Harry Potter And The Fortunate Queen

Next Morning, Chris woke up and went downstairs. On the way she heard Percy shouting at Ron.

"But I didn't did anything Percy." said Ron with an irritated tone.

"Then how is Penelope's photo is like this, Ron." Percy said angrily.

Chris remembered Penelope was a Ravenclaw girl who was also Percy's girlfriend. Chris chuckled and came down. Mrs. Weasley and Hermione were talking about something. Chris joined them. After few minutes Ginny came down.

"What's up with Perce? Anyone knows why he is so grumpy on this early morning?" Asked Ginny.

"Oh... I heard, maybe or maybe not Ron did something to Percy's girlfriend's picture." Chris answered suppressing a smile.

"Poor Ron!" Hermione said.

Ginny, Hermione and Chris laughed. Mrs. Weasley also chuckled.

"I remembered my young days at Hogwarts." She said with a nostalgic face.

"You used to wrote letters to Dad, didn't you?" Ginny said giggling.

"Well.. that I did.. I remember one time, someone told me that, if I want people to fall in love with me, I should give them a Love potion and I brew lots of Love potion." Mrs. Weasley said smiling.

Mrs. Weasley, Ginny and Hermione giggled again.

"So did you gave it to someone?" Chris asked smiling.

"Yes. Only Arthur but later I found out I didn't needed to." Mrs. Weasley answered and all of them laughed when Harry, Ron, Fred and George came down. They all sat for breakfast. Chris noticed Harry was looking a little nervous and wasn't concentrating in anything.

Later they were dragging their trunks in Leaky Cauldron's narrow staircase and piling them up near the door, with Leon, Hedwig, Harry's snowy owl and Hermes, Percy's screech owl, perched on top in their cages. A small wickerwork basket stood beside the heap of trunks, spitting loudly.

"What's it Hermione?" Chris asked looking at the basket.

"It's Crookshanks. I brought a new cat yesterday." She said to Chris and turned towards the basket, which was still making noise. "It's all right, Crookshanks, I'll let you out on the train."

"You won't," snapped Ron. "What about poor Scabbers, eh?"

Chris never got a good feeling near Ron's rat Scabbers. Dumbledore advised her to trust her feelings but what harm can a simple rat do? Chris didn't understood.

Mr Weasley, who had been outside waiting for the Ministry cars, stuck his head inside.

"They're here," he said. "Harry, come on."

Mr Weasley marched with Harry and all of them followed. They walked across a short stretch of pavement towards the first of two old-fashioned dark green cars, each of which was driven by a furtive-looking wizard, wearing a suit of emerald velvet.

Mr. Weasley took Harry, Hermione, Ron and Percy to the first car. Mrs. Weasley and the others settled on the second one.

"Why is your father giving so much special treatment to Harry?" Chris whispered in Ginny's ear.

"I don't know. They like this for weeks now. Always worring about Harry and thinking about him." Ginny whispered back.

"I also heard from Harry that even the Minister is treating him differently."

"I ...." Ginny was about to say something when Mrs. Weasley snapped, "stop whispering. It feels bad."

Ginny and Chris didn't said anything for the rest of the ride.

They reached King's Cross with twenty minutes to spare; the Ministry drivers found them trolleys, unloaded their trunks, touched their hats to Mr Weasley and drove away, somehow managing to jump to the head of an unmoving queue for the traffic lights.

Mr Weasley kept close to Harry's elbow all the way into the station.

"Right then," he said, glancing around them. "Let's do this in pairs, as there are so many of us. I'll go through first with Harry."

Chris and Ginny exchanged looks. As they dashed towards the wall between platform nine and three quarter, Percy wanted to go next but Mrs. Weasley insisted Chris and Ginny to go. Both girls walked fast and dashed towards the wall as well. Percy followed them behind.

Next moment, they had fallen sideways through the solid metal onto platform nine and three-quarters and looked up to see the Hogwarts Express, a scarlet steam engine, puffing smoke over a platform packed with witches and wizards seeing their children onto the train.

Percy suddenly appeared behind them.

"Ah, there's Penelope!" said Percy, smoothing his hair and going pink again. Ginny and Chris caught Harry's eye and then three of them turned away to hide their laughter as Percy strode over to a girl with long, curly hair, walking with his c.h.e.s.t thrown out so that she couldn't miss his shiny badge.

