Pick on Ginny Day
April gave a moan as she approached Azkaban.
"Why?" She asked James. James looked at her.
"Why what?" He asked.
"Why do we have to do these rounds in Azkaban, just leave it to the Dementors!" She said.
"Hasn't the Head auror already told us why we have to do this?"
"Yes, many times!" April said. James nodded uncertainly.
"It'll be ok." James said grimly. He hated going to Azkaban so much. Every time he went he went past Wormtail's cell. And every time April or James saw him he'd beg for his life, beg to be let out of the prison. James looked at April. She'd gone slightly pale. She never looked like this when they'd come in the past. Usually April would give a shiver or two.
"Are you ok?" James asked, putting an arm around April for support.
"I'll be ok." April said. "It's just that it's effecting me more then usual."
"Do you think that it's because of your baby?" James asked. April shrugged.
"Maybe" April said.
"Do you want to go back?" James asked.
"It's my last day as an auror for a year. Let me carry out a full day's work." James looked at her uncertainly then nodded. They went through some large wooden doors into the reception of the prison. There were Dementor Guards at the doors. James could feel their presence focused on him. He tried to block out the feeling of dread and despair that they gave him. He closed his eyes for a moment and shook himself internally. He was going to fight this. He opened his eyes and went to the reception desk with April. The man at the desk looked at them grimly. He looked as though he hadn't seen a happy moment in his life before.
"James Potter and April Marsden, Rank eight Aurors." James said. The man nodded and indicated to a door to the right. James looked at April and they headed to the door. James glanced around. This was not a happy prison at all. The walls were grey, nearly black, and they had lichen and moss growing in the cracks. It was like the walls were living. They were leeching the life away from the people in the prison to live themselves. Add the Dementors and...well James felt like he wanted to die. He felt like he wasn't going to see his family again, it was like when his sister and parents had died all over again. James pushed the door open. Immediately the reception was filled with anguished screams and cries from the prisoners inside the prison. April went in and James followed.
They walked down the corridors, they just needed to make sure everything was alright. They didn't look into any of the cells. Most were filled with Death Eaters that they had caught, quite a few of them, April and James had caught themselves. They came to where the corridor went off into a T. They were about to go right when a Ministry official known as Barty Crouch came towards them, holding his wife. His wife didn't look well at all. James had heard things about Barty Crouch's family, it wasn't really good. His wife looked incredibly ill. Barty crouch looked at them and gave them a nod of acknowledgment. James and April both gave nods back. Barty Crouch and his wife went to the exit and left the prison.
"Wish I could do that" April muttered.
"We just need to have a quick look around." James said. He gave her a reassuring look and they kept walking. April looked a lot worse then usual, James was actually getting quite worried for her. They walked down another corridor, James trying to fight off upsetting images the whole time. He hadn't failed to notice that they were being stalked by a few dementors. They were walking past the cells when someone threw themselves at the bars of their cells on April's side. April took a step towards James and glanced at the cell.
"Please, let me go, I'm so sorry!" Sobbed a fairly short man who had a slightly rat like face and watery eyes. He looked like he'd lost a lot of weight in a short space of time. His hair was greying slightly, at his young age and it appeared to be balding.
"Let go of my robes Wormtail." April growled at him. He didn't let go.
"Please I'm so sorry" He sobbed. His body was shaking as he tried desperately to cling onto April's robes. James kicked Wormtail's hand and he retreated into his cell, clutching it.
"Don't you touch either one of us. You're going to stay in this cell until you rot Wormtail." James said. The man shook his head.
"No, please"
"It's the price you pay for selling your 'friends' out to Voldemort" April said. There seemed to be a collective shudder at the word Voldemort. All the prisoners gave out short shouts of fear or started crying, sobbing or howling. Which ever one they'd been doing or preferred. James tore his gaze away from the pitiful man he had called his friend and walked on. April glanced at Wormtail before she walked on as well.
"If only we could authorise the kiss on that man." April said. No one liked Wormtail any more, well, he had ratted Lily and James to Voldemort and had tried to kill each one of them at least once and had caused April to be a rape victim!
"We could try. One of us has to become Minister so that we can." James said.
"That's aiming high." April said.
"Minster or head auror."
