Year 2 ⋆.˚ ☾⭒.˚ 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔅𝔲𝔯𝔯𝔬𝔴

ℑ𝔣 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔢𝔫𝔧𝔬𝔶𝔢𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔢𝔯, 𝔭𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔢 𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔞 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱. ℑ 𝔩𝔬𝔳𝔢 𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔨!!𝔄𝔩𝔰𝔬 𝔰𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔶 𝔥𝔢𝔩𝔭𝔰 𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔰 𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔠𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔦𝔱. 𝔖𝔬 𝔭𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔢 𝔰𝔥𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔣𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴 𝔭𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔰. 💗

At Privet Drive :

Dinner arrived through the cat flap in the door. Cold soup and 2 slices of bread. Harry ate mechanically. He lay on his bed afterward, staring at the ceiling, listening to the house below, laughter, clinking glasses, normal life. And then-

A tap.

Harry froze. Another tap that made him turn slowly. Something was knocking against the barred window. His heart leapt as he scrambled up. Outside, hovering impossibly in the darkness—

Ron Weasley's face. Harry yanked the window open as far as the bars allowed. "Ron!" he hissed. Ron grinned wildly. "Ron, what, how did you ??" Harry was at a loss for words as it was the first time in his life he had seen an old turquoise car, which was in midair. "It took us long enough, didn't it?"Ron said. Fred and George waved. Harry laughed, a sound that burst out of him before he could stop it. For the first time all summer, hope flooded his chest.

"All right, Harry?"George asked and he nodded. "Why haven't you been answering my letters? I've asked you to stay almost about 12 times and then dad came home and said that you have got a warning as you have used magic in front of muggles-" "Ron said. "It wasn't me and how did you even know?"HArry asked. "He works for the ministry" "but Ron what are you doing here?" "Rescuing you, ofcourse"Ron said looking fondly at harry.

"Tie that around the bars"Fred said as he threw the end of the rope to harry. "If the Durselys wake up, I am dead".Harry said while tying the rope. "Don't worry, you've got us and stand back okay?"Fred said "Yeah". Harry moved back and packed his trunk and took Hedwig with him. The car made a loud noise and with a huge noise the bars were pulled out of the window as Fred drove the car. The trunk was sliding through the window as they were trying to get it inside the car. "A bit more, one good push is enough", said Fred as he was pulling it from inside of the car. "Okay it's all done now, Let's go"George said. As harry was climbing up the window a noise came from behind and that was of Uncle Vernon, "Petunia, PETUNNIA... he is getting away"and he grabbed harry from his ankle nut Ron, and the Twins held Harry's arms and pulled as hard as they could. And finally Harry was in the car and Uncle Vernon on the grounds and Petunia and Dudley at the window rushed down towards Vernon. "Wohoooo See you all next Summer" harry yelled at the Dursleys making the Weasleys laugh.

"So — what's the story, Harry?" asked Ron and he had told them all about Dobby. "Very Fishy,"Fred said, looking at harry. "Definitely dodgy,"George said looking at the other twin, "and so he wouldn't tell you who he worked for or who is plotting all of these?". "Ummm I don't think he could cause whenever i asked he was banging his head all the time"harry said.

Fred and George looked at each other and gave an amused look, "What, you think he is lying to me?"asked Harry looking at the Twins. "Well, we know that house-elves have got a powerful magic, but they can not use it without their master's permission . I think it was someone's idea of a joke to send that old elf to you as a prank. Can you think of someone at school who has a grudge against you?"Fred said, to which Harry instantly replied without thinking much, "Yes, malfoy. Draco Malfoy". "Malfoy, is he the son of Lucius Malfoy??"asked George. "Isn't is very common name, it might be, but why?"asked harry.

"I once heard dad talking about him, he was a big supporter of You-know-who."George said. "And when it was you-know-who's downfall, he tried to come out pure, like he said he didn't mean any of it. Dad thinks he was in the inner circle of you-know-who." Fred said. "Owhh I do not know" .

Soon they landed to the Weasely's house. Harry first time looked at Ron's house. A sign stuck at the entrance of it, The Burrow.

"It's not much, but enough i guess", said Ron looking at harry who was looking around the house. "It's beautiful". Suddenly Molly Weasely dashed towards them , "Ah" said Fred looking at the other twin "Oh dear" whispered George back to him.

Where have you been?

