AN: Ok, I know this has a weird chapter title but I am weird :p It really does involve all of those.
Chapter 4 – Deaths, Party and Attacks
"These mysterious attacks are the biggest mystery English Police have faced in a long while and while Special Investigates claim they have the situation under control, it seems that they as much in the blue to the reason behind why these random attacks are being carried out all over the country. Are these attacks related? If so, why are people going insane, why are people disappearing and more importantly, why are people dieing? This reporter is determined to find out."
"Thank you for that interesting report-" Vernon Dursley turned the TV off after that.
"Ruddy investigators, don't have a clue what they're doing." He muttered.
"No, they don't." Harry added under his breath.
"What was that?" Vernon asked menacingly.
"Nothing Uncle Vernon." Harry replied in the monotone voice that h always used with Vernon.
"Good." Vernon stated. Harry rolled his eyes and quickly finished his breakfast so he could get ready for the day he would spend at the White's house.
The White's were holding a family summer party and had invited Harry along also, he was going to politely decline at first, but who could resist an eleven year olds adorable cinnamon brown puppy-dog eyes? Come to think of it though, he was glad that he had agreed to go, it should be fun.
"I'm heading for the White's house now, don't expect me back until late." Harry stated as he deposited his plate and cutlery in the sink before he headed out.
Harry walked slowly round to the White's nice little house, the party wasn't to start until two that afternoon, but Harry had offered to go early and look after the girls and help them prepare everything for the party.
Harry walked up to the white house and knocked on the door tentatively and waited for Adam, who was walking towards the door with a bounce in his step.
"Morning Harry." The man greeted happily with a large grin.
"Morning Adam." Harry replied cheerfully, "What can I do then?" He asked as he was led through the house and into the massive garden. The first thing Harry noticed was the inflating bugs-life bouncy castle and the large paddling pool that was being filled slowly, it had about three hoses inside of it. The brick barbecue in the corner had bags of coal surrounding it and chairs were placed strategically around the large space along with a few picnic tables.
"How about you just stop the girls going on the bouncy castle until it's fully blown up?" Kayla asked Harry, who was watching Dawn try to jump on the half blown up bouncy castle, and they all laughed slightly when she realised that she was stuck.
"Where's Sara?" Harry asked as he picked Dawn up from her rubber prison.
"She's hiding her things." Karla told him nonchalantly, Harry looked confused.
"Why would she be hiding her things?" He asked incredulously.
"Because my cousins are idiots." Sara said from her position by the door.
"Sara." Karla reprimanded, though you could tell she really didn't care about what Sara had said, "Don't speak about them like that."
"But they are!" Sara exclaimed, "Jimmy broke my jewellery box last year, Sam snapped my special pencil that Nanny got me the year before that, Beth-"
"I get it!" Karla stated, "I'll tell them to leave your things alone."
"Oh and like they'd listen." Sara muttered, "Ooh! Half full bouncy castle!" She exclaimed and took off at a run for it. The small girl jumped and threw herself into the middle part of it, where she just sunk.
"Sara! I've already told Dawn she's not meant to go on there! And what do you go and do?" Karla shouted, Harry sniggered and Dawn covered her ears cutely for some unknown reason (which was probably because of her mothers shouting).
"But Mum! It's so fun! I'm just sinking!" Sara exclaimed happily, Karla looked persistently annoyed now.
"Karla, just leave her, as long as she stays out of the way she's fine." Adam said, ready to calm down his hotheaded wife.
"But-"
"Just leave her." Adam said, gently pulling on Karla's elbow to take her inside. "Feel free to join Sara." He added quietly to Harry with a grin, Harry laughed and looked at Dawn who was sitting comfortably on his hip.
"Wanna join your sister?" He asked, Dawn nodded excitedly. "Ok then." Harry added, he then ran for the bouncy castle and threw himself onto it with Dawn, who screamed happily. They bounced slightly as the bouncy castle filled with air.
"Hi Harry!" Sara exclaimed, she got up and started bouncing around, making Harry and Dawn bounce also.
"Hey Sara." Harry said with an impish grin, he tried to get up but Sara bounced extra hard and he fell back down and dropped Dawn onto her bum, the infant giggled and tried to stand also, but found herself falling as she tried it.
Harry eventually got up and started bouncing, making Dawn go higher and higher each time either him or Sara jumped.
