"Fudge declared his resignation today in front of nearly three hundred enraged Ministry workers. As the Ministry is now in a state of emergency, he named his successor as James Potter…WHAT!" Emma screamed.
"What is it?" Rhia asked, looking up from the piano. Emma had been muttering to herself so Rhia couldn't hear her as she played the piano. Kara was sitting on the bed flicking through a few Witch Weeklys.
"Dad's Minister!" Emma said. "When did this happen? Where's Dad?" Emma asked getting to her feet.
"What?" Kara asked, "That's ridiculous, if your dad was minister of Magic, he would tell you." She said. Emma looked at her sceptically.
"I don't think so somehow." Emma said. She pulled the door open and ran to the kitchen. Sirius was pouring over rolls of parchment, that seemed to spill off the table. Hermione was trying to beat Ron in a game of wizarding chess and Harry was just sitting at the table, glaring at the fireplace.
"Sirius!" Emma snapped. Sirius jumped and nearly fell off his seat backwards.
"Merlin Emma!" He said, picking up a few pieces of paper that had dropped to the floor. "I'm trying to work." He said.
"Work in your office." Emma said, "Anyway, what's this about dad being Minister of Magic?" She asked, slamming the Daily Prophet down in front of him.
"What?" Harry asked pulling the newspaper towards him.
"Oh, that, well your dad's been promoted. I thought your parents told you." Sirius said with a frown. Emma looked at Sirius. Her hands were on her hips.
"Does it look like they told us?" Emma asked. Sirius scowled. Emma looked so much like Lily had when she used to have ago at them in the common room at Hogwarts.
"Dad's the Minister?" Harry asked. His eyes darting all over the page.
"That's brilliant." Ron said,
"We'll finally have a competent Minister." Hermione said.
"But why didn't they tell us." Harry asked.
"I really thought they did." Sirius said. "You two didn't know? Your dad's been minister for a week now" Harry looked at Emma and they both turned to Sirius. "Ok, I'll go and get your parents."
"No, I'll go and visit mum at work." Emma said, "I probably won't be allowed near dad now that he's the minister." She muttered. Sirius was about to stop her when Emma threw some Floo Powder into the fireplace. "St. Mungos Hospital" She said clearly before disappearing in green flames. Sirius turned to Harry.
"Can't you control your sister?" Sirius asked Harry in a light-hearted voice.
"Why didn't anyone tell us about dad?" Harry asked.
"Trust me Harry, when I say that I swear, I thought you knew about James." Sirius said.
"That's why he hasn't been around much." Hermione said. Sirius nodded.
"He's been trying to clean up the mess that Fudge left behind. You won't believe what that man did to the Ministry. James is really going to have a tough job tidying it up." Sirius said. The three nodded slowly. Harry seething slightly that his parents hadn't told him about his dad's new promotion. They hadn't told him anything but according to Jessie, Orion and Kaylee. There had been like a mass slaughter at the Ministry. Many of the workers had been killed, the Head auror had been killed. It had taken the ministry completely by surprise though apparently the Auror department had known for months and were trying to tell the Minister. Harry REALLY hated Fudge and though he was angry about his parents he couldn't suppress the happiness that came when he thought about his dad being the minister.
"Sirius." Harry said. Sirius looked up from the papers he was looking at. "What happened to mum and April?" He asked. Ron and Hermione looked at him with wide eyes.
"Harry." Hermione hissed.
"I know what I'm doing." Harry said back quickly.
"When?" Sirius asked with narrowed and suspicious eyes.
"Well, just before their NEWTs, when they began to hear Voldemort in their-"
"How do you know about that?" Sirius asked. Flicking his wand so that all the parchment on the table disappeared.
"Um…Kaylee told us." Ron said. "So what happened?" He asked, they had all been curious, naturally. Voldemort spoke to April Black and Lily Potter. He was in their heads. How did that happen and why? That's what Harry wanted to know. Hermione also wondered how it affected the Potter and Black children. Sirius sighed deeply.
