AN: We are now into Deathly Hallows.
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter
"Well I suppose you have some questions for me." She said.
Chapter 3: The Dark Lord Ascending
Everyone looked around the room at everyone else until finally Ginny spoke up. "Am I really your mom?"
The girl from the future nodded. Harry felt a strange mix of emotions rush through his body. He felt a connection with the girl in front of him that he couldn't explain but also a wave of resentment. He knew that Ginny should move on, it was the right thing for her to do. Yet he couldn't help but feel anger and resentment. He knew that whoever this bloke was didn't deserve his Ginny, no one did.
Ginny looked over at Harry and saw the emotions playing out on his face and she knew she could never feel for anyone what she felt for Harry. Whoever the girl's father was would always be second to her Harry.
Everyone else in the room looked between Harry and Ginny and didn't know what to feel.
The girl from the future, Ginny's daughter, sat and smiled and waited to be asked the inevitable question. Finally her Uncle Bill exploded with it, "who the hell is your father?"
The girl looked up and around the room before locking onto her parent's faces. "My name is Lily Luna Potter."
Harry heard her say her name and felt his stomach soar. He looked into her face and realized that while she obviously got most of her features from Ginny her hair was a darker red than the Weasley colour. It reminded Harry of the photos he had seen of his mother. She also had a nose that Harry saw every time he looked in the mirror. "You're my daughter?" He asked her. "Our daughter?" He gestured to himself and Ginny who was sitting stunned next to him but with a giant smile on her face.
"That's right Dad." Lily smiled.
Harry turned to Ginny at the same time that she turned to him. "We have a daughter." They said together. They leaned into each other and kissed. They were interrupted by Bill and Charlie who had come up to them and each laid a hand on Harry's shoulder.
"Oi, Potter! You knocked up our sister." Their faces scowling.
"Not just once either. I have two older brothers." Lily said beginning to chuckle while Remus and Tonks joined in.
"Lily, don't make things difficult for your father." Ginny scolded and then gasped. She sounded way to much like her mother; meanwhile Lily pouted in response but stopped laughing. She had experience what ticking off her mom would mean.
Bill and Charlie were still scowling at Harry. "Oh don't worry Uncle Bill, Uncle Charlie. They don't get married until Mom is 20."
"That's too young!" Bill exclaimed.
"Really? How old is Aunt Fleur right now Uncle Bill?"
Bill scowled but looked away and after a moment walked back to his seat. Charlie was still glaring at Harry and blocking his way back to Ginny. Lily smirked at him. "Uncle Charlie" he startled at being addressed as an Uncle but looked her way. "Do you want me to reveal what the note meant?" Lily asked.
Charlie scowled but after leaving Harry with an "I'm watching you Potter," he too returned to his seat.
Harry sat back down next to Ginny and grinning took her hand in his. Smiling at each other they turned to look at their daughter. "You said you had brothers?" Ginny asked, wanting to hear about her other children.
But before Lily could answer Kingsley interrupted. "Perhaps we should continue reading." Noticing the frowns of Harry and Ginny directed to him he continued, "then when we take a break Harry and Ginny or the future Mr and Mrs Potter," he smiled as select people in the room chuckled and Molly let out a squeal of delight, "can have some time to get to know their daughter." Everyone agreed and Lily pulled out a thick book. Handing it to Kingsley she smiled and sat back ready to listen.
The first chapter began with two men appearing on a street.
"Okay, I'm confused." Said Ron, "I thought this was supposed to be about Harry?"
"Ya, you're right Ron, I don't remember this happening this summer," Harry told the room.
"You're right Uncle Ron, Dad. This is the one chapter in the book not focused on Dad." Ron was visibly startled at being called an uncle and Harry jumped a bit. Still not quite used to being called dad.
"So then who is it about?" Asked Hermione. In response Lily just motioned for Kingsley to continue reading.
In the book it was revealed that one of the men was Severus Snape; the room was filled with angry expressions.
"We have to read about him!?" This came from Tonks.
"Why do we have to hear about the traitor?" Asked George.
Remus and Kingsley exchanged a look. "We might find out something useful like who the traitor is." With that said Kingsley started reading.
