A/N Thank you all for the reviews. This is a new part and the last part I will translate. Part five will be completely new.
Harry Potter is not mine, this is a story from a fan.
(BSC 4 C1) C88 A new year.
The end of the first year had come slowly. Harry had missed a lot of the year because he had put his life on the line to save Ginny and Astoria. He had used to much magic which had put him out of commission for the final part of the year. Now they were back in Potter castle and he was standing in front of the window. He was again recovering from to much use of magic, something Poppy had warned him about. But then again he could say Lucius had it coming.
Everyone was sitting around the dinner table waiting for the last person to arrive. Minerva would be with them just before dinner would start but it didn't sit well with Harry. Sure she had Zanita with her but he was just worried about Albus. He had just wanted to see her so their holiday could really start.
David was still sitting in his box at the corner of the table and still had to touch his little plate of food. The punishment he had got from his daughter and Bella, he took with a bowed head. Storia and Ginny had rubbed it in by cuddling him and telling him he had been a bad rat. This little plate of food had been the cherry on top. It was filled with seeds and pieces of banana.
David knew that keeping the news about the contract was the worst he could do. especially keeping it from his daughter Daphne. So he would take this humiliation for as long as they were giving it to him.
He also knew that he had dodge the wand by the hand of Harry. The only thing that had saved him was the fact that Harry had used too much of his magic by saving his daughter and Ginny. Now he wasn't ungrateful he was far from that. Harry had done something he should have done. This young man had jumped between his daughter and a hundred dementors, while he himself stood to the side looking on. This alone had saved him from Harry but it didn't take away the fact he had to tell it to his daughter. It had been the thing Isabella had told him on a number of occasions. But he hadn't listened and waited until it was too late and so he had to take all that was given to him.
While he was sitting in his box he looked at the window where Lord Potter was standing looking outside. He now realized that he owed a debt to Harry, or more to Lord Potter and they payment could be whatever Harry wanted. David shook his little rat had and looked to the side where Astoria was holding another piece of Banana. He took the banana into his little feet and started to nibble on it.
While he was nibbling on his banana piece he gazed around the table. Here were his family and the extension to it. It was still together and all thanks to Lord Potter. He smiled a little as he thought about the thing Harry had done to Lucius. He didn't understand the part of the hole of corruption in his mine but he understood the power Harry held when he flicked away the curs Lucius had thrown to him. That curse was meant to kill him but he just flicked it away like it was a fly on his shirt. He also knew that Harry had little control over his magic when he was mad, at least the amount of it. It was bad at the moment but it was out of control if he had to protect his family when he uses shoulds an amount that even Albud would be jealous.
He looked on and saw how Bella and his daughter stepped closer to Harry. They wrapped their arms around him and hold him close to them. As he looked on he knew that he had sold his daughter as a piece of meat, there was nothing different about it. He had sold his daughter for nothing but his own stupid-ness.
He started to think about the contract his daughter had with Lord Potter a contract with a way out if he or his daughter wanted. The only thing they had to do was go to Bogrod and tell him about it. This was the good thing about the contract for him. The bad thing was that both Harry and Daphne wanted nothing else than to be with each other.
And then there was the third factor in that duo. That factor was Bella Figg or Bellatrix Black. She was only thirteen but even she had more magic in her pinky then most adults had in their spine and she would even give him a run for his money. And ever since Harry had been in that coma Bella had shown more and more from the Bellatrix Black that was deep inside of her struggling to get out. She was still their Bella but she was showing the curses Bellatrix had made famous.
No, Little Bella was showing more and more signs of why she was the most feared witch the country had ever heard of. She didn't become his right hand for anything else then the reason for how she could throw a curse was the reason for it. David took a good look and thanked the gods of Magic the this Bella was on their side. She had a great deal of love to give and she could give it not like Bellatrix who had been held captive by Lord Voldemort all those years.
As David thought back to the contract between Harry and his daughter he hoped that Lucius would never ask for it at Gringotts. It was a reason for Lucius to demand the nullification of that contract by that line alone. If he would ever find out about it David was sure that Bella would go all dark witch on Lucius and him. No, his hope was that everybody in this room would keep that a secret or it wouldn't be when would Draco be killed but more by whom. Harry, his daughter or even his wife. Bella would go after him that was the one thing he was sure off.
