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(BSC 6 C18) C209 Three days later part 2

It took Amelia three glasses of fire whiskey before she came to terms that Susan had been fighting a Goblin on her own. As she looked at her niece she still saw the bandages she was wearing. Hermione had done a great job by patching her up before she went to Poppy. Poppy had it easier because it would mean that Susan was stable before she got her. When the battle at Hogwarts would start it would not be that way. At that time Poppy would get them straight from the battlefield. When she filled up her fourth glass she looked at her niece again. "If you ever".

"I will do it again" Susan cut her off before her aunty could go all Auror on her. "Tell us who of you have ever thought of getting the enemy back to our side. Who of you realized that the people who are fighting us, joined them because we have let them down?" Susan screamed back. "The Goblins would have killed any one of you if we didn't have the Goblin lessons. Veelas would not have come back to our side if we did not have the queen on our side. So we are trying to get the battle in our favour and if we have to fight some battles to get it, we will. Even if it is on our own from time to time".

Amelia hated it when her niece was right. She knew they all did their part but the kids were doing the rest. "I just hate that you all have to do this" Amelia mumbled.

Susan stood and went over to her aunty, as, she hugged her tightly. "We have to do this because we were pulled into it from day one. My parents are killed by both of them because they were not thinking like they were. Harry has been in hell because they stopped his parents. He was without them and in hell for more than a decade. Neville and Daphne had been trained to help us just like I have been trained by you. Hermione didn't have a childhood because of her brain and that is also why we were brought together. We made a pact in our first year at Hogwarts. Some of our house joined us in third year, and some of them later on. We could not have done all of this without their help. You all had your jobs to do and did what you could for us. We wanted some of the other adults to help us but as you know they didn't want to or just didn't believe us, so we had to do it alone. So if we can fight fewer people at the big Battle, we will fight some fights before it gets to that".

Amelia nodded on her shoulder. She knew that the friends had been on their own for a lot of it but it was still hard for her and the others. "Next time, tell me. At least give me the time to try and prepare for it" Amelia mumbled as she pulled Susan a little closer to herself.

It took another couple of minutes before Daphne went on. "This had been at eight in the morning. Now as you have seen we all had an observation task and if we could we would call the others and deal with it. Susan had done her part and would remain in the Infirmary only known to us for the rest of the day and until an hour ago. The next one will be of me and Hermione, Fleur, Gabrielle and my mother.

Start memory six

Hermione was looking at an area that was almost as big as Hogwarts. If she looked to the right and it was the thing she was doing. She could see that there had been a forest only a couple of weeks ago. The only thing that was left, was a ring of trees that surrounded a hundred giants that were here at this point in time. The trees that had been pulled out of the ground had been used to create a big fire for warmth. By the looks of it, she could see that a lot of them weren't well. The coughing and snivelling were clearly audible from miles around. She dropped her Binoculars and looked to her side at the others. "So what do you all think? We have been here for an hour. During the night it hasn't changed one bit and after we got back from Susan it still hasn't changed a all".

"Wel fighting them is not a real option. We could get the bombs from your father but would that do anything against them?" Daphne told her.

"I think we have to help them get better. They are in need of some healing potion. The female that is on the other side is trying but she does not have the potions she needs" Fleur told them as she thought about it. " The problem we have is how do we get them to trust us".

"What are you all talking about?" Isabella interrupted her. "We were here only to see what kind of fighters Voldemort and Grindelwald had at their disposal. We are not here to do anything about it" Isabella said as she stepped in front of them clearly blocking their view of the giants.

"Mom, that is not really true. we had other plans but you would not have let us if we told you about them before we went. Now it is clear they are all sick, at least a lot of them are. Looking at it we can also tell you why. The food they are eating is not what they normally eat. the way they sleep is also not good for them they are in a clearing and open to the elements. Normally they are in the mountains and in caves for shelter. Now we know they are intelligent but not in the words we know. So we have to tell them in clear words and make them see what we want to do. But most of all, that we mean well, and not in the way Voldemort and Grindelwald are doing to them".

"And how were you planning on doing it" Isabella almost snapped at Daphne but kept herself from doing it at the last minute.

Daphne looked at the ground and Hermione took over never seeing Gabrielle change in her phoenix form and fly over to the female giant. "Wel that was why we have been here last night and the last hour. We had gone away because Susan needed us".

