The Unknown

Chapter 23: St Mungo's Hospital

From her hands and knees on the floor, Dahlia saw that they were in the kitchen of Grimmauld Place, the only light being the fire. Sirius was hurrying towards them, looking anxious but not looking any better in appearance as he was unshaven, in his day clothes, and had the stench of alcohol coming from him which almost made Dahlia cover her nose but she didn't out of respect.

"What's going on?" He asked as he helped Ginny stand, "Phineas said that Arthur's been badly injured".

"Ask Dahlia," Fred said.

"I want to hear it too" George said as well, both twins not saying it accusingly as if she had done something but wanted, no, needed, to know what happened to their father.

"I had a vision..." so she told them what had happened but knew that if they knew she was the snake, in their emotional state, they might do something they regret so she altered the story so that she was at the side-lines, watching the snake attack Mr Weasley. By the end, all of the Weasley's looked taken back by the story.

Fred turned to Sirius and asked, "is mum here yet?"

"She probably doesn't know it's happened yet," he answered, "the important thing was to get you kids away from Umbridge so she couldn't interfere. I suspect Dumbledore is telling your mother now".

"We have to go to St Mungo's," Ginny exclaimed.

"Hang on. You can't go to St Mungo's," Sirius exclaimed.

"Why not? He's our dad," Fred said.

"And how are you going to explain that you knew Arthur was in the hospital before the hospital even let his wife know?" Sirius said, for once trying to be the voice of reason.

"Why does that matter?" George asked.

"It matters because we don't want to draw attention to the fact that Dahlia is having visions about something happening hundreds of miles away," Sirius said angrily. "Do you have any idea what the Ministry would do with that information?"

Dahlia clearly did, that's why she wasn't voicing her opinion and was actually impressed that Sirius was now acting like an adult. She knew the Ministry would take her and question her about everything, especially if they found out Voldemort was really back and she had a connection to him. Sure, she'd be happy with the knowledge that they believed her, but she would quickly turn into some witch's or wizard's experiment to analyse the connection. It wouldn't be long before they began to question if she was evil and stick her in Azkaban.

The twins, however, looked like they couldn't care less, not really thinking what the Ministry would do as anger fuelled them. Ginny said, "we could tell them someone else told us, we could have heard it somewhere else and not from Dahlia".

"Like who?" Sirius exclaimed, "your dad was injured on work for the Order. If that isn't already fishy enough, if his children suddenly show up not long after, when they couldn't possibly know, that will bring up red flags. You could damage the Order-"

"We don't care about the Order," Fred shouted.

"It's our dad dying we're talking about," George added.

"Your father knew what he was getting into and he won't thank you for messing things up for the Order," Sirius said with equal anger, "this is why you aren't in the Order. There are some things out there that are worth dying for".

Dahlia had enough of the arguing; she knew she couldn't stop it, so she simply walked away, everyone watching her as she walked swiftly up the stairs and vanished. She walked to the room she stayed in during the summer with Hermione and Ginny, seeing that it was still kept tidy, and jumped onto her bed. She thought for a few moments whether she should speak to her sister, knowing that it was late and she was probably in bed, but then she realised if she didn't immediately and her sister found out, she'd be on the wrong side with the Queen of Death.