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Title: The Poet's Wish

Author: ReadingRed

Beta: DukeBrymin

Chapter Eleven: The Plans

The first few months in the past went by smoothly. The Potters had found a house that suited them: three floors with three bedrooms on each floor and at least one bathroom to each floor. With the way Weasleys seem to procreate they knew they'd need the space eventually, and in the meantime they wanted to have room for Sirius and Remus if either one of the men chose to live at the aptly-named Lions' Den. With as many Gryffindors who would live inside its walls there wasn't any other choice but to give it a name that reflected that fact.

After the house had been acquired the real plans had begun to be laid out. First and foremost was to free Sirius from Azkaban. Harry's first idea was to simply invade the prison and get Sirius out immediately; luckily Ginny was there to point out that it would mean Sirius would be on the run for the rest of his life, leaving one prison for another.

The new plan was to deliver Peter to Dumbledore and hope Dumbledore had enough pull to get Sirius released. Of course, the plan hinged on getting access to Peter in his rat form. Ginny knew that before Scabbers was Ron's pet he belonged to Percy but beyond that she couldn't remember when he had come to live with her family. To her it seemed like he had been there all her life.

Harry had the idea to contact Remus, explain the situation to him and hope he believed them enough to help them accomplish what needed to be done. This mean that now the entire plan hinged on them being able to convince one man that everything he had believed for the last four years was a lie.

Freeing Sirius wasn't the only plan the Potters were working on. They knew that in order for Finley to kill Voldemort, the horcruxes all needed to be destroyed and, while neither Harry nor Ginny could kill the man for Finley, they could do the preparatory work. They knew where the majority of the horcruxes were, the Gaunt ring would be the easiest to find and destroy-Dumbledore wouldn't go after it for years so it was still resting in the same shack. Ravenclaw's Diadem was hidden in the Room of Requirement at Hogwarts but Ginny figured that posing as parents to potential Hogwarts students should grant them access enough to get the Diadem without being noticed.

Gaining access to the next three horcruxes depended on Sirius being out of prison. Slytherin's locket was at his ancestral home. But it was hidden so, although Ginny and Harry knew they had been there before, they couldn't quite remember where there was. Hufflepuff's goblet was in Bellatrix Lestrange's vault, which Sirius would have access to as head of the Black family, since Bellatrix was a member. The diary was hidden at the Malfoy Manor and Sirius would inherit everything if Lucius and his wife were incarcerated, which was yet another plan Harry and Ginny were working on.

Those five horcruxes would be simple enough to get, but the other two wouldn't be so easy. The piece of Voldemort that was in Finley couldn't be dislodged without killing the boy, even if it was only until they could revive him, and neither Harry nor Ginny were happy with that option. The final piece of Voldemort was the one inside Nagini and for as much as they tried, neither of the adult Potters could think of where she might be.

But, they could still work on their other plans, and since these plans had all been laid out, Ginny and Harry were ready to get started.

"How do you think this sounds?" Harry asked as he passed Ginny the third draft of his letter to Remus.

Ginny took it with a tired smile. They'd been at this for hours, trying to get the wording just right. Her eyes skimmed the short paragraphs and took note of all the small inside jokes and bits of information that only someone close to Remus and Sirius would know. As she came to the end of the letter she looked up.

"It's perfect. I'm not saying it will work for sure, but it will at least get him thinking about the possibility. He believed it last time, so I'm sure we'll be able to convince him if he'll only just meet us."

Harry smiled and took the letter from Ginny's hand. He sealed it with a wave of his wand and a silent incantation.

They didn't have an owl so Harry turned the seal on the back of the letter into a portkey and sent the letter directly to Remus, whom they'd found him through the Werewolf registry.

"I have an idea," Ginny said, as she watched the letter disappear out of sight. "I think we should intercept Errol."

"What?" Harry asked, not understanding what good that could possibly do.

"No, listen. We intercept Errol as he leaves the Burrow and say he showed up at our window with someone else's post. Mum will invite us in for tea and you can excuse yourself to the bathroom which just so happens to be right past Percy's room. You get Wormtail and then we can be off."

Harry grinned and pulled Ginny into his arms. "You, my dear, are a genius," he said as he pressed a kiss to her smiling lips.

"Ugh, yuck!" Teddy yelled as he came into the library and saw his parents. "No, Finn stop. You don't want to see this," Teddy said as he pushed Finley out the door, just as the older boy was entering.

Ginny and Harry burst into laughter at their son's antics. "How your parents ever found the time to make so many of you Weasleys I'll never know," commented Harry. "It seems like we can't even manage a kiss without being interrupted."

"Well, when we go there, you can ask them," Ginny said with a straight face as she reluctantly pulled out of Harry's embrace.

"Oh yes, that will go over well. 'Hullo Mrs…. umm what was it, Wesley? However did you manage to have such an immense amount of children? Ah, a sleeping potion in their glass of milk you say? How interesting," Harry joked.

"A sleeping potion? Now that's a good idea," Ginny replied.

Harry grinned at Ginny before going back to their original conversation. "Well now that that's settled, do you want to go kidnap an owl or shall I?"