Chapter 20: Percy's Jailbreak
Molly was sitting next to her, holding her up for support. "What did you see Page, was it Percy, is he alright? Where is he?" Molly looked white as a sheet. Page was just about to speak when Remus barged in through the door. "Harry just got a vision. Page what happened? What's the matter?" His voice seemed to crack in worry. "It's Percy, from what I saw he's in a muggle prison. He got lost, although I'm not too clear on how he got there. He's OK though Molly don't you worry about it. Remus, we'll have to go and look for him. If I know muggles they'll think he's crazy." He nodded and they quickly dashed from the kitchen and into the dining room. "Listen you lot stay with Mrs Weasely, we'll be back as soon as possible. Tonks come on." Remus told them as he hurried past them, but Harry was too fast and he blocked the front door. "I know what's happening, I got the vision too. I want to help Percy." Harry's eyes were ablaze, Page wouldn't let Harry get hurt, the order had planned him a safe journey to London and Page wasn't going to let Harry get himself hurt. "No Harry. Not now. You are to stay here with Molly and the others. You'll be safe here." Page moved around him, but again he stepped in front of them. "The vision was mine as well as yours. I want to help. You don't know anything about the muggle world. I do." Page was getting angry and Harry's insolence. "Now just a minute. I've spent more time in the muggle world Harry before you were even born. You'll stay here until we get back. Not another word." Harry knew that Page was angry with him; he gave her a dirty look and stormed upstairs. Page heard him slam his bedroom door before Remus Tonks and her, left the house. Their journey wasn't a pleasant one. They went to three different Police stations; on the fourth their search to find Percy came to an abrupt halt. "Hello I was wondering if you have a Percy Weasely in one of your cells. I think someone picked him up as insane or drunk and disorderly." Page asked the desk clerk. She was a plump looking muggle with short blonde hair. She checked her computer and then nodded. "The gentlemen you are looking for is in cell B10 two levels down. But he won't stay here long he's being moved to Garden Lakes Mental Hospital tomorrow morning. I'll tell the guard that you are going to meet him." She said in a high-pitched broad Londoner accent. Page grabbed Tonks and Remus and they all headed down to level 2 to find Percy. The corridors, which, were filled with prisoners, looked cold and unwelcoming. They could hear the crying and banging on their cell doors. Page then saw the guard up ahead. They quickly walked towards him. "We would like to meet the crazy person in cell B10 please. The woman at the desk gave us clearance." Page told him. "'Course. This one 'ere has been a bit of a handful I'll can tell ya. Been saying all sorts of crazy things. We think he has taken something." He said in a gruff voice, and he led them to Percy's cell and opened the door for them. Percy was on the floor rocking backwards and forwards muttering to himself. "I'm not crazy, nasty muggles. How dare they hold me here?" The guard closed the door and Percy jumped and looked up. His face was dirty and gaunt looking. His hair was untidy (worse then Harry's) and his eyes were bloodshot. He started to cry when he saw them. "Oh thank you. Merlin's beard. I thought I'd be carted off to a muggle hospital and never see the magical world again." Tonks rushed forwards and clasped her hand around his mouth. "Shut up you idiot. I'm just glad the muggles have thought you mentally compared or else Merlin knows what would have happened." Tonks let go. Realising that Percy had stopped talking. "Now Percy, what happened, how did you get up wind up in a muggle jail?" Remus asked him quietly. "I was on my way to the ministry one morning, when I was grabbed and pushed into a car by four youths. They gagged me and took my wand and my money. Then everything went black, and I woke up in a forest Merlin knows where, and I managed to find food and shelter. After I got my bearings I tried to find a road. It took me days. Then I came across one, and I kept asking for a lift when I was picked up by these ghastly pol-lees-men in their car. Then I ended up here. They asked me questions and placed me down here with the ' loony lot' as they say. I am being moved tomorrow to a mental hospital. These people haven't found any records of me, so they think I have got amnesia or something like that." Percy started to well up with tears. Page looked at Remus while Tonks was calming him down. "What are we going to do, even if there are papers these 'people' can see, they won't let him out until he has ID?" Page asked Remus. He was walking up and down the cell thinking to himself. "Its too risky getting Fudge in here, we'll have to bust him out." He looked at Page with a flicker of a smile. "You can't do that, it's not allowed, and Percy will be marked as a loose criminal, he'll be on one of the top ten most wanted by next week. Think of what you are saying Remus." "I have thought about it. The Illusionment charm, that's the only way. We'll come back tonight under your invisibility cloak and perform the charm. You'll have to be the diversion I'm afraid." Page gave him a contemptuous look. But he winked at her. He walked towards Percy who was now in floods of tears, and patted him on the back. "We will come and get you tonight. Don't do anything rash Percy." He stood up and Tonks and Page followed him out of the cell.
