I worked really hard on this 'cuz I went away this weekend. Me and a couple of friends went sailing in a 29-foot sailboat up to a campsite for the weekend. So I tried to rush to finish it. Sorry if it's short! I was going to post it before I left, but... my mom was blabbing on the phone all night. Sorry! If anyone cared, I had fun, even though it was tiring and there was a small craft warning, nearly a gale warning on Saturday. (27 knot winds, 33 knot gusts!!) We nearly capsized, which was kinda scary, but we survived, and I have the start of a pretty good tan to show for it!!!

Enjoy!!!

Words [ between these things] are talking inside their head, results of the spell, K? Just so you get it...

Thanx to all my faithful reviews. You know I luv y'all. (Sorry, Chris... I didn't send you the last part. I'm sending you this one! And the next!!! I promise!!!)

Here we go. This leaves off where the last part left up.

"The shit's really going to hit the fan now," Hermione thought, sighing and pressing herself against the dark cave wall, even though no one could see her.

[Harry?] She said fearfully.

[Go Herm... Please, in case he finds out, somehow. Just- I can't think with you in my head, and if were going to get out of this, I need to think... Please.]

[But-]

[Go, Hermi.] Ginny pleaded. [Please. Get Dumbledore, someone, just, go. We can play it to our advantage if he doesn't know...]

[Be careful.] She said, watching as the Dark Lord, appeared. [I love you Harry...]

[I know...]

Come on Herm, think. She thought to herself. How do you get back? Come on, come on... bits and pieces of useless information passed through her mind. Finally she remembered.

She muttered the spell and felt herself fading.

[Be careful] She told them once more before she disappeared.

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Ron paced back and forth in the Headmasters office.

"Professor-"

"Ron, I am worried just as you are, but calm down. It will do none of them any good if you panic."

"Calm down? How? My little sister and my two best friends in the world are somewhere, facing Voldemort and you expect me to calm down?"

"Sit, Mr. Weasley, or I will make you."

Ron reluctantly sat, putting his head down on the desk, watching the transparent figures of Hermione and Harry.

"How do you stay so calm? When you know something's going wrong, or someone's getting hurt or fighting. That's what I hate about being a wizard. There are horrible things that we just can't change, even with magic. Then there are things in the muggle world which we could fix but don't for the sake of secrecy. What's the point? What's the point of having all this power and do nothing positive with it?"

Dumbledore sighed. "I understand what you're talking about. But I'll have you know, you, among others, have used your powers to the world's advantage a lot more than other wizards have. You should be proud. And how do I stay so calm? Practice."

Ron was about to answer, but stopped.

Hermione's shape was coming back in to focus.

Within moments, she was totally solid. She stood up, a grim look on her face.

"He's seen Harry."

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"See, Miss Weasley, I told you he'd come riding in on his white horse. It seems you're enough incentive after all..." Voldemort said, cupping her chin in his hand.

"Don't touch her..." Harry said venomously, eyes flashing.

"My dear Ginny, are you sure you're right about what you said earlier? He seems to be awfully protective of you... Or is that just the way of Harry Potter?"

"Just because you don't understand human love, emotion, doesn't mean-" Harry began.

"Quite the contrary, Harry! I fully understand it! I was betrayed by my father... a muggle fool. I understand it very well... But in my current situation... I enjoy raw power much more."

"You're sick..." Harry said, gritting his teeth and restraining himself from lunging at him.

"Oh, wait, I will enjoy satisfaction. That is a human emotion, is it not? And I will certainly feel enjoyment. I will enjoy watching your face as I squeeze the life out of your companion, here."

"No!" Harry cried.

He paused, and then pulled Ginny to him, kiss her full on the lips.

[Trust me Gin, okay... I have a plan. Trust me...]

She kissed him back. Maybe she would have enjoyed it under different circumstances...

"Enough!" Voldemort yelled, pulling out his wand and sending Harry flying against the cave wall. "I believe you lied to me, Miss Weasley... I do not like liars..."

