. (See A/N at bottom again) All characters and places except for Heather Potter belong to J.K and whoever else yada yada yada.
Harry Potter and the Phoenix's Fury
Chapter 5 Catching Up to do and Chaos on the Hogwarts Express
September first rolled around for Harry as he anxiously waited for his sister Heather to come. She would arrive on the First of September before all the students. She was going to arrive via floo powder. Harry told professor Dumbledore that he was going to give her a guided tour of the castle. Finally for Harry 11 o clock came after much waiting. He was waiting for her at the entrance to the great hall and when she showed up his jaw dropped. He quickly recovered and put it back up. She was exactly what she said she was in the telepathic phone call of sorts. She was short and skinny and if she wasn't a girl who had long hair she would look exactly like Harry. She could fool anyone into thinking it was Harry in drag.
"Hi I'm you brother Harry I guess," said Harry
"I suppose so," said Heather.
They walked and Harry showed her all the places he could think of. He showed her the quditch pitch, the great hall, the womping willow, the owlery, the library and the kitchen. Harry liked her imdeaeltly. She reminded him of him except for being a girl.
"So what house do you think you'll be sorted into" asked Harry
"I don't know I'm hoping Gryfindor" she responded
"Oh, I'm in Gryfindor," replied Harry.
"Is it unusual for siblings to be sorted into the same house?" Heather asked.
"Sometimes, my best friend Ron has eight siblings and all of them were in Gryfindor," said Harry.
"But Pavarati and her twin Pamila are in different houses" he continued.
They continued walking until they saw Professor Dumbledore.
"Well I guess that's all I can show you until your sorted" Harry said.
"Oh ok" Heather responded.
When they walked up to Professor Dumbledore he had a grim look on his face.
"What's wrong professor?" Harry asked.
"Harry, about 15 minutes ago the Hogwarts express was attacked by about 20 death eaters," said Dumbledore grimly.
"Did anyone die?" Harry asked.
"We don't know, we just don't know," mumbled Dumbledore.
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(A/N I was thinking about stopping the chapter there but because so many of you wanted longer chapters I'll continue this part of the chapter is told from Ron's point of view aboard the Hogwarts express. It will change to Hermione's periodically so I'll tell you when it does. On with the chapter…
It was sort of lonely with just Hermione and I sitting in our usual compartment without Harry. The witch with all the snacks came by and Hermione and I spilt a pumpkin pastry and a bag of Bott's every flavor beans. Sure, we were all happy for Harry, I mean why wouldn't we. The boy who lived finally has a living relative. But something felt missing without him there. We had just gone to the prefects meeting in a compartment ahead of us and we were tired. Yes, I Ron Weasly was a prefect. Mom and Dad were so proud of me! I was playing a game of exploding snap with Neville and Ginny when all of a sudden it happened. The train stopped and the lights flickered and died.
"Is everyone ok?" I asked.
"Yes" Hermione, Neville, and Ginny replied in unison.
"I wonder what happened," said Hermione.
"Who knows, lets stay here" I assured her.
"Ok" she said.
Then we heard it. It was a blood-curling scream that came from somewhere several compartments ahead of us. We had no clue that it was from. Then Fred ran into the compartment and said that death eaters had ambushed the train and were trying to kill as many students before the ministry could arrive. I was afraid. Then a death eater came behind Fred and shot a strange sounding curse on him. Fred (who is pretty brave as far as I'm concerned) started shaking all over and passed out. Then the death eater advanced on us.
(Hermiones pov)
I was reading a revised, revised edition of Hogwarts a History when the lights went out. I wasn't that concerned. Due to the dreary weather outside I figured it as just a power outage or something. I was closest to the window and I looked outside. What I saw shocked me. Outside I saw a horde of death eaters climbing onto the train. I was speechless I could only mutter yes when Ron asked us if we were ok and ok. Then Fred came in and said that the death eaters were coming in the train to kill students. I haven't been that scared in my entire life. After he put that curse on Fred and he started advancing on us I knew we were doomed. Then the auror Popped out of nowhere and yelled Explamarus at the death eater. He proceeded to stun him. I was so happy for we were saved for at least for the moment. After the death eater was stunned we thought we were safe but we were wrong. The auror was telling us everything was ok when a bone chilling coldness came over the compartment. We turned toward the corroder and saw a dementor. The dementor jumped on the auror and sucked out the soul. I knew the dementor had just performed the dementor's kiss on an innocent auror and I knew the end was coming. I tried to think of happy thoughts but it was tough to. I told Ron, Ginny, and Neville to think of a happy moment and yell Excepto Partronum. We all did at the same time and a large sliver whispy lion came out of our wands and advanced towards the dementor. Ginny quickly shut the door and I put several locking spells on it. Ron proceeded to owl Dumbledore with the news of the attack and we waited. We waited not for death and not for life. We just waited.
A|N I'm sorry if that chapter wasn't long enough but I tried to keep it sorta cliffy. In the next chapter we find out what happened on the train and the survivors come to Hogwarts. Thanks to the following people for their nice reviews. Constructive criticism is welcomed.
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