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"Draco?" Ginny whispered, for a wild moment looking around the garden expecting to see Draco hidden in a bush teasing her. But the wolf was completely alone. It sat down in front of her and looked directly into her soul, with Draco's beautifully grey eyes.

"I escaped. He found out. He's in the Hidden City but coming back. Protect everyone. And Run, please run. I know you'll think of something. I'm coming to find you." The patronus spoke hurriedly and then began to fade.

"No, Draco wait! What do I have to do? Draco where are you?" But it had already vanished leaving a burnt white image on Ginny's eyelids. "NO! You can't just leave me! Draco!" Ginny kicked the nearest thing to her, the back door step, and felt tears well in her eyes for the pain. She dashed them away impatiently and stormed back inside the house.

"Ginny?" Hermione and Ron followed concernedly as she began storming to the front door.

"Where are you going?" Hermione squealed, dashing out after her, Ron in tow.

Ginny marched round to Harry's house and didn't even bother knocking, she swung the door back in Hermione's face and called harshly,

"Harry! Harry, get here now." A bewildered Cho came to face Ginny, exchanging a quick glance with Hermione over her shoulder.

"What is it Gin?"

"I need Harry now." She said bluntly, pushing past Cho and into the kitchen.

"Harry, come quick!" Cho called upstairs, noticing that Ginny wasn't in the mood to be argued with.

Eventually they were all gathered in the kitchen, Ginny pacing, unable to settle at all. Everything she had thought was going to last, every dreary second that she had dared to believe was her forever was now falling apart and at last the future was uncertain again. Finally something dangerous I can do. Isn't this what I've been waiting for? Draco…She couldn't focus her brain on his name. It just sort of drifted back to the Griffindor common room and the first time he touched her.

"Draco's free." She said abruptly. "He escaped and the Dark Lord found out. Or He found out and Draco escaped I don't know which. But whatever, he is coming back."

"Good?" Ron questioned, with his usual lack of tact and empathy.

"No." Ginny replied, although she was unsure why she said it. "The fate of the entire wizarding world is in our hands."

"Oh."

"Yes, 'oh'." Ginny frowned for a minute. "Draco said that He is in the Hidden City but will be coming back, and we've got to protect everyone. That's all he said."

"Voldemort's coming back? To kill everyone?" Harry asked haltingly, not exactly the words he wanted to say ever again in his life.

"No. Voldemort's coming back to get me. And kill everyone that gets in his way."

"What are we going to do?" Hermione whispered into the silence, gripping Ron's hand tightly. They had all got used to stability, compared to the old days of the Trio. None of them particularly wanted to return. Ginny, on the other hand, found her old optimism returning; she wanted to break out of the monotony. Anything but this for the rest of her life. Having everything she needed but nothing that she wanted, nothing she had to work for, nothing to love. It wasn't a life; it was an existence and she was sick of it.

"We're going to fight. I don't care what Draco says; I am not running. At least not yet." She corrected herself. "Harry you need to go back to Hogwarts, now. You need to get ready to have a siege inside if necessary. Whatever happens we're not letting Tom get to our Hogwarts, we worked so hard to build it again. Hermione you need to get back to the ministry and get a message out to the wizarding world; they need to be ready. And Ron you ought to go back to rally troops too. And get Percy to alert the Minister and get the country on Red Alert-" She was cut off by Harry,

"You've really thought about this Gin."

"My brain's working over time. I've needed something to do for ages. This is challenging enough, I think."

"Ginny, is this really sensible?" Hermione asked quietly.

"Yeah…maybe we should just think for a bit."

"I agree. Let's not go rushing in here, it might be way over our heads." Ginny couldn't believe her ears; she raised her voice

"Will you just listen to yourselves? I can't believe this! Are you who I think you are or not? Hermione Granger asks if something is sensible when she knows full well it might save everyone. You never hesitated when people were in danger before Mione. And Ron? Famous Aura even though none of us thought you could be, stood strong for years, survived everything you went through in school and now wants to sit back and think? When was that how you worked? And Harry? Are you the man you were or not? The trio! The Golden Trio. The people everyone relies on, people who have saved us God knows how many times and you are going to sit back and do nothing. I can't believe this." They all looked at the floor.

"You're right." Harry muttered, "I'll leave for Hogwarts in the morning."

"I haven't finished yet. Cho you need to…"

"Cho stays here." Harry said quite firmly,

"What?" Ginny was outraged.

"Ginny, it's just that-"

"Gin, Cho is…that's to say, we are…" Cho's hand went to rest on her stomach and Harry's hand around her waist folded over it. Ginny gasped, as she understood. Tears welled in Cho's eyes and Ginny knew why at once; they had just declared war. What kind of world was that for a child to be born into?

"Ok. Cho and I will be centre of operations here, control base, if you like. We can all use patronus's, apparate and the DA coins can get back in action again."

"I'll get the Order of the Phoenix on alert as soon as I'm back at Hogwarts." Harry looked like he was thinking hard, "Course there's not many left now, but they're all fighters sure enough." Ron nodded in agreement.

"I'll have all the Aura department on high alert, actually all the Ministry while I'm at it, first thing I'll do is go to Percy."

As if on cue there was a loud crack and a bang on the door. Everyone grabbed their wands and looked around wildly, what time in the evening was this to be calling? Harry let his hand slip from Cho's side and walked quickly to the door, Ginny hot on his heels. He opened the door and a dark figure blundered their way inside and was instantly covered by five wands.

"Identify yourself." Harry barked sharply, in his best Head Teacher voice.

"It's me Percy Weasley." Ginny had to stop her jaw from dropping off talk of the devil "Calm down! It is me. I recently married Tina at a double wedding with my brother Bill and his wife Fleur; Ron you were best man, Ginny you were a bridesmaid."

"Ok we believe you." Harry sounded relieved as they all stood down and let a dishevelled looking Percy through into the kitchen.

"I'll cut straight to the point." He said solemnly "The Minister was assassinated just a few hours ago. I'm putting the Ministry under Code Red; I've been appointed Minister of Magic, for now at least."

"Who was it?" Ginny growled

"We know it was a supporter of You Know Who. Catching them is going to be a tad tricky however. All we know is that He is on the move again. There have been sudden spurts of support popping up all over the country in the last few hours; it's been insane. There's been three attacks on Muggle families, and one killing of a Muggle-born witch named Ellie Taylor. We have also had a break out from a high security cell in Azkaban and the Dark Mark is being cast all over the place, apparently just for fun. It's become a hobby of the new recruits, it seems, to cast it in the most public place possible and cause absolute chaos." He ran an absent minded hand through his hair. Ginny felt her world spiralling down towards utter panic, this wasn't interesting anymore, this was hell coming back to haunt her.

"I have to go now." Ron said abruptly, pushing past Percy towards the door. "I'll get my things and be back in five minutes Perce."

"Me too!" Hermione called, dashing after him.

"I'm ready to leave for Hogwarts, making a brief stop off at the Ministry in case I'm needed. As soon as you're ready Minister…" Harry gave a little smile, which was returned somewhat wanly by Percy.

"You're not coming Cho?" He asked brusquely, again Cho looked teary and Harry took her hand.

"No she's got to stay." Harry was quite firm.

"Fine. Maybe you and Ginnerva could be central operations here-" One step ahead of you Percy, as per usual, and don't call me Ginnerva. Ginny giggled in her head. "We're going to need you to get in touch with the- oh what did you call yourselves? Erm…Dumbledore's Army? And also to start working out ways of hiding all the families that are in immediate danger when the Dark Lord returns…"