Chapter Two

Sitting there at the kitchen table reading the entry from his father Harry spat out his coffee. Hermione and Ron had stayed over in the guest room and Ginny was out getting a couple of bits from the local corner shop. 'Oh my God!' Harry exploded. He read the entry over and over again, not wanting to admit what it said. He couldn't believe it, why had no one ever told him about this.

October 12 1978

Its not that long since we got married. Lily is complaining of being sick of a morning, I must admit, we were naughty before our wedding. We did sleep together about 5 weeks ago. We've only been married for a couple of weeks. We have just moved into our home in Godrics Hollow. Lily went out earlier on today and there is a pharmacy in the village. Its similar to an apothecary but for muggles. She had a look inside the shop and spotted this thing that a woman can pee on to tell you if you are having a baby. Apparently I'm going to be a father. Sirius came round, and we mixed up a potion to tell us it turned pink. Lily is having a baby and I am going to be a father to a little girl. I am in shock.

James

A crack came from outside the kitchen door and Ginny walked in, laden with a few bags. 'Harry, sweetheart are you OK?'

'Can you call up to Ron and Hermione, I need to get in touch with the records office at the ministry.' Harry asked her as he left the room. He went up the stairs to the room he had taken over as a study. The room that had the Black family tree which was long since gone from the walls. The only picture remaining was the refurbished picture of Sirius under which sat Harry's desk.

Crossing the room he went straight to the fire, which Kreacher had already lit he picked up some powder from the pot and threw it into the fire, shouting out his destination he stepped into the fire.

Harry returned a few hours later with a satchel filled with files from the records office. He entered Grimmauld Place through the kitchen fire, and saw Ron Hermione and Ginny sitting around the table with the diary open in front of them.

'So then, what did you find out?' Hermione asked.

'Not much, but I brought every file I could on my parents to see if there is any information about them. Also I have made an appointment at Hogwarts with Minerva and Hagrid, to see if they can shed some light on everything. I'm going there tomorrow.' Harry replied.

'I'll make some coffee and we can all get started.' Ginny said, Harry looked at her, and from the expression on his face Ginny knew what was going through his head. 'What you didn't think I'd let you do this alone did you. Harry you left me out of your last mission, because you wanted to protect me, this time I'm joining you because I want to protect you. You're my husband and I won't let you go through this alone.' She stood her ground, and Harry knew that she would not back down.

Pulling out the files from his satchel he sat down at the table and spread them over it. 'I got these from the records office, my parents life from school until the day they died. While searching I looked into my own files and nowhere inside them does it say I have a sister. I searched for any other information under the name Potter, it just had files on my grandparents and the history of my family. Apart from my own family here, it seems I was the last to be born under the name Potter. They carry on with James, Al and Lily, but I am the only original Potter so to speak.'

For the next few hours everyone was quiet as they searched through the files. Occasionally when one of them coughed or moved slightly Harry looked up in hope. He had to find something about his sister in the files, someone recollection or notation or something, anything. He was beginning to lose hope.

They sat there for hours on end, before they heard a rumble. 'Food, you're always hungry these days Ron' Hermione said. She got up and went over to the cooker.

'Miss Hermione, I will make some food for you all, you carry on working for Sir.' He said.

'Oh no Kreacher its fine, I need a minute anyway, to gather my thoughts, you carry on what you where doing, thank you for offering.' Hermione replied, while getting out some pots and boiling some water.

While Hermione cooked the other, carried on reading through the piles of paper work spread over the table.

It was so difficult trying to find something that there seemed to be nothing about. Harry was sifting through the paperwork as intently as he could, but that was just it, there was nothing about the whole situation of him having a sister. Absolutely nothing.

'That's it, I'm done. There is nothing here not even her name. I just wish that my grandparents were still alive, so I could ask them about it. I wish to God that Sirius was still here. The only thing I can do now is ask at Hogwarts about her.' Harry announced to the three of them.

'Don't give up Harry, I'm sure we can find out about her. But I'm confused though, why were your parents asking for help. Do you think she is missing or something.' Ginny asked him.

