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Chapter Fifteen: Magic is Might, Part one!
"Am I addicted to coffee?" Alicia asked and took a sip on the coffee she have in her hand.
"Yes." George answered. "Why do you wonder?"
"It's just... Dora mentioned something to me a couple days ago." Alicia said, still feeling wired about calling Tonks that.
"I can't really see you as a coffee person." Charlie said from where he was catching up with them.
"Really, then I can't say that you know her." George said.
"Well, she has become very energetic since I knew her at school." Charlie continued.
"Very energetic." George answered his brother with a nod as they rounded the corner and got a clear view of the building.
"I'm here, you know." Alicia said annoying.
"Oh, I didn't see you, you're so short." George joked.
"George..." Alicia said in a sweet smile. "Stop making fun out of me because I'm short, I'm only short when I'mn around the Weasley's."
"You know what I'm going to get you for Christmas?" George answered her.
"With your fantasy, I don't think that even want to know." She responded.
"I'm going to get you a pair of high heels, what's your size?"
"Oh, George, you just noticed this morning that I have seventeen pair of heels, not that I can walk pretty well in them, though, beside... I think that you should concentrate on my hand first before you go all the way down to my feet." Alicia hinted, still wearing that sweet smile.
The three people entered the building.
"What are you talking about?" Charlie, who had been forgotten by both Alicia and George, asked. "What's so special about her hand?" Charlie, the thick and most oblivious person in the Weasley family, continued.
"Maybe one day you'll understand what I'm talking about." George answered and stopped as he heard a loud yelling from upstairs. "Who's yelling?" He asked. The two others also stopped.
"Don't worry, it's probably nothing." Alicia brushed off. "Sounds like Mica though." She rolled her eyes.
And right they were, when they came up to the second floor, doors to two of the four flat were open, one of them was Mica's.
Oliver was standing by of his own door, which is in front of Mica's, and out from Mica's flat were things coming out, flying directly at Oliver.
"Hey, stop that..." Oliver was shouting at Mica.
"Why don't you tell your girlfriend that?" Micas angry voice came from the flat, as she continued to throw things at him.
The second door that was open was the door to Percy's flat; Percy himself stood in the opening and looked at Oliver with a very amused face.
"Oh, Hey Leesh." Percy said when he saw her. "Hey George, Charlie."
"What's going on?" Alicia asked him.
Percy smiled. "Mica made a surprise visit to Oliver when he was at training and apparently..." He let out a little laugh. "She met his Girlfriend; they have been going on like this ever since."
"Oh, so Oliver has been sleeping with Mica while he has an actual girlfriend?" Alicia put together. "Oh, Wood what have you done?" She shook her head.
The door to Mica's float slammed shut and Oliver's slightly angry face, turned toward the new comers. "Weasley!" He said happily.
"Define Weasley." Alicia told him, seeing that it was three of them there.
"Charlie." He said. "George... and Leesh." He dragged out thew E's in Leesh as long as possible.
"Hey Wood, how have you been?" Charlie asked, he had not seen Oliver Wood since he left school over seven years ago.
"I'm great... feeling wonderful." He said, totally forgetting that he just had been thrown out by Mica.
"Yes, anyone who's shagging two women at the same time has to be feeling good." George joked from where he stood behind Alicia.
"George, that not something to joke about, Wood hurt someone's feeling by doing that." Alicia said upset to him.
"That wasn't me, it was Fred." George answered and reviled Fred, who had shown up to the crowd.
"How is your sister?" Charlie asked Oliver.
"Not so great, she's starting her second year today." Oliver answered concerned. "I think it's a bad idea to even let her go to school at all, I want her to be safe."
"No, I mean your other sister, Stephanie." Charlie said.
"Oh." Oliver chuckled. "She's still mad at you for the fact that you dumped her for Dragons."
"Right." Charlie said.
George had found a pink bow on the floor among the things that Mica had thrown at Oliver, and got a very crazy idea.
He walked forward and took the bow, placed a temporary sticking charm on it.
"Fred, come here. I wanna show you something." He said and Fred emerged through the small crowd and walked up to his twin.
When Fred came into reach, George placed the pink bow on Fred's forehead and pushed him toward Alicia, smiling big. Five confused looks turned toward George, wondering what he was up to.
"You said that you wanted Fred." George explained.
The weather and the sun were shining the morning of September second. Well, at least the sun was shining at the day of September second, when Alicia woke up on September second was the first thought she had that it still was in the middle of the night. But with one look from Percy, who was already up, she knew that it was six thirty in the morning.
