Chapter 13

Ginny and Bridget stood in front of the coffin and looked down at their best friend, Colin Creevey. Colin had been found outside of the reception dead, obviously killed with the Killing Curse. Both girls swore that they wouldn't rest until they found out who had murdered their best friend.

Ginny and Bridget tried to help Mr. Creevey and Dennis out as much as possible, but what could you really say. They'd lost their son and only brother. Of course Ginny and Bridget tried to console them as much as possible, as they both knew how hard it was to lose someone so close to you.

Ginny had lost her older brother Percy and her loving sister-in-law Penelope. Bridget had lost her mum and dad the day she was born, spilt up from her godfather and godmother, brother and sister separated from her, and Bridget had to be raised by her grandfather…whom everyone thought dead. Just weeks ago Bridget lost her grandfather, the wounds were still too new.

"The case against Mr. Neville Franklin Longbottom on the count of rape on Miss Bridget Lynn Potter takes place today on the fifth of January nineteen hundred and ninety-eight. The Ministry calls Miss Adora Aimee Potter to the stand." The attorney for the Ministry spoke.

Adora Aimee Potter walked up to the seat and the deputy Auror held the bible out, "Do you swear to tell the truth the whole and nothing but the truth so help you Merlin?"

Adora nodded, "I do."

"Miss Potter, may I ask you what you witnessed?"

"The night Oliver Wood and I found Bridget?"

"That would be the night."

"Well," Adora began. "Oliver and I couldn't find Bridget at all and we were worried about her."

"And how were you able to find her?"

Adora felt her body lurch, she knew that there was no way she could tell them about Harry's Marauder's Map. "We all know that I am the best Seer and discerner in a Century." Adora felt horrible, she'd just committed a felon by lying under oath, but not telling them about Harry's map, but Harry would be in deep trouble for the map. Adora also knew that if they knew about Harry's map both herself and Harry would have the title Head Boy and Head Girl stripped away. Since Oliver knew about the map and being a teacher, he'd get his teaching rights taken away.

The attorney nodded, "You may go on Miss Potter."

"Well so we found Bridget in the Room of Requirement and the room was dark with lots of candles lit and a four poster bed with black linens."

"Could you estimate how big the bed was?"

"Um, maybe a Queen or a King. It's been a while so I can't really remember that small detail, besides I was more worried about my niece than the size of that stupid bed."

"Of course you are right," the Ministry Attorney nodded to Adora. "So what happened next?"

"We found Bridget asleep but as soon as we she woke she looked completely upset. She didn't even want to see us and was too upset to say a single thing to us."

"Us?"

"Yes," Adora nodded. "Oliver Wood and I found Bridget."

"No further questions, your witness."

The lawyer for Neville stood up, "Miss Potter did your niece tell you she had been raped?"

"No."

"Did she tell Mr. Wood."

"Well no…"

"So she could have just slept with him and decided to yell that she was raped to embarrass Mr. Longbottom after their horrible break up."

"Objection!" The ministry attorney yelled, "Leading the witness!"

The judges looked down at Neville's lawyer, "Yes your honors."

"So if Miss Potter never confided in you nor Mr. Wood, when and how did you realize she'd been raped? Were you able to use your powers to read her mind?"

"No, but she began to withdraw herself from everything that she loved and she wasn't the same peppy person that we all know and love."

"If you couldn't read her mind in it, then how did you know? I thought you were the most powerful Seer in a century?"

Adora rolled her eyes at this man, obviously he had never read up on the Potter Seer Women, "I am." Adora said with an attitude, "But obviously you nor Mr. Longbottom have done your reading."

"Excuse me?"

Adora laughed at him, "No I am not stupid but thanks for asking."

"What!" The lawyer asked his eyes about to pop out of his head.

"Well that's what you called me in your mind. Like I said you haven't done your reading."

"What reading Miss Potter?"

"On the Gryffindor/Potter family line."

"And why would I do that?"

"Because if you would have done your reading you would have found out that all Potter women are destined to become Seers. But if one of my nieces doesn't want the rest of us to know something she can put up a wall around herself where I couldn't read her at all. That is what happened and that is why I had no idea what happened to my niece until my nephew's wedding."

Adora took a breath and went on, "As soon as Bridget put her wall down and told everyone at the reception is when it all flooded me at once. I could tell you every single thing that happened."

