She looked down at the paper that she had been staring at for the past four hours.
Anuht Dujnjk Sikngk Hiwkd Kdilem Kdiel Hidden in the Trayjing Crevasse Jdien Gikels Hjielmd Jgilmd Kkeol Luiend Lies knowledge of a Dark Power Kiesk Kiehd Juwhsn Loiwnd Lielhtd Reskile To find this information you must Iejkie Gdiale Uhwdke Snieesa Djiels Eidme Learn of an ancient incantationEidme Kdsoe Cehi Fiels Gtohe Tehk Gikels
Cnuie Niwlkd Gniemw Sdjiel Iwmnel
Djiwln Akeil Nielw Wniewl Jdiek
Sjein Wopen Fowlews Widnes Eksi
Disd Iejkie Eidme Wildn Widkns
The first four lines had been figured out by Voldemort, but he was unable to finish what he started as his downfall came soon after he started. No matter how hard she tried she just couldn't figure it out. She doesn't even get how her father had figured out that much. A cold eerie voice sounded about the chamber where she sat.
"Don't think too hard. It will come to you when you least expect it. It took me two weeks to figure out that much. I don't know how, nor do I understand how, but I just know that that's what they mean. I would be doing something and it would just dawn on me."
"It's just so frustrating. It looks like a bunch of gibberish."
"I know it's frustrating but it is exceedingly important that you finish what I started if you want the power to rule and take out those who defy you in the future."
"I know."
"Now clear your head of all thoughts and wait. At least the first line will come to you if not more. In my experience you can do that about once or twice a week and get something, but anymore and nothing will come to you. It is a part of the magic of the scroll."
"Okay."
She concentrated on clearing her mind of all thoughts. She had done occlumency before so she knew what she was doing and could do it with ease.
It came to her.
"I know the next line!" She exclaimed as she ran over to the scroll and wrote down the next line. "It's the incantation alone can bring you the knowledge." She looked down at the paper at what had been figured out so far.
Hidden in the Trayjing Crevasse
Lies knowledge of Dark Power
To find this information you must
Learn of an ancient incantation
The incantation alone can bring you the knowledge"All it tells you so far is that to get the knowledge of the dark power in the Trayjing Crevasse you have to learn an ancient incantation."
"Exactly, once you finish translating the rest of the message it should tell you were to get the incantation and how to get it." The cold voice surrounding the room said. "It won't be for another couple of weeks that you finish it so until then goodbye." The voice left the room with yet another unsettling silence that seemed to echo off the chamber walls making it colder in the already frigid room.
"Marie! James! It's time to go to Diagon Alley to get your Hogwarts school supplies!" Harry called up to his kids.
"Coming!" They both answered as they ran down the stairs only to trip on their feet and tumble down the stairs together and hit the bottom with a loud 'thud'.
"Ouch." They both said rubbing their bottoms. Harry and Ginny came running into the living room to see what the noise was. When Ginny saw her son and daughter sprawled out on the floor by the end of the stairs rubbing their bottoms she ran over to them.
"Merlin are you two okay?" She asked them and they nodded affirmatively. "What did you do this time?"
"We tripped running down the stairs." James answered in a hurried whisper.
"Well thank Merlin you two are okay. You could have both received some serious injuries from such a fall."
"Sorry Mum. We won't do it again." Marie said apologetically.
"You'd better not. If I find you two trying to run down the stairs again you won't be riding your brooms until school."
"Okay Mum." They answered in unison.
"Good, now get yourselves cleaned up. We're supposed to meet the others in Flourish and Blotts in twenty minutes."
"Okay." They got up and walked into the kitchen to eat breakfast careful not to trip again.
"Ginny dear, you are going to take the twin nightmares to Flourish and Blotts to meet Hermione, Ashley, Rachel, and Jen. I'm going to take Sarah out to meet Ron, Jon, Fred, Helen, and Devlin at Florean Fortescue's for some ice cream. Okay?"
"Yep." She leaned up and gave Harry a quick peck on the lips before leaving to attend to Marie and James.
Harry went upstairs to their youngest daughter's room to wake the sleeping nine-year-old. When he reached her door he knocked lightly.
"Sarah? Time to get up sweetie. We're going to go get some ice cream with Ron, Fred, Jon, Helen, and Devlin."
Harry listened intently with his ear up against the door and he heard a soft groan from the other side signaling that Sarah had awoken.
"I'll meet you downstairs in ten minutes sweetie." He turned and left to go back down the stairs. Once in the living room he looked around at all the photographs around the room and stopped on one from his fifth year. He, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Sirius, Remus, Fred, George, Mr. And Mrs. Weasley, Bill, Charlie, Hagrid, McGonagall, Moody, Tonks, and Dumbledore stood in the living room of number five Grimmauld Place. It was the last picture taken before that night so many years ago in the Department of Mysteries. He could feel his eyes start to burn as the memories of that night washed over him and seeing his godfather fall back behind the veil.
