Aunt Mini

Severus and Remus walked into the great hall, ‘Thank you Harry, I can take him now.’

‘He’s been good Remus and I ever changed his nappy, not something I want to do again. I had to cast an air freshening charm around us though.’

‘Oh yes, he’s quite good at that,’ Remus took his son into his arms, ‘Let’s get you home to bed my boy, Harry I will see you soon, thank you again Severus,’ Remus smiled at everyone then left the great hall.

‘Miss Potter, if you will follow me, I can see how you handle a wand.’

‘How long do you think it will take Severus?’ Lily asked.

‘At least an hour.’

‘You go with the headmaster Jamie, we’ll come back in an hour,’ James said.

‘Alright dad,’ Jamie stood up and stared at the headmaster but glanced at her brother.

‘I have to go,’ Harry hugged his friends before following Severus and his sister out of the great hall, ‘I should warn you that there are steps you’ll get stuck in if you step on them, the stair cases will move depending on what day it is and there are a lot of doors that aren’t doors and walls that are doors.’

‘Thank you Harry, do you think you could spare some time to show me?’

‘I suppose, we’ll work something out.’

They stepped into the large oval office, ‘This is a beautiful office professor.’

‘Thank you Miss Potter, I left it how professor Dumbledore liked it,’ Severus waved his hand towards Albus’ portrait.

‘Your sister resembles you quite a lot Harry.’

‘Yeah, noticed that myself Dumbledore. But truth, you didn’t know what they did?’

‘No, I did not or I would have told you.’

‘Let’s get started, shall well. Now I do know that your mother was an excellent student, I never took any notice of your father. If they taught you correctly then you should know how to hold your wand and the movements. So let’s start with Harry’s favourite spell, the disarming charm,’ Severus conjured a training wizard, ‘I do not need to see how fast you can do it, just that you can do it correctly.’

Harry and Severus watched Jamie Potter try to disarm the training wizard, Severus nodded to Harry who took his sisters hand and showed her the correct way to hold her wand when casting that charm. After that they continued with all the spells and charms that she should already know for someone going into sixth year.

‘Even though you could do with some proper training, you did well Miss Potter, you can join the sixth year students. Now since we are here, let’s see which house you will go into,’ Severus took the old hat down from the shelf.

‘I thought I’d be in the house my brother is in, my parents were in Gryffindor as well.’

‘That may be, but even siblings can go into separate houses.’

‘Yeah, my friends, Padma and Parvati are twins, one’s a Gryffindor, one’s a Ravenclaw,’ Harry said.

‘Okay,’ Jamie smiled shyly as the hat was place on her head.

Severus and Harry watched Jamie and the hat, ‘Gryffindor,’ the hat called out.

Severus removed the hat, ‘That wasn’t unexpected. So I will get Harry to show you where Gryffindor tower is. You will be assigned a room that the head girl will show you once you start as a student.’

‘Head girl,’ Harry smirked.

‘Yes, but do not say anything Harry, she will find out soon enough.’

‘I would hate to spoil her surprise. So I’ll show her Gryffindor tower then get back to my potions.’

‘I’ll see you at dinner, Miss Potter, I will see you when term begins, welcome to Hogwarts,’ Severus shook her hand.

‘Thank you professor Snape.’

‘By,’ Harry kissed Severus briefly then left the office with his sister, ‘Gryffindor tower is on the same level we are now, just on another side of the castle.’

‘I knew it was a tower, mum and dad told me a lot about Hogwarts.’

‘I’m sure they did.’

‘They were good parents.’

‘To you, they abandoned me to Voldemort, I will never forgive them for that. I know I’ve been hard and cold towards you and I know it’s not your fault, not really. Maybe with some time we can get to know each other, but I want nothing to do with them. Right now I’m having a hard time dealing with all this.’

‘I would like to get to know you, I’ve heard so much about you, I’ve read a lot about you as well.’

‘Most of what you read were lies, there wasn’t much written about me that was the truth,’ Harry looked at the portrait of the fat lady who swung open instantly, ‘You’re have a password to open the portrait, she only did now as the headmaster hasn’t set one yet.’

‘Oh, okay, so does it stay the same all year?’

‘Usually, but there has been times where it gets changed. So this is the common room, girls dorm room are up those stairs to the right, boys on the left, boys cannot go up the stairs to the girls rooms but the girls can go into the boys rooms.’

‘So you’ll be up there?’

‘No, there are only enough dorm room to take the first years to the seventh years and there will be two lots of first years, so all of the ones my age are having our own rooms and common room. That’s where I am now, in my room, but my living area will be made bigger and that will be our common room, it’s on the fourth floor near Aunt Mini’s room.’

‘Is she really our aunt?’

‘Great aunt, but yeah, I’ve known for a few years, but it was too dangerous if Voldemort found out we were related. It was dangerous enough for all my friends. So is there anything you want to know about Gryffindor tower?’

‘No, it looks comfortable though. Thanks for showing me everything.’

‘No problem, I’ll take you back down. Until you get used to this place it’s easy to get lost. There are a lot of short cuts you will find or others will tell you.’

Harry and Jamie walked back down through the castle, Jamie would ask about the different portraits on the walls, or where the stairs lead when they change.

‘Harry, Jamie,’ Minerva said as she stepped over to them, ‘Follow me.’

‘What’s wrong Aunt Mini?’ Harry asked seeing the stiffness of his aunt.

‘I’ll explain soon,’ Minerva lead Harry and Jamie to her room, ‘I found these bags, I had no idea whose they were, so I looked.’

‘One is mine,’ Jamie said staring down at the large blue bag.

‘They are all yours, I found a note from your parents. I’m sorry Jamie, but they left you in Harry’s care, they’ve gone.’

‘Gone, what do you mean gone?’

‘They realised that Harry would never forgive them, which means no one will. They believe you will have a better life with your brother than with them. But they signed your guardianship over to your brother.’

‘So they couldn’t take my criticism or the fact they were wrong the whole time and couldn’t admit it. So they abandoned me as a baby now Jamie, those bastards.’

‘What am I supposed to do? Where will I live?’ Jamie wiped the tears from her face.

Harry saw the look his aunt gave him, so he put his arm around his sister, holding her while she cried. He knew none of this was her fault, she’s an innocent in all this, their parents were to blame for everything. So he knew what he had to do, look after his sister, but Harry knew Aunt Mini will help. As far as Harry was concerned, Aunt Mini and Jamie were his family, his only family, his parents were dead like he always believed they were. Now he just had to help Jamie get over the fact that the parents she loved left her.