OMGSH I AM SOOOO SORRY! My life has been hectic… finals, visiting Madeira (the school I got accepted in to in VA), starting another story, (bad planning on my part) but now… IT'S SUMMMMMEEEERRRR! That means less stress, more time, and more typing! Yay!

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Soon they started climbing another staircase and Ron tapped the ceiling with his wand once he could reach it. Slowly it shifted to revile a hole that they climbed out of. When Katherine looked back she saw that they had come out of a statue of a humpback witch sliding back over the hole. Luckily there was nobody in the hall.

Then they went through different corridors and halls. When they passed people they didn't give them notice, which Katherine found sort of weird. It was like they were used to random people walking through the halls in need of help.

When Katherine thought for sure they were lost, they stopped at another statue, but this time it an eagle. Ron said, "Fanged Frisbee," and the bird suddenly came to life and jumped aside to revile a spiraling staircase. They walked up it briskly and there was a door. Ron rapped three times.

Katherine and Sara were starting to feel a little nervous. What if they had come all this way and they didn't believe them. Even if Ron did, did it mean McGonagall would too?

Before they could ponder on it any longer a tired voice said, "Come in."

Ron opened the door and walked up to her desk. Katherine and Sara stayed behind and looked at the office in wonder. There was several spinning items and some that were puffing and smoking. There was a mini library in the back and another staircase that wound up some other place.

Then there were the portraits of the old headmasters and mistresses. Some of them were snoozing and others were awake, looking down at Ron with sad, yet smiling faces. One of these faces was Albus Dumbledore.

Standing behind the beautiful chestnut desk was McGonagall who looked tired and worried. "What is the matter Ronald?" She asked looking between his serious face to Katherine and Sara.

"You have to listen to these peoples stories. They were captured by Voldemort and they think that Harry is still alive." Ron said hurriedly.

McGonagall looked at Ron and then at Katherine and Sara, but before she could say anything Sara said, "Harry is still alive, he was in the same uhh… cell."

There was a pause. "Please explain yourselves." McGonagall said breathlessly, so Sara took a breath and started from the very beginning, when they found Harry in the cornfield. After thirty minutes of going though everything, she finished with, "… and now we are here." Both Ron and McGonagall were staring at them, their mouths agape.

When they started McGonagall thought that they must be lying. Why wouldn't Harry contact them right away? Even if he couldn't get an owl, he could have told Sara to bring him to Hogwarts! But then again, it sounded like it was really Harry, always thinking of others before himself. What struck McGonagall was that they knew that he was struck down with the De Verduistering curse, and nobody else knew that except Hermione, Ron, and herself.

After McGonagall went over the story in her mind a few times, she decided that she had to believe them. Then another voice broke the silence. "Well if these ladies are telling the truth, which I suspect they are, we should start getting the order together."

For a second Katherine and Sara didn't notice where the noise came from. Ron and McGonagall were both looking at the now worried face of Dumbledore. With out question McGonagall went to a coin and tapped it with her wand. It glowed red for a second, and then turned blinding white. Then it kept flashing back to red.

In the next ten minutes, people kept bursting though the door and sitting down in a seat that they conjured. Finally the last person came in. The room was filled with some strange looking people. There was a girl that had electric blue hair but she looked mournful and she was holding the hand of a man with a long scar on his face, which also looked sad, but kind. There was also a man that looked half the size of a giant and had a big bushy beard, who looked the saddest out of the entire room. The oddest looking one in the room though had to be a man with a huge eye that was swirling around as if he was trying to look at every thing at once.

There were also other more… normal looking ones, like a girl with bushy hair sitting next to Ron, who was holding her hand. There were about 20 of them in all, looking almost solemn, except for the one with the strange eye; he looked like he would lash out at anyone that would make him unhappy. Ron also looked hopeful. After a while he grew impatient and said, "McGonagall everyone who is going to come is here, so may we start? Why did you use the emergency coins? What's happened?"

First McGonagall looked at him with the stern look that she gave when a student talked without raising his or her hand, but then she softened up a bit and said, "We've had some break through news. We have reasons to believe that Harry is still alive." She said.

The room burst in to chatter. "Harry's still alive?" "Ha! I knew it!" "This is the happiest day of my life!" Katherine had to look up at who ever said that… it was the half giant looking guy. He was beaming and patting Ron on the back.

McGonagall quieted everyone down. "We shouldn't rejoice yet, because," McGonagall took a breath. "Harry has been captured by Voldemort… These ladies here were in the same cell with Harry in Voldemort's lair, and they said he was in a bad condition." This time the room stayed totally silent. Hermione had her mouth agape, as if she didn't believe that it was happing and Ron still looked hopeful.

"Why I called you all here today… is because we need to figure out how to rescue him." She said looking very serious.

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TBC…

REALLLLLLY short! So sorry… but at least we are getting somewhat close to the climax! I have a couple of reviewers to thank!

Ilovethestorys- Thanks for sticking with me for the last… uhh… 6 chapters! U rock! For an award you get 10 cookies!

Mac- … uhhhhh… sooo what do you consider "soon"?

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