A/N:
Disclaimer: I had a dream last night that Harry Potter and his friends belonged to me. Sadly I woke up this morning with nothing but a purple, pink and silver bedroom, a pink mobile phone, loads of clothes, all of the Friends episodes on VHS and the Harry Potter books and DVD's so I took that as a there is no way on this earth that I own them!
Summary: Harry has defeated Voldemort and he leaves the wizarding world after graduating because all is not well there. He returns after a year and discovers that his life has changed dramatically. Theres a new enemy but who is it? We follow Harry's life as he learns that One night REALLY can change everything in a persons life.
Thanks for all the reviews they mean a lot to me. And Dan's letter is so not mine. I used a song and changed some of it. The song is called Say Goodbye by S Club.
Anyways now onto our feature presentation. Here's Chapter 49. Enjoy!
Chapter 49 - The Hunt for Bellatrix Lestrange
All night long Harry sat at the kitchen table writing letters to the people that he loved.
First he wrote a letter to Ron and Hermione.
Dear Ron and Hermione,
I'm sorry that I have done this again and taken off without a proper goodbye but I feel that this is something that I must do on my own. Please don't waste your time trying to look for me because I am currently using concealment charms and the cloak to conceal my whereabouts. I also feel that if I had waited till morning to leave then I would have had the both of you trying to stop me from going. I'm hoping that I come out of this alive so that I can move on with my life and Ron I promise that if I do then I will give up on the saving people thing. However if I don't come out of this alive then remember that I love the both of you as though you are my brother and sister (even though by marriage you are) and that wherever I go I will be happy and will always be watching over you. Thank you for everything you have done with me. Without you I would have been nothing at Hogwarts. I just have one last favour to ask of you Ron - look after Ellie as if she was your own daughter and my grandchild as though it is your own by blood.
Till we meet again.
Love Harry.
After Harry had written the letter he leaned back in the chair and read it through.
When he was satisfied that it was perfect enough for them to read, Harry put it down on the table and got to work on another letter.
This time it was to Ellie.
Dear Ellie,
I'm sorry for leaving you like this and for leaving you while you are in a fragile state. I'm also sorry for not waiting until you gave birth before taking off and for not being there for you in the first year of your life. But please forgive me for doing this. It is something that I need to do because I have to stop the dark side from ruining my life anymore. Even if you don't forgive me can you please make sure that your child knows who I am and where you came from. Good luck with your NEWTs next year and I'm sure that you will be Head Girl next year as well. Also good luck with the birth and have fun being a Mum. You'll do well. I love you baby girl with all my heart.
Love you, Dad.
Harry read through this letter and smiled then put it on top of Ron and Hermione's letter.
He sighed and pulled another piece of parchment towards him.
Dear Maddy and Peyton,
I am so sorry that I am doing what I did to your sister and leaving you. Especially like this. I'm also sorry that I couldn't say a proper goodbye to you. I am also so very sorry that I tried to access your thoughts and memories. It was wrong of me to do that. I also know now that it was wrong of me to walk out on you and your mother like I did. I wish that we had never argued that night. At the end of the day you are both my baby girls (and Ellie too) and I should never have involved you in the arguments. Good luck with your OWLs and NEWTs and hopefully you'll do better in some of the subjects than I did. Peyton Princess keep up the good work in Quidditch and win Gryffindor that cup. Also please look after your Mum and baby brother or sister. I love you both with all my heart.
Love, Dad.
Yet again Harry placed this letter on top of the other two and pulled another piece of parchment towards him.
Dear Molly and Arthur,
Firstly I must say how much you mean to me. You are everything that a child should experience with their parents. You have been surrogate parents to me ever since you saw me on the platform looking so lost all of those years ago and since I befriended Ron. It meant a lot to me to be able to look up to you as though you were my parents and you enabled me to experience all of the things that you get while living with your parents even though I technically didn't live with you. You also welcomed me into your home and family when you really didn't have to which I thank you for. I'm also so very sorry for causing you and your family so much heartache over the years. I'm sorry for whatever pain I have put your daughter through and you must understand that I have to do this on my own. I do love Ginny very much and I don't mean to cause her this amount of pain. Please can you make her understand that for me to move on this needs to be done. Both her and the girls are my world and I am doing this so that I can put the past behind me and move on with my life. Again I thank you for letting me be a part of your family.
Your loving 'son'
Harry.
