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Alright so this chapter is the start of everything heating up! The climax kinda! Any way i wont be able to update for a while b/c i have school starting this wensday and i still have yet to finish my ap english work! yes and the reason being that is why u all have had such long chapters. So now it is 11pm at night at i'm going to get some more of it done. Please REVIEW and tell me would those who have yahoo messenger like to do a chat one night about the story. I'd like to see what you all are thinking and i'll answer some important questions you all have! So review and tell me what you think!
"My baby is going to pre-school." Clare said, still upset that she had taken Ella to a small pre-school a few miles away from their apartment.
"Clare she's growing up." Lily said.
"I know. But I don't want her too. She is only three but soon she'll be dating and then getting married and leaving me." Clare said stubbornly.
"Well you will always have me," Lily said teasing.
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"Evan will you shut up!" a 15 year old Jason Potter yelled at his younger, yet annoying brother.
"Jason stop yelling at Evan." Anne complained.
"Well I'm sorry little miss perfect but then tell Evan to go away." Jason said.
"Stop acting like you are two years old. I'm going over Emma's will you please make sure Evan has dinner." Anne said, flooing out of the house.
"Jason when is dad getting home?" Evan asked as Jason opened the fridge and pulled out a t.v dinner, and started to heat it up.
"As soon as he gets off." Jason replied as there was a soft knock at the door, Jason's wand was out in a second.
"Jason who is it." Evan, who would be attending his first year at Hogwarts.
"I donno why don't you go call Aunt Hermione." Jason replied.
"Maybe it's dad?" Evan said, walking towards the fireplace.
Jason knew this wasn't true, since the rising of the new dark lord that was being called Hades like the Greek god of the underworld. The reason being that this new dark lord was on the attack and after every attack, like Voldemort would leave behind the dark mark this dark lord left behind a fruit, the pomegranate. Which in Greek mythology is said to be the fruit of the underworld, the fruit Persephone ate a seed of and was damned to spend fall and winter with Hades. Upon examining this Hermione believed the reason for it was to show control. That who ever this new dark lord really was wanted control. Harry had started the Order of the Lily up again and was attending a meeting at their safe house, leaving Jason and Anne in charge, though Anne was at a friends till he got home.
Jason made it to the door slowly and looked through the window next to it to see who it was. "Bloody hell!" Jason yelled, throwing open the door.
"EVAN CALL FOR HELP!"
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At the Nott home
"What do you want boy!" Nott yelled at his younger cousin.
Zan took a deep breath, he had to try.
"Cousin I have finished all my school work for the summer and seeing as there are no pressing family matters for me to attend to I was hoping it was possible if I went to a friends?" Zan asked.
Nott looked up from his desk, his face grave, angry. Slowly the older man stood up and walked till he stood in front of his cousin. Then in a swift move had slapped Zan across the face. It had stung like hell but Zan knew showing any form of weakness would only make this worse.
Since Zan had become friends with the Potters his cousin, guardian had become cruel, more cold if that was even more possible. Zan would get slapped for a cross word or any praise he would give the Potters or any one associated with them. Every summer Zan would return home to find himself mostly secluded from anything, usually locked away in his room with nothing but his school books and others on being a pureblood. But this summer Zan had made Perfect and he knew Anne had as well. He had not seen her since their adventure in their fourth year when they got themself stuck in the forbidden forest and had only found their way out when a Unicorn had befriended Anne. Zan wanted to leave and Mr. Potter had told him every year that there was a bed always open for him. If his cousin said no well then Zan just hoped he could be strong enough to do what he always wanted to do since he was a little boy.
"Where do you get off asking for anything you ungrateful boy. I have made sure you have been provided for have I not and yet you repay me by shamming our family. Getting yourself into Gryffindor wasn't bad enough but you just had to befriend Potter's bloody spawns." Nott said, Zan growing angry and before he realized it he had punched his cousin in the nose. No one ever spoke ill of the Potters around him, not of Anne.
"You will regret that lad," Nott said deadly series, straightening himself up and pulling out his wand and cast a strong stinging hex and cutting curse on Zan, the boy fell to the floor but made no noise.
"What boy you wont scream will you. Well let's try this. Curcio!" Nott yelled making the 15 year old boy scream out.
"Theodore no!" Mrs. Nott, his mother yelled running at her son.
"Get off me you old hag!" Theodore Nott yelled, breaking the spell but pushing his mother hard enough for her head to make solid contact with the marble desk, killing her on contact.
"NO!" Zan croaked out, though his grandmother had never been the most loving person she had at least cared for him, the only one in the family.
Nott laughed cruelly, but suddenly stopped and looked at Zan and in a voice Zan could never remember his cousin use said, "Run!"
Zan looked at his cousin with wide eyes and back and his grandmother. He had no choice, something was happing he did not understand. He dragged himself off the floor and ran out of the Nott home, and kept running, with nothing more but a few gallons in his pocket. His body protested in pain but he no choice, he ran.