"Harry, could you come and help me move this table? Karla can't lift it." Adam called from the house.
"Sure, be right there." Harry called back, Sara bounced onto her bum and collapsed onto the rubber castle, "Be right back." Harry said, Sara waved her arm to acknowledge he said something whilst Harry clambered off of the bouncy castle and then walked back to the house.
He went into the dining room and saw Adam and Karla attempting to move the dining table to the side of the room. Harry went over and helped push it against the far wall.
"Thanks." Adam said with grin.
"No problem." Harry replied. "Need any help getting food onto the table?"
"Sure, I wouldn't mind that." Karla said with a smile as she led Harry into the kitchen where there were plates and bowls filled with food and covered with plastic sheets. "Just take it out onto the table, biggest plates at the back with the bowls and the smaller plates go at the front.
They spent the next half an hour getting the food ready before the first of the guests arrived. Adam went to open the door and Harry sat on the bouncy castle with the girls, telling them some stories of his previous years at Hogwarts.
Sara looked over Harry's shoulder and jumped up.
"Auntie Jane!" She exclaimed, jumping off of the bouncy castle and then she ran over and hugged the tall, beautiful woman with ginger curls. Even more stunning was the young woman standing next to her, she wore a pair of jeans with a long black skirt over the top of it and she wore a pretty blue top that matched her sky blue eyes, she had dark blonde curls that cascaded down her perfectly straight back.
Harry got up and went over to them.
"Hi, I'm Harry." He greeted, he felt mesmerized by the girls eyes as he held out his hand to her. She smiled and shook his hand gently.
"Charlene." She replied. "You wouldn't be some brother of Sara's that went missing or something would you?" She asked with amusement as she looked at the similarities between her cousin and Harry.
"Not that I know of, though she might as well be my sister." Harry stated with a grin, he dropped Charlene's perfectly manicured hand and let his own fall to his side.
"Harry, you didn't tell me what happened to Hermione!" Sara complained, Harry turned to her with a grin.
"Hermione was fine after she woke up." Harry stated.
"Well how did she wake up then smartass?" Sara asked incredulously.
"Sara!" Karla reprimanded.
"She was fed the stew of mandrake whilst she lay in her petrified state." Harry said in a put on voice.
"Mandrake?" Sara asked incredulously.
"Yeah, they're these plants, but the roots look like really ugly babies and as they grow older, their cry can kill you." Harry said menacingly, Sara giggled.
"You cannot tell spooky stories." She stated, Harry pouted.
"I thought I could." He stated indignantly, causing the little raven-haired girl to giggle even more and Charlene also giggled a bit. A warm feeling spread over Harry at the sound of Charlene's melody-like giggles. 'No! Don't think like that!' Harry told himself, 'She's just a girl, just a beautiful, body of a supermodel sexy and gor-'
"Are you alright Harry?" Charlene asked curiously, Harry nodded slightly, knowing his voice would go a bit funny if he tried to speak.
The next few hours were torture for Harry, who found that he was spending all of his time with Charlene and was trying to keep the blood from rushing to the wrong part of his body, not meaning his brain.
He had discovered in his short amount of time with her that she was a teen model, was just sixteen and had a love for animals, especially wolves.
The pair went inside at around three to grab a bite to eat. Harry was introduced to even more family and was offered a beer from an old woman with yellowing teeth and a cigarette hanging out of her mouth, he politely declined and got a range of food from the table before retreating to the small, out of the way corner bench that he and Charlene had resided too. Charlene already had her plate sitting on her lap and flashed him a one in a million smile as he sat back down.
"So, I heard you go to the boarding school that Sara will be going to this year, is it any good?" She asked, Harry nodded and sucked the chicken sauce from his fingers before answering.
"It's great, I love it there and I'm sure that Sara will too." He replied.
"Cool, I normally get private tutoring because I'd I miss a lot of time of the school year because of my modelling." Charlene explained.
"Is it fun modelling?" Harry asked, Charlene tilted her head in thought.
"Sometimes, I went on a tour with a woman last year, just a small one of England, but it was hard as we had to be up early to travel and I had to share rooms with three or four other models, they were adults though and it was a nightmare, the amount of lipstick and makeup scattered around." Charlene rolled her eyes and Harry chuckled slightly, "It was fun but very exhausting."
