CHAPTER THREE-
The Ministry
Harry pulled Ron aside after Hermione had left the room. Ron looked overly happy.
"What the hell was that?" Harry asked abruptly.
"What?" Ron asked.
"You kissing Hermione!" Harry yelled.
"Keep your voice down!" Ron whispered urgently. "Were a couple now! Yeah... about beginning
of last week, we decided we needed to take our friendship further. Aren't you happy?"
No! You bastard! Of course I'm not! I don't know why I'm not happy... I don't like Hermione
I like Cho... oh no.
"Of course I'm happy for you!" Harry said rhapsodically. "How's your relationship going,
anyways?"
Ron heaved a sigh dreamily. "Amazing. She sit together and cuddle... you know just by the
fireplace downstairs when no one is awake."
Wow. Amazing. What doesn't Hermione see in me?
Harry shook his head to get these thoughts out once and for all. "Well good job mate!" Harry
said and he patted Ron on the shoulder. "I have to talk to Hermione in private. I'll be back."
Harry leaped from his seat and ran out the door. He flung himself downstairs and into the
bathroom where Hermione was curling her hair. Harry slammed the door shut.
"HARRY!" Hermione squalled.
"SHUTUP!" Harry murmured forcefully. Hermione took the curler out of her hair and turned it
off.
"What do you want?" Hermione said, a bit irritated now.
Harry exhaled. "Your dating Ron! I never knew you liked him!"
Hermione giggled. "Well... I never did. I used to like someone else. Not saying who," she added
sternly. She then became a bit depressed. "Thing is I don't like him as much as I used to a week ago.
He just acts so differently. He's a romantic."
"Erm, okay," Harry said.
"I really want to dump him," she said simply. "But I'll give it like two or three more days."
"He'll hate you! He will NEVER get over it!" Harry said lunatically.
"I'll figure that out on my own," Hermione said and shifted her feet. She sniffed the air. "Do you
smell something burning?"
Harry looked down at the sink. Hermione followed his gaze. She screamed.
"OH MY GOD!" She yelled as she pushed the ironing rod into the sink and turned the water on
it. Around the sink, the marble was smoking very badly. Sparks were appearing out of nowhere. Ron
burst into the room at that exact moment and his eyes widened.
"I'll take care of this!" he said proudly and raised his wand. "PUTERIAS!"
Hermione ducked as the sparks did not diminish, but ignited and sent a huge flame catapulting at
Ron's robes.
"PUTERIAS! PUTERIAS!" he screamed and the fire became larger.
"IT'S NOT PUTERIAS YOU IDIOT! IT'S HYDROLICA!" Hermione yelled as the bathroom
continued to burn. Harry got a towel and started beating the fire. Mrs. Weasley came bustling to the
doorway screaming.
"HYDROLICA!" she yelled at Ron and gallons of water issued from her wand and soaked Ron.
Harry yelled the same spell at the sink at the same time Hermione and Mrs. Weasley did, giving it a
double effect, sending so much water out of their wand, that is caused a tidal wave to release out into the
family room. Mrs. Weasley flung her arms desperately to the couch as water pounded her from every
side.
"IT'S LIKE A HURRICANE!" Ron screamed as he landed face first into the brick fireplace.
Hermione grabbed Harry's hand as they went flying into the sofa at so much force, that the expensive
couch moved with the water and collided into Ron's back. Mrs. Weasley, screaming for her dear life,
clung on as the couch moved.
Hermione raised her wet wand and exclaimed, "Moxcio WATER!"
All the water in the room disappeared.
"Helpful hint to all Moxcio means to get rid of something like Accio brings something to you,"
Hermione pointed out as she collapsed in exhaustion right onto Harry. Ron was groaning in pain and
Mrs. Weasley seemed to have fainted.
Dumbledore, Tonks, Lupin, and Mad-Eye all came in from the den, talking to each other, but
paused as soon as they saw the scene.
"Did a hurricane hit this place?" Lupin asked.
At thirty minutes until 5:00PM, Mrs. Weasley, clutching her wand, muttered a spell. Her wand
lit up at the end but nothing happened. Instead, she went into the kitchen and touched a pot with her
wand. It vanished.
