A.N. / Hey you guys! I finally got a job! YAYS 4 me! So it might take me a bit longer now, but then again you never know with me! I've also been sick lately and in and out of the doctor office. So please don't hate me, I just haven't had the time of day to write any at all. Now the next chapter! Read, Review, and Enjoy!

Chapter 38

"Welcome, welcome everyone!" Dumbledore's voice boomed across the Great Hall, "We're glad to see your smiling faces back here for another year to fill your little heads up with knowledge. "Minister Black is here tonight to share this wonderful feast with us tonight and to let us know a few things that are new to this school, but we will inform you at the end of feast. So let's eat!"

Dinner finished and everyone waited for the new news. Finally Dumbledore stood up, "And now Minister Black will tell about the new changes that will be going on at the school this year."

Everyone in the Great Hall clapped politely and Sirius stood up and began to speak. "There will be some new changes going on here at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Changes that should have happened earlier, but the Minister of Magic before me decided to ignore his duties to fix the changes that I've now ordered to get fixed. There will be repairs going on to fix some parts of the school and there will be detours to certain places in the castle and certain classes. Tomorrow when you receive your schedule for your classes, your Head of Household will also give you a map telling where construction is going on and where you can and can not go. This map will be changed everyday to what is being fixed and after all the fixes are done this map will turn to just regular parchment and turn into ashes. Any questions?"

A few hands went up and Sirius picked a short kid at the Ravenclaw table, "How long will these changes take?"

"About three months."

Then a tall kid at the Slytherin table, "Will our classes change everyday?"

"No, it just depends. You will just have to check on the map that you will receive tomorrow from your Head of Household, I believe your Head of Household is Professor Snape."

The Head Boy at the Hufflepuff table, "What are those building on the grounds for?"

"I'm glad someone asked that. Those are where your classes will be if it takes more than a few days to fix that hallway or classroom. Again just look at your map you'll receive tomorrow and you'll know. I believe your Head of Household is Professor Sprout."

"That's all for now. I must be going now." Sirius shook hands with Professor Dumbledore and walked out of the Great Hall to take the carriages to Hogsmede so he could apparate home.

Susan turned to her twin brother, "That was odd. If that was all why didn't he just tell us?"

"No," Harry said shaking his head. "For some reason I feel as if there's more to this little predicament."

Ginny nodded, "Yes I agree with Harry. There is something defiantly strange and not being completely explained out right now. Sirius didn't say as much as what's going on."

"What ever Ginny," Ron said rolling his eyes. "You just always agree with Harry no matter what. Besides wouldn't the Seer here know and don't you think she'd tell us?" Ron turned to his girlfriend, "Wouldn't you tell us?"

"Uh…"

Ron's eyes began to bulge, "Adora?"

"Well you know most of what I see as a Seer I'm not allowed to say."

"Yeah, but you'd tell us…right?"

"I can't."

Ron's face flushed to be the same color as his hair and stormed off to the Gryffindor Common Room.

"Does he know the new password?" Ginny asked Adora.

Adora shrugged her shoulders, "Does it really matter? He's pissed off at me anyways. If he doesn't know the password then he'll just sit there and broad and wait until someone comes and says the password and he'll get in then."

"I don't understand," Bridget said with her eyebrows furrowed. "He does know the secret of a Seer. That no one is suppose to know anything unless you make a prediction in the open space."

"Yes he knows that, but do you think he actually listens?" Adora said rolling her eyes, "I don't want to think about this right now. I'm going to the library." Adora said getting up and leaving the Great Hall.

"The Library already?" Bridget asked eating mashed potatoes.

Susan nodded, "It's her only place to take her pain away. She can't go into her own thoughts because she usually falls into a premonition. So Adora goes into the Library and stacks books around her were no one can see her and she breaks down and cries."

Harry frowned, "How do you know?"

"I walked over to her one night and I walked away before she saw me looking at her."

"Does she do this often?" Ginny asked.

Susan nodded, "Yes. I've found her in the library many times."

"And she doesn't get kicked out?" Bridget asked this time.

"Nope. The librarian is to afraid to ask her to leave. She lets Adora go to the very far end of the Library as none of the other students go over there."

"Wow this is too weird to think about."

"Should we go find her and talk to her?" Susan asked.

Harry shook his head no, "She'll come along but she'll just find another spot to run to and cry. Let her keep this, at least we know where she's at and she won't get in trouble for going there."

