Pinkish Tone

The Great Escape

Harry's pov:
I was bleeding. Clutching my right hand in my left and swearing under my breath, I shouldered open my bedroom door. There was a crunch of breaking china. I had trodden on a cup of cold tea that had been sitting on the floor outside my bedroom door.
"What the --?" I looked around, the landing of number four, Privet Drive, was deserted. Possibly the cup of tea was Dudley trying to be nice. Keeping my bleeding hand elevated, I scraped the fragments of cup together with the other hand and threw them into the already crammed bin just visible inside my bedroom door. Then I tramped across to the bathroom to run my finger under the tap. It was stupid, pointless, irritating beyond belief that I still had four days
left of being unable to perform magic…but I had to admit to myself that this jagged cut in my finger would have defeated me. I had never learned how to repair wounds, and now I came to think of it – particularly in light of my immediate plans – this seemed a serious flaw in my magical education. Making a mental note to ask Hermione or Annabeth how it was done, I used a large wad of toilet paper to mop up as much of the tea as I could before returning to my bedroom and slamming the door behind me. I had spent the morning completely emptying my school trunk for the first time since I had packed it six years ago. At the start of the intervening
school years, I had merely skimmed off the topmost three quarters of the contents and replaced or updated them, leaving a layer of general debris at the bottom – old quills, desiccated beetle eyes, single socks that no longer fit. Minutes previously, I had plunged my hand into this mulch, experienced a stabbing pain in the fourth finger of my right hand, and withdrawn it to see a lot of blood. I now proceeded a little more cautiously. Kneeling down beside the trunk again, I groped around in the bottom and, after retrieving an old badge
that flickered feebly between SUPPORT CEDRIC DIGGORY and POTTER STINKS, and a cracked and worn-out Sneakoscope, I finally discovered the sharp edge that had done the damage. I recognized it at once. It was a two-inch-long fragment of the enchanted mirror that Sirius, had given me. I laid it aside and felt cautiously around the trunk for the rest, but there was no other parts. I sat up and examined the jagged piece on which I had cut myself, I remembered throwing the mirror after my sixth year, and hearing it broke and quickly cursing myself. Then I placed the fragment on top of that morning's Daily prophet, which lay unread on the bed, and attacked the rest of the rubbish in the trunk. After finishing, I got down to convince yet again my uncle to leave for his own security. Finally, they were convinced and goodbyes were exchanged, my uncle extremely briefly, my aunt showed something resembling sadness, but the true surprise was Dudley: when I reached my hand out, he took it saying :
"Don't be silly." he said pulling me in a hug. "Please do keep in touch and visit sometime with your girlfriend." he added
"Alright. Take care Big D."
"You too. See you." he said waving at me. I stayed there some seconds, staring at the front door before going to my room and freeing Hedwig:
"Hey girl. I have a somewhat bad feeling about tonight so... Go. Fly to the Burrow as stealthily as possible and don't go back for me please." I asked her. She nibbled my ear with affection and began to fly away. I did a last tour of the house, but as I was about to do so, the doorbell rang. I looked through the peephole and saw bubblegum pink hair:
"Nymphadora? What are you doing here?" I asked through the door.
"I'm here to help you with your last moments in this house, Harry." she said putting her hand on the door. I opened and let her in. As soon as the door was closed, she threw herself on me, kissing me while her legs circled my waist.
"How are you?" she asked
"I missed you." I said smiling somewhat sadly.
"It went more emotionally than you thought didn't it?"
"Yeah... Especially with Dudley my aunt." I sighed, hugging her. "How is it at the Ministry?" I asked
"Scrimegeour was overwhelmed, Bonesie went in another country when she almost got killed in her house, little Susie's okay. I resigned some minutes ago, I prefered to quit while the Ministry was at his best." my fiancee said. I nodded sighing
"I'm sorry you had to... Sorry to take you in this crazy hunt..." I said, but she slapped the back of my head :
"Stop being an idiot dear fiance, if I had the choice again, I would have still quit in a heartbeat. The Horcrux hunt is more important, you are more important." she stated kissing my cheek sweetly
"Thanks for being there." I smiled at her.
