"Not again!" Melanie groaned then sunk to the floor, right in the middle of the room, and held her head in her hands.
Ethan looked seriously confused; he looked from Harry to Melanie, to Christopher to this Keira girl to Remus then started at Harry again.
Christopher kept stuttering, he absolutely looked furious.
Harry didn't bother to reply, he glared dagger at everyone.
Keira looked confused also.
"Remus what the hell are you on about?" Keira demanded.
"Keira Potter meet your siblings," Remus said, she looked at him like he was mental.
"All of them?" Keira asked looking at everyone in the room, Remus blushed.
"No, Melanie please come over here," Remus asked.
"Go to hell." Melanie replied, he nodded.
"Christopher?" Remus asked.
He got no reply and the twenty two year old man looked like he was only getting angrier.
"Harry?" Remus asked.
"Don't even talk to me right now!" Harry snarled.
"Ethan?" Remus asked, now begging, Ethan nodded and walked towards Remus. "Keira this is one part of your younger brothers, Ethan, his twin Harry is over there." Remus indicated to Harry, who glared at him. "Melanie is over there, on the floor." Remus pointed towards Melanie, who didn't act as if she had even heard him speak. "And Christopher." He indicated to Christopher who was still looking furious.
"YOU HAVE SOME BLOODY EXPLAINING TO DO!" Christopher roared, he was pointing at Remus, everyone flinched slightly, usually Christopher was the calm one out of his siblings.
The room started to empty until only Emma, Sirius, Remus, Belle, Severus, Albus, Melanie, Harry, Ethan, Christopher and Keira were left.
"You deleted my own sister from my memory! You took her from me!" Christopher said deflated now that he had lost some of his anger.
"We couldn't risk you mentioning her to your brothers and sister, this wasn't what we planned," Remus told him desperately.
"Albus how could you do this to us! To me! That's my sister! You took her from my memory!" Christopher cried out, Albus looked sadly at his Godson.
"I couldn't risk it."
"Risk what Dumbledore! I have had enough of you! When will you just stop this game?" Harry roared "It's not fun and it's not fair!"
"What are you going to throw at us next! Please tell me! Are Mum and Dad still alive?" Melanie shouted at the adults. Christopher wrapped a shaken Melanie into his arms, she was so angry she was crying.
"Albus!" Emma cried tearfully. "Tell them everything!" She pleaded. "You have to."
"Tomorrow perhaps, but not tonight. I will come by tomorrow night; I suggest you welcome Keira into the family," With that Albus Dumbledore left them in silence.
Melanie walked straight out of the room, she was too tired now to deal with this, and instead she just walked to the kitchen and smiled weakly at everyone in there.
"Sorry the party has been cut short, but I think Emma will let you stay. Draco?" Draco smiled comfortingly at Melanie, got up and brought her to his room, where she was going to stay for the night.
Christopher stepped towards a very awkward looking Keira.
"Not what you expected right?" He asked.
"Erm I didn't know where I was going. Roxana just kinda sent me here because she thought it was time," Keira said. Christopher nodded then grabbed her by the elbow gently and led her towards the family.
"Excuse Melanie, she get a little emotional, like mum was," Christopher said, Harry still wasn't speaking, and Ethan looked nervous
"We're not always like this," Ethan said finally. "Yeah we have got the weirdest family ever, but we're normally a little happier."
Emma jumped up and engulfed Keira into her arms, squeezing the air out of her lungs. It was a weird experience for all, they didn't know how to act or what to do, but in time things would settle, they always did.
The next morning When Melanie walked down the stairs it was to find herself alone in the kitchen with Keira.
"I'm sorry I didn't talk to you last night," Melanie said quietly as she sat opposite her sister.
"Don't matter, I mean it was a bit of a shock for us all," Keira said with a kind smile.
"So erm, what are you going to be doing here?" Melanie asked uncertainly.
"Well I just finished my second year studying law, I'll probably do my last year of study here, and then I will go on to work, it should only take another year," Keira explained.