The next day classes started back up, and Sirius had been right there had been construction going on all over the castle. Some entire hallways were even blocked off. There were some buildings outside close to the castle that were only going to be temporarily rooms until that classroom was finished getting fixed.

Adora seemed to be better today, but her eyes were a little red and a bit puffy. It seemed Susan was right. And when Harry asked Adora what time she left the Library, she began to stuff a muffin in her mouth at breakfast.

Ron still seemed temperamental and he wasn't looking or talking to Adora. Adora acted like she didn't care, but her eyes gave her away. Adora was the last of the group to get the to Great Hall for breakfast and she stuffed two muffins down her throat. "I'll meet you in Transfiguration Susan and Harry. Bridget and Ginny, I'll see you guys at lunch."

After Adora had left the Great Hall, the rest of the group turned to glare at Ron.

"What?!" He whined.

"Are you really that stupid?" Ginny asked glaring at him.

"Don't call me…"

"Shut your mouth," Ginny growled and everyone stayed out of this one. If there was one thing you didn't interrupt it was when either Mrs. Weasley got on to one of the Weasley boys or when Ginny was yelling.

"Excuse…"

"I said shut your mouth," Ginny growled at him again. "She cares for you so very much, and honestly I don't know what in bloody hell she sees in your arse. But you better watch the way you treat her. I'll come after you, she could hex the life out of you, and you'd have the whole Potter clan after your arse. You better watch your step and if you don't apologize to her…I'll write mum."

The rest of the Potter kids and Ron gasped, "You wouldn't." Ron hissed at her.

"Try me."

"She and you both would be prying into my love life."

Ginny stuck her tongue out maturely at her older brother, "Deal with it."

By the end of the day Ron still hadn't apologized and even if he would have tried it wouldn't have mattered. Adora was ignoring Ron as much as he was ignoring her.

Colin Creevey walked up to Ginny after dinner in the Great Hall, "What's going on with those two?"

Ginny rolled her eyes and began to talk to her best guy friend, "Ron was an arse and now he's hurt Adora so badly that she acts as if he isn't alive. And since Ron doesn't believe that he is wrong and that Adora is wrong he won't apologize.

"Wow," Colin stood there stumped. "I mean their like the super couple. They've been around longer than Susan and Draco, and you and Harry have had your share of ups and downs."

"Gee, thanks a lot Colin. Your such a good friend," Ginny said rolling her eyes.

"Well. What do you expect? At least I'm good at shopping."

Ginny giggled, "Ah yes. The only good part about Gay men, they can shop."

"I resent that!" Colin said in mock outrage.

"You know I'm kidding. Heck I'm the first person you told…"

"And then there was me." Bridget said walking up to her two friends.

Colin nodded, "So I heard your aunt finally came to during the holidays."

Bridget nodded and smiled, "Yes. On Christmas Eve, it was a fabulous Christmas Miracle! She has hardly let anyone hold or take Roselyn away from her."

"I heard about David."

Bridget's face fell, "Yeah. We were all sad about that. It was really hard because he'd become a part of our family."

"I'm sorry," Colin said feeling true sympathy for one of his best friends.

Bridget put up a bit of a smile, "It's alright. I mean there's nothing you nor I could do, you know? I mean you know obviously this was suppose to happen. There's nothing we could do….so." Bridget shrugged her shoulders, "Anyways…our concern isn't about David at the moment, his aunt and uncle seemed like really nice people. Our concern is about Adora and Ron…how are we going to get them back together."

A hand on either side of Bridget's shoulders patted her, "You won't." Susan said, which was the person on Bridget's right.

"Susan's right. They have to resolve this on their own. There's nothing we can do, and don't let your little mind begin to search around for an answer. I swear your turning out to be more and more like Sirius."

Bridget stuck her tongue out at her older brother, "Actually Grandpa told me I'm more like Dad than Sirius. Dad was always mischievous and Sirius was a slut."

Harry rolled his eyes at his youngest sister, "You know she's not going to listen to us Susan, no matter how much we try and convince her."

Susan nodded, but she didn't willing follow Harry…well not just yet. "Whatever you're trying to scheme up, just don't get expelled."

Colin, Ginny, and Bridget of course ignored Susan and Harry's suggestions to let Adora and Ron to settle out their own problems out with their relationship. But no matter how much the trio tried to help out the problems between the lovers, it didn't work at all. The trio either got gripped out by Ron or Adora…sometimes even both, and now the two lovers were ignoring the trio. Harry and Susan kept dropping 'I told you so' at the trio, in which it would just infuriate them more, especially Ginny. Ginny was the type of person that hated to be proven wrong. Ginny always had to be right, and right now she was so very wrong.

