Ch. 7

I go down to the Great Hall, I see Lucas sitting by Ginny. I walk up to him, Ginny looks at me and smiles, then she sees my face and her face drops. I sit down and look at Lucas, my face relaxes a little bit. He looks up at me with a worried face

"Where is Rosie? She was supposed to meet me in here for lunch."

"Rosie is in the Hospital Wing.''

"What? Why? Is she okay?"

Before I answer Malfoy comes in with a smug look on his face. I stand up and march over to him

"MALFOY!" I yell

He looks over at me and sneers

"What do you want Potter?" he spats

I don't answer, my fist just flies at him, and I here a crunching noise come from his nose. Ginny comes over to me screaming that I am going to get into so much trouble but I don't hear her

"Don't you ever touch or hurt my little sister again! You want to beat someone up, pick on someone your own size." I yell, Ginny stops screaming and looks at me, and Lucas hears what I said. He looks at his brother with complete disgust

"What did you do to her? Draco, what did you do?" he asks

Malfoy looks at his brother with complete disgust and sneers "You're actually caring about what happen to a blood traitor? Who happens to be a Potter?"

"She is my friend Draco!" he looks at me with tears in his eyes "Can I go see her? Please I need to know if she is alright."

I nodded my head and grab Ginny's hand and we start to walk to the Hospital Wing, with Lucas, Ron and Hermione trailing behind us. I am so mad, my one hand is still in a fist, Ginny looks at me out of the corner of her eye and smiles weakly. I smile back

"Ginny, I'm so sorry."

"For what?"

"Did I scare you back there, when I punched Malfoy?"

She looks down and blushes a little bit the looks back at me "Yeah, you did Harry..." I start to say something but she shakes her head and I close my mouth to let her finish "I've never seen you punch someone Harry, and I could tell you were mad but I didn't know why and when you went up to Malfoy and just hit him, I thought you just hit him for nothing. I know now I shouldn't have thought that but usually I can read you, but I couldn't. Yeah I heard that Rosie is in the Hospital wing but I didn't know it was Malfoy that put her in there. Then I heard what you said to him about never touching your little sister again, and I had to stop myself from hexing him. I love you Harry, for everything you are, and I really love the part of you that protect the ones you hold close to your heart."

She smiles at me and takes a deep breath; I lean over and give her a quick kiss on her lips

"Oi! Didn't I say tone the snogging down in front of me!" yells Ron. Hermione chuckles and Ginny looks back at him

"If you don't want to see it then don't look!" she yells

We get to the Hospital Wing and Rosie is sitting on a bed with a cup on the table beside her. Lucas runs up to her and sits on the side of her bed. She smiles at him a looks at to see the rest of us. Hermione comes over and looks at her arm; she sighs and shakes her head. Ginny goes up to her and give her a little kiss on the forehead, then goes to sit on her other side, I am at the foot of the bed with Ron.

"How is your arm doing Rosie?" I ask

She smiles weakly at me "Madame Pomfrey said that I got hit with a really bad bruise spell, she gave me this medicine that is suppose to help it from stop growing and fade away.'' as she says this Madame Pomfrey comes over with a bottle she takes the glass and puts a little more in it

"You've been drinking it right Rosie?" I ask

"Oh yes! I haven't complained once about it."

Madame Pomfrey chuckles and looks up at me "She hasn't complained about it, but the first glass she spit out all over me, kind of like what you did in your second year when I had to grow all your bones back in you arm. She has been drinking it though, I told her it will help. It will stop the bruise from growing and take the pain away and it will fade to a light yellow but it will take a while until her arm is back to normal. She will be sore, that was a very strong curse that she got hit with. I want to keep her over night and she is not going to any of her other classes, I already informed her teachers. Though hopefully in two weeks time, she will be all better."

"Will she go to her classes tomorrow?" Hermione asks

"Yes, but for now she needs to rest."

Madame Pomfrey puts the glass down and walks back to her office, I look at Rosie and smile. My little sister is so brave, she smiling and talking to Lucas about what has happen. I look at Ginny and she just sitting there watching Rosie. Lucas grabs Rosie hand and smiles at her she smiles back. Oh bloody hell, my little sister is not going to have her first boyfriend in her first year, they are only eleven for goodness sakes. I clear my throat,

"Hermione, Ron, Ginny I think we should get going, Rosie has all the company she needs." I lean over to her a give her a kiss on the forehead "My little Rose, so strong and brave, you will do great things one day.'' Mum, Dad and I use to whisper this to her when ever she was scared but wouldn't show it. She smiles and wraps her arms around my neck

"You're the best big brother in the world, I love you Harry." she whispers in my ear. I smile and stand up, I grab Ginny's hand she looks at me a smile, and gives a little laugh. We get out into the hall, I look back a Rosie and Lucas, they are friends but that is not going to stop me from making sure they don't become more than that, yet, but she does need to be alone with her friends, that's why I am okay with leaving them two alone and it's not like anything is going to happen. I look over a Ginny she is still smiling and laughing

"What's so funny?"