When they got back, Molly and Arthur were in the kitchen. Molly was crying. Her tears splashed onto the wooden surface of the table while Arthur was making her a cup of tea. "We have found him Molly." Remus burst through the door. She looked up at him with blurry red eyes. "Oh my goodness, is he alright, where is he?" She gasped for air; apparently it was hard for her to speak. "He's in that muggle prison I had seen in my vision. We have to act quickly though, they are going to take him to a Muggle Mental Hospital tomorrow morning." Page said softly. Instead of making Molly happy that they found her son, she cried even more harder, and her wails could be heard all over the house, as Harry, Ron and Ginny came into the kitchen. Harry didn't even look at Page, but focussed on the floor. "What's the matter mum? Is Percy all right? Have you found him Professor Quinn?" Page nodded. "We found him, in a muggle prison. We are going to get him out tonight." Ron smiled. "Wicked a jailbreak. I bet Percy is pleased. Can we come and help? Please we won't get in the way, and besides me and Harry are top in Defence Against the Dark Arts." Page didn't say anything; she let Remus talk to them. "Ron we aren't fighting anyone, we are not going to hurt any muggles. This hasn't got anything to do with the Dark Arts. It's more charms then anything else. Look Fred and George will be here soon. They can keep you occupied." Ron's smile was wiped off his face. Page glanced at Harry; he looked like he was a volcano that was about to explode. "WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH ME HUH? WHY CAN'T I GO? I SAW HIM TOO?" Page didn't say a thing, she had told him off once tonight, not again. It was Tonks' turn to talk to him. "Harry, never would I have thought that you could shout like that, to people who are doing their best for you. You should be ashamed of yourself. Now all of you go back upstairs and stay there. It hasn't got anything to do with you. And if I hear your voice again Harry. As soon as you get back to school, I'll make it my personal duty to watch over you like a hawk." Tonks was going red; Page had never seen her so upset. Harry didn't need to hear anymore and once again stormed out of the kitchen and banged upstairs. Ron and Ginny looked at each other. "Sorry about that. That was my fault. Harry is feeling a bit left out. Come on Ginny". They slumped out of the kitchen and back upstairs to their bedrooms. "Right now we leave at midnight. Page, you and me will go downstairs and get Percy out, if there is anyone coming create a diversion. Use your transformation if you must. Tonks will be on the look out, and will transform to stop the policemen getting downstairs." Remus instructed. They set off as planned. Dark shadows covered them as they made their way into the station. The streetlights cast a dim glow inside as they crept along the corridor; Tonks changed herself into casual policewoman, and walked behind Remus and Page. Tonks stopped outside the hallway to level 2 to wait for them and to stop anybody getting past them while they were trying to get Percy out. Remus and Page got to Percy's cell door. "Alohamorah" Page whispered and the cell door unlocked and Page and Remus crept slowly inside. Percy was standing there waiting for them. "How are you going to get me out?" He said. "Shh, we are going to use the Illusionment charm on you. That way people will think your still in here while you are really home free." Page whispered. "Good idea. But how are you going to get me out of here?" "Tonks is waiting for us, Remus hurry up!" Page said quietly in an urgent way. Remus pointed his wand to Percy and uttered, "Illusionius". His wand glowed blue, and a small beam of light hit Percy and he fell over. As Percy got up, another Percy was on the floor, looking up at him. "Er, Remus how do we tell them apart?" Page hadn't thought about this until now. "The real Percy knows who we are, the other duplicate doesn't." "Quite right Remus." Said the Percy who had stood up. Page then grabbed him, pointed her wand at the other Percy and said "Silencio". "Good thinking Page." Said Remus. Then all three of them climbed out of the cell and Percy closed the door with a BANG! Other people in the cells around had woken up and started to shout and bawl. They ran along to Tonks, who was on the other side of the door. They stopped suddenly as they heard other voices. "What's going on in there?" "Is that crazy loony at it again?" "Yea, probably." Said Tonks in a relaxed way. The men's voices started to drift away as they walked back up the stairs. Tonks rapped slightly