"Always." she smiled back.
"Hey, I never did show you where it all began!" I said pulling her hand toward the cupboard. I opened it : "Blimey! I forgot how small it was!" I said, Potter looked shocked :
"You were sleeping in this?!"
"Uh..... yeah? Don't be mad, it was a long time ago, water passed under the bridge."
"But they made you sleep here! No children should spend their life in those conditions!" I couldn't help but bitterly chuckle :
"You know what's the worst thing in this?", she nodded negatively "As long as I was in this cupboard, my childhood was innocent. When I joined Hogwarts, I had been moved upstairs, and what happens at the end of the year? I fight and kill Quirell possessed by the one ruining our life... An eleven year old boy, killing his teacher..." I said bitterly
"Oh Harry..." Nymph said, hugging me closely, sweetly. Then, I saw movement outside. I drew my wand out and Dora did the same thing. For the second time of the evening, I peeked through the peephole : Hagrid, Hermione, Ron, Percy, Annabeth, Remus, Kingsley, Moody, Mondungus, Fred, George and Arthur appeared in my vision. Then, Hermione and Percy knocked on the door.
"Harry? Open, it's us." the bushy haired witch whispered
"Ask Moony to come close, and answer a question each." I said. She grumbled but agreed : "Hermione, what are we to each other, Percy, what's your current age and why, Moony, what's the thing you used to find us during our third year?"
"You're my twin." my sis said exasperated
"I'm almost four because I'm a demigod coming from the future."
"The marauder map, an item created by who?"
"My father, dog father, you and a traitor." I said opening the door and bro-hugging Percy and Ron before being flattened by my sister. One by one, the soon-to-be Mrs Potter and I greeted the Order members finishing with Moody who gruffly said:
"Great thinking Potter. No one could have believed what you asked." we then settled in the living room :
"Okay, so, what's going on. I'm far from dumb so what's the new plan?" I asked, and it seems like avoiding Harry's stare was the new famous game as everyone except Moody looked at anywhere but me.
"This." Mad-eye said pulling a flask out of his coat and opening it on a bubbly mud-looking substance.
"Got to hell with your idiotic plan." I said much to everyone's surprise.
"Oh believe us Harry," Fred began
"...we're not exactly fond..." George continued
"...of the perspective of being..."
"...in your flesh..."
"Imagine if we stay stuck forever!" both twin finished.
"As long as I'm alive, you can take that polyjuice and stick it up your ass!" I said ferociously
"Count again Potter, we're 13 and all legally of age." Moody said.
"Then you should go get some help and space because in such a little living room, just using muggle fighting I can beat all of you." I said bowing my head to a side, glaring at Moody. And, for the first time since I met him, he paled. I even noticed that everyone took a step back from me. Everyone except :
"Such dramatics! You're sure you didn't took lessons?" Nymphadora said, plucking one of my hair out and dropping it in the potion. I glared at her and she blew a kiss at me. Mad-eye immediately began to make the polyjuice pass: Fred and George had to grow a bit, Ron shrunked a tad bit, Hermione was one of the people growing the most with Mundungus, Percy actually stayed at the same height, and was the one who changed the less with Hermione, his eyes only taking some darker shades while his hair grew a bit more. Hermione just became a male version of herself, but everyone else transformation was surprising : hair were becoming so much darker, growing out, until seven Harry Potters were standing in the living room. Everyone began to change without a care except for a few, and soon, we were also in matching clothes:
"Where's the true Harry?" Moody grumbled, we all said
"Here!" before laughing, until Nymphadora came straight to me, watching with extremely focused eyes and pulled me slightly in front :
"There he is." she said smiling at the shocked face of the 7 Potters
"You're with Hagrid." Moody completed. I nodded turning to the pinkette :
"H-how?" I asked
"How I knew it was you? I felt a tug toward you, and you were the one with the attitude the closest to your own if that makes sense."
