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World pov

The world was crumbling to ashes. The sky's were greyer and people thought twice before leaving their safe houses. Although to the muggle world, this was just some bad weather, it meant something entirely different to the secret world few knew about. To the wizarding world, it was a sign of chaos and fear. The bright green flashes of light were getting more frequent on anyone who bore even the least amount of threat. The darkness of the night, often illuminated by skulls they bore on their arms. Women and children were killed as were the men. Many stopped going into work and a majority of the younger ones were not packing on the 31st of august but were instead sitting by their window sill or travelling across the country to flee the madness. The feeling of terror had set into peoples hearts. The ever growing list of missing people increased everyday and most people listened carefully, holding their breath, were the name of their loved ones to be called. Voldemort was growing his army of death eater but among these dark times there always emerge a few with the courage to do the right thing which therefore meant that Y/N's army was growing as well. The two sides were about to go to war, a mad clash of the light and the dark.

Y/N sat on the middle of the floor in the house, surrounded by people. She looked around and began roll call with a sigh, A measure which had become important owing to the death eaters.

"Minerva Mcgonnagal?"

"Here"

"Sirius Black?"

"Here"

"Remus Black?"

"Here"

"Nymphadora Tonks"

"Ive told you not to call me that"

"James potter?"

"Here"

"Lily potter?"

"Here"

"Harry Potter?"

"Here"

"Hermione granger?"

"Here"

"The weasleys?"

"All 8 are here. Percy's at the ministry gathering information for us."

"Luna lovegood?"

"Here"

"Hagrid?"

"Hr'e"

"And lastly, Severus shape?"

"Here"

Y/N breathed a sigh of relief as she closed the scroll and tucked it away. She hadn't lost anyone else this week, fortunately enough. They all sat down the long table in the dining area. The sides were lined with cupboards filled with crockery and the walls decorated with a mural of people eating dinner together. The meeting began and the so did the scribbling of quilts.

"Let's start with Percy. How's he holding up?" Y/N asked, her face towards the weaseleys. "He took the job at the ministry and has been around Barty crouch ever since. According to him, since about last week crouch hasn't been behaving like he normally does. Percy studied his schedule and it varied differently with as he would say, too many trips to main office and communications, also the bathroom for some reason." Arthur said.

"Well then we will just have to assume that he's been confounded for now. We cannot trust the ministry until it's confirmed by Percy. Ask him to study the effects of the confundous charm and report back if he sees any similarities." Y/N spoke and everyone agreed.

"Professor Mcgonnagal, How's the path for safe passage coming through?" Y/N asked.

"The death eaters are sure to check the hogwarts express tomorrow, once they find that you and Mattheo aren't there, they wont search hogwarts. I shall give you the map and guide you through to hogwarts early 3 am tommorow, I know its early but that's the only time we could go through there."

"That's no problem at all professor." Y/N said.

"Now, Harry. Any news about Ananya? Her name hasn't come up onto the missing persons list yet and I am concerned."

"I was outside her house with dads invisibility cloak and I saw Valena going to her place multiple times a week. Ananya is still alive but she seems a lot more reserved than before or maybe its just because you slytherins are so stuck up." Harry replied.

James put a hand on Harry's shoulder, warning him to not go any further as Y/N gave him a death glare. His discrimination for the slytherins was starting to get on her nerves. He seemed to shut up from these and Y/N carried on.

"If she's with Valena that's ok, I trust her enough to know that Ananya is fine with her." She spoke with relief in her voice.

"I don't" Mattheo said.

"I don't trust her one bit, she's vile and cruel."

"Mattheo, maybe you're letting your feelings get in the way of your judgement." Y/N said softly.

"I am the one who grew up with her, not you so I don't think I'm the one with all the feelings."

"Well, she's my friend and your sister. I think there will always be a difference of judgement of that, and lets not forget, she's the sister you hated all your life. I think that's a feeling strong enough to cloud anyone's judgement." Y/N said carefully, trying not to fight with her husband and reason with him instead.

"You don't even know her." He replied.

"I have met her enough times and had meaningful conversations through which I do trust her with my friend." Y/N said, starting to lose her temper.

"Yeah, conversations like, how she was there the night where you murdered your best friend right!?" He said screaming at her from across the room.

An audible gasp was heard from the people along the table as Y/N sat there, speechless as how Mattheo could say such an insensitive thing. She had opened up to him and told her about her weakest points because she never thought he would attack them. Tears pricked at the base of her eyes and her heart burned with anger and hurt. Molly looked at her with concern and tried to break the silence but to no avail. Mattheo was still standing across the room, his arms folded across his chest, a small smirk playing at his lips, it soon disappeared though as a small tear fell onto Y/N's cheek.

"Meeting dismissed" She said quickly, wiping her cheek in a haste to not seem weak. She smiled softly and the room filled with the sound of her chair scraping across the floor as she left.

Sirius was next to get up as he left the room with a swift wave of his cloak. He walked up the stairs softly and once he'd reached the top, he slowly pushed open the door to the roof. He took a minute for his eyes to adjust to the lack of light before making out the figure of Y/N sitting down on the ground staring at the stars with glassy eyes.

He quietly sat down next to her and didn't say a word. She looked at him for a second before looking back up. "Ill be down in a minute." She said and expected him to leave but he only nodded and didn't move another muscle. She knew he wasn't going to leave, she didn't want him to either. Slowly she placed her head on his shoulder. Sirius put his arm around her, providing the comfort she had never experienced from her father, the truth being, neither had he.

====== End of part 31 ======

Hi loves!

I know I haven't updated in a while so forgive me for that, exam anxiety is real. Since my exams begin tomorrow I thought I'd update once before I got even more stressed. I hope you guys like his chapter, It was more of a transitional one, explaining how the worlds changing, also added some drama cause why not.

Thank you so much for 150K reads, you guys honestly blow my mind. If there is anything you want me to do, drop it right here.

Also in this world, it wasn't Harry that Voldy mcmouldy went behind, It was Neville and voldy was successful in killing him and his parents so that's that. He had a fight with dumbledore and fled after he lost.

*Opinions about sirius black cause he's a cutie*

Love,

P / Paridhi Prabhakar

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