A/N Thank you all for the reviews, Harry Potter is not mine this is a story from a fan. This is a second story of mine and the updates are slow. Bellatrix's second chance will always come first and will be updated every two weeks. This story is something I enjoy doing when I have some time left. Enjoy.
A helping hand.
C35 making preparations part 2.
Amelia walked back to her office while her mind was clearly on whoever it had been that wanted the same information as she did. The fact that she wanted to know about the Black Family tree was mostly from a hunch she got. She figured that if she looked at the family tree she could find out who the new Lord could be if it couldn't be Sirius.
As she entered her office she shook off the thought and went to work on the files she had left to do. Tonight would be the time to think about it all when she had a meeting with Minerva and Augusta for dinner somewhere in a Muggle restaurant.
*#*
Silvia together with Alex stepped off the bus and walked arm in arm to their home. While they walked in silence Silvia was thinking about the papers she had just received.
"What are you thinking about dear" Alex asked.
Silvia didn't look up and kept her eyes on the ground. "I'm worried Alex," Silvia told him. "Andrea is really hung up on the boy".
Alex gave a little smile and laid his hand on her shoulder. "Not only our daughter but you too".
Silvia gave him a small smile. "Don't know what to say. He is family after all even if he doesn't understand it yet".
Alex smiled again. "You know what let's go over all the papers and then we will go out for dinner. Just the two of us".
Silvia nodded slowly and took his arm as she held it close to her body. "Is it bad for me to feel attached to him".
"No dear, Harry is the grandson of your own sister, it's normal. If your family didn't throw you out, he would have been here. So No Dear, It's very normal to be fond of the kid. Hell, even I love him. When we were in the basement playing with the trains, I had a little talk with him. Now it wasn't much just, little things about his school and stuff. But he is really smart. I did ask him a couple of questions and he knew the answers. even from things he would learn much later in life. If I didn't know any better I would say he is already twelve years old. just by his answerers alone".
Silvia just looked at her husband. "I think it's normal. The way he had been raised he had to learn to grow up and to grow up really fast. Hell, he had to leave his childhood behind just to keep up with the demands of those he lived with".
Alex raised an eyebrow and Silvia knew that Alex knew nothing about the story of Harry. At least not what Andrea had told her. So when they got home she made a cup of tea for the both of them and sat down as she started to tell him the story.
Alex sat there listening to the real story of Harry Potter. The boy who became a hero to then be dumped at the feet of people who never wanted him. "So basically he grew up like a house elf and it is only because of Andrea that he was able to get out of there".
Silvia nodded and gave a little sigh.
"Well, then we have to find him a way to live with Andrea or someone who will let her see him" And Alex pulled the stack of Papers towards him as he started to look at the family tree of the blacks.
*#*
At eight in the evening, Amelia walked down a street left from the leaky cauldron in muggle London. A little further on she would be at the restaurant where they had decided on having their dinner that night. As she entered she looked around and saw Augusta sitting in a corner with Minerva next to her.
"Hello, Amelia please sit down," Augusta told her as she pointed her to a chair. "I'm dying to hear what you have done today and who is willing to help us".
Amelia sat down and took out a stack of papers. She grabbed the drink that Augusta had ordered for her and took a little sip. "Well, I have been mostly to the offices of the gray or natural lords. The dark side is in the hands of Lucius and the light side in the hands of Albus".
Minerva wanted to protest but Amelia raised her hand. "I know Albus has told us that he would help us in any way he can. But it doesn't mean he is. He left Harry there and didn't check up on him. I also know of a frightened look Harry gave him when he saw him in the muggle court. Now I still don't know what that is all about but I have to look at that later".
Minerva nodded and Amelia went on. "Most of the neutral Lords want to help us when we give a proposal of the new law. The one I got here" and she handed it to Augusta to read it over as Minerva gazed over her shoulder. "If we get a first and a second on the new law than it will go to a vote where it will become a full law".
Augusta nodded but Minerva asked. "But this law doesn't say anything about Harry, only that we can get him away if it is proven".
"That is right Mini," Amelia said. "This law is for all the children who are abused. And if I can I will keep the name of Harry out of it. But I fear that most of the dark side and some of the light side will be against it. The laws that are in place now gives them the right to punish their children the way they see fit".
