1Been a while since I've worked on this story, but, hey, it's never too late to go back to the beginning. believe me when I say this, this chapter was hell to write for some reason, and I know already that this story will just never cooperate, well... that is something that actually counts for all of my stories to be honest.
Disclaimer: I still don't own Harry Potter, believe me, the books would have been a lot worse if I had written them
For the few people interested in this story, please do enjoy.
So fun to see a plot hole when writing it…
the road to Hogwarts
It was 9.30 before Lillian woke up. Her wounds were treated but none of them that were inflicted by morgoth had healed yet. They seemed to ignore every potion Andromeda used, and the only thing she could do was stall the bleeding. She seemed unable to change to her male form, which even in her minds eye had a hole in its heart, and it seemed it would heal slowly in the coming weeks, or if worse came to worse, months.
Harry and Sarah on the other hand were back on their feet with a bit of help from the vampires. The clean up had already started, and there was a lot of interest in the werewolves who had been decapitated by the flames of Morgoth.
"So… We missed our portkey… How are we supposed to get to Hogwarts in time now?" Lillian asked the little group watching the clean up.
"Don't we have any way to get to Britain in our workshop?" Harry asked
"Well, we do have project Ozone, but that is not even close to being finished…" Lillian answered Harry's question.
"The zeppelin right? The one that has just half of the ironwork done?" Sarah asked in turn.
"Do we have any others then?" Harry asked with a small smile forming on his lips.
"How do you think you are going to finish a zeppelin within… what… four and half hours, and even then it would depend on the speed if we would come on time?" Sarah stated.
"It is true that it would take at least another year to finish it…" Lillian began.
"Ehm… You do know we got here via the floo network from France right?" Monsieur Delacour asked the small group.
"And we from Britain, same way…" Andromeda followed up on monsieur Delacour.
"So… Just maybe… I don't know… We could just floo you to Britain, so you are on time?" Tonks finished for her mother and the Delacour patriarch.
The children just stared at the three that had arrived out of nowhere. And blinked... Twice... Once more… And facepalmed.
"How did we forget about that…?" Harry stated more then asked.
"We do not use magic as our main mode of transport, that's how we could forget." Lillian said snickering.
"Well, let's get our asses to Andy's then shall we?" Sarah said before walking towards the fireplace.
Harry, Lillian, Tonks, monsieur Delacour and the Black sisters quickly joined her.
A few minutes later
One by one the group walked through the fireplace to the sight of Ted reading the paper.
"Something interesting there mister Tonks?" Lillian asked as she saw Ted sitting there reading his paper.
"Nothing much, a break-in at gringotts, the person who did it was not found, but he did not get anything of worth out of the break-in according to the goblins." Ted said not even blinking at the interest shown by her. "Further another flop at the ministry, another page of uninteresting idea's where the three of you could possibly be at, it really is interesting that over the last 6 years, none of them thought of the fact that maybe you could be in France or even in a vampire colony of any sort." The man snickered at the last part.
"Well, that's good, it's time for a fun day anyway. The train should leave at 11, we have about an hour to get to Kings Cross. Thank god we thought of this possibility beforehand, and left reserve trunks here with the exact same supplies as our main trunks." Lillian said, before rethinking this, "Well, almost everything… my trunk is completely kitted out for a boy, not for this body." She scratched her neck. "Ow well, clothes don't matter that much."
"How long do we need to get to Kings Cross from here anyway?" Harry asked from the other side of the room where he shrunk the trunks and pocketed them.
"It shouldn't be too hard to get there on time, half an hour at most, and we could always just apparate there." Tonks said getting herself a quick drink straight out of the tap.
"Not with Lillian's injuries." Andy said from the place she had taken next to her husband.
"I forgot about that." Tonks blushed, her hair turning a few shades of red before returning to their usual pink, "it's probably thanks to the fact you just don't notice with hi… ehr… her."
"Don't worry about it, it doesn't hurt as much as you would expect." Lillian said grabbing a slice of cheese from the kitchen under the disapproving gaze of Narcissa.
"What?" She asked to Narcissa, "I haven't had anything other then foul tasting potions, is it weird I would like the taste of something else in my mouth? And it's not like cheese has an effect on the potions anyway." Lillian finished, after swallowing.
"You are impossible." Narcissa finally said shaking her head, "At least you have the manners to swallow before speaking."
"Yeah, everybody dislikes it when someone talks with their mouths full." Harry said grinning at the interactions around the table.
"Well, time to get moving then, to Kings Cross we go." Sarah grinned from her place near the door, Throwing Harry's black coat to him.
"I think that would be smart." Andy said from beside her husband.
The group all stood up, multiple people getting their coats and moving to the door.
"By uncle Ted!" the kids yelled before running outside.
"How can they be so carefree, even after all that happened last night?" Narcissa asked to Andy as the two walked after the kids.
"They are children, it affects them, but they won't show how much it affects them, they know what has changed yesterday, and they are not afraid of it." Andy answered.
"You are not completely right auntie." Lillian said turning around whilst walking backwards before continuing, "I am afraid of what happened last night, but it is a good kind of fear, if you know what I mean, I knew that there was something within me crying to be let out, but thanks to last night, I actually know what it is, it makes me afraid, yes, but a fear is always more manageable when you know what that fear is."