"Hey you're up." He said when he saw her lying awoken on the couch.
She didn't answer at first; she looked around in the room she saw that both Charlie and George were still sleeping on the floor, she had been talked into sleeping on the couch since she was the one doing the handy work today. "Are you always up this early?" She asked him.
"No." He answered. "But since we have a lot to do before I, we, go to the ministry."
"I'm gonna go to the bathroom." She muttered and woke George up by leaning forward and shaking him.
The day had come, the day that might be her last had arrived and she just didn't understand why she felt so calm, she really was a strange person.
Fred had been with them the most of the day before but had left at dinner time, it wasn't so particularly good if they dear attention to the fact that he had disappeared from Kings Cross, he had followed Mr. and Mrs. Weasley when they were saying goodbye to Ginny, who was heading off to her sixth year at Hogwarts.
Oliver had made it clear from the beginning that he didn't at all believe the rubbish that the Daily Prophet was saying about Alicia, he had known her since she had started school and knew that she didn't have an... Okay, he did say that she tended to be a bit violent, but she wouldn't kill somebody if it wasn't the only way out.
He admitted also that he was a little afraid to piss her off, but there was nothing violent about her. He also said that he wanted to help, be a part of the solution. She was happy that he believed her, that he wanted to help her, okay them.
Oliver had two sisters, one was younger, named Christy, and she had started her second year at Hogwarts yesterday. He was very concerned about that she had to go there, but since Oliver's whole family was purebloods, she would be fine.
His other sister, Stephanie, the same age as Charlie and the two of them had been an item the two last year's they had been in school together. But they broke it off when he gotten a job offer in Rumania, according to Charlie had she gotten so mad at him for dumping her for Dragons, that she threw a lamp at him.
The plan for today was simple; they would go over to the place where Wendy Chase lived, Percy would knock the door and say that he wanted to talk to her about a thing somewhat work related, then he'd stun her and let Alicia, George and Charlie in there.
The reason that Charlie and George had followed them there was that they would stay in the apartment and make sure that everything went smoothly. Back to the plan, they would take some of Wendy's hair, mix it with some Polyjuice Potion and then have Alicia drinking it.
So far had everything went smoothly, Percy and Alicia headed off to the Ministry, they would walk, since it wasn't so far to go. The clock was proximally a few minutes to eight when the two of them arrived to the entrance to the Ministry.
"What are you doing here?" An unexpected and chocked voice said when it saw the two of them.
"I don't see how that is any of you business, Ms Hopkirk." Percy said in his usually friendly voice and Alicia had to resist the urge to kick him hard. "We are going to work, like normal people do."
"Isn't it just a wonderful day walk isn't it?" Alicia said trying to make up for Percy's slight rudeness; Mafalda Hopkirk was a very nice and friendly woman. "Percy and I think so anyway."
"Yes, isn't it?" Mafalda said cheery, and Alicia couldn't help but notice that there was something different about her. "I think I'm going to stay in the sun for a while, but you should go inside, don't want you to get into trouble for being late, now do we?" Her voice had sounded a little demanding.
"Sure." Alicia said, and moved toward the concealed entrance.
"Don't forget that you have to flush yourself in..." Percy said and gave her the token, which you needed to get into the toilet.
"I have to flush myself into the Ministry?" Alicia asked feeling a little grossed about the fact that she have to flush herself into the ministry.
"Yes, I don't know how exactly, they just told me that you had to flush yourself in if you don't have the special permission to apparate or use the floo." Percy explained as they reached the underground toilets. "See you inside, and don't forget that we have to take the second lift five minutes past eight."
"I know, don't be so nervous, it'll be alright." Alicia said, still feeling extraordinarily calm. "If people notice that you are nervous, they will think that something is wrong."
"Okay." He said more likely to himself.
Alicia walked down the stairs and thought that the evil people at the ministry was crazy, as she walked down the somewhat deserted toilet. She accidentally stepped on a trash paper and slipped a little, but another person put an arm behind her back and stopped her from falling on her ass to the floor.
"I would be more careful about where I put my feet if I had heels that high." The person said.
"Katie!" Alicia exclaimed in surprise when she saw the face of her friend. She hadn't met Katie in such a long time.
"Um, do I know you?" Katie asked, and Alicia remembered that she actually wasn't herself.
"Oh, I, um, just um..." Alicia rambled on, now was she becoming nervous. "I was just surprised to see you here; you often use this entrance?"
"No, only used it one time earlier." Katie answered, still baffled about being recognized. "You too, I assume?"