When the book described the men's ability to pass through the gate as if it were smoke the twins interrupted the reading.
"That would be an awesome feature-" Fred started.
"If it didn't revolve around having a dark mark," continued George. Everyone else looked at them not quite sure how to react. Eventually Kingsley just continued reading.
In the book the two men came across a peacock in the yard. Everyone in the room was slightly bemused.
"Who the hell has a peacock as a pet in the front yard?" Exclaimed Ginny, "Why the hell would someone need that?"
"The better question dear sister of ours-" Fred began.
"Is why the hell someone would want a peacock-" George continued.
"When they could have our lovely gnomes?" Fred finished.
All the Weasley children and Harry started laughing while the adults watched them with confused expressions. Finally the noise died down and Kingsley was able to continue reading.
"Oh, now that makes sense." George said when it was revealed that the house belonged to the Malfoys. His twin and Ginny nodded along with him.
"Why are they going to Malfoy's manor?" Harry asked.
All the Order members in the room exchanged glances, they were still unsure of how much to reveal to the teenagers. While they were still considering Lily spoke up to answer her father's question. "Because that's where Voldemort is Daddy."
Harry started at the same time the twins started cackling. "Aww look at Daddy Harry-"
"-He's so adorable." Then they turned their attention to Lily. "So Lily, Are you-"
"-Daddy's little girl?" They asked.
Instead of answering immediately Lily got up and went over to where her teenage parents were sitting and plucked herself down right between them where she then proceeded to curl into a ball. "Well I'm nowhere near as bad as your daughter Uncle George." George began opening and closing his mouth without being able to come up with anything coherent to say.
Kingsley took this as his cue to continue reading.
The book described Snape and Yaxley's journey through the house into a specific room and revealed that there was a body hanging over the table.
"Oh my godric," Minerva gasped out. Others around the room had looks of equal revulsion on their faces.
As the body was described in more detail every face in the room contained a look which was a mixture between pity and anger at what they all knew would soon happen to the poor person.
When the book described a young man sitting nervously and looking at the body Harry quipped sarcastically. "I wonder who that is." When he was met with legitimate questioning looks from almost everyone in the room he responded with a simple "Malfoy."
"Isn't Malfoy a fully grown man though?" Aberforth asked while everyone else just nodded sadly.
"Ya, it's his son." Harry told him.
As the book described Voldemort everyone around the room shuddered. They did not like hearing about him.
Voldemort had Snape sit to his immediate right and the disgust felt by the readers in the room was palpable.
"He's his right hand man!" Minerva exclaimed, her voice filled with disgust. "When I think about what he did to get there I could just… just…" She seemed unable to go on and looked away.
When Snape told Voldemort the correct date of Harry being moved the room was stunned into silence for a minute and then the silence was broken by several people all at once.
"How did he know that!" Remus shouted out.
"How did he find out when we were moving Harry!" Molly screeched.
"That traitorous bag of… of…" Bill seemed at a loss of what to call Snape so George jumped in.
"Hippogriff manure is the phrase you are looking for oh brother of mine." He told Bill.
Minerva was just sitting trying not to remember the Snape she thought she had known.
Eventually everyone had calmed down enough that Kingsley was able to continue.
"That's just creepy." Tonks remarked when the book described Voldemort smiling.
Harry who was the only person in the room who had witnessed that smile before just shuddered. Both Ginny and Lily notice as they were the ones closest to him and they both went to put a comforting hand on his shoulder. Realizing this Lily moved to the floor sitting in front of her parents and allowed her teenaged mother to reassure her teenaged father.
There was frustration in the room when instead of giving a name Snape just said it was a source. "And are we going to find out who that source is?" Arthur asked.
"Yes that would be helpful information." Minerva's voice sounded slightly strained.
"You will but close to the end of the book." Lily told the members of the Order. They all sighed when it became clear she wasn't going to tell them anything more.
No one in the room appeared reassured when Yaxley attempted to contradict Snape with the false story the Order had given the ministry.
"Well at least we know our false information did make it to them, even if they didn't listen." Kingsley interrupted himself.
