Ginny's Story

Chapter 34 Family Fights and Forgiveness

Chapter 34 Family Fights and Forgiveness

More and more people began arriving, and I occupied myself by explaining to them all what was happening and what Harry was doing.

Ron and Hermione came up to me and Ron pulled me into the first hug he’d given me in ages.

“Ginny, we need to go somewhere… just know that we’re safe, okay? And tell Harry if you see him,” Ron said.

“Where do I tell Harry you are?” I asked.

Hermione and Ron stared at each other for a second, frowning.

“Tell him,” Hermione said slowly, “that we’ve gone to a bathroom. He’ll know where we are.” I nodded and Ron and Hermione ran out of the room, hand in hand.

I turned to my family – Fred, George, Bill, and Fleur – who were talking fondly and and waiting patiently for some news. Then my parents appeared.

“Ginny?” Mum said, surprised, looking around George where I had leapt to try and stay hidden from her. “What are you doing here?” She turned to Fred and George with her hands on her hips, but as they cowered away from her, the door swung open and Harry walked in again.

“Harry,” Lupin said, running towards Harry. “What’s happening?”

Harry looked around the room as if determining if we were ready to hear what he was going to say. “Voldemort’s on his way,” he said gruffly. “They’re barricading the school – Snape’s run for it – what are you doing here? How did you know?”

“He sent messages to the rest of the DA,” Fred explained. “You couldn’t expect everyone would miss the fun, Harry, and the DA let the Order know, and it all kind of snowballed.”

“What first, Harry?” George asked from beside me. He sounded a bit scared, like he knew something was going to happen but didn’t know what that something was. “What’s going on?”

“They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organised. We’re fighting.”

Many people in the room surged towards the door, ready to start preparing themselves to fight. Harry was pushed against a wall and forced to stay there by the amount of people leaving the room, until it had nearly cleared. I saw Dean and Neville clasp hands and smiled. I nursed a special spot for both of them in my heart; Luna because she was one of my best friends, and Dean because he had been my first boyfriend and the person who helped me get over my ‘obsession’ with Harry.

Mum grabbed my shoulder and started pushing me towards the door. I dug my heels into the ground and tried to pull away from her. Dad, Fred , George, Lupin, Bill and Fleur were standing around us, looking like they wanted to do something but didn’t know who to side with.

“You’re underage!” Mum shouted at me. I looked away from her defiantly and saw Harry walking towards us. I then felt as mad as Mum was acting. How dare she treat me like a child when Harry was there? How dare she treat me like a child with anyone there? I had been through much more than she had when she was sixteen. I had been through nearly as much as her now. I knew how to fight, and I knew how to fight well. After all, I did survive at the Department of Mysteries only the year before.

I pulled away from Mum’s grasp again, my hair flying onto my face as I did so. I pushed it back angrily. “I’m in Dumbledore’s Army –“ I said to start my big ‘I’m all grown up now, Mum’ speech, but was interrupted by Mum.

“A teenagers’ gang!” she cried.

Fred came to rescue. “A teenagers’ gang that’s about to take him on, which no one else has dared to do!” I mentally thanked Fred for standing up to Mum for me. I knew how scary it was sometimes.