"Can I be head auror?" April asked. James knew she was trying to be enthusiastic but it didn't sound like that. Azkaban made it seem like touching skin was like touching cardboard.
"Yeah, I suppose you can but it's not my choice" James said. April risked a glance in a cell. They were in the high security area now. There were twice as many dementors here and there was a bigger feeling of dread. She looked into a cell where there was a woman with dark hooded eyes and long dark hair that looked uncared for. She held a very very vaguely resemblance to Sirius. April felt like killing that woman for what she'd done. Not to April personally but to the Longbottoms.
"Lets get out of here quickly." April muttered. James nodded, he couldn't agree more. He wanted to get out and kiss Lily, hug Harry and Emma, even cuddle that god damned cat that Lily had bought Emma. They tried to hurry through the prison, everything was fine, nothing out of the ordinary. They returned to the reception. The man at the reception desk nodded and they left. The effects of the island of dementors hadn't worn off until they got to mainland Scotland. It was like their influence flew with the wind. When they got back to the mainland April sat down shakily on a bench in the street. They were in a muggle street and April had taken her robes off. She always wore Muggle clothes underneath, as did James. James pulled his robes off as well and stood in his jeans and shirt.
"Are you sure you're going to be ok?" James asked April, he put hand on April's back.
"Yeah, but I do feel a bit sick." April said.
"I feel sick." Sirius said to Lily. Lily looked at him sympathetically. She was at April's house today because Emma wanted to show Rhia her new cat. They were in the garden playing with the kitten while Orion had taken an interest in the cat's basket.
"It's called morning sickness" Lily said trying to keep a straight face.
"I hate it!" Sirius said, "I've been feeling like this for ages!" Lily started giggling, she couldn't hold it in any more. "It's not funny!" Sirius said.
"You're right!" Lily said trying to be serious. "It's hilarious!" She burst out laughing and leant against Sirius's shoulder. While the two adults were talking Harry walked into the room bored. He glanced around looking for something to do. He saw Orion peering into the cat basket. Harry smirked slightly and went over to Orion.
"There are toys in the back of the basket." Harry said to Orion like it was a secret. Orion looked at Harry and crawled further into the basket. Harry slowly closed the door so that Orion wouldn't notice and put on the small catch that kept the thing closed. Orion turned around and crashed into the wire frame door of the basket. Harry started laughing and wiggled his fingers in the wire door.
"Out!" Orion shouted. "DADDY!" Sirius and Lily glanced at the two boys.
"HARRY!" Lily shouted. Harry looked up and gave his mum an innocent smile.
"He locked himself in there!" Harry said defensively. Sirius got up tiredly, apparently Pregnancy was starting to take it's toll on Sirius. Lily tried to keep her expression serious at that thought. Sirius went to the basket.
"Stay still Orion." He said, "We'll get you out of there...somehow." Sirius looked at the basket slightly confused. Where was the catch? "Um, stay there Orion."
"Where else is he supposed to go?" Lily asked. Sirius looked at Lily.
"Good point" Sirius said. "Um, Lily how do you open this thing" Sirius asked. Lily got out her wand and summoned Orion over in the cat basket.
"I'm really surprised your son can fit in here!" Lily said. She did something to the door and pulled Orion out. Orion looked like he was about to cry so Lily held him tightly.
"Daddy." Orion moaned. Lily looked at Sirius. Sirius came over, moved the basket onto the floor. Orion climbed over to him and hugged him tightly. Lily looked at Harry sternly. He was giving her an innocent look and was inching his way out of the room.
"You're not going anywhere Harry." Lily said closing the door. Harry's innocent façade fell. "What do you say to Orion."
"You need to grow up?" Harry asked. Lily gave him an even sterner look. "Um..."
"Harry!" Lily said dangerously.
"Sorry" Harry muttered. Orion looked at Harry and buried his face in Sirius' shoulder tiredly.
"Tired" Orion said.
"Sleep in the cat box!" Harry said like it was a simple solution. Lily looked at him and Harry looked at the floor.
"I'll put Orion in his bed for a quick nap. We've got to go to April's parents tonight." Sirius said.
"Joy!" Lily said.
"Yeah, should be nice. I haven't seen Mr. And Mrs. Marsden since, um...a few months ago."
