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Chapter seven: A Reunion and a Plan

Petunia looked around the new place where she appeared. It was a giant living room and she gasped when she saw Lily. Her sister sat smiling at her. Her husband, James, sat beside her.

"I was really hoping it would be a few years before you got here, but I guess that was only a dream," Lily said in a quiet voice.

"I was hoping the same thing but apparently fate had other plans."

Lily smirked at her sister and got to her feet. Petunia stood up straighter as her sister approached. Despite being taller than her younger sisters she felt dwarfed by her. Lily carried herself with an air of self confidence. She stopped just short of her older sister and the two looked at each other. Her younger sister searched her eyes, looking for something hidden in them.

"You've grown up Petunia, even if it took you years to do so. It was not my intention to leave my son on your doorstep, I never wanted him to be there. I had told Dumbledore not to, knowing how you disliked my kind of people so much. He disobeyed our direct order and left Harry with you. I should hate you for what you did to my son. I should make you feel everything you put him through. I should make you suffer like you made my son suffer but I won't. I can't. You have wronged my son and didn't treat him like he was even human. It's horrible to sit here and watch such things happen to your only child and wishing that it would stop." She stopped again as if searching for the words she wanted to say.

"Ever since I started Hogwarts I never knew why you hated me so much. We were so close when we were younger. It's like you hated me for being the one that was showered with the attention from Mum and Dad. I didn't ask for it and I could see it in your eyes when I would come home. They never paid attention to us to begin with. You may not know this, I certainly do, but Dad was a wizard. He lost his wand though when he broke the law and got it snapped. Ever since then he was just as good as a squib. He never told Mum that he was one, I doubt she ever knew.

"You were the only one I could turn to but I lost that when I went to school. So I just kept up the illusion that I didn't care about what you did to me. It was hard leaving for school that first year and never recieving one letter from you. Then coming home to see my big sister had turned on me. I really did try to figure out what was wrong and in the end I never knew. Our parents weren't there for us and so we had to rely on each other. Then I just thought I had other things to worry about then why my sister hated me. So I put all my time and energy into school. I guess I should thank you for being the driving force behind my excellent grades. It got me the job I wanted.

"When I saw my son go to you I thought that maybe, just maybe you would take care of him like I wanted him to be. You did until he turned five and then he started to get abused. Two months ago, had you come up here, I doubt I would have ever let you so much as come near me. I hated you, I really hated you. His only family was you and you didn't seem to care about what happened to him. I was surprised at how Vernon treated him after he went to school. He was a bit nicer to him when it was just the two of them. It seemed that you would be too.

"I saw what Harry did for you two and I saw what you two did for him and I came to the conclusion that you should be forgiven. If Harry could forgive you then I could certainly do so as well. I already forgave Vernon though he still got a bit of punishment."

Petunia looked at her sister a little shocked by everything she had just said. "I didn't hate you. I felt like I didn't fit into your new world so I thought that I could just ignore you. When you would leave for school Mum and Dad would ignore me, I didn't exist to them. They just set out an allowance and that was it. They never took me any where and I had to start depending on myself. As I got older I started to hate them more and more for treating me like I was nothing. They would only ever talk about you to guests and I would just be ignored the whole time. It made me dislike you all the more because I didn't exist. So I never stayed home, I was never home. I only came home during the summer, when they remembered they had two daughters and not one.

"I couldn't stand to look at you because I was jealous and being selfish. I moved out before I was even seventeen and they didn't have a clue. I was staying with a couple of friends and had a job. I met Vernon during that time and I guess it was just what I needed. I used to think I loved him but now I know I didn't. We both don't love each other. Then I thought I had finally found someone who cared for me in the way that I was denyed as a child. When they died I was a bit shocked to hear it. So I went to the funeral anyway and it really did hurt. I knew that I had hated them all these years but they were still my parents and I loved them, somewhat. It was then that I realized all the mistakes I had made over the years, like pushing you away, the only family I had. Then you said those things to me before you left. I felt even worse because of it. You were gone before I could say anything to you, I wanted to apologize for doing what I did to you but I couldn't. I had no idea where you were or how to contact you so I was stuck.

