Headmaster Dumbledore's Office

Chloe's blood boiled like it had never done before as glared at the old man before her. When one of the Hogwarts students…Luna, she believed came up to her following dinner and told her that Dumbledore had asked to meet with Harry and Laura; Panic had set in her heart.

Following Harry's name coming out of the goblet, the headteachers had come together and had agreed that they couldn't talk to other school's students without the student's headteacher or staff member being in the same room.

Albus Dumbledore had just broken that rule.

"Miss Bourgis, you have to understand I was just worried about their safety. Dark Forces are at work and now that the world knows Harry is back in Britain, his life is in danger outside of this school. I know a couple of families who are more than willing to look after him over the holidays or he's more than welcome to stay at the school."

Leaning across his desk as wood splints broke through the skin on her hand she growled "That doesn't matter, you broke an agreement with the other headteachers, tell me right now why I shouldn't go and get my boss right now."

Albus Dumbledore remained quiet which infuriated her.

"On the same matter, discussing Mr Couffaine's and Miss Césaire's Holidays at all goes straight beyond your control and is a shocking abuse of your power. I will be contacting the French Ministry. Now removed the ban of face the wrath of the French."

Once more the old fool in front of her said nothing and with a growl, she stormed out of the room. She had a couple of phone calls to make.


The Next morning

When Harry woke up the anger from the previous night thrashed through his body. Who the hell did Dumbledore think he was to try and stop him and Laura from returning to their homes for the Holidays?! Clearly putting his name in the Goblet of Fire was bad enough, but now the old coot had brought him to his final nerve; the fact that he had even refused to talk to Chloé the previous night sent a clear message about what he was willing to do to get his way. He could only hope that someone back home at received his or Chloé's messages by now.

Picking himself up off his bed, he looked over to his cabinet to see his bracelet faintly blinking, Pulling the voice, Harry heard Uncle Adrian's voice say "Morning Harry, Laura. Thanks for letting us know what's going on, we've contacted Chloé and she getting everything prepared for us to arrive in a couple of hours' time, make sure you've got your stuff packed ''

Laura Perked up from her bed and cheerfully said "Was that my dad?" grinning at her, Harry said "Yeah he says they will be here soon. Get your stuff packed"

Laura jumped to her feet and immediately started to throw things into her suitcase. It was obvious to him that the prospect of getting out of Britain was all the motivation she needed to hear to get energised. Throwing himself to his feet, he also started throwing things into his chest and before long both of their suitcases were fully packed. There was a small knock on the door and Laura yelled "We're decent Leá" Their cousin walked into the room and sat on her bed yawning "Both of your parents are coming for you then?"

Laura nodded as he grabbed a hair scrunchie and Lea rubbed her eyes "Guess that means I get the full room to myself…yass…" She stuck her tongue out before saying "Nah, I'll miss you guys, especially with the Yule Ball coming up, I was hoping the three of us could hang out like the losers we are."

Rolling his eyes, Harry chuckled "Hey, I actually have a girlfriend now who I would be spending that quality time with."

The two of them shook their heads at him before the three lightly laughed. Leá shrugged her shoulders back as she said "We should go up for Breakfast as soon as possible then" The three of us left the cabin and made our way up the castle. The cold winter chill seeped through small gaps in our jackets. Why hadn't they used a heat charm before they left the cabin?

When they reached the castle the heat warmed them to their souls and they made their way over to the Great Hall, the three of them glaring at Dumbledore who was sitting on his throne at the far end of the hall with a smug look on his face.

As they sat down, they were met by the face of Luna Lovegood the blond-haired girl who seemed to daydream constantly, who spoke quietly "Things are about to change, are you sure this is the path you want to walk down Depian-Chang Couffaine? Césaire?" Harry and Laura looked between themselves and he said "I don't think we've ever been more sure about something before" With a slight nod, Luna took a sip of her juice

Looking around Harry could feel the cheerful atmosphere in the Great Hall as people got ready for their final day of classes. Sitting comfortably on the bench he grabbed a couple of pieces of Toast knowing full well that would eat something proper when he got back home. Preferably something that his Mum would make for him.

