I am really nervous about this chapter, my beta said she really liked it but I am still nervous! I hope you all enjoy it!
Happy fourth of July! ReD, wHiTe and bLUe!
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It was now the last day of vacation. Danny and Harry were in their room relaxing as they were sweeping their owls' cages. A minute later Ron walked in carrying two letters.
"Booklists are here, even though we already got the two new books," he said handing Harry his.
"Yep, just two new books. The standard book of Spells, Grade 5, by Miranda Goshawk and Defensive Magical Theory, by Wilbert Slinkhard," said Harry opening his booklist.
Crack!
Fred and George Apparated into the room. Danny was now used to this, they hadn't stopped doing it since he'd been here.
"Guess Dumbledore found a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, they assigned the new book," Fred pointed out.
"About time, too. Heard Mum and Dad, said that he was having a hard time finding one," said George.
"Not surprising, just look what happened to the others," added Harry.
"What?" asked Danny.
"Well, the job is cursed. One sacked, one dead, one's memory removed, and one locked in a trunk for nine months," explained Harry.
"Ouch," said Danny, "I see what you mean."
"What do you think, Ron?" asked Harry.
Ron didn't answer. Everyone looked over to him. He was standing still with his mouth wide open staring at the letter from Hogwarts.
"What is it Ron?" asked Fred. Then Fred's mouth dropped open when he saw the letter. "Prefect?"
George leaped forward and grabbed the letter. "NO WAY!"
"There's must have been a mistake," said Fred, "No one would make Ron a prefect."
Then they both turned to Harry. "We thought you would be one," said George.
"Dumbledore was bound to pick you," said Fred. "After winning the Triwizard and everything."
"But I guess after all the rule breaking he decided not to," said George.
Harry walked over to George and grabbed and badge.
"Prefect, Mum's going to be soooooo proud," cooed Fred.
"What's a Prefect?" asked Danny.
"It's some one who gets chosen to enforce the rules. It's usually a perfect student," explained George, "Just not in this case."
"Sounds like my sister Jazz would be that, hands down," said Danny.
Just as Danny finished his sentence Hermione ran into the room. "Did you?" she asked, then seeing in the badge in Harry's hand screamed, "You did! I knew it!"
"No!" Harry said quickly, "It's Ron's."
"What?" sputtered Hermione.
"Ron's a prefect, not me," said Harry.
"But, what?" asked Hermione, but after a moment perked up. "Ron! That's great!"
Suddenly Mrs. Weasley entered the room. "Ginny said the booklists have arrived. I know we have already gotten them, but I'm going to get some new pajamas for you Ron. Yours are six inches too short for you," she said, "What color do you want?"
"How about red to match his badge," said George, "His shiny new prefect badge."
"What?" said Mrs. Weasley, confused, "Your-"
Ron held up his badge. "Yes."
Mrs. Weasley beamed. "I can't believe it! That's everyone in the family!" She exclaimed.
George and Fred frowned. "And what are we, the crazy twins that live in your house?" asked Fred.
"Oh Ronnie! I'm so proud!" She exclaimed not paying attention to the twins, "Wait till you father hears!" She was now squeezing him.
"So Ron, if you pass out do you want us to resuscitate you?" asked Danny, joking. Ron heard, and so did everyone else, but Mrs. Weasley didn't seem to notice.
"You have to get a reward for this! What do you want?" she asked after finally releasing him.
"Well, can I have a new broom?" he asked; Mrs. Weasley's face fell. Brooms were a lot. "Not a great one! Just a new one for a change."
Mrs. Weasley smiled again. "Sure, whatever you want!" She kissed him a few times and walked out.
George and Fred began to laugh and with another crack Disapparated.
"This is great! I get a new broom!" exclaimed Ron, "She won't be able to afford a Nimbus, but maybe a Cleansweep. I'll go and tell her," and Ron ran out of the room.
