CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX: LETTERS HOME
TUESDAY, AUGUST 6th, 1996 – Pottersport, Charenwell
Harry and his girls had spent weeks preparing for the fifteen minute speech he gave on Charenwell Television the previous night. They had known that he would need to address his people about the Concubines and about Her Majesty's request for his help, and by extension Charenwell's. They also knew they had to explain the need to relocate thousands of Muggle Borns and their families from Britain. They also suspected that what Harry was asking was somewhat unprecedented. The Concubine expose was actually delayed by their research as they felt the speech needed to be grounded in an understanding of both the history of Charenwell and the history of House Potter. Charenwell was easy enough as there were many works by local authors, many of them wives or children of the Duke, that had been published there and were in the Library. House Potter, however, was not as well documented in published works.
The published works focuses exclusively on House Potter as Duke or Lord of the Isle, in other words it was practically silent on House Potter and England. To the Charenwell reader, this might seem sufficient as they had little regard for that land except as a place to sell their produce. But House Potter had significant financial interests in England and, in fact, derived more of its income from England than Charenwell. Harry, Daphne and Hermione all felt the English side of House Potter was important to what he wanted to accomplish in his speech: to begin recruiting and Army. The problem was that to find the history of House Potter in England, one had to go through every journal and chronicle in the archives. Considering the Archives contained written records of transactions and such going back to 80 A.D., they feared it might take a lifetime.
It was Astoria who discovered a manuscript in the Potter Archives. It was the work of Alice (Place) Potter (1852 – 1940), the second Concubine of Harry's Great-great Grandfather Duke Edward IV (1832 – 1941). Prior to Harry's Great-Grandfather, the Dukes typically had at least four Concubines in addition to a Wife or Consort, usually at the same time. Edward had five. Alice was acquired when she was seventeen in 1869 and apparently Love Bonded to Edward within days. She was acquired not long after Edward's Consort Margaret gave birth to her fourth and final daughter and, due to a very difficult pregnancy, was unable to have any more children. Edward's first Concubine Alice already had two daughters as well and would add two more before she too was advised to stop. Alice, however, turned out to be barren. As she could not help her Love with providing an heir, she turned to providing a History of House Potter for future generations. It became her life's work as she had to learn to read Latin, Gaelic, Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, Old English and Medieval French in addition to much of the history of Britain, France and other countries just to understand the thousands of documents. (It would be Edward's Fifth and last Concubine Jennifer (1867 – 1951) who would finally give birth to his Heir Charlus in 1893).
Alice's history was incomplete. She obviously spent years learning the languages she needed. Her work from the first recorded Head of House Potter who was called Gesarius by the Romans (d. 118 "the Second Year of the Reign Hadrian") through the end of the "reign" of Duke James III; Fifteenth Duke of Charenwell (1561 – 1670) was mostly complete. But the years from then until her death in 1951 were still mostly just outlines and notes. Still, Astoria and the others had already compiled a lot about the remaining years through the death of Harry's Grandfather in 1988, so this work by Alice completed the picture.
It was the Romans who brought writing, records and bureaucrats to Britain when they invaded in 43 A.D. (Third Year of the Reign of Claudius). "Gesarius," Alice noted was probably not the first recorded Potter's real name as he was not a Roman but a Briton. It was not known where he was born or when or where he actually lived. The first record of him was a scroll granting his son Veritasis (68 – 142) his lands and properties upon his death. The record related he had been some kind of administrator for the Romans and had been granted lands for his service to the Empire. Upon his death, Veritasis received his town home in what became London as well as rental properties there containing a market and bath and a modest estate in what would one day be Mercia and was now Cambridgeshire. It was not huge, but it was the start for according to Alice all of those properties were still owned by House Potter.
The period of the first sixteen Potters from Gesarius through the death of Hector Potter (438 – 510, "reign" 475 - 510) Alice called the Roman Era even though Rome's dominion over England ended a century before Hector's death. During this period, Potters were Romanized and served as administrators and later soldiers and provincial governors all the while acquiring and keeping more estates. None of them were particularly large by themselves at the time. Not one of them was connected to the other. A cluster were located in what is now East Anglia and the Midlands in the Counties of Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire generally with one estate a day's march from its neighbor. House Potter also acquired additional lands along Hadrian's Wall in modern day Cumbria and Durham and which included portions of the modern cities of Carlisle and Newcastle. These North and Middle Land estates would form the nucleus around which later Potters would expand their holdings.
Alice called her second period the Feudal Lord Potters which began with Hector's son the seventeenth Potter becoming Head of House in 510. He was Sir Galahad Potter (465 – 535, "reign" 510 - 545), one of the Knights of King Arthur's Round Table. For his service, Galahad was allowed to expand many of his holdings in the Middle Lands, estates that had once belonged to Arthur's adversaries. This period lasted until the death of the twenty-fourth Potter Atherol (602 – 695, "reign" 667 - 695). Following Sir Galahad, there were only two expansions of the Potter holdings as the Potters spent more time as warriors or trying to keep the recently arrived Anglo-Saxons from stealing their lands than acquiring new ones. The first expansion was the only "conquest" in Potter history. Atherol's father Hector (580 – 667, "reign 612 – 667) was the youngest Lord Potter in history prior to Harry. The average age for becoming Lord Potter was about 70) invaded and conquered a small portion of Northumbria bordering his Durham estates in response to raids from the north. The second expansion was the discovery and colonization of the Isle of Shen by Atherol's second son Dargoth (620 – 699, "reign" as Lord of the Isle 680 – 699, as Lord Potter 695 - 699) in 680. From Harry's perspective, this was an important era for his speech. From Galahad onward, the Potters had been warrior wizards and exceedingly good ones. Kingdoms rose and fell around them and often their lands fell squarely within two warring kingdoms, yet the Potters never lost a square meter of ground. As fierce as they were at war, they were even more terrifying as politicians as this form of statecraft was just as essential in preserving their lands. Two House Potter Creeds were said to date from this Era. Gwain Potter (507 – 588, "reign" 569 - 588) was said to have instilled the notion that "Once Potter land, always Potter land." No Potter ever lost or sold any land they ever acquired. Arthur Potter (563 – 612. "reign" 609 - 612) upon being asked to become King of Mercia was reputed to have said "A Kingdom with a border has a fool for a King." He also was supposed to have said "It is better to die in the ranks than live upon a throne" which he did at a rather young age for a Potter.
