Chapter three

It had been five years since Voldemort had taken over in England. Many muggleborns escaped, but many died. The order fell apart when most decided to leave. Snape's body had turned up at a house that Albus and the few remaining order members were using. At first they believed Voldemort might have found out that Snape had been spying for the order. Snape had been tortured so they didn't believe it was Harry and his death wards, not until he had been prepared for burial. That's when they found two marks that told them it was Harry. First was a picture of a lily carved into his chest and it was coloured blood red. The second was the lightning bolt, carved into his stomach. When Draco Malfoy's body turned up, he had been tortured also. A lightning bolt had been found on his stomach. They found out that all the death eaters that tried to find the house that they believed was hiding Harry Potter, all ended up with the lightning bolt scar. Right now they don't know why Severus or Draco would be at the house they believed to be Harry's.

No one had seen Harry Potter in eight years. The house that he had warded was still there and still had the death wards, but no one has ever been able to get past them. It meant no one knew if Harry Potter was still using the house or he left and just left the wards active.

Death eaters were still turning up dead, the leader of the werewolves, Greyback, he was found decapitated, his pack dead around him. The six giants that Voldemort had been using also turned up dead, missing their heads. Voldemort was losing people and not gaining others since so many of his death eaters ended up dead. He may still have control of magical England, but it was falling down around him. There was no school even though Voldemort made it mandatory to attend, only the children of death eaters were there. Hogsmeade had been abandoned, the same with Diagon alley. Gringotts had closed it's doors so no one could get to their vaults. What Voldemort nor others knew was that many vaults had been emptied years before. The goblins had no idea since they never entered people's vaults. If they did, they would find that Harry Potter's vaults only held three knuts in each. All the money and items had been removed, by Harry. Many other vaults had also been cleaned out, but not by the owners which were all death eaters or supporters of Voldemort. Harry found a way to get into Gringotts without anyone seeing him or knowing he was there. He wanted to stop Voldemort's financial support, so every supporter, whether they were a death eater or not, now had vaults that only contained a few knuts.

Magical England was basically dying yet Voldemort would not give up, nor was he having any success trying to gain control of the muggles. Every time he sent his death eaters out to kill muggles or destroy buildings, they were thwarted by the muggle military. Voldemort believed he had a spy but could not find out who it was.

The Weasley family had moved to Egypt, Bill had helped them all get jobs. He had a lot of contacts there from when he worked as a curse breaker.

Neville, his gran, his uncle and his parent's had disappeared years before. Rumours were that they moved Frank and Alice to America. People like Dumbledore found out that the American healers were able to help the two Longbottom's so they were alert and healthy. They would finally be able to have a life, even if they will never be able to work again. Neville didn't care, he had his parent's back. They made a good life in their new home. No one in England knew if this was true, as the Longbottom's never contacted anyone, nor was anyone in England able to contact the Longbottom's.

Hermione had talked her parent's into moving, they moved to Australia. They had visited the land down under and fell in love with the place, especially the warm weather. So Hermione finished off her magical education while restarting her non magical education, she was just doing it in Australia. She was still single, but happy with her life. Her only regret was how she treated her first ever friend. Every time she did some homework, she thought of Harry and would often wonder where he was and what he was doing. She hoped after she finished her education, she might be able to find him and apologise. No one ever knew if Hermione ever did contact Harry, as they never saw her or heard from her she left England.

It took fifteen years before the muggle military destroyed Voldemort and his followers. The muggle government took control of the ministry for magic. They were not going to allow the magical community to have complete control, not with how much corruption there had been before. They had assigned their own people, who were magical but forced to leave the magical world because of prejudice, they ended up running the ministry for magic. They worked on using the truth potion before anyone could take a position at the ministry. It took a long time but they were able to finally get the ministry up and running. Hogwarts re-opened but there were only a couple of hundred students, most of them pure bloods with a few half bloods and those half bloods had long family lines on one side of their family. Shops were slowly opening again, Gringotts opened their doors and many English people who had left were returning. The Weasley's all returned. Arthur, and Ron were able to get work at the ministry, Bill went back to working for Gringotts and charlie stayed in Romania with his dragons. Ginny, who still felt pain from her scar, hardly left the house. But still no one saw or heard from Harry Potter.

