thing. I love her I'd do anything for her."
"Then you have to break it off with her!"
"CAT! MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS!"
***
"What time is it, babe?" Adora asked Ron, they'd been cuddling in Harry's bed for a few hours now, just talking.
"Um...oh shit!" Ron jumped out of bed, scaring the stuffing out of Adora.
"Is there anything wrong, Ron?" Adora asked completely puzzled in why Ron had decided to jump nearly out of his skin and break her neck, also.
"I'm late for work! Fred and George are going to kill me! I was suppose to be there ten minutes ago. Sorry love, but I have to go. Why don't you stay the night with Ginny tonight?" Ron asked trying to have an excuse to spend time with her tonight.
"Can't, Ginny's staying over here with Bridget tonight."
"Again?! Do those two girls ever get enough of one another?"
"Guess not," Adora sighed and laid on the bed as she saw Ron rushing around trying to find the robe, hat, and name tag he has to wear to work everyday, Adora gasped suddenly. "Why don't you stay here?"
"Sorry, babe. But, I doubt Arabella let us stay in the same room."
"Well, I already knew that. You could stay in Harry's room with Draco. You could stay in Harry's room."
"Adora, I love you. But, I don't want to share a room with Malfoy without Harry here to keep me sane."
"The only time he comes in here is when he goes to sleep; he spends the rest of his time with Susan."
"And you think that's wise? Didn't a Malfoy with a Potter already not work?"
"You better watch your words around me, Weasley." Adora growled at him. "It wasn't a Malfoy and a Potter; it was a Crane and a Potter. If you don't get to work soon you will be fifteen minutes late."
"Right you are," he leaned down to kiss her goodbye, and went to the fireplace, got some Floo Powder out of the pot and yelled, "Weasley's Shop #1!"
"Number one?" Adora asked herself, "I wonder if their planning on expanding?"
***
It had been an hour since Bridget and Ginny had stopped for ice cream. Ginny had gotten a new quill and some ink that changed colors when you wrote with it. Bridget had gotten a new radio so she could listen to WWN again, since she got mad last week and shattered her last one, she also got a new dress robe. When Ginny asked Bridget why she got a new one she replied, "Ginny, you can never have too many dress robes, duh!"
"Are you ready to head back to the Leaky Cauldron?" Bridget asked Ginny.
"Why are you tired?"
"No, but you look it. Your paler than usual."
Ginny shrugged, "I've got no clue what you're talking about, I feel..." Bridget never found out how Ginny felt, as Ginny passed out in the middle of Diagon Alley.
"Ginny?! Ginny? Oh my god, Ginny! Please wake up! Ginny? HELP! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP! MY FRIEND IS SICK!" Bridget screamed into the crowd of unknown people.
***
"Grandfather, this is your house?" Harry asked amazed.
"No, Harry. This is the Potter house. I grew up in this house your great- grandfather built it. After my father died, my mother decided to move out of it, when I got married to Bridget, your grandmother, my mum gave it to us as a Wedding present. When you Adora will marry I will present the house to her, if she declines it, it will go to you, then Susan, and then Bridget."
"Are you saying my father was suppose to get this house?"
"Yes, he was. But, he said he could never bare to live in this house, you see, my wife died in this house. I was at her bedside, James wasn't able to come home from school, there had been a blizzard, and the Floo Network wasn't working to well, he never forgave himself for not coming home." Harry fell silent. "James was so upset by Bridget's death; he wouldn't talk to anyone, except Lily. Lily became his rock, and I do remember Sirius becoming very jealous."
"So what?! I was losing my best friend to a GIRL!" Sirius wined and stuck his tongue out at Anthony.
"This is suppose to be our Minister?" Harry asked jokingly.
"Can we just watch the damn tapes?" Sirius raged on which made all of them laugh harder.
"Fine, Sirius. You all go sit in the den, I shall be in there in a second. Fritz should be in there soon, if you want anything to eat or drink just tell him."