"When Harry showed up on my doorstep I knew right then and there that I had lost. I had lost my entire family, with the exception of Harry. I hated myself after that for never telling you the truth. Harry is just like you Lily, though of course he is like his father as well. At first I hated you for dying then I just began to hate Harry in your place. He was a constant reminder of what I had done to you and how I could never change it. It was stupid and I wish I could have done things differently. I'm so sorry Lily." Petunia started to cry at the end of it. Lily was crying as well as she hugged her older sister. The two stayed like that for a long while.

"I'm sorry as well Petunia," Lily whispered to her sister. "I wish I could talk to you longer but Mum and Dad are waiting for you."

"What?"

"It's time for you to continue on. This is only the place between Heaven and earth. It's time for you to go." Lily said as she stepped away from Petunia. She could feel herself rising upwards.

"What about you? Why are you still here?"

Lily smiled. "Fate has other plans for me. Take care Petunia." That was the last thing Petunia heard before she disappered altogheter.

"You did the right thing love," James said as he hugged her from behind.

"I sure hope I did. Maybe she'll be able to forgive Mum and Dad. She was, after all, my sister."

"She'll always be your sister."

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Harry and Dudley sat in the kitchen both staring off into space. Ginny and Jamie were leaning against the wall not really sure what they should do about the two boys. They hadn't spoken a word since they got back from the graveyard. They just had a blank experession on thier faces.

Ginny had asked Bill, Charlie, and her father to expand the cuboard under the stairs. She knew that Harry would want to keep Draco closer. Harry blinked and looked up at his girlfriend. Her brown eyes were dim with worry and pain. Slowly Harry got to his feet, Ginny's eyes watching his every movement.

"Where is Draco at?" His voice was light and held no emotion which only caused Ginny to worry even more about her boyfriend.

"He is in the cuboard. My dad and brothers expanded it into a sort of basement to keep him in."

Harry nodded his head and made his way over to the 'basement'. After unlocking the door he climbed down the stairs, fully aware of Ginny following behind him.

Draco lay unconcious on the small cot in one of the three cells. He had a cut across the side of his face and there was a lot of dried blood on the side of his face. His clothes were torn slightly. Harry moved over to the door and looked down at the unconcious figure. His eyes searched for something that Ginny couldn't quite place. He had closed the connection between the two of them and she had no idea what was going through his head.

"Can you bring Hermione here?"

"I'll go get her." Ginny hurried up the steps and moved to the fireplace. Then she stopped before she got there and pulled out the small device she always carried in her pocket. She pushed the numbers to call Hermione. It rang twice before Hermione picked it up.

"What is it Ginny?"

"Harry wants you to come over. I don't know why but he does."

"Alright I'll floo over in a second."

"Alright thanks."

"You're welcome."

With that Ginny hung up the small device. It only took another minute before Hermione came stumbling out of the fireplace. "This way."

The two made their way down to the holding cells to find Harry leaning against the opposite wall. He nodded his head when Hermione came in. "You asked for me?"

"I did.I know you know a bit about medicine. Can you possibly heal his wounds?"
Hermione frowned at this but nodded her head. Why did Harry want Draco healed? She thought to herself as she entered the small cell. She knelt next to him. After ten minutes she stood up, her frown had deepened.

"You see it too don't you?" Harry questioned making her jump. His voice was so emotionless it scared her.

"Yes I do. How did you know?"

"I don't know but something just didn't feel right. I would have looked in his mind but I felt it was a violation so I think I will wait for him to wake up."

"It shouldn't be too long now. His body is just trying to catch up from the attack. Ginny I need your help with Pansy."

"What's wrong with Pansy?" They both asked her.

"Something happened between her and Ron and now this. She isn't doing to well and she won't come out of her room."

Ginny bit her lip as she looked up at Harry. She knew he needed her but something wasn't right with Pansy. She had no idea what she was going to do now.
"I'll go speak with her," Harry said and before anyone could say anything he morphed into his phoenix form and was gone. Ginny sighed.

