Well i got it up sorry about the delay it really has been a long time since I've updated =-[

Chapter 14: St. Mungo's…again

Friday morning at Breakfast

"Lily!" Albus called.

"Yeah?"

"Dad's picking us up right after class, here's his letter."

"Thanks," I replied reading through the letter.

Lily, Albus, and James,

I will pick you three up from school to go and visit your mother after your last class, so around 4:40. I'm going o pick you up from Professor McGonagall's office. Her password is Sudoku, it's a muggle puzzle game and actually is quite fun. I'll see you guys around 4:40 then.

Love,

Dad

"So, when are you leaving us?" Anthony asked.

"4:40-ish, and suck it up," I joked.

"Ditcher!"

"Wow Lils it's 7:50 and you haven't bugged us about getting to class," Hugo stated, amazed.

"Shoot."

"Good going Hugo!"

"Opps…"

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Break

"Hey, Lily?"

"Yeah, Alice?"

"About Loran…"

"What about her?" I asked through my teeth.

"Well, why do you think we look like so much alike?"

"I don't know maybe your dad's are related…or your mum's are," I said, emphasizing the last part.

"Or a combination," she added. 'Ugh, is she blind, she normally picks up on things!'

"Yeah…"

"She wasn't like, adopted, was she?" Alice questioned, "I mean, I know I wasn't; I look too much like my dad."

"No, I don't think so. She looks a lot like her mum anyway. Why are you asking? Are you two becoming friends or something?" I asked hopefully.

"No. She is so full of herself and ugh it bugs me so much!"

"I guess she is a bit, but that's just the way she is, you know?"

"Yeah, that's likely…"

"Look," I started.

"No, you, we are not going to get along so stop."

"Fine let's talk about something else."

"Good."

"Uh, how about we talk about something different later, I got to go or else I'll be late for class," I told her.

"'Kay, I'll see you later."

I ran all the way to the Charms classroom and made it with a minuet to spare.

"Wow, Lily you're nearly late," Anthony teased.

"Shut up," I replied.

"Where were you?" Hugo questioned.

"Talking to Alice, I lost track of the time…"

"Good morning class, please get out your essays," Professor Flitwick announced collecting them with a flick of his wand. "Today we will be finishing the summoning charm. During the last fifteen minuets, I will test your ability for the spell, so you can get a feel on how much you need to work in order to do well on your end of the year exams because, this will be on there!"

"Great," Hugo muttered.

"Just concentrate on what you're doing, don't think about anything else. Really focus on making the pillows come closer to you." I replied, "Here, I'll bring it half way here for you. Accio"

"Thanks," he replied.

"No problem."

"So, what were you and Alice talking about?" Anthony questioned.

"Random stuff, and Loran, I think Alice is…" I stopped realizing I'd said too much.

"She's what? Does she like Loran now?" he asked.

"No, she still hates her," I replied.

"Then what?"

"Fine, but you can't tell anyone, promise?"

"Cross my heart, hope to die."

"Okay then... Muffilado. Well she and Loran are twins, and I think Alice is getting suspicious," I replied.

"Really?" Hugo interjected.

"Well, she was asking why they look so much alike and asked if Loran was adopted."

"Seriously?" Hugo said. "Wait. Do we want this to happen?"

"Well, personally I think they have a right to know. Concentrate."

"Fine."

"So, they're twins?" Anthony questioned.

"Yeah, isn't it pretty obvious?"

"Well, I guess, that explains a lot…"

"Yeah, I don't know how they ended up hating each other; they're so much alike."

"Maybe that's why," he suggested.

"Maybe," I agreed.

The rest of Charms was fairly boring. Hugo managed to summon the pillow I had previously summoned from its original starting point, but he had very little luck with Flitwick's assigned starting point. Anthony and I had both taken, and passed the test and we were now just waiting for Hugo to finish. Anthony did well, but had a bit of trouble summoning the desk from the full distance, but didn't drop it. I'd say I didn't make any mistakes, although the desk might have dropped an inch or two once... For the first time, Hugo was able to retrieve the pillow not only from the half way point, but also the full distance. With the desk starting at the half way point he started out strong but then the desk began to lose altitude and he was able to just barely get it up, it looked like it just brushed the ground before he brought it in.