Minerva had a thoughtful look before she opened her mouth again. "But will we get a first and a second".
"Yes, Amos Diggory will give me his support and Augusta will second it. Amos does it because of his daughter who is, in fact, the daughter of his sister, she was abused. She has been beaten by his brother-in-law. Amos took it upon himself to get her out of there and to raise her as his own. Because of the law, he could do nothing about his brother in law because of it, it was his sister that signed her daughter over to Amos so she could have a better life. That was the only thing his sister could do to help her daughter. As you may also know there are no divorces in the magical world, so his sister is stuck whit that lo life until he or she dies".
"Bless him," Minerva told her. "But when we have it there will be a vote without the mentioning of Harry. What if it will all be for nothing and the minority votes against it".
"Well if that happens then we have to get Harry involved. If and I hope it isn't so then I have to ask to explain my reasoning and to have a second vote. For that, I will need another first and second. Which Amos and Augusta will do. Now I hope that doesn't happen but if it does then I have to tell them about Harry Potter our Hero. Then I will explain that the current law is keeping me from getting him out of there. Then I'm sure they will scream bloody murder and will vote for me to rescue him. Which will give us the new law that will save most of the abused children even the Muggleborns".
"Now you understand why Amelia will need Harry for this. Most of the families don't want a law that will infect hurt themselves, but if we tell it like that and we have a reporter on call, none of them would want to be responsible for the abuse of the boy who lived" Augusta told Minerva to make it more clear.
Minerva nodded and gestured the waiter that they were ready for him to take their order.
*#*
Alex folded up the papers and looked over at his wife. "Well, I know Andrea is going to have a night alone with Harry. She wanted to treat him to a family night, just playing some board games because he could only watch when his family did it".
"Yes, they never abused him physically but they did everything to show him he wasn't wanted at all. They only kept him for the money they got to take care of him".
"I'm sure he was worth every penny they spend from him," Alex told Silvia sarcastically. "How about we go to dinner just the two of us and talk about what we found out sofar".
Silvia stood and walked over to her coat. "That is a wonderful idea and I know just the place".
Alex laughed as he was handed his own coat. He knew that going out to dinner would do the trick to make Silvia hurry for her coat.
It was an hour later that Silvia with Alex on her arm walked into this little restaurant. As they passed by a table Silvia thought she recognized the woman on the left from earlier in the ministry. But then she realized that a witch would never be seen in a muggle restaurant so she went on. Never noticing that their aunt Minerva was sitting at the same table with her back towards them.
*#*
As the three of them waited for their desserts Amelia took out another piece of paper. "This is the family tree of the black family. As I went by the offices of the natural side I thought about the family tree. If I look at this correctly then there are three persons who could become the next Lord Black.
*#*
A little further into the restaurant the same conversation was going on about the same subject. Silvia looked at the papers and pointed at something. "If it is all correct then Sirius is the next Lord Black. Now I know that he was sent to Azkaban, but I never believed he did what they said he did. James was like a brother to him. They were even closer than a pair of twins. So whatever the ministry sais it is all wrong. Sirius is the next Lord Black If not then he was cast out of the family just like I was".
Alex looked on and nodded at the correct times. "Wel lets say that he is not the next Lord Black then who will it be".
"Firstly, it would have been James because he was the first male with Black Blood. Now because James was killed it would fall on Harry because he is his son and the next in line. And after that, it will be Draco. Now and this is the big thing".
*#*
Minerva and Augusta were listening intently as Amelia explained about the black Family line. "If Harry is the next Lord Black he has until his fourteenth birthday to claim the title. If not Draco has the right to claim it. If Draco claims it then Harry has another two weeks to keep it from him if he doesn't then it will all go to Draco".
It was not long after that that all five of them left the restaurant. On the outside, Amelia looked to the left and saw the same couple she had seen that morning in the ministry. She looked away and started to walk off until she remembered that the two had also asked for the black family tree. So she told Minerva and Auguste to wait as she went after them but when she got around the corner, she couldn't see them anywhere and she had to go back.
A/N: This was it again at this time. See you all in the next chapter.
Gr. Winmau.