Into The Light (Golden Trio Era) {2}

The New Minister

Mikayla woke that Sunday feeling anxious for what the next couple of days entailed, Mikayla knew that Dumbledore will be arriving around 4 because he needed to speak to her. What she wasn't prepared for was a strange man arriving at the burrow to meet with her, "Hello Miss Black, my name is Rufus Scrimgeour, and I'm the new Minister for Magic." Mikayla drew a cold breath as she swallow a lump in her throat as she took in the Minister's appearance, Scrimgeour was a man with a certain rangy loping grace; he walked with a slight limp, and looked rather like an old lion with grey streaks in his mane of tawny hair and bushy eyebrows. He had keen yellowish eyes and wore wire-rimmed spectacles. He held a walking stick in his left hand. Mikayla rolled her shoulders back before displaying her right hand to shake his, Scrimgeour took the girl's offering hand and shook her hand with a firm grip. "It's a pleasure to meet you Minister." Mikayla gave him a welcoming smile. "Is it ok if I talk to you privately Miss Black?" Mikayla nodded, "with your guardian's permission of course." Scrimgeour added turning towards Molly, who was watching the strange exchange. "Oh yeah, of course Minister, does she need me to be with her as she is underage?" Molly asks as to make sure that Mikayla wasn't in deep trouble. "No, it's just a casual talk." Scrimgeour smiles, before he leads Mikayla out the kitchen door towards the pond in the Weasley's garden.

Scrimgeour watches as the blonde intently, as Mikayla watches the frogs in the pond catching flies with a sense of curiosity of the creatures. "Miss Black, I wanted to speak with you about your parents." There was a noticeable change in Mikayla's calm demeanour to a tense and rigid essence, "of course, but Minister please call me Mikayla." Scrimgeour was a little surprised at Mikayla's calm voice as it didn't reflect her body language. "Well, let's start with your dad's trial on Tuesday." "Fergal is not my dad." Mikayla snapped before she could stop herself, "sorry but he was never my dad and he was my step-father and now he's just another man that wants me dead." She informed the Minister who nods at her clarification. "Well, I'd like to appoint some Auror's to accompany you and Miss O'Brien, for your own protection." Mikayla sighed, "who did you have in mind?" Scrimgeour was stunned by the blonde's submissiveness as he was warned by many of his colleague's that the blonde was quite the handful. "Alastor Moody and Nymphadora Tonks both volunteered to do it, are you ok with it being them?" Mikayla smiled, she seemed to relax slightly, "yeah, I trust them." Scrimgeour nodded at the blonde's agreement to security details.

"As you might remember that your mother left you the Carra estate..." Mikayla's eyebrows furrowed together as she was trying to figure out why the Minister cared about this information, she nodded, "you haven't visited the ground since it has been put in your name, and I was just wondering why?" Mikayla scoff as if Scrimgeour had asked her an idiotic question, "life has been a bit crazy since the Carra estate was put into my name. What's it to you if I haven't visited the grounds?" Scrimgeour takes a step towards the blonde, which took three steps away from the older man out of instinct "because the grounds keeper has reported a break-in in the Manor, nothing was stole but the place was trashed in search of something, I was hoping you know what would be so valuable that someone would trash the Manor." Mikayla shrugged trying rack her brain to remember if her mother mentioned something.

"That's not what you were hoping." Mikayla stated looking the Minister in the eye, "you were hoping that once you left that I would go to the Manor to check it out and use my abilities to find out what the burglar was looking for and then report back to you." Scrimgeour sighed as he was found out, "I'm not the Ministry gofer. You lot have put me through enough loops for a lifetime." Mikayla turned to walk back to the house but was stopped by the Minister standing in front of her blocking her way. "Aren't you a little curious?" Mikayla nodded, "I will still be going to the Manor and checking it out, but I will NOT be reporting back to the Ministry. You all can wait until I'm seventeen before I sign off allowing to keep my prophecies to myself." "Can I send Moody and Tonks with you for protection?" "Yes, but protection purposes only." Scrimgeour agreed to Mikayla's terms, "surely these matters aren't something that would cause the Minister to come visit me, so what is it?" Scrimgeour shook his head in disbelief of the detective skills, "well you've already answered my reason of being here. The Proclamation of Aevus." Mikayla scoffed in disbelief, "I thought I made it clear with Fudge that it wasn't happening as it wouldn't be legal until I'm 17." Scrimgeour chuckles shaking his head, "or it because you don't trust the Ministry not to abuse your power?" "It's exactly that, so you have a year and 2 weeks to wait before I have to sign anything."

Scrimgeour walked Mikayla back to the house, "I'll send Moody and Tonks here at 4." Scrimgeour informed the blonde who nodded agreeingly, "goodbye Minister." Scrimgeour then apparated out of the house, "what was that about?" Ron asks as Mikayla plops down on the sofa in-between him and Ginny. "He's setting Moody and Tonks on security guard duty with Avery and I until Fergal's sentence due to his murder threat. And there's been a break-in at the Carra Manor." "What? What did they steal from you?" Avery jumps to her feet, Mikayla shook her head no, "nothing they were looking for something, according to the grounds keeper nothing is missing. Which makes the Minister think that I'll go to the Manor and report back to him." Ron scoffed shaking his head, "are you going to go?" Mikayla nodded, "but I'm not telling the ministry, I'll tell the Order if it's important." Molly appeared in the door of the living room, Mikayla we're all going with you to the Manor, by the sounds of it, it'll need a good clean." Mikayla smiled happily, glad to have the Weasleys at the Carra Estate. "Wait so you have your own Manor?" Ron questions as the realisation dawns on his face, Mikayla nodded slowly, "yeah, my mum left it to me in her will. I haven't been to it since we used to live there, which is almost 10 years ago. If I'm honest, I've been avoiding returning to the house, there's a lot of early memories." Mikayla shivered at the thought of returning to her first ever house. "Well, we'll be there every step of the way." Ginny pulled the blonde into a side hug.

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