After Cho was captured, I started hanging back a lot. Letting the younger ones – oh, who was I kidding; they weren't that young anymore – take control seemed better. They didn't have any idea what they were doing, of course, but it felt nice to just stand back and watch them.
To be honest, some of them reminded me of people I'd known, people who were long gone. Alicia was a lot like I'd been back then, except that she had no idea what she was doing and she was trying to take charge of things. Oh, scratch that, she wasn't much like me after all. George hadn't changed much, other than the fact that he was a little deeper than he had been. The other two – I hadn't really known them, so I couldn't tell WHAT they made me think of.
It was like the War was going on again, the way Alicia made it sound. I couldn't blame her – this was probably the oddest set of events to ever happen to our world – but she was making everything seem worse than it was. Luna wasn't exactly helping the situation, but at least she knew of what she spoke. Her haunting appearance and a long, thin mark on her arm were the only signs my aunt had once tormented her, but memories of such things never die, or so I've been told.
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"Okay, it's been three days and we've done NOTHING!" Alicia snapped, extremely frustrated.
"That's because we don't know what to do," George said defensively. While Alicia had sorted out strategies, he and Luna had gone through every book of Wizarding maps they could get their hands on, trying to locate Cho.
"George is right," Luna added. "We haven't any idea where SHE might be, so there's nothing we CAN do." Luna was being unusually reasonable, but at least she wasn't with anyone who knew how odd that was for her.
"Still, we've got to do something soon," Alicia decided. "How long was it before things got bad for you, Luna?"
Luna was very peeved at the moment, having given details on her own capture more times than she could count. "A week or so," she said, clearly annoyed with Alicia. "I had trouble tracking time, though, so it could have been a lot shorter than that."
"Oh, lovely," Alicia muttered under her breath. "Since we STILL don't know what we're doing, let's just go back to our normal attempts and see if we get anywhere."
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A/N: Short, I know, but life is crazy again. Feel free to give me ideas for the next chapter, since I have NO IDEA what I'm doing.
