Harry Potter's sister ~~~ Fanfiction

visit from ministry part 36

Emma and her friends were having the time of their lives. After confirming that everyone was able to perform the levitation spell, Flitwick had introduced them to the Wingardium Leviosa Spell Challenge. The challenge was to levitate as many marbles as possible across the classroom into a large vase. There were ten groups of two, Emma was paired with Colin, and each group had a different colour of marble. Together they made the best team. Individually Ginny was the most skilled with the levitation spell but she was partnered with Geoffrey who was not as good. Emma was second only to her redheaded best friend and Colin was considerably better at this than Geoffrey was.

Emma and Colin were winning and Ginny was trailing by about a dozen marbles, when the door to the classroom burst open.

"Miss Granger?" said Flitwick

"Sorry Professor, but I was sent to get Emma. Harry's in the Hospital Wing."

There were a round of gasps, Harry's frequent trips to the infirmary were not unnoticed by the rest of the school. Especially the eight students in the room who'd befriended to the Boy-Who-Lived.

"What?" squealed Emma "What did he do this time?"

"Miss Potter." Said Flitwick, he himself obviously concerned "You're excused from the rest of this lesson."

Emma hurriedly packed up her stuff and followed Hermione. When the two of them got to the Hospital wing they found Professors Snape and McGonagall as well as Ron standing outside a bed with a white screen.

"Harry?" called Emma

"Miss Potter, your brother is unconscious." Said McGonagall "It seems someone decided to drop a cherry bomb his cauldron."

"What? Who?"

"That's a rather interesting question." Said Professor Snape, despite his hatred of both Potters, he himself was shaken that this had happened in his classroom. "The item wasn't tossed or dropped in by another student it materialized out of thin air above Potter's cauldron."

"But who sent it?" demanded Emma

"That is a question I'm not sure we can answer." Came Professor Dumbledore's voice from behind Emma and Hermione. "There are a number of methods that match what Professor Snape witness, but one cannot say who set the Cherry Bomb."

"Severus?" said McGonagall "Could the device have been a portkey?"

Snape looked at his Gryffindor counterpart. "It could have been but I was under the impression that only the Headmaster could send a portkey in or out of the castle. The grounds are another question but I think the Dungeon is protected by the enchantments like the rest of the castle?"

"You are correct Severus." Said Dumbledore "Only I can send a Portkey in or out of the castle."

"I don't think it was a portkey." Said Hermione "Asides from anything else, whoever sent the cherry bomb, How could they know which cauldron was Harry's? The fact that the bomb wasn't dropped until no one else was near the cauldron suggests to me that someone was watching Harry."

Everyone looked at Hermione with varying degrees of admiration, though Snape's was very reluctant, "Excellent deductions Miss Granger." Said Dumbledore "I think I agree with you on this."