Entry #11

Right now I'm sitting in a room in a place called Shell Cottage. I'm thinking about my future. Before I would think about the future as a thing that I could change my mind about, now it'll happen tomorrow. I guess that this end of the tunnel is better, but when we got here it didn't seem very much like that.

When we finally got out of that tunnel we were on this beautiful beach and I thought that things must be better here, then I turned and saw Harry holding a bundle. I ran over there. He had been holding Dobby, and Dobby had a knife in his chest. It was horrible; Harry had looked up and said

"Please, Help him.", he looked down, "Dobby, no, don't die, don't die-"

I didn't know what to do so I just bent down and took his hand to comfort him in his lose.

Dobby's last words were "Harry … Potter …"

I called Hermione and Ron over and they helped me get Harry into the house. No one paid much mind to me but that was ok because I had been thinking about that elf and how I knew complete strangers by name and how I almost died. The people at the house lead me to a room, but I could still hear what they were talking about. I looked out the window after awhile and saw Harry digging out away. I decided that I'd go out and help him even now I'm not sure why. It felt like the right thing to do, so I got up and went downstairs.

"I'm going out."

"Don't go to far, the shields end not too far away."

With that I walked out the door. As I approached Harry he looked up.

"I'm sorry." I said.

"Why?"

"Because I could tell that Dobby was a good friend of yours. Could you tell me about him?"

"That's not what I asked why for, but yes I'll tell you about Dobby."

So we sat down and he told me about house elves so I would understand Dobby's story, then he talked about how Dobby had been the Malfoy's house elf and hoe he freed him after defeating a basilisk, then how Dobby had almost got him killed and suspended before that, and how he and Kreacher had brought someone called Mundungus to him and a whole lot more.

"He was a good person, or should I say elf?"

"Yeah, he was."

"Normally someone would think I was mocking them if I said that."

"Yeah well things are different here, would you mind telling me why you were in the Malfoy's house?"

"I guess because I'm important, isn't that how it works there? You're important or you're dead. Right?"

"Yeah that's pretty much it, it's also you're with them or you're in the way. No middle ground. Dumbledore would have said the difference is love."

"Dumbledore?"

"He was the Headmaster of my school."

'"Did he retire?"

"No, he was killed, by the new headmaster."

"That's terrible! Did you tell the government or something, that has to be against the law or something!"

"Too bad the man who did it is a Death Eater and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has a Death Eater in charge of the Ministry of Magic and I go to make a an statement I'll be swarmed by guards and taken directly to him or killed on the spot because I am Undesirable No1. Also, I'm the only non-Death Eater or Death Eater's son who saw what happened. For all the world knows I'm the one who killed Dumbledore."

"That is horrible. That's… that's I don't know what."

"Yeah, some people don't agree, his followers. Most are just afraid to go against him, if they lose everyone they know or related to would be in trouble, even if they said something bad about him in public everyone they know would be in trouble."

"…"

"I'll be glad when this is over."

"Why does he want to kill you and why hasn't any uh… even said "his" name"

"I have no problem with saying his name, but it's been tabooed, so if I say it he will find us and all enchantments are broken. Also, he finds me a threat. There is this prophecy about how he will give powers to the one who could over throw him."

"So you're that one?"

"Yeah."

Then Ron and Dean came out.

"How's Hermione?'

"Better," Ron said. "Fleur's looking after her."

"Fleur?"

"My sister in-law, she married my brother."

Harry started digging after that and Ron and Dean helped as well. I just sat there thinking. After not that much longer they got out of the hole and went over to Dobby.

"We should close his eyes." said Luna.

I jumped, I hadn't heard the others come over. Luna crouched down and slid the elf's eyelids over his glossy stare.

"There, now her could be sleeping. I think we ought to say something, I'll go first, shall I?" she addressed the elf at the bottom of the grave, "Thank you so much, Dobby, for rescuing me from the cellar. It's so unfair that you had to die, when you were so good and brave. I'll always remember what you did for us. I hope you're happy now."

She turned and looked expectantly at Ron, who cleared his throat and said, "Yeah… thanks, Dobby."

"Thanks," muttered Dean.

"Good-bye, Dobby." Harry said.

"Dobby, I never really knew you, but Harry told me about you and I wish I had the chance to get to know you."

The pile of earth beside the grave rose up into the air and fell into the grave.

"D'you mind if I stay here a moment?" asked Harry. The others sort of replied. I stayed.

"Are you going inside?" he asked when he saw that I was still standing there.

"No, my mother always said that, friend or enemy, someone should never be left alone in a time of need."

"Others always thought I should be left alone, to sort out my thoughts."

"Then how would they know when you need someone to talk to?"

