"So does this mean you know who my mate is?" the old man shook his head, "The answer would be found only by you child but after some time."
"I understand sir, but there are so manny more quistions that I have." before anyone could answer though a man came over holding a slashed wrist which was bleeding, "M-oo-ll-y Mo-ll-y run th-ey tr-ac-ed h-her."
It was a bleeding Severnus Snape who warned of the biggest fear, Voldemort and that very instant a bigger problem had been the place before the quistion. After that manny quistions had been unanswered! The quisiton of who was her mate though had been answered very quickly though causing more pain for her!
Though she suffered in silence the difficulty was in having to put up with the insensitive coments she had been facing recently with friends and family who had no idea about their life. The bond after all had been magically existent but not really there! She was hopeing it would but that too was now diminishing thanks to the princess of darkness disapearing. Everyone's attention was now upon her – the quistion now was when would it be her turn to have Harry's atttention?
Just as her toughts ran through those lines Colin walking with Ron disrupted his thoughts, "Hiya Harry, hiya Ginny were were you guys? Harry don't you want dinner?"
"Dinner?" Harry asked sighing and starting to head up the stairs, "Yeah it is dinner time, are you not hungry?"
"I – I never – I never realized. Come on lets eat." Dinner was something they seemed to have turned into a meeting. Inside was Remus Lupin, Dora Toonks, Albus Dumbldore, MeGonnagal, Sirius, Authur, Molly,
"Harry come inside, sit sit Molly has made all your favorites." Auther smiled encorageing him to come inside, "You did miss lunch."
"No wonder I feel so hungry dad." Harry smiled settiling into his first cource with the tomato and cream soup, "Dad – the healer who took care of Hermoine. Did you find anything about them?"
"I did but the result is terrible Harry. The healer was threatened into it, his family helad captive and also filled with instructions. It was like everything was pre-planned by someone else to ensure all of it was done correctly. They ensured that he was the one to pic her up for treatement. Based on what he has told Kingsly and Toonks he had been planted there spesifically for her treatement allowing him compleat control."
"How was this pre-planned? How did they know that she would be taken there instantly?" Harry asked, Bill was the one who came up with the answer, "They knew who was with her!"
"Hows that even possible Bill – they said it was a momentary decition." Ron aruged, Coiln nodded vigorusly. "There is only one magical hospital in London Harry we don't have manny options."
"You sound like her every other day Danny boy!" the boy with dark chocolate brown hair with natural gold highlights laughed, his black eyes seemed to shine for a minute unlike the dullness in the past few months they had all become accustomed to, "Yeah I guss I am. Lavender can you please pass the pepper."
"Is there something wrong with the soup dear?" Molly asked anxiously, "No Mrs. Weasely, not at all just like tomato-cream soup with little extra pepper. Sweets not really my flavour!"
A flash hit across Laveners eyes as she did what she was told, tomato-cream soup with little extra pepper. Not too found of the sweetish flavour. Meya Riddle had said that once during an evening together. Her eyes met that of Parvathi who was biting her lips, it was Padhma who nodded affermation! A bang made all their attention get attracted towards it, "Croshakes? Were were you? what made you get so late?"
"Sorry Albus but I had to pick up a few documents before comeing over. The little princess had hidden it in the chambers of all the places!" he sighed sitting down, dumbing a large knackspack near him, "So whats the sinario cut in Meya's case?"
"Sinario cut? Healer had been set up in the spot previously months. Ready with family under threat." Charlie conted off his fingers, "All her magical aspects measured and countered. Orders resources: unsure. Wearwolf sent dedection: taken care of! Vella powers: ignored! Her physical situaton: considered in detail!"
"We are dealing with someone who knew her before the escape. Why don't we start running through those links?" Croshakes began churning the soup a bit when Tooks finally voiced something that had been running in her mind, "Croshakes – how was it like for her there?"
"There? Amaizing, a space for learning. A space for training. A space were she florished. Her days started early, nights went long. Even meals were lesson times but she was a quick learner. What took me ten years she ended up mastering in just two. Toombs she would read them in days, all she needed was a three hours sleep section. Then she would be back at full stroke! She rememered it all! We had never seen anyone like her even among elvan people" . He sighed, tears flowing down his eyes remembering the times he had with her in Yarmaniz.