"Very." I said kissing her. 2 minutes later, we were all about to go, I sat in the sidecar, losing several inches, making Ron snickered until he had to circled Nymphadora's waist : he grimaced toward me, and I mouthed:
'One wrong touch and you lose your keeper abilities forever.', he nodded enthusiastically and made sure to keep his hand waist level. I smirked to myself. Then, we took off. As we exited clouds, spells suddenly began to shot from everywhere, Hagrid immediately accelerated :
"Hagrid! Turn around! We can't leave them!" but the half-giant stubbornly fastened "HAGRID! NYMPHADORA NEEDS ME! TURN AROUND NOW!" I screamed, battling with the Death Eaters, destroying their brooms before taking the handlebar and trying to turn it around :
"No Harry!" my first friend said straightening the handlebar. "We can't!"
"And I can't let them get hurt for me!" I screamed before turning toward the closest Death Eater who happened to be Stan Shunspike and exclaiming loudly :
"EXPELLIARMUS!"
"It's him!" they screamed, that's it, go get your master!
"What happened?" Hagrid asked seeing that they weren't chasing us anymore :
"I don't know..." I lied. Suddenly, lots of death Eaters attacked us from everywhere, Hagrid pushed a button, and a brick wall escaped from the moto, becoming compact and taking lots of Death Eater with it. Sadly, they were so numerous that the sidecar began to shake in all direction. I managed to defeat lots of them, but ultimately, the sidecar fell, I managed to take my bag and my Firebolt shrinking them in my pocket then, I jumped on the back of Sirius motorcycle. Hagrid pushed a button, and the moto roared like a dragon before a burst of flames propulsed us. But, they all disappeared, I suddenly saw a black mist flying toward us: Voldemort.
"Hagrid, whatever you do, don't look back and always go towards the safe place." I said, he nodded, then I stood up and looked at Tom, cracking my neck and began to strafe the dark wanker, slowing him down. It surprised him and he actually had to parry them still trying to get closer. The moto was now trembling from the fact Hagrid was pushing it at the maximum. Suddenly, the motor exploded because of a spell and we began to lose both speed and altitude. I grumbled and concentrated my magic in a last spell, and, to my surprise, my wand actually aimed automatically for a spot. The next thing, golden flames were bursting out... Then he suddenly hit a sort of invisible wall : the wards! I flipped Moldy-port off as the moto continued to slow down and lose altitude. It I circled Hagrid's waist again as we lightly crashed on the ground. I got down and tried to help Hagrid who took quite a lot of curses. The door opened to reveal my future father-in-law :
"Harry, Hagrid! Everything is okay?" he asked helping me with the half-giant, walking us through the garage so our tall friend could enter too.
"Yeah. No... I don't know... We were trapped... Someone snitched or something but Death Eaters were waiting for us. Spell shot all around..."
"Merlin..." Ted blanched "Dora...?" he asked while we made the teacher sat
"Don't know... As soon as Hagrid refused to go back, I used a spell I knew would be recognized as my 'signature'." I said slouching in a chair.
"I would slap the back of your head, but I know my daughter will do it with much more impact." a female voice said from behind me, I turned my head and saw Andromeda Tonks:
"Come on Andy, it was the only thing I could think of to keep Tom Sawyer from going on her tail." I sighed, grabbing the cup of tea she handed me
"I know. That's exactly why I restrained from knocking some sense into this thick head of yours." she answered, beginning to treat Hagrid's injuries.
"So... What are the latest news?" Ted asked
"Good ones or bad ones?" I countered
"Good ones." he answered
"Prongs and McKinnon were brought back by Manetail."
"Really? That's excellent news Harry!" Andy said smiling brightly
"Another thing..." I said, catching both of their attentions :"I would like both of you to be extra cautious in the following months/years."
"Any reason why to be more than usual ?"
