Bumblebee (A Fred Weasley Fanfiction)

- CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN -

The Snitch

In DA lessons they finally started work on Patronuses, which everyone had been very keen to practice, though, as Harry kept reminding them, producing a Patronus in the middle of a brightly lit classroom when they were not under threat was very different from producing it when confronted by something like a Dementor.
"Oh don't be such a killjoy," said Cho brightly, watching her silvery swan-shaped Patronus soar around the Room of Requirement during their last lesson before Easter. "They're so pretty!"
"They're not supposed to be pretty, they're supposed to protect you," said Harry patiently, "what we really need is a Boggart or something; that's how I learned, I had to conjure a Patronus while the Boggart was pretending to be a Dementor -"
"But that would be really scary!" Said Lavender who was shooting puffs of silver vapour out of the end of her wand, "and I still - can't - do it!" She added angrily.
Emmie was having trouble too, her face was screwed up in concentration but only feeble wisps of silver smoke issued from her wand-tip.
"You've got to think of something happy," Harry reminded her.
She was trying, she kept thinking of Fred and the things she had done with him but each time she thought of something the memory would turn sad. Each time she thought of how fun the Quidditch World Cup was, she would remember the children screaming and crying in the forest. Every time she thought of her and Fred's first date, she would be reminded that he didn't even like her then, it was all for a bet. "It's no use," she groaned.
"Hey don't give up," Harry said calmly, "you'll get there eventually -" He turned around to see Dobby the house-elf peering up at him from beneath eight woolly hats.
Emmie smiled at him but his eyes were filled with terror and he was shaking, "Harry Potter, sir... Dobby has come to warn you... But the house-elves have been warned not to tell..."
"What's happened, Dobby?" Harry asked, grabbing the elf's tiny arm.
"Harry Potter... She... She..."
"Who's "she" Dobby? Umbridge?"
Dobby nodded, "what about her? Dobby - she hasn't found out about this - about us - about the DA?" Harry read the answer in the elf's stricken face, "is she coming?"
Dobby let out a howl, "yes, Harry Potter, yes!"
Harry straightened up and looked around at the motionless, terrified people gazing at the thrashing elf.
"WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?" Harry bellowed, "RUN!"
They all pelted towards the exit at once and sprinted down the corridor to the nearest classroom they could find.
Emmie crouched behind a suit of armour in the corridor, she could see Umbridge, Pansy and Malfoy. They had caught Harry.
"You hop along and see if you can round up any more of them, Draco," she heard Umbridge say, "tell the others to look in the library, Miss Parkinson can check the bathrooms - and you," she added in her softest, most dangerous voice as Malfoy walked away, "you can come with me to the Headmaster's office Potter."

Emmie felt a hand on her arm and suddenly she was being pulled into one of the classrooms. "Jesus Fred, you scared me," she whispered, "what did you see?" George asked, "they've got Harry and the DA list with all of our names on."
Just then they heard someone walking towards the door, they quickly crawled behind the teachers desk as Malfoy and Crabbe walked in, "empty," said Crabbe and they walked out again.

*

The next morning Emmie woke up and entered the Hufflepuff common room to see a notice on the notice board which read:

BY ORDER OF THE MINISTRY OF MAGIC

Dolores Jane Umbridge (High Inquisitor) has replaced Albus Dumbledore as Head of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

The above is in accordance with Educational Decree Number Twenty-eight.

Signed: Cornelius Oswald Fudge, Minister for Magic

"No," Emmie whispered to herself before running out into the corridor, still in her pajamas. She ran into the Great Hall and immediately to Harry, who was sat eating breakfast.
"Harry," she said, out of breath, he turned round and looked at her up and down confused, "what?"
"What happened yesterday?"
Harry sighed, "Umbridge caught me and took me to Dumbledore's office. Everyone was there, Fudge, Percy, loads of them. And then Marietta Edgecombe came in -"
"Cho's friend?" Emmie asked,
"Yeah," he replied, "she told Umbridge about the DA but she said we only had one meeting. And then Umbridge saw on the list of all our names that it said Dumbledore's Army and then Dumbledore said that he had formed it so they tried to arrest him and then he disappeared... Somehow."
"So he's just gone?" She asked, "yeah I guess," he shrugged.
"Why did Marietta snitch?"
"Not sure. I think her mum works for the Ministry."

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