A/N I'm so sorry! It's been over two weeks since I've updated and I'm very sorry, but a lot has been going on in my life and I couldn't find the time to write. But it's here now! Just a small note: this chapter is actually the end of Order of the Phoenix. I feel like I just started this story yesterday, and we've already traveled through one year with Amy! Anyway, enjoy the chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Doctor Who, just the plot to this story.
Chapter 15: Department of Mysteries
~ AMY ~
"Ginny, watch out!" Tonks roared from across the room. Ginny had just ducked out of the way as a curse flew over her head.
The Order had arrived. The prophecy had been destroyed. The battle had begun.
A few moments earlier…
Amy seemed to have given up hope. Her and each of her friends were all being held around the room by Death Eaters while Lucius Malfoy confronted Harry.
She couldn't break free. Alecto Carrow would keep tightening her grip on Amy every time she tried to move. Her wand had been taken, as well. She felt his eyes on her and looked in Fred's direction. He had a worried look in his eyes, afraid that something was going to happen to her.
"Give me the prophecy now, or watch your friends die," Lucius Malfoy spat out at Harry. Harry, much like Alecto Carrow, would not loosen his grip. Amy knew Lucius wasn't bluffing and that he really would order the Death Eaters to murder her and her friends, but she did not want Harry to lose the Prophecy to Harry.
Being the daft idiot he was, Harry reluctantly handed the prophecy over to Lucius. Suddenly, a light shone behind the blond Death Eater, and he turned around. It was Sirius. "Get away from my godson," he said, just before he punched Lucius across the face.
The rest of the Order had arrived and saved the rest of Amy's friends just as Lucius dropped the Prophecy.
Sirius, Remus, Tonks, Mad-Eye, Kingsley, Arthur, and Molly had all arrived. They were safe. Without realizing it, they had ended up splitting into pairs:
Sirius was still with Harry, Arthur had made his way to Ron, after Molly saw that Tonks had a hold of Ginny she went off with Hermione, Kingsley and George were fighting Death Eaters back-to-back, and Remus found his way to his previous student, Luna. Fred and Amy were the only ones left without a pair, and they fought valiantly, side by side.
Curse after curse flew around the room. People continued to yell around the room, making sure their loved ones were not hit by the curse headed in their direction. Amy often glanced around the room to make sure that everyone was still accounted for. None of her friends, besides Harry, had fought an actual Death Eater before today. Being a member of the Order of the Phoenix, she had had some run-ins with Death Eaters but had always altered their memories afterward.
Soon enough, Bellatrix Lestrange, who had been dueling her niece, Tonks decided to go after her cousin instead. She flew around the room and landed on a rock. No one could miss the incantation as she yelled it across the room, "Avada kedavra!"
Everything stopped; even the Death Eaters had stopped the fighting and apparated away. A scream filled the room. Remus had to run over to Harry to stop him from following Sirius into the Veil. Amy stood there, motionless. He had just died, right before her eyes.
Sirius Black was gone.
They were all sitting around the table in the Burrow. Tonks was back at Grimmauld Place gathering hers and Amy's things to bring to the Burrow; they had decided that they no longer wanted to live in Grimmauld Place without Sirius being there. Remus had gone with Ron and Ginny to gather theirs and everyone else's belongings from Hogwarts. It was the day after the battle at the ministry — 19 June — and the adults decided it would be best for the children to remain at the Burrow until the beginning of the summer. Amy could tell that Harry did not want to go back to Privet Drive at the beginning of the summer, he wanted to stay here, with his friends and their family. She wanted to comfort him, but she didn't know what to say. He had just lost his godfather. They had barely known each other for two years, and Sirius had already been pulled away from the world. Life's a bitch.
With all her Gryffindor courage, she took a deep breath, wove her way out of Fred's arms — who had been comforting her — and walked towards the black haired boy sitting alone in the corner.
"Harry," she breathed out. His head shot up; no one had spoken to him in almost a day. "I'm so sorry. I know he meant a lot to you," she spoke gently, not wanting to push him away. "He was the only family I had left, Amy." She could see the stains on his face from the tears. He had not brought himself to wash them away just yet. "I think — I think I just want to be alone right now."
"No, you don't. No one here wants to be alone right now," she gestured around the room. Everyone in the Burrow was speaking or sitting with at least one other person. Arthur and Molly were sitting together with Fred. George was sitting on the couch in the center of the room with Hermione crying into his shoulder — he had agreed to watch over her while Harry was grieving while and Ron and Ginny were gone. Luna and Neville were also there at the Burrow. Luna lived just over the hill from the Burrow and had agreed to allow Neville to stay there with her for a few days. They came by today to be with their friends.
"Everyone here has someone, and you're sitting here alone," Amy spoke with a bit of force in her voice now. She lowered her voice to a whisper and pointed in the direction of her brunette bushy-haired friend, "Hermione has been crying non-stop for the past day and you haven't been there for her!"
"She has Ron, see," he mumbled pointing in her direction, without looking up.
"That's not Ron, that's George! You probably haven't even noticed that Ron and Ginny went with Remus to get our things from Hogwarts. You've been too upset over Sirius to notice. And in case you haven't noticed, we all lost him too! I've known him just as long as you have while he stayed with me and Tonks if anything I should be the most upset out of everyone besides Remus! Have you even taken into account how Remus feels! He had to hold you back yesterday from going after Sirius when he probably wanted to go after him as well. They've known each other for the past twenty-four years and we've only known him for two! At least Remus is talking to someone; you're just sitting alone in a corner and not allowing anyone to talk to you! Everyone in this room cares for you, Harry, in their own way! We're all worried about you and you don't even seem to care!"