"Oh really?"

Adora nodded, "I know the Ministry had a document from Bridget telling what happened that night. It hasn't been told in court and I haven't seen the document. But I can tell you everything that has happened."

The lawyer's eyes bugged out a bit, but Adora ignored him and went on. "Bridget pleaded with Neville to stop and she was crying, he slapped her and called her a slut and a bitch. He was rough with her," Adora heard her niece's soft sobs from across the room. "Neville Longbottom brutally raped and beat my youngest niece, Bridget Lynn Potter! He ripped her clothes off, he beat her physically and mentally! That son of a bitch!"

The head judge began to beat his gavel, "That's enough Miss Potter! You may step down!"

Adora's testimony hadn't been the only touching testimony, but so had Oliver Wood and Bridget herself. Bridget brought some of the judges to tears and two days later Neville had been convicted of first degree rape.

Unfortunately Neville wouldn't attend Azkaban immediately after trial, but he was going to be allowed finish his seventh year as he only had a few more months left. Of course the Potter and Black family had been outraged, but figured that they judges gave Neville sympathy as he had had his mother and father ripped away from him as a baby as well.

Neville wouldn't attend Hogwarts again, but would graduate from Durmstag in mid-June. Neville would be under house arrest in Durmstag and after he would graduate, he would start his ten year sentence in Azkaban.

Of course all of Bridget's family had been outraged, because that was all that Neville was getting. They believed he was getting off almost scot-free, but Bridget said it was better than nothing. Adora tried to tell everyone that if Bridget was satisfied, then that was all that mattered.

Harry went to visit his parents grave that day and swore to him mother and father that he would get revenge on Neville one day for what he did to his baby sister. That ten years in Azkaban was nothing compared to how he had robbed her of her happiness.

Back in Hogwarts word began to move like wild fire about what former student, Neville Longbottom had been convicted of, raping Bridget Potter just a few months ago. Bridget was ready to fall into a deep dark hole, as she got mean looks from a lot of girls at school. Neville had turned into a real hunk this last year, he'd been one of the most eligible bachelors, as The-Boy-Who-Lived and Draco Malfoy were now married. Because of this Bridget Potter, Neville Longbottom had been shunned away to Durmstag and as soon as he graduated he'd be thrown into Azkaban for ten long years! He wouldn't be out until he was twenty-eight years old. What an outrage!

Of course there were sympathetic looks thrown at Bridget too, but they were as bad as the mean looks. Bridget began to fall down into an even more horrible depression. Bridget got lots of sympathy and hate mail.

"Look," Hannah Abbott said rolling her eyes at Bridget and talking to some of her slutty Hufflepuff friends. "There is the whore that sent the wonderful Neville Longbottom away. She slept with him as she did with Professor Wood and she knew how much of a slut she was, so that's why she lied about Neville rapping her!"

"Hannah!" Sadie Potter had holding Breeanna on left hip, and put her arm right arm around her baby sister. "How dare you! And how dare you accuse my sister of such horrible lies! Bridget would never lie about something as horrible as rape! Bridget would not ruin someone's life over just sex! That bastard Neville Longbottom raped my little sister and you better leave her the hell alone! And if you can't believe my baby sister, then maybe we were never good friends at all."

"Excuse me!" Hannah asked outraged, "You are going to let this little tramp ruin our friendship! A friendship we've had almost all of our lives!"

"I have had the same blood as my sister all of my life, goodbye Hannah forever." Susan led her sister away from the horrible whores that had been making Bridget's life a living hell the last few weeks.

Susan led Bridget to the bathroom, in which she began to break down. Susan looked at her sister in awe, "Why are you letting them get to you?"

"Their right," Bridget sobbed. "I've ruined Neville's life and I should have never told a single person."

Susan looked at her sister in horror, "No." Susan pulled Bridget in a bone breaking hug as Breeanna cooed on the side of Susan. "We are all glad you came forward, we wanted to know what was wrong with you. Neville deserves everything that comes his way! Bridget Lynn he raped you! He deserves everything that comes to him, do you understand me! Now you forget what all of those horrible girls have been saying to you."

"How could you give your best friend up?"

"Because you are my sister and I love you! Adora, Draco, and Harry have been telling me I should have let her go ages ago and now I believe them. Hannah is nothing but trash and if anything Adora and you are my best friends…my family."

