A/N: Thank you all for the reviews. Harry Potter is not mine, this is a story from a fan.
Let's go back to the last bit of Chapter C114
Just when they were all about to leave or to go to bed the floo lid up. Narcissa stepped out of and looked extremely tense as she walked straight to Harry without dusting herself off. She stopped and looked him straight in the eye. "alright I want to know something. How long ago did you all make the plan to bring out the Bitch (meaning Umbridge) with both the minister of France and Bulgaria at the table? I also want to know if it was also you intend to take Lucius down with it".
(BSC 4 C 28) C115 What's in an egg.
Harry, threw his hands in the air like a sign of peace and innocence but most of all in surrender. With a look at Narcissa, he told her. We and I mean Bella and I were in the kitchen yesterday morning. We were of opinion that Albus would try to do something at the ball, but we didn't know what. The only place we knew that there could be some änswers were the kitchens".
That is where the house elves are" Narcissa told him. "They will never tell you anything".
"Wel they do for me, king Hogwarts remember," He told her with a smile. "I did have a little talk with the house elves about the things Albus was planning to do. It was there that they told us that he wanted me alone at a table to make me look bad in the eyes of Rita and the minister of France and Bulgaria. Now we never knew for sure what he wanted to do, but that was our best bet".
Narcissa nodded as she stepped back a little, but not completely.
"Now as we did not know what he was planning for sure, we knew the basic of it, and that wasn't a good thing. It all became very clear when we walked into the great hall this night because he placed my whole family far away from me. Now when we heard the elves telling us what the elves told us. I told the amazing six".
Almost everybody looked at him with questioning eyes.
Harry threw his hands in the air. "Hey, it isn't me that came up with that name. I only heard about it yesterday. Now I'm flattered but I had nothing to do with it". He told them all to calm them down. "It is the way everybody calls us in this castle. We are the Amazing six or something like that. So I can not help it".
Snap, Snap, Snap, Snap.
Harry looked at the snapping fingers from Narcissa that were snapping in front of his nose. "My Lord Potter if I were you, I would go on with your story, Or I will start to curse you". Narcissa told him with a cold voice that wasn't as cold as the one she had used that night when she spoke to Umbridge.
"Okay, Okay, I will go on," Harry told her. "Well, as I told you the amazing six. Never mind that, like I said I was telling it to the others and we came up with this plan. It was clear that it was an idea from Albus and Fudge so we had to hit them back. Now it wasn't hart to think that your loving husband, the well mannered widely love, son of a".
"Harry" Narcissa snapped as she waved her hand in front of his face. "I know that you love him as much as I do. But I still want you to get to the point because a tickling spell can make you mad too if I place it long enough on you. And believe me, I will" she told him.
Harry only smiled at her as he went on. "Well we thought he had something to do with it but he was not our target because he would keep quiet when he would see Jean and the minister of Bulgaria. They were there when he attacked everyone at the world cup. So we were not targeting him".
It was again that Narcissa nodded and waited for Harry to go on.
"So it was very clear to us what they wanted to do and what we had to do. So this morning I told my grandmother and Zanita that we were going to change the seating. Then we decided that Susan should set the trap with Fleur. Now if they would say anything about a half-blood we knew that the toad would say something bad about it. Never knowing it would be after the first line. and the rest is history as you know".
It was again at that point that Narcissa nodded. "Yes she is a bigot, she is even more hateful than my husband. But I never knew she had an eye on Charlus Potter".
"Yes, she did" Zanita broke in. "She had been following him around like a lost puppy. Just like Fudge did with you. But Charlus never wanted anything to do with her. In her third year, she had convinced herself that he had asked her and that they were a couple. Charlus however never asked her and it took Dorea Black to get him away from her. At first, she helped him by pretending to be his girlfriend but that only lasted a week. After that week the pretending was over and he had taken her heart".
Harry smiled a little. "Now, we never thought Draco would interfere or that it would go the way it did. We just wanted her to leave so we could have a good night and we did. It became a very good night and we learned that Draco was a real, real boy or man".
All the friends started to laugh as the adults were looking at them not understanding it at all.
Narcissa placed her hand over her face. "If he only knew how bad his father really is".
