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The Unicorn and the Stag
Chapter Seven
Harry was still in shock at the beginning of the year. Rose was worried about him. She didn't understand why it was Ginny that was taken. She kept asking herself why Voldemort wanted the smallest of the new phoenixes. She didn't know why he didn't want Harry, or her, or Ron or Hermione. Why Ginny? Maybe it was her talent at potions. He might need some potion...no, Wormtail and Voldemort were much better making potions than that fourteen- year-old-girl. She could think of no other reason except for Harry.
Harry had been very...distracted ever since Ginny had been kidnapped. In her class, at least. She had tried to listen to what he was thinking about, but every time, she felt like she was hitting a wall and felt a wave of nausea that meant she would have a bad reaction if she kept pushing in. So she settled for just trying to help him. She taught about creatures and curses he knew plenty about. This year was rather a review year, as they had O.W.L.s at the end. She tried her hardest to get through to him, but nothing worked.
She persuaded Severus to sub for her one Friday (she knew he wouldn't mind) and helped Professor McGonagall teach her lesson on the rare multi-Animagi.
"Does anyone know what multi-Animagi are?" Professor McGonagall asked the class. As usual, Hermione's hand was the only hand that went up.
"Yes, Ms. Granger?"
"Multi-Animagi is a rare form of Animagi who can transform themselves into more than just the simple one creature. It can be inherited. There have only ever been five."
"And do you know who those five were?"
"Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff, and Salazar Slytherin. I could not find a name for the fifth." It sounded like that made her unhappy.
"Very good. Ten points to Gryffindor. Now although you could not find the name of the third, I could. She happens to be Professor Creek."
The class gasped. Rose grinned. This was going to be fun.
"She has agreed to demonstrate her extraordinary abilities for us." Professor McGonagall proceeded to walk to her desk and sat down.
"Multi-Animagi can turn into non-magical creatures as well as magical ones of any size."
Rose turned herself into first a butterfly, then an eagle, and then a lion. The class gasped and applauded. She turned herself back into a human.
"I'm not done yet," she said, grinning.
She proceeded to turn herself into a phoenix, then a Unisus. The girls loved the Unisus. The last change she made was into a small dragon. She flew around the room a few times and perched on Draco Malfoy's head. While she sat there, she "accidentally" opened a connection to his mind.
*This class is so stupid. All we do is watch the Weasel make an idiot of himself and watch Mudblood show off. And Potter just sits there and thinks about his lost Weasel girl while his older sister shows off.*
Rose took off and flew up to her room. How the...Malfoy knew she was Harry's sister? His father must have told him. Great slimy git. What she'd like to do to the both of them...and Harry was in love with Ginny? It certainly made sense. And there was no doubt she loved him back. She had tapped into a few of her thoughts.
Rose had reached her room. She needed a break. Well, it was Friday, October 15. That meant Alex and Ally would be coming for her birthday on Sunday today. It shouldn't take long, she thought. They just have to Apparate to just outside Hogwarts territory and then ride their brooms to Hogwarts. They had Firebolts; you needed to if you played on the American national team. She sighed. The good old days. Too bad Seeker was taken here. Suddenly, she saw two brooms in this distance. "Als!" she yelled. She realized that they couldn't hear her, so she opened the window and jumped on her Firebolt. She caught up with them halfway.
"Ally! Alex! I missed you!" She noticed that they had identical crooked noses. "What happened to your faces?" she asked.
"Those nasty Afghan Beaters smashed their clubs into our noses. So we rigged their brooms with Dungbombs," Alice Bernard said with a nasty grin.
"They exploded in the middle of the match. We won, thanks to the fact that the Dungbomb exploded in their Seeker's eye so he couldn't see the Snitch," her sister Alexa said.
"You two are nasty!" Rose laughed. "Come on, we can talk in my room." They flew through the open window, threw their brooms on racks they conjured and sprawled across the couches. They sat and talked about how they were doing, and how the Als were never going to get a decent job if they continued getting their noses smashed by those cheating Afghans, and how Rose would never play Seeker again of she didn't quit her job. They were arguing about whether or not Keeper was a good position when Ron, Hermione, and Harry started banging on the door.
"Who's that?" Alex asked.
"Some students of mine." Rose said, and opened the door.
The trio nearly fell onto her carpet. As soon as they had gotten up, they started asking her questions.
"Where were you?"
"How come you weren't in class?"
"Snape terrorized us!"
Rose raised one eyebrow. "I was not in class because I was demonstrating the multi-Animagi to Mother's classes. Obviously, you weren't paying attention. And I wasn't in the other classes because I had two greet my friends, Alex and Ally." Ron went pale as a sheet.
"Alice and Alexa Bernard?" he croaked.
"The very same," Alice told him.
"I'm...uh...going to get the twins," Ron said and ran down the stairs.
The crowd gathered in Rose's sitting room just stood there for a few minutes, the suddenly burst into laughter.
