The Potter Twins

Chapter 6: Preparing for War

Harry was so destroyed after the death of Dumbledore. He didn't want to return the Dursleys, so I told him he could come and live at Grimmauld Place with me. The Dursleys didn't care that he was no longer in his house, although Dudley did say something very odd to him. He told Harry he was going to miss him and that he didn't hate him like Harry had thought. Dudley than told me that he wished he could have gotten to know me. 

Petunia, on the other hand, didn't say a word to me. However, hen she saw me on her doorstep she about fainted. I think she misses her sister just as much as we did but was to proud to say it. Vernon, to our surprise, helped Harry load Mr. Weasley's car with his stuff. At home, I let Harry take Sirius' room which I still hadn't touched. About a week into summer, Ginny, Hermione and Ron came to the house and stayed with us.

"Did you know Bill's getting married in a month?" Ginny asked excitedly over dinner. 

"Really to who?" I asked.

Ron swallowed. "Fleur Delacour. Remember her?" 

Harry laughed. "Really, Fleur? Do you think that's best though? To have a wedding right now?" 

Hermione spoke then. "I think it's a good idea. If anything we need now, we need love." She looked at Ron then dropped her head. 

"I agree. Its a sign of light within the dark. Just like this, us, just hanging out like normal teenagers." 

Ron laughed. "I don't know what we are, but normal is not it." Everyone laughed and agreed with him. "But it's okay, I like us the way we are." 

After Ginny fell asleep, the four of us talked about the plan to find the remaining Horcruxes. "Where do we start?" Ron asked.

"Well I think we should start with finding a way to destroy the one we have while trying to find the others. If we can we destroy the one we have, even before we find another, we're already ahead." I said. 

Hermione thought about something. "How do we know what to look for? Horcruxes can be anything." 

"We'll figure it out. I don't know how Dumbledore found the ones he did, but we will them. We have too," Harry said.

I finished for him. "Otherwise Voldemort can't be killed. So I take it Ginny's not coming with us after the wedding?" I asked Harry. He looked at Ron.

"No. I want her safe. If we're caught, I don't want her there." 

Hermione sighed. "So we're not going back to school?" 

"No, we have to able to travel. We need places to hide, where we can't be easily found." I told her. "Do you two still want to come? It's going be a long and rough time. You don't have to, if you don't want too." 

Hermione took my hand. "We're not letting you two go alone. We're in this together, we always have been." Ron took her hand and I took Harry's. He smiled at his friends, happy they were coming. Happy we weren't doing this alone. Happy that soon, hopefully, this would be over.

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The boys went to bed and Hermione followed me to my room. "So is Draco coming with us?" 

"He wants too. I told him I'd tell him where we were when I could but after hearing Harry talk about protecting Ginny, I don't know if I want too anymore. Plus I don't know how they'll react when they see him." 

She hugged me. "We can handle those boys. Do what you think is right, for you and for him. He may not be safe with us, but he may be safer." She said. "Here, hand me your schoolbag."

"Why?" 

"I'm going to be a undetectable extension charm on it so we have get things from here while we're travelling." She said a charm over my bag and handed it back to me. Before she got into bed so turned to me and said, "If I were you, I'd bring him. We don't know what's going to happen, how long we have. I'd bring him." 

I nodded and got into bed. We were traveling back to the Weasleys in about a week or so for the wedding. Harry spend as much time with Ginny as he could while we stayed at the house. Ron and Hermione seemed to be getting cozy but every time I asked her about it she shrugged and said she didn't know what was going through his head. I wrote to Draco a few times, told him about the wedding and told him about our plans of traveling. In one letter, I asked him again if he was sure he still wanted to come. In his reply, he said his bag was already packed. I told him after the wedding we were going into hiding, probably in the woods somewhere but I would let him know as soon as I thought we were safe. 

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The days leading up to the wedding were really busy. All the girls helped Mrs. Weasley in the kitchen for every meal and the boys all help Mr. Weasley clean up the yard, the house and set up the tents. We enjoyed our time with our 2nd family. 

One day, a man, Scrimgeour,  from the Ministry came to the house. He told us Dumbledore had left us some things in his will. "'To Hermione Jean Granger,  I leave my copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in hope that she will find it entertaining and instructive. '" Scrimgeour read from the will and handed Hermione a small, blue book. 

 "'To Ronald Billius Weasley, I leave my Deluminator, in hope that even in the dark, he will find the light.'" He took out a silver device and when Ron clicked it, the light from the lamps went into the device. When he clicked it again, the light returned to the lamps. 

"'To Harry James Potter, I leave the Snitch he caught in his first Quidditch game.'" He gave Harry the gold ball and Harry thanked the man. "'And to Haley Lillian Potter, I leave the Sword of Gryffindor and a ring her mother once gave me as a gift.'" Scrimgeour placed the silver band ring in my hand then spoke, "Unfortunately, the sword was not his to give to you, Miss Potter. The sword, never the less, has been missing since his passing."

"The sword is gone? How is that possible?" I asked the man. His response was even more confusing. 

"I don't know what you children are up too, but you are in way over your heads." He rose from his seat to leave. I followed him to the door.

"Sir, I mean no disrespect here, but we haven't been children since Voldemort killed our parents. We're may be "in over our heads" but at least we're doing something and not searching a dead man's belongings like his a criminal." Before he replied, I grabbed the door. "Have a good day, sir." then shut the door in his face.