Chapter 5

Living in the darkest of days really brings your hopes, dreams, and love down with it. I lay in my bed at times wondering if the evil will finally leave my family and friends alone. If I could finally read the Daily Prophet for once and read an obituary that didn't mention Lord Voldemort or a Death Eater as the killer. That the person had only died of old age or Dragon Pox. Like the old days, the days that Great Aunt Arabella told us about. How it was when she first started attending Hogwarts with Great Uncle Sirius, Grandma Lily, and Grandfather James.

I love hearing the stories about all of them. All the stories that Auntie Arabella tells about Great Grandpa and Grandma Evans, also about Great Grandpa and Grandma Potter.

The rest of us Potter kids don't have it nearly as hard as our mums and dads did. Everything with Lord Voldemort killing Grandma Lily, Grandpa James, Uncle Sirius, and Great Grandpa Anthony. Having made Harry, Sadie, Bridget, and Adora all orphans.

When we were little the Queen and King of the Death Eaters were trying to rule the world towards the dark side. Of course the King was no where near as dangerous as the Queen, but then again the Queen of the Death Eaters was Lord Voldemort's daughter, the last heir to Slytherin. Well except for Desdemona, but at the moment all she has been showing is that she is a total spoiled brat.

Being Voldemort's granddaughter and Slytherin's last heir, I don't see why Headmistress McGonagall even agreed to let go to Hogwarts.

Mum says there is a reason why Headmistress McGonagall can not have any prejudice against any magical children. If I was Headmistress any of the kids that got sorted into Slytherin I would automatically kick out.

All Slytherins are horrible and bad people, except for Draco Malfoy. I believe that my Great, Great something Grandmother Cassandra Gryffindor was totally right. One day we Gryffindors will succeed over nasty Slytherin blood. That my family will finally get revenge over Slytherin for what they did to little Ethan Gryffindor all those years ago.

Time passed by so quickly and soon the whole Potter clan was back at Hogwarts for Ginny and Bridget's graduation from Hogwarts.

"I can't believe they are already graduating school," Molly Weasley was crying next to Arabella Black. "It feels like Ginny was just learning how to walk yesterday, it feels like I was holding her in my arms for the first time a week ago."

"I know how you feel," Bella said smiling and nodding. "I can't believe that Sadie and Harry are already married and with children, earlier bloomers just like their parents."

"And as you would have been if it hadn't been for Pettigrew."

"True," Arabella growled. "I hate that Bridget has already lost the love of her life at such a young age. I mean I know that I lost Sirius so young, but it is not as much as a tragedy for Bridget and Oliver."

"I totally agree and my heart broke for her when I found out about Oliver's death."

"Bridget spoke so beautifully at Oliver's memorial, but she still refuses to believe that he is really gone."

"She is moving on isn't she?"

"Harry convinced her to move on."

"But?" Molly asked knowing Arabella too well.

"Bridget fell back into some old shoes of hers."

"A former ex-boyfriend I presume?"

"Unfortunately," Arabella sighed.

"I am guessing that you don't really like him?"

"None of us do."

"Who is it?"

"Blaise Zambini."

Molly almost fell out of the chair that she had been sitting in next to Arabella as they were waiting for the graduation ceremony to start. "Are you kidding me!"

"I wish I were, but it is true."

"I can not believe that she has gone back to him."

"How do you think we all took it, well Harry doesn't know yet."

"He will today once Blaise shows up."

"You think Blaise would have the guts to show up tonight?" Arabella asked looking at Molly oddly.

"You never know with him, hell I have heard he is as much as a asshole as his father had been."

"Wouldn't really surprise me Molly, hell it would not even surprise me if he was still a Death Eater. I know he is lying to Bridget."

"Are you telling me that Bridget honestly does not think he is a Death Eater anymore."

"That is exactly what she thinks," Sadie Malfoy said sitting down on the other side of Molly Weasley with baby Lily in her arms. Husband Draco sitting next to her with their two-year-old daughter Breeanna in his lap.

"I can not believe that she thinks he is innocent," Molly said looking really outraged.

