A/N: sorry for the wait..again, I hope to start getting these chapters out more often, but I am not sure if this will happen.
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--note—there is some swearing in this chapter, but not a lot just to warn you.
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.
Chapter 14
Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny all left the common room and headed for McGonagall's office, it was a silent walk, with an occasional sniffle from Ginny. They arrived and McGonagall's office to see outside her door waiting for them.
"All right, hurry along now, I quickly need to Floo you lot to the Burrow and then have to deal with other orders, quickly now one at a time."
Hermione went first, Ron followed, then Ginny and then Harry, he still was uneasy with floo powder, but that was the least on his mind right now. He was going to the Weasley's and he had no idea what it was going to be like there. Harry didn't have much time to think about that though, because before he knew it, he was there.
Right away, Harry was greeted by Mrs. Weasley, "Hello, Harry dear, I am glad you could come," she croaked, almost whispering, as she embraced him in a hug. The house was extremely quiet, even the ghoul in the attic wasn't banging the pipes.
Harry and Hermione decided that they should leave Ron and Ginny to be with their parents for a while, so they brought their things up to their rooms they would be sharing with Ron and Ginny. Hermione stopped at Ginny's Room but Harry still had to go all the way up to Ron's. On his way up he passed Fred and George's room right as Fred was walking by, he looked horrible, his eyes were extremely bloodshot with huge bags under them, his hair looked like it hadn't been brushed in years and he was disheveled looking. Fred just walked right by Harry without looking or acknowledging him.
Harry sat in Ron's room for a while, until Hermione came and knocked on the door. "Harry, Mrs. Weasley said that we should go down and get a bite to eat." Harry followed her without a word; nobody ever seemed to have anything to say lately, they were all in too much of a shock.
As, everyone was sitting eating, except for Fred, he never really left his room, Dumbledore walked in. Everyone was really surprised to see him, and immediately Mr. Weasley said "Albus?....." he then looked over at the teens, "Ron, Ginny, Harry and Hermione you should probably go upstairs…"
"No, Arthur, I think it would be best if they stayed, in fact, I believe Fred should also be down here, where is he?" replied the headmaster, without his usual twinkle in his eye, it seemed to be gone a lot lately.
"He is upstairs Professor, he-er- doesn't really leave from there" replied Ron sheepishly.
"Well, I'll go retrieve him" and Dumbledore left the kitchen and came back a few minutes later with Fred, who immediately took a seat near the door.
"First off, I would like to express my sympathy for all of you, this is quite a horrible loss, but we must make sure this does not happen again. Fred, if I am correct in saying, you and your brother were working on something for the Order?" Fred nodded, staring at the floor. "Obviously, Voldemort was trying to get it so he would succeed in winning this war, so we need to be much more careful and make sure all Order members are safe, especially while working on something crucial." Dumbledore then looked up at the Weasley family, "Also, I have received a letter from, Percy. He is extremely shocked at this, and wishes to come home, to be with all of you at this time, he'll be arriving tomorrow morning." At this Dumbledore looked at the time and startled said, "Oh my, it seems, I have lost track of time, I will probably come back later, or have other Order members come." And with that he apparated out of the house.
Fred immediately stalked off, mumbling something under his breath. Mrs. Weasley's hand were shaking as she had tears in her eyes, she said something about putting new sheets on Percy's bed since he was coming home, while Mr. Weasley just stared at the wall, deep in thought. At this point Hermione offered for everyone to go upstairs, and they all followed, all the way up to Ron's room.
"I can't believe that lousy git is coming home" fumed Ron, "I defiantly don't want him here, I swear, if he says one word to me, I-I-I'm just gunna" at this Ron had curled his fingers into a fist.
"Ron, he is our brother and all, I mean it probably is hard for him to come home, Bill and Charlie can't even get here, with the War and all, Percy must be sacrificing a lot to get here….I hope" replied Ginny.
