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Scottish Highlands
Groaning, Elaine lifting the bag of feed as she made her way to the Thestral paddock. She had volunteered to do their care while Rubeus Hagrid was off on Holiday.
" Last time I help him!" Elaine mumbled as Hagrid's Boar Hound, Fang, stood to follow her. " Your daddy picked an odd time to go to the mountains to visit your brother Norbert!"
WOOF!
" Come on then, let's feed these pretty ponies so that they strong and healthy to pull the schools carriages come the new term!" Elaine said as her Crup puppy pounced playfully on Fang's tail.
" Anubis, leave cousin Fang alone, we have work to do!" Elaine laughed as the puppy yipped eagerly, chewing on Fang's tail cutely.
She laughed again, shaking her head as she unlatched the paddock gate.
" Hello Miss Winters."
Elaine looked up to see a teen girl with waist length white gold hair and blue eyes making her way towards the paddock. " Ariana Ganymede, what brings you here?"
" Just checking on the Thestrals." Ariana said blankly.
" For someone who shows very little emotions your poker face could use some work." Elaine said tossing scraps of meat towards leathery winged horses.
" If you're here to recruit me to the Order you're a bit late, Remus and Andromeda's daughter already tried."
" They make a lovely pair don't they?" Ariana said attempting to smile.
Elaine somewhat envied the poor child.
She was a half Veela-half witch but she somehow inherited muted emotions. It was very rare that she ever showed true emotions.
No one knew who her parents were but they had to of been a powerful couple. The Weasley twins had tried for almost seven years to get her to tell them.
It only seemed to irritate her.
Really, only the Weasley twins were able to get her to show any emotions at all, especially a smile.
No one knew exactly how they did it, but she seemed to be particularly fond of George. In fact, the Seventh Year had taken her to the Yule Ball during the TriWizard Tournament the year prior.
Ariana was one of the few people that could tell the twins apart. It could be due to the fact that Veela-Witch was almost sixty years old…really still a baby by Veela Standards.
However, her half human genetics have made her age faster than normal Veela children. She had been tutored by many highly educated members of the Veela community, which has made her an excellent one for the fellow students at Hogwarts.
Many of the subjects she learned, she had already been taught by her Veela aunts.
Ever since she was started spending time with the twins she started showing more and more subtly showing sign of emotions.
Irritation.
Slight amusement.
Curiosity.
Ariana could be very stern with the twins and was actually able to get them to behave and to do their schoolwork.
Elaine didn't know how the girl did it but hats off to her.
Molly Weasley actually liked the girl, as well.
She doted on her almost as much as one of her own children.
" If Remus was smart, he'd stick with that girl, she'll be good for him." Elaine said as her calico Kneazle, Bast, made her way towards them, hoping to score some leftover scraps for her to scamper off with. " Wait your turn, Bassy!"
A loud purring sound was her response before she made her way to Ariana.
" Playing matchmaker are we, baby girl?"
Elaine laughed as saw her father, Jonas, making his way to her, several Bowtruckles crawling over his shoulders.
Her father kept magical creatures at her property when he ran out of room at their own property.
" Never Papa, I just can te-"
BOOM!
Elaine broke off as the small barn near her cottage suddenly exploded, stones and straw flying every which way.
She tossed the bucket of meat towards the Thestrals and pulled Ariana and Bast to the ground swiftly.
" What the blazes is going on!" Ariana gasped, a rare moment of emotions flooding her blue eyes.
" Death Eaters!" Elaine growled as several cloaked figures with horrid gilded strolled confidently towards the corral.
She felt her heart slam to a halt when she saw her father draw his wand, aiming it towards the ominous group.
" PAPA! RUN!" She screamed as her father began casting defensive spells.
" ELAINE, RELEASE THE CREATURES AND GET ARIANA OUT OF HERE NOW!" Jonas yelled expertly fending off several Death Eaters at once.
Elaine whirled around and cast the release charms around the grounds, permitting the creatures to escape capture.
" Go on, Bassy! Get Anu and Fang and hurry to Hogwarts! Find Professor Sprout, she'll take care of you! You know the way!" Elaine yelled to the Kneazle before it darted off to carry out her order.
" We should f-"
" NO!" Elaine growled grabbing Ariana by the arm. " You're going somewhere safe! I'll stay and-" She froze as she noticed a Death Eater with a familiar stride made his way towards them.
Crabbe.
She felt her blood chill instantly at the sight of him.
No matter how many years passed, she'd always remember that stride.
" Well you filled out nicely." She heard his gravely voice sneered.
Even with the mask covering his face she could tell he was looking at her with lust in his eyes.
" Ariana, go! Now!" Elaine growled shoving the girl behind her as she drew her wand.