January flew in and out, and now February had just flown in. Gryffindor had beaten all of the other teams at Quidditch and was awaiting the Quidditch Final in April. Everyone was getting excited about Valentine's Day, well that was everyone third year and up. The weekend of Valentine's Day would be the first Hogsmede weekend of the new term.

It was now early February, and Ron and Adora were still not talking. No one in the school even knew if the two were still an item. There was no proof that the couple had ever broken up, but then again there wasn't any proof that they were still together…even Adora and Ron didn't know if they were still together, on the account that neither one of them would talk to each other.

Bridget lay on her bed in her dormitory frustrated that as mischievous and sneaky tricks hadn't worked and she was still on ground zero. Ginny, Colin, and Bridget; the smartest of their year, hadn't figured out a way to get Ron and Adora together. Ginny and Colin and quit trying two weeks into it, but Bridget being the stubborn person she was wouldn't give up. But now it had been a month since they started their plan and she was now losing all hope.

Bridget was starting to think that maybe Harry and Susan had been right and that maybe she should just give up.

Lucius Malfoy had been home for about a week now from his Death Eater mission that Lord Voldemort had sent only his inner circle Death Eaters on. Lucius had a tight watch on Catarina since when he'd gotten back. Of course Lucius never found out about Catarina going to the Order meetings or her visits back and forth to Arabella Black's home.

Lucius had been a bit busy the last week and Catarina had been making up excuses to go and see Arabella and Lucius had been buying Cat's excuses.

Valentine's Day Morning…

"Belle?" Cat asked knocking on the door of her friends bedroom door.

"Come in," it sounded like Arabella was sleeping and mumbled it.

Catarina walked in and saw her friend laying on the bed with her three month old daughter, "I'm sorry I thought you were awake. Sirius was downstairs and told me he wasn't sure if you were awake or not."

Arabella waved her arm, "Don't worry about it. I had to get up sooner or later anyways. Roselyn will be waking up soon for her breakfast." Arabella watched Cat struggle to sit down in the seat across from Arabella's bed. "You're due in a few days, right?"

Cat nodded, "And I'm ready for her to come already."

Bella gave a slight smirk, "I was just starting to feel like that before…"

Cat nodded, "She's been sitting on my bladder all day." Cat's face went from happiness to shock in a matter of 2.4 seconds, "Uh oh."

"What do you mean uh oh?"

"I think my water just broke."

Bella's eyes bugged out of her head, "Are you serious?"

Cat nodded, "Yeah I think I'm having contractions now."

"We've got to bring you to St. Mungo's!"

"No!" Cat said grasping on to the chair, "I can't. Lucius said no…he said I had to have her at the Manor."

Bella looked at her friend, "It's bad enough Breeanna had to be raised in that horrible place, she's not going to be born there too."

"I have too," Catarina said the last part screaming and waking up Roselyn.

Arabella ran to the bedroom door, "SIRIUS! ARE YOU STILL DOWN THERE?!"

"Yeah!"

"GET UP HERE NOW! CAT'S GOING INTO LABOR!"

Sirius ran up the stairs as fast as he could and when he arrived in the room all he could say was, "Bloody hell! You're right."

"What do we do?" Arabella asked running to the bed now to pick up her crying baby.

"St. Mungo's."

"No!" Cat screamed during a contraction.

"Why the hell not?!"

"Lucius told her she had to have the baby at Manor."

"What?!" Sirius asked in outrage, "Your kidding right?"

Cat shook her head no.

"I don't care what he says, you're going to St. Mungo's."

"I can't! You don't understand the Ministry will be all over me to get answers about him. I have to have Breeanna at the Manor."

"Who's your birthing coach?"

"The house elf."

"What?!" Bella said in outrage. "You're not a bloody cat! You need a human being."

"He wanted Sharon to be my birthing coach, but I don't want her around me. He said Sharon or the house elf…so I said the house elf."

"You're going to need Sharon. You want to have Bree there, fine Sirius will get you a Port-Key there. You can still travel like that now, since your not far into it yet. But you've got to promise me you'll contact Sharon and let a human being help bring your baby into this world."

"Fine!"

Ten minutes later…

"Catarina! Oh my!" Sharon said stepping out of the fireplace grate. "How long ago did your water break?"