Charenwell began with the colonization of the Isle of Shen by a band of warrior wizards and their families under the twenty-fifth Potter Dargoth, a period Alice called the Rise of the Lords of the Isle. When his father and older brother died, Dargoth also became Head of House and inherited the family lands in Mercia and Northumbria. His son Harfeld (645 – 752, "reign" 699 - 752) established the notion that Charenwell was under the dominion of House Potter alone, but that as Lord Potter in England, he was subject to whatever King ruled. There were minor expansions of Potter Middle Lands and North Lands estates during this period which ran until the death of the thirty-second Potter Harfald (823 – 902, "reign" 871 - 902). The twenty-seventh Potter Dirgard (688 – 715) died young, well before his father Harfeld. From Harry's personal perspective, however, he was also important. He was the first Potter known to have acquired witch Concubines and may have had a Coven. He must have been one horny bastard considering he died at age 27 leaving behind a widow, nine mature Concubines and two others he left to his son. Every Lord Potter since had at least one Concubine, most had at least five.
In 920, King Edward the Elder rewarded the thirty-third Potter Karsten (850 – 938, "reign" 902 - 938) for throwing back a Viking invasion (it was probably just a raid, Alice concluded) by granting him significant estates in what is now Surry and Kent including, to Harry's surprise, all of what was now Little Whinging. Karsten was also named Earl of Darby, a hereditary title, and became a member of the Royal Court, which apparently he hated. For the next few centuries, Lord Potter was a member of the local nobility insofar as the Muggles were concerned. But they were still wizards as well and relations between Muggles and Wizards seemed to deteriorate further each generation. Finally, each was determined to keep the Isle of Shen out of the hands of the Muggles and their petty squabbles. It was a delicate balancing act and demanded each Earl be fearsome in battle and smart and better educated than any possible adversary. The Thirty-Fourth Potter Harold (901 – 988, "reign" 938 - 988) was the first to attend Hogwarts which apparently was over a century older than anyone in Magical Britain suspected.
It was this period of the Earls that proved Harry with the historical precedent he needed both for the Muggle Born evacuation and the justification for responding to the Queen's summons.
The decision to become a hereditary member of the Anglo-Saxon Muggle nobility was not done lightly. The Potters had remained Britons even under Rome as had almost all the magicals that had not come to Britain with the Romans. Gaelic was their first language although they all learned Latin as well. The common language on the Isle of Shen at the time was Gaelic and its written records were in either that language or Latin. But in England, House Potter had to adapt or lose its lands. When in England, the Lord Potter spoke Anglo-Saxon or Latin. The nature of secular power was such that merely being one of the largest landowners around was not enough to protect those lands from either Kings or their noblemen. To keep trespassers at bay, House Potter had to spend far too much time and resources on war and they had to win every fight. However, as a member of the Nobility, they merely had to keep in the King's good graces and defeat their rivals through court politics and not with the sword.
But as a member of the nobility, House Potter incurred obligations to the local King both to pay taxes (usually in the form of crops or livestock as money was scarce) and provide soldiers for the King's wars. Fortunately, England was in a state of relative peace when the first Potter was elevated, but that had been after a series of Kingdoms had been consolidated. In all probability, the First Earl of Darby was elevated for his family's long support of the House of Wessex and not for recent success in battle. The main reason was as part of the Court, he now exercised far more authority than before particularly over his own lands. Justice, such as it existed at this time, was meted out by the nobility and as a mere property owner; his tenants (for most of his lands were rented out) were subjected to the whims of the Anglo-Saxon nobility. Upon becoming Earl, only he or the King had authority over those who resided upon his lands in England. The Lord Potters had long realized that land and wealth went hand in hand, but that land without people to work it was useless except as a place to hunt game, which was not a profitable occupation.
Becoming and Earl made him the Muggle equivalent of his magical status in Britain at the time. As Head of an old Magical line, he was a member of their governing council the Wizengamot which had been formed during the "reign" of the twenty-sixth Potter Harfeld (645 – 752, "reign" 699 - 752). In the magical world, the Wizengamot made law and saw it enforced among Britain's magical people. In the Muggle world, the King ultimately made the law, it was the noblemen who saw it enforced within their lands. And all people, regardless of magical status, were subject to the King's law at that time. What might be legal in the magical world might not be in the Muggle. Moreover, there was the increasing power of the Church and its laws as well, which made "illegal" things Kings and Nobles would never have bothered with. How the Kings and Nobles saw magic and how the Church saw it were quite different in reality, but for most raised in the magical world it was the same.
Magicals had been around as long as Muggles and for a long time they interacted openly. Prior to the fall of the Roman Empire, magicals had played significant roles in Europe both within the Empire and the surrounding "barbarian" tribes. They were healers, advisors to rulers and such and played a significant role in the pre-Christian religions. They also pursued more mundane pursuits. The collapse of Roman authority created political chaos throughout much of Europe. The Muggle rulers, none of whom were particularly powerful more than a day's ride from their home, began to see magic in a new way. On the one hand, wizards and their magic on their side were a plus. Then again, they were even more of a plus if there was some way to have a monopoly on magic. On the other hand, magicals had been exempt from many things in Roman times and felt they should still be exempt. Having a large land owner claim they answered to no one but themselves was infuriating to those trying to consolidate power.
The Church slowly developed an even less accepting view of magic. First and foremost, magic was a part of the old religions and to allow it to continue was to promote heresy. Miracles were from God, not magic or pagan rites. As time went on, the status of witches offended the Church even more. While witches were by no means equal to wizards in magical society, as compared to the Church's view of the appropriate role of the sexes, they were everything the Church feared. Throw in the fact that some were aware of the sexual needs of young witches, which again flew in the face of what the Church wanted people to believe back then, and it was a recipe for trouble. Prior to the Ninth Century, trials for witchcraft or sorcery were unheard of in Britain. But they did begin. The secular authorities used them to grab lands and power. The local Church used them to suppress Satan and heresy. (Witch hunting as part of Papal policy would not become official until the fourteenth century and would then die out well before it died out in Protestant Europe.)
At this time, magicals were not nearly as skillful at hiding from Muggles as they would later become and they proved slow to adapt. There were exceptions such as House Potter who had "hidden" their Briton heritage for centuries to acquire and hold on to their lands under the Romans and later the Anglo-Saxons. Hiding their magic was not a problem. It helped that from 695 onward, House Potter officially resided on the Isle of Shen. It did not totally ban Muggle or the Church, but any hint of anti-magical attitude was punishable by death. Back in England, Lord Potter was as Muggle as he could be. He spent less than half the year there ensuring the rents were paid, trespasser dealt with and the neighboring nobles or ruling authorities placated. He also became in the eyes of the Muggles, the person to see if they caught a suspected Magical.