"Well she does not think he is totally innocent," Susan said pointing out. "But she does not think he is a Death Eater.

"Susan and I have tried to convince her that he is Death Eater. As we use to be best friends in school, before Susan turned me around, you would think what comes out of my mouth would make a difference to her."

"What are you guys barking about now?" Ron asked as he and Adora sat in the row ahead of the rest of them.

"That we can not believe that Bridget is with Blaise," Arabella sighed as she set Roselyn down on the ground to play dolls with Breeanna. They were tired of being held at this point.

"She is still with him?" Adora asked not believing what she was hearing.

"Unfortunately," Arabella sighed.

"Yes," Susan nodded. "She has informed me that now that Oliver is gone, that she will marry the first guy that asks her to."

"What!" Adora, Molly, Arabella, Ron, and Draco yelled at the same time. People turned around to see what the commotion was.

"What!" Roselyn and Bree yelled too, to copy everyone else.

"Keep your voices down," Susan nodded at all of the adults.

"When did she tell you this!" Arabella demanded to know ignoring Susan's last comment.

"During her last Hogsmeade trip."

"Merlin help us all."

Draco nodded to Arabella's comment, "Blaise is so crazy in love with her that he will ask her soon and I am guessing now that she will accept."

"That bastard will not be my nephew-in-law," Adora growled.

"Looks like we have no choice, it is all up to Bridget." Draco said and saw that everyone else in their seating group looked as disappointed as his wife was, and in all factuality Draco was very fond of his sister-in-law. Bridget was a great girl and would be a wonderful woman and wife to whomever she was to married.

"Why do all of you look so down?" Harry asked sitting down on Adora's right side as Ron was on her left. Harry looked at his Aunt Adora and best friend and then behind him at the rest of his family. "Today is a happy day," Harry said as he bounced a six month old baby James on Harry's knee. "Bridget and Ginny graduate from Hogwarts today, it is a very happy day."

"True you are Potter, true you are." Came a voice to the right of Harry and everyone turned around. The color in everyone's face but Harry's faded, there was none other than Blaise Zambini.

"What the hell are you doing here you damned Death Eater?" Harry snarled.

"Tisk, tisk." Blaise chuckled, "You really should watch your tongue around your son, daddy."

"You are not welcome here," Susan snapped standing up with baby Lily in her arms.

"Draco keep your wife in order, she should know by now how to talk to a man."

Draco stood up in front of his wife, "We both obviously have a very different view on the sanctity of marriage."

Blaise nodded to Draco's response, "Obviously we do." With that Blaise left the Potter family and went to sit a few rows up.

"What in Merlin's name is he doing here?" Harry asked outraged, "Bloody Death Eater."

"Harry James Potter!" Molly yelled, "You watch you tongue in front of my grandson!"

"That Harry, my dear nephew is…"

"Bridget's boyfriend," Adora finished.

"What!" Harry asked outraged.

"Yeah," Arabella nodded as much as she hated to do.

"You have got to be kidding me?"

"I wish."

Harry just stared at his aunt speechless, "You can not tell me that she actually went back to him!"

"I wish I was lying to you Harry, but I am not."

Oliver Wood sat in the dungeon he had called home for months now as he read the paper that Autumn Longbottom had thrown at him. Reading the front page on the Daily Prophet.

Hogwarts Graduating Class '99

Today Seventh Years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry graduate and enter into the real world. Preparing for jobs that await them and even some ministry lined up jobs. In a month and a half they will know what awaits them for the rest of their lives, this day will be when their N.E.W.T.s (Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests) arrive.

With the graduates of today include Bridget Potter and Ginerva Weasley-Potter.

Graduating Hogwarts will always be a memorable day for Miss and Mrs. Potter, but it will be more memorable to Miss Bridget Potter. What is that you ask?

Blaise Zambini.

Today Blaise Zambini asked Bridget Potter to marry him and she accepted. The happy couple has not set a date for the wedding yet, but we here at the Daily Prophet are hoping for a Summer Solstice wedding next year.

