More additions to this chapter by Deb. Help from Diane as well. Thank you both.

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Jane packed her backpack Monday morning, and looked at Lily, who did not seem to be doing anything to get ready to leave. "Are you going to Switzerland today?" Jane asked.

"No, it's just stupid language and politics," Lily scoffed, looking completely disgusted with the idea. "James and I are going to stay here and fly and spent time with the cousins. When mum goes over later we will spend time at the New Burrow with grandmother."

At breakfast Harry announced to Scorpius, "Dis was finally able to leave Malfoy Manor late last night. I'm glad that Mr. Gudgeon is talking to Mr. Malfoy instead of me. He did not have an easy time last night, and the next couple of days are not going to be any easier."

After breakfast, Ginny told Harry, "I will be there this afternoon to shop for clothes for Jane and help get her settled." She and Harry kissed like they were going to be parted for a long time.

Harry took Albus, Scorpius and Jane through the Floo to the Ministry of Magic, where they met Hermione, Rose, Cleo and her guard Elf Dis. Dobedo, Harry's guard Elf, and Frerin, Albus's guard Elf, were with them, along with Jim Snook, the head Auror guard for the Potter and Weasley families.

"Jane come with me, we need to get your papers in order," Hermione told Jane. She took Jane to a room where she was issued a temporary passport. From there they took an International Floo first to France, and then on to Switzerland. They were directed to a special "Passport and wand control" station, where everybody except Jane was waved through. Hermione and Jane spent some time as the temporary passport was examined, but eventually they waved Jane through.

Jim Snook told the crowd that their transportation was waiting for them. Jane looked in awe as they were led through the reception area to a private exit, and into a private bus. Jane noticed that Magi on brooms in Auror uniforms flew above the bus, two in front and two in back.

"How important are you?" Jane asked Cleo in awe.

"Mr. Potter is the Regent," Cleo thoughtfully replied. "One of his descendants will be the next ruler of the Valley. I think it will be Albus and me, but we are not sure. There are people trying to kill us, which is why we have these guards."

Jane whispered and giggled, "Are you going to marry Albus?"

Cleo quietly answered, her face lighting up with joy, "Oh, yes! He's finally growing up. When we are old enough we will marry."

"What about Rose and Scorpius?" Jane asked as she looked over at the other two who were quietly conversing.

"Scorpius has a girlfriend, and Rose doesn't want a boyfriend," Cleo replied. She thought that Rose and Scorpius would be together eventually, but she was not sure.

The bus drove down to the lowest road that went around the valley, and stopped at what looked like a three story fairy-tale castle. As you drove across the large, open plaza to the castle you could see that there were many floors below the floor that was on the level of the road. There was an imposing, seven tiered fountain in the plaza, but it was dry.

"It looks so much better without that stupid wall," Cleo told Albus, smiling. "It almost feels like coming home."

Albus nodded. It was hard to find the words to express it, but there was something about the castle, about the whole of the Swiss valley, which called to him. It was at the same time familiar and frightening. Albus was all too aware that what the future held was dangerous, and that if he and Cleo did end up as rulers of the valley it would probably come at a terrible cost.

Albus smiled at Cleo. Their fate was their fate. He just had to do his best to be the best wizard he could be.

Jane looked at awe at the group she was riding with. Her father was a cook at a restaurant, with a job that was adequate to support himself and her but no more, in a medium sized British town. She had shown some signs of magic when her mother was living, but other than that she was as average a student as you could be. Nothing could have prepared her for staying with this extraordinary group of people. When her mother died, they had to leave the house where her mother had grown a garden with many magical and non-magical plants and helped support them, and move into a flat. They were not exactly destitute, but they were borderline poor.

The group entered a large hall, and were met by a wizard and a goblin, both in expensive suits that looked like a cross between modern Muggle clothes and medieval robes. There were several beings surrounding these two.

"Goblin Zefenslot, Gerhard, thank you for meeting us," Harry bowed. "I expect you have things you want each of us to do."

