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 10

The three of them sat there quietly in the living room. The sun poured in through the widow as Lindsey opened the blinds. She looked out at the small neighborhood. Taking a ragged breath she turned to Harry and Hermione.

"What are we going to do?" she asked them as she sunk down into a rocking chair by the window. Harry looked at her as if she had said something funny. "What do you mean what are "we" going to do?" he asked her as if he was about to break into laughter.

"About Ron... what are we going to do?" she repeated herself as she brought her knees up to her chest and rested her head on them. "WE are not going to do anything about Ron. Hermione and I are going to go and get that flower or whatever the hell it is for him." Harry said coldly looking at Lindsey as if he didn't even know her.

"B...but what do you want me to do, why can't I go with you?" Lindsey asked looking like a wounded animal with her big eyes full of tears.

"You have already done enough, don't you think?" Harry told her quietly standing up and running his fingers through his hair. He flattened it down a bit and then rubbed his eyes. "If you had just listened to us, after all of us told you to wait, we might not be in this situation. And Ron might not be in the hospital fighting for his life!" Harry yelled at her turning and looking at Hermione who had her face buried in her hands.

Lindsey looked as though Harry had just slapped her across the face. She sat there dumbfounded looking around the room dazed. Hermione seemed to be coming to her senses a bit; at least she had stopped sobbing and was now trying to straighten up.

"D... do you agree with him H... Hermione?" Lindsey asked turning towards her with great big teary eyes. Harry shot around to look at Hermione almost daring her to disagree with him.

Hermione looked from Lindsey to Harry and back again. "L... Lindsey, we understood better what we where up against. We had faced it much more than you and no matter how we can explain and analyze what we have been through its not the same as witnessing it." she began quietly while wiping a tear from her cheek, "Yes you went through auror training just like us, but you never had the extensive training that we have had. You where no prepared to go against him. Harry, Ron, and I understood that. You have to learn to know when to back off. And we can not work with someone we can't trust completely, and after you betrayed us today by disobeying us, we can't trust you with something as important as Ron's life."

Lindsey looked thunderstruck at Hermione; she couldn't believe what she was hearing. How could they have turned on her that way? Did she really do something wrong by trying to help? Her thoughts where interrupted, though, when Neville apparated back into the room.

In his arms was a very old and warn looking map. "I had to ransack my office trying to find this but I finally managed it." He said placed the parchment onto a little table in the middle of the room. He unfolded it to reveal a very warn map of what appeared to be a three dimensional mountain. "The first problem you guys are going to have to face is getting there. This mountain is located on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is guarded by powerful magic so that muggles can not find it. This powerful magic also guards against magic. Another words you can't use magic to get there without getting arrested and sent to Azkaban."

Neville looked from Harry to Hermione as if making sure that they wanted him to continue. "The good news is once you get there, you have to climb this mountain till you reach the town. The town is located directly next to the Midnight Flowers. You won't be able to tell where they are though until midnight on a full moon. Until then, they will all just look the same as any other ordinary flower they are around."

"Okay, so we get this flower then what do we do?" Hermione asked Neville with a shaky voice.

"You bring back at least 20 of these flowers. Right away, once morning light hits the flowers they wilt and die. You bring them here and we will have a potion ready for you to add the final ingredient. If all goes well Ron should be up and about within a day or two." Neville said looking down at the complicated looking map.

"Neville, what happens if someone is bitten by this plant, but it's not as serious as Ron's bite?" Harry asked him cautiously glancing at Hermione.

"Oh, well the same thing happens it just takes a bit longer for the poison to work its way through the blood stream. Why? Don't tell me someone else was bitten." He asked looking around at them with a whole new sense of worry.

"Don't be ridiculous Neville. No one else was bitten!" Hermione said quickly glancing from Harry to Lindsey as if daring them to question her answer. "Okay, so all we have to do is find a way onto this hidden island that is protected by powerful magic, without using magic. Hike up to the top of the mountain through God only knows what type of dangerous plants and animals. Find this town inhabited by werewolves, wait till midnight on a full moon, pick at least 20 flowers. And make it all the way back down the mountain and off the island without magic, all within 6 hours after collecting the flowers?" Hermione summed up the problem and looked at Neville for his approval.

"That sounds a bout right." He said quietly. "Now I had drawn the best rout possible to the town here on the map if you follow it you should be okay." He said hopefully.

"Lindsey you are great with potions, you can help Neville create the potion and watch over Ron right?" Harry asked her as he bent over the map.

"Sure..." she said quietly wiping her eyes and looking out the window. "But how do you guys plan on getting to the island in the first place? You can't use any muggle transportation obviously." Neville said looking a bit worried again.

"Oh well that ones simple, we can use Buckbeak. But I don't think we should bring him up to the mountain with us. It might make us seem hostile. He could wait down at the bottom. I'm sure there will be plenty of food for him to eat." Harry said as he began to pace the living room.

"Its still going to be a very dangerous mission you guys. Are you sure you should do this? I just don't think it's wise, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is bound to be after you right now while you are vulnerable. Can't you hire someone else to do this mission for you?" Lindsey begged them finally standing up and walking over to the map.

"Have you not been listening?" Harry asked her looking at her as if he had never seen her before. "Ron is dieing and is going to die unless we get this stupid flower. No one else is going to help us, no one else cares! Its against the law or have you not been listening? We are going to save OUR friend, because sad as it is we would hope you would do the same for us because we would for you!"

Lindsey looked at the three of them. There had always been such a strong bond between Harry, Ron, and Hermione. She had always felt out of the loop. But now she felt as though she wasn't even in the same reality. "You do what you guys are going to do. I will help with the potion, and check in on Ron." Lindsey said quietly and apparated to Saint Mungo's.

"Yeah you do that! And trying not to mess things up this time." Harry said coldly as she left. He bent down and studied the map making a mental note that they only had a week till the full moon.