"Fritz?" Harry asked confused.
"House-elf," Sirius replied back.
When Anthony came back in he had a good five boxes floating behind him, all filled to the top with Magi-tapes. "These all have my parents on them?!" Harry asked excited.
"Yes. I believe Susan and you are on here too, and you can see Lily pregnant in a few with Bridget. You ready Harry?" Anthony asked Harry and in response Harry nodded yes.
Anthony put his hand in the first box he set down; the box was labeled Engagement and Marriage, with Lily very neat handwriting. Anthony pulled out what looked like a muggle VCR tape, and placed it on the ground. The tape was labeled: How we fell in love. Anthony bent down to tap the tape and it was suddenly looked like a muggle big screen TV.
***
There was the usual TV static for a few seconds but, then Harry's mother and father were seen. Lily giggling at whoever was filming the film, most likely Sirius, and James was looking at Lily lovingly. Then there was a voice that wasn't seen on the camera, the voice was Harry's own godfather, "Are you two just going to sit there like some stupid hippogriffs or are you going to talk to the camera like you said you were going to? Geez, hope I never fall in love."
There was another giggle, but it was behind the camera, "Don't you think you a little late...huh?"
"Um, well...yeah...uh." Sirius said nervously, he had forgotten that his steady girlfriend was sitting next to him. "Yeah, um enough about me...this tape is about Lily and James, so yeah...you two start talking."
"Well, Bella, your boyfriend doesn't take well under pressure." Lily began to giggle again, and James once again was looking adoringly at her.
"WILL YOU TWO JUST COME ON AND GO ON WITH YOUR STUPID MOVIE!!" Sirius roared.
***
Three of the four people who were watching this were cracking up, and Sirius was sitting there acting like a big baby.
"So you're telling me you acted like this before I knew you also?" Harry asked laughing so hard he almost fell off of the couch.
"WILL YOU SHUT UP SO WE CAN WATCH THIS STUPID MOVIE?!" Sirius roared sounding like he had in the movie, with Harry's parents.
They all began to laugh again, but Sirius rolled his eyes.
***
"So, the way we met." Lily began, "Well, James and I met in school in the Gryffindor Common Room, but he wasn't the first one of his gang that I dated. Remus was my first boyfriend, Remus and I dated for two years, and we decided we had nothing in common, he remained single until Seventh year."
"Yeah, until that stupid castrating bitch broke his heart, when she found out his secret." James said with anger flashing in his eyes.
"Yes, I was very mad at Narcissa too, but you don't need to go to that kind of language. Anyways, your Aunt Arabella dated James first, in first year and second year, then she moved on to Remus, and finally in our fourth year she got with your Uncle Sirius." Lily said smiling, James took her hand in his and she turned to him smiling at him.
"You see, Lily and I had started dating in third year, but it was only puppy love. We really liked one another, and in sixth year we almost broke up." James said looking sad for a second. "You see, Lord Voldemort had started to gain powers in our fifth year, and during the summer of our fifth year Lily and Arabella's parents were killed on a random muggle attack by Death Eaters. Dumbledore then started the Order of the Phoenix, and asked select students from Hogwarts to join. He asked Lily and I to as we were both going to be sixth year prefects for Gryffindor, and as it looked we'd both be Head Boy and Girl, and he knew we were both against the Dark Arts. Lily and I were seeing different people, but we were still together. We were both inducted into The Order, and we were starting to drift apart, until Dumbledore put us on a mission together."
"It was a very dangerous mission to send us on, as we were still in school and both of us didn't know all the magic that some Death Eaters knew." Lily sighed.
"Lily was still upset about her parent's funeral. Bella and Lily both attended, and the only reason Petunia went was to get her inheritance, she'd hated both of her younger sisters ever since they left for Hogwarts."
