Chapter 5: The Ministry of Magic
The next morning I wake up to the smell of food, groaning I wake up and get ready for the day. I choose a simple outfit of jeans and a red blouse with a dark purple almost black cloak. Making my way to the dining room to see dad and Clarisse already up and eating while Percy walks out of the kitchen holding a plate of what looks like blue pancakes. Walking back upstairs I decide to wake the twins with a wakeup prank. Entering their room I turn their hair green and silver and conjuring a rubber ball onto their noses, before exiting I conjure a bunch of snow to collapse in about ten minutes. Walking back to the dining room I shrug, grabbing a helping and scrape a pancake in to the fire and beginning to eat. All of a sudden, we hear screams from upstairs followed by footsteps. Looking at the doorway I burst out laughing at the twins, soon the whole table is laughing. Giving dad a high five I turn back to Fred and George, glaring at me they slowly begin to realize what had happened. The looks of disbelief set everybody else into another round of laughter including the twins.
Calming down "You know what this means Gred?"
"I believe I do Forge."
Together they say, "Prank war!"
Grinning at my dad "Well Prongs you want to even the odds a little bit?" Still looking at the twins as their look turns to horror. Not wanting to be left out the other, two quickly join the twins.
My dad grinning wider "I believe I do Moonshine. You know what this means though?"
"I believe we're going to have to call in reinforcements. Moony and Padfoot should be enough." I then burst into laughter with my dad, as the look of horror turned terror on all of the opposed face. "But first we need to make our way to make our way to the ministry, Make sure that they can't try anything on Padfoot."
In a flash of light, an envelope appears on my dad empty plate. Picking it up he explains that it is missive to give the minister explaining what is going on and why he is popping up along with a copy of the blood results from the goblins signed by Apollo.
After everybody was presentable we walk to the street my dad sticks his wand out in the street. With a pop a triple-decker bus appears, doors opening a young man steps out "Welcome to the day bus, I'm Stan and I'll be your director today. The cost to ride is 7 sickles apiece for coffee it will be a galleon extra." Stepping forward I hand him 2 galleons and 8 sickles for all of us to ride.
Stepping into the bus we all walk to the back of the bus and ascend to the second floor. Taking a seat in the back the others follow and talking in hushed voices until we make it to the stop. It took about fifteen minutes to reach our destination, getting out of the bus I follow my dad as we all pile into a red telephone box. After dialing the number to the ministry's number a voice sounds "Welcome to the ministry of magic, please state your names and business."
"Rose Potter, James Potter, Percy Jackson, Clarisse La Rue, and Fred Weasley George Weasley to present evidence on a ongoing investigation." Clinking in the coin slot makes me look down and pick up the badges distributing them to the correct people.
As we begin, descending the voice says "Please have a pleasant morning in the ministry and check in your wands in to the reception desk."
As the last of the light from the top disappears we begins shining from our feet and rising, reaching the bottom, all of us who have not seen the ministry stare at the high sealing, onyx and gold colored walls, floor, and sealing. After seeing all of this we notice the fountain with a witch , a wizard, a house elf, a centaur, and goblin made out of what looks like pure gold.
Making our way to the reception desk, we check in our wands. Upon reaching my dad he looks up, but holds up a finger to his lips to be quiet, handing him a slip of paper the gods had sent him this morning the security guard motions for a nearby auror. Walking over the female auror with pink hair reads the paper "If you would follow me I'll take you to the minister. By the way I am Auror Nymphadora Tonks I believe you know me hood and Weasley's. I remember seeing you rose when you were a first year. I was a seventh year 'puff at the time. I also used to baby sit you when you were born. Wish you could have come to live with us after your parent's death." Smiling and wishing us a good day and to see us soon she ushers us into the office we had stopped in.
Before she could go, I stop her write my floo address and hand her the paper "Come visit tonight I would like to get to know someone else who is a metamorph to help me learn. Also so, I can have some other female company other than Clarisse and me. The blokes are alright but us girls have to stick together."