He had finally come to accept that it wasn't his fault that Sirius died that night, but that it was Voldemort's evil diabolical scheme that led them all there that awful night. The veil's mystery was finally known three years after the downfall of Voldemort. It was an archway between life and death. Those who came to be in there were stuck for eternity until someone finds a way to get them out. The voices that could be heard are those close to the entranceway trying to find an escape. Harry hoped that one day soon there would be an unspeakable who could figure out it's mystery fully and find the way out.
So far all that has been found out was that there was another archway somewhere in the world that is the exit, but no one has yet to find this archway and activate it so that those lost could once again be found.
Harry pushed the memories to the back of his head as he willed the tears to leave his eyes. He turned to see Ginny standing beside him looking at the photograph that he had been looking at moments ago with a look of sadness on her face.
"They'll find a way to get them out of there soon. Sirius will be back with us." Ginny assured Harry as though reading his mind. She turned to another picture to try to get his mind off of Sirius. Shaina, Massie, and Remus standing in the Great Hall. Everyone was staring at the three. To say the least it was an odd scene.
Harry turned to see the picture Ginny was looking at and was instantly pulled in to a new memory.
Flashback
Everyone sat in the Great Hall for lunch all engrossed in conversations with their friends. Harry had decided to go back to school for his seventh year, as that is what Dumbledore, and for that matter Sirius, would have wanted. He sat at the Gryffindor table with Ron, Hermione, and Ginny in a comfortable silence as they were all hungry and wanted nothing more than to just eat.
The doors to the Great Hall suddenly opened to reveal two very beautiful adults that appeared to be in their mid thirties. One of them had straight brown hair with chocolate brown eyes to match. The other had wavy blonde hair with the two front pieces dyed blue to match her sparkling blue eyes. There faces both revealed the same emotion…nervousness.
At the sight of them Remus' mouth hung open to match the shock that covered his face. He hadn't seen them since just before Lily and James died. Harry saw the look on Remus' face and knew that they knew each other at one point or another. He just knew that this would be one reunion that would spark an old relationship.
The two girls timidly approached the staff table, smiled at McGonagall, and made their way to Remus.
"Hi Remus." The brown haired girl said.
"Hello Shaina…Massie." He replied without emotion. You could tell that something had happened and it needed to be talked about, but not there as all eyes were on them and the deafening silence would make a whisper seem like a yell.
"We need to talk about…well you know." Shaina whispered to Remus.
"We're really sorry about it. Truly we are." Massie said.
"Lets move to somewhere we can't be overheard." Remus suggested.
"Okay."
They left the Great Hall together.
End of flashback
That was the first time Harry had ever seen Massie or Shaina. He never found out what they needed to talk about, but he didn't really care. He was just glad that Remus had found somebody and still had friends left from when he was in school.
Harry was pulled out of thought by the sound of Sarah coming down the stairs. "Ready dad?"
"Yes, but we don't have to leave for another ten minutes so why don't you go have something to eat quickly."
"Okay." The young red-haired girl said. She went into the kitchen to eat a quick breakfast and Harry followed.
The whole family was in the living room ten minutes later standing in front of the fireplace. Harry had a small pot of floo powder in his hand.
"Ginny you go first so that when the others come you'll be there with them."
"Okay." Ginny took a small handful of powder, threw it into the fire, stepped in, and said, "Diagon Alley!"
Marie went after Ginny, then James, then Sarah, and finally Harry took up the rear.
Ginny, Marie, and James headed off to Flourish and Blotts while Harry and Sarah went to Florean Fortescue's.
Ron, Fred, Jon, Helen, and Devlin were already at Florean's waiting for Harry and Sarah to arrive.
"Harry! Sarah! Over here!" Ron called from one of the tables outside waving them over. Harry and Sarah quickly made their way to them.
"Hey Helen, Devlin, Jon! How are you guys?" Sarah greeted her three friends.
"Great! You?" They all replied together.
"Wow! Creepy. I'm wonderful, but I wish I got to go to Hogwarts this year. Instead I have to wait two more years."
"Hey so do I!" Helen said.
"Well Dev and I only have to wait one more year before we can go." Jon stated.
"Well that's because you two are stupid and urgh." Sarah said lamely.
"So Fred business still doing well?" Harry asked.
"It's still good as ever!" Fred answered excitedly. "George and I are busy inventing a new joke. They're called Pebble Rockets. They look like ordinary small pebbles, you know the size of those you can find at the bottom of a lake. Anyway when you throw them at someone or something it sticks to them with a permanent sticking charm. And when the person goes to get it off it sticks to their hand like gum that won't let go."
"Nice. It's great to see that you two still have a good sense of humor in you thirties."
"Thanks for reminding me. I feel like an old geezer with two kids."
Ron and Harry laughed.
"Well at least you don't have three. Never mind twin terrors that'll probably end up like you and George did."
