Potter's Shadow (Draco Malfoy)

Chapter 62

I was half way through my bread roll and soup, which Molly had brought for me, when the first crack sounded. Ginny and Molly practically leapt out their seats and rushed out the front door. I pulled the blanket around my shoulder before waddling out after them as human-blanket burrito hybrid.

I could tell the figures of Harry and Hagrid as they made their way towards us. Molly spoke out, "What happened? Where are the others?"

Harry leaned around Hagrid slightly, "Is no one else back?"

"They were on us right from the start, Molly. We didn't stand a chance," Hagrid explained. 

Molly sighed. You could still see the fear and worry on her face, "Well, thank goodness you two are all right." 

Hagrid continued his reasoning, "The Death Eaters were waiting for us. It was an ambush." 

I turned around, waddling back inside to the chair I was sat on. I grabbed a hold of the towel, which Ginny had used for my hair before stumbling my way back outside. I made it back out just as another voice called out. I turned to see Remus with a Harry look alike, bleeding from the side of his head. It gradually morphed back into George. I backed up as Harry and Remus pulled him inside, resting him on the couch, opposite the armchair I'd been sat in. 

Molly was on him, while Lupin grabbed Harry, pressing him up against the fireplace. 

"Lupin!" Hagrid called. 
"What are you doing?" Ginny panicked. 
"Uncle Remus," I groaned at him. 

He didn't acknowledge any of our complaints as he questioned Harry, "What creature sat in the corner the first time Harry Potter visited my office in Hogwarts?"

Harry looked confused for a moment as he struggled to think back, "Are you mad?"

"What creature?" Uncle Remus yelled back at him. 

"A Grindylow," Harry recollected meaning Uncle Remus released him. 

I stepped forwards between the two of them, holding out the towel to Harry, who was still slightly wet. He nodded at me as he dried off his hands. 

"We've been betrayed," Remus explained. "Voldemort knew you were being moved tonight. I had to make sure you weren't an imposter." 

The sound of a portkey, whirled from outside as Remus ran outside with Harry and Hagrid. All the moving around was doing my stomach in so I moved to sit on the floor by George. 

"Hi, George. Should I see the other guy?" I joked at him, grabbing his hand and squeezing it before releasing it back to Molly, who smiled back at me. 

George managed a wheezed laughter back, "Yeah, baby Potter. You better?"

His sentences were broken and paused regularly as he tried to find the air he needed to talk. I laughed at his question, "I threw up and you are missing an ear; yet, your asking if I'm alright." 

"Only one baby Potter. Two Weasley twins," he joked back. 

"Only one George," I argued. 

I listened as three other portkeys sounded. I turned to George, "Think fast, Fred's going to need a joke." 

I backed up to allow Fred and Arthur into the bubble around George. I found myself perched on the edge of the arm chair I had been sitting on. Fred immediately took where I was by George. 

"How you feeling, Georgie?" Fred asked his twin, as everyone else watched on in quiet. 

"Saint-like," George whispered back.