Author's Note: Interlude! Time to know what's going on with the Order. Dialogue chapter.

Written pro-HBP; therefore: Dumbledore lives, Snape's still a good person, Draco Malfoy is still in school.

Sorry for the delay. I have attended a funeral, worked in a petting zoo, as a professional pyromaniac and as a shepherd. That I thought was spelled 'sheepheard'. Stupid dyslexia of mine.

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AMY! You little pervert! Don't worry though, some aspects of Lucius sexuality is studied here.

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"Great plan! Now we have a hostage to take care of!"

" No, Kingsley, Miss Granger isn't a hostage: she's a gift to Lucius from You-Know-Who.

"Big difference. Besides, you contributed a great deal in it."

"- But Severus, surely Lucius Malfoy wouldn't keep her, she's, well, of unpure blood."

" – Remus, might I point out that your pedigree isn't especially clean either."

"- But why did he want her? Surely not to-… Well you know…. "

"- Rape her? Surely not, Nymphadora, it'll be something akin zoophilia by pureblood standards."

"- Don't call me Nymphadora, Snape. Or shall I call you Severus?"

"- You should be called stupid. You could have fought a bit more; you just let the girl go. I don't blame her for cursing you. If the plan would have been carried out as planned, she would be here now."

"- What-if's are useless now. We just have to hope for the best."

"- The problem is, Headmaster, that I have no idea about what is going on with him. And if I have no idea, I doubt anyone else has."

"- I'm glad I performed that charm on her before she left. If he rapes her, at least she won't get pregnant. I can't imagine the poor girl's reaction if she would have found out she's pregnant with her rapist's bastard."

"- Professor Flitwick! You were here all along! I'm sorry I didn't greet you."

"- No harm done, Tonks. I just joined with Minerva."

"- What shall we do now?"

"- Get Miss Granger, out of course! What a stupid question!"

"- Minerva, it isn't that easy. Maybe we should concentrate on Harry right now."

"- I'm sure Mister Potter wouldn't be so hate-filled towards us if we would bring back Miss Granger. It's the last we can do. He has every right to be very angry at us, for Merlin's sake, even I'm furious with us! How could we let this happen?"

"- There were interferences in the plan."

"- Interferences? Miss Tonks, you're an AUROR, for Merlin's sake! You're supposed to be able to deal with interferences, not just stand stupidly by!"

"- No need in biting Tonks's head off, Minerva. We need all the help and brain capacity we have to form a new plan. Nothing is going to happen if we just complain and fight each other. We need to unite."

"- Great speech, Kingsley, but where to start? Even Severus doesn't know what to do."

"- Has… Has he ever done something like this before?"

"- Kidnapped or demanded someone as a reward? Well… come to think about it… No. He just asked for dead young girls the last time."

"- … What? What did you just imply here Severus?"

"- To do what with them?"

"- I cannot believe I'd see the day you'd blush, Severus. Usually you always get pale."

"- Sweet Jesus… you can't mean he… had… sexual intercourse with… erm… cadavers."

"- Please tell me you didn't just nod, Severus."

"- That's disgusting."

"- Never even as an Auror I heard something as…. As… repugnant and VILE!"

"- Who the hell would perform… sex… with a dead body?"

"- Lucius had a very pureblooded sexual education. The first woman he ever had sex with was some maid that had been found dead. The later sexual encounters were with men who taught him how to control his body. They teach him things such as masturbation and female anatomy and…. Erm… sodomy. Only the purest of the Purebloods have this kind of education. Having sex before marriage is a duty for a Pureblood wizard; the bride has to be virgin. Having sex with the opposite gender before marriage is an outrage, hence the homosexuality led between young pureblood boys."

"- … what?"

"- You mean…. All the Slytherins are…. Gay? Practising self-gender sex? Until marriage?"

"- Sweet Jesus…. Now I understand why Sirius always called the Slytherins a bunch of flaming poofs! No wonder he was homophobic if this was his sexual upbringing…"

"- Hm… Old education I see. This kind of upbringing was quite 'normal' during the 18th Century in rich, aristocratic upper classes. Are the Malfoys really that rooted with their old culture?

"- Isn't it painfully obvious, Kingsley? The Malfoys are originated in the beginning from France. They settled down in Scotland some three hundred, four hundred years ago. Have you ever heard Lucius talk? He has a faint French pronunciation doubled with a strong Scottish accent. The French is conserved because that shows his respect for his elderly. There is a reason why all the Malfoys have been in Slytherin: tradition."

"- I would have never suspected them to be that puritan. It's so extreme it's almost impressive. No wonder my mum wanted away from that family. "

"- But if Lucius Malfoy enjoys necrophilia… How can we be sure Hermione still lives?"

"- Mister Potter and Mister Weasly would know if she'd dying, Remus."

"- Oh, how so, Minerva? They know thanks to he wonderful Gryffindor connexion they share?"

"- No, Severus, because Miss Granger performed a set of energy spells on them so they could feel her life presence as she can feel theirs.

"- Isn't that illegal? She basically traded life-time."

"- She did indeed, Kingsley. But she's the only one of the three to know this."

"- Harry?"

"- Leave me alone."

"- Hermione needs us to be together in this now; she said it herself before she left; remember what she said? "Stay United, stay together, stay strong, stay with me in my mind and never let go of any of us." That's what she said, Harry. She kept on, repeating it like a parrot. Time after time after time."

"- Well… Well, it is odd, isn't it? I have the feeling that she's choking me with her silence. I never knew how loud silence is."

"- I wrote her a letter."

"- Owls return them without delivering. She's lost somewhere. She's taken, we don't know by whom and if she's still alive."

"- You don't mean that. We know she isn't dead. We will feel it. For now we have to be cool and collected and make sure we focus on what is important."

"- Oh yeah? And what's important then?"

"- Malfoy Senior; he disappeared sometime ago already. I have the conviction he has Hermione."

"- Ron, you don't look good. Are you ill?"

"- I've felt weak lately and I don't know why."