Water rushed down his throat as he attempted to escape the vines pulling him down. His own Mums were pushing him down further into the water as he struggled. Why were they doing this?! Around him, more vines grabbed hold of his wrists pulling him further down and before long he couldn't see any of his family or friends on the surface. His eyes started to shut as the cold water finally registered with his body and his body went into shock. Water continued to crash down his throat into his lungs as he could no longer close his mouth. Then Rappide left him, the small hummingbird Kwami flying up Into the sky, Leaving Harry to his fate .

He landed at the bottom of the Loch where his Moms stood, his Mum standing before him with a stern look "You should have never come back from Britain. You should have been left in that loch"

Mom on the other hand held his baby brother in her arms as she said "Now that we have Rémy, we don't need you anymore. I might go back in time and stop you from ever being picked up by us."

No, they didn't mean that his parents loved him, didn't they?!

Then they vanished and they were replaced by Jade, His amazing little sister as she stared at him, a hole in her stomach "You failed to save Harry. Again and again and again. You can never seem to repay me for saving you're life that night in the Graveyard."

He wanted to scream and tell her that he would never let her die but his mouth wouldn't open as she faded away to be replaced by Tracy, wrapped around the arms of another man."

"Thomas, you are so much braver than Harry, getting in the way of that Akuma attack, saving my brother."

"Mon am mi, no powers needed to be a good person"

Then the image shifted to Emma-Laura and Leá walking away from him "You Harry Couffaine are a disgrace"

He fell to his knees, the Vines gripping his throat now as two people he didn't recognise appeared before him. No that was a lie, he recognised them from stories and his dreams from his childhood.

James and Lily Potter; His Birth Parents

The man said, "We sacrificed ourselves so that you could live and yet you don't even honour us by using our family name."

The woman spoke after "We gave our lives and you still let Voldemort live. You are a disgrace to us."

The two vanished without a further affair before one final person turned up. A Young man wearing Hogwarts robes with silky black hair and a sneer on his face. Harry didn't recognise his appearance but he certainly recognised the voice.

"Harry Potter, the greatest failure that the Wizarding World has ever seen, you couldn't even beat me in my weakened state and now the entire wizarding world is going to burn."

Finally, his voice returned to him "No my mum killed you, you've been gone for two years. You're just a figment of my imagination."

The demon he had helped release on the world glided over to him "Yet we both know you pathetic mother failed, I still live and thanks to Lady Hawkmoth, I finally have my completed body. Everyone you know and love will be crushed under my boot before I finally complete my revenge and kill you."

"No you're dead, you're not here." The body in front of him morphed slightly but the voice remained the same "Don't push away the truth, You, the boy-who-lived is the reason everyone will die. The only reason I'm here is because you know you would have been me had they not snatched you away. Your fate is to become me or be killed by me!"

Only then did Harry notice that the Demon's body had morphed so he looked like a corrupted version of himself, with a Pair of half-moon spectacles, pulled-back hair, yellow eyes and a fork-shaped tongue.

"No, I would never become you and I will stop you!"

"We shall see, boy-who-live. Adavra Kedavra!"


Black Manor - Normandy, France ~ 21st July 2017

Harry bolted awake, Sweating pouring down his face onto his mattress. His breathing was heavy and his forehead stung as he tried to shake the thoughts of despair from his mind. He was in France with his family and friends, they were on an amazing vacation to celebrate his upcoming birthday and he was just having a nightmare again…the same one that had been plaguing him for the last month but a nightmare nonetheless.

Looking to his side he found Tracey sleeping peacefully, her head resting on her pillow as a thin blanket covered her body. She was still beside him, she hadn't left. Everything had just been a nightmare. He felt a breeze hit his body from the open glass door onto the balcony and his body cooled down and he felt his breathing return to normal.

Slowly he got up from the bed, being careful to avoid Tracey's toned legs and crept to his suitcase where he pulled out a fresh pair of boxers and made his way to the ensuite that they and Jade had in their room. As he turned on the shower, he was thankful that he hadn't woken up Tracey or Jade AGAIN from his nightmare.

He calmed himself down under the cold water of the shower before getting dressed and quietly making his way down to the Manor's Kitchen which overlooked the Channel ocean between Britain and France. He Sat down at a counter and he poured himself some coffee, watching as the sun rose and reflected off the ocean.

After a few minutes, a small Gray Owl flew into the room, a Newspaper in its claws and dropped it right next to him before flying back out of the room. He looked at the newspaper and realised it was Daphne's paper that she got from Britain but he kept reading as he noticed the main headline; 'Albus Dumbledore! A chance for Freedom for the disgraced Wizard?!'He felt his heart spike for a couple of moments as he mumbled "Brilliant, just what I wanted to read after that nightmare, the Old coot getting free."

But nonetheless he opened the paper up fully and started to read the article by one pain in the butt, Rita Skeeter.


It has been just over 2 years since the grave events of the Triwizard Tournament, where the once-praised Albus Dumbledore was arrested by Amelia Bones; the former head of the DLME; for the death of Cedric Diggiry. Mr Diggory was technically under his care during the time and further reports of gross negligence of the rest of his students over the previous 12 years came to light.

Although the Triwizard Tournament had been known to have a high death count in the past, and all three head teachers warned their students of the risk; It was Dumbledore who pushed for the tournament to be held in the first place, and at Hogwarts no less! It should be noted that under his watch the former Boy-Who-Lived; Harry Potter (Now Couffaine) had his name entered into the tournament against his will. Thankfully for young Mr Coffaine, the magic of the tournament considered his last name and magic to be different enough to make him exempt from competing in the tournament (however this would not be the end of this poor boy's horrible year).

