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Mairead stood up and followed her husband out of the door, though not before she shot an accusing glance at Phillip. Harry, too, was about to follow suit when he felt Ginny's arm on his.

"Don't," she whispered. "Mairead can handle it. You saw them earlier, didn't you?" Harry felt his anger wane at Ginny's warm touch. He retook his seat and put his other hand on hers, squeezing it in gratitude.

"The only unusual thing we found on Narcissa was this tattoo. I mean, apart from the fact that she was locked in a small room, kept under the imperious curse, and doesn't have a dark mark." Dumbledore passed a photo of this tattoo around. It was a pentagram with a two-way arrow through it. "We used Mairead's muggle camera to take the photo. Does anyone recognise this symbol?" No one replied so Dumbledore went on:

"We have about eleven people staying here, if I might ask them to do research, and that will be quite sufficient. Thank you all for coming and you may return home now"

Dumbledore told everyone if there was any significant news he would contact them immediately.

Harry looked over at Ginny who smiled and he gave her a slow smile back. They held eye contact for about five minutes totally oblivious to what was going on around them.

Dumbledore had noticed that all four teenagers were wearing rather dirty robes, the anti-apparition and anti-portkey barriers, and the fact that the house was no longer on the floo network meant that everyone had to fly to the house by broom, a method of transport not conductive to clean clothing.

"Miss Granger, Miss Weasley and Mr Potter and Mr Weasley if you are paying any attention, I think it would be a good idea if you had a break before we started to research, maybe you can get changed into some more comfortable clothes?"

Hermione stood up, put her hand out to help Ron up and pulled him up.

"That sounds like a good idea," she stated.

Ron being the complete and utter fool he was said

"Ok I will see you..." He caught Hermione's glare and thought better of it. "Yes I need to get some clean clothes on" and left the room.

"Yeah, maybe I do to. Gin, you coming?" Harry yawned. Ginny nodded.

Once outside Harry turned to Ginny and said, "Maybe we should check which room Ron is in before we go in."

Seeing Ginny's puzzled look he said "Well he's your brother and Hermione and him are my best mates, I would prefer them to do what they do not in front of me. Don't you agree?"

As the realisation dawned on Ginny he gently kissed her and gave her the smile he reserved just for her.

"We better go get changed." Harry said rather reluctantly as Ginny lay her head against his and their lips brushed once more.

"Ok. Promise me you won't get hurt this holiday. Please?" she spoke as if she was a three year old and pouted when he didn't promise. Harry bent down kissed her she felt his answer press against her mouth.

When Harry got upstairs, he paused outside the bedroom door and yelled through it to Ron and Hermione.

"I'm coming in now; you better be decent, Ron. And Herms if you're in there you better be 10 meters away from Ron."

He heard a pop and he went in Ron was sitting on his bed.

"Why were you yelling so loudly all I was doing was changing," Ron told him. Harry grinned, Ron obviously thought this was a good argument. What he didn't realised he looked somewhat dishevelled.

"Well Ron I might be ugly-"

"Your not"" came Ginny's indignant cry

"- But I'm not stupid. You are wearing the same clothes as before and have lipstick smeared on your face. Hermione's in fact! God Ron, we HEARD her apparating out of here."

Ron went red and as he did so the cupboard wobbled. Ginny jumped back in surprise. Harry opened the door and Hermione stumbled out.

"I apperated in there by mistake. Umm I wasn't in here Harry, I was apparating down stairs. And my lost the key to my door... and then I went to find Ginny who told me..." Hermione trailed off into silence as she saw Ginny out of the corner of her eye, Ginny coughed.

"You didn't, I've been with my boyfriend the whole time. Just tell the truth." After this three people blushed: Ron because he and Hermione had been found out; Hermione because she and Ron had been found out and Harry because Ginny had just called him her "boyfriend" in front of his best friend and her brother.

"Well girls if you don't mind, I need to change and I think Ron does too." The silence that had fallen like a mist over the four teenagers broke as Harry shared this piece of information.

The girls exited. Harry and Ron got changed in silence. Harry caught Ron's eyes and they both laughed.

They gave each other a nod and walked out of the door. They met Hermione on the stairs. Hermione had grown up recently; though she still had the bushy hair she had always had. She had grown up mentally rather than physically, though after spending sometime with Ginny had begun wearing a hint of lip- gloss or lipstick and a few other bits of make up. She and Ginny had grown closer and Hermione liked to take Ginny to muggle London, shopping, she had even got Harry and Ron on the shopping trip. Their wardrobes were full of muggle clothing, new muggle clothing.