"Alright Mr. Weasley, now try the far desk," Professor Flitwick said.

"Accio," he called. The desk did nothing, "Accio." It came forward about five feet of the full fifty.

"Last try," Flitwickinformed him resetting the desk back five feet.

"Accio," He called, the desk lifted into the air, it covered half the distance, three fourths, nine tenths, and then it fell just half of a foot from the finishing point.

"I'm sorry Mr. Weasley, you did pass, but I would recommend more studying for the exams."

'Bring'

"Good Job," I exclaimed.

"Yeah, whatever."

"No, really, that's the best you've ever done," I persisted.

"Yeah, you did great," Anthony agreed.

"Thanks…"

"Oh, I should go, I'll see you two tomorrow," I called heading off to Professor McGonagall's office.

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St. Mungo's

"Over here," Dad said leading us to the front desk, "Your mum was moved to a different ward today, but I wasn't informed which one it would be."

So, we stood in line for about two minuets behind some guy who body parts would randomly get larger or smaller.

"Spell damage, fourth floor, next," called a bored looking witch at the front desk.

"Hello," Dad said.

"Ah, hello Mr. Potter, how may I help you?" She asked obviously flirting, when James and I looked at each other we had to literally shove our fists into our mouths to stop ourselves from laughing.

"I was informed this morning that Ginny Potter (A/N I don't know about you but I think it feels really weird putting Ginny Potter) was going to be moved, but I wasn't informed what room she was being moved into, can I have the room number please?"

"Ah, she is actually just being moved now, so it will be another five to ten minuets before you can see her, but she'll be in room 438 on the fourth floor," the witch replied, still flirting," well if you need anything just ask." …really flirting.

"Alright guys, let's go wait in the tea room."

"Mum's not going to like have a seizure while they move her, is she?" I questioned.

"Yeah, and then we wouldn't get to see her for like another month," Albus added.

"Yeah, 'cause that would really suck!" James agreed.

"No your mum is just fine, I was with her this morning and she's doing better."

"Then why is she still unconscious? Why doesn't someone do something to help her?"

"They are doing what they can, Lily. No one really knows what's wrong with her."

"Yes you do, you at least know some things!" I shouted, tears coming to my eyes, "Even I was able to find stuff and all I had was fifteen minuets in the Hogsmeade bookstore."

"Lily calm down," Albus was saying.

"Breathe; in, out. In, out," James added, probably trying to be comical – it wasn't funny.

"Lils, don't worry Mum will be fine, everything is going to be okay." Dad told me.

"How do you know, like really how? What if something else happens to someone else? What if there's a new Dark Lord? What if…"

"I don't know," he admitted," but what I do know is that no matter what happens we'll get through it. I know we will, because we'll have each other, and as an Auror I'm putting up tons of protection everywhere in the hope that no one else gets hurt."

"Excuse me," a healer said coming up to the four of us, "you may now go see Mrs. Potter."

"See," Dad said, "It's all good."

"Yeah, don't worry Lils," James said.

"Yeah, we will all be fine no matter what," Albus agreed.

"Yeah, you're right," I said, but I couldn't quite bring myself to believe it and I could tell from the tone of their voices they didn't completely believe it either. "Let's go see her."

We practically sprinted down the hall to see Mum – well James, Albus, and I did anyway, I guess Dad had a bit more dignity or maybe it was just the fact that he'd already seen her. Who knows?

"Mum!" we shouted as we burst through the door into the hospital room running up to hug her unconscious body. We all started talking, not ever registering that she couldn't hear us. At some point we moved to the chairs and may have fell asleep once or twice, –we never did eat dinner - but I didn't fall asleep much. Just like every other time this year I couldn't fall asleep easily. At lest this time it was partially because I was so happy that I could finally see Mum, but I was still upset about the condition she was in. At some point Ron came in to visit, I don't know when, I just woke up and heard him and Dad talking.

"See mate, everything will be fine and Gin is getting better," Ron said. I told you Dad didn't believe what he said.

"Yeah, I think the kids know more that we've told them though…"

"What? What do you mean?"

