Chapter 3: Lunch and a Cherry Coke
The following week when Katerina had finished school (with honors no doubt) Arthur Weasley invited her to lunch in the office. No one there was to tell anyone about kat coming back until Charlie had seen her. No one at Hogwarts knew. Only Arthur, Dumbledore, mcGonnagal, and Corneilus Fudge. "You mean Harry fought the Dark lord again? In his first year? He lived? How on earth could it happen?" She said. "No one knows how he escapes everything. And now that Sirius has escaped…" He trailed off. "Sirius is innocent. It was that rat…Peter." She said. "How do you know? Are you sure?" He said. "I was there. He came to the house. After everything had been done I heard mom and dad fighting. Mom said that if Peter betrayed them that he Sirius would be blamed. Mom…Mom suspected something in Peter and she was right. Dad was always sympathetic. He thought that…He thought that Harry, Mom, and I would be safe if we didn't use Sirius because Sirius was to obvious." She looked down into her glass. "'m sorry if I'm asking to many questions." He said. "No. I'd have to tell someone eventually, right? Although I already explained it to Dumbledore." She said. "Oh." He said. "Well…you are coming home to Charlie in a few weeks. Just be happy you've gotten everything…painful…off your mind and you can focus on him. I have to send him an owl making him come home for Christmas." He said. "Uhm… I think I'm going to go get a Cherry Coke." She said. She stood and walked quietly to the soda machine. "I'll be there in a few weeks Charlie." She whispered to herself as the soda came into her hand.