Chapter Thirteen
Taken
Albus grabbed Scorpius' arm and they ran towards the fireplace, just in time to hear his brother thunder down the stairs saying, "What is going-" and then, "Bloody hell!"
Throwing floo power in the fire and jumping in, Albus yelled, "Tonks residence!"
The world span very, very fast, until suddenly all was still and both boys fell face first onto the floor.
"Who was – Albus!" Andromeda exclaimed, walking towards the boys holding a candle and wearing her pyjamas.
"Dad needs you! Uncle Ron – he's-"
"-Let's go, shall we?" she calmly picked up her wand and took hold of the two boys arms, turned on the spot, and they vanished with a small 'pop.'
Upon arriving in the Potter's living room, Andromeda jumped into action. Crouching down on the floor beside Ron, she pulled out her wand and started muttering healing charms.
"Harry, get me the dittany!" she demanded to Albus' father, who jumped up and ran to the kitchen, where Albus knew all of the healing potions were kept. "Victoire," the blonde girl looked up, "you still want to be a healer?" She nodded tentatively in response. "On the job training," Andromeda nodded towards Harry, who had returned with the Essence of Dittany. "Bring that over here."
And so the two set to work.
"A couple of drops here … And on his arm … There you go, nice and easy now…"
Albus sat quietly on the floor with Scorpius, Rose sitting, terrified, between them.
"It's ok," Albus distinctly heard Scorpius whispering to Rose. "He's going to be fine."
It was then that Ron gave a bloodcurdling scream, and Draco jumped forward yelling what sounded vaguely like a counter curse.
"The bloody bastard's here," he said, sprinting out the front door.
"Draco! No!" Astoria yelled, taking off after him with Harry and Ginny in tow.
"Aah!" Rose screamed, ducking to avoid a curse flying through the window.
"PROTEGO!" Albus roared, putting into practice the theory of shield charms they'd learnt at school.
Before his very eyes, a massive opaque magical shield erupted from his wand, surrounding everyone in the room. Now, while curses were flying through the window, nothing was hitting anyone.
"Has he ever been splinched?" Andromeda asked Hermione, who was calming down now that they'd all but stopped the bleeding.
"Uh – yes. While we were on the run," she replied distractedly, crouching down and taking Ron's other hand.
"And what did
"Uh – yes. While we were on the run," she replied distractedly, crouching down and taking Ron's other hand.
"And what did you do for it?"
"Dittany," Hermione replied instantly.
"That's why it's healed so quickly," Andromeda replied, sitting back and smiling. "He's going to be fine, but I'd like to get him to St Mungo's all the same. One can never be too sure."
Hermione sighed with relief as Ron opened his eyes.
"'Mione?" he asked, disorientated. "Waz going on?"
"You'll make a fine healer, my dear," Andromeda quietly said to Victoire, who smiled.
"I can't believe that," Harry was saying to Ginny, who sighed.
"Harry, there's nothing you could've done."
"Ginny – he attacked our family! Our kids!"
"And it's lucky Kreacher stepped in when he did, or we'd all be dead."
Outside, while Andromeda and Victoire had been treating Ron, Albus and Scorpius' parents were outside fighting Rodolphus. And he had brought friends. They had started firing Killing Curses when Kreacher appeared and used his separate branch of magic to help fight them off.
Now, however, the boys were packed up and the family about to leave for Kings Cross.
"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, hoggy warty Hogwarts…" Lily sang loudly, showing her excitement at joining her brothers at the school, if only for a few weeks. After the attack the previous evening, it had been decided that Lily and Hugo would be safer with their siblings, under Auror protection at the school, and so she had happily packed her bag and was eagerly awaiting the time to leave.
"Ah, damn," Harry sighed, taking what looked like a normal galleon out of his pocket. However, Albus knew for a fact that these were coins used by the Order of the Phoenix to communicate discreetly. "Gin, Kingsley wants to see us."
"So go," Albus' mother replied, putting her jacket on.
"No, Gin – all of us. You, me, Draco, Astoria, Ron and Hermione.
"Well, can't we-"
"-He's pushed back a meeting with China's Senior Ministry Officials."
"Bullocks."
And that is how Albus found himself spinning through the floo network with his siblings in tow. By the time they arrived at Platform 9 ¾, however, it was in a state of bedlam.
"Al-"
"-SIRIUS!"
The three Potter siblings turned around, spotting Fred, Roxanne, Rose, Hugo, Scorpius and Louis behind a concrete pillar. Most interestingly, Fred had his hand over Rose's mouth and was beckoning them towards him. Obligingly, the Potters ran.
"Protego!" Albus called over his shoulder, casting another shield charm.
"What in the name of Merlin's pants is going on?" James demanded of Fred, who finally let go of Rose and pushed her toward his sister.
"We don't know. The weird people with the cloaks turned up and started chanting something about muggleborns-"
"-They didn't use the polite term-"
"-And blood traitors-"
"-That's Weasleys-"
"-And then they started shouting curses everywhere. We grabbed these two and ducked behind here, but then they did-"
"-That," Roxanne finished, pointing to a spot ten feet in the air.
Albus recoiled in horror.
There, suspended ten feet in the air were Molly, Lucy, Dominique and Victoire.
"They're taking them."