"Well when we first got here they were still moving Gin, and Lily was upset saying that she would have another seizure and that we wouldn't be able to see her, so I told her that Gin's doing better and she flipped out at me asking why she was still unconscious so I told her that know one knew what was wrong. Then she flipped out again and told me how we knew what was wrong and that even she could find information with only fifteen minuets in the Hogsmeade book store or something like that."

"Do you think she knows that Gin was hit with a potion curse?"

"I assume so, but how would they have found out?" Dad replied.

"Well didn't she say it was in a book, maybe the book is in her bag…"

"Good Idea." There wasn't anything I could do, the book was in my bag, and if I wouldn't let him look in my bag he'd be suspicious and find another way to find out, but if I did let him look he'd know that we knew…"

"Oh my gosh her bag has a lot of stuff in it!" Ron exclaimed, "She's not taking all…how many classes do they offer now…thirteen? classes is she?"

"No, well for one she didn't even want to take Divination…"

"Good!"

"…and also we limited her to ten classes tops that way she wouldn't have to use a time turner."

"Well, even ten is a lot!"

"Yeah...school book, school book, school book, hey 'Wizard's Through the Ages' isn't a required book is it?"

"Not that I know of, but they have a new History of Magic teacher, so they could have assigned it."

"Yeah…wow, okay I don't think this is a school book, this stuff seems way too advanced for fourth year…"

"Yeah, that does not look like fourth year curriculum, but then again nor was what 'Moody' taught us in our fourth year."

"Yeah, but I would bet you Dumbledore allowed a lot more things to happen that weren't supposed to happen than McGonagall ever will."

"Good point, so look up Medieval Torture."

"Dad," James asked groggily.

"What?"

"Why are you looking through Lily's bag?" he asked just as groggily.

"There was I Transfiguration book out in the hall and we wanted to make sure that it wasn't hers before we turned it into the lost and found…" Dad made up.

"Well, I'll go turn it into the lost and found since it's not Lily's" Ron added.

"Thanks. Are you ready to go home?" Dad asked James.

"Sure."

"Okay, then will you wake up Albus, I've got Lily."

"I'm up, I'm up," I mumbled pretending to be half asleep, which I kinda was, but whatever.

"Alright, well once Ron gets back we can apperate back home." We were going to side along apperate back – something we'd done since we were like one.

"Buy guys," Ron said 'returning from turning the book into lost and found.'

"Bye," we chorused.

"Oh, Ron do you want to come and see the first task tomorrow?" Dad asked.

"Sure, it's at noon right?"

"Yeah, come over around eleven."

"Okay."

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"Thanks big time," I told James as we brushed our teeth that night.

"Yeah, thanks James," Albus said.

"No problem, it would've been all of our heads on the line if he had found out."

"Did either of you here what Dad said about the Auror program he is putting in at Hogwarts?" James asked.

"No," we both replied.

"Well, he said that Kinsley has accepted on the condition that he has to approve of all the details first. Dad also said that in addition to putting Auror on guard there he is putting magic detectors there, like the ones that can tell what spells are being used and how far away they are being used within a quarter mile so then they might be able to pinpoint where the magic that is causing our hands to go to 'mortal peril' is coming from.

"He should put one by the shrieking shack," I muttered.

"What? Why?"

"Nothing."

"No seriously what?"

"Okay, well last Hogsmeade trip, Anthony, Hugo and I went in there…"

"How did you guys get in?" James asked.

"Shoved and used a bit of magic on the boards one of the back windows where they were rotting, why?"

"Because once Andrew and I tried to get in through the front door, but it wouldn't budge no matter what we did."

"The main door is probably magically enhanced."

"Let's get back to what you saw," Albus interrupted.

"Well, when we were in there we noticed another set of footprints in the dust, and well, it looked like someone had been in there recently," I replied.

"Have you told anyone?"

"No," I replied, "Hugo was worried we'd get in trouble so Anthony said that if we notice anything else that we would tell someone."

"Well, that is pretty stupid," Albus remarked.

"That's what I said."

"You could tell Neville, he won't get you in trouble."

"No, but he probably will tell Dad."

"Right…"

"Okay, well I'm pretty tired, so I'm going to go to bed, G'night."

"Night Lils."

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9:30 am

"Lils," James called.

"Yeah?" I asked.

"What a second, are you actually up?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Because you are normally asleep at 9:30."