Harry who had been enjoying the feeling of love by his two girlfriends was still looking out of the window to the path that went all the way to the front gate. It was there that he would see his grandmother and the moment he could breathe a little when the first thing he saw was Poppy who appeared and immediately turned around. His breath got caught in his through as all kinds of things were running through his mind at the same time. The next thing he saw was his grandmother with on her arm Zanita. They were followed by Tonks and Andromeda.
As he turned around they all could see a smile that lighted up the room. His grandmother was here and she was alright. "Okay my Grandmother brought Zanita and it is her first night outside of the castle. Let's hope she can stay for tonight and tomorrow before she has to go back and recharge or something. I also saw Poppy and she is here to keep an eye on her I think" Harry said as he waved his hand around that made David turn back into himself and immediately stumbled from the table with the banana landing on his nose.
That he had done it wand less had been seen by everybody but they all kept their mouth shut. The one thing that was different about it was that he had done it while he was calm and not angry or afraid. It showed them he was starting to get a control of it but he was far from controlling it completely.
Harry looked back at the garden and knew that Albus had left Hogwarts. It had been one of the agreements they made with Albus. The moment he was gone the castle would be closed. The only one who was still allowed was Hagrid but than again he wasn't allowed to go into the castle.
Minerva was the first to walk into the dining room. The first thing she saw was David sitting at the end of the table and she just shook her head. She had been there when Isabella told him to tell Daphne about the contract but he didn't. So whatever the punishment Daphne had given him was never enough for her.
David saw her look and immediately hung his head. Minerva may be a part of the family and even the grandmother just like Augusta but on moments like this she was the Professor he remembered from his own detentions and it gave him more fear that Voldemort could ever give him. It was on this moment that he got up and walked into the corner where he stood and look at the wall like she always made her do.
*#*
Ten Minutes after Minerva had arrived She pulled David from the corner and they all sat down to have their dinner. It was during the dinner that poppy told them about her concern she had over the magic from Zanita. That magic was fed by the magic in and around Hogwarts. So she was afraid that if Zanita came to far away or too long her magic would decrease and she would basically become a squib and maybe die. It was a very big concern of her so she wanted Zanita to come tonight and the weekend to see what her magic would do and else if there was a limit of what she could do or where she could go and for how long. After the weekend Zanita would go back to Hogwarts to see the results and come back when she could.
During the weekend Harry, Bella, and Daphne showed all the things Muggles had or did. Dan Granger even took Zanita for a ride through the country where she could see stores. Pubs and theaters. When she got back she told about the clothing store she had seen on the ride. And was overjoyed when Bella and Daphne promised her that they would go and buy some.
After the weekend the others left andHarry and Bella would remain on their own because Minerva would be in Hogwarts arranging some stuff for next year. Zanita would be there too. Arabella would be in her little house on the grounds where she would be making Potions that she could sell in her store where another Person was selling them.
The only other persons that would visit every day were Daphne and Astoria. Astoria was hanging on the couch with a book she had borrowed from Arabella while Bella was reading her own book at the other side of the room. This was the hour Daphne had alone with Harry. It was something the three of them had decided to do. Each of them would have an hour alone with one other in other to get to know each other better. They did it to make their relationship even stronger. Even Bella and Daphne have had an hour to themselves.
*#*
It was on a Wednesday afternoon a week or three into the holiday that Daphne was lying in the arms of Harry. They just had another snog session in one of the hours they had together. There wasn't a lot of talking but that was the last thing they wanted. Daphne just wanted to be close to Harry like he wanted to be close to her.
Bella knew what Harry and Daphne were doing in the hour they had together. She knew that she would be doing it to later that night with Daphne because the love between her and Daphne was just as big. No the love between the three of them was the last thing she would worry about. With a smile, she looked at her book and started to read the next chapter as she slowly drifted to sleep.
*#*
"Ah, my loyal Followers. I can't say How good it is to have all of you together again to rule the wizarding world" were the first words Lord Voldemort said when he had freed his followers from Azkaban.
It was at this moment that Bella knew she was back in a memory of her older self. It didn't feel like she was in a nightmare so she just went with it before she would scream for Harry. It was then that she looked to her side and saw the hand of Voldemort resting on her shoulder. She could just hold back the shiver she got from it.