"He's not doing well and I have no idea what to do."

Hermione wrapped her arm around the smaller girl's shoulders. "Why don't we just wait to see what happens?"
"I guess," Ginny mumbled as the two made their way up the stairs.

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Harry reappeared in a small room. It wasn't overly decorated, in fact it was quite plain to look at. Pansy lay on the bed silently crying to herself.

"Pansy?" He asked quietly.

She sat up in a flash and had her wand drawn. When she saw Harry she lowered her wand. "H-How did you get in here?" She questioned him softly.

"I flamed here. What's wrong?"

"Nothing," she said as she hastily wiped the tears from her eyes.

"That's a lie," Harry moved over to where she sat on her bed.

"It's Ron."

"I figured as much, he tends to be a bit of a prat. So what has he done this time?"

Pansy was still looking at her hands, which had begun to shake again. "We got into a huge arguement and I just finally broke it off."

"What was it about?" He proded gently.

"He wanted us to have sex and I told him I didn't want to. He didn't seem to care what my reasons were about why I didn't want to he just kept trying to force me to. I tried to tell him that I didn't want to but he won't listen. He hasn't been the same since he started training with Dumbledore and Snape. They have been teaching the Weasleys a few things and it seems that Ron is the worst. The twins stopped after about a week and didn't say why they did. Ron hasn't been acting like his usual self and now this. He's never tried to really pressure me this badly. I mean he has always wanted us to but not this much that he would try to force me."

Harry had wrapped her in a hug when she began to cry again. "So why won't you then?"

"I don't love him. I thought I could learn to love him but I don't," she said through tears. "He was so sweet and nice, completly different from how Draco had treated me in the last few months of our relationship. I thought being with Ron would help me get over Draco and it had until today. When I saw him lying on the ground unconcious I just lost it. I had worked so hard to convience myself that I didn't love Draco anymore but I knew I was lying to myself." Harry gently rocked her as her tears seemed to increase.

"I shouldn't love him, I should hate him for what he did to me but I just can't. He was the perfect gentlemen when we were growing up. He treated me like a goddess pretty much and he made it seem like I was his whole world. Things were great between us and I really did love him. Then something began to happen after the Yule Ball. Ron doesn't know this but after the ball was the first time Draco and I slept together, willingly too. I don't know what happened after that. He would leave the common room for about an hour and come back completely different.

"He began to abuse me after that then finally h-h-he raped me. That wasn't the worst part after each time he would act like he normally did and seemed to have no idea what he did to me. I was so confused and so scared that I didn't know what to do. He wasn't the same, he wasn't the boy I had grown up with."

Harry didnt' say anything after that as he let her cry into his shoulder. After a while she finaly calmed down enough. "How is he really Harry?"

"Not doing well. I had Hermione heal some of his wounds but we found a few things out that I need to have looked over. I plan on visiting Madam Pomfrey to see if she will come check up on him."

"What's wrong?" Her blue eyes were filled with worry.

"I'm not really positive if it is what I think it is but I still need her to look. You can come with me if you want. I also need to stop by and see the Weasley twins since I want to know what made them quit so suddenly. Then I need to be back for the Muggle Police to talk to my cousin and I. So if you want to come you can."

She nodded her head and moved to grab some other clothes. Within moments she was standing by the bed again. "Alright let's get going."

"Alright here we go." Harry transformed into a phoenix and wrapped his claws into her shoulders and they disappeared in a burst of fire.

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Ginny slowly made her way to the new room they had added to the house. Inside sat the twins. Lily and Karen were staring off into space. They hadn't said anything for the better part of the day. They had barely known either of their parents so it was still a bit of a shock that they were dead. Ginny cautiously walked into the room and quietly closed the door behind her.

"You two alright?"

They looked up at her, their green eyes distant. Slowly they nodded their heads.

Ginny knelt in front of the two girls. "I know this has to be hard on the both of you but I promise everything will work out alright in the end."

"How can you say that?" Lily asked quietly. "Both of our parents are dead and our cousins aren't old enough to do anything. Then we will all have to be put into a home or something to that effect."

