Author's Note: Here is Chapter 2! I have to tell you, that this chapter completely took on a life of its own and didn't listen to me at all. The last part of it is extremely AU, since it refers to Lillian's family tree when she was alive. It differs VERY MUCH from the actual Child of Spring. Just saying. Lila Parker and John Parker are mentioned in Child of Spring, but that's all the similarities there are. I know it's sort of.. cliche at the end, but I couldn't help it. My fingers ran away with themselves. I decided to end the chapter where it was so it's a little short. I do plan on getting things back on track to where I wanted them to wind up, and it will be interesting to see how long Lillian's missing before Jack (or Pitch!) decided to search everywhere for her. Anyway, I hope you like this fic. It's.. it's going to be really weird, I can already tell.

I also made up a couple characters, but I decided any (alive) OCs should already be related to existing Harry Potter characters.

Chapter Two: Not Quite a Muggle

When Lillian finally started snapping out of her daze, she discovered she was now in a small room lined with file cabinets. She blinked and looked around confusedly. She was sitting in a chair by a desk and she saw that the walls were lined with extensive family trees.

She saw on the desk there was a nameplate, but she didn't recognize the name. She furrowed her brow as she read it. It declared that the desk belonged to Stephen Jorkins of Family Affairs.

Family Affairs? That didn't ring any bells either. Reading the man's name though, reminded her that she had a name. Her eyes widened a little as that name didn't come to her immediately. Then in a flash she remembered it was Lillian.

She relaxed a little only to tense up again. Lillian what? She realized in a panic that she could barely remember anything! Why was everything so fuzzy?!

As she continued to panic, her bracelet began to glow as it reacted to her emotions. And before Lillian knew it, chaos was reining in the small office.

Stephen Jorkins was conversing with his older sister, who still hadn't curbed her habit of gossiping and sharing secrets that shouldn't be shared. She was very excited since The Department of Magical Sports and Games was thinking of resurrecting something that Albus Dumbledore was all for and it would be very exciting for everyone if they got all parties to agree -

Much to Stephen's relief, Arthur Weasley came rushing over to explain that a young muggle girl had been obliviated and her parents were nowhere to be found. Stephen looked at Arthur, a little confused.

"But I deal with magical families," he explained. "How in the world am I supposed to find a muggle family?"

"I don't know!" Arthur said, looking distressed. "We weren't sure what to do with her. She had claimed to be from the United States. She had made her way to our house and witnessed.. er.. magical.. things.." Arthur said, his ears reddening much like Ron's did when Ron was under pressure, "and.. well, when I discovered this and that she didn't know a thing about magic, I obliviated her. She also kept going on and on about a spring spirit, so I obliviated that knowledge from her as well, just to be on the safe side. It should only have been a few memories, but she's acting more confused than normal, as if I had taken a large amount of memories."

Stephen frowned at this. He knew Arthur was perfectly capable of performing a simple memory charm, so why was this particular child having such an adverse reaction to it?

"I could try the family tree potion. It's something that I use instead of heading to Gringotts for the ancestry test. Fairly cheaper too, although it doesn't go back as far as goblin magic can. They're capable of tracing a family all the way back to its roots, you know. As for her reaction to your memory charm, I supposed we'll have to wait and see. Perhaps it's effected her more strongly than normal and will take her longer to recover. I'll go see to her."

Stephen noted that Bertha was listening very closely to the conversation and he gave his sister a look to say that she shouldn't be talking about this to anyone. Bidding both her and Arthur a good day, he rushed off to his office to see this poor muggle child.

When he reached his office, he opened the door and then abruptly stopped and stared in shock. It looked like there were flowers everywhere and on top of that, it was raining inside his office! He looked up at the ceiling and stared even more in disbelief when he saw an actual rain cloud up there.

What. The.

Before he could even finish that thought, a sound caught his attention and he turned his gaze towards his desk. A very distraught child was standing by his desk, soaking wet and crying her eyes out.

His look of disbelief softened and he pulled his wand out. He cast a simple finite incantatem and then stared some more when the rain failed to stop and the flowers remained where they were. Nonplussed and a little worried, he swept his wand to the flowers and said spoke very clearly.

"Evanesco!"

