Today's my birthday!!! to Tink113 for reviewing. Still own none of JKR's wonderful characters =-[ This chapter is a bit slow i think but it's informative =-]

Chapter 11: The Weekend

11/10/22

Ugh…How can this past like week be so horrible! First Loran and Alice hate each other. How did that happen I mean they're IDDENTICAL TWINS!! And then Ben…such a jerk. Then Mum's attacked! How is it possible that no one was anywhere near he office? It was way too well organized. I bet someone in her office was in on the plan…or under the imperious curse. Someone has to have been… And what on earth is a potion curse??? What about the danger at Hogwarts!?! What could that be? There can't be any Death Eaters in the castle…can there? Ugh, I can't sleep, it is 1:30…I haven't slept well ever since last Thursday. No one else is up…that's really weird normally James is up until like two…so I'm venting! I hate this!! Nothing else to say…night? I guess. I'm going to turn on the radio.

~Lily~

"…and as Kingsley prepares to retire the campaign for Minister of Magic continues," the news reporter announced, "Davis has began making public speeches in several towns and public places. He will be in Diagon Alley on November Twelfth and at Hogwarts January Eighteenth, a full schedule can be received from the Ministry upon request by owl. Potter however has not been heard from for over a week. Roomers have been flying about illnesses and such St. Mungo's refuses to confirm or deny these roomers. However, she hasn't been at work since…"

'Ugh…give her a break, it's not her fault she got attacked. She better get better soon so she can run for minister.'

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"Lily…Lily, wake up, it's time for breakfast," Rose said shaking me awake.

"Mmm…I'm getting up."

"Good, my mum's making chocolate chip pancakes."

"Okay."

I got up, got dressed and made my way down stairs to where my brothers and Hugo were stuffing there faces with pancakes and bacon.

"Thanks, Hermione," I said when she put a plate down in front of me.

"No problem, I thought I'd give Kreature a break before I went back to Hogwarts, speaking of which, I should probably be going now. Bye all."

"Bye," Hugo, James, Rose, and I called.

"Thanks for breakfast," Albus told her.

"You're welcome," she replied before stepping into the flames and shouting "Hogwarts."

'Ding Dong'

"Mudbloods, Blood Traitors, Filth…"

"I really have to fix the doorbell so it rings everywhere but the front hall," Dad said. He and Ron left to answer the door shutting up Mrs. Black as they did.

"Who could that be?" James wondered.

"No, Idea…"

"Kids, Harry need to use this room for a meeting. Go eat upstairs, please," Ron told us.

"Sorry the office is under construction, or else we would…" Dad said talking to a couple of Aurors.

"So what do you think that's about?" Fred asked once we reached the first landing.

"Probably the attack," I replied. "We don't even have an office, anyway."

"Maybe that's why it's 'under construction,'" James said.

"Good idea! I wonder where they're going to put it," Fred replied.

"Idiots," Rose and I said simultaneously.

"I'm going to go to my room, I didn't sleep very well last night," I told them.

"Alrighty," Hugo replied.

Not long after I went into my room I decided I was not going to fall asleep, especially not with James blasting his music. 'He is probably doing that just to bug me. I really want to know what they are talking about down there. I have extendable ears, but the door's probably imperturbed. I could probably remove the charm, but then I was pretty likely I'd get caught and get in trouble. There has to be some other way to listen…the drawing room is right above the kitchen, but it is two floors above the kitchen…maybe I could cut a little ole right next to the wall on the main floor right above the kitchen just big enough to hear through and do the same thing to the drawing room floor right above it. Then I would be able to feed a pair of extendable ears through the hole while I'm in the drawing room and I won't get caught! Yes!'

After I ate the last bite of my pancake, I put a silencing charm on my feet and went down stairs taking with me James' pocketknife that I stole from him last summer and a pair of extendable ears. Once I was on the main level I cut a small hole in just the right spot and stuck one end into the hole and held the other end up to my ear.

"…I need you to interrogate all the people in the Muggle Protection Office," I heard Dad say.

"Only them?" one of the Aurors asked.

