DISCLAMIER: I DON'T OWN HARRY POTTER! GET IT INTO YOUR HEAD!
Amber Potter and the Traitor Within.
Blurb …
Follow the antics of 11-year-old cousins, Amber-Leigh Potter and Rosemary Weasley, during their first year at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, along with their new friend, Alice Longbottom.
Find out what happens when you mix an evil plot, an invisibility cloak and two girls with extraordinary powers and a world full of magic.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Death Eaters March.
The chilly frost that had been hovering over the castle for the past month had seemed to finally break open. The sun burst out from behind the clouds and they had their first nice sunny day in ages. Unfortunately, exams were approaching, and it wasn't only Alice who was freaking out at the prospect.
"I dunno what the teachers are playing at!" Amber said in frustration, the Saturday before the exams were due to start while they worked in the setting sun of the common room, "Why give us all this homework? It's not like we don't do enough in class."
"If the ingredients to a shrinking solution aren't permanently scanned into my brain, then my name's Luanne." Rosemary said, throwing her potions book down hard onto a table, causing a second year to jump with fright.
"Why are they acting as if they're so important?" Amber asked. "We're only first years ..."
"You got me." Rosemary yawned, going to pick up her book, and shuting it closed on her lap.
Amber closed her book too, rubbing her eyes wearily. Rosemary's brother Zack, was about to take his O.W.L's, and was looking as if he were about to faint. His friend, James Finnegan, Toby's brother, looked close to tears. Amber felt quite sorry for them. At least it'd be a while until their 5th year.
Andy and Josh worked away quietly in a corner, while Carley and Geraldine were lying on their stomachs, testing each other in charms incantations. Rose was chatting to Anna, worked completely abandoned, while Daphne and best friend, Liam Dannials groaned and banged their heads on the table.
"I dunno how I'll be able to concentrate." Alice was saying, finally closing her book. "I've never been more distracted. You know that the death eaters are becoming more active?"
"What?" Rosemary and Amber both said at the same time, and Alice nodded, holding up an abandoned copy of the evening Prophet. She flipped to page 12, and there was the smallest article labelled "Death Eaters March". It was less than a paragraph long, but Amber knew that this was defiantly not good.
""Late last night in Kent, a group of Death Eaters were seen, marching down through the town. All of them were old Death Eaters of he-who-must-not-be-named, who broke out of Azkaban some years ago. The ministry states that nothing is to be feared, and they will be locked up as soon as possible"." Alice read and looked up. "Not looking good, is it?"
"Defiantly not." Rosemary agreed.
"Hey Amber!" Carley called "Have you done that essay for Professor Chang?"
Amber sighed, and went to go help her and Geraldine. Hopefully this would all blow over … hopefully.
Exams had begun. They sat their theory papers in the morning and they sat their practicals in the afternoon. ("I definatly mucked up that teacup spell." Alice had said, while Rosemary told her not to worry-she'd never get the teacup spell right)
Amber was certain she was going to fail potions. Snape had made them all nervous, hovering around, as they all tried to make a potion to cure boils. Amber accidentally put in essence of Lillinder, instead of Lidander, and caused the whole thing to explode.
Rosemary complained long after the charms practical that her hour glass was heavier than the others, and that's why it didn't fly, while Alice became paranoid that Professor Lyra was going to fail her on purpose, even though she did everything perfectly.
"Well she's obviously got a grudge against dad, so why shouldn't she have one against me?" She howled, on the second to last night of exams. She groaned and collapsed onto the couch in the common room with a flump. "Just don't talk to me-I'm sleeping." She muttered and closed her eyes.
Rosemary yawned and stretched, causing the neat pile of history of magic notes (Their last exam) to topple over and half landing in the fireplace. She scurried round, picking up as many as she could, grumbling.
"But I don't get it-why are death eaters becoming more active?" Amber asked, as Rosemary repaired some half-burned notes with her wand.
"Dunno. Maybe it's to do with that Damaan fellow?" Rosemary suggested, while Alice snored on the couch.
"Oh yes, I'd forgotten about him." Amber said. Indeed she had, "What's so important about him, do you know?"