Dumbledore stared at them suspiciously, most likely confused as to why they were both so relaxed. Suddenly the cheerful mood in the hall vanished as the Hogwarts Caretaker Filch yelled "WHAT ARE YOU DOING, YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO BE HERE!"

Seconds later the two large oak doors of the great hall turned black with rot before they fell to the ground as dust. Where the door had once stood was a single hand with a Black Ring resting on his left ring finger; it was Uncle Adrian. His eyes glowed green, his pupils as thin and sharp as a cat's on the hunt as he glared at Dumbledore.

Behind him was Harry's Mum, Mom, Aunt Alya, Uncle Nino and Aunt Zoé. All of them looked pissed off and his Mum charged forwards while Mom said "You didn't heed my warning Dumbledore and now you have to deal with a very angry, very large family" Mum reached the Teacher's table and flipped it over with a single hand.

Anger radiated off them and their Aunt Zoé came up to the two of them and said "Laura, Harry get behind me" We stood up and stood behind her as she prepared for a fight, going as far as throwing off her black jacket which was caught by Chloé who had just entered the room, the pairs of sisters reunited and glaring at the teachers

Dumbledore yelled out "And who exactly do you think you are Miss Couffaine, What reason in the name of Morgana are you doing here!"

Mum growled, "My name is Marinette Dupain-Cheng Coufaine, Guardian of the Miraculous, I am the mother of Harry Dupain-Cheng and Aunt of Emma-Laura Césaire and I'm here to take our children home after you attempted to force them to stay in Britain!"

Dumbledore moved backwards slightly and pulled out his wand, "Experlirammuis! Stupefy!" His Mum just put her hand out and absorbed the attack as if it was nothing while the second shot past her and before anyone could react, Harry's mom Vanished and appeared right in front of it, the spell hitting him and making him his loudly.

Mom proceeded to storm up to the front and said "We gave you a chance Dumbledore" before lifting the table and suddenly teleporting back to where she was and giving the table to Uncle Adrian who destroyed it with Cataclysm.

Dumbledore backed away even more but Mum grabbed his robes and said "You are so lucky we are good people" Putting him down with a thud. Uncle Adrian walked up to the Wall and placed his hand against it and the entire castle started to shake and crumble; then he took his hand off it and before anything could collapse his Mum lifted her hand and the entire room was fixed.

The Two turned back, the Teachers all shaken especially Dumbledore and Uncle Adrian said "Guys let's go home"

As Aunt Zoé started to pull us away there was a loud "You will be doing no such thing, as the chairman of the ICW, I forbid Harry James Potter to leave this Castle! Stupefy!"

The large red bolt of magic shot through the Hall and Harry was only able to see it in time for it to hit his Mum, fury raged within him but his mom placed a hand on his shoulder as they watched his mum turn around, red energy flowing through her and there was a bright light in her right hand and when Harry focused in after the light resided he found an L shaped piece of metal.

She was holding a Gun in her hand…His mum had just created a gun and she was slowly raising it, aimed at the Headmaster "You really don't want to mess with us Headmaster Dumbledore, We're being merciful right now, and at every turn, you try to make us seem bad, all in order to continue your conniving schemes. I never thought that my friend and Mentor; Master Fu was ever truly wrong. But now I see that he was about one thing. Being your friend."

She loaded the bullet into the cartridge as Dumbledore growled "Well we're both in agreement that he made a mistake, but it wasn't choosing me as a friend. It was choosing a stupid girl like you to be his successor, you have no idea of the powers you possess. He should have chosen someone responsible like-"

Bang

Smoke came out of the barrel as Dumbledore felt his pointed hat, now complete with a hole.

