Chapter 3: Return to Hogwarts
A/N: Thank you all for the good reviews! I love you all. A has put up the past 2 chapters and now it's B's turn! Yay! Let me know how I do…
Mrs. Weasley stood at the end of the drive, hands on her hips, watching for her family. When they came into sight, she walked a couple of steps and took each of them into a hug and kissed everyone's forehead.
"I'm so glad you are all alright!" she exclaimed with great joy, "My babies are all ok and…" Molly Weasley stopped in mid-sentence for her soft brown eyes rested on Addie who stood silently behind Harry. "Arthur, honey, who's this?" she asked confused for she had never seen the peculiar girl before.
"H-Hello," Addie slightly stuttered, "I'm Adeline Potter, Harry's sister, nice to meet you." Addie stuck out her hand towards Mrs. Weasley, but instead Mrs. Weasley engulfed her into a hug also and began to cry.
"Oh dear," she whispered into Addie's strawberry blonde hair, "How is this possible? Everyone thought when You-Know-Who fell from power James, Lily, and Adeline were all said to be dead. We thought Harry was the only one who lived. Surely…" Mrs. Weasley's sentence drifted into the air.
"It is her mom." Ginny spoke up from beside Percy. "Harry even said she looks exactly like Lily."
Mrs. Weasley stood silently for a few moments letting all of this information sink in and process in her brain. She then began to look at Addie who stood between Fred and George. "Oh well," Molly said sighing but faintly smiling, "welcome to the family, sweetie." Addie laughed and hugged Mrs. Weasley. "
"So what do we do now?" Addie asked confused. Everyone paused for a moment before Ron spoke up.
"Well, breakfast of course!"
"Ronald." Hermione mumbled head in her hand. "Always thinking of your stomach."
Bill smiled making his way past the group and towards the slanted looking house.
"Really?" Addie asked referring to the breakfast, "I'm starved." Everyone looked at one another before Ron spoke again.
"Quite the opposite of Harry aren't ya?" Everyone broke into violent laughs at Ron's silly comment, everyone except Percy.
"Only compared to you." He mumbled while staring at the ground.
The laughter subsided and a thick tension settled into the air. Addie and Mrs. Weasley didn't understand why but all of the others sent deathly glares towards Percy.
"Now now," Mrs. Weasley broke the silence, "What's with the mean looks?"
Nobody knew what to say. Percy was the only who decided to speak up.
"Well, mother," he started with his hands on his hips, his voice portraying a sense of seniority, "I was trying to keep our name clear from being associated with dark magic by…" Percy was then cut off by an angry George.
"By letting Addie bleed to death and…" by now Harry was interrupting.
"And sending me to Azkaban."
Molly's expression turned grave as she looked at her son. "Is this true Percy?" she asked solemnly.
Percy in turn rolled his eyes. "After breakfast, mother." He grumbled irritably as he turned to follow Bill's path. That was before Mr. Weasley grabbed his arm and turned him so he could see his eyes.
"No son…" he started, "Now."
"You children go on," Molly shooed Harry, Addie, Hermione, and the other Weasley kids towards the house with a forced smile. "Breakfast is already on the table."
Addie followed the rest of them as if it were routine. As they walked into the kitchen, Addie could hear the faint yells of Mr. Weasley and the sobbing of Mrs. Weasley. 'That's because of me.' She thought to herself sadly as she sat down at the table next to Harry.
The day went quite well; after breakfast that is. Hermione and Ginny let Addie stay in the room with them. That late afternoon, Mrs. Weasley took Addie to Diagon Alley to get her school things. When they came back to the house, the house was in an uproar.
"Give it to me, Fred!" Ginny yelled at her brother.
"Hey that's not fair!" Hermione wailed.
"Guys just give it to them already!" Harry said tired of the ruckus going on about the house.
Mrs. Weasley walked inside before Addie and stopped the entire thing immediately. "Children!" she roared. The whole room went completely silent. Everyone was frozen in place. Fred and George stood in mid-step. Their eyes were glued on their mum, their hands were up in the air, and a little black book was placed in George's palm.
"What is going on?" Mrs. Weasley questioned. All of the children looked from one to the other before speaking. The only problem was they didn't speak one at a time; they spoke all at once.
"George stole my…" Ginny said.
"and then Fred…" Hermione cried…"
"acting stupid as always." Harry finished rolling his eyes.
"Honestly!" Mrs. Weasley said while pacing back and forth. "You mean to tell me that Fred and George were acting stupid by going to Ginny's room and stealing her diary and then going to the living room and blurting out the entries?" All of the kids looked bewildered at Mrs. Weasley and then nodded violently. All except Fred and George who were shaking their head so fast that their hair was in a tangled mess.
"Just go to bed," Mrs. Weasley mumbled while rubbing her temples and walking to the kitchen. Ginny and Hermione then began to make their way upstairs with Addie on their trail.
"How dare they do that!" Ginny screamed into her pillow.