"You see," Lily began again. "We were going to the most extensive magical library in all of Europe, and the Death Eaters had already taken over that part of Europe. Dumbledore had sent us on this mission to get some ancestry files on. We had to dress up like Death Eaters, we were both really scared, this was our first mission without any supervisors to look after us, we had to check in within three days...but that's when the trouble started."
"Lily and I found the records, and sent them to Dumbledore as soon as we'd found them, but when we were leaving we'd gotten caught and we were captured and Lily and I both thought we were going to die."
Lily's eyes began to tear up, obviously this was a touchy subject, and "We'd came face to face with Voldemort himself, on our first mission...so just imagine how afraid we were. He had us in separate chairs, and we were bound by these ropes that came out of his wand." Lily began to choke up and James stopped what they were doing and held her in his arms, and began patting her hair and whispering things in her ear. She nodded, and he still held her in his arms as he continued the story.
"What had happened, Voldemort had told us some things that were very upsetting, especially to Lily." Lily sat up and dried her eyes, to see Lily so upset mad Harry want to cry. Every time he'd seen his mother she was so happy, even in the Mirror in his first year...she did cry, but they were happy tears, unlike the ones that Harry were seeing stream down her face. James went on as Lily tried to stop the tears going down her face, "Voldemort explained to us both that he had killed Lily's parents himself, and would be attacking more and more muggles. Then he told me that he would indeed split up my family for good, and then told me something I'd never expected. I was the last decedent of Godric and Cassandra Gryffindor, and he was the last decedent of Salzar Slytherin and he would kill me off and make my girlfriend watch, and then in fact kill her. But, that he'd keep us hostage for a few days and let us suffer. Instead of us being there for a few days, try a few weeks. As the weeks went by Lily and I began to have to relay on one another, they mad us share a holding room, which was some part of a Dungeon. As time went on that Lily and I were kept hostage we began to care deeply for one another, and in fact start to love one another, while we were there we saw Lucius Malfoy and he tried to rape Lily in front of me, both Lily and I were still virgins, and there was no way I was going to let him take Lily's innocence away. She wanted to be just like her mother, and wait to give her innocence, her body, to her husband on their wedding night, in which she still has and I have waited for her. I fought Malfoy off of Lily and beat the hell out of him, until he limped away. We didn't hear anything for hours, and knew our end was coming, we knew Malfoy had told Voldemort and knew he would be coming in to kill us soon. The thing was, he never came and killed us, the next person to come into the room was Albus Dumbledore and he handed us a Port-Key that brought us all to his office. We then found out why Dumbledore had wanted us to get these ancestry files on Wizarding Families. The files were on my family, then Dumbledore confirmed that I was the last descendent of the Gryffindor family, since my mum had died and my father hadn't remarried, after him there would only be me. Then there was a book, a book of prophecies, made by Cassandra Gryffindor, years ago that explained a lot of things, but for some odd reason Dumbledore wouldn't let us read it, until he realized we were going steady and we weren't seeing other people anymore. He told us our destiny was to love one another, marry, and have children. We are waiting for our wedding to start and start our destiny together." James said smiling at Lily, she smiled back and then leaned in to kiss one another, the tape stopped, the muggle big screen TV shrunk down into the tape that was labeled, How we fell in love, and put back into the box labeled, Engagement and Marriage.
Chapter 11
As Ginny and Bridget walked down Diagon Alley window shopping, and trying to figure out what they were going to buy with the little money they did have, Ginny kept hearing Harry trying to talk to her telepathically, but the more and more Ginny kept trying to ignore him, the more and more her head started to hurt.
"Bridget, can we go in Medical Supplies and Remedies really quick? I need to get something for this pounding headache I'm starting to get?"
"Nah, it's ok. I've got some right here in my purse," Bridget replied back reaching into her purse to get some headache medicine for Ginny, and then she handed it to Ginny. "You still have your bottle of water we got from the muggle London?" Ginny nodded while about to take the headache medicine. "Are you sure you're feeling alright? We can go back home?"
