Ivy's Magic :part 2; Dumbledore's Army

St. mungos

     On the day before the students left for the holidays, Ivy, Marie, and Dennis were sitting at the breakfast table. It had been a little less than a week than the night they got detention, but they still talked about it.

Just then, Umbrige walked up to them. "Excuse me ms. Black, may I have a word?" Ivy looked at the other two and quickly rolled her eyes, so Umbrige couldn't see.

"Yes" she finally replied. "I notice that you seem to have a very good relationship with the weasly's, do you by any chance know where they might be?" Ivy smiled, She had a small feeling that Umbrige wouldn't be invited to the little meeting for the emergency, so she thought up a lie to make sure she didn't get them in trouble.

"Their dad has a really bad case of dragon pox, so they left to go see him." Ivy said convincingly. "Oh, You seem to be very good friends with mr. Potter, any chance you know where he is?" Umbrige said, trying to hold the excitement that she might find a way of getting harry expelled. "Yes, he's with the weasly's. He is like a member of their family all the same, he left with them." Ivy replied simply. "And please, do tell how you know all of this" Umbrige asked sweetly. "They sent me a letter just a couple days ago explaining what happened." Ivy couldn't beleive that the lie was working!

"Well I don't think that little planned story is true, if I went to the headmaster and he tells me the story isn't true, it'll be a month of detention for you!" Umbrige had lost the sweetness in her voice, and she stormed off straight to the headmaster.

    "I can't believe that lie worked" Marie exclaimed as Dennis laughed while they made their way through the castle and towards the train station.

"Oh, Dobby, come here, I have a gift for you!" Ivy said when she noticed that the elf had been following them. "A gift? Dobby thinks Ivy Black is too generous" Dobby squealed when he saw the gift wrapped package. He tore open the paper and held up a book, Ivy had gotten him a knitting book. "I think Dumbledore once told me that he wanted a pair of socks, could you do me a favor and make him some?" Ivy whispered to Dobby. His eyes went bright and he shouted "Of course Dobby would make the headmaster some socks!" Ivy laughed and headed off to the train station.

     When Ivy, Maria, and Dennis  made their way through the platform, Marie waved to a short, balding man wearing a sweater and some round glasses. Ivy assumed this was her dad. Then she noticed a familiar face smiling at her through the crowd, Lupin.

Beside lupin was snuffles, which Ivy guessed was just because he wanted to leave and the train station was crowded anyways. Ivy waved at them and they all walked home together.

     Ivy was excited to be back. The house had been decorated for Christmas. The elf heads had Santa hat's and beards, and a large Christmas tree sat in the corner of the sitting room. Even kreacher's cuburd had been decorated.

"Oh Ivy there you are" Mrs. Weasly went up and gave her a big hug. "Were there any troubles at the train station?" Mrs. Weasly asked Lupin and Sirius. "Remus wouldn't go through the border so we waited with all of the muggles outside the platform." Sirius replied. Ivy smiled at him and when Lupin walked off she asked "have you given harry the mirror?"

"No, not yet I'm going to wait until the end of the break." Then he walked off to join the others. Harry was sitting playing wizard chess with Ron when he saw Ivy. "Hello Ron, how is your dad?" Ivy asked, sitting down. "He's doing fine, wishes he could be here by Christmas day, but they won't let him leave for another week or so." Said Ron, groaning when his castle was smashed by Harry's knight.

      "Dumbledore wanted to thank you, Ivy" Lupin walked over to them. "What for" Ivy hadn't done anything. "For coming up with a lie for the weasly's disappearance, though dragon pox would not be a reason for your entire family to come see you." He smiled. Ivy's cheeks burned with embarrassment, At least Dumbledore hadn't come up with a different story, otherwise she would have had 3 months of detentions. "And what's this about two months of detentions?" Lupin asked, seeming to have read her mind. "Uhhh" was all Ivy really wanted to say. She heard Ron laughing as she said that.

        On Christmas morning, Everyone settled down for a nice breakfast. Even hagrid came over to see them. Ivy was sat in between Sirius and Lupin. After breakfast, Ivy left with the weasly's and a few others to visit mr. Weasly at st. Mungos. Tonks was with them, she had made her hair really long for the winter, and tied it back in a low ponytail. When they reached the sidewalk, tonks slipped on the ice and fell down. Ivy gracefully slid over to her and pulled her up. She remembered that on Christmas last year, Ivy, Marie, and Dennis had ice-skated on the frozen lake together. "Thanks" tonks said cheerfully as the continued leading the group. "Show off" Ginny laughed when Ivy reached the back of the group.

        Only six people were allowed to visit a patient at a time, Ivy was fine with going in with all of the adults. When the nurse opened the door to let the children in, Ivy saw a man in the bed next to Mr. Weasly. He had a terrible looking bite on his arm that Ivy assumed to be a werewolf bite. A minute or two passed before Ivy said to Lupin, "I saw a guy in the bed next to Mr. Weasly who looked like he had a pretty bad werewolf bite." Lupin looked over at her, "Well at least now they have the wolfsbane potion, so he had it easy." He muttered mostly to himself. "Its almost full moon" Ivy noted. She had been keeping a moon calender ever since she became friends with Lupin, she thought it would be interesting to start seeing the moon phases anyways. Just then, the door opened and the adults were allowed in. Ivy followed and looked at the werewolf, Ivy noticed that Lupin did too. Mr. Weasly (for a man who had just been attacked by a snake) seemed pretty cheerful. He was happy to talk to everyone, Ivy noticed that Sirius was the same way when he was around alot of people, Ivy guessed this was simply because neither of them had seen friendly faces in a while. Both Ivy and Mr. Weasly noticed Lupin glancing over at the werewolf. "I tried talking to him, I told him who had a friend that was a werewolf." Mr. Weasly said, "What did he say" Mrs. Weasly asked. "He said if I keep talking he would bite my face."

    "Where did the others go" Ivy asked, suddenly a bit uncomfortable. "Oh, I think they went to go to the tea room, but they went in the wrong direction." Ivy nodded and headed out the door. She walked down the hallway until she heard Harry's voice. She slowly walked in to see Harry. She walked up behind Hermione silently and when Hermione noticed her, she jumped in suprise.

"You went the wrong direction, the tea room is the other way." She said, when she noticed a man with golden hair and piercing blue eyes drawing on some pictures of himself. "This guy named Max keeps writing to me, every day, although I have no Idea why." The man said. Then Ivy recognized the man's picture from one of the books in Mrs. Weasly's kitchen. "Is that gildoroy lockhart?"Ivy asked, shocked. "Yeah, me and harry are sort of the reason he's here." Ron said, trying to hide a laugh. Just then, Ivy heard someone else talking "come now Neville, Say goodbye" Ivy turned around to see Neville Longbottom.

"Neville?" She said in suprise. "Oh, um, hi Ivy" He said, clearly embarrassed. "Neville? What are you doing here?" It was Hermione. Ivy and Harry stayed silent. "Neville, go on, have you not told your friends about your parents. You have nothing to be ashamed of." Neville stayed silent while his grandmother explained. "My son and his wife were fierce aurours, they were brave and noble. But one night they were tortured into insanity by Bellatrix Lestrange." At the sound of her name, Ivy's head pounded, in that moment she realized she hated being pure blood, she grabbed her head and grunted. "Ivy are you ok?" Nevile asked. "I'm fine, I'm sorry about your parents. And I regret being related to that evil woman." Ivy said, And she walked out.