The next morning I woke up around eight to get ready for my day in Hogsmeade. I was hoping that Justin would be okay with going to the joke shop and Honeydukes before we moved to the romantic date part. I wanted to get my goods before everyone else arrived and Hogsmeade got crowded.

Everyone else usually arrived around ten o'clock. I started for the Great Hall, dodging excited third years who would be going for the first time. I nearly ran McGonagall over in the process.

"Oh, Ms. Williams," She said, pressing a hand to her chest. Where was she is a rush to go?

"Sorry, professor. Just trying to get to Hogsmeade early." I grinned, but frowned at her grim look.

"Hogsmeade has been cancelled." She pressed her thin lips together.

"What?" I screeched. McGonagall pressed another hand to her ear.

"Ms. Williams, please I do not wish to alarm the other students." She hustled me into a classroom and shut the door. "I was going to come find you anyways."

"What's happened?" I asked eagerly.

She inhaled deeply. "There has been an escape from Azkaban."

My mouth wouldn't work properly. My mind went blank.

"I do not wish to worry you, but-"

"It was the death eaters, wasn't it?"

"There is no confirmation that they are death eaters. They are now believed to be extremists." I rolled my eyes at the schpeel Hermione had given Ron all those years ago. "So far there has been no attacks, but the wizarding world is on high alert."

"They should be!" I exclaimed. "What are we doing to find them? Is Uncle Harry leading the chase? When can I see them?"

"Ms. Williams, please!" She huffed. "Do breath between sentences. Now I must inform the rest of the school and perhaps you can tell the rest of your family of the incident. I imagine your parents will want to speak with you all." She said and then swept out of the classroom.

My legs refused to move for a few minutes and when they could, I almost tripped over a desk. Stumbling out of the classroom, trying to control my breathing, I went to look for Rose and Scorpius.

Instead I ran into Albus.

"Aw, did your date ditch you?" He smirked and then he saw my face. "Atria, what the bloody hell happened?"

I pretty much broke down. He gripped my shoulders and leaned down to look at my eyes as I collapsed against him, sobs racking through my body. "Tell me what the arsehole did to you!" He growled and I shook my head.

"That's not it!" I cried and pulled away from him. He stood up his full height and I had to tilt my head back to look at him. "Hogsmeade was cancelled because-"

"You're upset because Hogsmeade was cancelled." He said in disbelief.

"Would you shut up and let me finish?" I growled, some of the despair leaving me and being replaced with annoyance. "There was a breakout from Azkaban?"

Albus's face went white. "What? How is that possible?" He said.

"I don't know, but these are some of the most lethal and talented magical people and now they're loose!"

"When did this happen? How did you find out?"

"I was on my way to meet Justin," Albus sneered at his name, "And McGonagall told me Hogsmeade was cancelled and then pulled me in a classroom and told me why."

"And then you ran into me."

"I was going to look for Rose, Scorpius, basically all our friends." I explained. "I want to speak with you dad. We should write him a letter. And Mr. Malfoy." I added.

"Ok, we'll spread out and grab all the family we can. Meet me at the Room of Requirement in an hour." He told me in that stupid bossy tone of his.

"Fine."

Forty-five minutes later I had found Scorpius, Amanda, and Freddie. I told them to go to the Room of Requirement and wait for me there, giving them half an explanation of what was happening. I couldn't find Rose or James so I figured that Albus must have got to them first.

I arrived at the Room of Requirement and sure enough, James, Lily, Hugo and Rose were there with everyone else.

"Attie, what's happening?" Rose jumped up from where she had been sitting with Scorpius. The room was decorated as a meeting hall with tables and wooden chairs. "Albus said that death eaters escaped from Azkaban?"

"Yes." I said firmly. "McGonagall told me when I went to the Great Hall this morning," I carefully avoided mentioning Justin, "She said that Hogsmeade was cancelled and there are death eaters on the loose."

"All of them?" Freddie asked.

"I don't know." I sighed. "It hasn't been released to the public but I guess she figured I should know or our family should know. We are all potential targets."

"We should owl dad." James said.

"Absolutely." Rose nodded. "We need to figure out what's happening so that we can defend ourselves."

"Do you really think that they will come after us?" Amanda started twisting her hair, a nervous habit that she had.

"Probably not you." James shook his head. "Other than the fact you're our friend, you aren't really important." Amanda raised her eyebrows. "Not like that!" James quickly retracted his statement. "I just meant your parents aren't anyone important! Not that they aren't important, they just aren't ministry officials-"

"Just stop." She shook her head. "You're going to hurt yourself."

"But then Atria wouldn't be a target either, right?" Lily asked.

No one replied to that.

"It's different, Lils. Attie lives with us." James said softly. Not to mention they all assumed death eaters killed my family, and that day Ron, Harry, and Seamus found me, I had been waiting to get my vengeance on the people who murdered my parents.

"We need to find out what's happening." Rose said. "I'm going to write to my mum and dad, I suggest you do the same." She told us.

"Alright, so we'll talk at dinner?" Lily said.

"I'm a little offended that you want to get away from us so quickly." James said mockingly, pressing a hand to his chest in mock despair. She rolled her eyes.

"You'll survive." With that, Lily tossed flaming hair over her shoulder and left.

There was a bit of silence and then,

"Atria, don't you have a date to reschedule?"

Freaking Albus Potter.

"Attie, doesn't have date." James scoffed. I was glaring at Albus. Why in the bloody hell would Albus say that? Oh right, because he wants to make my life hell.

"Well, I've got somewhere to be." Albus grinned and left.

That arsehole.

"Atria, you had a date?" James glared at me.

"Yes," I said hotly, "and it's none of your business who I date. You date all the time." I snapped.

"No, I just snog girls." He argued.

"That's not any better!" I growled. "You can't be upset when I date, if you're snogging girls."

It barely registered with me that the others started to back out of the room.

"You know I love you!" James said.

"And I'm telling you that I will never be in love with you."

James sighed. We were having the same argument we had many times before and it was wearing me out. "I know you don't like me like that, but you still shouldn't date."

"Why? And it's not like I've dated a bunch of blokes. Only Dimitri!" I wasn't a girl who dated a lot.

"You've dated other guys!" He exclaimed.

"No!" I screamed. "I've been on dates with two other guys, but I did not date them!"

He rolled his eyes.

"And this is not the most pressing matter at the moment." I added. But at the very least it was a distraction from knowing that my mother probably escaped from Azkaban and would be out to get me.

It's not like she knows what been happening to me, but she could easily find out. I do live with the most famous family in the wizarding world. And then she could ruin my life.

"I know." He pouted. "Fine, date the prat, but don't come crying to me when he breaks your fragile little heart." He stopped off dramatically. I rolled my eyes at his obscene lack of dignity.

My mother's face drifted back into my mind.

"Come on," She coaxed softly, "swish and lift." I tried one more time and a blue spray came from my wand.

"That's it darling!" She exclaimed throwing her arms around me.

"Isis!" My father's voice boomed. Mum pulled away from me and straightened her robes. "That's completely useless. Teach her something that will help the cause, not make her look like a water fae."

"She's eight years old." Mum protested. Dad came over and picked me up.

"She's a princess."

They liked to use me to hurt each other.

"My daughter can do anything." My father said proudly. "Look at what she can already do. A metamorphmagus and a parseltongue. Have you ever seen more natural talent in any witch?" That was his way of saying mother wasn't gifted.

That was the beginning of my mother becoming hard. She was never harsh with me, but she used to be, at the very least, polite with everyone. Then a few years later she started killing people who displeased her. I haven't seen my father since.

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