Chapter 3:
It was a rather long drive, but the car had been magicked to be much roomier inside then was normal, so Alicia, Tonks and Dedalus all fit in the back like a limo while Kingsley and Sturgis sat in the front, Kingsley driving.
"So how'd you manage to get a ministry car?" Alicia wondered
"Well Kingsley and I work for the ministry, Aurors." Tonks explained "Kingsley managed to get us a car without too much suspicion."
"Was there no other way?" Alicia wondered casually as she stared out the window. The car seemed to be going oddly fast for a car, something that probably wasn't legal on the muggle roads but she'd seen Ministry cars jump cues so she guessed the muggles didn't notice them, as they never saw the Nightbus unless it was stopped.
"Well the floo network is being monitored and we can't Apparate you. We could have flown but it's too risky in the daylight." Tonks listed and Alicia nodded understanding. She wasn't sure if Kingsley randomly borrowing a car was any better but…
They drove all day in silence, Alicia wasn't surprised no one turned a radio on, they probably weren't sure how and didn't want to bother with finding the right station for them. Alicia watched as houses sawed past over and over. Alicia was looking forward to seeing Ron and Hermione, and especially Sirius but the guilt was stronger than her excitement, guilt for leaving Harry. Hopefully the girls gave him her message, hopefully they remembered, and hopefully she could figure out how to work this thing of hers to contact him, for she was sure Noel was going to be stolen or Mrs Weasley would go through all her letters. There was also the fact that if it was a secret hideout, Noel wouldn't be able to leave very often.
She'd probably be locked up somewhere to keep people from knowing where she was, who she was and to keep her from contacting Harry, so she'd have plenty of time to figure out her communication method.
Dusk had set in before Kingsley pulled up in front of a couple of the grimy fronts of houses, a few with broken windows and paint peeling from the doors. Rubbish lay outside several of the front steps.
Alicia looked to see they'd parked between the houses of number eleven and number thirteen.
That's odd, where's number twelve…? on the other side of the road was a fence with a gap in the middle, something that lead to a small square.
"Here we are." Tonks smiled as she opened the door for Alicia. Dedalus had grabbed her trunk and Sturgis her owl's cage.
Alicia pulled her rucksack to her shoulder and looked around the street.
"Here." Kingsley handed Alicia a piece of paper, looking down at it Alicia noticed Dumbledore's handwriting.
The headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix may be found at number twelve, Grimmauld Place, London.
Alicia looked back at the houses as Kingsley took the note but number twelve wasn't there. Alicia thought over the words again, if the Order of the Phoenix was a secret society then there'd have to be cloaking on the place to stop the Death Eaters finding it.
As Alicia thought over the words she'd just read suddenly a door appeared before her. Windows and walls followed and number eleven and thirteen were pushed away from one another as though number twelve was inflating itself. Alicia watched it as the muggles on either side barely seemed to notice, this didn't surprise her.
When everything stopped moving Alicia moved towards the front door without a hint. She heard the others follow as the car started up again, glancing over her shoulder she noticed Kingsley was leaving. Guessing he had to return the car within the suspicion time.
Tonks took out her wand when they reached the black peeling door with a silver serpent knocker and tapped it with her wand. Several loud metallic clicks sounded from the other side and what sounded like the clatter of a chain joined it.
The door creaked open.
"Quick." Tonks grinned, Alicia shared a smirk before she slipped inside, the other three behind her and the door closed quickly behind them.
The hall smelled damp and dusty, there was barely any light but the peeling wallpaper and threadbare carpet could be made out through the hallway they'd entered. A chandelier glimmered over head, covered in cobwebs and age blackened portraits hung crooked on the walls. It felt like a derelict building.
Alicia felt this place had long been abandoned until Dumbledore decided to use it for the society.
She could here a few clatters echoing through the house, nothing too loud. Someone was moving around just down the end of the hall, in something that sounded like a basement. Alicia was sure it'd be Mrs Weasley in the kitchen at this time of night. The twins were probably making the racket upstairs, Hermione, Ron and Ginny watching over. Percy was probably locked up in a room he'd chosen for himself, Sirius would be lying around aggravated as he was locked up, or he'd be in the kitchen making a nuisance of himself, or maybe he knew how to cook, before he ended up in Azkaban.
Alicia snickered slightly at the thought, if that were the case she didn't think he'd have been living off rats last year.
They moved to the end of the hall and then down a set of stairs. It was a cavernous room with stone walls. The light in the room as coming from the fire burning at the far end, many heavy iron pots and pans hung from the dark celling and many chairs were crammed in the room around a long wooden table.
