History

Year: Seventh Year

Moment: Ear Lost

Idea By; NihilityChild

Jade hadn't liked the plan to have seven people dress up as her, just so she could get to the burrow unharmed. Hell, she had hated the idea. She had loathed it. But everyone else had seemed keen on the idea, and they wanted to keep her safe. Jade had allowed them to do it – because as Fred said, she really didn't have a choice.

It had been fine, she was going with Hagrid and they had left easily, but something terrible had happened. Voldemort knew that she was leaving, he knew and he sent Death Eaters after them. Thankfully because of the plan, they didn't know which one Jade was.

But he had figured it out – when Hedwig had taken a killing curse for her. Her poor baby bird… Jade berley managed to get back to the burrow with her life. And then that lead her to being here, in the kitchen with Professor Lupin, waiting for everyone to get back.

"So…" He was saying, although Jade was only partially listening – much too worried about the wealth fare of her friends. "Anything going on between you and George yet?"

He was trying to lighten the atmosphere – it wasn't working. "No," Jade scowled.

Remus opened his mouth no doubt about saying something along the lines of 'he seems to really care about you' like Sirius always had. Jade didn't want to hear it though. But before anything else could be exchanged the entire house was in a flurry.

Mrs Weasley burst into the kitchen, tears streaming down her face, her hands panicking throwing everything around in search for something. "Molly what's happened?" Remus asked softly, placing his hand on her shoulder, in an attempt to calm her down.

Jade was on the other side of Mrs Weasley in a second, with a worried look on her face. Mrs Weasley sniffed. "I-it's George, h-he was h-hit with a c-cutting curse and h-he…"

Remus awkwardly tried to comfort Mrs Weasley and Jade felt herself go pale, paler than her already snow white skin. Then Jade realised what she had said and her eyes widened with horror. Without so much as a sound Jade left the room, and was practically running into the room where everyone else was seated.

Jade looked around to see that it was indeed George laying on the couch, groaning in pain and clutching where his left ear was, and Jade could see the blood coming out of the cracks in his fingers. He had Kinglsey there, trying to clean him up – and Fred was next to him – the worry on his face made Jade want to cry.

Everyone was worried, everyone was panicked. "Where's Jade?" Jade heard Ron ask worriedly. Jade wanted to go in a comfort them all but she was rooted in horror by the doorway.

Jade watched as George shot up from his spot despite the pain he must have been in – ignoring the glares and started to look around worriedly. Jade saw something horrible in that moment – he had lost an ear, all because of her. He had lost an ear and he was still more worried about where she was.

He… had grown up so much without her realising it. Without her even wanting to even acknowledge it.

"I'm right here," Jade said stepping in the room and glaring at George. "Y-you lie back down."

George relaxed back down on the chair. Hermione practically threw herself at Jade with a hug; Jade hugged her back but carefully pried her off of her, and made her way so she was next to Fred in front of George. Fred nodded his head at her with a small smile.

"What happened to you?" Jade asked him softly.

"I lost an ear – but I'm holey now get it? Saint-like."

"Oh Merlin…" Jade shook her head. "He lost his sense of humour."

George chuckled. "I never had a really good one."

Jade shook her head, hesitantly brushing some of his hair out of his eyes to check his temperature. George closed his bright blue eyes carefully, and Jade smiled slightly. He would be alright. "What happened to you?" Kingsley asked.

Jade didn't withdraw her hand from George's face but she answered him softly. "He came after me in about ten minutes. Hedwig gave me away, she… she took the killing curse for me and they kind of ruined the bike we had to crash land but… everything went alright after that."

Right at that moment George opened his eyes, horror in them and Mrs Weasley burst into the room with the necessary things to clean his ear area. Jade shuffled back to let Mrs Weasley in, retracting her hand from George's face – she didn't miss the disappointment in his eyes... But Mrs Weasley just handed the stuff to Jade with a watery smile.

Jade felt confused, but she took it without complaint and started to clean some of the blood away despite how queasy it made her feel. She was made up of stronger stuff then this. "I'm sorry," Jade muttered, clearing the blood away from the hole in the side of his head.

The others had started up a conversation about what had happened to all of them, but Jade's attention was on George. George frowned. "Why?"

"It's my fault – really, I'm so sorry-"

"Oh, shut up," George groaned and Jade stopped talking, slightly surprised. "You didn't cut my ear off did you?"

"You were protecting me," Jade pointed out, holding the cloth to where his ear should be to stop the blood-flow.

George rolled his eyes. "I did it so I could look at your boobs."

Jade flushed red, with a growing sense of annoyance. Jade pressed the cloth closer to his face, and reached up with her other hand and pinched his cheek. "Ow!"

George rubbed the growing red mark on his cheek, with his other arm, wincing in pain and Jade felt slightly bad about hurting him even more than he already was. "What was that for?"

"You were being disgusting!"

George chuckled painfully. "Sorry for offending you Miss Potter."

Jade shook her head. "Just… heal."