Slowly he walked back to his spot at the head of the table as his red eyes from went around the table and rested on her for a moment.
Bellatrix could see something in his eyes but she just couldn't place it. Slowly Bella realized that she was back in the body of Bellatrix and that she was reliving the memory. As her Lord was talking she was looking around the table for herself. She was sitting next to Severus Snape. Next to him was Peter Pettigrew. She turned her head to the left and saw that she was sitting next to her sister Narcissa with on her side Lucius. They were in his house but her Lord was treating it like it was his own. Around the table were the other death eaters with her husband and his brother. In the memory, they looked a little transparent like they weren't completely there. Most of the death eaters were looking at Voldemort with awe but her sister was looking with a lot of disgust, a look she could hide well. But she could see it like she always could.
It was now that she saw her nephew sitting next to Lucius as he hung forward to have a good look at his Lord. A feeling of pure hate went through her but she didn't know why. He did, however, have a look that was even greater than the one of all the other death eaters. He was looking at Lord Voldemort as if he was a god that just saved his puppy. She could even tell that he was drooling by just the look of him.
"I will tell you all about the way I cheated death and that the boy who lived once again was lucky the day he survived, on that day I will finally put him in the ground and show all of the world, what a pathetic little boy he really is".
Bellatrix heard the Lord starting to talk again and she turned her head to him and listened.
"Now I Lord Voldemort have cheated death and I will live forever to be around my faithful Death Eaters".
Time went on and Voldemort told about how Peter and someone that wasn't sitting around the table had lost his life in the line of duty as he told them. He then told them about the time he had spent months of loneliness in the house of his father where he was nursed back to health by Peter. It was now that Voldemort looked at Peter as he said the next thing. "Now Peter found me and nursed me back to health but he didn't return out of loyalty but out of fear. Just like many of you took the easy way out by saying you were Imperiused".
Lucius and a couple of others were shifting in their seat and looked at the table. Draco just looked up and was surprised as he saw his father looking at the table in shame.
Bellatrix didn't say a thing but just looked on while she was evading the eyes of her lord. She didn't know what it was but Little Bella got a feeling of doubt and worry like Bellatrix was struggling against something.
"I and Peter went on to create a plan to get me back to my full strength to once again become the Lord Voldemort every one feared and will fear one more time. At first, we didn't know how to do it or how to get the boy to help us with our plans. But then Peter had a tiny bit of luck. Peter found a person that told us about the Triwizard tournament that would be held on Hogwarts last year".
Bella shifted in the memory and knew that Bellatrix was struggling a little bit more. She still couldn't figure out why she was struggling or how but she was struggling for sure.
"That tournament was our key to get Harry away from Hogwarts. Now our brother in arms that was with us went undercover. He took care of our needs and died while he did everything to get me back among all of you. Now our plan was simple, get Harry into the tournament and get him out to me to help me get this body and to finally kill him.
Now we took that tournament because we knew that he would be facing three deathly test, tests that could kill him at any second. Now there was that possibility that one of those tests would kill him and then our brother would only have to take some blood but I myself prefer him surviving so I asked our man to make sure he survived. Now I did have one unfortunate sat back. I wanted to kill Harry but I forgot that the ritual to bring me back took a lot out of me. I wasn't at full strength yet so again Harry could escape by pure luck alone.
For the one who was there, it has to be clear that the boy was terrified and that he did everything to get away from me. In my presence, he did everything to get to the Portkey that took him to my feet. It was a mistake for one of my followers that he didn't remove the other Portkey and that is why the brat was lucky. But in the time he was in my presents I showed him how great I really am and it is only a matter of time until I squash him like the bug he really is.
Now the other mistake that was made that day was by you, my followers. I did tell you all not to touch him but when he made a run for it I would have expected some of you to realize that he was trying to escape. But then again I can't expect too much from you all. I only have to watch what you all did at the Quidditch world cup. My mark alone sent you all running with your tails between your legs. While you all should have been proud of showing your true colors and be standing there underneath my mark like it was a sign of hope.
