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Chapter 14-Of detention, hospital, and home
The six teenagers stared at the man on the ground. Once they had got over the shock of the duel, everyone looked at Daphne. She was shaking, and tears and blood were all over her face.
"This is all my fault." she said, "I-I dragged you all here, I shouldn't have let you come..."
"WHY?" exploded Sirius "The only one who's hurt is YOU!"
Daphne looked at him, "But what about, when we go back to school? You'll all get into trouble, and-"
"Is that ALL you're worried about?" said Sirius, bursting out laughing "Detention won't do us any harm Daph!"
Then tense feeling in the air, broke. Daphne, although still in pain, let a sheepish grin creep across her face. Sirius helped her up and towards the cave.
James had confiscated the Death Eater, Stefan's, wand, and was now binding him with magical rope, although he was still stupefied.
"What will we tell Dumbledore?" asked Daphne, wincing as they walked,
"Oh, Daph, stop worrying! Dumbledore will believe you, you're covered in blood, and anyway, Dumbledore's a very believing person!" Sirius comforted.
Daphne began to cry again, great, wracking sobs shaking her slender frame. Sirius held her tight and guided her into the cave.
"Oh," she sniffed "I just can't believe it's all, all over..."
"It's not over yet Daph, we've got to get you to the hospital wing first! And Dumbledore will want to tell your Mum won't he? You've got a lot of explaining to do!"
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When they had finally heaved the stupefied Death Eater onto a broomstick and collected their cloaks and other things, the six, shaken teenagers took off. Sirius had Daphne on the back of his broom, hers was tied to the back of Remus'.
Hogwarts had never looked so welcoming in Daphne's eyes, no matter how many detentions it was destined to give her. As they neared the lawns at the front of the castle, Daphne felt an overpowering sense of relief.
The journey to Dumbledore's office was troublesome, Stefan Ketoff was a big man, and it took Sirius and James to drag him. The fact that his body, in its unconscious state, was being very unhelpful.
Dumbledore didn't look the slightest bit surprised, when six teenagers, two looking very bloody, entered his office, carrying an unconscious man.
"I take it you did take my advice then?" he said, smiling a small smile.
"Erm, well, if you don't mind Sir, when you gave me advice... I didn't have a clue what you were talking about..." Daphne said apologetically, she seemed to be recovering her strength.
Dumbledore chuckled, "I didn't think you would at the time!"
"Well, then why did you bother telling me?" Daphne said in surprise.
"Because, I couldn't very well just say to a student 'Go ahead and run away' could I?" said Dumbledore "I knew that if you didn't know what I was talking about, you would do what you felt you had to!"
Daphne stared at him, "So you wanted me to go?"
"No. I didn't want you to be in danger. But I did know that you would never rest easy until you had gone."
Professor McGonagoll chose this moment to burst into the room.
"Albus! What is happening? Miss Calmswood? Mister Black, is that blood? OH!" she exclaimed, seeing the Death Eater on the floor.
"I take it you caught him then Miss Calmswood?" Dumbledore said, crouching on the floor next to the man. "Stupefied?"
"Yessir," gabbled Sirius, apparently deciding that now was his turn to say something, he had noticed the colour of Daphne's face, ashen "But I think Daphne should go to the hospital wing now Sir. She's had the Cruciatus curse on her."
Dumbledore stiffened "Why didn't you say something Miss Calmswood? You should have been in the hospital wing the second you got here! We shall continue with this tomorrow. I shall lock this, erm, individual" he gestured at the man "in the Astrology Tower, and owl the Ministry. They will want to see him, and you I imagine."
Daphne was escorted to the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey cleaned her cuts, and sent her to bed. She also sent James, Sirius, Lily, Carla and Remus back to the dormitory with the sentence
"Well she won't thank you all when she wakes up and you are all so tired that she is stuck here, while you sleep!"
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When Daphne returned to the common room, she found all her friends waiting for her. Waiting? They normally came to meet her from the hospital wing... Then she noticed Dumbledore. He gestured for her to sit down.
"Miss Calmswood, Mister Ketoff has been taken to Azkaban. I didn't think that you would want to see him again."
"No I don't" replied Daphne.
"Your mother wishes that you and your friends go back to your house for a couple of weeks to recover from the shock of your ordeal. I think it is a splendid idea. The Hogwarts Express will pick you up tomorrow. Is that OK?"
