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Chapter Ten: Dobby the House-elf and the rescue
"Please."
"No."
"Please."
"No."
"Please."
Adam stopped by the edge of the staircase to let out a sigh.
"Vanessa, it's' just dinner with Chad's family and Audrey's family it's not going to kill you." He said as he continued downstairs.
"It just might." Vanessa said and followed after him. "Please, let me go over to the Weasley's or Rain's or Aramis...I'll even go as far to visiting Harry's uncle and aunt place."
"Vanessa, for the last time, no, you're not skipping out this, this time." Adam said "Now go and change."
Vanessa crossed her arms and pouted.
"Fine. But if they say something I don't like, I'm gonna bite." Vanessa warned.
She muttered in anger as she stomped upstairs. When she reached the top the doorbell was heard and she could already hear Lumiera opening the door and greeted Audrey and her family. The witch princess rolled her eyes when she heard Audrey's fake cheary voice and continued to her room. When she opened her door she stopped half way at what she saw. A little creature that was jumping on her bed had large bat-like ears and bulging green eyes. It was wearing an old pillowcase, with rips hole for his arms and legs. The creature stopped jumping when it saw her and looked at her with wide eyes.
"Vanessa Potter, such an honor it is to see you." It said with a high-pitched voice.
Vanessa quickly closed the door, not wanting to scare anyone. Though she was tempted to see how freaked out Audrey will be.
"Er...hello. Who are you?" She asked
The creature bowed to her before saying "Dobby, Miss. Dobby the house-elf." The creature said
She had heard about house-elves from her friends at Hogwarts. They are magical creatures that serve witches and wizards, mostly those from older and royal families. Quite power but will never use it against their own masters. They can only be free if their master gives them clothes.
"O-kaaay...not to be rude or anything but right now is not the best time to have a house-elf in my room." Vanessa said
"Oh, yes, Miss." Dobby said "Dobby has come to tell you, Miss...it is difficult, Dobby doesn't know where to begin…"
"They why don't you sit down?" She asked politely.
The elf burst into tears.
"S-sit down!" He wailed
Vanessa quickly tried to calm him down.
"Sorry. I'm sorry Dobby. I didn't mean to offend you or anything..." She said
"Offend Dobby?" The elf choked " Dobby has heard of both you and Harry Potter's greatness but has Dobby has never been asked to sit down by a witch or a wizard...like an equal."
This made Vanessa look down at him with sadness in her eyes. She almost forgot that it's been known that house-elf's end up being abused and look down upon their Masters and other prejudice pureblood wizards.
"I'm sorry to hear that, Dobby. I guess you haven't met many decent witches or wizards lately." She said
Dobby shook his head and made a dash to her dresser as he grabbed a hold of her lamp before hitting himself with it.
"Bad Dobby! Bad Dobby!"
"Dobby, stop." Vanessa hissed as she pry the lamp out his hands. "Why did you do that?"
"Dobby had to punish himself, Miss." The elf said "Dobby almost spoke ill of his family Miss."
"Your family?" Vanessa asked
"The wizard family Dobby serves, Miss...Dobby is a house-elf...we are bound to serve one house and one family forever. If they ever knew that Dobby was here…" Dobby said but shuttered at the last sentence. "But Dobby had to come. Dobby has to warn the Potter's. Harry and Vanessa Potter mustn't go back to Hogwarts this year."
This got Vanessa's to raise a brow.
"There is a plot. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year." Dobby said
"What terrible things? Who's plotting them?" She asked
Dobby made a choking noise and started banging his head against the wall.
"All right. I get it...you can't say." She said trying to stop him from hurting himself.
"Vanessa...Vanessa are you alright in there." Ben said from the other side of the door.
"I'll be right out." She said before looking back at Dobby. "Look, Dobby, I appreciate the warning but after what happened last year I think I'll be fine. Hogwarts is like my second home where I can be my true-self around my friends. Now please can you leave. I have to get dress for this stupid dinner."
"Dobby is sorry, miss, but Dobby must do what he thinks is best." Dobby said
He snapped his fingers and suddenly she heard two high pitch screams downstairs. Vanessa quickly hurried downstairs and when she reached the dining room she had to stop herself from laughing. It seems that the house-elf had exploded the food on everyone. She gulped when she saw her dad staring at her with an angry look.
