Hello Heres Chapter 7 i hope you all enjoy this story so far it's just going to get better...
A little announcement November 29 Marks Bill Weasleys Birth day so a Big HAPPY BRITH DAY BILL! lol
Dislcaimer: Don't own hp :(
Claire had a good week until they announced when the first task was for the champions. She said there her fear was sky rocketing, both Cedric and Harry would be competing. Hermione and Claire were out at the empty Quidditch pitch talking about the competition.
"Harry I am scared for more he doesn't know as much as Cedric, we have to help him." Hermione said.
"I agree, but I don't know how much Cedric would like it if I was assisting Harry." Claire said.
Hermione nodded, "He'll just have to not know…" Hermione said.
"Oh but I can't lie to him…it would hurt Cedric if I was sneaking around behind his back helping his competition." Claire said.
"Help Harry discreetly little tip here and there never killed any one." Hermione said.
Claire and Hermione parted ways at the entrance hall, she went into the great hall, and Hermione went to the library. She saw Cedric alone and he was writing and essay it seemed. She slid onto the bench beside him and rested her head on his shoulder, "Well have you figured out what the first task is yet?" Claire asked him.
Cedric looked at her, "Yep Harry told me, poor guy I really pity him right now, your mate Ron isn't talking to him." Cedric said.
"What! Oh Ronald…" Claire muttered, "He thinks Harry put his own name in the Goblet."
"Well he really has nothing to prove other wise." Cedric said.
"Like how it obvious may grandfather put an age line around the cup, you saw what happened to Fred and George…Cedric it takes some serious magic to hoodwink an object like the cup." Claire said to him.
"Exactly!" Cedric said
"But it takes magic Harry doesn't even know yet…" Claire said, "The most advanced thing he knows is the Patronus."
"Okay so he didn't put his name in the Goblet, who do you suppose did it?" Cedric asked.
One of the teachers it had to of been I've narrowed it down: My grandfather, Professor Snape, Professor Moody, and Professor Flitwick." Claire said.
"Dumbledore and Flitwick? Have you gone off your bonkers Claire?" Cedric hissed at her.
Claire gave him a reproachful look, "Okay so yes my grandfather may not have done it, but he always admires Harry and I hardly know my grandfather enough…I mean he may want to make Harry more famous!" Claire said "and okay I'm going a bit far with the Flitwick thing but, I mean they hardly pay attention to the man he could be a death eater in disguise."
"Gees…" Cedric started "You really have been thinking about this." Cedric said.
"Diggory!" came a gruff voice.
Claire turned to see Moody, she muttered under her breath.
"You ready for the first task in a week?" Moody asked.
Claire thought his behavior was weird, why was he asking Cedric how far he was
"It's coming along sir I've decided to use transfiguration…" He started but stopped short after Dumbledore showed up.
"Ah hello Alastor…Claire I have to speak with you, matters of importance come we'll walk." He said.
It was the second time she would speak with her grandfather, and their first conversation was a strictly business sort of conversation.
"How have you been Claire since the death of your mother?" he asked.
"As well as can be expected." Claire became rather shifty she disliked talking about her mother, it hurt her to know that she'd never see her smiling blue eyes and pretty flowing blond hair.
"I should tell you something about your mother that may come as a shock to you." He said.
Claire was interested now she was curious and he could see that.
"Well you mother was a brilliant girl, she was friendly and very well versed a trait she inherited from her father none the less." He said.
"You have a lot of dominate traits grandfather, I know I have a clear sense when someone lies to me." Claire said.
"Yes but Helga wasn't my daughter…" He started.
"But…What then how do we?" She started but Dumbledore raised a hand.
"She was my granddaughter…she was one of four daughters my son Renaud Lucian Dumbledore had." He said.
"What! I never new this how did? What did? Who are?...what!" Claire said all at once.
"Yes quite a sad story really, you see out of four children my son Renaud had with his wife Helena Borgin, only one was magical and that was your mother, she was also the most talented and in many opinions most beautiful, she out shone all her sisters who were Squib's." Dumbledore started.