Alicia noticed at once that the recognisable red hair of Mrs Weasley was bustling around as she made dinner for the household. Alicia guessed that as this was headquarters there'd be more than just the Weasley's, Hermione and Sirius staying. Tonks probably did as well as Lupin and a few other's she probably hadn't met yet.
Alicia moved through the room and over to Mrs Weasley.
"Would you like a hand?" she asked. Mrs Weasley jumped before turning to Alicia.
"Oh Alicia dear!" she beamed and quickly put the pots and her wand in her hand down to give her a hug. Alicia wasn't sure if Mrs Weasley knew she was coming or if she'd forgotten, but her expression said it was one or the other.
"Hello Mrs Weasley."
"How are you sweetie?"
"I'm alright." Alicia nodded
"You need to excuse me, I would have come up and greeted you if I'd known you were here, I'm still learning where everything is." she admitted looking around. Alicia noticed the bench tops had a few odds and sods lying around with empty draws from where Mrs Weasley had been searching for something.
Alicia chuckled.
"That's alright, would you like some help?"
"Oh don't be silly dear, you've travelled a long way, you probably want to go and settle in. You get to share with Hermione and Ginny upstairs, unless of course you'd like you're own room, I'll show you the way." she said
"Actually Mrs Weasley I'd rather help you with dinner, that way I can eat it quicker." Alicia giggled and Mrs Weasley let out a laugh.
"Yes I guess that'd make sense. Alright then." Alicia turned to her escorts by the door.
"You can just leave my things there for now, I'll take them up later. Thanks for your help." she said. "That's alright we'll take them upstairs." Dedalus said
"Don't bother, I'll have the twins do it later." Alicia smiled. They shared a look before both Surges and Dedalus nodded and placed her things down out of the way by the door.
"I'll help too Molly." Tonks decided and she tripped over several chair legs as she made her way over to Alicia and Mrs Weasley.
"Careful there…" Alicia muttered
"Oh don't worry, I'm awfully clumsy." Tonks waved the thought away
"Then do you really think it's a good idea we put you on the food we're going to eat?" Alicia asked chuckling "Or with a knife or stove." Tonks rolled her eyes but smiled
"Fine." she allowed and she moved from to sit at the table.
"Thanks dear, she has caused a few disasters already." Mrs Weasley admitted, to which Alicia chuckled.
"So how long have you been here?" Alicia asked as she began to cut up some vegetables.
"Only a week or so. We've been trying to clean the place up most days, as we're not allowed out very often, safety measures and all. There's a terrible amount of dust and all sorts of creatures living here." Mrs Weasley explained
"I guess it's been as deserted as it looks then." Alicia sighed
"It's been empty for ten years." Mrs Weasley nodded
"How'd you find it then?" Alicia wondered
"Oh it's Sirius' parents house." Mrs Weasley smiled.
"Sirius grew up here?" Alicia asked surprised. Mrs Weasley nodded
"He offered it to Dumbledore as headquarters. His father put quite the amount of muggle repelling and safety charms on it as you might have noticed, so it fit rather well."
"I bet." Alicia muttered
"By the way, you do know the situation involving Harry do you not?" Mrs Weasley asked looking slightly saddened.
"I completely disagree with it." Alicia said annoyed.
"Dumbledore knows best dear…"
"Dumbledore's making excuses and I refuse to allow it to happen this way. I know my brother and this is the most terrible way to deal with his situation." Alicia said stubbornly and she focused on the vegetables she was cutting. Mrs Weasley didn't say anything else on the matter but Alicia knew she'd signed herself a bodyguard. Mrs Weasley would be watching every move of communication from the girl. But that was alright, if they caught her trying to contact in the normal ways then maybe she'd get through with her own plans undetected. It'd look suspicious if she tried to not contact Harry at all.
They cooked as Alicia asked which rooms they'd cleaned, clearly the kitchen and bedrooms were first and the others were being put to the side until that was done.
"Kreacher isn't helping the situation very much though, he keeps coming and taking things he think should stay." Mrs Weasley sighed "Get's under Sirius' skin that one."
"Kreacher?"
"He's the house elf here dear." she explained.
"And how have things been going with the order?" Alicia asked casually, though she saw Mrs Weasley pause from the corner of her eye. "Smoothly? Getting anywhere?"