Potter and Zambini may be happy with the proposal of marriage, but it was very apparent to everyone at the graduation that Potter's family was not pleased at all with her accepting Zambini's proposal. This could be that Potter's family had been very close with her last lover, the deceased but honorable Auror Oliver Wood.

Oliver threw the paper across the dungeon and from behind him, he heard the usual chuckle. "What do you want now Autumn? Can't you see how much you have already hurt me. Physically everyday, and now she is so certain that I am dead that she has moved on to the monster and has accepted his marriage proposal."

"Priceless isn't it?"

"What did she ever do to you?"

"Being a Potter."

"She never did anything to you. Susan has Draco and he loves his sister and their daughter more than his daughter with you. I can see why you hate her. Harry threw the killing curse at your mother and your father ducked, and so you mother died. Harry killed your father, and so I can see why you hate him. But Bridget…"

"Has not had time to ruin a part of my life yet, but once she is married to Blaise and she is under his control then I know she will never hurt me. Her family will hate her and then hopefully Blaise can convince her to join the Dark Side with us."

"No matter how abusive he is to her physically and mentally, Bridget will never turn to the dark side. Her parents, grandfather, and uncle died to help defeat our world of such evil that your family has brought."

"Keep thinking that Wood," Autumn nodded. "Just keep thinking that."

"So when are you going to kill me?"

"Excuse me?"

"When are you going to kill me?"

"Why I haven't decided yet. Most likely after Potter marries Zambini and on their wedding night I will get him to bring her down here and kill you in front of her. Hell of a wedding present that will be, right? He will finally get you away from her and she will know for certain that you are dead."

"She still hashope that I am alive?" Oliver asked as his hopes began to rise.

"Yes but her family and Blaise keep telling her that there is no way possible," Autumn said in a sing-song voice as she skipped out of the dungeon.

Bridget looked down at the four karat diamond engagement ring in a platinum setting. She had really hated to accept Blaise's proposal, but she had always said she would marry the first guy that asked her since Oliver died. She still felt a connection to him, as if they were all wrong and he was indeed alive.

Blaise seemed thrilled at the thought of them getting married and he was a good man to her. He had defiantly changed and would be a good husband and provider for her.

Of course her family was not pleased with her decision, and it really made Bridget wonder what her parents, grandfather, and uncle would think about her marriage to Blaise.

Bridget knew deep down that if Oliver came walking through her bedroom door at this moment that she would call off the engagement in a heartbeat. Bridget turned to look at her bedroom door that she had at her Aunt Arabella's home, but Oliver did not break the door down and confess his undying love to her.

Bridget tucked herself into her bed and knowing that Oliver would not bust through the door, she cried herself to sleep that night but not for the first time and defiantly not to be the last.

"She is not going to marry that baboon!" Harry yelled throwing his hands up in the air and making things explode not for the first time that night.

"Harry stop!" Ginny yelled, "You will wake the…"

A cry from down the hallway made Ginny scream, "Baby! See now look what you have gone and done! You are being irrational and you have woken James up!"

"Good! He needs to know what an idiot his Aunt Bridget is!"

"Silencio!" Ginny said pointing her wand at Harry's mouth, "Maybe now my migraine will go away and James can sleep peacefully!"

"I can't believe she agreed to marry him," Susan said crying her eyes out.

"I know, love." Draco sighed wrapping his arms around his wife as she sobbed into his chest.

"He will hurt her and I know it! He is going to destroy her spirit that we all love!"

"Shh."

"Don't you tell me to shhh!" Susan yelled outraged, "My baby sister is going to make the biggest mistake of her life!"

"I was trying to console you and also ask you to keep your voice down or you will wake the children."

"Mistress," Blaise Zambini said bowing to the Queen of the Death Eaters herself, Autumn Longbottom. "She accepted!"

"I read Zambini," Autumn said sounding very uninterested.

"She shall be my wife…"

"The Daily Prophet hopes by next year's summer solstice."

"What would you say by this year's summer solstice?"

"August? Do you really think she will want to this soon?"

"I am going to talk to her tomorrow about the date and we shall see. How is Wood?"