It wasn't long until more problems were caused by the Tournament as one of the dragons used for the first task went on a rampage due to how it was being treated and ended up hurting almost 100 spectators with the overall low injury count and lack of deaths being brought about by the intervention of three French superheroes.


Harry smiled as he remembered his conversation with the nosey reporter, he had told her all about what he had seen and the British idiots bought it all up protecting the truth of Krum being akumatised. Plus it wasn't all lies, the dragons had been getting mistreated after all.


Following this the second task saw Albus Dumbledore order one of the teachers, a man disguised as Professor Mad-Eye Moody, to put Tracey Davis, a girl who has a close relationship with young Mr Couffaine. This resulted in not just an early taste of what death could be like for young Miss Davis but Also Mr Couffaine who according to eyewitness accounts actually stopped breathing and was only saved by one of his mothers who put her life on the line to save him.

Finally, we come to the tragic events of the 3rd Task. The maze required for the task was set ablaze with the champions inside after something corrupted the Shinx in the maze. Several brave souls rushed down from the audience stands to quell the flames however by the time the flames were put out and the Shinx tamed; Cedric Diggory had succumbed to his burns and passed on into his next life. However before young Mr Diggory sadly passed on, Young Harry was Kidnapped by the Imposter Moody and taken to a Muggle graveyard where he was used in a dark ritual.


A deep pit opened in his gut, not only had the Daily Prophet mentioned the Loch, but they were now mentioning his kidnapping and the ritual. How had they even found out about the graveyard? His Godmother Amelia had promised him that all details he provided about that night would never be released to the press…had someone in the Auror department leaked it?


During the hunt for young Harry, it was revealed that Albus Dumbledore had planned on kidnapping and brainwashing the poor boy during the task and that he had allowed the fire to spread as much as it did which ultimately led to Mr Digorry's death. Amos Diggory (Cedric's poor father) demanded that Mr Couffaine should also be arrested for the death of his son however as Lord Black argued, there were no grounds for Harry to be arrested as Harry was also a Victim of Dumbledore's meddling.

The list of Negligence grew as more Students spoke up against Albus Dumbledore which included Amelia Bones's own niece Susan who gave one of the worst testimonies about what had happened 2 years prior during the events of the famed Chamber of Secrets incident where we are lucky that nobody died. The public also came to know of the headmaster's lack of care and discipline when dealing with the Cursed Vaults and the rogue Cobalt known as 'R' by former student Merula Snyde.

(For more information about Albus Dumbledore's negligences as the headmaster of Hogwarts, see Pg. 23-37)

However, despite his many crimes, many of the 'light' families claim that he has spent enough time in Azkaban to make up for his mistakes and that he was willing to try and regain the trust of Wizarding Britain. They have managed to make so much of a push that he will be appearing in court tomorrow to decide whether he will be freed or not. However, in a surprise move the Grey and 'dark' part of the Wizmagot have formed an uneasy alliance to stop Dumbledore from getting released. What will happen? Who knows! But you can find out here in two days!

Article by Rita Skeeter


The pit in his stomach turned to one of sickness as he finished the article, the idea that the old coot who had cost him his life already once before and meddled so much that Harry needed therapy; could get free, sent a shiver down his spine.

Looking up he was surprised to see that the sun was now fully shining in the sky above and he checked his watch, 7 AM. The rest of his family would soon be getting up for another day of activities. He flicked the switch to boil another cup of coffee just as Mom walked through, massive bags under her eyes.

When she noticed him she said with a yawn "Morning Harry, Did you sleep well."

He mumbled into the counter "Mostly"

"What was that sweetie?"

He sighed and looked into her eyes that were so soft, you could get lost in them and he saw her concern and with another sigh, he replied "Mostly…I had THAT nightmare again." her face softened as she cupped his face across the counter "Oh my beautiful baby boy…you had been doing so well. What's set these dreams off again."

Harry could only shrug his shoulders, he wished he could tell either of his mums what it was, but he really didn't know. "It could be stress from going into 7th year? They made a pretty big deal about it at the end of term."

His mum nodded "Just promise me, that if you keep having these dreams, especially when we get back home, that you will tell me or you're Mom so that we can take you to Dr strike again. So we can see if she can help you again?"

Nodding he went to say something when another voice interrupted him "Morning Harry, Marinette." He turned around to see Tracey stretching as she walked into the kitchen in her tank top and pyjama shorts. As she stretched she pulled up her top and showed of her muscles which were continuing to tone after 3 years of being a hero.

Marinette smiled "Morning Tracey, sleep well?"

Tracey nodded with a smile "I did until I realised Harry was no longer in bed, You okay?" Aiming that final part at him. He smiled as he felt once again super lucky to be able to call Tracey his girlfriend "I will be now that you're here."

Mum chuckled "So you both managed to wake up without waking up Jade then?" They both nodded with Tracey saying "Yeah, she's been sleeping really deeply at the moment."

Mum raised her eyebrows but simply said "I'm sure if something was wrong she would bring it up with one of us."

Finally, the kettle hit its boiling point as the switch went up and he poured a coffee for the three of them, handing the mugs to them as he asked his Mum "So what's you're plan for today, Mum?"

Taking a sip of her coffee she replied "Well I'm meeting your Aunt Fei while she's here for the day and I'll be taking Rémy with me to introduce her to him. Your Mom, Uncle Adrien and Uncle Felix have a photo shop with your aunt Kagami so they're going to be busy the entire day too."

Drinking nearly half of his coffee he said "Wait you're seeing Aunt Fei? I haven't seen her in so long. Can I please come?"

She chuckled rubbing his hair "You could but aren't you kids meeting with Susan's friend from Britain Hannah?" He nodded slowly and Tracey flicked his forehead slightly "You completely forgot, didn't you."