"Um Harry, can I borrow Hedwig so I can tell my parents? This is something they can understand," asked Hermione.
"Yeah, sure. Take her," Harry replied. She grabbed the owl and walked out. Harry sighed.
"Your jealous, aren't you?" observed Danny.
"What? No I'm not," insisted Harry, then Danny gave him a look. "Okay, I am. I just thought I would be a prefect," he sighed again.
"Hey, it's fine to be jealous. We're going to feel like that a lot in our lives," said Danny.
"Yeah, I just hope I don't think I'm better than Ron. I mean, I've never felt that way before, but I thought I would be prefect-not Ron," explained Harry.
"It's okay to feel that way, sometimes. But you just got to know that no on is better than anyone else," said Danny.
"Thanks," said Harry with a smile, and Danny nodded.
A few minutes later they heard Ron and Hermione's footsteps. "I just caught her, said she'll try to get the Cleansweep," said Ron.
"Yeah, congrats," said Harry and Danny.
"Thanks."
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The rest of the day was used to collect any books or belongings around the house and pack them. Mrs. Weasley arrived back around 6 o'clock with Ron's broom. Ron thanked her and took it quickly.
Down stairs they had a party. The red and gold sign said: Ron and Hermione - New Prefects. Almost everyone in the Order was already there. Moody arrived later.
"We were wondering if you could check and see what's in the upstairs desk," asked Mr. Weasley when he arrived.
Moody moved his eye to the ceiling and after a moment said, "Yes, it's a boggart. Want me to get rid of it?" he asked.
"No, I'll get it later," said Mrs. Weasley, "We're having a celebration, Ron and Hermione are prefects. Ron's the fourth in the family!" she explained.
"Yes, and I think a toast is in order!" Shouted Mr. Weasley over all the talking.
"To Ron and Hermione, the new prefects!"
"I was a prefect," said Tonks after taking a sip.
"What about you Sirius?" asked Ginny.
Sirius burst out laughing. "No, James and I got in too much trouble. Lupin got the badge."
"Yeah, I think Dumbledore thought I would rub off on my friends. I can say I failed," said Lupin with a laugh.
Danny could see Harry's mood lift. 'It must be that his father wasn't a prefect either,' thought Danny.
Danny and Harry overheard Ron telling people about his broom to anyone who would listen.
After a while Mrs. Weasley yawned. "Well I suppose I should go get that boggart and go to bed," and with that she left.
Moody walked up to Harry and Danny shortly after. "Why don't you two come with me, I have something that might interest you."
Danny and Harry followed him to the doorway and Moody pulled a wizard photograph out of his coat.
"It's the original Order of the Phoenix. That's me, there's Dumbledore, and the Longbottoms."
Harry's stomach turned. 'So that' the Longbottoms,' he thought. Then Moody explained what happened to them.
"That's terrible," breathed Danny.
"Yes. And there's Lupin," Moody went on listing off the people and what happened to them, most of them were deaths by Voldemort, "And now, here's what I thought would interest you two!" Harry looked to where Moody was pointing; it was his mum and dad smiling brightly.
His mum was hugging his dad then turning to her other side to hug a woman next to her.
"Who's that?" asked Harry pointing to the woman.
"That's Amy Carter," answered Moody turning to Danny.
Danny's eyes widened. "That's my aunt?" he asked, Moody nodded.
Danny could tell that Harry was sad or upset. He must be, all those people looked so happy and they didn't know that they would be dieing soon.
"What do you have there Moody?" asked Sirius.
Harry walked out of the room and to the stairs, Danny followed. "Hey Harry, are you okay?" he asked.
"It's just, all those people don't know they are going to die," said Harry stopping halfway up the steps, "That isn't so interesting to me."
Danny nodded. "Yeah, I know," he sighed, "Let's go to bed, I'm tired."
They finished walking up the stairs. They were about to go to their room but they heard sobbing. They walked to the door of the drawing room.