He did the same with this piece of parchment as he had done with all of the others then set to work on possibly the hardest letter that he had to write.
Dearest Gin,
I'm sorry that I have hurt you so much. Both in the present and in the past. I didn't mean to. I honestly thought that I was protecting you and the girls. Sorry for trying to access Maddy and Peyton's thoughts to find out what was wrong with them. It probably wasn't the best idea that I've ever had and I thought that it would work. But it didn't work did it? It only caused us to have an argument which resulted in me walking out of the house and ultimately your lives and our marriage. I understand if you never want to see me again. I'll sign the divorce papers and hand over my parental responsibilities to you so that you will solely be their parent and that way you'll never see me again. I'll also understand if you wish to change Maddy and Peyton's surname to Weasley. It breaks my heart to write that and to even think that I could never see the twins, the baby or you again. If this happens then I'll miss out on so much. I could imagine your reaction now - it would be "why on earth is he writing this? It's his own fault that we are in this mess!" And it's true. I admit that this whole situation is my fault. I just don't want you or the twins thinking that it's your fault. If you wish to divorce me then let me do one last thing for you and my children. I will place 1000 Galleons into an account for each child and I will put 3000 Galleons into your account as well as giving you the house to live in. I will find somewhere else to live. Somewhere that is no where near Hogwarts or London so that we never run into each other. I'm also sorry for not coming to The Burrow to see you after we had that argument. Now I wish that none of what I have written happens because I love you with every single bit of my heart. And do you remember the question that you asked me in my seventh year. The one about why does no one love you. The one that I couldn't answer. Well this was my answer - I love you and I have done ever since I broke up with you at the end of my sixth year. I regret breaking up with you just because I was being noble. I thought that I could forget about my feelings for you but I couldn't. They seemed to disappear for a while while I was at Privet Drive but as soon as I got to The Burrow and I saw you and how much you had grown up even more so than sixth year those feelings resurfaced but I still felt that I couldn't be with you because of Voldemort. You are my world and you mean everything to me. There have been so many times that I have wished to have you and the girls back. Without you I am nothing. Please look after the children and bring them up to be good people. For now I must say goodbye and hopefully we will meet again.
Love, Harry
Harry put each letter into an envelope and addressed them.
He then packed whatever he would need into a small bag then watched the sun come up.
Once the sun had fully come up, Harry left the envelopes on the kitchen table knowing that someone would find them when they came to check on him having not heard from him for a couple of days.
He took one last look at the gloomy kitchen then left the house via the front door not knowing whether he would return to this house and not really caring if he did.
Once he was outside, Harry looked up and down the road.
He then pulled a map of the United Kingdom out of his bag and looked at it wondering where to start his journey.
To a normal onlooker it would have looked like Harry was a normal Muggle traveller looking for his way not a famous wizard trying to track down a witch that had killed his godfather.
For a few moments he scanned the map then folded it back up and put it back into his bag.
Harry had decided that the best place to start would be in the South East of England in a place called Cornwall.
He looked up and down the road again and when he was satisfied that no Muggles were around, Harry put his invisibility cloak on and disappeared with a small pop.
A few moments later he appeared in Cornwall.
He checked that no one was around and pulled off his invisibility cloak.
He then got to work and started the search for Bellatrix Lestrange.
By the end of June, Harry had covered the most of the South of England.
He had spent time in Devon, Bournemouth, Brighton, Poole, Portsmouth and most recently a small town named Bognor Regis.
But each time he had left these places unsuccessful.
He took one last at the town named Bognor Regis and pulled the cloak on again.
He then apparated to another small town named Littlehampton.
Meanwhile back at Hogwarts Ellie and her sisters were sat in a corner of the common room like they had done for the past two months.
Ellie looked at Peyton who was fiddling with her robes and spoke.
"I'm going to find my grandparents" she said.
Peyton and Maddy looked up.
"We already know who our grandparents are" Peyton replied.
"No not our grandparents. My grandparents. You know - the Grangers. I'm going to find them for my Mum and I want to meet them too."
"But didn't they disown Aunt Hermione?" Maddy asked.
"How do you know?"
"Nana told us. They disowned you as well. Something to do with Aunt Hermione being a unwed teenage mother and bringing disgrace to their family. If you turn up on their doorstep they'll know who you are."
"They might not. And I'm sure that once they hear about Mum and how happy she is with Ron and how upset she gets when someone mentions them then they'll come to see her" Ellie explained to Maddy.