Bellatrix listened and was still looking at the faces of the death eaters around her. Some were looking down in shame as others like her husband were looking accusingly. They, like herself, had been in Azkaban and had a reason to not be there under his mark. As she kept looking around she could hear her Lord telling about the ritual he had used to get his body back like the bone of the father. The hand of Peter and not to forget the blood of Harry Potter. To bad he only took a little bit and didn't really slit his pols to make him bleed to death.
Thirteen years I have been living in a hell because of a stroke of genius by a mere Mudblood, the mother of Harry Potter. But even her stroke of genius couldn't keep me away, I'm back and the only thing I need to do is kill Harry Potter. I'm unbeatable, I conquered death and I alone will be the ruler of the world. I'm greater than death himself. He almost screamed it because his death eaters didn't know about the Horcruxes he had.
So this year we have to do everything we can to end the life of Harry Potter and to create my army to take over the wizarding world and after that the whole world. But we first have to make sure that Harry Potter will stand alone and Lucius has made the first steps. It is only a start but we have to make sure there will be more. We have to take away every hope they have in their hero by making him look crazy and bad. Then if I would show myself then they have lost all their hope and I will be feared even more then I was before.
Bellatrix who had been listening with her head bend down could hear that small amount of fear in the voice of her Lord whenever he said the name of Harry Potter. It was obvious to her that she was the only one who could hear it. She just wondered why she could but she just knew it. The others around the table were just listening with open mouth at what their lord was telling them. He was their hero and leader in more ways than one.
The other things we are going to do is create death and havoc under the people" Lord Voldemort screamed as he slammed his fist on the table. "I have given some assignments to some of my death eaters who aren't here right now like Grayback. I told them what is important and what we have to do. And we have to start with something we have to get from the department of mysteries" After that he took his wand and placed it on the dark mark on the arm of Peter.
A pain shot through the arm of Bella and she sat up on the couch and looked at her lower arm. Her eyes became wide and it started to fill themselves with tears at the side she saw. There on her lower arm was the dark mark, it was faint but it was there and it hurt her not only physically but also mentally. With her hand in front of her mouth and her eyes filling themselves with tears she started to look at her arm. She was marked like her older self. They knew that he would come back at the end of this year. Everything they had learned pointed at this year. She placed her other hand in her hair as she gazed at the mark that was there. The tears were rolling over her cheeks as she got to her feet. The fear was running through her body as her legs started to shake more and more. She was stumbling through potter castle as she was trying to find her way to the only person who might help her. It was difficult to see through her tears but it was the only hope she had left.
*#*
Daphne who was lying on top of Harry was breathing hard. Her lips were swollen and her eyes were half closed. The snog session the just had made her feel in heaven and she thanked the gods for Harry multiple times. Slowly she laid her head on the chest of Harry and sighed a contempt sigh when the door slammed open.
Both of them turned to look at the door and saw a crying Bella standing in the doorway her head down with shaking shoulders. They knew it was their hour and they still had another fifteen minutes. So for Bella to interrupt them was something important.
Daphne almost jumped of Harry to get to her side. She took her into a hug and wondered what happened to Bella to have her be this way. The only thing she could see was the way she was clutching her lower arm.
Harry who was now standing at her other side took her left hand in his hand as he tried to pull her right hand away.
Bella tried to keep his hand away but the look from Harry told her that he wouldn't take no for an answer. Her first reaction was to pull away again but his look told her NO.
With a soft brush of his hand, he pulled the sleeve of her jumper away and tried to take a peek. Bella tried to pull her sleeve back.
Daphne grabbed her hand as Harry pulled the sleeve higher and higher. Her eyes widened when she saw the dark mark that was vague but it was there, clear to see.
Daphne brought her hand to her mouth and Bella turned her eyes to the ground. She could not see the look of disgust on the face of Daphne as she looked at the mark she had. She was sure that Daphne would see her for the monster they all described her to be. The right hand of Voldemort the butcher of the Longbottoms. It was clear to her that she lost the love of Daphne. So she did the only thing she could do and turned away from Daphne to save her the pain of looking at her a moment longer.
With her eyes still down she couldn't look at Harry. The disgust and revulsion that she would see in his eyes were too much to see. He was everything to her and to see that look in his eyes was something she couldn't bear to see. She was a death eater the mark was proof of that and she knew it. She was the most hated witch in the country, and now she was marked again. Marked as a piece of cattle. A slave like a possession. She was nothing without Harry and with her being marked she wasn't wordy enough for his love.