"Hmm, I think modelling would be bad for me then." Harry said in a joking way.
"Harreee!" Dawn screamed, the tiny girl came running around the corner. "Come play on the cast-el!" Harry laughed.
"I'm eating Dawn!" He exclaimed.
"Come play on the cast-el!" She demanded, which made Harry laugh even more.
"Okay okay! I'm coming." He replied, Harry put his half finished lunch down and picked up Dawn, he then ran over to the castle with her and jumped on again.
"Hiya Harry!" Sara exclaimed happily as she bounced over to him and her sister, "Come to join us?"
"Yep." Harry replied with smirk as he stood and jumped so hard that Sara fell over.
"Hey!" The girl exclaimed.
"What?" Harry asked innocently, hearing laughter behind him, he turned and saw Charlene cautiously climb onto the bouncy castle.
"Don't knock me over… please." She begged, Harry shook his head with a laugh.
"Sure, I won't." He replied, "On purpose." Charlene shot him an evil look as he laughed again. One of the little boys jumped onto the bouncy castle soaking wet, having just jumped on after being in the paddling pool.
"Ben!" A woman who Harry presumed to be his mother shouted at him, "Get off of there this instant!" The little boy reluctantly climbed back down and accepted the towel from his mother so that he could get dry first. The other kids pointed and laughed at him, 'Ben's' only response was to stick his tongue out in return.
"Hey, you reckon we could get some adults on here?" Charlene whispered to Harry, who had fallen into the corner and stayed there.
"No, they wouldn't come on." Harry replied, glancing at the numerous adults who were sitting around the garden.
"Hey kids, go get Auntie Kate so she can come on here!" Charlene called, the kids all screamed and ran for the house to get the victim. "Kate comes on the bouncy castle every year, she normally gets some of the other adults on too." Charlene explained. A happy looking rounded woman with long black hair came over and carefully stumbled onto the bouncy castle, two wide men who looked like they wanted a laugh came on also, all three were grinning like maniacs.
"Lets all jump!" The woman who Harry guessed was Kate exclaimed, the ten or so kids and three large adults jumped on the castle, causing both Harry and Charlene to stumble as they tried to stand up. Leaning on the wall, Harry managed to stand and started bouncing around also.
A bit later on, the two men and Kate collapsed into one corner of the bouncy castle, which made the corner go down quite a bit so that the other end was in the air. The kids screamed with delight and all charged for the corner. Harry and Charlene were the only two not sitting in the corner.
"C'mon C! Get down here!" Kate called, Charlene giggled and pulled Harry over; they sat down and let the kids jump on them also. The castle started tipping slightly and the three adults thought it was a good idea to lean backwards, so soon enough, the bouncy castle was on its side and all of the kids were laughing. Harry laughed also and saw a flash of a camera go off in front of the bouncy castle.
"How are we meant to get up?" Charlene asked.
"Get the kids off first." The largest of the men instructed with a chuckle.
They soon had all of the kids on the grass with the other adult's help, now it was just the three adults, Harry and Charlene stuck on the sideways bouncy castle.
"How about Harry and Charlene try to get off first?" Karla asked with a slight giggle as she took another photo. Harry rolled over and tried to get off of the castle, but it seemed to have other ideas as he fell straight back down whilst laughing his head off. Charlene carefully climbed out somehow and held her hand to Harry, who took it in a firm grip and helped get himself out.
As the rest of the party were thinking of ways to get the three adults from the fallen bouncy castle, Harry and Charlene went back behind the corner, still laughing.
"Thanks." Harry said with a grin, Charlene smiled back and giggled again.
"It was no problem." She replied softly. They stared into each other's eyes and it was then that Harry realised how close they were standing. He blushed slightly and broke eye contact as he went to move back, but Charlene seemed to have other ideas and grabbed his arm lightly at the wrist, he looked back into her soft, sky blue depths and leant down slowly. She closed her eyes as they leaned closer and Harry closed his also as he closed the gap between their mouths.
The kiss was soft and sweet, Charlene wrapped her arms around Harry's neck and played with the hair at the back of his neck, Harry's arms snaked around her waist as he ran his hands over her lower back and bum.
They came out of the kiss moments later, both of their cheeks tinged red for lack of air and both of them smiling.
"I liked that." Charlene said softly, Harry pecked her on the lips again.