"I just realized that you are going to be a great dad one day.''

"What do you mean?"

"Back there when we left, how you were with Rosie, she is one lucky little girl to have you as a big brother.''

"I do what I have to do she is my little sister and I have to look out for her. She can have her annoying moments but big brothers look out for their little sisters."

Hermione comes up to me and laughs "I can't believe you are letting Rosie and Lucas be alone."

"Oh I know Lucas likes Rosie and I can tell she likes him too, but they are only eleven, they think snogging is gross. Nothing is going to happen, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to be the big protective brother."

They laugh, we go back to our classes, and then a questions pops into my head, should I tell mum and dad what happen to Rosie? Should I tell them that there is a guy who likes Rosie? I think about it a decided not to, if Rosie wants mum and dad to know then I will let her tell them, that is only fair. As I am thinking this through Professor McGongall comes up to me. With a pissed of look on her face

"My office now Potter!"

I follow her to her office, she goes behind her desk. "What were you thinking? Punching Mr. Malfoy in the face, what were you thinking?"

I look down to the floor, man I forgot how much I hate being yelled at by her "I wasn't thinking, I was mad because he hurt my little sister, and I reacted before I could think."

She sits down in a huff, and motions for me to sit. "I heard what he did to Rosie, he has detention for that. Potter I know you we just defending your little sister but I can't let you go without a punishment."

"Alright."

"You will have detention, with Professor Slughorn, tonight after dinner. You are to report to his classroom."

"For how long?"

"Until he tells you to leave."

"Is Malfoy going to be there too?"

"Heavens no, why would I put you two in the same room after what just happen.''

"Just wondering, is that all then?"

"No, I reserved the Qudditch field for you this weekend to hold try outs for the Gryffindor team."

"That's fine; I'll put a notice up in the Common Room. Anything else?"

"Yes, one more thing; good job Potter."

"What?" I ask confused

She leans forward and folds her hand and leans her head on them and looks at me over the rim of her glasses "I shouldn't be saying this but I do approve of you defending your little sister but I still have to punish you. You may leave now."

I get up and leave her office, what just happen? Did McGongal really just say good job about me punching Malfoy. I'm in a little daze, I go back up to the Gryffindor tower and I'm sitting on the couch. I don't have a class this time so I am waiting for everyone else to come back from their classes. I decied to write to mum and dad.

Dear Mum and Dad,

How are you two doing? Mum, I already miss your cooking. Dad anything good in the paper? Rosie is doing really well, she made me promise not to tell you what house she got into because she wants to tell you. So I'm not going to tell you anything that happens to Rosie, because I know she will get mad if I do, because she wants to tell you it all. Professor Snape, is still treating me the same, but I can handle it. Ginny told me to tell you guys hello. Classes are going alright; it is just the first day. Qudditch try outs are this weekend so, I have to get that all set up. Hope all is well on your end, how is Uncle Sirius and Uncle Remus, have you heard anything from them since my party?

All my love,

Harry

I fold the letter up and put it in the envelope, I decided to take it up to the owlery now, then I'll go meet Ginny outside of her class. Then we can go visit Rosie in the Hospital wing. On my way to the Owlery, I see Malfoy wondering around the corridor, he looks tense. I start to follow him, but once we get to the seventh floor I lose him. I shake my head and finish my way to the owlery. I get there and I see Shadow and Hedwig sitting by each other. I laugh as I remember Rosie being so excited that Hedwig wasn't jealous that there is another owl in the family. She was bouncing up and down. I reach my arm up and both Hedwig and Shadow fly down to me. I laugh.

"Sorry Shadow, but Hedwig is my owl. I'm going to use her, Rosie will be writing to mum and dad soon. So you'll get your turn." Shadow turns around and flies away, Hedwig comes a little closer, I swear she did it with a smug look. I laugh and tie the letter to her leg and tell her to take it to mum at the house. She flies away, I watch as she is flying away into the distance. Shadow comes down on to my shoulder, and nudges me a little bit. I pet her on the head. I start thinking about my first year at Hogwarts, and how much fun I had with my friends. I also think about all the adventures we had, it's been six years and we still haven't had a peaceful year at Hogwarts, I wonder if we ever will. I laugh to myself and turn around to leave. Shadow flies of my shoulder, on my way out the door I run into Cho. I look up and smile, we always seemed to run into each other at the Owlery.