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Star and Lightning

15th Chapter – Helplessness

Almost all members of the Order of Phoenix were gathered around the great table in the kittchen of Grimmauld Place 12. Albus Dumbledore opened the meeting:

"You all know why we are here, no long speech necessary. What did you find out? Anything the muggles saw?"

Arthur Weasley was the first one to speak: "Muggles have seen a giant Deatheater raid. About 40 of them. Many of their reports are contradictory, but what almost all of them have in common is that the Deatheaters were attacking two women and many of them fell."

"Did they kill them?"

"Not sure. But they took them with them in the end, so probably not."

"But where did they take them? That's the question." Minerva McGonnagal asked.

"I checked some of the less protected places prisoners are usually taken. She wasn't there." Severus Snape said. "But of course I couldn't investigate inside the more protected places."

"I've checked whole Brittain. No magical sign of her. Though she wasn't detected before, either." Nymphradora Tonks reported.

"I also tried some very powerful tracking spells." Dumbledore added. "She has quite a powerful magical aura. I found no trace of her."

"But she can't have vanished from earth." Kingsley Shacklebolt furiously hit his fist on the table. "She must be somewhere!"

"Voldemort has a lot of secret places guarded by strong wards." Dumbledore replied calmly. "He probably keeps her in the best guarded place he has. It was quite unlikely that we would find her. I don't think that we will find her before he wants us to find her."

"Does this mean, we can't do anything at all?" One of the Weasley twins asked.

"I'm afraid so. What we can do though, is to stay alert and wait until she re-appears, dead or alive."

Meanwhile, Harry and his friends were gathered in Ginny's and Hermione's room playing a round of Exploding Snap. Harry stared out of the window and didn't pay much attention to the game while his friends chatted carelessly. But Hermione realized that something was wrong with Harry.

"Harry, what's wrong? You are so quiet." She asked with concern in her voice.

"Nothing's wrong." He snapped. "I've just lost one more relative."

"What do you mean? You know that you can tell us everything." Ron also was worried about his best friend. What the heck was wrong now? He seemed so happy yesterday.

"Do you remember Ginny saying that Starlett looked a lot like my mum? It isn't conincidence. She is in fact my lost twin sister Elisha."

"A twin sister? You never told us that you had a twin!" Ron exclaimed.

"Because I didn't know she ever existed till my last birthday. Dumbledore wrote me a letter saying about 'Hello Harry. Happy Birthday and sorry that Sirius is dead. By the way, you had a twin sister, I never told you about, but Voldemort killed her, too. Please enjoy the rest of your holidays.'"

"But why are you suddenly this quiet now? You already knew about her yesterday and yesterday you were completely different." Ginny asked.

"Didn't you realise how busy the Order is today?" he replied sarcastically. "Because now Voldemort has her. I had a vision last night. Voldemort's got my twin sister! What do you think that he will do with her?!" Harry began sobbing. "At first I find out that I had a sister, but think that she has been dead for 15 years. Then I get to know that she has been alive all the time but probably not for long anymore."

The others looked at each other surprised and a bit helpless and then Hermione moved over to him and hugged him.