The Last Day at number 12
The next morning Sirius woke everyone up for breakfast. After breakfast Mad-eye Moody, Sirius Lupin, Ron, Harry, Hermione, Amanda, and Jacob went back upstairs to start cleaning. "How about we start with the extra rooms, they are in huge trouble, then we can do the parlor, it just needs a good dusting." Everyone nodded then separated to each of the spare rooms and their bathrooms.
"Hey, Hermione. I use some of your dust rags. I've already run out." Harry called from the door of the room he was cleaning to Hermione, who was in the next-door room. "Alright." Hermione came out of her room and handed Harry five of her twenty cloth dusting rags. "Thanks." he said as he went back to work. The rest of the morning until lunch everyone pitched in to helping clean the Order headquarters.
" Lunch!" Mrs. Weasley called upstairs. A stampede of hungry teens and men raced downstairs to the table. "After lunch I want you kids to go pack your trunks. You will have to be up early to catch the train, and if you packed in the morning it would run us late. Understood? I want you to pack tonight." Mrs. Weasley gave Ron a look. "Alright, let's get started. It's going to take a while."
"Hey, Ron, when we finish packing do you want a game of wizard chess?" Amanda asked with a grin. "You're on. You're going down." Ron replied as he and Amanda separated to their rooms. It took until dinner to finish all the packing and get the trunks downstairs ready to go. Sirius helped bring them down. "Ok, I think dinner's ready." Sirius said as his stomach growled. Ron was so hungry his mouth was watering.
"I'm so excited about tomorrow. What long does it take to get to the train station from here?" Amanda asked with a smile of extreme excitement. "Oh, it is not far. I'd say about a few streets over." Lupin answered as he sat to eat. Dinner that night was full of exciting chatter from the eight students. Ron, Neville, Fred, George, and Harry started talking about the up coming Quidditch season at Hogwarts.
"I'm can't believe I got team captain. I found a badge for it in my letter of school supplies. I hope I can do a good job." Harry said. "You'll be great. I for one will be glad to have you as my 'coach'. This will be the best school year ever!" Ron was on cloud nine. He and Hermione had been named Head Boy and Head Girl. After trying to resign as Gryffindor Keeper, Ron decided to stay when he heard about Harry making captain. The adults were discussing more serious things than Quidditch. They talked is low whispers so the teens couldn't hear. Snape had found out that Voldemort and Angel were planning to attack Hogwarts and get to all of their targets. Mrs. Weasley looked sadly at her children and their friends. The War has begun.
"Oh, Ron. I'm ready to beat you at wizard chess." Amanda said innocently as everyone made them selves comfortable in the family room of the mansion. " Alright, let me get it." Ron replied as he walked over to a cabinet and took out the already set chessboard. Ron smirked as the game began. In a short twenty minutes Amanda's queen defeated Ron's king.
"Check mate!" Amanda declared. Ginny and Harry, who had been watching, patted their friend on the back. Ron smiled as he picked up the mess he pieces made. "No one has ever beaten me before. Congratulations." Ron gave his opponent a handshake. "Ok, it's time for bed. I don't want you children tired. We're going to need to be early so no Muggles will see us." Mrs. Weasley said as she marched the students upstairs to bed. Amanda was so excited she almost couldn't sleep, but luckily exhaustion took over after an hour and she drifted off to sleep.