"Imperio!" he cried. The girl froze dead in her tracks. "I need you to head to the Department of Mysteries with this cloak. You need to get Sybill's predication and a stone. This stone will be found in the purple room. It's very important that you get both without being caught, understood?" The girl nodded and took the cloak. He gave her directions to the stone and it's physical appearance and she left.

She passed by Lupin easily. It was odd; didn't they think that someone would try to use an invisibility cloak to get in? Obviously not or else they would've already spotted her. But no one spotted her because Tom Riddle had added an extra nice little dark spell he had created that got past the many traps the ministry had set up.

Then to the rooms. She found the prophecy easily. She had been there before. She grabbed it off the shelf and headed for the stone. She followed the directions, found the purple room, and entered it quietly.

The whole room was filled with stones. Purple, grey, brown, green, blue, pink, forest green, turquoise, maroon, every color. But she knew the one she was looking for. It was right in the middle. It burned bright red and glittered. She grabbed it and headed out.

She didn't get caught. It had been way too easy.

"Good job. You were excellent. My lord was right; you should join us one day. Maybe my lord shall spare you in the battle for helping him," he said as he took the stone. Then he took the prophecy. He took the spell off, and vanished.

The headlines were clear on the Daily Prophet front page: PROPHECY AND STONE OF FEROCITY GO MISSING!

Snape read the article quickly as Draco and Harry huddled over the paper, too.

The stone of ferocity and a new prophecy were taken last night from the Department of Mysteries. The guards saw no one entering. We believe the thief must've had an invisibility cloak on.

The stone of ferocity is a very powerful stone. It is able to summon a huge army of Jurlls. Jurlls are huge monsters that tower about 7 feet 3 and have strength beyond our knowledge. They are almost unbeatable. The owner of the stone is the only one able to command this army and lead them to a battle. This stone also allows the owner to regain his/her youthful body and gain greater power.

The prophecy was a new one acquired a few days ago. It was spoken by none other than Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry's professor, Sybill Trelawney. The contents of the prophecy are unknown.

We have reasons to believe that you-know-who strikes again. But he could not have taken the stone because only a female may take it from its place without getting burned to death. It has never been known why only a female may take it. The entire wizarding world should stay on their toes for a battle coming soon.

Rita Skeeter

"That was what he wanted. That's what he was talking about in my dream," Harry said out loud.

"Yes, I believe that is. But what I'm interested in is who took it for him? It had to be a female and it wasn't from his ensemble of death eaters. Who?" Snape asked himself.

"Ginny," Draco breathed.


"But she wouldn't do anything like this!" Harry argued.

"I'm not saying she did it on purpose! I mean she said she was by the lake one night and I didn't see her from Snape's window," Draco replied.

"She must've been put under the Imperius," Snape said.

"Then he probably inserted a fake memory into her mind so no one would know," Draco finished.

"But we are not sure," Harry said. "Ginny's in a coma. We have no clues."

"When we asked her, she said she was in bed and that she didn't remember where she was. But then she said she was by the lake and came in late. You know Ginny, is she ever like that?" Draco asked. Harry shook his head. "Then, she must've done it. They needed a female. Those are the only clues we have and the fact that she wasn't by the lake. Did she go talk to you that day?" Draco asked.

"No. What did she want?"

"She wanted to know if you were having those dreams again because my father came in and he was angry because it seemed the Dark Lord wasn't getting what he wanted. So she wanted to ask you if you knew. So have you been having any dreams?" Draco said.

"I have," Harry replied.

"And did you see anything?"

"I did. I didn't want to tell anyone because I was sure Ginny was innocent. But I saw it all. Wormtail put Ginny under the Imperius curse and gave her an invisibility cloak. She snuck past Remus and took the stone and the prophecy. Then she gave them to Wormtail. He took the spell off and left before she could see who it was," Harry confessed.

"But the only people who can take the prophecy are the ones mentioned in it. That means Ginny is mentioned in the prophecy," Snape said. "I must tell Albus," Snape said as he got up.

"I already know," Albus said as he walked in.

"What are we to do?" asked Snape.

"There is nothing we can do except prepare for the battle. Spying might tell us when it might occur but I do not want to risk either Severus or Draco and sending them to spy. I think Voldemort already suspects Severus. As for Draco, I do not want him anywhere near his father yet. As you read there is no way to defeat the army of Jurlls. I remember my father telling me about them. There was only one way to defeat them, but it's been lost over the centuries. Unless we figure it out our only choices are to either take back the stone somehow or fight," Albus said.

"I can try to take the stone," Snape offered.

"Try. And if we do not succeed, then we must fight," Albus said.

Luckily, there was a Death Eater meeting the next day. Snape tried to take the stone, but it was nowhere to be found. He searched through most of the mansion without getting caught, yet there was no stone in sight anywhere. Draco searched too, but he didn't find it either. Unfortunately, the meeting wasn't of any help either. It was just a meeting to see how many Death Eaters would come and Voldemort spoke about the battle and the Jurlls. Everything he said, Snape and Draco already knew. They were itching to know the date of the battle, but it was never mentioned.

Every once in a while, Draco's arm would ache where the tattoo of the python was burned.

"It just means she's having some horrible nightmare or she's in pain," Snape assured him.

"Isn't there anything I can do? Can't I take her pain?" Draco asked.

"Not unless she sends it to you," Snape replied.

ARTHUR AND CHARLIE WEASLEY RECEIVE DEMENTOR'S KISS!

After many hours of pondering, we know the names of the Death Eaters caught that day. At the Death Eater attack many Aurors had surrounded two masked Death Eaters. The Death Eaters tried to cast the Killing Cruse on the Aurors, but missed. The Aurors apprehended the Death Eaters and fled with them to the ministry. They were none other than Arthur and Charlie Weasley.

Arthur Weasley was the father of 7. 6 boys: Bill, Charlie, Fred and George, and Ronald, and 1 girl, Ginny. He worked in the ministry. All of his kids had graduated from Hogwarts except for Ronald and Ginny.

Charlie Weasley was a dragon trainer in Romania.

These were an unlikely pair to be found working for He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Name. But they were caught and received the Dementor's Kiss two weeks ago.

Snape, Harry, and Draco read the article quickly. Nothing was new news.

"Poor Ron. He must be having a hard time at school with this news," Harry said.

The useless meetings and Draco's arm aching lasted a while. Weeks passed and the school year melted into early May.

Ginny was still in the coma.

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I know this chapter was short but the next one is going to be even shorter! It's like only two paragraphs because after that it's the battle! So hold on to your seats folks, we're going in!

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