Chapter Eleven
A Letter From Inside the Closet

Inside the small house, Harry and Ginny sat down on a comfortable-looking couch. They both looked around at everything in this one-room house.

There were two cots in the far corner of the room, and directly across from where they were sitting was a small table and two chairs. There was a stove and a small freezer to the right of the table. Beside the couch was a writing desk with neatly stacked rolls of parchment and a few quills and inkbottles on it. There was a small closet in which held blankets and pillows and even four robes to change into, and behind the table was a fireplace and a little pot of Floo Powder. The place seemed perfect.

Ginny turned her head to see what Harry was doing. He was looking at her. Ginny smiled, and Harry grinned back.

"How did this happen? And what was that orb-thingy anyway?" Harry asked, the grin fading from his face.

"That was a Shadow Orb. It's kind of like the Room of Requirement at Hogwarts. And I said we needed a place to hide and this is our hiding spot," Ginny replied quietly.

"Okay. So did you say Krum disappeared? What do mean?" Harry questioned.

"Well, before I left to come look for you, Dumbledore and I went to the Ministry because Krum wanted to speak to me. We waited for about forty-five minutes, but he never showed up. Then Dumbledore got an owl saying that when Krum stepped off the lift, someone handed him a piece of parchment and he vanished. And no one's seen him since. Except for today, I mean," Ginny answered.

"I'll bet it was the Malfoys. Ever since the dementors left Azkaban and the Death Eaters were free again, I've been waiting for something like this to happen. They probably had someone inside the Ministry turn that piece of parchment into a portkey and when they handed it to Krum he was sent to the Malfoys who put him under the Imperius Curse. Only a Malfoy would make Krum say what he did about your dad, and Krum's nose," Harry suggested as Ginny slipped off her shoes and curled up like a cat on her end of the couch.

"I guess you're right. I just want to know a few things. Why didn't you answer me when I tried to contact you with the mirror?" Ginny asked with a slight frown forming on her face.

"The mirror…I'm sorry. I could hear someone talking into it, but I thought it was Lupin trying to get me to come back. I wrapped it in an old robe inside my trunk, and shrunk the trunk so it would fit inside my pocket. That first day I left, Lupin wouldn't leave me alone! He kept saying, 'Harry don't leave. You're making a big mistake!' every ten seconds. If I'd have known you had the mirror I would've answered," Harry explained.

"Okay. And how come every time I get into trouble you're always there saving me? The Chamber of Secrets, last year in Hogsmeade when Malfoy was trying to kill me, the dementors a few weeks ago, and today with Krum! Are you just waiting for me to get into trouble, or something?"

Harry let out a short laugh. He shook his head and smiled. "I dunno. I guess I'm just in the right place at the right time. Lucky for you, though, isn't it?"

Ginny returned the smile, and asked, "And since when could you do magic without a wand? Last time I checked, it was like impossible!"

Harry had been waiting for her to ask him that question. "Well, Ginny, remember the summer before my fifth year when Umbridge sent those dementors to attack me? Well my cousin Dudley was screaming and I dropped my wand, and without thinking, I said, "Lumos," and my wand lit. That was the first time, and I've only done it a few times this summer since then. I've only done simple charms and spells, because I don't know if I can do more complex curses and hexes. I've read about it, and the only people I found that could do it were Gryffindor, Slytherin, and…Voldemort,"

Before her fifth year, Ginny would've shuddered at the sound of Voldemort's name. But now she used it as casually as most in the Order now did.

"Oh. I see. Well, now that you've answered my questions, you can ask me whatever you want," Ginny offered.

"Okay. Why were you sent to look for me? Why have you been asking everyone if they've seen me? And what the hell did you mean when you said you had to help me fight Voldemort?" Harry inquired, and took a deep breath.

Ginny knew that he would ask those questions, and she had been forming the answer in her mind for quite some time now, just in case she found Harry.

"Okay. I was sent to look for you because-" Ginny was interrupted by an eagle owl flying scraping its talons at the door.

Ginny stood up and looked through the crack between the door and the wall to make sure only the owl was there. She quickly flung the door open and let the owl in, and closed it swiftly after seeing two Death Eaters blasting things out of their way across the street.

There were two letters: one for Ginny and one for Harry. Ginny gave Harry his letter, and she opened hers.

Ginny,
DO NOT SAY ANYTHING ELSE! You are being listened to through the Floo Network. After reading this letter, throw it into the flames so no one else will be able to read it. I know this because I am in this house also. After destroying this letter, extinguish the flames in the fireplace, then open the closet. Please don't mind me for spying but the whole wizarding world is being abandoned right now. The Death Eaters have many new members as young as age fourteen. They invaded the Ministry, and now they are causing much destruction all over the place, and many witches and wizards are dead. The rest are in hiding, and you need to leave this place as soon as possible. I will give you further instructions after you open the closet.

Albus