Autumn Lewis sat in a local park that she came to with her daughter and yet they had to move once again. Her father's lair had been found once again and now they'd moved from China to Pakistan. Autumn thought about Vincent everyday and it broke her heart that she'd never see him smile again…that he'd never see Desdemona grow up into a beautiful young woman, and most of all that she never share a child with her late husband.

Today Desi had called Autumn, "Mummy!"

Autumn completely broke down and held her baby close, "I love you my baby. I love you. Your daddy loves you too."

"Of course I do," a voice said behind Autumn and when she turned around her eyes bugged out and she gasped.

"What are you doing here!" Autumn held Desi close to her and looked around to see if any of the father's men were around.

"No one is here, we have a spy in your side. Our spy has told your father's men to go back that he'll be watching over you and Desi."

"Who!"

"I will not tell and neither will you, I need to talk to you."

"I have nothing to say to you Draco!"

Draco looked at the baby in Autumn's arms and his eyes went soft with emotion, "Please come with me. I want to take care of you and…"

"Desi, Desdemona, your daughter." Autumn began to stand up but Draco threw an invisibility cloak over Autumn.

"Your father's men are on their way back, but I have a safe place we can talk. We need to talk, you and Desi will be fine under this invisibility cloak. I have a disguise of my own."

Twenty minutes later, Draco led Autumn to a cave but midway through the cave a rock slid over and a wonderful room was opened up. After the rock and room was closed off with Draco, Desi, and Autumn; she took the cloak off.

"What do you want with us? You left us over a year ago."

"I never left you two, I told you I wouldn't marry you. I love Susan but I do want Desi to be a part of my life as Breeanna is." Draco looked at the baby in Autumn's arms again, "Can…can I hold her?"

"What will your wife say?"

"She knows I'm here."

Autumn narrowed her eyes at her ex-lover, "Oh really?"

"Yes. I know our daughter's birthday is coming up soon and she said that she can tell how much I've wanted to meet Desi. Will you let me hold her?"

Autumn sighed, "You are her father."

Autumn handed Desdemona over to her father and Draco gasped when he saw how much Desi looked like him. Desi didn't have the white-blond Malfoy hair, but she had her mother's strawberry blonde hair with Draco's gray eyes.

"It scares me sometimes on how much she looks like you," Autumn said with tears in her eyes.

"I've got to get the two of you away from your father."

Autumn's heart turned cold again, "You owe my daughter and me nothing. Give her back to me, we've done well enough without you. Go back to your wife and your sister that you are raising like your own daughter. Wonderful to know that you love your sister more than your own daughter."

"Autumn!" Draco said trying to keep his voice down in front of his daughter, "I have wanted to be a part of Desdemona's life since before she was born but with me not being a Death Eater or marrying you I was kicked out of our daughter's life by my father and yours. I know as long as your father is trying to rule the world, that he will still try to keep her out of my life, but I do love her and think about her all the time."

"I want to send you child support every month and if I could be a part of her life I would, but we both know that if your father knows about our meeting today he'd kill you for her."

"I don't know if I could actually trust you."

"Come on Autumn, I swear I want to stand by this. You can ask Crabbe, I stand by my word."

Autumn's eyes began to water and a small sob came out.

"What did I say?"

"We were married."

"You were?" Draco said, eyes popping out. "Wait, what do you mean 'were'?"

"Father killed him."

"What!"

"I fled the country with Desi after mum was killed and Vincent came after us. We were married for just a short time and Father killed Vincent for betraying him. Father killed Vincent right in front of Desi and me."

"What!" Draco said with his eyes about to bug out, "He killed Crabbe in front of my daughter! That dirty bastard! He doesn't have much time left anyways."

"Draco don't hurt him, he's the only family I have left except for Desi."

"He's going down Autumn," Draco said holding Desdemona close to him and kissing her forehead. "I've got to go now, before anyone realizes you've disappeared. I need to get going." Draco held Desi close one last time, "I love you baby. I'll try to see you as soon as I can." Draco kissed his daughter one last time and handed her back to her mother and he left.

Autumn held her daughter close and wished things just weren't so difficult for her.

