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Harry had a relatively peaceful summer due to the threats made by half the order, there were a few unexplained muggle deaths and then there was the bridge that collapsed. He knew he needed to stay with his aunt to get some blood magic protection but he was feeling useless. Sirius and Lupin and even Hermione had kept him company using the mirror but he couldn't wait to leave.
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Ron had been stuck in the burrow with Bill and Fleur and a disapproving mother. He was going a little nuts. With the Twins having moved out, he had a nicer room but he and Ginny would be off flying and willingly de-gnoming the garden every chance they got just to get away from the house. He had tried to talk to Harry using the fellytone but it was not the same. They had decided to meet at Grimmauld Place so that they could go to Diagon alley to buy school stuff together and even discuss the possibilities of Horcurxes with Sirius and Lupin but Molly was clear, Ron had to be home till the last two weeks of the vacation.
Hermione was invited of-course and so was Harry, but Hermione wanted to spend time at the Order because of the cool library and Harry had been placed on house arrest at his aunt and uncle's by Dumbledore so that left Ron and Ginny heading out for a ride on their broomsticks in the field or playing a one on one round of Quidditch to help Ron's Keeping abilities.
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Dobby landed in the kitchen of Weasley's Burrow just as Sirius came through the floo yelling Molly's name.
"In here!" Molly yelled as she rushed to the bloody girls
Sirius came running "Death Eathers they got…" but he stopped short as he saw Hermione lying on the floor and Luna sitting next to her saying "Mrs. Weasley if you have any dittany, I think it will help with the bleeding…"
Molly summoned the dittany out and poured it over Hermione's wound. She then accioed a blood replenishing potion, pointed a wand at Hermione's chest and said "renervate"
Hermione opened her eyes slowly "Here drink this" Molly said lifting her head from the floor. Sirius joined them as they helped Hermione up. She winced, her arm was throbbing with pain but she emptied the vial of the disgusting potion gratefully.
"What happened?" Sirius said "We were going to leave for Malfoy Manor, your father… he's worried sick.." He said to Luna
"Can you please get father here, it'll be easier if everyone hear this all at once…" Luna said helping herself to some dittany and dabbing her forehead with it "so harsh…" she said as her wound began to heal. Mrs. Weasley was no healer but raising seven children, seven magical children with a knack for getting themselves into trouble, she performed as many diagnostic spells as she knew on both Luna and Hermione in a short span of time.
A few moments later Xenophilius burst through the floo and made a beeline for his daughter crashing and tripping over the many knick knacks in the Weasley household. "Luna!" He said as he held on to her tightly like she would vanish any second "Father is so sorry… Oh my girl!" He sighed
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Bill was looking over Hermione's wound when Ginny and Ron waltz into their bloody kitchen with their brooms and then rushed into the living room half expecting everyone dead.
"Mione! What happened?!" Ron yelled
Ginny was shocked as she made her way over to her friend "Luna… "
"Shhh…" Bill snapped and then tried performing another spell on the wound, it started to close up but then suddenly glowed purple and began to bleed again as Hermione screamed in pain. Instantly Molly soothed her as Fleur applied the dittany again. "I'm sorry mione, but the blade had a nasty curse… I've managed to stop it from spreading but we should take her to St. Mungo's" He said looking at the others
"No…" Lupin who had arrived as well and had tried his fare share of spells on the wound said "No.. we need Severus…"
"That two timing no good spy is not stepping into my home!" Molly snapped
"Fine… then we'll take her back… Sirius, send for Snape… We'll take Hermione back to…" Lupin was saying as Molly cut him off!
"No! We should take her to the healers! They will know what to do! Not hand her over to a death eater! She just got away from them!"Molly yelled
"Molly…" Lupin said evenly "I know you're worried and scared but Snape has more experience with cursed objects and Dark Arts than any Healer… Please stand aside.." Lupin nodded discreetly to Bill who took his mother aside and sat her down as Sirius and Lupin left through the floo…
"I'm coming!" Ron said
"No!" Molly yelled
"Go on Ron…" Bill said calmly "Mother… it's fine… Ron is just going to the Order's headquarters… he will be safe… Here sit…" Bill said sitting her down as Fleur walked back into the room with Tea and handed it around
Xenophilius was still shaking as he took the cup
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The floo roared to life as Snape rushed into the Headquarters… Lupin was waiting for him. "Did you hear about it?" Lupin asked
"Not yet… I suppose everyone is trying to cover it up so that He doesn't find out…" Snape said rushing up the stairs "How bad is it?"
"I couldn't get it to stop bleeding but Bill did something to pull back the cursed veins that were spreading in the blood… so I'm thinking it's good sign"
"Don't think anything just yet…" Snape said walking in to see Sirius and Ron sitting by Hermione's holding the bloody bandages in place. She looked pale despite the Blood replenishing potion
Snape murmured for a while over her wound, there were black veins extending from it and it was still bleeding albeit slower than before. He stopped when the black veins extending from the wound seemed to be pushing against his magic…"We need to take her to the Henge…" he said
"Now?" Sirius asked "It's evening… it will be crawling with muggles…"
"We can wait for an hour at the most but she needs to go there as soon as possible…" Snape said
"Why?" Lupin asked
"I've done everything I can but the curse is fighting with her magic . If she doesn't claim her familial magic now and make herself stronger magically, she'll become a muggle…" Snape said
"What?" Ron said "She's the brightest most powerful witch of our age… There is no way…" Sirius just put a hand on Ron's shoulder to stop him… "No… mione… " Ron began to tear up
"We can make it rain…" Sirius said seriously
"The ministry would be on us before we can cast a charm…" Lupin said
They all paused for minute and then Lupin said "I'll do it…"
Sirius nodded "Ron… stay here! No matter what… I will not have Molly murder me…"
"But…" Ron began
"No!" All 3 men snapped at the boy
Once they had left, Kreacher who was sulking about in the shadows went to his tiny kitchen cupboard. He picked up a gold locket from the loose floorboard with serpentine S emblazoned on it. He tired casting a few more curses on it but they barely seemed to touch the locket. Tired he held on to it, hugging it like it was his most precious possession. He closed his eyes and rocked wondering what to do.
Then suddenly Kreacher's eyes opened with a snap and he apparated away with a pop!
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Draco and Blaise were discovered by Narcissa who returned just as soon as Dobby disappeared. Once the jinxes had been reversed, they were jeered at and punished for their incompetence by the older Death Eaters. Narcissa took them to Draco's room, laid them on the bed, magically split it into twin beds and locked the door
"What. the. Hell! Were you thinking?!" She snapped "Two girls from your school are not worth risking your life over! Especially a mudblood! Now I don't approve of a lot that is happening in this house but we chose a side! You both have the mark! You swore allegiance! It is a miracle that he wasn't here because if he was, you would be dead right now! The only reason you are alive is because everyone else will want to cover this up to save their own hide from what they just put the two of you through! Never again! Do you hear me! Never! Again will both do anything as stupid as you did today!"
Through her screaming she was applying soothing potion on their wounds and making them drink other potions to ensure the boys, as groggy from pain as they were, started feeling a little better. One of the house elf's assisted her through it all and left once she knew she was done. When there was nothing more left for her to do, she accioed a chair and sat between the beds. She held the hands of both her boys and began to cry.
Draco and Blaise were in too much pain to do more than give a gently squeed her hand. Draco patted his robes with his other hand and sighed in relief as he felt his precious diary there.
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Voldemort landed next to what looked like an old, abandoned and dilapidated manor in northern Estonia. A thin layer of snow covered everything giving it an ethereal look. "Welcome my lord..." McNair said stepping out of the mansion.
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