"First time." Alicia answered; she didn't want to look in her eyes, because she was pretty certain that Katie would recognize her.
"Do you need help?" Katie asked.
"No." Alicia said quickly, all she wanted was to get inside the Ministry.
"Okay then." Katie answered and walked to an available toilet, put in her coin and closed the door. Two seconds later Alicia could hear a clumsy stumbling and a flush from inside.
Alicia also walked up to an available toilet, put in her coin and closed the door. "Okay, he said flush." She muttered to herself as she heard more people appear outside in the main part of the unsanitary toilets.
A little worried about time she wrinkled her nose in repulsion and stepped into the toilet and flushed. Two seconds later was she unsteady got appeared into one of all those fireplaces in the atrium of the Ministry of Magic, she at first didn't recognize it; it was darker that usually and instead of the golden fountain was now a gigantic statue of black stone conquered the scene. It was rather frightening, this huge sculpture of a witch and a wizard sitting on richly carved thrones, looking down at the Ministry workers deposing out of fireplaces below them.
Engraved in foot-high letters at the base of the statue were the words: MAGIC IS MIGHT.
"Magic is might." Alicia whispered to herself when she saw the statue. But she snapped out of her state when Percy grabbed her elbow in a rather harsh way.
"We need to go, quickly." He almost whispered as they moved quickly through the atrium and toward the lifts. They got into the lift, which Arthur Weasley just happened to be in. Percy did his casual and cold none-greeting and the lift went off, when Percy and Alicia stepped off the lift at the first floor, "Level one, Minister of Magic and Support Staff.", Alicia had a bit more in her handbag than when she stepped onto it.
"You got everything?" Percy asked in a hushed whisper when the doors to the lift had closed.
"Pretty sure." Alicia answered.
"Good morning." A voice that sounded cheery, but made Alicia feel like vomit at the spot, said from behind them.
"Morning Ms Umbridge." Percy said and turned around toward the awful, awful woman.
"Morning." Alicia said turning around, trying real hard to look happy as she gave that awful, awful woman a smile.
"Wonderful day isn't it" Umbridge continued happily.
"Certainly." Alicia answered and couldn't remember anything nice about this awful, awful woman that once had been the teacher and put het into detention and had her write "I shall not provoke" with her special pen, which carved that into your skin.
"Miss Chase, Have you seen the minister around today, there have come up a slight problem." Umbridge asked Alicia.
"Unfortunately not, prof... Ms Umbridge." Alicia shook her head and cursed over herself for the fact that she almost called her Professor.
"Oh look, there he is..." Umbridge said and darted past them and walked toward the minister of magic Pius Thicknesse, who was standing and had a low voiced conversation with Yaxley.
"Ah, Ms Umbridge, how may I assist you?" The minister said to Umbridge.
Yaxley casted both Percy and Alicia suspicious looks as he darted past them to get away, and Alicia just couldn't help but look back at him with disgust, she still hadn't forgotten that he was the one that had ordered the murder at her just a two weeks ago.
"Morning Minister." Percy said.
"Morning Weasley." The minister answered. And Alicia noticed the un-respectfulness in his voice.
"Morning Minister." Alicia also said, it would seem rude if she didn't greet at the minister.
"Ms Chase." The minister said, his voice now totally changed. "I have work for you to do today, just check with my secretary about it. And it is of great importance that it's getting done today." He continued.
"I'm right on it minister." Alicia said, she and Percy moved down the hall as Umbridge started to talk with the minister about that problem.
Like Thicknesse had asked of Alicia did she walk up to the very young witch who sat at a desk at the side of the Minister of Magic's office, she simply just looked up at Alicia with bored eyes and pointed toward a pile off files lying on the side of the desk. Alicia gave the very young witch an un-returned smile, grabbed the files and walked back over to Percy who stood by a door marked with Wendy Chase's name.
"Do you have a private room?" She asked Percy and stepped into the room.
"No, Wendy has because she have a higher rank that I do." Percy answered.
"Lovely." Alicia answered and put down the files and her bag at the desk.
She took out the content of it onto the desk. Like it was agreed would Mr. Weasley put in a bottle of Chloroform, a cloth, a bottle of Polyjuice potion and the grappling hook, and he had given her all that.
"The door you have to use..." Percy started to explain to her what door she had to use.
Me note: I'm so sorry that this is short, but you'll just have to deal with it okay... Big thanks to my Reviewers: THEWORLDOFHPEXISTSNOMATTERWHAT (My new favourite anonyms reviewer, in the big picture you share that spot with bik) Taliapony and Sophia.Weasey. Big thanks.