"What have you all done. If I remember correctly Susan went to the Goblins with Bogrod". This time Isabella did snap at them all.

Now the three of them looked at the ground. Fleur had not gone with them but she knew about the other things they had spoken about and kept it from Isabella as Daphne and Hermione had gone away to get some food so to say. "She had to fight a Goblin" Daphne mumbled softly.

"She did what, you did what. Never mind I give up. You are all crazy, too crazy to do something about it. Just Promise me one thing, you will all make it out of here alive".

"Sorry mum, but it is the one thing we can't promise you. The only thing we promise is that we will do our best to make it".

Isabella nodded slowly. She wanted to know more but she could not ask for anything more than this because they could not promise her that. So she just nodded as she looked back at the giants. "Oke just do what you have planned and tell us all when you can. One more thing does Minerva know".

"The grandmas know," Hermione said as she called for the others.

Harry Neville and Bella popped in. There was no Susan and they knew she would not come to them because she would not be allowed. She wasn't badly hurt but hurt enough for Poppy to keep her back. "Where is Gabrielle" Harry asked as he looked around.

Daphne and Hermione were almost getting frantic when Harry found Gabrielle missing. They were all looking around and didn't know where to look. It was then that Bella saw her by one of the sick giants. She was sitting on his nose just looking down. Another Giant went over to her slowly and was pulling her hand up. It was clear to the friends what she wanted to do. Gabrielle was nothing more than a little fly to them so it had to go. Just as the hand went down Isabella screamed. Fleur turned into her avian form as Hermione pulled her wand.

Daphne, Bella and Harry just held their hands down they pointed with their hands to the ground and performed a blasting hex so strong that they were literally blasted from the spot. Time stood still as Harry slammed into the hand that was coming down. Bella and Daphne just blasted to Gabrielle and pulled her away.

It was clear that it was a calculated move. One of the girls could pull her away if the other couldn't, while Harry connected with the hand to stop it from hitting Gabrielle. If it didn't stop he might have slowed it enough to give the girls a little more time to pull Gabrielle away. Harry landed on the floor and could just roll away from the hand that was coming down to hit him. Fleur had flown at her and stopped just in front of her eyes. The giant got startled and stumbled backwards and fell down on her big butt, making the ground shake beneath them all. Fleur chanced back and landed in front of her.

The female giant looked down a little dumbly. As Fleur held out her hands in a surrender sign she saw the Giant think. They weren't dumb but slow and needed simple words. It looked like she did understand and held down her hand for Fleur to get on it.

Harry was lying at the side shaking his head to clear his mind. Bella was sitting next to him while Daphne took Gabrielle back to Isabella. "You know you might look like a full-grown witch, but you still can't just walk up to any giant and think they are friendly" She berated the young woman who had changed back to herself when she was back with Isabella.

Hermione had made her way next to Fleur and got onto the hand of the giant. She lifted them up and placed each of them on one of her shoulders. Most people would say they were these killers but just like werewolves, they were misunderstood. The same could be said for Goblins and themselves most of the time. Even like herself, fleur thought. "Others, sick aren't they," fleur asked.

"Yes," It was a whisper but for Fleur and Hermione, it sounded like a foghorn sounded next to their ears.

"We make better and we make deal," Fleur asked again.

"You first make better," the giant told them. Hermione tugged her on the cheek and pointed down and right after it to the Giant. She understood and brought Hermione down as she grabbed her on the back of her shirt. Hermione wasn't really liking it but let it go, this was not the time to go against them. She was not sure if she could take one of them. Especially now with Harry out of it and Neville not showing up. They knew there was a chance they could not come so she didn't think much about it. Hermione pulled out a little bottle and poured it into the mouth of the sick giant. Somewhere during the night she had gone to Poppy and showed her the memory of the place. Poppy had told her the Giants lived in another climate. If they had been here for a couple of weeks it could mean they are just sick because of it. She had been the one who gave her this bottle and told her it would work for a week and had to be renewed or they had to be back home, home to them, meaning they had to be back in the mountains and caves.