"And you're going to see them while you're seven months pregnant? They'll love that. Another unwed teenage mother in their family."
"No. Maddy why do you have to be stupid all of the time? I'm going to wait until I've had the baby."
"But you don't know how long that will be though. And how do you know where they live?" Maddy said.
"Because I found my Mum's Hogwarts letters. She kept them all and they appear to have the address of her childhood home on them. Do you want to get this baby out of me? I'll pay you to."
Maddy laughed and Peyton had been quiet for a while and Ellie and Maddy looked at what she was doing.
All they saw was Peyton emptying her schoolbag frantically looking for something.
"Peyt? What are you looking for?" Ellie asked.
"I can't find it!"
"Find what?" Maddy asked slightly worried.
Peyton looked up at her sisters and they both saw tears running down Peyton's face.
"Peytie what's wrong?" Maddy asked.
"I can't find my diary! If anyone finds that I'm ruined!" Peyton sobbed.
Both girls knew what this meant and looked towards Dan.
Ellie and Maddy comforted Peyton until they heard the portrait hole slam open.
Ellie looked up and saw Fletch walking across the room in what was obviously a foul mood.
She saw who he was heading for and what he was holding in his hand - a very familiar pink and silver book.
"Shit" she muttered as she watched Fletch grab hold of Dan by the scruff of his neck and shove him up against the nearest wall.
"You!" Fletch sneered.
"You took advantage of my cousin! My fourteen year old cousin!" Fletch continued after he had let Dan try to talk.
"I don't know what you mean" Dan rasped.
"You know very well what I mean. You had sex with my cousin and do you know what the result was?"
"No."
"She was pregnant! With your baby! And then do you know what happened?"
"No."
"She lost it! You got her pregnant and she lost it! You've picked the wrong family to fuck with mate!" Fletch yelled as he punched Dan repeatedly.
Ellie tried to get up to put a stop to the fight but everytime she tried her bump would get in the way.
"Oh for the love of Merlin would someone help me up!" she exclaimed.
Maddy went to help her but Peyton just looked at what was going on and had completely frozen up.
After a few minutes Ellie (with the help of Maddy) managed to get up and she walked as fast as she could to the wall where the fight was taking place.
As soon as she got nearer she too watched the fight having completely forgotten what she was going to do until Peyton spoke.
"Fletch leave him alone."
"Stay out of this Peyt. He deserves it."
"HE DIDN'T GET ME PREGNANT!" she shouted feeling that this was the only to get Fletch to stop hitting Dan.
Fletch stopped hitting Dan and looked at her.
"Who did then?" he asked.
Peyton nervously looked at Ellie.
"Nick" she said quietly.
"WHAT!" Ellie, Dan and Fletch yelled at the same time.
Fletch spotted Nick and lunged at him.
"What? Fletch what are you doing?" Nick shouted angrily.
"YOU GOT MY FOURTEEN YEAR OLD COUSIN PREGNANT!" Fletch shouted back just as angrily.
"Firstly she's fifteen and secondly no I never."
"She was fourteen when she got pregnant! She just told me. She wouldn't lie about something like this. Did you sleep with her?"
"Yes but she told me it was a false alarm. I swear!" Nick shouted as Fletch layed into him.
Dan looked at Peyton with a disgusted look on his face.
"We're through. Well whatever we had left of it is over!" he told her.
He then ran up the stairs to his dormitory.
"DAN!" Peyton shouted after him.
Ellie carefully approached the two fighting teens and stood behind Fletch.
"Fletch. Calm down. Stop it!" she said.
Fletch ignored her and suddenly his arm flew back after hitting Nick.
His elbow connected with Ellie's groin and she fell backwards onto the floor.
"ELLIE!" Maddy yelled.
Maddy ran to where Ellie was sprawled out on the floor and knelt beside her.
"Are you okay?" she asked.
"Yeah I'm fi... On no I'm not. My tummy keeps hurting. SHIT MADS IT'S CONTRACTIONS!"
Maddy looked at Ellie panic stricken.
"What do I do? None of our family teaches here anymore" she asked frantically.
"Well don't just stand there like a bloody lemon! Go and get Madam Pomfrey! QUICK! They're starting again! DON'T WALK! RUN STUPID!" Ellie yelled.
Maddy was frightened of how the pain had made Ellie go into a screaming fit and ran out of the common room.
The rest of Gryffindor house had heard the commotion and turned round to see Ellie laying on the floor screaming.