"Or if he knew that his father was kissing the ass of a half-blood," Bella told her.
The head of Narcissa snapped up "What did you say".
"Ooo wait you don't know do you. Lord Voldemort is nothing more than a Halfblood, wait he is even less. His mum was a witch and his dad was a muggle. So all his big words of Pureblood supremacy is nothing more than honey for the sheep. They all eat it up and none of them realized that they are kissing the ass of a lesser being according to them. Still, they are standing in line to kiss his ass just like Draco will do when he comes back".
Narcissa looked at the ground as a tear rolled over her face.
Bella saw the tear and rushed to her side as stook her in her arms. Something in her story hurt Narcissa and that was the last thing she wanted to do.
As Narcissa held on a little closer to Bella she whispered. "I'm I really such a terrible mother. Was there really nothing I could do to save Draco from all of this".
Harry could hear the pain and stepped next to Bella. Slowly he placed his right hand on the knee of Narcissa. he removed it only a second later but his hand was grabbed by that of Bella as she pulled him back. Harry nodded and placed it back again. As a small boy, he would dream of a mother to hold him to tell him that it would all be alright and that it was only a bad dream. He remembered the times he was locked up in his cupboard where he sat in the dark almost begging for his mum to come and hold him.
As he sat in front of Narcissa he could hear the same thing. But this wasn't a boy that wanted to be hugged by his mum. This was the mum that wanted to desperately hug her son and to make it all alright for him. She wanted to give Draco all the love she had but Lucius had told her no. He had kept her away from the things a mother wanted to do. here he was looking to the other side of the mirror. All he ever wanted was all Narcissa ever wanted to do. So he gave a sigh and looked sadly at Narcissa as he said. "Narcissa, you know just like I do that you have nothing to be sorry about. you know just as I do that you were kept away from Draco by your husband. The contract you have is nothing more than a slave-bond. They could say whatever they want to about me and Ginny, about me and Bella. But yours is the real deal. You are a trophy wife that has to sit up and look pretty when she is told to do it. I love Bella and that will be the last thing I will do to her. We, However, have done something you do not know. Bella Daphne and I have taken a look at your contract. In that contract is a stipulation that you are not allowed to have an opinion. That contract is sealed with magic so there is nothing you could ever do to him. So he has done to Draco whatever he wanted and you could and can't do anything about it. If you could he would have never been the person he now is".
"So there is nothing I can do about it and I just have to sit down to see my son go down with that man" she whispered.
"Maybe yes, maybe no," Harry told her. "Now, we do know that the contract can be undone by Lord Black. But as long as Augusta is the replacement Lord in place of the now Lord Black she can't do that. Only the true Lord Black can. There is also another reason but and you know that one".
"Yes I know, as long as Bellatrix is around I have to do my part Only after she is sent back. Or Sirius or you can get me out of there".
Harry gave her a good look and went on. "I say this because I think that the contract is the only thing that keeps you attached to Lucius and nothing else".
Narcissa nodded as she dabbed away some tears with a handkerchief Harry had given her.
"That contract has given Lucius the freedom to create a mini Death Eater and he has been doing it from the day Draco was born".
Narcissa heard the words and knew that Harry was right, even if it still hurt her a lot.
Daphne knew that Harry had to say something that would be difficult for him but also for Narcissa so she rushed to the other side of Narcissa and took the spot of Harry. Harry gave her a nod of thanks, but it was Bella that said it. "Sister, it is not your fault what Lucius has been doing to Draco. Lucius has spoiled him with everything he did. So if Draco does not become a death eater then his behaviour will be the thing that will get him in other troubles".
Harry who was still sitting in front of Narcissa could see that she knew that Bella was right. "Now everybody here knows what has to happen, At the end of this year, that monster will return. We also know that it will be another year before Bellatrix is sent back in time. If that happens then I will do everything I can to get you away from Lucius. With or without the help of Sirius. The basis for it has already been placed even if it isn't what I want".
Narcissa kept on nodding as she kept on listening to Harry.
"As for Draco, that is something that will be a little harder. I do not know what I can do for him, or if I want to do something for him. But if Bellatrix is back in time and he shows any kind of rumours what so ever. I will try it and I will only do it for you".
