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Lina's eyes snapped open "say that again," she said.
"Cedric...is...alive," Remus said slowly so Lina could fully process his words.
Lina searched her uncle's eyes to see if he was telling the truth or not, he was. Lina pinched her arm for extra measure "Merlin this is real." Lina abruptly stood up and walked to her window that overlooked the back garden and surrounding forest. She was biting her thumbnail as she turned back to Remus "when?" She asked.
"Last night," Remus said standing up "his heartbeat has been getting stronger and then he just woke up."
"I need to go see him," Lina said, she moved to leave but Remus caught her arm.
"Give them the weekend, let Cedric get used to being awake, give this time to his parents."
Lina purses her lips "when can I see him?"
"Next week." Next week? That was far too far away for Lina, she wanted to see Cedric now. "We'll move into Grimmauld Place, get settled and then you can go. We'll be so busy the days will go by quickly, alright?"
"Alright," Lina agreed.
***
Grimmauld Place was a dark and dingy place. It was grand in structure but lacked in decor. The house smelt of dirt and damp and even when the gas lamps were lit there was still a sense of darkness over the place.
But the smell or the constant darkness wasn't the worse thing about the place, nor was it the bad memories it held, the worst thing was that everything seemed to be alive and full of dark magic.
When Lina first arrived she quickly understood that, especially when the portrait that should have been hidden behind a pair of long moth-eaten curtains started yelling at Lina and Sirius cursing them with a colour amount of insults. The women in the portrait was Lina's grandmother.
"Ignore her" Sirius had spat glaring at the portrait as he covered the portrait back up with the curtains. Walburga continued to scream only now it was muffled.
At the bottom of the staircase was a large umbrella holder that looked like it was made out of a troll's leg. As you walked up the staircase there were glass casings all displaying house-elf skulls.
The bedrooms were mostly the same as the rest of the house. Sirius was back in his old room he had as a child, Remus was in a spare room and Lina's who seemed to be house the least amount of dark objects, besides Sirius's, was Andromeda's old room.
The room was rather large, large enough to fit two beds in. The second had been brought in for when Tonks needed to stay over. There was a leather-bound desk but Lina didn't need to use it as she hadn't been set any homework for summer, Professor McGonagall had said something about being too emotionally distressed but Lina was too emotionally distressed to hear what the Professor was saying. Lina would use it for her books when studying.
