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Chapter 9
*London, England*
A loud 'pop' sounded, as Harry, Ron, and Hermione landed right in the main street of the city. Ron, who saw a large double-decker bus headed their way, pushed them to the sidewalk, and they began to walk.
"Where are we?" Harry asked.
"Downtown London, I used come here with my parents when I was little," Hermione said.
"Come on, let's get off the streets, and get somewhere safe," Ron added. They walked behind the buildings to one of the alleys, as Hermione pulled out her handbag.
"We need to get changed," she said.
"How, I left all my stuff back at the burrow?" Harry asked.
"No... I packed it in this," Hermione pointed to her handbag. "It's a undetectable extension charm. I've had the essentials packed since last night, Tommy asked me to pack their stuff in this as well."
"Speaking of Tommy, I wonder where they got off to?" Harry asked.
"Yeah, I'd hate if they couldn't find us, especially Jason..." Ron said sarcastically. "You'd be pretty bummed if he couldn't make it, right Hermione?" Harry was shocked, and Hermione was downright angry. Again. At Ron.
"And what's that supposed to mean?" She erupted.
"I saw you dancing with him, getting all cozy..."
"Enough, guys," Harry quickly intervened. "Look, this is not the time to be divided. Once we find somewhere safe, have at it all you want." Hermione chose to ignore her feelings and listened to Harry, while Ron felt somewhat embarrassed that he even said anything.
"There's a coffee shop nearby, let's change and go there," Hermione said. They changed and got to the shop and sat down, where the waitress took their drink orders.
"Well, where are we gonna go from here?" Ron asked as they waited for their drinks. "Where's safe?"
"That's just it... if the Ministry really has fallen, none of the old places are safe," Hermione said.
"What about the Leaky Cauldron, the others might go back there looking for us?" Harry asked.
"No, I'd imagine there'd be loads of Death Eaters there."
"What about..." As Ron started to talk, a curse flew at them from the opposite side of the room. "Bloody Hell!" As they took the tables and turned them over to make a barrier, they saw that across the room were two Death Eaters. Each side fired curses back and forth until one of the Death Eater's, a tall blonde-haired one, fired a curse to rid Hermione of her table. As the blonde-haired one was ready to fire another curse at Hermione, a stream of light from the entrance of the shop was fired, disarming him.
"STUPEFY!" The white ranger said, coming to Hermione's aid.
"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!" The pink ranger said, with the red ranger coming in right behind her. The three wizards poked their heads up to see the rangers, then turned back to the Death Eaters.
"Thanks Jason... for the save," Hermione said to the White Ranger. If Ron was frustrated before, he was fuming now.
"Anytime. Should we power down?" Jason asked.
"Wait," Harry said. "We need to alter their memories, make sure they can't follow us. Ron, get the lights, Tommy, the blinds." Ron pulled out the deluminator and took out the lights, while Tommy used his wand to bring down the blinds.
"Hermione," Ron said. "You should do it... your the best at spells." They looked at Hermione, and she nodded her approval and walked towards the two dark wizards who were sprawled over the floor.
"OBLIVIATE," she said, with her wand pointed at them.
"POWER DOWN!" Tommy, Kim, and Jason said in unison. As they stood, they were still in their clothes from the wedding.
"We need to get you a change of clothes," Harry said. "Hermione." She handed him the bag, which Harry proceeded to grab clothes for both Tommy and Jason. The three rangers were astonished to see that Harry could pull out so much from such a small bag. As Harry went to pull out Kim's clothes, Hermione stopped him.
"Kim might prefer another girl to grab her clothes, do you mind?" Kim silently thanked Hermione as she snatched the bag back from Harry and fished for a change a clothes for her. They went to separate bathrooms, changed, and then snuck out the back and walked back to a main street in the city.
"So who were those guys anyway?" Tommy asked.
"One of them was Rowle," Harry said. "He was there the night Snape killed Dumbledore on the astronomy tower.
"The other one was Antonin Dolohov," Ron said. "Face was all over the wanted posters."
"So, these guys were pretty serious?" Kim asked.
"No offense, but they're all serious," Hermione retorted. "We were lucky you got there when you did. If Jason hadn't hit Rowle with that stunning spell, I don't know what would have happened." Ron again felt more tense, when Harry moved on.
"Wait, exactly how did you find us?"
"Jason put his communicator in with the rest of our stuff in your bag," Tommy said. "One of the more recent upgrades with the communicators was a tracking device implanted in each of them. So Jason figured if we stuck a communicator in there, we'd be able to find you regardless of where you were in the case of us getting separated."
