A/N: Thanks to everyone that reviewed!!! You guys are astounding!!!!! So sorry it took forever to update this, but like my profile says, I was REALLY busy with end of term finals andbesides that, I had writers block. So enjoy, and Happy Thanksgiving!!!! ;o)

Before I forget about this AGAIN, I better do it right now!

Disclaimer: Now do you really think I could be J.K Rowling typing on here when I could be busy writing the sixth book? Seriously.

Ok there I said it. Sorry for the long update. Enjoy!!!

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Going, going, ……… gone

"Luna, one more time. Are you definitely, optimistically alright?"

Luna shrugged off Hermione's question as she nibbled off a piece of a blueberry muffin.

"Go eat a muffin Herms." she verbalized through a mixture of muffin and saliva. "Not only do they fill your stomach, they keep your mouth shut while you masticate."

Tonks snorted into her drink. Hermione, in contrast, scowled.

"Fine. Pay no heed to me. After all, I am just a domineering, mollycoddle woman who minds her friend whose baby could die!!"

Hermione's words ricocheted through the room. Remus tensely picked at his poached eggs whilst Tonks folded her hands and began a game of thumb war. It was at this time that Lady Focks appeared in the room. Scuttling around the room, she didn't even perceive the stress that clogged the room.

"If you depart right away, you ought to reach Trioŭs before twilight. I've packed a basket of provisions, so you shouldn't be famished on your outing. Well, I assume you are all prepared to set out, so if you are completed your breakfast, I shall tidy up the table and you can begin your pursuit."

Gratitude was bestowed to the docile woman afterwards. Tears were cast and hugs were produced. In next to no time, the group of three women and one man were on the road yet again.

Around midday, the lot halted for a concise meal before heading off again.

"It says here that on a little ways is a tributary called Edän. We will need to cross over it in order to reach Trioŭs before dusk." Lupin updated.

"Great and how exactly are we going to cross it Mr. Macho Man?" Hermione rejoined.

Luna knew Hermione was still disturbed with this morning's episode. Theoretically, she didn't blame her. She knew that Hermione was bothered with Luna's state, particularly since she was pregnant. Perhaps a apology could be swapped in its place.

The set sustained their journey, shortly reaching Edän in advance then they had anticipated.

"I will go first to make sure it is safe," Lupin said with authority. Stepping into the frosty water, Lupin made his way across the tributary, not stopping until he was on the other bank.

"I would say it's no less than a foot deep." Lupin calculated. "But I suppose it would be best, and secure if we had one go at a time. Luna, you first."

Luna stepped into the water, expecting the surge to steal her away in any second. Startlingly, it did not come.

"Come on Luna!! Treading water is not saving Harry anytime soon. "

Inhaling deeply, Luna, at a snail's pace, toddled across.

"You next Hermione!"

Hermione, who was quicker than Luna, still strode across the stream leisurely, but made it all the same.

"Tonks, you are next."

It felt like a dream. Actually, more like a nightmare. Tonks had only just made it halfway when a massive current cascaded downstream, drawing with it everything that laid in its path, including Tonks.

"TONKS!!!!!" Luna and Hermione shrieked.

Squandering no time, Lupin loped downstream, Hermione and Luna in his footsteps.

"Remus help me!!!!!" Tonks screamed.

Flanked by dead shrubs and undergrowth, Tonks was scarcely noticeable. But being a Metamorphmagus, her newly turned purple hair was conspicuous through the brush.

"Hold on Tonks, we're coming!!!" Lupin hollered.

"Hurry, I can't grasp this tree root for much longer!!"

Lupind tumbled as close as possible to Tonks. He could have gotten nearer, but the militia of dead plants positioned themselves in his way.

"Here, make use of my cloak." Luna cried hastily.

Lupin chucked one end of Luna's cloak over the brush, yet it was still afar from Tonks.

"I will just have to make a attempt!" Tonks exclaimed over the current's bellowing.

"Don't," Lupin objected. "It's too faraway, you'll……."

But Tonks didn't listen to Lupin's final words. Unleashing herself from the root, she strongly endeavored to seize Luna's cloak. However all efforts were botched.

"TONKS!!!!!!!" Lupin bounded into the water but, it was still too late.

Tonks screamed shrilly, but the screamswere quickly swamped with the water's roar.

"Oh Lupin, Oh oh Lupin!!!" Luna cradled a sniveling Hermione in her arms as a overcome Lupin crawled from the current.

"She was a good lady." He said sullenly. "I will never forget her."

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Talk was little as the trio walked through the dimming forest later that afternoon. Immense anguish cleaved through their hearts. Tonks was gone, and no one could restore that.

On the outer reaches of Trioŭs, Luna couldn't handle the anxiety any longer and quickly broke away from the group.

What if Harry was dead as well? What if whoever snatched Harry had by now slaughtered hi- No! She wouldn't think such dire concepts!

