I've edited and added things in previous chapters, so if you'd like to then go back and read. The most significant thing is I've added two characters to the list of people who have to be present at the readings and memory viewings, Ash and Carol Mallowitz.
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After hearing the normally cheerful Filius announce darkly that he would handle Umbridge as she had walked out of the Great Hall, Minerva McGonagall had nothing to keep her mind occupied. Attempting to put her nervous energy to use, Minerva had hastily written letters to the people who would be present at tomorrow's evening ordeal. Once finished, she had paced around her quarters, sharp footsteps muffled by the carpets on the stone floor. No books had been able to hold her attention; there was nothing productive left to do. This had led to the current state of her office, much like the current state of her jumbled mind; disarray.
She had tried to plan for things; she had attempted to predict how the ordeal that had only just begun might play out, but she knew it was an exercise in futility. The minister, Lucius Malfoy and Sirius Black brought into the school, a deeper look into Severus's life . . . coping with the incoming, inevitable knowledge of who had lived and died . . . the man who had claimed to be Harry Potter, disappearing into green light. . . .
Hermione Granger had appeared with the box, and she had been angry with herself for not inspecting it in the first place. Though there were no harmful spells on it or its contents she had been able to feel the magic coming off of it; she had been shocked that she could almost sensed the emotions coming off of the book, the amount of energy the author – as it said, Harry Potter – had put into it. The memories, too, reeked of something passionate but indefinable. As she had placed it carefully upon a shelf she had wondered how Severus and Potter would handle this, their upcoming exposure.
Truly, Minerva wondered how all of them would handle this. Not only would the contents of the box affect the people listed, but also all of Hogwarts, all of Wizarding Britain, perhaps even other magical communities around the world. Perhaps there would even be repercussions in the muggle world. Who was to know? Anything could happen.
After staring for a seemingly endless period of time at her scattered mess of broken quills on the desk across the room, she heard a knock at her door. Too tired to mind whether or not it was another time-traveler, she said "Come in." She heard the lock click free.
The door opened, and in walked Albus, flecks of light bouncing off his blue robes and onto the stone walls, his outfit as dazzling as his sudden reappearance. He raised both of his thick, grey eyebrows at her expression of mingled relief and shock.
His eyes outshone his robes by miles, and Minerva smiled as she hadn't in months.
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Hi guys! I'm back :) Please tell me what you thought.
THE NEXT CHAPTER WILL HAVE THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE BOOK.
And warnings.