Author's Note-You know the drill. Anything that is J.K.'s is obviously not mine. You see, she won't let me have them. She won't even let me borrow them. How Rude.

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"Dammit. I don't understand how she could have gotten away so quickly."

"Please watch your language Harry. I know you're worried, but.."

"I'm sorry, Professor Dumbledore. I just can't understand why the girls..."

" Maybe I should go try to talk to Hermione again. She could probably help more than either of us." Ron stood up and headed towards the exit of the office. "Should I get anything while I'm out there anyway. Because, umm, don't mean to be selfish or anything like that, but I'm starving." Ron ducked his head after shyly asking the question that had been on his mind for the past two hours.

He and Harry had been discovered by the Fat Friar, a cheerful ghost who resided in the Hufflepuff house, after they had been hanging there for only twenty minutes. The Friar had immediately summoned the Headmaster, who let them down and retrieved their wands. After explaining, sort of, why they were where they were, Dumbledore had rushed to the Gryffindor Tower where they found Professor McGonagall trying to sort out the frantic Slytherin six and seventh years who were the immediate victims of the 'attack' and convince the entire Tower that it was safe to go back to bed. Dumbledore told them that it was Peeves and he had been banished to the dungeons. This seemed to calm them enough to go back to sleep, but the Slytherin girls refused to sleep back in their temporary dorms. Dumbledore conjured them some fluffy purple sleeping bags, and they slept in the common room.

Bringing McGonagall along with them, the three set off once again, this time to the small study off the Great Hall where the four champions had gone into at the beginning of the Tri-Wizard Tournament. There, Dumbledore conjured a table and six chairs. Dumbledore and McGonagall sat down and he quickly explained the situation. She immediately used a summoning charm to get her glasses, and she and Dumbledore started discussing ways to locate Adina. Harry and Ron, sitting at the opposite end of the table, were idly wondering who belonged in those last two chairs, and what they could do to help, when Harry had a brilliant idea. He pulled Ron aside, near the fireplace and asked his opinion. "Ron, whaddaya think about using the Mauraders' Map?"

"I dunno Harry, are you sure you wanna give that up?"

"Give it up? I don't follow."

"If you let them see it, they'll take it away. You know that right?"

"I didn't think of that, but I'm sure if the Mauraders' were here they'd think it was a proper sacrifice."

"Sounds good to me. Goodbye, carefree midnight kitchen raids."

"Accio Map!"

Ron went back to the teachers. "Professor, we think we might know how to find her."

"You do?" McGonagall was disbelieving. "How, exactly, Mr. Weasley?"

"With this." Harry said, walking over, a blank piece of parchment in hand. He unrolled it and laid it on the table. Pulling out his wand, he looked at Ron for reassurance that this was the right thing to do. Ron nodded, and Harry spoke the incantation, taping the parchment lightly. "I solemnly swear I am up to no good."

Thin black lines spread over the whole of the paper, starting where Harry's wand had touched. The professors, McGonagall looking shocked, and Dumbledore seeming rather amused, watched and recognized the lines as a map of the school. The part that seemed to hold their interest, however, was tiny, labeled dots. A few were moving, but most were holding very still, at least three to a room. These rooms were recognized as the dorms, the labels as the names of the students and faculty. Harry and Ron quickly found Hermione in Moaning Myrtle's toilet, discovered that Seamus was currently off in the astronomy tower with a girl, and another boy, and that Ginny was the only one in her room not back in bed, but Adina was nowhere to be found. The next few seconds were a bit jumbled in Ron's memory, but he did remember Harry explaining that if she was not on the map, then she was no longer in the castle. He also remembered that it was originally his idea to get Hermione and Draco, though he couldn't understand exactly why he thought they needed Draco here.

Dumbledore thought it was a marvelous idea, and sent Ron to get Hermione and Harry to get Draco. Except for one thing. Draco was also not on the map. "They must be together, right?" asked a rather breathless Harry. "If she's out there all alone, if the Death Eaters or even Voldemort-" Ron and McGonagall both flinched-", it's all my fault! I didn't stop her."

"Harry! It is not your fault. There was nothing you could have done. She'll be okay for a little while with Mr. Malfoy, but we have got to find her and fast. There is no time to loose!" Ron went to Myrtle's toilet, leaving Harry and the Professors in the room, frantically summoning books they thought would be relevant and Harry lighting a fire. It looked like they would be there for a while.



"'Mione? Hey 'Mione, could you come out please?"

