Sorry this chapter has taken so long my inspiration and my motivation had abandoned me.

Chapter 9 - Hope and Despair

It was a warm summer day as a woman stood, looking at the house across the road. A car pulled into the drive of the house the woman had been watching and Amelia approached the man getting out of the drivers side.

"I need a word with Harry, let me in peacefully and I wont have to make a scene." The man looked absolutely terrified noticing the wand in the woman's hand and let ushered her into the house their was just something in her sneer that was not only familiar but showed she meant business. A woman got out of the passenger side door and asked

"Vernon who is she." Vernon quickly ushered everybody inside hoping that the neighbours wouldn't see, mumbling something about freaks and nuisances. Harry was eyeing his sister suspiciously; he still wasn't sure what to make of everything that had happened.

"Harry…"

"I knew you'd come here." Amelia spun around looking like a dear in headlights as she came face to face with Albus Dumbledore. The features of Amelia slowly began to change and so did her voice.

"Oh dear would you look at that my Polyjuice potion is wearing off. If you live maybe you should ask Snape why he brews so much of it. "Amelia slowly transformed until it was none other than Bellatrix stood staring at Dumbledore.

"No one hurts the Dark Mistress." Bellatrix's words were laced in Venom; Dumbledore however had expected this and opened the door from where he stood but the only person he saw was Draco Malfoy. Dumbledore looked for a place where more people could be hidden when the curtains began to close behind him; the only place he didn't look was the floor, where a small snake had made its way towards him.

"Professor Dumbledore, Snake." If it hadn't of been for Harry's warning then the snake would have been able to bite the flesh of Dumbledore's leg but instead it retreated a little and transformed in Tom Marvolo Riddle and from behind Draco and coming to stand beside Tom, Amelia Jane Malfoy.

"You will pay for your mistakes old man." Tom's voice was as sinister as ever and Harry looked unsure of himself not only was the monster who had tried to kill him stood before him in human form, but his sister was supporting him.

"Potter, what's on your back?" There was an element of fear in mad Eye's voice as he apparated in with most other order members and Severus.

"Dumbledore's handiwork, something even Tom, the so called "Dark Lord" wouldn't use." Mad Eye grumbled clearly unsure of what to make of the situation. Amelia's body suddenly went limp Tom caught her instinctively before looking accusingly at Dumbledore, but everyone in the room wore a baffled expression, as Amelia's breathing slowed until eventually it stopped.

Amelia felt the world slipping away from her, looking around she saw shapes, but they were a blur and Amelia couldn't make them out. Suddenly Amelia felt herself being launched forward and landing abruptly. Looking around Amelia saw that she was at the burrow, walking towards the door one of the gnomes ran through her that was when she realised, she was a spirit. Amelia panicked she couldn't understand what was going on. Was she dead? Amelia went towards the burrow and walked straight through the door. Looking around Amelia saw that it was empty and her attention was drawn to the Weasley clock, which now contained many more people than it ever had and Amelia wondered who they were.

The door opened and Molly walked in followed by a group of children with hair of all different colours. Arthur was bringing in the rear and Amelia noticed that he was almost bald, looking back at Molly she looked older too, was she in the future.

"Lilly Weasley get your feet off the table. Sophie Snape stop hexing James. No Toby you can not have cake." Molly had her hands full but in her heart, Amelia knew that this was the way Molly liked things to be and Amelia couldn't help but wonder who all the children were or who would be crazy enough to marry Snape. The floo flared up, Lucius Malfoy came through, and a group of the children ran to him screaming "Grandfather." Next through the floo Amelia was amazed at what she saw, it was an older version of her. The same group of children that had run to Lucius now ran to her older version screaming "Mummy", she'd had children.

People began to flock into the house and Amelia was amazed when she saw Herminie kiss Snape and she felt like she had walked into an alternate universe. Amelia felt herself being pulled away by unseen forces, she was in the Great Hall at Hogwarts it was empty except for five people who Amelia identified immediately as Rowena, Helena, Godric, Salazar and Lucinda. Lucinda was the first to speak.

"What you have seen is how the future can be but nothing in this life is definite, you must work hard and hold on to your beliefs to the roots of your powers, the others must do the same, what you will see next is what will happen should you fail."

Amelia was again sent spiralling, she found herself at a derelict graveyard in front of a wall. On the wall was written the words "Traitors of the great saviour Albus Dumbledore. Executed." Her name was their along with almost all the deatheaters she had ever heard and members of the order and even people she hadn't heard of before. A cloaked man came and laid a rose in front of the wall and in a hushed voice whispered,

"Forgive me my love. I did not heed your warning. I should have listened to you. I'm sorry." The voice was Tom's. Amelia felt herself falling and wondered where she would end up next. Opening her eyes she realised she was in the same room she had been before she passed out. She was looking up at Tom's face and she could feel his arms under her. Amelia wasn't sure when the rest of Pacis Tutela had turned up but Lewis was stood in the doorway shaking his head.

