Chapter 4

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Hermione and Ron both stood there silent. Hermione just stood there not knowing what to say to her best friend, for once in her life, she was speechless. Ron, on the other hand, was gaping like a fish, with his mouth opening and closing many times, but no words were coming out.

Finally, Hermione spoke up ad asked her, "Can you repeat what you just said again? I don't think that I have heard what you said correctly."

"I said that these are my three sons that I adopted this summer," Sammy said slowly to Hermione, so she could understand her clearly. Apparently, Sabo, Ace, and Luffy were laughing like a pack of hyenas at Hermione's and Ron's expressions. They did try not to laugh, but they could not help it.

"Sammy, how good…"

"To see you." Fred and George Weasley cheerfully exclaimed as they both tried to shake her only hand. Only to get into a fight about whose good enough to do it.

"Fred, George Weasley, that is enough out of both of you," Mrs. Weasley snapped at her two sons who stood at immediate attention and saluted her, before heading to their room, while Sabo, Ace, and Luffy looked at them with awe. Sammy almost groaned as she knew that the twins are going to love teaching the art of pranking to her boys. This year is going to hell.

Mrs. Weasley turned to Sammy and pulled her into one of her famous bear hugs and exclaimed, "Samantha, dear, its so good to see you. Are you doing okay?"

Sammy knew that Mrs. Weasley was really asking how she was coping with only one arm. It usually did bother her as it almost always did when other people asked her the same question. But Mrs. Weasley is like the mother that she never had before even as Shanks.

"I'm doing great, Mrs. Weasley. Thanks for asking," Sammy answered.

Mrs. Weasley finally noticed the three boys who were sitting next to Sammy and were watching them with curious expressions on their faces.

"Who are they?" Mrs. Weasley asked as she eyed them. Mrs. Weasley was itching to feed them as they looked too thin for her tastes.

"That's Sabo who is eight years old, and that's Ace who is seven years old, and that's Luffy who is only four years old. And they are with me," Sammy said, but she saw the questioning look on Mrs. Weasley's face. So she added, "Don't worry, Mrs. Weasley. I promise that I will explain everything tonight at dinner."

Mrs. Weasley smiled as she said, "Okay, I will hold you to that promise, young lady."

Sammy smiled as she watched Mrs. Weasley leave the pub to go to her room, before turning back to her friends. Hermione announced, "I still have some money left over and I still want to get a pet. So come on."

They followed her to the pet store, where Ron got his rat; Scabbers looked at and bought some rat tonic for it. For some reason, her gut told her to not trust that rat and Sammy always listened to her gut as it did keep her alive when she used to be Shanks and a Pirate Emperor. But Scabbers got chased out by a very large cat named Crookshanks. Sammy would have helped Ron go after it, but she was busy with keeping her three sons from causing her trouble and creating chaos, which seems to be their favorite thing to do.

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"I can't believe that Hermione bought that monster. That's the last thing that Scabbers needs," Ron complained for a hundredth time so far, causing the boys to snicker as they too, hated the rat and loved the cat.

Hermione ignored Ron in favor of asking, "Sammy, I got to ask you something that is very important and I don't knew how to ask you this without sounding rude and mean."

Sammy sighed as she said, "Hermione, ask what you want to ask and I promise that I won't get offended by it."

Hermione still looked unsure, but she asked anyways, "Were you possibly drunk when you adopted your sons by any chance?"

Sammy choked on her ice cream while the four boys were laughing their heads off, earning strange looks from the other people who were passing by. Sammy whined, "What makes you say that, Hermione?"

Hermione was quick to reply, "Because I remember from the last two years that a certain someone always tries to get drunk from the Butterbeer that the twins bring to the parties."

That had the boys pounding the table as they were laughing; only Sammy would try to get drunk at parties. The Potter brothers had the same thought in their heads, Shanks is still the same old Shanks that they knew and loved in their first lives.

"The only reason that I couldn't get drunk, was it wasn't strong enough to do so," Sammy snapped which caused the boys to laugh even harder than before. "No, I was not drunk at the time. But know this even if I was drunk, I would have done the same thing, no matter what."

Hermione smiled at her. Ron then took his chance to ask his question, "Why did you adopt them then?"

Sammy smiled sadly as she looked at her sons as the were waiting for an answer. So she said, "I found them living on the streets. I just could not leave them there, it did not feel right. And besides, they reminded me when I was their age."

