Loosed
"Noooooooo" Harry screamed as he sat up in bed.
His scar was throbbing in pain and he thought his head might split.
Dean and Seamus both jumped out of their beds and looked at Harry.
"You all right?" Dean asked.
"Yeah I'm ok now, just had another bad dream."
Dean and Seamus looked at each other and started to get dressed.
"Well it's almost time to get up anyway I guess I'll get dressed as well. Hey Ron get up."
Harry starred at Ron's bed but nothing happened.
"Come on mate let's go eat."
Harry got out of bed and opened the curtains on Ron's bed. It was empty and it was still made up.
"Did either of you guys see Ron come to bed?"
"Sorry Harry we both came up kind of early. Dinner didn't sit well with both of us."
Harry finished getting dressed and headed down to the common room hoping Hermione had seen him.
Lavender was just coming out of the girls dorm when he got down to the common room.
"Hey Lavender is Hermione still in her dorm?"
"Yeah Harry she is getting dressed now. Why do you ask?"
"Well Ron didn't come up to our dorm last night I don't think and I'm just a little worried."
"Hold on and I'll go get her."
A minute or so later both Hermione and Lavender came down together. Hermione seemed to have finished getting ready in a hurry and her hair was flying everywhere.
"Harry are you sure Ron didn't come back?"
"Well no Hermione I'm not sure but his bed is made up and he's not upstairs."
At that moment Colin Creevey spoke up "Harry, Ron's over here but he doesn't look good."
Harry ran over to the fireplace and Ron was lying in front of the fire wearing nothing but a pair of boxer shorts. Hermione and Lavender joined Harry in just a moment.
"I don't know Colin, I think he looks pretty good if you ask me." Lavender laughed.
Then she noticed the scratches.
Harry leaned over and shook Ron. "Ron wake up mate."
Ron sat up slowly and rubbed his eyes. "Is it breakfast time already?"
"Yeah mate it is. Why did you sleep down here?"
"Down here?" Bloody hell what am I doing in the common room in my boxers?"
"Ron you're bleeding." Hermione said softly. "Let me take a look at you."
"Me too." said Lavender.
"I don't need any help taking care of him Lavender." Hermione snapped.
"Relax Hermione everybody knows he's crazy about you but he is my friend too you know."
"Umm if it's ok with both of you I'm going to go take a shower and get dressed." Ron stammered.
"Ok Ron but you will have to hurry if you want to get breakfast." Harry chipped in still not sure what was happening. "Plus I need to talk to you guys about something. My scar hurt again last night."
Both Hermione and Ron looked at him.
'You ok mate?"
'Yeah I'm fine Ron what about you?"
Ron looked really confused for a moment. "To be honest I don't really know. I have no idea how I got here and I don't know where my clothes are."
"Your clothes are right here Ron." Lavender said pointing at a pile of clothes on one of the couches.
"Ok you guys go eat and I'll get cleaned up. Then I'll meet you in the hall for a few minutes.
"Ok Ron see you in a bit. Do you want me to fix you a plate?" Hermione called.
"No thanks cutie I'm not very hungry right now."
Hermione looked at Harry and shook her head. "This has been a very odd morning."
"It's going to get worse I bet too."
On the way to the Hall Harry told her he had another dream. "Voldemort was very happy about something and was saying that all of his followers would soon be joining him. It was very odd, maybe he is planning something big again."
"Harry you should tell Professor Dumbledore. In fact we both should go and we can tell him about what happened to Ron as well."
Harry stopped and turned to face her. "Are you sure that's a good idea? I mean Ron could just have been sleep walking and I'm sure he wouldn't want Dumbledore to know about his having trouble sleeping."
"Ok Hermione but don't say I didn't warn you."
'What do you mean Harry? It's not like Ron hasn't ever been mad at me before."
"Yeah that's true but he's never been as open as he has been lately either. He's gone out on a limb to let you know what he's feeling and I think he might get more than just mad if he thinks you have broken his confidence."
Hermione sighed "But I'm not going to break his confidence I'm just going to see if I can help."
"That's how you see it Hermione. He may see it differently."
"Well I'll think about it but we need to tell Dumbledore about your dream anyway."
'Yeah we can do it right after classes. Now let sit down and eat."
As they walked into the great hall they noticed people were talking loudly and many of the seemed to be upset. Spotting Luna they walked over to her.
"Hey Luna whats going on?" Harry asked.
"The Dementors broke all the Death Eaters out of Azkaban. Several guards died and everybody is worried."
They stood there discussing it for a few minutes when Ron came walking up.
'Whats everybody so lathered about?"
He turned pale as they told him then he started to go red.
"Do you mean to tell me the Ministry can't even keep the damn Death Eaters in the prison? I can not believe they let them get away."
"Ron several guards died in the attack." Luna said softly.
'How many Death Eaters died?"
Luna looked at him for a second. "As far as I can tell none."
'Damn it, ok so it's pretty obvious there's no point in just capturing Death Eaters anymore."
"Ron what are you saying?" Hermione asked growing pale.
He grabbed up a copy of the Daily Prophet with the Death Eater pictures on it.
"What I'm saying is it's really war now and there only one way to deal with the Death Eaters."
He slammed the copy of the paper down and then drove a nearby knife through the picture of Rudolphus Lestrange and stormed off.