"It was your mother who would move on to become a great witch, but when she was two her mother and my son were killed by her eldest sister Edwige, the girl was deranged her magic abilities we all out of sorts she's in St. Mungo's now, rather deranged as if she'd been attacked by the Cruciatus Curse many times, the next sister her Claudia was a brilliant girl showed some promise but alas her magical ability never surfaced, she now lives as a muggle married a wizard though no children, they sadly separated." Dumbledore said.
"And the other sister?" Claire asked.
"Well your mothers twin Greta; she's here and wishes to meet you." Dumbledore said.
"Whoa! Wait a second my mother has a twin, she never told me..." Claire said.
"Well your mother and Greta weren't very close, they had a falling out over a boy that lived across the street, Claudia was sure to fill me in about this." Dumbledore said tapping his nose.
"Over James!" Claire said.
"Guess again…" Dumbledore said.
Claire gasped, "Not my father…oh goodness."
"Oh yes, you see Claudia was a dutiful granddaughter wanted to keep her sisters in line, Greta and your mother were identical to the last had and it was rather hard to tell them apart, well it turns out that Greta had fallen for Sirius, and accused Helga of getting Sirius through magical means and not real love. Yet what Greta did wrong was pretend to be Helga and kissed Sirius…well James told Helga about this and it raised a red flag Helga confronted her sister and well the fought for several hours…that is when Claudia sent an owl to me as I was still at Hogwarts, Mrs. Potter James' mother managed to quell the fight." Dumbledore finished.
'And now my Aunt Greta wants to meet me the daughter of the sister she hurt and…" Claire started.
"The man she loved, I dare say she feels a need to see you…you know after finding out about your mothers death, so dose Claudia, she is getting married again, we'll be at the wedding, met another wizard I think this one will work out he's a nice chap younger than her though twelve years I think." Dumbledore said cheerfully.
"Who is she marrying?" Claire asked.
"Charlie Weasley!" Dumbledore said delightful, "The two fell in love over a cup of coffee, a conversation about dragons, and candy canes I believe. Claudia was absolutely delighted when she told me oh, but the other Weasley's don't know yet they were going to say something this summer before the world cup but Claudia's job took her to China so she couldn't be with him to tell his parents."
"So she's thirty-six and he's…" Claire started to count
"Twenty-five…they are here for the… err first task but she's trying to help out by being the first aid attendant, she'll be up around dinner with Charlie." They finally go to a door. "Well here we are do you sill want to meet your aunt, I warn you the resemblance to your mother is great."
"I just want to meet her…" Claire said
The door opened and Claire saw her Greta whom her (Great) Grandfather did not kid, Claire felt tears in her eyes but Greta look at her and saw right away the sorrow on her nieces face.
"Claire I suppose you think you made a mistake seeing me." Greta said.
Claire shook her head and sat down, "Thank you grandfather I won't keep you any longer." Greta turned back to Claire, "I always wished I had the magical ability to come here I love this place."
"Have you been here many times?" Claire asked.
"Oh loads when I got kicked out of all the boarding schools grand father had to put me in…I even tried on the sorting hat once, he said I had the potential of a Slytherin but I was a Squib, not a lick of magic in me." Greta said.
Claire's impression of her aunt thus far was that she was like her, strong and willful. "How did you like being a Squib?" Claire asked.
"I liked it till I saw what I was missing in the wizarding world, you should see your aunt's fiancé Chuck he's a cute one, doesn't like me calling him Chuck though." Greta said.
"Well how long will you be here for?" Claire asked.
"A long time I'm taking over muggle studies, so you'll have to call me Professor Dumbledore." Greta said amused.
"That will be interesting two Professor Dumbledore's one male one female." Claire said she was starting to like her aunt and wondered what Claudia was like.
"So how about you introduce me to your friends, I want to meet all those cute Slytherin boys I keep seeing around." Greta said.