Bella felt a finger under her chin and pushed her head even more to the ground. She felt more pressure under her chin but kept pushing down. The pressure increased and she just refused to look up.
Harry didn't like it but kept his pressure enough to let Bella know he wanted her to look into his eyes whether she wanted to or not.
Bella knew that Harry was looking at her and wanted her to look into his eyes. But she just didn't want to. She just didn't want to see his reaction when he looked at her. Her head was pushed up but she turned it to the side.
Harry smiled a little but she didn't see it. He placed his finger on the side of her chin and pushed it back up and towards him again and felt the pressure of her pushing back."Bella, Look, At, me" he told her softly.
She heard his voice in her ears. It sounded soft but it wasn't demanding. She could hear some sound of some of it beginning inside the voice, but she didn't understand why he sounded that way. Was he about to send her away? To kick her to the curb to put her out or did he wanted to tell her how he hated her first.
"Bella, Look, At, Me" sounded his voice again. It was a little harder then it was a moment ago but still soft to not be forced.
Bella tried to turn her head away again but could no longer hold back the tears. As she started to cry silently she looked up at Harry but still didn't really looked at him. She gazed into his eyes and expected disgust or rejection but she didn't see any. So she started to look at anger and revulsion but again there wasn't any. She looked closer and couldn't even see any disappointment.
With a small smile, he just looked at her. " I love you Bella Figg" sounded his voice again.
"What" Bella sniffed.
"I love you, Bella," He said again.
She heard his voice but it just didn't sound right to her.
"We love you Bella Figg" sounded the voice of Daphne in her ear.
This time Bella did hear it but couldn't understand why they would say that. "Whattt, but I'm a monster. I'm marked like cattle, like a slave".
Harry came closer and placed his lips on the lips of Bella. He placed his finger on her cheek and pushed her face to Daphne who placed her lips also on the lips of Bella for a small but soft kiss, just like Harry had done.
Bella looked a little cross-eyed after two of those wonderful kisses. She was now looking for any feeling of hate but the only thing she felt was love. Love she only felt for her Harry and her Daphne.
Harry pulled Bella along to the couch and placed her next to him on the side of it. He placed her so that she would be in the middle between him and Daphne. Without any force, they waited for her to tell them her story. It took another five minutes before she began but when she began she didn't stop.
In the end, she told them that it was all in a dream but that she wasn't really sure about it. She did remember that Voldemort made Harry compete in some kind of game but didn't remember what it was called. Only that they placed him inside that game.
^Grandmother come home please and please make it fast. If you can, then please take Zanita with you. Bella had a dream and it wasn't a good one^. Harry said in his mind.
Both Bella and Daphne looked at him strangely. They had heard his thought to his grandmother.
He knew instantly that they had heard him but he couldn't hear them for that matter and he wondered why.
^Just a moment and we will be on our way, cup^ was the answer that sounded in his mind. He looked over at Bella and Daphne but they were just looking at him. It was clear that they didn't hear his grandmother but only him.
*#*
Back to earlier that day.
It was nearing the afternoon that Minerva left Potter castle and made her way to Hogwarts. Just like every other day she left the moment Daphne and Astoria entered the castle by Floo. She also knew that Daphne came to spend her hour alone with Harry and after that with Bella. She always smiled when she saw her hurrying to the room where Harry was waiting for her. She knew that nothing would happen, they just weren't ready yet. But Minerva also knew that it wouldn't take long until something will happen. It made her think about the talk she had to have with her Grandson. She let out a ladylike giggle and stepped into the Floo to step out into her office at Hogwarts.
As always she would first make her way down to the great hall where Zanita would be having her lunch. As she opened the door she saw something that made her smile. At the head table, she saw Zanita sitting in her chair next to the chair of the headmaster or Mistris. But most of all the chair of her grandson the King of Hogwarts.
In front of the head table and sitting at the tables of the houses were all the house elves. It was the one thing Harry insisted on them. When Hogwarts was closed they would eat their breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner in the great hall. He also wanted them to sit there when all the students were at school but that was just a step too far for the house elves.