"Oh, I am very aware of the power that I guard Headmaster, more so than you could ever imagine. Which is why I'm telling you now for the final time. BACK OFF." Before turning around and ushering the entire group out.

As they stormed out of the castle nobody tried to stop them and as they made it outside they found Harry and Laura's Uncle Max in uniform and said "One express journey back Paris ready." He was already holding Harry and Laura's bags and they all entered his portal taking them back to their Aunt Zoé's apartment that looked out all across Paris.

Turning to face Mum and Mom, Harry saw his Mum was talking to Aunt Alya before saying while Mom was talking to Aunt Zoé about something when suddenly Uncle Adrien fell to his knees. Laura ran to her dad and helped him up off the floor as he said "Thanks, sweetie. Sorry been a busy couple of days, had less strength than I thought left"

Mum ran up to him and gave him a massive hug with Mom wrapping her arms around both of them. Laura was receiving a similar hug from her Mum and Dad. As Harry was held in their embrace, he could feel tears starting to form in his eyes. It had been a mistake even going in the first place. Why hadn't he just stayed here back home in Paris instead of leaving to go to Hogwarts? His Mom hummed a gentle melody before his Mum said "Let's get back home, I can make us some Panini and then all of us can curl up and watch a film together. How does that sound?"

Normally Harry would hate admitting that he was so weak but right now he just needed to be around them and he said "Yes please" Making their way out of Aunt Zoé's house the 3 of us walked back home alongside the river. Despite everything, nothing had changed here in Paris which was good.

When they got home they found Aunt Juleka holding Jade up into the air, talking about devilish chords she was going to use in her next song. When she noticed us she waved and said "Ah there's my favourite Nephew"

Aunt Juleka let Jade down and said "I would love to stay and chat but Rose and I have some recording to do at the studio, so I'm going to head off. But I'll see you guys tomorrow night." And with One hug each, Juleka ran out of the room. They wasted no time and the 4 of them got up on the couch, Harry leaning into his Mum with Jade into Mom and putting on a ransom Sci-Fi Soap. He was home and that was all that mattered.


4 Days Later ~Paris

When his phone's alarm went off, he had never wanted to smash something so bad…well apart from Dumbledore's face. Reaching to the side he grabbed his phone to turn off the alarm, and glanced at the time as he did so. 7 AM...on the 25th of December. He shot up in his bed. It was Christmas!

Pulling his duvet off himself, he looked out the window and saw that snow was falling down all around the city. Paris was like a winter wonderland when it looked like this. Suddenly before he could get trapped in a snowy daydream, there was a knock on the door and Mum's voice called out "Harry?! Are you two awake?" Shaking his head, he yelled back "Yeah I'm awake Mum!"

She was probably shaking her head through the door right now as she said "Right okay, can you be ready for breakfast in about 20 minutes? Don't forget that we are all going to your Aunt Zoé's for Christmas Dinner this year" Before she walked away from the door, her footsteps got quieter and quieter the further away she got.

Suddenly from his pyjama bottoms pocket, he felt his phone ring; Picking it out a massive grin appeared on his face as he saw that it was Laura and he answered immediately.

"Hey Laura, Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas Harry, look I was just checking you planned on still wearing you're Chat Noir Christmas Jumper right?"

His eyes scanned across his room until his eyes landed on the black T-shirt with his Uncle's face on it and he replied "Yeah I am."

"Cool, I'll wear my Ladybug one then. Did you just wake up by any chance? You Sound Tired"

"Just woke up 5 minutes ago yeah."

"Then go and Shower. I don't want to be late for getting Daphne and Tracey's letters at the post office because you're still stuck in the shower and having breakfast"

"Yeah, yeah I'll get going. See you L"

He had completely forgotten he was getting a letter from Tracey today, he had been enjoying his time back home so much that it completely slipped his mind. Grabbing a Fresh pair of black Jeans and a Shirt he ran out of his room and into the shower to clean himself up.

