A/N- I'll try to speed this up somewhat. Just to let everyone know this chapter takes place around Christmas. I think I'll try to finish this chapter, and then it'll be about a week until my next one comes out, not sure though. PLEASE READ!!! I am working on A Rift in the Friendship[, another story, so when I finish that I am going to do a companion to this, nothing big, just a 1 chapter long little side story of how Ron and Hermione get together, anyway I just wanted to know does anybody else wanna do it? I'd appreciate it, just think about it. I think I'm gonna start some action in this chapter, but I guess a little better than my other action chapters, those sucked, but the action wont conclude until next time.

Announcement- Again to anybody who doesn't read Author's notes, I have this Ron and Hermione side piece I want to put together, but I don't have the time, so I was wondering did anybody want to do a short little companion on how Ron and Hermione got together, based on the actions of this chapter? Just wondering, email me, or better yet leave it in a review!

Chapter 19 - Lost and Found

"I don't understand, why can't you just add more Billywigs?" Harry exclaimed somewhat loudly. He was talking to Fleur, her voice exasperated she replied,

"Because the magical index of strength is more than the magical index of weight!"

"Whatever." Harry said, he hated Potions anyway. This homework was stupid, (Explain why a strength increasing potion has major drawbacks, why can't it be countered?). Harry got up from the couch in Fleur's room and walked over to the window, looking out on the grounds. He saw three people out there, none he could recognize. Harry normally could tell where anyone was, how was that?

"The map . . ." He trailed off remembering the Marauders Map. Last year that hadn't been among the things the Ministry had confiscated from Barty Crouch Jr. It must be somewhere. Harry doubted it would work, but he had a sudden urge to try it,

"Accio Marauders Map." He said, concentrating hard and pointing his wand out the window. he stood there for about a minute and nothing happened, so he turned around to Fleur,

"Meh. Hey Fleur, wanna go outside?"

"Huh?"

"C'mon let's take a break from work for a change, let's go to Hogsmeade!" Fleur smiled a little,

"How?"

"Your a teacher, just ask Dumbledore." Fleur stood up from her work and took her reading glasses off.

"Okay, let's invite Ron and Hermione too." Fleur said. Harry nodded,

"I'll go get them." He and Fleur left the room, going separate directions.

Harry climbed through the portrait hole, and saw Ron, Hermione, and Ginny sitting there talking. Harry stopped and stared at Ginny for a moment, she still didn't know about her powers, and they couldn't tell her either, on Dumbledore's orders. He went and disappeared again after their last meeting, and came back two weeks ago, for good.

"Your back early harry, we didn't expect you until Monday morning." Hermione said when she saw him.

"What do you mean?" He asked, but Ron piped up,

"C'mon Harry, in the past three weeks you've slept in our dormitory about eight times. your at Fleur's room nearly twenty-four seven. Sometimes I wonder what you two do on those cold, long nights."

"Shut up!" Harry said. He and Fleur hadn't done anything, he normally stayed up working with her on her next class, or doing his homework and fell asleep on her couch.

"Harry, Harry, Harry," Ginny started, walking over to Harry and patting him on the back, "I can't believe my little one is all grown up, he's gonna make me a grandmother one of these days." She wipe a fake tear from her eye. Ginny made everyone in the room laugh, even Harry himself. He looked over to the table he was standing next to and noticed three blank papers, they were some papers he had taken out of his father's trunk. He picked them up and put them in his robe's pocket.

"I gotta go meet Becky, Sara, and Patricia. I'll see you guys later." Ginny said and left the common room. Harry turned back to Ron and Hermione,

"You guys wanna go to Hogsmeade with me and Fleur?" Harry asked, but Hermione wasn't paying attention,

"Harry, notice how Ginny seems alot more relaxed around you?" Harry ignored Hermione's comment,

"So you guys wanna go?" Hermione ignored Harry's comment,

"Yeah it's strange considering that she has a crush on you." Harry blushed a little, but turned to Hermione,

"Yes, we all know." Harry said, it wasn't that he didn't like Ginny, he was just very self conscious about the fact that she liked him before she met him. It made him feel unreal, like a supermodel that people fawn over.

"Geesh Harry, it's not that big, I know about your whole complex." Hermione said.

"We'll go." Ron said, grabbing his cloak from the armrest of his chair. Hermione grabbed hers and Harry already had his. They left the common room and headed down to the bottom of the castle.

Harry exited the front doors to find Fleur already waiting for him, hugging herself tightly.

"Here, take my cloak." Harry said, taking his off and wrapping it around Fleur,

"Thanks." She said, moving in to hug him, but suddenly pulling back. They weren't to let it on they were dating.

"Let's go." Harry said, leading the way to the gates that blocked Hogwarts from the rest of the world. The walk to the lake was about three minutes, and then from there to the gate was about five, but none of them seemed to complain. They walked and talked about various things, the meeting last week with the Order, Why they should and shouldn't have a Christmas ball (The boys were against it), Quidditch, and other stuff. Harry stopped at the front gates, waiting for Fleur to say the password,

"Lemon Meringue Pie!" she piped up, and the gates of the castle began to open. Fleur was the first through them, followed by Hermione and Ron and finally Harry, who had been looking up. He heard something moving. Shaking it off Harry kept through the gate.

"What's wrong Harry?" Hermione asked, stopping. Harry shook his body a little,

"Nothing, I just thought I heard something." At that moment Harry saw something flying directly toward Hermione.