"They're my friends, we have been friends since we were eleven, I don't need advice from you."

"Ok, but that was just what it was, advice. I guess that I was just trying to help since you saved me from that cellar."

"It was Dobby who saved you." he said, he was now looking around going over to large white stones.

"Dobby wouldn't have come if you hadn't come. Why were you there anyway?"

"Snatchers got us because we used his name."

"Oh…"

"How did you end-up there?"

"I ran into Lucius Malfoy when running from some dementors, he thought I might be important, and then Bella used the Cuciatius curse on be and I guess it rebounded on them-"

"Wait, Bella, as in Bellatrix? No one but Death Eaters call her Bella, and she used the cruciatus curse on you and it rebounded?"

"Yes and for your information the only reason I know her name is because I was being held captive by Death Eaters."

"Right, sorry I've been on the run for awhile can't help being paranoid, continue."

"Well, then they brought me in to meet the Dark Lord, as they put it, and he used the Cruciatus curse on me but that rebounded and gave everyone there a shock, literally. This one pale kid fell out of his chair. So they brought me to the cellar where I meet Luna. Question: What is with that guy's face?"

"Nothing really, he just broke his soul into 7 pieces."

"…"

He picked up one of the largest stones and brought it back over to the grave. He reached in his pocket and took out two wands, held one in each hand and put the curved one back in his pocket. He pointed it at the rock and carved into it:

HERE LIES DOBBY, A FREE ELF.

"Could we test something?"

"What?"

"Well, since I rebound magic I was wondering what would happen if I was holding a wand?"

"… I guess it's worth a shot. I mean we, Ron, Hermione and I normally figure things out after doing something stupid. Here." He handed me a curved wand from his pocket. "You should point it at a rock, just in case. I'm going to do a spell that won't hurt you if this doesn't work. Expelliarmus!" A jet of light shot out of his wand and towards me. I felt that weird tingling sensation again but it soon went out through my arm that held the wand, a flash of white light that left me temporarily blind emitted from the end of the want and I heard a rather large bang from where the rocks were. When my vision cleared I saw that the center of the stone either was shot skyward or something of that matter.

"Ok, let's not do that again."

"Wait, that is not what a good scientist would do! We need to do more tests!"

"If that had been pointed at the house, the house would have blown up!"

"Ok, well… we could try something that doesn't directly effect me, like you could create something and send it my way."

"Fine, but no more tests after this, and the only reason I'm doing this is to prove a point that this is a bad idea. Aguamenti!" A stream of water shot out of his wand at me, but I never got wet. It came within a few inches of me and vanished, then a blast of water came out of the wand I was holding. It knocked me off my feet and I dropped the wand which went spinning, drenching Harry and me. I grabbed it, but the wrong way and it sent water at my face, so that I dropped it again. Finally Harry grabbed the wand and pointed skyward, the water was going up at least 10 feet.

"Finite!" he shouted and the water stopped pouring out of the wand.

"That was violent." and I burst out laughing.

"What?"

"Like wizard, like wand. Bellatrix is violent so her wand makes things well violent."

"Mad is more like it." Just then the others came out of the house.

"What's happened? Are Death Eaters here?"

"Yeah, we saw that bright light and heard that noise, but it took awhile for our vision to clear and when it does we see a geyser coming out of Harry's wand."

"Are you alright, Harry?"

"We were just testing something."

"What, how much destruction you can cause before we came out?"

"No."

"Why don't we talk about this inside, and you can change your clothes. You are sopping wet."

"Thank you."

"I'm afraid we never got your name."

"I'm Autumn."

"Nice name. I'm Bill, Ron's brother and this is my wife, Fleur. Let's get inside now."

"So 'ow do you know Ron, 'Arry and 'Ermione?" asked Fleur, obvious trying to keep the subject on something nice while I was there.

"I don't really."

"Then how did you get here? Harry what is going on here, you show up with a dead house elf, Luna and Dean, a half-conscience goblin, Ollivander who had been missing for some time now, Hermione looks as if she has been tortured, some girl no one knows and no one will tell us anything."

"Bill your in the Order, you know that Dumbledore left us a mission, we can't tell anyone."

"Order?"

"Order of the Phoenix. We work against You-Know-Who.'

"Snake dude?"

"If you want to call him that. Ron I need to talk to you and Hermione alone."

So that is how I ended up sitting in this room, thinking about my future. All I know is that whatever Ron, Harry and Hermione are planning I'm helping or maybe standing in the way of. Since I can hear what they are saying in the next room, it sounds as if they want to break into a bank. The second they are done talking I'm going straight over there. Anyway it's not like I can not be involved in what happens next.