"It's been tough," Mrs Weasley's voice was cautious as she thought about what to say. "We have to work below the Minster's nose as I'm guessing you're aware, we have those who were in the order before when You-Know-Why was last in power, those who survived anyway. Dumbledore's working other angles outside. He has Charlie trying to create connections with foreign wizards, and Bill's come home to help out."
"He's not in Egypt?" Alicia wondered. She wasn't sure if Ron would get in trouble for telling her that or not, so she just pretended not to know and stuck to asking the simple questions. She knew Mrs Weasley wouldn't want to tell her the important information as she was 'still a child' so she kept it on the down low for now, she could pester Sirius instead later. He was bound to give her more information than Mrs Weasley. Though that might take a bit of work as well.
"No he exchanged to a desk job in order to help out with the order." Mrs Weasley smiled "It's good to have him home for a change, we do hardly get to see him and Charlie lately." Alicia nodded and began again.
"And what about—" there was a cough behind her and Alicia turned to Tonks who was shaking her head seriously. She crossed her arms over in an x and Alicia raised an eyebrow. Did something happen to Percy?
"I can understand that…" she said slowly and Tonks nodded and gave her a thumbs up. "Guessing Ron and the Twins are helping out with the cleaning." Alicia smirked, seeing the twins being forced to clean.
"Everyone has to play their role."
"And how's Mr Weasley doing at work? I'm assuming Fudge suspects him?" Mrs Weasley sighed.
"It is tough and Arthur's trying, but yes he has to work quickly and under the radar. Kingsley and Tonks as well as a few others are trying as well though." Alicia nodded
"How's Sirius doing? Cooped up here?"
"He's taking it better than I expect, but it hasn't been long. He knows the risks though."
"Seeing as Wormtail would have let his shaggy identity slip." Alicia smirked slightly and then sighed.
"Right then." Alicia looked down to see a rather large dinner before them. They'd cooked a soup as well as some chicken with spuds and snags. Alicia had hardly noticed what they'd been making but it looked delicious.
"I'll go and collect everyone shall I, we don't need to wake everyone up after all." Alicia looked confused as she left the kitchen.
"Who would we be waking?" Alicia asked Tonks as she moved to sit beside her.
"Oh there's a portrait in the hallway, a life sized one, it has curtains drawn over it. Behind is a portrait of Sirius' mother, my second or third cousin." she thought as Alicia looked at her surprised "Sirius was cousins of my mother so, third cousin his mother would be." Tonks nodded.
"I guess all pure-blooded families would be related in order to keep it in the family…" Alicia sighed with a roll of the eyes. For some reason she'd never thought Sirius was a pure blood… maybe it had something to do with the matted look he'd always had about him… or the fact that she knew nothing about Sirius' family. They must've been well off however though if they had a house elf.
Alicia heard footsteps approaching the room, though quietly and the voices were seriously hushed.
"You didn't tell me what was wrong with waking the portrait?" Alicia said to Tonks. She snorted slightly.
"Well Sirius' typically pure blooded mother is absolutely appalled that there's a muggle-born and blood traitors within her house. So when ever she's alerted to their presence she screams at the top of her lungs insulting them." Alicia raised an eyebrow.
"The curtains are to keep her from seeing as well as hearing. That's why we need to be quiet." Alicia thought.
"You know, somehow I can see Sirius' mother being like that…" she snickered and Tonks chuckled beside her.
"Well, you would be the first." Alicia looked up to see Sirius had walked into the room. He still had long black hair.
"And you need a serious hair cut." Alicia admitted pulling a grimace. Sirius laughed his barking laugh as Alicia grinned and stood up. Sirius walked over to her and pulled her into a grateful hug. When they broke apart however Alicia punched his shoulder.
"That's for not telling me anything! Don't you dare keep important things from me again!" she ordered, she ignored Tonks who snorted to hide her laughter. "And that includes in the future." Alicia hissed seriously. Sirius rolled his eyes.
"You be grateful this is the only warning you get from me. Harry'll be worse if you keep it from him too." Sirius sighed.
"Alicia!?" she turned to see Hermione, Ron and Ginny at the doorway staring at her shocked.
"Hey." she smiled
"What are you doing here?" Hermione questioned
"Really? You think I'm going to be left out?" she questioned "Didn't you get my howler?" she smirked and Ron grimaced as he remembered it.
Ginny chuckled and moved forwards to hug the black haired girl.
"Hey Ginny."
"Jeez I'm glad you're here." Ginny chuckled
"What are these people boring?" the two laughed as Hermione walked over and hugged the girl too.