"Go way. I am not going out there with that, that, arrgghhh!"

"Mione, she's run away. She could get caught, or worse. We have to find her. We need your help."

"Why." Ron could tell by the tone of your voice that it was obviously not a question that wanted an answer, so he left it alone.

"If you change your mind, we're in the office off the Great Hall. You know, the one behind the staff table." Ron turned to leave, but paused. "Do you really believe she was trying to attack us all?" There was no answer. He went back without her.

Back in the office, Ron found Harry trying to get the Mauraders, who wrote the map, to tell them where Adina had last been. They, of course, could only tell him that she was no longer in Hogwarts, and wished him success on 'mischievous consequences upon finding the long lost lass'. The professors were frantically reading books, which were now piled high on the table, and attempting location spells. They weren't working very well, all that had happened so far was finding Adina's cat, Leo, hiding in the dorms, and a faint image of the front doors projected onto a wall. They had gone there immediately of course, but to no avail. The girl had simply vanished. Over an hour had gone by with the same happenings.

Now, the professors were trying to find Draco. They had better results with him, but as there were really no strong ties to the boy, they couldn't find his exact location. They projected an image, a dark, creepy forest ("Oh, that's just the place I'd expect for Malfoy." "Ron! Shut up about him, he could be our last hope for Adina." "Geez Harry, lighten up." "Boys! Do be quiet." "Sorry Professor McGonagall.") faintly, just as they had an image for Adina, but nothing was discovered about where the forest was. They had really had enough time to be miles away, by wizard or muggle transportation.

Ron was sent off to get food after trying again to get Hermione. He went to the bathrooms first. He pushed the door, knocking slightly as he did, but found the door being pulled in as he did so. Hermione stepped out and glared at him icily before saying "I'll help, but for magical people, not her."

"That's all we ask. Oh, except would you help me carry food up from the kitchens? We've been at this for hours with nothing to eat." Ron put on a pained look, and put one hand on his forehead and the other on his stomach. Leaning against the wall, he said dramatically "I'm simply famished. My dear Hermione, a man cannot be expected to continue with this dreadful researching without sustenance."

"What man? And where did you learn all those big words?"

Ron lowered his hands and stood up. "I don't always ignore you, or your essays that get read in front of the class. I actually learn something every once on a while."

Hermione arched her eyebrows. "You actually listen? I never would've thought that.." Hermione was shut up very quickly when Ron suddenly closed the space between them and put his hands on either side of her face. He hesitated only for a second, the bent his head forward and kissed her soundly on the lips. A small gasp of surprise died in her throat as she closed her eyes and kissed him back. Opening her mouth a little she felt his tongue slid across her lower lip. This time, instead of surprise, she gasped in pleasure as his tongue moved into her mouth.

Ron slid his arms around her back and tangled one of them in her hair. Hermione did the same, and melted into him. He felt her knees give out and wrapped his arms around her waist to support her. After a few seconds, he turned so that the doorjamb was against the middle of her back. He pulled back for air, and looked at her face. Her eyebrows were arched and her eyes were closed. Her lips were slightly swollen and flushed a darker reddish color. He smiled and kissed her again. Unconsciously, Hermione's knee bent and her foot rose up along the wall.

They never did make it to the kitchens.

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"Yes master, it has come to pass. Of this I am sure. I saw them with my own eyes."

"Lucius Malfoy. You have shamed yourself by being caught by those idiot fools. Do you expect us to trust you again without proof?"

"But master, I can prove to you the death of Alaster Moody."

"That mangled heap? That could be anyone! Yet you have the eye. There is only one eye, and that seals Moody's fate. But to trust you on the matter of the girl..."

"Master I saw it!"

"Yes, you say you did. I, however, have no reason to trust this. Yet I will send someone to see if the girl is still there. Nott! Take Parkinson and go to the school. Scout for the girl. If she is not there, report back here, if she is, report to Lucius and kill him."

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"Draco? Are we gonna stop soon? I'm going to fall of the broom soon."

"There's a town up ahead. Maybe there is somewhere up there we can stay."

"Sounds good."


"Minerva and I have decided that in the current situation, it would not be unwise to search through Miss Damita and Mister Malfoy's belongings to see if there is any clue as to where they have gone. Miss Granger, if you would be so kind as to look at Miss Damita's things, and boys, Mister Malfoy? It would do well if you weren't seen going through Mister Malfoy's trunk. Things might turn bad, so do try to stay, erm, invisible." His statement was honest enough, but Harry knew that it meant to use his invisibility cloak.

