Isabella Lillian Potter

Chapter 7

EPOV

Bella has been gone for months and I am no closer to finding her than before. Alice, Carlisle and I have been looking through all the books on witches and wizards in Carlisle's office and Emmett and Jasper have been looking online for anything they could find. Rosalie ignored what Bella said about staying in Forks and went to England. She said she knew a French woman who married an English man and moved there. She knew this woman was a witch and went to ask her if she knew anything. When she called yesterday, she'd had no luck finding this woman. Esme left yeterday to help her and I kept hoping to find something.

"Aah!" Alice suddenly screamed. We ran to the living room at lightening speed to see Alice stood up with a woman wearing strange green clothes infront of her. Jasper ran infront of Alice, thinking the woman was a danger. "She-She just appeared out of nowhere!" Alice stammered.

"Who are you?" Carlisle asked, talking as calm as he could.

"Oh! I'm sorry I scared you." She said in a british accent. "My name is Minerva McGonagal." I remembered the name from Bella's letter.

"Why are you here? Is Bella alright?" I suddenly panicked.

"To be truthful, I don't know where Miss or Mr Potter are. I am here because Miss Potter told me I could trust you and right now, I need your help." She replied, sitting down on the sofa.

"Have you seen her?" Jasper asked, still stood infront of Alice.

"No. She sent me a patronus." That made us share a confused look.

What's a patronus? And what the hell is she wearing? ~Alice

How can we trust her? She feels scared yet determined. ~Jasper

A pa-what! What the hell is going on here? Who is this woman? ~Emmett

Edward. Can we trust her? Does she really know Bella? ~Carlisle

I tried to listen to her thoughts, but I couldn't hear anything. It was a blank like when I tried to hear Bella's thoughts. My eyes widened in shock.

"Why can't I hear your thoughts?" I asked, making my families heads snap up in surprise.

"Oh. I'm using Occlumency." She looked at our blanck faces and chuckled. "Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot you don't know much about our world. Occlumency is a shield cast around the mind to block out mental attacks."

"Does Bella use occlumency?" Jasper asked.

"No. She has a natural sheild and has never needed to practice occlumency. Although, You-Know-Who and Harry have never been blocked out of her mind. Albus had an idea about it, but now we'll never know what it was." There was a hint of sadness in her voice.

"How do we know we can trust you?" Carlisle asked. Just as she was about to reply, a blue lion suddenly ran through the window and stopped in the middle of the room. It was made of light and seemed to emmit happiness.

"Professor." A British voice came from the lion. It sounded like Bella's. "I regret having to ask this of you, but I need your help. The situation is worse than any of us could have imagined. Even Dumbledore. I need you to protect the school. I think something is hidden there and Moldy shorts might try to find it if he figures out what we are doing. If you have found the Cullens, tell them that I am sorry and that I will get back to them. And if they don't believe who you are, tell them that Edward has a birth mark in the shape of an arrow on his butt." The light faded and everyone looked at me.

"How does she know that Eddie boy?" Emmett asked with a smirk.

"Umm... What was that?" I asked, changing the subject.

"That was a patronus. They can relay messages and are used a protectors against Dementors. They are dark creatures that can suck out someone's soul." She replied.

"What is she doing?" Alice asked, sitting on the sofa next to Minerva.

"I don't know. Albus Dumbledore gave them a mission, but the only people they were alowed to tell were the rest of the golden quartet, our name for the twins and their 2 best friends. As you know, our world is in danger, and I am afraid that our school is also in danger." She looked around us with somber eyes. "Our headmaster is on the dark side and our students are being tortured regualy. I need help to protect them. I will give you a house just inside the forbidden forest for you to stay in and I will find a way for you to enter the castle undetected. I will also require some of you to scour the country for our hidden allies. If we find them, we may have a shot at winning."

BPOV

We landed just outside Godric's Hollow and set up the tent and protection wards. I sent a patronus to Professor Mcgonagal and told her about the situation. I think Voldy hid a horecrox in Hogwarts, but that will be the last one we look for. I also told her about the birthmark Edward has so that they know they can trust her. I found out about the birth mark after he had faught Victoria and his trousers had ripped and fell down a bit at the back. I may have laughed for quite a while afterwards, but I stayed true to my word and didn't tell anyone... Until now.

"Ok. Lets go." I said, grabbing Harry and Hermione's hand and apparating just inside the village. It was dark and snowing when we landed next to a graveyard. Harry and I looked at eachother before the three of us walked into the graveyard. We heard bells chime, signaling that it was midnight and them there was a lot of singing coming from inside the church.

"Hey. I think it's Christmas." Hermione said to us. We lost track of dates a while ago. When you're on the run you don't stop to check a calender.

We walked around the graveyard. looking for our parents. Hermione stopped at a grave, but we carried on and found the 2 graves, side by side. I read the carving in the stone with tears forming in my eyes.

Lilly Potter. Loving wife, sister and daughter. Mother of the chosen ones. Murdered by You-Know-Who. Always in our memories.

James Potter. Loving Husband and son. Father of the chosen ones. Murdered by You-Know-Who. Always in our memories.

I grabbed Harry's hand and held it in a vice grip. Hermione came over to us and put her arms around us, putting her head on our shoulders. We stayed there for a minute before I cunjured some white roses for both graves.

"Merry Christmas guys." I said to them. this was the first Christmas since first year that we weren't spending all together at Hogwarts, waking up early to open presents and having a Christmas dinner with the professors.

"Hey, guys. There is someone watching us. By the gate." Hermione said. We turned around to see Bathilda Bagshot watching us. She started walking away, so we followed. "This is a bad idea." She whispered as we followed the frail old woman. Harry suddenly stopped and I turned to see him looking at a ruined house. I didn't need to ask to know that this is the house where my parents died and our lives were ruined.

We followed Bathilda to her house to see it was a mess. "What's that smell?" I whispered to Hermione. It smelled like rotting flesh. "Something isn't right." I saw Bathilda motion Harry and I to follow her upstairs, so we did.

She said something, and because I am better than Harry- sort of- I noticed that she was speaking Parsletongue. Before I could warn Harry, she seemed to melt and leave a pile of robes on the floor. We backed away as something moved under the robes. Suddenly, Voldy's snake shot out and we jumped out of the way.

"HERMIONE!" Harry yelled as I shot spell after spell at the snake. Nothing affected it though. It remined me of when we tried to destroy the necklace and cup. Oh my god. The snake is a horecrox.

"HARRY! ITS ONE OF THEM!" I screamed at him knowing that we couldn't defeat it. Hermione had joined us and we were stood infront of the window with the snake slowly closing the distance.

"Got any plans?" Harry asked.

"One. But it might be painful." I replied.

"Well it's better than becoming snake food!" Hermione retorted.

"Ok then." I grabbed their hands and dragged them so we were right infront of the window. I shot a spell at it to break the glass. "JUMP!" I yelled. We jumped out of the window and ran away from the house as fast as we could. I turned around in time to see the snake dissapear into thin air. That was too close.

Here is the next chapter guys. Let me know what you think the Cullen's should do.

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Emma