Disclaimer: I own Chris, Sean and Raulings and a couple of other things that will appear in future chapters. All respected Harry Potter characters are owned by J. K. Rowling. Richard and Kahlan Raul and Zed are owned by Terry Goodkind.
Harry Potter and the Green Flame Torch: Chapter 7
Renewed
Chris lay on the table. She hadn't been able to move for five days. She knew that she was probably going to die. She thought, "If I don't die today then I will live tomorrow. Chris! What are you thinking! You are going to get out of here and are going to find what happened to Sean."
She still blamed herself for his death and everyone else's. If she could have cried she would have.
At that moment she heard footsteps echoing down the hall.
"Oh, no," she thought. "I can't take any more of this."
It wasn't Draco. It was the Weasley twins. They had somehow managed to get into the dungeons of the Malfoy Mansion.
"Quick," she heard one of them say. "In here."
Two very red headed boys fell threw the doorway as one of the guards walked past. They quickly scuttled into a corner as the guard walked in. It was Avery.
"Hello there little lady. How nice of you to stay with us for these, what is it now, months. You know, Master Draco should be arriving any moment. I shall stay here and watch you die."
Out of the corner of her eye she could see one twin holding the other back.
One was trying to stop Avery. One boy pulled a wand out of his pocket and said in a clear voice, "Stupefy!"
"Fred!" said the other one. "You know you're not supposed to do that!"
The other one looked over at me and gasped. "Fred," he said. "Look at that table that that girl is on! She's laying on needles!"
"I am?" thought Chris. "Maybe that's why I can't feel my body."
The two boys were quarreling in the corner.
"George! Come on we gotta help her. You heard what that guy said. They are gonna kill her."
"But Fred. What will mum say? What are we going to tell her? That we went to the Malfoy Mansion and grabbed one of their prisoners to take home?"
"That's a great idea George! That's exactly what we'll tell her. Of course we'll adlib a little bit. But that's a good story."
"Fine, but if we get in trouble again. You're gonna be doing my homework for months do you understand me?"
"Yes, mother dear I understand your every liberating word!" said Fred in a high squeaky voice. "Hurry up and get moving! Someone will know he's gone before long and will come looking for him."
"Uh Fred, it's a girl that we are rescuing remember?"
"I was talking about the guard."
"Oh"
Both of them walked over to the table and gently lifted her off of it. Feeling suddenly came rushing back into Chris's body. The feelings of pain overwhelmed her. She let out a soft cry of pain. For that was all that she could manage.
She was amazed at her self. She had uttered a word. This was the first time in days that she had spoken or even moaned.
She spoke in a whisper to the twins. "Someone give me a wand." George obliged. She muttered an invisibility spell.
"We are now invisible. Please walk with care and do not make to much noise the walls will echo." Her little strength was leaving her. In a few more seconds she had fainted.
She didn't know where she was. It seemed to her that she had just been in a dungeon and now there was a woman with two kind blue eyes. She was holding a cold cloth to Chris's forehead. No one had ever done that before. Not at the orphanage, Raulings, or, anywhere.
Then she remembered. It was the two boys that had gotten her out of that mansion. They had both had flaming red hair, just like this woman.
"Hello, you're finally awake. You have been asleep here for a week. Oh! Sorry I forgot to introduce my self. My name is Molly Weasley. You can call me Molly."
Chris liked this woman. She was the first person that had allowed her to call them by their first name.
"Where am I?" Chris asked.
"You are at the Burrow."
"The what?"
"The Burrow. It's what we call our house."
"Whose house?" Chris was bursting with questions. No one had ever answered them all for her.
"My families house. I live here with my husband and children. First there's Bill he works in Egypt at Gringotts. Then there's Charlie who works in Romania and works with Dragons. After that is Percy. He is the hardest working of all. He works at the Ministry of magic but I don't know what his title is, he wouldn't tell me. Anyway, after that is Fred and George, they're twins. They are in their last year at Hogwarts and are the worst troublemakers to ever grace the earth. Wait, the second worst troublemakers to grace the earth. After that is Ron, he's about your age I think, and then there's my only girl, Ginny. Well actually it's Virginia, but she doesn't like to be called that."
Mrs. Weasley looked down at the sleeping girl. She had flaming red hair that was rather grungy and her face was smeared with grease and what looked like blood.
She will stay with us and not go back to where ever she was staying before. I still don't believe that Fred and George really found her sleeping in a dumpster. She just doesn't smell that bad.
Outside in the yard…
"Ron! You gotta fling it over the fence, not into it!" screamed George.
Ron had just flung a rather large gnome into him. Their mother had sent them outside to do the de-gnoming for the fourth time that day.
Ron was wondering about two things, when Harry and Hermione were going to come, and what it was that Fred, George and their mum were hiding in the attic.
About an hour later…
The Weasley's heard a car pull into the driveway.
Ron rushed out the door and skidded into the driveway.
Inside the car were, Harry, Hermione, and Harry's horrible cousin and uncle.
"Hi Harry! Hi 'Mione!" said Ron as they stepped out of the car. "Hey Harry, how'd you get them to bring you here?"
"Easy," said Harry. "I just told them that this was the place that had loads of candy."
Ron and Harry both burst out laughing.
Ron was amazed at how Harry had changed. He was taller and his voice was deeper. He looked a lot like the pictures that Ron had seen of Harry's father James.
Hermione however didn't even have the slightest interest in what they were doing. She was trying to get her trunk out from Dudley's still enormous behind.
"Get off Dudley!" she said to him. Harry had to sit down to keep from falling over from laughing. Ron however did not find this funny at all.
Dudley was staring at Hermione oddly and was puckering his fat lips.
"Harry? Why is Dudley staring at Hermione like that?"
Harry (who had stopped laughing) started giggling again, "Take a look for your self!" he said. Again he burst out laughing. He just couldn't stop.
Ron was now looking Hermione over. She had changed. Her figure had filled out and her hair was not quite as frizzy any more. It was curlier. Ron thought that she was beautiful. He had never liked her anymore than a friend but now he thought that she was a definite choice for a date to a dance.
Then he remembered why he was looking at her. He figured it out. Dudley had a crush on her!
Hermione had finally gotten her trunk out from under Dudley. Harry's uncle had driven off as fast as possible. She was thankful. She couldn't stand Dudley looking at her with that insane look on his face.
She looked at Ron. Actually she looked at his chest. Her gaze slowly went up to his face.
"Holy shit Ron! Look how tall you are!" She ran up and gave him a great big hug. Ron was so stunned at what she had said that when she tried to hug him she had knocked him over.
All three of them looked at each other and burst out laughing.
When it had subsided. They all stood up and brought their trunks into the house. As they brought them up the stairs they could hear people talking in the attic.
Ron now knew that there was a person or persons up there. That night he decided to find out who or whom it was.
AN: See I told you that it would get better, and for those of you who were wondering here he is, the amazing Harry Potter! Thank you for reading, you don't have to review. I would really like it if you did though. Thank you to Camille for her help and to every one else who reviewed.
Thanx -Chris Lillith