It took a few years before Albus and Minerva were able to find out why Hogwarts never got any muggleborn students, or students who were raised in the muggle world. It seems the queen and the prime minister had worked it for another magical school to open. It was run by witches, wizards and squibs, but would fall under the muggle government. All the muggleborns or muggle raised went there. No matter what Albus tried, someone always got to the families before anyone from Hogwarts could find them. It seems the muggle government had a way to trace magical children and contacted the parent's when the children were very young. The school took children from the age of five, so they learnt how to read, write, learn muggle subjects like history, science and geography, but they were learning a lot theory on magical subjects ready for when they could start their magical education. But again the school offered to continue muggle and magical studies, along with muggle sports and quidditch. The students were allowed to leave after school ended for the day so they could continue their muggle activities, like music lessons, gymnastics, dance, even karate. The school also had their own indoor swimming pool and diving pool that most of the students used and they also used it for their own inter school competition. The school also had certain days when parent's could visit to see how their children were doing. These parent's, or most of them were muggles.

Albus and Minerva worked hard to find new teachers, even if some weren't what they wanted. When Voldemort first took over, many of the teachers left. Filius and Pomona were the first to leave. Since Pomona had a muggleborn mother she knew Voldemort and his death eaters might kill her. Filius was a half goblin, the death eaters called him a half-breed so he was in danger as well. They never returned to Hogwarts.

Even though Hogwarts was opened again, there were still only up to two hundred students. Albus and Minerva were able to read the book that named every magical child. But it would now show which ones would be going to the Queens Magical Academy and which ones they would need to speak with about Hogwarts.

Minerva opened the book to see which students she may have to visit. For years she had not visited any child since all the children who were coming to Hogwarts were from magical families. Any magical child linked to the muggle world in any way went to the Queens Magical Academy. She was frustrated and she had never been able to find out where the school was or who the headmaster was. One thing she did learn was that when she spoke to the few graduates of the queens school, they all praised their school. Minerva found out they not only offered both muggle and magical education, but they offered more classes, they offered apprenticeships and the students could do their masters degree. The Queens Magical Academy had turned out more potion masters and more healers than Hogwarts ever did. Minerva also found out that the school had a strict no bullying policy, from students or staff.

As she scanned down the list, two names popped out at her, Potter, Jamie and Lily, girls, who were eleven but they were down to start at the Queens academy.

'They would have to be Harry's children with the names Jamie and Lily. That means he was always here or he return to England,' Minerva studied the names before she decided to send a letter to Sirius so he would know his godson had children.

Sirius opened the letter he read then bolted to his feet, 'What's wrong Sirius?' Tonks asked.

'Two children are about to start at the Queens academy, girls, twins. Jamie and Lily Potter.'

'Harry,' Remus whispered.

'I have a feeling Harry has something to do with this school. Some of the things we've heard they offer is what Harry mentioned to me once in a letter. I'm going to write to him and hope he will meet me. I have to know, one way or another if he ever forgave me. I'm heading home, I'll see you both later.'

Remus and Tonks watched Sirius hurry from the house, 'Do you think he's involved with the school?' Tonks asked.

'I do, I'm just not sure how. Some parent's are involved in the school, so it could be as simple as he is one of those parent's.'

'Who do you think he married?'

'If I was to make a guess, a muggleborn, maybe a squib. But he would have been cautious at first to make sure they didn't want the-boy-who-lived. Even though it was the muggles that finished Voldemort, Albus still believes Harry was involved.'

'Because of the prophecy?'

'Yes, since Voldemort went after Harry when he was a child he made sure the prophecy would have to be fulfilled one way or another. So yes, only Harry could have killed Voldemort.'

'Do you think maybe he went to the muggle government when he left the muggle house?'

'It's possible. He would know how the muggle military worked, so he would know they would have been monitoring the situation in our world. Back then we were told only the muggle prime minister knew of us, but the prime minister answers to the queen, so she would have know. Now if she was concerned about her people and country, she would have involved the military. Imagine if Harry did go to them, he would have been able to supply them with a lot of information that many on our side didn't have. He faced Voldemort five times and lived, he saw some of the death eaters and he knew of werewolves, vampires and giants, also dementors. As long as some type of guarantee was given to him that he wouldn't get in trouble for speaking to muggles, then I'm sure he would have told them everything he knew. They did seem to find the death eaters, they did put their military people all around Britain which stopped a lot of deaths. I hope Sirius hears from Harry, maybe then we'll get some answers.'