"I don't know if I should tell you really." Sirius said, "It's your parent's choice."
"They don't tell me anything, what makes you think they're going to tell me even more about Voldemort?" Harry snapped. "I need to know as much as I can if I'm going to fight him-"
"All right, all right Harry. I'll tell you." Sirius said. Harry suppressed a smile. Sirius was the easiest adult to get information out of, particularly if they used Rhia.
"So what happened?" Hermione asked. The three sat around Sirius as if expecting a long story.
"Well in our seventh year, it was about three months before our NEWTs. Um, Lily and April had literally just found out about…about Remus being a werewolf" Sirius said hesitantly. Harry closed his eyes for a moment. "Well, obviously they were really shocked by it so they went out for a walk to talk about things. Talk about Remus, myself, James and about Jenny. Jenny had known the whole time she was dating Remus. But that night, Remus got out from the Shrieking Shack and onto the grounds of Hogwarts. Werewolves, they crave human flesh, so when he smelled Lily and April he ran for them but while I managed to stop him from attacking Lily and April. Something else got them that night. Something that looked like a werewolf but obviously wasn't. Jenny said that it just seemed to disappear after attacking Lily and April. It caused a large argument between James and Remus. James refused to believe that Remus didn't do it. But during our last NEWT exam, April's Muggle Studies exam she just started screaming and clawing at her head, like you saw last week."
"Was it Voldemort?" Hermione asked.
"Well sort of. It was Voldemort in a way. Some how, Voldemort had access to Lily and April's minds but Lily wasn't taking it as badly as April and Voldemort wasn't targeting Lily as much as April, which is rather weird to us simply because April's a pure blood and Lily isn't. But it caused April so much trouble, it made her scream and faint and sometimes she'd just go berserk. It finally stopped about a year later, or about that, when Voldemort attacked us for the first time. Lily and April have a link to Voldemort, much like you Harry, and he's been using it as much as he can. What we don't really understand is how he got the connection, but whatever it is, we fear has been passed into you kids. And it was made stronger in you, Harry, after you got the scar." Sirius said.
"What, so everyone is connected to Voldemort?" Ron asked.
"Only Rhia, Orion, Jess, Kaylee, Harry and Emma." Sirius said, "but we don't know if he's got a firm connection with any of the other children, because the only one who's had much of a connection, is Harry." Sirius concluded, he pointed at Harry briefly.
"What's that?" Kara asked as she walked into the room with Rhia.
"Harry has a connection with Voldemort." Hermione said glancing at them.
"Oh, we all knew that." Rhia said. Glancing at Hermione.
"We did?" Kara asked.
"Well, I knew that." Rhia said. She went to the small fridge to get some cold butterbeer.
"But you might have a connection too." Sirius said. Rhia turned to look at her Dad.
"What?" She asked.
"Never mind." Harry said, "But what does that mean for us? Is Voldemort trying to get back into mum and April's minds?" Harry asked Sirius.
"Yes he is. Well apparently, he's been speaking to Lily for a while now but she's not told anyone because she didn't want to worry us, but since the attack on April's mind-" Sirius sighed. "Well. Snivellus is trying to find a potion or make one to stop it from happening. He's getting help from Lily during the year. She's…" Sirius stopped.
"She's what?" Harry asked.
"She'll be visiting you more often then usual." Sirius muttered. "Well, I'm off…I have to, um…go to work." He said picking up his wand from the table.
"What? But it's your day off." Rhia said with a frown.
"Um, it was my day off." Sirius said, "Tell your mum, when she gets home that…um…I'm busy." Sirius said. He quickly apparated out of the house, leaving the teenagers confused and a little more enlightened.
"Right." Hermione said. She looked at Harry.
"But it wasn't dad's day off. He's not telling something." Rhia said with a confused look.
"All the adults aren't telling us something." Ron said.
"I say we spy." Kara said to them.
