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Aftermath

Harry went directly to the to Dumbledore office. Harry knew that he had to see him before he took Danielle to the hospital wing.

Dumbledore was sitting at his desk. He looked up with great concern when Harry walked in holding Danielle.

"What happened?" he demanded conjuring a bed to lay Danielle on. He saw how chalk white her skin was.

"I don't know." Harry said quite honestly. "We can talk to each other telepathically and she called me and said she need help." Harry looked at Dumbledore who was looking at Danielle with great concern.

"I found her a long way away in a circle Death Eaters and Voldemort was trying to kill her." Harry bit his lip at the thought that he could have lost his sister that he just found.

"But his spell wouldn't work. She threw him across the circle and he hit his head on a tree, he looked pretty bad, I think it cracked his head."

Harry stopped at the image, he like the idea that Danielle had hurt Voldemort, but the image was gruesome and Harry felt like he was going to throw up.

"The Death Eaters all went over to him and I pick Danielle up on the broom."

All of a sudden Harry remembered, "She shoot stunning spells at all the Death Eaters to keep them from coming after us and to keep them from healing Voldemort immediately, could we still go arrest them?" Harry looked excited.

Dumbledore went to the Fawkes and sent out a letter, "With any luck, we can do just that." Dumbledore said hoping for that luck, but knowing it was not likely to happen.

"Professor, is she going to be okay?" Harry asked going over to Danielle.

"Yes, but not only did she seem show a lot of courage this evening, it looks like she performed powerful magic without her wand. The kind of magic I believe she performed takes a lot of effort to perform with a wand. Danielle is going to need time to recover from this."

Dumbledore said looking down at the girl thinking about how much courage she must have shown.

"What about Voldemort," Harry asked scared to hope too much.

"We will have to wait and to find out. Danielle did a lot of power magic this evening and she might not have been able to completely stun the Death Eaters. But now she knows what she is up against and she will be better prepared next time."

Harry looked down on his sister. He was filled with a new respect for her. He had faced Voldemort before, but he had never had the courage to stand up to him. It was a few hours before Harry actually heard the words 'next time' and he was very worried about his sister.

Danielle awoke in the hospital wing a week latter. The leaving feast was only 5 days away.

Danielle opened her eyes and immediately shut them again. The light was bright and hurt her head. Finally she blinked enough to be able to see her surroundings.

She laughed silently to see Harry and Hermione asleep in each other's arms. Ron was asleep in a chair next to her bed holding the diary Harry got her for Christmas. In the picture Danielle was still laughing and smiling brightly holding Sara. Danielle smiled at the picture.

"What would I do without you?" Danielle said in a whisper to the people around her.

Dumbledore suddenly came in. He laughed quietly at the sleeping teenagers.

"Danielle," Dumbledore said quietly, not wanting to wake the others. "If you are feeling up to it, I would like you to come to my office for a little chat."

Danielle nodded and got out of bed. She almost fell down; it was like she didn't know how to walk anymore. Dumbledore caught her and helped her walk to his office.

Once they were both sitting down, Dumbledore asked her, "I know it is still difficult to talk about it, and I know you like to keep things to yourself, but I need to know what happened."

Danielle looked away from his eyes and nodded. She took a deep breath and in a flat tone she began to tell him what she remembered.

"Malfoy stopped me in the hall and he put a piece of cloth over my mouth before I knew what he was doing. I blacked out and woke up in the Malfoy living room. Next thing I know we disappeared and appeared in a dark forest. There were these people all around me, forming a circle, Mr. Malfoy stepping into the circle, dragging his son with him. I was scared so I called Harry and told him to come quickly. I forgot that you told me that Voldemort's wand couldn't do anything to me. He tried to hit me with some curses but they felt nice, like hot butterbeer."

Danielle paused and looked up at Dumbledore and he just stared back at her. Danielle didn't want to continue, but by the look in Dumbledore's eyes she knew she had to.

Danielle felt that she wasn't in her body anymore, she was watching someone who looked like her tell Dumbledore the events. Danielle shut her eyes and continued.

"I figured trying to use wandless magic was worth a shot, either I could or I couldn't. I managed to throw him backwards, but he tired to hit me with death curse you told me about. It hit another person instead. Then he tried to strangle me."

Danielle put her hands around her neck and could feel that it was still tender.

"I couldn't think of what to do, so I said the death curse back, but it didn't kill him."

Danielle realized that that she had tried to kill someone and felt guilty even if it was Voldemort.

"He tried to choke me again, but I threw him back again. I remember him hitting a tree and he looked hurt."

Danielle could picture the scene in her head and felt sick. It took her a few minutes for her to continue.

"I jumped on Harry's broom and shot stunning spells back at them until I hit all of them. I don't remember anything after that."

Dumbledore looked across the desk at her. "Thank you." He said after a few moment of silence.

"I have some news," he smiled slightly, "the Ministry of Magic got there in time to arrest some of the death eaters. Some got away, but we got nine of them. Unfortunately, Voldemort was nowhere to be found. We don't know if that is because he's dead and the death eaters took his body or if he was still alive and the death eaters healed him or if he was close to death and they took him to nurse him back to health."

Dumbledore stopped to give Danielle some time to recover from the news. He could see how tired and weak she was.

"You were drained of a lot of energy and magic when you fought him. You did more than I could have asked of you, and we will question the death eaters we did find. I never guessed that he would come after you so suddenly, I'm sorry I did not prepare you better." Dumbledore said looking into her green eyes.

"I didn't need you to prepare me, Voldemort prepared me himself by sending me to that orphanage to live with Mr. Hunt." Danielle said partly as a joke.

Dumbledore smiled at her slight attempt at humor.

"You still need to rest, I can not allow you to go back to class or to leave the hospital wing." Dumbledore said and Danielle nodded, she didn't want to do anything but go back to sleep anyway.

As Dumbledore helped Danielle back to the hospital wing, they were meet by Ron, Harry and Hermione. All three looked incredible worried.

"There you are." Harry said panting to catch his breath.

"I woke up and you weren't there anymore," Ron explained between gasps. Hermione just gave her a little hug. Danielle tried to give one back, but she was too weak.

Danielle got back into bed and she talked to Hermione, Ron, and Harry. They all knew well enough not to question her about what happened, so they talked about what they had been learning in school.

Shadow found her way to the hospital wing and jumped up on the bed. Danielle had never been happier to see her.

Danielle fell asleep with Shadow curled up at her side. Ron watched her sleep even after Harry and Hermione left. Madam Pomfrey gave up trying to get him to leave.

Ron sat there watching her breathe and looking at the picture of her and Sara. Ron loved both girls very much, he could picture himself marrying Danielle and adopting Sara. He smiled at this thought, but knew they were young and still had their whole lives in front of them.

Ron knew from Harry that Danielle had been attacked by Voldemort and he was very upset about this. He had almost lost Harry every single year that he had known him.

Voldemort wanted Harry dead and it sacred Ron very much to think that he wanted Danielle dead as well. Losing Harry would be hard, but he didn't know what he would do if he ever lost Danielle.

He watched her chest rise and fall. "Your safe now, He didn't hurt you, you hurt him, and your safe." Ron said as he kissed her forehead and sat back in the chair as sleep swept over him.