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Dear Ella,

Hearing about Romania made me quite annoyed just so you know. And since you updated me I might as well update you as well.

Before Christmas we ran into A THREE HEADED DOG. And apparently Hagrid thought it was a great idea to name it Fluffy. I completely forgot to tell you before Christmas! But Hermionie saw a hidden door which we now think leads to the stone.

Right after Christmas break Hermione suggested we go to the restricted section of the library to try and find something about the stone. After Harry found nothing there we told Hermione after break and of course she figured it out. It's Nicholas Flamel's Philosopher's stone that can give you many powers. So in turn we went to go talk to Hagrid to tell him about it.

And of course this awful boy named Draco Malfoy saw us there after hours and told our house headmistress. And we got detention! In the Forbidden Forest which was bloody awful. In the forest Harry almost got attacked by he who must not be named! He's perfectly alright but it was bloody terrifying.

After we put the pieces together about Snape wanting to steal the stone we tried to tell Dumbledore but he was gone! So we've decided to go down that trap door before Snape does. We're going tonight and I wanted to write to you beforehand. Well we'll see how this goes, bye.

Your courageous brother, Ron

Once I received the letter I knew right away I had to tell mum and dad. I was heading down too when I saw their faces and I knew right away something went terribly wrong.

"Mum?" She looked up at me and I saw the small tear in her eye and she looked absolutely terrified. When you're young surrounded by boys you learn pretty quickly which emotions are happening and clearly something went wrong. Mum only had that type of look on her face when there was some kind of accident. I take a bite of my nail.

"Oh honey hi, um could you get your sister for us." She wiped the tear that was forming, I let out a small breath and headed upstairs to wake up Ginny. It's quite late, I'm sure mum thought I was asleep but of course I wasn't so here we are.

Once I got Ginny and we were informed of what happened we flooed to Hogwarts in Dumbledore's office. And greeted by Dumbledore we were. His face looked grave and upset, he said plenty of sorrys but I did not agree with mum that it was not his fault. I take another bite of my nails. Ron said himself that suddenly Dumbledore just wasn't there. It's not exactly inconspicuous that he simply out of nowhere was nowhere to be found. Everyone else was so distracted by Ron that they didn't seem to care and trust me. I was scared too but I was definitely more pissed. He offered to take us to him and we all followed to see him. I'm still not completely sure what happened to him. Mum only said that "he was in an accident." But because of the look on the adults faces I don't think it was that simple. There had to be something else going on.

I was outside the hospital wing when mum stopped me. "Honey could you two wait out here for just a moment. We just want to make sure everything is alright before you go in." Alright? Alright! Nothing is alright Ron is in the bloody hospital wing. What the bloody hell does she mean by alright.

"Of course mum." I say instead because Ginny needs me, I need to keep it together. So then mum and dad go inside the doors and me and Ginny sit outside, waiting. I look over at her and she seems to be in shock, scared. I don't blame her, I would be too. I pick at a hangnail that's been bothering me.

"He's gonna be alright you know, Ron's stupid but not too stupid to die in his first year before we even get there." Ginny chuckles and that makes me smile as well. Before I can get another word in, Dad opens the door and lets us come in. Ginny rushes right in but I take a second just standing outside the door, I guess just waiting for something. I stare at the old cracked door and wait. Why can't I just run in like she did? Why can't I just-

"You know Ron's alright in there right?" I look over and see Fred. I look at him and see he's concerned not just for Ron but for me too. I also see his entire demeanor is down; everything about bubbly Fred is gone and that scares me more than any of it. It makes all of this real. And it's terrifying. Fred comes over to me and brings me into my arms and I completely break. I let a small sound escape and I cried into his chest. In turn he holds me. He doesn't make fun, he simply holds me in his arms and holds me like it's the only thing he ever has to do.

After I calm down I whisper a small "thank you." And he doesn't say a word but oh he does. He squeezes me tight one more time 'I needed this too' he says with no words. And for both of us it means something we both can't speak.

"Let's get in there shall we!" He says while putting his arm around my shoulder even as tall as he is. And that's exactly what we do. We open the door and face the fear of what's going to happen inside. When we walk in it's not quite as morbid as I initially intended. I see Ron up and speaking quite a lot to Ginny. He looks for the most part completely fine. And I let out a long breath and I let myself remember that Ron is fine.

"Ella? Fred?" I open my eyes and see Ron smiling at me. I look him over again and he seems fine. Perfectly alright in fact like he was barely even touched. Why is he here? He's hurt. I get that but, why was this such a big deal? Why was mum so worried? What happened? I think I got lost in my head again because Fred was at Ron's side and I realized I was still standing in the same spot so I went over to the end of his bed. Again I pick at the hangnail.

"I'm alright you know." I look up at him and he smiles at me.

"Are you?" I keep it in.

"Ya, Harry got it worse than me he had to face him himself!" I crinkle my eyebrows.

"Who?" Ron realizes quickly that he wasn't supposed to mention it because mum lightly slaps his arm. And then it all clicks.

"You got attacked by You Know Who!?" And then I'm pissed again, why would Ron do that? "Why would you bloody do that!" I look at him and he just shrugs. Shrugs! And then I remember that Harry was there too.

"Is Harry alright?" Ron looks down again and I look at mum and she seems upset.

"He hasn't woken up yet, but Madam Pomfrey said he will, his magical core just needs to recover from it all." I turn around and look over the boy I met once. That's all he really was but, looking at him now he seems different. I'm not sure what but something makes him different now.

"So he faced him by himself?"