Harry was wearing a crimson tee shirt with a pair of baggy jeans and an blue and grey checked Oneil shirt over the top. He felt comfortable like this. Ron's clothes were similar but his shirt was a navy blue quicksilver shirt with a paler blue tee shirt underneath.

They walked down the stairs and on the fourth floor landing Harry's arm was grabbed by a shadow in the dark. This startled harry but he felt the tingle made by the arm touching him and he knew it was Ginny. He pulled her down the stairs to the kitchen, where everyone else was assembled except Sirius and his family and oddly Dumbledore.

Harry and Ginny heard a commotion out side as the door was being opened. Mrs Black the first's screeches shook the house.

"Filthy half bloods and mutants befouling the house of my fathers...blood traitors and werewolves...how dare you come here...Is that 'Cissa? Put her down. What have you done you old half-witted muggle loving fool?"

Harry and Ginny saw a surprising sight Dumbledore carrying a prone figure in his arms. Harry found it astonishing how an old man like Dumbledore possessed enough strength to carry a tall adult woman.

"Harry, Ginny go and sit down because we are going to hear Miss Black's story about she knows Mr Malfoy."

Sirius entered holding Mairead's hand and his other hand resting on Ellie's shoulder. They sat down and Harry moved closer to his godfather. Sirius gave a Harry a nod of acknowledgement, saying he was all right.

"Miss Black are you ready?"

"Yes sir."

"Well, fire away then."

"When I was younger, about three, mum used to work in a clothes shop, she used to design them and then people would make them. She used to work all day and some time most of the night. There was a nice lady who lived next door to us her name was April and she used to look after me when mum was away. She had one grown up daughter who lived with her called Joan. Joan worked in the big posh house near our house. It scared all the kids round our area. Joan used to bring the little boy named Draco, who was the son of the owners of the big house, home in the holidays and some days when his parents were on holiday or away for the day. We used to play a lot and he was really fun. I thought he was really great because he had lots of stories about magic, which at the time I thought were only stories. Well anyway April got quite ill and was taken into hospital and later on that month she died.

Joan got fired from her maid job and was unemployed. Mum, who felt very sorry for her gave her a maid's job in our house.

Mum was getting much more work now and wasn't at home often. But still Joan brought the little boy to our house when she could. I was about 5 now and over the years Draco and me became very close until one day his mother did this funny pop thing and was in our living room. She hit Joan and threw fire out of a piece of wood at her. Draco hid in our bathroom and when she found his she cried "Crucio" and he wriggled in pain. She left him there and it was then that I knew about magic.

He must have stayed with us long enough for him to tell me about magic when his father burst in and took him home. From then on he used the fire to get from his house to ours and the photo is the one from my birthday, my 10th birthday and on this day he also got his Hogwarts letter. He told me I would probably get to go to Hogwarts. He said he would write everyday and he gave me an owl. He cried a bit when he left as well. I wrote to him once and got such a cold reply back from him basically saying his father had forbidden him to talk to muggles and that I was beneath him.

That's the last I heard from him" Ellie finished her story with a sigh.

"Thank you Miss Black." Dumbledore said softly. "Could I ask you to go and keep an eye on after Mrs Malfoy for a while.

Ellie went to the room with Mrs Malfoy in and sat on a chair near her bed. The figure began talking in her sleep.

"Father don't... NO... Please don't...Father... I don't care...no... Don't call her that... NO! Father...please father it doesn't matter...no...she's my friend... please don't...I wont Father"

Suddenly she realised that someone was watching her. She turned around there was her dad. She thought she could ask him about Narcissa's Dad.

"Dad when did Narcissa's dad die?"

"Way before she was born. Why?"

"Because she is talking about him in her sleep."

"Ill get Dumbledore."

Ellie sat back down and faced Narcissa once again. Narcissa was still talking about her Dad.

"Don't kill her father...please don't...ill do anything...Father... No...she hasn't corrupted me...she's a human like you...please father..."

Narcissa's eyes shot open. A confused look passed her face. The bloodshot eyes focused on Ellie.

"Nora?" she said and fell back into the eerie lands of her unconsciousness.

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