A/N: Hey, this will be the last chapter until my exams finish. Sorry! But for my parents my exams come first, I'm not even meant to be doing this now.
There is only going to be about four chapters left, but there might be a sequal. The climax of the story starts in this chapter! I hope you like it, please tell me what you think.
Chapter Nine
Months had passed and James had fully recovered. He was back to his normal self. Rachel had come to visit lots of times and each time she asked when he was allowed out of bed. The day he was, she was sick and wasn't allowed of bed for three days. But that was weeks ago now.
Today, three couples stood at the door. One of them, the Longbottoms, the other the Weasley's and the last one was the Weasley's.
The first of the Weasley's were Hermione and Ron, the second pair was Percy and Penelope Clearwater, just last week they had found out Percy had been seeing her for months and no one knew. So Harry and Ginny decided to have them round for dinner, along with the other people they had promised.
'Hi everyone, do come in,' Ginny welcomed everyone happily.
Rachel zoomed in to greet James and Hermione put Alexandra into the play pen with Lauren, they both giggled, happy to see each other.
Nick and Ian were Luna and Neville's children, Nick was three and Ian was five, they took care of each other and loved each other, there were no fights in the Longbottom family. It was peaceful and quiet.
The children had all played with each other before so they weren't shy, in fact it was quite the opposite, they were loud and happy around each other. Luna was also pregnant so there was going to be an addition to the family, and everyone was looking forward to it.
Dinner was a joyous occasion, Percy was not his normal self, in fact he kept telling them that he was having a really good time and that they should do this more often.
Hermione explained to them all that Rachel had started to learn a bit about magic, practicing small spells and learning a bit about potions and Herbology each day. Ron said it was really helping her and she knew quite a lot, she was going to be really smart when she went to Hogwarts.
Ginny and Harry were more relaxed about James' education. Both Harry and Ginny were smart and so were their grandparents. It would be very unusual if they weren't smart. They also knew that over time James and Lauren would learn a lot from just listening to their parents talk, they were growing up in a magical community and all their friends were from magical backgrounds, so really there was no escaping it.
Percy on the other hand, liked the sound of Hermione and Ron's idea and thought it was very smart of them to do that, he said it would benefit their children in every way possible.
Luna and Neville were with Harry and Ginny, they weren't not going to teach them anything but they weren't going to set up a little school in their house and make them learn all they had to before they went to Hogwarts.
By eight o'clock the little kids were asleep and the big kids were trying to stay awake but not succeeding very well. They all went home well fed and ready to have dinner with everyone again.
Harry met Ron at work the next day, Harry went into his office ready for a good day at work, what he found was the opposite.
Ron came in and laid the newspaper in front of him, he said nothing; Harry looked at the heading and felt that his day was already going abnormally wrong.
Four Death Eaters Escaped, Thanks to Death Eaters Son, Draco Malfoy.
A twenty year old boy at the time of You-Know-Who's death, Draco Malfoy lost everything. His mother, father and his life. His trial to put him in Azkaban was set for the fourteenth and when the jury read out its verdict they said "not guilty".
What a big mistake they made.
Since then he was happily married to Padma Patil and was expecting his first child in August this year. He said he's changed and had nothing to do with his fathers' plans in the first place.
But now, thanks to Malfoy, his father, Bellatrix Lestrange, Rodolphus Lestrange and Avery are all escaped prisoners.
People are saying that Malfoy lost everything when his mother was killed by Harry Potter. Now he's out to get his revenge on all the Auror's and finish off You-Know-Who's work.
Auror's everywhere are currently looking for him and just like when Draco was thirteen, Dementor's are everywhere. Except this time their not looking for Sirius Black, their looking for him.
There is already one dead thanks to him as well, and who it is, is shocking people everywhere. The person he said he would love and hold till death is the person he killed. His wife and his unborn child, are now dead.
More on page six . . .
Harry swallowed, or tried to; his mouth had become more and more dry while he read the article. Just like people everywhere, to Harry the person who he had decided to kill was shocking. There were no more Patil twins, now their was just Parvarti Patil and her older sister. The mention of Sirius Black being as bad as Malfoy was slack to Harry, he had nearly stopped reading at that point, but Ron had told him to go on. He didn't want to turn to page six, there was nothing more to say, maybe how bad Malfoy was at school and things like that, but Harry knew all that.
"Auror's everywhere are looking for them?" Harry questioned the paper.
Ron answered promptly, "Percy didn't want to give you anymore to worry about so he told the paper in his interview that Auror's everywhere are looking for him."
"Thank goodness for Percy, I don't know what I'd have done if the paper was on my back as well as this gut feeling I've got."
Not much dialogue in this chapter, but I liked it. I think the next chapter will have a bit of Malfoy's point in it. It won't be update for about a week, so I hope you don't mind. You should be happy I reviewed today!