Chapter 10:
Summary: Hermione faints, Lupin appears out out of nowhere after Lucius' death, more of the revealing conversation, and Mrs. Weasley gets moody over her pasties.
...and the woman's sudden scream carried on through the fourth floor...
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Lucius!!!! Come back!!!!"
"Mum, he's dead! Quit screaming! You act like you've never seen anybody else die before! He was just-"
SMACK!
The group outside the room all winced as a piercing slapping sound came from the room.
"Don't you dare...he wasn't just...he...he..."
SMACK!
"Stop smacking me you crazy woman! If you raise your hand up one more time I will..."
SMACK!
"Let me go!!! He is my son! I can hit him if I want! He is my property now!!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"
Hermione, who was the closest to the door, had to move away from it for three hospital guards came out of the room, holding down the woman who was walking with Draco before. her blonde hair was coming out of the hurried ponytail she had put on earlier, her face was red from crying and screaming so much, and her voice was hoarse from yelling at Draco. A nurse in white was walking towards her with the most enormous needle Harry had ever seen.
"No! No! Not the needle! Anything but the needle!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!"
Her voice faded as the nurse injected the huge needle point into the woman's forearm. Instantly, the woman dosed off in the guards arms. They took her towards a vacant bed in another room and layed her down gently.
"Do you want to be with your mother Mr. Malfoy?" Harry heard a doctor ask Draco.
"I don't want to be around her when we're at home. What makes you think I want to be around her in this place?" Draco ask, and without waiting for an answer, he turned around and walked out of the room where his father just died in.
When he walked out, he walked right into Hermione, who was stuck where she was.
"Watch where the hell your going you ugly, filfthy mudblood," he muttered while glaring at Hermione.
"Wha...I...sorry..." Hermione didn't know what to say. She didn't know whether to feel sorry for Draco, or to feel insulted about what he just called her.
"You better watch your mouth Mafloy, or there might be a replay of what happened in third year, right Hermione?" Ron, on the other hand, wasn't having any of this feeling sorry for Malfoy crap. His father just died too, and he's not going around cursing at his mother, or insulting other people. Hermione just stood silent.
"What is it Granger? Cat got your tongue? What is it? Everytime I say 'Mudblood' you stop talking? No, it can't be. Because if it were, you would have gone mute ages ago." Draco just smiled and kept on insulting Hermione with a faint smile.
"Malfoy, I'm warning you. Hermione is about to burst if you keep on calling her...THAT!" Ron kept trying to get Hermione fired up, but for some reason, Hermione didn't want to hurt Draco.
"Mudblood...mudlood...filfthy...little...mudblood...."
"SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!" Hermione shouted with tears in her eyes. She glared at Draco, and for a second, her hand shot up, ready to strike, but a second later it fell limp by her side.
"Stop it already...I...I'm tired...so...tired of you...and this...and you..." She turned to Ron. "Just stop it..." And with that, she fell to the ground, eyes closed and breathing heavily.
Draco laughed and said," Jeez, she's a realiable one, isn't she? Yeah right." He looked at Harry straight in the eyes for a minute, then walked away.
Ron ran towards Hermione and picked her up.
"We have to get her to a bed. Now." He sounded very scared.
"Maybe you should ask-WHOA!" Ginny gasped as the figure of Remus Lupin materialized in front of Ron. He had obviously apparated there.
"What happened?" He asked, looking at Hermione.
"One word. Malfoy." Ron answered. He was holding Hermione's hand without even knowing it. But everyone else did.
"Give me her. I will take her to a bed. When I come back, I want to know exactly what happened." He took Hermione and walked with her to the nearest room. He went in and in about a minute, he walked out and closed the door.
"I told the nurse to not disturb her or give her any medication. I also to told her to tell Hermione where she is when she wakes up. She might not remember. So, anyway...about Malfoy..?"
It passed about five minutes when Harry had told him all about what happened with Draco and his mother and father.
"So, Lucius Malfoy died?" Lupin asked.
"Yes." Harry answered.
"And...and Narcissa...I mean Draco's mother seemed very saddened about it?"
"It's more like...angry," Ginny answered.