"We already do." Rhia said turning to her friend.
"Well we need some better ways of spying!" Kara said to Rhia. "I mean, extendable ears being put up isn't really going to help, because we've only got two in here and they don't go that far."
"True." Harry said. "Well, wait till mum gets back then we'll interrogate her."
"Fine." Rhia said, "I'm going to see Pegasus." Rhia said, talking about her winged horse.
"It's too dangerous for you to go out." Hermione said.
"For you three. Not for me." Rhia said icily, "Are you coming Kara?"
"Yeah, why not." She said, "We've got to pick up Baloo as well, don't we?"
"Nah, mum brought the damn cat here a few days ago." Harry muttered.
"That cat is not a damned cat." Rhia said with a slight smile.
"Yeah, say that next time he uses your broom as a scratching post!" Harry said with a smile.
Emma sat in the staff room at St. Mungos. She was on a swivelling chair and spinning around on it while staring at the ceiling. It was going round and round and round. She was allowed to come in here because her mum was handling some emergency. No doubt it would be reported to the Order because Emma had heard that it involved dark Magic and apparently, Lily Potter specialised in Charm reversal and reversal of Dark Magic curses. Emma had been pestering a nurse named Janice so much that she'd sent Emma into the staff room. Emma heard the door open and close and two male voices. She continued to spin aimlessly.
"I for one am glad Fudge is out of the picture. This new Minister seems competent, he has to be if he used to be a Rank II auror." Said one. He sounded quite old and his voice was slightly hoarse.
"I suppose but what would an Auror know about running a country." Said the other. Emma stopped spinning and turned to look at these people. One of them was an old healer with a carefully trimmed white beard. He had a bald head and a set of blue robes that just hung off him. Hiding his figure, well all of it but the bump of a belly that was probably due to his age. The other man was a young healer who looked about nineteen. He had blonde hair that was spiked up slightly and a nicely defined shaped face. Emma smiled slightly.
"Isn't this new Minister Potter's husband?" The old healer asked.
"Yeah, Lily Potter. You know, I haven't got her anything yet and she's leaving next week." The young one said.
"She is!" Emma asked in shock. The two healers looked at her in surprise.
"What are you doing in here, shouldn't you be in the waiting rooms?" The old healer asked. Emma shook her head.
"Mum's leaving?" Emma asked. The young healer frowned.
"Who are you?" He asked.
"Emma Potter." She said. "What's this about mum?" She asked.
"Oh, apparently she's taken up a healing job at Hogwarts." The young healer said with a shrug. "I'm Jason Pickering." He said with a smile. The older healer gave Jason a stern look and Jason looked around innocently.
"Lily Potter's daughter?" He asked. Emma nodded. "She's currently seeing to three patients who've been hit with dark curses. She'll be about an hour or so, you might as well have something to eat. Pickering, take Miss. Potter here to get something to eat. It's your break but you might as well do something." The old healer said. Jason saluted the old healer.
"Yes sir!" He said. The old healer glared at him and Jason laughed. "Come on kid." He said to Emma.
"I'm not a kid." She muttered as she followed him out. They went to the restaurant without talking. Jason was humming happily to himself as he went up the stairs.
"What do you want?" He asked Emma, looking at her. Emma looked at him for a moment before looking at the menu.
"Um, a chocolate muffin will be fine." She said. Jason nodded and went to the counter.
"Chocolate muffin and my usual." He said to the witch behind it. She nodded and Jason turned back to Emma. They sat down at an empty table. "So, Emma Potter, sister of the infamous Harry?" Jason asked. Emma let out a soft moan.
"I am always asked that." Emma muttered. She hated the attention Harry got. He was never happy with it. Emma would kill to be as rich as her brother. No one gave her a second thought, everyone knew her parents and Harry. They knew there was another girl there somewhere but very few people knew her name or even bothered to talk about her. The way some people spoke you'd think Harry was an only child.
"Oh, sorry. Don't you like him?" Jason asked.