Gerhard spoke to Cleo first. "Cleopatra, Mrs. Zwiefollhofer has arranged for children to show you flag designs. Only some of the children have flag designs, but most classes would like to accompany their classmates to show you the flag design or two they settled on. The students will start coming here later this morning to show you their ideas. Your companions Rose Weasley and Scorpius 'Snakeslayer' Malfoy may accompany you." Gerhard grinned at the mention of 'Snakeslayer,' and most people recognized that Gerhard was kidding Scorpius.

"Albus, if you would, accompany your father. We have many business matters to discuss, and Goblin Zefenslot and I agree that it is time for you to listen in."

"Yes, sir," Albus replied with resignation. He would have preferred joining his friends, but if his father and Mr. Richter thought he needed to sit through sometimes boring business meetings, that is what he was going to have to do.

Jane could sense that Albus was being treated as someone being groomed for leadership.

Gerhart looked questionably at Jane, and Cleo jumped in with, "Jane is our guest, and she can stay with us."

Gerhart nodded.

Most of the people left for their assignments. Rahel Zwiefollhofer indicated a table and some chairs on top of a raised area at the back of the hall. "We would like you to sit here, Cleo, Rose," Rahel told Cleo and Rose. "That way people can see you when they come in, and you can show flags to people and they can see them."

A young man who Jane recognized as Rich Hudson strode up to Scorpius, saying, "Mother told me I could cover Cleo while she tried to cover the rest of the International Conference of Witches and Wizards. I should have told you something about this yesterday at breakfast. I know my mother worked with you last year."

"Are Brenda Starr and Jimmy Olsen going to be reporting for their papers?" Scorpius asked. "I like Mr. Olsen, but Ms. Starr tries to make everything sensational."

"The reporters for The Magical Local and The Metro Magi are going to be kept outside, and they are not happy about it," Rich told the group. "I am going to serve as a pool reporter. My father is a news photographer, and he has taught me, so I am going to be taking photographs of the gathering.

"Scorpius, I would appreciate you doing your best to document things, especially if I am busy taking photographs. We can compose a news release and maybe a joint article or two."

Scorpius suggested, "Jimmy Olsen of The Magical Local is a nice person. I would not mind giving him some information before Brenda Starr."

"You have to be careful showing too much favoritism," Rich cautioned. "We are also going to be writing articles for The Daily Prophet in Britain, The Magical Times in the United States, and several other publications."

Jane watched in awe as one group of school children after another was led in. Rose did seem to have a very good sense of color and design, and at times children left with suggestions on how to improve their design. Cleo was eager to see all the new flag designs.

Some of the drawings were not flag designs at all, but other drawings of a variety of things. Cleo gushed over all of them. There was some magic in the way Cleo reacted to all of the children, and it was obvious that most of the children who came to see her though she was someone special.

They took a break for lunch in the hall at about 12:30. Cleo grumbled, "I'd rather be outside, but after what happened at the restaurant last year we had better eat inside. I hope we can go outside to the restaurant at least once."

"What happened last year?" Jane wondered.

"Someone planted a bomb in the restaurant trying to kill us." Cleo sighed. "It killed an Auror. We went to her funeral. She had a husband and three young children. You can hear, 'an Auror was killed' and think it is just a dangerous job, but when you meet her husband and children the tragedy become very real. I do not want to ever risk anyone's life because I'm doing something stupid."

Jane realized that there was a good reason this group of people had guards and were cautious. These people were prominent, but also in danger. Maybe it was better to be ordinary.

As lunch was finished a woman with a small baby came into the room from one direction, and Mrs. Potter and Minerva came from another direction. They met Cleo up on the raised platform Cleo and Rose were using to meet the children of the valley.

"Prophetess Papadopoulos!" Cleo shrieked. "Is that your baby?"

"Yes, thanks to you, Hermes and I have a daughter," the lady answered. "I would like to introduce you to Sophia."

"Just because we went to that fountain and prayed?" Cleo wondered, then grinned. "I'm sure you and your husband doing what married people do was the most important, and enjoyable, part." Cleo smiled, her huge mouth almost touching her ears. "I think I am going to enjoy everything about being a mother, from what you do to make a baby to carrying this new life inside you to having my breasts grow and making milk and nursing babies. It all just seems so much what I was made for."