"Just a tad…yeah."

Then his Mum reached out "Harry…you're forehead…the scar you had when we found you, it's bleeding." Reaching his own hand up he where the faint outline of the lightning bolt scar normally rested and felt tender flesh and blood. Pulling his hand back he saw his fingers covered in red.

As far as he could remember, his scar had never caused him any issues before…apart from when his name had come out of the Goblet of Fire. He felt his Mum's concern but he brushed her hand away, got a piece of wet kitchen towel and started to slightly dampen it. Shaking his head he told the two ladies "It's probably fine, Must have cut it in the shower or something."

Both of them gave him looks that screamed of distrust but he stopped the bleeding nonetheless and said "I'm actually going to go back to bed for an hour or two. Feel like I need it, You coming Trace?"

She stuck her tongue out and said "Only if you carry me, he smirked as he picked her up bridal style "You're on then."

They returned to their room, being quiet so as not to wake Jade up and got back into the bed. Harry wrapped his arms around his girlfriend's stomach as he said, "I Love you."

"I know." He fell asleep with a smile, a smile that wouldn't last much longer.


In Jade's dream

She gritted her teeth as she got pushed backwards, mud splattering against her face as she did so. "I shall not let you take my brother from me, I am espérer and you Voldemort are nothing."

The ghastly projection of the dark wizard loomed over her as he did every night and the large projection embraced Harry. Some nights it was Harry joining him. On other nights it was Harry falling to the ground each night as reached the demon's embrace.

She wasn't sure if the Demon before her was real or just a manifestation of her brother's fear but as his younger sister she needed to break him free

"You say I am nothing but you are just a pathetic blood traitor girl. Your brother shall join me or die and there is nothing that you can do about it."

Jade glared as pulled out a gun that appeared at her side and fired three rounds at the demon who faded into mist before reappearing "Try again next time!" Before dark energy pushed her back


Jade woke up feeling exhausted, just as she had for the last month. Deep bags under her eyes and sweat pouring down her back. Since the Nightmare Man had tried to trap her family and Paris in an Endless Nightmare; she had a unique connection to her brother, being able to feel when he was in trouble both in reality and in the dream world.

So whenever her brother was haunted by nightmares, she was his silent white knight, finding the darkness that wanted to consume him.

But it meant that she got no sleep, or very little anyway. Using most of her night to fight of foes…which at the moment was the demon known as Voldemort. Jade had seen him in the loch with Harry last night and she tried to help as much as she could but some darkness was harder to move than others.

She got up out of bed and walked over to the balcony and stepped outside, the sun was already up and on the beach, she could see the first people starting to arrive to enjoy their day. She wished Tori or Beck had been able to come but both of them had their own separate holidays this year.

Letting the warm ocean air wake her up, she went and grabbed a quick shower before reaching the kitchen where her Mum was up cooking along with her Uncle Adrien who was in the middle of drinking a coffee. Waking up she wished the pair a good morning right before her Mum fell to the ground.


Marinette felt her entire body violently shake as she fell to the ground, her ears burning and across her body, she could see the start Red and black spots appear on her bare arms. Her muscles tensed up and the world spun but she tried to reach through the pain to get her earrings. But her hands felt to the side as the pain became unbearable. Jade ran up to her and helped unscrew the earrings.

Once the pain receded and she could see properly again she said to her daughter "Thank you Jade." before her daughter could say anything she heard a loud clang as Adrien through his Ring at the counter, his breathing heavy. Marinette hated to admit it but the seizures were becoming more common in recent months with it now being impossible to go a few days without feeling the pain. They had been lucky so far to have not been hit while they were suited up and on the job.

Slowly she got to her feet and sat down across from Adrien who was still shaking from his one seizure. Jade took over cooking duties for her while Tikki popped up next to her "Are you okay Marinette?"

She smiled lightly at her Kwami friend, "I will be Tikki, I will."

Plagg then appeared from within Adrien's ring and placed a reassuring hand on his holder's arm, trying to help the man deal with the pain "I wish we could go and talk to Master Fu or the old Guardians…maybe they could fix you guys."

It had been over 15 years since they had lost Master Fu, but it still stung in her soul every time she thought about it; every single piece of advice both Miraculous and normal life that she had missed out on, all the jokes that only he could make funny and his mass amount of knowledge about everything.

Then there were the other Miraculous Guardians. There were only 3 left once more and they were all younger than her, having only started their training when M-Day happened. She couldn't blame them for not knowing how to fix it because she was the oldest and most experienced. If anyone should know how to fix such an issue it should have been her; The holder of the Ladybug Miraculous and the Guardian of the Chinese miracle box…she sucked being the guardian but she would never tell anyone that.

Just as Adrien stopped shaking, Lucia appeared in front of them, her hair was burnt and her clothes torn up as took off her bracelet and collapsed onto the chair next to Marinette. Marinette put a hand on her wife's knee and asked "Where did you end up this time."

Lucia groaned loudly "The end of the Jurassic period right as Plagg was trying to destroy that Meteor…Let me tell you, T-rex's ain't cool."

Plagg rolled around in the air as he replied "They are cool…if you give them belly rubs." Adrien chuckled and said, "Well you're back safe and sound, that's what counts Lucia."

Stretching herself out, Marinette noticed a gash on Lucia's side and she silently placed her right hand on it, feeling her healing power wash over her until the gash closed over when Felix entered the room "So when are we actually going after Lila? Because I don't know how much longer I can go on with this intense pain, I actually saw my arm fade away today. We need her to fix it."

While Kagami who was walking with him said "And I turned into both Water and lightning at the same time, Shocking myself. I think I'm going quarter that bloody woman."