To his relief, the vanishing spell promptly caused all the flowers to disappear. He then tried the spell again on the rain cloud, but the thing stubbornly refused to disappear.

Lillian heard the man's voice and looked around tearfully when she noticed that he had made the flowers disappear. She saw him try the same trick on the cloud, but it refused to disappear. She pointed at it with her right hand, the same hand that had the bracelet on it.

"I wish you'd go away!" she said forcefully to the cloud, and to her complete surprise (and Stephen Jorkins') it promptly stopped raining and the cloud dissipated and completely disappeared.

Stephen's jaw was practically on the ground since Arthur had just sincerely assured him that this child was very much a muggle. Now it seemed that was definitely not the case.

He winced as he thought of the implications of this. She looked quite young, too young for her to receive her letter yet, so all of that must have been some very powerful accidental magic.

He took a deep breath and waved his wand again, casting a quick drying spell on the child and the room at large. All the water promptly disappeared although there were several documents on his desk that were now ruined.

Great.

He walked inside and over to the child, who was wiping her tears away.

"I'm sorry..!" she cried as soon as she saw him. "I don't know what happened! It came out of nowhere! I didn't mean it!"

Stephen gave her a friendly smile.

"Hey there, it's alright," he said to her in a soft, reassuring voice. "That was an accident and you couldn't help it. My name is Stephen Jorkins and I'm in charge of helping you. I heard you had a very trying day today. Can you think really hard and tell me about anything that you remember?"

Lillian bit her lip as she thought. Everything was so fuzzy.

"My name is Lillian," she said after a long pause. "Um.. everything else is kinda.. fuzzy."

Stephen inwardly winced.

Everything?

He remembered that Arthur had erased all knowledge of magic from her. If she came from a magical family, then magic must have been a large part of her life. It would make sense then that a good portion of those memories would now be hidden from her, locked away deep in her mind. It would take someone extremely skilled at Legilimency to help unlock those memories.

Hoo boy.

He hoped to hell that she wasn't from a prominent pureblood family, or they were in deep trouble.

"Everything, eh? Well.. I'll see what we can do about finding someone to help you out with that," Stephen said, trying very hard not to panic about this as he took a seat at his desk and gestured for Lillian to sit down in a chair.

"Right now, we have to figure out who your family is," he said as she took a seat. "I have a special drink that will do just that. You have to put three drops of your blood into it and then wait while it changes colors. Then I dip a quill into it and let some drops drip onto a parchment and it should tell us just who your family is, from your great-grandparents on down.

"Wow!" Lillian said, looking awed. "Can a drink really do all that? It's like magic!"

Stephen nearly facepalmed at that. Just what did she think that whole rain cloud business was?! Not to mention he had cast several spells, including instantly drying her.

He carefully schooled his features though as he reminded himself that this was a child and she didn't have the first clue about magic now.

Nodding to himself, he rummaged through his desk drawers until he came upon the one that was magically expanded on the inside to hold several potions for himself. He didn't have a need for them very often, but with stasis charms cast on them, they would be fresh for several months. It was certainly a lot easier than brewing up whatever he needed on the spot, as several of the potions were very complicated to make.

He pulled out a flask of a dark blue potion and set it on his desk top. He then pulled out a silver dagger he kept for just such occasions.

"Alright Lillian. I need you to be a brave girl, alright?" Stephen said to her, in his soft reassuring voice.

Lillian nodded. She remembered how the man said that he needed three drops of her blood for the special drink. She eyed the dagger, but it was more with curiosity than fear. She didn't know why, but she had the feeling that not a lot of things really scared her. Well, at least daggers didn't scare her much. She just knew she could trust this Family Affairs guy, though she didn't know why she felt that way.

She held her hand out to him, the one without the bracelet and he carefully nicked her index finger and squeezed out three small drops of blood into the potion. It instantly turned a lighter, more frosty blue as the first drop of blood hit it and then settled into a very springy blue by the time the third drop and settled in.

Stephen frowned a little, as usually the potion only changed colors once and that was when the third drop hit. Was this child particularly magical? That accidental magic was a very impressive display.