Harry gazed over his shoulder at his grandmother and his second mum and saw that he was doing a good job. "Now again I'm not sure if I can do anything for Draco but I will try if he gives me any sign at all, just anything that shows me he has something in him that is beating a rhythm. For you, however, I can and I will one way or another. Whatever happens, you will be taken away from Lucius and far away from Voldemort. If I have to do it just like I have done it with Ginny then I will. But whatever happens, you have to know that you are a beautiful woman and before you know it you will have another husband and have many little witches and wizards running around. I can only think that a witch like you, who is in her twenties will never be alone for very long" and he winked at her.
What followed was a very small and soft slap. "I'm a married woman Potter," Narcissa told him as she slapped him on the back of his head.
Just before Harry could place his hand on the spot Narcissa had hit him, she took his cheeks into her hands and gave a quick kiss on the lips. The kiss was fast but it did leave Harry speechless, as Narcissa placed her forehead against that of Harry. "Thank you, Harry, my little charmer. I was almost jealous of my little sister".
"Only almost," Daphne said with a giggle. before she to smacked Harry on the back of his head. "And you stop flirting with other women. don't you have enough with us three"?
Narcissa smiled back and had forgotten the reason why she had come in the first place. "Thank you all for your support, If I didn't have you all I think I would have gone downhill. But now I will go to the little house in Little Hangleton. Lucius has gone away for a week. Now I do not know what he is doing. I do have an idea but that will just make me sick if I think about it. However, now that I do have a week, I will go and give my sister some company and the two lovebirds some time for themselves".
"Sirius will like that" Daphne said. "I will bet you this, if you say you are free for, they are already gone before you can finish talking".
It was not long after Narcissa left that Minerva took her grandson into a hug. "You do know that when she realizes that you have changed her mind, even if you did it for something good. She will be twice as mad, don't you".
Harry nodded and looked fearfully at the fireplace just before he was taking into a hug by Bella and Daphne. "Don't worry Harry. Daphne and I will protect you for two seconds and then you must run".
Daphne laughed as she took Bella away.
The friends had all decided that they would spend the biggest part of the holidays at Potter castle. the only thing they had to do was to get the adults to go along with it. Something that would not be as hard as they thought it would be. When they would be their Harry would go to Bellatrix every other day. He would do it as often as he could because when the Dark Lord was back he would not be able to go any longer.
It was on the first visit that he saw how the things Snot and he had done for Bellatrix had really paid off. She was almost back to the woman she was supposed to be and that would become a problem when Voldemort had broken her free. He was glad that he had asked Bellatrix to pull out a hair every day. It was those hairs she would use with the Polyjuice Potion that Arabella was creating. It was a new version that would work for almost twenty hours. It wasn't there yet but she got it to work for fourteen hours. The one thing he didn't know was who was testing it and how did they get away with it. But he was getting off track. It was at one of his visits that he told her all about it. With those hairs, she would go back to the way she was and get better with every day that passed. At least that was how it would look to the death eaters that would be around her for most of those days.
The couple of hours that Harry was with Bellatrix were mostly spend with kissing, and the way to please a woman with foot rubs back rubs. Bellatrix would not go all the way with him because she knew that Harry wasn't ready for it. But most of all because she didn't want her first time with Harry to happen in a prison cell. Then again if she thought about it she wondered if it would ever happen or if she would be sent back before.
The one thing that was sure was that Bella and Daphne would be very thankful with everything she had taught him.
Zanita as the third wife and as a magical being didn't need much from Harry but a kiss here and there would make her day. It was also something she really liked to do.
It was after five days that Harry brought out the egg. The moment he opened it everyone else screamed for him to close it up again. something they didn't have to tell him twice.
The moment he had closed it down. they all heard the voice of Arabella. Harry, I think that is the language of the merpeople. I do know that there is a compleat city at the bottom of the lake. So if it were up to me I would listen to it while you are underwater. I know this because I'm doing business with them.
Before Harry could say a thing he was dragged along by to pares of arms and dumped into the pool at the side of Potter castle. He came up above the wathe where he coughed and gasped to get a good breath. In his panic, he could hear five other splashes around him and knew that everyone had followed him in.
