Draco and Harry sat together at the now empty and deserted breakfast table. Harry stared at the letter held in his hand and finally picked it up and opened it, reading it while Draco sat patiently beside him and waiting, reading it more then once to let it sink in. Finally he put it down and turned to the blonde boy sitting beside him.
"It's from Percy, asking Ron to go over to the dark side, but very subtly, saying Ginny's with him..." Harry's calm tone broke and he yelled in rage "How could she do that to Hermione! Tried to kill her in her sleep! It can't be, I mean can you picture...Ginny?" Harry had to stop and shake his head, as if too many words were trying to get out of his mouth at the same time.
"You don't need to explain to me Harry" Draco said calmly, "I know how you feel; I know what you're thinking". "Ya..." Harry replied, "Ya I guess...I guess we lost her..."."Yes, and it was a big loss to some but we at least have to be glad this treachery was revealed to us so soon, before it could have done serious damage, there's no time to worry about Ginny now, she's gone, lost, and possibly an enemy...worry about Hermione instead"
Harry Nodded and searched for Draco´s hand under the table, but instead Draco leaned over and pulled him into a tight embrace. From Draco´s chest came Harry's mumble of "ya...I should talk to Hermione later, or we..."."Yes, that's a good idea" Draco replied, then added "And Ron". "Ya, and Ron, but Fred and George first, they can calm Ron down better...it's more of a weasleys thing I guess...", "Okay" Draco said.
Harry and Draco were interrupted later by a grim looking Severus Snape, coming to call them to a small meeting in Dumbledore's grimauld place office. They followed him to the large imposing wooden door and watch as Snape knocked twice and whispered a password. The door parted open and he walked in followed by the two boys. Inside the dark room Dumbledore stood in front of his desk looking grimly at the other occupants of the room. Tonks, Kingsley, and Neville Longbottom were waiting there for them, all also looking grim.
"Ah, Harry, Draco, good, now we can begin" Dumbldore stated, Turning to face the room as Harry and Draco took a spot with the rest of the crowd. "There's bad news, I'm afraid" he began, his voice grave. "Draco, Harry, Neville, this I take it that it's news to you both that we've just lost three of our Aurors". The three boys look at each other in surprise, then back at Dumbledore, who continued to speak. "Boys, this is not any easy thing, this war, and the battles for use have just become more strained then ever. We didn't want to send you out this early, but I'm afraid we must start sending all available Phoenix Aurors, which you three are considered to be, on missions."
Nobody spoke and Dumbldore turned to his desk and pulled out some papers, shuffling them and going over them quietly. "A planned raid on a muggle town outside of London and the assassination of an order supporting wizarding family living there has recently come to our attention, we must act quickly, this family also has members in the Ministry, the raid and murders are planned for tonight." He finished. "Boys, Tonks and Kingsley will need your help, along with the other two Phoenix aurors we will be sending, just follow their instructions and their leads and be careful, I wish you all the best of luck, and now you should be going, quickly now" he said, motioning for everyone to leave. Tonks left to get the other Aurors and Kingsley beckoned for the boys to follow him.
They walked through the halls into the equipment room and Kingsley grabbed three dark cloaks for them and handed one to each. "Standard Auror cloaks with protection spells" he explained to them as they put them on. "Come on" he said when they had finished, "We've got to go meet with Tonks and the others". They all rushed outside to meet the others who were waiting for them. "I trust Minerva has taught you all to apparate?" Tonks asked. They all nodded and she turned to face the group. "Here's the plan. We all apparate to the town sign, and from there we'll sneak in, fast and discreetly, we need to find them, hopefully they haven't begun yet, but if they have we rush in". She faced Draco, Harry, and Neville and said "You three don't know the sign do you? Right well, here" She finished without giving them a chance to respond; she pointed her wand at each of them in turn and muttered a spell. The image of yellow wooden sign beside a road appeared to him, a grassy filed lying behind it, it read "Welcome to Daisy hollow" painted in large white letters.
Tonks looked at them all and they all nodded to her. "Ready?" she asked. After a pause everyone nodded their heads and with Tonk's finally nod, they all cast their spells, and where there had been seven cloaked figures now there was only a thin fog that was quickly dispersed by the low wind.
authors note: I know this is really short but it's just kind of a half chapter, the other half I'll be posting soon, Thanks to everyone who reviews this story and "when all else fails", i really apreciate it and all those wonderful reviews dragged me back to this story, the other half of this chapter will be up soon, Draco and Harry on their first order mission as things in the war take a turn for the worst...
