"What?" Hermione asked startled. "That's impossible. The Daily Prophet said they found his body. Ron, Harry's dead."
"It doesn't add up! I thought you of all people would notice. We all celebrated Harry's Birthday! He was there and it was way after June 15th. They couldn't have found it on the 15th of June. Regan Bennington is hiding something… I don't think Harry's dead." Hermione paused, heart racing as she thought. Why would Voldemort want to keep Harry alive, but tell the rest of the wizarding world that he had killed him?
"I'll meet you in the common room in a bit ok?" She put her robes on and ran to the room of requirement.
I want a room with a book on horcruxes. she thought again and again. The door appeared and she entered the room. Hermione had seen it in so many different states, but now it was simply an empty room, except for the book in the middle on the table. She read vigorously until the paragraph jumped out at her as if in neon lights.
Although a horcrux is what keeps the witch/wizard alive it does not enable them to have a body after death. This problem has been rectified by the use of a Corpusculem potion. This lets the user create a new body. The potion does have a negative effect to it. The user must use the blood of an enemy. If the enemy however dies, then the occupant of the new body will die as well. A very unthought of solution may solve this problem. If a dementor kisses the enemy, the body can be killed.
Pulse rushing; Hermione darted back to the common room. It was late by then and she suspected Ron to be asleep in his dorm. Hermione quietly crept up to his dorm room and awoke him.
"Hurry up, get dressed we are going on a trip." She smiled down at him.
"What in Merlin's name are you talking about?" he replied dazed. With that Hermione whispered "Alohamora" at the mattress making Ron roll of the bed.
"LETS GO!" she whispered harshly.
After Hermione had explained the passage Ron seemed to be wide awake.
"So Voldemorts keeping him somewhere so he wont die, but won't kill him." Ron whispered stating the obvious.
"Yeah, but the question is where."
Ginny Weasly was not a girl who liked giving up. When Harry had broken up with her over the summer she hadn't accepted it either. She simply thought to herself that as soon as Harry was done fighting Voldemort he would come back to her. It wasn't as if the break up meant the end, just more of him putting things on hold.
When she had first found out that Harry had died Ginny had been in denial.
"He hasn't died. That's not possible." She said simply to her mother. Mrs. Weasley and Weasely exchanged worried glances. Ginny knew it was stupid to say, but somehow part of her never excepted that Harry would give up that easily. So maybe Ginny gave up on other things, but when it came to Harry there were never doubts in her mind. Hours were spent in the library, reading past letters Harry had written her over the summer, and old daily prophets. She had to find an answer, because no matter what Ginny hadn't finished with Harry Potter.
The next day students crowded the Transfiguration room.
"Why isn't anyone going in?" shouted Lavender.
"Its locked!" another said puzzled. The students looked around in bewilderment. McGonnagal was never late, but always waiting inside the classroom. Suddenly a towering skinny man parted the students. He had messy blond hair and blue eyes. Many girls giggled at the sight of the handsome man.
"Come in class, come in. " he commanded ushering them towards the inside. "I'll be teaching this class for the next couple weeks while Professor McGonnagal is out. My name is Professor Bennington."
At 12 that night Hermione woke Ron up.
"Get dressed, we're leaving." She whispered harshly. "What?" He asked tiredly.
"You heard me. We're leaving to find Harry, TONIGHT!" she replied. "There's something weird about the fact that Bennington guy replacing McGonaggal. He's gotta be working for Voldemort…"
"Are you crazy? We don't even know where to look for Harry, where would we start?"
"I don't know! But don't you get it? Its not safe here anymore, so I'm leaving, and since I'm leaving you're coming too."
"Fine ok ok ok, I'm going!" he replied almost awake now.
They crept down stairs to the common room, bags packed with necessities, and ready to face whatever was to come their way. As the two were about to step out the portrait hole a shout stopped them.
" DON'T GO ANY FURTHER!" Ginny appeared at the top of the girl's staircase. "I know what you're doing, and I'm going with you."
"Ginny we gotta go, now shut up and go back to bed." Ron said, annoyed.
" Ginny its too dangerous, Harry would kill us if we took you." Hermione added.
"Do you know where you're going?" a smiled crawled across Ginny. "Because I do. I don't have to go with you, I know where Harry is."
"You know Harry is alive?" Ron asked in bewilderment.
"I saw the article. Plus I never really believed he was dead…." Ginny explained.
"So where is he?" Hermione badgered.
"Not so fast, I need to know that I'm going too. I'm not stupid, if I tell you you'll leave me here."
"Fine we promise we'll take you." Ron sighed.
"I'm not sure if this is where Harry is, but it's a good place to start. See, Voldemort's last horcrux is Tom Riddle's grave." Ginny said.
"How do you know?" Ron and Hermione said in unison.
"Harry wrote me a letter right before he left. It said he kept having dreams of Riddle's grave. It makes sense doesn't it? Something Voldemort hated so much, but knew that noone would look there!" After a long silence Hermione responded.
" Well what are we waiting for? We don't have time to lose. If Voldemort figures out how to kill Harry then he's done for."
A/N: Hey guys, there it is. Sorry but I couldn't resist putting Harry back in. Trust me though; Ron will continue having a lot of the spotlight. Its gonna be a definite shared spotlight. And plus I just like Ginny so shes there too. Tell me what you think, and ill get writing on ch. 6! Xoxo, rainydaythinkin