"Okay scratch that, she's nothing like mom or me, and she's thirty- five oh well…I have that little thing for…" Claire trailed off in her thought, "Um Aunt Greta I'm not really friends with any Slytherin's, all my friends are in Gryffindor and my boyfriend is a Hufflepuff." Claire told her.
"Oh like that Hogwarts champion Cedric what's-his-head, and Harry Potter." Greta said.
"Well Cedric is my boyfriend, and Harry is one of my best friends here." Claire said.
"Well, I always did say James was a looker after Quidditch…don't tell me by the look on your face…James is here oh dear, my Hair!" Greta said looking at her reflection.
Greta was the prime example of what most female muggles look like the was talk beautiful, and had a black dress on with a half sweater, she looked right out of a magazine that were things of the past to Claire now, Aunt Greta was perfect for Muggle Studies. "Lets go I hope James remembers me…"
"Look Aunt Greta I don't think James is still here, he might be gone by now…" Claire said.
"Nonsense if his son is competing he wouldn't leave." Greta said.
"But what if he's still hurt over Lily?" Claire asked.
"Maybe so, but every man be they muggle or wizard has needs Claire, you have a seventeen year old boyfriend the poor boy is deprived, besides poor James has gone 14 years I'm sorry but I see you cringe but its true James is probably at his all time highest sex…Hey ouch Claire." Greta said rubbing her foot.
"Gees…Have you always spoken like this?" Claire asked.
"It's normal to be thinking about these things Claire, you mother and I talked about all the times she and Sirius…okay, okay sorry hun but really how are you ever going to please your wizard if you aren't comfortable with S-E-X." Greta whispered mockingly.
Claire frowned at her aunt, then smiled and blushed, "well Cedric and I don't talk about those things he hasn't mentioned any thing like that."
"Well maybe he thinks your…you know too young…ah the Great Hall, where I'll be eating and chatting up Snivellus I bet he has such a high sex…okay gees, oh hey that one must be Chuck's brother, oh and there's three more excellent." Greta said poking Claire forward.
"Who's Snivellus?" Claire asked
"Not important c'mon." Greta said
"Hi Harry!" Claire said. "Oh Hermione you take Muggle Studies, this is my Aunt…Professor Dumbledore."
"Just Greta we have already one Professor Dumbledore, say Harry is your father around I want to say hi?" Greta asked.
"Last I heard he was helping out with the first task, with Ron's brother." Harry said.
"OHHH!" Greta said "I met your brother." She winked at him.
Ron blushed a crimson red and smiled dopily, "Which one?" he asked dream like.
Claire arched an eyebrow at him.
"Oh Chuck! He's a charmer, at least where my…OUCH!" Greta said Claire shook her head furiously.
"Oh well I met Chuck yeah nice guy." Greta said, "Ah Snivellus…s'cuse me." Greta wandered off and to everyone's surprise went right to Snape.
"Well what do you think of her I have another aunt she's here with someone at the moment…but it's great my…our family Harry just got bigger." Claire said.
"What do you mean; they're your aunts…" Harry said.
"Well yeah…oh but get this Dumbledore is really my great-grandfather, my grandfather was killed by his eldest daughter." Claire said.
"Wow, your family history just keeps coming out." Ron said growing interested. "What else?"
"Well my real grand father had four daughters my mother being the only one who wasn't a Squib, well my eldest Aunt Edwige was somewhat magical, but it was all wonky for her, grand father said she was almost like she was under the Cruciatus Curse." Claire told them…
Meanwhile,
"Oh Severus…" Greta sang at him.
Snape who had his back to her closed his eyes in frustration and muttered something under his breath and turned to Greta. "Hello Miss. Dumbledore, and how do you do today?" he asked trying to be pleasant.
"Well a little birdie told me I should come make it known to you that we, just the two of us adults, "SINGLE" adults were now colleagues." Greta said. She was teasing him and Snape knew it.
To him Greta was nothing like her sister who was modest and polite, Greta was a flirt and the prime example of a muggle.
