The first chapter is here! YAY! Sorry it took so long. Anyway it's the beginning of Ellie's adventure and I hope you enjoy reading it.

Disclaimer: JK. Rowling owns Harry Potter. I own my characters and all the ideas I come up with.

~Chapter 1. Tell me you're joking~

Ellie POV

This time when I turned from Harrow House I knew it was the last. If someone had told me six years ago that I would be on the run and fighting for my life I wouldn't have believed them. Then again if someone had told me six years ago that I would be fighting for my friends, my boyfriend, then I maybe I wouldn't have wasted so much of my life.

Saying goodbye to my parents and two sisters wasn't hard, especially because I would no doubt see Ivy and Riley again some time. As I apparated into Scotland though, I knew my next goodbye would be harder.

Scardavia had been my best friend for years. She was everything you could ask for. She had protected me, hidden me and never did she fear for herself even though her muggle-born status made her vulnerable.

I apparated to her house and hugged her tight.

"Please, please be careful." She said, still embracing me.

"I'll be fine." I held her at arms length. "When have I not been fine?"

"This is different. It's…just don't get killed. You haven't come all this way to get killed before your life's even started."

"If I die, I'll die knowing that I was doing something good. I'll die knowing that the kids of the future can live a greater, better life. It's not my job and it never has been but I can't let Voldemort win, I can't let us fall."

"Sixteen and yet you speak like you're older."

"Seventeen, I'll be seventeen soon. Anyway I got to go."

Scar pressed keys into my hand and squeezed me tighter.

After a few more tearful goodbyes I turned on the spot and disapparated. I landed on the ground outside the Ryder household. Charlotte was already waiting for me outside her house, leaning on the bonnet of my red Porsche.

My cousin had got me a car ahead of my seventeenth birthday, which was three weeks away—14th August.

"You got the keys?"

"Yes." I said dangling the keys in the air. "You ready to leave? Said goodbye and everything?"

"Yeah, sis got a bit emotional but it could have been worse couldn't it. At least we had the choice of saying goodbye."

"At least your sister cared." I paused. "Now we better hurry; you know how Mad-eye gets."

"Totally and utterly stressed." She smiled.

"Maybe we should get him a stress ball for Christmas this year." I laughed while opening the car door. Charlotte got in.

"Or maybe we should get him an anti-stress machine."

"I don't think they exist."

"I'm sure we could get Fred and George to make one."

She revved the engine and I gave the thumbs up to prove the muffliato had worked. Then I took the drivers seat. I hit the gas and we were off.

Harry POV

I took in what they had just told me. It still didn't make sense.

"Ah I forgot to mention the key point." Said Moody. "Fourteen of us won't be flying off to Tonks's parents'. There will be seven Harry Potters moving through the skies tonight."

"No way!" I yelled as Moody withdrew a flask of Polyjuice from his cloak. "Being me, it's too dangerous."

"Well, none of us really fancy it, Harry. Imagine if something went wrong and we were stuck as specky, scrawny gits forever." Fred laughed.

I however didn't find this funny. "You need my hair and I'm not giving it to you."

"Well, that's that plan scuppered," grinned George. "Obviously there's no chance at all of us getting a bit of your hair unless you cooperate."

"Yeah, thirteen of us against one bloke who's not allowed to use magic, we've got no chance." Fred added.

"Anything else you'd like to add?" I asked hoping there'd be a loophole in the plan.

"Yes. Ellie and Charlotte will be accompanying us."

Fred and George turned their heads towards Moody in a fast identical movement. "What!"

Ha! Definite loophole there. I smiled.

"Where are they anyway?" Tonks asked.

At the same moment there was a commotion at the door and everyone grabbed their wands. Then there was the unmistakeable sound of Ellie and Charlotte's laughter and wands were lowered. They walked into the room.

I noticed that Charlotte's hair was longer than before, her straight black hair falling past her shoulders, in a surprisingly neat fashion. Ellie meanwhile looked the same only the tale-tale signs of sleep deprivation were shadowed on her face. Her hair—burnt charcoal and curly—had been straightened to keep it orderly. They both looked more dangerous than the girls I had known last year.

"Urgh it's all so depressing in here." Ellie sighed.

Charlotte giggled. "Yeah it's like everyone's lost their sense of adventure."

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