"Then what will we do? We've already been in so many foster families. We don't want to go back."

Ginny reached up and turned them so that they were facing her. "You aren't going back. Your parents made sure that Harry would be able to adopt you two if anything happened to them. You will always have me around as well. There is no way to go back to those foster homes."

Their eyes seemed to brighten at this news. They launched themselves at Ginny who managed to fall backwards from their on slaught. She laughed quietly as she hugged the two girls.
"Why don't we go downstairs? Mum has something for you all to eat."

They nodded thier heads fervently as they headed down the stairs. Ginny laughed again and hurried after them. She took her seat at the table and let her mind wander while she ate. As she watched the two girls she knew she would have to speak with Harry soon. They needed a good home and even if Harry wasn't quite sixteen she knew he would take up the task. Though she herself had just turned fifteen she wanted to help him in any way she could. She glanced down at her promise ring and was wishing that he would propose to her soon.

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Harry and Pansy appeared in Hogwarts Infirmary and scared Madam Pomfrey out of her chair. Both of them were laughing as she picked herself up.

"That was not amusing Mr. Potter. It's not nice to scare the woman who has been taking care of your injuries every year."

"I was just having my fun Madam Pomfrey. I really didn't think you would be at your desk but I am glad you are."

"What can I do for you Mr. Potter and Miss Parkinson?"

"Well did you hear about the attack earlier today?"

"I did."

"Well I need you to check on Draco. I believe he has underwent extensive abuse from both the Cruciatus Curse and the Imperious curse."

Both women gasped at this. Pansy's eyes welled up with tears and Madam Pomfrey looked livid.

"I told Dumbledore he had been subjected to the curse but he didn't listen to me. He shouldn't have even been expelled," she mumbled under her breath as she moved to get her bag.

"What do you mean?" Pansy asked suddenly.

"That Draco was under the Imperious when he attacked you. He had been under it for a period of time over the last few months that year. I told him about it but he didn't believe me and still expelled him. This was bound to happen."

Pansy's eyes were wide as she looked at Harry. He wrapped a comforting arm around her shoulder. "Here is a portkey to my place. I am sure Ginny will show you to where he is being held."

Madam Pomfrey nodded her head as she took the book. She tapped it and disappeared.

"Is she right?" Pansy said hopefully.

"I'm not sure if what she says is true or not but it looks like I will be having a talk with Dumbledore after I've spoken with Draco. Now on to the twins."

Harry transformed and they flamed to the Burrow. They arrived in the living room where Mr. Weasley was sitting in a chair by the fire. He jumped when the two arrived.

"Hello Harry, Pansy. Ron isn't here he is with Dumbledore."

"Hello Mr. Weasley. We are actually here to see the twins if they are around?"

"Oh right, they are up in there room."

"Thanks."

The two headed up the stairs and knocked on the twins door. George threw open the door. "HARRY! PANSY! It's great to see you two." George said as he pulled them into a giant hug.

Fred appeared behind him and swept them into hugs as well. "What bring you two here?"

"I actually came here to discuss your training with Dumbledore."

Both boys frowned and beckoned the two into the room.

"We have much to discuss then," George said solemly.


A/N: Alright all I decided to post yet again in honor of my b-day andhere is a lil scene that I think ya'll might like.

"What is it Lucius?" Voldemort hissed.

"It is about Potter My Lord."

"What news do you have for me?"

"I have heard that he plans to kill you with a spell that will be using Old Magic."

"What spell?"
"I do not know My Lord. The young man who was spying was attacked shortly upon hearing it. Apparently Potter plans to end it soon."

"He will not succeed. I want his girlfriend, Weasley. Bring her to me."

"I will My Lord."

Alright so its a small bit but I won't tell you when or where this will be in the story. It could be in this or the next so you all will just have to wait and see! Well thanks to all of my reviewers I have missed posting for you. I still have to get to work on the chaps but they will begin getting up soon! So this is my lil treat for you all on my b-day! Thanks again and hope you all keep readin!

Seritha