"How about we do something to keep our minds off all of this, maybe some Wizards Chess, or Quidditch, yes we are going to go play some Quidditch, you can all teach me" said Hermione, almost as if to herself. Everyone went and grabbed their brooms, since they really had nothing better to do. As Hermione walked by Fred's room she decided she would ask him if he wanted to play also, she knocked on his door and he cracked it open just enough to see who it was. Hermione took a deep breath and was like, "Fred, erm, well I was just wondering if well—we all decided to go fly around for a bit and maybe play some Quidditch, would you like to join us?"
"You need two beaters in Quidditch, and obviously there is only one of me" he replied in a dead voice and he closed his door.
"Oh, um well, sorry, erm, if you change your mind we'll be outside" said Hermione to the door, hoping Fred heard her.
Harry slowly followed everyone and when Ron and Ginny were outside, he approached Hermione, "Hermione? I was just wondering what is with the sudden change, at school you were crying all time over this and now….now you aren't."
"Oh, well I decided I was being stupid, I mean the Weasley's need us to be the strong ones right now, especially Ron and Ginny" replied Hermione blushing.
At this Harry smiled, a true genuine smile, he hadn't done that in a while. There was a side of Hermione that only came out under certain circumstances, when she would put everyone before herself and do what's best for them. And she was right; they both did need to be the strong ones right now.
The rest of the day was pretty quiet, flying hadn't lasted that long since Ron and Ginny obviously weren't in the mood to.
When Percy arrived the next morning, it seemed that the only person, who was anticipating it, was Mrs. Weasley.
"Mum always did want him back home, she said she would forgive him," said Ron up in his room to Harry, "myself, I don't think it will be that easy to forgive."
Harry had stayed upstairs with Ron, since he didn't want to greet Percy, Harry didn't really want to either, Percy was the one who wrote a note to Ron saying how they shouldn't be friends. The only other person not downstairs greeting Percy, was Fred, though that wasn't a surprise since he never left his room.
Harry was trying to listen to what was happening downstairs, whether or not anything strange was going on. Just when he thought that maybe it would be okay having Percy there, he heard shouting in the hallway. Immediately, Ron and Harry ran to the door to see what was happening.
Once in the hall they saw that Percy had ran into Fred, before Harry could even grab Ron he had joined in with Fred.
"You dirty, rotten, git, only coming home when someone dies! Do you think that with George gone you can take his place?"
"You don't deserve to be a part of this family!"
"We don't associate with traitors!"
"Why don't you just sod off and never come back because nobody wants you here!"
At that, it was silent, Ron and Fred were done. Throughout all of this Percy just stood there and took it, he never argued, nor flinched, he just stood there, and let them scream in his face. Harry just stood back, shocked; he had no clue what was going to happen next.
"Is that really what you think of me?" asked Percy, completely serious. Fred nodded looking Percy straight in the eye, likewise with Ron. "Well, then, I-I guess that there is no point in me being here, if I am not wanted. So long, maybe I'll see you around one of these days" said Percy as he put his hand out to say his goodbyes. Fred just stared at it and didn't shake it, fire burned deep within his eyes. Percy took his hand back and then walked away, said his goodbyes to everyone else, and left.
"How could you do this!? Did you think of anything or anyone else?" cried Mrs. Weasley to Fred, "And you too Ron, you did just as bad, yelling at your brother like that." Fred didn't even look up; he just glared as Ron stared more guiltily at the ground. "Well I hope you are happy, not only have we now lost one member of the family forever, but now we have lost two"
At that Mrs. Weasley huffed off, she was obviously extremely heart broken she missed Percy all that time he was gone, and now the minute he came back into her reach, he was snatched away just as quickly.
Harry knew that this week was not going to go by quickly enough.
A/N: yea it was okay. Just thought I would get something out before finals start up, and then I am in Florida for a week =D
HP 3, June 4th in the U.S. hope everyone who can goes!