Chapter Seventeen
Frank was on cloud nine, he was not only transferring his parents to New York but is willing to meet Queenie and her family. Gran was right about Great-Uncle Algie; he never knew when to shut his trap about things he shouldn't discuss outside of the family. That's why he would have never made it as an Unspeakable, he would be spilling their secrets left and right. He knew that had his father not been tortured to the brink of insanity, he would have joined the Unspeakables or even taken over for Susan's Aunt Amelia as leader of the Aurors.
He also knew he had to let the others know that he was going to be a bit longer in New York than he originally planned on being. But they had no phones or let alone a post office box for them to receive mail at, maybe he should put ad in the Quibbler letting them know about the change of plans. Then he realized that Pandora probably saw this and let the others know for him, he couldn't help but wonder how things were going back in Boston.
Did they meet up with the Twins yet, did Murphy propose? He missed his friends, but this is where he needed to be at the moment, it was he only chance of trying to get his parents back in time for the Wedding. Speaking of weddings Queenie's parent's house was full of Wedding talk, from if they should go completely Muggle or have a bit of Pureblood culture added in for Frank's sake. To be honest, he didn't care if they married starker's, he just couldn't wait to be married. He wondered if they would stay in Boston or move back here to New York, he didn't care either way he just wanted to know.
While visiting Queenie's family, he got to meet her Great Aunt Tina and her cousin twice removed Rolf who took after his grandfather in being a Magizoologist. He traveled the world looking for lost and endangered creatures from all over the place, he also checked in with the many Dragon Reserves as well making sure their wards were up to date and dragons were healthy. Frank knew that Rolf and Pandora would hit it off like a housefire and gasoline, it would be explosive.
He couldn't wait to see the explosive relationship those two would have, Pandora a daughter of a newspaper publisher and part time Magizoologist, Rolf the grandson of the famed Magizoologist Newt Scamander. He would sell tickets back in Wizarding Britian to watch them burn the world around them and then rebuild it better than it was before. Dumbledore is not going to know what hit him, their children were going to drive any headmaster or headmistress to want to drink.
Between possibly having vision's to talking about creatures that most don't know existed it was going to be a powder keg ready to blow at a moments notice. He couldn't help but wonder about his own children, what they were going to be like, were they going to be a half-blood or a squib. Would his children be interested in plants like he did once a upon time, or would they take after their grandparents on his side and became Auror's.
What he did know was that he was going support them no matter what and keep them away from Hogwarts if it was the last thing he did. As long as Hogwarts was run by idiots who didn't know their ass from their elbow, he didn't want his children there, beside after talking to Queenie's namesake, Ilvermorny was a better school since they had a lot more classes to choose from like such electives as Basic Healing and Magical Linguistics plus many others. So much different than Hogwarts who didn't offer as many classes as Ilvermorny did.
Hogwarts needed a complete overhaul on everything, from a decent Defense teacher who stayed more than a year, a professor for History of magic that wasn't biased when it came to the Goblin Wars, a potion's teacher who actually took the time to teach instead referring to the chalk board and let them sink or swim. A headmaster/mistress who actually cared about bulling and their students education not someone who sat in his office playing chess with his students as the chess pieces.
Pandora now had a face to the one that was her perfect match and all it took was Frank meeting him for her to get the vision of his face. She needed to let the other's know what was going on with Frank but that could wait for another day, for now she needed to focus on Dumbledore. He was on the verge of finding at least Frank, but Frank is going to smart enough to deny being Neville Longbottom to keep everyone safe from Dumbledore's clutches.
The twins were bring their girlfriends with them so at least they won't be alone and the four of them will settle in Wizarding Boston, its where they were needed the most. Remus, Tonks, and their family will eventually move to Boston once Teddy has a control on his powers. Their daughter will take after her father in being a normal witch with a tendency towards rare steak, she won't be a werewolf, so they won't have to worry about that. But that move won't be until Dumbledore is taken care, after all why come out of hiding just to be pulled back into a war.
The war back home was finally coming to an end soon or at least that's what her vision's were telling her, the Dark Lord was about to be destroyed all do to the fact his soul shards have been destroyed by an over eager young man that nobody saw coming. Once the Dark Lord was gone, it was a matter of time before Dumbledore dies himself from old age, after he is 117 years old and not in the best of health anymore. Not even his Phoenix can help with his tears, then it will be up to the Deputy Headmistress to run Hogwarts, but she won't be in office very long.
The new Minister will take it upon themselves to replace her with a more competent Headmaster that will bring Hogwarts up in school rankings, no longer will Hogwarts be a running joke. Students will finally be proud to have graduated from Hogwarts soon, maybe by the time Mia and Murphy's children are ready to go to Hogwarts, things will be different.
Back in England, the Dark Lord was starting to realize that he bit off more than he could chew by going after the different countries. His forces were dwindling with every fight, he lost his Lieutenant Bella in the last raid against Hogwarts, he lost Greyback when he sent him to Romania to try to recruit the Dragon Keepers there. Who knew that Werewolf was a delicacy for hungry dragons, he sure as hell didn't; all that he had left was the younger generation like Young Draco Malfoy and his friends.
Except he was on the verge of losing them as well, they were cocky and fought first before thinking things out. To make matters worse he lost his familiar Nagini during her last hunt, someone took her out which meant he was down another soul shards, but little did he know he really didn't have any left.