Marinette sighed as Jade served up breakfast for all of them, having remained silent the entire time "We don't have any actual proof though. Just our innate dislike for her and the fact that she worked with Gabriel before. But I do agree we need to step up our hunt when the kids go back to school."

She watched as Adrien finished eating some bacon before he said "If my father and Natalie hadn't vanished after M-day, they could have given us some clues as to where they are."

Marinette went to reply when there was a loud quake from outside the manor and she wanted to let out a massive sigh as she realised it was an Akumatised Villain once more. Grabbing her earring she called out "Tikki, Spots on!"

The red and black suit formed around her and she felt all of her strength return to her. Quantum magic was truly something incredible. Adrien went to start putting on his ring as did the rest of the family but she put her hand up "Let me deal with it guys, I need to let off some steam." Before launching herself through the owl window and outside.

In the distance, she could see a church with smoke rising from it and she leapt across the land trying to reach it as fast as possible. It was times like these that she wished she had a bike like some of her counterparts had. When she reached the Church she found a villain with Tubes running down their back and electricity running off their boots into the ground.

Sighing as she spun her yo-yo she said, "Alright then, what do I call you, Shocube Tocker? Oh, how about Shoube?" The Akumatised Villain turned around sharply and said "You can call me The Phantom Thief; Ladybug! And for my first trick, I'm going to steal your Miraculous"

Rolling her eyes she brought her Yo-yo back to her and launched into a cartwheel, straining her wrist as she did so, she was clenching her cheek between her teeth as she then leapt forward this Phantom Thief who vanished and appeared right next to her "nice try Mrs Hero, but you're too slow" Reaching for her right earing, prepared to tear it out of her ear.

She swept her arm around slightly managing to knock him back as she came to a rough stop, her knee grating against the ground. She threw her arm out to the side and said with confidence "Lucky Charm!" with a flash of red she was holding a Hammer and a piece of rope with glue on it.

Looking around she looked to see anything around her that she could use to use her charm with, to which she cursed as it all came up blank, time to improvise then! She connected the rope to the hammer, watching carefully how the phantom thief moved their body, slowly swinging the hammer like she did with her trusty yoyo, she then flicked it towards the man at an angle, wrapping it around a lamppost behind him, not paying attention to her he said cockily "Was that meant to stop me?!" which is when he felt one of her kicks collide with his ribs sending him into the rope that was tense from her tying the other end to something else. The glue stopped him from moving and it clicked that he was like Style Queen and grinned, she knew how to beat him.

Running towards the hammer end again she grabbed it and aimed the hammer head at the akumatized Villain, her aim being true and colliding with the belt, the belt breaking and falling apart from the sheer force that the hammer had been thrown at. The Akuma started to fly away but before it could happen, Marinette ran forward with her trusty yoyo in hand and said "Time to devilise! Goodbye little butterfly" The purified butterfly floating away into the sky… It wasn't the first time she had wondered it but she did think about the idea of Lila running over rooftops, trying to capture butterfly to turn into akumas.

The Man turned back to normal and looked around as he said "I was akumatised wasn't I? I'm so sorry Ladybug! I thought this only happened in Paris?!" Patting the man gently on the back she told him, "Hawkmoth is spreading her horizons at the moment, and hey it's alright, the only real way to keep an akuma away is to hide your feelings, and never let anything happen to you. But emotions are what make us human, the good and the bad makeup who we are. It's Hawkmoth who is taking advantage of you. Now head home and get some rest."

his eyes glowed warmly and he said "Thank you so much Ladybug!" Going into her Yo-you she pulled one out and gave it to the man. It wouldn't stop Hawkmoth from akumatising the poor man again but at least she could still fill people with confidence that things would be alright. She should probably get back to the Manor so she can be ready for her meeting with Fei


Black manor - 1 hour Later

It wasn't a bad dream or the sun that woke Tracey up for the second time that morning but rather the feeling of Harry tightening his grip on her stomach tightly so that she felt like she was going to pop. Against her back, she could feel Harry twitch and mutter in his sleep and she immediately knew that her boyfriend was having another bad dream.

Turning her body around she placed a hand against his cheek and gently said "Harry? Wake up!" He didn't wake so she repeated herself more firmly "Harry? Wake up!" Normally she could wake him up with a slight shake but he seemed to be just as deep in his nightmare as he continued to mumble.

Okay, then it was time for her to take an extreme measure. She raised her hand off his cheek before smacking his cheek sharply leaving a red mark but two open cyan eyes.

He looked around worried as he let go of her stomach "Did I wake you up?" She nodded, and he began rubbing the back of his back as she said "You did but...Harry, were you having THAT nightmare again? You already had it tonight' He shook his head much to her surprise and replied "No, I did dream of Voldemort but it was as if I was him, and I was speaking to Pettigrew."

She raised her eyebrow as he mentioned the Rat's name. He never mentioned the Rat in any of his nightmares "What happened." He sighed as he started to recount what happened.


Harry's Dream

Harry's eyes underneath him felt rocky and rough but he couldn't move his head to see what he was sitting on. His arms felt thin yet heavy and an aching sensation ran through his legs. What he could see in front of him was a large hallway with a large table that had people in dark robes sitting around it…no it wasn't anyone in dark robes, it was Death Eaters. How could he forget their appearance after the events of the World Cup and the 3rd task?

Just then the doors opened and he felt his mouth open but it wasn't his own voice, it was the voice of the man who had been haunting his nightmares for the past month "Pettigrew, my faithful servant, you have returned. What news do you have for me?"

Voldemort,

The Rat man who had ratted out Harry's parents approached the far end of the table and said "Master, I have received word from Madam Hawkmoth, she is ready when you are to give you back you're full body and assist you in taking over of the country. She awaits your answer."

