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SparrowLillies - It was wasn't it? Hope you liked it! But there will be an encounter in the future, just need to think when and where!
29. Secret Army Revealed
The whole deal with Dorian and Fred spread throughout Hogwarts again and this time it took half the time. It was Thursday today and I bounded down the stairs into the common room happily, holding a stack of diagrams of prank inventions for the twins. I looked round to see Fred and George walking round the common room, holding boxes filled with different sweets, handing them out to a huge group of First Years to see if they would work or not. I walked up to Fred and handed him the papers, "Here's some ideas that I came up with while we were...apart."
Fred smirked and took them, "Thanks. Oh, made a special sweet just for you to try if you want." He teased me by waving it around my face.
Me, knowing that I wouldn't decline, took it out of his hand and looked at it. The sweet was small and something that was meant to be sucked on, like a boil sweet. The red, orange and yellow colours blended together. "It feels warm." I commented and looked from the new invention to Fred's face, who simply smiled wider and waited for me to try it. I shrugged and popped the sweet into my mouth, sucking on it and feeling it grow smaller until it finally disappeared. "Tastes like strawberry, orange and yellow. Nice, but, what's the-" I stopped asking mid question as Fred took a few small steps back, still watching me. I felt my whole body heat up and looked at my hand to see it covered in a blazing fire, but not harming me.
Soon my whole body was enflamed as I stood there, supporting most of my weight on my right leg as I leaned and put my hand on my waist, looking as though I was posing. The First Years around us 'oh' and 'aw' as they stared at me. George came up to us and stood next to Fred, also having a happy smile on his face. "Brilliant, it works like a dream."
I stuck up my fiery hand, to look as though I was asking a question, which I did, "Excuse me, but, how can I stop this?"
"Simple, all you have to do is click your fingers and it will extinguish. To bring it back, just do the same. It also works for twenty four hours and then stops." George advised and after ticking something on his clipboard, he walked away to a group of boiled children.
"Can I touch people without harming them?" I asked curiously. Fred shrugged and watched me as I held out my hand, as if I wanted a high five. "Then let's try." I whispered. Fred put down some boxes and then took a step closer, bringing his hand up to be touching my engulfed hand, but he too wasn't being harmed.
"It's beautiful. You're beautiful." He whispered. I chuckled and took my hand away and clicked, feeling the flames disappear. "Flattery will get you nowhere." I teased and then winked.
Fred chuckled and quickly pecked my cheek. At that moment, the portrait door opened and Krista stepped in. She looked at all the First Years to then me and prayed, "I'm hoping that the twins haven't made you try something." I tried to look innocent as I clicked my fingers, the flames returning. Krista sighed with a small smile. "I knew you wouldn't resist."I shrugged my shoulders and then clicked again, making the flames disappear. "Harry wants us. For the surprise birthday." Krista said. The twins and I understood what she meant so we put the inventions away and headed out of the common room.
We walked along the stairs and corridors. We reached the wall and as Krista thought of the room, I looked round and just in time saw Malfoy duck his head away from sight. "Malfoy's onto us." I whispered to Fred, who nodded and when the doors opened, we rushed inside. The doors shut and disappeared just in time. We walked in and joined the group to see Harry looking at all of us.
"Alright. Today we'll be learning how to do a patronus. Now, to make a patronus, you need to think of a happy thought, something that you have felt nothing but pure joy and happiness. Once you have thought of something, you wave your wand and say, expecto patronum. Now, any questions?" We all shook our heads and Harry nodded with a small smile of pride, "Alright then. Spread out and begin!"
We covered the whole floor and various people were shouting out the spell. I watched as Luna produced a hare, bouncing in the air and then disappearing once it hit a window. Hermione finally managed one next as her one was an otter which swam around in the air, circling her. Harry came up to me as I leaned against the wall. "What's wrong Scy?"
I sighed and replied. "I can't think of a good memory. I haven't exactly had the best life."
Harry nodded in understanding. "What about all the times with your brother?"