Pulling on his Christmas Jumper he made his way into the kitchen to see both of his Parents already awake and He joined them for their Christmas breakfast.


A Couple of Hours Later

Laura and Him barged into their Aunt Zoé's spare bedroom that they had stayed in countless times and both jumped on one of the beds. A Letter and parcel in tow. As he looked at the letter he felt a smile come to his face as he ran his finger across her handwriting. For it to have reached them in time, she must have sent it weeks ago while they were still at Hogwarts. Just beneath her own handwriting was someone else's, was it her mum's perhaps?

Opening it up carefully he started to read her letter

Merry Christmas Harry!

I'm really hoping that you are doing okay since going back home to Paris. The past few days or so has been pretty tough back at Hogwarts. For the past 3 days; myself and Daphne have been interrogated by Headmaster Dumbledore as to where you live. We even think he's going to try and check the address on the letters we are sending you so we have sent them first to Mrs Greengrass (Daphne's Mum) to then send them to you. Thankfully we have had our potions Master and head of house, Professor Snape step in and stop the Headmaster from using truth serum on us but Luna Lovegood; that ravenclaw lass who you got on with hasn't been so lucky. Thankfully for you and your family she had no clue where you live so it ended up being pointless for the headmaster and he's stopped interrogating her, she's hoping you and Laura are doing well by the way.

However this has led to one good thing. My Mum and the Greengrasses no longer feel safe sending me, Daphne, or Daphne's little sister Astoria to Hogwarts after how the headmaster's been over the last few months and especially these past couple of days; so they are currently in talks with the heads of your school Beuxtbons to send us there after the summer! It would work because my brother Rodger who you met a couple times during your short time here is in his final year and will be looking for a job. So the Greengrasses are willing to pay him money to get an apartment in Paris to look after the three of us. If it goes through it means I will be going to the same school as you next year!

Anyway I hope you enjoy your gifts and I can't wait to see you again sometime soon. Hopefully if Mrs Greengrass can get it through with the headmaster I will see you for New Year? But in the meantime I miss you so much and wish I could cuddle into you're arms…but enough of that let's not be sad, have a nice Christmas and I will see you soon.

With lots of Love Tracey Davis XXX

His heart thumped as he closed his eyes and wiped away a tear. He missed her a lot. It was strange; he had only known her since the start of November but since then he fallen head over heels in love with her and Cared about her so much. Opening up the Package he found a Small Necklace with a small bird that looked like a hummingbird or woodpecker on it and when he turned the bird around he saw it said "Lots of Love Trace" When did she even have time to get that engraved?"

The next thing was a Bag of Holding. Sweet that would allow him to carry around so much more without worrying about the weight. How much money did she spend on him? Man he really felt bad with how little he had spent on his gift now. It was basically just a photo of the two of them on their Date in Hogsmeade.

Looking over at Laura he saw a tear rolling down her cheek and he made his way over to her and gave her a hug and said "Hey is everything okay?"

She said through a sob "I just realised how much I miss Daphne. I miss her smile and Laugh, I miss how stubborn she is too; She is one of the few people outside of the family I could fully let my walls down to…I think I love her."

Hugging her tightly he said "I miss Tracey too. But they could be coming here after the Summer, so we just need to hold on and put on a proud face. You are the daughter of Adrien Césaire and I am the son of Marinette Dupain-Cheng after all and we can do anything we put our minds to if we try"

She chuckled and said "Yeah you're right. So what did Tracey get you?" He showed her both and she said "Woah that's great. Daphne got me a bag like yours and a ticket to see Madness the band in London in the summer."


4 hours Later

The Entire family and all of their family friends surrounded the table and Laura had to say it was nice to see nearly everyone there and happy. There must have been about 25 of us in total. At one end of the table was Aunt Marinette and next to her was Dad on her right with by new sister Dara right next to him and Mum on Dara's other side. Right next to Aunt Marinette was Aunt Lucia, followed by Harry and then Jade. Beside Jade was Aunt Zoé and her Adopted daughter Sapphire who was 6 who she very rarely got to see then herself. Across from them was Miss Chloé Bourgis with Uncle Nino.