Fletch stopped punching Nick and turned round to look at Ellie.
"SHIT! ELLIE ARE YOU OKAY?" Fletch shouted as he ran to his sister.
"NO I'M NOT BLOODY OKAY! IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED I'M GOING TO SHOVE A BABY OUT OF ME! YOU STUID SHIT!"
Fletch (who wasn't usually scared of his sister) seemed to be very scared when Ellie stopped shouting at him to take a breath.
"But it could be those Brixton-Hacks thingies that Mum told you about. Couldn't it?" Fletch asked.
"Braxton-Hicks Fletch" Ellie replied.
"Yeah but you haven't had the Brixton-Hacks yet have you?"
"Braxton-Hicks! And no I haven't but not every girl gets them. This is it - I have a feeling that this is it. Now would you be a good brother and hold my hand."
Fletch gingerly held Ellie's hand and waited until she had another contraction.
Suddenly Ellie's breathing sped up and she started to squeeze Fletch's hand.
They both started screaming at the same time and once it had past Fletch let go of Ellie's hand.
"Are you okay El?" Peyton asked.
"No. That one hurt!" Ellie replied as tears slid down her cheeks.
"That hurt? I think you've broken my bloody hand! It kills!" Fletch said.
"Oh come on shoving a baby out of your body hurts more than a bloody broken hand!"
"How do you know?" Fletch asked.
"Where have you been for the last half hour? I cannot believe that you are asking that? I'm doing it now!"
Suddenly the portrait hole banged open and Harmony came running into the common room screeching her head off.
"WHERE IS SHE? SHE SO CANNOT HAVE THAT BABY WITHOUT HER BEST FRIEND!"
Harmony stopped in front of Ellie and looked at her.
"Well?"
"Well what?" Ellie said.
"Where's my godbaby?"
"Still up there. Harm it can take hours. Do you know where Madam Pomfrey is?"
"Yeah I saw her and Maddy running in this direction. Fletch babe what's wrong?"
"She broke my hand! Nick get your sorry arse here! Your baby! So you can hold her hand!"
Nick knelt next to Ellie and held her hand.
After another haf hour the contractions started coming closer to each other.
"Please can someone get me a person that can deliver this baby" Ellie pleaded to the whole room.
"I'll do it" Fletch said.
"Thank you."
Fletch walked as fast as he could out of the common room and as he was climbing through the portrait hole, he saw Maddy and Madam Pomfrey walking up the corridor.
"MADAM POMFREY! YOU HAVE TO HURRY! THE CONTRACTIONS ARE COMING FASTER! I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH LONGER SHE'LL LAST!" he shouted.
Madam Pomfey hurried up the corridor and clambered through the portrait of the Fat Lady.
She hurried to where Ellie was laying.
"Okay. Someone pick her up and bring her to the Hospital Wing. She'll be having this baby there. Why didn't you bring her to me straight away?"
"We didn't know if we should move her" Fletch said lamely.
Nick picked Ellie up and ran as fast as he could to the Hospital Wing.
Once Ellie had been settled, Madam Pomfrey walked to the door of the Hospital Wing and saw nearly the whole of Gryffindor house assembled outside.
"I only want Weasley's, Potter's, the father and Harmony Malfoy out here. The rest of you return to the common room. Why doesn't the father come in and hold Miss Weasley's hand."
Nick smiled weakly and Fletch had a big grin on his face.
"Fletch!" Harmony whispered loudly.
"What?"
"Don't be so nasty. He didn't mean for this to happen."
"Well what did he expect from sleeping with someone?"
Harmony sighed and leant back against the wall.
Sure enough a few moments later Fletch heard what he wanted to hear - Ellie shouting at Nick and Nick screaming like a girl.
About fifteen minutes later, Nick ran out of the Hospital Wing with giant bag bogeys attacking him.
"That's the last time I get one of Harry Potter's daughters pregnant. I'm not getting another one pregnant" he said once he had fought off the bat bogeys.
Everyone looked at him then at Peyton.
Nick smiled sheepishly at them all and sat down.
"Oh yeah. Harmony she wants you."
Harmony got up and walked into the room.
The first thing she saw was Ellie screaming at Madam Pomfrey.
"I'M NOT BLOODY PUSHING TILL MY MUM GETS HERE!"
"You will push! You can't say when you'll start pushing! It's an automatic reaction to push!"
Harmony ran back to the door.
