Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Harry Potter characters. They are the property of JKR. The story and Lindsey Roberts is mine. A/N: This is my second Fan Fiction here, please review!

Chapter 3

It took several minutes before Hermione could tear her eyes from the picture. She looked around the board. They had collected so much information over the years. Everything Harry had ever learned, heard, and saw with Voldemort was pinned to the board. A long with every person that they knew Voldemort had killed. This included Lilly and James Potter, and Sirius Black.

Hermione scanned the pictures. There where young witches and wizards along with very old ones, some where muggleborn while some where purebloods, there where even a few children, the weird thing was not all of them had the dark mark burnt into their skin. But there seemed to be no connection between any of them other than the mark so it had to be the key. But it was almost like Voldemort was just killing at random. But then...Hermione had a thought.

"Linns did you find Stephanie's wallet, or anything like that with her?" She asked nonchalantly, not wanting to get the others hopes up about nothing.

"Uh huh," Lindsey said reaching into a bag next to her and tossing the brown tattered looking wallet to Hermione. She opened it and started looking through the ids. Most people like to keep pictures of their friends in the invisible flaps and as Hermione turned over a driver's license she saw just what she was looking for.

She took out the old looking school picture. It was at Hogwarts she could see the lake in the background. In the frame stood 7 smiling teenagers. Hermione looked closely at the picture and then glanced up and down at the board and at the pictures.

Ron noticed Hermione doing this and walked over to her. "'Mione what is it? Did you find something?" he asked excited, which got the attention of Harry and Lindsey.

"I...I think I did." She take taking the picture and placing it on the table. She took out her wand and pointed it at the picture. "Engorgio." She said loudly as the picture grew to the side of one of the tiles on the floor. Smiling to herself she looked from the picture to the pictures on the board.

"That's it!" she screamed smiling and slamming her fist down onto the table. Making several other people in the large room jump. Looking around apologetically she turned her bright smile on them again.

"Umm, Hermione are you sure you're all right?" Harry asked timidly, but when Hermione shot him an acid glance she shut up immediately.

"Look at this, mind you it's at least 15 years old, but look at the people in the picture and the people we have here. Of course there is Stephanie right there in the middle, but look there is Curtis Caltrum..." she said pointing to a tall boy with blonde curly hair and glasses. "We found his arm about 7 months ago, and here is Rebecca Stout..." pointing to a short girl with long brown hair and glasses. "We found her arm around 3 months ago. And look there that's Jerry Perry, we found his arm a couple weeks ago." She said looking at them with large glistening eyes.

"Hermione I think you have finally found something we can use." Harry said taking a very close look at the photograph.

"I think these are the people Voldemort is really after. They are the only ones that have their arms...ripped from their bodies. Everyone else we already found and they had all their limbs. I think the others where a diversion tactic. You know to set us off course."

"Out of the 7 people in that picture 6 have gone missing." said Harry finally looking up from the photograph, "That means that this guy here is probably next." he said pointing to a very handsome tall boy with black hair.

Hermione was looking very intently upon the board studying it very critically. "The last three people have been very close to each other. Jerry Perry just two weeks ago, Myra Gray 4 days ago and today Stephanie Walker; he isn't killing any decoy people. This means he may be rushing to kill the rest before we figure this out."

"But that means we have to figure out who this guy is and protect him!" Lindsey said looking down at the picture.

"We have to meet with the Minister of Magic today remember. Well at least one of us does." Ron added to the conversation as if they were not already feeling busy. "And sorry Harry but it's your turn."

"Okay I will meet with the minister, Linns you find out who this guy is and contact Ron and Hermione right away. Okay?" he asked her looking at her very closely to see if she was clear on that.

"Yes I am sure." she told him, she really hated it when he didn't seem to trust her with important things yet because she was still so new.

"Ron, Hermione when Linns tells you who he is I want you there watching his every move. Don't even look away till I tell you to."

"Okay Harry don't worry we know how to spy on people." Said Ron sounding a bit sarcastic.

He smiled at them and then looked at Hermione. "Be careful please. We don't need an accident like last time." He said giving her a quick kiss on the cheek and Ron a pat on the arm. He POP apparated away. And Hermione was left with a warm sensation on her cheek, a nervous rumbling in her stomach, and a breathlessness in her chest.