"You're looking fit!" Greta continued said she squeezed his arm.
Claire and the others were laughing so hard, Snape noticed them and frowned, to make matters worse for Snape, James had walked in but he was able to shake off Greta who went right for James.
"POTTER!" Greta said embracing James as her hand slowly made its way down James' back to his left…
"Hey! Greta I haven't seen you in a while." James said as he noticed the hand.
The two chatted and Claire actually smiled she saw James and her Aunt as a couple in the making; they were laughing and smiling at one and other. Claire looked at Harry and he looked almost ready to bull drive her aunt away from his father. She patted Harry's shoulder and he looked up at her, "Your dad looked happy to see her?" Harry nodded.
The week flew by so quickly Mr. and Mrs. Weasley had come to watch Harry compete and Claire new that Charlie and Her Aunt Claudia whom she finally met. Claudia was a kind woman who had dark brown hair and the trade mark Dumbledore blue eyes. Claire was sitting in a room with Mrs. Weasley and Mr. Weasley, along with Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny. Bill was there too and Claire and Greta sat nearby.
"I know that they don't even know Claudia, never met her once and now Chuck is introducing them and his parents will be flaming mad, look they all have red hair." Greta mumbled.
"I don't get why you're…" Ron stopped the door opened and the second oldest Weasley poked his head in.
"Ah! Chuck…c'mon we all want to watch Harry and Lover boy tackle their Dragons." Greta stated rather loud. Mrs. Weasley turned to look at her.
"What did you call my son" She asked.
"Chuck…I know him very well." Greta said.
"Look okay every one I brought you all here to meet some one special to me, she is my fiancée…" Charlie said he turned to the door and pulled Claudia into the room.
"Oho! Congratulations son excellent, what's your name dear?" Mr. Weasley asked proudly.
"Hang on Arthur, fiancée Charlie how long have you known her?" Mrs. Weasley asked.
"Long enough to know I will be with her for the rest of my life." Charlie said looking lovingly at Claudia.
"See Chuck this is why I think you're great, you can say that looking at her and mean it!" Greta stated smacking him on the back.
"Well Mrs. Weasley, Charlie and I met in Romania, I was walking down a street and broke my heel on the cobble stones he helped me out, and since then I couldn't get enough of him, we got to know each other over coffee, and I bought him his first candy cane, never tried one before that he said." Claudia told her.
"You name is?" Mrs. Weasley asked.
"I am Claudia Dumbledore." She said. "But I don't know magic, I'm a Squib."
"Well then you must know all about muggle things?" Arthur said.
"Oh you're better off asking my sister Greta over there, she's more muggle savvy than me..." Claudia said.
"Guys the first task is starting soon we better get to the arena!" Ginny yelled. She quickly hugged Claudia and ran out. Claire and Ron left together, leaving the older ones to talk.
"Too bad Weatherby didn't make it." Claire joked as they ran.
Ron let out a laugh, "He'd disapprove of Claudia right a way, but she older that him?" Ron stated.
"Yeah by twelve years and, Chuck…I mean Charlie knows it too." The got to the Champions tent.
"I'm not going to talk to Harry, go ahead." Ron said.
"Oh goodness Ron, Harry didn't put his name in, it would take a lot to face a thing like a Dragon." Claire told him.
"Go ahead I'm going to get a seat." Ron said.
Claire turned on her heel and went into the tent, she found Cedric sitting alone his head in his hands. Claire sat down next to him, "Hey you'll be great, you will win this one too." Claire kissed him passionately a suggestion by her aunt Greta. And moved her hand down his back but stopped, she wouldn't go that far. Pulling a way she whispered, "For luck…"
Cedric smiled a goofy sort of grin like Ron had and Claire was shocked how well that worked.
As she tuned her head a camera flashed in their faces, Rita Skeeter was standing before them. "Well, well Miss. Black we meet again."
So this will have to hold all you readers off till sunday Im away for the weekend... Thanks and tootles!