on the door to tell Page and the others that they were gone. They quietly ran down the corridor, and hurried out of the station. Just as soon as they were about to drive off, a police officer stopped them. Remus was driving and wound down the window. "Excuse me, but you were parking illegally in front of the station. May I see your driving license please?" He looked into the back seat and saw Page and Percy grinning at him. Immediately he then draw out his baton and pointed it at Remus. "Everyone get out of the car. NOW!" They all got out of the car slowly; Page was on the opposite side of the policeman and hid out of sight to transform, so that they could get away. Just as the doors had been slammed shut, Page reared up and charged at the policeman, he turned around and ran. He didn't stop to look back. Remus and the others quickly got back into the car and drove off. "Well, that was close. Thank you Page." Said Percy, who looked positively white with shock. "Yes, indeed. I don't understand muggles, especially muggles of the law. They really need to tone it down a little don't they." Tonks was saying to Remus. "On the contrary, when it comes to stopping crime, muggles are not very equipped, and they end up in serious trouble." Said Page, Remus and Tonks laughed. Percy on the other hand, didn't look at all amused. "The first thing when I get back to the ministry is report this atrocity. Do you realise the serious loss I have fallen upon Mr fudge?" "Oh be quiet Perce, your alive and your not insane, we hope. And besides your mother and father were very worried about you." Said Remus, as he stopped at some traffic lights, he turned around to face him. "Percy, the Ministry of Magic thought that you had left. We'll take you home, and then I suggest you send an owl to Mr Fudge. I'm sure he will be pleased to see you back." Percy nodded.
Molly was sitting next to her, holding her up for support. "What did you see Page, was it Percy, is he alright? Where is he?" Molly looked white as a sheet. Page was just about to speak when Remus barged in through the door. "Harry just got a vision. Page what happened? What's the matter?" His voice seemed to crack in worry. "It's Percy, from what I saw he's in a muggle prison. He got lost, although I'm not too clear on how he got there. He's OK though Molly don't you worry about it. Remus, we'll have to go and look for him. If I know muggles they'll think he's crazy." He nodded and they quickly dashed from the kitchen and into the dining room. "Listen you lot stay with Mrs Weasely, we'll be back as soon as possible. Tonks come on." Remus told them as he hurried past them, but Harry was too fast and he blocked the front door. "I know what's happening, I got the vision too. I want to help Percy." Harry's eyes were ablaze, Page wouldn't let Harry get hurt, the order had planned him a safe journey to London and Page wasn't going to let Harry get himself hurt. "No Harry. Not now. You are to stay here with Molly and the others. You'll be safe here." Page moved around him, but again he stepped in front of them. "The vision was mine as well as yours. I want to help. You don't know anything about the muggle world. I do." Page was getting angry and Harry's insolence. "Now just a minute. I've spent more time in the muggle world Harry before you were even born. You'll stay here until we get back. Not another word." Harry knew that Page was angry with him; he gave her a dirty look and stormed upstairs. Page heard him slam his bedroom door before Remus Tonks and her, left the house. Their journey wasn't a pleasant one. They went to three different Police stations; on the fourth their search to find Percy came to an abrupt halt. "Hello I was wondering if you have a Percy Weasely in one of your cells. I think someone picked him up as insane or drunk and disorderly." Page asked the desk clerk. She was a plump looking muggle with short blonde hair. She checked her computer and then nodded. "The gentlemen you are looking for is in cell B10 two levels down. But he won't stay here long he's being moved to Garden Lakes Mental Hospital tomorrow morning. I'll tell the guard that you are going to meet him." She said in a high-pitched broad Londoner accent. Page grabbed Tonks and Remus and they all headed down to level 2 to find Percy. The corridors, which, were filled with prisoners, looked cold and unwelcoming. They could hear the crying and banging on their cell doors. Page then saw the guard up ahead. They quickly walked towards him. "We would like to meet the crazy person in cell B10 please. The woman at the desk gave us clearance." Page told