"I meant they have to feed two pregnant people. Do they know they're expecting two god children?" Lily asked with a smirk. Sirius sneered at her and left the room.
"Can I go now?" Harry asked.
"No." Lily said. "Come here." Harry inched forwards as he shuffled his feet. "Why did you lock Orion in the cat box?"
"Because I was bored." Harry said. Lily looked at Harry sympathetically, he didn't actually have any friends his age, and his friends from his school were on holiday.
"What do you want to do?" Lily asked.
"Go and see Ron?" Harry asked hopefully. Lily frowned, she didn't know where the Weasley's lived. James had told her it was somewhere called the burrow. She nodded and stood up.
"Stay here." Lily said. She left the room and went to the garden. "Emma, we have to go now honey." Emma looked at Lily like Lily had just said the worst thing.
"Why?" she asked.
"We're going to go and visit some friends"
"Bo?" Emma asked.
"Different friends." Lily said. Emma sighed and got to her feet. Baloo jumped into her arms and Emma held her tightly.
"Bye Rhia."
"Bye." Rhia said as she pulled some grass out of the ground. Emma followed Lily into the house. Lily had to admit that she didn't entirely trust leaving Emma here with Sirius. Sirius was a bit irresponsible. Emma put Baloo into his basket and turned to Lily. Lily got out a bag of Floo Powder.
"Ok, go to The Burrow, can you do that Harry?" Lily asked. Harry nodded and took a handful of Floo Powder
"The Burrow!" Harry shouted as he threw the floo powder into the fireplace. The green flames engulfed Harry and took him through the Floo network. He marvelled at the flickering fireplaces then suddenly he was spat out of the network. He managed to stay on his feet. He brushed the soot out of his hair and looked around. Ron's younger sister was sitting at the kitchen table with a sandwich half to her mouth.
"Ginny hurry up and – Oh Harry." Said the funny red haired woman that was Ron's mum.
"Ron here?" Harry asked. Mrs. Weasley looked slightly surprised then smiled.
"Yes, he's in the living room" She said kindly. Harry ran off to look for the living room as Lily appeared with Emma and a cat basket in her arms.
"Hi." Lily said putting Emma down. "I hope you don't mind but Harry was getting bored and he wanted to play with Ron-"
"It's fine, you must be Lily Potter." Mrs. Weasley said. Lily smiled.
"You must be Mrs. Weasley then" Lily said.
"Call me Molly." She said, "This must be Emma. I've read about her" Emma grinned as Molly referred to her.
"Hello" Emma said. Ginny put her sandwich down and walked over to them and looked in the basket.
"Oh, it's a cat." Ginny said. Lily smiled and put the basket down.
"You want see?" Emma asked Ginny. Ginny nodded. Emma let out the cat and picked him up.
"Oh, he's cute" Ginny said, "can I hold?" Emma nodded and carefully transferred Baloo to Ginny's arms.
"Would you like to stay for tea?" Molly asked. Lily gave her a grateful smile.
"Do you mind if I just send an owl to my husband first."
"Go ahead, but I'm afraid our owl is a bit unreliable." Molly said.
"Oh, it's alright then" Lily said with a smile.
"So doctor George, what do you think is wrong with the cat?" Fred asked George. The two Weasley twins had decided that they wanted to play doctors with Emma's cat and had stolen Baloo while Ginny and Emma had been out playing. Unfortunately Emma had walked into their room while looking for Baloo and was now sitting on the bed. George and Fred circled the cat that mewed at them from the desk that had been moved to the center of the room.
"It appears to be suffering from a severe form of Emma disease" George said. Emma looked at him annoyed. George gave her a grin. "I'm afraid we'll have to put it down" George produced a syringe filled with a clear liquid..
"NO!" Emma shouted. George touched the end of the syringe against Baloo's skin and put it into the cat. Fred grinned.
"Go on." Fred said. George put what ever it was into the cat while Fred held Emma back. The cat suddenly turned a bright shade of shocking pink. Emma's mouth dropped open while Fred and George looked at each other stunned.
"Wow" George said. "I wasn't expecting that to happen." Emma went to the cat and picked him up. She cuddled him like a teddy bear
"You ok Baloo?" Emma asked. The cat purred and his tiny tongue flicked out of his mouth and he licked Emma's cheek. "You two so howible!" Emma shouted at Fred and George.