"Do you have any idea how worried I was?"Mrs.Weasley said in a deadly voice. "Beds empty, Car gone! No note, You could have crashed, I'm here restlessly with worry and do you even care?- You wait until your father gets home and hears about this, we never had this much trouble with Bill or Charlie or Percy-" "PREFECT PERCY", murmured Fred while Mrs.Weasley just glared at him, "You could have died, you could have seen, could have lost your father his job-"she was continuously shouting at the 3 kids, and this went on longer for almost about an hour before she turned to harry who stepped back immediately in horror thinking it was his turn to get scolded."I am pleased to see you dear, have some breakfast", she said with a hint of motherly love dropping from her voice.

Mrs.Weasely (Molly) turned to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for everyone. "Arthur and I were worried about you, my dear. We thought if by Friday you had not written to Ron, we would come and get you. But Fred, George and Ron, flying an illegal car across the country, the muggles could have seen you, do you even understand the depth of the situation?" She said while adding 3 fried eggs to his plate and flicked her wand casually towards the dishes at the sink, and they began to clean themselves.

"It was cloudy Mum", Fred said, earning a warning from his mother, "keep your mouth shut while eating", "They were starving him, Mum!" George said to back his mate. Soon a small redhead figure came in view of them and gave them a small squeal and ran upstairs again. "Ginny, my sister. She has been talking about you all summer" Ron sort of whispered it to Harry whereas Fred and George gave each other a smirk.

In the evening, Mr.Weasley arrived and slumped in the chair looking all tired as he took off his glasses and closed his eyes. "Amazing night, absolutely, 9 raids wohoo... 9 raids and an old Mundungus Fletcher tried to hex me when my back was facing him" he said while gulping the tea. "Found anything dad?"said Fred with a hint of excitement, "Umm all i have got is shrinking keys & kettles also pretty nasty stuff which did not belong in my department though.." "Why would anyone make shrinking keys?" asked George. "Just Muggle-baiting".

"Oh Arthur, did the work go well?" asked Mrs.Weasley coming out of the kitchen, and he nodded at the question but before he could answer she started speaking again making him shut. "Can you imagine a husband telling his wife that let me buy a car and all he wanted to do was see how that thing worked but in reality he was enchanting it to make it fly" Mr.Weasley blinked. "Anyways for your information, harry just arrived this morning by your extraordinary kids who drove that car which you definitely weren't intending to fly."

"Good Harry Potter is here. Haha I'm glad to know and I'm very pleased to meet you. Ron told us about you so much-" Mr.Weasley said looking at harry. "Your sons flew that car to his house and got him here back last night"shouted Molly, "What you have to say about that?"

"Did you really? Then how did it go? Did it go all right ?-" Mr Weasley said eagerly, "I - I - mean very wrong... very wrong of you boys", "Anyways it's about time to sleep, so Ron please do the needful." Mr.Weasley said, asking him to show harry his room and go to sleep.

Harry had never woken up to so much noise and felt so safe at the same time. Sunlight streamed through the small attic window. Somewhere below, plates clattered, voices argued cheerfully, and Mrs.Weasley's voice rose above them all like a conductor leading an orchestra.

"RONALD WEASLEY, IF THAT'S YOUR PET RAT IN THE JAM AGAIN—"

Harry smiled into his pillow. For a moment, he forgot the bars, the silence and the way summer had dragged on endlessly at Privet Drive. He sat up, stretching, and glanced around the room. Posters of Quidditch teams, a cluttered desk and a second-hand trunk at the foot of the bed. He wasn't alone anymore.

Downstairs, breakfast was chaos. Fred and George were arguing over who had technically flown the car first. Ginny hovered near the doorway, glancing at Harry whenever she thought no one was looking. Percy was reading a book while pretending not to listen. Mrs. Weasley pushed a plate toward Harry. "Eat, dear. You look like you haven't been fed properly all summer." Harry didn't correct her, instead smiling towards her like he would do to his mum.

"So", harry asked Ron whose mouth was stuffed with food, "did you hear from anyone?" "Hermione wrote once and Y/N wrote once to me and once to mum, mum said she was worried about you. They both will be at King's Cross, you will see them there." Something warm and uncomfortable twisted in his chest. For now, he just wanted to see his friends, friends who he had missed the whole summer. 

⋆.˚ ☾⭒.˚ The ones that Love us never really leave US  ⋆.˚ ☾⭒.˚

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