Ok for all of those who read the author note… right after I posted it I decided, "Why sit here for 6 weeks doing nothing? I write the chapter over in a day if I wanted!" So I did… but not in a day.
Well so so so soooooo sorry for the long wait. But here it is!
CHAPTER 12!
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She hadn't had a night where she didn't dream about the cell, Harry and Voldemort. Therefore she had not had a good sleep since, well since Harry woke her up when he was trying to sneak out that one fateful night.
She heard dishes clanking in the other room. Aunt Sara was already awake. Katherine slowly stood up and decided to get ready for the day because today was the day her Aunt was going to apperate them both to Hogsmeade, and then they would walk to Hogwarts.
It had been four days since they escaped, two of which they spent running. Then yesterday they finally stumbled into a muggle town and decided to stay in the hotel. After a good feeding and rest they were finally presentable and he Aunt was now more at ease so she was ready to apparate.
After taking a shower, getting dressed, eating breakfast and brushing their hair and teeth they went down to the lobby and paid. They only had a couple of dimes left. After getting outside they ducked in to a deserted ally. Katherine was instructed to hold on her Aunts hand, tight, and with a 'pop' they were gone.
It felt like all the air was being sucked out of her, her bones seemed to be at a breaking point, but just as suddenly as it started, it lifted and it left Katherine gasping for breath. It took her a few seconds to realize that she wasn't in the ally anymore, but right outside of an empty looking pup called the Three Broom Sticks.
She looked around. The place seemed to be abandoned. There was scorch marks on the walls of some places… probably from the Death Eater attack she figured. Sara and Katherine walked through the streets taking it all in.
Then they approached a gate, which behind it stood a huge castle. There stood Hogwarts. Katherine had only seen it once before when Sara had come to her school reunion when Katherine was 4 or 5. She didn't know that she was a squib then. She had been excided to go to the school.
As they approached it they noticed a huge padlock on the front of the gate. Katherine felt her heart sink. How could she be so stupid? After the Death Eater attack they were sure to rise up the security, and she guessed that even if they were able to somehow get it open the padlock would not be the only obstacle.
Katherine voiced what she was sure they were both thinking, "Now what?"
Aunt Sara smacked her head, and Katherine sunk down to the ground. They were so close to getting the word out, getting Harry out, but it was all shattered by a stupid padlock.
Then a leaky valve seemed to open inside of her. She felt her throat swell up and her eyes water. She sniffed, and the next thing she knew she was crying like a three year old on the ground.
Everything she had been t that a cloaked figure emerged from Huneyduks. He looked over at them, slowing down his brisk walk for a second, but then continued to walk over to Zonko's joke shop.
Katherine was still oblivious to everything going on around her, like her Aunts comforting pats, but she did see Sara crying also, tears like wax dripped down her aged face.
The man that went in to the joke shop came back out a few minutes later, with a pocket full of stuff he just bought. He saw the two sad looking women still there, crying. He couldn't just pass them… they obviously needed help, so he started to walk towards them.
Katherine didn't notice the man until he came with in five feet of them. She looked up and wiped her eyes. The man stopped and asked in a kind voice, "Is everything alright?"
Katherine couldn't bring herself to say yes because everything was far from all right. She was just about to nod instead but then she had an idea.
It was as if a light bulb went on in her head. She took a shaky breath and said, "No everything is not alright, and we need to use an owl… do you have one we could borrow?"
The man replied, "Well I don't have one with me. What's the matter?"
"Well you see…" Katherine started, but Aunt Sara cut her off.
"I'm sorry we can't tell you but it's an emergency. Please sir, we are out of money so we can't buy an owl, so if you don't have one, do you know where someone dose have one, because we need to speak to Professor McGonagall as soon as possible."
The man suddenly looked a little uncomfortable.
"Umm…" he looked like he was arguing with himself. The internal battle only went on for a moment. In the end he sighed and said, "Will you promise not to tell anyone what I am about to tell you?" They both nodded. "I-- err, go to Hogwarts." Katherine and Sara were overjoyed by this news.
"What? Why didn't you tell us in the first place!" Katherine exclaimed excitedly.
"Because, I'm not supposed to be out here… its against the rules." Stated the man.
"Oh- well then how did you get here with the gate all locked up?" Asked Sara.
The man shifted uncomfortably again, "See I need to know how big of an emergency it is, because if it's… you know, big… then I can get you in to Hogwarts right now."
Before Sara could cut Katherine off she said, "We know where You-know-who's hideout is and if we hurry and get the news out, we can catch him before he moves out." Katherine decided not to bring up Harry yet because here was a chance to save him and she didn't want to be written off as crazy… yet.
Her words seemed to spark something with in the man. He tense up, and he clinched his hands in to fists. He took a few calming breaths and said, "Follow me." Sara helped Katherine up off the ground and they followed the man in to Huneyduks. He quickly made sure no one was there and went to the cellar with Sara and Katherine following close behind.
It looked like Huneyduks used to be a cheery looking place, but now that no one ever came to it the shelves were covered in dust and it looked slightly creepy.
The man bent down and for a moment Katherine thought that he had maybe dropped something but suddenly he swung a trap door open that reviled a staircase going down to who knows where.
"This way," he said going down the steps. Sara and Katherine went first and the man went last closing the trap door behind him.
For a moment it was pitch dark, just as it was in Voldemort's cell. Right before Katherine started to panic the man lit his wand. Then they started down the dirt path.
Katherine was starting to think that maybe it wasn't such a good idea to trust a person when they didn't even know his name. They walked in silence. Suddenly Katherine asked, "So what's your name," to the mysterious man.
"Ron, Ron Weasley." He replied back.
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TBC…
I think I needed to write that chapter. It took me forever to get it perfect. I am proud of it.
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