"Just because you sent us a howler doesn't mean it'd do anything." she said
"Yeah but clearly you didn't know I sent a angrier one to Dumbledore too." Everyone looked at her shocked, well the children did, the adult's not so much and Sirius smirked.
"Alicia you didn't." Hermione scolded
"Course I did." Alicia said crossing her arms stubbornly with a shrug. She then smirked. Hermione looked at her disapprovingly.
"Though this does explain why Noel randomly turned up." Ginny said
"She's here then?"
"Turned up this morning, we were all really confused actually." Ginny confessed "She's upstairs with Pig."
"Bet she loves that." Alicia grinned
"Well, well, well, look who's here!" The twins had appeared.
"I've got to say it's about time!" Fred smirked and Alicia raised her arms. Their was a crack and the twins were suddenly in front of Alicia giving her a hug as she groaned.
"Oh no, you two passed your apparation test." everyone laughed.
"Free magic baby." George smirked
"Don't miss-use it will you," Alicia warned.
Ron came over and gave her a hug next.
"How's Harry?" he asked
"How do you think? He's pissed." she emphasised "No joke, if he knew how to, he'd be sending you a howler every week." she laughed but everyone looked sad.
She rolled her eyes, there was a simple solution to their problem but she guessed no one wanted to defy Dumbledore but her.
"So dinner everyone?" she asked. Everyone sat at the table and Mrs Weasley placed the food down its middle. The plates had already been placed out as well as the cutlery and cups, allowing people to get up and grab what ever drink they wished.
Everyone chatted around the table. Lupin turned up not five minutes in, a few others appeared that Alicia hadn't met.
"How have you been Alicia?" Lupin wondered
"Not bad, better now… I think." she muttered with a shrug. "How have you been?" she wondered Lupin sighed.
"Working for the order. Hasn't been all that easy." he confessed
"Are you trying to figure out what Voldemort's after?" Everyone stopped and looked at them. Alicia rolled her eyes. "Jeez are you all going to get tense at every question that involves him, you can just say yes you know?" she snapped annoyed. Sirius smirked slightly as Mrs Weasley looked over everyone daring them to say any more on the matter.
"Yes, we are." Lupin answered. Alicia simply nodded and left it at that. Ron and Hermione glanced at her a bit as Alicia caught Sirius' eye. He winked at her and she smirked slightly.
They helped pack away the dishes and Mrs Weasley made the dishes wash themselves under her watch.
"So is Mr Weasley working late?" Alicia asked. Mrs Weasley sighed.
"He has done so a few nights, trying to help Dumbledore." she admitted and Alicia nodded.
"Come on Alicia, I'll show you were you're sleeping." Ginny grinned
"Thanks." Alicia smiled and she spotted Fred and George heading for the exit. "Oi! You two miscreants." she called and they turned to her confused "Bags." she pointed to her trunk
"What?"
"You two enjoy apparating so much, take it upstairs." she ordered, a few people laughed as the twins scowled and grabbed the trunk before disappearing with it with a loud crack!
"Well done." Tonks congratulated and Alicia smirked before she took Ginny's hand and was lead from the room. As soon as they were away from the listening ears enough Alicia lowered her voice considerably to a whisper.
"So how's it going with Michael?" she asked and Ginny shrugged
"Alright, it's hard to send too many owls at the moment."
"No surprise." Alicia sighed
"How about Anthony?" Ginny wondered
"Only had a few letters so far but he seems fine." Alicia answered before she glanced around at the portraits, making sure none would scream if she spoke again "By the way, what happened to Percy?" she questioned "I almost brought him up and Tonks shushed me." Ginny looked at her and rolled her eyes.
"A week or so ago something… bad happened." she admitted as they reached the second landing.
"What?" Alicia questioned.
"Percy and Dad had an argument." Ginny said
"More like a fight." Alicia and Ginny turned to see Ron and Hermione had caught up to them as they climbed up to the next landing, Ginny in front.
"Not a fight, a row." Fred and George had poked their heads out of a room to the side. "Dad was furious! Scarier than mum."
"Your dad?" Alicia asked in disbelief. The Weasley's all nodded. "Is that even possible?"
"Apparently." Fred muttered
"Now every time Percy's mentioned Mum cries and dad breaks something," Ron confessed
"What did they fight about?" Alicia sat on the bed within the room, her trunk was at the foot and there was one other that also looked untouched. Alicia guessed the twins had decided to give her her own room, probably so they could barge in and talk to her about something, maybe their joke shop ideas.
"Well, Percy got a promotion." Ron said, Alicia's eyebrows shot up.