"For starters, yes. Report to my office first thing Monday morning, I'll have a list of all the people in that office and there positions as well as questions I would like you to ask them and some veritaserum. You have a pensive correct?" Dad replied.

I removed the extendable ear and made the pocket knife make a whole in the ceiling above the whole. As soon as I did that I ran upstairs. Once I reached the drawing room, I fed the extendable ears through the hole in the drawing room and them through the hole on the main floor. I also grabbed the book that I was reading, October Sky (A/N good book…starts off slow, but ends up being really good =-]), off the couch where I had left it yesterday and listened to the conversation going on down below.

"Could this affect the kids at Hogwarts?" Ron asked.

"Well, with two attacks, it's…"

"Two attacks?" Ron interrupted.

"Oh, yeah, there was one about two months ago, a ministry worker was leaving from the main office got attacked. Luckily, an Auror was leaving not long after and was able to stop it before anything really serious happened. I think they're connected though because according to St. Mungo's Gin was attacked with at least two potion curses, they know this because one thing that is known about potion curses is that when more than one is used it causes certain effects. I don't really know what they are, but that's their job…anyways they believe the first one that was used on Ginny was the same thing that was used on the ministry official. They didn't realize it was a potion curse at the time because, well who would expect it and also it seems to be one of the milder ones. At the time, they believed it to be some strange mutation of the Cruciatus Curse," Dad said.

"Who was attacked? Is there a good reason for them to have been a target?"

"I'm not sure," the other Auror said, "the Auror who witnessed it is under me and he took care of the investigation, but because the victim was in and out of St. Mungo's in less than 12 hours and he couldn't find any information on the attacker, we let the case drop."

"Will you get me all the information on the case by Monday, I'll see if any can make any more connections. As far as Hogwarts goes, I have another meeting with Kingsley's undersecretary on Wednesday."

"Hopefully, he'll finally agree, he won't let anything happen. It's like he doesn't think the kids' safety is a priority," the fist Auror said sounding highly annoyed.

"Sounds like Umbridge," Ron said.

"Almost, just no torture, if he won't listen, I'm going to go strait to Kingsley," Dad replied.

"Where's Lily?" I heard James ask from upstairs, "Li…!"

"Don't yell," Rose hissed.

"Why not?" Hugo questioned.

"Because, then he'll wake up Mrs. Black, and our dads will kill us," she replied.

"Right, but where is she?"

"Maybe she's in the drawing room. She left her book down there yesterday," Albus suggested.

"Albus, only you would assume someone would do something because of a book!" James replied.

"Let's just go see," Rose interjected.

I quickly shifted the rug so it covered the extendable ear, threw James' pocket knife under the couch, and opened my book – they don't need to know were I get my information. : )

"There you are," James exclaimed quietly.

"I told you she was reading!" Albus replied smugly.

"What else does Lily do?" Hugo asked.

"At least I can," I replied.

"He can," Rose informed me, "just nothing over a seven year old's level."

"Let's go back upstairs," James said.

"Alright."

"Kay, I want to grab my school bag from my room, though," I told them.

"Why?" James asked.

"Homework, duh," I replied.

"That's not a bad idea," Rose said.

"Great, we're going to have a study session," Hugo said sarcastically.

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St. Mungo's never did let us see mum that weekend. Not that I really was surprised I mean if she was unconscious and then went into a worse state it had to be pretty bad. Dad was extremely busy the rest of the weekend with the stuff he was setting up. This meant much to Rose's dismay that she had to play Quidditch with us every time in order to keep the teams even. It was Sunday night, we had just finished playing a game and I was in the kitchen getting a glass of water when the phone rang (A/N they have a phone!!! Oh well if they're wizards!!).

"Hello?" I said into the phone.

"Lily?"

"Oh, hey Aunt Cindy." (A/N this is Dudley's wife, he is nice, his parents still aren't though)

"Hi, is your mum there?"

"Oh, no…she's not, didn't you hear?" I asked biting my lip.

"No, we didn't…Is something wrong?"

"She got attacked about a week and a half ago."

"Oh my gosh! Really? Is it serious?"

"Well, we really don't know much about it, but she's still at St. Mungo's…"

"How is she?"