"Yeah, me too." He replied quietly. Charlene reached up and traced his scar with her finger softly, she looked a little confused. "What is it?" Harry asked concernedly, Charlene took her arm down and looked into his eyes.
"You remind me of somebody, it's like I've met you before, but don't know who you are, if you get me." Charlene explained softly.
"Yeah, I get you." Harry replied, they separated and sat down on the bench.
They sat in silence for a while.
"I'm going to boarding school this year." Charlene stated.
"Really?" Harry asked, Charlene nodded.
"I was invited to an exclusive one when I was eleven, but my Mum said that I shouldn't go because of the child modelling thing and now I've decided that I want to get qualifications." She explained.
"Well it's a good idea to get them." Harry stated.
"I know, but it's going to be weird going to boarding school." Charlene said with a small smile, "I'm used to travelling around."
"Oh well, you'll get used to it." Harry said, "The shared shower room and everything else that comes with four dorm-mates."
"You have four?" Charlene asked, Harry nodded. "And you sleep there every night?" Harry nodded again, "What if one of them snores?" She asked incredulously, this made Harry laugh again.
"One of them does, but it's nothing, my uncle snored so loud that I hear it from my room at the house I stay in over summer." Harry said with a grin, "I swear that I can still hear him whilst I'm lying in my warm bed in Scotland." He added, which made them both laugh.
"Why do you live with your uncle?" Charlene asked carefully, not sure if it was a sensitive subject. Harry looked down.
"My parents died." He said quietly.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Charlene apologised.
"Don't be, they died when I was about one, I hardly remember them." Harry replied. "Anyway, are you naturally blond? Because you're smarter then how blonds are stereotyped." Charlene shook her head with an amused smile.
"No, I've got auburn hair normally, I just dye it all the time." She told him with a grin.
"Oh." Harry muttered.
"Speaking of hair, yours looks cool." Charlene stated, looking up at Harry's spikes. "Looks wicked actually." Harry grinned.
"Thanks." He replied, "I like yours too."
They sat talking for ages about anything and everything. They were both having the times of their lives just sitting there talking to one another.
"Charlene?" Someone called; Charlene's mother came around the corner.
"Yeah Mum?" Charlene asked.
"We have to head home now." Her mum told Charlene.
"What? Why?" Charlene asked a little downheartedly.
"Because we live on the other side of London and have to be back before ten so that we don't miss that important phone call." Her mum said to her, "Say your goodbyes and meet me in the car." The woman said with a nod at Harry before she left. The two teens stood.
"Here," Charlene took out a pen from her pocket and scribbled a number on his hand. "Call me, that's my mobile, and that's my home phone number." She said with a smile, "Maybe we could meet up a Christmas if you're coming back home."
"Yeah, maybe." Harry replied. "I'll be seeing you then." He said quietly, Charlene looked down to the floor.
"Yeah… then I had better go." She muttered before turning to leave.
"Charlene, wait." Harry said immediately and got a grip on her arm, Charlene turned around and was surprised when her lips met his in a passionate kiss. Harry wrapped his arms around her waist as Charlene once again placed her arms delicately around his neck again. Charlene opened her mouth slightly and let Harry slip his tongue into her mouth, leaving him to explore.
They came out moments later with flushed looks, Harry leant his forehead down so that it was touching Charlene's forehead.
"That wasn't a goodbye kiss, it was an I'll-see-you-soon one." Harry said with an impish grin, Charlene smiled shyly and looked down before pecking him on the lips and removing her arms from him.
"I'll see you soon then." She said softly, "Call me."
Harry let her go and held up his hand that had the numbers on. "I will." He replied as he watched her walk away.
The party went a little too slow for Harry's liking after that and he left at eleven, hitching a ride with Adam as he was driving his big brother and wife with their kids.
When Harry finally got up to his room, he noticed that he had an owl, Pigwidgeon to be exact. Harry hesitantly opened the letter as he fell down onto his bed to read it.
Hey Harry,
How are you? This was written in Hermione's neat calligraphy.
Never mind that! The Cannons are in the lead in the league! This is so wicked! Harry laughed as he read Ron's untidy scrawl. So mate, how are you doing? Hermione doesn't know how to just ease into the topic of conversation.
Oh gee, thanks Ron. Harry, we wondered if you wanted to be picked up to be taken to the station? If you do, just reply to this owl, if not, then please just reply anyway! If you don't, then we understand and will see you at the station on the first.