"They are good, filled with happiness. But their all the actions that Kester did to ensure we would stay alive." Harry nodded as he listened to me. Fred came up to me and I asked him, "What's your good memories?"
"All the times I caused chaos with Georgie and also some times with you." I chuckled and let Fred pull me away from the wall. He held my shoulders as he faced me in a clear direction as people were not in it. He then whispered into my ear. "Now. Your need to relax, breath calmly and let your shoulders relax. You're too tense at the moment." I looked at him and then sighed, turning my line of vision to the space ahead. I took a few deep breaths and let my shoulders drop, feeling the stress and tension leave already. "Alright. Good. Now, think of a good memory where you were happy and loved. One of the many things I think of us to is when..." He dropped the level of whispering as he whispered of what happened at the Clock Tower.
I hid my smile and actually managed not to blush as he looked at me and smiled. "Got it in your mind?" I nodded and then felt his hands leave my shoulders as he took a step back. I took a deep breath and with the thought still in my head, clear as day, I said softly, "Expecto Patronum." I watched as a light, hazy blue and white light drift out of my wand and into the air. A form started to take shape a small but brave cat was revealed and yawned, as if it had just woken up. It walked towards me and I held my hand out and 'stroked it', feeling the light sift around my fingers as the animal disappeared.
I smiled at the small achievement, but the happiness soon ended as we heard a crash against the wall, where our entrance to the room was. We all stared as the room shook and soon the wall burst apart, leaving a gaping hole in it. We stared in horror as we saw Filch, Umbridge, Malfoy and some of his goons. But what made it worse was when they revealed a shaken and scared Cho.
We were all made to leave the Room of Requirement and were marched into the Great Hall. Single tables and chairs were placed in rows as the OWLS were starting soon. We were made to sit in the first couple of rows and I saw that all our tables had the same Blood Quill that I had to use for my last punishment. Paper floated onto our tables and Umbridge stood at the front, looking down at us all as she spoke in her high pitch voice. "I want you all to write a hundred lines. 'I will not disobey Headmistress' rules'." She nodded and then watched us as we began writing, all trying to ignore the pain.
A hundred lines later and we were finally allowed to leave. Fred held my throbbing hand, ignoring his as we saw Cho. We simply glared at her and walked past her, George and Krista behind us. We walked to the Gryffindor common room and sat in the empty room of the sofa and armchairs. We had dropped Krista off at her common room which left just us three.
"You guys okay? You seem really quiet, it wasn't what just happened was it?" I asked them, noticing they had been quiet since we left the hall.
They looked at each other and then back at me. George then spoke, "We need your creation of the big firework that you did back at your old school."
I gave them a confused look as I cautiously asked, "Yeah. Why what's going on?"
Fred then answered, "We're planning on leaving school early. We can't take this Umbridge anymore. We're sick of all the rules she's made via Ministry of Magic that we're going to skip our OWLs and build our joke shop. Harry gave us the money from the Triwizard Tournament so we are able to do it. We were trying to think of a big finale, our way of leaving."
I stared at them and asked, "And leaving me here? With Umbridge?" They looked at each other and George nodded, standing up and walking away, leaving us two alone.
Fred sat from the armchair to next to me on the sofa taking my hands, "Scy, I don't want to leave you here alone, with Umbridge of all people. But we have to get out of here and I'm thinking of your grades and future. I don't want you ending up like me, no future, apart from a joke shop, no grades and nothing to make my parents proud."
I sighed and looked at him. "Okay. I'll help. But don't forget me." I said sternly to him.
He chuckled and kissed me, pulling away to reply. "I could never forget you. I love you too much to try." I chuckled and we looked to the portrait door, seeing it open and Professor McGonagall revealed herself.
"Weasley. Gryffindor. You have to come to Dumbledore's office. Harry was on his way here when he had a vision. It was your father Mr Weasley, Harry saw a vision of him being attacked." We stood up and walked out of the common room, waiting as George came as well. We all rushed to the office and walked in to see Harry, Ron, Ginny and Krista. The office door shut behind us and we used Floo Powder to get to the secret place for the Order, hoping that Arthur survived the attack.
