American Teen [George Weasley Love Story]

She's Gone

*George's POV*

Fred and I joined the order as soon as we left school. We weren't very active since our shop kept us so busy, but we knew a lot more information now. So we weren't alerted when it was discovered Harry and a group of students broke into the ministry and fought Voldemort and his death-eaters. But we were invited to discuss what happened.

We arrived at 12 Grimmauld Place to find all active members of the order of the phoenix sitting in the living room. We joined them.

"The prophecy was destroyed, but no one heard it except for maybe Harry." I heard Moody say. I saw Tonks standing next to him. Her usual bubblegum pink hair was brown and she was muted. She looked sad. "in case you didn't know the group consisted of Harry, Hermione, Ron, Ginny" Fred and I both tensed at the mention of our younger brother and sister. "Neville, Luna, and Margaret." Margaret went? I hope she's safe. "Harry is safe. Hermione was hit hard but is fine now. Ron got hit with a spell that made him go a little loopy, but he will be fine. Ginny broke her ankle, but Margaret was able to carry her to safety. Neville's nose broke and Luna was knocked unconscious, but they will all recover. Of course, we lost Sirius Black to the veil. He was fighting Bellatrix Lestrange."

There was a moment of silence as we mourned Sirius. Then I realized we were in his house. Then I looked at Tonks, who was on the verge of sobbing and it hit me-he didn't give a status for Margaret. "What about Margaret" I asked, breaking the silence.

"They took her." Mad-eye said. And with that everything came crashing down. People were trying to reassure me it would be alright, but I knew it wasn't. What would he do to her? DIdn't he want revenge on her entire family? I tried to go get her, but all the order members stopped me assuring me it was too dangerous. I was trapped.

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Fred and I closed our shop because I was a hopeless case with Margaret gone and couldn't work. Fred tried hard to run it, but even when he hired someone else he couldn't. I forget how much Margaret means to him. We moved back in with my mum, who tried to cheer us up. But we were both distraught. She had been through so much, it was unfair she had to go through this. I was filled with anger at everyone who had led her to this-the order and Harry. Apparently, she tried to convince him not go and he went anyways. She went to protect him because that's rule number one of the stupid: protect Harry.

It was 2 weeks until Ron came home from school. Harry was required to go back to his grandparents until his seventeenth birthday in July, about two months away. I might have killed him if he came here. Of course, it's not his fault, but that doesn't matter.

I cry myself to sleep every night and I'm not even sure what I do during the day. Once Ron came home, Fred and I went back to the shop because we thought it would be a good distraction. it was at first. We were overhwelmingly busy. But then everything started to remind me of her. How excited and happy she was for us. One of her last words to me "it better be the talk of the town by the time I graduate". She helped design half of these products. And now she was suffering some unknown torture.

After about three weeks, Snape was back at an order meeting. And he had an update about Margaret.

"They should probably leave." he indicated Tonks, Fred, and I. Tonks was taking it hard too. Apparently Mags was one of her best friends as well, and she thought she should've been able to save her.

"Absolutely not." The three of us said in unison.

"Fine. It's not good. He has her displayed at all times in front of the table where meeting are held as an example to everyone. She's tortured on a daily basis. I'd expect her to be dead within a week. Definitely within two." Everybody gasped at that. I felt tears pour down my face. "She's barely eating. She's pale and weak. She couldn't fight anyone even if she tried. That's the worst part-she's given up. I can see it in her face that she knows she won't get out of there. I'm sure many of us remember when Umbridge tortured her and how it seemed like she had disappeared except for the fact that she was still doing work? She's like that now, only worse." I saw real remorse in his face, which surprised me. But then I remembered he's her favorite student, even if she is Gryffindor.

We had already been explained how impossible it was to save her. But that didn't stop me from launching myself across the table and yelling at Snape to save her. I knew it wouldn't work. i was stopped immediately. But I was just told the love of my life would probably die. I was escorted from the room and made to go lie down. But I didn't care. Margaret was on the edge of death, and I was lying useless in a bed.