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Chapter 11: Help From The Lovegoods

Back at Delacour Manor, Antonio and Kurt arrived back to help their respective families, Sirius and Remus in coming up with a plan to get Harry back. Hector came over once he was notified and he had a flash of anger in his brown eyes, as he remembered trying to make it clear to Albus not to interfere with Harry's life, not even indirectly. Gabby was still distraught and she continued sobbing into her mother's shoulders.

"So you know what Harry's kidnapper looks like, Sirius?" asked Hector.

"Positive!" assured Sirius in a worried voice. "I went to Hogwarts with Severus Snape, as did Remus. So we know exactly that he was the one who kidnapped Harry. Neither Remus or I need to look at him to figure it out, since Fleur gave us the description and that allowed me to figure the rest out for myself!"

"Will Ha-arry be okaaayyyyy?" Gabby tearfully responded.

"We all hope so, sweetie." said Apolline, equally upset.

"If Harry gets placed with those nasty relatives of his again," said Fleur. "He can just curse them without any mercy, since he is the head of House Potter and exempt from that restriction."

"Really?" Gabby asked with a sniffle.

"I feel certain that Harry will be back in one piece," Fleur assured her sister. "He'll be bound to put up one heck of a fight to avoid going back to those people and/or forced to do Dumbledore's bidding."

And Fleur was correct (even though she didn't realize it yet) because at that moment, Harry, Fred and George made it to the front door of the black cylindrical building. One of the twins knocked on the door and a minute later, a girl with dirty-blonde hair and pale-silvery eyes answered the door.

"Hello Fred, hello George," greeted the girl serenely, giving the twins a smile. "How are you?"

"Neutral at the moment, Luna" the twins told the girl named Luna with urgency in their voices. "Can we speak with your father if he has the time?"

"Yes," said the girl named Luna. "Why don't you and your friend come in and I'll go get daddy!"

"Alright!" chorused Harry, Fred and George.

So they walked inside, with Luna showing them over to the living room. She turned her attention to Harry and (after spotting the Potter family ring on his finger) gave him a smile.

"Hello, Harry Potter," said Luna, holding a hand out. "I'm Luna Lovegood."

"Nice to meet you, Luna." said Harry as he shook her hand.

"I'll go get daddy, we'll be back down her in a minute." said Luna just as she walked upstairs while Harry, Fred and George nodded their heads.

A minute or so later, Luna climbed back downstairs with a man with shoulder-length white hair and the same eye colour as Luna's. Then the man greeted Fred and George in a friendly manner, then he gave Harry a smile and held a hand out.

"Hello, Harry," said the man. "I'm Luna's father Xenophilius, or Xeno for short!"

"Nice to meet you, Xeno!" said Harry as he shook hands with him.

"What may I do for you, Fred and George?" asked Xenophilius curiously.

"I need to know where the ministry is," said Harry urgently. "Fred and George told me that you and Luna could help me out!"

"Yes, we'd be happy to help you, Harry." assured Xenophilius. "But if you don't mind me asking, where have you been living? The Daily Prophet claims that you were kidnapped!"

"Yes, but not by the people it claims," said Harry. "The one who directly kidnapped me was a man with long, greasy black hair, black eyes and black robes."

"Severus Snape helped to kidnap you?" asked Xenophilius, outraged.

"Positive," stated Harry. "Though I never knew that was his name."

"Our mother also helped kidnap Harry indirectly, so did Ickle Ronnykins and Ickle Ginnykins!" Fred and George chorused. "Otherwise, Harry wouldn't have been in our living room."

"But Dumbledore was the mastermind behind that kidnapping scheme," said Harry. "It had to have been him because I spent almost my whole life with my abusive relatives. It's like Dumbledore wants to keep me under his control. Since around mid June, I've been living with the Delacours in France and Lord Antonio works for the french ministry and a co-worker of his informed us of Dumbledore's motives when the ole coot was in France for the last week of the ICW conference."

"We'd better get you to our ministry, Harry," stated Xenophilius. "Amelia Bones will be able to help you out, she's the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement."

"I already know that," Harry informed Xenophilius. "I met her and her niece, Susan not too long ago."