Hermione calmed down and waited just like Fleur. It took another couple of minutes but the sick giant started to relax and got a little more colour into his face. Slowly Harry sat up and smiled as he saw Fleur sitting on the shoulder of the giant. Hermione stood on the ground and just smiled back at him. As he got up and back to his feet he and Bella walked back to Isabella just to look on.

As the giant woke up the other looked at Fleur. "You help others now".

Fleur shook her head. "No, we make deal, then we help others. first we talk".

The female giant grumbled a little but saw Hermione holding up other little bottles to show she could help them all. This time she looked at Fleur and asked. "Ask".

"Why you here," Fleur asked.

"We promise bigger place, bigger gave we now have".

"Who promise you".

The giant looked to the left and pointed at a peak in the mountain behind Harry and Isabella. Bella and Harry looked at each other and started to run. one left and the other right. Hermione started to look up and went to another giant to heal it while Fleur talked further. "Who Bold man".

The giant shook her head. "Man with axe. He promise bigger gave and no more little people like you".

Fleur was not offended because she knew the giant talked about muggle hikers that would hike into their areas. "You you do".

"We kill other people".

Fleur nodded and looked around. There was nothing done for any of them and she knew a way to get them to their side. So she waved for Daphne to come to her and Gabrielle just flashed her there. As Fleur whispered with Daphne, Hermione was healing some of the other giants that were sick. Daphne turned to Gabrielle and flashed away in a ball of fire. She was back about twenty minutes later. All the other giants were sitting up as they looked around and at the open clearing with only Daphne standing in the middle.

When the first house elf popped up. Fleur turned to the female giant. "We make deal now, you not fight us but people who took you here. We give help you with cave and little people. We will help you two sun and moon from now. You now eat" and Fleur pointed at the mountain of food that appeared next to Daphne. A second later Gabrielle landed on her shoulder and flashed her out of there. When they got back next to Isabella. Gabrielle flashed back to get Hermione and Fleur. They stood next to Isabella and looked at the giants that were eating their fill. Every time a pile was eaten another pile appeared in place of it.

When they heard a sound they turned to it and saw Harry walking back with a bloody Bella in his arms. Before some of the others could ask anything harry told Hermione to take her to Poppy. Hermione nodded and took her by Portkey as Harry turned to the others. "It was Walden Macnair and four junior death Eaters. They are all dead". After he said the last thing he dropped to the floor and started to cry. He had killed two of them together with Macnair.

Daphne rushed to him and hugged him close. After Pancy they never had to kill again. This time they had, at least Harry and Bella had two. Again they might not care for the loss of Macnair because he was a bastard, to begin with. But the other death Eaters were still young. Older than they were but not old enough to be as corrupted as Macnair was. It took another thirty minutes for Harry to deal with it for now. It could not have happened to a better man but taking a life was never a good thing.

End of Memory six.

Before anyone could say a thing Daphne dropped another memory in the pensive and just called out memory seven.

David had thought it could be a memory without a glass of fire whiskey but when he saw Bella rushing from one side he knew he was not going to like it. Bella did not wear her armour so she was not as protected as she usually was. When she came closer they saw harry from the other side. He wasn't wearing any armour either but he did pull his sword as he slipped his want into it. Bella did the same thing and fired off a spell. She hit one of the junior death Eaters with a stunning charm and rushed to the next. Harry took one down the same way. But when they turned to the others they had to duck.

Two avada's came at them and they just passed over them. Before they got up they had revived the other two and it was clear they had murder on their mind. Spells were coming at them and they had a hard time blocking them. It was not the blocking part but the thing they had to do next. Harry rolled left and Bella right. When they got up Harry held out his hand and summoned all the Portkeys they had on them. When they flew to him he saw them smile. He stepped just aside as they went by. In the air, they cut them down and knew the death eaters could not use them anymore. Again they had to jump to the side and were just in time to avoid another barrage of killing spells that were heading straight at them.

Bella jumped up and knew what they had to do. With Pansy, there was no way out and now it would be the first real one. This would be their first kill and she had to do it together with Harry. Both of them jumped up and swung their swords at the head of the Death Eaters. their aim was not right but lower and they cut deep. They turned again and swung for the second time. As two went down the other two were hit. Like the first two, they were cut and cut deep. When they turned back they saw all four of them lying there bleeding.

