From Miserable to Spectacular
CHAPTER 7 – Should Have Known
Red sparks were shot from Lestranage's wand and from there all hell broke loose. Sturgis and Moody took on three death eaters while the others took on one each.
After minutes of Chaos in the middle of the hallway of the ministry, Kingsley was hit by a purple jolt of light and was on the floor and unconscious before anyone from the order could stop to see what had happened.
Once Tonks and Dedalus saw that Kingsley was not moving they went over to him. So did Oliver, Charlie, and Bill. The others kept on fighting the death eaters that were still conscious.
"We need to get Kingsley out of here now," Tonks insisted. As she said that, a masked death eater pointed his want to the wall and shouted a spell. Soon after the wall broke and pieces of rubble fell everywhere.
Oliver was caught underneath it and felt himself going in and out of consciousness. He couldn't think as hard as he tried to. He heard voices all around him, but couldn't tell whose voice was whose.
Finally he came to his senses, as best as he could, and heard from somewhere in the corridor the killing curse being recited. He looked to his left and could see some of the order still fighting while others on the ground.
He could not stand to see any of his new friends die. He squinted hard, and noticed a green Light making its way over towards an unconscious Charlie. He knew how great a risk he'd run of splinching, Oliver knew the only way to save Charlie would be to disapparate with him.
He launched his body towards the unconscious man, and disapparated right as the green ray of light had reached the spot where Charlie's was only a second before.
Soon after they were both in the kitchen at Grimmauld place. A rush of people came running into the Kitchen. "Oh my God, Arthur... ARTHUR, come now, QUICK!" Mrs. Weasley said in a panicky voice.
"What's wrong dear?" he asked strolling into the kitchen. He looked horrified at seeing his son's body unconscious and Oliver barely conscious lying on the kitchen floor bleeding.
"Molly, we need Dumbledore now is he still at the party?" Arthur asked. Mrs. Weasley shrugged her shoulders, but stepped quickly towards the door to the other room. Soon after she came back into the kitchen with Dumbledore.
"Did the others escape, as well?" Dumbledore questioned upon assessing the situation ..Oliver still laid there in pain shook his head. Dumbledore's face had a grim expression on it. "We need to inform the ministry of the attack, right away.
They know about Voldermort it was pathetic of me to think we could handle them alone," Dumbledore said. He Turned to Arthur, and asked him to assist him in the matter of informing the ministry, and asked Molly to put Oliver and Charlie in beds and keep them resting.
Molly obliged as well Did Arthur and soon Dumbledor and Mr. Weasley were off, and Mrs. Weasley was trying to get the two adult boys into beds.
"Where the Bloody hell am I?" Wood yelled when he woke up the next day. He went to get up, but was soon forced back down by a horrible pain in his left side. He looked around to see Charlie in the bed next to him still lying unconscious.
"Oliver it's good to see you're up now. How are you feeling?" Bill asked. Oliver rubbed his eyes groggily. "What happened last night man?" He asked Bill.
"Nothing you need to concern yourself with right now, but if you must know we all survived and got out of there with only minor scrapes and bruises," was the answer Oliver was given.
Bill left the room for a brief period of time, and came back to see Oliver sleeping again so he left and went downstairs to the mini-meeting that had just started.
"So what is Voldermort up to now?" Fred and George asked wondering. "We aren't entirely sure, but we do know he needs as many followers as he can," Dumbledore said shaking his head. "Unfortunately that means that many witches and wizards will be tortured into following him."
"So we need to be prepared then!" Sturgis said in a matter of fact voice. Everyone nodded their heads in agreement to that statement.
"Molly I am under the influence your house is ready to move back into, however before you do this I would like to put a few of my own charms on it so that no one can detect where it is located," Dumbledore said.
Both of the Weasley's were alright with that because they wanted all of their children, and Oliver to be as safe in the house as possible.
Up in the bedrooms Oliver had jolted awake. He felt a presence in the room that didn't feel right. He stood up even though there was a pain like no other in his side. He looked over to Charlie who was starting to wake as well.
The two felt threatened by being in the room so hurried out shutting the door. They started to walk down to the kitchen, but upon hearing voices they stopped and bent down to hear the conversation.
"The bottom line is that next time we need to be more prepared for an attack with Voldermort and his death eaters," Dumbledore said. Without pause he continued, "The next matter of discussion has to do with Wood's parents,"
There was silence in the room so he went on. "The ministry was given word last night that something has happened to them. They aren't able to decode the second half of the letter yet so they aren't sure what has happened, but if Oliver starts to ask about them just act as if you know nothing."
Charlie looked at Oliver who had tears in his eyes. He bent over and gave him a hug to show his sympathy. "Why the Fuck can't Dumbledore just tell me this he has to keep it hidden like I'm a school boy!" Oliver screamed into Charlie's shoulder as he sobbed.
Charlie had no idea what to say. What could he say to a crying man that just found out news about his parents? "Bloody hell I should have known since they weren't back yet," He said screaming at the top of his lungs.
With that the people in the kitchen looked up to see a bandaged up Charlie and distraught Oliver at the top of the stairs, and the meeting was adjourned.