"Yes," said Daphne smiling "That is excellent!"
Dumbledore left with a smile and the phrase
"Oh, and Professor McGonagoll said to expect detention when you return!"
Daphne looked at the others, and started to laugh. It felt good to laugh again!
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As Daphne and the others stepped out on to the station, Daphne looked around for her mother. She grinned when she saw her. She had dark, straight hair, like Daphne, and the same, jade green eyes. She was slim and petite, and had huge smile which seemed to light up the station. Her skin, however, was much more brown than her daughter's.
"Daphne," she cried, with a strong Spanish accent, "mi hija!"
"Madre!" cried Daphne, and threw herself into her mother's arms.
"Hey!" said Sirius "We didn't know you were half Spanish!"
"Yeah well!" giggled Daphne "You learn something new every day huh? Madre," she turned to address her mother "esto es, Sirius, James, Lily, Carla y Remus!"
"Ah!" scolded her mother "You must be speaking English in front of su amigos!"
"Oh yeah," said Daphne apologetically, "Sorry guys!"
"It's OK!" said Lily in delight "I love foreign languages!"
James slipped his arms around her waist and spoke down to her "Even when you don't have a clue what they're saying Lil?"
"YES!" she responded enthusiastically.
The others rolled their eyes.
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"Wow! Daph, your house is great!" shouted Sirius from the bedroom that him, James and Remus were to share. Daphne lived in a house in the south-east corner of Wales, right on the coast. It was a roomy, modern house, that was simple yet cosy.
The floors were wooden, with a different coloured rug for each room, the walls were pastel coloured, and the furniture was simple and made of chunky wood. It was a bungalow, with two rooms in the attic. These two rooms were where the friends were going to sleep.
Each room had a large window that looked out over the bay. Of course, the weather was not spectacular, considering it was spring, but Daphne assured everyone that the weather would brighten quickly.
On the third day at Daphne's house they were all sat in the living room. Like earlier in the term, Sirius was being thrashed at wizard chess by James. Eventually, when he had been complaining for at least five minutes about how unfair James was being, Daphne clobbered him over the head with the pillow in her hand.
"OW!" he whined, "Daphneeee! That thing is hard!"
"Aw, getting beaten up by girls?" asked James, before getting up and hiding behind the sofa.
"You're gonna pay for that!" yelled Sirius "I don't get beaten up by-"
"Bellatrix, Narcissa, Kilsy Parkinson, your mum..."
"OI!"
James, now laughing hysterically, dived behind the other sofa and, trying to breathe normally, ran out of the room. Sirius let out a high pitched war whoop, attempted to run after him, tripped, and fell flat on the floor.
"Padfoot, stop being daft!" said Remus, who was attempting to do some of his homework.
James had now re-entered the room, Sirius, completely forgetting that, minutes before, he had been 'very angry' with James, turned and pretended to cry on his shoulder, saying
"Prongsie, Moony's being nasty to me!"
"Aw, Paddyfoot! That makes me sad too!" they sat down on the floor and 'wept' into each others shoulders.
Daphne observed, smirking, "Y'know, you two act like two year olds?"
"Excuse ME!" said Sirius in a decidedly camp voice "How dare you, OH my gosh, you are so like, MEAN!"
"I KNOW!" said James, putting on the same voice as Sirius "She is totally RUDE!"
Lily looked at James with a 'concerned for his sanity' look on her face. Remus rolled his eyes, smiled, and turned back to his homework, muttering to Carla,
"What do they see in them?"
Carla smiled.
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"Mis niños!" called Daphne's mother "Breakfast!"
Sirius bounded down the stairs, closely followed by James and a bemused looking Daphne.
"You are mental!" she commented, as Sirius ran around the kitchen a few times and then up to her. He threw his arms around her in a huge hug, kissing her on the lips. He then let go of her and resumed his capering round the table.
"Ah, amor!" smiled Daphne's mother, as James swept Lily of her feet when she got to the bottom of the stairs,
"James!" laughed Lily, "put me down!"
"OK!" said James, and threw her onto the couch in the living room.
Lily sat up and then ran after him "You're gonna pay for that James Potter!"
Daphne's mother smiled as the teenagers rampaged all over the house
"Loco!" she said "Qué debe hacer l con ellos?"
Ok, that chapter was kind of random, but anyway. It was fun to write!
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Btw if anyone speaks Spanish, the Spanish in this probably isn't quite right.
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