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Ron and Hermione arrived without Harry. It was a happy reunion until I told them what happened, starting from the room of requirement and ending in the left of my mermaid tail.
"Blimey!" Ron exclaimed when I had finished, "So does that mean you don't have any magic anymore?"
"No, my mother still had a little compassion in her frozen heart somewhere. She allowed me to keep my powers. That is if I never contact merpeople again," I explained.
"What about you guys, what's new?" I asked as I sat down at the kitchen table. They sat across from me and exchanged stricken looks.
"Dumbledore's dead," Hermione spoke at last.
"What?" Someone reacted, but it wasn't me. We looked around and saw Remus Lupin collapse in a chair close to the doorway.
"It is a shame… He was a great man," I tried to say something nice. In truth, I did not know Dumbledore well at all. I never was in the same room with him except the Great Hall. He never spoke to me directly and I never spoke to him.
"How did he die?" I asked.
"Snape killed him. That's what Harry says he saw," Hermione explained.
"Snape! That slimy git!" I exclaimed, "Harry saw it? That must've been hard on him."
They nodded in agreement and chose to politely ignore Remus. We sat in silence for a while before I got up to take my first bath without transforming.
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"He won't let us do it," Hermione insisted.
"Too bad for him," Moody grunted, "If he doesn't, Ms. Granger, please help him out."
We were getting ready to go pick up Harry. Thankfully, the Death Eaters did not know that this was happening tonight. I looked around, and counted heads again.
Me, Ron, Hermione, Mundungus, Tonks, Hagrid, Mad-Eye, Mr. Weasley, Remus, Bill, Fleur, Fred, George, and Kingsley Shacklebolt.
"Mad-Eye," I piped up.
"What is now?" He exasperatedly turned to me.
"When we get Harry, someone has to ride alone," I said while mentally counting heads for the zillionth time.
"That'd be me," Hagrid raised his hand, "I'll be movin' 'is stuff."
"All right everyone, mount your vehicle," Moody ordered us. I mounted the Hippogriff with Kingsley. This may not be the order we would ride back in because I noticed Fred and George sharing a broom even though they both were having polyjuice potion.
We landed in the back of Harry's house and entered inside. There was no furniture anymore, which was okay because we had a lot of people.
Once the people who had had polyjuice potion had transformed, the rest of us hung back.
"Harry, it's good to see you again," I said as I ran forward to hug him.
"Who's going with who?" He asked me and I went through my mental headcount aloud.
"Hermione and Kingsley, Ron and Tonks, George and Lupin, Fred and Mr. Weasley, Fleur and Bill, Dung and Moody, Hagrid's taking your stuff, and we'll be riding on Buckbeak!" I counted off on my fingers.
"If we are all done socializing, can we get this show on the road?" Moody was the first out the door. Harry and I bowed before approaching Buckbeak. He bowed back and we mounted. Everyone else mounted whatever they were riding and we zoomed into the air.
"How come you're escorting me and not Moody or Shacklebolt?" Harry shouted over the sound of air rushing in our ears.
"Well, in case the Death Eaters are well-informed, they'd expect the real you to be with the skilled aurors wouldn't they?"
When we were in the air, sure enough the Death Eaters were waiting for us. Buckbeak was a skilled flier so we did not really have to steer him. We used one hand to hold on and the other to aim spells. Hedwig must've gotton free from her cage because sure enough, she flew towards a Death Eater about to cast a spell at us and attacked his face. The man fell back and the air became silent.
"What's happened?" I turned around to ask Harry, but he was on the verge of falling unconscious, "Harry!" I screamed as a cloaked figure flew to our sides. I buried my face into Buckbeak's feathers for what was going to come, but it never did. When I looked up, Harry, who was pretty much unconscious, had his spell and Voldemort's locked in a battle of strength. The wand Voldemort was using broke and he fell back with a shout of fury.
Harry's head slumped onto my shoulder and Buckbeak landed in small pond of water. The water that splashed on us woke up Harry and we dismounted and headed toward the burrow.
Molly and Ginny Weasley ran out to greet us. We were the first back. Where were the others?
The last few sentences are meant to be thought by Alaina and read by you slowly as if speaking slowly and dramatically. Dramatic music should be playing in the background ending with a sudden stop. Thank you for your cooperation, have a nice day!