So, I know I have written quite a bit about Estella and Ely. I figured since they are my own characters I should give them depth and include details. You will continue to hear about Estella in this story, but don't worry interesting event between Ron and Hermione will off course take place in fourth year (they might be happy, sad, maddening, sexy, etc)

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FOURTH YEAR – The return of evil

The Enlistment Scroll

"Severus, Lily. Since you summoned us here today please step forward" announced the Headmaster.

"Right" said Lily as her and Severus moved to stand in the front of the room. She then began to speak in a sad but eloquent tone. The trio stood close to the door, huddled under the invisibility cloak.

"We have come to you today to reveal a new threat against the wizarding world and make a plea for your support to fight against it. A new organization known as the Black Hand has emerged with the goal of eradicating muggles and muggle-borns and punishing any pureblood witch or wizard who refuses to adhere to this line of thought." Hearing this Hermione suddenly felt like she was going to be sick and without knowing why she took hold of Ron's forearm. They looked at each other for a minute and let go as both blushed intensely.

"Do you have proof of this?" asked one of the three strangers. He was a tall man with dark skin and large gold ring hung from his ear. At this point professor Dumbledore rose and proceeded to tell the group about the events of last year, the attacks of the periculum bellati on the four girls and the confessions and death of Miranda Talassee.

"Do you know who this Miranda was?"

At this Severus interjected. "Miranda was a Death Eater during the reign of Voldemort. She was assigned as my partner during my time as a death eater and we were engaged to be married once all muggle-borns either gave up their wands or died..." his face was filled with anguish and he paused for a minute. "I'm not proud of my past, but I can tell you that betraying her and the Dark Lord was the best decision of my life." At this his wife grabbed his hand and squeezed it.

"Who else knows about this?" asked a strange and small man who wore a top hat.

"Only those present at this meeting as well as seven other students. Two of them are currently working as our spies, so their names must remain unsaid even in this room. I believe our Head Girl is also aware of some of this information" at this Dumbledore looked at Ely.

"Yes" Ely responded.

"The three other students, Harry Snape, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, were accidentally caught in the middle of the attacks of last years. They know about those events, but no more"

"What more is there Headmaster?" asked a man serenely. He had a pale sad face and shabby clothes.

"After the attacks last year, we had hoped that the Black Hand would retreat because of their defeat. But, after discussing this with Ralph, Esther, Lily and Severus we decided to prepare during the summer. They were kind enough to train the two students who are currently acting as informants. That preparation is now our saving grace. These informants have brought grave news, but I hope with this knowledge we can prepare." Dumbledore now looked at Severus who began to speak.

"Currently the students spying on Black Hand activity report to me and I have the upmost confidence in the information they have given me" The room now looked expectantly at Severus.

"The Black Hand has two leaders. The first was easy to identify from Miranda's confession as Luscious Malfoy. The second has been trickier, but we know now that whoever the other leader is, he is connected to a seventh year student in Slytherin by the name of Marcus McDavol. In terms of recruitment they are using charmed enlistment scrolls and one is currently being promoted to the student body by Mr. McDavol himself" after mentioning this he motioned to Mr. Swanson who in turn stood.

"The scroll reads: I vow before my fellow hands of terror, on my honor and my life, that I will execute without question all missions and commands to ensure the supremacy of pureblood lines and purge our world of undesirable mudbloods and traitors. I swear in the name of the Dark Lord and the Black Hand that I will take all the secrets of this organization and dark magic into my grave with me" said Ralph Swanson with a somber and worried expression.

"One of the informants has also told us that whoever signs the scroll is surrendering to an unbreakable vow and must do what the scroll says or die" said Severus.

"Are we to assume one of your informants is a unique young lady we have been protecting since birth?" asked the shabby looking man. Severus simply nodded.

"How could you all be so careless? You out of all people know! She must not be endangered! She and Harry are too important!" said the tall dark man.

