"Yes," Severus replied. He explained to them about the visit Harry and he had made to the cemetery yesterday, Lily's appearance and her announcement and what followed. "I would have sworn the entire castle would have felt the shaking."
"What about Potter?" Lucius asked. "Do you know whether or not he returned from behind the Veil too?"
"No idea," Severus replied.
"What if he has?"
"I deal with it if and when I have to, but I'm not going to worry about it until then."
"I would advise you to get Lily's identity established as soon as she is well enough. It should be fairly easy to do. She was an Auror before Harry was born so her magical signature will be registered with the Ministry," Lucius advised. He was a sharp and savvy businessman and had tripled the wealth of the Malfoy estate since his father's death in 1978.
"I have her original wand also. I found it under Harry's overturned cot the day after Halloween."
"Even better and St. Mungo's will have a record of her blood type also from when she was an Auror. The Gringotts Goblins will accept either to establish that she is Lily Potter and entitled to access the Potter vaults."
"I have the key to the vaults. I forced Dumbledore to give it to me when I found out he was illegally using funds from the Potter vaults to pay the Dursley's for taking care of Harry when they obviously were not," Severus replied looking angry at the memory. "I need Cissa's help today though," He turned to Narcissa who was sitting on the couch next to Lily. "Cissa, I have classes all day and I will need somebody to stay with Lily. Can you do it?"
"Of course, Severus. You don't even need to ask."
Harry came out of his room dressed in his school robe and carrying his book bag. He stopped as he saw Lucius and Narcissa. "Good morning, Mr. and Mrs. Malfoy."
"Good morning, Harry," Lucius replied and then suggested. "Now I think, young man, you should start calling us Uncle Luc and Aunt Cissa."
Harry grinned. "Okay, Uncle Luc."
"Cissa is going to stay with your mother today while we are away," Severus explained to Harry and directed a look at Narcissa. "If you need me for any reason at all, you can send your Patronus. I made some broth for when Lily wakes and it's in the kitchen under a warming charm."
Narcissa nodded in reply and summoned one of the Malfoy house elves to bring her the novel she was reading.
Severus, Harry and Lucius who was on his way to Dumbledore's office walked upstairs to the Entrance Hall. "I did notice the fracas at the Gryffindor table last night," Severus commented.
Harry flushed. "Please don't punish them, Dad. They were sticking up for me."
"On the contrary, Harry. I am awarding Hufflepuff thirty points for the actions of Misters Crabbe, Goyle, and Longbottom and thirty points to Gryffindor for the actions of the Mister Weasley's and Mr. Jordan."
"You go into the breakfast, Harry. I need to talk to your father for a moment," Lucius said.
"Okay," Harry said. He gave Severus a hug. "I'll see you after classes later, Dad. Bye, Uncle Lucius."
"Goodbye, Harry."
"What are you seeing Dumbledore about if it's not confidential business that is?" Severus asked since he knew Lucius was on the Board of Governors.
"The Board is becoming very dissatisfied with Dumbledore's choice of Defense Professors. It's a very important subject for the students to learn and we feel they're falling behind because of the quality of the people he has hired in the last few years. I was elected to speak to him about it," Lucius said with a sigh.
"Well, perhaps things will turn around with Professor Lupin. He is after all a Defense Master and the children seem to like him and feel they are actually learning something from him."
"Perhaps, I will wait a bit then to talk with the headmaster and see how Professor Lupin works out."
"It might be a good idea," Severus agreed.
Lucius turned and went back down the stairs towards Severus' quarters and Severus walked into the Great Hall. He noticed immediately that Harry and his friends were seated at the Slytherin table much to the dismay of Parkinson, Zabini the few others whose families had supported You-Know-Who. The second thing he noticed was that Dumbledore's overly large chair was empty. He walked up to the head table and sat down next to Minerva. "Where is the old barnacle this morning?"
"I don't know, Severus. When I woke up this morning a note flew into my quarters through the floo; it was from Albus and he said he'd had an emergency at the Ministry and didn't know when he'd be back. Apparently they called him out of bed in the middle of the night from what I understand."
"That is strange," Severus concluded. He had an uneasy feeling it had something to do with Lily's return. Surely, the turbulence of it would have been noted at the Department of Mysteries even if it went unnoticed at Hogwarts.
The morning flew by. Harry had double Transfiguration and Herbology and then lunch. After that the rest of his day was free. He was going to spend it with his mum even if she hadn't awoken yet. He'd sit by her and study quietly.
In double Transfiguration Minerva had the class leaning how to focus their magic. They had been doing that since their second week of school at the beginning of each class. It was sort of like the meditation Harry had seen his dad doing, but it was hard to keep his mind blank while attempting to focus his magic especially now with his mum had returned from behind the Veil.
All of them had been able to change their matchsticks into needles and Minerva had decided to their next lesson would be attempting to light a candle magically. It was a bit harder, but she felt the class could handle it. She would begin the lesson on Monday.
After Transfiguration everyone walked outside to the Greenhouse One for their Herbology lesson. Today they were learning about the properties of the Bacopa plant that was a nerve and cardiac tonic and they potted seeds for the plant as they were used in Calming Drafts, nerve potions of all kinds, and the Heart Ease potion.