I do not own Harry Potter, it would be an insult to Jo Rowling to mistake me for her so please don't. I'm just a kid trying to escape her horrible, privileged first world life.

Chapter 4

When Lucius got home he went straight into the kitchen to have a piping hot cup of coffee and some kraft dinner. This was his hangover food, and he was craving it the whole walk home. He didn't really notice that nobody else was home.

Assuming his wife was asleep, he ate his food, and decided to go for another walk. He really needed to think of a plan to tell everyone the next day. If they were going to stop the second greatest wizard ever, they were going to need at least an idea of a plan.

The walk was rather long, but when he got back there still wasn't anyone home, so he went to sleep.

In the morning, he got up late, needing to rush downstairs so quickly, he couldn't talk to his wife. She clearly wanted to talk to him about something, but what could he do? He was late for something that could change if she lived or died in the next year. He made his usual toast but brought it back up to his room to eat while he got dressed.

After dressing, he got hiss coat on, and rushed out the door. He apparated to Godricks Hollow this time, though he actually didn't remember how he got there last time, and trudged his way along the stone road towards the humble little Potter home.

"Welcome back " greeted a house elf as Lucius walked in the door.

Lucius didn't remember seeing a house elf the last time he was over, but he was probably just too hungover to notice.

"I'm sorry, but did you have this house-elf here last time? I don't remember seeing him yesterday, though he seems awfully familiar." Asked Lucius as Ginny appeared around the corner to greet him.

"He only works for us on weekdays." She answered politely.

"I don't get it, it WORKS for you?" questioned Lucius, unable to grasp the idea of having house-elves as equal to wizards.

"Yes he works for us. We pay him a galleon a day, he used to belong to Harry. After he set him free, he still wanted to work for us so we hired him. Hermione is very pro house-elf so we just went along with it. His name's Kreacher" she answered in more detail than Lucius required.

"Ok then." Lucius continued "are they in the dining room?"

Ginny led him down the short hallway toward the kitchen. Inside the kitchen, Hermione, Ron, and Harry were already sitting down discussing the plans.

"Did you start without me?" Lucius asked, quite disappointed.

"We asked them to come early so we could explain the whole situation to them. They'll treat you like they would Ginny or me." Harry explained "We started discussing everything, but we haven't gotten into much detail yet. Come join us."

Lucius pulled up a chair to join the conversation properly.

"Hello Ron, Hermione. How's it going?" he asked, trying to be as polite as Malfoyishly possible.

"We're good thanks." answered Hermione quickly, as if to stop Ron for saying something rude.

"Well then. We should get started then." stated Lucius, awkwardly.

"Well we know the diary's at Hogwarts, so all we need to know is when we'll go. We don't really need a plan for that part, McGonnagall should let us right in." said Ron, obviously.

"I don't think she's going to just let me in. I was a death eater, she won't be taking any chances." Lucius pointed out.

"Just a minor problem we can work around." Ron answered.

" Are you suggesting I sneak in?" Asked Lucius.

"Who said anything about you coming in at all?" stated Ron.

"Okay Ron, that's enough. He was just kidding, I assure you. I'm sure Minerva will allow you to come in. If we only explain our reason, she'll understand." Hermione said, covering he husband's rude remark.

"I'm not so sure. McGonagall didn't even like me when I was a student, just imagine what she'll say now that I have a full criminal record!" Lucius disagreed. "Maybe it would be better if you just went without me."

"That's not true! Look what you've done Ron!" Hermione yelled, hitting her husband on the head with the daily prophet "You have to come with us! We can go in disguised if you'd like?"

"Do you really think that's a good idea? That's against the law!" argued Ron

"Oh, shut up Ron. When have you ever cared about breaking the law?" Stated Hermione, clearly annoyed.

"You've never broken laws just to make ME stop whining!" complained Ron.

By now, Hermione was just ignoring him. Ron was never going to really like Lucius, after what he did to his family. None of them were really going to get along with each other, after their past.

After what seemed like several days, the group finally had a plan worked out. Harry, Ron, and Hermione would be themselves, and Lucius and Ginny would be a couple contemplating whether to send their children to Hogwarts. They would need polyjuice potion of course.

It was weird looking back on how in Ron, Hermione, and Harry's second year at Hogwarts, the polyjuice potion was extremely difficult to brew do to the different ingredients. Back then, they had to steal some ingredients, and wait till different times to do it. The wonders of doing something once you are an adult and just being able to do things on their own struck up an interesting conversation, for, what was Lucius doing when the trio was planning the potion in their second year? They knew very well what Ginny was doing but they thought it to be not a very good idea to bring up the subject around her. Lucius couldn't very well remember what he was doing at this time other than the fact that he was at his peak as one of Voldemort's death-eaters.

Lucius couldn't help but wonder what would've happened if Voldemort's plan had worked out at this time. Harry wouldn't be alive, neither would Ginny. Ron probably would've been in a relationship with Hermione much sooner, probably meaning it wouldn't have lasted this long. Lucius might have been dead too, you never knew what reasons Voldemort had for killing people, but he still managed to do it almost every day.

After much planning, and reminiscing about their years at Hogwarts, and what would've happened in different scenarios, Lucius returned home. He was able to apparate this time, so he was home in a matter of seconds, but its amazing how much you can see and think in that time. He realized it was almost Christmas, and how this never would've occurred to him before. The Malfoys never really cared about Christmas before. It was to joyous of a season for them to celebrate, and when young Draco used to come home for the holidays, he would receive presents, but no family would arrive, and little affection was shown. Maybe he could change that this year.