"That was brilliant," Hermione said.
"Yes, bloody brilliant," Ron said, with more than a hint of sarcasm.
"No problem, I'm just glad it worked," Jason said, either choosing to ignore Ron's sarcasm, or not recognizing it at all. "So where do we go on from here?"
"Yeah, I'm assuming a hotel wouldn't work, considering it would be easy to search for you there Harry," Kim said. "Although, I wouldn't mind the option of room service."
"No, I don't think that would be good," Harry said. "Not only could they find me, but it might put more innocent people in danger."
"Oh no!" Hermione said loudly, suddenly stopping in the midst of their walking.
"What is it?" Harry asked, with the rest of the group stopping to see what she was worried about.
"We forgot to celebrate your birthday!"
"Oh man, that's right, you turned 17 today!" Tommy said.
"Ginny and I... we made a cake, and we were going to bring it out at the end of the wedding," Hermione continued.
"Honestly, considering we were almost killed by a couple of death eaters back there, it's ok," Harry said, moving the group forward.
"Right... it's a matter of perspective," Hermione said.
"Wait... that reminds me of a place we could go," Ron said. With that, Ron found an alley where they all grabbed onto Ron and disapparated. They apparated to their new location, where Tommy, Kim, Jason all felt sick.
"Next time we do that, let us morph first," Tommy said.
"No kidding... I feel totally gross." Kim chimed in.
"You'll get used to it," Ron said to the rangers. They all stood in front of the place Ron thought of, and Harry and Hermione smiled, while the rangers stood in awe of the row home that was forming right in front of them.
"Sirius' house," Harry beamed.
"Ron... this is brilliant!" Hermione said, smiling.
"Well, you know... it was nothing," Ron said... somewhat imitating what Jason said earlier.
"Shall we?" Jason asked. He opened the gate and went towards the door, the others closely following. They opened the door and walked in, only to find the door swiftly close behind them.
"Be on your guard, guys," Tommy said.
"Lumos," Harry said, trying to light up the room with his wand. "Hermione."
"Right. HOMENUM REVELIUM." Hermione said pointing her wand forward, but nothing happened. "We're alone." They walked further down to where the kitchen was, and turned on the lights.
"Look, aside from Kim, Jason, and I getting a tour, I think we should call it a night," Tommy said. "We can plan out our next steps after we get a good night's sleep."
"Should we contact Adam, first, see how things ended up at the Burrow?" Kim asked.
"I'd like that," Ron said. "I want to make sure my family is ok."
"Yeah, let's do that first," Tommy said, raising his wrist so he could speak into his communicator. "Adam, this is Tommy, do you copy?" A couple of seconds went by, and then a voice spoke into it.
"Hey Tommy, it's Kat," she said with her thick Austrailian accent. " Adam is out with Tanya making sure we weren't followed."
"Are you guys ok?" Jason jumped in.
"Yeah, what happened back at the wedding?" Harry asked.
"Adam, Tanya, and I are fine. There were a couple of casualties, but after we morphed we were able to dispatch most of them, the rest retreated."
"Where did the rest of the Order and the Weasley's go?" Kim asked, Ron stood up nervously at the mention of his family.
"They all got out safely, but they went to another safe house now that the Burrow is compromised. Are you all ok?"
"Yeah, we managed to meet up with Harry, and have gotten to a safe house," Tommy said. "Look, you guys should get some sleep. Why don't we touch base in the morning to go over our next steps."
"Sounds good Tommy, good night everyone," Kat said.
"Good night," the six said back.
"Was that Tommy?" Adam asked Kat, who had just walked back in with Tanya from patrolling the grounds outside.
"Yeah, they made it out ok," She responded. "He said they'd check in tomorrow to go over their plans with us, and that we should all get some sleep."
"Sleep sounds wonderful," Tanya said. "And we can sleep knowing that the enchantments I just cast will protect us."
"Thanks for doing that, Tanya," Adam said shyly.
"Anytime, shugga," Tanya said with a smile, who then kissed him on the cheek and then winked at him as she walked by to the next room. Kat stifled a giggle, while Adam looked flabbergasted yet excited all at the same time. They went to their seperate rooms, Kat and Tanya in one room, Adam in the other. Soon they were off to sleep, Adam smiling about his earlier exchange with Tanya, while Tanya and Kat joyfully engaged in some girl talk before they went to sleep. Though the stakes were high, and nerves were getting to all of them, they at least could have a little joy to be reminded of what they were fighting for.
To be continued...
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