"No," Ginny said immediately. "I'll be fine, I promise...let's just um...get some ice cream, I need some ice cream." Bridget nodded, and Ginny took the headache medicine that Bridget had given her.
"Yes, may I help you?" The man at the counter asked.
"Yes," Bridget responded back happy and very cheerful. "I'd like a chocolate chip mint ice cream cone, with whipped cream and nuts on top."
"Okay, that's one sickle and two knuts." Bridget handed the money over to the man. "And what would the pretty redhead like?"
Ginny blushed, "Um, I would like...uh...a banana split with extra chocolate sauce and I would like whipped cream and nuts, also...please."
The man nodded, "That will be one sickle and four knuts." Ginny nodded and gave the man the exact change.
Ginny and Bridget went over to one of the seats outside under a great big umbrella; they were waiting for their food to be delivered to them. Bridget's mind was going a million places per second. First, she was wondering how Harry was doing. Second, if he would get in. Third, Of course he'd get it! Fourth, ooh! That's a cute cloak...I so have to get it! A big tall boy came to put their ice cream deserts down. Not until he said or more like mumbled, "Have a nice day." They did not realize that it was Vincent Crabbe, one of Draco Malfoy's friends.
"Crabbe is working here?" Bridget groaned with disgust. "You know maybe we shouldn't eat these, he probably spit in here or put some kind other disgustingly body fluid."
"Ugh!" Ginny said totally grossed out before she even took the first bite of her delicious looking banana spilt. "Could you say gross stuff like that when I'm not eating, besides we could see if there was anything like that...and if he did do anything like that he'd lose his job...so why would he want to lose his summer job?"
"No telling, he's a Death Eaters child, there's no clue what he'll do. He'll be a Death Eater just like his father, and so will Crabbe's son."
"Did you use your seer powers to see that?" Ginny wondered. As a matter of fact Ginny's powers had been acting very weird lately, they weren't as powerful as they usually were...they were acting as if they were on the fritz.
"Uh, no." Bridget said as if it was so obvious that, that was how she saw it. "You can so tell by the way they act, and the way their family expects him to be a Death Eater and do Dark Magic like everyone else in the family has done for generations and generations and generations. Duh, that's how I know...didn't you?"
"Well, now that you put it like that. But, if their all like that do you think Draco will do the same thing? You think he's with Susan just because she's one of the precious Potters, and Voldemort is trying his best to get rid of all of you guys, or do you think he actually likes her?"
"Now, that's a question!" Bridget said smacking her leg getting all excited. "You see, now that is one I haven't figured out yet."
"Excuse me?" Ginny said totally lost.
"Well, I thought for years that Draco would defiantly follow in his father's footsteps and be a Death Eater and study the Dark Arts like so many in his family has." Bridget said studiously as if she was an expert on people in the Dark Arts.
"So what makes you doubt that he won't?"
"Many things," Bridget began. "For starters, before Draco's mother, stepfather, and grandmother died; he was very loyal to them and Adora. Obviously they all stood by good magic, as does Adora. Draco now hates his father with such a passion for killing his mother, grandmother, and attempting to kill Adora. That's from observation, now from my seer powers. Lucius and Voldemort do not want Draco with Susan, obviously because Susan is a Potter, and on the Good vs. Evil War, she's pulling for good. So obviously her boyfriend would join her, if he hates his father so much right? So that is why Voldemort and Lucius have let Draco stay the summer with Adora, so he doesn't end up hating Lucius for the rest of his life, and for them, hopefully he joins the Death Eaters...as this is his sixteenth year."
"Wow! How do you know all of this?"
"Well, Ginny. He's seeing my sister, it's still unofficial, but their seeing each other. Second, there's no way in hell would I let my sister date a guy that was pure evil and seeing her as a quest for Voldemort."
"But, how can you be so sure he's turned, Bridget?"