Jane looked at her flat front, and at Cleo's already substantial superstructure. She didn't know much about how you made babies, or how your body changed when you were pregnant. Maybe she could ask Mrs. Potter, although that would be really embarrassing.

"Actually giving birth is hard work," Sibylla Papadopoulos remarked. "Nursing is enjoyable, but it sure ties you down. And you do not get much sleep the first weeks. Sophia is just sleeping enough at night that I do not wake up tired all the time." Sibylla turned to Ginny, wondering, "How long was it before you were able to sleep through the night?"

"They were all different," Ginny remarked. "James was eager to wean. I think Albus would have nursed for years if I had let him. He was particularly fond of my breasts, Lily was fussy and couldn't make up her mind. She started out being just the best baby, but the older she was the harder she was to take care of. Still is. Lily is my wild child.

"Minerva is my easiest baby by far. She slept through the night reasonably early, and you could nurse her in the middle of the night or early in the morning and then put her right back to sleep. She seems to be content to stay awake when we want her awake and to sleep when we want her to sleep."

Minerva looked up at her mother and hugged her, padded her mother's front, and mouthed, "Mu, mu, mum". She did seem to be a loving and easy going baby.

"Is Jane going to sleep with you," Ginny asked Cleo and Rose.

There was an Elf with the uniform of the Elves of the Regent there, and she replied, "We have Mistress Cleopatra and Rose in the same room, and have added an extra bed. The room is big enough. I will lead you there."

"Thank you," Ginny replied. Ginny put Minerva back in some sort of pram that allowed her to sit up and look out. Ginny held on to the pram tightly, gripping her wand in one hand, as Mitzi Ginny's Elf hovered close and occasionally caught Ginny when it looked like she was beginning to lose her balance. Two Aurors, one from Britain, one from Switzerland, followed, one ahead, one behind, obviously guarding Ginny. Ginny, Jane and the others went down stairs to a room on the outside of the castle.

The room was reasonably large, with an en-suite bathroom. There were three beds lined up along one wall.

Ginny changed Minerva as various people used the loo, and then put her down on the floor. Minerva crawled over to one of the beds, and pulled herself up. She walked around the bed until she was between two beds, and then gingerly walked the four steps between one bed and the other one.

"You can do it!" Ginny exclaimed.

Minerva went to her hands and knees again and crawled over to her mother.

"Once James learned how to walk he wanted to run everywhere," Ginny mused. "He had two speeds as a toddler, frantic and asleep. Minerva is so calm compared to my other three. I would have another one if I could be sure she was as calm as Minerva, but I'd probably get another frantic one.

"Put your clothes on this bed, Jane, and let us see what you have."

Jane took out all of her clothes except her undergarments.

"Do you have knickers?" Ginny asked. "Do you have anything you wear under a blouse?"

Embarrassed, Jane brought out one singlet, and three pairs of knickers. "I could not bring all my clothes," Jane admitted.

"How old are you, Jane?" Ginny asked.

"Eleven."

"Have you had a period yet?" Ginny wondered. There were none of the knickers that witches wore when they had their periods.

Jane looked at Ginny, horrified. She shook her head 'no.'

"Do you know about periods?" Ginny wondered, very aware of Jane's reaction.

Jane shrugged her shoulders, obviously both embarrassed and afraid.

Ginny thought back to her discussions with Harry concerning Magi maturing early at Hogwarts. Magi did mature a little earlier than Muggles, but something was happening at Hogwarts to cause them to mature even faster. If Jane went to Hogwarts she would almost certainly have her first period before the end of her first year. This was probably not the time to talk about it, however.

"I'm going to buy you a couple of knickers if your first period starts over the next couple of weeks," Ginny told Jane. "We will talk more about boys and girls and growing up this summer."

Jane kept quiet. The last two years she had been raised by her father. She had not talked to anyone in her mother's family since well before her mother had died, and they seldom saw anyone in her father's family. Her father never talked about any personal matters. Maybe she could talk to Mrs. Potter about embarrassing personal things.