They couldn't believe their eyes. On the floor was Ron - dead. But it couldn't be, Ron was downstairs.
Mrs. Weasley, the one crying, pointing her wand to the body and croaked out, "R-r-riddikulus!"
Crack!
Ron's body turned into Bill's. Mrs. Weasley sobbed harder.
"R-r-riddikulus!" Mr. Weasley appeared, dead still.
"No! R-r-riddikulus!" She tried again.
Dead twins. Dead Percy. Dead Harry and Danny.
Suddenly everyone walked in behind Danny and Harry. They were too shocked to move.
Danny stepped forward. "Mrs. Weasley," he said weakly. As she turned up to him, the boggart also turned its attention to Danny because it started to change.
First it appeared to be Danny in ghost mode. Then had blue skin and flaming white hair. Danny gasped, it couldn't be. Next it fast-forwarded five years, then ten. Standing in front of him was Dan Phantom, Danny's evil self.
Danny was breathing heavily now. Dan started to speak, "You will turn into me."
Danny fell to the floor sobbing, just like Mrs. Weasley. "No," he whispered.
"Your family and friends will leave you and die. It's only a matter of time," he continued, "You WILL turn into me, and it's only a matter of time . . ."
"NO! I won't turn into you! Never!" shouted Danny, pounding on the floor while still crying.
Finally Lupin walked in for the first time and pointed his wand to Dan Phantom. "Riddikulus!" he said firmly. It turned into a silver orb, then Lupin waved his hand and it vanished.
Mrs. Weasley and Danny were still on the floor. "Oh no! I see them dead, all the time!" she exclaimed between sobs.
Lupin walked over and tried to comfort her.
"Please, don't tell Arthur," she begged.
"I won't," he promised.
Hermione and Ginny ran over to Danny, still on the ground. "Danny, are you okay?" asked Ginny.
Danny tried to stop his tears, it worked a little but his face was still tear stained. "I-I'm fine," he said standing with the help of Ginny and Hermione, "Thank you."
"I think we should all go to bed now," said Lupin, who was helping Mrs. Weasley up.
Everyone nodded and walked to their rooms. Danny, Ron, Harry, Hermione and Ron all walked into their room and Danny sat down on the bed and put his head in his hands.
"Danny . . .what was that?" asked Hermione.
"Answer something first, what was that thing?" asked Danny.
"A boggart, it turns into the thing a person fears most," answered Harry.
Danny sighed. "That was . . . me. From the future, or a future. I changed it and am not going to turn into that," answered Danny. "My family and friends died and I turned evil, but a ghost named Clockwork saved them and gave me a second chance," he explained quietly.
"I'm so sorry Danny, that thing was . . ." Hermione trailed off.
"You can call him anything, I'm not him," said Danny in a determined voice.
"I think we should get some sleep, we have to go to school tomorrow," suggested Ginny, everyone nodded. Ginny and Hermione each gave Danny a hug then walked out.
The three boys didn't bother to undress; they just pulled the covers over themselves and tried to go to sleep.
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Okay, I just got to say that through out the whole 'Boggart' scene I had butterflies in my belly. I could so feel what I was writing! I feel sooooooo sorry for Danny!
Shiva the Sarcastic, lindy12, mambagirl4 (Thanks for reviewing to all the chapters!), 'Dark-Independent-Girl-101' (Heck yes! Hott beyond all belief!), GostBoyd, heather0, Jenna Dax (Don't worry, Malfoy gets told! Glad you like the scene w/ Sirius!), passing4insane,
Thanks to Kirril for adding this story to her C2, A Bunch of Awesome Stories! Thanks!
Thank you to y beta! My Eternal Facade! You rock out loud!
And to all of you who said Daniel Radcliffe is hott and sexy, you get a cookie! (I get Daniel)
I HAD A DREAM! A dream of Daniel last night! It was about the new movie December Boys! Lucky me!
