Hey people. Thanks for the reviews and thank you ChoFrog09 for giving me that great idea with the Felix Felicis. I'll use it! And I thank many of you for showing me that I made the mistake of saying Harry did Occlumency when it should have been. They're all around the same thing and I got confused! lol
Chapter 11:
"Ginny!" Ron shouted when they were upstairs. "Ginny, where are you?"
"I'm in here you moron," Ginny said from her room
"Hey!" Ron cried as he entered it.
"What do you want?" Ginny demanded.
"What's with the bloody attitude?" Ron asked.
"Nothing," Ginny snapped.
"Oh, come on," Ron said. "I know you better than that. Tell me what's wrong."
"Well, now that the Death Eaters are around here," Ginny explained, "I wanted to make us lucky by giving us Felix Felicis. But I'm missing an ingredient."
"I could order the ingredient," Hermione offered.
"Good idea," Ginny said.
"Good idea with the Felix Felicis," Harry said. "I would have never thought of that."
"What's Felix Felicis?" Klaus asked. In all his years of reading, he had never come across anything called Felix Felicis.
"It makes you lucky," Hermione explained.
"Wow," Violet said. "I wish we had known about that a long time ago."
"Black cat," Sunny said which meant something like, "We've been unlucky for quite sometime."
"Well we've used it before," Harry said. "Trust me, even if you think you had it, it works."
"That's good to know," Klaus said.
"I'm going to use the fast owl delivery system so we can get the last ingredient faster," Ginny said and ran downstairs.
"No, wait!" Ron cried. "Ginny! I forgot to tell her not to go out looking for Death Eaters!"
"Like she would anyway," Hermione said. "She's not as thick as you Ron."
"Hey!" Ron shouted.
"Would you two stop arguing?" Harry said suddenly. Ron and Hermione nodded and apologized. "Alright, if the Death Eaters come here, we need a plan and an escape route for the Baudelaires."
"What?" Violet asked. "Why? We could help."
"Actually, not to be offensive or anything, but you can't," Hermione pointed out. "The Death Eaters are magic too, and if they come here, you have no way to protect yourself."
"Look Baudelaires," Harry said, "I know you've escaped Count Olaf. But this isn't the same. By the way, how did you three escape from Olaf all those times? The plots in your memories seemed complicated." The Baudelaires smiled and glanced at one another. They might not have magic. But they had their own talents that would ensure their safety when ever Count Olaf tried to capture them.
"I invent things," Violet said.
"I research things," Klaus stated.
"Bite and chef!" Sunny exclaimed which meant, "I can bite whatever needs it, and I can cook for everyone if they're hungry."
"You can cook?" Ron asked Sunny, astounded that a baby (not quite) could cook. Ron was used to Sunny's language now. Sunny nodded. "Wow! You should talk to my mum then. She loves to cook for people."
"Let's worry about that later," Harry said. "What we need to do is find out a way to use your talents to help out. But promise me you'll leave if things get out of hand."
"We promise," Violet said quietly. She didn't want to abandon her friends, especially if they were in danger. Nor did her siblings.
"Then let's get to work," Harry said. They all nodded and went downstairs to see what they could do. Violet looked around and then pulled her ribbon out of her pocket. She then tied up her hair. Klaus smiled and Harry frowned.
"She does that when she's thinking up an invention," Klaus explained. And indeed she was. Violet felt like it was so long since she had last done this. She walked over to the front door.
"It would be a great help if we could know when they're coming in," Violet said to herself while looking the door over. "And if we could stop them from coming in for a bit, that would also help. But how…" As Violet went deeper in thought, Klaus turned to Hermione.
"Hermione, let me see all of your books on magic," Klaus said. "I may be able to find something that we can use to stop a lot of the Death Eaters." Hermione nodded and brought him to her bookshelves (of course she has them).
"Cook!" Sunny shrieked which meant something along the lines of, "I'd be willing to cook up something for you all. We'll need nourishment."
"Good idea," Ron said, whose mouth was already watering about the thought of food. He showed her to the kitchen supplies. Harry turned his attention to Violet who was now looking at the things around her, muttering ideas to herself. Then suddenly she gasped.
"That's it," she whispered.
"What's it?" Harry asked. Violet jumped slightly, startled as she was awoken from her thoughts.
"I have an idea," she said. "We'll use a battering ram. Only, we'll hang it above the door. We'll use something to trigger it for when the door opens. When the door opens it will drop and hit the attackers. But I'll put some type of bell on the battering ram so when it falls, it will tell us they're there."
"It's a brilliant idea," Harry said. "But how are you going to pull it off?" Violet smiled.
"There's always something," she said. "Do you know a spell that can cut a tree into a log?" Before Harry could say no, Hermione appeared.
"I do!" she declared triumphantly.
"Of course you do, Hermione," Ron said from behind. Hermione shot him an angry glare, but then smiled at Violet.
"Could you use it on one of the trees outside?" Violet asked and Hermione nodded. "Find one just small enough to fit in the house, but make sure it's big enough to knock the wind out of people." Hermione nodded and went outside. As she went out, Violet remembered how Sunny was kidnapped. "Maybe you should go with her, Harry." Harry knew what she meant and nodded as he walked out after Hermione.
"Now what could hold it up?" Violet asked herself. She looked around the room, but Ron shook his head. "What?"
"I can guarantee you that Hermione knows some spell to enchant the log to do what you want it to do," Ron said. Violet nodded. It was so much easier to do things with magic around.
"Do you have any bells?" Violet asked.
"Sure do," Ron said. He went into another room and came back with a basket full of bells. Violet's eyes grew wide and she gave Ron a confused look. "My dad likes to see how these work." Violet grinned and nodded. Then she grabbed some bells that were all tied up on a string. When Harry and Hermione came back with a perfect sized log, Violet tied the string of bells around it. And sure enough, Hermione knew an enchantment to make the log work like it should, triggered to release when the door opens, unless told otherwise.
Then Klaus came back into the kitchen when Mrs. Weasley and Sunny cooked dinner. Mr. Weasley and all of the kids sat down at the table as they served it. "Did you find anything useful?" Hermione asked Klaus.
"Sure did," Klaus said. "In a spell book I saw a spell called Petrificus Totalus. It freezes the opponent."
"Sorry, Klaus, but we already know that one," Hermione said.
"Oh, well, I also found a potion that will knock out a whole bunch of those Death Eaters," Klaus said and pulled out a potions book. "Look at this. It's called Thud Somesy. All you have to do is pour it on the floor and whoever steps on it goes unconscious."
"You're absolutely right!" Hermione cried. "I can't believe I didn't think of that! I've read the entire book, but I must have forgotten all about that potion. It's quite simple to make."
"If you have the ingredients it should be a no-brainer," Klaus said with a nod.
"Dinner!" Sunny cried and everyone turned to see that all the meals were set on the table. Everyone ate.
"This is really good Sunny," Ron said through mouthfuls of food.
"So…" Harry said, "it looks like once we get those two potions, we'll be all set for when the Death Eaters come."
"Yep," Violet said. "When do you think they'll come?"
"I don't know," Harry admitted. "But tonight we have to search for an escape route for you three." The Baudelaires reluctantly nodded.