Snogging Pox

Fever

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He decided to sleep on it and deal with it in the morning hopefully after getting news from the Weasleys ...

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Arthur winced as his wife threw a really heavy candlestick out the window making some gnomes scatter, "Molly, please calm down-whoa!" Arthur ducked a hex s his wife stormed towards the fireplace. "SOMEONE GRAB THAT FLOO POWDER!" Charlie bravely nabbed the bag before his mother could get to it and threw it to the twins who bolted up the stairs with it.

"GET BACK HERE WITH THAT!" Molly shouted, her rather impressive magic flared. No one messes with her children and Harry was one.

Percy smiled nervously as he and Bill blocked the fireplace, "Mom ... you have to calm down before you do something stupid."

The Weasley matriarch growled, "The man should be skinned for what he does to Harry!"

Ron sighed in relief as his mother visibly calmed down a little, but he knew this wasn't over yet. "We know, Mom, but the manipulative old fool worded it so it that, yet again, it sounds like he only has Harry's best interest in mind. If we try anything he could severe us from Harry completely." He noticed Ginny pouting and that she made no attempt to stop her mother. Instead she was looking up at the bag of floo powder in the twins' hands.

"It's true. He is making it so that if we try something he could send us to Azkaban. We won't be much help to him there. We need to calm down and play by his rules ... for now." said Arthur cautiously. No one moved until Ginny stopped looking at the floo powder and Molly sat down at he table.

Molly nodded sadly, "You're right ... I just hate the fact that Dumbledore is trying to isolate Harry. What does that goat want? Hasn't Harry been through enough?"

"I don't know, but unlike his relatives, Dumbledore can't try to starve Harry there. The house elves like Harry too much and I doubt Severus will let that fly on his watch even with the personal issues he has with Harry's father." said Bill as he and Percy slowly moved away from the fireplace.

The red haired family settled down to eat. It was a rather somber mood, but how could it not be when a member of their family was missing for the holidays. However a clicking sound caught their attention and everyone glanced around looking for the source. There, tapping at the window, was a mini blue snitch fluttering around outside.

"That's Harry's snitch!" Ginny yelled excitedly and opened the window letting it inside. It fluttered up to her and let the letter slowly leave through the bottom of its body, but not completely. The letter was dangling by one corner waiting for someone to take it. "So cool!" She snatched the letter and opened it.

"Come on, Ginny, what does it say?" The twins asked in perfect sync, but everyone became worried as Ginny started to tear up. Arthur got up and took the letter to see what caused his daughter to cry, but he had to sit down after reading it. One by one each person read the letter over Arthur's shoulders when he sat down. The air was deadly silent ...

Ginny whimpered breaking the silence, "W-we aren't going to let this happen right? Harry can't die right?"

"No, Ginny." Arthur said as he set the letter down. "There will be only one wizard dying and that's Dumbledore. As for this Horcrux issue ... I think we need to get Severus Snape involved." He quickly held up his hand to stop all the redheads, who wanted to argue, from saying anything so he could explain. "Something like a Horcrux is dark magic and we have very little knowledge about those things. Severus knows a great deal and is a potion master. It's a risk, but we do know he works in the Order as a spy and in the only year your mother and I spent with him at Hogwarts I know he cared for Harry's mother. We have to trust him if we want this thing out of Harry as safely as possible."