Bridget smiled widely, "Now that's an easy answer he got a letter from The Order to join."
***
"Congratulations Harry!" Sirius said slapping his hand on Harry's back. "Arabella and I knew you could do it!" He said again, but laughing along with it. It was so nice to see Sirius so happy, so alive. It was so weird, just two years ago Sirius looked like a corpse, last year Sirius was in hiding, and now he had been free of the death of Harry's parents, that he'd never committed. Half a year ago the Wizarding World found out that Peter Pettigrew, never did die, that he was very much alive, and that he was a Death Eater and he was the one who gave Lily and James Potter's death at the hands of Lord Voldemort. Peter Pettigrew was found guilty and got the Dementor's Kiss. No one felt sorry for him, but people did feel sorry for the children that lost their parents that night, for the twin who lost her sister, the best friend who lost his.
"Very well indeed Harry," Anthony said coming up to Harry, and very much to Harry's surprise, was pulled up into a hug. "You did very well; I never doubted that you wouldn't make it in. Joining the Order at sixteen," Anthony chuckled and a sad smile came over his face. "You do know that they joined at sixteen also. As a matter of fact, the Order is how they got to know one another. They had already been dating, but once they'd joined The Order that is when they realized they really loved each other, for instance, I want to marry you, love you. Your mother and father would be proud of you. "
"Wrong," Arabella spoke up, coming around and kissing Harry on his cheek. "They are proud of you, their smiling down at you right now. Don't you ever forget that, never forget the love that they had and have for you."
"I won't," Harry replied.
"Well, how about a celebration dinner for Harry joining the Order?" Anthony asked.
"I've got a better idea," Harry spoke up.
"What is that?" Sirius said kind of worried about what an almost sixteen year-old boy thought was better than dinner.
"Anthony?" Harry turned around to his grandfather. "Do you think you could tell me the story about my mother and father in The Order and how they first came to finding the love for one another?"
Anthony chuckled, "Not what I expected, but I can't."
"Why not?" Harry asked confused and hurt.
"Because, I'd like you to hear it from them."
"But, how could I?"
"On a Magi-tape," Sirius said with a smile.
"A what?!" Harry asked totally confused.
"A Magi-tape," Arabella spoke up. "You remember the tape we showed you of your first birthday party with your mum and dad?" Harry nodded. "Well, they made lots of Magi-tapes. For all their loved ones to see whenever they were gone, so loved ones could always remember them."
"Did they think they were going to die?" Harry said worrying that they were in trouble before Harry was even born.
"No, no." Anthony chuckled, "Paranoid as much as his father always was. Well, this hall really isn't the place to talk about this? Why don't we go to the Potter Mansion and go and talk about it? Watch a few Magi-tapes? As a matter of fact, Harry you may take them to share with your sisters. There's a Floo Network just down the hallway, we'll go to the house and watch them there? Okay, Harry?" Harry nodded and they all followed Anthony down the hallway.
***
"Draco?" Came a small and weak voice from the corner. Draco jumped almost out of his skin; he didn't expect anyone to be home. Catarina was usually out spending Lucius's money, and Lucius is always working or with Voldemort. "Draco?"
"Who's there?" Draco said worrying that there was a burglar in the house that would, 'Avada Kedavra,' him.
"Catarina."
'Great,' Draco thought to himself. "What do you want with me?" Draco said walking out of the foyer and into his bedroom to pack the essentials that he would need for next week for himself to join the Order, except he was packing all of his things. Draco had already gotten his trust fund from his grandmother, mother, and the Malfoy grandparents, and last from his father. Draco had all the money in a secret account at Gringotts, and would just stay at the Leaky Cauldron while the rest of them stayed at Anthony's.
"Why are you back so soon?" Catarina followed Draco to his room, and she had bruises all over her body and a black eye.
"I forgot a few things," Draco said not looking up packing everything. "When I'm done with this I need you to shrink all of this, okay?"
"One condition."