It was good to see Harry laugh. This was the first Rose had seen her little brother smile since his birthday.
When they calmed down, they introduced themselves.
"Alex, Ally, this is Hermione Granger and this is Harry Potter. The redhead who just ran sown the stairs is Ronald Weasly."
"Ronald Weasly as in the brother of Frederick and George Weasly?" Alex said.
"The very same."
"Then he'd better really get them!"
They laughed again.
*~*~*
Harry was actually enjoying himself. At first he felt guilty, but after talking with the twins for a while, he relaxed. The twins were very pleasant to be around. Although they acted much like Fred and George, they looked almost completely opposite. They had long blonde hair and no freckles at all, although their skin was tanned from living in California. They played the same Quidditch positions as the Weasly twins, except they played on a much better team.
"The national team?! You play Beaters for the national team?"
"Yep. Alex and Ally Bernard. Alex is number five, I'm number six."
"Bloody hell!"
Ron had returned with the twins.
"Fred?" Alex said.
"George?" Ally said.
"That's me," they said at the same time. They all laughed nervously.
"No Dungbombs concealed in pockets?" Alex asked.
"Nose-Biting teacups up your sleeve?" George said.
"Nothing." Ally and George said at the same time.
Hermione interrupted their conversation. "Pardon me for interrupting your romantic exchange, but why are you two here?"
All twins jumped.
"We, uh, we came for Rose's birthday," Alex said, stepping on Ally's foot under the table.
"Yeah, her birthday's Sunday and we said we'd drop by. We were in her year at the Salem Witch's Institute. We haven't seen her since the Quidditch World Cup last year."
Harry could tell something was up. He probed into their memories (he had been practicing on the Slytherins) to find out.
It took him a few minutes. They had hidden the memory of why they came very deep. Too deep for it to be accidental. He dug harder. There! There it was! They had come because.........they knew something about Ginny.
He broke the connection is shock.
"What do you know about Ginny?" he yelled.
The Bernards looked shocked.
"How did you...."
"He's one," Rose said.
They gasped. "You mean level..."
"Yes, Alex," Rose said warningly.
The Bernards turned back to Harry. "We know exactly where Ginny is," Alice said.
"We're her two of her Secret-Keepers," Alexa added.
Rose sighed. "We'd better tell them everything. Sit down. We need to tell you about the Order of the Phoenix."
"Who's that?"
"I'm the Order. So are the Bernards," Rose said. "So are you."
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The Unicorn and the Stag
Chapter Seven
Harry was still in shock at the beginning of the year. Rose was worried about him. She didn't understand why it was Ginny that was taken. She kept asking herself why Voldemort wanted the smallest of the new phoenixes. She didn't know why he didn't want Harry, or her, or Ron or Hermione. Why Ginny? Maybe it was her talent at potions. He might need some potion...no, Wormtail and Voldemort were much better making potions than that fourteen- year-old-girl. She could think of no other reason except for Harry.
Harry had been very...distracted ever since Ginny had been kidnapped. In her class, at least. She had tried to listen to what he was thinking about, but every time, she felt like she was hitting a wall and felt a wave of nausea that meant she would have a bad reaction if she kept pushing in. So she settled for just trying to help him. She taught about creatures and curses he knew plenty about. This year was rather a review year, as they had O.W.L.s at the end. She tried her hardest to get through to him, but nothing worked.
She persuaded Severus to sub for her one Friday (she knew he wouldn't mind) and helped Professor McGonagall teach her lesson on the rare multi-Animagi.
"Does anyone know what multi-Animagi are?" Professor McGonagall asked the class. As usual, Hermione's hand was the only hand that went up.
"Yes, Ms. Granger?"
"Multi-Animagi is a rare form of Animagi who can transform themselves into more than just the simple one creature. It can be inherited. There have only ever been five."
"And do you know who those five were?"
"Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff, and Salazar Slytherin. I could not find a name for the fifth." It sounded like that made her unhappy.
"Very good. Ten points to Gryffindor. Now although you could not find the name of the third, I could. She happens to be Professor Creek."
The class gasped. Rose grinned. This was going to be fun.
"She has agreed to demonstrate her extraordinary abilities for us." Professor McGonagall proceeded to walk to her desk and sat down.
"Multi-Animagi can turn into non-magical creatures as well as magical ones of any size."
Rose turned herself into first a butterfly, then an eagle, and then a lion. The class gasped and applauded. She turned herself back into a human.
"I'm not done yet," she said, grinning.
She proceeded to turn herself into a phoenix, then a Unisus. The girls loved the Unisus. The last change she made was into a small dragon. She flew around the room a few times and perched on Draco Malfoy's head. While she sat there, she "accidentally" opened a connection to his mind.