"No we're geniuses." Fred said, "I think we should try and make it yellow then we can test it on Ginny."
"Lets see if Baloo's ok first" George said. He held out his hand towards Emma. "May we?"
"No!" Emma said.
"Please, we'll turn him back if you let us do one more test on him" Fred said. Emma looked at them skeptically, she clearly didn't trust them any more. George gave her a slight pout and Emma bit her lip slightly as she handed the cat to George. George grinned. Fred went to the window and opened it wide. Emma's eyes went wider then the window.
"What you doing?" Emma asked. She ran to retrieve her cat but too late. George had thrown the cat out of the window as far as he could. The three stared out of the window and watched the shocking pink cat fly over Ron and Harry in the garden and land safely on it's paws on the patio beneath them. Ron and Harry looked at the cat then up at the window. Fred and George were grinning while Emma was looking rather annoyed.
"Look, he's alright!" George said happily.
"Mission accomplished." Fred said. The twins shook hands. Emma hit them both on the arm.
"You evil!" She screamed before storming out of the room and running to the garden.
"Now what color shall we use on Ginny?" Fred asked. George and Fred looked at each other slightly confused before they both broke out into identical grins.
Harry and Ron looked up at the window where they saw Fred and George grinning like idiots. Why had Emma's cat just fallen out of the sky? Baloo walked over to Harry and Harry picked him up carefully.
"Who's cat is that? We don't have cat." Ron said with a frown.
"Emma's cat" Harry said. Ron nodded slowly. Harry forgot, he didn't know who Emma was. "My sister."
"Ah." Ron said. Harry looked out into the garden and saw one of those funny creatures running through the grass again.
"What's that?" Harry asked, pointing at another one that was running around the garden. Ron rolled his eyes.
"It is a gnome. They're ugly." Ron said. "Very ugly and annoying. Mummy makes Bill, Charlie and Percy...um...throw them away sometimes but it don't work. They always come back." Ron said with a frown.
"Oh, they are funny looking." Harry said stroking Baloo.
"Yeah. Bill told me that if you kiss one it will turn into a prince" Ron said. Harry looked at him.
"Really?" He asked. Ron shrugged.
"We could find out." Ron suggested.
"Ok." Harry said. They turned to look at the door. Emma and Ginny were walking out of the house looking for Baloo.
"Your brother throw Baloo out of window." Emma said, she sounded rather distressed.
"Fred is stupid." Ginny said, "And George" Harry and Ron turned to each other with a grin on both boys faces.
"Emma or Ginny?" Harry asked.
"Baloo!" Emma shouted as she ran over to where Ron and Harry were sitting. Harry turned and Emma snatched Baloo from Harry and cuddled him. Baloo gave a soft mew. Ginny joined them.
"What you doing?" Ginny asked.
"We want to know if gnomes can turn into princes." Ron said.
"They can't" Ginny said.
"They can if you kiss them," Harry said. "My dad told me" Emma frowned at him and sat down next to Harry.
"No they can't" Ginny said, "Princes live in big castles"
"There was a prince who was a frog." Ron said.
"So." Ginny said. She didn't want to let Ron trick her into anything but she was intrigued.
"If you kiss a gnome it will turn into a prince." Ron said.
"You kiss gnome." Emma said.
"Only girls can kiss gnomes." Harry said to Emma. Emma stuck her tongue out in disgust.
"Kissing is ew!" Emma said. "Mummy and daddy kiss all time. It is ew!" She said. Harry nodded his agreement.
"Ginny, kiss the gnome, see if it turns into a prince?" Ron said. Ginny looked at him skeptically before turning to the garden.
"Can't catch gnomes." Ginny said.
"Ron and I will catch it for you" Harry said. Ron and Harry rushed to their feet and walked out into the tall grass. They looked around for a gnome.
"There!" Ron said pointing at a small clump of grass with a bald head just visible. Harry and Ron ran at it and both dived for it at the same time. They both landed on the gnome and struggled with it, trying to keep it still. It fought back and bit Harry's hand.