Adora, Harry, Sadie, Draco, and Ron began to prepare for their N.E.W.T.s test that would be taken at the end of June, when the fifth years would take their O.W.L.s. Ginny and Bridget didn't have to take their N.E.W.T.s or O.W.L.s this year, but they still had end of term exams and lots of homework that included N.E.W.T. work sheets, to the them ready for next year.

The hateful girls had began to subside as Bridget's telekinetics increased and anytime a girl began to talk crap on Bridget well Bridget would just fling her into a near wall. Adora had scolded Bridget about this several times, but Bridget just shrugged it off. Bridget only did it when she was alone or when Ginny was around. Ginny didn't ever tell her to stop or that it was cruel, because Ginny knew it was a way to get Bridget's anger off of her chest.

January finished and February began to creep in, and thank goodness Bridget wasn't as hostile as before. Bridget still didn't trust men outside of her family, but she wasn't as guarded as before. Bridget was even nicer to Oliver whenever she saw him in the hallway.

Everyday that Bridget passed Oliver in the hall Oliver would say, "Good day Bridget."

But Bridget would keep on walking and would avoid eye contact with him, but on the morning of February fourteenth, everything changed.

Valentine's day, Bridget was ready to swear up and down on how much she hated this day. Then again it was baby Breeanna's first birthday, so there was something to be joyous about.

Breakfast was were it all started, Hannah Abbott approached Gryffindor Table in the Great Hall.

"Hello everyone," Hannah said politely with her arms behind her back.

"Hello," everyone mumbled but Bridget.

"Abbott," Bridget said snubbing her nose.

"I'm sorry about what happened a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to wish baby Breeanna a very Happy 1st Birthday." Hannah handed a wrapped up present to Susan.

"Thank you," Susan said accepting the present and then gave it back to her friend. "Stop by Draco and my dorm after dinner tonight, we're having a little birthday party for Bree."

Hannah blinked, "You're actually inviting me? After all the mean things I said to Bridget."

"Yes," Susan nodded. "My mother always lived my the rule, forgive and forget. Besides I explained to them all that you have had the biggest crush on Neville for a while and you were just upset."

Hannah blushed, "Thanks Susan. Well I'll see you guys later."

After Hannah walked off Adora turned to Susan with a very questioning look, "If she's liked Neville for a while then why in Merlin's name is she dating Blaise Zambini?"

"Zambini!" Harry chocked his French toast up.

"I didn't even know they were together," Susan said with a questioning tone.

"How could you not!" Bridget said rolling her eyes at her older sister, "They've had their tongues surgically attached since the beginning of the year."

"Oh," Susan blinked feeling foolish. "Well I've had too many things to preoccupy me than to watch Hannah and Zambini suck face. I am raising a child."

"Okay," Ginny Potter said rolling her eyes at this stupid little tiff. "Could we drop the dramatics and focus on more important things." Ginny turned to Adora and Adora was smiling at her, "Now when did you want to see Susan, Bridget, and me?"

"Today after classes but before dinner."

"Okay," Bridget smirked. "Come on Gin, we're going to be late for class!"

Ginny nodded and gave her husband a kiss and handed him a Valentine's day card with his present, "See you at lunch."

Harry handed Ginny her present and card, "Bye love."

"Gag!" Bridget yelled rolling her eyes at her big brother and sister-in-law being too gushy in public. The rest of the Potters and Malfoys laughed at Bridget and Bridget and Ginny made their way to class.

"You two need to seriously get a room and quit groping one another in publics eye," Bridget said curling up her nose in disgust as she didn't want to think about her best friend and brother.

"What do you expect Bridge? We're newlyweds, we're suppose to be like this."

"Not in front of the baby sister!"

Ginny laughed hard at her best friend, "Sometimes Bridget I just don't know what to do with you."

"Good, I'm suppose to be unacceptable."

Ginny and Bridget smiled and gossiped about things, the way best friends do. Valentine's day was going to be a very joyous day for the both of them, even though Bridget hated the day and to her it was only a day for the horrible toy, candy, and card companies to make money. No scratch that, horrible toy and card companies, the candy companies were gods!

Ginny and Bridget were very wrong about this day being joyous, as they were about to walk outside to Herbology a siren began to blare through out the entire school.

Bridget turned white and when she turned to look at her best friend, she saw that Ginny had an identical look upon her face.

"Tha…that siren," Ginny stuttered.

"Means that Death Eaters are on campus ground and heading towards Hogwarts."