"You lie..." Harry said, recovering from the force of hitting the wall.

"That's different." He said hastily. "People who lie to me are fools. And I do not suffer fools gladly..."

He pointed his wand at Ginny.

"Cruci-"

"No!" Harry jumped in front of her, taking the full force of the unforgivable curse. Ginny caught him as he shook in pain.

"Stop it! Please, stop it..." Ginny said, tears running down her cheeks. "Just stop it..."

"My dear, don't cry. It's a sign of weakness. Something you just cannot afford right now."

"Shut up! Shut up you bastard..."

She stood up and jumped at him.

"Ginny, don't!"

She jumped on his back, kicking him, hitting him. She caught him by surprise, and his wand was knocked from his hand, clattering to the floor.

Harry crawled across the ground, trying unsuccessfully to ignore the echo of pain going through his body. He grasped the wand in his hand.

[Get off him Ginny! I have his wand Gin. Get off.]

"No!!!" She yelled aloud, continually thrashing him.

Voldemort eventually regained his bearings.

"Off you silly girl!!!!!"

He flung her off, and her head hit the wall with a sickening crack.

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"What?" Ron asked.

"He came... We just had time to an invisibility screen on me... He wouldn't do it on himself, said he had already tripped Voldemort's alarms or something...I don't know what's happening, I, they told me to go get help. I don't-"

She fell into Ron's arm, crying.

"I don't know what to do... I, Ron, I left them..."

"You did the right thing, Hermione." Dumbledore said. "We'll get them out of there. But we have to move fast. Can you do the locating part of the spell by yourself?"

"I- I don't know. I can try..." She said tearfully.

Dumbledore put a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "I know you can."

She pulled herself from Ron's arms and sat at the desk, sighing.

"Be quiet, or I won't be able to do it..." She said, barely audible.

Ron squeezed her hand. "Come one, Hermi. Be strong..."

"I don't know if I can do it, Ron..." She said weakly.

There was huge flash.

All three of them looked up, and then down into Desiree's angry face.

"You left me alone!" The little girl cried.

"How did you get here, Des?" Hermione asked, surprised.

"I was mad, 'cuz you left, and then I just- appeared here. Where you are."

"This is all we need..." Ron sighed.

"No wait!" Hermione said. "I can use her. Des, come here and hold my hand. Ron, keep holding mine. I can use their powers."

"Good thinking Miss Granger." Dumbledore said. He placed his hands on her shoulders. "I can help too."

Hermione sighed, taking a deep breath. "I can do this."

She concentrated very hard, willing the spell to tell her what she wanted to know, feeding off the powers of those helping her.

Slowly, deep blue lines began to appear in mid air, stretching air. The lines crossed forming a map of the world.

She opened her eyes, examining the map. She reached out and touched the map, making it zoom in.

"I think I know where they are."

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"Shit..." Harry muttered under his breath as Ginny slumped to the floor unconscious. He pulled himself to his feet.

"Looking for this?" He asked, holding the wand.

"How-"

"Speechless? Voldie, that's new." He retorted, feeling the anger pulse through his veins.

Voldemort rebounded quickly from his shock, a nasty smile appearing on his face. "Going to lose another one, Potter? First Hermione, now Ginny? Maybe another one in a wheelchair? That blow to the head looked quite serious..."

Harry's angered bubbled over. "Stop it!" He screamed. "Stop it! Haven't you ruined enough lives? The Longbottoms? Sirius? The Prewetts, the Bones, your own family?! My parents' lives? Mine?! When is it enough?!"

"It's never enough. Until I'm the best."

Harry spat on him. "You got a lot of climbing to do. Including over me."

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"Where?"

"Nowhere on the map."

They looked puzzled. "How is that possible?"

"Simple." She said.

"They're up in the clouds."

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So yeah, short, but not bad, eh? Please review.

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~Danie

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