"No, it's just that he gets all the attention. People forget about me." Emma muttered.
"And you don't like it. I get it. My sister is an auror, quite a good one at that. She's always getting the attention." Jason said. "So how old are you?"
"Um, seventeen." Emma lied. Jason smirked.
"You look too young to be seventeen." He said. Emma scowled.
"Well I am seventeen." She said.
"That's impossible because Harry Potter is only just sixteen." Jason said with a smirk. Emma scowled.
"Fine, I'm fourteen" Emma muttered. Jason gave a soft laugh.
"Nineteen." He said, pointing to himself. Emma looked at him and smiled. "What are you doing here? I heard your family has been going into hiding-"
"No, that's my brother. My brother has to go into hiding. I have to suffer because he's too special! No one wants me to have fun so I've got to do what he does." Emma said angrily.
"Ah!" Jason said with a nod. A witch brought Emma a chocolate muffin while Jason took a steaming coffee and a cookie.
"And it's like I have no will of my own. I'm not even allowed to go to the cinema with Kara and Rhia, they're my friends." Emma said.
"Sounds fun." Jason said. "But don't worry. It's just for your safety I'm sure." He said. "Dumbledore has his reasons for making you stay at grimmaul-" Jason stopped.
"What?" Emma asked
"Nothing, I'm sure there's a reason why your parents want you to stay inside" Jason said. He quickly took a sip of his coffee and let his gaze drop from Emma's face.
"You know about the you know what?" She asked in a hushed voice.
"No." Jason replied. Emma kept staring at him but the gaze of her two emerald eyes proved too much. "Yes I do. Your mum recruited me and Old Benji a few months ago. Janice is also a member and the head of St. Mungos." He said really really quietly. Emma could barely hear him. "Don't say anything." He said.
"Like I would. My parents are the core members of that." Emma said. Jason smirked and then laughed.
"Yeah, I suppose, and considering who you're related to. I'm being stupid. Of course you wouldn't let anything slip." He said with a grin. Emma smiled and took a bite from the muffin.
"So you're a trainee." Emma said, "Must be fun." She said.
"It is, particularly when I get to have a mentor like your mum and get to meet people like you." He said with a grin.
"I'm too young for you." Emma said then immediately regretted saying it.
"I don't think so." Jason said. "Besides, I'd always settle for a friendship." He said with a genuine smile. Emma looked at him fairly intrigued. He seemed to be earnest and he seemed nice.
"You don't know anything about me." She said.
"I know that you're the youngest in your family. Have to go into hiding every winter, suppressed by the fame of a certain brother who I will not mention." Emma laughed.
"My mum is your boss." Emma said casually.
"Only until next week." Jason said. Emma nodded.
"True. So, did you go to Hogwarts?" She asked.
"No, I went to Beauxbatons but I've been to Hogwarts. I tried to take part in the triwizard event." He said.
"Oh that." Emma said. "That was the worst thing that's happened in my life."
"You weren't in it."
"But my brother was, the impostor Moody tried to kill my brother, bought Voldemort back to life. What else could be worse? Since then I've had to stay inside, I'm not allowed out on my own and when I do decide to do something I'm too noisy." Emma said, imitating her dad.
"What do you do?" Jason asked.
"I play the guitar. I have a tendency of putting my amplifier up a little too loud." Emma said. Jason shook his head with amusement.
"Emma, Emma, Emma." He tutted.
"Don't you pass judgement on me. You don't even know me." Emma said with a smile.
"True but I have an idea about what you're like." Jason said.
"I bet you do." Emma said sarcastically. "Anyway, what's up with my mum? Can we go and see what she's up to?" Emma asked. Jason shrugged.
"I suppose so." Jason said. He stood up and helped Emma to stand up. Not that she needed the help but it was a kind gesture. He wolfed down the rest of the muffin then picked up his mug of coffee. "Come on."
