Mass Collision

5. Boggart

"Excellent," said Dumbledore briskly, springing to his feet, pulling out his wand, and causing the two chintz armchairs to vanish. "Well, I must be getting along. Good day to you all."

Harry tried to follow after him and called out his name, but I grabbed his arm and led him out of the room and into the hall. We almost ran into a pale Arthur as he looked to us for an answer, "Dumbledore didn't say —"

"Cleared," Harry said, pulling the door closed behind him, "of all charges!"

Beaming, Arthur seized Harry by the shoulders."Harry, that's wonderful! Well, of course, they couldn't have found you guilty, not on the evidence, but even so, I can't pretend I wasn't —"

"Congratulations," I smile at him as he grins. He suddenly throws me into a hug.

We started to walk out of the ministry as Harry told Arthur everything that happened. Arthur told him that he was going to take us straight back to Grimmauld to tell everyone the good news.

They were talking about something to do with Arthur's job when a bleach blonde man came up to us. "Well, well, well ... Patronus Potter," said the blonde man coolly.

"The Minister was just telling me about your lucky escape, Potter," drawled blondie. "Quite astonishing, the way you continue to wriggle out of very tight holes. ... Snakelike, in fact ..."

Arthur gripped Harry's shoulder and I glared at the man."Yeah," said Harry, "yeah, I'm good at escaping. ..." the man raised his eyes to Arthur's face.

"And Arthur Weasley too! What are you doing here, Arthur?"

"I work here," said Arthur shortly.

"Not here, surely?" said Mr. Malfoy, raising his eyebrows and glancing toward the door over Arthur's shoulder. "I thought you were up on the second floor. ... Don't you do something that involves sneaking Muggle artifacts home and bewitching them?"

"You know, how about you leave us alone and we can all escape from this terrible conversation," I offered to him.

"And who are you, little girl?" He smeared in my face.

"Why would I tell you that when I don't even know your name?"

"Lucius Malfoy," he extends his hand. I look at it before gripping it tightly making his hand go red.

"Natalia Di Angleo," I introduce. His eyes widened.

"And what pray tell are you doing with people like these, Miss Di Angelo?"

I smirk at him and lower my voice, "I don't see how that's any of your business. Now, I think we should be going."

"Have a wonderful day Miss Di Angelo. I also have my own business to attend to," he says as he and Fudge walk away.

We make it back to Grimmauld and everyone shouts hearing the good news. The twins and Ginny start chanting 'he got off' as Arthur tries to tell them what happened with Malfoy.

Everything started to look happier with the news that Harry could go back to Hogwarts. The only one that seemed upset was Sirius, probably because he was going to be lonely. That doesn't matter though, it's more important that Harry goes back to school than an adult being lonely.

I finished my studies for fourth-year and was able to pass the exam. Because of this Remus has started to teach me some of the stuff he taught Harry. Some advanced spells like the Patronus charm and a couple of other defence spells along with teaching me how to fly. Well, Sirius was the one teaching me and some of the boys were also having some fun with it.