"Oh, okay," said Xenophilius with realization. "We'd better inform Amelia as soon as possible."

So Xenophilius tossed some floo powder into the fireplace called for Amelia's office at the ministry. Amelia's head appeared in the fire a minute later.

"Oh, Xenophilius," said Amelia with realization. "Can I help you?"

"Harry Potter is over at my house with Fred and George," Xenophilius informed the head of the DMLE. "Is it alright if we report to your office?"

"Yes, it sounds like something awful just happened," said Amelia, realizing that Xenophilius' voice sounded anxious. "So do come to my office."

Luna went through the fire first, followed by Harry, the twins and then Xenophilius. Upon spotting Fred and George coming through the fire, Amelia called for Arthur to come to her office. A minute or so later, a knock at the door was heard. After Amelia called for the person to come in, Harry saw that the person walking in had the same hair colour as Fred and George (who they recognized as their father). After Amelia, Xenophilius, Fred and George took turns explaining the situation, the twins' father turned his attention to Harry.

"Hello Harry," said the man, holding a hand out. "I'm Arthur Weasley!"

"Nice to meet you, Arthur!" said Harry as he shook Arthur's hand.

"I do apologize for what my wife, daughter and youngest son have been doing," said Arthur sincerely. "I was getting suspicious of their behaviour, but now I realize what's been going on. Please don't declare a blood feud on the whole family!"

"Don't worry, Arthur," assured Harry. "I won't do that! It wouldn't be fair to make you, Fred and George suffer. It's just those three who'll be suffering the consequences."

"Thank you, Harry!" said Arthur with relief in his voice. "Molly, Ronald and Ginevra will be answering to me when I get home tonight. I never expected them to have played an indirect role in kidnapping you."

Back at the Burrow, Molly, Ron and Ginny continued searching for Harry. They couldn't understand how Harry managed to escape from their clutches. Seeing that Fred and George were also gone, the three manipulative Weasleys came to the conclusion that the twins must've had a role in Harry's escape. Ron and Ginny were outside, wandering around the property trying to locate Harry, to no avail.

"First his wand disappeared," Ginny ranted. "And now Harry himself is gone! Why couldn't he just understand that we're just trying to help him?!"

"Yeah, he was supposed to be clueless," Ron ranted in agreement. "Dumbledore said so! He just let those people corrupt him. If he doesn't see our efforts soon, he'll be beyond redemption."

"Mum isn't pleased with Fred and George for interfering," said Ginny. "She's now regretting giving them a chance to get to know Harry. They never listen to mum's warnings about anything, and this one is pretty much the final straw."

"Harry is out there somewhere," said Ron in a matter-of-fact voice. "He can't be too far away! I don't think anybody else will wanna help him anyway, as Dumbledore warned them not to interfere with the Greater Good in any way."

So Ron and Ginny continued searching for Harry around their house. Neither they nor their mother had any idea of what else was coming to them. In fact, Dumbledore and Severus were also going to find themselves in more hot water. That was because Amelia decided to also put up wanted posters of the three manipulative wizards and witch around the wizarding district, Diagon Alley. This also meant that Ron and Ginny (without their knowledge) were at risk for being put into an orphanage because Arthur decided to sign some paperwork that would allow him to disown them as punishment for their part in the treachery (and file for divorce from Molly for the same reasons), much to Fred and George's delight. Before getting the wanted posters taken care of, Amelia threw some floo powder into the fireplace to fire call Antonio in his office at the french ministry.

"Antonio!" Amelia called.

"Huh… who?" Antonio was heard responding and looking around his office. Then he saw it was coming from his office fireplace and saw Amelia. "Oh, Amelia, it's you! Did anybody find Harry yet?"

"Yes, he's here in my office," Amelia informed. "After giving me the description of the one who directly kidnapped him, I realized that Severus Snape was the culprit."

"Yes, Sirius immediately knew who it was once he was also told," stated Antonio. "Perhaps the wanted posters in London should also have an extradition order, since Severus was in Place Cachee when he kidnapped Harry."

