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Chapter 2: Grimmauld Place
It was the fourth night after the attack. His aunt and uncle had gone out, taking Dudley with them. They said nothing about Ginny's presence at all, to which Harry was glad of. The two lay fast asleep in Harry's room when a noise woke Ginny. The crash seemed to have come from the kitchen. Ginny slipped out of reach of Harry's arm and made her way to the stairs. Her wand was held firmly in her hand.
Harry, who woke when Ginny left, moved to stand beside her. Down below stood eight or nine figures all looking up at him. "Ginerva Weasley! You are in serious trouble!" Charlie said from down below them. Ginny let out a yelp as she hid behind Harry.
"It's alright Ginny, Harry, we've come to take you away."
"P-Professor Lupin?"
"Why are we all standing here in the dark? Lumos," a distinct womans voice said. The hall flared with light and Harry blinked. The people below were crowded around the foot of the stair. Remus Lupin stood closer than the others did. "Oh he does look just him, well except for the eyes." The woman said to Remus.
"Ginny! Mum was going out of her mind when she found you were gone. What in the world were you thinking?" Charlie said as he pushed through the rest of the group. "Honestly, I thought she was going to kill Sirius when he told her."
"I tried to get her to go back but she wouldn't listen to me."
"Well there is enough time to chat later. We need to get the two of you out of here. Tonks would you mind helping Harry with his trunk?"
"Ginny get over here," Charlie told her. Harry led the tall silver haired woman to his room.
"Nice to meet you Harry."
"Nice to meet you um..."
"Right I'm Tonks, now lets get this thing downstairs shall we?" Harry and Tonks lifted the trunk and headed down the stairs with it.
"Excellent," Lupin said when everything was fixed. "We've got about a minute, I think. We should probably get out into the garden so we're ready. Harry, I've left a letter telling your aunt and uncle not to worry-"
"They won't," Harry said.
"-that you're safe-"
"That'll just depress them."
"-and you'll see them next summer."
"Do I have to?"
"Come on boy were need to Disillusion you." He rapped him hard on the top of the head and Harry felt a curious sensation flowing through him.
"Come on," Ginny said grabbing his hand.
They made their way outside with the rest of the group. "Would have been nice if it wasn't so nice out a bit more clouds would have been good."
"We didn't bring a broom for you Ginny so you will have to ride with Harry," Lupin said quietly.
"Mount your brooms everyone we are good to go," Moody said aloud.
Harry let Ginny in front of him.
"Second signal lets go," Lupin said as the air gave a slight shake. They all kicked off hard off the ground and shot into the air. Ginny let out a gasp as they sped quickly into the air.
"I forgot you've never been on this," Harry mumbled into her ear.
"No I haven't," she shot back.
"Hard left, hard left, muggle looking up." Moody shouted to them. Harry could feel Ginny begin to shake from the chill as they soared upward.
"I-I-Its so cold," she said as her teeth chattered.
"Told you you should have gone back." He pulled her closer to him, wrapping an arm around her waist. "Lets hope we get lucky and this doesn't take forever."
"S-same here,"she held onto his arm a little tighter.
It seemed like an eternity before they finally began to get close. "Time to decened," Lupin called. Then they all went into a dive. Ginny let out another gasp at the sudden dive and they soon landed in a neighborhood. Moody put out all the lights. Harry and Ginny were both soaked from head-to-toe like many of the others.
"Here read quickly," he told Harry as he handed him a piece of paper that said:
The Headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix may be found at number twelve, Grimmauld Place, London.
Moody grabbed the piece of paper and burned it. "Come on you all," Moody said. Ginny had her arms wrapped around her waist and she was shivering. Harry sighed and followed closely behind keeping one arm around Ginny's waist. She moved into him trying to get herself warm. Suddenly as he thought about what he read he saw a house appear between house eleven and thirteen. He could almost laugh at how it worked.
"Come on hurry inside," Moody practically growled. Lupin pulled out his wand and tapped the door once. The door creaked open. "Inside," Moody said.
Harry and the others hurried into the old damp house. "Here you two," Lupin said as he tapped both of them over the head with his wand. Now he noticed that the Disillusionment Charm had been lifted. Ginny curled up against him, her teeth chattering horribly. Harry wrapped his arms around her both of them trying to get warm.
There were hurried footsteps and Ron's mother, Mrs. Weasley, emerged from a doo at the far end of the hall. "GINERVA WEASLEY!" Ginny yelped again and tried to hide against Harry. "Why hello Harry its lovely to see you. You'll have to wait for dinner I am afraid. Ginny get over here right now!" But she only shook her head and curled further into Harry.
"Mum..." Charlie said.