him. "'Course. This one 'ere has been a bit of a handful I'll can tell ya. Been saying all sorts of crazy things. We think he has taken something." He said in a gruff voice, and he led them to Percy's cell and opened the door for them. Percy was on the floor rocking backwards and forwards muttering to himself. "I'm not crazy, nasty muggles. How dare they hold me here?" The guard closed the door and Percy jumped and looked up. His face was dirty and gaunt looking. His hair was untidy (worse then Harry's) and his eyes were bloodshot. He started to cry when he saw them. "Oh thank you. Merlin's beard. I thought I'd be carted off to a muggle hospital and never see the magical world again." Tonks rushed forwards and clasped her hand around his mouth. "Shut up you idiot. I'm just glad the muggles have thought you mentally compared or else Merlin knows what would have happened." Tonks let go. Realising that Percy had stopped talking. "Now Percy, what happened, how did you get up wind up in a muggle jail?" Remus asked him quietly. "I was on my way to the ministry one morning, when I was grabbed and pushed into a car by four youths. They gagged me and took my wand and my money. Then everything went black, and I woke up in a forest Merlin knows where, and I managed to find food and shelter. After I got my bearings I tried to find a road. It took me days. Then I came across one, and I kept asking for a lift when I was picked up by these ghastly pol-lees-men in their car. Then I ended up here. They asked me questions and placed me down here with the ' loony lot' as they say. I am being moved tomorrow to a mental hospital. These people haven't found any records of me, so they think I have got amnesia or something like that." Percy started to well up with tears. Page looked at Remus while Tonks was calming him down. "What are we going to do, even if there are papers these 'people' can see, they won't let him out until he has ID?" Page asked Remus. He was walking up and down the cell thinking to himself. "Its too risky getting Fudge in here, we'll have to bust him out." He looked at Page with a flicker of a smile. "You can't do that, it's not allowed, and Percy will be marked as a loose criminal, he'll be on one of the top ten most wanted by next week. Think of what you are saying Remus." "I have thought about it. The Illusionment charm, that's the only way. We'll come back tonight under your invisibility cloak and perform the charm. You'll have to be the diversion I'm afraid." Page gave him a contemptuous look. But he winked at her. He walked towards Percy who was now in floods of tears, and patted him on the back. "We will come and get you tonight. Don't do anything rash Percy." He stood up and Tonks and Page followed him out of the cell.
When they got back, Molly and Arthur were in the kitchen. Molly was crying. Her tears splashed onto the wooden surface of the table while Arthur was making her a cup of tea. "We have found him Molly." Remus burst through the door. She looked up at him with blurry red eyes. "Oh my goodness, is he alright, where is he?" She gasped for air; apparently it was hard for her to speak. "He's in that muggle prison I had seen in my vision. We have to act quickly though, they are going to take him to a Muggle Mental Hospital tomorrow morning." Page said softly. Instead of making Molly happy that they found her son, she cried even more harder, and her wails could be heard all over the house, as Harry, Ron and Ginny came into the kitchen. Harry didn't even look at Page, but focussed on the floor. "What's the matter mum? Is Percy all right? Have you found him Professor Quinn?" Page nodded. "We found him, in a muggle prison. We are going to get him out tonight." Ron smiled. "Wicked a jailbreak. I bet Percy is pleased. Can we come and help? Please we won't get in the way, and besides me and Harry are top in Defence Against the Dark Arts." Page didn't say anything; she let Remus talk to them. "Ron we aren't fighting anyone, we are not going to hurt any muggles. This hasn't got anything to do with the Dark Arts. It's more charms then anything else. Look Fred and George will be here soon. They can keep you occupied." Ron's smile was wiped off his face. Page glanced at Harry; he looked like he was a volcano that was about to explode. "WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH ME HUH? WHY CAN'T I GO? I SAW HIM TOO?" Page didn't say a thing, she had told him off once tonight, not again. It was Tonks' turn to talk to him. "Harry, never would I have thought that you could shout like that, to people who are doing their best for you. You should