It was during the time of the thirty-first Potter Alfeld (770 – 871, "reign" 810 – 871) that House Potter became the de facto magical prosecutor. He would hold his investigations three times a year, once in the North, once in his Eastern lands and once in his Western lands. During those times, secular authorities or clergy could present suspected magicals for investigation. The secular authorities were far more successful than the clergy at actually catching a magical; still the vast majority were Muggles. In most cases, the charges of magic had more to do with unrelated disputes over land, property, insults, and "stealing" potential mates or as a means to end a marriage. The accused stood charged with witchcraft or such, not their real offense assuming there was one and if found guilty they faced total impoverishment, banishment or death. Alfeld and his successors tried to resolve these disputes by getting the accuser to recant. Otherwise, either the accused was declared guilty or, if Alfeld felt the accuser was acting out of malice or spite, the accuser stood accused of trying to bewitch the investigator. It was a brutal time and to let all of them go risked losing credibility.
As for the magicals who were caught, he found them all guilty as charged. Unless the magical was a rival or threat to him in the magical world, he recommended banishment for them and their husbands, wives and children and provided the means to remove the scourge from their shores. Most often, the authorities accepted his recommendation. If they did not, he arranged for the accused to escape to the boat that was waiting for them anyway. The guilty magicals wound up owing Alfeld a Life Debt, to be repaid by moving to the Isle of Shen and remaining there for at least three generations. For young witches who did not have a husband who were brought before him, they were destined to become Concubines. He kept some, the rest he gave to wizards from the older Shen families on the condition that they were to be treated as additional wives in all respects. The Concubine Auction was centuries away and the early Lord Potters generally would not pay for a witch as money was scarce and they would not give up land (those who did buy witches paid in grain, beer, wine, cloth, wool and livestock).
Alfeld saw the role of House Potter as one of protecting Potter lands and protecting magicals. Alice wrote that his son Harfald (823 – 902, reign 871 - 902) questioned the obvious fabrications of this system and accused his father of being dishonorable. In response, Alfeld allegedly replied: "Kings and clerics suckle honor at their wet nurse's breast. Potters suckle statecraft."
By becoming Earl of Darby, the Head of House Potter became the final say on the disposition of suspected magicals. No longer could King or clergy second guess his decisions due to his lack of noble status. They would actually have to prove him wrong, which never happened. In a manner of speaking, this was the first magical evacuation precipitated by oppression and prejudice. This use of banishment populated Charenwell and ultimately allowed it to prosper. Before Alfeld, there were less than 500 people on the island. By 1217, there were over 10,000 and that was at a time when the children were sent to magic school in England and most remained there. The numbers relocated in any given year were small. It had been estimate there might have been 9,000 magicals in all of Britain and Ireland in the tenth century and maybe twenty per year were sent to Charenwell, but as this practice continued until the Sixteenth Century, they certainly made a difference.
Finding a historical precedent for raising an army was not as straight forward. Individuals from Charenwell had gone off to fight for the Muggles for ages. In earlier times, success in battle meant looting. Later it was more the sense of adventure or something. But Charenwell as a nation seldom got involved abroad. The last time it had been done was World War I. Charenwell sent 1500 men off to that war in late 1915. That regiment was almost wiped out at the Battle of the Somme. A second regiment under the command of Charlus Potter landed in France in late 1918, but the war ended before they saw combat. It had taken a lot to convince both the Duke and the government to send troops. King George V asked, not truly expecting help. But it was the threat to Charenwell trade that pushed Charenwell to act. German U-boats were sinking their merchant ships as well. Charenwell also armed some of its fishing trawlers to hunt U-Boats, a trick the Royal Navy was using as well.
Before that, it was the Napoleonic Wars. Charenwell got into that war because it was affecting their trade with continental Europe and because France seemed to be sinking towards witch hunting, or so they believed.
Other than that, the only other time Charenwell had "gone to war" was 1066. The throne of England was in dispute. The thirty-seventh Potter Harstig (992 – 1091, "reign" 1035 – 1091) knew that two of the claimants would do all in their power to disposes him of his lands in England, still his primary source of income. As he was an Earl, one of those claimants called upon him to send troops. This was Harold Godwinson. Harstig went to England and dutifully mustered troops from his various lands and marched with Harold to meet the Norse, slaughtering them at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. But Harstig had cut a deal with the other claimant William of Normandy. William would honor his lands and nobility despite his being "Anglo-Saxon" provided Harstig kept the British Magicals out of the fight. When he left for England, Harstig was accompanied by 200 warrior wizards who, while Harstig and the Muggles marched against the Norse, fanned out and suppressed any magical support for Harold save Harold's personal advisor Athlar Dumbledore, who was useless in a fight it turned out. William kept his word and, for turning over London, Harstig was further rewarded with lands in what is today Norfolk, Devon, Someret and Avon (Avon was still a county when Harry was young). Harstig also asked to be downgraded to a mere Count. This was done both to play to Norman pride, but also to keep him out of Norman politics. As a Count, he retained several privileges, but was not sufficiently noble to be at Court or entertain the King and not eligible to marry into higher ranking families, meaning he was no threat. Equally important, he could not be required to take up the sword outside of England, and as most of William's interests were in France, that seemed (and would prove to be) a real possibility.
Based upon these, Harry was left to conclude that historically Charenwell fought abroad for two reasons. First, a Muggle war was threatening their livelihood and helping England win was good for trade. The only other time was when war threatened Potter lands in England, which were still the largest source of income in the country. Since 1217, Charenwell had been bound by treaty to come to England's defense, but they obviously viewed that provision narrowly and had never been called on it. From the twelfth through fifteenth centuries, Potter England sent troops to fight in France in a series of pointless wars. Charenwell stayed out. Charenwell refused all calls to send support during the War of the Roses as they did not consider a dynastic dispute a threat to England. That rationale also held true during the English Civil War for much the same reasons. They began a call up in 1940 when Germany threatened to invade, but stopped when the Germans called it off (although many went on to serve in the British Armed Forces anyway, just not under Charenwell colors.) Harry's immediate predecessors were considering it at the height of the last Wizard's war, but it had not been made public. Charlus and Charles were thinking hit wizards and such, which would take years to train. What Harry was thinking could be done much more quickly, if his people supported him. True, he was counting on support from the Muggle Borns when they arrived as they would know the stakes. But he wanted at least some Charenwellians.
But this War was not like the others. Going to war with magical Britain might well destroy their trade, not help preserve it. Regardless of what happened, it was unlikely doing nothing threatened Potter England. As large as Charenwell was, it represented less than half the land he owned. The rest was spread out over England and with the exception of a third of Diagon Alley and five heavily warded properties (small Manors in Dorset on land acquired by the Thirty-Ninth Potter Alfred (1042- 1129, "reign" 1091 – 1129), Kent, Lincolnshire and Cumbria and a castle in Leicestershire), all of it was rented to Muggles including, it turned out, some properties "owned" by the Queen herself. Historically, renting to the Crown had been one way to keep them out of Potter business. If a King tried to mess with Potter interests, as in take the land, they found themselves evicted. It only happened a couple of times and not surprisingly never made the Muggle history books, but it seemed the Crown remembered the lesson.