"Because both Nymphadora and I expect you to attend our Wedding." both parents processed the information before cheering loudly:
"Really?! Since when?" my mother-in-law asked, always the excited one
"I proposed on her birthday, she wanted me to say it to you, and she says she loves you both very much." I said smiling widely. They brought me in a hug, and when we separated, I looked seriously at them : "You have to promise me one thing: at first sight of danger, flee the country." I said, both nodded, knowing I would be on the run. Then, we chatted for a bit of time before the time to go finally came. Hagrid woken up, we grabbed the brush hair and finished in the Weasley's garden. I immediately looked around and saw Ginny coming our way:
"You're alright? You're the real one eh?" I nodded looking around, she understood and continued : "Ron and Potter should have been back first, but they missed their Portkey, it came back without them," she said, pointing at a rusty oil can lying on the ground nearby. My heart tightened : please let them be alright, please let them be alright, "And that one," she pointed at an ancient sneaker, "should have been Dad and Fred's, they were supposed to be second. You and Hagrid were third and," she checked her watch, "if they made it, George and Lupin aught to be back in about a minute." Molly appeared carrying a bottle of brandy, which she handed to Hagrid. He uncorked it and drank it straight down in one.
"Mum!" shouted Ginny pointing to a spot several feet away. A blue light had appeared in the darkness: It grew larger and brighter, and Lupin and George appeared, spinning and then falling. I knew immediately that there was something wrong: Lupin was supporting George, who was
unconscious and whose face was covered in blood. I ran forward and seized George's legs. Together, Lupin and I carried George into the house and through the kitchen to the living room, where they laid him on the sofa. As the lamplight fell across George's head, Ginny gasped and my stomach lurched: One of George's ears was missing. The side of his head and neck were drenched in wet, shockingly scarlet blood.
No sooner had Mrs. Weasley bent over her son that Lupin grabbed me by the upper arm and dragged me, none too gently, back into the kitchen, where Hagrid was still attempting to ease his bulk through the back door.
"Oi!" said Hagrid indignantly, "Le' go of him! Le' go of Harry!" Lupin ignored him.
"What creature sat in the corner the first time that Harry Potter visited my office at Hogwarts?" he said, giving me a small shake. "Answer me!"
"A Grindylow, although if I were you, I would have used the subject of my parents to be perfectly sure as it is something unbelievable." the werewolf sighed in relief as his girlfriend arrived and hugged him, he looked at me and asked :
"Do you know what happened? They were on us, and suddenly..."
"Yeah I know, I threw an Expelliarmus." Remus sighed and looked at me almost exasperated :
"That's a signature move for them Harry..."
"I know."
"Of course it is, the whole Inner Circle saw you using it in the... Wait what?"
"I know. That's exactly why I did it. As soon as the trap closed on us, I casted it to draw attention." Moony took his forehead between his thumb, his index and his medius :
"What am I supposed to say to that..." he rhetorically asked, but he was cut by two figures appearing in the yard, and as I ran toward them I realized they were Hermione, now returning to her normal appearance, and Kingsley, both clutching a bent coat hanger, my sister flung herself into my arms, but Kingsley showed no pleasure at the sight of any of us. Over Hermione's shoulder I saw him raise his wand and point it at Lupin's chest.
"The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us!"
"'Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him,'" said Lupin calmly.  Kingsley turned his wand on me, but Lupin said, "It's him, I've checked!"
"All right, all right!" said Kingsley, stowing his wand back beneath his cloak, "But somebody betrayed us! They knew, they knew it was tonight!"
"So it seems," replied Lupin, "but apparently they did not realize that there would be seven Harrys."
"Small comfort!" snarled Kingsley. "Who else is back?"
"Only Harry, Hagrid, George, and me."
Hermione stifled a little moan behind her hand.
"What happened to you?" Lupin asked Kingsley.
"Followed by five, injured two, might've killed one," Kingsley reeled off, "and we saw You-Know-Who as well, he joined the chase halfway through but vanished pretty quickly. Remus, he can –"
"Fly," I supplied. "I saw him too, he came after Hagrid and me."
"So that's why he left, to follow you!" said Kingsley, "I couldn't understand why he'd vanished. But what made him change targets?"
