Lily Luna Potter sat on the stairs watching her parents argue, she stayed silent hidden behind the railing.
"Harry things haven't been this bad for years, fifteen prisoners have escaped from Azkaban and they are after her" Ginny Weasley shouted
Lily sighed she hated to see her parents mad at each other and it was never good when you had a Weasley woman mad at you. To make it worse this fight was about her, Lily may have felt bad for her father but not enough to go done stairs and risk being caught in the firing line.
"What are you doing?" Lily jumped slightly as Hugo Crouched beside her.
"Sshhh" Lily replied tapping her ear then pointing to the string she was holding. Hugo Weasley had seen enough of these to know it was an extendable ear from Uncle George's joke shop, not questioning it he just sat down to listen in.
"Don't you think I know that, I spend every minute of my day trying to catch them, but what are we meant to do till then, the safest place she could be is Hogwarts and that's closed for the summer." Harry said in a calm even voice.
"Well what about Teddy's grandmother Andromeda Tonk's" as soon as the words left Ginny's mouth Lily sprang to her feet interrupting her parent's argument.
"You can't be serious" stomping down the stairs with a scowl on her freckled face, she wanted to be sure her parents knew exactly how she felt about this.
"Now Lily calm down this is just an idea" Harry replied, he should have known Lily would be ease dropping, none of his children were fond of being left out of discussions.
"Don't tell me to calm down, Andromeda lives in America, I won't go." Lily wined then stomped back up the stairs with her untamed fiery red hair flying in all directions as she went.
"Nothing has been decided yet Lily, come back here so we can talk about this" Harry called out to his daughter but the only reply he got was the slamming of her bedroom door.
Hugo looked at his uncle and aunt standing in the lounge "I'll go talk to her" and trudged up the stairs after his cousin, if anyone could get her to calm down it was him and he wasn't sure she would be fond of the idea of being in the same room as either of her parents right now.
"Lily open up, it's me," Hugo said as he rattled Lily's locked doors.
"What do you want?" came the sound of Lily's muffled voice. Hugo could picture Lily lying on her light purple bed face down in the pillow as she spoke. Her room with a Gryffindor flag, Holyhead Harpies posters and an array of muggle photographs covering her wall and a variety of muggle and wizard books scattered throughout her room only about half of witch sat in their proper place on her shelves.
"I only wanted to see if my favorite cousin was OK, but if you don't want me here I will just go." Hugo said, Lily wasn't the stealthiest of people and he could hear her stumbling her way to the door.
"no don't leave" Lily reached out and grabbed Hugo's hand pulling him into her room and shutting her door with another forceful bang so her parents would know she is still mad. The two went to sit on the window seat with lilac cushions that looked out over the main road running through their small home town of Godric hollow.
It was a warm sunny day and it seemed as if all the children were on the street together playing. After a few minutes of silence Hugo cracked and spoke "come on Lily" nudging her shoulder playfully he asked "what's on your mind"
"It's just how could they do this to me, send me to America I mean." Lily said with tears building in her eyes
"You herd them it's just an idea it's not set in stone yet." She just scoffed at Hugo's comment
"You saw their faces after mum said it, they're going to do it, I know them" she continued to vent "It's not fair why am I the only one being sent away"
"well" Hugo replied choosing his words carefully as not to upset her further " I heard from rose that the escaped criminal from last night left Uncle Harry a threat to harm the people he loved most, I'm not meant to know this but the whole family is freaking out that they might come after you since you're his youngest child and only daughter, actually you're the youngest in the entire Potter-Weasley family combined, they probably think you are the easy target" Lily glared at her cousin with his typical Weasley freckles and ginger hair.
"You are only two weeks older than me and I could beat half of our cousins in a duel." Lily's voice was starting to rise and Hugo knew he had to calm her down.
"I know that Lily but those people don't, and I only meant you were an easy target because you would be the easiest to get to in a town where the majority of people that live here are muggles. And all our cousins are pretty safe where they are." Hugo said trying to get Lily to understand why she could be in danger.
"Teddy has been an Auror for a good seven years now and Victoria and their kids Dora and John are safe at number twelve Grimmauld place, Dominque and Roxanne are all the way in France with the Delacour Family and with the success of their clothes line over there they won't be coming back any time soon. Molly and baby Arthur have frank who is also a really good Auror to look after them, Lucy just got a position as a reserve Chaser with the Holyhead Harpies so she won't be staying in one place for long, James is traveling with Puddlemore United, Louise is all the way in Romania working with uncle Charlie and Rose and Albus are in the middle of training to be Auror's, it only leaves us." Hugo took a deep breath and carried on "that is why I will come with you, if you do go"
Lily looked up at her cousin with a grateful smile and hugged him "thank you so much Huey"
"No problem Lily we Gryffindor need to stick together, besides someone needs to make sure you don't get into too much trouble." Hugo replied.
Lily let go then looked outside and saw two young children giggling as they ran down the street and she thought that maybe with Hugo by her side the summer may not be so bad after all.
"Lily it's only for the summer you will still go back to Hogwarts for seventh year, three months darling that's all it will be" Ginny said trying to sooth her fears
"But why forks I've never even heard of that place" she wasn't fond of the idea of moving to America let alone some unknown town in the middle of nowhere.
"Your Aunt Andromeda bought a small house in forks during a point in the second war when it got really bad, there is something about that town and we don't know what but it interferes with our magic, so while you are there no one will be able to trace you." Harry replied he had done hours of research on this town to ensure his daughter would be safe.
Lily perked up at that "does that mean I will be able to do magic."
"Technically yes but I don't want you touching that wand unless absolutely necessary, me and your mother will be checking in on a regular basis and while you're there you will do as Andromeda says." Her father's stern words made it clear how he wanted her to behave but she was certain herself and Hugo would be able to get away with a small number of rule breaking.
"But your sending me to a strange country and I can't even do magic, I will be turning 17 while I'm there so I will be of age soon anyway." Harry sighed at his daughter's stubbornness
"Fine you can use your wand on occasions but no pranks, and never while in the presence of muggles. While you're there you still have to follow the laws." Harry relented slightly
"Ok Deal, I guess I'm going to America." Her mother sighed in relief that her daughter had agreed to find safety in a place so far away from home.
"Thank you baby, I know this isn't how you intended to spend your summer but you're putting our minds at ease." Ginny said giving Lily a bone crushing hug
"It's ok mum I think this could actually be an awesome adventure." She replied realizing how much her parents wanted her to be somewhere safe, while they try to apprehend the criminals.
A.N: I have a list of the Next generation that lists their: age, house, occupation, let me know if you would be interested in seeing this. I could post along with my next chapter .