When the water was calm again he looked at two of them. He could see all the Adults standing behind the two of them at the edge of the pool laughing. "You do know that we could have changed first".
Both Bella and Daphne nodded as they smiled at him. Harry looked at it with a raised eyebrow. He was the one who could make a connection with Bella through the mind. but the way the two of them did it was just creepy. So he did what any man should do and took a deep breath just before he went under again. Under the water, he opened the egg and listened to the voices that came from it.
It was after a second breath that all the kids came out of the pool and started to ask the adults for some drying charms while Hermione was writing it all down. As they walked back to the side room, Susan was reading the riddle that Hermione had written down. She nodded when the came back and Hermione took the floor. "well, while we were all in the pool we heard the following and she started to tell them what they all had heard.
'Come seek us where our voices sound,
We cannot sing above the ground,
And while you're searching, ponder this:
We've taken what you'll sorely miss,
An hour long you'll have to look,
And to recover what we took,
But past an hour – the prospect's black
Too late, it's gone, it won't come back.'
There was a moment of silents before they all started to scream too and at each other. It took a whistle and a cannon blast from Minerva to get them all to quiet down. "Before we all start to suggest things let us listen to a part of it after it we can let the kids see what they make of it. if we do not agree we will say it if we do we will, not".
All the adults nodded and Hermione started with the first two lines.
'Come seek us where our voices sound,
We cannot sing above the ground,
"Well, that ones is easy, you have to go to the place where the song is sung and then you have to look for something you are missing. Now I do not think Albus and Fudge are going to the other side of the world for the second task, let alone arrange a port-key for every student in Hogwarts. So it has to be at the grounds of Hogwarts. I think it will be in a cave or in the lake. Now because it is in their language I think it will be most likely happening in the lake" Daphne told them.
everyone was nodding along as Hermione went for the second part of the riddle.
And while you're searching, ponder this:
We've taken what you'll sorely miss,
As Hermione was reading the next part, you could see at her eyes that she already knew what it was about. "The second part is just as simple as the first part," she said. "You have to go to the bottom of the lake. that is also the place where they will take whatever it is they took from you".
It was both Harry and Bella who answered the one unasked question from Hermione. "The merpeople are living in the middle of the lake at the deepest part. It was the spot the founders gave them when they escaped from the war. It was their job to keep the lake clean and to protect what was in it".
Hermione was looking at both of them with a lot of pride. She wiped away an imaginary tear from her cheek. "I'm so proud of you, and also that I'm not the only one that who have read Hogwarts the history".
Harry smiled and whispered loud enough that it was only some of it they had read, but that he wasn't going to tell Hermione.
Smack, "Thank you for ruining my daydream," Hermione told him, "damn you got a hard head" and she rubbed her hand.
Harry just smiled at her. and pointed her to go on.
Hermione smiled back and went on.
An hour long you'll have to look,
And to recover what we took,
It took a moment for everyone to really get what was said when Susan answered. "I think that is very clear. You get into the lake. swim for an hour, get your stuff and get out".
"You think," Harry told her.
Susan ignored him and went on "Now it will be something very important to you because you would not go into the lake in mid-February getting your book of Hogwarts back".
"I would," Hermione said a little offended.
Susan did like she didn't hear Hermione and went on. "No, the thing you have to get back has to be something that will really make you go down there. If it is a book of Hogwarts a History, then you can ask Hermione to go for you, So I think it will be your broom" ignoring the look Hermione gave her.
"I can buy another one," Harry said.
"Well, it has to be something expensive, because, why else would you go down there and freeze your nuts off," Susan told him but was ignoring the look her aunty gave her.
"We will think about it later," Hermione told them all. "I do not think they will take a broom but what it will be we will think about it later. Now the next part".
But past an hour – the prospect's black
Too late, it's gone, it won't come back.'
"Well, that is just something we already knew. you hold your breath and swim around for an hour" Bella told him.
Harry just raised an eyebrow as he said. "Easy peasy, just jump in and hold my breath for an hour".
"Well, that will not work but we could figure that out, with all of us".
"Gillyweed" Neville told them.
"Exactly" Arabella jumped in as everybody just looked at him.
Neville coloured a bit by the praise from Arabella and looked down.