Smiling she thanks me and promises to visit as soon as she is off work. Stepping into the office, I see three people waiting for us a man and two women. Stepping forward "Ms. Potter a pleasure! I am Cornelius Fudge and the woman on my left is senior undersecretary Umbridge and the right the head of The DMLE Madam Bones." Shaking the hands of the women I exchange greetings "Now I hope nothing is wrong. I don't know if you know but Sirius black has escaped."
Still smiling "You know that is one of the purposes for today's visit. Along with renouncing the return of a very important man, back into our society. Dad if you would lower your hood." Seeing the surprise on their faces, he hands them the missive and documents from the goblins. "As you can see these documents can prove that my dad is back and mom was never dead. You see the Olympian council gave us permission to share a very important piece of information that may not leave this room without our permission or the gods themselves any leeks will be stopped before they happen. Now, I am the daughter of James but that is not my entire mom was not a muggle-born like you thought but the goddess Lady Artemis."
I am about to continue when a flash of light appears and my mom is standing dropping to a bow followed closely by the other occupants of the room "Rise and be seated. As Rose, my daughter said I am Artemis, goddess of the moon, hunt, archery, and childbirth. She is my daughter. Now before we continue I would like to point out that the Dursley family has already been taken care of for child abuse, neglect, and a whole host of other things. So she will never be going back there. And now I believe my daughter is going to explain the reason their badges say evidence bringers."
"Err… alright now as she was saying. We have come into some new evidence for the arrest of Sirius Black." Sitting back down dad stands.
"I don't know how you guys thought Sirius was our secret keeper but that is not the case. He was never the secret keeper. In fact, Peter Pettigrew was the keeper. Sirius was a decoy, so that Moldyvort was distracted trying to chase him. Instead of keeping us, hidden Peter ran straight to Voldie. Sold us out the traitor, and knowing that Sirius probably went after him only to get framed." Sitting down and frowning at the looks of disbelief on the three officials faces.
Turning to my mom, I smile before turning back to the other adults "I know this is hard to believe but it's true. We just hope that you will correct this mistake that way we may move past it."
Regaining his senses the minister smiles at me. "I will write u a full pardon and draw back the kiss on sight orders for the dementors. He will still have to come in for questioning but if what you say is true then this will be all corrected in no time." My mom stands, with everybody looking at her a flash appears leaving a man with shaggy black hair and beard, which smells like a sewer. Looking slightly out of it the man looks around stopping on mom and dad he blinks and stares until dad stands and opens his arms and the man jumps forwards and embraces him. Smiling mom wraps her arms around both of them, wrinkling her nose he separates them and snaps her fingers in a blink of an eye the once dirty man is cleaned up, trimmed up, and dressed. Looking and smelling like a new man, he is embraced. After a few minutes, they break apart. While all of this was happening, Apollo and Dionysus had flashed in to check on the man's health.
"Sirius I need you to sit in this chair while my brothers Apollo heals you up injury wise and Dionysus heals your mind. They do not mean you harm but will help you better than anybody else you would be able to find." Nodding his understanding he sits down and the two gods get to work.
Dionysus finishes first whistling he says, "Wherever he has been it really messed up his psyche. It's a good thing he didn't have any lasting effects from that." Nodding Apollo says the same about his health.
Look at Dionysus "Mr. D I have a friend whose parents are stuck in the long term ward at saint Mungo's long term ward due to being tortured to insanity. I was hoping you could look at them and see if there is anything you can do for them, please? His name is Neville Longbottom and he is one of my closest friends and god-brother."
He looks at me "Alright but I want one those fire whiskey's you guys have in the Slytherin vault. Just have Hermes send it to me and we will be good. It will be done after about an hour after this meeting finishes." Looking at Apollo, he says the same.
