This chapter is in honor of those on the flights who fought the hijackers they are heroes. This is also in memory of those who lost their life in the attacks.
(A/N: I will describe the appearance of the mysterious man from the hospital in this chapter in case you have been wondering.)
Chapter 9
The last line of the letter, P.S. There's a little surprise inside..., repeated itself in Harry's head as he lead Ron and Hermione inside. Nothing looked much different in the kitchen except the table was slightly burned and flipped over.
"Ohh." Ron let out a groan as he looked at the chaos in the den.
The furniture was badly messed with. Some of it was ash, and some of it was broken into splinters. They found nothing else messed with downstairs so they headed upstairs.
They stopped at the first room they came to, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley's, and looked in finding the bed destroyed and stuff thrown about. They continued up coming to the room where Charlie was staying to find another ransacked room.
[Nothing too bad so far.] thinks Harry. They then come to the room of Ginny finding her on the bed.
"No! Ginny!" yells Ron as he runs over to her right behind Harry. Harry sees Ginny breathing and points this out.
"She's alive?" asks Ron.
"Yes. I think she might be hurt pretty bad." Says Harry looking up and down Ginny's body for injuries. "I think she might have a broken arm."
"Well let's go check the rest of the house." Says Ron.
"NO! I think I'll stay with Ginny." Says Hermione. "In case she gets worse."
"Ok." Says Harry. "Come on Ron."
Harry and Ron set off through the rest of the house passing Fred and George's room, Ron's room, and a room that was Bill's, and then comes to Percy's room finding Percy and Penelope bleeding, battered, bruised, and… "THEYRE DEAD!! NO!!!!" Harry yells.
"No, no, no, no, no, no." repeated Ron who didn't want to believe it.
What made it worse was it appeared Percy had defended Penelope and they ended up getting their right arm broken around each others' right arm making it appear like a rope spun together with flesh and muscle and bone colored blood.
"Ohhh." A moan escaped Ron's lips.
Ron turned and ran out followed by Harry. They stopped, told Hemione what they saw, got Ginny, and ran out the door, grabbing the note, and running full speed to Sirius's house.
When they got to the house Harry opened the door as Ron leaned over the rails of the porch and puked vehemently. They walked into the house and were met by Sirius who could tell something was wrong.
"What happened? Ron you look really pale." Said Sirius.
"It was horrible." Says Harry. "Percy and Penelope are dead."
"Ginny is hurt badly too." Says Hermione handing Ginny to Sirius.
"Oh my." Says Sirius surveying Ginny.
Sirius pulls out his wand, lights a fire in the grate, and grabs a pinch of floo powder.
"The Phoenix Fantor." yells Sirius as he steps into the fire.
A few minutes later he comes back with a man who is carrying a potion case and his wand. The man is wearing a muggle suit, he is rather tall and kind of lanky but he appears muscular as well. He has black hair, which is down to his shoulders and flying freely, his eyes are brown and he has a pointed chin. His ears are slightly pointed at the top and his nose is slightly long.
"Hey! It's that man who helped my brother!" exclaims Ron. "Sorry about being a git earlier, sir." (A/N: Remember Mr. Phoenix has been in America so he might use some American slang when he talks)
"It's quite understandable. You must have been stressed about your brother." Says the man. "My name is Mr. Phoenix."
"Doctor could you help Ginny?" says Harry.
"Of course I can Harry." Says Mr. Phoenix. "Stand back."
Mr. Phoenix examines Ginny and then pulls out a potion he has in his case. He pours a little into a vial he has, adds a pinch of some black powdery stuff he has into it, puts a cork in the top, and shakes the vial. The liquid turns a jade green color and turns into a fizz of the same color. Harry examines Mr. Phoenix as he gets a little scoop out of the case.
He has an intense concentrating sort of look on his face as he carefully takes two scoops of the fizz, which is seemingly crystallizing, and he adds it to a golden liquid, which also contains a phoenix tear.
"EEeeeEEEeeee." Mr. Phoenix lets out one quavering note and a phoenix comes flying into the room.
"EEeeeEEEeeee. EEEEeeeEEEeee." Mr. Phoenix lets out two more of the notes and nods his head towards Ginny's broken arm.
The phoenix flies over to her arm, lands beside it, and cries on her arm, which heals instantly. At the same time, Mr. Phoenix pours the golden potion down her throat. She appears to instantly be healed of all her scratches and whatever else might have been wrong.
"You…you…you spoke in phoenix song." Says Hermione.
"Ah, so you caught me. You figured out my secret." Says Mr. Phoenix. "I can speak to phoenixes. My phoenix, Alshim, and I got so close because of me being able to speak phoenix. Alshim is very loyal to me. Always helps me in healing when I need him. Is that all you need me for Sirius?"
"No. She's still knocked out and…" starts Sirius.
"Enervate!" yells Mr. Phoenix.
"Also, there are two people dead at the burrow." says Sirius.
"We got a note from Voldemort too." Yells Harry handing the note to Sirius.
Sirius reads the note and hands it to Mr. Phoenix.
"Will you be willing to help us?" says Sirius.
"Of course I will old friend." Says Mr. Phoenix.
"Then we will set out for Malfoy Manor at 2:30 by broom so we can get there on time." Says Sirius.
The rest of the day flew by like an owl. It was 2:30 and they were getting ready to take off when a black owl flew in with a package. Mr. Phoenix and Sirius carefully examined the package before they opened it. It contained a letter and a tire trodden snakeskin. Sirius extracted the letter and read it before handing it to Mr. Phoenix. Mr. Phoenix examined the letter with a look of concentration on his face before he handed it back to Sirius who cleared his throat and read it out loud:
Dear Weasel,
Did you enjoy the surprise inside? I know I did. It was so touching the way that idiot, Percy, (At this remark Ron clinched his fists in anger) protected his wife. (A/N: We'll say Percy married Penelope in July. Maybe I'll post a story about it sometime.) He said "I'll be true to her and tied to her for the rest of my days. I will never join you Voldemort! NEVER!!!!!" I made sure he got his last wish of being tied to her forever. Weasel; remember to be at Malfoy Manor by 3:00 PM. I have supplied a port key for you to use. It will activate itself at 3:00 PM. Bring Potter, Black, and that filthy (Sirius spits this word out as though it was dung) mudblood that follows you and Potter around. I'd suggest bringing your parents, BUT THEY ARE HERE WITH ME!!! You better arrive on time unless you never want to see them alive again.
The Death Of You,
Voldemort
Ron was shaking with silent fury when Sirius had finished reading the letter. "That snakelike git will rue the day he got the prattish idea in his head to attack the Weasleys!" Ron yells out in fury. "YOU HEAR ME!! HE'LL RUE THE DAY!!!!" "He'll rue the day he killed my parents!" yells Harry. "YES HE WILL!" yells Sirius and Mr. Phoenix. The 25 minutes until 3:00 PM seemed to fly by and soon they were gathered around the snake skin all touching part of it. "You ready?" asks Sirius. "I sure am." Says Harry, Ron, and Hermione as Mr. Phoenix nods. "All right then. Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven. Six. Five. Four. Three. Two. Ooone." says Sirius as they feel the familiar tug behind the navel.