Harry gave his speech. He felt the call for recruits was pathetic. The Concubine issue had been straight forward enough. He merely confirmed it was true having spoken with the victims and if anything the articles played down the atrocities perpetrated on their kin. He thought he did his best on the Muggle Born evacuation. Still, he was not pleased with how it went.
Tuesday morning an office opened on Sir Galahad Street in Pottersport promptly at eight. It was a short walk from the Floo Terminal which meant anyone in the country was a floo trip away. It was manned by a retiree who was bored out of his mind and figured this would be more interesting than listening to the wife moan about the roses. He had been in the British Army as a youth, but that was ages ago. It did not pay much, but it got him out of the house. Besides, he really did not think it would be that much work. All he was doing was collecting names and addresses of people who were interested and making sure they knew it might be months before they were "called up." After all, they had no training program yet. He figured many would not sign up if they heard that. Even more, he really didn't expect much interest. He thought the Duke did a good job with that speech and was inspired by the bit about the evacuation, but he did not see the need to prepare for war yet and thought most would feel the same way.
When he opened the door, there was already a queue that stretched several yards down the block. They all looked so young, he thought. He was surprised that there were young witches in line as well, and then remembered that whatever this Air Force thing was, that's where many of the witch's were going. Once the door was open, he got behind his desk and called for the first person in line.
"Name?" he asked.
"Dudley Dursley," the young man replied.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 6th 1996 – Office of the Head of Magical Law Enforcement, Ministry of Magic, London, U.K.
Kingsley sat at his desk sifting through the pile of paperwork before him. He had already arranged to have a meeting with the eight Muggle Born witches he was sending on the mission on Thursday. He felt it was imperative that they knew the truth as to why they were going lest they somehow accept the mission the others were going to do. He wanted them to arrive at Charenwell alive. For now, however, the mounds of paperwork demanded his attention at least until the door to his office flew open and a very irate Dolores Umbridge stormed in. Waddled quickly more like, Kingsley thought with a smirk.
"Is something wrong Madam Umbridge?" he asked.
She threw a newspaper at him. "I WANT THAT PRINTER SHUT DOWN!" she screamed at him.
Kingsley looked at the paper. "Ah the Quibbler," he said, "always good for a laugh."
"Slanderous rubbish," Umbridge shrieked, "scandalous! It's sedition plain and simple! I want it shut down!"
"And what has this paper written to offend you?"
"Have you read it?" she screeched. "It's about … about those WHORES! Mudblood filth, yet this makes them look like victims in a sinister Pureblood plot! It even suggests the Minister himself keeps such creatures for his amusement!"
Kingsley knew exactly what was in the article, but acted as if he never had seen it before. "Ah!" he said. "Concubines?"
"Useless creatures," Umbridge huffed. "Best thing that ever happened to such filth, but that article makes it look like the scum are all innocent and such! I demand you shut that paper down!"
"On what grounds?"
"Writing scandalous accusations…"
"For which the Daily Prophet is equally culpable. Should I shut them down as well?"
"They are loyal to the Ministry…"
"I see. And can you cite statute granting me authority to interfere with a business for being disloyal? You are aware the Minister keeps Concubines himself. This might be the one time the Quibbler got it straight, although I do miss the articles about Fudge baking goblins into his pies."
"Statute?" Umbridge shouted. "What rubbish is that? This makes the Ministry look EVIL! If the Mudbloods read this filth…"
"The fact that it is already on the streets would suggest they have," Kingsley said.
"Do you not see the problem? They will demand things of us!"
"I see," Kingsley said. "Far be it for us to be expected to do our jobs."
"I want this paper shut down!"
"You do know that the editor is dead," Kingsley said. "Xeno Lovegood was killed by Death Eaters a month ago."
"Obviously someone has taken over," Umbridge noted. "And this is not last month's issue! I want the slanderous bastards found and out of business!"
"This is hardly a priority for law enforcement," Kingsley noted. "We do, after all, have that mission coming up."
"Find the resources and shut this paper down!" Umbridge shrieked.
"Fine," Kingsley replied. "If this is that important to the leadership, I'll assign someone to it. I would like this order in writing."
"There is no way I'll commit this to paper!" Umbridge said.
"Then I have no choice but to give this the priority it deserves, Madam."
"I'm glad you see reason. When can I expect results?"
"Given the priority, my office should be able to look into this sometime in 2002."
"WHAT?"
"Unless you put the order in writing, I see no reason why I should make this a priority. I, unlike you, am a Department Head and have better things to do with my time and people than pursue petty vendettas. But if it's that important, you can put it in writing and I'll see what I can do."
"Fine," she grumped. Kingsley knew the witch was not about to put anything on paper unless there was no choice. She preferred not to have her name associated with anything. But he also knew that she knew he seriously outranked her. If she pushed any harder, she'd be out of a job and she knew it. He hoped as she waddled out of his office that she'd let the matter drop. Then again, he knew her days were seriously numbered so that even if she sent the order, he could afford to ignore it.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 6th 1996 – Potter Manor, Charenwell.
Erin Sullivan awoke in the arms of a young man that law and magic now considered her husband. She was sixteen and had completed her O.W.L. Year at St. Patrick's School of Magic in Ireland. Yesterday, she awoke in her family home outside Dublin and today in a huge Manor in a country she had never heard of before with a boy she had heard of before but had never met until it was time for her to "bond" with him in the most intimate of ways. Despite being a Muggle Born, she had thought she knew a lot about the magical world. Perhaps she did, but there were some things about which she had little idea.
She had a younger sister who was two years behind her in school and four older siblings, all of whom had finished school and were already married. Her older sister Coleen was nineteen and had just married earlier that summer. Her other two older sisters and older brother had been married longer and between the three of them she had three nieces and four nephews ranging from one year olds to a five year old. Although her parents were Muggles, all of Erin's siblings were magical, as were their spouses and all the nieces and nephews had shown bouts of accidental magic. It had become a very magical family and one she had been proud of.
She was a year old when her oldest sister was eleven and had been invited to attend Ireland's magical school. It was the first time her family learned of the magical world. Her parents were quick to embrace it as they were informed that day that all five of their children (at the time) were magical and destined to receive invites to the school. As a result, while she grew up in Muggle Ireland, Erin had always known about magic and thought she knew as much about it as any person her age regardless of their upbringing.
