Chapter 13-Year 2
Maia's POV
"Now you two stay up here and not a peep you hear me? I don't need you freaks messing this up for me!" Uncle Vernon hisses, before slamming the door. His boss is coming over tonight and he wants to get a promotion. He's convinced that us, being the 'freaks' we are as he put it, will ruin his chances. Hedwig has been irritable ever since we go back, because the Dursley's locked her up. They don't mind Winnie though, since she's a cat, but they don't want her running around and shedding all over the house, so she has to be kept in our room. I hear the front door open and greetings are exchanged, while Harry flops onto his bed.
"Why do you think no one has sent us any letters?" Harry asks and I shrug, stroking Winnie's fur.
"I'm not sure," I say, frowning. It's true. We haven't gotten one single letter from anyone from Hogwarts. I would've thought at least Fred and George would've sent me a letter, but nope. Nothing. Zip. Suddenly, there's a loud crack and a small elfish creature stands in front of us, wearing nothing but dirty rags. I let out a gasp and Winnie hisses, before jumping off of the bed and slinking under it.
"Harry Potter! Maia Potter! You must not go back to Hogwarts!" The creature exclaims and I frown.
"What? Who the heck are you? And why are you telling us that we can't go back to Hogwarts?" I ask, appalled.
"I am Dobby, madam, and I'm here to tell you that you mustn't go back to Hogwarts! You're both in grave danger!" He says and I shake my head.
"This is ridiculous! Dobby why are you telling us this?" Harry asks and I sorta block out this conversation, bored with it all. Dobby starts banging his head on things, making a lot of noise and I'm worried that he's going to anger the Dursleys.
"You mean you stole all of our mail?" Harry's voice snaps me back to reality and I frown.
"Yes sir, Dobby did. Dobby thought if you didn't receive any mail, you would think you didn't have friends, and then you wouldn't come back to Hogwarts," He says quietly and Harry stats yelling at him, which brings on another round of him banging into things. Suddenly, he disappears with a loud crack, and Harry and I share a look, before rushing downstairs, where he's standing in the kitchen.
"Dobby! Stop! Come back come back we'll listen to you just don't do anything!" We hiss and he gives us an apologetic look, before levitating a cake. He moves it until it's floating over a woman's head.
"Dobby no!" I hiss and Harry creeps forward, trying to catch the cake, but he misses, and it lands on the woman's head. Dobby disappears with a crack, and everyone looks up at Harry in shock, since it looks like he tossed the cake on the woman.
"I'm so sorry! It's my nephew and niece, they're a little messed up in the head. They were supposed to stay in their rooms all night," Vernon rushes to apologize, before glaring at us and I feel my anger spike. It wasn't our fault, and you of all people have no right to call us crazy Vernon! I look down and notice that my hair is now bright red. Yep, I'm really angry.
The two people leave and Vernon grabs us by the collar, and drags us to our room, throwing us inside. "How dare you? How dare you?" I tune him out and stare at him with a blank look. Before I know it, he slams the door and the lock clicks. Great, we're locked in. Thanks a lot Dobby.
We've been locked in this room for weeks, not going out once. Vernon put bars outside our window. I mean come on, we dropped a cake on a woman, we didn't murder someone! This is ridiculous. I'm laying in bed, trying to fall asleep when there's a tapping at my window. Groaning, I look up to see a blue car, floating outside.
"Hey Harry, Maia!"
"Harry look! It's Ron!" I whisper shout, throwing a pillow at him to wake him.
"What are you doing here?" He asks, also whispering.
"We're here to rescue you of course!" The twins pop up in the window and I grin. They tie the bars to their car and start driving, well flying really, until the bars pop off.
"What is that noise?" I hear Uncle Vernon shout and I quickly push open the window, tossing mine and Harry's things into the car. Harry helps me onto the window sill and Ron pulls me into the car. I plop down on someone's lap and look up, blushing when I realize its Fred's.
"Hey love, how've you been?" He asks.
"I've been better," I say, smiling slightly as he grins. Harry tosses Hedwig's cage into the car and starts to climb in when Uncle Vernon bursts in.
"What in devils name is going on here?" He bellows, running forward and grabbing Harry's foot.
"DRIVE!" He shouts and we zip away, leaving Uncle Vernon to fall out the window. Ron pulls Harry into the car and grins.
"How've you been?" He asks and Harry sighs.
"Better."
"Well we gotta get home quick, Mum doesn't know we stole the car," Ron explains as we pull up to a tall building.
"Welcome to the Burrow!" Ron says proudly and we park the car, before sneaking inside. "Good thing Mum didn't catch us," Ron whispers, and then the lights turn on.
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?" Uh oh.