Arabella saw it and gave Neville his moment and started to tell the others about Gillyweed. "Now to tell you all about this wonderful plant. When you take the right amount you will be able to swim for an hour. When you take it your body will change. You will get gills and webbing between your fingers and your feet will change into flippers".
Before Arabella could finish talking the friends were already ordering her to get some of the stuff so they could practise. But Arabella told them to start in the pool of Potter castle just to be safe.
*#*
Let's go back to the point Narcissa left for the house in Little Hangleton.
Narcissa stepped out of the floo and came to a sudden stop. The thing she saw was just unbelievable. She was expecting to see her sister but she saw Emma and Dan sitting behind two flat boxes and one was showing something like a memory from a pensive. Emma was sitting with a couple of earmuffs on her head and was talking into a stick with something like a cotton ball on top of it. Her eyes became even bigger when she heard the voice of her oldest sister coming from two little black boxes. With a tap on the shoulder, she got the attention from Emma.
"God, you scared the living daylights out of me" Emma screamed when she felt the tap. She then smiled and saw the look Narcissa gave at the boxes she had standing next to the monitor. "Hi there Narcissa. this is a computer and that is a monitor so we can look at everything. your sister is out there placing some cameras and microphones. She then pointed out of the window so Narcissa could see for herself.
Narcissa looked out of the window and saw nothing. It was when Emma handed her some binoculars she could see what Emma was pointing at. "What you see there is Andromeda pointing a microphone at the house".
"That looks like an umbrella," Narcissa told her.
"Yes, it looks like one, but it isn't. It is that thing that will give us the sound from inside the house. Now Peter has gone shopping so she has the time to do it. She will place a mild notice me not charm on a runestone? I do not know what that is but she says they will never see it. Anyhow it will help us listen to what happens in the house. At least if they are near the window. We have also placed one of those things at the graveyard so we will not only be able to see it but hear it as well" and Emma pointed at the monitors where Narcissa could see the graveyard.
"Do all muggles have those things?" she asked fearfully.
Emma shook her head. "No, this is all professional stuff. We make enough money but not even we can buy it. It is only because Harry has it and he told us to do it. Even the Goblins have asked us to place it all over their banks and on the outsides of their vaults. They told us they pay about 60 Goblins to just ride down the vaults just to see if no one is around there. In this way, they hope they could give them some other jobs".
Suddenly Emma grabbed another tiny box from the table and talked into it. "Andromeda get out of there. Peter is coming around the house and you can get away if you go left".
"Thank you, I'm on my way" sounded the voice of Andromeda from the box.
It was moments later that Andromeda walked back in and right over to Emma. "Hi, Cissy, Okay Emma hit the button and see if we have done it correctly".
Emma took the headphone out of the box and they all listened.
"How, are things at Hogwarts" sounded the voice of Voldemort out of the little box.
The moment Narcissa heard the voice she turned pale and slumped down on the couch, as she started to shake all over in fear.
Dan Granger saw the reaction and immediately plugged the headphones back into the outlet. he saw from the corner of his eye how Emma and Andromeda went to her side to help her. so he just left the room to give them some space and time.
Emma who was holding on Narcissa could see that she was thinking back to a time that had been terrible. She knew that people had these sort reactions when they had been in a war. She herself had been fortunate enough to have never experienced it. But she also knew that it was about to change when this evil Lord would have his body. "Cissy" she started carefully. "What is it, You knew that we have been tracking him for the last month or so".