"Everything my wand touches will disappear. Whenever I say the spell again, a trunk will appear
with everything I have touched packed inside it neatly," she explained to Hermione who was eagerly
watching her.
Harry and Ron walked downstairs together, Ron apparently better from where the couch
slammed into his back.
"Mum fixed it up. I can't wait to get to the Ministry! Dad is there! And soon, we get to visit Fred
and George!" Ron proclaimed.
They both turned around and said "Accio Trunk." Their trunks came zooming down the stairs.
"Accio Hedwig's cage!" Harry shouted and her cage came flying down the stairs WITH Hedwig
inside, Harry had forgotten.
She was hooting bitterly.
"You know what, Harry?" Ron asked. "The Ministry should be sending us letters on underage
magic use. We sure have been using many spells."
Harry laughed. "They have to much to worry about at the moment!"
"Almost ready gang?" Lupin said, adjusting his cloak and he brought his luggage to the front
hallway.
"Hold on, Remus!" Mrs. Weasley said. "I am rounding up some stuff in the bathroom."
Tonks and Mad-Eye appeared from the corridor in the back of the house grasping their trunks
and sliding them across the floor with their wands. Aunt Petunia was in the living room, using the same
spell Mrs. Wealsey was. Dumbledore had already left.
Eventually, everyone was done. A portkey was set-up outside.
"Ok... Molly, Tonks, stay with the kids. Use this portkey," he pointed at a rotted newspaper on
the ground. "Were going to apparate everyone's stuff and ourselves to the Ministry."
Lupin dragged Harry's, Ron's, and Hermione's stuff over. He sat on top of all three trunks and
concentrated hard.
There was a crack and Lupin had vanished.
Mad-Eye got his stuff and Tonks and he too was gone.
Aunt Petunia got Mrs. Weasley's stuff and disappeared ina flash.
"Okay everyone," Mrs. Weasley said excitedly. "Put one hand on the portkey!"
Everyone did so.
"MINISTRY OF MAGIC!" Tonks yelled loudly, and Harry found his body catapulting upwards
in a swirl of colors, wind howling at his ears.
They arrived inside the Ministry no less than ten seconds later. Lupin, Mad-Eye, and Petunia
came out of a corridor happily.
"Everything is inside the new headquarters. Everyone is there too. You should see the Ministry!
Everyone is freaking out about the dementors thing. They are in Little Whinging now," Mad-Eye said.
Aunt Petunia looked sick.
"I do hope Vernon and Dudley are fine."
"Who knows? We can't stop them. They are under Voldemort's power now. Unless we try
Patronums," Lupin inquired.
They conversed very quickly and began to walk to the new headquarters when the room was
illuminated in a shimmery blue. Light was flashing everywhere in the Ministry. Alarms were going off in
every corner of the area. People started to scream as they ran off into different areas.
"FOLLOW ME!" Lupin yelled apprehensively. He took off into a small room labeled Room
13A, Ministry Registration. Everyone filed in and Mad-Eye locked the door.
"Get down," Lupin said.
He turned off the lights.
"What's going on?" Hermione whispered in fright. She was holding Ron's hand.
"Something is coming towards us. We used to get these warnings all the time when Voldemort
was back to his full strength. It might be Dementors, Death Eaters, bomb-threats, curse-threats, or
Voldemort himself," Tonks said.
Harry and Ron looked at each other.
"The Aurors are out there right now checking if everything is okay," Aunt Petunia said.
"Just stay quiet," Mad-Eye muttered.
There was muteness throughout the room. It was broken though, by a shrill scream that no one
wanted to hear... and then three or four after that. Mad-Eye got up quietly and without any objection,
exited the room. Then he yelled a terrible yell. Lupin, Tonks, and Aunt Petunia all sprung up and exited
the room while everyone else stayed put.
The whole entrance to the Ministry of Magic was on fire. Five Aurors lay in a new fountain in
the center of the hall that had just been installed. All of them were bleeding, but were alive.
Lupin and Tonks ran to see if they were all right. People from many places were coming to see if
everything was okay, since the alarms had stopped ringing. In the middle of the room, there was blood on
the floor spelling the words, "BEWARE, HE IS BACK."
Everyone would soon find out that Death Eaters had escaped from Azkaban and came here to the
Ministry. The weird thing is that they didn't kill, but warn.