She learned about witches and adolescence from her sisters when she was ten. That fall, she started to have strange urges that made her irritable and very uncomfortable. As St. Patrick's was a day school for the most part, her older sisters were around and one of them noted her discomfort, which led to a very embarrassing talk about becoming a magical woman and the effects that had on her magic unless the "stress" was relieved. Her older sisters explained how to relieve the stress and she learned effective ways of attaining orgasms by watching them play with themselves. As embarrassing as it was, she found that it worked and whenever she felt the discomfort grow, she knew what to do. She also learned from her sisters about girl sex. Although they were not into that form of relief, they explained how it was not frowned upon among witches for that purpose and many girls chose that method over masturbation for a variety of reasons. As a result, her first few days at magical school were not the shock that it was for other Muggle Born witches.
There were ten girls assigned to her dorm room at school. The rooms existed as a convenience. As underage witches, the law prohibited them from practicing magic outside of school so when they were assigned practice as homework, the dorms were the only place they could legally do it. A few of the girls from magical families complained saying they could do magic at home, but the school forbade it. If a professor assigned practical homework, all of the students from that class had to spend the night. It was also convenient should one find themselves in detention as that was always after the evening meal. Erin was quick to observe that the girl sex girls tended to board over more often than necessary. As she was not one, it did not matter to her whether she was at school or not. She could relieve "the pressure" just as easily in her room at home as in the loo at school or in her dorm. Obviously, needing or preferring a partner for relief made a home remedy more problematic, particularly for girls with at least one Muggle parent or a Muggle Born Wizard as a father and non-magical society, and particularly Irish Catholic non-magical society, looked down upon what appeared to be a same sex relationship. As a witch, Erin understood that in most all cases, girl sex was not that sort of thing. The vast majority who practiced it had no romantic feelings whatsoever but were simply more comfortable having another bring them to release than they were alone. Then again, conservative Muggles also considered doing it alone as an abomination.
As much as she thought she knew about the magical world, Erin's knowledge of Concubines was limited to the plots and characters of trashy, magical romance novels. She thought it was make believe. To her shock, she learned it was all too real when she arrived here yesterday and learned that her Magical Guardian had sold her as a Concubine and that she had to be bound. It was a public sale, she was told, which the law and magic required consummation (private sales apparently did not absent other agreements). Erin wondered why that Minerva woman spent such time going into such detail about the bond. It was obvious from the start of the lecture that once summoned, there was nothing any of the girls could do to actively resist the bonding and whether they wanted to or not, they would engage in very intimate sex acts with their new wizard. It did not matter to her a whit that the Bond could mature into a very positive relationship if she allowed it. The fact of the matter, she had thought during that lunch, was that afternoon she was going to be raped, as there really was no other word to describe what was about to happen to her. Wouldn't it have been simpler just to let it happen rather than give her and the others with her time to think about what was to come?
What stunned her even more was that after lunch and after she had been led to a huge library where her virginity was to be sacrificed on the altar of Wizard misogynist supremacy, she was met there by Kathryn O'Fallon. Kate was her best friend from school and apparently was now a Concubine of this wizard. Kate spent an hour or more talking with her and trying to get her to relax. Eventually, Kate wore her down for lack of a better word and Erin was at least willing to enter this phase of her life with a somewhat open mind. It was hard not to listen to her friend who had never truly lied to her about anything. What gave Erin pause and convinced her not to hate the young man she would soon meet on general principal was how happy Kate seemed and how content she seemed. Kate would not lead her astray, would she?
Apparently, she had not. If all wizards were like Harry at his age, the lecture at the beginning of Third Year might have been unnecessary. That lecture was the official Talk about witch sexuality and was geared on convincing the girls that boys were not the means to relieve their needs as most boys could care less. Most boys were not Harry. He seemed to know exactly what to do, where and when to touch, what to say to drive her to the height of ecstasy again and again and again. She had entered that library a virgin and left a very sated witch. In the process, she also learned that girl sex might actually be better than her right hand, having had sex with Kate (who had not been a girl sex girl before) and a few other witches while waiting for Harry to take her again, which he did whenever she asked and he was both ready and not pleasing one of his other witches. (She had to admit, watching him do so was a huge turn on.)
The morning after a bonding was a lie in for Harry and his new "bride," Erin was told. And yet after a lovely breakfast in bed and a very intimate bath where she learned that Harry was still a lot of fun even if she was more than a little sore down there, by ten he was dressed and heading out to start his day and she found herself alone in the Master's Chambers for a moment. It had to have been less than a minute since he kissed her and left when Kate entered the room and told her to put on her new, short silk robe and slippers and follow her. The robe was a small concession to modesty, as she learned that no one wore anything under it. If she or the other girls bent over, their bare bum was liable to be exposed to the world. It had charms designed to keep it from falling open at inopportune times and to support her breasts so that underwear was not required and apparently to keep her comfortable, neither too warm nor too cold despite the lack of any layers. She had been told that the robe was only worn on the First and Second Floor, which were generally restricted to Harry and his ladies (there were exceptions to the general rule, and she would be told those when it was appropriate.) Erin was also told that the robes meant they were home for the moment and free to engage in acts of intimacy either with Harry or his other girls. It was basically a sign saying that she was open for shag, which oddly did not bother her.
Kate led her to the Second Floor and to what would be her room when she was not sleeping with Harry. It was part of a two bedroom suite and Kate had the other bedroom. Upon their arrival, they spoke about their individual bondings in what Erin would have considered unnecessary detail only a day before. She was now eager to speak about such things, given how amazing it had turned out to be for her. She was still surprised at how eager she felt when it finally came time for her to "return the favor." She had always thought she would not enjoy that aspect of pleasuring a man, but was stunned about how turned on she was when he finally asked her to go down on him and how thrilling it was to do that to him. She confessed to Kate she loved it when he finished in her mouth. Kate replied that she thought that was the next best thing to him finishing where nature intended, to which Erin could only eagerly agree.
"So," Kate asked, "did you go all the way?"
"You were there," Erin said, "you know that I did. Several times in fact and I am a bit sore as a result."
Kate chuckled. "Every one of us was warned not to overdo it with him if he was our first time and so far it seems none of us have heeded that warning. I was walking funny until dinner the next day. But that's not what I meant, Erin. Did you Love Bond with him?"
Erin nodded. "It was after we made love in his bed. I am surprised it happened so fast," she said. "I mean I barely know him."
Kate laughed. "You held out longer than most," she said. "I didn't even make it to dinner and at some never even left the Bonding Bench."
"How…?" Erin began.
"Some think it's because what we have here is not so much a Harem as a Coven. They're still trying to figure out all that it means, but they think the Coven is kind of self-reinforcing in a way. Our initial bond is enhanced by the Coven's magic, drawing us to bond more closely sooner than might be the case."
"I guess that kind of makes sense," Erin said.
"Excuse me?" a voice asked. The two girls looked up and saw an Elf Maiden in the room.
"This is Mimbly," Kate said. "She's in charge of keeping this suite and helping us."
"Thank you Miss Kate," Mimbly said. "Miss Erin's things are in her room."