"FLETCH GET YOUR MUM! SHE WON'T PUSH TILL SHE'S HERE! SHE'S PUTTING HERSELF IN DANGER!" she screamed looking rather distraught.
Fletch ran down the corridor to the nearest fireplace.
"MUM! MUM! MUM! ELLIE'S IN LABOUR! SHE WON'T PUSH UNLESS YOU'RE THERE!"
Hermione looked up into the fire.
"WELL GET OUT OF THE FIRE THEN!" she shouted back at him.
Fletch disappeared and as soon as he had gone Hermione flooed to Hogwarts.
As she and Fletch reached the Hospital Wing they both heard cheering and the crying of a newborn baby.
"Aunt Hermione! She's had it!" Maddy screached.
"I missed it" Hermione said sadly as she leant against the wall for support.
The door opened and Harmony stood in the doorway.
"It's a girl. I've got a goddaughter!"
"Can I see her?" Hermione asked.
"She wants to see Maddy first. I'll tell her you're here though."
Maddy followed Harmony through the door and saw Ellie holding a baby wrapped in blankets.
A few soft mousy brown hairs were visible.
"Hey" Maddy whispered.
"Hey. I need some help. What do I call her?" Ellie replied with tears running down her cheeks.
Maddy thought for a moment then spoke.
"Millie."
"Why?" Ellie asked.
"Peyt was going to use it if she had a girl and if you never used it. Hopefully little Millie here can help us get our old Quidditch and fun loving sister back instead of us having the depressed sister we have now."
Ellie looked at Maddy.
"How do you know that?" she asked.
"I read her diary. I know she's not your favourite person at the moment but this could work."
"Too right she isn't my favourite person. First she slept with my boyfriend -"
"Technically he wasn't your boyfriend at the time."
"Shut up. She slept with my ex boyfriend who got her pregnant. Then she lied about it and told me that the baby was Dan's."
Ellie looked at look on Maddy's face and sighed.
"Oh alright. I'll call her Millie. I suppose it's better than Polly. Can you imagine calling her at The Burrow and both her and Nana come running" Ellie said.
Maddy started to laugh.
"Who suggested that?" she asked.
"Nick. I was like you can't call her that and he was like but I like it. I was going come on Polly Weasley? My Nana's called Molly, it would be confusing. So he goes but it won't be Weasley, it'll be Thomas."
"What did you do?"
"That's when I hexed him."
"How did you know that she was going to be a girl?"
"He wanted to talk about names while I was having contractions. Is my Mum outside?"
"Yeah I'll go and get her."
"Thanks."
Maddy said her goodbyes and walked out of the room to allow Hermione to go and see Ellie.
"Oh my baby! I'm sorry I wasn't here! Fletch didn't get to me in time!" Hermione wailed.
"Mum. It's fine. Harmony was in here wih me."
"Oh" Hermione said feeling rather disappointed.
"Anyway this is your new granddaughter - Millie Weasley" Ellie said as she shifted on the bed a bit.
"Oh she's beautiful El. Can I hold her?"
As Hermione cradled the newest Weasley she found it hard to hold back the tears.
Madam Pomfrey saw Hermione holding the baby and came over to the bed holding a pink babygro.
"I've found something for her to wear. Of course it's only until you get her home tomorrow. Oh Mrs Weasley, it's good to see you."
"It's good to see you too" Hermione replied as she handed the bundle of blankets to the mediwitch.
Madam Pomfrey laid Millie on the bed in front of Ellie and instructed her while Ellie carefully dressed her baby.
"I'm sure my Mum and Nana will show me how to tend to her. I take it I'm still allowed to go to Nana's for the summer?"
Hermione nodded and watched Ellie like a hawk.
Ellie laughed when she noticed.
"I'm not going to break her Mum. Don't worry so much. How's Baby Potter?"
Everyone in the family had taken to calling Ginny's baby Baby Potter as he still had no name.
"Tut, tut. I don't know why his mother won't go near him. I think she's being selfish. The first six months are most important. It's when the baby and mother bond."
Hermione glared at Madam Pomfrey.
"She's not being selfish, she's got Post-Natal depression. He wasn't born in the most easiest situation" Hermione snapped.
Hermione then softened her face and looked at Ellie.
"He's good. Nana caught Ginny gazing at him the other day while Nana was feeding him. We're all hoping that the instinct will kick in soon. Why don't you get some sleep. Giving birth isn't easy and it exhausts you."
