Note: Okay I don't know if this chapter is very good, I had no idea where
the story was going at this point. I do now however so don't worry if this
chapter is crap the next one will be way better. Well at least it better
be, it took me ages to write. Thanks for the reviews guys . another great
response.
Daisie: Thank you so much for the fantastic review. "I must be so proud," that seriously bought a tear to my eye. It's good to see the plot is getting interesting, I just hope that it stays that way. Hurrah! My grammar is better, yippee. Thanks again.
PRONGSLOVER: I'm glad that you love it. That's really great to here. Why Diagon Alley you ask? Well you'll just have to wait until the next chapter to find out, and that stupid chapter took me forever to write. Love you for reviewing again.
Time Warp: You think I capture Draco's personality well? Well thank you, I actually needed to here that because I wasn't sure if everyone was appearing out of character or not. Glad to here it. And yeah I suppose Lucius is loosing it. Thank you loads for the review.
DBZruler66: Thanks loads for reading my story and reviewing. You think I'm a good writer. *sniff* oh man you are too kind. Your question is actually really insightful and I don't want to give anything away just yet so you'll have to wait and see what happens, I'm glad you're paying attention though. Thank you so much for reading and reviewing, I really appreciate it.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything you recognize. I do own Zell however. J.K Rowling is a champ and whilst I do wish to be a writer I am not her and like I said don't own anything you recognize.
.... Alrighty here is the next chapter, I don't know how good it is . it was slightly rushed, but the next one is good I promise... well here goes....
The Malfoy's Big Secret!!
Chapter 8!!
A week had past since Harry had come to stay at Grimmauld Place. He couldn't possibly imagine still being back at Privet Drive with the Dursley's, he was having so much fun he would have hated to be away from it all.
In the time that he had been there Harry, Ron and Ginny had actually managed to beat Fred, George and Charlie at a game of Quidditch - Bill and Charlie, the eldest of the Weasley children, had come to stay at Grimmauld Place temporarily. Harry still hadn't managed to defeat Ron at wizard's chess despite having played it several times a day.
People came and went often in the House of Black. Snape would come and go, glaring at Harry and the others or ignoring them completely. He would often bring with him news of what Voldamort and his Death Eaters were up to. Snape had been a Death Eater long ago, but now taught at Hogwarts because for some reason Dumbledore trusted him. Harry did not however, he was still furious at Snape for the events of the last weeks of school, but he had to behave, around Dumbledore at least. Dumbledore came and went as well, he stayed longer than he did the last time Harry was here however, and he would often stay for tea. To Harry's great surprise Hagrid would often stop by. After the events of his last journey Dumbledore had kept him a bit inactive so he came and visited Harry and the others instead, finding out about Voldamorts happenings when he did.
Arthur had been disappearing on a regular basis, either to perform raids at the Malfoy's or to help at the Ministry - now that everyone knew that Voldamort was back a lot of people were complaining that there was insufficient news about him and where of course blaming the Ministry for it. Molly Weasley had been the happiest Harry had seen her in a long time. There was less cleaning to do around the Black's old house and she had more time to spend with her family - everyone seemed to want to spend a lot more time together, probably, Harry thought, because they think that anything could happen now that Voldamort is back. Lupin had been unusually quiet lately, hardly joining in at mealtime conversations and trying to avoid most people whenever he could. Harry knew that he must have been missing Sirius, Harry still was too, but he couldn't spend all his time mopping around like that.
The topic of Sirius death was kept hushed. No one spoke about it; hardly anyone made any reference to Harry's godfather whatsoever. Harry wasn't sure whether this was a good thing or a bad thing. He hoped that no one had forgotten him. Grimmauld Place was looking far more livelier now. Most of the old pictures of Sirius's relatives had been taken down and nearly all the bugs, ghosts and other unpleasantrys had been removed.
Kreacher the house elf still remained, unfortunately. Harry tried with all his might not to give in to the temptation of cursing him as he passed. Lupin had informed Harry that Dumbledore forbid anyone to get rid of Kreacher. The elf knew far too much about the Order and although a house elf never told anyone about the family he served for, Kreacher had already betrayed them once and could very well do it again. Besides Dumbledore knew that if Kreacher was released he would go straight to the Malfoy's, and he could prove to be quite useful to them with all the information he knew.