"What? After failing to notice his boss was under the Imperius curse and they investigated him so?" she questioned and everyone nodded.
"It was a bit of a shock." Ginny said
"A bit? It was unnecessary."
"What position did he get?" Alicia wondered
"Personal assistant to the Minister of Magic." Now Alicia looked disbelieving.
"Yeah that's how we felt." Ron nodded
"So Fudge is using Percy to get to Dumbledore through your dad?" Alicia asked and everyone looked at her
"That's exactly what dad thought." Ginny admitted
"Percy came home more proud of himself than he had ever been." Fred confessed
"If that's possible." George muttered
"I think he expected Dad to be happy." Ginny sighed
"He definitely was not." Ron sighed
"Apparently, Fudge has been trying to make sure that nobody's had contact with Dumbledore." Fred said
"So naturally Dad assumed what you did Alicia," Ginny said
"It doesn't help that the prophet and ministry have been putting dirt to Dumbledore. Everyone thinks he's making up the fact that You-Know-Who's back."
"That's because they're too frightened by the idea." Alicia muttered
"Yes well, Fudge threatened to fire those who were in league with Dumbledore." Alicia looked surprised
"That's a bit far isn't it? I mean so many people respect Dumbledore." the Weasley's and Hermione nodded.
"So he promoted Percy because he suspects your dad then?" Alicia asked and everyone nodded.
"And dad told Percy that." Ron sighed. "Said that Fudge only wanted Percy to spy on us."
"And Percy snapped?" Alicia asked
"He went berserk." the Weasley's all chorused.
"He said,"
"A lot of bad things." Ginny cut Fred off.
"He blamed dad for getting work." Ron said
"How so?" Alicia wondered
"Apparently Percy said he had to struggle to get work because of Mr Weasley's lousy reputation and that he has no ambition and…" Hermione paused and looked at Ron.
"Percy blamed that for our family not having very much money…" Ginny confessed Alicia stared.
"He what?!" Alicia demanded "How could he say that?!"
"It got worse from there, Percy called dad an idiot to run around with Dumbledore, that Dumbledore was heading for big trouble and that dad would go down with him." Ron explained
"He then decided that he knew where his loyalties lie and it was with the ministry instead of his family." Fred shrugged
"Then he decided if Mum and dad were going to become traitors, he'd make sure everyone knew he wasn't a part of our family." George said
"So be packed his bags and left." Ginny finished.
"That's awful." Alicia muttered looking angry.
"Mum's been crying about it." Ginny sighed
"She went to visit him in London but," Ron began
"He slammed the door in her face."
"His own mother?" Alicia asked appalled and the Weasley's nodded.
"So he doesn't believe Voldemort's back then?" everyone flinched but nodded
"Apparently you and Harry's word isn't good enough."
"I guess the Daily Prophet hasn't been helping that." Alicia rolled her eyes.
"That's why we don't say his name."
"Also explain's why he's not here." Alicia nodded.
Everyone sighed and silence fell.
"So, I'm guessing you guys know very little about what the order's doing?" Alicia asked and everyone nodded "Because your mother thinks we're all too young to handle it?" another group nod. "But do we know anything?" she wondered
"We will." Fred smirked
"What did you make?" she asked eagerly and George disappeared with a crack before reappearing.
"These." there was a heap of long skin coloured threads, all bundled in their own individual knots.
"Extendable ears."
"Put one end in the ear and the other to what you want to listen to."
"And you got them working?" Alicia asked eagerly.
"So far." the twins nodded
"Excellent, we can use them in the mean time."
"In the mean time?" Hermione asked
"I didn't come here to sit on the sidelines." Alicia confessed "I knew I'd be kept out of the information and if that was the case why didn't I just stay with Harry?" she asked and they shared a look, the twins grinning. "Because here, I can try harder. Mrs Weasley doesn't have a hold of me, I'm good at piecing information and better yet, I'm great at proving a case." she said "I think." she muttered as an after thought.
"I'm going to get information from some of them, don't tell Mrs Weasley, I'm going to work on Sirius instead." Alicia said stubbornly "And then, I'm going to tell Harry." everyone looked shocked
"What?" Hermione asked "Alicia you can't, we swore…"
"You did. Dumbledore asked me not to but I made no promises and I refuse to do so." Alicia hissed "I am not leaving him out of this, all Dumbledore's excuses for not having Harry know are completely invalid as they should all apply to me too yet here I am. Besides Dumbledore didn't bring me here because I sent him a howler." Alicia rolled her eyes "And I'll be dammed it he did so to keep me out of everything as well." she said
"I'm gong to get the information and I'm going to find out what Voldemort's up to. Even if I have to do it myself."
