The Escape

"What in the seven hells Ron? You have been here millions of times. How can we be walking in a circle?" Lavender yelled in frustration. Indeed they have been walking in circles. After ten minutes of rest, they continued, but this time, they left a trail of water made the Erutan. The used the water trail to not make the same route that led them back to the same place.

After half an hour more of walking, they reached a dead end with a door at the opposite side. Ron pulled out his wand and used the Alohomora charm, but nothing happened. Harry tapped his shoulder to let himself give a try. He placed his hand on the knob and turned it. It opened like any unlocked door would. Ron gave a goofy grin and followed the others into the room.

"Ah, the Erutan powers, created by the Heir of Gryffindor I believe. Yes, it was created by a Potter," Voldemort said the name Potter with more hate into it than the rest of his words. "Yes, James Potter was really devoted to killing me. Yes, he was also a soul believer of Nature's power. So sad that James never had the chance to make the final touches to make it invincible," He snickered.

Harry felt his face boiling and Hermione's hand folding his arm back, hoping Harry wouldn't do anything he would regret. "Rumor had it that he had finished a prototype before I killed him," Voldemort was almost cracking up, "well, I guess the rumors are true aren't they?" There was a tiny hint of fear as he continued. "Hey, no there wasn't." Shut Up Voldemort and continue on, don't make me kill you off this early.

The lights went on, and Voldemort was no longer hidden in the shadows, but he wasn't the only one. Percy and Author Weasly were chained to the wall by their wrists. "Perce, Dad, I'm coming, just wait!" Ron ran towards them but stopped in mid run as Voldemort pointed his wand at them.

"Another step and one of them dies." Voldemort said with a nasty grin. Ron, taking advantage of what Voldemort said, rose into the air and flew towards the other Weaslys. "Hey, any of you come any closer and they die!"

Harry noticed the panic in Voldemort's face. "I AM NOT PANICING!" Voldemort, want to die now? I can say you just had a heart attack. Voldemort mumbles. What did you say? "Nothing," Now as I was saying, Harry threw a marble he summoned from the ground and threw it at Seamus. Seamus got the idea and started edging away since he was not within Voldemort's sight.

"Now Ron, want to join the Death Eaters? There shall be plenty of benefits. You shall be able to go where you please, eat and rest when you please, and do whatever you please." Voldemort said, obviously trying to split the six prophesized group into a five useless group.

"Never, you are evil. I shall never join the evil side. Let my brother and my father go!" Ron bellowed. Harry never heard Ron so loud since the phone call he made to Uncle Vernon.

"Good, evil, what is good and evil anyways? To me, I am good and you are evil. There is no positive good or evil. There is however power. The ones with the most power live. Tell me this; wouldn't you have saved your family already if you had the power?"

They could really tell Ron was considering it. He pained himself but he had to join, if he didn't, he would loose his father and brother. He opened his mouth… "Please Ron, don't," Parvati cried. She didn't want to see Ron in lose a single family member, but she also didn't want to lose Ron.

"Shut up girl, Crucio!" Voldemort yelled pointing his wand at Parvati.

"Stop, I'll join, please don't hurt her anymore… my lord."

(A/n: DUN DUNN DUNNN OMG I so want to leave it here, but too many of you would kill Me. 0_0)

Voldemort stopped immediately, "Now my faithful Death Eater, get me the Erutan cube, use force if needed." Voldemort was having fun toying with his young Death Eater. Ron didn't move and this brought some anger to Voldemort. "Do this task or one of them dies!" Voldemort yelled pointing his wand at Percy. Ron grunted and walked to Harry.

"Please make this easy, I don't want to fight you. Since Ron had his back to Voldemort, he winked while he did this and eyed a toy box. Hermione summoned the box as Voldemort stared at Harry. "I have it," she spoke up. She gave the toy to Ron.

"Promise us this… my lord, once you get the cube, you let everybody in this ministry go and I am no longer your servant."

"Fine, just give me the cube!" Voldemort was tried to grab it, but Ron jumped back.

"Let everybody go first, then I shall leave it by the door as we leave." Ron didn't back down as Voldemort glared at him. With a wave of his arm, a Mirror appeared and it showed the Death Eaters leaving the Ministry. With the wave of his other arm, the shackles which held Arthur and Percy Weasly vanished. They walked back to the group with much haste.

"Catch it if you want it!" Ron shouted and threw the toy into the air. With that, the eight of them ran like hell out the door and Arthur summoned the vase on the other side of the hallway. They next thing they knew, they were in the Burrow exhausted. They all grinned seeing Voldemort's frustrated face in their minds.

"Ah!" Ms. Weasly yelled behind them.

"What are you all doing here? I can't cook for so many people in such short time!" Molly Weasly was waving her hands everywhere. As of the second, Dumbledore popped rite beside her which made her scream more.

"Ah, please calm down Ms. Weasly, or you will disturb the whole entire city!" Dumbledore said covering his ears. He laughed at the face Molly was giving, "Don't worry Molly, they won't stay for long, I brought some floo powder with me. But first, Harry I have a few words to speak to you, um, may we have some privacy?" They nodded and left.

"Harry, remember the end of your first year at Hogwarts?" Dumbledore didn't wait for him to reply, "You asked why Voldemort wanted to kill you. Well, the answer is, he wasn't after you, he was after the entire Potter family. Ever wonder why there is no other Potter Witch or Wizards out there? Back then, the Potters were known for their strong beliefs in certain things. They often disagreed on subjects, but they all agreed on the fact that Nature's power dominates the power of everything else. Your father, James, was testing on that one belief and decided to create the Erutan Cube. He worked day and night with Lily and a few chosen family and friends to keep the secret of creating the ultimate weapon to defeat Voldemort. Pettigrew being one of the few, told Voldemort of the Erutan Cube. Voldemort slowly one by one killed the Potters; James noticed this and placed the cube in the safety of my hands."

Harry looked down at the cube, the cube that had brought him so much grief for 10 years. "Harry, there may be somebody you want to meet. She is your only relative that has Potter blood."

Harry looked at him confused "I thought you said all the Potters were dead.

"True, they are, but there is one with Potter blood within her, meet Arabella Figg," On cue, a women with electric blue hair Apparated into the room. You can tell she was related to James Potter for the eyes matched his sky blue. (A/n: made it up, don't go shipping about it). Harry began to see the resemblance between her and the old Mrs. Figg that babysat him during Dudley's birthday. Only this time, she was not wrinkled and looked at least 10 years younger.

"Harry, it is great to see you again, Tibbles, Snowy, Mr. Paws, and Tufty miss you very much." Mrs. Figg said, giving Harry a tight hug. "James would be so happy to know what you are doing." She couldn't help as a few tears freed themselves from her eyes.

There was an awkward silence until Dumbledore finally gestured them to out of the kitchen and into the living room where the fireplace was. Dumbledore took some floo powder out of his pockets and gave it to the people who were needed to head back to the castle. One by one, they disappeared into the chimney and appeared at Three Broomsticks.

They ordered some food and butterbeer through Ron's constant complain for food and couldn't wait until they till they were at the castle.

An half an hour later, they left Three Broomsticks and headed straight for the castle. Once they entered the Great Hall, dinner had just begun, and almost everybody cheered for the heroes who saved the Ministry, Leaky Cauldron, and Diagon Ally. Even some Slytherins cheered since some of their families were among the hostages. When they were offered seats to eat, only Ron accepted, "Ron, if you continue with this, you would be as fat as the Fat Lady." Hermione joked and Ron jumped out of his seat and followed his friends to the Gryffindor house.