AN- My thanks shall go to Blue Luver5000, lightbabe, XxDevilDragonxX, and XxBookXxWormXx this chapter for your lovely reviews that I recieved last chapter. I also want to thank everyone else who favorited this or put this on story alert. You guys are awesome.

I also put a cover on this story. It took my about three minutes to make, so it's probably real crummy.

Hope you enjoy this chapter and leave a review. I'd like to know if I got James' view right. -Laura

Chapter Twenty-Six: News Articles

Today was felling really long. Fixing up Diagon Ally was longer than it would have taken since there was snow on the ground, but it was completed the day after it was destroyed. Christmas Day.

Yep, today was Christmas and here I was sitting at a table in the corner of the Leaky Cauldron just watching the few men at the bar drowning themselves in their sorrows. Probably because they had no one to spend it with.

Then I thought about my family. After I shouted at my mum's family they all left. Then Mum shouted out me for shouting at them which only ended up in us shouting at each other and me leaving. My family does a lot of shouting apparently.

I wonder what Grandma Dorea was doing now. She left the Potter House after my mother asked her to because it seemed that I ruined the holiday for everyone there. After my grandfather, Charlus Potter, died she stopped visiting as much as she used to. Now she only came for the holiday break over Christmas and New Year's. She was the only family I had left on my father's side and yesterday might have been the last time I will ever see her again because of this war that was going on.

I picked up the Prophet once again and read the front page article once more.

Massacre at Diagon Ally

Yesterday on Christmas Eve Diagon Ally was under attack by You-Know-Who's followers, also commonly called Death Eaters. Our Aurors could not come to stop the fighting since they had stopped the Floo Network and put up apparation wards. This is one of the reasons why hundreds of wizards are either injured or dead.

Head Auror Rufus Scrimgeour was one of few wizards who were able to apparate before the wards were put up. Along with Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody, John Dawlish, Charles Potter, Nicholas Proudfoot, Gordon Matthews, and Thomas Savage. Sadly of those seven two were lost in action, Charles Potter and Gordon Matthews, along with many other witches and wizards who were brave enough to fight beside them.

We also have knowledge that You-Know-Who himself was there. Though no one knows why He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named attacked Diagon Ally the day before Christmas. It might have been just to cause chaos. Another reason might be is that he was after someone or something. No one knows, but the Ministry of Magic's Department of Law Enforcement is working on it...

Then below that was a list of those who had died in the battle. I saw my father's name again and crumbled up the paper. After that I threw it into the garbage as I left the nearly empty shop.

While I was roaming the streets I saw a black owl heading toward me. It looked like Regulus' owl. I untied the letter to the bird's leg and read it.

Sophie,

I'll see you tomorrow at noon. We will talk then.

Regulus

Well, that was a short letter, but at least I get to see Reg tomorrow. I small smile takes over my face as I turn around to walk back to the Leaky Cauldron. It was getting late and I didn't want to be out while it was dark.

James' P.O.V.

Ever since Sirius and I returned home Mum had been falling apart. With Dad dead and Sophie gone she never stops crying, but I know that she will soon. She has to beacause I'll be gone soon too.

Sirius said that he wanted to get an apartment as soon as we get out of school because he hated people taking care of him. He told me that it made him feel like he was helpless and I understood that.

I know that my sister said that she would be back to see Mum this summer, but for how long? Once Sophie started to yell she doesn't stop any time soon and that was a huge flaw that she had. When would she learn to listen to people and not shout at them? But the bigger question for me to ask is when would she learn to let others help her. When I left her in Diagon Ally I knew that there was something wrong. She was acting weird. What happened to her in the battle?

A knock on my open door stopped the thought of my sister. I looked over to see Sirius holding a letter in his hand. He looked at the Prophet in my hand, but I stopped looking at that hours ago. So far I have pushed away the thought of my father's death, but I didn't know how much longer I could keep the pain away. That was why I was thinking of my sister. It wasn't as painful.

"Are you okay?" my friend that was more like a brother to me asked.

I looked over to him. The pain was slowly starting to seep into my heart, "I don't know. I never knew that a person could cause so much hurt."

Sirius gave me a knowing look. This is what he must of felt like when his uncle died. "It gets better, James."

"I know, but I think that I want to be alone for a while. Okay?" I whispered quietly.

He sighed, but nodded, "Okay. I'll be in my room if you need me."

Then he closed the door and that is when the first tear fell.

AN- So how did you like it? I thought it was okay, but it was just leading up to the next chapter. Sorry if you were looking forward to Regulus in this, but I promise that he'll be in the next one.

The whole time while I was writing this I was listening to Gary Jules version of Mad World. It such a beautiful song, but it is also so sad.

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