One poster? Maybe another post will lure them in! Chapter 2
"How can you miss a tree Ron?" Jamie said as he helped Ginny.
"I don't know! Stop asking me questions!" Ron said as he flung his arms over his head.
"But you was standing right opposite it! And it wasn't a small tree..." Harry said as she opened the back door.
"I can't believe you Ron!" Ginny said as she kicked the living room door open.
"Just shut up okay! I didn't mean it! You really think that I'd aim for Hermione?" He said as he pointed to the unconscious girl being dragged by her shoulders by Ginny and Jamie.
"Ron, calm down... Gin, leave off for a bit... Alicia, can you go and find Mrs Weasley?" Jamie said as he helped the others get Hermione on the couch.
Alicia nodded, her tight, black curls bouncing as she did. Her green eyes were full of worry as she left the room calling out for Mrs Weasley.
The others sat round in the different spaces available, a silence dropping onto them as they fell into the chairs and onto tables.
Ginny looked round the room and then up at Harry.
"Will she be okay when she wakes up?" her voice was calm and so were her eyes.
Harry smiled and nodded at her. 'She can hide her emotions really well sometimes...' He thought to himself as he took her hand.
"Yeah... Sometimes" Alicia laughed quietly as she bent down to Harry's ear. "Come outside for a minute... I need to tell you something..."
Harry stood up and dropped Ginny's hand before walking after Alicia. As he reached the door, he heard Mrs Weasley sending Ron to get something.
"What is it?" He asked carefully as the door swung shut behind him. Something in Alicia's voice hadn't sounded good.
"Ron used that heat jinx Hermione found, not Bombarda..." She said slowly as she perched herself on the kitchen counter. "So why was Hermione blasted backwards into that tree?"
Harry had no answer. He just stared at Alicia with a confused look on his face.
"When you lot was walking back here, I went to the tree we was aiming at. I touched the trunk and it was warm... Ron hit the tree... Someone else hit Hermione" She added, trying to clear it up for him.
Now Harry's confused face had morphed into a look of total shock. He placed his head in his hands before speaking again.
"What? Someone else? No- one was using that curse! How can so-" Harry stopped in mid- sentence before looking up at Alicia.
She nodded and Harry sighed, running his fingers through his hair as he did.
"They know we're ready... They know we could beat them... They want us out" She said as she pushed herself off the counter and started to walk towards the door. "I'll tell them, you tell Ginny. If they're plan is what I think it is, she's next..."
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