The table had even more people beyond her and it went all the way to Aunt Juleka at the other end of the table who was keeping the younger kids who didn't want to be with their parents company. Harry always said his aunt Juleka was the best and it really did seem so/. Dad, Harry and Aunt Zoé were chatting away about the newest fashion trends as Harry discussed the dress wear that the British Wizards wore which seemed to make Aunt Zoé disgusted and disbelief that they still wore them until Chloé got involved.

When she was distracted trying to listen to what they were saying, she heard Aunt Marinette come over and sat across from her "So little L I heard you have a crush on a girl now?" Her face went red as her aunt said that and she froze.

She reached across the table and placed one hand on Laura's and said "Oh don't worry, I'm happy for you. You have spent long enough trying to bottle up your feelings and I've known you've liked girls for a couple of years now"

All she could do was nod and then she asked "What was it like when you realised you liked Girls Aunt Mari? How did you deal with you're first crush?"

She chuckled slightly "It felt…good. Freeing, the moment I realised that my crush on you're dad was just me trying to be like others it really allowed my heart to open free. And Without the hesitation that I had with your father, I just went Straight up to Juleka and asked her out. We dated for around a year before going separate ways and I got with Lucia. The rest as they say is history."

"So this feeling, does it mean I've been held back?"

"Potemtally? Why are you asking?"

"Well I've fallen in love with Harry's Girlfriend's best friend but I don't want to ruin what I have with Daphne right now either…so i feel conficted."

She smiled and said "Yeah well Love is strange. If you really think you love this girl, don't waste any time and go for it. Friendshipscan be repaired. Chances for relationships can't.."

"Thanks Aunt Mari."

"No Problem Laura, if you ever need to talk, my door is always open." She returned to her seat at the front just in time for Laura's dad to stand up and start his speech "Attention, Attention everyone. Thank you. First of all, it's great to see everyone here. I have missed you all and I would like to quickly wish us all a very Happy Christmas!"

There was a lot of clinking of glasses before he continued and said "Now this year has been a strange one but we all made it through it no matter what threats madam Hawkmoth or whatever she's calling herself now has thrown at us and no matter what meddling headmaster has done. This is a good holiday and hopefully a good new year!" Everyone clapped and dug into their food.


Headmaster's Office- Scotland ~Night of the Yule ball

Albus leaned back as there was a loud knocking on the door right before Minerva McGonagal entered and said "Albus, the dog was there just like you said it would. Can you please tell me what's going on?"

Giving her the most reassuring smile he could despite the worry, he said "Nothing to concern yourself with my dear Minerva, now go on and enjoy the rest of your night."

The dog trotted in and she then closed the door to his office. He waited until he could no longer hear her footsteps from her walking down the stairs and said "Thank you very much for coming"

A couple of seconds later, a cold voice said "What do you want from me Albus. You said you had information about my Godson. Where is he?" Looking up Albus saw the thin and pale figure of one very wanted criminal; Sirius Black. His hair long dirty and mangled. His eyes were hollow and he looked like he was about to drop dead after being on the run for an entire year.

Staring right into his shallow eyes he said "Yes I know where Harry is roughly. I even know who he is living with. He lives with a french family who stole him from the Dursleys; Now apparently they took him legally but I highly doubt that however I can't contest it because of that."

Sirius looked up at him, his eyes now had a dangerous and hopeful glint as he said "And what can I do? I may be his Godfather but I'm also a wrongly proven Convicted man"

Giving a smile that some might describe as wicked Albus said "If you do everything I say to a tee Sirius, I can put the evidence forward to make you innocent and the two of us can fight to get Harry back...together."