My Protector | A Harry Potter love story

chapter 2

Living at the Burrow with the Weasleys, even for a couple days was the most fun I have had in a long time. I kept my promise to Ginny so she and I, along with Fred and George, who couldn't pass up on an opportunity to prank their little brother pulled as many pranks as we could on him and Harry also. They promised us that they would get us back, but I doubt it.

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I don't understand how we ran late to King's Cross. I mean it's not like Mr. and Mrs. Weasley had seven damn children to wake up and make sure was fed. Wait, maybe that was the reason.

"10:58. Come on, come on." Mr. Weasley shouted. The nine of us, hurry along to get to platform nine and three quarters but with it being so crowded it's hard to go any faster. "Fred, George, Percy, you first." The three boys run between platforms nine and ten, disappearing.

"Alright, Arabella, Ginny you go."

I look at Ginny quickly, give her a quick smile, and run towards the platforms. After I go through, I see Hermione not far ahead of me.

"Mione!" I shout at her. She turns around and gives me a bright smile before ushering me alongside her. I run up to her and she quickly introduces me to her parents.

"Arabella, this is my mun and dad." I shake her mums and dad's hands quickly. "Pleasure to meet you both. Hermione, we got to get going the train is about to leave." "Right, right." We both wave bye to her parents and situate our things with the train cabin members and find ourselves a compartment on the back of the train.

"Whew. Made it." The clock outside of the train dings right at eleven and starts moving. Neville, Ginny, and a Ravenclaw girl join us in our compartment.

"Hey, where's Harry and Ron?" I ask. everyone.

"D-don't know. Haven't seen them. Thought they was with you." Neville stammered.

"Ginny, they weren't with you?" I ask her. "No, Ara." She squeaks out at me. "Jesus. Those idiots...They're probably somewhere else on the train. Imagine if they didn't make it." I try to laugh but everyone doesn't seem to follow. Hermione has a worried look on her face.

"Maybe we should go look for them." She urged. "God damn it." I say as we both get up from the seats. "Is this gonna be a ritual for us now? Looking for lost things on this stupid train every year? No offense Neville."

"None-none taken."

Hermione and I exit and before she says anything I cut her off. "Yes, I know, I go this way, you go that way. Just like last year. See you back here in ten minutes." I murmur at her before walking off to the front of the train looking for those morons.

We met back up in our compartment not finding those two. Now I'm actually worried. I volunteer to find the conductor to tell him Harry and Ron are missing.

"Sorry Miss." He says. "This train runs on its own we can't slow down on account of two missing students." "But you don't understand, there were with me before we got to the station. They must've been left behind. You must be able to do something." "Eh, most I can do for ya is pass on the message to er McGonagall and tell her about yer missing friends. I'm sure they'll turn up." "Right. Thanks, I guess." I turn away from him and walk back over to the compartment.

"He was of no help. Most he can do is tell Professor McGonagall about what happened."

We all look over at each other. "I'm sure someone will find them. It's Harry and Ron for Godrick's sake." Hermione tries to reassure us. For the rest of the train ride, we all try to talk about how excited we are for the year, but I can't stop wondering if my friends are okay and safe.

When we got to the castle there was still no sign of them two, even at dinner. While we were eating Filch comes running up to the teachers table and whispers something to McGonagall and Dumbledore. McGonagall gets up from her seat along with Snape and Dumbledore and the two rush out of the great hall. Hermione and I look over at each other and we both have the same thought. It has to be about Ron and Harry.

When dinner is over all of Gryffindor table heads back to the common room and we see Harry and Ron sitting there by the fire

"Ron! Harry! Oh, thank God you're alright. We were so worried." I exclaim as I rush over to them to give them a crushing hug. I pull away and take my hand and thump both of the back of their heads. "OW!" "What the bloody hell Ara?!" "That's for worrying the living hell out of all of us!" "It's not our fault!" Ron rambled out at Hermione and me. "The platform sealed on us before we could go through it, and we had to use my dad's car to fly over here. God he's gonna kill me." Harry nods in agreement with him.
"You're lucky you weren't expelled. And that no one saw you flying at King's Cross." Hermione lectures at them. "Well..." Ron mumbles out.

"You were seen?! Idiots!" I yell out back at them and thump their heads again.

"Jesus!" They both cried out. "Go right up to bed both of you! And think about what you did." I point towards the boys common room and glare at them, slightly playfully, but glare nonetheless. They both grumble yes at me before shuffling over to their common room along with the rest of their roommates.

"What idiots." I turn to Hermione. "Seriously? How could they ever survive without us much less on their own?" I exasperate at her. She shakes her head at me, and we both head off to the girl's dormitory to go to sleep.

The year hasn't started yet and those two are already on my nerves.

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The next morning starts up the term and to start off our morning, we all head over to our new class Herbology and start to re-pot Mandrakes. Which was fine in theory, until the Mandrakes started to squeal as loud as possible which made Neville faint. We all pull our Mandrakes from the pots all at once and the squealing from all of them is unlike anything i have ever heard. I see my brother tease his Mandrake by putting his finger near his mouth and then the damn Mandrake bit on his finger which made me laugh.

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In the great hall I sit next to Hermione across from Ron and Harry watching Ron messily tape up his wand which he broke last night. "Just say it... I'm doomed." Ron starts to weep. "You're doomed." Harry and I say at the same time. "Hi Harry!" All of a sudden there's a bright flash from behind me and we all turn to see a 1st year take a photo of Harry.

"I'm Colin Creevey. I'm in Gryffindor too." I turn back to Harry with a slight smirk on my face I have to hold in my laughter. "Uh, hi Colin. Nice to meet you." Colin wants to say more but is cut off by an owl screech. We all look over to see Ron's owl Errol, flying over to us at the table before slamming into a bowl of chips and falling on the table.

"Bloody bird's a menace." Ron states as he picks up a letter from his parents. I dust off the chips from the owl and pet him before he flies away.

"Look everyone! Weasley got himself a howler!" Seamus yells out for everyone to hear. Oh god. He's so screwed. This is going to be so embarrassing for him. "Go on Ron." Neville stammers at him. "I ignored one from my gran once. It was horrible." Ron has a distraught look on his face before he starts to open the letter and it comes alive.

"Ronald Weasley!" It screams out sounding like Mrs. Weasley. The letter starts to float in midair. "How dare you steal that car! I am absolutely disgusted! Your father is facing an inquiry at work and it's entirely your fault!" The letter goes zooming in right in front of his face, "If you put another toe out of line, we'll bring you straight home!" The howler turns over to Ginny and it's tone changes all the entirety. "Oh, and, Ginny, dear, congratulations on making Gryffindor. Your father and I are so proud." It turns back to Ron before blowing its tongue back at Ron. The howler shreds itself up and lands right in front of Ron.

"Ron, remind me to never get on your mums' bad side." I say to him and Hermione and Harry nod along.