Chapter 5 Impressed auror and some information
Moody sat behind the desk again and looked at Demonita. She was on the second page of the test, and she had just worked in two minutes!
Alastor Moody wasn't a man who was easily impressed. And he almost never gave anyone a compliment. Today he had been impressed, and had given many compliments.
He felt weird. He hadn't decided if that was a good or bad thing yet.
He had always respected the Potters, both Lily and James, but this was different. He was in awe.
She was as good as her father when it came to duels, and was pretty skilled in hand to hand combat too. They had battled with swords and daggers, and he
could tell that she was more skilled with the dagger.
She had told him that she used to carry a dagger with her during the summer holidays, so she could defend herself if she got attacked. He had been impressed
by this, seeing that she had thought of how she could defend herself without her wand. Many wizards and witches were depending on their wands, which wasn't
good, because you could easily lose it, when dueling or fighting. They needed other options.
He sighed and turned his attention to a book that lay before him.
Nita came via floo into the Potter Mansions living room. She stepped out of the fireplace and threw herself on the sofa. She was dead tired. The written
test had been rather hard, but she thought that she had done well. Moody had told her that he would owl her when he had corrected her test and spoken to
Lars. She couldn't wait.
"Demonita? Was that you honey?" Her mother appeared in the doorway. "How did it go?" Nita sat up and gave her mother a tired smile. "Good, I think. I'm not
sure but he seemed impressed. I didn't beat him in the duel, but I'm satisfied."
"I'm happy for you. Your dad is out talking to some people about the war, but would you like to join me for dinner?" Nita nodded. "Yes mum."
Two weeks later, a week before September 1st, the letter from Hogwarts came.
Ms Potter
Please note that the school year starts September first, and that the train will depart from platform 9 3/4 at 11:00 a.m. sharp.
This is a list of books you will need for the upcoming school year.
Standard Potions year six
Advanced Defense theory
Shielding and protection
Defense without a wand
Wandless magic 1& 2
Magical Healing
Muggle first aid
Muggle healing theory
Muggle traffic laws
Advanced Transfiguration 1 & 2
Okay, a trip to Diagon Alley was needed.
"I will get the books for you." Her father said.
"Why? I can go on my own." she gave her parents a confused look. "I think it is best if your father gets them for you honey, you know it's dangerous times,
and we don't want you to be out in public more than necessary."
Nita started to get angry. "I know there is a war going on, but I can take care of myself, and, you can't just lock me up in the house the whole time."
She was tired of being treated like a nine-year -old.
"This is not up for discussion, I'm going and you are not." Her father said sternly and snapped the booklist out of her hands.
"You can't hide me from the reality, you know. I'm going to participate in this war, like it or not. You can't protect me from everything." She turned to
leave but stopped at the door and turned to her parents.
"I heard you, in dad's office. You were arguing about me and my safety and life. Dad, I heard that someone needs your help, help them. Don't let me stop
you. I understand that we all must make an effort in this war. All I ask is that you are careful, I don't want to lose you." With those words she walked
out and slammed the door with more force than was necessary.
"What?" James turned to his wife. He was surprised when he saw the small smile on her lips, "She is like me when I was young."
Nita climbed the ladder in the library. She was searching for the book that her father had been reading the same day that she went to the ministry. It had
been old and torn, so it had to be in the older part of the library. The cover had been made of black leather, and the letters had been carved in gold.
There it was, it had to be. She took it from the shelf and climbed down. She sat down at the table and looked at the title. "The heirs of Potter." She let
the curiosity take over and opened the book. There, on the inside of the cover, were all the heirs of the Potters, as far back as the family was old.
In the bottom of the list was her dad, James Harold Potter. she flipped through the book and stopped when she came to her grandfather. She had never met
the man, because he had died a year before Nita was born, but she had heard much about him, from her Grandmother, who now was dead, and from her father.
Harold James Potter
Born: 21 of May 1928 at St Mungos
Death: 17 of September 1980 (At the hands of an unknown Death Eater)
Occupation: Auror at the Ministry of Magic in Brittan. Also member of The Order Of the Phoenix until his death.
After this the text went on about what he had done and Nita smiled. But she was also confused. What was the Order of the Phoenix? She turned the page and
looked down at her father.
James Harold Potter
She read on and came to occupation. Her eyes went large. He was a former member of the same order that her grandfather had been a member to! The book
said that he had left one week before she was born. Was this what her parents had been fighting about? Did the order want him back? Had her mother been
a member too? What exactly did the order do? Work against Voldemort?
She needed answers, and she knew what she had to do. She needed her invisibility cloak.