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Re: Bill, Fleur, Aberforth Dumbledore and Students, with Cameos by Penny Clearwater and Arabella Fig
The first time she had set foot in Hogwarts almost four years ago, Fleur had never expected to return to it, nor for each return to be for so many tragic reasons. Yet here she was, a battle building in the countless rooms around her. At least there was Bill. They had been arriving home from a pleasant evening out when they realized something was wrong. Harry had left the cottage, with the others. And then the familiar cat Patronus arrive, calling the Order to arms.
Fleur and Bill made haste to Fred and George's shop, taking a place at the tunnels her brothers-in-law had set up. Things hadn't been going on long, she could tell, but there were already students trickling through in secret evacuation. Most of them were quite small, almost surprisingly so. Fleur felt very sad for them - almost all looked terrified, confused, some even half-asleep. Still, it was all she and Bill could do to keep order as the children arrived in greater numbers
She had already lost track of how many times she'd had to be forceful with students who tried to shove their way through or to leave the shop without supervision. And there was Aberforth Dumbledore, whose eccentricities were apparent to Fleur even in their brief acquaintance. Out of the corner of her eye, Fleur spied an older student trying to shove his way through the growing crowd, toward the front door.
"Stop!" She rolled her eyes at Bill as she weaved through the students to apprehend the possible escapee. Grabbing the boy's sleeve, Fleur pulled him back. "Do not act like you cannot hear me. We are going to get you out of here safely, but only if you can manage to wait like we have told you. Do you want to be killed?"
The boy's face grew paler, if that was possible, and his mouth hung open uselessly. Feeling she had sufficiently made her point, Fleur dragged him back toward the entrance of the tunnel before leaving him to reclaim her station.
"They are getting more and more out of hand," she said to Bill. "Is this as quickly as we can move them out?"