"Nothing." Rosemary said, as Amber's kitten, Elli, pranced round their feet, chasing after a stray piece of crumpled up paper. "Not that I know of. Though I heard some Slytherin's talking about him. Apparently he was a really lower-class death eater for you-know-who. But was never recognised."
"Well that's saying something." Alice muttered sleepily.
"I thought you were asleep?" Amber asked, looked down at her, laughing slightly.
"I am, don't bother me." Alice muttered and rolled over onto her other side.
The next day brought brilliant sunshine, and neither Rosemary nor Alice felt like spending the entire day staying inside to learn about Uric the Oddball, so they took their books and flopped under a large beech tree by the lake.
"You know, I was thinking." Amber said, while checking answers to Rosemary's questions. Rosemary and Alice looked up.
"Yeah?" Alice asked
"I say we write to the experts about this Damaan situation." Amber said seriously. "About everything-the Snape-Lyra convo's, and the plan to kill Professor Longbottom and everything."
"Who can we tell though?" Rosemary asked, shutting her book.
"My dad." Amber said.
So they composed a letter explaining everything they had heard over the past months, and sent it off with the Potter owl, Leda. Just as they waved off Leda through an owlery window, the bell rang, signalling the start of their history of magic exam.
"Ah! We can't be late!" Alice cried and they ran their way down the stairs to the stifling hot classroom, just as Professor Binn's floated in.
The troll ballet of 1903 is significant to the Rotfang conspiracy, how? Amber's head was swimming. None of the questions seemed to make sense. Glancing sideways at Rosemary, she saw her with her tongue between her teeth and scratching her nose with her quill, leaving an ink dot. To her right, Alice was rubbing her head with one hand and sucking the end of her quill with the other.
An hour and a half later, the bell rang. Amber sighed with relief-they were finally free. She knew she had failed this one, but it wasn't as if she was going to be a historian when she was older, so that didn't exactly matter.
"Yes! We are free!" Rosemary sang loudly on their way to dinner. "Free! Well, until we get our results, but they'll be coming in about 2 weeks, so that doesn't matter until then I suppose."
"Your right there. Though i'm not sure i did justice to that Goblin question-" Alice began anxiously, as they sat down opposite Daphne and her guy friends.
"Don't fuss Allie." Said a voice from behind, and Amber knew it was Logan-he was the only person who called her Allie. Sure enough, they turned to see Logan Vienna and Toby Finnegan coming towards them, and they sat down next to them. "I'm sure you did find. You were writing like mad in there. He'd have to at least give you a point for the effort."
"Unless it was all love notes or something you were writing." Toby added and Alice turned an odd purple colour as she flushed. "In that case he'd have to fail you."
Amber and Rosemary laughed, but Amber stopped almost immediately. She had just noticed Professor Lyra looking down at Professor Longbottom, and she didn't like the way she was smiling …
"Rosie!" Amber hissed, elbowing her and pointing "Why's Lyra getting up?" she was indeed leaving the table.
"Dunno …" Rosemary looked somewhat alarmed. "Alice!"
"Huh?" Alice wiped round so her blond hair flung out behind her "What?"
"Where's Lyra going?"
"Dunno …"
"I don't like the look of this." Amber said and the other two nodded.
When dinner ended, they made their way up the marble staircase, when Leda flew in, carrying a letter in her beak.
"That was fast!" Rosemary commented as Alice untied the letter.
"Must have been more urgent than we thought." Amber said and she read about loud:
Amber, Rosemary and Alice-
On no accounts are you to believe a word The daily Prophet says. It's lying right at your faces and it's not been the first time. They've been trying to cover up the Damaan situation for ages now, and it's getting worse. If they don't stop ignoring it soon, it's going to be Voldemort all over again.
Be constantly on the look out and don't let anyone make you think otherwise. Stay safe-
Dad.
"It's simple." Rosemary concluded. "Damaan's trying to seize power."
"I agree with that statement." Alice said.
Amber was about to agree, when something happened, which made them, and everyone in the vicinity jump. Several girls nearby screamed.
BANG!
"What the-" Rosemary began. But then the oak front doors open and people stormed in-hooded people, wearing masks-
"DEATH EATERS!" Alice screamed.