*This class is so stupid. All we do is watch the Weasel make an idiot of himself and watch Mudblood show off. And Potter just sits there and thinks about his lost Weasel girl while his older sister shows off.*
Rose took off and flew up to her room. How the...Malfoy knew she was Harry's sister? His father must have told him. Great slimy git. What she'd like to do to the both of them...and Harry was in love with Ginny? It certainly made sense. And there was no doubt she loved him back. She had tapped into a few of her thoughts.
Rose had reached her room. She needed a break. Well, it was Friday, October 15. That meant Alex and Ally would be coming for her birthday on Sunday today. It shouldn't take long, she thought. They just have to Apparate to just outside Hogwarts territory and then ride their brooms to Hogwarts. They had Firebolts; you needed to if you played on the American national team. She sighed. The good old days. Too bad Seeker was taken here. Suddenly, she saw two brooms in this distance. "Als!" she yelled. She realized that they couldn't hear her, so she opened the window and jumped on her Firebolt. She caught up with them halfway.
"Ally! Alex! I missed you!" She noticed that they had identical crooked noses. "What happened to your faces?" she asked.
"Those nasty Afghan Beaters smashed their clubs into our noses. So we rigged their brooms with Dungbombs," Alice Bernard said with a nasty grin.
"They exploded in the middle of the match. We won, thanks to the fact that the Dungbomb exploded in their Seeker's eye so he couldn't see the Snitch," her sister Alexa said.
"You two are nasty!" Rose laughed. "Come on, we can talk in my room." They flew through the open window, threw their brooms on racks they conjured and sprawled across the couches. They sat and talked about how they were doing, and how the Als were never going to get a decent job if they continued getting their noses smashed by those cheating Afghans, and how Rose would never play Seeker again of she didn't quit her job. They were arguing about whether or not Keeper was a good position when Ron, Hermione, and Harry started banging on the door.
"Who's that?" Alex asked.
"Some students of mine." Rose said, and opened the door.
The trio nearly fell onto her carpet. As soon as they had gotten up, they started asking her questions.
"Where were you?"
"How come you weren't in class?"
"Snape terrorized us!"
Rose raised one eyebrow. "I was not in class because I was demonstrating the multi-Animagi to Mother's classes. Obviously, you weren't paying attention. And I wasn't in the other classes because I had two greet my friends, Alex and Ally." Ron went pale as a sheet.
"Alice and Alexa Bernard?" he croaked.
"The very same," Alice told him.
"I'm...uh...going to get the twins," Ron said and ran down the stairs.
The crowd gathered in Rose's sitting room just stood there for a few minutes, the suddenly burst into laughter.
It was good to see Harry laugh. This was the first Rose had seen her little brother smile since his birthday.
When they calmed down, they introduced themselves.
"Alex, Ally, this is Hermione Granger and this is Harry Potter. The redhead who just ran sown the stairs is Ronald Weasly."
"Ronald Weasly as in the brother of Frederick and George Weasly?" Alex said.
"The very same."
"Then he'd better really get them!"
They laughed again.
*~*~*
Harry was actually enjoying himself. At first he felt guilty, but after talking with the twins for a while, he relaxed. The twins were very pleasant to be around. Although they acted much like Fred and George, they looked almost completely opposite. They had long blonde hair and no freckles at all, although their skin was tanned from living in California. They played the same Quidditch positions as the Weasly twins, except they played on a much better team.
"The national team?! You play Beaters for the national team?"
"Yep. Alex and Ally Bernard. Alex is number five, I'm number six."
"Bloody hell!"
Ron had returned with the twins.
"Fred?" Alex said.
"George?" Ally said.
"That's me," they said at the same time. They all laughed nervously.
"No Dungbombs concealed in pockets?" Alex asked.
"Nose-Biting teacups up your sleeve?" George said.
"Nothing." Ally and George said at the same time.
Hermione interrupted their conversation. "Pardon me for interrupting your romantic exchange, but why are you two here?"
All twins jumped.
"We, uh, we came for Rose's birthday," Alex said, stepping on Ally's foot under the table.
"Yeah, her birthday's Sunday and we said we'd drop by. We were in her year at the Salem Witch's Institute. We haven't seen her since the Quidditch World Cup last year."
Harry could tell something was up. He probed into their memories (he had been practicing on the Slytherins) to find out.
It took him a few minutes. They had hidden the memory of why they came very deep. Too deep for it to be accidental. He dug harder. There! There it was! They had come because.........they knew something about Ginny.
He broke the connection is shock.
"What do you know about Ginny?" he yelled.
The Bernards looked shocked.
"How did you...."
"He's one," Rose said.
They gasped. "You mean level..."
"Yes, Alex," Rose said warningly.
The Bernards turned back to Harry. "We know exactly where Ginny is," Alice said.
"We're her two of her Secret-Keepers," Alexa added.
Rose sighed. "We'd better tell them everything. Sit down. We need to tell you about the Order of the Phoenix."
"Who's that?"
"I'm the Order. So are the Bernards," Rose said. "So are you."