"Harry here got a little too chivalrous and revealed himself..." Hermione slapped my arm exasperation plastered on her face. Fred and Arthur came a bit after, hurrying inside, and still no news of Nymphadora or Ron. And then a broom materialized directly above us and streaked toward the ground –
"It's them!" screamed Hermione. Potter landed in a long skid that sent earth and pebbles everywhere. I ran to her:
"Harry!" she screamed running to me and hugging me, I made her turn in the air, hugging tightly. Meanwhile, Ron was dizzily walking toward my sister :
"You're okay," he mumbled, before Hermione flew at him and hugged him tightly.
"I thought – I thought –"
"'M all right," said Ron, patting her on the back. "'M fine."
"Ron was great," said Nymphadora warmly, relinquishing her hold on me. "Wonderful. Stunned one of the Death Eaters, straight to the head, and when you're aiming at a moving target from a flying broom –"
"You did?" said Hermione, gazing up at Ron with her arms still around his neck. "Always the tone of surprise," he said a little grumpily, breaking free. "Are we the last back?" he asked, but I didn't answered and hugged him tightly :
"Thank you." I said, feeling tears of relief making their way down my cheeks.
"Anytime." he answered patting me. I went back to Dora and kissed her :
"I'm so glad you are alright."
"Don't worry, you and me until the end. Remember, you'll have to bear with me for 126 years still." she smiled, I chuckled
"If you don't kill him tonight." came the voice of my sister.... Shit shit shit...
"What have you done?" my fiancee asked exasperated :
"I...might have disarmed someone-..." I said, unsure if I should continue or not
"Finish this sentence." she deadpanned
"... Voluntarily... To attract attention... Also... Er.... I may have flipped Squidward off..." I said, earning surprised look on Ron and Hermione's face before they chuckled. Nymphadora her... Hit me repeatedly screaming :
"Stop. (*slap*) Being. (*slap*) Such. (*slap*) An. (*slap*) Idiot! (*slap*) If we did a plan, it wasn't for you to throw it away to save us! (*slap*)"
"Yeah but I couldn't bear that you would get hurt!"
"And stop being so sweet!" she said slapping me before kissing me.
"You know you can't get enough of my sweetness." I smugly said
"Sh-shut up." she said blushing, but I grabbed her chin and kissed her :"You know what... You're right, I love your sweetness. Besides, it seems I have an excellent affluence on you: flipping of Voldemort? Genius!" she said chuckling, and soon, we were all laughing heartily,
"What did we miss?" Annabeth's voice asked from behind, we turned around and saw her and Percy landing gracefully
"Not much..." I said
"By our standards." Hermione completed,
"That means?" Percy asked
"That Harry Potter is an idiot for throwing the whole plan away by using one spell, just so we could all be safe. Also, he gave the bird to voldy." Nymphadora said, I scratched the back of my head while both demigods smirked:
"Funnily enough, that reminds me of someone..." Annabeth said :
"Hey, is it bad that I care about you?" Percy and I protested together before chuckling
"That's not the subject and you know it!" our girlfriends answered chuckling. We went inside, and suddenly, Percy's face fell as he saw everyone :
"Errrr guys... I have a bad news: Moody died." he said bluntly, tightening his fist
"H-how?" Dora asked, I clasped her hand : Mad-eye was like a second father to her.
"Voldemort shot a spell at him while Mondungus Apparated away..."
"Oh Merlin Alastor..." Arthur said. I turned Nymphadora around and hugged her tightly
"There... I know... I know..." I whispered in her hair, kissing the top while she cried:
"Wh-wh-why? Why him?" she sobbed
"He was the toughest of us all but it's because of Mondungus. Oh Nymph I'm so sorry for you..." I said hugging her, meanwhile Bill gave everyone Firewhisky and we drank in Mad-eye's honor. Then, the redhead and Remus went to retrieve Moody's body. I would have gone with them but my Dora asked me to stay. We snuggled in bed, I was hugging her closely, spooning her. She cried herself to sleep and I couldn't do anything but be there for her... My poor thing... I kissed her head and fell asleep.