They weren't dead so Harry bend down and healed two of them, telling them clearly to run away because the next time they would be killed. Slowly he saw them nodding and turned to the others to heal them too. When he bends down to help the other two he heard Bella scream. He turned back and saw the others who he had just heeld pointing their wands at them. He ducked as he swung his sword around and this time he did cut them deep. His sword cut off both of their hands and they dropped down. He never saw them bleed to death because he heard another scream. When he turned around to the other side he saw Walden Macnair slamming his axe down across the arm of Bella. Harry didn't think for a second and threw his sword right through his chest, Killing him on impact by sliding him right through the heart. When he got to her he looked around and saw that the two Bella had struck down had died during it all. They never cleaned up the bodies.

In his panic, Harry just picked Bella up and carried her back to the others to get her to Hermione and after it to Poppy. Hermione would take her on but

End of Memory seven.

It was again that all the adults looked over at Bella. She was also with them but she had her arm in a sling. They had come this close to loos another one and they also knew by counting on their fingers that they had two fewer people doing the things the rest of the day. When they looked at the others they saw that there was still a lot to go.

So David stood and walked over to the table. He filled up another round and saw that the bottles had already been emptied and he had to ask for more. After this day they would all be drunk and devastated by what they have seen.

Daphne had waited as food had been laid out for all to take. She dropped in memory eight and said. "This time it will be the memory of Neville and Frank Longbottom. They have been looking at the houses of the Death Eaters. The one thing that was easy, was that the death eaters were all living close together with a mountain in the middle of all of them.

Daphne tapped the rune on the pensive and started the memory.

Memory eight.

Neville and frank had been dropped on the top of the mountain. Frank was looking down as Neville started to set up a camera with something that was called a lens. This however was not looking like a lens he had ever seen before. "What is that" Frank had to ask.

Neville just smiled. "This is a telescope lens. It is made to be plugged into this box. Now, normally you would use it to look at the stars. But we are going to use it to look at the houses of the Death Eaters. They are miles away but to us, it will look like we are standing in the yard behind the house".

Frank looked through it and immediately looked alongside it. With his own eyes, he could nearly see the manor. When he looked through it he saw the front of the house. There was a big piece missing from the front door and building. The thing he did see was a very big boulder lying in the house.

Neville laughed. "We did that to Parkinson because he wanted to abuse another kid our age. That was why we did it. Now it is clear that the house had not been used since. So I'm going to destroy it later on with Harry and muggle bombs". Neville told him as he plugged a little tv into the telescope. "Now don't ask me to explain it but this is called a Tabled. I do not know how it works completely but I can take pictures with it. The picture will be from the thing the telescope sees and it will be stored in this box. Later when we are home, Dan can put it on paper with a printer. When he does, he will take me along so I can see what it is and how it works".

When Frank looked at the Tablet he saw the same house with the same rock lying in the middle of the house. He kept on looking at the box when there was a Patronus asking Neville to come to Hermione and Daphne. Neville wanted to go when he saw Goyel walking around the Parkinson's house. So he knew he could not go. Hermione and Daphne were with the giants and they were slow so he could be missed for this one. At that point, he didn't know what he knew later that night. Neville took a closer look and saw Goyel walking to the middle of the back garden.

Neville zoomed in and only saw a treestump there. Goyel walked up to it and tapped on something. The next thing he saw was a little building appear with only a door. Goyel went in and the building disappeared with him in it. Neville took another camera out of the back. It had a big lens on it but was not as strong as the telescope. He did have a complete look at all the gardens and saw that all of them had those treestumps except the one from Grabb.

He knew what it was and had to wait until Goyel had come out and left the property. He did an hour ago and Neville called for everyone to come and help him. It was a minute later Harry popped up next to him. "Hi, Neville how is it going?

"I think I found all the other shelters where they keep the muggles. Parkinson had a special building in his garden just like all the others. It looks like an outhouse but it is clear it goes down". It was then that Neville saw that Harry had come alone. "Wait, why are you all alone". Harry placed his hand on his neck and Neville knew it wasn't good news. "Hermione" he almost shouted.

"No, No she is fine. But we hit a bump in our planning with the giants" Harry shouted to keep Neville from rushing off. "Susan took a big hit with the Goblins and Bella took one as well. They are both with Poppy now and out for the rest of the mission".

