The Girl Who Was Forgotten

Chapter 43.

Chapter 43.

The following morning, Magnolia was stood next to George in one of the many rooms of Grimmauld Place. They all had cloths wrapped around their faces and were holding large spray bottles filled with a black liquid that Mrs Weasley had told Magnolia was Doxyside. George had told Magnolia the night before during dinner that the students had been forced to clean the house during their stay, and it seems Magnolia and Harry were now in the cleaning group too.

Magnolia had half hidden behind George when they had started, and the Doxy's had begun flying out at the group snapping their little jaws. George and Fred were currently telling Magnolia and Harry about their plans for their joke shop. They had already created a range of skiving snack boxes which Magnolia couldn't help but be impressed by.

She smiled as the Weasley twins spoke about their project with so much passion. She didn't have anything to be that passionate about. Magnolia couldn't understand how they didn't do better at school, they really were very clever when they put their minds to it. Not many people could come up with ideas they had and then create them.

In the corner of the room, the cupboard rattled, and Magnolia frowned. Sirius had said that there was a Boggart in there and after Magnolia's encounter with her own Boggart in Third Year, she wasn't keen to go near this one. Magnolia was glad when Mrs Weasley told them it was time to pause for lunch.

She was sat against the wall, listening to Mrs Weasley yell at Mundungus Fletcher and trying not to giggle, when an old looking House Elf wandered in to the room. Magnolia could only guess this was Kreacher, the House Elf that everyone but Hermione complained about.

"...smells like a drain and a criminal to boot, muttering about the great House of Slytherin, and she's no better, nasty old blood traitor with her brats messing up my mistress's house, oh, my poor mistress, if she knew, if she knew the scum they've let into her house, what would she say to old Kreacher, oh, the shame of it, Mudbloods and werewolves and traitors and thieves, poor old Kreacher, what can he do..."

"Hello, Kreacher." Fred said very loudly across the kitchen.

Magnolia watched in amusement as Harry, Hermione, Fred and George spoke to Kreacher. Kreacher would mumble under his breath as if no one could hear him, but they all could.

"Is it true? Is it Harry Potter? Kreacher can see the scar, it must be true, that's the boy who stopped the Dark Lord." Kreacher turned to face Magnolia, "And the Miss Potter, the forgotten girl, the forgotten Potter twin."

Magnolia's eyes widened as Kreacher turned on her, until Sirius appeared and sent the house elf away after a short argument. Magnolia had stood up and walked over to the tapestry that Kreacher had been trying to protect so much. 'The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black'.

"You're not on here!" Harry exclaimed.

"I used to be there." Sirius pointed to a small burn mark on the tapestry.

Magnolia looked over more of the tapestry, looking through the family tree, as Sirius opened up about his brother and family again. He told them about when he moved in with the twins' dad and how welcoming the Potter family were. Magnolia wished she had been able to meet her grandparents; Sirius was talking about them with so much pride and gratitude. She was surprised to hear about Regulus becoming a Death Eater though.

When Mrs Weasley came in with a tray of sandwiches, Magnolia quickly moved away from Harry and Sirius as the conversation turned away from Regulus. She had already seen Draco's name on the tapestry when Harry realised it. Sirius was telling him that most pureblood families were somehow related, but she pushed their voices away and instead joined in a conversation with Hermione and Ginny.