" What's your hurry, Winters? We only want to catch up…you know, reminisce about the old days."
" INCEDIO!" Elaine yelled as bright flames shot straight towards the Death Eater.
Laughter burst from him as they fired spell after spell at each other.
Ariana had seen such amazing wand skill before. She had known that Elaine was skilled at dueling but this was truly amazing.
She was amazed at the skill at which the prior Auror move. She even knew spells that only the high Veela knew.
Yet it didn't appear to be enough at the moment.
The large, burly Death Eater made his way slowly towards them, his grey eyes glinting evilly through his mask. He called clever taunts which only seemed to unsettle Elaine.
She didn't understand what they referred to but untold amounts of anger that Ariana had never seen Elaine show before now raged from her.
It was then that Ariana saw another Death Eater disarm Jonas Winters.
" PAPA!" She heard Elaine call out worriedly.
" RUN!" Jonas' deep booming called out before they heard the curse that had ended the lives of so many.
" YOU BASTARD!" Elaine shouted as her voice cracked. She aimed her wand at the man, tears streaming down her face. " CRUCIO!"
Screams of pain came rang from the Death Eater as the torture curse took affect.
" SERPENSORTIA!" Crabbe yelled as a serpent shot from his wand straight at Elaine's throat.
" ELAINE!" Ariana yelled aiming her wand towards the serpent only to hear a third Death Eater yell.
" SECTUMSEMPRA!"
Blood hurtled from Elaine suddenly and Ariana saw the blue haired witch crumple to the ground.
" Harry dear, sit! Eat!" Molly Weasley said firmly making a boy with messy black hair about the age of fifteen sit at a large grey kitchen table.
His face was pink with embarrassment as the red haired woman fussed motheringly over him. From the opposite side of the table was Sirius Black, who gave the boy a loving, fatherly smile.
" Harry dear, you look absolutely peakish!" Molly said as she loaded his plate full of bacon, scrambled eggs and sausage.
" Molly please, let the boy breathe." Arthur Weasley laughed as he took a swig of coffee.
" Oh hush Arthur, just look at him! Merlin only knows how much his aunt and uncle were feeding him."
" It's fine, Mrs. Weasley-"
" Oh hush Harry dear, eat your breakfast!"
" Mum, it's fine! If Harry eats anymore, he'll-"
" You hush yourself, Ronald! You lot need to eat as much as possible before heading back to Hogwarts!" Molly said as she piled massive amounts of food onto his plate.
" 'Cause you know, the quarterly feasts are the only times they feed us." George smirked before dodging a well aimed ladle that his mother whirled at him.
" Don't you start either!" She snapped at Fred who had opened his to smart off. Harry saw one twin give the other an identical smirk before they began shoveling pieces of bacon into their mouths.
" Now you lot, eat up! There's plenty more w-"
Mrs. Weasley froze, eggs only partially ladled onto Lupin's plate when an alarmed shriek came from the front entryway.
" GINNY!" Mr. Weasley yelled, darting from his seat towards his daughter.
With Harry, Sirius, Lupin and the rest of the
Weasleys to find Ariana Ganymede holding a barely conscious, blue haired witch upright.
" E-Elaine?" Harry heard Sirius say breathlessly. If Harry hadn't known better, he could have swore that a flicker of longing and pain flashed through Sirius' grey eyes.
Harry saw the witch was bleeding heavily, her green eyes begin to roll back into her head. Before he could process her begin to fall from Ariana's arms, he saw Sirius rush past him and scoop the witch effortlessly into his arms.
" ELAINE!" He yelled, a break in his voice that Harry hadn't heard since the night Wormtail had escaped.
George hurried over to Ariana and it was then that Harry noticed how much the blonde had been trembling.
" ARTHUR, CONTACT DUMBLEDORE! TELL HIM TO SEND MADAM POMFREY HERE IMMEDIATELY!" Lupin said before he and Sirius apparated somewhere upstairs. Harry could hear their footsteps clambering around heavily.
Arthur Weasley darted from the house on Lupin's order. Before the door to Grimwald place swung shut, Harry saw him disappear into thin air.
" Mum, who-"
" NOT NOW, FRED!" Mrs. Weasley snapped rushing past her children to a nearby cabinet. Opening it, they saw a large amount of bandages there.
They watched her gather them swiftly into her arms and apparate, presumably to where Sirius and Lupin were tending to the injured witch.
" Who was that?" George asked, rubbing his arm over a trembling Ariana. He guided her to a nearby stool. " Where were you that you found an injured witch?"
" I was simply visiting Elaine and her father when we were attacked by Death Eaters." Ariana said to their surprise.
" Why would the Death Eaters come for after her and her father?" Ron asked.
