Chapter Eleven; Return to Hogwarts

"Are you alright Harry?" Neville asked him as they walked into the parking lot together with their brooms in their hands.

"No, not really. I just got an owl from Luna. Lucy sent Lilly to the hospital." He told him.

"Really? I don't believe that she would do that. I mean after all she's a good kid." Neville said.

"I know but according to her owl she was put into Slythern." Harry told him when suddenly Hermione appeared.

"Hermione? What are you doing here?" Harry asked her.

"I'm sorry Harry I realize that you're busy but we have a big problem." She began. "Lucy's gone." She told him. "You and Ginny have to come back to Hogwarts! You're a dark wizard catcher and Ginny's the fastest woman I know on a broomstick." She explained. "Not that Lucy's a dark wizard, err witch I mean." She added quickly with a shake of her head.

"What do you mean she's gone? Why would she just take off like that? Especially since she was really excited about going to Hogwarts." Harry said.

"Sheela and Luna think it's because you love Lilly more than her and that everybody else is against her." Hermione told him.

"Sounds like Lucy always over dramatizing everything." He said.

"Come on Harry, Lucy's really upset about this." She said.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean that. All that matters now is that we find her. I was just on the way home from work, I'll fly home as fast as I can and tell Ginny." Harry said before he mounted his broomstick and shot up into the air.

"Thanks Harry!" Hermione called up to him as he flew away before she disappeared.

Meanwhile Lucy had been flying over the Forbidden Forest. "Lucy wait up!" Amber cried as she Casey and Luna soared after her. Lucy quickly turned to look over her shoulder and shriek out of feeling startled at the sudden shock of somebody calling her name. This is had caused her broom the same sort of shock and all of a sudden it decided to buck off its rider.

The other three girls came to a sudden halt behind her as she let out a huge petrified scream before she began to fall through the air. That's when suddenly Harry appeared out of nowhere and whizzed past them. "Lucy!" he called as he quickly rushed to her rescue while Hermione and Ginny stopped beside the other girls.

"I sure hope that Harry can reach her in time." She said.

"Don't worry Ginny, Harry will save her I'm sure of it." Hermione told her. Sure enough Harry had flown underneath his daughter in just enough time to catch her inside his arms. The hundred and ten pound witch and the hundred and sixty five pound wizard was too much for the broom to handle in the end and snapped in half before causing them to fall onto the ground tumbling over each other.

Harry slowly stood up before brushing himself off and then pulling Lucy to her feet. "Dad?" she began. "What are you doing here?" she asked him and to her great horror and disbelief he narrowed his eyebrows and glared at her.

"Your aunt Hermione sent me and your mother to find you because you ran off by yourself." He told her crossly.

"I'm sorry Dad, but I hate it here at Hogwarts!" she cried.

"How do you know!? You haven't even given it a chance!" he exclaimed. "And not only that but I heard that you sent your sister to the hospital!" he yelled.

"That's because she was asking for it! She's as bad as everyone else!" she hollered back.

"Alright, so if you really believe that and you want to go home, I'll take you back." He told her catching her totally off guard.

"Really?" she questioned with disbelief.

"Yeah but you're going to be grounded for a month because of your behavior." He told her.

"Never mind, I can suffer through it." She told him.

"I thought that you might say that, but your mother and I are going to stay here with you and your sister for a while just to make sure that you do and there aren't any more incidents." He said before they turned around and started walking out of the Forbidden Forest together.

Later on Harry explained what happened to Ginny and everyone else and showed them his severed broomstick. "Blimey Harry, you sure have rotten luck with your belongings when it comes to wands and broomsticks." Ron told him.

"It's alright, I can always get a new one. I'm just glad that Lilly and Lucy are alright. Where is Lilly anyway? Is she still in the hospital wing?" he questioned.

"Yes I believe that Madam Pompfrey said that she was staying there overnight." Hermione said.

"Good, I'll plan on going to see her after dinner and make sure that she's alright and let her know that I've come back." He said before he turned to leave the great hall.