"I agree with you completely, but she started acting in this capacity without asking permission and now she cannot be pulled away. It is better if we're there for support instead of leaving her to her own devices" said Severus, his voice filled with regret. "As far as my son is concerned, I assure you that Lily and I are taking the upmost care in ensuring his safety and training" Severus said filled with conviction. The room fell silent until Dumbledore stood.

"Let's not argue over the safety of these two young people right now. I guarantee every measure is being taken to protect them. Now the most pressing issue for this meeting is the upcoming violence. The two spies easily found out that the Black Hand is planning to have at least five attacks against muggles and muggle-borns before the end of the year. They have worked very hard at finding out the locations for those attacks and have been able to provide us with a list of possibilities. We have narrowed it down to these cities and families" said Dumbledore as he began disbursing pieces of parchment to all those at the meetings.

Now Lily stood. "I would like to ask all of you to help in defending the families and areas that are on that list. More than that Headmaster, I want to request the reorganization of the Order of the Phoenix to protect the innocent people that are being targeted" she said emphatically.

"Very well, unless any of you opposes I will summon the members that survived the war. If any of you would like to share names of trustworthy witches and wizards that I can share all this information with please write those in this parchment"

"Professor may I speak" said Ely.

"I appreciate the help you and the Order of the Phoenix can provide. But, currently a student is recruiting for hands of terror inside Hogwarts. I believe, and I'm sure your informants would agree, that it is necessary to involve more students in the fight against the Black Hand. If the evil side is recruiting at our school then the good side should have students recruited as well."

"Ely, we cannot use an enlistment scroll!" his mother admonished.

"That is not what I intend! If the first attack against the muggles happens I would like to ask permission to find students that are willing to train and fight, specially Muggle-born students like Mel. I won't say anything about the informants. I can come up with a convincing enough argument to get students to train without giving the key details we discussed. You were not much older than us when you fought the war! Let me do this! I can…" But suddenly Ely stopped and took his kyklos proctais out from his shirt. It was glowing from gray to black to yellow.

All the people in the room stood and began to head to the door until Ely said "I have to go alone, seeing all of you would cause too much suspicion." He soon departed and the trio decided to follow. They barely made it pass the open door in time and had great difficulty in keeping up as Ely ran through the town.

They were soon closing in on the Shrieking Shack and nothing could have prepared them for the scene at hand. Estella Swanson stood looking disheveled with her blouse open and tore and looking for something on the ground. Fred and George were in an intense duel with a couple of Slytherins. Ely hurried towards Estella and the all the trio heard was "I'm fine, help them!" Soon, Ely had engaged in the duel and seeing themselves outnumbered the Slytherins ran away.

"What the hell happened?" Ely yelled. George started taking off his jumper and suddenly Ely's eyes blazed with fury against him.

"No no, don't get this wrong, it's for her to cover up." George said quickly.

"Thank you" said Estella and proceeded to grab the jumper and put it on. She tugged her long hair in a ponytail and straightened her skirt. Then looked at George with expectant eyes.

"Oh, I'm George, George Weasley"

"And I'm Fred"

"I'm Estella Swanson and well… thank you both" said Estella in a soft and sincere voice.

"Enough! You have not answered my question, what happened?"

"Nothing! I was wondering around town as usual, then I got close to the Shrieking Shack and bloody Montague and his goon blindsided me, took my wand away and started tearing at my clothes. Next thing I know these two are here fighting them, so I started looking for my wand on the ground to join the fight. That's when you came."

"And you think that's nothing!"

"Would you stop it, I'm fine! You should just thank them, help me find my wand and we can go back to the castle."

"Are you sure you are ok?"

"I'm fine"

"Alright" he said to Estella and then proceeded to look at the twins. "Thank you for helping my cousin" he said and then moved to look for her wand in the ground. The twins helped until the wand was retrieved and then Ely hugged Estella and directed her to the castle. She looked back at Fred and George and again thanked them.

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