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"What is it?" Evan said coming into the room, shocked to see his brother's best friend Zan Nott laying motionless on their front steps.
"What the bloody hell!" Evan said, if his father had been around he would of been yelled at.
"Evan help me!" Jason said yelling at his younger brother as he put pulled Zan of the ground. Together both boys had been able to dragged Zan into the living room and get him on the couch.
"Should I call Aunt Hermione?" Evan asked, having only seen Zan during Christmas he could tell the boy was very pale.
"Try her. If she isn't home from the meeting call any one!" Jason said, checking his friend over, for a sign of life.
"Ug Jason your breath smells." Zan said in a gruff tone. Jason let out a sigh of relief, at least he was alive, and well enough to joke.
"Damn Zan what happened. Evan went for help so don't move yourself to much." Jason said, not really sure what to do.
"Anne?" Zan said.
"She isn't home. She'll be here in a bit." Jason said, he wasn't blind, not as much as his sister was any way. Jason knew his friend was very taken with his sister.
"Don't let her see me." Zan said, as Jason saw the cut on his friends left shoulder, blood was seeping through his shirt.
"I'll tell her to stay at Emma's alright. Just wait till help get's here." Jason said as Evan came running back in followed by their Aunt Hermione who swore out loud at seeing Zan.
"Alright one of you needs to call Aunt Susan she could heal him better then I can as well as my father." Hermione said.
"I will," Jason said running to the floo and called Aunt Susan who came right over. He then called Granddaddy Sirius.
"Jason my boy what can u do for you?" Sirius said.
"Granddad, Aunt Hermione told me to call you. Zan's here and he's hurt." Jason said as Sirius eyes grew dark.
"I'll be right over." Sirius said and true to his word he was.
Jason then made one more call.
"Hello Mrs. Mathis is my sister around?" Jason said politly as Emma's mother appeared.
"Oh hello Jason dear. Yes she is hold on one moment." Mrs. Mathis said.
Seconds later Anne appeared, her face covered in a green mask.
"Holy hell Anne what's that junk on your face." Jason said, unable to stop himself.
"I would not expect you to understand pee brain. What do you want?" Anne said.
"Nothing. But listen Evan is going to stay over Aunt Hermione's and I'm going to Chris' so why don't you stay at Emma's." Jason said smoothly, he inherited his father's father's ability to lie.
"Let me ask, hold on." Anne said disapearing for a few moments and then coming back.
"Yeah I'll stay here. See you tomorrow bro." Anne said, the floo going off.
Jason walked back into the living room, Zan was sleeping on the couch. His aunt and grandfather where off talking on the side, Evan on the arm chair helping Aunt Susan looking through her medical bag.
"Jason!" Hermione said. "Jason did he say anything to you?"
'No not really." Jason said not wanting them to know that Zan fancied his sister.
"Hermione I'm telling you I know what this is. Bloody hell it happened to me in my sixth year. Let me go get James and Remus we can handle this." Sirius said growling.
"No I want you here to talk to the poor dear when he wakes up. And Harry should be home soon and I'm going to need you to be reasonable other wise you'll all be running off!" Hermione said just as they all heard the front door open.
"Hello!" they all heard Harry yell.
"In here da!" Jason yelled out as Harry walked in, dropping his cloak to the floor in surprise.
"What in the seven hells is going on!" Harry demanded, seeing Zan on the couch looking pretty beat up.
"Jason why don't you take Evan and go to my place. Send Uncle Ron over would you?" Hermione said calmly.
"But," Jason argued.
"No but's young man. Now march!" Hermione said doing a very good impression of Mrs. Weasley.
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"How you feeling?" Sirius said later that evening, bordering on morning to Zan who had recently woken up asking for water.
"I'm alright sir," Zan said, sipping the water.
"Listen I want you to understand that what happened to you is nothing you should be ashamed of alright. My father was an abusive son of a bitch and so was Harry's uncle. You did nothing wrong." Sirius said the father in him coming out.
"Sir I don't think my cousin meant it. I know it sounds stupid but you did not see his eyes. They changed colors when, after he killed my grandmother. He told me to run. I don't understand it but it was like it was well I really don't know." Zan said his eyes down cast.
"Listen to me kid. We will get to the bottom of this, just leave it to us adults. You just rest up and take your potions like a good kid." Sirius said patting the boy's good shoulder and walking into the kitchen where the rest of the adults where including now James Potter, Lily Potter, Zizi Black, Remus and Ara Lupin as well as Ronald Weasley.
"Well?" Harry asked, large black bag under his eyes. Sirius hated seeing his godson like this. He then relayed what he learnt from Zan to them.
"The imperius curse." James said.
"That's what I was thinking." Sirius said.
Harry stood up, "Alright then let's go." Harry said, Ron getting up to join him.