"Death eaters?!" Rosemary panicked, and Amber grabbed hold her for support as she panicked. Alice had pulled out her wand as was now levitating everything in sight, as it was the most they could do. Amber was too shocked to do anything at the moment.
It was pandemonium. They blasted apart anything they could reach. It wasn't long before the teachers were out, battling it out and duelling. The older students who new more curses and hexes joined in, but the younger ones just ran and screamed, adding to the din of bangs and shouts.
"AMBER, ROSEMARY, MOVE!" Rose yelled nearby. And they dived down the stairs, just as a curse missed them, blasting a hole in the floor. Rose yelled "Stupfy!" and leaped down next to them sprawled in the floor of the entrance hall.
"Just yell stupfy!" She yelled and jumped away, yelling more hexes at an on-coming death eater.
Amber nodded to Rosemary as they cowered on the floor, missed spells whizzing over their heads, and they pulled out their wands.
"Stupfy!" Rosemary yelled, but nothing happened.
"What?"
"Maybe it's a spell that needs power behind it?" Amber sugested as they abandoned magic and dived behind a suit of armor.
"Maybe. Either way it's no use to us now.
"Brillient!" Amber yelled sarcastically.
"Where's Alice?!" Rosemary yelled, once they had leapt up and yelled "Wingardiun Leviosa!" at a hooded wizard, and he flew high into the air.
"Dunno!" Amber yelled back. Just then, she heard a scream behind her, and saw Geraldine and Carley cowering as spells shot over them. Amber abandoned magic again, and ran up and kicked the death eater in the shin, causing him to yell in pain.
"Yell "Stupfy" if you can manage it! If not, just kick them in the shin!" Amber yelled at them, and they nodded, pulling out their wands.
Amber spun around, and saw the doors open again, but this time it was reinforcements-her dad, followed by Uncle Ron and Aunt Hermione, and other various adults, like Uncle Bill and Aunt Fleur.
"DAD!" Amber screamed and ran forward, ducking a spell.
"Amber!" Harry yelled, grabbing his daughter, as the rest of the adults began to fight "Where's Rosemary and Alice?"
"Somewhere in there!" Amber yelled back, gesturing towards the duel going on in the entrance hall. There was the sound of smashing glass, and the hourglasses that showed the amount of house points lay on the ground in ruins.
"I want you to get out of here now-it's too dangerous!" Harry yelled, shooting a jet of red light at a death eater fighting Professor Flitwick.
"No way! I'm not missing the action-"
"AMBER!"
"Fine, fine ..." Amber said.
"Just find Rosie and Alice and go to Hagrid's hut-you know where-"
"Yeah Dad." Amber yelled. Harry nodded, ducked and ran sideways, as Amber dived out of the way of another spell.
Find Rosie and Alice. Amber thought, and she set off through the duel, ducking, avoiding and yelling "Stupfy!" everyone now and then, though her wand didn't do much but shower out sparks.
It was then when she saw it. Professor Longbottom was duelling with a blond death eater, her hair sticking out from under her hood. He seemed determined, but so inmersed in the fight, he didn't see Professor Lyra-coming up behind him, raising her wand as she went-
"DON'T YOU DARE! YOU-" Alice's words were drowned out as she ran up behind Lyra. She jumped up, grabbing her round the neck. Lyra choked and the jet of green light missed and hit the wall, causing it to set the doors to the great hall on fire.
Alice's face was murderous. She let go of her, pointed her wand at Lyra, as she eyed it nervously.
"Don't. You. Dare. Hurt. My. Dad." Alice said slowly and clearly.
"And what's a first year going to do to me?" Lyra sneered.
"This-" Alice jammed her wand straight into Lyra's eye.
She howled with pain and sank to the floor. Amber caught Alice's eyed and grabbed a arm from a staue from the ground. She brought it down onto Lyra's head, and she keeled over sideways, knocked out.