"Very good wormtail, tell our ally that it is time. I shall strike this evening. Our masterplan will finally begin and 3 years of hell shall finally come to an end."

Pettigrew ran out of the room, a dark smile on his face and Harry could feel Voldemort's mouth twisted into an even grin "My friends, today we remind the wizarding world why we are the one true rulers. We strike fear into their hearts right at the heart of their government!"


Tracey frowned as she listened to what her boyfriend had to dream, if he was actually getting a vision of something that was happening then it was very worrying. Hawkmoth and Voldemort alone was a terrifying thought. The scourges of Paris and Britain teaming up, Nightmare fuel. But it was made even worse by the fact that Roger was currently on a business trip in the UK.

She wished she could say her normal line about how his Mum had killed him, that he wasn't still around. But she knew the truth, Harry wouldn't be having these constant dreams otherwise. Voldemort was back. She rubbed his back gently to help him calm down once more before she looked at his forehead. The lightning bolt scar that she had heard all about when she was younger was bright red, blood seeping from it; it was as if the scar had been freshly made.

She rubbed away the blood "When we get back from the beach today, you're telling everyone about your dream. They deserve to know, especially if it features Hawkmoth." He nodded before taking her hand and kissing it.

He stood up to clean himself off once more and as he walked away from the bed, she could see the scar starting to fade once more. The scar itself was worrying her, she would need to bring it up with either Marinette or Lucia, as it seemed to be tied to Voldemort in some way.

Grabbing her phone from the bedside table, she groaned as she realised she had missed 3 separate calls from Rodger, He would most likely be in a business meeting right now which was the most confusing thing about his calls she dialled him, eager to find out what was going on. It took a few seconds before her brother answered but when he did, she said "Salut Rodger, y a-t-il une raison pour laquelle tu m'as téléphoné de manière si urgente plus tôt?"

Her brother chuckled on the other end of the line as she realised she had spoken entirely in French while he would have been using English. She had gotten so used to just conversing in French that it was like second nature to her.

" Good morning to you too Tracey, how's my favourite sister doing this fine morning"

She rolled her eyes "I'm fine but you never answered my question?"

He sighed " Let me find a quiet place first."

He went silent for a few moments before he answered again.

"I saw Mum last night."

A pit of worry had opened up in her stomach as she wondered what was going on, she knew her brother was going to see their mum but she didn't see why that was important unless something was wrong.

"And I got a bit of a shock. To put it bluntly, our Mum had a new partner and they've had a daughter together. You're an older sister now."

She wanted to drop the phone on the bed, her arms shaking. She and Roger had lost contact with their mum since they came to France, just from a lack of time on both ends and the fact that communicating across countries was expensive. But for their mum to not have told them that she had another child…it hurt.

"Do you know our sibling's new name? How old is she."

Roger chuckled slightly "Her name is Maria, she is really cute. She just over one. It will be best for Mum to tell you in person but to put it simply, Mum got in over her head and wasn't able to write to us let us know."

"I'll try and get in contact with her as soon as possible."

"Now is there anything else you want to talk about? Your voice sounds worried."

Damn, he knew her too well. She told him all about Harry's dream and her worries and he went quiet for a minute

"That is worrying. I haven't heard anything about HIM during my time over here but at the same time, I'm seeing a lot of people on edge so who knows. I'll keep my eyes and ears out just to be safe though. Keep an eye out on Harry too. Look I hate to do this but my break just ended and I need to go."

Then he said in french "A dans quelques jours et je t'aime beaucoup ma soeur", she smiled before also replying in french "Je t'aime aussi Roger, à bientôt et reste en sécurité." he chuckled as he hung up.

Sighing she lowered her phone to her knee, just as the door to the room opened revealing her best friend, Daphne Greengrass. The other woman was brushing her wet hair and asked "Was that Roger you were just talking to?"

Tracey could only nod, her head half in Britain as she wondered what could have caused her mother to have kept such a secret from them. Daphne noticed her like that and her friend asked her "Is everything okay?"

Tracey curled her feet up to her chest and told her best friend everything that she had just learnt, her friend sat down next to her and placed a reassuring arm around her as she spoke. Her friend sighed once she was finished "Do you want to go and see her?"

Tracey nodded and Daphne jumped to her feet "Well then, how about the two of us head back over to the UK for a week before school starts back up again and we see our old friends and check in with our families? We can even start arranging it today when we see Susan and Hannah."

"I would love that… Ice Queen "

Daphne chuckled loudly at her old nickname. Neither of them had heard it since they left Hogwarts because shocker, she didn't actually need to freeze anyone's privates in France.

Before they could go back in time to their times at Hogwarts, they were interrupted as the door once more opened and Laura…sorry Emma-Laura entered. Tracey couldn't understand why her friend had suddenly decided to start using her first name but she didn't fight her friend and respected her wish to be called Emma-Laura now.

"Talking of going back to the UK…I think me and Harry should come with you guys."

Tracey stared at Daphne's girlfriend surprised as Daphne said "'Are you sure? After everything that's happened?"

Emma nodded "He's hiding it but I'm his cousin and I can tell that the idea of Voldemort being back is eating away at him, especially leaving when we did without confirmation about how anything is going. I think us going there might give him a chance to see that none of this mess is his fault."

"Can I ask why all of you are in my room?" Emma jumped several feet in the air as her cousin appeared behind her, wearing only his trousers showing his muscled stomach which Tracey could confirm was impeccable. He stared between the three of them and none of them gave him an answer.

He gave them another few moments to answer before coughing and asking them to leave the room so he could get changed. The other two ran out, closing the door behind them and Harry raised his eyebrow as he asked "What was that all about?"

