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The day after the kidnappings, the summer camp's Mess Hall was fill with just as much, possibly even more, activity as the morning before. Gina, the camp director, looked upon the students with slight disdain. She couldn't believe that the Ministry of Magic didn't want her to do anything. How could they think she wouldn't do anything? It was the camp she was supposed to be directing, but apparently it was all out of her control. First, the kidnappings happened, and now the Ministry of Magic were supposed to be taking care of it. Those stupid gits, Gina thought as she looked down in front of her, where a few scattered letters, and a copy of today's Daily Prophet sat.

On top of all of these was a strange note:

If you don't hand over the Camp and Hogwarts you will have to
carry in your conscience the death of one of your dear students.

Gina glared down at it, knowing that there was nothing that she could do about it. How could the Ministry tell her not to do anything with this in her hands? One of the students would be killed! That would be great for her. 'Yes, I'm that Gina, the one who got students kidnapped, and killed.' She imagined. That would look great on a resume.

Gina lit a cigarette and started to smoke it. She knew that she probably shouldn't be doing so in front of all the students, but her nerves were frayed, and it helped her. Gina's eyes looked back down, to the Daily Prophet. On the front cover were a few pictures. She couldn't believe that they were even there. How could the Daily Prophet show them? It was disgusting, how they thought that they could show these revolting things to the public. The pictures showed those students that were kidnapped in a small, stone dungeon, all close together. Gina didn't recognize any of the faces, and felt guilty for it. It was her job to be able to identify them, but she couldn't. She should have known who the students were, and been able to find out when they didn't show up to breakfast, but that was her fault for deciding not to get close to the students.

Gina stood up, gaining the attention of many in the Mess Hall. She put her cigarette in an ashtray, and yelled, "Students!" Whoever hadn't looked at her when she'd stood up did now, and Gina had the floor. Gina looked at all of the faces, noting how worried many of them seemed to be. She took in a breath before addressing them again. "The Ministry of Magic has told me that everything is under control, and taken care of. They also told me to keep you calm, but I believe that is a task way out of my league. Older students, please watch over the younger ones. Any older student who wants to help keep guard, you will be accepted. Please hurry up and get to your classes.

"Professors, keep guard every night. I will be doing my best to figure this thing out because I'm not waiting for the bloody gits at the Ministry of Magic to act, who knows how long that will take, and what will have happened by then. If it's a fight the cowards want, it's a fight they'll get!" Woah...I wasn't supposed to say that, Gina thought She had a speech to tell the students to stay indoors and keep safe, but apparently that didn't quite work.

She let out a puff of smoke as someone approached her. He looked grungy, his dark hair was grown out and all over the place. All of his clothes looked a bit dirty. Strangely enough, Gina found that he looked faintly familiar. She stared at him, waiting for him to speak. Whatever he wants, I'll have to deal with it, Gina thought.

"Gina, I'd like to take up the 'night shift', to help protect the students," he said. It was obvious that he had already graduated from Hogwarts, but it seemed like it was just recently. While he was saying that, a couple other students had arrived behind him to volunteer to help. The first one was Mark Lestrange, the grungy-looking one. The second one was Jason Stover, a sixth year, and the final one was William Lunar, a fifth year. Gina looked at them like they were crazy, and rolled her eyes.

Behind Jason, seated at a table, Ginny Weasley made a comment about him. Jason glared at her out of the corner of his eye. The two had gotten off to a bad start, and now it seemed that Ginny hated him. Not too much of a surprise to Jason though. Damned if I do, damned if I don't, he thought, knowing that she would probably criticize him for not doing anything as well. Jason sighed and returned his attention to Gina, waiting for her response.

"I think that if you want to help, you should just try to stick in groups and watch over each other," Gina said, mentally chiding herself for telling the students that she would accept them as volunteers to help. "If you want to play hero...please don't, and just do what I said. Now, please move along because you're in the middle of a teacher meeting."

A sixth year Slytherin named Usiku glared up at Gina throughout all of her talking. He hated her for seeming so uncaring. How could she do that if there were students being held by Death Eaters? Usiku glared at her for another moment before turning his dark eyes down to his Daily Prophet. He concentrated on the picture, looking at one face in general: Nathan Waltz. The others he didn't really recognize, nor care about. But, Nathan was different, and Usiku swore that he would prove to Nathan somehow that he was sorry and didn't mean what he had done long ago. I have to save him, Usiku thought. He looked back up at Gina, who had just dismissed those who had volunteered. Deciding that he couldn't stand it for a moment longer, Usiku stormed out with an idea raging in his head to go find and rescue Nathan.

