Chapter Eight: Saving People Syndrome.

"You sure you're okay doing this?" Gwen asked as she bundled the boys up; Ginny nodded, "Yes Gwen, don't worry about it, we Weasleys are predisposed to babysitting. I'm just gonna take them to die Hagrid's…"

"Okay, thanks again. I just don't want that bat to tell Harry he's gonna D-I-E, again."

"I know how to spell Gwen," Harry piped up, his voice muffled by the snow-suit he was wearing, "Am I really going to die?"

"No, no, no," Gwen and Ginny laughed, "There's just this crazy teacher, me and Kevin and Ben and Julie and Hermione and Ron have her next, that likes to tell people that they're gonna die soon and so we don't want you or Draco to hear any of her craziness. So Ginny here is going look after you two while we're in that class."

"Oh okay."

"You'll behave for her right?"

"Yes."

"No doing anything Fred and George taught you right?"

"Not to a girl."

"Good." She buttoned the last button up on him and moved to recheck Draco's suit.

Kevin and Evander reappeared, the dog having been taken for a bathroom walk, and Draco scrambled up onto his pet as Kevin handed the leash to Ginny, asking, "Ben's given you that note right?"

Ginny nodded, "Yeah, I'm now a temporary Plumber."

"Good."

Julie appeared, Ship hopping along bedside her. Ship then went to Ginny's side, waiting patiently.

Ben popped up, handing Ginny a Plumber's badge, saying, "Any hint of trouble call us, It has buttons on the rim, the blue one's me, the green one's Kevin, the purple one's Gwen, the pink's for Julie and the red one is when you need to broadcast to all of us at once. Hold the button down as you speak and then release to hear the reply."

"Right." she nodded, pocketing the badge and he continued, "If things get super bad there's a big yellow button, if you press it it will summon every Plumber nearby. We're trusting you Ginny."

"No worries, I probably won't even need to use this stuff…"

"Probably, but just in case…"

"I know, Boy-Who-Lived-To-Be-Hunted…"

"Right."

This couldn't be good, "They're gonna kill me!" Ginny cried out after losing one of her charges to the forest. Draco and Evander were still with her but Harry had been lured in by something.

As if summoned by her distress, or fear, the entire group appeared.

"Where. Is. Harry?!" Hermione and Gwen beared down on her.

"In the forest," she whimpered, pointing with a shaking hand.

Both of the other girls paled, as did everyone else.

"Split up! First one to find him fire off a Patronus! Need help fire fireworks! Go!"

And they all, sans Ginny, Draco, Evander, and Ron, dived into the forest.

Deeper in the forest, as deep as only Hagrid had ever gone, Harry had found himself surrounded by arachnids, of all sizes.

"Harry Potter!" the second biggest one clipped his pincers together angrily, "I have warned you never to come here again!"

"Please sir," Harry trembled, "I'm just lost, I don't remember ever meeting you…perhaps Uncle Vernon beat that out of me…I just want to go back to Hagrid and Ginny and Draco."

"Dear," the largest spoke, moving, "look at him, he is only a hatchling. Hagrid mentioned a potion gone wrong. Perhaps we can let him go with another warning, the poor child looks terrified. He obviously did not mean to disturb us…Child, why are you in the forest alone?"

"I-I saw a man, Ma'am," Harry squeaked, "he looked like he was really hurt, I wanted to help him and then I got lost…"

"Ah, yes. The shape-shifter…he is fine as far as we know…Akiva!"

A spider larger than a house came forth from the horde, "Yes Mother?"

"Take the child to the forest's edge, unless someone finds you first. Do not harm him, do not taste him. He is an important child to this world…"

"Yes Mother, Harry Potter," the spider named Akiva bowed, "please climb onto my body so I may convey you…"

Harry nodded, trying to do as told but he could only ever make it to the second leg knob before sliding down again.

"Here child…" a second giant spider lifted him in its' pincers and set him onto Akiva before silking him down so he could stay on.

"And remember child," the biggest spoke again, almost motherly, "if you return without Hagrid we will not hesitate to eat you…"

"Yes Ma'am, I understand," the six year old nodded, "thank you for your help."

"We are not inhumane monsters."

And with that Akiva and Harry were scurrying through the forest at a very quick pace.

"Harry! Harry! HARRY JAMES POTTER IF YOU CAN HEAR ME YOU BETTER SHOW YOURSELF!" a half hour in nobody had found him.

"Human," a voice spoke, making Gwen turn around to find a troop of centaurs all aiming their loaded bows at her, "why dare you trespass?"

"A child is missing," she forewent her wand to summon a orb of manna to her palms, "Harry Potter has been turn into a six year old and has gone missing in the forest."

"If we find Harry Potter we shall return what we can…Leave this forest."

"Ah no," her green eyes narrowed as the manna balls in her hands grew larger, "you see, I am a Plumber charged with his safety and care, I am his guardian and—"

"Leave Witch, your Plumbers have no authority here. You are not welcomed onto our lands…"

"Please," her eyes clenched shut, beginning to burn with pink hellfire, "let me continue my search and there shall be no trouble between myself and your kind. Leave me be and you shall remain unharmed."

"You shall be a quiver before you draw breath woman…"

"Please," she begged, feeling fire crawling up her arm, "let me find my child and I shall not disturb you again…" her skin began to crack, purple appearing as it began to slip off.

"Witch! Stop your black arts and be gone…!"

"I don't like the tone of your voice," Gwen cackled, fully Anodite, "my little pony. Someone needs to break you…Congelo!"

The representative of the centaurs froze, literally. He became encased in ice.

"Fugo!"

The others of his herd were driven away by gadflies and hornets summoned by her spell.

A branding-poker came to her hand, already heated; the head was twisted into a rune.

"Finite…Petrificatus Totalus!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Harry! Harry! C'mon Kid!" Kevin paused. He closed his eyes and fought to remember the summoning spell, "AccioHarry Potter!" He raised his wand, yelling the spell.

Not far away Harry was ripped from Akiva and pulled through the air. Thankfully the spell pulled him around obstacles and not through them.

"Bye Akiva! Thank you!" Harry called as he left.

"Farewell Harry Potter! I hope we never meet again!" Akiva replied before turning and returning to his home.

Soon Harry found his destination and lit up, "Kevin!"

"Harry!" Kevin plucked the boy from mid-air, pulling him close, "God, don't you ever do that to us again!"

"Okay."

Kevin nodded and raised his wand, shooting off his Patronus before heading back to Hagrid's while lecturing his charge.

Everyone met up at Hagrid's hut, except for Gwen. She floated along afterwards, still in her Anodite form and carrying her skin and clothes, hovering in front of Kevin, Harry, and Draco.

"Harry? Are you unharmed?" She asked worriedly.

"Gwen?" Harry asked, surprised, "Is that really you?"

"Yes, this is my true form." She chuckled, "Do I frighten you?"

"A little."

Gwen picked him up, after handing her skin and clothes to Julie, and pulled him into a hug. He was surprised to find that she was solid and very warm, the perfect hug temperature; she then pulled Draco in as well, each arm supporting a boy.

With arms full, she floated off into the school, up the staircases, and to the fourth floor, into the Hospital Wing to get them checked out. She hovered behind Madam Pomfrey, watching the school nurse work with a keen eye. After they had been dosed with Pepper-Up Potion, as a preventive measure, Gwen, still in her Anodite form, picked her boys up and carried them to Gryffindor Tower and settled them down in front of a roaring fire. She summoned a thick blanket, bundled them up, and finally summoned her skin and clothes back so she could go back to being human.