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Chapter 26

The next morning Kat woke up before the others and went to tell Dumbledore what happened.

"So…that was it…I couldn't really find out much."

"It's ok. I think you did pretty well, if was just a mistake from your friends. Don't be mad at them."

"But I am. I can't help it. I thought they knew me, I know that maybe after what happened the trust is a little in doubt, but to also just go in there and risk their lives."

"That's why you're mad? Because they risked their lives?"

"Pretty much. And they just didn't trust me. Now what? Voldemort knows I betrayed him. What would he do now?"

"I'm afraid you've become a target."

There was a silence. Kat quickly thought about Fred, George and the others.

"I have to leave."-She said letting her arms fall.-"Be on my own again."

"I can't let you do that. I just can't. I assure you, you will be safe here. Even if you feel you aren't. You always were safe. You were just scared, for yourself and the others."

"I won't be calm here, professor. I need to go and check some friends. I need to."

"Other friends?"

"Yes, people really important."

Dumbledore stayed looking at her. He saw the need in her eyes.

"Very well. Go change and come back here."

She nodded and went to change. Luckily she didn't bump with anyone. After changing she went back to Dumbledore's office.

"You'll travel through portkey. To where?"-He asked getting behind his desk

"Diagon alley"-She answered as she went in front of his desk

"You'd have to come back on your own. If anything happens, try to come back faster."-Kat nodded to him

They grabbed hands and in the blink of an eye, both were spinning until they disappeared. Kat fell on her back besides Gringots and with a little pain she got up. She walked al trough Diagon until she entered a dark tiny alley. It had a wall of brick and she looked around to check no one was looking. She took out her wand and waved it over it. A few bricks fell, strangely not making a sound, and showed a door with 'S.I.' carved in it. She opened it and went inside; when the door closed the bricks went back to the wall, rock solid. With Lumos she lighted up her wand and started to walk down the hall until she bumped with a door with the same 'S.I.' carved in it. The doorknob had a hole trough it, where she got the tip of her wand in with the Lumos spell still on. When she took it out, the noise of the door unlocking was heard. The door opened on its own and took her to a room, looked like the Leaky Cauldron, wooden tables and chairs, with a bar. There were about 20 people inside, looked like Kat's age and up. They all stopped talking when they saw her. She stepped in the room, into the silence. A women about 20 years, with black wavy hair walked to her with a smile and hugged her.

"We thought you'd never come back."-The women said in the hug

Kat smiled and the others came to them. Meanwhile at Hogwarts, second period was about to start and Fred or George had seen Kat since last night. Her chair stood empty between them. Both were worried and a bit mad since Kat didn't even look for them or let them explain. But still their hearts beat the same for her. Nothing she does could ever make them hate her. Kat had sat down on a table with the women, another girl of 18 years with red hair, green eyes and a man that reminded her of Lupin, he was about the same age as him and he's the kind of man you go for advices on everything. Kat had told them what had happened the night before with Voldemort.

"That's why I came."-Kat started as she held the butterbeer in her hands.-"I had to make sure you were safe and haven't been found."

"We're all fine."-Austin, the man that reminded Kat of Lupin spoke.-"Remember we're safe here. No one with any kind of magic can penetrate in here to spy."

"I had to. I also came for help."-Kat looked around for a bit.-"Where's Kurt?"

The other three looked at each other and let out a sigh.

"He left about 4 months ago."-Austin started.-"He had his heart set on looking for Voldemort and you on the way, but…"-There was a silence.

"But?"

"We haven't gotten any letter or even his patronus in the last 2 months."-Alice, the women, spoke.-"We've even checked on every crystal ball we have and the smoke…"

Kat held her breath.

"It comes out red."

Kat let her breath go in a cutting gasp as she lay back.

"It must be a mistake."

"I do believe he is in hiding. Possibly with a protective charm over him, it's not like him to just walk around with out protection. And remember that if a person has it, it won't show on the crystal ball."

"But he would have sent some sort of message."-Samantha, the 18 year old girl spoke.-"He knew we were watching."

"I have to look for him."-Kat said getting up.

Austin got up too.-"No! You're the bigger target right now in all of us. Looking for him will put you and him in danger."

"I can't just let him go. He's like a brother to me."

"We know, we tried to get him out of going, but he had his mind set. I still believe he has a protective charm on him. He knows better than to walk around not protective."

Kat stood quiet and then nodded slowly. She knew Kurt was very careful.

"Come."

Austin started to walk and Kat followed him with Alice and Samantha. They went to the back of the room, trough a door that led to a bigger room. The walls were made of stone; it had platforms and even a big table like the one on Hogwarts to duel. About 50 people were there, training.

"We've been practicing our best. We even found new members, they are out now tough. We have a little schedule to not have so many people here. In total we have 135 members."

"Wow. Impressive. So many. In the beginning it was just you and a few others."

"People are realizing this is no game."-Samantha told Kat-"They all know Voldermort is back and for good."

The four of them kept talking. In Hogwarts, lunch time came. Hermione and the guys were on their way upstairs when Malfoy was coming down with Crabbe and Goyle.

"Potter!"-Everyone stopped and looked at him.-"Where's your friend? You know that thanks to you, you-know-who's looking for her."-He looked at Hermione who glared at him.

"We haven't seen her since last night."-She answered to him.

"Well, if he hasn't gotten to her and you see her, tell he she better watch her back."