Lily frowned as she tapped the end of her wand against her teeth. This wasn't very good and on top of everything her mind had a constant itching feeling. She had to go to see the Potions department of the hospital before she left to see if they had anything to give her. She held her wand properly and went to the bed. The ward was dark. The windows were completely blacked out and the lights off. The only light came from Lily's wand and small fairies that held the lamps. Two followed Lily's head as she went to the bed. The person was strapped to the bed and was struggling against the straps. It wasn't the most human way of keeping the patients down but when they needed the patients conscious and able to move it saved having to hurt them.
"Mr. Thompson." Lily said gently. "I know you can hear me, can you listen to me please?" She asked.
"Can't hear you, can't hear you, can't hear you." The man said. His eyes were sealed shut and it really freaked Lily out. She hated having to work in this department, thank god she only had another week left.
"Mr. Thompson. Please listen to me. The sooner you tell us what happened the sooner we can unseal your eyes." Lily said.
"You're a healer, heal it!" He snapped.
"We've tried, we need you to tell us what happened before your eyes were…um…sealed shut" Lily said.
"I was…I was walking back home when someone tried to attack me. Everything went cold and there were dementors all around me then one picked me up and I was nearing it's hood when suddenly they all backed off and then there was a man and he said I had to give him a gift and he took them! He took my eyes!" He screamed. Lily had to close her own eyes for a moment.
"Could you describe the man?" She asked slowly.
"I can't remember anything, except that he had a silver hand." He muttered. Lily snapped to attention.
"A silver hand?" Lily asked.
"Yeah." The man said.
"Wormtail." She muttered angrily.
"What?"
"Never mind. I have an idea on how to help you, now if you just stay still." Lily said. Her determination had increased ten fold once she found out Wormtail was responsible. The man fell still and Lily put her hand on his face over where his eyes should have been. She felt the empty eye sockets and felt a shiver going down her spine. This was wrong. She held her wand in her other hand and put the point on each eye before muttering something. She kept her fingers on the man's eyes and slowly she felt something growing under her fingertips. After a few seconds it stopped and she said a spell to unseal the man's eyes. He blinked a few times, adjusting to the lack of light in the room. He looked up to see Lily looking down at him. Her red hair framing her face in the glow from the lamps of the fairies.
"Oh Merlin, I'm dead aren't I?" He asked. Lily smiled.
"No, if you were then I'd be worried about my skill as a healer." Lily replied.
"You can't be real." He said. Lily scowled.
"Why not?" She asked.
"You're too beautiful." He said. Lily gave a soft laugh and undid the straps around his arms and feet. She helped the man to sit up.
"That's what my husband says." She said. The man smiled.
"How can I ever thank you?" He asked. He was a fairly young man. In his late twenties. Pale skin and dark hair. His eyes that had regrown were currently a pale blue colour but Lily wasn't sure if that was his usual eye colour.
"Do you want to fight against Voldemort?" The man shivered slightly then looked at Lily.
"He killed my family. Of course I want to fight him and his Death Eaters." Lily smiled.
"That's what I wanted to hear." Lily said.
"Why?" He asked.
"As soon as you're allowed out, keep an ear and your new eyes open for information." Lily said. "If you find out anything go to Godric's Hollow and look for James Potter and tell him what you've heard." She said. The man frowned.
"What?" He asked.
"It's important. I would tell you more but until I can trust you more I can't tell you more." Lily said. The man looked at her and then nodded.
"Ok." He said.
"Thank you Mr. Thompson." Lily said.
"Call me George." He said. Lily nodded. "What are you called?"
"Lily." Lily said, "Lily Potter." George's eyes widened.
"Lily Potter?! THE Lily Potter?" He asked. Lily smirked.
"The one and only." She said spreading her arms out slightly.
"Oh Merlin, I'll do anything for you and your family. I promise you, I'll even go undercover for you. Anything." He said. Lily looked at him with a frown.
"Why?" She asked.
