"So what'd he
say?" Amanda asked Sarah as she, Sarah and Andréa sat
down at a table in The Leaky Cauldron.
"Nothing really, he
just said he has contacted everybody, and they are all safe here, and
that we were the last to get there. Then he told us to turn around
and floo the leaky cauldron, which sent us here. That's it really,
nothing important, or why those death eaters were looking for us and
actually knew where the rest of you lived," Sarah explained,
trying to remember exactly what Dumbledore had said when they had met
him. "I still don't understand why our parents won't tell us
what's going on. My parents didn't even want me to know that they
worked for the order, which puts us at an even greater risk at being
found, since the dark lord is always looking for members along with
whoever of us he's after-"
"Isn't it obvious? None of us
would have met if it weren't for you. You're the one who connects
us to everyone else, like the kids from your school, and vise-versa.
Your like the center of a diagram, everything leads right back to you
Sarah," Andrea said, trying to keep as quiet as possible, but
doing a poor job of it.
"I know really, why else would we all
end up going to Hogwarts, and all end up getting an attempt attacked
from death eaters? That's the obvious thing, what we don't know is
why they're after Sarah in the first place," Amanda stated,
looking at Andrea, the floor, anything but Sarah.
"Trust me,
if I knew, I would tell you, but my parents won't tell me anything,
what they're doing, where they're going, nothing! I might as well be
non existent, because whatever they're up to, I can't find out. And
because they're so busy doing whatever the heck they're doing, I
can't get a second to talk to them!" Sarah ranted, continuing to
mumble as the waiter brought them some tea.
"Why did that guy
just give us tea?" Andrea asked, seeing as how they didn't order
anything.
"I ordered the best tasting tea they have, along
with the healthiest, that way, we can wake up, and have something
that tastes good too," Sarah said between her rantings.
"Well
I'm not gonna sit here and just wait to see what happens. Come on
Andrea, we're going to see this Dumbledore guy and see what we can
get out of him," Amanda decided, getting up and walking towards
the fire place.
"Amanda-"
"Do you want to know
why they're after our best friend and us or not Andrea? Because if
you don't, be my guest and just stay here, but don't expect me to
tell you what he said!" Amanda snapped, storming faster towards
the fire place.
"Amanda, wait up! I'm coming!" Andrea
pleaded as she can over to the fire place besides Amanda.
"I
wouldn't do that if I were you," Sarah said as if it were
obvious. "You won't get anything out of him. He's the busiest
member of the Order, how would he have time for us and my parents
not? It would be better if we just let it go for a little bit, and
come back to it when things have calmed down," Sarah reasoned,
showing no emotion, as she sat thinking to herself in her own little
world. Amanda and Andrea sat back down.
"Are you ok Sarah?
You don't look so good," Andrea asked as she noticed the lost
look on Sarah's face.
"Hmmm? Oh yeah...I'm fine...just
fine..." She said in little bits in pieces, as if she just
barely heard Andrea.
The Death eaters are after me. They want
me. Not Amanda. Not Andrea. Me. Why me?
To be continued...
