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

A helping hand.

C33 A quiet day before the big meeting part 3.

After the internal shock, they all took a cup of tea. Harry didn't have a clue at what was happening or what they meant by grandnephew. He did understand the meaning of the word family but he was a freak and he had none. So they had to be talking about each other and not about him.

Silvia rubbed his head because he was still standing next to her. She gave him a good look and then shook her head slowly.

Andrea saw it but kept her mouth, she wasn't sure what her mother had seen but she wasn't going to ask her with Harry still in the kitchen.

Silvia saw her daughter looking and turned to Harry. "Tell me, Harry, what would you like to do".

Harry looked up and immediately gazed over at the door. He didn't ask it but it was clear what he wanted to do.

Silvia was about to gif in when Andrea spoke up. "Harry just ask it but be polite like I know you can".

Silvia nodded at her daughter and nodded as she turned back to Harry. "Can I play with the trains again, can I please".

Silvia smiled. "Sure Harry, Alex will go with you".

Before Alex could stand up, they saw Harry running to the door. Alex smiled and followed him.

*#*

The moment the door closed behind Harry, Andrea turned to her mother. "Okay tell me, mum. What did you see in his eyes and what did you mean when you said He isn't living in a palace, that boy has been through hell and he is still far away from the exit".

Silvia nodded slowly and indicated that her daughter had to sit down as she left the kitchen. It was only moments later that Silvia walked back into the kitchen with two books in her hand. She placed them on the table in front of her daughter as she sat down and watched as her daughter went through them.

"Mum, what is this, how could they do something like this".

"Andrea sweetheart, those are the tails of the life and the adventures of the boy who lived. They are the true stories; at least that is what it says on the bottom".

Andrea looked at the cover of the first book. There was a picture that looked a lot like Harry but he was a little older, it told her that it had to be a picture of his father when he was young. Slowly she started to read it.

'The real life and adventures of the boy who lived by Rita Skeeter'
'In association with the ministry of magic'.

Andrea looked up "This, this is, Is. God Damn it how could they do things like this. They are making a profit why that boy is being abused".

"Andrea please calm down. These are the first two books of a series of twelve books. It is said that Harry lives in a place that is guarded by the most powerful wards you can imagine while he studies the dark arts and saves the world. He is being raised by the house elves of the potters and lives like a king".

Silvia studied her daughter hard and placed a hand on hers. "Now, as I told you many times the eyes are the windows to the soul. His eyes are supposed to be green like young fresh grass that grows in the morning sun. Yet what I saw were two dull eyes that were telling me, no they were begging me to end it all. That boy has lost his will to live, the only thing he knows is to survive and he has been doing that for a very long time and it will be very long time before he remembers how to live again".

"Can you help him".

"Yes but I have to talk to him every week but I can only do that when his new guardian will let me and as it looks now, he will end up with a pureblood and they will never allow it".

"Can't you".

Silvia patted the hand of Andrea a couple of times. "I want to but I have to find out who is lord black. And then I have to get him to reinstate me, and there has never been lord Black that allowed a squib to remain or be reinstated into the family. So I will try but I don't think it will help but I will do it for Dorea Potter".

*#*

As time went on the afternoon turned slowly into the evening, Amelia was standing in front of her fireplace where she waited for Minerva and Augusta to join her.

When they arrived she took them into her study and sat them down In front of her desk. "Alright Augusta tell me, what have you found out and what can we do".

"I have looked at a lot of cases but there has never been any about an abused Muggleborn. It didn't surprise me whit all those purebloods in the Wizengamot. If there had been any they would probably laugh about it".

Amelia nodded and Minerva became very quiet.

"So" Amelia went on. "What do you think is our best way to go on, and what are the steps we have to take to get Harry at least to the light or natural side".

Augusta took a sip of her tea and gazed into her cup. She swirled the tea around and gave a very deep sigh. "I really don't know. There are a lot of things we have to consider and every one of them can ruin our chance of getting Harry into a light or neutral family. No, the best option we have is to find a family member and get them to adopt him".

"Andromeda was a black, can't she do it. I personally know that the mother of James Dorea was a black by birth" Minerva suggested with a little hope in her voice.

Augusta shook her head. "She was cast out of the family so she is no longer a black. For her to make any kind of claim, she has to be reinstated by Lord Black. Now according to the rumors inside the ministry, the next Lord Black will be Draco Malfoy and he will never reinstate a blood traitor. Lucius wouldn't let him".

Amelia frowned and wanted to school her but Augusta lifted her hands in surrender.

"Amelia you do know that I don't think like that but Lucius does. So it will also be the way his son will think because he is raising him that way. So the only chance we have with that idea is that Draco isn't the next lord black but someone ells. Now no one has stepped up in the last four years so either they don't know they are Lord Black or Draco is the next".

Amelia nodded and Minerva looked like she just didn't understand it.

"Now the next option is as followed. It is also the one we have to go with because it will be our only option and it is one with a lot of risks. First, we have to get the abuse of Harry punishable by law. As of now, this kind of abuse is still legal in our world. Only when we have that out of the way we can start on our next step".

Again it was Amelia who nodded and Minerva who looked like she didn't understand a thing she said.

"Augusta" Amelia started. "Say we do this and it works. We get a new law, what would we do then".

Augusta took another sip of her tea. "If we get the law we can use it for Harry. That way we can get him into the custody of the Wizengamot. If we get so far we will have to fight for his possession".

"What do you mean by that" Minerva snapped.

It didn't face Augusta in any way. "If and it will be a big IF, if we get Harry in the custody of the Wizengamot, every family will fight over him. Every Family would want the custody of the boy who lived. We have to fight to get the will of his parents unsealed so we can find out what Lily and James really wanted. Lucius and a lot of other families will fight this to get Harry to them. But like I said we first have to get the new law in place".

This was something Minerva understood. "And when can we do it", she asked.

"Next week on Monday there will be a gathering of all the Wizengamot members to go over the proposals of the new and old laws," Augusta told her.

Amelia walked over to the cabinet at the side and filled three glasses of fire whiskey. "Let us drink on a chance," she said as she lifted her glass.

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

Gr. Winmau.