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Chapter 10: Kreacher On The Loose

Harry awoke the next morning, smiling, the poo powder experience still fresh in his head. He went downstairs to find the Order sitting at the table. They all looked up at Harry as he walked downstairs. The look on their faces told Harry that something horrible had happened.

"What's wrong?" Harry asked. "What's our next move?"

"We can talk about that later Harry?" Lupin said, obviously trying to find the best way to tell him. "There are more important things to discuss at the moment."

"Tell me what's happened!" Harry yelled after a silence.

"We should really wait until Ronald comes down." McGonagall said.

"I would have do say that would be best, Minevra." Lupin said.

"Harry have you seen George?" Ron said running down the stairs and with that very distraught expressions washed over the faces of the Order.

"What's wrong?" Harry yelled noticing blank looks on everyone's face. "Has something happened to George?"

"What?" Ginny cried, coming down the stairs. "WHAT'S GOING ON?" she yelled when no one answered her.

"No don't worry George is fine. We haven't seen him since last night." McGonagall said trying to calm Ron down.

"He went to the joke shop to work on advertisement for poo powder." Fred said coming down the stairs.

"Well he really should be here too, but we don't have time to wait." McGonagall said. "It's your brother, Mr.Weasley; he's died."

"Bill! Charlie! Who? What happened?" Ron said getting upset.

"No. It's Percy." Lupin blurted out obviously wanting to put it out there so they could get it over with. "He was working late at the Ministry and was attacked by death eaters. They though he had information."

"Oh. Wow." Ron said in disbelief

Harry, Ron and Fred just stood there not knowing what to say. Harry wanted to console them but he didn't know where to begin. His best friend had just lost three family members in less than a week. How could he possibly begin to console them?

"I don't know how much more of this I can take," Fred said, tearing up. "I know he was a real foul git but I never wanted this to happen to him."

"Sometimes we don't realize how much we love someone until it is too late," McGonagall said with tears forming in her eyes.

Suddenly a loud pop shattered the silence and George had appeared in the room.

"All done!" George said, obviously very excited about something. "I just finished all the advertisement campaigns for poo powder. It should be next year's hottest seller. What's going on?" He said finally realizing that there wasn't a happy face in the room.

"Percy was killed, George." Ron said still not sure if he believed it.

"Is that who we're all upset over? Are you kidding me? How dare you feel sorry for him after what he put mum through!" George said, getting angry and having no idea why. "He put this family through hell! Serves him right!" he said walking over to a picture of Percy that Mrs. Weasley always kept around. He stared at the picture and laughed. "Good riddens!" and with that he smashed the picture on the floor.

"George! How dare you?" Ginny cried. "He may have done some real foul things, but he was still family!"

"Percy was a disgrace to our name, Ginny. It would do all of you a lot of good to just forget about him."

"George, you don't mean that." Lupin said.

"You bugger off! You have no idea what he did! He nearly tore our family apart! He was a disgrace to all of us, and anyone who thinks differently is just as bad as he was!"

"George!" Ron said trying to stop him from going upstairs.

"Go to hell, Ron."

"As much as I know this is killing all of us, we have a lot of work to do," McGonagall said after giving everyone a minute to cool off.

"Yes of course." Ron said.

"Where are we in finding a horcrux?" Harry asked.

"Oh my master would be so disgraced at these people who have invaded her home. Trying to destroy something so good," Kreacher said coming out of the whole where he lives and running across the living room with something dangling from his neck.

"What was that?" Moody said his magical eye looking after Kreacher.

"A locket." Harry smiled looking back at everyone. "It's been here the whole time."

With that the Order fled from the table and ran after Kreacher.

A/N: Sorry for the depressing chapter, but hey it's Percy it had to happen eventually. I know some of you may be upset over George's reaction, but he has reasons.