"Things?"
"Yes Miss," Mimbly said. "After you arrived, we went to your former home and gathered your things so you would not be without."
"Without my family knowing?" Erin asked in confusion.
"Oh no Miss," Mimbly said. "As with all First Generations and newly First Bondeds we spoke to your parents about what has become of you."
Erin gasped in shock. "What did you tell them?"
"It depended upon what they already knew, suspected and what we sensed their reaction would be," Mimbly said. "In your case, while they are disappointed in what has happened, they are happy you were bound to a wizard who will treat you well."
"They knew about this? How? I have three older sisters who are witches and they're not Concubines!"
"You're new Headmaster, Miss," Mimbly said. "Your old one was not one to supply his wards to the Auctions. Your new one, while not so willing as some, would. He only sold the two of you."
"Why?" the two asked. They both knew there were ten other Muggle Borns in their year out of the forty witches.
"He's Pureblood," Mimbly shrugged. "You two were the top of your class, higher than any Pureblood. He sold you to get rid of you as you make Purebloods look bad."
"How do you know this?" Kate asked.
"We have contacts with many school elves," Mimbly shrugged. "They are bound to the school and not to its Headmaster, so they can tell what they know if you know what and how to ask. Little happens that an Elf does not know in their House."
"So we were sold because we were too good as witches?"
Mimbly shrugged. "Hogwarts sold all of its Muggle Borns of Bonding Age this summer, not just the ones who did well on exams. St. Andrews sold only one because her parents refused to pay tuition. The other schools sold none this year."
"That's so wrong!" Kate said.
"Does Harry know this?" Erin asked.
Mimbly nodded. "He bought all of the witches first sold this year. The Duke did not want more than his Hermione, but could not let friends and innocents be used by the Puerbloods as slaves, so he bought you all and brought you here where, although you do have to be bound, you will not be slaves. He's doing far more than that to protect innocents. Soon, all Muggle Borns will be asked to come here to be free of that place and never again fear losing their daughters to evil minded Purebloods."
"My family?" Erin asked.
"Are already making plans, Miss Erin. You're parents don't want what happened to you to happen to your little sister and your older ones don't' want their children to worry about such things."
"When will they be coming?"
"It's up to you to decide that," Mimbly said. "If you have accepted this life, write them a letter and they may be here in a couple of weeks. But you and only you can decide if they should come. The Duke wants you to have your family, but does not want you to be sad because they might not accept…"
"I'll send them a letter straight away," Erin began.
Mimbly smiled. "That's good to here, but let's first unpack your things and arrange your room. Plenty of time for letters later."
TUESDAY, AUGUST 6th, 1996 – Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Rose granger was again enjoying the outdoors at their hotel, this time in Victoria, British Columbia. She began thinking about how much Hermione would love this place, at least to visit, and immediately began to miss her only daughter. As if on cue, a member of the hotel staff appeared and explained that they had received some mail and a package for her and her husband, who once again was having a lie in. She thanked the man and looked at the items as he left. Again, they were from Gringotts. The package was addressed to her and the letter to her husband. She eagerly opened the package.
Inside were a couple of books. Rose loved to read every bit as much as her daughter and if there was one problem with this trip (aside from the facts that Hermione was goodness knows where and this trip was because there were evil wizards out there who wanted all of them dead) it was that they had spent very little time in book stores and what they had found at airports and such had little of interest. The top book was entitled: On Magical Bonds of Love. (Self Updating). Rose was a little surprised at the title and was certain it was a trashy magical romance novel. Such works were her guilty secret and Hermione knew that, but it was an odd gift under the Circumstances. The second was entitled: A History of House Potter. (Self Updating). There was also a letter addressed to her.
3 August 1996
Dear Mum:
Don't worry, I also wrote a letter to Daddy. The first thing I'm going to tell you, as Daddy will find out when he reads his letters, this will probably be my last letter. It would seem your "vacation" is about to end. If everything goes as planned and you don't miss your flights, I'll see the both of you here Monday, August 12! Daddy's letter has a lot about what's going on and how my education is going to continue and stuff. This one is a little different.
I hope you can promise me you won't tell him about what I'm about to write. I want to see the both of you so much, but I'm afraid he might get mad and not want to come. You might too. But I'm hoping you won't. (In case you're wondering, this letter is charmed in such a way that he can't read what you're reading.) I know I left enough clues in my last letter, so I'll just tell you. Yes. Harry and I are married. Don't worry Mum; there was no cart before the horse or any of that. And, if you're afraid you missed the wedding, you didn't. One of the books I sent you is a draft of a book about love based bonds. There are several different kinds, but if they form and mature between a witch and wizard, it binds them together in ways you can't imagine. Muggles might call it a match made in heaven sort of thing. It kind of works like that in time. But once such a bond forms, we are considered married in our world and adults as well. It is, however, still customary to have a wedding ceremony. We hope to have one soon after you two are here.
In case you're wondering, our Bond fully matured on 23 June. We can't say for certain, but we both think it's been forming since Second Year and maybe since First Year. Our specific Bond has a name. It's called the Consort Bond. It's apparently fairly uncommon as it requires a deep, selfless kind of love and true commitment from both people before it can work. It also helps if the couple has not been involved in a physically intimate relationship prior to bonding. But the book covers it in far more detail, so I won't spoil it for you.
There are other bonds you should read about and in particular the Concubine Bond. It was meant to be a substitute for the Consort Bond, a way to get to that bond without the match made in heaven thing. It can be that, but most wizards in Britain use it to enslave witches. Had I not become Harry's Consort, I was set to be enslaved by a wizard. It's totally sick! Then again, the more I learn about Magical Britain, the more I'm glad I'm shot of the place.
The second book is a history of Harry's family. It was written by one of the wives of Harry's Great-great Grandfather and it too is unfinished. We're working on finishing it and thankfully the first author (Alice) has already translated all the materials in the family archives (many are written in Latin, Old Gaelic, Anglo-Saxon, Old English and French and such). She wrote the history based on journals, letters and other documents we have here and they date back to around the time of the Roman invasion of Britain! It's arguably the best history of magical and non-magical Britain you're going to find anywhere! (And Charenwell as well!)
I doubt you'll be able to finish them both before you get here, but knowing you, Mum, you're going to try!
I'll see you and Daddy on the 12th! I miss you so much!
Love,
Hermione
Rose contemplated opening one of the books when Robert joined her.
"What's this?" he asked.
"A letter from Hermione," Rose replied, "and some new reading material."
Robert saw what looked very much like a couple of romance novels. "I see our daughter is aware of your guilty pleasure?"
