Then Crouch did something none of the four of them expected.
"Winky had behaved tonight in a manner I would not have believed possible," he said slowly, "I told her to remain in the tent. I told her to stay there while I went to sort out the trouble, and I find that she disobeyed me. This means clothes, Winky."
Lucifer couldn't actually believe his own ears.
He looked back to the Forest as Hermione began yelling, but he missed her words.
'What was he looking for in the Forest? Does it have something to do with what just happened?'
Arthur spoke up and brought him from his thoughts, "Well, I think I'll take my lot back to the tents, if nobody has any objections?"
No one did, and Amos gave Harry his wand back.
They began to walk, but she wasn't keen on leaving, "Hermione," Lucifer spoke her name, "Come on."
The look on her face was pure fury; she only went with them because Lucifer asked her, but it was still with great reluctance, "What's going to happen to Winky?" Hermione asked as they left the clearing.
"I don't know..." Arthur said, unsure.
"The way she was being treated...Mr. Diggory calling her 'Elf' before Lucifer stopped him... and Mr. Crouch! He knows she didn't do it, and he's still going to sack her! He didn't care how frightened she'd been, or how upset she was - it was like she didn't have feelings of her own!" Hermione yelled angrily.
"Crouch is hiding something..." Lucifer said out loud.
"What makes you say that?" Harry asked him.
"He was too desperate to find something or someone else in the woods..."
"I mean, he didn't really want it to be his House Elf, do you blame the man?" Arthur asked him as they continued to walk.
"No..." Lucifer sighed, "no, I guess not."
"Do you four know what happened to the others?" Arthur asked, changing the subject.
"No, we lost them in the darkness," Ron said in response. "Dad, why was everyone so uptight about that skull thing in the sky?"
"I'll explain back at the tent," he said in response and they continued their walk.
They pushed past a group that had congregated outside the woods, and Arthur had to tell them he was tired and going to go to bed, but that it was not Him that cast it.
When they got back to the campsite, Lucifer saw his tent again, and saw that it was in complete ruin, "Fuuuuck... it's worse than I thought it was..."
Charlie had poked his head out of the tent upon hearing him complaining, "Ah, you all are safe, good. Fred, George and Ginny arrived not too long ago."
They all entered the Boy's tent and saw Bill sitting at the table, holding a bedsheet to his arm, which was bleeding profusely.
Charlie had a large rip in his shirt, and Percy was sporting a bloody nose.
The other three looked unhurt, but definitely shaken up.
"Did you get them, Dad? The one who conjured the mark?" Bill asked sharply.
"No, but Lucifer took out most of the group that had been walking around," Arthur informed them and they all looked at him, but he was standing against the counter with his arms crossed.
"We'll know later their identities... but it was Barty Crouch's Elf that was found holding the wand. Harry's wand to be precise, but we are none the wiser on who actually conjured it."
"What!?" Bill, Charlie, and Percy all asked at the same time.
"Harry's wand?" Fred asked.
"Mr. Crouch's elf ?" Percy looked thunderstruck.
With some assistance from Harry, Hermione, Lucifer, and Ron, Arthur was able to explain what happened in the woods.
When they all finished their story, Percy swelled indignantly.
"Well, Mr. Crouch was quite right to get rid of an elf like that!" Percy said pompously, "Running away when he'd expressly told her to not... embarrassing him in front of the whole Ministry... how would that have looked, if she'd been brought up in front of the Department for the Regulation and Control-"
"She didn't do anything - she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time!" Hermione snapped at Percy, who merely glared at her.
"Hermione, a wizard in Mr. Crouch's position can't afford a house-elf who's going to run amok with a wand!" Percy said even more pompously than before.
"So you'd be okay with it if you were the one being treated that way, Percy?" Lucifer asked from his place in the tent, not looking at Percy at all, or anyone for that matter.
Even his name being used already gave people chills, and thought of him looking at Weasely in a negative way.
"Why would I be treated that way?"
"That doesn't answer my question, you pompous fuck," Lucifer said, turning to look at Percy, earning a gasp from pretty much every Weasley in the room.
"If you were treated the way Winky was treated, how would you act? How would you have reacted?" Lucifer asked, but Percy just scrunched his face up in disgust, "Exactly."
"Look, can someone just explain what that skull thing was?" Ron asked impatiently, "it wasn't hurting anyone... Why's it such a big deal?"
"Weasely, I swear, opening a book for once in your life would do wonders for you," Lucifer said condescendingly.
He hadn't meant to be so hateful, but he had yet to completely calm down from the past hour or so.
"I told you, Ronald, it's You-Know-Who's symbol," Hermione reminded him.
"And it hasn't been seen for thirteen years..." Arthur said quietly, "Of course people panicked... it was almost like seeing You-Know-Who back again."
"Weasely... that mark is a sign of Death. It was said that the Death Eaters sent up the Dark Mark when they killed in the name of their Lord," Lucifer answered for what he didn't say out loud..
"Imagine, one day at the end of a school term, your parents weren't there to pick you up from King's Cross. Weird, but you think nothing of it. You manage to get home, and see the mark above your house. You go inside," Lucifer's voice turned dark.
"You see your mother, your father, slaughtered like Cattle. Maybe your siblings got back home before you, you see them strung up around the Burrow, bodies twisted in sickening proportions..." he paused for a moment, letting the atmosphere sink in.
"That's why I don't feel bad about the Death Eaters I killed out there earlier. Their crimes are unforgivable, much like the Curses they use."
"Only true wrath of Hell awaits them...."
Hermione looked at her feet, horror written all over her face.
A terrible thought crept into her mind.
'When Lucifer and I get married and live together in the future...' she couldn't stop the blush from creeping onto her cheeks.
'......I come home to see that mark above our home... I would be completely devastated...'
She looked up at Lucifer's face and her fear lessened, 'Well... it's a good thing I never have to worry about that. Lucifer is far too powerful to ever be killed.'
"What are Death Eaters?" Harry asked aloud.
"You-Know-Who's supporters," Bill said, "that's what they call themselves, I think we saw what's left of them tonight - the ones who managed to keep themselves out of Azkaban, anyway."
"Well, according to Moody... only a handful of them escaped, so we'll know tomorrow for sure if the ones dead are his old Supporters..." Arthur explained.
"They still deserved it... for the sickening things being done to those innocent who never deserved such pain... Voldemort-" Lucifer then heard a volley of gasps from all the Weasley's, Hermione had gotten over it hearing it, and Harry never had a problem saying it.
"Oh grow the fuck up! It's only a damn name!" Lucifer breathed in deeply, before sighing irritably.
"I am going to make sure those kids financial situation is alright, being looked after by good people....."
He walked outside after saying that and Hermione looked on, wanting to follow him, but feeling like she should let him have some space.
"Alright, I think it's best if everyone turns in for the night... if your mother hears about what's happened, she'll be worried sick. We'll get a few more hours of sleep and then try and get an early Portkey out of here," Arthur said, continuously waving his palm.
"....Hermione, since we don't have any room to spare in here, Lucifer will have to sleep with you. I'm trusting him."
"Inform the boy, the moment he comes back..."
"O-Okay... I'll let him know," Hermione said, standing up and leaving the boys tent with Ginny, with a pretty excited look on her face.
It was a miracle their two tents stayed standing when his was blown to smithereens.
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