Once again Zeus had come back empty handed, Rhea was certain he was finding the right address, if he could find Charlie in Romania surely he could find Harry in Little Whining. Why wasn't he writing back? Rhea and her brother Ron had asked him to come over at least ten times, the least he could do was write back.
Zeus perched on Rhea's arm as she walked out to breakfast, "Still no letter." said Rhea to the expectant faces.
"Arthur, if he doesn't write back soon I think we should check on him." Molly suggested.
Rhea gave Zeus a piece of toast as a reward, he flew out the window, probably to the girls shared room.
"Is Harry staying over?" Ginny asked hopefully.
"Ginny's got a crush." Rhea sang with Fred and George.
"D- do not." she tried to hide her blush.
"That fact that you denied it proves it." George smirked.
"Will you three knock it off." Percy walked in in his pyjamas.
"Anyway, you're one to talk about crushes." Fred murmured in Rhea's ear. She choked slightly on her toast but soon recovered.
"Yes I think you're right Molly, shall we give it three days?" Arthur continued as if nothing had happened, after all, in a house like this you kind of got used to chaos and sibling rivalry.
"Three days sounds about right." Molly didn't sound convinced, if it was up to her they would be going to get Harry now.
"Wazzup?" Ron mumbled still half asleep.
As usual dinner that night was loud and messy, Rhea finished first and went back to her room to prepare for their flight.
The room she shared with Ginny was separated down the middle by a large black curtain, Ginny's side was decorated with band posters, hand drawn pictures and a few Gryffindor things. Rhea's side was completely different, the wallpaper was very dark green, a Quidditch poster featuring Ballycastle Bats hung on one wall, near it was a Slytherin flag, near the window was a clock like Molly's, but hers only had one hand. She only had two things on her bedside table, a picture of last years Slytherin Quidditch team and her wand. She also had a few muggle things lying around, like a record player and some vinyl records.
When everyone had gone to bed she tied her hair up and changed her clothes, after shoving a few of Ginny's hairpins in her pocket she climbed out the window and met Fred, George and Ron in the garage.
"So what happens if we get caught?" Rhea asked after about ten minutes of flying.
"Simple. We don't get caught." Fred smirked from behind the wheel.
After about three hours driving Fred pulled the car lower, Privet drive was right below them. As he went lower still Rhea noticed bars on one of the windows of number four.
The curtains of the barred window were pulled back, Harry looked up at them.
"Ron- how did you- what the-?" Harry's mouth fell open as we got closer.
"Hey mate." Rhea grinned from over Ron's shoulder, "What's been going on, why haven't you been answering our letters?"
"We asked you to stay about twelve times, and then Dad came home and said you'd gotten an official warning for using magic in front of muggles..." Ron trailed off.
"It wasn't me- and how did he know?"
"Dad works for the ministry. And you know where not supposed to do magic outside of school." Ron scolded.
"Bit rich coming from you." Harry snorted.
"Not ours. Dad's, he enchanted it. We're just borrowing it." said Rhea innocently.
"Anyway, we came to rescue you- from the muggles." Ron needlessly explained.
"I cant- I'm locked in and if a magic it unlocked they'll think I've done magic twice in three days. And my trunk, wand and everything is all locked in the cupboard under the stairs."
"Honestly, you think so low of us." Rhea threw the end of the rope Fred gave her to Harry, "Tie that 'round the bars."
He did, Fred revved the engine and drove strait up. With a crunching noise the bars came off. Ron pulled them up in the back seat.
"Out of the way Harry." Rhea said when Fred had gone as close as possible to his window.
Harry moved back in the shadows next to his owl, Hedwig. Fred and George climbed out, Rhea followed soon after.
She pulled out a hairpin and started working on the lock, "It's always good to have muggle techniques, slower but very useful." Fred explained, within thirty seconds the lock clicked open, "Thank you Rhea, you really would make a brilliant thief."
With the twins trailing behind she carefully descended the stairs, finding the cupboard locked (big surprise) she started working. Another thirty seconds and the lock clicked open.
The twins took the trunk while Rhea grabbed the remaining magic items. After much heaving they got the trunk into the back seat, Fred climbed in the front seat first, Rhea climbed in after him and George sat on her other side.
"Ok lets go." Harry was about to climb in when a loud screech came from behind him.
"That ruddy bird!" a man's voice thundered. Some one hammered on the unlocked door, it swung open. A huge man stood in the doorway, "Petunia, he's escaping!" he yelled while grabbing hold of Harry's leg.
All four of the redheads grabbed hold of Harry, after a large tug he lost his grip, Harry jumped in the back seat and Fred put his foot down and sped toward the moon.
"See you next Summer!" Harry yelled out the window. "Let Hedwig out, she hasn't had a chance to stretch her wings in ages."
Rhea passed the hairpin to Ron, after a few moments Hedwig flew out the window.
"So what's the story Harry, what's been happening?" Ron asked impatiently.
Harry told them about a house elf called Dobby, apparently trying to warn Harry.
"Very fishy." Fred said after a long shocked silence.
"Definitely dodgy." George agreed, "So he wouldn't even tell you who's supposed to be plotting all this stuff?"
"I don't think he could. I told you, every time he got close to letting something slip he started banging his head against the wall."
"Well, put it this way- house elves have got powerful magic of their own, but they can't usually use it without their masters permission. I reckon old Dobby was sent to stop you coming back to Hogwarts. Someone's idea of a joke." said Fred grimly.
"Probably a Slytherin, they were pretty pissed when you got all those points at the last minute last year. And you should hear some of the stuff they say about you." said Rhea absent-mindedly, "Especially Draco Malfoy, he's an absolute dick."
Unlike the rest of the family, Rhea wasn't in Gryffindor. In fact, she wasn't even in Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff either- Rhea was in Slytherin. But she wasn't really a Weasley either, Molly Weasley had a brother, actually she had twin brothers, one of them had had a child. Her name was Rhea Ailsa Prewett, her mother was Adele Black- who had also been in Slytherin.
"Draco Malfoy?" George repeated, "Not Lucius Malfoy's son?"
"Must be, it's not a very common name, is it?" said Harry, "Why?"
"I've heard dad talking about him, he was a big supporter of You Know Who." George said.
"Then when You Know Who disappeared, Lucius Malfoy came back saying he'd never meant any of it. Load of dung- Dad reckons he was right in You Know Who's inner circle." said Fred, craning around to look at Harry.
"I don't whether the Malfoy own a house elf..." said Harry uncertainly.
"Well, whoever owns him will be an old wizarding family, and they'll be rich." Fred informed.
"Yeah, Mum's always wishing we had a house elf to do the ironing. But all we've got is a lousy old ghoul in the attic and gnomes all over the garden." George snorted.
"Anyway, I'm glad we came to get you. I was getting worried when you didn't answer my letters. I thought it was Errol's fault at first-" Ron changed the subject.
"Who's Errol?" Harry asked.
"Family owl. He's ancient. So then I asked if I could use Zeus-" Ron continued.
"Who?" Harry asked again.
"My owl that our older brother Bill bought me last year." Rhea explained.
"Anyway Rhea said she'd been sending you letters too- I thought there was something wrong with her owl as well-"
"Hey- there's nothing wrong with him. Zeus always delivers." she snapped.
"Anyway I tried to borrow Hermes-"
"Who?" Harry asked once more.
They landed just as dawn broke.