"That actually makes a weird kind of sense." Tonks said from the front where she was walking with monsieur Delacour.
"I hoped it would." Lillian said looking at the ground scratching her neck.
10.43, Kings Cross
The small group walked onto platform 9¾ to be met by the sight of a huge crowd of people.
"Thank god the four of you are here with us, I wouldn't even begin to think of how we would even get here without you." Harry said, the lack of sleep was finally starting to show on him.
"Yeah, agreed." Lillian said from beside her brother.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" Tonks asked the three, "get on that train before it leaves, and we would have done all of this for nothing."
This was met by bright smiles from all three Potters, before they started hugging the adults there, not caring about anything at all for the small few moments before they would be apart from the adults for a long while.
"See you at christmas!" The three yelled as they made their way towards the train, they quickly found an empty compartment in the back of the train, and they settled down.
The moment they sat down Harry and Lillian fell asleep, leaving Sarah snickering from her seat closest to the door.
It was just a few minutes after the train had started it's journey that the doors of the compartment opened up to a redheaded boy.
He looked to the two boys resting against the window of the train, before asking Sarah, "Can I sit here? Everywhere else is full."
"Go ahead, I don't imagine they will wake for a while yet, not the best night of our lives."
"Thank you, I am Ron weasley by the way." Ron said as he stowed his trunk in the overhead compartment.
"Sarah. pleasure to meet you." Sarah said simply.
"Aren't you a bit young to attend Hogwarts?" Ron said after a few minutes of silent staring.
"Yes, I am, Thanks to my brother and sister I am allowed to go." She answered pointing to the sleeping twins.
"That's weird, I've never heard of there being an exception to the rules." Ron said quizzically.
"Me neither, but then again, I'm not all knowing." Sarah said, a smile creeping on her face, she did not mention the blackmail the three had used to make sure McGonagall would get Dumbledore to agree to it.
It was another half hour later that a bushy haired girl and a shy pudgy boy knocked on the door to ask if they had seen the boys toad.
"I'm sorry, I haven't seen one." Sarah said, the two were halfway to turning around to ask in the next compartment when Sarah spoke up, "but I think I can help you with that. What is the name of your toad?" Sarah asked the boy.
"Trevor, his name is trevor." The pudgy boy answered as the bushy haired girl looked at him for an answer.
"Accio Trevor the Toad." She spoke clearly as she waved her wand. After a few seconds she heard the sound of panicked croaking headed her way, another few seconds later a she could see it heading straight for her head, another couple seconds later, she held a life and well toad in the palm of her hand.
"Here you go." She said as she gave the toad back to the boy.
After a lot of thanks, the two left to find their own places to sit. Sarah closed the door once more.
"That was amazing!" Ron said from the other bench, "I can't really do any spells yet." He said, suddenly sounding somber.
"Well, we have an unfair advantage, we grew up with a private tutor." She decided to say after a bit of thought.
"Really the minister agreed to that?"
"Not your minister, but it helps when one of your guardians is the head of the DMLE in France, and another a high standing bureaucrat in Albania who is of the strong believe the three of us should be able to defend ourselfs." Sarah said smiling, the smile turned a bit more somber as her thoughts returned to the night before.
"We weren't even allowed to use magic at home, our mom won't allow it, says it would set off the trace."
"both of your parents are magical?"
"Yes."
"Do you live in a muggle neighbourhood?"
"We live just outside a muggle village."
"Then your parents are probably just afraid the neighbours will notice and that you will get in trouble because of it, you don't have to worry about the trace in your case, just muggles possibly seeing you use it."
"That makes sense."
The two spend over an hour doing smalltalk before they were again interrupted by the door being opened, this time by a trio of boys. Two of whom looked more like the brutes generally described in those fantasy novels, and the last was smaller than the other boys with hair closer to white then blonde.
"I hear Harry Potter is on this train-" He started when the door was shut in his face by an unknown force, they could see him hammering on the door, and trying to open it.
Ron looked back in shock to the girl with red highlights turning around again to continue her nap, before a snort of laughter came from Sarah.
"You could have at least let him finish the sentence you know." Sarah said quietly.
"I know, but I didn't want him to wake Harry up." Lillian muttered turning back to her sister.
"Slept well?" Sarah asked her.
"could be far better." She muttered back, before reassuring her. "It wasn't the two of you talking, or anything, just the wounds itching, and the great memories of last night."
"I see what you mean." Sarah muttered back. Scratching her left shoulder.
"Wounds?" Ron asked.
"Yeah, as I said, we did not have the best of nights, biggest assassination attempt till now, an actual army of vampires, werewolves and wizards." Lillian muttered.
"We were outnumbered three to one." Sarah said. "But we survived."
"I still feel bad for what happened to those wolfs." Lillian muttered.
"You lost control Lillian, it was not your choice." Sarah spoke up.
"I should have never lost control in the first place!" Lillian yelled back. After which immediately looking if she hadn't woken Harry up.
"It is not your fault Lil, you could never have known this was going to happen, and again, you did not choose to lose control, remember that." Sarah whispered.
After Sarah's words, Lillian turned back to the window and watched as the landscape shot past.
The silence that followed this conversation lasted until the train started to slow down for the arrival at Hogsmeade.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter, just slightly all over the place for a change, instead of all over the place.