Chapter one
Hermione sat staring out of her bedroom window at the leaky cauldron she could hear Ginny softly snoring as she slept. Dumbledore was dead she could
not believe it yet Hogwarts was still going to open this year she wondered who would be the new head teacher and if they would be safe at all within the
castle walls after all at the end of last year there had been death eaters inside the school. She sighed Harry he was not coping with Dumbledore's death as
well as she had hoped that he would loosing two parent like figures so close together had not been so good for him, he kept snapping at his friends and
demanding to be set so that he could carry out revenge on Voldermort and his followers. Ginny whimpered in her sleep a barely audible 'please don't leave
me' escaped from her lips, Hermione felt truly sorry for her Harry seamed blissfully unaware of how much he had been upsetting her over the past couple
of weeks. After all he had broken up with her at a funeral of all places however now to add insult to injury he had for the past few weeks been treating her
as the little sister of his best friend and occasionally as a friend but never once had he treated her as if he cared for her more than that. Ginny had took it all
in her stride but Hermione had noticed all the times when Ginny had been absent from the group or at night and had found her curled up in bed crying.
Ginny knew it was for the best her and Harry's break up and that he was trying to protect her but Hermione knew that it was tearing Ginny up not being
able to be with him. Hermione however knew that she was lucky her and Ron over the last couple of weeks had been growing closer and closer together
hopefully she prayed he would ask her out. She felt sorry for Viktor Krum of course he still kept on writing to her however whenever he asked for her to
visit him she would decline the offer. She had known from the start that it would never work out between them but had been nice at the time and he was a
lovely person as well but deep down she had admitted to herself that one of the reasons that she had said yes to Krum was to make Ron jealous.
Tomorrow she knew they would be moving on to the burrow. However the past two days spent shopping in diagon alley for Bill and Fleur's wedding had
been enjoyable with their robe fittings and ordering special invitations.
Harry and Ron sat playing exploding snap even though they were both tired after their boring day of hanging around at madam Malkins watching Ginny,
Hermione and Gabriele have their bridesmaid robes fitted.
"Have you read the daily prophet today?" asked Ron reshuffling the cards his eyebrows still smoking. Harry laughed "Dude your eyebrows are smoking
you look so funny." Ron turned beet red "anything interesting other than death eater attacks." Harry asked
" Detheaters they kidnapped a girl, in broad daylight and the ministry are not going too do anything about it and the funny thing is according to the
prophet she was a muggle, I mean deatheaters kill muggles but kidnap them its not their style. "Does she have a name?" Harry asked becoming interested
"It's not mentioned. They probably don't know."
"Yeah" said Harry "strange though that the ministry are not doing anything to rescue her."
"They probably think that she's dead by now." Replied Ron "we best get some sleep, we have our robe fittings in the morning."
Harry clambered into bed 'what could Voldermort possibly want with a muggle girl.' Harry knew sleep would not come easily his dreams were haunted with
pictures of Ginny been tortured by Malfoy and Dumbledore falling over and over again. It was up to him now; it was his quest Dumbledore had been
training him for this he could do it. In a couple of days him, Ron and Hermione would leave for the Dursleys the last time he would ever have to see them
again, The only good thing in his life that he had to look forward to. He would be free.