"We'll help." the twins chorused.
"Knew you would." Alicia smirked
"But how are you going to tell Harry?" Hermione questioned
"We can't send owls of information," Ginny shrugged
"One because they could get intercepted…" Hermione said
"Two because I think mum might be checking them…" Ron muttered.
"I'm not planning on using an owl." Alicia assured and they looked at her confused. "I have a plan, it's just gonna take time. But don't worry, it's not dangerous or detrimental." she shrugged. At least she didn't think it was…
"So when do they have meetings?"
"Every now and then, Snape comes and reports something." Ron said and Alicia nodded
"We don't know what of though." Fred muttered and Alicia chuckled
"Oh you poor boys, how do you stand being so clueless?" she asked and everyone looked at her
"What do you mean?" the twins chorused
"You don't know do you?" Ron asked
"I don't know the details but I know what Snape's doing for Dumbledore."
"What?" Everyone asked
"He's infiltrating Voldemort's close circle." Alicia shrugged and everyone looked at her. She rolled her eyes. "Snape was once a Death Eater, something happened and Dumbledore gave him a second chance, in return Snape continues to work for Voldemort and gives Dumbledore the information as to what he's up to." Alicia shrugged "It started back before my parents were killed I think and now Snape's doing it again. When Harry and I asked why Dumbledore trusted him or what Snape had sacrificed, Dumbledore said it was a matter between the two of them." she shrugged.
"When did you find this out?" Hermione demanded
"Harry and I saw one of Dumbledore's memories. The same way I found out Moody was an imposter before I ended up in that graveyard." she sighed.
"But if Snape's pretending to be a Death Eater, how do we know he's not working the other way around?" Ron questioned
"Dumbledore must have some reason to trust him." Alicia shrugged "And for some reason I don't believe he'd do that." Alicia muttered
"Why?" the girl only shrugged.
"Well Alicia's hunches are rather good, it's enough for me." Hermione decided and Alicia grinned.
"What else happens?" Alicia wondered
"Well we've only seen Dumbledore once and that was when he told us not to tell Harry or you what was happening." Ron said
"I still can't believe no one told us you were coming."
"Well I think it was a last minute, on the spot decision." Alicia admitted "Dumbledore turned up at my orphanage told me a few things and then said I had to decide on the spot whether I wanted to come. Of course it only took me a second to realise I didn't actually have a choice. If I did Dumbledore wouldn't have told me anything."
"Why?" Ginny asked
"Because I'd go and tell Harry." Alicia shrugged "They had me packed and leaving so quickly that I didn't have time to even get to the front gate to leave the orphanage and tell him anything." she sighed
"So he doesn't even know you're gone?" Ron asked with wide eyes
"He will by now I expect, I think Dumbledore gave Ms Bane some crack pot lie to feed him so he wouldn't get suspicious." Alicia rolled her eyes.
"Will he believe that?" Fred asked
"Nope." Alicia smirked
"What did you do?" George grinned
"Well, just before I left, my two friends from the orphanage they…" Alicia paused "Well… they sort of… found out." she admitted
"Found out what?" Hermione asked looking suspicious
"About me… that I'm a witch." everyone looked at her shocked.
"It was bound to happen to be honest, I grew up with them, they are like me slightly." she rolled her eyes. "Since that happened I left a message with them to give Harry. I didn't tell them the name of the society incase someone was listening, I didn't know where I was going, so I got them to tell him Dumbledore took me to where you two are and that he refused to let us tell him, Harry, anything. That was the main importance." she shrugged
"So he knows we're all together and he's not…" Ron asked looking worried
"He already knew you two were."
"How?" Ginny asked
"We're not stupid your letters totally gave it away." Alicia admitted and the two looked guilty. "Anyway, if I have my way he'll either be here soon or he'll know everything I do and still be here soon." she smiled
"Cause you're gonna contact him?" George asked
"Exactly." Alicia nodded "Now go away, I need lots of rest in order to concentrate tomorrow."
"On what?" Ginny asked
"Expanding my mind. Oh and I refuse to help clean this house, this is more important."
"Mum wont allow that." Fred smirked
"You got anything that'll get me out of it? If it works or not I'll take it." she shrugged "You might need a different dummy." she smirked. "Besides if that's not an option I know what might make her leave me alone." Alicia smiled.