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------I updated last chapter for all of those of you that didn't know so you have to go check that one out before you read this one! ------

Sooooooooo yea… I would have posted this up yesterday but my computer was going ballistic so I couldn't. So here it is!

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"Ron, Ron Weasley." He replied back.

For some reason the name seemed familiar to her, but she couldn't put her finger on it. How did she know that name? She shook it off and introduced.

"I'm Katherine Collins and this is my Aunt Sara." She said motioning to Sara.

"So, umm, how do you guys know about where Voldemort hideout is?"

Katherine decided to say the truth once again with out Harry involved. "We…" she paused to see if Sara would interrupt. When she didn't she said slowly, "-were captured." She heard Ron take a sharp intake of breath.

He paused, as if he didn't know what to say. The best he came up with in the end was, "Are you okay?"

"Yea…" Katherine replied but she added 'physically at least' in her head.

"That's, umm, good. How did you escape?" Ron asked curiously.

Katherine thought for a minute, on how to word it. She looked over at Sara for help but her mind seemed to be in another place. "With the help of another prisoner… he was able to take a wand and break the bars off a window… he wasn't able to get out though." She said sadly.

"Oh…" Said Ron his ears turning a bit pink in the wand light. Katherine saw his hand in a fist again. He seemed to have something against Voldemort… well more than the average person anyways.

After a moment of silence Ron asked slowly, "Have you… heard anything about Harry while you were there?" Katherine tripped and Sara was snapped out of her own little world.

There was a moment of silence and then Sara decided to play dumb and said, "Potter?"

"Yea." Said Ron quietly, which was followed by another moment of silence.

"Umm…" Katherine didn't know what to do, because she knew that if she lied then when they told McGonagall Ron could tell her what she said to them in the tunnel and who would McGonagall trust more, a student that went to her school or a couple of people picked up off the street?

She sighed and looked over at Sara, who seemed to be thinking along those same lines too. "That's what we need to talk to McGonagall about." She said carefully.

At this point Ron had stopped. "You mean you have heard news about him?" He asked sort of breathless.

Katherine really didn't want to talk about this. She decided to keep silent. Ron must have taken it for yes and turned around. He looked between the two for a moment and asked, "Is he… dead?"

Sara replied after the last word tumbled out of his mouth. "We can only speak to McGonagall about this."

"No, please tell me… I'm his best friend. Please," he begged. Then she remembered where she heard Ron's name before…

Harry was talking to them about it when they were playing wizards chess, "My friend Ron taught me that trick," he said after winning.

Suddenly she felt a lot more sympathy towards him. If anybody suffered from Harry "Dieing" it was he. Also she thought if Harry could trust him, so could she. Maybe it would be a good thing if they told him…

"There is some good news and some bad news-" She started out but once again she was interrupted.

"- That we won't be telling you until we speak to Professor McGonagall." Finished Sara.

"No, Sara, we can trust him. Remember when we were playing chess…" She paused seeing if Sara would remember. When she still looked blank she continued. "And you lost…" Still nothing. She sighed, "And he said, 'My friend Ron taught me that trick…'"

"Ohhhhhhhh…." Sara said suddenly remembering. Ron had been watching the scene in confusion. Katherine turned back to him.

"Promise not to tell anybody."

Ron, who had been growing impatient, nodded and said, "Yes just tell me!"

"Ok, ok, good news... Harry is still alive." Katherine stated and waited nervously for Ron's response. At first he stood there swaying on his feet a little, his face blank. Slowly a smile spread on his face. The next thing they knew he was laughing. He even had to sit down he was laughing so hard. After running his hand through his hair a few times he calmed down, and he had tears of joy running down his face. "I knew it… he couldn't just die on us…"

Katherine thought that maybe he wouldn't believe them. She was sort of surprised by his reaction.

Ron had been holding on to that one string of hope the whole time Harry had been missing. All he needed was something like this to happen and suddenly he knew Harry was alive. No one could be so cruel to just come and make these things up… but now that he thought about it he rephrased it to be nobody that was this kind could just come and make it up.

After Ron collected himself again he realized something. "Well if Harry is alive then where is he?"

"Well that brings us to the bad news." Said Sara sadly.

"What happened? What's wrong?" Ron asked his hopes starting to sink again.

"Ron… You-know-who has him." Said Katherine quietly.

Ron gaped at them. There was another, longer silence. Then at last, "Bloody Hell…" Another pause. "How- how long?"

Sara did the math, "He stayed three weeks with us, so about, maybe two and a half weeks." Ron winced. There was a silence.

"Well why are we still waiting here? We need to save Harry." Ron said at last. He turned around and marched down the path again.

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It was sort of weird writing that chapter… it just didn't feel right… lol oh well… I tried.

Ilovethestorys- I didn't plan on the person being Ron either until a sudden inspiration hit me… it just sort of worked- lol.

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