Ginny took Jane shopping, and they purchased a rolling suitcase that was about four times larger on the inside than the outside, and a modest selection of clothes. Jane changed into one of the new dresses. They were back at the large hall about 4:00 PM.

"I want to be back home in time for dinner," Ginny told the group when there was a free moment. Then she left for home.

*

At 6:00 PM Cleo, Rose and Scorpius finished for the day.

Rich announced, "Scorpius and I have to write an article and get some additional information to the other reporters." Scorpius and Rose looked at each other.

Rose had been thinking how grown up and, yes, handsome, Scorpius looked. Two years ago he was a child not yet starting adolescent, but over the last two years he had become handsome. Oh, well, he had a girlfriend. She didn't think she was ready for a boyfriend. It would still be nice if she could have dinner with him. It wasn't like she was ugly or anything, either.

Scorpius had been looking at all the children of different ages as they came in, and also reflecting on Cleo and Rose, and Rose, and Rose wasn't the little girl he met two years ago.

Unlike Cleo, who almost always wore a dress and looked maternally feminine, Rose was... Rose was following in her mother's footsteps and often wore a trousers suit, but the trousers covered a very nice and feminine pair of hips, and she wasn't flat on top either. He knew he shouldn't be thinking of Rose like that, and besides Rose had made it very clear she wasn't ready for a boyfriend.

Rich looked at Scorpius and Rose looking at each other, and grinned. "Would you like to eat with us, Rose?" he asked.

"Thank you, yes," Rose replied.

"You can eat with me," Cleo told Jane. They removed to a reasonably large dining room. One of the Elves who had been helping said something to a couple of Elves at the door. Cleo, Dis and Jane were led over to one table, Rose, Scorpius and Rich to another one at the edge of the room. Rose, Scorpius and Rich all took out laptop computers or tablets, and Rich took out a camera and did something to send photographs to all three devices.

"Is that technology or magic?" Jane wondered as she watched the other group.

"I expect that the Muffliato spell is being used to keep their discussions from bothering the rest of the dining room," Cleo explained, looking over to where the others were working. "The rest is mostly Muggle technology."

Three menus appeared on the table. Cleo explained that you could choose one of two appetizers, one of two main courses, one of two vegetables, and one of two desserts. Dis pointed to one of each, and the menu disappeared. Jane pointed to an item on the menu, and Cleo took out her wand and touched it. Jane pointed out the other three items, Cleo touched her wand to the item, and at the last item the menu disappeared.

Cleo spent a few moments longer to make her choice. When she was finished she did some weird waving of her wand, the menu disappeared, and eight recipe cards flew into her hands. A short time later a wizard in a cook's hat came out, furious. When he saw Cleopatra his face went from furious to resigned. "Please ask if you want to see a recipe, Miss Cleopatra," he said. "Please keep the recipes secret."

Cleo did something, and like magic the recipe cards disappeared. "I'm sorry," she replied in a small, humble voice, quite embarrassed.

"Most of the staff is willing and even eager to work with you on cooking," the cook replied.

"Oh, thank you!" Cleo exclaimed. "The food here is so good and so interesting."

Jane looked on in wonder. By her words and attitude Cleo had, it seemed, turned what could have been a confrontation into a meeting that foretold a potential friendship.

A large group entered the room. Cleo pointed towards the group, and told Jane, "Albus and his father are with Mr. Richter, the wizard head of the Swiss valley, the Goblin Zefenslot, who is the head goblin, and his grandson Thorin who goes to Hogwarts with us, and the Elves Galadriel and Luthien. They also go to Hogwarts with us."

Rose jumped in with, "My mum is up there too. Winky, her house-elf, must be eating somewhere else. Winky is the most old-fashion house elf you could ever meet. Mum is embarrassed to own her, but mum says that owning Winky has also taught her about the old-fashion house elf relationships in a way nothing else could."

Albus and Cleo looked at each other, and Albus left the group and walked over to Cleo. They held hands, and Albus told Cleo, "I'm tied up tonight. I will tell you more later."

Jane thought that the emotion flowing between Cleo and Albus was very similar to the emotions flowing between Mr. and Mrs. Potter.

Albus went over to the