"What?" Draco said finally looking up to see how battered him father's lover was. "Don't fall in love with Sadie Susannah Potter."
"What?" Draco said about to lose his cool, "What are you going on about...Susan Potter? Don't you dare speak her name in front of me; you have no right to utter her name, you nasty vermin."
"Draco, listen to me." Catarina tried to stress, "Do not fall in love with her."
Draco finally turned around and looked Catarina right in her eyes, "Well, you're too late. I've been in love with her."
"You're wrong, it has to be puppy love, you can't love her," Catarina pleaded.
"WHY THE HELL DO YOU CARE?! CAT IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU?! I love Susan, that's it. It's not 'puppy love,' this is the real thing. I love her I'd do anything for her."
"Then you have to break it off with her!"
"CAT! MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS!"
***
"What time is it, babe?" Adora asked Ron, they'd been cuddling in Harry's bed for a few hours now, just talking.
"Um...oh shit!" Ron jumped out of bed, scaring the stuffing out of Adora.
"Is there anything wrong, Ron?" Adora asked completely puzzled in why Ron had decided to jump nearly out of his skin and break her neck, also.
"I'm late for work! Fred and George are going to kill me! I was suppose to be there ten minutes ago. Sorry love, but I have to go. Why don't you stay the night with Ginny tonight?" Ron asked trying to have an excuse to spend time with her tonight.
"Can't, Ginny's staying over here with Bridget tonight."
"Again?! Do those two girls ever get enough of one another?"
"Guess not," Adora sighed and laid on the bed as she saw Ron rushing around trying to find the robe, hat, and name tag he has to wear to work everyday, Adora gasped suddenly. "Why don't you stay here?"
"Sorry, babe. But, I doubt Arabella let us stay in the same room."
"Well, I already knew that. You could stay in Harry's room with Draco. You could stay in Harry's room."
"Adora, I love you. But, I don't want to share a room with Malfoy without Harry here to keep me sane."
"The only time he comes in here is when he goes to sleep; he spends the rest of his time with Susan."
"And you think that's wise? Didn't a Malfoy with a Potter already not work?"
"You better watch your words around me, Weasley." Adora growled at him. "It wasn't a Malfoy and a Potter; it was a Crane and a Potter. If you don't get to work soon you will be fifteen minutes late."
"Right you are," he leaned down to kiss her goodbye, and went to the fireplace, got some Floo Powder out of the pot and yelled, "Weasley's Shop #1!"
"Number one?" Adora asked herself, "I wonder if their planning on expanding?"
***
It had been an hour since Bridget and Ginny had stopped for ice cream. Ginny had gotten a new quill and some ink that changed colors when you wrote with it. Bridget had gotten a new radio so she could listen to WWN again, since she got mad last week and shattered her last one, she also got a new dress robe. When Ginny asked Bridget why she got a new one she replied, "Ginny, you can never have too many dress robes, duh!"
"Are you ready to head back to the Leaky Cauldron?" Bridget asked Ginny.
"Why are you tired?"
"No, but you look it. Your paler than usual."
Ginny shrugged, "I've got no clue what you're talking about, I feel..." Bridget never found out how Ginny felt, as Ginny passed out in the middle of Diagon Alley.
"Ginny?! Ginny? Oh my god, Ginny! Please wake up! Ginny? HELP! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP! MY FRIEND IS SICK!" Bridget screamed into the crowd of unknown people.
***
"Grandfather, this is your house?" Harry asked amazed.
"No, Harry. This is the Potter house. I grew up in this house your great- grandfather built it. After my father died, my mother decided to move out of it, when I got married to Bridget, your grandmother, my mum gave it to us as a Wedding present. When you Adora will marry I will present the house to her, if she declines it, it will go to you, then Susan, and then Bridget."
"Are you saying my father was suppose to get this house?"