"I know this may look like something that I would do...but for once it was not me." Vanessa said
That night there was a lot of yelling and arguing...but it wasn't towards her. Both Chad's and Audrey's dads were yelling about the magic that Vanessa possessed and believed that she's too dangerous. When Chad's father suggested that she should be on the Isle that's when Adam exploded his anger onto them and he wasn't the only one. Bell and Ben both showed their mad side, which was rare to hear and see, and kicked them all out.
After everyone was cooled down and cleaned up Vanessa told her family about the house-elf that appeared in her bedroom. They got a little worried when she mentioned the warning the elf gave her and wonder if she should returned. She told them that she'll be fine and that it would very unhero of her to let something like this to stop her. Adam and Bell were still unsure about it but they didn't want their daughter to behind on her work, so they agreed to let her go.
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It was now near the end of July and Vanessa has yet to hear from her cousin Harry. She was really worried about him. Not once has he answer to any of her letters and texts that send on her phone. She had wrote to his friends to see if they had heard from him but they haven't. That wasn't like him and now she worried that his aunt and uncle were cutting him from all ties again. Her gut told her that something was wrong and she was determined to find out.
"There's nothing to worry about, dear. Your parents will find out in the morning to find out going on and bring the young boy home." Miss Potts said
The kind old lady had just giving the young witch princess her usual late night tea.
"Now once you finish your tea, off to bed." Miss Potts said
"Yes, Miss Potts." Vanessa smiled before taking a sip of her tea.
"Goodnight, deary." Miss Potts smiled before shutting the door.
"Good night." Vanessa said
She waited a few minutes to make sure that Miss Potts had left before getting up from her chair and took off her robe. Underneath the robe she was wearing rip-jean pants with a red tan top, a leather jacket and sneaker shoes. Tonight she had a mission and for this she call out for back up. After tying her hair her up she ran over to her balcony window and open them. Looking up in the sky she smirked when she saw a familiar pirate ship floating in the sky and heading towards the balcony.
"Permission to come aboard." Vanessa smirked
"Permission granted of course, captain." Pandora smile
Vanessa was about to go on board till her bedroom door open and Ben came in.
"Vanessa? Pandora? What do you think you're doing?" Ben whispered
"It's a rescue mission." Vanessa said as she hopped aboard.
Ben rushed towards the balcony and try to stop her.
"Vanessa, if this is about Harry, mom and dad said…" Ben said
"I'm not going to wait that long, Ben. I know that something is wrong. Now are you coming or are you going to rat me out, like Audrey or Chad will?" Vanessa said
Ben sighed but hopped on the ship as he feared for his sister's safety. Vanessa smiled in victory. Pandora walked back to the helm to stir the boat. On the boat with them was also Amara, Aziz, Lonnie, Ella, Fred, George, Ron and Malcom.
"You guys too?" Ben said annoyance
"Are you kidding?" George laughed
"It's every boys' dream to be a pirate." Fred smiled
"Aarrrg." The twins mimic being pirates.
Everybody but laughed at this.
Vanessa heard a familiar soft bell sound floating around them. She looked up and saw that it was Tinker Bell.
"You came along for the adventure too Tink?" Vanessa smiled
Tinker Bell nodded and flew around the ship, spreading more pixy dust for the ship to fly.
"Now this is wicked." Ron smiled as looked down at Auradon
"Totally cool." Amara and Aziz said together.
"Whad'ya know, now we have two other twins mimic each other." Malcom teased
"You're just jealous." Fred, George, Amara and Aziz said together before laughing.
After floating in the air for a few minutes Pandora used her magic to transport them to London. It didn't take long for them to find Harry's house and to Ben's surprise he saw that Harry's room window had bars on them.
"Now do you believe me." Vanessa whispered
Ben nodded as he couldn't believe how cruel these people could be. Tinker Bell flew over to the window and started tapping on the glass. The tapping was able to wake up Harry. He got up to look out the window and was surprised to see a fairy on the other side of the window but more surprised when he saw a pirate ship floating in the sky, heading his way. When the ship got closer he saw Vanessa, Ben, Fred, George, Ron and Malcom on broad, along with other people he hasn't met yet.
"Hiya, Harry." Vanessa smiled
"Hi, but what are you all doing here?" Harry asked
"Rescuing you, of course." She said "Now hurry up and get your stuff."
He quickly packed all his things for Hogwarts while Vanessa and Aziz placed a crane on the bars.