"Oh, well I've been up for nearly an hour – I couldn't sleep."

"Okay then…well breakfast is ready."

"Alright. I'll be down in a sec," I replied putting my stuff back into my bag, I'd been doing homework and just now I was trying to come up with any spells and potions that I knew of that might be used in a potion curse. Once my stuff was put away I grabbed my bag and made my way down to the kitchen.

"Morning."

"James wasn't lying you were up!" Albus exclaimed.

"Oh, shut up," I said whacking him with my bag as I set it on the back of my chair before taking a seat.

"Gosh Al, you think I'd lie!" James said pretending to be hurt.

"It wouldn't be the first time."

"Good morning miss," croaked Kreature. "Would miss like a blueberry or chocolate chip muffin this morning?"

"I'll have a blueberry one."

"Here you are miss."

"Thanks Kreature."

"Morning," Dad called. "Are you guys exited to see the Triwizard Tournament?"

"Yep," we chorused.

"What about you I asked?"

"I'm exited to," Dad replied taking a muffin from Kreature, "I wonder how weird it will be actually watching the task."

"You'll probably freak out, summon your broom, than go grab he egg before the champion barely even gets into the arena," James joked.

"I doubt they'll use dragons, it would be two boring if they just reused the tasks for each tournament," Albus said.

"Agreed," I choked after hastily swallowing a bite of muffin.

"Who is the Hogwarts champion?" Dad asked.

"Kaitlyn Quirke," James replied.

"Don't recognize the name…"

"You wouldn't her dad is a muggle and her mum is from Japan," James said.

"How do you know this?" I questioned.

"He has a huge crush on her," Albus replied matter-of-factly.

"Do not."

"Yeah, you do."

"No, I do not!"

"Getting defensive, huh?"

"Stop!" Dad shouted, "We don't need you two to blow up the house before noon, if you are going to duel save it for somewhere else while I'm not around."

"Fine," they replied.

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'Dong, Dong'

"Ron!" Dad shouted just before pointing his wand at Mrs. Black's portrait and shutting her up while going to answer the door.

"Yeah?" he asked when Dad opened the door.

"How many times do I have to tell you not to ring the door bell?"

"Oh…right."

"Let me go get the kids since you're late."

"Oh, well, I forgot."

"Good job, I'll be right back."

"I've got it," I called down the stairs.

"Thank you."

"Hey, James, Albus it's time to go," I shouted to them.

"Finally!"

We went down to the kitchen to travel back to Hogwarts through the floo system to Hogwarts, but only after Ron asked, "Why don't we just apperate?" Some people never learn…

"Hey Mione," Ron said as he stepped out of her fire.

"Hey. What are you doing here?" she greeted.

"I decided to come with Harry to see the tournament."

"Cool. Well give me one second to finish grading this paper."

"You three can run along," Dad told us.

"Lily, Hugo said that he was going to be down by the lake."

"Thanks."

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"This is so cool," Anthony said for the hundredth time.

"Yeah, I can't believe that they are actually continuing the tournament and it's at Hogwarts while we're at school," Hugo agreed.

"I hope Kaitlyn does well," I said.

"Well, I hope Tyler wins," Alice joked.

"Then go join his little fan club," Loran said snidely pointing at a group of mostly Beauxbatons girls who were obviously supporting Tyler…

"No," Alice snapped. "I'd rather be here and who are you telling me what do anyway."

"Excuse me?"

"I'm Lily's friend, and I can be here if I want to."

"I was here first!"

"I've been friends with her since I was born."

"Well so have I! When were you born?"

"Hey, guys can we like save this for later?"

"July of 2008, you?" Alice asked ignoring Hugo completely.

"July eighteenth, 2008."

"…"

"Told you I was here first," Loran taunted.

"No, I was born on the eighteenth, too," Alice countered.

"Eww, I bet I was born first."

"She wasn't," Hugo whispered into my ear.

"Good Afternoon ladies and gentlemen," Aidan Lynch's voice sounded through the stadium, "Welcome to the First task of the Triwizard Tournament…"

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And…comments?? Sorry about the not getting the chapter up sooner I've just been really busy with Marching Band and stuff...but thank you for anyone who is continuing to read it...review please =-]