"What Mission" Frank screamed.

"Didn't we tell you?" Harry asked as Frank shook his head. "We are here to see if we can bring down the number of enemies the two assholes has on us. Also to see if we can do more to put fear in them. This however is something we thought could happen but didn't know for sure. Now Grabbe had a basement with prisoners. We knew others had them too but we never saw them or found them when we looked at the houses before. Now we do and if we take down the houses we have to make sure that no one is there to get hurt or die. So while you look on with the telescope and tablet. Neville and I will go down there and have a look for ourselves" Harry told him. He then turned back to Neville. "Hermione and Daphne are now with David to look at the Trolls. Fleur has gone to Hogwarts and got a Goblin to help her with the Giants. They will help them with what the assholes promise them. Gabrielle will be flashing her, the Goblin and the Giant to their home. After it, she will go to Minerva who is still looking at the Werewolves. Mad Eye is with her whenever I leave but she does not know I have him looking out for her".

"Are you sure that it is a good idea to leave that madman looking over her shoulder?" Frank asked.

"Well, he thinks he is. She knows he is looking out for her but in truth, she is looking out for him. Her cat eyes and cat hearing are better than his but it leaves him with something to do" Harry told Frank while Neville just laughed at it. "Now you look through that thing while Neville and I will go and see if we can get into that place. We will start with the house of Macnair. I just killed the bastard so if there are prisoners there, then they are not going to be taken care of. Goyel will be after that and, after it, we will go to the next and next. After it, we will lock down the houses and destroy them in one big bomb".

Both of them just apparated down the mountain and reappeared in the picture on the box Frank held in his hand. He looked on as Harry and Neville stood at the edge of the ward. Frank was wondering how they would go or get around the ward when he saw Harry pulling out a metal ring. Frank looked through the Telescope and saw Harry pushing it through or into the ward. The next thing he saw was them stepping through it.

As he looked on he got a terrible feeling in his body. Something wasn't right so he had to have some help. So the thing he did was to call his own mother and Grandmere to him. He could call James and Sirius, but the grandmas knew about the plans, so he thought if he would call them, he would not be in as much trouble as he would be otherwise.

Harry and Neville walked on and right to the three stomp. With a blasting hex, Harry took care of it and the outhouse appeared. Frank looked on with his mother now handing over one shoulder and Grandmere over the other. Harry threw something little into the building and GranGran told him it was a muggle smoke bomb. It would fill up with smoke. Ten minutes later they went in and came out ten minutes later just like they had gone in. They had nothing in their heads or arms but Neville looked right into the camera. He held up one hand and flashed his hand two times.

"They have found ten prisoners in there," Grandmere told them. It was then Neville pointed to the left and they knew they would be going to the second house. The next was the same thing only this time Neville held up seven fingers. This meant they had found another seven people. When they got to the house of the Carrow twins it didn't go as it went at all the other houses. Harry threw in the smoke bomb and waited. A second later they had to duck out of the way of an Ak curse coming out of the outhouse. Harry blasted away the outhouse as Neville placed an Aquamenty into the hole.

Frank looked on and was amazed by the amount of Water Neville threw with one spell. "See your son is stronger than you will ever know," Grandmere told him.

As the three of them looked on four people rushed out of the hole all drenched. Before any of them could do something Harry and Neville had them stunned and bound on the side of the yard. "Are they going in?" Frank asked as he saw Harry doing something.

"O no, they are putting on their Goblin armour. So that means they are preparing for a battle and Harry had done a lot already. He already had to kill three of them by himself" Augusta said as she looked at how Harry placed his wand into his sword.

"He killed," Grandmere asked shocked.

"Yes, he did and Bella got hurt in that battle just like Susan did before it. Now Bella had killed two in that battle. So by them doing this they know, they might kill again",

End memory eight.

Daphne stopped the memory and started the next immediately.

Memory nine.

In the memory, they saw Harry stepping through the opening in the ground. The ground was still wet from the Aquamenty spell from Neville. A stairway brought them down about two floors. At the bottom, there was a little room with three doors. Harry opened one and Neville placed a flash spell into the room. There was a scream and Harry just blasted a string of about a hundred stunners all over the room. After it, he threw a muggle thing that gave a green light all over the place when you broke it in the middle.