"Yes, but as long as we have a spy in the order we can never be sure they will trust the information we leak to them." Remus responded not feeling reassured by the knowledge.
In the book Snape smiled.
"He smiled?!" Fred yelled.
"It's the end of the world!" George exclaimed.
Lily then surprised everyone in the room by shrieking "Run! Run for your lives!" When the room's occupants all stared at her in shock she just shrugged. "What? I'm the granddaughter of a Marauder and niece of the twins, I did get some of the fun genes." She then smirked.
Harry and Ginny looked at each other and seemed to be thinking the same thing: 'we aren't fun?"
"Well yes, if he had been confunded naturally he would be certain." Hermione said when Yaxley described Dawlish's certainty with the false trail.
In the book Snape said exactly what Hermione had just said and she looked revolted at thinking like Snape and Ron jokingly edged away from her.
In the book Voldemort looked at the body over the table and some of the listeners looked sick once again at the reminder.
In the book Voldemort was asking about Harry's safety at the place he was to be moved to. Snape confirmed that it would be safe and close to impossible to breach.
"That's right it has. You're safe here Harry." Molly said, Harry just rolled her eyes. She may be starting to see him as a more mature person but he doubted she would ever stop trying to protect him.
Nobody noticed Lily's wince at Molly's words.
"See Harry, even Snape agrees." Harry looked at Molly in shock. Was she really using Snape to convince him to stay?
In the book it was mentioned that there was a chance of the Ministry falling soon.
"What?!" Exclaimed Charlie.
"Are they really that close to taking the ministry?" Remus asked Arthur and Kingsley.
"If they are then we don't know." Kingsley told him.
Ginny who was looking at Lily saw the dark look cross over her face and felt her heart sink.
The book confirmed that Pius Thicknesse was under the imperius curse.
"Well we suspected that much at least." Said Tonks.
When Voldemort revealed that his plan was to have Scrimgeour surrounded uneasy glances were traded around the room.
"So the question is, is he close to having Scrimgeour surrounded?" Asked Hermione.
"And that is an answer we don't have. I suppose the book might tell us so." Arthur said.
"He is right about that. It is a difficult loss for our side." Kingsley remarked on Thicknesse being imperiused.
In the book Voldemort remarked that the plan would be to attack while Harry was being transported from Privet Drive.
Everyone who had been there that night shuddered; while George reached up to touch the hole where his ear used to be.
Ginny squeezed Harry's hand; Molly wrapped her arms around Arthur; Charlie and Aberforth looked around the room, not aware of the details of what had happened.
"That's why the way we moved you was necessary Harry." Remus told him when Yaxley explained that they would know if he went by magical means. Harry just nodded in response, thinking of Mad-Eye and Hedwig. He knew it was his fault they had died.
In the book Voldemort exclaimed that it would be easy to take Harry if he was travelling in the open.
"Too bad you didn't take him!" Ron scoffed. "He beat you again."
"Go Harry!" The twins cheered.
When Voldemort began to discuss Harry's ability to live as a result of his own foolishness rather than skill on Harry's part the twins interrupted again.
"Actually, it's due to his awesomeness." The twins said together. Harry just chuckled to himself and held Ginny closer.
Nobody noticed the wince that once again passed over Lily's face at the sound of her twin uncles voices in unison.
When Voldemort announced that he would be the one to kill Harry the mood of the room decreased.
"No." Ginny whimpered into Harry's neck. "No."
Everyone else had grave expressions.
All of a sudden the book described a cry of pain coming from beneath the table.
"What is that?" Molly cried out. "Arthur, Arthur what is it?" Arthur just held his wife close and motioned for Kingsley to continue reading.
"They are holding something prisoner." Kingsley said.
"You're right, there is a hidden room under the house. There are keeping something or more likely someone." Arthur said. Everyone leaned forward feeling a mix of anger that they held a prisoner and curiousity about who was important enough to be held captive by the Death Eaters.
When Voldemort sent Wormtail to go keep the prisoner silent Remus growled at the name of the traitor who had taken everything from him and drew the attention of the room to him.