"Where do you think you are going!" Hermione demanded, scaring Ron.
"Listen Hermione we are going to the Nott home. Look we have legal right to search the premises. Signed by the assistant minister of magic." Harry said holding up a legal search warrant.
"It could be dangerous Harry." Hermione said.
"When isn't it?" Harry asked, nodding to the other three male adults to join him as he called for Hedwig and soon they where all gone.
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"HARRY I THINK I FOUND SOMETHING!" Ron yelled.
When the lot of them had entered the Nott home they had found Mrs. Nott but could not find her son that was till now.
Harry followed by his father and his friends walked into the room he had heard Ron yell from to find a grieves sight before him. Laying on what Harry presumed to be his own bed was Nott dead. A pomegranate with a knife through it going all the way to Nott's heart having been what killed him.
"Damn it!" Ron swore.
"Look," Remus said as he saw another smaller dagger sticking out from the wall, a piece of paper attached to it.
Harry grabbed it and opened it.
Potter
If you are reading this then you know of what I have done. He held to much information to let me be able to keep him alive. A pity really he was a good servant but that boy of his was to much trouble. I will see him finished as well, the whole Nott line wiped out. But we have more pressing matters Potter.
I will give you only one chance. I want you along with all the heirs to join me or I will pick you all off one by one. It is with in my Potter I promise you. But I will let you watch me torture, break and kill your family, your children first. Don't fight me Potter. I'll give you that you defeated Voldemort but he was weak. I have learnt from his mistakes and promise you I will not make the same.
Give into me Potter and I will help you find your wife. I know where she is Potter, I can give you back the one thing your heart cries for at night.
Ah yes I can see the look you are giving me Potter and I promise if above all else you will learn obedience before you die.
Hades
Harry looked to Ron.
"Mate you can't take this seriously. Ginny's gone mate. She is gone and she isn't coming back." Ron said.
"But Ron maybe I can get it out of him. Maybe I could make him talk." Harry said, a hopeful look in his eyes.
Ron grabbed Harry roughly and punched him very hard in the face.
"Now listen to me mate she isn't coming back. So get her out of your bloody head." Ron said, pushing Harry towards James.
"I'll call the Aruras in just get him home and one of you stay there tonight. Make sure he doesn't leave." Ron said.
Hours later after Ron packed up Zan's trunk and the Aruras had taken the bodies Ron sat in the middle of the Nott living room.
"You know Ginny," Ron said out loud "I hope your watching over that husband of yours cause if your not he may be joining you sooner then any of us like." Ron said finishing as he heard a faint click.
Ron stood up and looked around the room, on top of Nott's desk where his mother had died sat an open box. Carefully Ron walked over to it and almost cried in shock. Inside the box was a folded letter that had Zan's name written on front of it. But that wasn't what Ron was staring at but the pictures. They where of two young woman and a man. One of the woman had bright red hair and eyes he knew well. It was his sister, it was Ginny very much alive.
Ron frowned and took out his wand setting all the pictures and the letter with out reading it on fire. What ever it was it had to be a trick. Ginny was dead and if Harry ever found out he would be joining her.
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"I'm home!" Anne said the next night coming through the floo.
"Hey Anne," Zan said, having recovered enough to walk around. His shoulder was still patched up and his eyes held a daunting look but nothing as bad as the day before.
"ZAN!" Anne said hugging him till he flinched.
"Zan what happened?" Anne asked, now extremly worried.
"Anne honey let Jason's new room mater breath will you?" Harry said, watching Anne smile.
"Your staying?" Anne said.
"Yup or until you all decided to kick me out." Zan said, shyly. He had found out about his cousin, and the death threat on his life. He had argued with Harry, not wanting to stay and put his family in danger. But after a lot of convincing where Zan was told that they would be no better off if he did not stay and that Anne was sure to cut his head off if he let him go.
"Oh I'm so excited but Zan what happened." Anne asked.
"There was an attack at the Nott home Anne. Zan was the only survivor." Harry said, he knew how Zan was feeling and that he'd tell Anne the truth when he was ready.
"Oh Merlin Zan thank Godric your alive." Anne said.
"Alright break it up!" Jason said walking in with Chris.
"Oh shut it Jason!" Anne said sticking her tongue out at her brother.
"Real mature." Chris said, Anne hit him in the head.
"Alright break it up you lot and get ready for dinner." Harry said tiredly as he walked into the kitchen.
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"Will you lot please try to stay out of trouble this year. And please keep an eye on your brother and Nick." Harry said as he saw his children and new charge off on the train for yet another year at Hogwarts.
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"Bloody hell Anne what is that?" Tori asked pointing to a piece of parchment laying on the floor in the library.
"Oh let me see!" Jason said reaching down and picking it up.
Suddenly all of them, Chris, Zan, Anne, Tori and Emma where all drawn to the paper. And just as all of the touched it there was a small popping noise, six students where now missing from Hogwarts.
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