Midnight Stroll

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Chapter 8: The Encounter

Draco, Harry, Fred, and George had been having a great lunch; they were catching up on anything and everything they could think of. They were having the best time of their lives when it all came crashing down in the form of Ron, Hermione, and Ginny walking into the Three Broomsticks. Draco gently pushed Harry farther back into the booth they were all sitting in trying to hide him, when the bastard and two little bitches walked in and saw them.

Harry started to shake, he didn’t want another encounter with them; he didn’t think he would be able to handle it, especially with Ginny there. Draco grabbed Harry’s hand under the table and gave it a little squeeze, telling him that he wouldn’t let them hurt him. Draco looked across the table to see that Fred and George were royally pissed off to see the three standing there looking smug.

Ron, Hermione, and Ginny started to walk over to them, when they reached the table they glared at Harry, before turning their glare to Draco, when they turned to see who was sitting on the other side of the booth, they were all shocked to see Fred and George there glaring at them for all they were worth. Ron took a step back before gaining some courage and stepping forward again.

Ron turned to Harry, not even paying any attention to the twins knowing that they couldn’t do anything without getting into trouble with mom. Ron sent his most hatful glare and then smiled the most disgusting smile Harry had ever seen (don’t forget Harry seen Voldemort smile before, ‘shudder’) and then open that fat mouth that he knew was about to spew nasty little lies about him.

“What are you doing here; I didn’t know they let faggots in here.” Ron said with a triumphant smirk on his face.

That smirk melted off his face when Fred and George stood up and glared down at him, Ron had forgotten that they were gay also, not to mention that Charley is gay too. Ron was grabbed by the front of the shirt by two hands, one belonging to each of the twins, the next thing he saw was two arms pulling back and then feeling them slam into his face at the same time, crushing his nose, automatically forming a big bruise over the ones he already had from Draco beating him up the day before.

Fred and George took Ron down to the ground quickly and started to pound the living crap out of him, they didn’t even resister what was going on around them. Hermione and Ginny were screaming and pulling their wands out, Draco was smiling at seeing Ron getting beaten pretty badly by his bothers’, and Harry was still hiding in the corner of the booth trying to stay out of it. Hermione was just about to cast a spell when she was hit with one by Draco dropping her to the ground faster then she could blink. Ginny screamed again and aimed her wand at Draco, faster than Draco thought she was she muttered the Cruciatus Curse, Draco dropped to the ground screaming in pain. Everyone in the pub couldn’t believe that she had just cast a dark curse and in front of so many people. Harry screamed, jumped up, threw a Petrificus Totalus hex at her, and watched as she fell to the ground making a delicious thumping sound as she hit the ground.

Fred and George had stopped their game of pummel Ron to a bloody pulp when they heard Draco scream, and had just looked up to see Ginny hit the floor. Harry cast a Finite Intacartem at Draco and jumped down out of the booth to see if he was going to be okay. Draco moaned and rolled over on to his side, withering in pain from the curse. Before Harry, Fred, or George could do anything Aurors started to show up one after another, two of them walked over and grabbed Ginny none to gently after un-stunning her, and started to tell her that she was under arrest for the use of an Unforgivable, Ginny screeched that she didn’t do it, when that didn’t work she started to threaten that she would be back, that they couldn’t hold her forever, that she would get Harry if it was the last thing she ever did. The Aurors also grabbed Ron and Hermione and started to drag them away too.

Right before the Aurors left Harry stopped one of them and asked what it was that they had done to be taken away with Ginny, Harry may have been mad at them and still is but that didn’t mean they should go to Azkaban.

The Auror looked at Harry for a moment and Harry could see a hint of sadness in his eyes’, before he answered. “They are being charged with the accusations of rape, for the use of Unforgivables, and for the assult of Neville Longbottom.”

Harry couldn’t believe it, there was no way that they would hurt Neville he is the nicest person in the world. “You have to be wrong they wouldn’t do those things, who ever told you that must have it out for them.” Harry tried to reason with the Auror, sure they had been nasty, mean, and hurtful to him, but they were…are not capable of that, they couldn’t be, he would have known.

The Auror just looked down at Harry and smiled sadly and told him whether the accusations were true or not they had to take them in and have them questioned under the effect of truth serum. He also told Harry that they were going to get a pensieve from Mr. Longbottom to verify if it is true or not.

Harry turned around and looked away as the Aurors took the three of them away. Harry felt slightly weak arms wrap around him, and pull him into a hard body. Harry spun around in the arms and buried his face in Draco’s chest and started to cry, not caring that he was in a pub full of people. It’s wasn’t like they could say anything, they all knew what Harry had gone through concerning the final battle, and then to find out that three of his best friends could be capable of such things, and that they didn’t care about him at all, they knew that it had to hurt really bad, they were all surprised to see him still standing after everything that had happened to him.

Fred and George just stood there not completely grasping what had just happened. They went over it all in their heads, 1 Ron, Hermione, and Ginny made almost all of Gryffindor turn on Harry, 2 They never really liked Harry, they were just using him for his fame, and 3 All three of them beat Neville and they just got hauled off to Azkaban. The twins couldn’t figure out why they had gone dark, ohh what were they going to tell their mom, they could see it now, ‘Mom not only did Percy turn dark, but Ron and Ginny did too and they just got carted off to Azkaban, to have only Merlin knows what happen to them.’ Oh yeah they so did not want to have that conversation.

Fred and George were pulled from their thoughts when Draco signaled to them that he was going to take Harry back to the castle, they nodded and watched as Draco had to practically drag Harry out the door and back up the path.

TBC.

You didn’t expect that did you. Sorry I don’t like them very much so I got ride of them. Hope your enjoying the story so far.

Bye til next time.