"Angry...It's like her to get angry...she didn't want him to die-"
"I mean, I wouldn't want my husband to die either! Even if he was a selfish, soddy, icky git like Lucius was," Ginny said.
"Yes, but there had to be a reason why she wasn't sad."
"Shouldn't the statement be 'There had to be a reason that she was angry'?" Harry asked.
"No...I know why she was angry at Lucius dying. The only thing that's stumping me as the fact that she's not sad too. I mean, it's like what Ginny said. They have been married since they were 18. Right after they both graduated from Hogwarts, he asked her to marry him. Nobody knows why she said yes right away, but some people thought she was under the Imperius Curse or something like that. But eventually, the rumour died out as their first child was born."
"Draco," Charlie said.
"Yes..." Lupin paused and thought for a moment.
"But Lupin...didn't you say something about Sirius dating Draco's mum?" Harry asked.
"Yes...I...Hey! Do they..." Lupin looked at everyone else sitting in the waiting room.
"Yes...I told them everything." Harry answered.
"Okay...Yes they did go out. And...well...she had this thing for me, but don't get mad Harry, please! Let me explain first. I'll tell you guys first about what happened after...well...you know. After I went into my bed, I fell asleep thinking about what just happened. The next thing I knew, I was being shaken awake. When I opened my eyes, it was Sirius. As soon as I saw his face, I got up from my bed and walked over to James' bedside table, opened the last drawer and took out his invisibility cloak. We knew exactly where to go. We went to the roof of the Astronomy Tower, and as we thought, there he was, with a bottle of Herald's Best Firewhiskey in his hands, looking out into the sky. We both sat down next to him, and looked at him. That's when we noticed that he had tears in his eyes. Sirius asked him what was wrong and James just took another gulp of the firewhiskey. I told him about Lily being terrified, not knowing if he was alive or not. At that, James looked at me and said,'My father died.'
I didn't know what to say. I finally said that I was sorry. Then he said,' My mother killed herself because she couldn't bare to be without him.'" Lupin paused and looked over at Harry. His eyes were wide and filled with...sadness. He figures out his parents are dead when he was old enough to understand, and now he is told that his grandfather died, and his grandmother died while attepting suicide because of it. He felt...Harry didn't know how to feel. He didn't know if he should feel sad that they died, or relieved that it was just that and nothing worse. Like something including Voldemort. Lupin continued.
"That night, we pursuaded him to go to our dorm and go to sleep. He said he would go, but that he wouldn't go to sleep. That he couldn't go to sleep with all that was on his mind. We knew he was bluffing becuase a few minutes after he got into bed, he slept like a baby. I decided not to tell Sirius or James about what happened earlier that day. The next day, we noticed Lily wasn't in any of her classes. We asked all of her closest friends, including Narcissa Roberts."
"That was Malfoy's mother's name before she got married?"
"Yes. Anyway, it went on like that for about a month. By then, everyone took in notice of it. But James seemed kind of calm about it. He was saying that she was probably mad at him and didn't want to talk to anyone at all. But I knew it wasn't that at all. Later that day, Dumbledore had called Srius and I into his office. He told us everything about Lily's absence. He said that she felt no one loved her anymore and she left the castle to seek a place to live and another to love. But Dumbledore said that when he sent Fawkes to see how Lily was doing, Fawkes came back about a month later, looking hazradously hurt, and holding a note, bearing the words, 'She is in my hands now! She no longer needs you mudblood lovers and half-bloods! She is my property now! She is no longer yours!'. And the note was signed with the curvy, blood red signature of Lord Voldemort."
Lupin was inturrupted by 3 gasps from the three Weasley's. Harry expected something like this. Voldemort would make up a stupid note with so much drama it, just so that the hero could go up to him and kick his ass in the end anyway.
"So what happened next?" Ginny asked breathlessly.
