Disaster with Death Eaters

"That match was brilliant!" Ginny was telling Danica as they were walking out of the stadium. The two girls were leading the group of Weasleys, plus a Potter, Granger, and surprisingly a Lestrange.

"I know! Thank Merlin that Connolly stopped Dimitrov from scoring and ultimately tying the game," an ecstatic Danica replied.

With Ireland's win, she was sure going to have something to talk about when she got back to Hogwarts. One of her closest friends, Juliet Clearwater, hadn't been able to go to the match due to her parents being Muggles, and that she was busy helping her older sister. Although Juliet wasn't on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team, she enjoyed hearing Danica and Lia talk about the sport.

"Well, you ladies shouldn't have doubted us," Fred said, and both twins came up behind the girls.

"We aren't Ravenclaws," George smirked at Danica, "but the one thing we know is Quidditch."

Ginny shrugged her shoulders in agreement and weaved the group past all of the last-minute merchants. These vendors were waving different hats and posters imprinted with the words Irish National Quidditch Team World Champions 1994.

"I. need. that. POSTER!" Danica exclaimed, shaking Ginny.

"Seriously? Didn't you just get a hat?"

"Yeah, so?"

"Not anymore," Fred said, proceeding to take Danica's hat off her head and tossing it back and forth with George.

The twins played catch with the Irish hat between the two of them and Geroge said, "Think fast!" to Ron and hurled Danica's hat at him.

"You got me a hat?" Ron asked the twins, with his voice slightly breaking.

Danica sunk behind Ron and snatched her hat out of his hands.

"Nope, it's mine," Danica said and gave him her signature smirk. "Plus, aren't you, I don't know, in love with Krum? Wouldn't that be going against him?"

The twins jokingly gasped and Ron's face started turning red with embarrassment.

"Yeah, Danica has a point. You should just marry him Ron." Ginny added and then the twins suddenly burst out into a song.

In unison, Fred and George sang, "Viktor I love you, Viktor I do. When we're apart, my heart beats only for you."

All of the Weasleys (except Ron), Danica, Harry, and even Hermione started doubling over with laughter.

Danica snorted loudly, which surprised both her and the guys around her. She glanced at Ginny to see that tears were forming in her eyes from all the hilarity.

"Those lyrics were quite brilliant," Hermione remarked and chuckled.

With all of the chaos and bustling vendors, Danica didn't seem to notice two blondes meandering through the crowds.

"Well, well, what do we have here?"

Danica whipped her head around to see none other than her uncle with Draco.

"Bloody hell," she whispered underneath her breath and clasped her hands behind her back, to try and conceal her Irish Quidditch hat.

Mr. Weasley observed this and made eye contact with his current foe.

"Hmph, Lucius, what are you doing here?" Mr. Weasley said in a strained voice.

Lucius Malfoy softly chuckled. "Is it not obvious? I am here to pick up my niece."

Danica took a deep breath before she stepped forward to face her uncle. Draco then came out behind Lucius and smirked nastily at Danica. Ron noticed this and stared Draco down, creating extra tension between the two families.

"I'm here," Danica said, without trying to make eye contact with anyone.

Lucius smirked with satisfaction until he noticed Danica hiding an Irish Quidditch Hat behind her back.

Danica tensed up when she saw that Lucius knew about the hat and with his judging glare, she knew that she wouldn't be able to keep the hat. She silently gave it back to Ginny and mouthed "thank you" to her.

Lucius gestured to Draco and Danica to follow him back, and Danica sulked behind them. She enjoyed spending time with the Weasleys but wished she could be with them longer.

After some time, Lucius spoke to Draco and Danica.

"We are going back to our tent, I have some. . . issues that need to be resolved," Lucius said to the two teenagers. "Narcissa is already waiting for you."

Danica and Draco both simultaneously looked at each other and then back to Lucius.

"We have a tent? I thought only people staying overnight would have one, and we are supposed to Apparate back to the Manor," Danica suspiciously mentioned.

Danica was very aware of the fact that her aunt and uncle, and even Draco, wouldn't simply choose to be "downgraded" to the same conditions as lower-class wizards.

But, of course, the Malfoy's had to extravagantly go all out on their tent.

Half a dozen lustrous blue-green peacocks grazed on the small front lawn of the tent. Ornate marble pillars stood on either side of the entrance into the tent with the Malfoy seal engraved into it. Danica was still in awe at the fact that even with this being a last-minute decision, it seemed somewhat. . .planned.

She lifted the tent flap and what was revealed was a modern flat complete with a kitchen, living space, and two bedrooms. Danica went down the narrow hallway with Draco in tow and they each found their assigned rooms for the evening.

Danica's room included a deep navy blue bed with a matching armchair and an absurd light fixture. The silver wire in the light fixture was twisted in various directions before meeting collectively around the light source. Who, she thought, would ever buy something so unusual, yet it almost seemed brilliant.

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Danica sat on the edge of the couch in her makeshift room, casually twisting her curls into braids. She was working out a knot that had formed in her hair when hectic shouting was heard outside her family's tent.

She bolted up off of the couch and ran into the tent's living room. There she met up with Narcissa who was already explaining the situation to Draco.

"You two," Narcissa hastily said to Danica, "need to get away from here. Go to the woods that are located on the north edge of the grounds. Stay there until either Lucius or I find you. I trust that you will be safe there."