Narcissa started to nod as some tears were falling down her cheeks. "I know Emma and it isn't that. I also knew he would come back but that would be at the end of the year. Somehow I could tell myself that it was still a long way away. But hearing him now makes it all come so close and I do realize that he has never really been away. So the moment I heard his voice I remembered everything he told us. I also know that some of his ideas were things I wanted. Don't get me wrong, I was never a follower but some things he said were things I agreed with. One of those things he said was that Muggle-borns took away our traditions and our identity. It was something I saw happening all over Hogwarts when I was there. They would come in and tell us all that was wrong. I was never against them learning magic but the way they thought about us. If I were the one making plans I would educate them in our ways just so they could understand. He just wanted to kill them. He told us they were the disease and were stealing our magic. the only solution we had was to exterminate them just to make our world save. The one thing they didn't want to hear was that they were kids from squibs. It is something you or dan are. Maybe both or just one of you. For him and people like my husband, it was clear/ They were the ones with the magic and they had the only right to it so everything that was against it had to die. In the war, I had to follow him because my husband wanted it and I still remember all they have done. I had seen with my own eyes how they killed man and woman. How they raped women and tortured them just before they killed them. The worse of it all was that it weren't only woman but also little girls. The youngest I have seen was seven". Narcissa broke down as her tears started to flow down faster and faster. "No one of the sitting members of the Wizengamot did anything about it because they were only muggles. So as long as they didn't do it to witches or wizards knew they had a get out of jail free card. So the moment I heard his voice it all came back to me and it is clear that I will see it all again, and I do not want to see it again, I never wanted it in the first place. You know that I can still hear that little girl screaming when Lucius took her in my bedroom, I didn't see it but heard it".
Emma took a shaking Narcissa in her arms as she rubbed her back with one hand. Narcissa had become a close friend of her and had shown her the wonderful world of magic while she showed her the wonderful world of muggles. While Narcissa had been talking she realized that the two worlds weren't so different at all. In the muggle part of it, there were the same things happening all around. People were killed because of who they are, where they come from or in what they believed. The colour of their skin or their sexuality. In some parts, man were doing the things Lucius had done just because they were told they could. She had to think about the fact that Apolline had told her that being a magical lesbian was nothing to worry about in France. But being one in England was still punishable by death. She had to think about Daphne and Bella who were bisexual and Susan with Astoria. the only saving grace they had was Harry. He and his friends had the power to stop it all but to do that they had to stop this monster that was coming back.
Andromeda who had been sitting at her other side took the hand from Narcissa in hers and whispered. "I do know that it will be a hard road we have to take. Just like the last time, we will lose people we love. we will see people go to the other side and have friends that are now against us. We do not know what will happen but if I know Harry good enough he has a plan to keep the death count to the minimum".
Emma knew what Andromeda was saying and also knew what Harry had to do with it because it all started with him. She still remembered the first Christmas Hermione had stood on the doorstep telling them she would stay the last week with Neville. In the first week, she had told them about the troll and about all the scars Harry had over his body. She also told the story of Harry Potter and what he had done as a baby. That was the last time they had been close because after it she had drifted away from her because the Magic was pulling her away little by little. In that time they knew that they had lost their daughter and that they would lose her for real the longer she was around magic. It wasn't until Harry heard the story and pulled them into their world and made them a part of it. Not only did he pull them into the magical world he pulled the muggle world with it. He had shown them all that they could work together taking the best of both worlds. So she knew exactly what Narcissa was saying about the traditions and the customs she wanted to save and she agreed with it wholeheartedly. Emma who had been in her own thoughts was just in time to hear what Andromeda had said.
"When Voldemorts is back at the end of the year, we have only one year left. If we are lucky it will be a slow year and he will keep his head down. After it we will take the fight to him and If I know Harry he already has a plan of how to do it".
Narcissa snorted a little, "Harry and planning, no way he does that".
Emma and Andromeda were looking at Narcissa with big eyes and Emma stammered "but Harry always has a plan".
Narcissa saw them looking in disbelieve and could not keep herself from laughing out loud. Emma and Andromeda smiled at her, relieved that she was smiling but also a little angry because she made them feel stupid. "Sorry" Narcissa went on. "Harry does not plan, he only has ideas. It are his friends that are the ones who do the planning. When the plans are made it will be Harry who does them even if it is risking his own life for them, he will. He will even take the risks we the grownups will not do. He is a true leader one that we will follow just like many others will. Voldemort is nothing like him, he will send people into the battle before he will join them. If they are loosing he will flee even before he has placed a spell himself and leave his followers behind. Harry will not do it he will start fighting and he will be the last to leave the battlefield or die there fighting. So with Harry at the front and his friends behind him, they are unstoppable".
Emma and Andromeda nodded and knew that Narcissa was right. But they had to leave it to the kids to pull the strings and help where they can.
A/N To all a happy New year and the best of wishes for 2019.
this was it again for this week. hoop to see you all again in two weeks.
Gr Winmau