Disclaimer: See chapter 1
To all of my reviewers, especially WolfOfDarkness, Spacegirl, Madame Moony, CrazyLuvolee, Bluegirl18 and Shdurrani.
A few typos were pointed out to me.
The Unicorn and the Stag
Chapter 17
Rose was writing with her new quill and ink when she had the vision. She and the other Golds were tied to trees in a clearing. Death Eaters were approaching all of them but Harry, who was being handled by Voldemort personally. Harry began frantically rummaging in his pocket. The ring! Rose began to do the same. So did everyone else. When everyone had their rings out, they slipped them on, causing an explosion of light. That was when the vision ended, and Rose sat up, scar burning like acid. About fifteen minutes later Harry fell through her doorway, followed by Ron and Hermione. She nodded.
"You had it too?"
"Yes," they all responded.
"Well, just be glad you don't have a scar to burn a hole through your head. Crap, it hurts!"
She impatiently slapped her forehead.
"Tell me about it."
Harry was rubbing at his scar so hard the skin around it was red.
"Those were the rings, weren't they Professor?" Hermione asked.
"Call me Rose. And yes, they were the rings."
"Do you think the others dreamed it too?"
"If they weren't asleep, it was a vision, like it was for me. It sucks to have visions when you're in the middle of something."
"They suck when you're asleep, too."
The Bernards and the Weasly twins suddenly burst in, hair and clothes rumpled.
"Just had the vision," they said in chorus.
"Where were you?" Rose asked.
"And what happened to you?" Ron asked.
Rose stared into Ally's eyes and searched her memories. Her mouth went into a big O.
"You were making out after one date?!"
All four of them blushed.
"Well, you shouldn't talk. Who's the one who got engaged after a week?" Alex said defensively.
"Did you actually think I took a pottery class every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night and every Monday and Wednesday afternoon for the past five years?"
Ron's mouth hung open. "You've known Bill for five years?! And Mum and Dad never met you?"
Rose blushed. "Never mind that! Where are your rings?"
Everyone held them up. "Good. Keep them on you at all times, but keep them safe and don't put them on! Only when we perform the Rainbow. And Fred, George, Harry, we've got Quidditch practice tomorrow so go sleep! And you four," she stared accusingly at the Weasley twins and the Bernards, "separate beds! Or I will personally throttle each one of you!!! Wait until you marry!"
The four twins walked out muttering lots of four-letter words under their breath. Harry and Hermione went upstairs, but Ron stayed behind.
"Erm, Professor," he said.
"Rose, Ron, Rose! And what?"
"How did you manage to date my brother for five years without anyone noticing?"
Rose grinned. Time to reveal her ingenious scheme.
"We were pen pals for a year and I sent him a Portkey to my house and he sent me one to his. We arranged who would use the Portkey by mail."
Ron's jaw dropped again. "And you did this five days a week for five years?!"
She grinned again. "Yep. Now go to bed. If you fall asleep during my class tomorrow you've got detention. And I'm telling the rest of the teaching staff the same. Now GO!"
He scurried out the door and tried to catch up with his friends.
She sighed and collapsed on her bed. She was going to sleep...a potion- induced sleep...with no dreams.
*~*~*
Quidditch practice the next day went wonderfully. The Quaffle didn't make it through the hoops Rose guarded once. Harry was quite impressed with her talent. They won the game against Ravenclaw in November. Hufflepuff didn't have a chance; their new Seeker was a fat third year who had fallen off his broom and broken his arm twice already - and they hadn't even played a game.
Training to perform the Rainbow Spell continued throughout the last two weeks of October and all of November, until Rose decided they were ready. The time and day to perform the spell was set as December 15 at 12:00 a.m.
Harry was nearly too late. Peeves had decided it would be fun to dump lake water in the hallway Harry was walking down. Professor Snape had come down the hallway at that moment, blamed Harry, took fifty points from Gryffindor, and sent him back to bed. Harry, of course, simply grabbed his Invisibility Cloak.
He got to the designated clearing at quarter till twelve. Rose wasn't pleased.
"You're late," she said in "the teacher voice."
"Snape blamed me for throwing water down the hallway."
Her mouth thinned. "Then I will just have to set a few of his things on fire. Now come on, get out your rings.
Harry did. To his surprise, it was already glowing slightly. He could feel the magic emanating from it. This was a very powerful magical object.