be ashamed of yourself. Now all of you go back upstairs and stay there. It hasn't got anything to do with you. And if I hear your voice again Harry. As soon as you get back to school, I'll make it my personal duty to watch over you like a hawk." Tonks was going red; Page had never seen her so upset. Harry didn't need to hear anymore and once again stormed out of the kitchen and banged upstairs. Ron and Ginny looked at each other. "Sorry about that. That was my fault. Harry is feeling a bit left out. Come on Ginny". They slumped out of the kitchen and back upstairs to their bedrooms. "Right now we leave at midnight. Page, you and me will go downstairs and get Percy out, if there is anyone coming create a diversion. Use your transformation if you must. Tonks will be on the look out, and will transform to stop the policemen getting downstairs." Remus instructed. They set off as planned. Dark shadows covered them as they made their way into the station. The streetlights cast a dim glow inside as they crept along the corridor; Tonks changed herself into casual policewoman, and walked behind Remus and Page. Tonks stopped outside the hallway to level 2 to wait for them and to stop anybody getting past them while they were trying to get Percy out. Remus and Page got to Percy's cell door. "Alohamorah" Page whispered and the cell door unlocked and Page and Remus crept slowly inside. Percy was standing there waiting for them. "How are you going to get me out?" He said. "Shh, we are going to use the Illusionment charm on you. That way people will think your still in here while you are really home free." Page whispered. "Good idea. But how are you going to get me out of here?" "Tonks is waiting for us, Remus hurry up!" Page said quietly in an urgent way. Remus pointed his wand to Percy and uttered, "Illusionius". His wand glowed blue, and a small beam of light hit Percy and he fell over. As Percy got up, another Percy was on the floor, looking up at him. "Er, Remus how do we tell them apart?" Page hadn't thought about this until now. "The real Percy knows who we are, the other duplicate doesn't." "Quite right Remus." Said the Percy who had stood up. Page then grabbed him, pointed her wand at the other Percy and said "Silencio". "Good thinking Page." Said Remus. Then all three of them climbed out of the cell and Percy closed the door with a BANG! Other people in the cells around had woken up and started to shout and bawl. They ran along to Tonks, who was on the other side of the door. They stopped suddenly as they heard other voices. "What's going on in there?" "Is that crazy loony at it again?" "Yea, probably." Said Tonks in a relaxed way. The men's voices started to drift away as they walked back up the stairs. Tonks rapped slightly on the door to tell Page and the others that they were gone. They quietly ran down the corridor, and hurried out of the station. Just as soon as they were about to drive off, a police officer stopped them. Remus was driving and wound down the window. "Excuse me, but you were parking illegally in front of the station. May I see your driving license please?" He looked into the back seat and saw Page and Percy grinning at him. Immediately he then draw out his baton and pointed it at Remus. "Everyone get out of the car. NOW!" They all got out of the car slowly; Page was on the opposite side of the policeman and hid out of sight to transform, so that they could get away. Just as the doors had been slammed shut, Page reared up and charged at the policeman, he turned around and ran. He didn't stop to look back. Remus and the others quickly got back into the car and drove off. "Well, that was close. Thank you Page." Said Percy, who looked positively white with shock. "Yes, indeed. I don't understand muggles, especially muggles of the law. They really need to tone it down a little don't they." Tonks was saying to Remus. "On the contrary, when it comes to stopping crime, muggles are not very equipped, and they end up in serious trouble." Said Page, Remus and Tonks laughed. Percy on the other hand, didn't look at all amused. "The first thing when I get back to the ministry is report this atrocity. Do you realise the serious loss I have fallen upon Mr fudge?" "Oh be quiet Perce, your alive and your not insane, we hope. And besides your mother and father were very worried about you." Said Remus, as he stopped at some traffic lights, he turned around to face him. "Percy, the Ministry of Magic thought that you had left. We'll take you home, and then I suggest you send an owl to Mr Fudge. I'm sure he will be pleased to see you back." Percy nodded.