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There were two very audible pops coming from downstairs. The kids ran down stairs to find two of their uncles standing in their living room looking at their mother.
"Uncle Ron!" Charlie said running into his arms when he turned around.
"Hey there kiddo," he laughed.
"What are you guys doing here?" Caddie asked.
"Caddie," Hermione chidded.
"What, I'm not trying to be rude," she said. "I'm just curious, I thought they would be at home or at work."
"Well actually, we're here for work," Harry said.
"Not that I don't mind having my brother and my brother-in-law appearing in my living room at eleven in the morning, but what could you possibly have to do here for work?" Fred asked.
"We need Hermione," Ron said placing Charlie on her feet.
"M-me?" questioned Hermione.
"Kingsley wanted to talk to the three of us," Harry said slowly. "In front of-"
"Gringotts," Hermione finished for him. "He doesn't think-"
Hermione stopped talking realizing only two of her kids knew about breaking into Gringotts.
"No," Harry said quickly. "But he knows how well we work together so he thought we might have some ideas."
Hermione turned to her husband. "Can you watch them while I'm gone?"
"Mum we don't need watching," Remus pouted.
She looked at him, then at Caddie, then to Charlie, and back to him. "You need watching."
"I'll watch them," Fred chuckled kissing her lightly. "Go fight evil."
Hermione smiled lightly before turning to Harry and Ron once again. "Gringotts?"
They both nodded before apparating away, Hermione following close behind.
"Great, you're all here," Kingsley said when the trio appeared in front of him. "First off, I don't think you did this, but I have to ask you questions to make the goblins happy. They may have forgiven you, but they're still suspicious, especially now that some of their lot were killed."
"They can't honestly believe we would break in a second time and kill them?" Hermione asked horrified at the thought.
"Goblins are naturally suspicious of wizards to begin with, when you three broke into Gringotts and actually managed to steal something and escape they became even more suspicious of us. And now something like this happened and they want answers. They want someone to blame this on."
"We didn't do it," Ron said earnestly.
"I know," Kingsley said calmly. "But my job right now is to make these goblins happy. And what will make them happy is if you answer some of their questions, okay?"
"We can do that," Harry said. "After they forgave us, it's the least we could do."
"So what did Kingsley want?" Fred asked later that night.
"The goblins wanted to question us," Hermione said not looking up from the article she was writing.
Like Ginny she worked for the Daily Prophet, but while Ginny worked for the sports column, Hermione covered big events. She had pretty much taken over Rita Skeeter's job, but she was more respected than Skeeter, she actually told the truth in her articles.
"About the attack?" he asked frowning.
"They're really suspicious of us after what happened," she explained putting her work on the table next to their bed. "We explained to them that we didn't do it and they just asked us some questions. They even let us ask them some questions about it."
"Any ideas who it was?"
"Escaped death eater? Someone else trying to follow in Voldemort's footsteps? But what's really strange is, why Gringotts? What's at Gringotts that this person would kill for?"
"It's not your job to find out, 'Mione," Fred said putting his arm around her. "Let the aurors take care of this."
"I know," sighed Hermione. "But what if it is an escaped death eater? What if they come after our family?"
Fred pulled her tightly to him and kissed the top of her head. "No one's coming after our family. And if they do we're here. Nothing bad is going to happen."
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