"I'm sure they didn't mean for it to go that far," Hermione soothed her while rubbing her back.
"Yes they did," Ginny sat up, "They always mean for it to go that far." Addie sat her school stuff down and opened the carrier that she had been carrying in her left hand.
"Come here, kitty-kitty." She whispered to the kitten inside.
"You got a kitten?" Hermione shrieked with happiness.
"Yeah," Addie replied coaxing the kitten to come out from the box.
Just at that moment, Harry knocked on the door.
"Come in," Ginny called while sitting on the floor with the girls. The knob of the door turned revealing Harry who stepped inside the door and spoke.
"Hey, Gin. George and Fred send their apologies. They say that they're sorry and what they did was wrong."
"Why can't they tell me that themselves?" Ginny mumbled quietly causing Harry to shrug. His eyes then drifted to the floor where a beautiful white kitten with black paws and speckled black fur came out of a small carrier.
"Aww, cute kitten Adds. What's its name?" he asked. Right after the question left Harry's mouth, the kitten walking on the floor sneezed a great sneeze causing the small animal to jump into the air. Addie giggled at the kitten before replying, "Sniffles."
Harry nodded before saying, "I can see that."
There were only a couple of minutes to play with Sniffles before Mrs. Weasley came upstairs and told Harry to hit the road so the girls could get some sleep.
That night, Addie lay on a pile of soft quilts in the floor pondering over how much had changed in the past day and a half. Leaving the only family she'd ever known hurt like hell. The day she walked out the front door with her brothers and sisters behind her, her heart had broken, split in two. Knowing it was for the best, though, she continued all the way to the airport and all the way across the ocean to England. That is where she met Harry and the Weasleys.
Thinking about all of this at once made Addie exhausted. Her sparking green eyes slowly drooped closed and her brain entered dreamland…
George, Fred, Ron, and Harry sat at the breakfast table the next morning chatting about the following year at Hogwarts.
"Everybody knows that charms will be the hardest." Fred said cutting his pancakes with the side of his fork.
"Uh, no way," George argued, "McGonagall is gonna work us like hell this year."
"What about Flitwick?" Harry added, "I heard a rumor that he is going to be teaching us the Tarantallegra jinx."
At that moment, Ginny and Hermione descended the spiraling staircase yawning widely. "I swear, Harry," Ginny said, "Your sister is as stubborn as you when it comes to sleeping." All of the rambunctious boys looked to the young girls who stood in the doorway.
"What do you mean?" Harry asked confused.
Ginny sighed, "She won't get up. I've tried everything!"
"Are you sure?" Ron asked, "Have you tried the 'Wet Willy?'"
All four boys broke down into heaps of laughter as Hermione glared daggers at them and Ginny shuddered at the memory of the one day she refused to get out of bed. Let's just say after Ron had done what he did, Ginny never overslept again.
"She's not that immature, Ronald." Hermione stated sounding intimidating and making Ron sink back into his chair. Harry sighed while standing up.
"Let me go try." He mumbled before taking the stairs two at a time.
At the very top of the Burrow was Ginny's room. It wasn't very big and spacious, but it was comfortable. Harry poked his head inside the closed door to see a shallow breathing red head curled up under blankets in the floor.
"Adds?" Harry whispered. "You awake?" The floor creaked and squeaked under his feet as he slowly stepped inside. "Addie," Harry spoke a little louder nearing his sister's body, "I'm not kidding around. You need to get up were leaving for Hogwarts in a couple of hours."
Even though Harry's voice was louder than a whisper, Addie still didn't stir. Harry knew what he had to do. It was the only thing he ever woke up to in the morning at the Dursley's house. "ADELINE POTTER! GET YOUR ASS UP THIS INSTANT!" Harry yelled right beside Addie's ear causing the girl to sit up faster than a tornado could take down a house.
"ALRIGHT ALRIGHT," Addie screamed in return causing Harry to be taken aback, "I'M UP ALREADY!"
Addie stood up and straightened her clothes not even noticing that her hair stood up in one hundred different directions. Harry couldn't help but chuckle a bit at his sister's hair but continued on letting her know, "Hey, it's time for breakfast." In the short silence between sentences, he heard Addie mumble, "Of course it is." Harry smiled a genuine smile and told his sister, "I'll see you down there."
As soon as Addie regained her composure and hearing from the screaming, she opened the door and headed down the stairs with Sniffles on her heels. As she reached the wooden table, Fred and George burst into laughter while pointing at her hair.
George finally spoke. "Geez, Adds, what's up with your hair?"
"The same thing that's up with your hair, it was an accident." Addie said causing the others, except George, to start laughing.
George then stood up and chased Addie around the entire perimeter of the house. The others at the house were laughing like mad at the two who were paying no attention to the world around them. George lunged quickly towards Addie's body but narrowly missed. "Miss me miss me, now you got to kiss me." Addie chanted loudly while giggling like mad. The only thing Addie wasn't aware of was that George was really considering kissing her…