He and his friends started to laugh. Fred and George went to him, grabbed him by the shirt with wands pointing at him. Malfoy quickly got scared.

"If anything happens to her-"-Fred started

"Be sure we will go after you first."-George added

"And your whole bloody family!"

In their eyes, there weren't threats, they were promises. They looked with no fear or hesitation.

"If she comes back."

"Don't even dare speak to her."

They let him go. Malfoy tried to act tough and he walked down pass the others. When he and his friends were a few feet away from them, Malfoy turned around.

"I doubt she'll come back. Poor thing's body must be rotting some where by now."

Fred and George were going to jump on him, but Ron and Harry got in the way to stop them.
"Get out of here, Malfoy!"-Harry was getting really angry.

Malfoy and his friends kept going down the stairs as they laughed. The 5 of them kept going up to do what they were going to do. When they got to the common room, Hermione looked for her crystal ball and went back down. The guys went around the ball and Hermione said the phrase with Kat's full name. They waited and the white smoke turned to red. Everyone felt their hearts dropped.

"No…maybe it's out of reach."-Ron said-"Like with Damian."

"No, Ron."-Hermione shook her head slowly.-"He was fake, remember? And Kat told me later the red smoke means the person doesn't exist or is…dead."

Fred and George had to rest from the couch behind them. Their hearts dropped dead completely. Harry's stomach became a knot. Hermione's heart stopped. Even Ron's mind was still processing it. There was a silence until Ginny walked in, almost running and went to them.

"There you are. Ron, Fred, George, mum sent me a letter. She said Dumbledore explained everything and that Kat isn't a real death eater, not anymore. And he even mentioned she was helping him."

Fred and George just nodded.

"Did something happen?"-She asked getting worried.

"We…we ruined Kat's plan last night. Voldemort knows she betrayed him. We haven't seen her since last night when we looked for her."-Hermione sniffed.-"We looked for her in the crystal ball, but the smoke comes out red."

"Oh, god…I have to tell mum!"

Ginny ran to the girls' room to write the letter. Fred and George just started to walk and went to the boys' room to lie down. The trio sat on the couch, their minds were still spinning. None of them went to the afternoon classes. Night fell and Kat had just left Shadows Insiders Headquarters and was going trough a forest. She remembered she met Kurt there and ever since then they had gone there a lot of times. Maybe she could find him there. She called him a few times, but nothing. The wind started to blow stronger and colder. She stopped and looked back; between the hairs on her face she saw 4 trays of black smoke flying to her. Her eyes opened wide as she started to run. Green lights were thrown at her and hit the trees she zigzagged in. She kept running, jumping rocks and fallen trees. She looked back to see the death eaters still flying behind her. When she looked back to the front, it was too late to stop at the cliff. She ended up jumping, but in mid air her body turned to the black smoke and flew a few feet away. When the smoke was closer to the ground, she appeared as herself on her feet. She looked at herself and then to the cliff, realizing what she had done. The black smokes kept going behind her and she kept running. She stopped when one blocked her way. The other 3 went to each side of her.

"Traitor!"-One yelled

"The Dark Lord wants your body to hang!"-Another one yelled

Kat raised her wand to be prepared, when 4 white trays of smoke started to surrounded the death eaters. Tonks, Lupin, Arthur and Mad-eye appeared around Kat to protect her. They started to fight with the death eaters as they tried to keep Kat safe.

"Tonks!"-Lupin yelled at her

Tonks grabbed Kat's arm and both turned to smoke. Kat turned to black and Tonks turned to white. The others fought for a bit more until turning to white smoke. Tonks and Kat appeared at the Black House, in the dinning room. Where Sirius and Molly were. They stopped doing what they were doing and looked at them. In a second, Lupin, Mad-eye and Arthur appeared. There was an awkward silence as they looked to Kat. She got her hands in her pockets and looked down.

"Thank you."-She said looking back at all of them

"What were you doing out?"-Sirius asked

"Looking for a group of friends. I went to check if they were alright. But they told me a really closed friend of mine had left about 4 months ago looking for Voldemort and me, but about 2 months ago they lost contact. I went to that forest since we used to spend so much time there. I thought I might find him."

There was another silence.

"Dumbledore told us. You just took the favor."-Lupin mentioned

"Yeah. I wanted to help. That has always been my goal. Plus I wanted to gain your trust back."

Another silence. Slowly they all put a little smile, except Mad-eye.

"You can't trust anyone these days."-Mad-eye said quick.-"But it was pretty brave of you to take that risk."

"Did he saw Harry?"-Sirius asked

"What?"

"Ginny sent us a letter saying that Hermione and the guys told her they went looking for you while you were with Voldemort."-Molly explained

"Oh, no. He didn't saw Harry. Hermione, Fred and George were the ones who looked for me. We left pretty quick tough, no one got really harmed."

"You should go back to Hogwarts."

"No. I want to look for Kurt. I can't go back there knowing someone can go and just take me away and harm the others. They can get to Harry"

"Hogwarts is safer than you think."

"What about Kurt? I can't leave him."

"Sweetheart."-Molly went to her.-"I'm pretty sure he's fine. If he had the bravery to go after you and Voldemort, I'm sure he's fine. He knows what he was getting in to."

"Yeah, but-"

"But nothing."-Mad-eye interrupted her.-"Go back to your school. We might do something for that Kurt boy."

Kat looked at them and she felt secure.

"Ok. I'll go back."

"Good girl."-Molly said tapping her cheek lightly.