Chaos in the Burrow

The next few days passed quickly for Hermionie, but sluggishly for Ron. Fred would glance at her during meals or whenever he saw her. Ron noticed too. He was starting to get upset about his brothers apparent interest in what he considered "His girl." Hermionie did not think herself that in that way, though. They weren't even together, but it seemed like Ron didn't even comprehend that. Hermionie was very frustrated at him one morning during breakfast because he kept looking at Fred with utmost loathing and defensiveness.

"Ron, can I talk to you for a minute?" Hermionie asked angrily. Ron must have interpreted her in correctly; he looked pleased with himself about something. "What is your problem?" she asked once they were out of the room.

"What?" he asked, not understanding.

"You are acting like you own me. You keep glaring at Fred and looking repulsed every time he talks to me," Hermionie said with fury in her voice.

"Well I have every right to be. You are mine and you know it," he said sounding pleased with himself.

"Don't you remember the other nights' conversation?" she asked, exasperated. He looked at her in wonder.

"What are you talking about?" Hermionie left the room and brought Harry back.

"What is going on?" she asked him. "He doesn't remember a thing." Ron was looking at her in curiousness. Harry pulled her to the side.

"The other night, Ron went into a frenzy. He started throwing things and yelling. Thankfully I put a silencing spell over the door. He went on forever and was about to go pummel Fred to a pulp, so I put a Memory Charm over him. That's why I got a letter from the Ministry of Magic. The next day I went down to the minister himself and talked things out. He agreed that I had every right to do what I did. He let me off the hook," Harry finished.

"Wow," was all Hermionie could say. Once her voice came back she said: "What do I do? He can't think we're going out forever. I've got to tell him sometime. I'll go talk to him." With that she marched over and told Ron she had to talk to him about something.

"Ron, I'm not sure this is going to work out between us. I know you're upset, but there are plenty of other girls that I'm sure that would be more than happy to go out with you. Please don't be upset and forgive me." She walked out and joined the others for breakfast. Fred nudged her

"How'd it go?"

"Ok. Except for the part where I found out Harry had put a Memory Charm on him because of how he reacted and had to break up with him all over again. But other than that everything went fine," she said sarcastically.

"That good, eh?" At that moment, Percy Weasley came through the front door and said he had very important news.

"He-who-must-not-be-named," pant, "is more powerful," pant, "than ever before. Trying to find Harry. Must hide him." Everyone was shocked. They hadn't seen Percy since he walked out on the family.

"We should take him to the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix," Mrs. Weasley said at once.

"But without Dumbledore alive to protect Harry, Snape will tell You-know-who right where he is," said Mr. Weasley reasonably.

"He should join Charlie in Romania. Harry, dear, get your things together, you can Floo to where he is staying and he can hide you from there," Mrs. Weasley commanded him. He obeyed and had his things ready quickly. He brought his trunk and broom into the fireplace. Then he realized something.

"Where do I say to go?" Harry asked the Weasleys.

"Charlie Weasley, Romania. You'll be fine Harry, dear. Go quickly now."

"Charlie Weasley, Romania," Harry said confidently. With that, he was gone in green flames.

"What are we going to do now? Is there anything I can do to help?" asked Hermionie worriedly.

"Calm down. Nothing bad will happen to Harry; everything will be fine." Hermionie was too worried to eat, so she cleared her dishes and sat down on the couch. Ron was also too upset about what had just happened to care too much about Hermionie breaking up with him; apparently for the second time that week.

Later that day, the seriousness of the matter started to really sink in. Everybody was silent at dinner; something unusual for the Weasleys. They all sat there, eating their dinner, thinking about the same thing, but in their own worlds.

That night, Hermionie and Fred took a walk around the property, talking. "Oh Fred, I'm just so worried about him. Nobody knows if he even got to Charlie's house. What if he's spread out dead on the floor in front of Lord Voldemort?" Fred flinched at the mention of his name. "Nobody knows where he is for sure."

"I would like to comfort you by saying things like: 'Everything will be fine, there's nothing to worry about' or 'I'm sure Harry is perfectly fine,' but I can't; I really don't know if it is true." Hermionie hugged him and buried her face in his chest and started crying.

"I just don't know what I would do if I lost one of my best friends," she sobbed. Fred wrapped his arms around her back and tried to soothe her. After a while she calmed down enough to go back inside and climb into bed. Hermionie didn't want to be with only males, so she asked if she could stay in Ginny's room again. Of course she said yes, so she crept into bed and fell asleep.

Hermionie woke up hearing muffled screams. "What's going on?" she whispered. The figure moving around froze.

"We can't leave her here seeing us; bring her too," said a cold voice. All of a sudden she felt herself being pulled out of bed and her hands and feet being bound. She tried to struggle, but the hands were too strong.

"Don't you dare scream, Hermionie Granger. We don't need you; I could kill you now," said another threatening voice that was none other than Severus Snape's. "Wingardium, Leviosa," he whispered and she felt herself being lifted and saw Ginny's body lifting too. Snape grabbed onto both of them and with a snap, they were gone. They reappeared in a grocery store. They looked around in wonder. The few shoppers looked at them in wonder; rubbing their eyes and shaking their heads. The muggles didn't know what to make of the situation. Suddenly there was a flash of light and all the nearby people fell to the ground dead.