Parking herself on a tree stump, she screened her face with her hands.

This wasn't happening, this was just a hallucination. She really was at home, cuddling with Harry in front of a inviting fire. Tonks wasn't dead and everyone was happy. Nevertheless, no matter how many times she narrated this, she knew it was a falsehood. Not everyone was happy and Harry had vanished and Tonks was dead.

Harry was fettered to a wall. His torso was clean of its shirt and his pants draped freely from his slimmed legs. Luna had never seen him so……so dilapidated before.

Deatheaters penetrated the room and unbound Harry from his self imprisonment.

"Come Potter……" the voice hissed low and balanced.

Conducting their detainee to another room, the deatheaters leisurely released him into a cage, somewhat like those for birds only in a greater dimension.

"It's time for a little one-to-one Harry." this time a woman's voice pierced the air.

"What about?" Harry asked frigidly.

A luminous, colorless smile emerged from the shadows much like that of the Cheshire Cat.

"Why do you scorn me, Harry darling?" the voice whispered. "Why, when I above all others, have loved you for the longest time."

"Well that's nice," Harry scoffed. "But my heart belongs to one woman and one woman whom I claim as my wife."

Immoral guffaws pealed through the room.

"Oh Harry, you were always so funny. What happened to the pubescent boy that I used to know and adore?"

"Oh Cmon, that boy was lost a long time ago. To you anyway." Harry growled.

A wand materialized from the obscurity and Harry withered in pain.

Luna stirred from her sleep, desperate to inform Lupin a very vital something or another.

"Lupin! Hermione!!" Luna cried through the forest and into the clearing where Trioŭs lay.

"What, what is it?" Lupin asked, a apprehensive look on his face.

"Cho!" Luna gasped. "Cho Chang!! She's been leading the deatheater horde! She's the one, Lupin, she's the one!

Lupin's face went bleak. Hermione gawked at Luna in astonishment.

"But, how do you know this?" she questioned timidly.

"In a dream! I had a dream, well more of a vision and Harry was in it. He was bordered by deatheaters and Cho appeared. She's the one, I know it!!"

Hermione cluck her tongue.

"I hate to say this to you Lun," she said softly, "But I'm afraid Cho has never been real keen of you from the start."

"I know." Luna grumbled, referring to her earlier days. "Do you really think she obligated me to do her labor in Hogwarts if she really liked me?"

"Say what?!" Lupin exclaimed, infuriated.

"It's a long story." Hermione rattled off. "But to make it short, Cho was a monster to Luna in their Hogwarts days. She made Luna run amuck with things to do. Sort of like a present day Cinderella."

Lupin stared at his foot in sheer detestation.

"Then that lady has got to be stopped." He said wrathfully.

Extracting his wand from under the folds of his cloak, Lupin gave it a little flick before verbalizing, "Bublicolous".

A sizeable, lilac bubble arose from the wand's apex.

"Dean Thomas please." Lupin directed.

The bubble commenced in a twist, going faster and faster, until the bubble was merely a mauve color balanced in the air.

Finally it stopped. The color had modified to a light cobalt now, illuminating a small vision of the Auror's office in the core.

Dean Thomas had his head roofed by copious papers. It wasn't until a small "chime rattled its presence that his face was revealed.

"Remus!" he exclaimed, startled by Lupin's call. "How can I help ya?"

"I need you to look through the documents and look for the name of Cho Chang." Lupin instructed. "Then read them for me. Hurry, this is critical."

Dean nodded without inquiring questions and hurried from the room, quickly returning with a beige sachet in one hand.

"Cho Julia Chang." He recited. "Born March 13, 1979 to pureblood parents, Fai and Kwan Chang. Went to Hogwarts at age 11 in 1990. Average grade for all seven years was a C plus. Had many friends and was very well-liked."

"Just get to right after her seventh year." Lupin groaned.

"Ok then. She had to take seventh year over by reason of not making the ranking to graduate. She passed her second year, but was detained for the kidnapping and brutality to Luna Allison Lovegood who later on became Luna Allison Potter. She was sent to Azkaban for five years before being released on probation. Oh my!" Dean gasped.

"What, what is it?" Lupin asked.

Dean stared at the paper.

"Well she was condemned to another three years of probation but she swiftly faded from existence anon. Her probationofficer was aggressively murdered a month later."

Luna and Hermione gasped. It had to have been the act of Cho, they knew it!!

"But, what's even more eerier, is that Cho was less than a year ago spotted by a muggle. And it wasn't in the UK either."

Lupin's face paled. He had a theory of what Dean was going to say, and he realized it wouldn't be good.

"Where?" Hermione inquired.

Dean's face slowly looked up.

"She was spotted in Romania." He breathed.

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A/N: Ok well that's another chapter done. Due to the holidays and school, the next chapter most likely won't be updated until January 2005 or later. Sorry for the long wait and hope you enjoyed!!!!!

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