Everyone looked up at Remus and recoiled in fright at the shadow of the wolf that had taken control of his features. Tonks reached out a hand and gently brought it up to his face lightly stroking his cheek until the wolf passed.
Remus winced when the book mentioned Wormtail's silver hand. He knew that that hand would make it hard to get his revenge on the rat but that didn't stop him dreaming.
Harry meanwhile remembered something else. He remembered the glint of a knife and the thud of flesh as it hit the bottom of the cauldron. He shuddered again.
In the book Voldemort announced that he would need to borrow a wand from one of the Death Eaters in order to kill Harry.
Ginny let out a whimper and clutched Harry tighter.
"Why does he need someone else's wand?" Tonks asked. "Surely his own is powerful."
Harry just shrugged. He didn't want to have to explain the idea that he and Voldemort shared brother wands. He was reminded of the mystery of what happened with his wand that night. Maybe the book would answer?
In the book Lucius was selected to give his wand to Voldemort and then the book went on to describe the shambled state of the Malfoy family.
"Sounds like they've lost their status in the ranks," Aberforth said.
"Good," Mr. Weasley nodded before turning back to Kingsley and the book.
After telling Voldemort the details of his wand the book described Lucius making a move as if to take Voldemort's own wand.
"That's not gonna go over well." Fred said.
"Right you are my brother. Voldemort's not gonna like that." George added in.
As Voldemort lectured Lucius he asked what distressed Lucius now that Voldemort was back in the open as he had apparently wanted for so long.
"Your ugly face?" Lily suggested. Harry and Ginny together looked down at their future daughter amazed, as did many others in the room. It was one thing to refuse to live in fear of Voldemort but another to openly mock him.
"We're so proud of you dear niece of ours." Fred said as he and George pretended to wipe fake tears from their cheeks.
No one noticed that as Fred said he was proud of her Lily's eyes glistened with very real tears. 'Uncle Fred said he's proud of me' she thought to herself sadly.
As the book described Nagini entering the room and slithering under the table all the listeners flinched, now aware exactly what this snake was.
"How are you going to kill it if it's with Voldemort all the time?" Asked Bill. Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at each other and shrugged.
"We haven't figured that out yet." Hermione answered for the three of them.
In the book Lucius Malfoy was being described as scared to meet Voldemort's eyes during the conversation.
"Someone is scared of his master." George said.
"Yes, but I think everyone would be if they were in his place Mr Weasley." Minerva responded.
When Lucius gave a less than satisfactory answer to a question of Voldemort's the book described Bellatrix jumping in.
Harry hissed at the name. Even more than a year later he couldn't forget what Bellatrix had taken from him. She had taken his only family, Sirius. Even now he wanted to finish the job of cursing her that he had attempted the last time.
Tonks snorted and muttered "idiotic excuse for an Aunt."
In the book Voldemort responded to Bellatrix's statement by stating that there was an event that had gone on in her family that may have been important.
Tonks looked up at Remus, a question in her eyes. "Is he talking about what I think he's talking about?" Disgust was evident in her voice.
Remus didn't respond. His back was as straight as a rod and his jaw was clenched.
In the book Voldemort confirmed their suspicions and began mocking them.
Tonks flinched and Remus's eyes darkened.
"Why that idiotic, stupid, prejudiced man!" Tonks cried out. "He can take all his ignorance and shove it up the ass of all his supporters…"
While Tonks continued ranting about the prejudice people had, Remus had closed his eyes and was slowly shaking his head from side to side. He reached out and stopped Tonks from continuing by gently shaking her shoulder.
"This is exactly the type of thing I wanted to avoid for you Dora." Remus told her. "You don't need to be tainted by me." Remus spoke quietly but everyone in the room could still hear what he was saying.
"Seriously Remus?" Tonks asked incredulously. "You are seriously saying that. Do you think I care about what these people are saying. I'm proud to be pissing of Voldemort and the Death Eaters."
"But it's not just them." Remus tried to explain. "It's almost everyone in our society."
"Then screw them!" Tonks exclaimed. "Screw anyone who thinks that way."
"Remus," Harry felt the need to intrude. "Aren't you already married? Hasn't this already been settled."