"Yes, he was. But, he said he could never bare to live in this house, you see, my wife died in this house. I was at her bedside, James wasn't able to come home from school, there had been a blizzard, and the Floo Network wasn't working to well, he never forgave himself for not coming home." Harry fell silent. "James was so upset by Bridget's death; he wouldn't talk to anyone, except Lily. Lily became his rock, and I do remember Sirius becoming very jealous."
"So what?! I was losing my best friend to a GIRL!" Sirius wined and stuck his tongue out at Anthony.
"This is suppose to be our Minister?" Harry asked jokingly.
"Can we just watch the damn tapes?" Sirius raged on which made all of them laugh harder.
"Fine, Sirius. You all go sit in the den, I shall be in there in a second. Fritz should be in there soon, if you want anything to eat or drink just tell him."
"Fritz?" Harry asked confused.
"House-elf," Sirius replied back.
When Anthony came back in he had a good five boxes floating behind him, all filled to the top with Magi-tapes. "These all have my parents on them?!" Harry asked excited.
"Yes. I believe Susan and you are on here too, and you can see Lily pregnant in a few with Bridget. You ready Harry?" Anthony asked Harry and in response Harry nodded yes.
Anthony put his hand in the first box he set down; the box was labeled Engagement and Marriage, with Lily very neat handwriting. Anthony pulled out what looked like a muggle VCR tape, and placed it on the ground. The tape was labeled: How we fell in love. Anthony bent down to tap the tape and it was suddenly looked like a muggle big screen TV.
***
There was the usual TV static for a few seconds but, then Harry's mother and father were seen. Lily giggling at whoever was filming the film, most likely Sirius, and James was looking at Lily lovingly. Then there was a voice that wasn't seen on the camera, the voice was Harry's own godfather, "Are you two just going to sit there like some stupid hippogriffs or are you going to talk to the camera like you said you were going to? Geez, hope I never fall in love."
There was another giggle, but it was behind the camera, "Don't you think you a little late...huh?"
"Um, well...yeah...uh." Sirius said nervously, he had forgotten that his steady girlfriend was sitting next to him. "Yeah, um enough about me...this tape is about Lily and James, so yeah...you two start talking."
"Well, Bella, your boyfriend doesn't take well under pressure." Lily began to giggle again, and James once again was looking adoringly at her.
"WILL YOU TWO JUST COME ON AND GO ON WITH YOUR STUPID MOVIE!!" Sirius roared.
***
Three of the four people who were watching this were cracking up, and Sirius was sitting there acting like a big baby.
"So you're telling me you acted like this before I knew you also?" Harry asked laughing so hard he almost fell off of the couch.
"WILL YOU SHUT UP SO WE CAN WATCH THIS STUPID MOVIE?!" Sirius roared sounding like he had in the movie, with Harry's parents.
They all began to laugh again, but Sirius rolled his eyes.
***
"So, the way we met." Lily began, "Well, James and I met in school in the Gryffindor Common Room, but he wasn't the first one of his gang that I dated. Remus was my first boyfriend, Remus and I dated for two years, and we decided we had nothing in common, he remained single until Seventh year."
"Yeah, until that stupid castrating bitch broke his heart, when she found out his secret." James said with anger flashing in his eyes.
"Yes, I was very mad at Narcissa too, but you don't need to go to that kind of language. Anyways, your Aunt Arabella dated James first, in first year and second year, then she moved on to Remus, and finally in our fourth year she got with your Uncle Sirius." Lily said smiling, James took her hand in his and she turned to him smiling at him.
"You see, Lily and I had started dating in third year, but it was only puppy love. We really liked one another, and in sixth year we almost broke up." James said looking sad for a second. "You see, Lord Voldemort had started to gain powers in our fifth year, and during the summer of our fifth year Lily and Arabella's parents were killed on a random muggle attack by Death Eaters. Dumbledore then started the Order of the Phoenix, and asked select students from Hogwarts to join. He asked Lily and I to as we were both going to be sixth year prefects for Gryffindor, and as it looked we'd both be Head Boy and Girl, and he knew we were both against the Dark Arts. Lily and I were seeing different people, but we were still together. We were both inducted into The Order, and we were starting to drift apart, until Dumbledore put us on a mission together."
