PRONGSLET AND THE RETURN OF THE MARAUDERS (ON HOLD)

Chapter Fourteen

[Chapter Fourteen]

Before the group had even left the Grimmauld Place, Milo found himself irritated as they had to wait around because "Harry" needed to be escorted to King's Cross Station with a guard. With such a large group going to the station already to see off the students, it seemed highly stupid to add more people to the cause. Not to mention, in Milo's mind, it just looked incredibly suspicious to have even more people join in just to drop off the students. Milo raised the point that he held doubt that Voldemort or anyone was going to try something at a crowded station after months of lying low. 

It seemed excessive, especially with Tonks dressing up as an old woman to keep watch around the corner as they all finally stepped outside.

"This is absolute nonsense," Milo sighed, as he walked alongside Cedric as they all came to step outside the Grimmauld Place. "I feel like we're drawing more attention to ourselves with all this added security."

"That's not nonsense, Milo," Sirius said, coming behind him and placing his hand on his shoulder, " this is nonsense."

Suddenly, the man morphed into his dog form and started happily barking and hopping about the group of students to cheer them up. Silas never seemed to be in a foul mood and became the first to laugh at his father's antics. It was only then that Milo noticed that Elspeth was not among the many faces joining them that morning. He scanned the area, standing on the tips of his toes to practically look over everyone except Cedric.

Neville was the first to catch him and turned to Milo with a questioning expression. " What are you looking for, Milo?"

"Where's Aunt El?" Milo questioned. " I figured she would be here to see us off, at least to the train station."

"Mum got called into work earlier," Silas answered as he tuned into the conversation. " But she said she was going to meet us at the station and that she had a little surprise."

Of course, after Silas announced such a thing, Milo couldn't help but wonder what the surprise was. He thought about asking but usually the adult that spoiled secrets was Elspeth and she wasn't there to spoil her own surprise. It seemed he was just going to have to wait until they arrived.

Fortunately, it was only about a twenty-minute walk on foot to King's Cross Station. Although to some, like Molly, who so used to magic, it seemed like such a silly task. She claimed that she wished that Arthur had been able to get Ministry vehicles like he had done the year before, but that seemed like a shot in the dark.

Fudge was not looking to loan out any sort if favours to anyone that was associated with Dumbledore or Harry Potter at the moment. But Milo wasn't bothered by the idea of walking, mainly because he wasn't walking. At one point, he had playfully jumped on to Cedric's back and rather than telling Milo to get off, Cedric happily carried the boy on his back. He looked like quite the powertrain, carrying Milo on his back and not only pulling his trunk along but Milo's as well.