"Harry, you don't understand what-"
But Tonks cut across Remus. "No Remus, Harry is right. I've already won this argument. Besides if anyone knows what it is like to be ostracized it is Harry." Remus sighed but took Tonks's outstretched hand regardless.
The book described the Malfoys' and Bellatrix's embarrassment at being mocked over the marital status of their niece.
"See, anything that can make Bellatrix look ugly and blotchy is a good thing." Tonks said. Remus chuckled lightly.
"He is not a beast!" Yelled out Tonks in response to Bellatrix's statement in the book, McGonagall just sighed.
Meanwhile the twins looked at each other and then grinned at Tonks. "But you wish he were, don't you Tonks." This caused both Remus and Tonks to blush deeply.
Remus awkwardly motioned for Kingsley to keep reading.
Remus scowled when Voldemort mentioned the possibility of children. He knew he would never allow himself to reproduce. Marrying Tonks had been one thing but he could never afflict this life on an innocent child.
Tonks smiled inwardly, she hadn't told Remus yet but she was pretty sure at least one of those 'cubs' was already on the way. She didn't know how Remus would react but she hoped he would be happy about being a father and not take comments like the one in the book to heart.
In the book Voldemort began to discuss the notion of cleaning up one's family tree.
"That is just sick." Ron gasped.
"So really they are all just a bunch of liars?" Hermione was surprised, she had assumed that most of the pure blood supremacists were actually pure blood. Otherwise why would they logically advocate for something which they were not.
"While that is true Hermione, most of them are pure enough that they can get away with pretending." Mr. Weasley tried to explain.
Hermione just shook her head. It didn't make logical sense to her, but she turned back to the book anyway.
Tonks and Remus looked at each other and said at the same time "Bellatrix will never lay a hand on you." 'or our child' Tonks added in her head.
Everyone in the room looked sick as, in the book, Voldemort continued talking about dirty parts of magical society. Lily looked like she might actually be sick. These sentiments weren't nearly as popular in her time as they were now. She hated hearing these types of thoughts.
In the book Voldemort reanimated the body hanging over the table.
"Oh godric." Molly moaned.
The individual asked Snape for help while the man in question just sad and watched.
"Who is it? Why are they asking Snape for help?" Charlie asked. Everyone else just shrugged.
When the book confirmed that the person was Charity Burbage many of the listeners found their eyes misting up.
"No!" Minerva cried out. "No!" Of course she knew Charity had gone missing but had wanted to believe the story that she had left for other reasons.
"She was such a kind woman." Minerva was shaking with silent sobs. She had been colleagues with Charity for many years and didn't have a single bad thing to say about her.
In the book Charity began begging for Snape's help.
"Oh Godric, Severus help her for Godric's sake!" Minerva cried out. "She didn't do anything wrong!" Aberforth, who was sitting next to Minerva, started patting her shoulder and gestured for Kingsley to read on.
It took all the effort everyone had not to start cursing things during the short speech of Voldemort's in the book. They all just wanted this section over with.
As the killing curse was used in the book many people in the room, including Minerva, Molly, Hermione, Ginny, Ron and Lily, flinched.
"No!" Minerva cried out. "She didn't do anything wrong. She didn't do anything! Severus how could you?!" She screamed out.
In addition to Minerva, Ginny, Molly, Hermione and Lily all had tears in their eyes. Kingsley took quickly sped up his reading wanting to get this section out of the way as quick as possible.
Nobody spoke as the chapter came to an end with Voldemort offering Charity's body to Nagini as dinner. There was nothing to say. They felt as though they had all just watched the death themselves. What would happen in this book when someone they really cared for died, like Mad-Eye.
Silently Kingsley offered the book to Charlie who was sitting next to him. Charlie took it and turned the page and began to read.
AN: I considered starting Deathly Hallows from when Harry is already at the Burrow but I decided I wanted to give the other readers a little more insight into Harry's life and thought process. I got asked why they are reading this if they can't change anything. There is definitely a plan concerning that, it will be revealed in a later chapter. I have a poll up on my profile asking whether more future people should come into the story. Please vote. Please review they mean a lot.