"Now get in a circle around Ginny's wand." She held it out. Everyone mad a circle around it and placed their ring hand on its long part.
"Put on your rings." The rings looked like small stars now. As soon as they were put on, there was an explosion of light.
*Start the incantation.* She had switched to telepathy because no one could hear over the humming of the rings.
"Expecto wingardium tulis Patronum."
Ten Patronus jumped from the circle into the middle, dissolving and forming a cushion under the wand. They slowly lifted it up and stretched out, forming a dome around the ten with the wand on the top. They finished the incantation.
"Orladis darinium."
A small shape started to flicker in the middle of the circle. They repeated the incantation, and it steadied a bit, but it still wasn't strong enough. But at the third time, it steadied completely. Virginia Weasly had come home. The dome broke. She caught her wand as it fell.
"Ginny!" he brothers yelled.
They ran to her and George picked her up. She looked terrible. Her hair, usually straight and bright red, was a curly mass of hair so matted with dirt and dried blood it looked like it was brown. The three brothers carried her up to the hospital wing. Harry quietly followed. The rest of the Golds went to bed.
She woke up as soon as they lay her on the bed. Madame Pomfrey came scurrying over to look at her. She shooed the Weasleys and Harry away from the bed so she could check her up. She took half an hour.
"Nothing too serious. It's just shock, mostly. Sprained wrist, but apart from a lot of little cuts and bruises, that's it. She'll be fine," she said, before they could ask. "She just needs a bath, potion, and a very large, very tough brush."
She scurried off to check on some of her other patients.
"Ginny," Harry whispered. "What did he do to you?"
She suddenly sat up quickly and hugged him. "I'm really back? I'm not dreaming again?"
He hugged her back. "Yes, Ginny. You're really back." He frowned. "What do you mean, 'really back'?"
She lay back down. "He kept pretending to send me back. He would hold out something, and it felt like I was going through a Portkey, and when I got to the other side, everyone was there. You and most of my brothers. I recognized almost everyone. But after five minutes or so, I would be tied against a tree again, and You-Know-Who would put me under the Cruciatus curse. He kept asking about something called the Order of the Phoenix. Do you know what it is?"
Harry groaned. This must be why Rose hadn't told him about the Order right away. "Ginny, I'll tell you the simple version. But you'll have to ask Professor Potter about it later."
"Professor Potter? Is she any relation to you?"
"I'll get to that. The Order of the Phoenix is a group of powerful witches and wizards formed to fight Voldemort. I think those were the people Voldemort showed you. There are four levels, White, Bronze, Silver, and Gold, in that order. You are in a level according to how powerful you are. The people you saw were probably the Gold level witches and wizards."
She frowned. "But you and my brothers were there!"
"Yes. We're Gold. So are you. That's why Voldemort wanted you."
"And who is this Professor Potter?"
"Her name is Rosemary Lillian Potter, but everyone calls her Rose Lily Potter. I met her right before school started this year. She's a really powerful Gold level witch. She has red hair, not like your red, more like auburn, like her mum, and aqua blue eyes, like her dad. She wears contacts and had a scar like mine."
Ginny's jaw dropped. She looked so much like her brothers when she did that. "So she's your..."
"Sister."
Ginny leaned back onto her pillows. "Wow. Any other new relatives? Anything?"
"Well, Fred and George are dating another pair of identical twins. They're the Beaters for the American national team. Alexa and Alice Bernard. Ron is dating Hermione, and Bill's engaged."
Her jaw dropped again. "He got engaged?! To someone he just met?!"
"Actually, they've been dating five days a week for five years."
"So that's the dragons class he'd been taking. What's her name?"
"Rose Lily Potter."
"Oh my God!!!"
"And I found a cousin."
"Who now?"
"Hermione."
"No way!"
"Yes. Her mother is my mother's sister."
"So if Ron marries Hermione and there's also Bill marrying Rose that makes me your sister-in-law and cousin-in-law!"
"Yeah, I guess it would. And Rose wants me to ask you to be her flower girl. And I want to ask you to go to the Christmas Ball with me."
"Yes and."
"Ginny!"
"Okay, okay! Yes!"
She hugged him again.
"I'd better get back to Gryffindor Tower before Snape comes along and takes another fifty points off Gryffindor."
She nodded. He sprinted up the stairs, grinning all the way.