"AH!" Harry shouted, he got up and waved his hand in the air. Emma giggled and then laughed as she watched. Ginny was laughing slightly as well. Ron grabbed one of the gnome's legs. Harry dived and got the other leg while the gnome waved it wildly in the air. Eventually Harry got a firm grip of it and stood up. The gnome hung upside down between Harry and Ron. They marched back to Ginny with it looking very pleased with themselves and very dirty. They had dirt all over their clothes and faces. Ginny went slightly pale as the held the gnome out for her to kiss. Emma stuck her tongue out in disgust again. Harry and Ron were grinning. Ginny screwed up her face and moved closer to the gnome.
"Ew." Emma said as Ginny gave the gnome a very quick kiss. The gnome had stopped struggling and was making weird purring noises. Baloo's fur stuck up slightly and he hissed at the gnome. Ginny pulled away and spat a bit to try and get the gnome germs off her tongue. When nothing happened she turned top Harry and Ron. They started laughing so much they let go of the gnome. They rolled on the floor while the gnome got to it's feet and looked at Ginny. Ginny looked at the gnome uncertainly. It took a step towards Ginny and she let out an ear-piercing scream. Ron, Harry and Emma all clamped their hands over their ears. Ginny ran away from the gnome and the gnome watched at her leaving looking rather upset before trudging into the garden. Harry and Ron soon resumed their laughing and Emma pulled Baloo closer to her.
Ginny sat downstairs, stroking the now back to normal cat. Emma's mum had been so nice and just changed him back with a flick of the wand. Emma was fuming. It was quite scary actually. Baloo wrapped his tail around Ginny's wrist for a moment before looking at the door. He jumped off Ginny and ran across the floor before leaping up into Emma's arms. Emma looked up as Fred and George walked into the room. Baloo hissed at them but Fred and George took no notice.
"Ginny are you feeling thirsty?" Fred asked his younger sister.
"No." Ginny said, looking at them suspiciously.
"Oh, come on, we made a drink, just for you!" George said giving her a bottle of clear liquid. Ginny looked at them. "It's just water, honest." Ginny, still being naïve took the bottle.
"Don't drink." Emma said, knowing what was most likely to be in the bottle. Too late. Ginny drank what was in the bottle. Fred and George both grinned. There was a small pop and not only had Ginny shrunken to about six inches tall, but she was also blue! Bright blue! Emma looked at Ginny then at Fred and George, who were howling with laughter and rolling on the floor. Ginny looked up at her now giant brothers.
"Turn me back!" She squeaked. This caused Fred and George to start laughing even harder.
"What's going on?" Molly said coming into the room. She saw an angry but extremely tiny Ginny sitting on the sofa. "FRED! GEORGE!" She bellowed. Fred and George stopped laughing immediately and ran from the room. Molly's shout caused Harry and Ron to walk into the room curiously.
"Oh, what happened to Ginny?" Ron asked as he picked his sister up by the back of her shirt. He chuckled and turned to Harry. Ginny was waving her arms around wildly.
"Lily, would you mind helping me quickly." Molly said to the door. Lily came in a moment later, tucking some hair behind her ear.
"Oh, what happened?" Lily asked, picking Ginny up. Ginny looked at Lily like she was going to cry. Lily sighed. "Where are your sons? I need to find out what they did to Ginny" Lily said.
"Gave Gin drink." Emma said, hugging her kitten tightly. Baloo gave a soft mew and Lily sighed.
"Come on Ginny, lets take you into the kitchen" Lily sighed. She gave Molly a fairly long look. Molly shook her head and the women went into the kitchen so that Lily could prepare a potion to get Ginny back to normal
A/N:-This update was specially for Kaylee who is going away for a while. What am i going to do without you to send all my writing to and to bug u with who i think you should get together and what i think you should do to your characters?? WHY!!!???
Ok, so no Sirius bashing for a while now. Everyone seemed a bit wierd about the whole sirius thing, so i chose another character, lol. Someone asked me for some more Fred and George as kids scenes and it seemed natural to me that they'd use the most gulliable simbling for their pranks...therefore they use Ginny (Who is 4 right now) Then KAylee said that they should throw Baloo out of the window....so they did...
Anyway, Jessie, Bo and Emma will be later in the story, like HArry's 7th year!! Anyway, next story line will revolve around Rhia....hears Rhiannon cheering in the background....It should be REALLY fun to write, coz Rhia is a wierd ass girl!