"That should be good." Melanie said.
"Yeah, so how old are you lot?" Keira asked.
"I'm seventeen. Harry and Ethan are just about to turn eighteen. Christopher is just twenty-two. You?"
"Twenty."
"So what do you plan on after Hogwarts?" Keira asked.
"Healer, they just set up a new kids ward there, so hopefully there," Melanie replied, and then grinned slightly. "Boyfriend?" She asked.
"Nah, if I'm gonna be living in England then I might as well be single and meet the new lads over here," Keira said with a wink just as Draco walked into the room, he sat down beside Melanie and kissed her on the cheek.
"Keira meet Draco Malfoy, Draco Meet Keira. Draco is my boyfriend of a year," Melanie told Keira.
"Well you're a lucky man Draco, Melanie here is a right looker," Keira said then winked at Melanie.
"So Harry, Ethan and Chris, are they seeing anyone?" Keira asked.
"Harry has been dating Ginny for nearly a year and a half now. Ethan hasn't really dated anyone, but he once got off with Hermione, both were horribly embarrassed, they are just friends. Christopher hasn't said and we've had no proof of anything, but I'm only around some of the time." Melanie told Keira.
"So then Draco what do you plan next?" Keira asked after sipping on her pumpkin juice.
"Well I just finished school, so I am job searching, but I'm looking into potion making, stuff like that," Draco said, Keira nodded.
"Sounds good, there's money in that, not many can really brew a decent potion," Keira said, and it was true, even St Mungo's ordered in their potions.
Just then Christopher walked in with a couple of others and Molly appeared and the kitchen as filled with wonderful breakfast smells. An owl appeared at the window, carrying a paper in its beak.
When Sirius finally paid the owl he opened the front page up a started to cheer.
FUDGE FINALLY LEAVES OFFICE
Was splattered across the front page, beneath was a picture of a grumpy looking Fudge carrying a box full of rubbish he had taken with him.
"Took him long enough," Severus said with a yawn as he sat down at the table, which had just gotten longer for the new arrival.
"I'm gonna run for it," Sirius said after a long drawn out silence which no one had been in a hurry to fill.
"What?" Emma asked astounded.
"I'm going to run for Minister for Magic, I mean who better, not only do I have direct contact with Albus Dumbledore and the saviours of the wizarding world, I can see things from a much wider view, with werewolves and Deatheater kids, I can work for something," Sirius said, and everyone agreed, he would be prefect for the place.
"Well, cousin, I'm behind you all the way, we've got the kids here too, and with you as minister for magic we won't need to worry so much about Voldemort getting through," Belle said.
So that night when Albus turned up there was a lot to talk about.
He did explain that Keira wasn't expected to turn up, but right now that was everything other then property, but that would be something they went over later, but he did agree with Sirius, thinking that for Sirius to become Minister for Magic was the best thing.
As Chief Warlock in the Wizengamot he put Sirius forward for the position, and in a months time the minister would be picked by the people.
It was a hellish month.
Belle was raising Werewolf awareness.
Remus was working on wizarding and werewolf relations.
Sirius was giving daily speeches.
Severus was writing letter to every parent of every student in Hogwarts with the help of Emma and Arthur.
Arthur was gaining support within the ministry, as was Tonks and Christopher.
Bill was working on relations with Goblins.
Fleur was working harder with the international relations, particularly with France; Keira was working with Ireland and her contacts, Ethan with the teachers in Australia, and Christopher with friends and old teachers in America, as was Emma. Hermione had even gotten in contact with Victor Krum again to get his support. Charlie was raising awareness in Romania. Though these people wouldn't be able to vote if there was already the foundations of a good relationship there that would be so useful.
Fred and George gave away a 'Support Sirius' badge which squirted water at people with every sale at their shop.
Molly and Ginny were on a cooking overload and then went on to sell them for Sirius, with Melanie, Pansy's and even Susan Bones (Who was around a lot to catch up with Ginny and Melanie and Pansy and Hermione – of course)
Percy was talking with a lot of the higher up members of the ministry.