Rose blushed slightly and nodded. "This came for you, she said handing him another package, also marked that it was from or came through Gringotts. Robert opened his package and read his letter from Hermione. "She sounds quite busy," he chuckled. "Doesn't seem like much of a Holiday there. Then again, a huge library and research projects? She must be in Hermione Heaven," he added with a chuckle. "She also says we may be calling our own little adventure off sooner than expected."
"She wrote me the same," Rose confessed.
Robert then opened a second envelope with an odd look on his face.
"I don't believe this," he sighed. "I've been recalled!"
"Recalled?"
"The Ministry of Defense is recalling me to active service! Bloody reserve commission! I'm being assigned to something called the British Military Advisory Group, Charenwell… Isn't that where Hermione said she is now?"
Rose nodded. "She didn't say anything about that, though."
"Maybe she didn't know," Robert said, "but she wasn't kidding we're going to be there sooner rather than later. They included travel orders and tickets for both of us, Rose! We leave day after tomorrow from Vancouver, non-stop flight to Toronto. We then have a British Airways flight from there to London on Friday. We're apparently already booked into a hotel for a couple of days and then have a flight out of London City Airport nine o'clock Monday morning. Even have the boarding passes already!"
"Guess they mean business," Rose said. "What will you be doing?"
"Doesn't say," Robert replied. "Says that for security reasons, I will not be advised of my duties until briefed by my new C.O. sometime next week. Tossed me a bone, though."
"Oh?"
"Brevet Colonel Granger at your service, Ma'am," he added.
"You sound okay with this," Rose noted.
"To be honest, I think I could do without looking at case after case of poor dental hygiene for a spell. But I will reserve judgment. For all I know I'll be inspecting motor pools and such in which case bad teeth is more interesting."
"At least we'll be near Hermione," Rose said.
"There is that," Robert agreed. "So, what do you say about getting out and seeing the sights? We only got today and tomorrow to do so."
"I do want to see the botanical gardens," Rose agreed.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 6th, 1996 – RAF Pottersport, Charenwell.
Harry and several others, including some of the RAF officers and men from the Charenwell Flying Club were standing by the tail of a Douglas Dakota. Before them stood Fred and George Weasley.
"Glad you call could come to the party," Fred began.
"We were thinking about your little Ministry problem," George said.
"We think even if the wards do their job, we still need to contain any problems."
"Such as magical portkeys, tracking devices and the like…"
"Or a witch or wizard who survives the ride and has a change of heart…"
"Don't want any Ministry suck ups with wands wandering about, do we?" George added.
"Got some goodies we were working one for pranking fun that were easily adapted for bad guy containment," Fred added.
"And fortunately, we are told these planes are magically hardened so spells and such don't do bad things to their flying stuff," George said.
"Got this one set up for demonstration purposes," Fred added. "Climb aboard!"
There were about a dozen of them all told and they climbed aboard the plane. "Right then budge forward," Fred said and they did. They now looked to the rear of the plane where the twins were standing. "So, how do we disable and disarm a dozen or so Death Munchers or Aurors-of-Questionable-Morality and not have our people wind up getting hexed?"
"And keep the bad guys from mucking with the plane?" George added. He pulled out a roll of what looked like duct tape.
"Duct tape?" an Air Force Officer asked.
"It was," Fred said, "now it's a portable, easily applied magical shied generator! Observe!"
George taped a strip beginning midway up the side of the plane, down to the flood, across the floor and up the other side. "Note the yellow bit on one side," George said. "You tape the strip with the yellow towards where your bad guys are. Tape it from the widest point to widest point as I did so there are no gaps or leaks in the shield. Then, when ready touch a wand to the tape and presto!" George did just that and they could see a slight shimmer that the magicals knew looked just like a shield charm activating. "Now, if we assume the bad guys are at the back of the plane, we now have a shield between us and them that'll stop anything but an unforgivable…"
"And will hold much longer than normal," Fred added.
"They can still break it," Harry noted. "Enough spells…"
"Fear not, oh great one," Fred said. "We did not envision using it to let them be merry with their wands."
George pulled what looked like a Cricket ball from his robes and held it up. "Magical stud grenade," he said. "Activates with a touch of the wand," which he did, "and will discharge a stun field on impact. It will knock out any unshielded person within thirty feet…"
"Hence the portable shield to protect us good guys from the discharge…" Fred added.
George tossed the ball towards the back of the plane and when it hit the rear a flash of red light enveloped everything behind the tape shield. "Knock them out for at least two hours," George said.
"What we were thinking is put the bad guys up front," Fred said. "The cockpit is already shielded, but you can use the tape for an additional measure of safety. Good guys will be in back behind the shield tape. Now we guess the bad guys won't try any funny business until after you lot take off and probably not until you land or they can see land and apparate off."
"So," George continued, "you simply wait until sometime after take off; toss one of those babies into where the bad guys are seated and their down for the count."
"You can then liberate them of wands and other magical nasties at your leisure," Fred finished. "Bad guys won't know what hit them!"
"Questions?" George asked.
There were, but over the next hour or so the Twins answered all of them and they now had a plan to deal with the Ministry's plot with little fuss.
A/N: RELATIONSHIP SCORECARD:
If you didn't read the Intro, you missed that. This is so you can keep up with who's with who and how.
Key:
Names in Italics = OC
Gr – Gryffindor, Hu – Hufflepuff, Ra – Ravenclaw, Sl – Slytherin.
SG – St. George's School, PE – Prince Edward School, SA – St. Andrew's, SP – St. Patrick's, SD – St. David's.
(Number indicates last year completed. No number means they finished all seven years.)
P = pregnant.
Harry James Potter, age 16.* HOUSE POTTER
1. Hermione Jane (Granger) Potter, age 16 (Gr-5); CONSORT.*P - boy/girl (twins).
2. Minerva Grace (McGonagall) Potter-Black, age 68 (Gr).P - girl.
3. Astoria Lynn (Greengrass) Potter-Black, age 14 (Sl-3).*
4. Ginevra Molly (Weasley) Potter-Black, age 14 (Gr-4).*
5. Stacey Marie (Campbell) Potter-Black, age 17 (SA-5).*
6. Laura Teresa (Oliver) Potter-Black, age 21 (PE-5).*
7. Rhonda Kaye (Lester) Potter-Black, age 17 (SD-5).
8. Katie Alice (Bell) Potter-Black, age 17 (Gr-6).
9. Padma (Patil) Potter-Black, age 16 (Ra-5).
10. Sally-Anne (Perks) Potter-Black, age 16 (SG-5).
11. Erin Faye (Sullivan) Potter-Black, age 16 (SP-6).
HOUSE BLACK
1. Luna Celeste (Lovegood) Black, age 15 (Ra-4); CONSORT.*P
2. Dora (Tonks) Black-Potter, age 22 (Hu).*P – girl.
3. Mallory Michelle (Grant) Black-Potter, age 39 (Hu).P - boy.
4. Daphne Renee (Greengrass) Black-Potter, age 16 (Sl-5).*P
5. Tabatha Simone (Collins) Black-Potter, age 16 (SA-5).*
6. Fiona Michelle (Simpson) Black-Potter, age 22 (SD).*
7. Karen Maria (Green) Black-Potter, age 18 (PE-5).
8. Constance Maria (Plumber) Black-Potter, age 16 (SG-5).
9. Parvati (Patil) Black-Potter, age 16 (Gr-5).
10. Kathryn Marie (O'Fallon) Black-Potter, age 16 (SP-5).
1. Narcissa (Cissy) Black, age 33 (Sl-5); Coven Bonded.
2. Gabrielle Collette Delacour, age 9; Veela Bond.
Bill Weasley, age 25.
