It was small crowd of personal relations come to the Potter ranch in memory of the beloved friend, son and father. Emily Potter sat with her mother Mara Potter outside as they gathered together to burn a candle in a special bondfire for James. A seat was set beside her that was empty. It was for her brother but he did not bother to show up because he was busy working in the library working.
James' staff and peacemaker were set in front of the fire as Neville Longbottom set the flame. The items had arrived suddenly on their ranch two days ago. The last hope they had of seeing James again was lost.
Mara Potter didn't cry or look sad. She sat quietly angry. Emily was with her to help through the situation and do anything to dangerous.
Ava Potter along with Angus were missing as well for their own reasons. Unknown to anyone but maybe for Neville.
Neville was dressed like everyone their on black robes. He cleared his throat. "James Potter. He was noble friend and loyal companion. He will be missed and his memory never forgotten." He said and went silent.
It was hard for him along with everyone. Mara nodded. "That's good. Everyone can go now." She said before disappearing.
Emily got up. Neville nodded to her. "Go. I'll handle it." He said.
Emily went into a apparition and was in the library in Hawks Landing. Mara was standing next to Silver who was standing with his hand to her writing on the board. Emily sighed and walked over.
"What are you working on?" She asked.
Silver turned looking at her. "One of Dad's problems he was trying to figure out." He said.
"Magical signature." She said in surprise.
Silver nodded. "I had a brake through this morning when I woke. I was able to see and feel the magical signature on Dad's staff. If I can-" He said but stopped when Mara yelled.
He stared at her. Mara glared back at him. "You are not going to use that to hunt down your father's killers." She said.
"Dad isn't dead and dad told us him going missing like this could happen. If and when it did. He told us not to come hunting for him. Magical signature has more usefulness beyond hunting criminals." He said.
Emily knew he was lying and so did Mara. She stared at James.
"Your grandparents have a much better chance to get your father's killers.Your father did not want either you or your sister to hunt down anyone that could get to him. Promise me you will not hunt after your father's killers or I will be locked out of thr library and any resources here." She said.
Silver stared at her. "You Don't have the power to do that."
"I do. I'm still stronger then you and I will have your father's friends keep you our if you don't promise me here and now then I will sure you how powerful I am. Sware it to me now." Mara said speaking a spell as she stared at him.
Emily froze and knew their mother had steppes over the line. Silver stared at her. "I promise you that I will have no personal involvement or will pursue hunting down the people that took my father." He said.
The spell was cast. Emily looked as Silver rolled up his sleeve a mark was on his skin. He looked up at Mara. She stared at him.
Silver studied her. "The pack is done. If I break it I'm assuming I will lose my ability to work in the library." He said.
Mara nodded looking pale. "Yes and your magical ability. Keep your word and I won't ask anything more of you." She said.
Silver nodded studying her. "That is correct mother. You will have no say or opinion about my life or my choices from now on." He said.
Mara nodded. "I agree. Will you come to dinner now?" She said.
Silver stared at her. "From now on I think it would best that you don't come here when I am working. This is my place of work. I will be moving into the tower of the magi today. If your done please leave so I can finish the project my father left undone." He said.
Mara sighed. "I can stay here and asist you like I did your father." She said.
Silver shook his head. "You are upset about what happened to my dad. If you stay here you'll only upset yourself and we would get into another argument. This is my place of work. I have a job to do and I would appreciate it if you respected that. When you want to work again please give me notice of the times you would like to work and I'll change my schedule so we don't but heads." He said in cold emotionless voice.
Mara closed her eyes and took several breathes in and out before she opened her eyes. "Will you come to dinner? We won't discuss anything regarding your work or life. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings but this is for your own good." She said.
Silver stared at her calmly. "I will be down to pack up my stuff and we can have dinner. This is not about feelings. You did what you did. I accept it. I made you a promise and I will keep my word. I am an adult. However, I will not tolerate your disrespect in my work place. This is my world. In respect for my father. I am asking you to leave. I have work to do. The work that my father expected me to do whether he's dead or alive. It's the work that will help people and make the world better. You are interrupting my work for the sake of your selfish feelings."
Mara was pale but she nodded her head with tears in her eyes and blinked them away. "Your right. Your right. I won't come up here again." She said and disappeared.
Emily was left with her brother. He looked at her. She held up her hands. "I'm not here to give you any shit." She said.
He stared her. "I'm trying to finish Dad's last project. I didn't come to that funeral because we don't have a body to bury and thinking about him being possibly dead is driving me crazy. I don't want to talk about my feelings. I want to work."
I let my hands fall down. "Show me what you're working on. What's the idea you had for using it besides finding dad." She said trying to lift the mood lighter the last line but his closed off expression showed she had said the wrong thing.
"I promised mother I wouldn't do that and I have to keep that promise or I'll lose my magic and working in the one place that reminds me of dad the most." He said showing her the cursed promise mark.
Emily stared at him. Silver stared at her. "You need to leave." He said in a tired voice.
Emily flinched back. "I can help you. I worked with dad on the project I can help you." She said.
Silver shook his head. "No you can't. You won't be able to focus. I have to finish this project. I got a lot of work I've been lagging behind on but once I'm done with this I can focus on my other work but I can't do it with you here. I need to focus. You'll only distract me. Please leave." He said softly and turned back to his white board picking up his wand and started writing.
Emily stared at his stiff back and saw he was serious. "We'll talk later." She said left him alone.
James sighed and kept working. "I know your there. Do you think I'm crazy." I asked.
A being in form of a beautiful lady appeared behind him and approuched him from behind. She hugged his neck.
"I think you are doing with his Majesty's departure from our home." She said.
"That's not answering my question Lady H." He said. "I still believe he's alive. I don't have any proof of it but I still believe. He's survived so much and so many battles he has to be alive."
"So you do have doubts. I know. Your mother was right in one regard. His Majesty didn't want you to have a warrior's life. He wanted you to have a happy life and enjoy making things that are helpful. He did warn us that that our enemies could come for him at time." She said.
"I know. I just. I just want to know if he's dead or not. But, I probably will never know now. So all I have now is to finish the last project Dad couldn't finish. He was so happy I graduated and wanted to work with him on it. We were going to work together. That was my dream." He said.
"He's still here. This is his favorite place in the world." Lady H said. "Focus on your work and leave the question of his Majesty to your grandfather to find out."
James nodded as Lady H disappeared. "That's what I'll do. I'll finish the work." He said.