Harry was in contact with all his friends from over the years.
Melanie had gotten in contact with Simon again; as he was a squib she wanted him to raise awareness with other squibs.
Hermione was on research – because lets face it no one can research like Hermione can – with some help from Christopher.
Everyone was on full power all the time, and honestly they loved it. And were very much hoping it would pay off.
So when Sirius stood there with Hermione by his side as she had managed to become his assistant along the way, waiting nervously for the results, it was a great thing that he was named Minister for Magic.
"Never in all my years have I seen someone with such a fantastic team behind them, someone who worked so tirelessly for the last month, congratulations!" Dumbledore called as there was a roar of applause.
"I would just like to thank everyone for their input, it is certain to say that without my rather large extended family I wouldn't have made it so thank you!" Sirius called.
There was a celebration held at the ministry, Sirius was dancing with Hermione, in the kind of father daughter way, thanking her over and over for her organisation skills. Keira and Christopher were dancing as well, catching up on the last seventeen years. Harry was chatting with Ginny and Ethan. Everyone was just mingling, talking, dancing, and laughing.
The light above flickered slightly, Harry looked up at the sparklingly orbs weirdly. He turned to the fireplaces, they were still, so shaking his head slightly he gave his full attention to Ginny once again.
Sirius stopped dead still, he whipped his head around, magical light doesn't just flicker. He thought to himself then grabbing Hermione by the arm, silently, he dragged her towards Harry and Ethan.
"Wands out, don't draw attention to yourself!" Sirius hissed, Harry, Ethan and Ginny all pulled their wands out, as did Hermione and Sirius, Emma who had been watching them saw them take out their wands and followed, then hissed at Severus for him to do the same.
The room was packed full of ministry officials, high ranking remembers of society, reporters, photographers, teachers, healers, squibs, and family and friends. Everyone who was anyone was there right now. Mostly unaware of what was going on.
Emma rushed towards Melanie, Draco, Pansy, Blaise and Susan.
"Get your wands out, be subtle," Emma told them quietly as Severus told the same to Chris and Keira, and Sirius the Weasleys.
"Susan warn your family, tell them not to draw attention to it though," Emma said, the girl nodded, smiled weakly at Blaise then walked briskly towards her Aunt and Father.
Soon nearly quarter of the people were aware as the lights flickered more and more, till eventually they had turned off all together, some screamed suddenly at the now total darkness. Everything remained fairly quite, with only low murmurings, many lit the tops of there wands and held them high, this caused shadows to be cast in nearly every direction.
There was a gentle tapping noise coming from down the main hallway, at first that is what they hoped it to be until someone shrieked 'that's footstep!'
Neville and his grandmother walked briskly towards Harry and his group of friends and family.
"If I'm going to get attacked, I might as well fight along side my friends," He whispered to Harry who grinned at him, agreeing fully. Soon they were also joined by Luna and her dad.
They all fell silent waiting for the attackers to have a go first, it was a tense wait before they heard a roar far off and a saw a bottle green spell shot through the air.
"DUCK!" Harry bellowed then fell to the floor, the curse rushed over them, but behind it hit someone, he heard the screams, and the dull thud of a body hitting the ground.
"DADDY!" Luna's voice screamed. Tears filled his eyes as he realised who the spell had hit. And now another innocent person was left parentless, alone in this world.
Another roar, this one much closer, another spell, blood red went soaring through the air, it flew in the opposite direction then the first, lighting up the way it went until finally it hit it's target. He was illuminated with a ruby glow before collapsing to the floor.
All hell broke lose. Different colours filled the air, different cries and screams, different hopes, different fears.
Harry had been stuck in battles before, but never felt this, the coldness running through his veins, the fear that threatened to make him freeze, if only for a second. He had never felt so sickened as he battled against these people. It was a hundred times worse then anything he had before experienced. Only just an adult, he was not ready for this. All the training at school didn't prepare you for this. He said it to Umbridge in his fifth year, he stuck to in now. School didn't prepare you for this.
