Sorry about not updating for a while, but a bunch of messed up things happened in my life where I needed a friend but all of mine were busy (I mean ALL of those people, there's alot of them). I don't know, usually I don't take stuff like that so seriously but when I didn't get much reviews I thought me trying to write this fan fiction was a mistake. Well, I'm back to my indifferent self so last night I wrote two chapters. Enjoy, and review, I want to hear your input, because I have another idea for a fan fic and if this one goes well, I guess I'll do that one.

I don't own Harry Potter, bottom line, this is a FAN FICTION, key words being FAN and FICTION, especially fiction.

Chapter 11: The Search Part 1

Ron paced the head auror office around Aberforth, Hermione, and Harry. "Is it possible for a person to just disappear like that, I mean, if he was just going away he would have told us first, I mean he was staying with us!" Ron said, with panic in his voice. Harry said, "Ron calm down, Abe here is the one who lost a son, and you're the one panicking."

Ron stopped pacing for a few moments to say, "So, it's your son Abe, why aren't you panicking?!" Ron pointed at him accusingly until Abe responded, "I know better, I can always choose later to be panicky, now's not the time, now's planning time. Albus had to learn something from me, and staying calm when everything's upside down is it."

Harry, Hermione, and Ron looked at Aberforth Dumbledore, thinking about how it must have felt to loose the one he loved, his parents, then his sister, his brother, and ultimately his son. Abe's facial expression was unperturbed, as if nothing in the world would ever disturb him. He bravely faced the losses of all of his family.

Harry said, "We need to focus on trying to find Albert. I'm afraid it won't take a while and those dragon guys meant business. Who knows if they have companions. We have learn to expect anything in the wizarding world. All of us do know magic, incase you didn't notice."

Everyone else nodded in agreement to Harry's statement. They then formed stage one of their plan. Hermione was to do research and look for dragon animagi and any dark wizards who may be responsible for the kidnapping. Ron was to look around the crime scene and ask witnesses about what happened so that they would have a general picture of what happened. Aberforth, as head auror, was to distract the ministry's attention away from Albert's disappearance and basically continue to do his job.

Harry, on the other hand, had to head to places where there were similar occurrences as to what happened at Hogsmeade. Harry interviewed everyone to hear their description of the source of the mess only to find the same response everywhere.

"There were two scary looking guys, they both had wings and came down from the sky. Then, before I could even see their faces, they both transformed into huge dragons. I didn't stick around much longer after that." Harry was beginning to lose hope in ever finding someone who could at least tell them what direction they were coming from, of how their faces looked.

Harry sighed and said, "Thanks for your cooperation, Mr.Ollivander. Have a nice day sir." Ollivander nodded and Harry left the small home. Something else that puzzled Harry was that relatively nothing was gone. Harry thought to himself, 'Is there even a point to all of these attacks?' Nothing of true significance was at any of these sites of attacks and nothing was missing. No one was usually dead from any of these attacks either.

Ron's constant attempts to put the story together were getting just ridiculous by this point. One of his tries involved the dragon animagi being born from dust and wreaked havoc where ever they went. Ron was very hopeless and lost his former enthusiasm to help. Ron went to another witness' home to ask questions and learned something that reminded him why he wasn't quitting.

"I was walking around in Hogsmead with my wife and I saw two men with wings approaching from... let's say south-east? Well anyway, they just randomly rained down with raging flames dancing around them and sent the flames anywhere they could. One of the flames hit... hit... my wife..."

At this point, the man was crying lightly and Ron opened his shoulder and allowed the man to cry freely on his shoulder. "Come on mate, you've got to try and live on without moping, for her sake. I know you wouldn't want her watching down to see you crying on my shoulder. She would want to see a strong man who lives on even with the burden of living for both you and her, one who acknowledges his pain, but can keep going. One who can use a decent drying spell on my shirt before I go to inform my associates of your information."

The man then looked up at Ron. "Thank you, you really helped me today." Ron said, "Don't mention it, I've just got a job to do, and I'm gonna do it." Ron then thought to himself, 'Wow, that was cheesy...'

Hermione was sorting through a stressful amount of paper work thinking, 'When am I going to find something, this is really starting to get irritating. I wonder if anyone else has made any progress.' Hermione let her mind wander off to think about what kind of progress the others may have made. She quickly snapped out of it's trance and began to look through the papers once again.

Hermione kept looking through her papers until she heard a loud crack and turned around to the noise with her wand out instinctively. Ron smiled and said, "Missed me?"

"Ron! You're back! Did you find anything?" Hermione jumped up from the part of the floor she was sitting on and hugged Ron. Ron smirked slightly and said, "Oh, so you care about what I've found more than you care about me? That's a relief Hermione."

Hermione raised a brow and Ron said, "Alright, alright, some guy I was talking to before told me the direction the people were coming from when they landed. The way I figure it, this is a pretty small lead but, it can be helpful, and who knows, by following it, we might get something useful."

Hermione gave Ron a disapproving look and Ron said, "Don't look at me like that, I think this is a good plan. Where's Harry when you need him, he always backs up stupid rash decisions..."

Just as Ron was saying this, Harry dissaperated right on the spot where Ron had been just moments before. "Always backs up rash decisions? That's not exactly how you get someone agree with you."

Hermione said, "Harry! How'd your search for the locations go? Things have been horrible here." Harry laughed and said, "Horrible, no one stuck around long enough to find out the direction they were coming from, and I haven't heard anyone's story actually seeing their faces. How about you Ron?"

Ron restrained a laugh before he said, "Actually, I found out how it actually happened and I got a general location of the place. So that's my job and yours isn't it? Ha ha, you're usually the one that's ahead all the time."

Hermione raised a brow into a serious expression and said, "Ron, now's not the time for that." Ron smiled at Hermione then said,

"Wow, I finally do something right, not to mention better than you two and I'm not even allowed to gloat a little. Oh well, I got it out. Well I went to a witness' house and not only did I figure out what happened but I found out that our two unidentified men came from the south west."

Harry responded, "Do you know where to the south west?" Ron went from smiling and puffing his chest out to frowning and demoralized. Ron mumbled something that sounded like, "Well, I know it's south west of Hogsmead&At least I figured that much out myself&"

Hermione looked from Harry to Ron, Harry looked as if he was going to explode from trying not to laugh, while Ron's face turned red from mortification and muttered, "Well, at least I got something…"

Harry immediately stopped laughing and looked at Ron. Ron looked back at him apprehensively and said, "What, is there something on my face?" Harry merely shook his head and said,

"It took me this long to realize we could just look for something that seems like a hideout." Hermione looked at Harry as if his face turned blue. She said,

"Harry, that is a ridiculous idea, especially since Ron already suggested it." Ron scowled at Hermione and said, "So you're implying that I only come up with ridiculous ideas?" Hermione said, "Of course not I'm just saying that I already disapproved of the idea when you said it."

Harry looked from Hermione to Ron who were having an intense sort of staring contest. He then spoke up and said, "Guys, I don't think this is the time for this. Especially since I had more to add to the idea."

Hermione and Ron both immediately looked at Harry and said, "What?" Harry replied, "Well now that you two are done, I can say what I have to say. What I was going to say is that we could enlist the help of some other wizards and comb the area. We could ask questions to the locals and if any muggles have information, we can just obliviate them after we are done."

Hermione looked at Ron and Ron at Hermione. Harry looked at the both of them and said, "What, do you think it's a ridiculous idea?" Hermione turned to Harry and said, "Wow, you actually turned one of Ron's ideas into a good one. I think we should do that."

Harry grinned at them and said, "Okay, then I think we should go find some people to help us."