Harry Potter and the Golden Apple Corps
Chapter 5
Ginny grinned down at everyone rolling on the floor of Harry's kitchen. She motioned Eris aside and asked, "Okay, what are these powers you mentioned?"
"You're a near-goddess now, Ginny. You can transfigure things without a wand, travel like I can-it's similar to your apparating. You are immortal. The knowledge of what you can do will come to your mind fairly quickly. The only thing you really need to know is what you represent. If you were a full goddess, you would be the goddess of bouncing purple puffskeins."
Ginny goggled at Eris. "Bouncing… purple…" She grinned. She chuckled. She began to shake. Finally, unable to help it she collapsed in fits of howling laughter, thinking about Arnold, her little pygmypuff. It was the wildest thing she had ever heard, but somehow it all fit.
Eris chuckled softly to herself as she guided the redhead, who was still in convulsive laughter back to the table. "This is a lot more fun than the last few wars I've been involved in," she thought to herself, "but I'm going to have to go serious on them for a bit."
"Hate to tell you this kids, but it isn't all going to be ostriches and wereflamingos. The reason we're attacking is because Greyface has convinced he-who-desperately-needs-a-fucking-makeover that the only way he will win is by becoming more ordered. To that end, at that meeting, all the horcruxes are going to be there."
Harry, Ron, and Hermione jumped, startled. Lupin, Tonks, and Moody said in unison "Nobody but the Order is supposed to know about that!" Fred, George and Ginny just scowled, looking for an explanation of both horcruxes and why this laugh of a meeting had just gone serious all of a sudden.
"Don't talk about order in my presence. Your Order of the Phoenix has been a bit full of itself since Albus died. Although he told Minerva a great deal, he did not tell her the secret that he only told Harry a little over a year ago. It's your secret, Harry, would you like to tell?"
"Yeah, alright. That Prophecy they tried to steal said that I'm the one who has to kill Voldemort. He's got seven horcruxes, well five now that I destroyed his diary in the Chamber of Secrets, and Dumbledore destroyed Marvolo Gaunt's ring."
"And Greyface has convinced he-who-should-not-be-breathing that the most sensible thing is to bring them all to one place for orderly distribution. I would thank him, because it makes your job a lot easier, but I cannot go near him."
"Why not?" Fred asked, "We could use a goddess going up against that lot."
Ginny snickered a bit as Eris answered, "You'll have your sister. As to why not, I suppose I could explain a little metaphysics to you. Greyface and I are polar opposites. If we happen to touch, the universe goes boom. Kind of like combining U-no-poo with cauliflower cheese."
As everyone at the table shook their heads to try and clear that image from their minds, the doorbell rang. As Harry headed to answer it, Molly Weasley's voice burst from behind it at full volume, "GINEVRA MOLLY WEASLEY YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HOME HOURS AGO. I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE! IT'S THE ONLY UNPLOTTABLE PLACE YOU'RE LIKELY TO GO!"
"I take it she doesn't know what's going on then?" Harry surmised.
"No, she and dad had flooed out to a restaurant to get away from the house for awhile. Bill and Fleur's wedding is in three days and they've been going mad trying to get the place ready so we passed the hat. But I did think Ginny left a note." George said, getting ready to cover his ears as Harry reached the door.
"HARRY JAMES POTTER! YOU HAD BETTER LET ME SEE MY DAUGHTER OR I WILL NEVER KNIT YOU ANOTHER JUMPER AS LONG AS I…"
"Hi Mrs. Weasley," said Harry as he opened the door. "Ginny's in the kitchen."
"Thank you Harry. I'm sorry for yelling at you." She said in a voice that betrayed no hint of remorse as she stalked into the kitchen.
Everybody but Omar, Gulik, and Eris nearly fainted in shock as the first voice they heard shouting from the kitchen was not Molly Weasley, but Ginny. "HOW DARE YOU THREATEN HARRY? WE ARE ALL HE HAS AND THAT IS NOT FAIR! IT REALLY MAKES ME WONDER IF PERCY LEFT BECAUSE OF DAD OR YOU! IT ISN'T LIKE I CAME HERE ALONE ANYWAY. I HAD THREE OVERPROTECTIVE BROTHERS, HERMIONE, AND THREE ORDER MEMBERS WITH ME, AND YOU WOULD HAVE KNOWN IT IF YOU HAD BOTHERED TO READ THE NOTE I LEFT. I AM SIXTEEN YEARS OLD AND HAVE ALREADY BATTLED DEATH EATERS TWICE! I LOVE YOU BUT IT IS TIME TO SHIFT TO NORMAL MOTHER INSTEAD OF OVERPROTECTIVE AND ALWAYS SHOUTING!"
A complete silence seemed to fall over 12 Grimmauld place at that point. Fred and George hastened to get out extendable ears, although shock was still evident on their faces. Indeed, all the wizards and witches present got as close as they could to the kitchen door to hear Mrs. Weasley sobbing.
"I'm sorry, Ginny. But you're my baby, my youngest child and I don't want to let go so soon. I know I yell a lot but…"
"I'm sorry too, Mum. That crack about Percy was below the belt. But I want you to realize that I can take care of myself. We have some business to take care of, and it may take all night. I promise that I will floo home as soon as it is taken care of. Tomorrow at the latest."
"Okay, I think. But if you stay here I do not want you to…"
"To what, Mum?"
"I mean you're just still too young to…"
"If you're trying to say what I think you're trying to say, did you notice that besides Harry there are eight people, one goddess, and a giant cockroach in the living room?"
"I mean I'd like to have Harry as a son-in-law but not so…what?"
"Eight people, one goddess, and a giant cockroach in the living room."
"I think I'll floo home. I'm not feeling well."
a/n: ok, so I didn't get everything I wanted in this chapter, but it's still to come. I've got a little bit more seriousness to come, but I promise that there will be a lot of humor still…