"Destroyed."

"I don't care about his emotional stage. He still is your hostage, correct?"

"Yes and he will die here but I've got an idea."

Blaise Zambini smiled from ear to ear, "Well don't keep me waiting. What is it?"

"Bridget are you sure about this?" Ginny Potter asked her sister-in-law and best friend in Madam Malkin's Robes for all Occasions. In the very back were very nice dresses and wedding gowns also.

"About what?" Bridget asked looking at her new dress gown that her new fiancée was going to buy for her for the social event of the year.

"Your engagement to Zambini."

"Blaise?" Bridget asked turning around to look at her best friend in awe at how horrible Ginny had spoken his name.

"Yes him."

"What is wrong with you?"

"You can do so much better than him."

"I know," Bridget nodded as she gazed at how beautifully the dress robes flowed on her hourglass figure.

"So why have you agreed to marry him?"

Bridget sighed and turned back to her best friend, "Neville crushed my soul. I broke Oliver's heart over and over again, then I got my heart ripped out when they announced him dead and missing in action."

"He is dead Bridget."

"I will never accept it," Bridget said shaking her head violently.

"Then why have you agreed to marry Blaise?"

"I can not let myself get hurt again or hurt someone else."

"So you are just going to get into a loveless marriage!"

"I don't really know yet," Bridget shrugged her shoulders.

"Then why did you accept his marriage proposal!"

"Just for now, hell I could really call it off anytime I want."

"Are you serious! You accepted, you do realize that he is going to keep you and make you become his wife."

"Maybe I want to be his wife."

"A wife of a bloody Death Eater!" Ginny screamed and everyone in the store turned around and looked at the young girls oddly. Ginny screaming woke the new seven month old baby up with him screaming for being woken up so horribly. "Shit!"

"Watch your mouth Ginny."

"Don't you dare tell me how to take care of my child!"

"I'm not," Bridget blinked. "What's wrong?"

Ginny began to rock James back and forth in her arms, "Now why would you want to be married to a bloody Death Eater?"

"You have no proof that he is what you say he is."

"I don't need any proof, I have a mother's intuition. Your whole family knows he is bad news and we do not want you to get into a loveless marriage."

"Any marriage I am to get in without marrying Oliver will be a loveless marriage, I will never love again."

"Never?"

"Except for the children I bring into this world."

"I can not you can be so stupid!"

"Excuse me!" Bridget asked looking at her best friend in a way she had never looked at Ginny before in her entire life.

"I can not believe that you would put yourself into a loveless marriage, have children with him, and then put your children in an unloving home. I can not believe you are going to be that selfish!"

"I won't be selfish!" Bridget yelled back at her best friend, "Our children will have plenty of love between Blaise and me! The child will have all the things it will ever need with my part of the inheritance from Grandfather, Uncle Sirius, and Mum and Daddy. Then add the money that Blaise has inherited from his family."

"A family that is full of hate and evil deeds!"

"I do not want to talk to you until you can accept my fiancée and my new life with Blaise!" Bridget said storming into the dressing to take her dress robe off and to storm off from her supposed best friend.

Bridget Potter had defiantly seen some of the darkest days that our world has ever seen. Bridget had lost her parents the day that she was born. Lily Potter's dead body had been rushed to St. Mungo's and there was an emergency C-section to deliver baby Bridget Potter into the world.

Fourteen years later Bridget had found out that she was not a Dunn, like she had always thought but indeed a Potter. Harry and Sadie Potter's little sister, what a day that had been.

Six months later, Bridget had lost the only parent like figure she had known for fourteen years, her Grandfather Anthony Potter.

Two months later Bridget's Uncle Sirius had been murdered.

Bridget had been raped by Neville Longbottom, because Bridget had found the one true love of her life. Oliver was now presumed dead and now she thought for sure that she had to move on. Start a life with Blaise Zambini and have his children. Of course making love with Blaise did turn Bridget's stomach, but just enough to make him happy. Bring an heir and he would be happy, bring an heir to the Zambini name and he would be off of her back.

Or so she thought so…