"Look out!" He yelled diving on her and pulling her onto the ground with him. A piece of parchment stopped right above them, hovering in the air.

"It's the Marauder's Map Harry!" Ron said and reached out to grab it. Harry and Hermione untangled and climbed back up to their feet.

"What's the Marauder's Map?" Fleur asked, Ron handed it over to Harry,

"It's a map my brother's gave Harry, it shows every passage outside of Hogwarts, and it shows where everybody in the school is, but last year Barty Crouch Jr. had it, so how did it come back?"

"This morning, I was thinking about it and I did a summoning spell, when I was in Fleur's room. It must have been in the forbidden forest."

"Cool." Ron mumbled, but then Harry heard a noise again, it was the first noise he had heard earlier, before the map appeared.

"What's that?" He asked, the three looked perturbed.

"I can't hear anything Harry, maybe it's a snake."

"Snake?" Fleur asked, Hermione explained Harry was a parselmouth.

BOOM!

"Now I know you guys heard that!" harry said, it came from the direction of Hogsmeade.

"Let's go!" Ron said, and the four ran to Hogsmeade, seeing it was being destroyed.

"What's happening?"

"Is it Death Eaters?"

"Are they stupid enough to pull something like that again?"

"STOP!" Harry yelled. the four stopped right in time to see Harry pointing to the ground on the side of them. An old wizard was lying there, nearly dead. Harry bent next to him,

"Sir, sir, are you alright, what happened?" The old Warlock opened his eyes a little,

"Oh, Goodness, I get to meet Harry Potter before I die."

"Yeah sir, I'm Harry Potter, so what happened?"

"Oh, umm Hogsmeade is being attacked by, . . by . . . Voldemort's forces . . . Kids . " He collapsed over, dead.

"Voldemort's forces are attacking children!" Hermione shrieked, but Harry, with a look of determination on his face ran toward Hogsmeade, followed by the rest.

When he stepped into Hogsmeade Harry could only see masses and masses of cloaked beings destroying the town, the Three Broomsticks was demolished, Zonkos was in dire need of two walls, and Dervish and Bangs was being hit with various destructive spells.

"What are they chanting?" Fleur asked, hearing the voices collectively speaking something.

"I think they're saying destroy it all." Ron spoke up, and wasting no time began to fire spells. One of his spells missed a group completely, and the other one looked as if it were going to hit, and two feet from them it hit a translucent green shielding,.` Harry ran up to the mass and hit one of them hard in the mouth, failing to notice the fact that they were all about his height. Harry pulled back for another swing and caught a glimpse of the person's face. He stopped and pulled back the cloak,

"Dudley?" Dudley kneed Harry in his stomach and backhanded him onto the ground. He was much stronger than normal. Harry then looked around at the sea of crowding faces and realized they were at those meeting dreams he had been having. Slowly, one by one the children began to disappear, or disapparate or whatever, but Harry was still on the ground. Fleur ran over to his side, bent on one knee.

"Are you okay?" She looked down, taking one of her handkerchiefs and wiping blood from his lip with it.

"Of course he's not okay silly girl." a cruel high voice said from behind Ron and Hermione, who were still standing a little back from Fleur and Harry. Harry and Fleur immediately recognized the voice, but Hermione and Ron slowly turned around to see Lord Voldemort staring them back.

"Umm, ummm, ummm AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Hermione screamed and clinged on to Ron's arm so tightly he began to feel blood loss.

"So Potter, I am glad you were here, now I can do away with you and send one of your friends back to the castle to tell Dumbledore how great my army is. And you know what, that wasn't even half of it. I have children all over the whole ready to do my dirty work, and it's perfect, because they're all muggle, and Silly Dumbledore can't hurt them one bit."

"Shut up." Harry spat, standing up. Fleur, Hermione and Ron backed away.

"Oh Potter, why the melodramatics? Why can't you just lie down and die?" Voldemort chuckled. His voice all the more menacing.

"How about instead of me hitting you, I hit her." He said, pointing at Hermione. She cowarded under his glance,

"I thought you thought of muggle borns below you, why would you hit a defenseless young girl, who's muggle born at that?" Harry spat, stalling for time, he didn't know what he was going to do, but he needed a plan. if it had been just him he would have tried to do something, but he had three more lives to take care of.

"On the contrary, myself, I was half blood, I do not consider blood to make any difference in wizarding capabilities, and that is why I do this, Crucio" He pointed his wand at Hermione, but Ron dived in the way of the blast, hitting the floor, screaming in agony. Voldemort lowered his wand and laughed,

"Now you, Granger." He said. Hermione gave him an obvious look between fear and confusion, "Yes I know your names, go take Weasley to the infirmary and tell Dumbledore and the rest of the staff I'm here. And tell them they can pick up the rest of Potter if they hurry." Ron's unconscious form was lifted by Hermione's wand and while tears rolled down her eyes she did as she was told and started running back to the castle.

"Fleur, go with her." Harry said, but before she could take a full step Voldemort stopped her,

"No, no Ms. Delacour, I need you to stay, for after I destroy your precious Potter I need you to come with me."

"You don't need her."

"Shut up Potter."

"No Tom, you shut up!" Voldemort's face contorted with obvious rage and his slitted nostrils flared up,

"DON'T EVER CALL ME TOM!" He cried.

A/N- Did I leave you in suspense, well maybe, remember get back on me with the story, I'm out