𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊, book 4

three

"Not until the castle gets central heating, I mean, someone has got to speak with Dumbledore!"

Everybody laughed, and then Harry turned to Lucas, lowering his voice.

"Dumbledore is going to remove the memory of Lottie's death from everyone tomorrow so that she can come back to school," he whispered, "we're going to completely forget she died."

"No way," Lucas was in shock, "but that's really traumatic? Will anyone remember?"

"Theo and Alex, and our parents," he said quietly.

"But not you? Her own boyfriend?"

"She's going to tell me straight away," Harry shrugged, "what? Do you think it's bad that I won't know?"

"Yeah, a little..."

"Oh," he paused, "I don't know. Well, anyway, I'm going to my house tonight so that I can be there, so I better be heading off."

"Good luck mate, you sure you'll be alright?"

"I hope so, if not, at least I won't know."

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Sirius Black, James Potter, Emelia Black and Lily Potter all stood in James' office. The two women had recently recieved information regarding Halle Campbell, and they had all decided that going to see Albus Dumbledore was the best option.

"Come on, it's best that we get it over with. I don't want to get my hopes up, though.." Emelia sighed, linking hands with Sirius.

They all made their way to Dumbledores office, fingers crossed Dumbledore would be some type of help to them.

"Chocolate frogs,"

"Ah Potters! Blacks! I was wondering when I'd be seeing you here," he said, beckoning them into his office and offering them all chairs.

"Dumbledore. The new student. Halle Campbell." Sirius said quickly, he couldn't bare to wait any longer.

"Yes" Dumbledore nodded "its her"

They all froze.

"It is?"

"Yes."

"Why didn't you tell us? Tell the ministry? Tell her?" Emelia's voice grew louder, completely outraged.

"Well I already knew you knew, and theres also nothing we can do about it just yet" he said calmly.

"Excuse me?" James gasped, he could think of many things to do - torture them, lock then in azkaban, feed them to werewolf Remus-

Perhaps that was insensitive, giving the conditions as of late.

"Mr Potter. Halle is living with rich pureblooded prejudices who are planning a war, what would you like me to do?"

"Arrest them..."

"We can't just do that," he said bluntly.

"Albus this is preposterous!" Cried Emelia, who wanted nothing more then to be able to hold her daughter in her arms once again. "She's living with kidnappers, meaning her life is probably awful, she deserves to be reunited with her family! This is our daughter for gods sake! Don't you have a heart? Don't you think we deserve the closure? Don't you think she deserves to be happy?"

"Mrs Black-"

"No!"

"Albus," Sirius said calmly, he wanted to be the strong one, it's what Emelia needed right now. He hid his anger and sadness as he spoke, "I think you need to look at this from our point of view."