"Are you ready?" Asked Hermione.

"As I'll ever be." Said Harry, and they were whisked away.

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The pair of them landed on the soft grass just outside Hogsmeade with a dull thump, instantly chilled by the whipping wind.

It was nighttime, and despite the fact that the sun had just fallen below the horizon an hour earlier, not a single torch was lit in the entire village, and on the horizon, the castle was completely dark.

"What d'you reckon, 'Mione?"

"There's a curfew. I'd say we're outside it's bounds. Nothing out here but grass and farm animals, and that's not even for a few miles. No man's land." She said, looking about.

"What do we do?"

"We find a way in."

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After retreating to one of Sirius' old hidey-holes, the two began to form a plan.

"Right," said Harry, rubbing his hands together for warmth. After all, caves were not the coziest of haunts. "So we've got to find a way to trick whatever protective and potentially dangerous spells they've got up around the borders of Hogsmeade long enough to get into somebody's house."

"Right."

"So I'm seeing a tiny problem with this, 'Mione. We don't know what they've even got up, and if we were to check, they'd have our asses in half a second. Also, how do we know, assuming we even make it past whatever wards they've got up, that we end up in a house that contains friendlies?"

Still staring into her book, Hermione sighed. Looking up, she said "I don't know. I really just don't know." She looked disappointed, really, and like she might have been personally offended that she'd been failed by a book. "I mean, we could just make a run for it. You know, throw up everything we have, and book it to the nearest door. They'd run a search, but by the time they even got to our one, we would have been able to properly hide."

At Harry's skeptical look, she continued, "Hey, I don't see you coming up with anything watertight!" Hermione shut her book and tossed it to the side in defeat. "Shall we give up, just for now? I mean, we haven't got all the Horcruxes anyway, we could be starting something we can't finish."

Conceding defeat, Harry agreed, "Yeah, just for now."

Hermione made sure to get everything back into her little purple purse, and then, they were off once again.

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"Harry," She said as they both arrived on another riverbank.

"Yeah?"

"I'm quite tired of this."