"But what are you going to do?" Draco asked his mum.

"I'm going to find your father. He was supposed to be meeting with the Nott's about business. But don't worry about him, grab your wands and get going."

Narcissa ushered the two teenagers out of the tent and Danica was in shock at what she saw. The once lively grounds were now a warzone. Tall flames danced from tent to tent and rose high into the air. Witches and wizards were running in all directions, desperately trying to find a way out of the conflict.

Then she saw them. Danica saw the death eaters.

Those distinct masks had not been shown in years after You-Know-Who had been vanquished. The death eaters were in a pack, marching slowly across the open fields, their wands were pointed in the air. Four figures were floating in the air, struggling against the forces from the death eaters.

"Draco, come on," Danica tried to tell her cousin, but he couldn't hear her above the frantic shouting. She soon lost him in the crowd and wove around the running people.

Danica stopped briefly for a moment to survey her surroundings when she was snatched up from behind.

"HEY, what are you doing?" She shouted behind herself not knowing her captor. The captor said nothing and brought her to a clearing, illuminated by the burning tents.

Death eaters came into view.

A Petrificus Totalus spell was cast upon Danica and her arms became bound to her side and her body was unmoveable.

Danica's wand was taken away from her and about twenty other death eaters formed a circle around her. She tried to mask her fear of what would possibly happen.

"It's the Lestrange girl," Danica heard one death eater murmur to another.

"Yeah, and who the bloody hell are you?" she said to him, and the nearby death eaters were taken aback. The death eaters continued to talk amongst themselves again.

"Can we just do it now?"

"No, not quite yet. We will have to consulate him first."

"I think he would be pleased with us."

"Nobody cares what you think, Selwyn."

"Selwyn?" Danica thought out loud. She had most definitely heard that name before, but where, was her real question.

"STUPEFY!" was shouted by a female voice outside of the ring of death eaters.

The death eater that had been controlling Danica fell to his feet. She took that chance to grab her wand from him.

A small attack team made up of different witches and wizards ambushed the death eaters from behind the flaming tents. Danica recognized the older Weasleys in the group with their red hair as a dead giveaway.

The death eaters started to retaliate against the others and some death eaters escaped into the air. The attack team, who Danica later learned was with the Ministry, fought bravely against the death eaters.

"Expelliarmus!"Danica shouted at the death eater closest to her, who had been trying to hex a Ministry worker.

"Nice shot, kid," said the same person who cast the first spell that saved Danica. She turned around and saw a young woman with short, spiky pink hair.

She noticed Danica studying her and introduced herself. "I'm Nymphadora, Auror in training." She held out her hand to Danica.

An older wizard in brilliant blue robes interrupted Danica to say something to Nymphadora that caused a strange expression to form on her face.

She took a long deep breath and moved in front of Danica defensively. "Ok kid, let's get you out of here."

The duo weaved around lit tents and stands as they blasted death eaters while trying to get to the forest.

After no more death eaters crossed their path near the edge of the woods, Nymphadora motioned to Danica that it was safe to rest. She sat on an old tree stump while Nymphadora chose to sit on a fallen tree.

"You go to Hogwarts?" she asked Danica, striking up a conversion amid the chaos.

"Yeah, I'm a Ravenclaw; fourth year. Say, you don't happen to know anything about being a Prefect, do you? Because if all goes well, next year I hope to get chosen."

"Well", Nymphadora started, "I was too busy with Quidditch and pulling pranks on the teachers to even think about it." The two girls laughed at that and talked about challenging Quidditch moves and cute international quidditch players.

After Danica had explained the Finn Connolly situation to Nymphadora, dark green sparks suddenly shot up from the depths of the forest and flew into the sky.

All of the witches and wizards seeking refuge in the woods erupted with screams.

Danica didn't need Nymphadora to tell her what it was: the telltale smokey green skull with a serpent protruding from its mouth was enough of a giveaway.

It was the Dark Mark.

Nymphadora leaped to her feet and ran right into the forest.

"Just wait here, someone from the Ministry will be able to help you," she shouted back to Danica, picking up speed before tripping over a bush.

"Are you okay?" Danica asked Nymphadora as she was helping her up.

"It's just a little scrape. . .and oh, look, those Aurors are already on the scene," she commented on the sudden "pops" sounding from the woods that was followed by loud shouting.

Nymphadora got back on her feet and dusted her hands off on her pants.

"Well, I guess that's being taken care of. Do you need help finding your folks?"

"I'm planning on finding the Weasleys to stay with them until my relatives come looking for me."

"It was nice meeting you, I'm sorry, what did you say your name was?" Nymphadora said to Danica before going to find the other Aurors.

"It's Danica, and thank you for saving me from those creeps."

"Any time, I'm sure our paths will cross sometime, "Nymphadora added with a smile.

"Yeah, sometime," Danica mumbled to herself as she jogged into the woods, catching a glimpse of blonde hair among the small crowd that had gathered around a centralized clearing, for once hoping it was a Malfoy. Danica wanted to go back to the Manor, contradicting her usual thoughts of the place she was supposed to call "home" because she wouldn't be able to be kidnapped from there right?

And why was she kidnapped in the first place?

Hi & thanks for reading! Sorry I haven't posted in over a month; I'm very busy with school and ngl have been unmotivated. Here is a new chapter on my birthday and next chapter will take place at Hogwarts where more characters are introduced :)