A New Life
Chapter 6
The day before the trip to Diagon Ally:
(Elizabeth POV)
I laughed as I watched Alice jump up and down in P.E. We were playing basketball and she kept jumping all over the court in her excitement. It was the last lesson of the day so after this lesson we'd all be going back to my house, the black estate, to floo to Grimald place. The plan was that everyone would meet up in the second living room two hours after school with our bags packed to floo over. Once we get into London the plan is that we'll go to the Ministry and meet with the Minister to show him that we had all arrived safe, then have a little look around. We'd go back to Grimald Place so the others can sleep while I go to the forbidden forest to hunt, but after Hagrid and I have warned them about the dangers of unicorn blood and such.
We got to pick our teams again, but this time it was groups of six, so Luna, Hermione, Alice, Edward, Jasper and I all became red team, much to the joy of Hermione and mine. P.E was a definite breeze today what with us all playing the muggles. We won every game.
The ride back was full of races as we were all using my cars. I did consider magically enhancing them to become faster, but I didn't risk it. I made it back first on my usual bike, happily moving around the 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO to park my bike. I waited patiently for the other who were driving at a- dare I say it?- safe and reasonable speed.
Once the others had joined me in the garage, I started telling them the plan for the weekend. "Okay, so we'll meet in the second living room in two hours with all our stuff. This next part doesn't pertain mortals so there is no need to listen. I would very much appreciate it us vamps could meet here half an hours early so that I can give you all blood suppressing potions and answer any questions you may have while the potion takes effect. Is that cool fellow veggies?" I asked, laughing slightly when I called us veggies. It was true after all; we are vegetarians after all. I received nods from the all the vamps in the room and smiled happily at them.
"Okay, so I think everyone except you, Carlisle, should take the potion. It's not that I don't think you can't control your eves, but as a precaution. You understand that, right?" I asked, hoping that they didn't take it as an insult.
"It's perfectly fine, Darlin'. We all know that Carlisle is better at controlling his thirst that all of us. I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't like blood." Jasper said, laughing and kissing my forehead.
"As long as you understand." I said as I waved my hand a phials of potions flew to each member and hovered in front of them until they took it. "The potion takes about half an hour to take effect, so I thought you might have some questions to ask." I said as I saw everyone drink their potion.
"Okay then…tell us about the other vampire you knew at Hogwarts" Rosalie asked, cringing slightly at the taste of the potion. That was the drawback- even as a vampire potions didn't lose their horrid taste.
"Well, he wasn't like you guys. I mean, he wasn't bitten, he was born a vampire. Born vampires age like normal people until they are about 16, 18-ish. We dated for about a year- maybe two. We fought with each other during the tri-wizard tournament. His mother had been burnt by Voldemort a couple years before we met. He wasn't treated any differently than anyone else. He was a nice guy." I said sadly, smiling at the vampires who had become my family.
"Sorry to hear that. Who is the minister of magic? Do you know him personally?" Carlisle asked, folding his arms across his chest.
"The Minister of Magic is Kingsly Shacklebolt. He use to an aura, that's like the police but better trained and such, he helped us defend Hogwarts in the war, we fought together. He gave us warning that Death Eaters where on their way to attack us at Bill and Flur's wedding at the Burrow when the Ministry fell to Voldy. He's a good man." I said, trying to remember all that I could about him.
"At least you have someone who know what they are doing in charge." Jasper said, knowing most of my stories by now.
"Yes, Fudge was just a nightmare. No one liked him and he was the one who started slagging me off to the newspapers." I said angrily, shocking a few of the vampires. "That man should have been thrown into Azkaban as soon as we regained control."
"Why?" Esme asked, also shyly.
"He was on the dark side. He bought his way into the position of Minister and ignored me and The Order when we told them Voldemort had returned and had Ceddric, the vampire I knew, killed. He spend a year manipulating the paper to try and get the public to turn on me. It wasn't until a year later that he finally admitted he was wrong. And only then he admitted it because several Aura's saw it. We were in the main area of the Ministry where all the floo's are when Dumbledore and Voldemort were fighing until Voldy possessed me and tried to get control of my body. We had an internal battle that he eventually lost. He slowed time around us so no one could come near us and he smiled his evil grin at me. I was lying on the floor because I didn't have the energy to get up. That's when the Minister and Aura's got there too. A little late considering that when we went to the ministry it would have set off the alarms that calls all the Aura's and such." I said, seething at the fact that the little worm got away.
"What happened to him? Fudge, I mean?" Edward asked.
"He ran. The little worm fled the country when I won the battle. Our best guess is that he went to Algeria, but we can't know for certain." I said. I looked down at my watch to check what the time was, shocked to see that it was almost time to go. "Well doesn't time fly when you're having fun. The others should be here any minuet. Ready to step into the magical world?
A/N: So sorry I didn't post a chapter yesterday, I was so busy I simply didn't have time. I just manage to quickly type this one out, but have to go to school, other wise I write another one for you
I might post one tonight, but remember,
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