The meetings for the order still continued and as usual Fred and George continued to try and listen into the conversation. They would argue that because they had finished school they should be allowed to be included but Molly constantly advised against it.
Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny would often go and visit the Weasley twins joke shop. It was a fabulous store backed with shelves and shelves of every practical joke toys, lollies and destructive item that you could imagine. They had hundreds of customers and were obviously doing quite well for themselves. They had given some of their money to their mother and she was loving them all the more for it. They could now get away with everything because of their generosity.
Harry awoke late in the morning as usual and headed downstairs for the table where the usual crowd was just beginning to sit down to a large breakfast, cooked up by Mrs. Weasley. Fred and George were trying to force Ginny to sample one of their new inventions, Hermione was lecturing Ron on the importance of his homework, Bill and Charlie were arguing with talking with Lupin about something regarding the order and Molly was just finishing placing all the food on the table.
'Good morning Harry, dear,' Mrs. Weasley chimed happily. 'I hope you're hungry, there's a lot of food to be eaten.'
Harry didn't need to be told that there was a lot of food, the sag in the middle of the table had already given that fact away.
'Harry, you'll be a good sport and try our fizzer dizzer's, wont you,' Fred asked Harry hopefully.
'What's a fizzer dizzer?' Harry asked them, scrunching up his nose at the lumpy ball of white toffee that lay in Fred's hand.
'It's a type of toffee that makes it look like your chocking on something. Your mouth sort of foams up and stuff and teachers will actually think your chocking - bottom-line is, you get to enjoy a sweet treat and get out of class safely whilst your teachers are thoroughly convinced that you're dying.' George said all this with his usual cheeky grin and than taking the toffee from Fred's hand, shoved it under Harry's nose.
'Ah, not before breakfast thanks George,' Harry said as his excuse.
'Fair enough, later than,' George replied shoving the lumpy ball back in his pocket.
The group enjoyed a lovely breakfast of bacon, eggs, toast, sausages and pumpkin scones. After breakfast was over Mrs. Weasley cleaned up, assisted by Ginny and Hermione whilst Harry and Ron tried to decide what they would do for the day. They couldn't think of anything, so deciding that they might just play a few more games of wizard's chess they made to get up, but a loud popping noise and a frustrated voice made them stop.
'I don't believe it, how could this happen. Molly dear is Dumbledore in.' It was Mr. Weasley and he looked on the verge of a breakdown.
'No he isn't Arthur,' Molly replied looking at her husband worriedly. 'There is a meeting this morning though, he should be here then. What happened?'
The whole room had gone silent and everyone was staring at Arthur waiting for a reply.
'We just got news this morning,' Arthur began gravely, 'Azkaban prison was broken into last night.'
The room fell even more silent than it had before. It was almost as though everyone had stopped breathing. Harry knew what must have happened before Mr. Weasley even told the room.
'Several of the guards were injured in the process,' he continued trying to avoid telling his family the news.
'Who broke in Arthur?' Molly asked her husband.
'It was You-Know-Who,' said Arthur in an almost trance.
'He freed the Death Eaters?' Lupin asked, joining in on the conversation.
Arthur replied by nodding his head slowly. Fred swore, Hermione dropped a plate, Ginny gasped and George, Bill and Charlie looked on the verge of breaking something.
'Great, just great,' George growled, 'the last thing we need is for You- Know-Who to be reunited with his followers.'
'That's not all,' Arthur spoke again, his voice low and sad. 'They must have split up and decided to take their revenge out on the Muggles. Several muggle villages were burnt to the ground and about ten Dark Marks were sent into the air. It was total chaos; we'll be spending the whole holiday's trying to clean this mess up.'
'Was anyone hurt,' Harry asked breaking the silence that had fallen upon the room again.
'No one was hurt, miraculously,' Arthur spoke, looking just slightly happier.
Everyone was silent again not having anything else to say. Finally, Mrs. Weasley ordered them all out of the kitchen and sat Arthur down for some lunch. Harry, Ron and Hermione went upstairs to Ron and Harry's room. They discussed exactly what they had just heard, over and over until Dumbledore's voice could be heard from the kitchen below. It was reassuring and there was not a note of panic in it. The three of them only managed to catch the part of Voldamort still laying low before being interrupted by Fred and George trying to get them to sample their inventions again.