Once the remaining Weasleys and Hermione had joined them, Harry and Mr Weasley led the way to the end of the train, past packed compartments, to a carriage that looked quite empty. They loaded the trunks onto it, stowed Leon in the luggage rack, then went back outside to say goodbye to Mr and Mrs Weasley. Mrs Weasley kissed all her children, then Hermione, Harry and at last Chris. She was shocked by this gesture by Mrs Weasley, but then smiled when she gave her and Harry both an extra hug. Then she opened her enormous handbag and said, "I've made you all sandwiches. Here you are, Ron … no, they're not corned beef … Ginny.....Fred? Where's Fred? Here you are, dear …"

Then Mrs Weasley hurried everyone to got on the train and called Mr Weasley who was talking with Harry in a corner.

"I need to talk to you in private," Harry muttered to Ron and Hermione as the train picked up speed.

Chris raised an eyebrow on him. Harry tried to say something but Chris spoke first, "Let's go Ginny." And she and Ginny stalked off.

After crossing almost every full compartment, they found Colin and Luna sitting in one.

"Hullo Ginny! Hullo Chris! It's very good to see you." Luna said happily.

"It's nice to see you to Luna." Chris replied and sat down next to Colin. "How are you Colin?"

"I'm good. Do you know, I think my brother is a wizard too. This summer he showed many signs like me." Colin replied excitedly.

"Really? That's great Colin. You father must be very happy." Ginny said.

"He is." Colin grinned. "How was your Egypt trip Ginny?"

"It was very nice," said Ginny. "What about you Luna?"

"Oh! It was nice to explore so many new magical plants and magical beasts." Luna said excitedly.

"So anyone noticed that the Prisoner Sirius Black was in Muggle news too." Colin said suddenly.

"He was in the Muggle news too?" Ginny asked.

"Yeah. I saw too. He killed thirteen muggles twelve years ago in bright day light." Chris answered. "I heard in Diagon Alley that he was the right-hand man of Voldemort."

Ginny flinched hearing the name.

"Sorry Ginny." Chris quickly added noticing her.

"I don't understand how he left Azkaban and more importantly why now?" Luna said seriously.

"Maybe he found a chance only this time." Colin suggested.

"Do you know Colin, who guard the Azkaban?" Said Chris. "When last year I heard the name Azkaban many times, I did a little research on it. Azkaban is guarded by Dementor, they feed on human happiness and can extract souls with their Dementor's Kiss. They don't have eyes, they feel human presence by their emotions. You can't fool them like that."

Colin and Ginny shivered.

"So you think that Black knew the trick before?" Luna asked.

"Maybe and I think now he is after something that's why he escaped from Azkaban." Chris answered. "Don't know for sure though."

"Can we talk about something else?" Ginny said.

"Like about Harry Potter?" Chris said smirking.

"CHRIS!" Ginny said loudly.

"What? I was teasing Colin." Chris said and everyone burst into laughter.

Mid-afternoon, just as it had started to rain, blurring the rolling hills outside the window, the plump witch with the food trolley arrived at the compartment door. Chris brought many things for all four of them. They ate those while talking and laughing.

The rain thickened as the train sped yet further north; the windows were now a solid, shimmering grey, which gradually darkened until lanterns flickered into life all along the corridors and over the luggage racks. The train rattled, the rain hammered, the wind roared, when the train started to slow down.

"Are we already here?" Colin asked.

"I think so. This train doesn't stop otherwise." Ginny said.

The train was getting slower and slower. As the noise of the pistons fell away, the wind and rain sounded louder than ever against the windows.

Chris got up to look into the corridor. All along the carriage, heads were sticking curiously out of their compartments.

The train came to a stop with a jolt and distant thuds and bangs told them that luggage had fallen out of the racks. Then, without warning, all the lamps went out and they were plunged into total darkness.

Ginny stood up and grabbed Chris.

"Ginny, it's ok. Everything will be fine." Chris said holding Ginny's hand. Though she assured Ginny, she felt something was definitely not fine. "Let me see what's going on."

Chris tried to leave but Ginny didn't let go of her hand. Chris sighed, "Fine. Come with me. Let's find Fred, George or Ron. Luna! Colin! We'll be back soon."

"Ok" both said, and holding Ginny's hand Chris left their compartment.