'I honestly don't know Gin. I mean what if she went missing when she was only a baby, she could be anyone, be anywhere. I know that I was one when Voldemort attacked and killed my parents, so she must have been two maybe three. Hey, you don't think that the death eaters kidnapped her do you. And they have her somewhere. Some of his death eaters are still running around causing trouble, so it is possible isn't it.' Harry understood his own brainwave,

To the point were he thought it was true, this was the answer. His sister had been taken by the death eaters on the night his parents were killed. They must have thought she was the key instead of him.

It was the only thing that actually made sense, he realised this inside his own head.

They stood up and packed away all the papers, and Harry put them into the satchel, he kissed Ginny on the head. 'I'm going to go and get ready then go to Hogwarts, are you guys coming with me?' He asked Ron and Hermione.

Hermione nodded, 'we are going back to our place for a little bit, I need to collect some things we'll meet you back here in an hour.'

'See you in a little while then.' Harry said as Ron and Hermione went over to the fire.

They travelled by flew to their own home, and when they came out of the fire they saw Minerva McGonagall sitting in the fire side chair.

'Minerva' Hermione exclaimed 'What are you doing here? Can I get you a cup of tea?'

'Tea in a moment dear, I want to speak to you both. I heard from a friend in the Records Office at the ministry that Harry is looking for family information. I need to ask you about it. Before I do though, what has happened. How has Harry come to this point in his life?'

'I will talk you through it Minerva, please come into the kitchen and sit down to speak to you about it, I will need tea, and I think you may be a little shocked at the discovery we have all made.' Hermione replied.

The three of them went into the kitchen, Ron made tea for them while Hermione told Minerva about the last two days.

Sipping at the tea Ron had just placed in front of her she started. 'Harry received a letter from someone it wasn't signed, it just told him to go to Godric's Hollow. When he was there on Halloween at midnight, he received a message from his parents. The message simply said to find a diary. It can only be read by blood relations but I counter-spelled it to be read by only the four of us. Harry Ginny Ron and myself are the only people who can read this diary. Harry has an appointment with yourself today so maybe he can tell you the rest?' Hermione asked.

'No, I want to know what I am walking into before hand please Hermione, you are the brightest witch of your age that I know of, and I know you can keep Harry on the right path. If he has anything to say about you telling me, I will tell him I ordered you to tell me.'

Hermione hesitated before starting. She sighed a little then began. 'This morning Harry read an entry in this diary written by his father, it was written two weeks after they married, he hasn't finished reading the diary so he knows nothing about it it yet. The entry is on October 12th in it Mr Potter writes that his wife finds out she is having a baby girl. Harry found out he has an older sister. We have spent the day looking for information on her, before we read the rest of the diary. But we have found nothing about her.' Hermione finished.

Minerva was not shocked at the discovery in any way. In fact she looked relieved. 'Finally the truth is coming out.' She said with a sigh. 'I knew about this Hermione, I am one of the few still alive who knew about that little girl. She is still alive, but she was kidnapped by death eaters. You see there was something about her that they wanted. The child Harry's older sister her name is Novella she has the gift of foresight. She is a seer like Professor Trelawney, and the death eaters see her as a very valuable person.'

'A seer?' Hermione asked, so she foresaw everything that would happen between Harry and Voldemort?'

'Yes, she did, and with this foresight she was tortured into telling them every single vision she had, they had time to plan and prepare the fight, that is how they knew Harry was the one who had to die and only at his hand. They knew everything because of Novella. She had to tell them everything. I only know this because of Severus. He was the one who told me. After he was attacked and you three saw him, he had just enough energy to provide me with his memories of that, he was there when she was tortured. He felt he had to watch over her for Lily. Just like he did with Harry.' Minerva continued. 'I think Harry's parents have asked for help, because she needs to be rescued from the death eaters. The only way you can do that is by grouping together everyone from school Dumbledore's Army need to get back together.' She finished.

Hermone drained her cup of tea, 'OK then, we need to give Harry all of this information. We will all come to Hogwarts in the next couple of hours, if you can Minerva, please help us with whatever information you can gather from Severus's memories. We will see you soon.'

With that they got up from the table, Minerva, apparated on the spot and Hermione and Ron, prepared everything they needed to go back to Harry's home. It was a good job they had booked a holiday from work.

Authors Notes.

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