As the students would normally be going to classes Harry, Ron and Hermonie were walking up to the castle to go and talk to Professor Dumbledore. The walk up the cold stone stairs was long and hard. All Harry could think about is what Wormtail could be doing to the Weselys and Grangers. Because if he was hurting them he was going to… he didn't even know what he was going to do but whatever its going to be will be bad. "Cockroach Clusters" Harry muttered as the statue of a gargoyle jumped to life and leaped to the side. The walk up into Dumbledore's office was longer than the walk up to it.

"P-p-professor?" Hermonie said in a quivering voice.

"Yes, come on in." Came the kind voice of Professor Dumbledore. "What can I help you with—O my gosh! What's the matter Monie? Is every thing alright?" His voice turned to concern when he saw Hermonie's blood shot eyes. She has been crying all the way up there and Ron was comforting her.

"P-p-professor, we w-want t-t-to show y-you something. W-w-we found it on the l-lawn outside." Hermonie said as she handed the letter to the professor.

"Good lord! He's coming back!" He said in an almost inaudible voice. His face had turned completely white. "Where's exactly did you find it? I must see that owl that you found the letter with." He said.

So they went down to where they found the letter and there laid the dead owl. It was brown and had a white stomach. It looked really old and it must have just died in the air and fell into the grounds of Hogwarts. And all of a sudden they heard…

"Mr. Potter? Mrs. Granger? Mr. Wesely? Why weren't you in my class today?" came the voice of Professor Snape. He looked very cross and was stomping across the lawn. "I should take 50 points away from Gryfindor for this." Then he spotted Dumbledore standing by them. "O excuse me sir. But these kids skipped my class."

"That's quite alright. But you better come over here I need to speak with you." His voice was still quivering when he said that. It was so that Snape asked, "Is every thing alright sir?"

So Snape and Dumbledore waked out of hearing range and Harry, Ron and Hermonie started talking to each other.

"Harry, we can't just sit around here all day! We need to go and find them." Ron whispered.

"I know! But we can't do anything right now. We will have to wait till tonight so we can get out my Invisibility Cloak and leave. Once we get out of the grounds we can take of the cloak." Harry answered.

"Why do we need the cloak? We are prefects AND a Head Boy here! We can be around all we want." Hermonie said.

"Because Dumbledore will be expecting us to be leaving and go find them. He will probably have people standing by the door." Harry said.

"Yeah I almost forgot about that. Good thinking." Hermonie said.

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"What is it professor?" Snape said.

"Harry and the others were walking to herbology and Hermonie tripped over an dead owl and found this…" Dumbledore said.

Snape read the letter and as his face went, of possible, pale. He reread the letter about 3 times then finally said something. "A-a-are you sure that there hasn't been mistake." He stammered.

"Snape, use your head. How many wormtails and Lord Voldermorts can there be? I know that Harry, Ron and Hermonie are going to trying to get out and find their families. We must stop them from going." Dumbledore said.

"Now guys I need—" he stopped dead in his sentence because when he turned around to talk to Harry, Ron and Hermonie they were gone.

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Harry, Ron and Hermonie were out of breath by time they got up to the common room.

"I – think we should -- get a move – on really fast – because Snape and Dum – bledore will be coming up – to get us soon." Harry said between gasps.

"Ok," Hermoinie said, "Hurry up. I think I hear them coming"

Harry was up in his room looking around for his cloak and then he grabbed his and Ron's Lighting 23 and ran into Hermonie's room and got hers.

"Ok, let's go. I grabbed our brooms because once we get out of the grounds we can fly and it will take less time." Harry said.

It wasn't a moment to soon that he slipped the cloak over themselves because at the same moment Snape and Dumbledore came rushing in and looked around with his half moon glassed and said, "Hurry they must be outside already."

"Ok I will be with you in a minuet I am going to look around a bit." With that Dumbledore took off and left Snape alone in the common room. Then what Harry, Ron and Hermonie heard next almost made Hermonie faint. "Be careful" Is all that they could here but that was the first time that they heard any kind of care in Snape's voice. Did Snape really want us to be careful. What does he mean by "be careful"? Harry thought.

"Common Harry! Lets go!" As he was ripped back into reality buy Ron's voice. And as they stepped out of the doors and out of the grounds they got on their Lighting 23's and took off. Their journey had begun.