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Also, contains an OotP spoiler. So if u haven't read the book yet, I advise you not to read further, unless you so desire to.
"Oy, mum! Do you have a minute?" called out Fred to his mother, who was in the garden.
She looked up that them, wiping her forehead and smearing a bit of earth on her face. "Yes dears, what is it? Is anything wrong? Ron, did you – "
"No mum," Ron interrupted. "We want to show you something important. Is dad around?"
"No, I'm afraid not. He's at the Ministry." She gave a sympathetic look. "What is it you want to show me?"
George handed her the two bits of parchment with Harry's messages on them. "We found these in our rooms, "he explained. "Ron found the first one and when we went up to our rooms we found the second one."
As Mrs. Weasley read her eyes widened. "Merlin's beard," she breathed. "When did you...? How did...? Who... what...?" She looked back and forth between her three sons, trying to find words to say. "You Know Who is back?"
"Well, he's not really back because he never left to begin with," said Fred.
"You dolt." George smacked Fred upside the head.
"Oy!"
"BOYS!" cried Mrs. Wealsey.
"Sorry mum."
"Sorry."
"Now, this," she shook the pieces of parchment, "what's all this about?"
"We don't know. Apparently Harry's back from the dead to warn us about something," said Fred.
"Way to state the obvious," said Ron.
Fred glared at him.
"But You Know Who can't be back. He died!"
"Not according to Harry he didn't." Fred shrugged.
"But it's just not possible..." Mrs. Weasley looked utterly bewildered. "And Fred! You and Angelina?"
"Yeah..." Fred turned red again and suddenly became very interested with his sneaker.
"For three years," added Ron.
Fred shot him another angry glare.
"Three years?! Good gracious."
"Yeah, and did you know that ickle Ronnikins here fancies Hermione?" Fred stated in a smug tone.
"Hermione? Really?"
Now it was Ron who turned red and looked elsewhere.
"Can we please stop talking about their love life!" cried George.
The others turned, looking startled. George looked furious. Ron noted to himself - 'if he was to get any angrier, smoke would be pouring from his ears and nostrils and he would be breathing fire.'
"What are we going to do about these notes?!"
"Well, are you sure they're from this supposed Harry?" Mrs. Weasley asked. "I mean, what happened during your fifth year and all...." She broke off. It happened a little over a year ago, but Sirius's death was still seldom talked about. (A/N: referring to how Harry had seen a false vision to lure him to the DoM.)
"It has to be. No one knew about me and Angelina," said Fred.
"And I'd recognize Harry's chicken scratch anywhere," added Ron.
"There's always the possibility that Harry's a ghost," suggested George. "Or at least something close to it, because he's never 'appeared' or anything before. Something's got to be up for Harry to be sending messages to us when he's dead."
"I've seen him," whispered Ron.
"What?" asked Mrs. Weasley.
"I've seen him. All the nightmares I have, and the other night. I saw him in the mirror, well, at least I saw his reflection instead of my own. And then you all had green eyes. He was here. He's trying to get our attention."
They all stared at him blankly.
"What?" His ears were starting to turn slightly pink.
"Nothing," answered George. "It's just that if Harry's trying to talk to us, how are we supposed to talk back? We don't even know where he is, or how he's writing messages, or what he is for that matter." He waved vaguely at the parchment that Mrs. Weasley was still clutching.
"There has to be a way. I'm sure somebody had to have written a book about it, or at least mentioned something about it," said Ron.
"I'll have to look dear," said Mrs. Weasley. "Let's go inside and I'll send an owl to your father. Perhaps to Dumbledore, Alastor, and Remus as well." She turned and began walking towards the Burrow, Fred, George, and Ron following behind.Mrs. Weasley was writing letters to Mr. Weasley, Dumbledore, Moody, and Lupin while Fred, George, and Ron were pouring over books trying to figure out exactly what Harry was.
"Hey! I think I've got something!" called George to the others.
"What'd you find?" Mrs. Weasley asked.
They all gathered around George as he read:
"'Umbrae-
As opposed to becoming a ghost (as some Wizards so
choose to do) some of the dead come back as an Umbrae. They are
ghost-like in the sense that they are spirits that have come
back from the dead. They are more closely related to a shadow
of the person, rather than its pearly-white ghost form. An Umbrae
are only present for a short amount of time, leaving only after
they have completed the task that they have returned for. Their
task is usually coming back to the mortal world to protect a
loved one. However, and Umbrae may come back to avenge a wrong
that was afflicted upon that person.
Muggles refer to an Umbrae as a 'Guardian Angel'.'"
"Hmmm... That about explains it all, doesn't it?" Mrs. Weasley took the book from George and continued to look at it, wandering back over to the table to where she was writing her letters. She seemed completely lost in thought.
"That's kind of creepy," said Ron.
"Well, at least you're not crazy," said Fred.
George smacked him upside the head again.
"Oy!" Fred made a move to grab his wand.
"You two are really pitiful, you know that?"
They had stopped what they were doing instantly. A mysterious voice had presented itself in their midst.
"Wait a tic..." said Ron slowly. And then it dawned on him. "Harry?!"
The three of them turned towards the source of the voice. Standing before them was the unmistakable shadowy-grey figure of Harry Potter.
"Hey guys. Did ya miss me?") (
A/N: thank you so much to all of my reviewers!
Siriuslivs1488 – I'm glad you enjoy it so much! Heheh. I personally I'm finding it to be korny. lol. Anyways, thanks for your kindness. = )
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Jessica – I find it amusing how they argue all the time. Heheh. I dunno. Gotta put humor in there somewhere! Hahaha. And I agree that Ron and Hermione together are so cute. I can't help it. Heheh. They're just so... I dunno. Heheh. = )
EyesofEmerald – I'm glad you're so estatic about it. Hahaha.
Val – my beta reader. Thanks for cleaning up the pitiful mess. Hahaha.
Update: hey! (if anyone is reading this) lol. If u have any ideas as to where this is going to go, that'd be greatly appreciated. I kinda have an idea, but I need filler stuff and all that. I olready have the ending – o man it's gonna be a good one! Haha. A tissue or two may be required... lol. But anyway, if u have any ideas u can just post them in the review thingy or email me. (it's on my profile thing. Just make sure that for the subject line u put that it's for the fanfiction coz if I don't recognize the email, then I just delete it – damn the spam. Lol. Yeah, so I think that's it. And again, thank you to all of my reviewers! It's what keeps me writing!! Haha! = )