"I support what you try and do. I want to help as much as I can. I believed your stories that You-Know-Who had come back." He said. Lily smiled. She sighed and checked George over a few times.
"You should be able to leave once your eyes have adjusted. So give it a few more hours. I'll tell the nurse outside." Lily said. George nodded and Lily was about to go to the next bed.
"Oh, Lily." George said. Lily turned to look at him. "Um, this guy, with the silver hand, he…well, he burnt me and it really hurts. Could you just have a quick look at it?" He asked.
"Sure. Where's the burn?" Lily asked.
"My chest. He punched me and instead of feeling the usual pain of a punch it feels like a burn." George said. Lily nodded.
"Take off your shirt and lie down." Lily said. George did as Lily said and lay down on the bed with his shirt off. One of the fairies hovered above his chest. Lily looked at the large hand shaped burn on George's chest. She ran a few fingers over gently. George winced and bit is lip. Lily frowned, why was she heavily reminded of Remus?
"Will it be ok?" George asked.
"It'll take longer then usual to heal." Lily said. She kept her hand on his chest. She didn't know why.
"Why?"
"Are you a werewolf?" Lily asked. George nodded. Lily closed her eyes and fought back some tears of sadness and anger. "You'll just have to leave it for a while. There's nothing I can do." Lily said. George nodded. Lily shook her head to try and clear it. Memories of Remus were coming back and that voice at the back of her head seemed to be getting stronger. She wouldn't let it. She had to fight both the memories and the voice.
"You aren't scared about me being a werewolf?" George asked curiously as he did up his shirt again. Lily blinked back the tears in her eyes.
"No. I'm not." Lily said.
"Why?"
"Because one of my best friends was a werewolf." Lily said.
"Was?"
"He died in the fight against Voldemort. Leaving a son and a wife." Lily said. "George, would you like to join the Order of the Pheonix?" Lily asked. George looked at her curiously. "I'll explain later. When you're allowed out, go to Godric's Hollow. I'm going there tonight and hopefully Albus Dumbledore should be with me. We're having a quick meeting there tonight. Just me, Dumbledore, James and April." Lily said.
"Who's April?"
"Head Auror" Lily said with a deep breath. "Sorry but I have to-" The voice was getting stronger. Lily closed her eyes and stopped talking. "Shit." She muttered. "Sorry I have to go." Lily left the ward and nearly bumped into Jason Pickering and Emma in the hallway.
"Mum" Emma said brightly.
"Emma? What are you doing here?" Lily asked.
"I came to look for you actually." Lily nodded distractedly.
"Um, James, no Jason, tell Gregory that I'm going home. I can't concentrate right now." Lily said, "Emma." Lily grabbed Emma's arm and they started down the hall.
"Are you ok?" Emma asked quietly. Lily frowned.
"Get me home." She said. "Something's happening to me." Lily said. Emma nodded quickly and took Lily's hand and led her through the hospital carefully.
A/N:-Hello, sorry about my little ranty thing in the last chapter, I really HAVENT been in the best of moods and people telling me to change my story really didn't help at all. But i've decided to do what ever. I don't control the story, my fingers do. Anyway, i was gonna have a go at lizzle for not replying to my emails but she did so that's one thing ticked off my agenda type thing. Ok, now there's another thing. Lizzle decided to ask me for a greater insight on Bo, so i gave her this HUGE email on all the stuff i had about Bo, you'll get a better idea of his physical looks and stuff in a few chapters time. But anyway, this email got me wanting to do PoVs again but it'll be harder in this story then it was for Glittering MAsquerade or To The End, so i wanna do just 7 random Chapters in the middle of this story in first person from the PoVs of Harry, Hermione, Ron, Rhia, Emma and Bo and maybe Malfoy cause he plays an interesting part later in the story (Kaylee and Jessie know what it is, hehe). Also just wanna say, does anyone else feel that hte twins should stay as 7 year olds cause in my head they're 7 not 11 and it's bugging the crap out of me!