"I have no idea, they haven't let us see her, and as far as I know she's still unconscious."

"Still?! I thought it was really easy to make people conscious for wizards, isn't there just some simple spell?" Aunt Cindy rambled.

"Well, yeah, normally, I don't know that much about it…I would let you talk to Dad, but he's been working a lot."

"That's alright just keep us informed…or at least keep Dudley informed he understands this stuff better than I do."

"Will do. Bye."

"Bye, tell your dad and brothers we said hi." We both hung up.

"Oh, hello Hermione," I said surprised. "When did you get here?"

"Just now. Who was on the phone?" she asked.

"My Aunt Cindy," I replied.

"Ah, how is she?" Hermione asked. She and Cindy had always gotten along very well.

"Fine, she was calling for Mum…"

"Oh…does your dad have anything planned for dinner?" She asked changing the subject.

"No, he's too busy with work. Last night Ron tried to make dinner…we ate sandwiches…"

"Good choice. Do you want to help me?"

"Sure, why not."

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"Okay, I'll set the table and you go get everyone else."

"Okay," I replied running upstairs. When I reached my room I stuck my head in and told Rose that it was time for dinner. Then, I ran up to Albus' room where I knew all the guys would be.

"What's up Lils?" Ron asked – he was in there for some reason.

"Dinner."

"Who cooked?" James asked skeptically.

"Hermione and me," I said turning around to run up to Sirius' old room which is Dad's office and knocked.

"Come in."

"Hey Dad, we're having dinner now."

"I'm not hungry."

"Hermione and I cooked."

"Oh, tell her I'll be own in like five minuets."

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"That was good thanks for making dinner, Hermione," Dad said.

"No problem, I need to be off though, you five should come soon, too," she replied.

"I'll send them through in a bit, actually I should be getting back to work. Can you send them Ron?"

"Sure, I've got nothing better to do, well I could do more work on strategy, but I wasn't planning on doing that anyway," Ron replied.

"Great," Dad told him as he went up stairs and Hermione stepped into the fireplace shouting 'Hogwarts.'

"Go get your stuff. I'd say you have around half an hour, that way your friends are done with dinner and you still have time before curfew.

Twenty five minuets later we were all back in the kitchen with our school bags stepping one by one into the fire and being whirled through the floo network back to Hogwarts, to our second home.

"There you are," Hermione exclaimed, "I was beginning to think Ron forgot to send you back."

"Nope, for once he did what he said he would," James joked.

"Too, bad I was there to see it, well you can get going and find your friends,"

"Hey, did you guys find out anything else?" Fred asked for some reason he was right outside Hermione's office, I had a feeling I really didn't want to know why.

"No…" James began staying behind to talk to him. Rose saw one of her friends down another corridor and Albus went the other way out of Hermione's office, probably to go to the library…so that left Hugo and I to go find Anthony.

"Where have you two been?" Anthony shouted when we found him on his way up to the common room from dinner. "Loran said something about your mum but then Alice came over and they started arguing, so I left. They're dead obnoxious, I don't know how you can stand them Lils, they're even annoying when there's only one of them."

"Oh, they aren't that bad," I said dismissively.

"What ever you say…"

"They can get bad, but not always," Hugo agreed with me.

"So where were you?"

"Lily's house," Hugo began.

"We left because we were going to St. Mungo's to see my mum, but they weren't allowing anyone to see her, so Hugo's family, Fred's family, Loran, her mum, and Teddy all came over to my house, and then Hugo, Rose, and Ron stayed the weekend," I explained.

"Oh, and guess what Lily heard," Hugo added telling him all that I heard the adults say while I feigned sleep.

"And guess what else I found out," I said informing them of what I overheard Saturday morning on the extendable ears.

"Where'd you hear that?" Hugo questioned.

"I have my sources."

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So…thoughts, comments, observations?? I've been really busy lately and am getting behind with writing the story plus with school starting and such I might have to skip a week =-[ I'm really sorry and I'm going to try my hardest not to but everyting is kind of hectic and crazy so if i don't get a chapter up next week that's why =-[

~You Go Girl~