1. Fleur Patrice (Delacour) Weasley, age 19; CONSORT.P – girl.
2. Mary Ellen (Howard) Weasley, age 18 (Hu-5).*P - boy.
3. Samantha Christine (Johnson) Weasley, age 17 (SG-5).*
4. Peggy Louise (Nolan) Weasley, age 17 (9/6/78) (Hu-6).*
5. Elizabeth Olive (Nolan) Weasley, age 14 (Gr-3).
6. Lana Catherine (Powell) Weasley, age 22 (SA).*P
7. Carla (Masterson) Weasley, age 20 (PE-5).*P
8. Donna Lynn (Roselle) Weasley, age 19 (SG-5).
9. Christine Celine (Paulson) Weasley, age 17 (PE-5).
10. Mandy (Brocklehurst) Weasley, age 16 (Ra-5).
11. Wendy Seline (Hendricks) Weasley, age 15 (Gr-4).
12. Agnes Gabrielle (Martin) Weasley, age 15 (Hu-4).
13. Morgan Laura (Carlson) Weasley, age 14 (Hu-3).
14. Francine Sally Broadmoor, age 14 (Ra-3).
15. Wanda Helen Parker, age 13 (Gr-2).
Neville Algicyrus Longbottom, age 16.*
1. Susan Marie (Bones) Longbottom, age 16 (Hu-5); CONSORT.*P – boy, girl (twins).
2. Amber Selma (Harker) Longbottom, age 33 (Sl-5).*P - boy, girl (twins).
3. Penelope Ann (Clearwater) Longbottom, age 20 (Ra).*P
4. Annette Lucille (Harper) Longbottom, age 24 (SD).*
5. Deborah Leigh (McLean) Longbottom, age 20 (SA).*
6. Miriam Olivia (Riley) Longbottom, age 18 (SG-5).P
7. Amanda (Kennedy) Longbottom, age 16 (SP-5).
8. Hannah Suzanne (Abbott) Longbottom, age 16 (Hu-5).
9. Patricia Faye (Abbott) Longbottom, age 14 (Hu-3).
10. Megan Allison (Jones) Longbottom, age 16 (Hu-5).
11. Leanne Lucille (Tinker) Longottom, age 17 (Gr-6).
12. Lavender Sue (Brown) Longbottom, age 16 (Gr-5).
13. Natalie Mae (McDonald) Longbottom, age 14 (Gr-3).
14. Cho (Chang) Longbottom, age 17 (Ra-6).
Fred Weasley, age 18.
1. Alicia May (Spinet) Weasley, age 18 (Gr); CONSORT.*P
2. Verity Nicole (Smith) Weasley, age 21 (SG-5).*P – boy.
3. Danielle Louise (Carter) Weasley, age 20 (SG-5).*P - girl.
4. Victoria (Vicki) (Peters) Weasley, age 17 (Ra-6).*
5. Rachel Francine Peters, age 15 (Ra-4).*
6. Coleen (Harrington) Weasley, age 23 (SP).*
7. Elisha Susan (Stout) Weasley, age 21 (SD).P
8. Helen May (Ivey) Weasley, age 20 (SG-5).
9. Caroline (Folsom) Weasley, age 18 (SD-5).
10. Annette Maria (Barnes) Weasley, age 15 (Gr-4).
11. Simone (Fanning) Weasley, age 15, (Hu-4).
12. Jessica (Jessie) (Bates) Weasley, age 14 (Gr-3).
13. Jennifer Lynn (Faulken) Weasley, age 14 (Hu-3).
14. Patsy (Tennyson) Weasley, age 14 (Ra-3).
15. Mary Simone (Tennyson) Weasley, age 14 (Ra-3).
16. Megan Anne Albright, age 13 (Hu-2).
George Weasley, age 18.
1. Angelina Olivia (Johnson) Weasley, age 18 (Gr); CONSORT.*P – boy.
2. Shelly Ann (Parker) Weasley, age 22 (SG).*P - girl.
3. Ellen Suzanne (North) Weasley, age 20 (SG).*P
4. Alice Melissa (Jenkins) Weasley, age 17 (Hu-6).*
5. Roberta Elaine (Larson) Weasley, age 25 (PE).*P
6. Georgina Emma (Parker) Weasley, age 22 (SG).*
7. Eileen (O'Malley) Weasley, age 21 (SP-5).
8. Isabel (Tate) Weasley, age 19 (SA).
9. Tammy (Grey) Weasley, age 15 (Hu-4).
10. Pamela Ray (Adams) Weasley, age 15 (Ra-4).
11. Selene Adams, age 13 (Ra-2).
12. Betsy (Watson) Weasley, age 14 (Gr-3).
13. Elaine Lucinda (Manning) Weasley, age 14 (Hu-3).
14. Michelle Eliza Graham, age 13 (Gr-2).
15. Alice Paulette McGregor, age 13 (Hu-2).
Lord Mayor Remus John Lupin, age 36.
1. Stephanie Mia (Rogers) Lupin, age 24 (SG); CONSORT.
2. Sarah Michelle (Hanson) Lupin, age 21 (SG).*
3. Amelia Renee (Carpenter) Lupin, age 21 (SG).*P
4. Tara Frances (Marks) Lupin, age 20 (SG-5).*
5. Christy (Matthews) Lupin, age 19 (SG).
6. Ellie Beth (Mitchell) Lupin, age 18 (PE-5).
Frank Longbottom, age 41.
1. Alice Maria (Pierson) Longbottom, age 40 (Ra); CONSORT.P
2. Sandra Ellen (Butler) Longbottom, age 24 (SP).*
3. Veronica Helen (Riordan) Longbottom, age 23 (SP).*P
4. Gretchen Lee (St. James) Longbottom, age 21 (PE).*
5. Marie (White) Longbottom, age 19 (SD).
6. Carol Matilda (Timmerman) Longbottom, age 17 (SD-5).
Charlie Weasley, age 23
1. Tatiana Maria (Ivanova) Weasley, age 19.