He lost his first when Harry stabbed it with a Basilisk tooth during Harry's second year, the second was the locket which was stabbed with the sword of Gryffindor along with the diadem that was found by accident in the Room of Requirement. Harry had the one in his head removed before his sudden disappearance, the Hufflepuff cup was also destroyed by the Goblins when they got claws on Bella's vaults after her death. And the ring was destroyed by Dumbledore himself at great cost to his health, Dumbledore was dying do the curse placed on the ring. All that was left was on Tom Marvolo Riddle and then the war would be over, nobody knew that one of them was traitor, that he was one destroying the soul shards which was weaking the Dark Lord. Nobody took a second look at Percy Weasley, the blood-traitor turned Death Eater turned traitor yet again. Percy never believed in prophecies, he thought you should make your own future and he was tired of being subjected to the Dark Lord and his minions.
He knew that his family or at least the ones he actually cared about wouldn't be happy with his choice to join the Dark Lord, but it was a ploy to get close to the Dark Lord and his secrets. He also knew that he wasn't going to survive the war, so he figured he would take out as many as he could with him.
Dumbledore himself didn't know that the remaining soul shards were gone or that Percy Weasley was the one to destroy most of them, all knew was that he made just a few short months to live, and he wanted to see the end of the war before then. He was starting to believe maybe he had put all his eggs in one basket when it came to Harry and Neville doing what they were supposed to do and not run away with their tails between their legs. If only Harry had been the one to destroy the soul shards then he the great Albus too many names Dumbledore could swoop in and steal the show like he had done with Grindelwald all those years ago.
Maybe he should visit his former lover one last time before dying, maybe find out if everything he tried doing was really for the Greater Good. The Greater Good they both had different ideas about all those years ago when they would stay up late talking about their upcoming travels.
That was until that duel across his mother's coffin, the one that killed his precious Ariana his baby sister who had suffered so much in such a young life. From being attacked by a group of muggle boys to dying the way she did in the middle a senseless duel between him, Grindelwald, and Aberforth, a duel in which to this day they don't knows spell it really was that killed her.
He still carries that shame to this day, and it doesn't help that Aberforth still blames him; he blames him for so many things that's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg of life.
Fred, George, Katie, and Angelina were now on their to America to wait for further instructions, while they were travelling Fred and George decided to go head and live in the Wizarding World, they weren't quite ready to give their magic just yet, besides they could a lot more in Wizarding America then they could in Britian. After Yale had a hidden Magical side just waiting to be explored, Fred could get his Master's in Potions, George could get his in Arithmancy, and together become better shop keepers by actually having Business Knowledge
They knew that they couldn't get that kind of knowledge back home, considering that their mother never supported a single thing they or their old brother's Bill and Charlie wanted to in their lives. She went ballistic when she found out Bill became a Curse Breaker, she blamed her Uncle Iggy for that. Then when Charlie became a Dragon Keeper she nearly blew the roof of the Burrow in anger, don't even get them started on when they started their joke shop instead of following their Older brother Percy into the Ministry.
Now she has Ron and Ginny to pile her hopes and dreams upon, since they are such good little sociopaths in the making; their mother coddle them much growing up especially Ginny who was the only girl in a household of boys. Instead of helping her remove her head of the clouds she helped fan those dreams of Marrying the Chosen One Harry Potter.
Speaking of Harry, he was enjoying his time with Remus what little time there was to begin with. As much as he wanted to he couldn't keep Remus so far from Dora when she was getting closer to her due, it wasn't fair to Dora. "Remus Conor and I really need to get going, we have a Dart tournament to get to plus Murphy is proposing to Mia tonight. So, we are going to be on pins and needles, how about we make this a monthly occurrence that way we can catch up. Except we do this on Sundays that way Pandora and Frank if he is in town can join us. We have Sunday afternoons free; Mia goes to morning mass with Murphy and Conor in the mornings so the rest of tend to sleep off the alcohol from the night before. Who knew that drinking with two Irishmen and Italian would mess with your head."
James said as he stretched from being in one stop for too long, Remus agreed, and they made plans to do so with the first Sunday after the full moon. They parted ways, Conor and James went to find Mia and Murphy while Remus went home to tell Dora of his conversation with James and how much he had changed. How much they all changed in such a short time, he knew that James and Lilly would be so proud of the man their son has become.
It took James and Conor another hour just to Mia and Murphy because James had to stop in the Quidditch/Quodpot store to see what kind of racing brooms were out now. Not that he was going to buy, he just wanted to see if there was any better than his Firebolt on the market, he wasn't going to give up his Firebolt since it was the first and last present from Sirius his godfather. He explained the difference between the two sports to Conor who was standing there looking dumbfounded by all the terms he was learning.
By the time they actually Mia and Murphy, James should have just looked in the bookstore to begin to save him all the trouble of looking for his soul sister. Just like you can't take James from quidditch, you can't Mia from a bookstore, just laughed when he spotted her sitting on the floor explaining the difference between Ilvermorny and Hogwarts and how Ilvermorny was the better choice for schools currently. Maybe if Hogwarts join the modern world it would be different story, she was also telling him of her favorite subjects she liked to learn.
The four of them finally left after Mia bought a bunch of new Transfiguration books that Diagon Alley didn't bother to carry, after all why reinvent the wheel if you don't have too. As they made their way through the Alley and back towards the bus home, James told Mia of his visit with Remus and how they decided to meet up on the first Sunday after the full moon from now on. How Remus had married Tonks and had a little boy called Teddy, plus a little girl on the way named Lillian Hope.
Mia was happy for her soul brother James, he finally had the last link to his parents close by and could talk to him about things he couldn't talk to Mia about which was fine with her, after all he needed this.