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After several narcoleptic fits later where Ace fell asleep in his food and Sammy had to explain why Ace would suddenly fall asleep while eating. Sammy took the time to explain how the Dursleys kicked her out of their house after the first time that she went to Diagon alley and how she, with the goblins' help, bought an apartment building that wasn't too far from the alley. And then she explained what had happened during the summer and how she adopted three boys off the streets as her sons.

After she was done explaining everything even that they were coming with her to Hogwarts, the room was dead silent except for the small snoring that was coming from the three boys. Luffy was currently asleep in Sammy's lap, while the other two had pulled their chairs as close as they could to Sammy's and they had their heads on her lap as they slept, too. It was a very cute site.

"I thin that everyone should go to bed and we will talk about this more in the morning," Mr. Weasley said as it was indeed late. So with the help of the twins, Sammy was able to put her sons to bed. And afterwards, the twins asked her if she was drunk when she adopted them. Sammy felt like crying as she wondering why does everyone asked her if she was drunk when she adopted them.

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As the week passed, Sabo, Ace, and Luffy were counted as honorary Weasleys. They have a bunch of new uncles and aunts to spoil them. And after a few days of getting used to the news, Mrs. Weasley was overjoyed to finally have grandkids to spoil even though it was through the least expected way possible. (In Charlie's and Bill's letters that Mrs. Weasley wrote them, they would noticed that she would stop asking them if they had settled down with someone and when would the grandchildren come. And let me tell you, they got suspicious of that and wrote Percy who in turn told them what happened. At Christmas time, Sammy received two gifts from the two Weasley brothers that she did not meet. It left her very confused.) Mrs. Weasley was extremely happy that she finally got her wish. They boys were just happy that their new grandpa did not try to kill them with his so called training. (Garp)

In private while the brothers were getting to know their grandparents better, Sammy told her two best friends about Sirius Black and how he was coming to get her and do her in. After that, she also pointed out his possible innocence. And they agreed with her after some thought and together they wrote a letter to the Daily Prophet about what they knew.

When that came out the next day, people learned that Black did not get a trial at all and was just thrown in prison and how some things did not add up, they demanded that he gets a trial whenever he was captured or walks in on his own. With very little choice, the Ministry of Magic promise that they will give him a fair trial and that they public was aloud to come and see the trial. Also, it did help that the one and only Rita Skeeter wrote in her article that the trial had to be a public trial or the Ministry would just say that he was given a fair trail and it turned out that he was really guilty, just to cover their own asses about the injustice on their part.

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Sammy and the others found a compartment near the back of the train with only two people in it. The man who looks to be the new DADA Professor and the other was none other than Ben Beckman.

"Hi, is anyone else sitting here?" Sammy asked as she really hoped that no one was.

"No, you are welcome to join us," Ben replied immediately. Even if it did not show on his face, he was very happy to see Shanks even though it looks like that he is a she.

"Thanks," Sammy said as she and her friends put their trunks on the racks. Earlier, they had put the boys' trunks in Fred's and George's compartment with the promise from them that they would not put pranks in them.

When every one was settled in, Ben asked, "I'm Ben Beckman and I just transferred here from America."

"I'm Hermione Granger." Hermione introduced herself.

"I'm Remus Lupin and I'm the new DADA Professor," Professor Lupin introduced himself. He was very curious about the three younger boys.

"Ron Weasley," Ron introduced himself to the new comers.

"Luffy Potter…"

"Ace Potter…"

"Sabo Potter…"

"And we are the Potter brothers and our mother is none other than Samantha Potter," all three of them said at the same time.

As the train traveled at high speeds, Remus took that time to study, his best friend's daughter. Samantha Potter had an interesting shade of red hair, had her mother's eyes, and three scars over her right eye, he wondered where and how did she get them. Another strange thing was that her left side was hidden by the small cloak that was tied around her neck. But what shocked him the most was the fact that she had three kids of her own.

Suddenly, the train slid to a stop and the lights flickered for a few seconds, but going out totally, leaving everyone in pitch darkness. After five minutes and Ginny and Neville came in, it got really cold and it felt like the happiness was being sucked out of everyone. Sabo, Ace, and Luffy all went for comfort in their mother's waiting arm as Sammy hugged them close to her. They were whimpering. Sammy could feel that Ben moved closer to her, so he could help comfort the boys. Sammy was trying to force the worse memories, which was pretty bad as she lived a life before as a pirate, to the back of her mind.

A rotten hand came into view when it pulled the door open. So this was a dementor that the professors warned her about. A bright white light came from the direction of Professor Lupin and she was grateful that she did not faint as the memories that were best left forgotten began to overwhelm her.

AN: I hope that you all like this chapter. Please review and tell me what you all think of it. Have a nice day, everyone.