Rosabella Black |Daughter Of Sirius Black| (Book 5)

The Woes of Mrs Weasley

Rosabella's Point of View:

It took three days to decontaminate the drawing room. The only unpleasant thing left in there was the Tapestry and the Boggart. When Jason, Jacob, Michael and I told Lucas what Dad told us about the Tapestry and the kidnapping Lucas tried to get rid off the Tapestry, by setting it on fire.
       
"First thing I tried." Dad said casually as he passed the room.

We then moved onto the dining room where we found spiders as large as saucers lurking in the dresser. Ron and I couldn't get out of the room fast enough, telling the others we were going to make a cup of tea. We didn't come back for an hour and half. Dad through away all the china with the Black family Crest on ot as well as a bunch of old photographs.

Snape might refer to this work as 'cleaning' but it felt more like we were raging war on a house that was putting up a very good fight, aided by Kreacher. His muttering became more and more offensive as he tried to to take more stuff from the rubbish bags. Kreacher would start clutching my leg and crying, reminding me of a toddler, which earned an extremely nasty look from Dad and my brothers. Kreacher was getting so bad that Dad threatened him with clothes. When Kreacher muttered a reminder that Dad wouldn't do that because he knows too much, Dad practically threw him out the room, ignoring Hermione's and mines protests.

As we continued the purge of the house, I came across a grandfather clock and invented a new game. As I passed it, it shout numerous bolts at me, when hitting straight on the forehead with a heavy enough force to temporarily knock me out.

I woke and I was in the living room laying on the sofa, the order was crowded around me with Harry and the others.

I laughed and clutched my head as everyone sighed in relief. Dad and Remus helped me to my feet.
      
"Jay, Jake, I found a new game. Dodge the bolts!" I exclaimed excitedly and ran back to the room with Jason, Jacob, Fred, George and Ginny behind me.

Hermione, Harry, Ron and Michael followed cautiously.

The grandfather clock shot numerous bolts at all of us and we jumped, ducked, slided right and left to avoid getting hit. The more of us there were the more bolts the grandfather cloak would shoot out, it was also more likely that while you dodged a bolt you would collide into someone else. That was the fun part. The adults let's us do it but Remus ended up getting too anxious, as I was knocked out for fifth time and couldn't walk in a straight line, and repaired the grandfather cloak.

The others and I all had bruises, Tonks even joined in towards the end but she was so clumsy she came away with just as many bruises as the rest of us. Winter was helpful in the cleaning of the house as she would growl at all the creatures that we missed or didn't know where there. Mundungus redeemed himself slightly in Mrs Weasley's eyes by rescuing Ron from an ancient set of purple robes that had tried to strangle him.

Harry was still having nightmares and once everyone was asleep I would sneak into his room and stay with him most of the night and I would then sneak back into my room with no one noticing. Harry didn't want to admit it, but he was terrified about the hearing and he avoided the subject as much as he could. The night before the hearing Mrs Weasley ironed Harry's best clothes and told him to make sure he washes his hair. Mr Weasley was going to take Harry to work with him and Harry would just wait in his office intill it was time for the hearing. Dad wasn't allowed to go to the hearing with Harry, much to the disappointment of both of them.

I came down just as Harry was leaving with Mr Weasley. Harry heard me coming downstairs and waited for me at the bottom. He opened his arms just as I started to run towards him. I hugged him tightly and kissed him passionately.
     
"You'll be okay. We always get away things even when we did actually break the rules. You haven't done anything wrong. Good luck." I insisted and kissed him again.