A/N: Thank you all for the reviews. Harry Potter is not mine this is a story from a fan.

A helping hand

C18 It's almost time.

While Minerva, Amelia, and Andrea were watching the house on Nr. 4. they were wondering what Michel had in mind for this evening. "I sure hope we will be able to get him out of there," Andrea said.

Minerva placed an arm around her shoulder. "Don't worry Sweetheart, if they won't do anything for him then we will get him out of there ourselves".

Andrea nodded but she still got this nasty feeling in the pit of her stomach.

Amelia threw a doubtful look at Andrea. She was wondering if Andrea wasn't getting too emotional with the Harry Potter thing. She could clearly see the motherly signals' flashing above her head. Unfortunately, it wasn't sure that she would become the new guardian of Harry Potter. Not in the magical world or the Muggle world, she could honestly say that her chances were zero to none.

Just before Amelia could say something about it. she saw a police car turning into the street from the other side of the street. It stopped in front of the house on Nr. Four. Two policemen stepped out of the car. They looked around themselves in confusion and stepped back in their car.

As they were about to drive off again it was Amelia who shot of a silent spell and flattened their left tire. She suddenly realized why everybody didn't do anything to help Harry out of his predicament. "You two wait here. I think I know how Harry slipped through the cracks of the system" and Amelia took off.

Andrea looked at her aunt and saw how she shrugged her shoulders. So she looked back and saw Amelia walking around the house waving her wand around. "Isn't she afraid the muggles will see her".

"No dear, if I know Amelia she placed a notice me not charm on herself".

"How come I can see her," Andrea, asked.

"You are a squib Andrea; you have enough magic in you to not be affected," Minerva said with a smile. "The same can be said for the card Amelia flashed them. As you can see it's a blank piece of paper. But the rune charm on the back of it shows every Muggle the highest ranking they get in their own profession".

It was at that moment that Michel Malfoy drove his car into the street. As he got out he saw an elderly woman walking over to Amelia to get her to the place he was standing. While everybody gathered around he could see that the two policemen he ask to help them remained in their car.

"Why do those two keep sitting there," Michel asked.

"Well, those two will remain there until I tell them to come out" Amelia answered. Michel was about to say something but Amelia held up her hand. "Before you say anything, let me first explain why. You see I saw that something was wrong when those Policemen got out of the car and immediately went back in it".

Michel looked at the house. "You mean there is a ward there that keeps the Muggles away".

"No, not a normal ward but a blood ward, this ward is very special. It doesn't keep the Muggles away but everybody who wants to do harm to the family. And every time someone wants to help Harry they do it with the intention to help one member but to harm the other ones. So the ward makes them do the opposite. But if you want to do harm to just one you have a free pass into the ward".

"But that means".

"That means that whenever someone wants to help Harry they also want to do harm to the Family and are repelled. But if they want to do harm to just Harry they want to do harm to the family to and are also repelled. It's a very affecting ward but it has the down site that the family can do harm to a family member without anyone stopping them because their intention is way off from what the ward is there for" Amelia went on.

"Can you take down the ward without the family seeing you".

"I already did, but we have to wait a couple of more minutes before the ward will be completely down. I do however want to talk to you about how we are going to do this".

Michel nodded and took the three ladies' away from the house.

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At five twenty Vernon Dursley turned his car into the driveway of his house at Number four.

The car jumped in to relieve the moment he stepped out.

Vernon looked across the street and saw a tabby cat sitting on the fence. For a moment he thought he had seen that cat before when it was reading a map. But then again that had been a trick of his mind almost eight years ago. He sniffed loudly and walked into the house.

Petunia was sitting in her seat next to the door when she heard her husband park the car. He is early. "You, Freak, get his brandy ready and prepare the dinner. It has to be ready at six so we could eat at that specific time".

"Yes, Aunt Petunia" came the whispered voice of Harry. That little boy slid a chair over to the counter and climbed upon it so he could get the brandy for his uncle. It was a minute later that the same boy walked into the room with a big glass of brandy. Slowly he put it down and glanced out of the window. His eyes got a little bigger when he saw a woman waving a stick around in their front garden. At first, he wanted to say something about it.

"You better start with my dinner BOY or you won't have any dinner yourself" his Uncle snapped.

Harry forgot all about the woman and rushed back into the kitchen. To finish the dinner before his uncle would get really mad at him. Harry went on and could hear his uncle and aunt listening to a story from Dudley while they were telling him what a good boy he had been. Dudley was showing them his paper of which he had barely received a passing grade. While Harry listened to the story he thought about his own paper. His mark was lower than Dudley's but he knew he could have done it so much better. But if he did they would have blamed him for cheating. No, the only one who would appreciate his efforts was Andrea but she wasn't there for him. She promised to get him out of here but he was still making them their dinner.

A small tear escaped his eye and he had to look up to blink it away. It was now for the second time that he saw the woman waving a stick around, only this time she was walking through the back garden. Harry sniffled a little as he placed the dinner on the table. "Dinner is ready," he said as he stood to the side and looked on as his family came in to have their dinner.

Vernon walked in and pointed to the cupboard under the stairs.

Harry lowered his head and walked into his cupboard. As he sat his little body down on the mattress that was in the cupboard he heard his uncle placing the padlock on the door. He sighed deeply as he knew that he would not get any dinner at all this time.

Harry didn't know how much time had gone by but all of a sudden there was a lot of noise coming from the front door.

A/N: This was it again for this week. I don't know when but see you all the next time.

Gr. Winmau.