So, Tell you more about this at the bottom. It's for DADA.

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Protection. When people think about it, they think about an attacker, being protected by someone who isn't so nice by someone you care about, or by some handsome stranger that you go on to marry. Or about you're parents, about how they put a roof over your head, and feed and clothe you.

People try to ignore it when it is family you need protecting from. They ignore it when someone doesn't try and protect you, because they are too afraid that the angry or disgusting person would turn their attention on them.

They might try to help by calling the aurors, another form of protection. They might even call someone they know who they know can help.

But no one ever helps when you need it. Never when it matters most.

Because face it, you are there, protecting the ones you love, by throwing yourself into danger, by putting yourself into harms way to keep them safe. And while it would help if you had someone to back you up, it won't always come.

And sometimes, it's you that your loved ones need protection from.

You might not know it, or you might not care. But when I found myself being the thing that was hurting my friends, I made a choice.

It might not have been the right one, or the smart one, but it was the only one I could make. It might have hurt a lot when I first left, but it was better in the long run.

I just hope that they will stop looking, it's for their own good.

Harry and Hermione looked for years. Neither willing to give up. Ron had appeared for a short amount of time, to save Harry from drowning and to fight in the last battle. But he was gone again after, he just left, he didn't say goodbye, didn't let them know where he was going or if he was going to be back.

But neither Hermione nor Harry was willing to give up on him, neither wanted to admit defeat.

He was their friend, and they would find him and save him, because there was nothing anyone could tell them that would change their minds, that Ron was in trouble and he needed to be saved. He needed them, to save him, and to protect him from harm once he was back. Because they were family, closer even then his biological one.

And there was nothing stopping the two from finding Ron, and forcing him back, or staying with him. Which ever he wants more. They would be a team, together again to protect each other and keep each other safe.

Pretty much, I went with the whole, Ron leaving Harry and Hermione thing from the books, but instead of going back, he has himself convinced that he would hurt his friends more if he did. So he stayed away, and left altogether for ever. And Harry and Hermione don't like that at all.

I might make this into a multy chapter story, after I finish up some of my other works.

It would become a crossover with something, but I don't know what yet. If you have any suggestions.

Mars