Chapter 4

Quick Resolution

Harry led her back to the house and back to their rooms. He just didn't know what to do for her. It had to be hard.

Harry laid back down to sleep and fell into a dream. A great black dog was leading him down a sidewalk path in front of tall brick buildings. It was running in circles and chasing its tail. It snapped happily at birds and chased cats.

After a while of this it took a left turn down a dark alley way. The dog suddenly became less animated and began to lead Harry with great determination. He stopped and looked at a black door. He sat down and looked at it and then back at Harry wagging it's tail. Harry approached it with caution. Following the doors in his dreams never exactly turned out well. It had a silver phoenix for a knocker. Harry looked at it. He thought better of touching it, but as he moved away from the door the dog began to tug at the sleeves of his robes.

The alley then began to be lit by moonlight, and suddenly he found himself being shaken awake by Ari. What did she need now?

"Harry come on, you have got to get up, now!" she hissed at him in the night.

He sat up and looked at her bewildered. She had pulled her hair up and was holding her wand at her side. She looked very alert and awake.

"What's going on," Harry mumbled trying to find his glasses.

"Death Eaters, come on get your invisibility cloak, and grab your wand."

As those words came out of her mouth Harry's suddenly became alert. In one quick motion it seemed he was kneeling next to his trunk pulling out his cloak and pulling out his wand.

In the darkness there was a faint pop. His wand arm already was pointed at the maker of the sound. Fred stood in the darkness looking for Arianna who was moving around in the closet.

"She's gone, I looked around but she was nowhere," he said moving towards. Harry followed quickly.

"Damn, her," Arianna said moving backwards into the closet. "Come on," she said as she saw that they were all there. She moved to the back of the wall and stared at it for a moment. Suddenly a faint archway appeared in the middle of it. "Follow me," she whispered to the two boys.

Harry found himself following her down a narrow wooden stairway. It was littered with cobwebs and nearly all of the stairs creaked as the walked on them.

"Where are we going," Fred asked Arianna who had lit her wand and was leading them farther down.

"My granddad's study. I will explain in a second," she said stopping at another wall. She put her hand in the center of it and whispered something in the darkness. Another archway appeared as she led them onward into a large stone room.

As Harry entered he saw more books than he could ever remember seeing in one place in his whole life. There were tiny ones, ones taller than himself, thousands of them all placed neatly in shelves.

Arianna was bustling around in a large wooden desk that sat near a fire place. Fred was just looking around in awe at all of the books.

"So now, what is going on?" Harry asked her as she pulled sat out a small jar of what looked to be floo powder.

"There must be at least ten of them out there," She said still bustling around in the desk. "Are you sure my mum wasn't up there?" she asked regaining Fred's attention from all of the books.

"No, I looked around up there, down stairs in the kitchen, all over she was no where," he replied looking at Arianna worriedly.

She finally stopped bustling around and pulled a small leather pouch from the desk sticking it into the pocket of night robe. She stood there for a minute with her eyes closed probably thinking about what to do.

"What are we going to do now?" Harry asked her as she looked up sadly at the two boys.

"You guys need to get back to headquarters, alert someone," she said trailing off still thinking.

"What about you?" Fred asked sternly looking at her.

"I have to find Lupin," she said looking at him with a mingled expression of anxiety and flustration.

"What do you mean, Lupin is in the forest transformed into a wolf, I don't believe the Death Eaters are going to bother him," Harry said seeing her disgruntled face.

"Yeah but the sun will be up in thirty minutes, I honestly don't think that the Death Eaters will be cleared out by then. It wouldn't be the safest thing for him to do, waltzing up here while all of them are running around," she said with a tad bit of sarcasm in her voice.

She had a good point. The Death Eaters would either kill him on the spot or torture him.

"No, no, no, I am not leaving you here in this mess. You're a brilliant witch love but you are out numbered 10 to one," Fred said looking at her as if this was a big joke and she was going to say so any moment.

She walked over and embraced him into a hug. "If you guys stay here you will risk all of us. You will just slow me down trying to find him," she said looking at Fred.

"Yes, but what are you going to do if you find him before the sun is up? Just waltz up and start a conversation with the weather with him," Fred asked her.

"No. Have you forgotten that I am an animagus. You two aren't. He can't hurt me when I am transformed," she said turning to look at them. "You guys this is the best option we got right now. Get back to Headquarters and get help. I am a big girl I can take care of myself. Please I am begging you. This is the safest way to get everyone out. I trust you guys to get home," she said and with that she apparated leaving Harry and Fred looking at each other in disbelief.

"She is going to get herself hurt," Harry said making his way back to the path they had came through putting the invisibility cloak on.

"Where are you going?" Fred asked.

"After her. You don't think that I am going to let her just stroll off into the moonlight with a dozen Death Eaters and a Werewolf running around do you?" Harry said looking at Fred as if he was dumb.

"No, you go back and alert everyone. I can apparate and find her," Fred said moving toward Harry.

"Don't boss me around as if I am a child. I may not be her boyfriend, but that doesn't mean that I am not going to try and help her," Harry said looking at Fred in disbelief.

"Listen I don't want to get in to a fight with you about this, but one of us needs to alert the Order," Fred said looking back icily at Harry.

"Remember, her mum is gone that is probably what she left to do. We'll both go and find her. We can use the cloak," Harry said as Fred just nodded his head smiling.

"Lets take a reality check here Harry. Her mum left three teenagers to fight off ten Death Eaters, do you honestly think that she is heading to Headquarters?" He replied.

"Fine then we will just go get her ourselves, because neither one of us is just going to go back," Harry said resolutely.

"Fine, lets go," Fred said picking up an end of the invisibility cloak.

With that they both headed up the narrow staircase out into the main house.

A/N Short, sweet, and to the point, this sets you for the next chapter, which will be posted tomarrow, unless something completley terrible happens i have it all writen in a notebook it is just 12:30 and i really do wish to sleep a little over my christmas holiday. please r/r i would like just a tiny bit of feedback