Kate – seated next to Charlie decided to prob him a bit, "What was she like there?"
"Innitially scared, polite and little difficult to approach." He sighed, "There was a kind of bond between us though… she would like listening to bed time stories with me. They were mostly about war, that's how we transformed all our war stratergies into her. By telling her stories every night about one war or the other! We told her of manny things, through your history. Of soldiers, of armies and most importantly of formations. She could put up great fights too – there were times when we tested her and she always passed. It was as if she was some kind of perfection. Perfection beyond words."
"That's why you had to disfigure her a bit! The bucket tooth and the bushy hair?" Ron asked finally getting answers, "We had to change her a bit she was a beautyful child Ron a very beautyful one. You have never seen her picture have you?"
When Harry and Ron shook their heads he pulled out a muggle photograph. It was set outside what looked like an old house, she was sitting at the stairs wearing a simple sleaveless petticoat. Her hair was certainly not bushy but rahter beautyfull and silky left open largely with two small braids making her face very clear. She was beautyful beyond words, the position and the posture had been set in such a way that she looked lost and pittiful. Yet the lighting higlighted her in such a way that it made even her best friends gaize at her for a few moments lost… all Ron could say was, "Wow she is stunning."
"I – I wow yeah she is wonderful." He paushed only to have Ginny see the most beautyful picture she had ever seen. Yet her eyes though happened to focus more upon the background than the picture it self, "Harry I have seen this before. I have seen this place before!"
"What?" Harry wipped around nearly spilling the last part of his soup before takeing a better look trying to find some kind of clue, "Yeah me too it seems so familiar… you know what I am too washed out to even try wrap my my mind on anything at all. Tell me more about how she was in your land…"
"I have a better plan why don't you guys start eating up on that superb salad and I start telling you about how much trouble she was in for all those adventures you had." Harry and Ron slid back and a smile struck up on Croshakes face, "Zainra loved her like her own, so when ever Harry got into trouble a note would go over to Zainra. Meya was so much in trouble… she always blasted her left right and center. Poor thing, she would just sit there and take it all twist her ankles around the legs of her chair. She would just sit there holding her knuckles onto the seat quiet till it was all done. Not say a word – no arguemnts! No nothing just compleat silence."
"Really – she was that disiplined?" Croshakes shook his head, "Suburn not disiplined. That girl was a stuburn enough to put of a full-grown wizard away from her despite all the efforts. He did all that was possible, even suppressed her powers to a point that she had no ability to user her powers. He even tried to manupilate her enough to make her believed she too would be sold soon! He was terrible but something was worse was set for her, he wanted her for him self."
"How bad was this situation?" Ron asked, he had known a part of the story but now it felt like he had known a very small part, "Terrible Ron, very terrible. When I saw her for the first time she was asleep in an enchanted, medicative rest. I saw magical suppressing stones bound on her wrists like bangles. They were strong – so strong that we had to wait till a priestess arived to actually remove it. Upon further checking we came to know several times unforgiveables had been used on her. What was the purpouse we never knew but he did use them on her… and this little girl had been fighting it off every single time. Every single time she was also physically punnsihed for it but despte it all she stood by what she believed. We had never seen someone like her ever! Even now she has some marks – no magic could ever remove the scars on her body. She covers them with charms!"
"Scars?" Sirius shot up suprized, "What scars I have seen that girl in next to nothings and I have never seen a scar."
"YOU SAW HER IN NEXT NOTHING?" Molly yelled the meternal instict takeing over, "I was helping her change her clothes because she was unable to do it her self. Silvinius had left us in charge that night."
The memory of that night dawned on to Molly silencing her instatnly, Remus steped in adding to the arugement, "Besides Harry she was in such a terrible state that it would have been impossible to change her using magic. She might be a child for us Harry but her body is not fit for such powers. She had been torchered like anything recently too, that's why its important that at times not to use magic on her. Had we done that we would have lost her for ever! This still does not answer our most importatn quistion, who has captured her and why?"
"I wish I knew more about her child hood before she never spoke of it. She always changed the topic with regards to those times but after we came here it was always turning to terrible situations. After that we never spoke to anyone about it but that's why I was made to come over in your third year. I have been with you for more than two years but not once did I mannage to get it out of her! Now it looks like its just too late. Besides I never did so because I was too distracted with everything else. I ended up allowing her to make a push over out of me and in turn I ended turning into a puppet more than a protetor."
