Patrick smiled as Patty's laughter filled the room. At the moment James' friends Sirius and Remus were attacking her with tickling fingers. "Help!" she managed to get through the laughter. "Wait until I get a wand!"

"That will do you no good, pretty one. Besides the fact that your powers are bound, we're the best wizards. The very best," Sirius countered.

James' friend Sirius was Patty's favorite with his long black hair and bright gray eyes. Every visit she and her parents made to England he would ask her when she was going to become Mrs. Sirius Black.

"Dad! Isn't it time to go yet?"

Patrick and Shana lived with their young daughter in America. Patrick felt this was safest for Shana and Patty. The last of Shana's tribe in (Nairobi) had been killed by The Dark Lord's followers and the village burned to the ground. They were the very tribe of wizards that (the Ministry's Aurors) were based on. They were in England visiting with John, Elizabeth, James and Sirius, who lived with them.

Aunt Elizabeth came to Patty's rescue. "Boys, leave that poor girl alone. She'll lose her voice laughing so much," she managed to say while laughing herself. "Boys, Patty, wash those hands. We'll be eating soon."

"Yes, Mrs. Potter," Remus said as they left the room laughing.

At this point John asked his brother if he'd consider allowing Patty to live with them in England so she could attend Hogwarts.

"Shana and I have talked about that. Even with the way things still are here, I would like for her to attend Hogwarts."

"It's the one place Voldemort can't touch really. If she'd be safe anywhere, it's there, " James added. "But things may be different by the time she's old enough to attend."

"Don't say that name, James."

"Sorry, Mother."

"He's right, Patrick," Shana said to her husband. "We could ask Minnie about letting Patty live with her at the castle and we could meet her here for holiday."

"That's even better," interjected John. "She is her godmother after all. I'm sure she wouldn't object."

The subject was dropped when Patty and the boys entered the room. Shana helped Elizabeth with the dinner preparations as the conversation turned to quidditch and what careers the boys were going to take. Sirius spoke of becoming an auror. James being James had not given this much thought. He had just finished Hogwarts where he was Head Boy and gotten great marks on his N.E.W.T.S. He said he'd wanted to play quidditch professionally. Remus remained awfully quiet.

They all knew the story of Remus being bitten as a young boy and it would be hard for him to make his way in the wizarding world considering the views towards werewolves.

"What about you young Remus?" Patrick asked. "Certainly a wizard of your caliber has something in mind. Why with your marks and knowledge, I'd bet you could be the youngest Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher Hogwarts has ever seen!"

This put a hint of a smile on Remus' face.

Next day, the boys were nowhere to be found so Patty sat outside in the garden, leaving the grownups to serious conversation. She hoped her aunt and uncle were talking to her parents about unbinding her power. She hadn't meant to burn the television. After lunch, her mother thought she could do with a nice nap and told her that the boys would probably be back when she woke up.