"Of course," said Amelia in agreement. "Harry revealed that he had been taken to the Weasleys' home called the Burrow and that Molly and her two youngest children tried to act like Harry had been corrupted. Arthur isn't pleased with that and he'll deal with them later."

"I see," said Antonio. "Who else was helping Harry?"

"Arthur's twin sons, Fred and George," said Amelia. "And so was Xenophilius Lovegood and his daughter, Luna."

"Wow," said Antonio in amazement. "No wonder Harry was able to escape so fast! What will become of Molly? She had to have played an indirect role if Harry been taken to the Weasleys' house."

"Wanted posters featuring her will be created," said Amelia. "And some for Dumbledore as well."

"I see," said Antonio. "Since he was pretty much the mastermind. If we don't get Albus behind bars, then he'll try to come up with more desperate plans!"

Once the discussion was finished, Harry said goodbye to Arthur, Fred, George, Amelia, Xenophilius and Luna, and thanked them for helping him out. Then Harry went through the fire and over to Antonio's office at the french ministry. Before returning to work himself, Arthur had to find a friend to look after Fred and George (knowing that returning them to the Burrow would've been a bad idea). Xenophilius and Luna returned to their house, with Luna opting to keep watch of anyone suspicious from her bedroom window, to ensure neither Molly, Ron and/or Ginny would try any tricks to compel them to reveal Harry's whereabouts.

Meanwhile, Albus was in his office at Hogwarts. He was stumped because he had finished his fire call from Molly (who had informed him that Harry escaped). Severus was still mad because of Harry having bitten his hand.

"Harry must not be as clueless as I thought!" Albus concluded.

"Do you think so?" said Snape sarcastically. Then he resumed in an angry voice. "The brat bit me and that made it worse! I had to knock him out with chloroform!"

"We'll find him, Severus," assured Albus. "He can't be too far from the Burrow! Molly told me that she, Ronald and Ginevra are out there looking for him."

"He'd better be found quickly," said Snape hastily. "The brat was lucky he didn't get whacked in the head or something!"

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It was mid-afternoon and Harry had spent some time telling the french minister what all happened and who the direct kidnapper was. Antonio also told the minister what all Amelia told him. This meant that Severus Snape was in very deep trouble because he would not only face a sentencing in England, but in France as well (but his trial would be in France when and if he were caught and arrested, since he kidnapped Harry there). Now there were massive manhunts going on to capture Dumbledore and Snape since they could go anywhere. They ended up going to Snape's house at Spinner's End located in Cokeworth, though Albus and Severus were currently unaware of the manhunts trying to track them down. One for Molly wasn't needed because they could just hide around the Burrow (which was what some of the aurors were doing, since Molly, Ron and Ginny were currently out and about).

Once Harry was finished telling the french minister everything, he and Antonio returned to his office. Then Harry grabbed some floo powder, tossed it into the fireplace, called out his destination 'Delacour Manor,' and walked into the emerald-green flames. Once Harry stepped out of the fireplace at Delacour Manor, he was greeted with hugs from Remus, Sirius, Apolline, Fleur and most of all, Gabby. She practically ran up to Harry and engulfed him in one of her biggest hugs yet and a kiss on each cheek when she saw that Harry made it back in one piece. Harry also gave Gabby one of his biggest hugs yet, followed by a kiss on each cheek.

"I'm here, Gabby," Harry whispered soothingly. "I'm back!"

"You didn't get hurt, did you?" asked Gabby worriedly.

"Nope," stated Harry. "Though it may have happened if I hadn't tried escaping when I did."

"Where did that Snape guy take you?" asked Gabby, as the others in the living room listened eagerly.

"To the Weasleys' house called the Burrow," said Harry. "Since Molly, Ron and Ginny were there. They tried to make it look like they were the rescuers and you all the kidnappers. But Ron and Ginny's twin brothers, Fred and George helped me out and we ran to a house whose residents were named Xenophilius and Luna Lovegood."

"Remus and I met the Lovegoods before," said Sirius. "They're nice people, but because Xeno works for the Quibbler, he and Luna are viewed as weird or strange by the majority of the wizarding world."