"Go through the entire place; kill them all," said Voldemort. Snape set the girls roughly on the ground and walked away. "Now for you two," he said to Ginny and Hermionie. "You will sit here like good little girls and not make a sound. If you move more than a foot in any direction, you will be blown to nothingness," he said as he put multiple dangerous looking spells a foot within their premises. At that, Snape came back and said he was successful. They both left and went out of sight.

Hermionie looked up at the isle they were residing in. Unfortunately for Hermionie, it was the novel isle. In any other situation, this would have been fine. But she could not read the books; even though she wanted to so very much. "Gin, what do we do now? I am so worried. It's a trap to lure Harry here so they can kill him," she whimpered fearfully.

"You know, I really don't know what we're to do now. We are bound by hand and foot and we can't move more than a foot in any direction. My feet and wrists are starting to cramp up; to make matters worse."

Harry woke up with his scar burning. He had just had another vivid dream; this time Hermionie and Ginny were kidnapped by Voldemort. "What if it's just another trap? What if they're sound asleep in their

beds right now? But what if they're not?" Harry asked himself. He knew he had to get to them, but how? He had his broom with him, but that would take days to reach them. He couldn't go by Floo powder because

Charlie didn't have any. He didn't have his Aparating License, but he knew how to Aparate. He grabbed his wand and threw on his robes. "One, Two, THREE! He focused his mind hard on the place where Ginny and Hermionie were. Snap. He was outside the door.

He walked in the door and tripped on something. It was a body. He heard footsteps. "So, we meet again, Potter," said the hooded figure. Harry clenched his wand hard in his pocket. The figure unmasked himself. It was Voldemort. "We shall duel again; see who is now more powerful." They assumed dueling stances and began. They cursed each other multiple times but each time the other person blocked it. There were footsteps. Voldemort swiveled. Harry took this chance to hit him with his curse.

He mustered every bit of loathing and hate for Voldemort: He wanted to avenge his parents, Sirius, everybody he had caused grief to and lastly himself. But then a thought crept into his mind. In his fifth year, Dumbledore had said that Voldemort's only weakness was love. So instead of hate and loathing, he thought of everything he loved and was happy with in his life: The love of his mother for him, his friends, his little but great time with Sirius, Hagrid, and when Dumbledore was there. He thought all this and bellowed "AVADA KEDAVARA!"

Voldemort looked shocked as he fell slowly to the ground; dead. Or so it would seem, but Harry knew he couldn't be; the Horcruxes weren't destroyed. "Master," said a voice. Harry whipped around. Snape rushed over to Voldemort's fallen body. "You did this!" he yelled. He got out his wand and said "Accio wand," and Harry's wand flew out of his hand. Snape gave a wicked laugh. "Any last words, Potter? Too late.

AVADA KE-" but he was on the ground with Fred toppling over the top of him. Harry looked at him in wonder.

"Fred, how… What…did you know?" Harry spluttered. Fred shot a spell at Snape and he writhed in pain.

"Always hated that guy," he said and spat on his robes. "Charlie heard you leave and sent word immediately. We saw that the girls weren't in their rooms and we assumed the worst. We had a bit of trouble tracking you down, but the Department of Magical Transportation had your whereabouts in no time. The others should be arriving soon. They went to get Aurors. Where are the girls?" he finished.

"I dunno. We'll find them. You search the last 10 isles and I'll do the first. They ran to find them. Fred was in the second to last row and he started panicking. What if he found their dead bodies lying on the floor? He entered the last row to find the girls bound, but unscathed.

"Fred!" Hermionie exclaimed. "Wait, there's a spell around us. Be careful!"

Fred muttered a few words and a jet of light came out of his wand and the block was demolished. He muttered a few more words and the binds on their hands and feet untied. "Harry!" he bellowed. "I found them and they're alright." Hermionie rushed over to him and embraced him in a hug. Thank goodness you're here. I thought I would be there for ever." She looked into his eyes and he bent down and kissed her. At that moment the entire Weasley family and Harry rushed into the isle. They stopped dead in their tracks. Hermionie blushed a deep scarlet and buried her head in Fred's chest. He wrapped his arms around her and she soon felt other pairs of arms wrapped tight around her. Ginny was by her and the Weasleys were wrapped around all of them. The Aurors were standing to the side; watching.

"I'm just glad you're alright," said a worried Mrs. Weasley. "Do you think You-Know-Who is dead?" she asked as an afterthought.

"He can't be," Harry answered. "His Horcruxes haven't been destroyed, but I think he will have to feed off another's body once again."

"We need to get you all home and into bed. It's late and we all need our rest." With that she purposefully walked out the door. Fred and Hermionie stayed behind.

"Thank you so much," Hermionie whispered as she locked her fingers in his. Fred hugged her and they headed out to go home after that traumatic incident.