Agreeing with their terms, they flash away. Looking at dad, he smiles encouragingly. Walking over to my godfather, I throw myself into his waiting arms hugging him I smile. Pulling back I turn to the minister. "I believe we have the man who needs questioned. How about we have the trial tomorrow so you can get everything ready and I have at our manor until the trial? Also can I borrow the floo to get the Longbottoms to meet us at the hospital?" Quickly agreeing the minister allows us to contact them and confirming where to meet us. After the minister dismisses us followed by the director Madam Bones.
Handing her a note with the manors floo and asking her to come tonight, agreeing to meet us with Auror Tonks we are teleported to the manor by my mom. Turning to her, I hug her and start to laugh as I see another disgruntled man standing behind Padfoot. Turning to see what I'm looking at Sirius yelps.
"Moony!" is heard from dad, Sirius, and me. Smiling I let go of mom and tackle him. Letting go dad and Padfoot helps us up embracing the werewolf. Who by now is crying at seeing a friend who was dead and another who was imprisoned? Looking at the other four teens I grin "Well my teams already for the prank war," hearing those words Moony, Padfoot and Prongs all gather behind me. Then we burst out laughing as they all start trembling. "But first we need to head to the hospital and check with the Longbottoms. Nippy." with a pop the house elf appears. "Can you go to the Slytherin vault and pick up two bottles of fire whiskey along with five dozen butter beers and have it wrapped and ready before we get home all except one dozen of butter beer?"
With an affirmative from the happy elf we walk to the fire and floo to the hospital, the next thing I know I am getting a hug from somebody nearly nocking back into the fire. Smiling at who I see "Hey Nev you're going to have to let go. We need to make our way up to your parents I have a surprise up there. And a few other surprises afterwards." Walking to the room only took a few minutes but when we arrive, I see the two gods working on them. "Neville I would like you to meet Lords Dionysus and Apollo I ask them for their help earlier. As you probably know Mr. D is the god of Madness among other things and Apollo the god of healing and other things. The reason I know them is simple, you see the woman over there that is Artemis, and she is my mom. You see she was going to Hogwarts to recruit some girls but along the way, she fell in love. So in order to stay she took on the name Lily Evans and used the mist, a supernatural veil used to keep most mortals from seeing the monsters, gods, and other stuff that cannot be handled by mortals. So throughout the years my mom and dad were falling deeper in love and right before their last year she told him her real identity. But as you can probably guess dad thought, she was kidding, after hours of trying to convince him she took him to Olympus. After that, they were dating and then they had me. The rest is straightforward, that night Moldyvort came to our house he killed dad. After reaching the nursery where mom was trying to get me he shot the killing curse at mom, but as a god she could not die but that did not stop it from knocking her unconscious for a while. Stepping over her body, he tried to kill me but mom had made a deal with death to save me. Nothing too bad for a deal. Skipping to earlier this summer I was attacked by a monster saved by Percy and taken to camp, claimed, brought my dad back to life with mom, given a quest, and came here. We this morning we went to the ministry and got my god father Sirius Black a trial, and those two over their came and healed him up, knowing that your parents were driven insane I convinced them to help by giving them some of the fire whiskey from one of my vaults. And that's about it."
The next thing I know I am wrapped up in two sets of arms in a bear hug. They are both crying and thanking me and all I can do is hug back smiling and happy to see them so happy. Finally letting go when the gods walk over they start thanking them profusely. "Nippy. Can you bring the wrapped packages to me?" With a pop the house elf appears with the bottles handing the fire whisky to them "These are the best bottles in the vault, I also want you guys to have these butter beers completely alcohol free they are for kids, three dozen are for your kids Apollo and the other dozen for yours Mr. D. All the drinks are especially good in the winter months."
Thanking them, they flash out, turning to look at the Longbottoms all hugging and stuff I turn to the others of my group and we decide to leave. Telling Neville I would see him on the express, we head back home.