Ellie nodded and handed Millie to Hermione who put her into a cot that had been set up nearby.
Hermione then kissed Ellie and walked out of the room.
The next morning, Ellie left the Hospital Wing with Hermione and Millie.
All around them the students were getting ready to return home for their summer holidays.
As Ellie and Hermione walked through the hallways to Gryffindor Tower, people around them would try to get a look inside the bundle of blankets that Ellie was holding.
"I wish that I'd never had Millie here" Ellie said.
"Why not?" Hermione asked.
"Coz everyone's trying to look at her. It's like they've never seen a baby before."
Hermione nodded and continued to talk to Ellie as they reached the portrait hole.
Ellie said the password and gave Millie to Hermione while she climbed through the portrait hole.
Hermione then handed her back and Ellie turned round to see most of the house congregating in front of a giant banner.
The banner said 'WELCOME MILLIE WEASLEY! HOGWARTS' NEWEST GRYFFINDOR' in giant pink writing.
"Oh you guys. Thank you" Ellie said beaming and blinking back tears.
Nick tapped Ellie on the shoulder and Ellie turned round.
"Can I hold her?" he asked.
Ellie nodded and she placed Millie into Nick's arms.
"Support her head!" she told him bossily.
Harmony joined the new parents and Ellie whispered into her ear.
"Watch him like a hawk. He might break her while I'm packing my things."
Harmony nodded and went upstairs.
After she had packed everything, Ellie slowly dragged her trunk back downstairs as she was feeling a bit sore still.
She took her trunk to Hermione then resumed her place next to Harmony who was still watching and talking to Nick.
"Is she okay?" Ellie asked.
"She's fine El. Still in one piece" Harmony replied.
Nick looked at Ellie then spoke to Harmony.
"Harm can you take Millie to Ellie's Mum please. I want to talk to Ellie."
Harmony nodded then took Millie and walked away talking to the sleeping baby.
Nick watched Hamony walk away then turned to Ellie.
"She's beautiful" he stated.
"I know."
"Just like her Mum. Listen El, I've been thinking and well, I want you back."
Ellie looked at Nick.
"I want you back as well but I don't know if I can trust you like I did ever again. I'm a mother as well and Millie has to come before me now. She's my main priority."
Tears started to flow down Ellie's cheeks and even Nick looked as though he would cry.
"I understand" he said.
"I'm not saying that it will be forever. Maybe when Millie's a bit older. But just because we're not together now then it doesn't mean that you can't be as involved in her life as you want to."
Nick nodded.
"Maybe I can owl you during the holidays and we can all meet up for lunch or something. Even a day out if you wanted to."
Ellie stood on her tiptoes and kissed him softly on the lips.
She then smiled cheekily and walked to where her mother was waiting with Harmony and Millie.
Ellie said her goodbyes and before she knew it, she was sat in the kitchen at The Burrow watching her grandmother cooing and fussing over the newest addition to the family.
The next few days at The Burrow flew by for Ellie.
She always seemed to be up to her eyeballs with nappy changes, feeds, sleepless nights and baby vomit.
One afternoon Ellie was sat in the kitchen watching Mrs Weasley cuddle Millie when they heard Baby Potter crying.
Mrs Weasley shifted in her seat to get up and tend to him but Ellie had already stood up.
"Nana I'll go. Millie's all settled and she'll start as well if we move her."
"Okay Ellie. You're a good girl. That boy's lucky to have you for a sister and this little one's even luckier to have you as her Mum."
"Thanks Nana" Ellie said.
Ellie climbed the stairs and walked into Ron's old bedroom which was still bright orange.
She looked into the cot and saw a now smiling baby.
"Hey Baby Potter. I'm gonna call you little bro coz all this Baby Potter lark is too much for me to pronounce."
Ellie reached into the cot and picked her brother up.
"What were all those tears for little bro?" she asked.
Baby Potter smilied at Ellie.
"Oh I get it. You don't like Millie getting all the attention do you little bro?"
"His name is James" a strange but familiar voice said.
Ellie whirled round and came face to face with Ginny.
"Ginny!" Ellie said in a surprised voice.
"What is it Ellie?" Ginny asked.
"I didn't expect you to come near him. You said that you didn't want to see him again."
"It's amazing what seperation can do isn't it? I didn't think that I would miss him but I did. It felt like I wasn't whole without him near me. But I could never bring myself to walk into this room until today. Whenever I walked past and the door was open I would stand at the doorframe and watch him."