He waited a full minute to be certain that the blood had a chance to mix with the potion properly before he got out a specially charmed quill that was used just for this. He dipped it into the potion as if he was dipping it into an inkwell and then pulled out a fresh sheet of parchment. He carefully balanced the point of the quill onto the parchment and let go.

It stood straight up all by itself for a moment, before it began writing.

Lillian stared at it in amazement as it was writing. This is the coolest thing EVER! she thought as she watched it.

Stephen couldn't help chuckling to himself as the child was entranced with the quill. Soon it stopped writing, and Stephen picked up the parchment.

"Let's see.." he said as he began to silently read the parchment.

It read:

Alice Clarion (deceased) - Jack Page (deceased)

There was a double line that came down from the line that was inbetween Alice and Jack's names to indicate the children that the two had between them. As Stephen scanned the parchment, it was apparent that they had three children, two boys and a girl. One boy had died young, while the second had married but had no children. The girl had apparently grown and married. The girl's name was Martha Page, but her last name had changed when she married a Vincent Brighton. Both were listed as deceased, and Stephen noted with relief that they had one child, a girl.

The woman's name was listed as Lila Brighton and she had married one John Parker, but her entry was most interesting as she had a man's name noted to the left of her name, and it was there that the double line connected down to Lillian. The man's name however was most certainly not John Parker and there were no further indications that they had ever been married. Stephen raised an eyebrow at that. Apparently Lillian's mother, Lila, had had Lillian out of wedlock and then went on to marry this John Parker.

Stephen noted that with some sadness that Lila was deceased. John was not listed as deceased, but Stephen wasn't interested in him at the moment. At most he'd be Lillian's step-father, and not an actual blood relation. He turned his gaze to the name that now interested him.. The name of Lillian's father.

Robert Prince. (deceased)

Stephen furrowed his brow as he read the name.. Prince. That sounded vaguely familiar to him, as did the name Clarion at the top of Lillian's family tree. He set the family tree aside and stood up. On top of one of the filing cabinets was a very large, heavy book that looked quite old. He quickly cast a charm on it to make it feather light and then easily set it down on his desk. He opened the book to the extensive index and then used his finger to go down the list of names.

Aha!

Clarion was listed. He knew it! The book he was looking at contained most of England's pureblood family trees, though most were condensed and didn't go back that far. It was just enough to be a good reference for him if he needed help researching families. It was rare for a magical child's parents to die with no will set in place, or godparents listed, but it did happen sometimes. When it did, it was Stephen's job to research the family and figure out where they should be placed.

He didn't bother turning to the Clarion family tree just yet. First, he would look up the father's relatives. The Princes. He quickly found their listing in the book and discovered that Robert Prince had a sister, Eileen Prince. Eileen had married one Tobias Snape and they had..

Stephen's eyes widened in shock as he looked at that.

Severus Snape.

That would technically make him..

Lillian's uncle?!

Author's Note: Betcha didn't see that coming! Hopefully. I realized I forgot to add an ending Author's Note and I fixed a few typos. The Clarions are a name I borrowed from Disney and are a rather powerful wizarding family that was thought to have died out. I realized that since this fic is totally AU, it'd be fun to have some of Lillian's family actually be magical. Then I remembered that with purebloods, mostly everyone are related in some way, and then I thought of who Lillian could be related to.. I seriously considered Sirius Black (through Regulus of all people!), but decided it would be more fun if it could be someone that would be at Hogwarts. Then I thought of my favorite snarky Potions professor and I HAD to. Although I have to admit that I became more of a Snape fan long after I'd finished the Harry Potter series. He was so evil to Harry that I really didn't like him at all when I was reading the Harry Potter books. But his personality reminds me a little of Pitch's. I'm thinking of having those two meet at some point, just because.

A tiny hint at upcoming plot is that Snape won't be the only reason Lillian winds up at Hogwarts. No, it isn't Harry. Or Ron. Or Arthur Weasley.

As always, I welcome any plot suggestions or comments. Thanks for reading!

Oh and also! All this drama is going on during Harry's stay at the Weasley's. I think he stayed with them for.. around a month? I think.. before his shopping trip. So I might skip back to them early, I don't know. I'm not sure what all will be skipped or not. I might not feel the need to fully explain certain HP events as I'm assuming you've read the book and remember the plot.