"I see," said Harry. "After I told Xeno and Luna what all happened, we went to Amelia's office at the London ministry. Once she was given the full scope, she decided to get wanted posters featuring Dumbledore, Snape and Molly created, so Ronald and Ginevra are bound to face getting placed in an orphanage since Arthur decided to get paperwork sign so he could disown them because of their part in helping to kidnap me."

"Not to mention that Snape will also get extradited here once he's caught," Antonio revealed. "That is if he ever shows himself out in public, but he and Dumbledore seem to be experts in finding hiding places."

"That's right, Antonio," stated Remus. "Dumbledore especially, since he always came up with hiding places for me during my Hogwarts days because of my condition."

"Maybe we should give Harry and Gabby some alone time." said Sirius when he saw that Gabby was still hugging Harry (and Harry hugging her back).

"Gabby and I can just go up to my room," said Harry. "We're not going to kick you all out of the living room."

"Alright," said Antonio and Apolline in unison. "But keep it appropriate, you two."

"Yes, maman," said Gabby obediently. "We'll be careful."

"Definitely." assured Harry.

So he and Gabby went upstairs to his room. Even though he was back in one piece, Gabby was still in tears a little bit, but they were happy tears this time. Once the betrothed couple walked into Harry's room, Gabby began laughing.

"What's so funny, Gabby?!" asked Harry curiously.

"Just the thought of seeing those three Weasleys' faces when they realized that you escaped," said Gabby, trying to keep her laughter in check. "It would be so priceless!"

"Yeah, it certainly would be," said Harry in agreement. "As much I would've liked to see it, waiting to do so would've been bad since it would've made it easier for my enemies to help me get back under Dumbledork's control."

"Yeah," said Gabby, shuddering at the thought. "If that happened, it would've scared me more."

So Harry and Gabby gave each other more hugs. Meanwhile, Molly, Ron and Ginny were heading back to the Burrow after their futile attempt to locate Harry. Upon making it back to the front door and walking inside, they saw Arthur, Fred and George in the living room with stern looks and their arms folded across their chests.

"Arthur, dear," said Molly in a stunned voice. "What're you…"

"I'm filing for divorce, Molly," snapped Arthur. "I can't believe you, Ronald and Ginevra played a part in kidnapping Harry!"

"That's right, Molly!" said the voice of Amelia Bones (who had been under a disillusionment charm, as were several aurors).

"Harry's been confunded," Molly claimed. "Dumbledore assured that…"

"Nice try," snapped Amelia. "Now, on the ground, Molly!"

Seeing several wands pointed at her, Molly knew she had no chance to escape. Reluctantly, she got down on the ground, then an auror with dark skin placed her in magic suppression handcuffs. Ron and Ginny were cowering when they spotted the glares they got from Fred, George and their father.

"Now Molly," Amelia began reciting the rights. "You don't have to say anything, as it may harm your defence in court. Anything you do choose to say can be given in evidence!"

Then Molly was pulled up onto her feet and led out to be taken into custody. Once that was dealt with, Amelia turned her attention to Ron and Ginny.

"You two better come with me!" she instructed.

"What?! Why?" asked Ron and Ginny in unison.

"You're no longer welcome here," said Arthur firmly, showing the paperwork (which had been finalized) to Ron and Ginny. "Because of what you've been doing, you've been disowned and you two will be placed in an orphanage!"

Ron and Ginny had no choice, so they followed Amelia outside the wards of the Burrow, side apparated the two over to a wizarding orphanage and dropped them off, much to Ron's and Ginny's dismay. Ginny couldn't believe that she would have to wait for a whole year or so before she could go to Hogwarts. Although Ron was somewhat relieved that he'd be on the Hogwarts Express on September 1st, he was beginning to dread the summer holidays since it meant that he'd have to return to the orphanage. Nevertheless, they knew they were lucky that they avoided being incarcerated in the juvenile detention section at the ministry (even though they wouldn't openly admit it). Amelia knew that Albus and Severus were still out there somewhere, but tomorrow was when she decided to check Hogwarts for those two (since it was getting late). The head of the DMLE wasn't yet aware of the fact that Albus and Severus were at Spinner's End.

To be continued!