With love, Hermione and Ron
P.S. Ron likes to comment that he doesn't send this with love as it sounds 'Gay'. Daft twit. Love HERMIONE, then.
Harry laughed at his best friends attitude, even from the letter he could tell that they'd make a good couple. It was funny that they hadn't realised this themselves yet, even after five whole years.
Harry thought of writing back to them, but found himself too tired, so he changed into a pair of boxers and climbed into bed, the letter falling to the floor forgotten as Pig flew off into the night.
Harry looked around, 'This is the ministry' He thought to himself, his scar was prickling slightly, he looked around at the amounts of aurors stationed at every corner, then Harry noticed some Order members scattered about, Tonks was in her auror gear, talking happily to Charlie Weasley and Kingsley Shaklebolt was whistling to himself. Harry approached Charlie and Tonks.
"Hey Charlie, Tonks, how did I get here?" Harry asked, the two continued talking as though they hadn't heard anything.
"So after this you better be taking me out somewhere nice, I'm dead bored!" Tonks exclaimed, Charlie chuckled.
"Yeah, well maybe next time you shouldn't cancel out our date, I had a great place in mind." Charlie replied, Harry looked shocked. Tonks and Charlie? Since when?
"Well I'm sorry." Tonks replied with a pout. "But it's not my fault I got called in for duty."
"Yeah, well-" Charlie's sentence was cut short by an alarm that shrieked through the building, Tonks and the other aurors looked panicked. "What's that?" Charlie shouted over the noise, clamping his hands tightly over his ears.
"Death Eaters!" Tonks exclaimed, Harry stood completely still, that was until his scar exploded with pain.
"Tonks!" Harry shouted, "Voldemort! He's here!" As Harry said that, lots men and women in black robes charged in, leaving the aurors outnumbered at least five to one. Harry noted that more ministry members were flooding into the room also fro different areas of the building.
Behind the Death Eaters, Voldemort came waltzing in. Curses flew and he stood there laughing. Harry glared heatedly at the snake-man, wishing that he would just shrivel and melt.
"Look Potter! Look at this mayhem!" Voldemort exclaimed, he sounded delighted, which made Harry feel sick to his stomach. He watched in horror as aurors were murdered, Tonks and Charlie were working together against at least eight Death Eaters.
"Tonks! Behind you!" Harry screamed, he watched as Tonks turned and was hit with a blood red ray, she went flying back into the wall behind her with a scream.
"Tonks!" Harry heard Charlie's pained shout as he left the dream abruptly.
Tonks was talking to Charlie about there so many failed dates. They had been out, but since Voldemort's public return, it had been hard to catch a day when neither of them were busy and when they could find an excuse to be out of the house, as nobody knew of their 'budding' relationship as of yet.
"So after this you better be taking me out somewhere, I'm dead bored!" Tonks exclaimed, Charlie chuckled at her 'Ooh, he's got such a sexy laugh.' She thought.
"Yeah, well maybe next time you shouldn't cancel out our date, I had a great place in mind." Charlie replied.
"Well I'm sorry." Tonks replied with a pout. "But it's not my fault I got called in for duty." 'No, it was damn Fudge's, I swear he hates me.' She added to herself.
"Yeah, well-" Charlie's sentence was cut short by an alarm that shrieked through the building. 'Oh crud!' Tonks thought to herself in panic as she looked around wildly. "What's that?" Charlie shouted over the noise.
"Death Eaters!" Tonks exclaimed, to be completely honest, she didn't think that she was ready for another battle; she had barely just gotten over the last one.
"Voldemort! He's here!" Tonks shook her head; she could've sworn that sounded like Harry, though she didn't have time to worry about that now, the numerous Death Eaters were swarming into the place as more ministry members and aurors charged into the room, wands up and ready to fight for their ministry… and their lives. It may have been late, but lots of ministry workers worked late and preferred to stay so that they could protect the place (or to call in backups). At the moment, each of them was outnumbered by at least five to one still.
Tonks immediately got into the fray, fighting with Charlie at her side.
"Look Potter! Look at this mayhem!" Voldemort exclaimed, he sounded so ecstatic and it made Tonks feel really angry, he had killed her Dad; she would make him pay if she could get rid of these Death Eaters to start with.
