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

A helping hand.

C32 A quiet day before the big meeting part 2.

"Tell me, Andrea, what happened to him. He isn't living in a palace, that boy has been through hell and he is still far away from the exit" Silvia told her daughter without looking back. She waited and waited but there wasn't a sound so she turned around and looked at her daughter. "Oh baby, Come here and tell me everything," Silvia said as she pulled a crying Andrea into a motherly hug.

"Mum, I don't know, I don't know anymore. I got the job then I so him. He was so tiny and so scared" Andrea started to slowly tell the whole story to her mother. "And this morning he rushed into the kitchen telling me the freak has to make breakfast and he kept on looking at the frying pan with the burned eggs" and Andrea started to sob again. "Why mum, why do people do this to sweet kids? I always wanted a kid and they get him and then they do this. Why do they get kids, why did I not".

Silvia just took her daughter into another hug and held her close to her chest. She knew that the idea of people hurting kids was unforgivable to her, but to hear that the son of her best magical friend Lily Potter was treated like this was just a bridge too far. It was also clear to Silvia that Andrea was in love with this boy a love so great, only a mother could have it. "Andrea, I'm really sorry baby but you do know that you can't be his mother", the purebloods wouldn't let you".

Andrea whipped away her tears as she looked her mother in the eye. "Mum I know, but I don't want to lose him. But I also want to help him and I don't know how".

Silvia let go of her daughter and started to make the tea. She kept her mouth as she sat down next to her daughter. At first, she gave Andrea a little smile and looked at the door. "Your father is a good man, he will keep Harry down there for as long as he has to. So we can talk about all of this".

*#*

It was late in the afternoon, the last class had just been dismissed when the floo flared up and Amelia stepped out of the green flames "Hi, Mini everything alright here".

"Yes Amelia, Albus has behaved himself and nothing has been leaked into the school rumor mill. And we both know that most of the news comes in and out Hogwarts in a matter of seconds".

Amelia nodded, she knew that nothing could beat the rumor mill of Hogwarts and that it wasn't in Hogwarts was a good sign. "So let's get back to the order of the day. I had a talk with Augusta and she isn't really sure if we can pull it off".

Minerva sat down heavily and laid her head in her hand. "So it is absolutely sure that Andrea will not get Harry if things go the way they are going now".

Amelia nodded softly and didn't know what she could say about it.

What do we have to do now, if we can't get Harry with Andrea, how could we make it so that he comes to a natural or light family so she can remain in contact with him".

"Mini I can only say that we have to talk to Augusta, She is the only one who can get the right side to help us. If not we have to get the Potter will be released. Bogrod told us that Sirius was innocent. But in order to get that done, we have to get the Wizengamot to remove the ministerial seal and that will nearly be impossible" Amelia told her.

Minerva stood and walked over to the window. She looked outside and sighed deeply. "It will take a miracle to get Harry free from all the miseries, aren't we. Are we even going to get him into a light or Neutral family"?

"The way it looks now, I really don't know. The only hope we have is Augusta and even that is a long shot" Amelia told her honestly.

*#*

Andrea dried the last of her tears and gazed over at her mother. "Tell me, mum, what do I have to do".

Silvia turned her eyes away from her daughter and to the door of the kitchen. "Well, your story tells me he has been mentally abused by those bastards. They did everything they could just to make him know that he is nothing but a freak and he deserves everything he got. Besides that, they have starved him and neglected him in every form or way there is".

Her mum gave a very deep sigh "Now as for what you can do, there is not a lot you can other than to tell him he is not a freak and treat him like a real boy for as long as you are allowed. I could do more if I talk to him and make him understand what it is he thinks he is doing wrong. It will be a very long process but he is still young so it could all work out".

It was now that Andrea looked at the door as if Harry was standing there. "I'm never going to keep him am I if he goes into the wizarding world I will lose him and then he will be with one of those purebloods that will mistreat him again and make him into a spectacle just because he survived that killing spell".

"Not if I can help it" her mum muttered.

"What," Andrea asked?

Silvia gave another sigh "Nothing" Silvia muttered again.

"Why don't you tell her Silvia, You know you want to," Alex told her from the doorway as Harry rushed over to Andrea to tell her all about the trains he had seen.

Andrea smiled at him and listened as she gazed over at her mother, who also smiled at Harry.

"I can't Alex, my family cast me out and I don't want to be reminded of that time" Silvia almost sobbed as she swallowed a lump that was stuck in her throat.

Alex stepped forward and took his wife in a hug. "I know it was very painful for you and I can't imagine how it must have been to leave your family behind. But I also know that you might be the only one who could help him".

"I can't," Silvia said again. "I was cast out, that means I'm no longer a Black".

"You are still a black your aunt Dorea told you so," Alex told her while he ignored the flabbergasted glance from his daughter.

"Aunt Dorea was the only one who loved me, she was the only one who saw me as her niece and I miss her so much" As Silvia started to sob into the shoulder of Alex.

"What, are you telling me that Harry is your family," Andrea asked in astonishment.

Silvia looked up and gestured to her daughter to sit down. She herself sat down next to her husband and Harry who had walked to her other side. "In the house of Black, there is a tapestry. That tapestry shows all the family members. However, it never showed me because it only shows the family who had magic within them. At first, they thought I might be a late bloomer someone who showed her magic at a later date. But when I became eight years old I still hadn't shown any sign of magic. So I was cast out because a pureblood family had no squibs. As I was thrown out of the house with my little suitcase in my hand I was told to get lost".

It took some time for Silvia to get a hold of herself as she took a couple of sips from her tea. It was now that she felt the hand of Little Harry in hers. She gazed down and smiled at him as she cupped his face with her other hand. "Dorea Potter was the only family member that loved me and took me in".

It was now that the eyes of Harry became twice as big. "Yes Harry, your grandmother Dorea Potter took me in and introduced me to the nephew Alex of her good friend Minerva McGonagall".

Harry looked over at Alex and then to Andrea who was only looking on with an open mouth. So Harry looked back at Silvia.

Silvia smiled again and looked over at Alex. "I can't help my grand nephew" and she smiled at Harry. "I can only help him if I get reinstated and that would mean I have to talk to the head of house Black".

Andrea came out of her shock and looked at Harry. "You mean that Harry and I are Family, he is my, he is my".

"He is your grand nephew just like he is mine," Silvia told her daughter.

A/N: this was it again for this time see you all in the next chapter.

Gr. Winmau.