Ellie nodded.
"What made you come in here now?" she asked.
"I heard him crying and I felt a sudden urge to come and comfort him. Can I hold him?" Ginny said whilst holding her arms open for the baby.
"Sure. He's your baby, you should be able to hold him whenever you want to."
Ellie gave James to Ginny and looked at the way that Ginny's face lit up when she held him.
"I hear that I have a stepgranddaughter that I haven't met yet. So what do you say to us taking this little man downstairs?"
"Are you sure that you're ready for that? What about the depression? I don't want to overwhelm you."
"Ellie, I'm ready for this. The depression is still there but not enough so that it get's in the way of me being James's Mum anymore. And it won't overwhelm me. I get better every day."
Ellie nodded and the two started to descend the stairs.
When they reached the kitchen door Ginny looked at Mrs Weasley who was still cooing over Millie.
"Does she hate me?" Ginny said apprehensively.
"No. She's worried about you. Everyone is."
Ginny nodded and suddenly grabbed hold of Ellie's hand.
"Nana look who I found while I was in Baby Potter's room" Ellie said loud enough to get Mrs Weasley's attention.
Mrs Weasley looked up and smiled.
"Ginny!" she exclaimed.
Ellie took Millie off Mrs Weasley as she rushed to give Ginny a hug.
"Careful Mum."
"Oh Ginny. Come and sit down. You always locked yourself in your room. You'd never let anyone in. I've missed you."
Ginny sat down and looked at Ellie.
"So who's this beautiful baby then?" she asked.
"This is Millie. Do you want to hold her?"
Ginny's face lit up and she looked at the sleeping baby.
"Mum, can you hold James for me?"
Mrs Weasley took James then suddenly realised what Ginny had called him.
"James?" she asked.
"Yeah after his grandfather. Me and Harry talked about it before he was born and we decided that if we had a boy we would call him James Arthur. Um how is Harry?" Ginny replied once she had settled Millie in her arms.
Suddenly Mrs Weasley and Ellie went quiet.
"What?" Ginny asked.
"Well you see..." Mrs Weasley began.
"Dad left two months ago. We don't know where he is. He left us all letters telling us what he was doing. Of course before that happened we all thought that he'd returned to the Muggle world to resume his life as a Muggle but he hasn't. He's gone to look for Bellatrix Lestrange. No one's heard from him and he doesn't know about James or Millie."
"Oh" Ginny said rather disappointedly.
"He left you a letter too. It's your choice if you want to read it" Mrs Weasley told her.
Ellie went to one of the cupboards and got Ginny's letter then gave it to her.
"I'd best put Millie down for a sleep" Ellie said.
Ginny gave her the baby and Ellie walked out of the kitchen.
Once she had put Millie in her cot, Ellie turned around and saw a letter on her bed.
She picked it up and read it.
Dear Ellie, it said.
I know that this is the coward's way of explaining things bu you would never listen to me if we spoke face to face. I'm sorry that I slept with Nick even though you had broken up with him. Sorry for getting pregnant and then saying that it was Dan's. I know that if I had been a good sister then I would have told you the truth but I think that I wanted Dan to be the father so much and that I was saying it because I believed it myself. I hope we can talk again soon.
Love Peyton.
Ellie turned very red and ran out of the room.
As she ran down the stairs she shouted her sister's name.
"PEYTON POTTER!"
Ellie ran into the living room and saw Peyton sat on the sofa doing her summer homework.
"What exactly is the meaning of this?" Ellie asked.
Peyton looked up.
"What does it look like."
"Is this your twisted way of trying to apologise? Well I'll tell you one thing and one thing only! Apologising or explaining this way or whatever this is is not going to work!" Ellie said letting her temper get the better of her while she waved the letter in front of Peyton's face.
"When are you actually going to grow up and realise that I am truely sorry for doing what I did?"
"Um let me see. How about never!"
Peyton looked at Ellie who was still waving the letter about.
Peyton stood up and tried to stand nose to nose with Ellie but failed miserably as she was two and a half inches shorter than Ellie.
Ellie flipped her messy, jet black mid-back length hair behind her shoulders and looked down at Peyton.
Peyton looked up at Ellie and started to shout at her as she too let her temper take over.