Then he thought to the key now hidden behind a picture of the family, well, Christopher, Keira, him, Ethan, James and a very pregnant Lily. The only picture of all of them, technically.
More roars around him, a deafening blast, one of the fireplaces had just completely exploded, from the corner of his eyes he could see Luna, she was feebly fighting through the tears, he would have thought she could be ok until Bellatrix neared the crying girl, Belle must have seen this to because with a flourish of her wand Bellatrix went flying.
"Sorry dearest sister!" Belle shouted, then an orange light flew towards her and she ducked, it hit the wall behind her, creating a massive hole. "She did not!"
A new battle started between the sisters which were nothing alike, they were fighting to kill.
A curse soared past Harry's ear and he was drawn back into the main battle, he fought with all his might, but it didn't seem enough, he was tired, whereas his opponent seemed like they were only getting more energy with every curse sent.
"Confundus!" Harry yelled as purple flames shot towards him. His spell hit its target, but only after Harry threw himself out of the way of the purple flames that threatened to lick at his torso. For a moment nothing happened to the man that Harry had hit, but then a look much like the one Lockhart wore after destroying his memory overcame his face.
And for a second Harry let himself think that everything would be ok, that they would fight through. Just for a second.
It wasn't.
Just as Harry hoped they would all get through this, there was another single pop, it echoed menacingly, then a green light, speeding through the air, it was heading straight for him, closer and closer, as if slow motion, then as it was inches away Harry was tackled to the floor around the waist, he landed painfully, and yet his was alive, quickly he looked to see Ethan laying beside him panting.
With a nod to each other they got back to their feet and together duelled Voldemort, and before either had realised it Keira was there as well, screaming her own curses, protecting her brothers, then Christopher, and finally Melanie, the five siblings fought Voldemort as one, for every three that sent a curse there were two to defend against Voldemorts curses.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!" Voldemort screamed, at the same time though the Potter siblings had sent a stunning spell. Their spells connected at a point just before Voldemort, and collided with his killing curse, Harry had only experienced this once, and that was before he knew he had any brothers or sisters.
There was a small explosion as the spells collided, they were engulfed in a barrier, and almost instantly Harry realized Voldemort was not strong enough to fight off all five spells as theirs connected with his wand tip, another small explosion, and a flash of blinding light.
Almost instantly the figures Harry had seen in his fourth year appeared, but they were alone, there were new people Harry had never seen, and Flitwick was there also, but they weren't quite there. Lily and James were at their children's side almost as soon as they emerged.
"Hold on for as long as possibly darlings, the longer the more power," Lily said to her children.
"We'll help you as we did Harry" James said.
"We're so proud of you all. Finally you're together." Lily said her eyes watered as she watched her children bravely battle.
Melanie was the youngest and was starting to tire.
"Let go. We love you. Let go." James shouted, and together the five lifted there wands, and the beams of light disappeared.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!" Harry screamed pointing is wand towards Voldemort, he had faltered as the spirits attacked him, but before the spell could collide he was gone, his Deatheaters with him.
All five of the Potter siblings fell to the floor panting; a silence was filling the air, tense and unwanted.
"That was unusual," Keira said finally. Christopher nodded, he looked to Harry.
"You've done this before?" He asked.
"Once, during the Triwizard tournament, I hadn't meant to, but I did, something similar happened then, but never before have I seen so many spirits, not the true amount of people he killed. I never want to see that again," Harry said softly, slowly he got up, and walked towards the fountain, and sat on the side of it, catching his breath.
Sirius stepped forward, and helped Ethan and Keira to there feet as Remus helped Christopher and Dumbledore Melanie.
"Now I do believe it is time we take everyone to St Mungo's," Dumbledore announced. "If you feel you don't need or want any medical attention please help us bring others to St Mungo's. Anyone who can make it on their own, if you could get to St Mungo's that would be helpful."
And so the healing process began.