She should tell him about the phone call she had with Roger but that could wait for when they returned from the beach.


The Nearby Beach~ 1 Hour Later

Sitting on the sand Harry felt his entire body relax for the first time since that morning, the waves crashed against the beach and children laughed around him and his group of friends. Next to him, Tracey was sunbathing while Daphne was playing Volleyball with Jade. Laura had vanished some 10 minutes beforehand to get them food.

He wished he could just live life like this, he wished he didn't have to deal with evil bastards in Purple costumes who wanted to kill his entire family and he certainly wished he he didn't have to deal with the wizarding world. Maybe once his studies were done he would do what his Mom did and abandon the wizarding world entirely.

He was just about to take a sip of some water when across the beach he heard Daphne, Harry, Tracey, Jade!"

He looked up and saw the short frame and strawberry blond hair of his godsister and smiled "Susan, hey!" He stood up to greet her and gave her a small hug. Susan hugged the rest of them before saying "Oh come on Hannah, hurry up."

Susan's friend rolled her eyes "Sorry I'm not as excited to see your friends as you are Susan." The dirty blond-haired girl said. Harry chuckled "It's good to see you again too Hannah."

From the ground, Tracey finally got up and greeted the two Hufflepuff girls as Susan asked "Hey, where's Laura?"

Daphne chuckled "Don't let her her hear you call her that, but she's off getting lunch for us." The 6 of us sat down on the beach and Tracey asked "So how's Hogwarts holding up."

Susan groaned loudly "Well Professor Flitwick is finally starting to get into his groove as headmaster and all the teachers seem to be happier. I don't know if I put this in any of my letters but Snape actually cracked a genuine nice smile this year."

Harry's lips twisted as that all sounded good…which warranted him asking "So why the groan?"

It was Hannah who spoke up "Malfoy. And the other 'Pure-blood' Supremacists. They've kind of taken over large parts of the school and no matter what anybody does, we can't stop them. They're trying to take whatever they want, whenever they want. They are claiming that soon they will truly be the Lords of us."

Harry frowned while Daphne dug into her bag before pulling out a small stone rune. It felt familiar to Harry until he remembered exactly what it was. It was the rune that Fred and George Weasley had made for Tracey and Daphne for the start of 4th year. Daphne handed it over to the two Hufflepuff girls and said "Use this against Malfoy…and tell him the Ice Queen sends her regards."

Susan grinned "We will do, thanks, Daphne. I'm sure he'll be running back to his dear old pops before long now."

Tracey coughed "Wait isn't Malfoy Sr in jail." The two girls looked between themselves before Susan replied "He's…on Probation. The problem is he can basically do anything still because he's still in the Minister's pocket."

Finally bringing herself into the conversation, Jade asked curiously "Isn't there anything you're aunt can do to stop him." Susan shook her head "She has no jurisdiction back home since leaving the Ministry."

They all sighed, but then a voice called out "Wait Bones? Abbott? Is that you? And oh my god Davies, Greengrass?"

All of their heads snapped around before Susan went "Wait Zabini? Blaise Zabini?" A man of dark skin colour appeared and Susan stood up as the man put his hand out to shake "What are the chances of that, My two favourite Hufflepuff's and my former favourite housemates in the same place?!"

Hannah seemed to shuffle away but Susan shook Mr Zabini's hand and asked him "What are you doing here?"

"Holiday, same as you I assume."

Susan shrugged her shoulders "Yes and No. I am at the moment but it's my uncle's home." Harry could not get used to Susan calling Sirius her Uncle even though Sirius and Amelia had gotten married nearly 2 years ago now.

Daphne went next to Susan and hugged Blaise tightly "It been so long. How are you surviving down there without the two of us."

He chuckled "By keeping my head down, that's how. I knew you guys were here but I never expected to see you guys here"

Harry was happy his girlfriend and friends were having a good time but something about the boy was rubbing off in the wrong way on him. He looked over at Jade to see her nervously studying him. Jade never got nervous anymore.

But before he could pull her away and ask what she thought was going on, the conversation had moved on without them and Tracey gasped "Oh yeah you wouldn't have met these guys. Blaise meet; Harry and Jade Couffaine."

The man put his hand out for them to shake and Harry took it while Tracey said "Harry, Jade, meet Blaise Zabini. He was a fellow Slytherin back when we were at Hogwarts."

As he shook Blaise's hand he felt his worry wash away. He was just being silly after all of his nightmares. If Tracey trusted him, then so did he. Blaise said with a smile "It's nice to meet you Mr Couffaine."

"It's a pleasure Mr Zabini, but please call me Harry."

"Well then, call me Blaise. Now it's nice to meet you Miss Couffaine."

Jade went to shake his hand while still looking at him suspiciously when her phone started to ring loudly

I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous

Echoed around the beach before she quickly answered it. Her face turned to one of shock before she looked at the group "Guys, sorry to break this meet up…But Harry, we need to meet Emma back at the Manor."


Elsewhere ~ 10 Minutes Prior

"Thanks, Madam" Emma thanked the elderly store owner as the woman handed her a basket of sandwiches for the group. They wouldn't be as nice as anything the Dupain-Chengs made but for a day out at the beach? They would be perfect.

As she left she was careful to keep an eye on the sky for any Akuma's, if she could stop anyone from rampaging the city then she would, the more damaged the city got, the more negative emotions they felt which made them bigger targets for Hawkmoth. It was bad enough that Hawkmoth seemed to know they were out of Paris as it was and had already attacked today.

As she walked toward the beach, she collided with someone sending them both tumbling to the ground, thankfully the older store owner had carefully secured the meal after Emma had mentioned that she was madly clumsy. So clumsy that she sometimes put her aunt Marinette to shame now.