Aurora Sullivan watched helplessly as Usiku stormed out of the Mess Hall. She had just asked him "Usiku, you don't happen to know anything about Nathan...do you?" Aurora and Nathan had just, not too long ago, fixed their broken friendship, and now she was horribly worried for them. She sighed, and looked behind her, where Salvador Tenir had snuck up upon her.

"Morning, doll face. How are you today?" he asked in his usual, slightly comic tone. "Fun stuff, don't you think?" Sal gestured to the Daily Prophet that Usiku had left behind. He didn't take any of this seriously, seeing as how Sal cared about no one but himself. Sal sat down and started to eat the bacon from his plate.

"Great to see you so empathetic, Sal," Aurora said sarcastically, a bit angry at Sal for not caring at all. Of course, Aurora could never stay angry at Sal for over a few seconds, so she sat beside him and just stared at the picture on the cover of the Daily Prophet/

Victor Legard entered as Usiku left. He looked at him with curiousity. What could be with him? Victor knew Usiku and considered him a friend, and had no clue what was wrong. Before he could ask, Usiku was gone, off towards the sleeping cabins. Then, Victor remembered about Usiku asking about two people named Jack and Nathan the day before when the news had come. Feeling sympathetic, Victor wished he could help, seeing that it was obvious that one of Usiku's other friends had been kidnapped. He sighed and entered the Mess Hall.

An owl swooped down low towards him and dropped a few letters and a newspaper, the Daily Prophet. Victor sat down to look at the paper first. He just glanced at the picture, not recognizing anyone, but his eyes wouldn't leave the face of what looked like an eleven-year-old. They had kidnapped little kids? How sick could they get? Victor glared at it and just turned it back over so that he wouldn't have to look at it anymore. Then, he opened the first letter from his mother:

Victor,
I'm sure that you've seen the news about the students being
kidnapped, Victor. I know you're alright, seeing as how you
wouldn't let any Death Eaters kidnap you, right? Plus, your
father wouldn't let them, either. Well, I wish I hadn't let you
go. You know that the only reason I did was because Dumbledore
was forced out by the Ministry. That man isn't fit to run a
school. He would have gotten all of those students killed by
now, I'm sure.
Love,
Your Mother
p.s.: Please respond to this so I'm sure that you're alright.

Victor glared at the letter, not believing how wicked his mother could be. He knew that she had the ability to be, but couldn't believe that she could go on not caring about such a thing. How could anyone do that. Victor angrily ripped up the letter to shreds and put them on top of his Daily Prophet. He looked at the next letter, whose envelope had his name written on it in a handwriting that he didn't recognize. Victor warily opened it:

Victor,
I saw the news! Poor kids! I'm happy that you weren't kidnapped.
I was so worried yesterday when I saw that students were
kidnapped from the camp, and that they had no clue who was
kidnapped. I was going to write, but father kept me busy. I'm
sure you understand how relieved I was to see that you weren't
in any of those pictures. But, I feel so bad about the others.
Glad you're okay,
Gwendolyn Lulus

Victor smiled, happy that Gwen cared enough to write. Truthfully, he wasn't at all surprised that she had written. Victor was also grateful that Gwen hadn't come to camp, because then it was possible that she could have been kidnapped. That would not have been good. Victor's smile darkened immediately to a frown when he saw that the next letter was from his father. Victor had never gotten along with Victor Legard, Sr. And, this was no exception. He put this letter under the Daily Prophet, to read later when he was in a less public place. Who knew what Victor's father would write?

Saphire Miscyl stood in a corner of the Mess Hall, glaring at everyone else in the Mess Hall. The glare did not fit her beautiful features, but it fit well with her emotions. She had just found out that Tobias Roddon was one of those kidnapped. Tobias was the one person in her life that she truly loved, and it grieved her to know that Death Eaters had him. It had taken all of her self-control to stop herself from crying hysterically when she had found out the news. Now, Saphire looked at everyone with a bit of hate. How could they not care? Any of them? She wiped away tears that had just rolled down her eyes. They all were just talking so casually about all of this, when her Tobias was out there living in that nightmare. Deciding that she couldn't handle it anymore, Saphire ran out of the Mess Hall, hoping to find somewhere empty where she could be alone, and let her emotions run free.