burning hearts - Harry James Potter

chapter 17: the rescue

It was a sunny Saturday morning, and Davina was in the kitchen of Lupin cottage. Remus himself? He was still asleep.

Davina was dressed in her pyjama shorts and an oversized t-shirt, which she stole from Remus' closet.

It was 8 a.m. and she was preparing hers and Remus' favorite breakfast: Waffles with a lot of cinnamon sprinkled on top of them. It wasn't that healthy, they knew that, but it was still their favorite.

The record player was playing and Davina had no worries at that moment.

Once the waffles were finished, she slowly made her way upstairs to wake Remus.

She opened his bedroom door and walked over to his bed, where snores were coming from. When she was close enough, she yelled: "MOONY, BREAKFAST TIME!" As loud as she could.

Remus immediately shot up, not completely awake yet. "Are you serious?" He asked the cheerful Davina.

"No, that's my dad." She answered, jokingly.

Remus tried to keep a serious look on his face, but he failed.

"Come on, you really should come downstairs." Davina said. "The waffles are turning cold."

Now Remus was really awake. "Waffles? I'm on my way."

Davina giggled and walked downstairs again.

She sat down at the table and not even a minute later Remus took a seat opposite to her.

"Hold on, is that my shirt?" He asked after he observed Davina, who had already started her eating her waffle.

She pulled an innocent face. "No it's mine."

Remus opened his mouth to say something, but he got interrupted by a shrieking sound coming from the window. Davina looked over and saw a familiar white owl with a letter.

Finally, she thought. A couple of days ago she had sent Harry a letter:

My dearest Harold,

How are you doing? Are the pigs bearable or do we have to come and rescue you?

My summer has been great so far, Remus and I often cook and bake together and I have my own room in his house!

I miss you and the others a lot. I met up with Hermione a few days ago and we had a great time. She misses you a lot too. I haven't heard from Ron yet so I don't know what he's up to. Probably getting pranked by Fred and George all the time.

Have you talked to the Dursley's about coming here?  Let me know as soon as you can, I really want to see you.

Lots of love

Davina

There was no response to her letter for a while, which kind of concerned Davina so now she couldn't wait to see what Harry wrote back.

She got up and walked up to Hedwig. The owl stayed put on the windowsill.

"Is the letter Harry's?" Remus asked Davina, who was walking back to the table. She nodded.

She opened the letter:

My dearest Davie,

I asked the pigs if I was allowed to visit you and Remus, and they said I could go wherever I wanted in the last week of break so that's going to take a while.

I did speak to Ron. He said his dad has some extra tickets for the Quidditch world cup and he was wondering if we wanted to come. I said I'll be there, you really should ask Remus if you can come too. I'm sure he wouldn't mind.