"Those five really do have terrible timing don't they." Amelia couldn't help but laugh at this before she remembered that she was still in a very dangerous situation. Amelia stood up quickly but felt light headed and fell back into Tom's arms

"Don't worry we've called a temporary truce until we know what's going on although I really don't like being stood in between some of the greatest witches and wizards who want to kill each other. Tom sat Amelia down on a nearby chair as she told the room everything she had seen. There was silence the room. Everyone was contemplating what had been seen and Amelia saw that their was four groups of people in the room, the death eaters, the order members who would side with her, the order members that were still unsure and Dumbledore. Molly was the one who ended the silence,

"There seems to be more questions than answers and I get the feeling you would answer them if given the chance." Amelia nodded at Molly and hoped that there would be some way for that to happen.

"Experiamus." Amelia darted round quickly to look at Hermionie who had cast the spell; her wand was pointed at Dumbledore. "He was going to attack Amelia." When Hermionie proclaimed this every death eater in the room turned their wands on him.

"Mrs Weasley I understand that there are many questions to be asked on your side of this but it is not safe for them to be answered here. I will alter the wards of Malfoy manor to allow in any of you with pure intent." Amelia was surprised that Lucius had taken this initiative but glad that he was found enough of her to know how important her old friends were to her. Tom ordered the deatheaters to move out and he apparated Amelia back to Malfoy manor. Sitting in Lucius' study Amelia could help but worry about the success of their mission. The floo lit up and the head of Hermionie Granger appeared.

"Are a group of us alright to floo through?" Lucius nodded and it wasn't long before Hermionie came through the fireplace and Amelia was amazed to see her being followed by the entire Weasley clan, Harry and every member of the order except Dumbledore and Minerva. Lucius proposed that they moved to the dining room where there would be more room and it wasn't long before everyone was sat around the table. There was a momentarily silence before everyone began to ask questions at once before looking at each other and laughing.

"Why don't I give my side of the story first and that might answer some of your questions." Everyone agreed and Amelia told them everything, her trip back in time, Dumbledore's torture of her, everything. When she was finished there was quiet it seemed like many of the questions had been answered and everyone was just taking in the information they had just been told.

"Can I see the journal?" Amelia had been expecting this question from Hermionie and Tom went to fetch it for as the silence filled the room again. Amelia described how the journal worked and let everyone look through it alone, whilst this was going on Lewis came over to Amelia and Tom, who had stood by her side through all of this and said

"I believe there is need for the five of us the hold a meeting." Tom quickly nodded his head in agreement and the five of them went through to the family dining room. Mark was the first one to speak

"Well this is fun. Did you know that this is the first meeting of the entire Pacis Tutela since the 14th century when the witch burnings were going on?"

"That's really interesting Mark. Well I Patrick Roberto Jacker, son of Roberto Thomas Jacker, heir of Hufflepuff call this meeting of Pacis Tutela, diversus iunctum pro quantum causa" They all felt a magical energy in the air and then on the table before them a book appeared, the book of Pacis Tutela, in which every meeting was record it was said to hold great powers that only activated when they were truly needed. The book opened itself to a page and the five of them all leaned in to see what was written on the ancient text.

June 5th 1308, entry made by Toby Malfoy, heir of Lucinda.

The world is changing; the muggles are becoming frightened of witchcraft and persecuting both rightly and wrongly. The heirs are divided; we cannot decide what to do we each want to follow the ways of our own houses. The wizarding world is getting impatient, they want a solution. I fear it will not belong before they turn against us and Pacis Tutela fall from power. Nevertheless, I had a vision, one of a future with hope but the only way for it to happen is for the ways of the houses to work together and I can see no such way. The end is near.

There was a silence and there was a consensus around the group that if Pacis Tutela was to return to power then they need to try to succeed where those before them had failed.

"Ok we'll I guess the best way to start is to talk about our goals." Amelia decided to take the lead and hoped that this simple question wouldn't start a fight.

"The return of Pacis Tutela to power." Everyone agreed by this comment from Mark but then Amelia asked the dangerous question of. What then?

"To get muggles away from magic."

"To take the wizarding world to a new level of adventure.""No, we must work on making sure lessons of the past are not forgotten." The answers by Tom, Lewis and Mark had been what Amelia was expecting and she and Patrick just shook their heads at each other. Amelia took a deep breath and took the lead in negotiations.

"Well, it's clear we all have different motives, but if you can stop giving each other evil looks for a moment we need to try to compromise."

Next Chapter

Amelia didn't hear from any of the order members for a couple of days but Amelia wasn't worried as she knew there would be a lot for them to think over. She spent the time with Tom who was trying to figure out what exactly the founders had meant and how to save the future. They figured that they had to follow the characteristics of their houses, but that seemed so second nature. Amelia was staying at Malfoy Manor and was becoming closer to all the Malfoy's with her and Cassandra even sharing the odd inside joke about the past. The Daily Prophet had printed several articles about the terrors of Albus Dumbledore and he was now a wanted man on the run, although Amelia feared what this would drive him to do as from what she had heard he was rapidly losing what was left of his sanity. Amelia and Lucius were sat in the library reading, usually Amelia would have preferred to read outside but it was raining heavily, typical of English weather. The floo activated and Ginny came through looking frightened. "We were all at the Burrow. Dumbledore attacked. I managed to run." Amelia didn't need to hear any more. "Lucius summon Tom, tell him I'm going in, and then get Cissy to take care of Ginny. Don't worry everything's going to be alright Ginny." Before Lucius could say, anything Amelia had gone through the floo network and he had no choice but to do as he had said and hope she would be alright.