Just a fast note. I've tried to look up ages on the Weasley children and it is very difficult because some of them it just doesn't say. So bare with me if I'm off by a year or two, I should be able to at least keep whose older or younger then who in order. That being said thank you for reading and please review!
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Teddy had three close calls on the way to 'The room of requirements' as it was often called. Twice he had to doge into an empty corridor to get out of the way of a ghost and once able to see clearly that Professors Slughorn and Dumbledore were coming his way, but having the closest corridor filed with the old muttering caretaker he had to dive rather painfully down the stairs and hugging the floor really hope that they weren't heading his way. They weren't.
Merlin! This would be so much easier if Victoria was here with the cloak.
Not that having the map was not awesome, but it was still never racking having to glance at the map constantly to make sure no one stunk up on him.
Finally arriving he didn't bother with an exact picture of what he wanted just thinking hard of the necessities.
I need a room I can spread the map out in, an office/study kind of place, yeah make it Harry's study; only with a big table to put the map on and oh that cabinet thing needs to be there too. Harry's study with a table and the cabinet. Harry's study with a table and the cabinet. Harry's study with a table and the cabinet.
The door appeared and Teddy looked inside. Perfect.
Victoria's point of view.
She slipped out of bed wearing the invisibly cloak and a pair of soft slippers, that should neither fall off nor make a sound. By a stroke of luck the other girls were far too busy to pay attention to the door opening and closing on its own.
"And then I said,' Good sir that is hardly a proper thing for me to do and can you believe what the gentlemen inferred! Honestly, Mother cannot believe that he would be a suitable match for me I cannot believe it." Priscilla was telling the other girls loudly. Even the twins who hadn't paid Victoria any attention seemed to be listening closely.
Upon reaching the common room it became clear why the other girls had gone straight up to there dorms instead of talking in the common room. It seemed that all of the 5th year and higher boys had stayed in the common room though ever once in a while a group of them would leave for there dorms looking distinctly put out.
Of course in the middle of all this sat Riddle. Perched on a chair like it was a throne, the ones that had sat close to him during dinner surrounded them now. They talked softly among themselves, waiting for something.
Victoria leaned against the wall furthest from them and considered. They had deiced this would be the perfect time to enter the chamber of secrets, clearly if Riddle knew of the chamber now he would not dare go to it on the very first day of 5th year, yet what might they discus if she left? It's not like she didn't know he was going to be a Dark Lord, and that these were his followers yet if there were other smaller plots going on then she should stay to here them shouldn't she? What if they discussed her or Teddy?
Then in a completely other direction she could use this time to search the boy's dorms couldn't she? Before they had time too really hide there belongs, to spell the room and their trunks and everything else with a ridicules amount of intruder alarms…now that was a very good point.
Oh how horrible it is not to be able to be in two places at once, if only Teddy were here, now.
Oh course Teddy had his own job to do and while somewhat boring it was a necessity and it had to be started on the first night here.
Alright thinking logically she could go the chamber anytime tonight. Even only an hour before dawn would be enough time to get back to the dorm and pretend to have been asleep. Some glammers to hide the bags under her eyes and a pepper up potion would ensure no noticed anything amiss.
So the chamber would be last. If only she could eavesdrop and search thought there things at the same time.
More groups of boys left to go there rooms and Victoria retrieved one other thing she had stored in her night ropes at Teddy's insistence.
She took out the fleshy colored string and inspected it. She would have to wait until everyone that was going to leave left, so no one heading upstairs would notice it. It would also give her fair warning when Riddle's group were finished, of course she may have to abandon the extendable ear if she didn't notice someone coming up fast enough.
Riddle's eyes flashed with some unknown intention as his eyes settled on one of his followers who looked distantly uncomfortable. The others watching smiled and maybe it was the lighting, but Victoria thought they looked somewhat blood thirsty.
Yes using the ears was a risk she would have to take.
In a Manor in Scotland.
An Interlude with Fleur
Fleur sighed, as she watched Louis playing with James, some game evolving dragons and sneaking up on Rose who was drawing a picture and trying very hard to ignore them both. Sometimes it was hard, knowing they were all just children, knowing there was so much at stake that they would have to be involved. They all agreed on that at least; well accept for Grandma Molly who had put her foot down strongly on sending anyone to Hogwarts other then the two oldest children if anyone was to be sent at all.
Truthfully Fleur was grateful that Dominique was in Beauxbatons along with her cousin Molly, even if Dominique did send her increasingly disrespectful letters in French about the injustice of not getting to go to Hogwarts.
George and Angelina after much discussion with Harry and Charlie had deiced to send both their Freddy and Roxie to Durmstrang, while Fleur did know this had something to do with Freddy's unusual talent with the darker arts, it was also the place least likely to be overall effected by Grindelwadl's war. Most likely Dominique and Molly would have to transfer to Hogwarts either next year or the one after that, but right now with neither the current Dark Lord or the one that would be a Dark Lord anywhere near France that's the best place for them.
Even with Charlie in Northern Europe working in the dragon range close enough to retrieve Fred and Roxanne should need be, Grandma Molly still fretted terrible over them being there.
While Fleur's own parents had died before the solution was ever purposed she had been able to save her sister, but not unfortunately her sister's husband or young daughter. Gabrielle who had been divested and rather resentful of Fleur had gone to France to morn as soon as she was able upon their arrival in the past.
Gabrielle refused to answer her letters; she had answered one from Harry saying that of course she would escort the girls out of Beauxbatons and back home if needed.
Things hadn't been easy on Fleur or her sister, or any of them really. It was miracle that her and her husband and all of her children had arrived safely. Should she have left Gabrielle? Whose husband was dead and whose daughter was certain to follow within the next few days? Should she had tried to take her niece little Marie instead, even with the sickness?
She didn't know, she just knew that was done, was done and somehow because of Harry she hadn't lost everything.
