AN: Here is the next chapter! I decided to update on the same day as I don't know if I'll be able to update by next week. Enjoy!

The words stunned the three men into silence for a few seconds.

"We have to save her!" Harry shouted.

All three of them grabbed there brooms and ran to the door, hoping they weren't too late.

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Sitting at her desk, Hermione wrote a letter to Harry. She had folded the note when a huge whoosh alerted her to the fact that the wards were braking. After scribbling a note on the end of her letter, she attached it to Wings, her owl, and said,

"Find Harry quickly, Wings!" Wings nibbled on her hand quickly, letting Hermione know that she would, before flying out of the bedroom window. Hermione watched as the brown speck that was her bird, flew into the night. Once the owl had gone, Hermione rushed out of her room to find it was too late.

Her parents had been caught and when they saw her, Jean screamed, "Run Hermione! Get away from here!" Everyone looked round, including Dumbledore, and Hermione froze. Before the Order members or Dumbledore could react, Hermione whispered, "I love you," and disappeared with a slight pop.

Hermione's parents remained quiet as the Order of Phoenix and several aurors dragged them out of their house.

***

Dumbledore was angry. Hermione had disappeared as well as Sirius and Remus. Didn't she understand that it wasn't safe for Sirius and Remus to be outside?

At least Harry was safely hidden, he thought with a smile. First, how to deal with Granger? Surely, Sirius and Remus would come home so that Hermione could return to safety. If he sent her to Azkaban, that would make them return to where they belonged, under Dumbledore's care and protection.

He would collect Granger and leave a note at her house, telling them to return to Grimmauld Place. That would work. Now he just needed Granger.

Many people didn't realise that his trinkets weren't just there for show. Each one connected to someone he had put a tracking charm on. Harry, Hermione, Mrs Weasleys (Ron and Ginny had warned him that she might be straying from her beliefs), McGonagall (who always had a soft spot for Harry), Hermione and Sirius.

In his haste, however, Dumbledore hadn't realised that tracking charms didn't work on animagi (so McGonagall and Sirius were free from it). Little did he know that Harry's tracking charm had broken, during 4th year, after a burst of accidental magic, when Harry realised that Dumbledore would not stop him from being the forth champion.

His instruments told him that Miss Granger was at her parent's house and it was heavily warded. He had to visit to check what wards had been used before attempting to break them. Disappearing with a swish of his cloak, Dumbledore went to visit an old ally, Miss Hermione Granger.

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Returning to his office, Dumbledore sat at his desk and thought. Where did it all go wrong? Couldn't people see he was just working for the greater good? He knew it wouldn't take him long to break down the wards on the Granger's household but he regretted that it came to that. Why did they stray from the right path, his path?

Dumbledore attempted to stroke Fawkes but the bird turned his head. Even Fawkes was turning away from the Greater Good. Couldn't that bird understand why he had placed anti – phoenix wards around his office? He knew Fawkes would try to see Harry but the boy needed to learn suffering if he was going to follow the path Dumbledore had set for him. Healing his injuries so quickly wouldn't help in the long run, Dumbledore thought.

Trapped in his musings, he didn't notice as Fawkes' gaze turned to towards Dumbledore, a cold glare in the bird's eyes. Where had he allowed his master to stray so far from the light? He could sense Dumbledore turning towards the dark and it scared the phoenix. He knew that Dumbledore was trapping him so that everyone would think he was still working for the light. After all, who would doubt the leader of the light if a phoenix was with him? A phoenix could only be with someone who worked solely for the light and that was why Fawkes was trying to get away. He wanted to go to Harry, not only to heal his injuries (as Dumbledore thought), but to also bond with him to show the world that Harry Potter deserved to be recognised as a light wizard, not Dumbledore.

Dumbledore slowly got up from his and left through the office fireplace, to start breaking down the wards.

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On his third attempt, Dumbledore managed to break the wards. Hermione's parents had been captured and all that was left was to track down Granger. Glad of the tracking device he had put on every child at Grimmauld place (Ron's and Ginny's tracking charm was contained in a locket that Dumbledore wore around his neck, to make sure they kept working for the Greater Good), Dumbledore appeared with an audible pop in a muggle alleyway and stepped out to meet the not-so-clever know-it-all.

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Hermione appeared on a muggle street and tried to keep her head down as she walked quickly down the rain trodden hill. Something felt wrong though, and her thoughts were confirmed when Dumbledore stepped in front of her.

"Ah, Miss Granger. Stupefy!" With that the world turned black to Hermione as she fell to the floor, unconscious. Her last thought was: Help me Harry!

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