The Ministry
Harry pulled Ron aside after Hermione had left the room. Ron looked overly happy.
"What the hell was that?" Harry asked abruptly.
"What?" Ron asked.
"You kissing Hermione!" Harry yelled.
"Keep your voice down!" Ron whispered urgently. "Were a couple now! Yeah... about beginning
of last week, we decided we needed to take our friendship further. Aren't you happy?"
No! You bastard! Of course I'm not! I don't know why I'm not happy... I don't like Hermione
I like Cho... oh no.
"Of course I'm happy for you!" Harry said rhapsodically. "How's your relationship going,
anyways?"
Ron heaved a sigh dreamily. "Amazing. She sit together and cuddle... you know just by the
fireplace downstairs when no one is awake."
Wow. Amazing. What doesn't Hermione see in me?
Harry shook his head to get these thoughts out once and for all. "Well good job mate!" Harry
said and he patted Ron on the shoulder. "I have to talk to Hermione in private. I'll be back."
Harry leaped from his seat and ran out the door. He flung himself downstairs and into the
bathroom where Hermione was curling her hair. Harry slammed the door shut.
"HARRY!" Hermione squalled.
"SHUTUP!" Harry murmured forcefully. Hermione took the curler out of her hair and turned it
off.
"What do you want?" Hermione said, a bit irritated now.
Harry exhaled. "Your dating Ron! I never knew you liked him!"
Hermione giggled. "Well... I never did. I used to like someone else. Not saying who," she added
sternly. She then became a bit depressed. "Thing is I don't like him as much as I used to a week ago.
He just acts so differently. He's a romantic."
"Erm, okay," Harry said.
"I really want to dump him," she said simply. "But I'll give it like two or three more days."
"He'll hate you! He will NEVER get over it!" Harry said lunatically.
"I'll figure that out on my own," Hermione said and shifted her feet. She sniffed the air. "Do you
smell something burning?"
Harry looked down at the sink. Hermione followed his gaze. She screamed.
"OH MY GOD!" She yelled as she pushed the ironing rod into the sink and turned the water on
it. Around the sink, the marble was smoking very badly. Sparks were appearing out of nowhere. Ron
burst into the room at that exact moment and his eyes widened.
"I'll take care of this!" he said proudly and raised his wand. "PUTERIAS!"
Hermione ducked as the sparks did not diminish, but ignited and sent a huge flame catapulting at
Ron's robes.
"PUTERIAS! PUTERIAS!" he screamed and the fire became larger.
"IT'S NOT PUTERIAS YOU IDIOT! IT'S HYDROLICA!" Hermione yelled as the bathroom
continued to burn. Harry got a towel and started beating the fire. Mrs. Weasley came bustling to the
doorway screaming.
"HYDROLICA!" she yelled at Ron and gallons of water issued from her wand and soaked Ron.
Harry yelled the same spell at the sink at the same time Hermione and Mrs. Weasley did, giving it a
double effect, sending so much water out of their wand, that is caused a tidal wave to release out into the
family room. Mrs. Weasley flung her arms desperately to the couch as water pounded her from every
side.
"IT'S LIKE A HURRICANE!" Ron screamed as he landed face first into the brick fireplace.
Hermione grabbed Harry's hand as they went flying into the sofa at so much force, that the expensive
couch moved with the water and collided into Ron's back. Mrs. Weasley, screaming for her dear life,
clung on as the couch moved.
Hermione raised her wet wand and exclaimed, "Moxcio WATER!"
All the water in the room disappeared.
"Helpful hint to all Moxcio means to get rid of something like Accio brings something to you,"
Hermione pointed out as she collapsed in exhaustion right onto Harry. Ron was groaning in pain and
Mrs. Weasley seemed to have fainted.
Dumbledore, Tonks, Lupin, and Mad-Eye all came in from the den, talking to each other, but
paused as soon as they saw the scene.
"Did a hurricane hit this place?" Lupin asked.
At thirty minutes until 5:00PM, Mrs. Weasley, clutching her wand, muttered a spell. Her wand
lit up at the end but nothing happened. Instead, she went into the kitchen and touched a pot with her
wand. It vanished.