" Wait…" Hermione said as she offered Ariana a glass of water. " Elaine…do you mean Elaine Winters?"
" Yes, I take it you know of her?" Ariana said taking a sip from the glass.
" Well of c-"
Hermione broke off as Tonks entered the room suddenly, her hair a brilliant shade of aqua blue. Following quickly behind her were two men and a woman who appeared to be in her late fifties. All three had black haired with cat shaped green eyes similar to that of Elaine's.
" Where did they take her?" The woman said fearfully.
They all pointed upstairs to which the three individuals immediately darted upstairs.
" They're Elaine's mother and brothers." Tonks said as she noticed the teenagers confused faces. " Her mother, Winifred, and her brothers, Reynold and Ezekiel."
" Why would the Death Eaters attack Elaine and her father?" Harry asked Tonks curiously.
" Elaine was a powerful Auror fourteen years ago." Tonks said, her tone almost that of admiration. " She and her family were members of the original Order of the Phoenix."
" Are they still?" Ron asked curiously.
" All but Elaine." Tonks huffed grumpily. " Remus and I tr-"
They were interrupted once more as the front door banged opened suddenly to reveal Mr. Weasley, his hair disheveled, his face drawn in fear. Quickly following behind him was Professor McGonagall, Madam Pomfrey and to everyone's surprise, Snape.
" Upstairs!" Hermione said quickly as Madam Pomfrey and Snape immediately bypassed them to the stairs.
" Why is Snape here?" Harry asked curiously.
" Professor Snape is here, Potter, because he's the best potions expert in the Order!" Professor McGonagall snapped suddenly. " Whenever a Member is injured he and Madam Pomfrey will take care of them! That is of course, if they're not able or willing to be transported to Saint Mungos!"
" If someone was injured, why wouldn't they be willing t-"
" BACK OFF, SNIVILUS!"
They all paused at the sound of Sirius' angry voice. They all ran quickly up the stairs to find Sirius and Snape squaring off, Elaine's mother sobbing in the corner, one of her brothers attempting to console her.
" Move aside, Black. Or else Winters will bleed out." Snape sneered over at Harry.
" Gentlemen please," Professor McGonagall said sharply. " This isn't the time! Sirius, move aside, Elaine doesn't have that much time! Madam Pomfrey and Ezekiel will need Severus' assistance in their!"
" She's right, Sirius!" Lupin said, his shabby robes covered in dark red blood. " Elaine won't last much longer if Severus doesn't-"
" If she dies Snivilus, not ever Dumbledore will be able to save you!" Sirius snarled sounding very dog like.
Snape didn't bother to respond as he strolled swiftly past Sirius and Lupin and slammed the door to the room shut.
" What was all that about?" Ron asked as Elaine's mother continued to sob uncontrollably.
" Sirius, I understand that you and Severus still c-" Professor McGonagall broke off as Sirius approached Elaine's mother.
" Winifred-"
SLAP!
The sound rang throughout the entire house as a stunned silence followed.
Winifred Winters had struck Sirius so hard that Harry himself had flinched. A large hand mark began to form on Sirius' handsome face.
" You stay away from my baby!" Winifred snarled dangerously.
" Winifred-"
" You heard me, boy!" Winifred pulling her wand suddenly from her robes. Her son, Jonas, grabbed her free arm quickly. " I said for you to stay far away from my daughter!"
" Winifred please, Sirius didn't betray Lily and James!"
" Stay out of this, Remus!" Winifred snapped. " This isn't about Lily and James! This is about my daughter and what he did to her!"
" I know what I-"
" Be quiet, Black!" One of Elaine's brothers, Reynold, said his fists clenched. " You're lucky I don't kill you myself after what you did to my sister!"
" What are you all talking about?" Harry asked suddenly causing the adults to realize that they were there.
" All of you should be downstairs." Lupin said stiffly.
" Yeah, like that'll happen." Ron smarted earning a stamp on the foot from Hermione.
" We were worried and wanted to know it there was anything we could do to help." Hermione said.
" No dear, there isn't." Mrs. Weasley said gently as she wrapped a soothing arm around Winifred. " We should all go downstairs so that we are out of the way."
" I'm not moving an inch until I know how my baby is!" Winifred sobbed as she slumped to the floor, the look in her eyes that of complete loss.
" I'll stay with you, Mum." Reynold said, conjuring a chair for his mother, helping her into it.
" Well that's it then, downstairs the lot of you!" Professor McGonagall said, ushering the teenagers out of the hallway to the lower floors.
" Come Sirius, we'll wait downstairs." Lupin said as he and Mrs. Weasley guided the dark haired man away from the door.
Harry saw his godfather cast a worried look back at the door before they made their way downstairs to the kitchen.