"It was a very dangerous mission to send us on, as we were still in school and both of us didn't know all the magic that some Death Eaters knew." Lily sighed.
"Lily was still upset about her parent's funeral. Bella and Lily both attended, and the only reason Petunia went was to get her inheritance, she'd hated both of her younger sisters ever since they left for Hogwarts."
"You see," Lily began again. "We were going to the most extensive magical library in all of Europe, and the Death Eaters had already taken over that part of Europe. Dumbledore had sent us on this mission to get some ancestry files on. We had to dress up like Death Eaters, we were both really scared, this was our first mission without any supervisors to look after us, we had to check in within three days...but that's when the trouble started."
"Lily and I found the records, and sent them to Dumbledore as soon as we'd found them, but when we were leaving we'd gotten caught and we were captured and Lily and I both thought we were going to die."
Lily's eyes began to tear up, obviously this was a touchy subject, and "We'd came face to face with Voldemort himself, on our first mission...so just imagine how afraid we were. He had us in separate chairs, and we were bound by these ropes that came out of his wand." Lily began to choke up and James stopped what they were doing and held her in his arms, and began patting her hair and whispering things in her ear. She nodded, and he still held her in his arms as he continued the story.
"What had happened, Voldemort had told us some things that were very upsetting, especially to Lily." Lily sat up and dried her eyes, to see Lily so upset mad Harry want to cry. Every time he'd seen his mother she was so happy, even in the Mirror in his first year...she did cry, but they were happy tears, unlike the ones that Harry were seeing stream down her face. James went on as Lily tried to stop the tears going down her face, "Voldemort explained to us both that he had killed Lily's parents himself, and would be attacking more and more muggles. Then he told me that he would indeed split up my family for good, and then told me something I'd never expected. I was the last decedent of Godric and Cassandra Gryffindor, and he was the last decedent of Salzar Slytherin and he would kill me off and make my girlfriend watch, and then in fact kill her. But, that he'd keep us hostage for a few days and let us suffer. Instead of us being there for a few days, try a few weeks. As the weeks went by Lily and I began to have to relay on one another, they mad us share a holding room, which was some part of a Dungeon. As time went on that Lily and I were kept hostage we began to care deeply for one another, and in fact start to love one another, while we were there we saw Lucius Malfoy and he tried to rape Lily in front of me, both Lily and I were still virgins, and there was no way I was going to let him take Lily's innocence away. She wanted to be just like her mother, and wait to give her innocence, her body, to her husband on their wedding night, in which she still has and I have waited for her. I fought Malfoy off of Lily and beat the hell out of him, until he limped away. We didn't hear anything for hours, and knew our end was coming, we knew Malfoy had told Voldemort and knew he would be coming in to kill us soon. The thing was, he never came and killed us, the next person to come into the room was Albus Dumbledore and he handed us a Port-Key that brought us all to his office. We then found out why Dumbledore had wanted us to get these ancestry files on Wizarding Families. The files were on my family, then Dumbledore confirmed that I was the last descendent of the Gryffindor family, since my mum had died and my father hadn't remarried, after him there would only be me. Then there was a book, a book of prophecies, made by Cassandra Gryffindor, years ago that explained a lot of things, but for some odd reason Dumbledore wouldn't let us read it, until he realized we were going steady and we weren't seeing other people anymore. He told us our destiny was to love one another, marry, and have children. We are waiting for our wedding to start and start our destiny together." James said smiling at Lily, she smiled back and then leaned in to kiss one another, the tape stopped, the muggle big screen TV shrunk down into the tape that was labeled, How we fell in love, and put back into the box labeled, Engagement and Marriage.