The portkey

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Harry felt as though he had barely lain down to sleep in his room when he was being shaken awake by Aishi. Ron was on the floor asleep despite remembering he was asleep next to Harry in his bed.

"Time to go, Hari," she whispered. "Five more minutes, Meri jaan." He pulled her to bed and into a hug, which she laughed." Hari....let me...go!" She got out  of the hug before hitting him with a pillow. "Get up and wake up ron and yhe twins," she said before leaving the room

Harry sat up and kicked ron , It was still dark outside. Ron muttered, annoyed. " What the hell, man!".At the foot of Harry's mattress, he saw two large, dishevelled shapes emerging from tangles of blankets.

"'S' time already?" said Fred groggily.They dressed in silence, too sleepy to talk, then, yawning and stretching, the four of them headed downstairs into the kitchen. Mrs. Weasley was stirring the contents of a large pot on the stove as while Mr. Weasley was sitting at the table, checking a sheaf of large parchment tickets. Grandpa Raja sips his Chai.

Shiva and Sirius were arriving downstairs, too. Remus was reading his book.

He looked up as the boys entered and spread his arms so that they could see his clothes more clearly. He was wearing what appeared to be a golfing sweater and a very old pair of jeans, slightly too big for him, and held up with a thick leather belt."What d'you think?" he asked anxiously. "We're supposed to go incognito — do I look like a Muggle?"

"Um.....almost....." Shiva said "lets change it up...." Siruis nodded and transfigured the clothes into these.

"Yeah," said Harry, smiling, "very good."Where're Bill and Charlie and Per-Per-Percy?" said George, failing to stifle a huge yawn. "Well, they're Apparating, aren't they?" said Mrs. Weasley, heaving the large pot over to the table and starting to ladle porridge into bowls. "So they can have a bit of a lie-in since te adults are going with you." 

Aishi knew that Apparating meant disappearing from one place and reappearing almost instantly in another, but had never known any Hogwarts student to do it, and understood that it was very difficult. "So they're still in bed?" said Fred grumpily, pulling his bowl of porridge toward him. "Why can't we Apparate too?" 

"Because you're not of age, and you haven't passed your test," snapped Mrs. Weasley. "And where have those other girls got to?" She bustled out of the kitchen, and they heard her climbing the stairs. 

"You have to pass a test to Apparate?" Grandpa Raja asked. "Oh yes," said Mr. Weasley, tucking the tickets safely into the back pocket of his jeans. "The Department of Magical Transporta-
tion had to find a couple of people the other day for Apparating without a license. It's not easy, an apparition, and when it's not done properly, it can lead to nasty complications. This pair I'm talking about went and Splinched themselves." 

Everyone around the table except Aishi winced."Er — Splinched?" said Aishi. "They left half of themselves behind," said Mr. Weasley is now spooning large amounts of treacle onto his porridge. "So, of course, they were stuck. Couldn't move either way. Had to wait for the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad to sort them out. Meant a fair old bit of paperwork, I can tell you, what with the Muggles who spotted the body parts they'd left behind. . . ."

"And now i lost my appetite," Harry muttered "Were they okay?" he asked, startled. "Oh yes," said Mr. Weasley matter-of-factly. "But they got a heavy fine, and I don't think they'll be trying it again in a hurry. You don't mess around with Apparition. There are plenty of adult wizards who don't bother with it. Prefer brooms — slower, but safer." 

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