Dumbledore must be getting worried, Harry thought, to suggest doing this. But I suppose he should be. All we've gotten through our location charms are shots of a forest with noone there. And most of them are the air above the forests. Harry, who had never seen a location spell before, was amazed when Professor McGonagall used her wand as sort of a projector for the first time. A shot of the Hogwarts front doors showed then, but after they didn't find anything, the projections got old.

Harry and Ron went to their room to get Harry's father's invisibility cloak. They hadn't used it for about a month and a half so they didn't really worry too much when they couldn't find it right away. It wasn't in it's usual spot, so they checked the bottom of Harry's trunk. Then Ron's trunk. Then under their beds. Then they got worried. "Ron, where else can it be? We havn't used it in almost two months have we? And Hermione never takes it. What the fuck happened to it!?!"

"Harry settle down. I'm sure there is a good explanation for this and as soon as Hermione figures it out, I'll tell you. Hey, when was the last time we used it anyway?"

"We took Adina to visit Hagrid and his Mooncalf. She wore it so we wouldn't have to take a teacher across the grounds."

"Did she wear it back?"

"Yeah. She wore it up to her dorms, then brought it back down."

"Did you put it away?"

"Yes. Ron, what are you getting at?"

"Not sure. Just trying to figure it out. You always kept it in that compartment in the top right?"

"Who all knew about it?"

"Me, you, Hermione, Ginny, and Adina."

"And which one of those people would be needing it right about now?"

"Well, if I were 'Dina, I would use it to hide, but really Ron, when could she have gotten it? The only time she was up here alone was the day after we used it and I pulled it out just last week because I was going to go to the kitchens but Dean walked in so I put it away."

"Well, I guess she didn't do it then. Who else?"

"No one knew but us and none of us would steal it! It's just gone!"

"We've got to tell Dumbledore. Is anything else missing?"

"Erm, I dunno. Let me check." Harry rummaged through his things, muttering to himself when he came across something, or couldn't find something for a moment, but after a few minutes, he looked at Ron and said, "My sneakoscope."

"Who would want that dumb thing? Did it even work? I mean really, Harry I bought it off a street vendor."

"I think 'Dina did take them both. I don't know how, but she did."

"Let's go to Dumbledore."

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Hermione was having even less luck than the boys; at least they had discovered something. She didn't even know what she was looking for. Adina really only had the required things in her trunk and nothing seemed to be missing, or out of place. Even her wand was still there. 'She must be going it muggle.' thought Hermione. 'Or Draco is with her. I do hope the boys are having more luck with his trunk. Not that I hope she's ok or anything. No that's not it at all. I'm just worried about You-Know-Who. Yes, ok, Hermione get a grip. Don't think about her, think about something else. Think about Elvis, Memphis, the Beatles or the rolling stones. Try to think about high heels, good deals, anything else at all. Hey those are almost the lyrics to a song. That's a good song. Good girl, Herm. Keep thinking about the song. Ron and I need a song. Ron... Mmmm...' Hermione lost track of thing here as the sensations from that kiss ran through her mind and body.

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"Proffesor! Proffesor Dumbledore! The cloak is gone! I don't know how, but I think Adina took it." Harry said loudly upon entering the office. "We couldn't search Malfoy's stuff without it."

"How could she have gotten it, do you think, because I know she didn't have it when she left us in the hall." Ron said, a lot quieter than Harry. He was slightly pre occupied, thinking about Hermione.

"She could have used the Summoning Charm."

"But Albus, she didn't even know it, did she?"

"As far as I know, no she didn't. But Mister Malfoy did. Perhaps he Summoned it."

"Professor, Malfoy didn't know about my cloak. Only Adina did, so she could've told him, right? Yeah, and then he could have summoned anything else they'd need and maybe a broomstick and then they flew away in plain sight!" Harry finished excitedly.

"Oh, Albus!" Professor McGonagall jumped out of her chair. "That means we've been looking right at them with the Location Spells this whole time! Oh, gracious. How could we overlook this." Minerva McGonagall sank back into the chair.

"This was unforeseen. However, we must make do with what we have. Harry, go get Virginia Weasley. Ron, please go fetch Miss Granger. We have a lot of work to do.




Author's Notes-I know I keep saying I want reviews, but you know what? I only got them from one person, but she reviewed six times! So Blondy Bear, this chapter is for you!!