Daisie: Thank you so much for the fantastic review. "I must be so proud," that seriously bought a tear to my eye. It's good to see the plot is getting interesting, I just hope that it stays that way. Hurrah! My grammar is better, yippee. Thanks again.
PRONGSLOVER: I'm glad that you love it. That's really great to here. Why Diagon Alley you ask? Well you'll just have to wait until the next chapter to find out, and that stupid chapter took me forever to write. Love you for reviewing again.
Time Warp: You think I capture Draco's personality well? Well thank you, I actually needed to here that because I wasn't sure if everyone was appearing out of character or not. Glad to here it. And yeah I suppose Lucius is loosing it. Thank you loads for the review.
DBZruler66: Thanks loads for reading my story and reviewing. You think I'm a good writer. *sniff* oh man you are too kind. Your question is actually really insightful and I don't want to give anything away just yet so you'll have to wait and see what happens, I'm glad you're paying attention though. Thank you so much for reading and reviewing, I really appreciate it.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything you recognize. I do own Zell however. J.K Rowling is a champ and whilst I do wish to be a writer I am not her and like I said don't own anything you recognize.
.... Alrighty here is the next chapter, I don't know how good it is . it was slightly rushed, but the next one is good I promise... well here goes....
The Malfoy's Big Secret!!
Chapter 8!!
A week had past since Harry had come to stay at Grimmauld Place. He couldn't possibly imagine still being back at Privet Drive with the Dursley's, he was having so much fun he would have hated to be away from it all.
In the time that he had been there Harry, Ron and Ginny had actually managed to beat Fred, George and Charlie at a game of Quidditch - Bill and Charlie, the eldest of the Weasley children, had come to stay at Grimmauld Place temporarily. Harry still hadn't managed to defeat Ron at wizard's chess despite having played it several times a day.
People came and went often in the House of Black. Snape would come and go, glaring at Harry and the others or ignoring them completely. He would often bring with him news of what Voldamort and his Death Eaters were up to. Snape had been a Death Eater long ago, but now taught at Hogwarts because for some reason Dumbledore trusted him. Harry did not however, he was still furious at Snape for the events of the last weeks of school, but he had to behave, around Dumbledore at least. Dumbledore came and went as well, he stayed longer than he did the last time Harry was here however, and he would often stay for tea. To Harry's great surprise Hagrid would often stop by. After the events of his last journey Dumbledore had kept him a bit inactive so he came and visited Harry and the others instead, finding out about Voldamorts happenings when he did.
Arthur had been disappearing on a regular basis, either to perform raids at the Malfoy's or to help at the Ministry - now that everyone knew that Voldamort was back a lot of people were complaining that there was insufficient news about him and where of course blaming the Ministry for it. Molly Weasley had been the happiest Harry had seen her in a long time. There was less cleaning to do around the Black's old house and she had more time to spend with her family - everyone seemed to want to spend a lot more time together, probably, Harry thought, because they think that anything could happen now that Voldamort is back. Lupin had been unusually quiet lately, hardly joining in at mealtime conversations and trying to avoid most people whenever he could. Harry knew that he must have been missing Sirius, Harry still was too, but he couldn't spend all his time mopping around like that.
The topic of Sirius death was kept hushed. No one spoke about it; hardly anyone made any reference to Harry's godfather whatsoever. Harry wasn't sure whether this was a good thing or a bad thing. He hoped that no one had forgotten him. Grimmauld Place was looking far more livelier now. Most of the old pictures of Sirius's relatives had been taken down and nearly all the bugs, ghosts and other unpleasantrys had been removed.
Kreacher the house elf still remained, unfortunately. Harry tried with all his might not to give in to the temptation of cursing him as he passed. Lupin had informed Harry that Dumbledore forbid anyone to get rid of Kreacher. The elf knew far too much about the Order and although a house elf never told anyone about the family he served for, Kreacher had already betrayed them once and could very well do it again. Besides Dumbledore knew that if Kreacher was released he would go straight to the Malfoy's, and he could prove to be quite useful to them with all the information he knew.