"Everything my wand touches will disappear. Whenever I say the spell again, a trunk will appear
with everything I have touched packed inside it neatly," she explained to Hermione who was eagerly
watching her.
Harry and Ron walked downstairs together, Ron apparently better from where the couch
slammed into his back.
"Mum fixed it up. I can't wait to get to the Ministry! Dad is there! And soon, we get to visit Fred
and George!" Ron proclaimed.
They both turned around and said "Accio Trunk." Their trunks came zooming down the stairs.
"Accio Hedwig's cage!" Harry shouted and her cage came flying down the stairs WITH Hedwig
inside, Harry had forgotten.
She was hooting bitterly.
"You know what, Harry?" Ron asked. "The Ministry should be sending us letters on underage
magic use. We sure have been using many spells."
Harry laughed. "They have to much to worry about at the moment!"
"Almost ready gang?" Lupin said, adjusting his cloak and he brought his luggage to the front
hallway.
"Hold on, Remus!" Mrs. Weasley said. "I am rounding up some stuff in the bathroom."
Tonks and Mad-Eye appeared from the corridor in the back of the house grasping their trunks
and sliding them across the floor with their wands. Aunt Petunia was in the living room, using the same
spell Mrs. Wealsey was. Dumbledore had already left.
Eventually, everyone was done. A portkey was set-up outside.
"Ok... Molly, Tonks, stay with the kids. Use this portkey," he pointed at a rotted newspaper on
the ground. "Were going to apparate everyone's stuff and ourselves to the Ministry."
Lupin dragged Harry's, Ron's, and Hermione's stuff over. He sat on top of all three trunks and
concentrated hard.
There was a crack and Lupin had vanished.
Mad-Eye got his stuff and Tonks and he too was gone.
Aunt Petunia got Mrs. Weasley's stuff and disappeared ina flash.
"Okay everyone," Mrs. Weasley said excitedly. "Put one hand on the portkey!"
Everyone did so.
"MINISTRY OF MAGIC!" Tonks yelled loudly, and Harry found his body catapulting upwards
in a swirl of colors, wind howling at his ears.
They arrived inside the Ministry no less than ten seconds later. Lupin, Mad-Eye, and Petunia
came out of a corridor happily.
"Everything is inside the new headquarters. Everyone is there too. You should see the Ministry!
Everyone is freaking out about the dementors thing. They are in Little Whinging now," Mad-Eye said.
Aunt Petunia looked sick.
"I do hope Vernon and Dudley are fine."
"Who knows? We can't stop them. They are under Voldemort's power now. Unless we try
Patronums," Lupin inquired.
They conversed very quickly and began to walk to the new headquarters when the room was
illuminated in a shimmery blue. Light was flashing everywhere in the Ministry. Alarms were going off in
every corner of the area. People started to scream as they ran off into different areas.
"FOLLOW ME!" Lupin yelled apprehensively. He took off into a small room labeled Room
13A, Ministry Registration. Everyone filed in and Mad-Eye locked the door.
"Get down," Lupin said.
He turned off the lights.
"What's going on?" Hermione whispered in fright. She was holding Ron's hand.
"Something is coming towards us. We used to get these warnings all the time when Voldemort
was back to his full strength. It might be Dementors, Death Eaters, bomb-threats, curse-threats, or
Voldemort himself," Tonks said.
Harry and Ron looked at each other.
"The Aurors are out there right now checking if everything is okay," Aunt Petunia said.
"Just stay quiet," Mad-Eye muttered.
There was muteness throughout the room. It was broken though, by a shrill scream that no one
wanted to hear... and then three or four after that. Mad-Eye got up quietly and without any objection,
exited the room. Then he yelled a terrible yell. Lupin, Tonks, and Aunt Petunia all sprung up and exited
the room while everyone else stayed put.
The whole entrance to the Ministry of Magic was on fire. Five Aurors lay in a new fountain in
the center of the hall that had just been installed. All of them were bleeding, but were alive.
Lupin and Tonks ran to see if they were all right. People from many places were coming to see if
everything was okay, since the alarms had stopped ringing. In the middle of the room, there was blood on
the floor spelling the words, "BEWARE, HE IS BACK."
Everyone would soon find out that Death Eaters had escaped from Azkaban and came here to the
Ministry. The weird thing is that they didn't kill, but warn.