20. A New Year

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Emaline had come over to the Dursley's two weeks after the summer holidays began.

It was humouring to see the look on their Aunt and Uncle's faces. On the plus side, seeing as though Elodie was nearly an adult, she was allowed her own room. This meant, that Emaline could share.

She did what she could with it.
The walls were light green already, and it had an oak double bed and desk. That was it.

"Race you two to the top!" Elodie squealed and ran to the top of the hill. Emaline and Harry were not far behind.

Elodie had gotten considerably better after the Triwizard Tournament. Seeing as though no body mentioned anything about it, it made it easier for her to deal with.

Elodie and Emaline reached the top first, so they sat on the swings.

Harry gave a sarcastic look of sadness, and sat on the roundabout.

Harry looked over at a mother and son who were leaving the park. He missed his own mother, and it was obvious.

"Shit." Elodie noticed Dudley and his friends coming up to the park too.

"Sorry Big D! Only room for one pig in here! You seem to have four of them behind you!"
Elodie shouted at the group of boys

They stuck their dirty little fingers up at her.

"Beat up another ten year old, did you?" Harry asked

"This one deserved it." Dudley claimed

"Five against one, very brave." Harry muttered

"Well you're one to talk. You and your sister moaning in to your pillows every night? At least I'm not afraid of my own pillow. Don't kill Cedric! Who's Cedric? Your boyfriend?"

"Shut up." Harry said

"He's going to kill me, mum! Where is your mum? Where is your mum, Potter? Is she dead? Is she dead?!

"Don't you dare speak of their names you pig!" Elodie brought her wand up to his throat.

"You see, unlike Harry and Emaline over there... I'm actually allowed to use magic over here. So if you ever over step one of our boundaries again, we're going to have some problems." She whispered into his ear.

Dudley looked scared stiff, but his friends were still laughing behind him.

Suddenly, the sky turned grey and the wind began to howl.

"Dudley, let's go. Come on!" His friends said

Dudley's friends left the four of them behind.

"What are you doing, Elodie?" Dudley asked

"Nothing?! I'm not doing anything!" She took her wand away and looked at the sky.

"Come on, El. It's gonna start pouring down." Emaline took a hold of her arm and they all started running back home.

They reached a tunnel and stopped to catch their breath for a few moments.

The lights flickered as the rain poured harder.

Emaline and Dudley turned around to see Harry and Elodie in the grasp of dementors.
They were held by their necks so they struggled to breathe.

"Emaline! Use your magic to get rid of them!" Dudley screamed

"I can't summon a patronus! Plus, I'm not old enough!" Emaline was struggling on what to do.

"Dudley, run! We can handle it from here." Emaline shouted

He began to run, but slipped. He got pulled outside where another dementor found him.

The dementors started to attack the three. Emaline was lost for words.

Harry finally managed to break free from the dementors grasp, by hitting it in the face with his wand.

He stabbed the dementor that was effecting Elodie too so she managed to break free.

The dementor was chasing the now three, free people, but Elodie interrupted.

"Expecto Patronum!" The dementor left the tunnel.
She moved the spell over to where Dudley's Dementor was and it got blown away.

They ran over to him, picked him up (with a struggle), and walked him back home.

"Diddykins? Is that you?" Petunia asked.

Elodie and Harry dropped Dudley through the door, with Emaline standing awkwardly behind them.

"Duddy... Vernon, come quick." Petunia sat up

They put him on a chair and showered him with hugs and kisses.

"We're going to have to take him to hospital..." Petunia whispered

"Who did this to you, boy?" Vernon asked his son

Dudley pointed towards the three children standing in the living room doorway.

"Happy, are we now, eh? You've finally driven him loopy." Their uncle asked

"Vernon! Don't say that!" Petunia said, whilst holding her sons face

"Well, just look at him, Petunia. Our boy has gone yumpy. I've reached my limit, do you hear? This is the last time I'm gonna take you three's nonsense." Vernon shouted

Harry and Elodie's aunt and uncle went to take Dudley to the hospital.

The three were in Elodie's room listening to the stolen record player from downstairs.

"I feel it in my finger, I feel it in my toes! Love is all around me, and so the feeling grows!" Emaline sang, and the other two joined in.

"It's written on the wind, it's everywhere I go!"

"Ohhh yes it is!" Elodie sang at the top of her lungs

The three began to slow dance around the room.

Giggles erupted as the song finished.

As everything settled down, the key in the lock of the door began to twist.

Suddenly, the door got forced open. It was Mad Eye Moody, Nymphadora Tonks, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and some others.

"What are you guys doing here?" Harry asked
"Rescuing you all of course!" Tonks said

Moody led them out of the door, Emaline pulled Elodie aside.

"What's going on?" She asked
"The ministry must have been notified that I had used a patronus charm. They'll probably be needing to know why I used it. That's a guess anyway." Elodie led Emaline back to the others.

"Where are we going, Professor Moody?" Elodie asked.

"We'll explain everything when we get back to headquarters." Tonks answered with a smile.

"Not here, Nymphadora." Moody whispered
"Don't call me Nymphadora." Tonks' hair flashed from purple to red. She quickly shook it off.

Moody slammed his walking stick into the ground, twice. And at once, eight broomsticks came their way.

They each caught a hold of them.

"You okay?" Elodie asked Emaline. She was worried about her feeling uncomfortable because this is not what she signed up for when she came to stay with them.

"Are you kidding? This is the most adventure I've ever been through in one summer! Plus, we're not chasers on the quidditch field for nothing." She winked back

"Stay in formation, everyone. Don't break ranks if one of us is killed." Moody demanded

They hopped on their brooms and followed Tonks, who was in front.

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