Chapter twenty three – What is there to say?
Once Harry was sure that they had gone his first priority was to retrieve his children from the carriage that was engulfed in flames. They had only just cleared the village by the time the attack had happened so Harry was safe to use his wand. He quickly took it out and with a wave of it he extinguished the flames. Bonnie and the twins were all crying inside. Harry held them all in his arms as he cried with them.
The rain was still tipping down, Harry's mothering instincts told them that they had to get inside and quickly otherwise they were going to come down with something. He transfigured a stick into a double pram and then a stone into a baby carrier thingy that he placed on his back after putting water repelling charms on them all.
It wasn't a long way back to the village, Harry's mind was racing, Severus was gone, he was good knows how many miles from Hogwarts with three babies and no clue what to do next. He knew that Voldermort would know that he wasn't dead so he had very little time to get back to the castle safely.
There was a pub on the outskirts, Harry entered, he needed to get his children into the warmth and himself for threat matter. He walked up to the bar and asked for a room. "Hello, my name is Harry Potter, are there any rooms available?" He asked the barmen, he was fairly young and very cute with sandy blonde hair and deep blue eyes.
"I know you are, it would be an honour for you to stay here Mr Potter." He said in awe, the expression on his face one Harry had come accustomed to over the years.
"You're a wizard?" Harry asked astounded.
"This is a wizarding town, although many do not know about it."
"Right, well this is extremely important, deatheaters attacked me and kidnapped my husband, I need to get back to Hogwarts as quickly as I can, do you have any floo powder?"
"Attacked you say, yes we have floo powder, it's over there on the mantle but how do you propose to get all three of your little ones through?"
"I'll figure it out some how."
Harry crossed the room to the fire place and took a pinch of floo powder before sticking his head in to the emerald green fire. And then he was looking out of the headmasters fire where Minerva and a few other teachers were gathered. "HEY!" He shouted up at them all getting there attention. "Incoming with the children." He warned before withdrawing his head from the fire.
It wasn't long before Harry and his three children were in the headmasters office explaining what had happened, not to Dumbledore but to Minerva, in his hysterical panic Harry did not seem to notice that Albus was strangely absent from the goings on.
"Harry I think you need to calm down." Minerva said in what she hoped was a soothing manor. It didn't however seem to work.
"If any one tells me to calm down again they're going to have trouble removing my shoe from their anus, my husband has just been taken by my arch enemy."
"I'm afraid that that isn't all, I'm afraid I have some bad news." Harry's old transfiguration teacher said.
"Go on, I dare you to try and make this day any worse."
"Albus passed away half an hour after you left, I think that he knew it was coming, he always did know too much, he left you in charge of the order."
Harry stared at her dumbfounded, well she had certainly risen to the challenge of making his day worse. Harry felt as if he was going to throw up! His life had been doing so well and now everything seemed to be crashing down around him. The only man that could have possibly got his husband back was dead, he couldn't bare the thought of raising his three girls on his own.
"Harry you need to focus, Albus believed in you, he wouldn't have left you in charge of the order if he didn't, you know what to do in your heart, you just have to concentrate."
"But they've got Sev, he's hurt I can sense it…what am I doing to do?"
"Harry…why did they take Severus and kill you, why leave the children?"
"They didn't know they were there, they assumed it was just us."
"But think about it why not just kill you both, they know from countless occasions that you have more power over Voldermort, so why just take Severus, unless they want Bonnie."
"But they can't get to her because of her shield so they need someone that she trusts, like Severus, but he'd never intentionally hurt us so they would have to put him under a curse and they can be fought and usually Voldermort uses the Imperius and I can fight that, which is why he didn't chose me."
"There you go, now I suggest that you go back to your chambers and rest, I'm sure Remus will watch the…"
"No, I'll take care of my children, they are obviously special to a lot of people, I want to take care of them myself, especially after what happened tonight."
"Alright, but remember to put up all the shields and put a block on your fire, whatever is being planned is big and Voldermort has most likely figured out that your not dead, that link between you can be a bit of a pest sometimes."
"More than you'll ever know." Harry said rubbing his aching scar, never before had it hurt this badly. He looked over at his three daughters who were all asleep in one big crib that had been transfigured from a lemon drop. "How could any one want to hurt something so innocent."
"Some people are that evil." Minerva replied sadly placing what she hoped was a comforting hand on his shoulder. "Would you like some help moving them downstairs?"
"Please." Harry answered as he picked up both of the twins. "Minerva, if it isn't too much trouble do you think that I could sit in on Severus classes?"
"Of course, young Draco will be taking over I assume, I think he would be glad of the company and the added pair of eyes."
"Thank you."
Harry was trying not to think about anything, he just wanted to go to bed and pretend as though nothing had happened, that he was still living his life as normally as possible. He didn't want to think about how he was going to sleep without Severus lying there next to him.
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