"Are you saying that's a bad thing?" Fred asked jokingly.
"Nope. Just saying that they're going to be causing a lot of trouble for Remus to deal with while in school. And this year is going to be their first."
"Don't forget that Ashley will probably have a big part in the trouble as well." Ron reminded Harry.
"True."
"Well good luck with that mates." Fred said. "They're gunna be a handful…I know George and I were."
Ginny, Marie, and Harry entered Flourish and Blotts just minutes before Hermione and Ashley arrived.
After buying their need books for their first year at Hogwarts the five of them headed to Madame Malkins to get the kid's school robes. When they entered the shop they saw that there were about three other first years getting robes fitted.
"Ah mum we're gunna be waiting forever," James said to Ginny.
"Well then just walk around and look at dress robes for the Malfoy's annual Christmas dinner and the our New Years Eve party." Ginny replied. Ashley and Marie shrieked with joy and immediately ran off to look at the little misses dress robes. James just stood there with a look of disgust on his face.
"Mum you can't be serious."
"I sure am, but rest assured once these kids are done getting fitted you will be first, okay?"
"Fine, but I'm still not looking for dress robes. I think I'll go talk to some of the other kids."
"That's a great idea. You can make new friends before you even get to school."
James left to go talk to some of the other kids that were either in line or waiting for their friend to finish getting fitted.
Rachel, Draco, Remus, Shaina, George, Alicia, Bill, and Fleur were in the Lupin's kitchen talking about the upcoming school year while Katie, Hayden, Jen, Kevin, and Shara sat upstairs in Hayden's room.
Katie and Jen were in the corner telling Shara about the boy's in their year at Hogwarts while Kevin and Hayden were busy thinking of pranks for Hayden and his friends to try at school this year, as Kevin wouldn't be going for another two years.
"Well there's this one Ravenclaw boy who's okay looking, but he really needs some help with his sense of humor. He's a bit too serious," Jen said.
"A bit! You've got to be kidding me! Jack is like a stiff. Now his brother's the exact opposite. Benji has a great sense of humor, he's smart, not great looking, but is an awesome friend. He's actually one of our best friends. You'd really like him. He's been in on our most of our pranks on the Slytherins. He's in Gryffindor with us and shares a dorm with Hayden." Katie said. The blonde beauty smiled at the memory of one of the pranks they had pulled last year with Benji.
"Merlin I can't wait until I get to go to Hogwarts! Ugh you guys are so lucky to already be old enough." Shara said gushingly. She looked like her dad with the Malfoy baby bottle blonde hair, but had her mother's hazel's eyes.
"Only one more year." Her sister Jen said. Jen looked like her mother with wavy brown hair and hazel eyes. "Then you'll get to help us with the pranks and get to explore the castle."
"Are you girls done with your…girl talk?" Kevin asked coming over to the girls. He had brown hair just like his mother Alicia and brown eyes.
"Sure. What did you guys have in mind to do today?" Jen asked the two boys.
"I say we prank the parents. I mean they can take a joke…right?" Hayden, a sandy haired brown-eyed boy suggested.
"Sounds good to me. What do you have in mind?" Shara replied.
"Cortez! Who else do we have?" A strong and powerful woman's voice called to the black haired Spaniard.
"We have got the York's, Warden's, Gadral's, and Neveu's." The man replied as he bowed to his Mistress.
"Good. Keep up the good work and find more supporters. I want a report back in five days, same time, same place." The tall black haired woman answered.
The parents at the Lupin household sat around the kitchen table discussing their work when an explosion sounded from the living room. They all rushed in to see what all the ruckus was about, but the second they stepped foot into the room they regretted it.
Jen, Hayden, Katie, Kevin, and Shara stood in the middle of the living room with an ink-pellet in one hand and a bag in the other, which the parents assumed had more ink-pellets.
The kids whipped the pellets at the parents as they entered the room, then reached into their bags and grabbed more to throw. The parents turned to run, but as they did the kids chased after them.
All the adults ran to Remus and Shaina's room heading for the walk-in closet. Once in the closet they closed the door as the kid's waited patiently for them to come out.
Little did the kids know that Remus and Shaina kept their own large supply of ink-pellets for when the kids decide to prank them and now was their chance to use them. Remus handed each parent a bag of ink-pellets and then led the way out of the closet with an ink-pellet ready in hand.
The kids saw the door open and threw some more pellets but quickly realized that the parents had their own supply. They turned and ran out of the room laughing and screaming as the parents chased them around the house throwing ink-pellets at them every chance they got while the kids threw them aimlessly behind their backs trying to escape.
An hour later the whole group was scattered throughout the kitchen out of breath and covered in ink. The whole house was a disaster, but would be easily cleaned up with a flick of a wand.
They all had a great time laughing and screaming as the ink-pellets flew throughout the house. It was a memory that would be with them forever and when thought of would bring a smile to their faces.