When they went into the room they saw about four young women lying there. All of them were stunned but you could see they were breathing. Four house elves popped up and took them away. Slowly Harry and Neville walked back into the other room and did the same thing. And they did it with the next. As they stepped out in the open they had saved about forty prisoners. One of them had been Olivender. He was captured a day before so he wasn't missed because Arebelle would see him a day later. If that would have happen they would have known about it. Among them, they also found madam Malkin and some of her workers. There were also a couple of other store owners. Most of them were muggle born just like the workers of Madam Malkin. She was kept because she had them working for her and while they were abused she was made to watch.

After they had taken all of the prisoners to where ever the house elves took them Harry and Neville secured the house as they had done with the others. And reappeared behind them. When they all looked back the houses could not be seen. "What have you done to them," Frank asked.

"Nothing much yet. We placed all of the bombs and after it, we placed each of them under a repelling ward and a Fidelius. We will drop it the night before the battle and blow them all up. The battle will be in two weeks so get ready".

"Wait" Frank shouted. "Why didn't you take Parkinson's or Malfoy manor".

"We can't, not yet. Parkinson's Manor or what is left of it had werewolves staying there. You could not see them through the telescope because they are behind the house in the woods all the way to the end of the property. It is the one thing Harry will deal with at the end of the night. The plan was for him to do it with Bella but he will have to do it all alone today. We will be there with him but he still has to do it alone. Minerva is on the other side looking at them. We didn't know it was on Parkinson's grounds. Now we know we will do it after we are done. Malfoy Manor, we could not take because the two Drakones are there.".

"But what will he be doing there and what are you all planning to do," Frank asked again.

While Neville and Frank were talking Harry popped away and back to his grandmother.

end Memory nine.

Daphne stopped the memory and started to fill up the glasses. She handed them out and looked at one of them closely. "Just take it, Daphne," Her father told her.

Daphne looked up at her father. "Does it help?" she asked sadly.

David shook his head. "No, it just works like a calming draft. It makes it easier but you will have the pain a day after. Sometimes it makes you laugh, and happy but it could also make you sadder than you really are. We take it because it makes us num. We can handle it all better while we handle it all tomorrow when we think about it clearly".

Daphne looked at the glass again and brought it to her nose. As she took a deep sniff, she shook her head and put it back down. The moment she did it Sirius looked at Frank and James as he sat in the middle. "I know they are tough, but to look at this again while you are sober is even better than I could ever do". Both James and Frank raised their glasses. while the others just looked at the friends. Susan and Bella looked terrible and in two weeks the war would start at Hogwarts if those other two would not attack before that time.

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One of the Veela healers looked over the shoulder of Nolwenn and gazed at the paper she was writing on. As the family looked at the memories, they didn't realise that they were dealing with the war before it really began. "What do you mean by that line? I know it is just a rough draft before the real book. but how are they dealing with the war now by doing this?"

Nolwenn looked up. "Did you ever see them doing anything without a reason"?

The Veela looked back and again at the pensive. She thought about the memories she had seen so far. She also saw the memories they still had to see. As she looked at every one of them. The way they looked told her enough and she walked over to the table. She took two glasses, one she slammed back and the other she took back to her seat. When she sat down she just shook her head. "I still don't see it. Why not blow up the houses right away, why do they wait".

"That is the way they work. Just look, listen and wait. I will tell you now you will be amazed" Nolwenn told her as she placed another line on the paper. They were just simple lines that told nothing when you read them but told a whole story to Nolwenn.

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Thinking back a little.

Narcissa had her Memory shown to everyone and smiled at the thought of how it went after it. It wasn't like she and Draco had forgotten everything and just were mom and son immediately. But it was a start and with the girl he now had, she could see that he was starting to look differently at the world. Her relationship with her son had a new starting point. He was even open to the relationship she had started with Nolwenn. When she left she even saw him talking with a couple of Muggles. She had looked at it from a distance and saw that it hadn't been a long talk. But it definitely was one that was friendly, one of those talks you have with a stranger you just saw. As she snapped out of it she looked around the room and thought about yesterday and a little before that.