"There was something which would be needed at that point of time, that's why you focused on this work and not really protecting her." Molly sighed, Croshakes sighed before continuing, "My earliest, personal memory of her was when she came here to get her enrolled and familiar with this world. Severnus became her gaurdian, she read up a lot so it was actually not a huge challenge but manageable. It was amaizing, she had just opened her eyes and the first thing she saw in the forbiden forest was a unicorn. An old one, pregnant by the looks of it and highly beautyful. She smiled and clucked to it, stretched her hand out. It was literally glowing in reply and it just kind of ran towards her and began eating licking her hand as if she was feeding it sugar."
There was a chokeing sound and everyone turned to see Charlie chokeing upon his food. Upon recovery though his reaction was even worse, "MEYA RIDDLE, PRODUCT OF A VAMPIER AND A DARK LORD CALLED A UNICORN?"
"Why is everyone freeking out about this?" Croshaes asked, Remus was the one to finally aswer, "Unicorns are pure animals and they are defencesless that's why magic it self protects them. their parts are used
Unicorns are pure animals and they are defenceless. That's why magic it self protects them, even though their parts are used for magical potions, ceremonies and wands too but what they are actually are happens to be defensless! That is why anyone who drinks their blood will be cursed –"
"Who initiates it or rather who ensures it is enacted!" after a deep breeth he asked Bill was the one to answer this time, "Wish we knew but we don't! That is the fact at hand, we know nothing in terms of who exicutes them or how they do it. We don't even know how far back such things go…"
"Which means we need to leave no stone unturned!" Rons voice had changed and the comand was clear, he was once again the comander. One who used everone like the pawns on the chess board, "Severnus, Remus, Bill, Charlie, Fluer start working through the dark creatures area. Harry, Ginny speak to Binns, start pulling out interviews and get what ever you can about both the parents. If needed even go to the prison!"
"Give me something to do too Ron." Colin chipped up, hopeing to get his attention making Ginny give a sad smile. She understood what he was undergoing, "You and your brother better start looking through her records in the chamber. Sirius, Dean, Draco and Blaise work with the forigin members see if there is any foaklore or legends. Start working acrosss the childrens tates too both magical and non-magical. Possible related contraversies, use the internet if needed and try find all you can about contraversies. She mentioned something about hideing coded data in stories!"
"She mentioned something about hideing coded data in stories?" Ginny asked surprised, "Really? I thought I was suppose to be her best friend."
As if uniturupted Ron continued, "Crabe, Goyal please work through a few of the dark books to find anything on ceremonites, creatures and also inter-breeding. Hagrid can you join them?"
"Yeah can coun' on me Ron!" came the rough reply before something happened, Mad-eye Moody decided to speak up, "We will have to work around the clock. Gaurding and securing the chamber too Ron."
"Got the Ghosts on to it this morning! Three person team with a reporting router and all!" Ron placed a roll of parchment on the table, "Along with it routine check ups by the Bloody-Baron, Nearly Headless Nick and –"
"You have basically created the structure of safety we get it Ron." Snapped Bill, rubbing his head getting orders from one's younger brother was never a simple task. "You might have to start takeing over the kitchen again mum – looks like we going to need to set up order headquartus again. Sirius?"
"More the merrier Ron. More the merrier!" that moment, Albus Dumbldore saw the boy who would help him get through this mess, "What about some work for me Ron? Something an old man can work with without knoting the knees?"
"Doubt you can ever knot your kness sir but if it's all right I really need someone on board, someone who knows their way around the Ladies to see if this is a sick joke." Albus Dumbldore smiled more likeing were this was going, "Already done Ron my boy and they are more upset than us if I may take the liberty of saying so. They menitoned something about blood lines and it's mess-ups."
"Blod lines?" Harry suddenly shot up to life, "Croshakes said she was taken there because of something right?" Ginny nodded trying to remember the reason before answering, "Aah something like ancient blood having boiled within her making it possible her to travel. Something like the bond of two bloods."
Ron took the reighns again, "Bond of two – get Bins on the case, I want a clear family tree highlighting her link to Slytheirine and any other powerful wizard or witch in history. This includes her mums side to!"