"You better stand back." Ron said
Vanessa told Pandora to move the ship. Once the ship was far enough it was able to pull the bars off. With the loud noise that it made they knew that the muggles must have heard too so they had to hurry. Aziz and the twins hurried inside Harry's room to grab his things and tossed them on the ship before getting on the ship too. Harry then handed his owl to Ben while his uncle Vernon was unlocking the locks to his door. When the door open Harry quickly climbed out the window and tried to jump on the ship but Vernon caught his leg. Vanessa and Ben quickly grabbed ahold of him and tried to pull him on the ship.
"Let go of me." Harry ordered him.
"Oh no you don't. You and that bloody pigeon aren't going anywhere." Vernon glared
"Tink, help!" Vanessa asked
The fairy quickly flew over towards them and grabbed onto the fat man's hair. Vernon got startled with the fairy that he ended up letting Harry go but he also fell out of the window. Seeing that he landed in the bushes Tinker Bell smiled and flew back to the ship. Harry and Vanessa couldn't help but laugh at what happened.
"By the way Harry, Happy Birthday." Vanessa smiled and brought him in a hug which he returned.
During the whole ride Harry had explained about the house elf that stole all the mail that they send to him. Believing he would not want to go back to Hogwart. He told them the elf's name and it turns out that it was the same house-elf that warned Vanessa.
After returning everyone back home Pandora dropped off Ben, Vanessa and Harry last. The sun had barely risen from the sky so they thought that they were in the clear as everyone was still asleep. When they were dropped off Adam walked in the room with a disappointed look on his face.
"Where have you two been?" He glared
"Daddy? Dad?" Vanessa and Ben smiled nervously
He gave them a disappointing glared before softing up when he saw Harry.
"Hello, Harry. Wonderful to see you again." He said before scowling back at his children. "Beds empty. No note. Do you have any idea how worried your mother and I were? We almost send out a search party for you two."
"But dad they were starving him." Vanessa said
"It true dad, they even had bars on his window." Ben said
Adam took a deep breath and sigh. He was mad at them for leaving without telling them but they did it to save their cousin from those awful people.
"All right, we'll talk about this later. Get some rest and then come down to have some breakfast." Adam said
Vanessa and Ben sighed relief.
"Then we'll discuss how long you're grounded." He added before leaving.
The two groan in annoyance.
After a two...er...three hour nap the two teens and now 12 year old Harry went downstairs to eat. Bell was surprised see Harry and gave him a hug.
"Harry. Wonderful to see you, dear." She said before she hugged him and sat back down. "When did you get here?"
"This morning." Adam said as he read the newspaper. "Our kids decided to take a flying ship to London last night."
"Oh really. How was it?" Bell asked with excitement
The three were about to brag about it till Adam gave them all a look. Bell saw this too and knew the children were in trouble.
"Um...I mean...that was very wrong you two. You all could have gotten hurt." Bell said with a fake disapprovement.
Ben and Vanessa looked at each other and quietly laugh as they knew their mother was on their side. She may be a Queen now but deep down she was still that village girl that wanted adventures; and she enjoyed hearing her own kids having their own.
When breakfast came Mrs. Potts placed a plate that had four stacks of pancakes that had Happy Birthday frosting and a lit candle on it. Harry was shocked at first before a smile formed on his face. Everyone got up and stood behind him before singing him the Happy Birthday song.
"Make a wish, Harry." Bell smiled
It took him only a minute to think of one before blowing out the candle.
'I wish I could stay and live here with Vanessa and her family.'
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A week had passed since Harry has been rescued. For his birthday they took him to a theme park along with the Weasleys'. It was the first time for Harry and the Weasley's and the wizard children were afraid at first as they weren't sure about the seatbelts, lap bars and harnesses. After going on one of the rides they enjoyed it very much and wanted to go on more. Anything that was fast. Though, after that they Vanessa and Ben were grounded.
When the week had passed Vanessa's and Harry's Hogwart letters came. Vanessa raised a brow at their new DADA books. They were all written by who she believed to be a poser: Gildory Lockheart. She read one of his books and thought it was nonsense and didn't believe a word of it. So the next day Adam and Bell were gonna take them to Diagon Alley by Floo Powder. They were gonna have Harry go first but Vanessa reminded them that Harry has never travel by Floo Powder before so they had her go first to show him how it goes. She grabbed ahold of Dude and went inside the fireplace before grabbing the Floo Powered dust. After saying the words very clearly she tossed it to the floor and green flames engulfed her before she ended up in Diagon Alley. She stood by the side of the fireplace, waiting as one by one of her families came. All expect Harry.