Lost and Found (You Found Me, Book #2)

Chapter 26: Remus

HARRY POTTER AND AURORA BLACKBURNE:

WITCH WEEKLY'S HOTTEST COUPLE~THE MALFOY FAMILY! PLAYING WITH DARK MAGIC YET AGAIN??
Have you ever had to keep a secret? The media's newest headline, Aurora
Blackburne has. Well, according to recent updates, Aurora Blackburne was
previously pregnant with Harry Potter's first and only child. On the night of
March 29th, 2000 -the same night as the second British Ministry of Magic
confiscation in history- Cassthorpia Riddle forced her into labor and stole the
unnamed child. Potter and Blackburne's activity lately has been quiet, Blackburne
rarely seen anywhere outside of their newly located home in London.
It's our understanding, along with the casualties that occurred that night in the
Ministry, there was also the revealing of a Ministry mole: Emmaline Malfoy! The
recent bride to Draco Malfoy himself, son of Death Eater, Lucius Malfoy, and
nephew of Bellatrix Lestrange. His name has mellowed with time, and his recent
contributions to becoming a Ministry healer. Yet Malfoy and Blackburne's history
in the darkest of magic, along with the frequent account for being together have
us wondering ... ... ARE THEY BACK?????NON-TRADEABLE BEASTS ON THE BLACK MARKET!!BRITISH MINISTRY DEPARTMENT FOR THE REGULATION AND CONTROLOF MAGICAL CREATURES "DOING ALL THEY CAN TO PREVENT ANY INCIDENTS"

Over the past couple of weeks, there's been an increase in the experimental abuse
of magical breeding and illegal marketing. The first incident occurring more than
a year ago, and being passed off as just a bunch of illegal traders trying to create
"the new hottest beast" out there. The second incident, about two months later in
June. A group of Cassthorpia's Death Eater were caught and placed under arrest
while trying to smuggle several breeds of dragons out of the Romanian Dragon
Sanctuary in Romania.

And the third incident not a month later. More Death Eaters were spotted
-but not caught- smuggling fully turned werewolves from Scottish woodlands.
No one had the opportunity to apprehend, most of the bystanders too fearful to
confront them in the presence of fully turned werewolves, but one bystanders, by
the name of Augustus MacCiarain recalls: "They came in the middle of the day,
like they had no fear of being caught. Then, around twilight, they come out of the
woods hauling maybe ten werewolves by braided ropes. I understand why they
had no fear of us, they had bigger things to fear."

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Aurora's POV

For the following weeks I felt quite lost ...

I didn't know what to make of myself. I was put on temporary leave, with pay, from the Ministry as it was being reconstructed. For weeks I found myself often sitting up in bed staring at the window and just overthinking life, in general. It may sound cheesy but when you have literally nothing to do, your head gets the best of you. I knew Harry felt the same way but I didn't know how to talk to him about it because we had a been in different situations. We hadn't spoken ninety percent of the time. How would I ever talk to him the same say again?

There was an hour ago and nothing to do so I have found writing very helpful. Short stories, anything that in mind. I used to be really into that, when I was younger, when I needed something to distract me, something to make me think of anything but what I was supposed to be thinking about. But time will tell that I just... abandoned what I had once loved. Often, the stories were about Harry. Our time growing up, the adventures we had had. How much I love him and never told him.

Then, at the end of the night, when Harry came home from the Ministry, he would kiss me on the cheek, fall on the couch, and crash asleep in tired lump of Potter.

Therefore, he never knew about my new "hobby." And I never received the time to inform him. It all just sort of happened.

Writing was my distraction. Work was his.