Chapter 3-Attack on the Burrow

That night, Harry couldn't sleep. He was being bothered by something. He didn't quite know what it was. He tried to tell himself that it was 5th year jitters, and it was just his nerves acting up about O.W.L.S., but he knew thats not what it was.

He lay in bed, staring at the roof. He was sleeping on the sofa, because Ron's room could no longer house the both of them. Harry knew if he got up, he would make noise, so he just lay there. Then, at about 4 A.M., he heard a noise. He sat upright and looked around, but all he saw was darkness.

LUMOS, he whispered, and there was now some light. He pointed his wand into the kitchen. Empty. He pointed his wand around the room. Nothing. He then shone the light at the stairs, and just as the light fell upon the top floor, he saw a black cloak walking up to the top of the platform.

Harry's heart lept. He didn't know what to do. He thought about screaming, but that would make it too easy for the Death Eater to kill him. He made a spur of the moment decision, and decided he would confront the Death Eater. If he took it by surprise, he might be able to capture him, or her, Harry didn't know.

He slowly got out of bed, and with his wand out, he began to climb the steps. Harry knew from experience that the first 6 steps would creak if u stepped on them, so he cimbed the railing to the 7th step. The flight had 22 sets of steps, but from the 7th up, he didn't know which ones were bad. He would have to hope he didn't alert the Death Eater.

8-12th step Harry climbed with no noise, but he had a strange feeling about the 13th step. He called it superstition, but decided to skip it. He jumped to the 14th, and no noise came. He managed to all the way to the 20th step, without making noise. 'I will just jump to the landing, and then i can take this guy' Harry thought. Then he bent down, and just after he sprung forward, he realized what he had done.

He made it to the landing, but just as he did, he knew that the landing was going to squek very loud, and so it did.

The Death Eater sprung out of Ron's room with his wand out, and as soon as Harry and he met eyes, they both screamed.

"STUPEFY!" Yelled the Death Eater.

"EXPELIARMUS!" Harry screamed

Harry jumped down the stairs, and avoided the spell, but the Death Eater, being in a corridor wasn't so lucky. He was hit, flew backwards, and his wand flew right into Harry's hand. Though it was an odd time to notice, Harry felt as though he recognized that wand. Then without thinking of it again, he sprung onto the platform landing and attempted to curse the cloaked intruder once more.

"STUPEFY!" He yelled. A red beam burst from his wand, but just before its edge met the Death Eater, he disapparated.

Only 15 seconds later, the entire hosuehold was on the tiny little platform, and Harry thought it would collapse. Hermione, Ginny, Fred, George, Mr. Weasley, Mrs. Weasley, and Harry were all standing there.

"What in the sam-hill is going on up here? What was all that noise? Whats going on Harry? Why do you have your wand out?"

Harry was being bombarded with questions.

"There was a Death Eater here. He attacked me. He went looking for me in Ron's room, but I saw him come up, and I attacked him. He only just disappa... Were's Ron?" It hit him like a bullet. Everyone was there except Ron.

"OH MY GOD! MY BABY! ROOOOON....ROOOON....ROOOOON!!!!" Mrs. Weasley yelled with a quiver in her voice, and fear in her eyes.

For the next 3 days, life in the Burrow was chaotic to say the least. Official Ministry Aurors were searching far and wide. Arthur Weasley even called in a favor from Mad Eye Moody who began to do his own investigation.

The search for Ron wasn't looking good. The aurors had no clues to base their search upon, and there was really nothing they could do except wait. Mrs. Weasley was constantly crying about her loss, and Mr. Weasley got drunl more than a few times. Fred and George were just moping around, not being their usual comical self, and the family thought it best to not tell Charlie and Percy, because they were so involved in their work.

Despite all of the uncool moods, Harry and Hermione had felt the blow of Ron's kidnap the most. Hermione thought that she had no right to read, or feel happy when Ron was out there, being held captive by Voldemort, and therefore refused to eat, sleep, or do any work.

Harry was being affected most deeply of anyone. He blamed himself for the kidnap, and no matter what any one told him, he kept telling himself that if he hadn't been so self centered, he would have realized the Death Eater wasn't after him.

He knew that Death Eaters carried out their plans with great precision, and not knowing were their target was just wasn't a mistake they made. He also blamed himself, because if he would have been smart enough, he would have tried to stun the Death Eater instead of disarming him.

Harry put himself through mental torture. He placed all the blame on himself, and this resulted in a permanent state of depression. On the 3rd day of Ron's absence, Harry began to think of how he could help.

Harry's thoughts were rather distorted by Ron's capture, and therefore were not rash. He thought to himself on the third night of Ron's absence in his bed, that night.

'Ron isn't here because of me. What have I done? Why Ron? Why not me, it should have been me. He didn't do anything, he had nothing to do with Voldemort. He hated him, but so did so many other wizards. Why did ut have to be Ron. Was it because of his father's position in the ministry, was it his father's connection to Dark Wizards, or was it because he went to Hogwarts?'

At the moment Harry was overcome by a hatred to Voldemort which caused him to crush a chocolate frog that he had in his hand.

'I have to take this into my own hands. It's my fault that Ron's gone, so it my responsibility to get him back. I will go myself. I need a clue. I need to think of somewhere to head. Think Harry, think.'

Then he remembered. He had remembered that the night of the Triwizard Tournament, the night Cedric died, the night Voldemort returned. It hit him like a bullet. Voldemort used his fathers bone to return, but he had taken it from his father's grave. He just noticed that all he had to do was find out were Mr. Tomas Marvolo Riddle was buried, and it would lead him to either Voldemort, or hopefully give him a clue.

After about 2 days of searching, Harry figured it out. It was in a town not too far from were he was. He had devised a plan. He would sneak out that night. Riding his Firebolt so he didn't squeak any of the floor boards, he would fly to the town, with the same plan he had long ago. He shrunk his trunk and its contents untill it was about the size of his fist, then put it in his pocket. He would put on the invisibility cloak, and fly unseed through the night.

Harry wasn't sure whether or not he would leave a note saying that he was going to search for Ron. He decided in the end, that he would, because it would kill Mrs. Weasley to think that Harry had been kidnapped too. He was going to begin his journey that night.

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Well thats Chapter 3, I wasn't sure if it worked, but i was vague enough in chapter 2 to make the reader think that the attack would be on Hary. Since ron was kindappped, wait till the next chapter to see how Harry starts out his journey to find ron again. please review, i need some motivation!