Chapter 35 - Kidnapped

Harry burst through the barrier followed by Lupin and Remus. He looked around only a few people were on this side the few witches and wizards, stood with their wands out pointing at a now empty bench. She was gone they had taken her. Why did they wait a few more seconds? Harry couldn't breathe; they had taken his daughter the only thing that had always been there for him. He needed her, he loved her like he had never loved anything else. He finally understood what the voices had said by unimaginable pain when he defeated Voldemort the first time. He saw his baby disappear in to thin air. They wanted him why didn't they wait for him he would have given himself up in an instant. He felt like his world was falling apart. Harry felt his knees give way and come colliding painfully with the floor. Hands were on his shoulders trying to pull him up.

"Come on Harry… let's get back to the house and sort something out," Ginny said softly.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SORT SOMETHING OUT? THEY HAVE MY DAUGHTER!" Harry yelled. "WE HAVE TO FIND HER NOW!"

"Where do we start then Harry," Ginny asked her voice trembling slightly. "We don't know where they have taken—" Ginny swallowed the words didn't want to come out. "We just don't know where they have gone."

"I have to find her… I need her,"

"I know Harry, I know."

"No you don't… I need her. The world needs her." Harry stood up a fierce determination suddenly in his eyes. "We have to find her."

"I'm helping," Lupin said coming up to Harry. Harry noticed he seemed to be very pale and shaking slightly. Two hours later Harry stood in The Burrow in front of the group of people who had offered to help search. Maps lay out behind him, and his hair was usually messy but now it looked as though it had never seen a brush. He distractedly ran another hand through it.

"Lupin can I talk to you?" Harry asked. Harry had never seen Lupin so worried or upset. The boy couldn't be in … no he couldn't be… but he, Harry, had been in love with Ginny at his age.

"Yes Professor?" Lupin asked.

"Why do you want to help so much?"

"Because Anna is one of my best friends," Lupin said.

"Any other reason?" Harry asked. If he was going to let Lupin help he wanted to know exactly what the boy felt toward his daughter. Now everyone knew Anna was his daughter he was going to be the father he always wanted the world to know he was.

"I want to bring her back. I want her to be safe I don't need any other reason," Lupin said staring Harry out. Harry stared back twice as hard. Finally both looked away at the same time. This was going to take some getting used to. He didn't want his daughters love to go to another already. That's if we find her, Harry thought. NO! Not if! When!

"Alright," Harry said, "can you gather everyone in to the living room?"

When everyone had settled down on the floor or on the couch he cleared his throat and everyone went silent.

"Thank you all for being here, I will make this short so we can go and begin out search straight away. What I am about to tell you cannot leave this room. If it does and ends up in the wrong hands we can forget about defeating Voldemort. Anna Potter is my daughter she is going to help me rid the world of Voldemort I need her to be alive and in the right frame of mind. I need to find her, we all need to find her if we want the darkness to end. Sirius," Harry turned to his Godfather, "you, Bill, and Professor McGonagall will take the northeast around Hogwarts all dark areas. Remus," Harry said turning to Remus Lupin who was sitting with his hands in his head, "you take Jason, Percy and Lily and cover the northwest. Ron you go with Hermione, James and Sirius I want the south west covered, you know Cornwall, Devon, and Exeter in particular. Arthur, you take the south east with, Lupin, Remus, Nicky and Molly. I will take the middle with Ginny and Charlie. Everyone else will be looking after the kids for the search parties. Work quickly I need one person from each group to report back here every 4 hours to give me an update." Harry turned around and handed out a map to each group leader.

"What about Dumbledore and Snape?" Sirius asked.

"Dumbledore is doing what he can with the ministry's information and using his contacts he is better for the information side. Snape is… well we all know what Snape is doing," Harry said darkly. With that each group Apparated to their assigned parts of the country. Harry hoped they would find her quickly, it was always said if someone is not found in the first few hours they generally aren't found.

Anna and the Death Eaters landed in the middle of a grave yard. Anna fell forward but strong hands gripped her shoulders painfully. The Death Eater who was standing behind her conjured ropes and tied them tightly around her. She was then levitated in front of them. They put a blindfold on her so she couldn't see. Anna didn't know how long she had been floating for but when they took the blindfold off she was inside a dark room. The body bind curse had been taken off and Anna struggled against the rope binding her. She was on the floor someone had a foot on her back so she couldn't get up. She could hear them talking above her. What was going to happen to her? Were they going to kill her?

"Master wants us to wait for him to get here before we do anything to her," a male voice said above her.

"Oh come on just one little curse it won't hurt anybody… except for her," a female voice said laughing.

"Would you really defy my orders?" came the cold high voice of Voldemort and Anna, who had been scared up until now, became terrified.

"No my Lord of course not, forgive me for my absurdity," the woman's voice said as Anna saw her fall on the floor bowing.

"Chain her to the wall… make sure you use magical chains," Voldemort said and he left the room. Anna felt hands around her shoulders and she was pulled up and thrown against the wall having the wind knocked out of her on impact and hitting her head against the wall felt a trickle of blood fall down her neck. Anna saw her ropes being cut and she struggled against the hands now holding her. As she struggled she saw a silver fist hit the side of her head and she lost consciousness.