"Alright fine but the meeting's started, he's just arrived. You two go into the kitchen." Molly said pointing them in the other direction. Harry shrugged and led Ginny in that direction.
In the kitchen he was surprised to see Hermione. "HARRY! GINNY!" She cried. "Ron they are here! We didn't hear you get here." Hermione said as she hugged Harry so tightly he felt like he couldn't breathe.
"Give him some air Hermione. You'll kill him if you don't." Ron said as he came in with a blanket.
"Ginny? So that's where you took off to." Ron said handing her the blanket.
"Look at you two you look practically frozen, come on to the fire," she said pushing them into the living room. Harry sat down on the floor, his back resting against a couch. Ginny sat in front of him, leaning back into him and covering both of them with the blanket. "We've been worried about you Harry but there was nothing we could tell you, Dumbledore made us promise."
"It wasn't that easy either since we wanted to tell you so badly but he made us promise. There was little we could do after that."
Harry didn't reply at all. He was bitter but said nothing. Ginny slid her hands into his when she noticed him tense. "Don't worry Harry you are here now so don't dwell anymore on this summer."
"Yes please don't," Hermione said quietly. "Ginny told us about your summer and I wish we had been able to tell you more or get you out of the house sooner. Though Mrs. Weasley kept us busy so much that we had little time to write."
"What were you doing?"
"We've been cleaning this house up. It's been empty for ages! Its gross and AH!"
With two loud cracks Fred and George appeared. This seemed to upset Pig and Freckles who flew off to join Hedwig on top of the wardrobe.
"Hello Harry, hello Ginny, glad to see you two made it back in one piece." Fred said with a grin.
"You two passed your Apparation tests then?"
"With distinction!" George said beaming.
"It would have take you about thirty seconds longer to walk down the stairs," Ron mumbled.
"Time is Galleons little brother. We're trying to hear what's going on downstairs."
"You won't Mum put a charm on it," Ginny said.
"How do you know?"
"We watched her," Ginny said with a grin.
"Shame, I really fancied finding out what old Snape's been up to."
"Snape is here?"
"Yeah," George mumbled. "Giving a report, top secret."
"Git," said Fred idly.
"He's on our side," Hermione shot back.
"Doesn't mean we have to like him Hermione. Bill doesn't like him either," Ginny said in a sort of finalization.
"Is Bill here? I know Charlie is but I though Bill was in Egypt." Harry asked slowly.
"He applied for a desk job so he could come home and work for the order though he says he misses the tombs. Though there are compensations," Fred said with a snicker.
"What d'you mean?"
"Remember old Fleur Delacour? She's got a job at Gringotts to eemprove 'er Eeenglish-" George put in.
"And Bill's been giving her a lot of private lessons," Fred smirked now.
"Then what is Percy up to?" Harry asked but suddenly felt Ginny tense up against him. Her grip on his hands increased suddenly. Instinctively he wrapped his arms around her, pulling her closer to him. She melted against him, letting her head rest against his chin.
"Whatever you do don't mention his name in front of mom and dad." Ron said.
"Why not?"
"Because every time Percy's name is mentioned Dad breaks whatever he is holding and Mum starts to cry," Fred said slowly.
"What happened?"
"Percy and Dad got in a row. Usually its mum who yells but this time it was Dad and I'd never seen him yell like that before," Ginny mumbled.
"It was about a week after term ended," Ron said. "Percy came home and told everyone he had been promoted to Junior Assistant to Fudge. It was a bad fight between them. He got after dad saying he was ruining the family name and said a lot of bad things. Percy told them if they were going to be traitors to the Ministry he was going to make sure everyone knew he wasn't in the family. He packed and left that same night."
"Mum went to see him but he slammed the door in her face," Ginny said anger clear in her voice.
"You were dragged into it as well. No one believes you or Cedric for that matter. They said you two are just trying to pull a prank on everyone. There are very few who actually will take your word seriously," Hermione said in a sad voice.
"What! Like they have any idea what we saw! Let alone how horrible it was," Harry said with an involuntary shudder. Ginny held his arms tighter, trying to quell his anger.
"We all believe you two, how could we not? I mean Cedric is probably the most honest guy we have ever met. He's here you know, well not here but he is part of the Order," Hermione put in. "After the Daily Prophet said about the two of you he went to see Dumbledore. He's been working a lot to help get the Order going."
"There are a few of others from Hogwarts and even some from the other schools. Fleur joined as well, with Bill's help that is," Ron said with a shrug.
A/N: Yes another chapter, due to the fact that I got such a nice response for the first one I thought I would be nice and help you all out here. Thanks for the reviews all! I hope you like this story, which will post a little slower since it is still being worked on.
Seritha
