Daughter of Padfoot

Chapter XIII

Dumbledore didn't tell the rest of the kids at school about the un-nerving news, but Harry, Hermione, Ron, and I were called to go to the next Leauge meeting.

"How many kids can say they've been to a Leauge Against Voldemort meeting?" asked Ron excitedly.

"only Harry mum and dad, Sirius, Aphi's mum, Remus, Maxis, and Saraan." Said Hermione in her Know-it-all voice. "They went to the first one ever! Remember, and they were all kids at the time."

"Must you do that?" asked Ron.

"They definitly need to know." said and old man. "for they're own good. Voldemort is getting much stronger."

The disscusion in the meeting was heated. Every one agreed that the muggles had to know, but the question was how and when to do it.

"'ven 'vould 've do it?" asked some one. I could tell he was from Bulgaria.

"'zere must be a way to do it." Said Fleur "the question is 'ow do we do it with out 'ze minister finding out?"

"We'll find a way." Dumbledore stood up. "we'll only be telling the most powerful countries to be safe. Then they can do what they want with the information. Either tell the smaller countries and ask for help, fight on they're own, or discard it completely."

I saw a big problem with that plan.

"excuse me." I said nervously.

The crowd looked my way.

"uh yeah," I started "well there's kind of a problem with that plan. Red tape."

"what?" said someone.

"well I'm from the states, and my adoptive dad is in the military, and I know that you can't just send the heads of states a letter, or just one day walk into see them. It can take days, weeks, or even months for them to even acknoladge you. You have to cut through all the tape. It takes sweet talking, bribes, and they make the terms, and then even after all that they still might not give you any attention. Now I don't know who you were planning to tell in the US but I can tell you unless you have great, and I mean great connections it's gonna take awhile." I finished and looked around. People looked stunned. "Sorry," I added "it's just it's going to take agressiveness to talk to most countries heads. Maybe not England, because you're here already, but the US, China, Russia, and Canada you might have to cut through the red tape. And I'm assuming you'll want to talk to those countries because they are powerful."

"She's right." Said a girl. She looked about 20, and she had an Russian accent, so I assumed she was from Russia. "my country's government can be very hard to get through. We'll need to push."

Dumbledore nodded. "I had not thought of this so I'm glad you brought it up. We'll figure out some way to get through this 'red tape' as you call it." He leafed through some papers "now we'll be telling the US, Canada, Russia, Mexico, China, Japan, Australia, and parts, maybe all of Europe. Do we agree?"

"what about the continent of Africa?" asked an African witch.

"they'll be taken care of." Dumbledore answered.

The witch nodded.

"if that is all you may now look through your folder to see this quarters assingments. Thank you. Sirius, Remus, and Saraan please stay afterwards. I'd like a word."

People looked through their folders. I heard excited mumblings among them, and then most people left. Hermione, and Ron left too, but Harry and I stayed waiting for dad, Remus, and Saraan. Soon enough Dumbledore was done talking to them, they came over to us.

"Aphi I'm leaving." Said Dad when he came over.

"where are you going?" I asked.

"Hagrid should have been back by now. Dumbledore thinks something might have happened to him. Remus and I are leaving to search. Saraan will be staying here. She'll be teaching D.A.D.A, and Potions. Maxis is gone too. Fleur's staying for about a month more then she's going out on a mission."