Emma picked herself up immediately and started spurting apology after apology to the person she had knocked over, before noticing it was Mum who placed a hand on her shoulder and said "Young lady calm down, I'm fine. Just get your head out of the clouds and let the grown-ups keep an eye on the skies"

Stopping her apologies she said "But Mum, I'm 17, I'm an Adult, I can look out for the Akumas!' She ruffled her hair and said "But that's not your problem to deal with, all you need to do is finish school, if you want to join us boring grown-ups doing this when you're older you can but don't panic yourself about it until after finish this year of school"

Placing her glasses bacon her face, her mum said "Now I'm sure you're cousins and friends are waiting for you to return with your lunches. I'll see you when I get back home tonight."

She was about to reach the edges of the Beach when a Woman with grey hair and a red streak approached her, the woman looked oddly familiar to her, the woman asked "Emma Laura Cesaire? Is that you?"

The voice was even familiar. She hadn't heard it in person since she was 3 but there was no mistaking it now, the voice matched her memory and her dreams

"Grandma Natalie?"

A large smile appeared on the woman's face and as she got closer, Emma could hear the creaking of her robotic legs. Natalie spoke with love "It is you! Oh, look at how much you've grown, I could hold you in my arms last time I saw you. You look so much like Adrian and Emelie"

That didn't surprise her, whenever she went out with her Great Aunt Amelie, they were sometimes considered Mother and Child.

She hugged her 'grandmother' tightly and asked gently "What are you doing here? We haven't seen you in so long...not since…" She left the rest of it up in the air but she knew her grandmother knew she meant shortly after her Grandpa Gabriel had vanished during M-Day.

Natalie looked around "That's actually why I'm here, I need to talk to your Dad and Marinette, but I can't find the address I was told they would be at."

Hearing that took Emma off guard, somebody had told her grandmother about Black Manor? But nobody knew they were coming there.

"Aunt Marinette is home, but I don't think Dad's back home yet. Come on, I'll take you to where we're staying.

She wanted to catch up with her grandma but she knew that could wait until she got back home. She pulled her phone out and tried to phone Harry but it went to voicemail every time. Why was her cousin so bad at checking his phone these days? So she tried the next person on her list who might remember Natalie; Jade

"Come on Jade, pick up please." She muttered to herself

A few moments later the phone was picked up and she heard Jade say

"Hey Em, what's going on?"

Ok "I need you guys to get back to the Manor, Now! I just ran into my grandmother, Natalie."

The other line went silent before Jade said "We'll be right there."

The line went dead just as they reached Black Manor, Natalie looked confused when they arrived but Emma wasn't wasn't wasting any time and pulled her grandmother through the wards and into the Manor itself.

Emma didn't know how any of the adults would act when they saw Natalie so she opned the door with a big push to find her Aunt Marinette getting things ready for their dinner tonight. Without turning around her aunt said, "You're back early Alya."

"It's me, Aunt Marinette."

Her aunt turned around and said "Oh hi…Laura." her voice trailed off as she noticed Grandma Natalie enter the room, a small smile on her face. Natalie said in a warm but quiet voice "Hello Marinette, it's been a long time."

Aunt Marinette ran up and hugged Natalie and said '"Oh my god Natalie, it's been so long. Adrian and Alya will be so happy to see you! Where have you been all of this time?!'

Marinette suddenly let go and backed away slightly, putting on an annoyed face that she normally reserved for when Harry or Jade annoyed her, "And why are you back now?" Natalie rubbed the back of her neck. "Well those final two questions are connected and I think I might confuse everyone if I have to explain them twice, So do you know when Adrian gets back home?"

Emma was getting increasingly confused about what was going on but watched as her aunt pulled out her phone.


Tsurugi Industries

The Flash of the camera blinded Adrien for a couple of seconds which was made all the worse by the fact that he couldn't blink without ruining the Picture, Because of he did he would be stuck here for another hour, and he was already going insane from being here for just 1 hour.

The man behind the camera cheerfully said "Alright Mr Césaire just one more picture, then we're done, can I get a Heroic pose from you?"

He chose to replicate the pose that Marinette made when she was transformed because it was incredibly inspiring for him and it was always ingrained into his head seeing how she had been doing it for almost 30 years at this point.

The Photographer took the final photo and said "That was amazing Mr Agreste, thank you for the time, I will send the photos out to you as soon as I print them but before the magazine comes out." Grabbing his camera and leaving the room. Adrian turned to face the Studio executives who held the fate of the animated show in their hands and the big man, Mako came up saying "That was amazing Adrian, the team has been talking and we will fund you for a further 3 seasons and two feature-length films and we can confirm that we will also continue to fund the Alliance ring"

Adrien bowed at the executives saying "Thank you so much" In the corner of his eyes he could see Kagami roll her eyes in disgust and he felt the same, he always felt dirty having to bow to such corrupt people. Making his way to Kagami's office he looked at his mobile while Felic was typing on a computer. His eyes widened as he read a message from Marinette that read; 'Get to the Manor now! Emergency Meeting!'His eyes widened and he ran and grabbed his jacket.

He was receiving confused looks from his Cousin and cousin-in-law and replied "I just got a message from Mari, she telling me to get back to the Manor, now."

Kagami stuck her head back out the door saying "Can someone tell Lucia, that her wife wants her home? And Don't disturb the three of us until we come back out. If you do you're getting fired." Before shutting the door.

Plagg asked from his pocket "Wait, what's going on, are we leaving in a rush Adrian?!"