Amy noticed that the room around her had gone silent and everyone was now staring at her and Harry. Se must've yelled those last few lines. Quickly, she turned to Harry and told him she was sorry for yelling before running upstairs to her new room that she was now sharing with Ginny and Hermione.
She ran upstairs and locked the bedroom door behind her with her wand. "Colloportus," she whispered. She turned around to look at the room. She hadn't been in this room since she was eleven years old (everyone slept downstairs in the sitting room last night). She stayed here in the Burrow the summer of Ron's first year at Hogwarts. She and Tonks decided to surprise them one day in August and Molly ended up inviting them to stay for the rest of the summer. Of course, Amy stayed longer than that, wanting to spend as much time as she could with her best friend. After the summer ended and the school year began, Ginny was the only sibling left in the house for the first time. Amy didn't want Ginny to feel alone, so she bothered Molly and Tonks until they agreed to let her stay for a couple extra days. Over the course of the next year, they would hang out at each other's houses and just talk.
It wasn't long before someone knocked on her door. Not even bothering to ask who it was, she unlocked it using nonverbal magic. "That was really uncalled for, what you did down there, Amy," Hermione stood in the doorway with her arms crossed over her chest. Amy looked at her guiltily and was surprised when a small sympathetic smile spread across her friend's face, "but it was just what he needed." Hermione walked over to Amy and sat down on her own bed, which only happened to be about two feet away from Amy's bed.
Since there were three beds occupying the room now, it was even more cramped than it was before. Molly had gotten a bed from the attic and stuffed it in between Ginny's and Hermione's beds as best she could. The beds were so close they were almost touching. Of course, the girls didn't mind; they were best friends. Tonks would be staying in Percy's old room since he never came to visit anymore. He had turned his back on the family completely. Amy couldn't receive either of Charlie or Bill's rooms, though, because they visited constantly.
Amy and Hermione sat in silence for a few moments until Amy asked a question, "So, did you just leave George all alone down there or did you send him off to be with someone?" Hermione smiled again, "He's with Fred now. They're talking through it."
"And Harry?"
"Still a bit awestruck from your rant earlier but he'll be fine. The actual reason I came up here was to tell you that Tonks is back. I suspect that the rest of them will be arriving from Hogwarts shortly. And Harry received an owl from Dumbledore. He wants to talk with him before he returns to the Dursleys'."
Both girls were fine sitting in silence for a while longer until Ginny came bursting into the room with a large grin plastered on her face. "Amy!" Ginny came tumbling over and knocked Amy down on her bed. "Harry told me and Ron what you said! I'm so proud of you! It's exactly what he need to hear to get him out of his mood swing."
"So, you mean he's okay?" Amy asked while punching Ginny off of her and onto her own bed. "He looks better than he did this morning when I left, so I'd say it's a start."
"I still feel really bad for yelling, though. I know he's been neglecting everyone, he still didn't deserve that."
"Amy, he's fine now, so stop worrying. I know he just lost Sirius — we all did — be he just needed a bit of a push to get him through it," Hermione rubbed Amy's shoulder. Together, the three girls sat and talked about everything and nothing. They poured their hearts out to each other about their love lives wand about what love lives they wanted. Ginny, apparently, had begun to date Dean Thomas while Amy and Harry were away. Hermione didn't have a boyfriend, but Amy knew from Ginny that she liked Ron — although she wouldn't admit it. Amy talked about how she and Fred would have to spend more time together this summer to make up for their lost time these past few months. Since Amy would be returning to Hogwarts again next term, and Fred would be in Diagon Alley working in his new shop, they were going to have to spend even more time together than they had planned for. But that was a good thing. Granger, Pond, and Weasley: the 'Silver Trio,' they called themselves — seeing as 'Golden Trio' was already taken.
After a couple of weeks, the dreadful time finally came for Harry and Hermione to leave the Burrow. Even though everyone else would still be there, they knew it wouldn't be the same without them. The duo made their way around the sitting room, saying their goodbyes to everyone in turn. Harry took the longest to say goodbye to Remus; Harry had found that talking it out with Remus was the best and easiest way to get through Sirius' death.
When Harry and Hermione reached Amy, they both received a huge hug from her. "Please write to us," she mumbled while hugging Hermione tight, "Both of you. Harry, if we don't receive an owl from you at least every other day, I will personally come over to that house and drag you out of there before the Dursley's can say 'muggle.'"
"Well, that wouldn't be a problem since they don't even know that word exists." He took this time to hug Amy. "I'm going to miss you both so much. You are both definitely coming at the end of the summer to stay with us!"
After making their rounds, Harry and Hermione exited the Burrow with Arthur and Ron (who were bringing them home) and disappeared with a POP!
Fred put his arm around Amy's shoulders, she linked arms with Ginny, and George out his arm around his younger sister's shoulders. They all walked outside the Burrow to the garden and sat down on one of the benches. Amy was finally going to have a good summer.
A/N Hope you liked the chapter! Hopefully, I will be updating soon. Also, I'm sorry that there isn't a lot of Fred/Amy (Fremelia) time in all of the chapters, but I see this story as more of a 'through the years' than a 'love story' sort of thing. Please let me know what you think! Review! Favorite! Follow!