To all of my reviewers, especially WolfOfDarkness, Spacegirl, Madame Moony, CrazyLuvolee, Bluegirl18 and Shdurrani.
A few typos were pointed out to me.
The Unicorn and the Stag
Chapter 17
Rose was writing with her new quill and ink when she had the vision. She and the other Golds were tied to trees in a clearing. Death Eaters were approaching all of them but Harry, who was being handled by Voldemort personally. Harry began frantically rummaging in his pocket. The ring! Rose began to do the same. So did everyone else. When everyone had their rings out, they slipped them on, causing an explosion of light. That was when the vision ended, and Rose sat up, scar burning like acid. About fifteen minutes later Harry fell through her doorway, followed by Ron and Hermione. She nodded.
"You had it too?"
"Yes," they all responded.
"Well, just be glad you don't have a scar to burn a hole through your head. Crap, it hurts!"
She impatiently slapped her forehead.
"Tell me about it."
Harry was rubbing at his scar so hard the skin around it was red.
"Those were the rings, weren't they Professor?" Hermione asked.
"Call me Rose. And yes, they were the rings."
"Do you think the others dreamed it too?"
"If they weren't asleep, it was a vision, like it was for me. It sucks to have visions when you're in the middle of something."
"They suck when you're asleep, too."
The Bernards and the Weasly twins suddenly burst in, hair and clothes rumpled.
"Just had the vision," they said in chorus.
"Where were you?" Rose asked.
"And what happened to you?" Ron asked.
Rose stared into Ally's eyes and searched her memories. Her mouth went into a big O.
"You were making out after one date?!"
All four of them blushed.
"Well, you shouldn't talk. Who's the one who got engaged after a week?" Alex said defensively.
"Did you actually think I took a pottery class every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night and every Monday and Wednesday afternoon for the past five years?"
Ron's mouth hung open. "You've known Bill for five years?! And Mum and Dad never met you?"
Rose blushed. "Never mind that! Where are your rings?"
Everyone held them up. "Good. Keep them on you at all times, but keep them safe and don't put them on! Only when we perform the Rainbow. And Fred, George, Harry, we've got Quidditch practice tomorrow so go sleep! And you four," she stared accusingly at the Weasley twins and the Bernards, "separate beds! Or I will personally throttle each one of you!!! Wait until you marry!"
The four twins walked out muttering lots of four-letter words under their breath. Harry and Hermione went upstairs, but Ron stayed behind.
"Erm, Professor," he said.
"Rose, Ron, Rose! And what?"
"How did you manage to date my brother for five years without anyone noticing?"
Rose grinned. Time to reveal her ingenious scheme.
"We were pen pals for a year and I sent him a Portkey to my house and he sent me one to his. We arranged who would use the Portkey by mail."
Ron's jaw dropped again. "And you did this five days a week for five years?!"
She grinned again. "Yep. Now go to bed. If you fall asleep during my class tomorrow you've got detention. And I'm telling the rest of the teaching staff the same. Now GO!"
He scurried out the door and tried to catch up with his friends.
She sighed and collapsed on her bed. She was going to sleep...a potion- induced sleep...with no dreams.
*~*~*
Quidditch practice the next day went wonderfully. The Quaffle didn't make it through the hoops Rose guarded once. Harry was quite impressed with her talent. They won the game against Ravenclaw in November. Hufflepuff didn't have a chance; their new Seeker was a fat third year who had fallen off his broom and broken his arm twice already - and they hadn't even played a game.
Training to perform the Rainbow Spell continued throughout the last two weeks of October and all of November, until Rose decided they were ready. The time and day to perform the spell was set as December 15 at 12:00 a.m.
Harry was nearly too late. Peeves had decided it would be fun to dump lake water in the hallway Harry was walking down. Professor Snape had come down the hallway at that moment, blamed Harry, took fifty points from Gryffindor, and sent him back to bed. Harry, of course, simply grabbed his Invisibility Cloak.
He got to the designated clearing at quarter till twelve. Rose wasn't pleased.
"You're late," she said in "the teacher voice."
"Snape blamed me for throwing water down the hallway."
Her mouth thinned. "Then I will just have to set a few of his things on fire. Now come on, get out your rings.
Harry did. To his surprise, it was already glowing slightly. He could feel the magic emanating from it. This was a very powerful magical object.