"SEE THAT'S JUST TYPICAL OF YOU ELLIE WEASLEY! ALL YOU CARE ABOUT IS YOU! YOU AND YOUR PATHETIC LIFE! I ONLY SLEPT WITH NICK BECAUSE HE NEEDED COMFORT COZ YOU BROKE UP WITH HIM AFTER YOU TOLD HIM YOU WERE HAVING HIS CHILD!"
"OH SO HE PUSHED YOU INTO HAVING SEX WITH HIM DID HE?" Ellie shouted back.
"NO!"
"SO HE ASKED YOU?"
"NO!"
"WHY THE HELL DID YOU SLEEP WITH HIM THEN? WHAT MADE YOU DO IT?"
"BECAUSE I WANTED TO! BECAUSE MATILDA MALFOY IS ALWAYS PICKING AT MY FAULTS! BECAUSE I FELT INSECURE ABOUT MY SO CALLED RELATIONSHIP WITH DAN!"
"Is that all?"
"No."
"What else?" Ellie asked.
"Because you always think that I can't look after myself and make my own decisions just because I'm the youngest. But you have to realise that I can do those things. I don't care whatever you may think but I'm not five anymore. I'm not the little girl who was too scared to do things and fell over and skinned her knee's when she tried to join in with the games that you, Fletch and all our cousins used to play anymore" Peyton explained.
Ellie looked at Peyton guiltily until an own flew in through an open window.
Peyton took the letter from the owl and the owl flew back out of the window apparantly not wanting a reply.
"Who's it from?" Ellie asked.
"Dan."
Ellie nodded and left Peyton alone to read her letter.
The letter said:
Peyton,
In the years to come will you think about the moments that we shared? Are you going to think it over? Think about how we lived each day as a couple with no regrets? Even though we were worried about your Dad and what he would say about us being a couple. Nothing lasts forever though we want it to. The road ahead holds different dreams for me and you. Sometimes Peyt, goodbye though it hurts in your heart is the only way for destiny. Us saying goodbye is the only way now for you and me. Though it's the hardest thing to say, I'll miss your love in every way whether it being kisses and cuddles or just simple words. So say goodbye but don't you cry coz true love and the love that we feel for each other never dies. In a year from now maybe there'll be things we wish we'd never said. I was once told that each and every end is always written in the stars. If only I could stop the world I'd make us last. Like I said before - say goodbye to our relationship, but don't cry about it coz if you truely love me then that love will never die.
I'll always love you,
Dan.
Peyton finished reading the letter and curled up into a ball on the sofa where she started to cry over the mess that was her life.
The next two years flew by and by this time Harry had covered nearly the whole of the UK in his hunt for Bellatrix.
One day Harry was in the twon centre of a city called Manchester asking the Muggles if they had seen Bellatrix.
"Have you seen this woman?" he asked a fair haired woman whilst showing her a Muggle picture of Bellatrix.
The woman glanced at the picture not really interested.
"No I haven't. Sorry" she replied.
The woman started to walk off and Harry grabbed her arm.
"Are you sure? Please just look at the picture properly."
The woman looked at the picture again.
"Now I think of it. I did see a woman that looked like her going into an old disused shop at the end of the city centre."
Harry smiled and looked at the lady.
"Thanks you so much. You have no idea how much you have helped me."
"Your welcome" the lady replied as she started to walk off again.
Harry looked down the road to decide which way to walk.
He then walked off towards the city centre while tucking the photo into his pocket.
After about half an hour of walking, Harry wandered into an old part of the city centre.
He looked around and saw an old shop that was empty, he didn't know for definate that is was the right place but some strange reason he had an odd feeling about this particular shop.
"Well, well Bella. This is a bit shabby isn't it?" Harry said to himself.
He looked through the window then apparated inside.
Once he reappeared, Harry looked around.
He spotted a door and decided to walk through it.
He slowly opened the door so that he wouldn't make any noise and poked his head round.
All he saw was stairs.
He went down the stairs and was faced at the bottom with another door.
Harry went through this door and found himself to be in a room that was dark and very dusty and dingy.
At the far end of the room he could hear a female talking to a male accomplice.
"So we take the girl and bring her here. That will bring us Daddy dearest" the female said.
"Why do we take the youngest one? Why not her twin or the eldest girl?" the male voice said.
"Because the youngest one is Daddy's little Princess. He'll come to save her for sure."
Suddenly Harry coughed and both people turned to look at who had now joined them.
Harry could see the female and the male squinting in the darkness to see who was there but they were failing to do so.
"This ends here and now Bella" Harry said.
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