The meetings for the order still continued and as usual Fred and George continued to try and listen into the conversation. They would argue that because they had finished school they should be allowed to be included but Molly constantly advised against it.
Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny would often go and visit the Weasley twins joke shop. It was a fabulous store backed with shelves and shelves of every practical joke toys, lollies and destructive item that you could imagine. They had hundreds of customers and were obviously doing quite well for themselves. They had given some of their money to their mother and she was loving them all the more for it. They could now get away with everything because of their generosity.
Harry awoke late in the morning as usual and headed downstairs for the table where the usual crowd was just beginning to sit down to a large breakfast, cooked up by Mrs. Weasley. Fred and George were trying to force Ginny to sample one of their new inventions, Hermione was lecturing Ron on the importance of his homework, Bill and Charlie were arguing with talking with Lupin about something regarding the order and Molly was just finishing placing all the food on the table.
'Good morning Harry, dear,' Mrs. Weasley chimed happily. 'I hope you're hungry, there's a lot of food to be eaten.'
Harry didn't need to be told that there was a lot of food, the sag in the middle of the table had already given that fact away.
'Harry, you'll be a good sport and try our fizzer dizzer's, wont you,' Fred asked Harry hopefully.
'What's a fizzer dizzer?' Harry asked them, scrunching up his nose at the lumpy ball of white toffee that lay in Fred's hand.
'It's a type of toffee that makes it look like your chocking on something. Your mouth sort of foams up and stuff and teachers will actually think your chocking - bottom-line is, you get to enjoy a sweet treat and get out of class safely whilst your teachers are thoroughly convinced that you're dying.' George said all this with his usual cheeky grin and than taking the toffee from Fred's hand, shoved it under Harry's nose.
'Ah, not before breakfast thanks George,' Harry said as his excuse.
'Fair enough, later than,' George replied shoving the lumpy ball back in his pocket.
The group enjoyed a lovely breakfast of bacon, eggs, toast, sausages and pumpkin scones. After breakfast was over Mrs. Weasley cleaned up, assisted by Ginny and Hermione whilst Harry and Ron tried to decide what they would do for the day. They couldn't think of anything, so deciding that they might just play a few more games of wizard's chess they made to get up, but a loud popping noise and a frustrated voice made them stop.
'I don't believe it, how could this happen. Molly dear is Dumbledore in.' It was Mr. Weasley and he looked on the verge of a breakdown.
'No he isn't Arthur,' Molly replied looking at her husband worriedly. 'There is a meeting this morning though, he should be here then. What happened?'
The whole room had gone silent and everyone was staring at Arthur waiting for a reply.
'We just got news this morning,' Arthur began gravely, 'Azkaban prison was broken into last night.'
The room fell even more silent than it had before. It was almost as though everyone had stopped breathing. Harry knew what must have happened before Mr. Weasley even told the room.
'Several of the guards were injured in the process,' he continued trying to avoid telling his family the news.
'Who broke in Arthur?' Molly asked her husband.
'It was You-Know-Who,' said Arthur in an almost trance.
'He freed the Death Eaters?' Lupin asked, joining in on the conversation.
Arthur replied by nodding his head slowly. Fred swore, Hermione dropped a plate, Ginny gasped and George, Bill and Charlie looked on the verge of breaking something.
'Great, just great,' George growled, 'the last thing we need is for You- Know-Who to be reunited with his followers.'
'That's not all,' Arthur spoke again, his voice low and sad. 'They must have split up and decided to take their revenge out on the Muggles. Several muggle villages were burnt to the ground and about ten Dark Marks were sent into the air. It was total chaos; we'll be spending the whole holiday's trying to clean this mess up.'
'Was anyone hurt,' Harry asked breaking the silence that had fallen upon the room again.
'No one was hurt, miraculously,' Arthur spoke, looking just slightly happier.
Everyone was silent again not having anything else to say. Finally, Mrs. Weasley ordered them all out of the kitchen and sat Arthur down for some lunch. Harry, Ron and Hermione went upstairs to Ron and Harry's room. They discussed exactly what they had just heard, over and over until Dumbledore's voice could be heard from the kitchen below. It was reassuring and there was not a note of panic in it. The three of them only managed to catch the part of Voldamort still laying low before being interrupted by Fred and George trying to get them to sample their inventions again.