With big strides, Minerva stepped between the tables and headed to the head table where she sat down and just smiled.
Zanita looked at her best friend. "I see that my king and husband isn't here, is he having one of his hours alone with one of my sister wifes".
Minerva only nodded as she took some coffee that Dora her personal house elve had made for her like she always did and started to have her little talk about the school like she did every day.
A little into the conversation she heard her grandson in her mind. ^Grandmother come home please and please make it fast. If you can, then please take Zanita with you. Bella had a dream and it wasn't a good one^. The sound of her grandson made her look up to Zanita who had her eyes wide as she too heard her king.
Minerva turned around to Zanita as she said. "We have to go to my cub, something is wrong and we have to go there now". She closed her eyes and thought ^Just a moment and we will be on our way, cup^.
When she opened her eyes she saw Zanita nodding that it was okay.
Both of the women made their way over to the office of Minerva were they first contacted the others of the Family. Something Told Minerva that it wouldn't be long for Harry to ask for a family meeting and she just wanted to make sure she had it covered before it got to that.
*#*
Harry was still sitting on the couch with a crying Bella in his arms. Daphne was sitting next to him just waiting for Bella to calm down. It was on moments like this that Daphne knew she would have to take a backseat. Harry was the one who could comfort Bella better than she ever could. He just seemed to know exactly what to do with her.
Daphne knew that it had to be a real blow for her to see the mark. It was the one thing that told that somebody was a death eater for life and if she was honest she wouldn't know how to handle it and Harry knew. It was the one thing he alone thought could happen. He alone had prepared himself for the possibility that their Bella could get the mark. Daphne thing closer to Harry and whispered that she would call Arabella and Harry nodded.
Daphne closed the door and Harry pulled Bella closer as he lay down with Bella on top of him. She was still crying when she laid her head on his chest. Slowly he wrapped his arms around her.
After a good fifteen minutes, Daphne walked back into the room. She looked at the two and sat down next to his head. With her left hand, she rubbed the hairs of Bella. "I Floo called Arabella. She was in her store in Diagonally and is making her way back here. I also called my mother but your Grandmother already did it". Daphne looked at Bella and kissed her head. "How is she doing?"
"She took it hard. It was the one thing she didn't want. The one thing she hoped she was never going to see. I also know she is hiding something from me. I don't know what it is but it seemed to be pulling her to you. Maby we have to ask Bellatrix about it the next time we see her or you have to ask".
Daphne just looked at him. "What do you think it is".
Harry shook his head. "I don't know, but I think she has seen a lot more memories then she is telling me and some of them have spooked her bad. I think that this was just the drop that filled the bucket. All she really needed was knowing that we still loved her mark or not".
"I will always love her and so will you," She said as she pointed her finger at him.
Harry laughed at her antics.
Daphne gazed back at Bella and her eyes turned sad. "What do you mean with she is keeping things from you".
Harry's smile disappeared from his face and he gazed over at Bella as he too started to stroke her hair. "I'm not sure but she is turning more to you than me. I can't say I'm losing her to you because I know I don't. But It's like some part of her is pushing me away while the other part is keeping me close like it always had".
Daphne didn't know what Harry meant but she took him at his word. He knew Bella better than anyone.
Daphne and Harry hadn't seen the tears that were escaping the eyes of Bella.
Daphne took the hand of Harry and pulled his head on her lap while she kept on stroking the hair of Bella."What do we have to do this summer now that we know that you have to take part of something".
Harry patted her hand as he said. "We just take it like always. If I'm right and I know I am, then Grandmother would have contacted the whole family even Narcissa if she could have got a hold of her. So tonight we will talk about it and see what the adults will say".
Daphne giggled a little. "Like we would listen to them".
Harry looked at her with his best puppy dog eyes he could create. "We always listen to them".
"Yes, and then we will do the opposite" Daphne laughed again.