"Now get in a circle around Ginny's wand." She held it out. Everyone mad a circle around it and placed their ring hand on its long part.
"Put on your rings." The rings looked like small stars now. As soon as they were put on, there was an explosion of light.
*Start the incantation.* She had switched to telepathy because no one could hear over the humming of the rings.
"Expecto wingardium tulis Patronum."
Ten Patronus jumped from the circle into the middle, dissolving and forming a cushion under the wand. They slowly lifted it up and stretched out, forming a dome around the ten with the wand on the top. They finished the incantation.
"Orladis darinium."
A small shape started to flicker in the middle of the circle. They repeated the incantation, and it steadied a bit, but it still wasn't strong enough. But at the third time, it steadied completely. Virginia Weasly had come home. The dome broke. She caught her wand as it fell.
"Ginny!" he brothers yelled.
They ran to her and George picked her up. She looked terrible. Her hair, usually straight and bright red, was a curly mass of hair so matted with dirt and dried blood it looked like it was brown. The three brothers carried her up to the hospital wing. Harry quietly followed. The rest of the Golds went to bed.
She woke up as soon as they lay her on the bed. Madame Pomfrey came scurrying over to look at her. She shooed the Weasleys and Harry away from the bed so she could check her up. She took half an hour.
"Nothing too serious. It's just shock, mostly. Sprained wrist, but apart from a lot of little cuts and bruises, that's it. She'll be fine," she said, before they could ask. "She just needs a bath, potion, and a very large, very tough brush."
She scurried off to check on some of her other patients.
"Ginny," Harry whispered. "What did he do to you?"
She suddenly sat up quickly and hugged him. "I'm really back? I'm not dreaming again?"
He hugged her back. "Yes, Ginny. You're really back." He frowned. "What do you mean, 'really back'?"
She lay back down. "He kept pretending to send me back. He would hold out something, and it felt like I was going through a Portkey, and when I got to the other side, everyone was there. You and most of my brothers. I recognized almost everyone. But after five minutes or so, I would be tied against a tree again, and You-Know-Who would put me under the Cruciatus curse. He kept asking about something called the Order of the Phoenix. Do you know what it is?"
Harry groaned. This must be why Rose hadn't told him about the Order right away. "Ginny, I'll tell you the simple version. But you'll have to ask Professor Potter about it later."
"Professor Potter? Is she any relation to you?"
"I'll get to that. The Order of the Phoenix is a group of powerful witches and wizards formed to fight Voldemort. I think those were the people Voldemort showed you. There are four levels, White, Bronze, Silver, and Gold, in that order. You are in a level according to how powerful you are. The people you saw were probably the Gold level witches and wizards."
She frowned. "But you and my brothers were there!"
"Yes. We're Gold. So are you. That's why Voldemort wanted you."
"And who is this Professor Potter?"
"Her name is Rosemary Lillian Potter, but everyone calls her Rose Lily Potter. I met her right before school started this year. She's a really powerful Gold level witch. She has red hair, not like your red, more like auburn, like her mum, and aqua blue eyes, like her dad. She wears contacts and had a scar like mine."
Ginny's jaw dropped. She looked so much like her brothers when she did that. "So she's your..."
"Sister."
Ginny leaned back onto her pillows. "Wow. Any other new relatives? Anything?"
"Well, Fred and George are dating another pair of identical twins. They're the Beaters for the American national team. Alexa and Alice Bernard. Ron is dating Hermione, and Bill's engaged."
Her jaw dropped again. "He got engaged?! To someone he just met?!"
"Actually, they've been dating five days a week for five years."
"So that's the dragons class he'd been taking. What's her name?"
"Rose Lily Potter."
"Oh my God!!!"
"And I found a cousin."
"Who now?"
"Hermione."
"No way!"
"Yes. Her mother is my mother's sister."
"So if Ron marries Hermione and there's also Bill marrying Rose that makes me your sister-in-law and cousin-in-law!"
"Yeah, I guess it would. And Rose wants me to ask you to be her flower girl. And I want to ask you to go to the Christmas Ball with me."
"Yes and."
"Ginny!"
"Okay, okay! Yes!"
She hugged him again.
"I'd better get back to Gryffindor Tower before Snape comes along and takes another fifty points off Gryffindor."
She nodded. He sprinted up the stairs, grinning all the way.