"Fifteen minutes ago."

"Where were you?"

"Knockturn Alley, I wanted to get Lucius a present."

"This will be a better present. We've got to get you off of this floor and get you a bed. Do you have a guestroom on the first floor?"

"Yes it's down the hallway, but I can't walk!" Cat screamed the last word as another contraction hit.

"Where's your wand?"

"On the table, why?"

"I'm going to levitate you to the room. I can't carry you, you can't walk, and no one is here to help."

"Fine, let's just do it! Then get a hold of Lucius through the Floo Network."

Thirty minutes later…

"Sharon! Sharon!" Lucius yelled from the Parlor fireplace grate. "Where are you two?"

"Guest bedroom first floor!" Sharon yelled back.

Lucius ran in and stopped at Catarina's feet, "How far along is she?"

"Four centimeters."

"Did you find a Healer?"

"Yeah McCain. He's been a Death Eater for about a year. He's a Healer for St. Mungo's, he should be here…"

"Mrs. Malfoy! Mr. Malfoy! Sharon! How are we."

"Get her out!" Cat screamed, "It hurts. Oh Merlin it hurts!"

Four hours later…

"How far along is she now?!" Lucius screamed as the bones in his right hand were being broken from his wife.

"Seven centimeters. We still have three more."

"Why the hell does this hurt so much! You've put charms on me already!"

"Sometimes the charms just won't work."

Three hours later…

"What about now McCain!" Lucius yelled as he was now for sure all of the bones in his hand were broken.

"Yes! We are now at ten centimeters. Catarina you have to push."

"No," she cried and turned to Lucius. "I can't…oh Merlin I can't! It hurts too much! I'm in so much pain!"

"Catarina you have to," The Healer spoke again. "Unless you want your baby to die you have to push. She's crowning."

"I can't!" She cried, "Oh Lucius I can't."

"Come on," Lucius encouraged her. "For Breeanna. You don't want to let her down do you?

"No!" She cried.

"Then push, for the baby."

"Fine."

"Alright ready? One, two, three!" The Healer said, Catarina screamed, and Lucius scrunched his face up in pain as he had a lifeless hand broken in his wife's hand. "Good! Good. I see her shoulders."

"Her shoulders," Catarina blubbered.

"Push! Good there's her arms. Come on Cat, one more big push and she's into the world." Seconds later there was the sound of a baby crying and Cat fell onto her pillow. Cat's entire body went limp. Lucius didn't notice, he figured she was tired. She'd been in labor for almost eight hours.

"How is our baby girl?"

"She's healthy." McCain said walking over to Cat to hold the baby, "Here Mrs. Malfoy. Here is your baby girl, Breeanna Malfoy."

But Cat didn't respond back, "Oh my god! She's gone into shock. Mr. Malfoy take Bree. I've got to try and save your wife's life." Lucius was then sent out of the bedroom with his daughter in his arms.

An hour later…

McCain walked out of the room and saw father and daughter sitting together, "Mr. Malfoy?"

Lucius stood, holding his sleeping daughter. "How is she?"

"She passed away."

Sharon took Bree from her father, and Lucius went rigid. "What?! How! She's not suppose to die! She was suppose to live and raise Bree!"

"She lost so much blood in delivery. There was nothing I could do."

"Where is she?"

"Still in the room."

Lucius turned to Sharon, "Hand me Breeanna. Owl Draco for me." Sharon nodded and did what she was told.

Dinner at Hogwarts in the Great Hall…

The day had been so great for Susan and Draco! It had been a wonderful date and she knew nothing could ruin their Valentine's Day. Ginny and Harry had supposedly had a good day too, heck even Adora and Ron had gotten back together.

Then an owl swooped into the Great Hall, which surprised them all because post wasn't allowed at dinner unless it was an emergency. The owl swooped right over to the Slytherin table and straight to Draco.

Susan frowned trying to figure out who would be owling Draco so late. She looked over to him as he began to read it and she saw his pale reflection turn whiter. All the way across the Great Hall she could have sworn she heard him say, "Oh Merlin." Draco got up and left the Great Hall and Susan chased after him.

"Draco!" She yelled in the Entrance Hall, "Draco! Wait! Why won't you stop?!"

He turned around and she saw tears welling up in his eyes, "Cat had Bree two hours ago."

Susan's face lit up, "That's great! Wait…why are you crying?"

"She's dead. She died an hour ago."