Chapter 4: Back to The Burrow
"Well, I got the point that we're the, uh, main people attacking the Death Eaters… but… what exactly are we going to do?" Hermione asked timidly.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked around the room Harry had been sleeping in and where they were currently sitting. Tonks, Lupin, Fred, George, and Bill had all left already to start their jobs. Ginny was still asleep.
"I think what we should do is track the Death Eaters," Harry said. "We need to find out where they are, how many are there, and how many are there to fight so that it won't be a surprise when we attack."
Just then Ginny stumbled into the room clad in only her sleeping gown. Harry's face turned steadily red, but Ron and Hermione greeted her as if nothing was wrong.
"What are ya talking abou'?" Ginny managed to mumble through a yawn.
"What we are going to do, Harry suggested that we track them down, find out where they are and how many are strong then report back, so the enemy doesn't have the element of surprise."
"Sou'ds good to me," Ginny mumbled.
"Then let's go," Harry said.
"What, now?" asked Ron.
"Yeah, now. What are we going to do, wait for when we feel like it? Pack a few essentials we can always come back. Let's go in a half an hour."
Ron, Hermione, Harry, and Ginny all went their separate ways to pack and to do a few last minute tasks.
"OK, let's go," Harry ordered.
"Wait… where exactly are we going?" Hermione asked.
"I thought that we'd start at The Burrow, then we can track them from there."
SWOOSH CRACK
They were standing outside of The Burrow. They looked around. Ron brought their attention to some footprints.
"Oh my gosh, Harry. That was the stupidest idea in the world. 'Let's start at The Burrow, we can track them from there.' Harry, they disapparated, there's no way to track them!" Ron said snidely.
"You're wrong. I never said we could track their footprints, what I meant was that we might find something they left behind. You saw the Death Eaters that were there. There were maybe 12 out of the 50 Death Eaters. The obvious place to come is here because this is where we've been staying when we haven't been destroying horcruxes. So when the others came the first Death Eaters would want to leave some kind of signal to show they were already there. Now we just need to find it."
"Could this be it?" asked Ginny. She was holding out a note. It read:
Fellow Death Eaters,
I'm sure that you know that the Dark Lord is dead. We came here to track down the "chosen one". Go back. They are not here and will not return here. They saw us searching.
The new Dark Lord has ordered us to search for them. We are going to search Hogsmead. Sounds stupid to you? We have our orders.
Malfoy
"Well, that's discreet," Hermione observed.