Harry shook his head "We have to postpone the trial against Albus. I hate it but we have to. The first thing we have to do is get Sirius cleared completely. I know Fudge heard it all from Peter but that won't be enough for the wizarding population. We have to clear his name by trial over the wireless radio. Then and only then will he be able to walk freely. It will also give us, even more, ammunition to take down Albus. We have to clear him from all the murders that had been done by Peter, but with all the corruptible votes of the Members it could go the other way and fast if we let them". It was then that Harry got up and lay the head of Bella on the lap of Daphne. He then kissed Bella on her head and gave Daphne a kiss full of passion. "I'm going to the study. I will wait there for my grandmother while you take care of Bella here" And Harry walked away.
Daphne kept on stroking Bella as she softly told her. "I know that you have been awake for quite a while now. I don't know what he is talking about but he really loves you even more then he will ever love me. So please don't shut him out okay, just talk to him he deserves it".
Bella didn't give her an answer but she did start to sob softly. It was enough for Daphne to tell her that Bella had heard her and that she needed some time, so she just kept on stroking her hair.
*#*
Harry just sat down behind his desk when his grandmother walked in. Her look was asking but Harry just shook his head from left to right. With a jester of his hand, he pointed to the chair in front of him. The moment she sat down he started the story from earlier that day.
Minerva cursed a little under her breath. It was the one thing he never heard his grandmother do before. But this time he could understand it because Minerva loved Bella just as much as she loved him.
Minerva then went on to tell him that she had contacted the rest of the family and that He would have to tell it to them all.
Harry nodded and pinched the bridge of his nose. "It's going to be a long evening isn't it".
"yes it is, cub, it is going to be a long night".
The two of them walked down to the kitchen where they enjoyed a cup of tea as they waited for the rest of the family. It was in the kitchen where Harry was pulled to the side and was hugged closely by Bella. "I'm so sorry Harry, I can't tell you but I love you, I really love you".
"I love you to Bella, and you don't have to tell me if you don't want to".
Bella didn't say a thing but started to cry on his shoulder where she sobbed quietly.
Harry just hugged her back and held her close until she got it all back together.
Zanita who had been sitting at the side just looked at it all. She was thinking back to a week ago. Minerva and she had been sitting in the office of Minerva when Albus had walked in and started to tell them about the Triwizard tournament that would be held on the grounds of Hogwarts.
Those plans had been approved by Albus, Fudge, and the school board a year before Harry was announced to be the king of Hogwarts. She was glad that the board had become an advisory committee. The real judgment and decisions were left to Minerva and Zanita but they were too late to put a stop to this. But then again if they had it would all have gone to hell.
Both Zanita and Minerva realized that Harry was one of the competitors and they had to let him if they wanted to defeat Lord Voldemort a final time. The only real Problem Minerva and Zanita had was that they didn't know what the tasks would be. The only ones who knew were Albus and Fudge. It was the one thing they couldn't change because Albus was still the headmaster of Hogwarts.
He would remain in that position until he was found guilty of manipulation and child abuse. And as far as it was now he only had done things to Harry and that was before he got to school. They still had no evidence that he had done stuff that could harm the students. Sure there had been the troll and the basilisk and that was why they needed the trial. That he had put Bellatrix into Slytherin was something they couldn't prove. Sure they could ask the sorting hat but his testimony would not hold in court.
Sure they could say that they did it because Bellatrix had been promised to a Lestrange. But that was a family business and could not be linked to Albus. And the payment from Lucius to place Draco in a house was thrown out of the window by the sorting hat as he thrown Draco into another house.
The other thing they had was moaning Mertel. She died fifty years ago when Riddle let the basilisk roam around the school. It was another thing they couldn't blame Albus for because he wasn't the headmaster at the time.
This time Albus did make the preparations to make the Mandragors potion. Arabella had made it first but Albus took the steps he needed so they couldn't blame him for it. No the only thing to get him out of the position he is was in was through the trial or by firing him. But the last action would not help him lose the support he had so the only real thing left was to let him play headmaster for another long year.
The door opened and Arabella stepped into the kitchen. Bella immediately let go of Harry and flung her around the neck.
Arabella was followed moments later by Sirius and Amelia, they were followed on the foot by Susan who gave a knowing smile at Harry.
"We came as soon as we could. Amelia found me after Minerva had Floo called her" Sirius said. "So what happened".
Harry just lifted his hand and said "after Dinner Sirius, After dinner when everybody is here".
A/N: This was it again for this week. I do hope you all liked the start of year four.
Gr. Winmau