That Damn Weasley Charm II G.W

Part 5, Chapter 31- The ride home from Hogwarts is so long

When the parchment came around to say whether or not you're leaving for Easter holidays it took me about half an hour staring at it to decide if I was going to go or not.

"You don't have to go if you don't want to Violet. You can always make up some excuse and write to you your mother that you have schoolwork or something." Emma says watching me stare at the parchment as we are studying in the great hall.

"Course I know that..." I tap the end of the quill on the table a million times, "But she wants me... first time in my life that my mother wants me..."

Walter puts his hand on top of mine, half to show support and half to stop me from tapping the quill. "I'm going home for Easter, my grans really sick. We can ride together." He says with a slight squeeze of my hand.

"You never told us that! Oh god, you're letting me go on and on about my problems and you've got loads of your own." I cry. I pull Walter into an awkward sitting side hug and he laughs.

"Wally..." Emma nearly jumps the table and comes over to Walter to hug him on the other side.

Walter laughs, "Really guys its alright. She's like ninety-seven and we all thought she was going to pass years ago."

Emma and I both let go of Walter and Emma goes back to her side of the table. "You're gonna miss the boys' birthday."

"Yeah, I know... George promised that they won't leave Hogwarts till I get back though. He wants me there when they leave, a passionate kiss before him and Fred soar off into the sunset or whatever the hell they've got planned." I say to Emma and Walter.

"I mean that's good. You've got something to look forward too." Emma says trying to lighten the situation.

"Yeah..." I quickly sign my name on the parchment and push it towards Walter. "I don't think I'm going to bring Fergus. Do you mind taking care of him when I'm gone Em?"

"What are you, setting up a babysitter for me?" George says coming up behind us. He sits down at the table which causes a few other Slytherins to look over at him with disgust.

"Well, I was going to set up a babysitter for Fergus...but now that I'm thinking about yeah Em can you watch over Georgie too?" I say to Emma. She laughs and George knocks into me with his shoulder.

Walter signs his name on the parchment and passes it back to me so I can toss it down the table to the next group of kids. George looks at it as it passes him. "So you're going?" He looks at me with a flicker of concern on his face.

"Yeah... Sorry, I'm going to miss your birthday." I kiss the tip of his nose softly.

George smiles, "You could always make it up to me..." He says wiggling his eyebrows a bit.

Emma and Walter hoot and holler which makes everyone turn around to look at us. "Sorry, George but you can't steal my girl away. We've got to study for our transfiguration practical with Lee." Emma says.

"She's right. We have to be able to transfigure humans by the end of the year and none of us have quite perfected the technique." I look over at George and he hangs his head. I rub his back with my hand, "Course..." I whisper into his ear, "Emma tends to go to bed pretty early these days."

George smiles at me, kisses my temple bout a hundred times and dashes back over to the Gryffindor table.

Draco decided to come with me back home over Easter so Walter, Dray, and I are all sitting at a booth in the Slytherin car on the train.

"Do you think that after whatever is going on happens that you'll move out of the Manor and in with your parents?" Draco asks me with wide eyes.

Walter quickly busies himself with his charms textbook trying to give us some privacy.

"Uhh, I dunno Dray. I mean once I'm out of Hogwarts I was going to move out anyways... I was thinking about getting a flat in Hogsmeade though so I could still see you when you go on the Hogsmeade trips."

Draco shrugs a bit but I can tell that what I said had an effect on him. "I just never really thought about the fact that you would be leaving home one day."

"Just because I'll be out of the house doesn't mean that I'll stop being your cousin Draco. You're my best friend dude." I nudge him with my shoulder. Walter looks up from his book and smiles at me a bit.

Draco dozes off not long after that, using my shoulder as a pillow. "A place in Hogsmeade? I thought you would move to London with the boys. Live with George at the shop or something." Walter says to me quietly. A few younger students are sitting a little way away chattering about their chess game.

"I want to obviously. But I don't think that it would be the best idea. I mean if a second war happens I don't want to put the boys in danger. Which means that I'm going to have to cut ties with them as soon as we're done at Hogwarts."

Walter looks at me with sad eyes, "You really think that there is going to be a second war?"

I shrug, "The Dark Lord has been recruiting people, breaking his followers out of Azkaban. Why else would he need such a big following if he isn't planning on fighting?"

Walter flips the page in his book but he doesn't look at it, "Would you hate me if I joined the Order?" He whispers.

I smile a little, "The Order?"

"Well I was just... my mums a muggle and my dad left the Death Eaters a long time ago. And if there's a war I would want to fight in it, protect my family..."

I reach across the table and squeeze Walter's hand, careful not to disturb Draco's sleep, "Of course you do Wally. Join the Order. I support you a hundred and ten percent."

Walter smiles a little but pulls his hand away from me, "But if there's a war... we might have to, you know..."

That thought never crossed my mind before today. The fact that my boyfriend, his family, people that I go to school with and that I've grown to love. If there's a war I'm going to be fighting against them. Be faced with the kill or be killed decision. "If there's a war, I'll spend the entire time trying to protect you all from Death Eaters. I'll die protecting you if I have to."

Walter shakes his head a bit, "You sure you're not a Gryffindor? This stupid fucking blind brave-ness you've got going on?"

"This isn't blind brave-ness Walter. If I have to die so that someone that I save, that I protect will be able to win for the right people then that's what matters. And it's not like I won't have a calculated plan. When have you ever known me to run into something blind?"

Walter rolls his eyes, "You're an idiot."

I mean back into my seat and cross my arms, "Never call me a Gryffindor again, that's rather insulting." I say smiling at him.

"You're literally dating a Gryffindor."