"Then, Dumbledore asked us to do something so extravagant. He asked us to go over to Voldemort's hideout, which at the time was in a little town in Britain, and rescue Lily. We said yes right away because one, we'd do anything for Lily, and two, we thought it was cool at the time to rescue someone from the big bad Voldemort. So that day, Dumbledore let us skip our classes so we could get ready for that night. That night, we crept to Dumbledore's office with James' invisibility cloak. When we got there he told us that one of us has to stay outside of the house and watch guard, while the other goes in and...saves Lily. He made us a portkey and the last thing we heard him say before we left was, 'Don't die.' Next thing we knew, we were at am old, dirty alleyway with rows apon rows of busted down houses. We saw a light coming from the nearest house and we walked over to it. That's when I heard your mother screaming those same things you heard in your visions, Harry. Sirius decided to stay and guard the outside of the house in case other death eaters decide to be nosy and come in. And I was the one who went in and saved your mother."
"What was that curse you used on Voldemort? Vosecume...?"
"Olvarum. It was sort of a stunning curse. Like the stupefy curse. But it was very different from stupefy. This one was...more powerful. You know how stupefy lasts about a couple of minutes? Well this one used to last about 5 hours. And it reall used to knock you out, and when you woke up, your bones would feel as if you were a human punching bag the day before."
"Why are you saying 'was' instead of 'is'?" Ginny asked.
"It's simple really. It was outlawed about 5 years ago due to someone dying of it. Now, it's kind of like one of the Unforgivable curses...only, it's not as bad as the other three." Ron answered, which made everyone look at him as if he were crazy. They were all thinking, Ron? Giving a smart answer? That can't be right...What in the world???.
"What? Ok! Hermione got me to read Hogwarts a History and Curses Of Our Time, okay?" Ron flushed the color of his hair.
Everyone started laughing. Even Lupin. Harry felt glad to see Lupin smile again. His eyes were bright and alive again, like they were when Sirius was alive. Suddenly, Harry remembered the picture album that came with Sirius' will. Sirius' Will! In all this hassle of Mr. Weasley's death, and these vision's Harry's been having, Harry forgot to tell Lupin about Sirius' Will!
"Lupin...I-"
At that moment, a red-haired middle aged woman walked into the waiting room and walked over to Ron.
"Where in the world are my Pasties? Eh? I want my pasties now!" She looked like a lion who had just found prey, looked somewhere else for just a second, and when she looked back, it's food was gone.
"I...I don't have it...he-" Ron pointed at Charlie, but before she could start screaming at Charlie, he threw the bag of pumpkin pasties and her and she ripped it open. They all sat amazed as they watched Mrs. Wealsey eat a dozen Pumpkin Pasties in less than 2 minutes.
"Wow, mum! I didn't know you could eat that fast!" Ron exlaimated.
"It's very common for pregnant woman to eat fast, Ron. Don't you know that? Your soooo inexperienced about pregnant women!"
"Your...your pregnant Molly?" Lupin sounded...amazed.
"Well...yes...Yes I am!" Now Molly sounded a little proud to say that she still had enough in her to produce a baby.
"Well! I guess this is it for the hospital. They already questioned me about Arthur and We can all go back now. Besides, you all have to get up bright and early in the mornig tommorow because we have to go school shopping in Diagon Alley. So, let's go! Chop! Chop!" And she led all of them outside to a starry, moonless night.
A/N: Hey everyone! I'm back! Sorry it took so long to upload this chapter, but as I said before, I got a new laptop and it took me around 2 days to get aol back so it was tiring. And then I had to upload all of the chapters I have typed so far from my old pc to my new pc. SO I had to go buy like 3 floppy discs and do all of this saving and then uploading and it was hell! Lol! But now I have everything under control, and the next chapter will be up hopefully by tommorow or Sunday, cause I have plans this Saturday. Well, I hope you like this chapter. There is alot of monologue from Lupin I know, but he has to explain everything from when he was young, because he's the only one left who can tell them all this information. Well, there was alot to read in this chapter and hopefully that's how the future chapter's will be. More longer than the previous one. So, I hope you liked it, and if you didn R&R. And even if you didn't like it, remember what I said, flames are welcome. But don't be too harsh!!! Lol. Well, until next time! Ciao! Krystina
P.S. And I'm sorry if there are alot of words that are spelled incorrectly or that the grammar sucks, but i haven't downloaded Microsoft Word and that's the only way I can spell check and grammar check my chapters. So...bai!