Adrien nodded as he watched Kagami and Felix transform into their hero forms and he said in a hushed whisper "Plagg, Claws Out!" Plagg was sucked into the Ring, turning it black. The Chat Noir costumes formed around him and he leapt out of the building and he used his pole to vault onto the roof of the next building. Behind him, he could feel Felix unleash a senti-monster for him and Kagami to use.

Once he landed he got onto all 4 and started to run and leap across the rooftops, hoping to get to the Manor as quickly as possible. Of course the second he thought that, in classic fashion he felt an explosion go off just under his Stomach sending him flying into the Air, Only being able to catch back onto the building because of his sharp claws.

Getting back onto the rooftop he groaned trying to find who had done it, when the dust on the building finally settled he discovered an Akumatized Villain with giant Grenades for Arms standing there "Greeting Chat Noir, I am Dynamight, I am here for your Miraculous in the name of Hawkmoth, surrender now and nobody had to get hurt!"

Chat Noir rolled his eyes, so it was just the same old trying to steal his ring gig then...boring. Suddenly the Villain was sent flying forward as Ryuko and Argos entered the battle, both of them kicking the Explosive Villain In the back, being the charming hero he was he said "How nice of you to join me.' Argos rolled his eyes while Ryuko said 'Are you okay Noir? This is why you don't rush off ahead."

Leaping forward he slashed at the Villain multiple times forcing the Villain to create several small explosions to escape being torn apart, however, Chat Noir was just the bait as Argos and Ryuko struck him in unison with two precise hits. Out of nowhere, Alya's Flute crashed into the villain's Grenade arms breaking them right as Rena Rogue herself crashed into the battle using an almost realistic illusion to crush the Villain.

Adrien looked up as she said, "Honey I got a message from Ladybug, she wants us back at the manor now." Argos created a jar senti-monster to contain it in and they ran up to the Manor, All of them entered through the kitchen window and they skidded across the smooth floor.

He transformed and Plagg wasted no time in floating out of the ring and immediately searching for chees. Looking around quickly he thought everything looked fine and when they found Marinette he asked her "Mari, what is it, You never call emergency meetings?" She pointed to a dark point of the room and he looked to where she was pointing only to see Natalie -wearing one of Mari's older suits- step out of the shadows, "Natalie?" His voice croaked shocked. She was so much older than when he had last seen her but it was undoubtedly her. Next to him, he could hear Felix drop his bottle of water from his hands in shock.

Natalie nodded, a tear in her eye; which was rare for her, and she opened her arms out. He ran into the hug, tears rolling down his face, he hadn't seen her in 14 years, she said in a calm soft voice "It's good to see you too Adrian" Parts of his brain tried to remind him that this was the person who had tried to kill him, Marinette and their friends when they were young but he didn't care about that, Because she had basically raised him after his mothers "death", she might as well have been his mother for 5 years. She had been the one to tell him to ask out Alya.

Stepping back from the hug he said "Did you find my Dad?" she shook her head, tears properly rolling down her face "I looked for 12 years nonstop but I never found a trace of him...I'd recently given up hope on him being alive."

Adrien wanted to punch something so much right now. He had hoped that when one of them returned it would be the both of them. He had hoped it wasn't bad news when they returned either...wait a second…she said that in the past tense. Alya walked up to him and put a hand on his shoulder to comfort him when and asked "Wait you said that in Past tense….did you find something?"

Natalie nodded and pulled out an old unmarked phone and said "I was just about to vanish forever when I noticed a text came through on my old work phone. There were only 4 people on the planet that had my number for that phone. You, your father, your mum and Placide. And it matched up with how Gabriel talked, and I think he's still alive. I'm pretty sure he's being held captive by the Current Hawkmoth...the one who caused the M-Day"

He turned to face Alya with a look of confusion, fear, and Happiness on his face, Alya pressed her hand against his arm with more reassurance, that no matter what happened she would be with him.

Marinette however frowned and said, "So it was this current Hawkmoth that caused M-day then?"

Natalie nodded firmly "I'm certain it was, every record I've found about that day shows some mysterious figure tampering with Gabe's device while Ladybug and Chat Noir were fighting with him, along with those two heroes that disappeared."

Then Harry spoke up and said while rubbing the arm that Adrien just about remembered the boy breaking that day, "Hi There, one of the two heroes that vanished. Right before Bunnyx took us away from the fight I heard a crackle that felt very familiar. I'd forgotten about it because of everything that went down a few years ago but now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure that was Lila's crackle"

"Like Lilla Rossi?"

Harry nodded "Hmm, the image does match her rough frame at the time and Gabriel was twisting her mind to use her in his overall goal."

Before anything else could be said there was a loud ringing as one of the Kid's mobiles started to ring loudly. Everyone looked around in confusion until Tracey took her phone out of her pocket and said "It's Roger….Why is he calling again?"

She pressed the green answer button and the call started. She put it onto the Loudspeaker so everyone could hear what the young man was about to say. The Young man spoke loudly and clearly, "Tracey, is that you?" Tracey answered with worry in her voice "Yeah, it's me, Roger, what's going on?"

Roger carried on, "Can everyone hear me?" The everyone he was probably meaning was the everyone in the manor which was everybody but Lucia right now. Speaking up Adrien said, "Aye, We can hear you, Lad."

The Young man's clearance broke as panic broke through "Good, you need to listen to what I'm about to say very carefully, you need to hear this straight from me."

Harry rather firmly asked, "What is it, Roger?" Roger gulped on the other end of the line, "It's Voldemort. He's just returned and he just murdered the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge."

The room went silent and Adrien looked at his Nephew's eyes which were wide with shock before Roger continued, "He did so wearing a large purple Butterfly symbol on his robes...He's announced his plan to wage war against all blood traitors !" Before the call was suddenly cut off.