She saw one of her fellow aurors hit the ground with a lifeless look of torture on their face and her vision blurred terribly, but she carried on fighting.
"Tonks! Behind you!" It was the voice again, Tonks spun around and her eyes widened as she saw the blood red bolt whizzing towards her, then she saw the person under the hood, grinning maliciously, her aunt, Bellatrix Lestrange. The red beam hit her and send her flying, on impact it broke several of her ribs, then she hit the wall and hit her head, blacking out from the hit.
Harry shot up in his bed and looked around, he remembered that he was wearing his contacts after he had fumbled around trying to find his glasses then realised his vision was clear.
Harry bolted to his desk on the opposite side of the room and grabbed the only quill and parchment he could find, a piece of his potions work… actually, most of it.
Professor, there's an attack at the ministry and Tonks is hurt. Get there soon, H.P
Harry summoned his owl to him.
"Get to Dumbledore quickly girl." He ordered, the owl chirped and flew off quickly.
Hedwig landed on the kitchen table of Grimmauld Place, where most of the Order and Weasley's were sitting, waiting for the news of who on their side had been injured. Hermione shrieked in shock as the owl flew over her but quickly calmed and untied the note. Frowning as it was done on his summer work, Hermione read Harry's note to everybody.
"'Professor, there's an attack at the ministry and Tonks is hurt. Get there soon, H.P' How did he know about Tonks?" Hermione queried, "And couldn't he have at least written it on something besides his potions essay?"
"His potions essay?" Ron asked with a devious smile, Hermione scowled at him.
"You aren't taking potions next year you bluming dolt." She stated, Ron's grin grew even wider.
"Ha! Finally! I could give it up!" He exclaimed, Snape glared at Ron but said nothing and Hermione rolled her eyes.
"You are an idiot." She said pompously.
"Just because your taking NEWT level potions." Ron grumbled.
"You're the one who wanted to become an auror!" Hermione exclaimed.
"Lets just go back to our original topic?" Bill asked to break up the impending fight, "How did Harry know that Tonks was hurt?"
"Because he saw it through Voldemort." Came a wise voice behind them, they turned to see Dumbledore standing in the doorway with Kingsley and Charlie, who both looked worse for wear.
"Charlie? What happened to you?" Molly asked, concerned as to why her son was wearing new trousers that actually looked new that morning and not the trousers he wore now that had rips and cuts.
"I was at the Ministry." Charlie stated.
"The Ministry?" Emmeline Vance enquired, "How did you get in? We found that we couldn't."
"He didn't get in that way, he was already inside of the building." Kingsley stated with an annoyed glance at Charlie.
"Why?" Ginny asked curiously.
"I was getting some paper work done." Charlie stated with a small blush, Kingsley rolled his eyes and Dumbledore smiled knowingly.
"Paper work?" Fred asked with a smirk.
"Or a fit girl was working so you bugged her?" George finished.
"More likely the second one with Charlie." Bill stated with a grin as the Weasley brother's and sister all looked to Charlie for confirmation.
"Hmm, I'd say the second one."
"Ginny." Charlie said warningly, Ginny smiled brightly at him.
"But then, who could've been on watch this evening?" She asked with a false look of thought.
"Don't you bloody dare Ginny." Charlie demanded.
"What do I get?" Ginny asked, Charlie looked exasperated.
"I just got that damn book you wanted!" He exclaimed.
"Charlie and-" Ginny's childish rhyme was cut short.
"What do you want?" He second eldest brother asked with a sigh, causing the youngest Weasley sibling to grin happily.
"Well, you'll just have to see about that." She stated.
"Does Ginny know who your flirting with?" Hermione asked curiously.
"Yep, but I won't tell unless he doesn't do what I want." Ginny said with an impish grin which made all of the others laugh (maybe except for Snape and some of the meaner members of the Order).
"So what about Tonks?" Hermione asked sombrely after they had calmed down.
"She's alright now, resting at Mungo's for observation." Charlie told them all.
"How long for?" Ginny asked worriedly, now more concerned for her friend who was like an elder sister to her.
"A few weeks, she was hurt pretty badly and has lost a lot of blood, she was hit by this weird curse that nobody knows of, so they're going to research it a little." Charlie explained.
"Oh, poor Tonks." Hermione muttered. "We had better write Harry back then." She added and the teens left the room as a brief Order meeting was called.