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The betrayal.

Harry looked out of the window pondering of what they should tell them. Looking at Ron and Hermione he could see they were also lost in thoughts. He knew they would want to know all what they had done but there were some things... Harry shuddered and gripped his wrist tightly, an unconscious motion he had had ever since that day. Shaking his head against painful memories he began to talk.

"When we apparated out of Hogwarts, don't ask me how we got past the anti.apparition wards because I don't know, we found ourselves in London, not far away from the Leaky Cauldron. You can imagine we were a little shaken up and it took us a while to start think properly again. Luckily we had landed in a small side street where no one was walking."

Flash Back

Hermione looked around fearfully, they had left Hogwarts and all those horrible people who had hurt them so much. At that moment she was not able to think about how they had done it, she just relished at the fact they were safe and away from that nightmare. Shaking her head she gathered her thoughts and looked around. They were in a small street, it was a muggle city without doubt although she had no idea witch one. A soft hand on her shoulder made her look up.

"Hermi, are you alright?"

Hermione nodded and stood up with Ron's help. Harry had already put his robes over his head and thrown them away. His face was blank, but his eyes were raging with anger and hurt. She looked at Ron and saw a single tear run through his check. Hermione silently looked away, knowing that if she kept looking at her friends she would break down. They were alone and had not only Voldemort after them but also all the Ministry. With a small sigh she discarded her robes, she wouldn't need them anymore, never.

Looking up again she locked eyes with Harry. "What do we do now?" Her voice was hard, they needed to get a grip and do something, it was hardly a good idea to stay here for a long time. Harry also seemed to think that way because his blank expression had been replaced by a pensive look.

"First of we'll need money. Some time ago I got some money out of my Gringott's account and transfered to a muggle bank. I don't know if the Ministry can touch it, but I want to get it out before they can keep it away. After that we need to find somewhere to stay. So we can think further about what to do."

Hermione nodded. "Lets get the money first, I have some money on my own we can get, but we need to do it quickly, in no time all London will be looking for us." Harry nodded distractely, he seemed to be concentrating hard on something." Ron looked him over concerned, but before he could say anything a soft tingling passed through his limbs. He looked down confused and saw his pale skin was now slightly tanned. A gasp from Hermione made him look up and before him he saw two people he had never met before. The girl was looking at him with the same stunned expression he was sure his face had adopted. When it finally clicked that the girl standing in front of him was Hermione, he turned to the other boy at the same time than his friend.

Harry was smirking slightly. "Sorry about that guys, but we couldn't really go out looking like that. They would be on our tracks in no time."

Hermione was gapping at him. "How on earth did you do it?"

Harry shrugged his shoulders. "I have no idea, Hermi, but right now we don't have the time to theorise about it, we can do it when we have found somewhere to stay."

Still slightly stunned his friends nodded and Harry turned to look at the robes, concentrating once more, a small fire started on them, burning them to ashes. The three teenagers looked silently while the flames consumed the robes, there was no way back, they just needed to get going.

End Flash Back.

Harry looked pensively around him and then continued "We left the street, got to a muggle bank and retired all our money of it. Then Hermione led us through the subway to another part of the city, it was much safer for us to stay in London because it is a very big city. For that night we rented a room in a hotel and there we asked if they could help us find a house. They were very helpful and immediately gave us different directions so we could find a decent apartment. A few days latter we had rented a house and settled in. We became friends with our neighbours, specially a lady living next door."

Hermione continued from there. "The next step was getting enrolled in a muggle school, we knew our money would last us a while but we could not live all our lives on it so the first thing was getting a good education so we could latter find good jobs. We were once again lucky, the woman next door happened to be the headmistress of a little school near where we lived and when we told her we needed to get enrolled somewhere she helped us out. Another big problem was our education. Harry and I had gone to muggle school till we were eleven, but Ron hadn't even done that, we had a lot to catch up." Hermione grinned. "That were some months, in a few weeks we needed to catch up enough to get into the school without arising much suspicion."

Ron groaned. "Those were the worse weeks of my life."

Hermione rolled her eyes. "It's not like we had anything better to do."

"Good point, go ahead Phoenix."

"I still don't know how we did it but a month latter we began to attend school. It was really weird, we didn't make friends, usually kept to ourselves and even so we weren't really outcasts, people liked us well enough. Life was very dull, that is till Christmas came."

Dragon and Griffin looked sharply at their friend, with a sharp voice the redhead spoke. "I don't think it's necessary to tell them about that Christmas, Phoenix."

The girl looked at him calmly. "They have a right to know."

"Maybe they do, but have you thought at what this could do to them?" Ron's words were barely a whisper.

Hermione looked away and nodded sadly. "They will have to deal with it, Griffin, like we had to. Besides they will find out sooner or later."

Ron looked over at Harry. "What do you think about it, Harry?"

Harry's face was devoid of emotion, he couldn't imagine how this could hit their family. Finally he spoke. "I don't know if it's the right moment to tell them that."

"It never will be the right moment."

Harry looked at Phoenix and then nodded. "I guess you are right. Go ahead then, but please don't get into to much details."

With a last glance at Ron, who was looking out of the window, she turned her attention to the other people in the room, perfectly aware that what she was about to tell would hurt them. They were looking at her worried, half dreading what she had to tell them.

In a soft voice she resumed her story. "I said our life was dull, but they were also depressing. The longer it went the more hope we lost. Then at Christmas..." She choked a little, her eyes unfocused as if she was relieving a memory. "At Christmas we decided to end it all, we decided to kill ourselves."

To be continued...

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