Narcissa was sitting next to Emma who had been biting her nails from the start. She had heard about every mission they would go on alone. When she had heard about them she knew they would be doing a lot more than they would know. So from the time they had left, she had gone to Poppy to wait and see what would happen. When Susan was brought in by Hermione, it took the Veela Healers to keep her from ordering Hermione to stay put. When Bella was brought in by Hermione, it was Poppy who ordered her out of there. It was a good thing because the rest of the night she was just sitting in the hallway listening to everything that went on inside. After Bella had been put to bed Arabella had joined her in the hallway

Narcissa had seen it all and had a hard time seeing her friend that way. She had been with Poppy to help her with it all so she had seen them come. With Susan, she was waiting for Amelia to rush in and put a stop to it. The moment she did, Amelia just looked at her niece and gave a deep sigh. "You are the first" Susan nodded. "There will be more of you in here" Probably Susan told her. "Are we going to shout at all of you"?

"No, you will be too mad at us to do it".

"Why are you doing this and what is the point of it all".

Narcissa looked on and listened to all Amelia said and asked. The one thing that surprised her the most was that she was holding herself back from shouting. It was like she had known and was just very quiet about it all. From the moment Susan had been brought in she herself had wanted to scream at all of them. If only all of them had come in. Maybe that was why Amelia didn't do it.

"The point is to make the battle at Hogwarts, the only Battle there will be" Susan started. "We are trying to make it so that we can win just like they would do you know. You know making it so we can win. Making them mad to make mistakes, let them miss things so we can be on top from the moment it starts".

"You mean play dirty," Amelia asked.

It was the one thing they had heard from Neville the night before when it was told to all of them. None of the Adults had liked it and had been talking about what to do with them. It was war and the best thing they wanted was for the kids to do it nicely. Still, Neville had made it perfectly clear that there was no nice in war. For Amelia to bring it up again was just a sign that she wanted to know more than Neville had told them all.

Susan huffed and pulled her arms over each other and screamed out in pain. She dropped her arms to her side but pouted. "They have been trying to play dirty all the time. Now it is our time, we are no longer going to be playing it nice. We are ruling them with fear. Just like they have tried to do to all of us from the start".

Narcissa was still looking at Amelia and Susan. She could see Amelia was holding back a little. If there was one thing she didn't like was playing dirty. To hear from Susan that the friends wanted to play or were playing dirty was hurting her and she could see it. Susan was looking a little sad but she put a determent look on her face.

"I know you don't like it. We don't like it either but we have to. They have been trying to put us down with every dirty trick they can think of. So who are we to not do it back? We have been ridiculed, put down, ignored and have been called names. And we took all of it standing tall. We had built an army for ourselves and we were going to fight in front of them. But when they all walked away we realized it had to be us. If we don't do it we only had you to fall back on. We don't want that, you all have lost so much already and this is our war. So we will play it as they have, but we will do it better. We are done, from our first year until now. We have been in it for five years already and we are done, we just can't take it anymore".

It was at that point Susan started to cry. She could not hold onto her aunty so Amelia hung onto her and hugged her against herself. "I know dear, and you have done so well. We are just worried because you are all playing a hard and dangerous game. On the other hand, if I have to be honest, you are doing it right. We didn't do it as hard as you all are doing it now. We were afraid for everything even the name. We hung our heads and you all didn't. You have made us look up while you were already looking way ahead of you. When we started to speak up, you were already fighting. We are at the point of thinking about what comes after the war. If I'm not mistaken you are already in our old days".

Susan laughed at it, "But we get hurt" she said.

"Yes, you will. You did today but I have seen your training has worked. Hermione did a wonderful job at fixing you up so Poppy could heal you all the way. The first thing they did was take care of the problem and get the wounded here. They did it with you, they did it with Bella. Yes, I'm afraid for who is the next one to be brought in. But you are all doing it right. You deal with it in the way you have to, and that is by taking care of each other. Now go to sleep and I will see to Arabella and Emma". It was then that Amelia kissed her forehead and placed her back down. Susan was out in a second as the sleeping potion had finally taken effect. She walked over to Narsissa and thank her and Poppy for the care they were giving them. As she walked out there was no Emma or Arabella so she just walked on. At the door, she walked into the garden of Longbottom manor. There they were sitting around a table with some tea.

This was it again for this time see you all very soon.

Gr Winmau