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Chapter 8: Reflections

Author's Note: I am sorry it took so long to post this chapter. And I'm also so sorry that this is the shortest chapter yet. But I hope you'll like it. :)

Hermione couldn't move, it was as if her legs were glued to the floor. She wanted to go after Harry and Ginny, but she couldn't. Why didn't she go after them? Hermione began to think that part of her felt like she trusted them and they would be fine if they didn't go after them. But what if they weren't going to be okay? What if they both got killed?

Ron saw the look in Hermione's eyes. He could tell that she was beyond worried about Harry and Ginny. Even though Ron didn't really show it, he felt the exact same way. He too, was deeply concerned about his best friend and his only sister. He only hoped that both of them would return home safely.

Mrs. Weasley was the one to break the ever lasting silence. "Well, it does neither Harry nor Ginny no good if we just stand here and wait for their return. We should carry on with our lives until they've returned. So if you don't mind, I'm going down to the kitchen to make a spot of supper," she paused and turned her head to Rufus Scrimgeour, "Minister, will you be staying with us for dinner?"

Scrimgeour cleared his throat. "No, Molly, I'm afraid I have to get back to The Ministry Of Magic. Important stuff has to be done and it can't be done without me. Merlin knows that when I'm not there the entire Ministry is a complete mess. I bid my farewell to the entire family."

After he said farewell to the Weasleys and Hermione, he apparated out of The Burrow and to The Ministry Of Magic.

Mrs. Weasley sighed and turned her head towards Hermione. "Will you come help me in the kitchen, dear?"

Hermione nodded. "Of course."

Both Mrs. Weasley and Hermione began walking to the kitchen, leaving Ron and Mr. Weasley by themselves. After a few moments silence, Mr. Weasley cleared his throat.

"Personally, I am happy that Harry is back." said Mr. Weasley.

Ron laughed. He nodded his head. "Yeah me too."

Bellatrix was in deep confusion. How could Severus have just let Harry Potter go like he did? Why did he do such a stupid thing?

"I am still confused on why you let Potter go. Why did you?" Bellatrix asked Severus.

"Because I had to. Two years is quite a long time, Bellatrix. After two years Potter started getting smart. He started figuring out what we were doing. Draco wanted to keep him longer, but I insisted that we let him go before he attempted to kill the both of us." said Severus in his usual dry voice.

Bellatrix rolled her eyes. "Why didn't you just kill him yourself, then? Severus, I thought you were smarter than that."

"If I had killed Potter, there would have been questions. The Ministry Of Magic would have known that it wasn't the Dark Lord who killed him. They would have known it was someone else. And its bad enough that I am already on the run from The Ministry, although they don't know it yet. Soon though, very soon they will know that I am no longer in Azkaban."
"So where are we going? You haven't clued me in on a single damn thing yet." said Bellatrix, starting to get really irritated with him.

"We are not going anywhere. You are taking me to a muggle place called an airport. From there I will take an airplane to a deserted muggle island, where I will most likely not be found. And you will keep your mouth shut. You will not tell a single soul, got it?"

Bellatrix nodded. She kept driving straight ahead to some muggle airport, following Snape's directions.

As soon as The Minister apparated back to the Ministry, he could tell that there was going to be trouble brewing somewhere in the wizarding world.

A man by the name of Percy Weasley approached Rufus Scrimgeour with a panicked look spread across his face. Scrimgeour knew something was wrong. Percy Weasley never looked this scared. In fact, the last time he looked this way was when Harry Potter had gone missing.

"What's wrong, Weasley?" Scrimgeour asked Percy.

Percy cleared his throat. "Sir, I am afraid there's been a breakout in Azkaban."

"How many? Who?" Scrimgeour replied.

"Two, Sir. Both Severus Snape and Draco Malfoy escaped. We're still not sure how they did it. But somehow, the both of them escaped. But that's not the craziest part." said Percy.

Scrimgeour sighed. "What is the craziest part?"

Percy bit his lip and then told the Minister, "Sir, according to almost all of the other prisoners, both Severus Snape and Draco Malfoy escaped from Azkaban about two years ago."

Harry had decided that he needed to push aside the whole Ginny ordeal and focus on the fact that he had been missing for two years. How the hell was that even possible? How is it possible that he didn't know what happened to him during those two years? Where was he? Was there somebody behind this? If there was somebody behind it, Harry was pretty sure they probably worked for Voldemort. But what was the point in holding Harry hostage for two years? Its not like holding him hostage would prevent him from destroying Voldemort. Voldemort was already dead.

When Harry arrived in Romania the first thing he did was find a hotel. He figured he was going to be in Romania for a while, so he would need a place to sleep and to think. Harry was definitely sure he was going to be doing a lot of thinking.

Once Harry found a place to stay, he decided he should go to the last place he can remember being in before he woke up about a day before. Harry was going to go to where him and Voldemort fought The Final Battle.

Without Harry knowing it, Ginny arrived in Romania about three hours after he did. Ginny knew that Harry was going to go to where him and Voldemort fought The Final Battle. It made perfect sense. He was going to retrace his steps. That's what she would do if she was put in the same situation. There was only one problem. Ginny didn't know exactly where Harry and Voldemort were when they fought The Final Battle.

Maybe she could ask some of the local residents. Well, there was one other problem. She didn't know a single word of Romanian. Finding Harry was going to be a more difficult task than she thought. Maybe she would be really lucky and she would just find Harry walking around. But Ginny felt that was pretty unlikely.

Ginny looked at her watch. It was late evening. Ginny figured she should probably check into a hotel now and continue her search for Harry tomorrow morning.

Once Ginny found a hotel room, she walked up to it. She entered the hotel room and looked around. It was definitely no comparison to The Burrow. It was nowhere near as homey. It was very bland and plain. The colors were painted a boring shade of white and the comforters on the bed were a dull shade of blue. Ginny sighed. She wasn't even gone for more than a few hours and she already deeply missed The Burrow.

After dinner, Ron and Hermione walked up to Ron's bedroom so they can be alone with each other. They couldn't take being around everybody else for much longer. When they arrived in Ron's bedroom, they both plopped themselves onto his bed. Both of them sighed. It was one extremely eventful day.
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