"Nice one!" Amber yelled, as Rosemary came flying at them, knocking all three of them into the marble steps. The blow to Amber's head was too much. Stars twinkling before her eyes, the last thing she saw before passing out was the blurry outline of many hooded people being driven out of the castle … people cheering … people … people …
People? There were certainly a lot around her now. Where was she? Amber's mind was clogged with mis-matched thoughts as she blinked over and over, and slowly, the many people crowded around her came into view. Mum … dad … Rose, Daphne, Andy …
Amber sat up and realised that she was in the hospital wing. In the bed next to her was Rosemary, groaning and rubbing the back of her head, and on Rosemary's other side, Alice, still out cold. The hospital wing was full of people, and Madam Pomfray, the matron, was in hysterics.
Amber had no idea how she had got there, or what on earth had happened, though she assumed something big-there wasn't enough beds for all the people, and Professor Flitwick, supporting a bleeding nose, was busy rushing around, conjoring up beds and space.
"All right there Amber?" Rose asked, helping her to get in a comfortable position.
"Yeah …" Amber winced as her head throbbed from when it hit the steps. "What happened?"
"Death eaters?" Andy said, as Josh explained to Rosemary next to her, while Aunt Hermione hugged her so hard, it looked like she were about to pop. "Attacked the school. You got knocked out."
"We were so worried! Thank goodness you're alright." Ginny said, hugging her tightly.
"Let her breathe." Harry said, holding Ginny round the shoulders to make her let go.
"Yeah …" Amber said again. Now she remembered-death eaters came. Big fight-ow, her head hurt. She looked round at the people in the other beds. Toby Finnegan was lying next to Amy Lynes, of Hufflepuff, who was next to Tania Jenson, looking determined to get up already. Amber stiffined a laugh-that was Tania. "But why were they here? Do we know?"
Amber noticed everyone exchange looks and Amber got suspicious.
"What?"
"Well … turns out you three were right." Andy explained. "Lyra and the death eaters were planning to kill Professor Longbottom after all. And it was up to Lyra to do it."
"Ha! Told you we were right." Amber said, slapping high-fives with Rosemary, and then both yelled "OW!" as their shoulders ached.
At that point, Madam Pomfray came to talk to the adults. Amber looked over at Rosemary, who was rubbing her head.
"But what about Snape?"
"Huh?"
"Snape." Amber pressed on. Rosemary thought for a few moments, and then realisation dawned apon her face.
"Oh yeah! I forgot-wait, yeah. What was he doing throughout all this?" She said, as Daphne listened in.
"I thought you guys said he was in on it?" She asked.
"We thought he was."
"I thought you three would know better than to suspect Snape." Hermione said, joining the sonversation.
"Aw, Mum, that was when you were at scool." Rosemary put in. "Who's to say he hasn't turned evil during that time-"
"Anyway, where was i?" Harry said, coming back, as Madam Pomfray hurried off to tend to some strange injury to a Ravenclaw 4th year. "Oh yeah, well, Professor Longbottom's really sorry." Harry said, remembering. "He says he should have believed you. He's giving you three a formal apology, and I'll bet anything Gryffindor get's some point for you lot sticking to your story."
"Then hopefully Gryffindor will win!" Rosemary said happily, and they all cheered, just as a groan came from their right-Alice was awake.
"What's going on? Why are we here?" She groaned, rubbing her head.
"You explain." Amber groaned at Daphne, who was nearest, and then sunk back into her pillows. It was going to be a long night ...
A/N: Hurrah. I'm back. First point of this chapter, is that Ara has mentioned the Neville-Lyra-Snape-kill plan to their various brothers and sisters, but they obviously didn't believe them. I couldn't think of a place to put it in.
Now i have to disclaimer i line in this chapter-when Alice is "Asleep" and Amber says "I thought you were asleep" and Alice goes "I am, don't bother me". That line i stole from an episode of the Weekenders, and i should claim no credit what-so-ever for making up this line.
Sigh ... You know, today i just thought of a way better of writing this story. It sucks, as as this storied pratically over, i'd have to re-write the whole thing. Life ain't fair.
Hehehe ... noticed i mentioned trolls doing ballet and the Rotfang conspiracy? Lol.
This is the big climax by the way, if you didn't notice.
Second to last chapter ...
Until next time-
-Moon. : D
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