Harry Potter
Most wanted
Chapter 2: Taking matters into own hands
"Mrs Granger, I do understand that he was your friend but you do not have to fight us every step of the way," asked the aura conducting the interview.
"I have told you everything I know and I will not be treated this way in my own office, GET OUT!" And with a wave of her wand, the auras were swept out of Hermione's office.
Once the door had shut, she fell onto her desk and started to cry. It had been two weeks now and the prophet had been bashing Harry and all of his associates including Hermione who had been visited by 6 different auras in the last few days. They kept asking if she had heard from Harry, if he had ever shown any murderous tendencies, but the worst of it all was that an article came out two days ago:
Is this really a surprise?
If you consider the life of Harry Potter, is it really a surprise that he has fallen to murder. After all he has been around death all through his life. His parents dies, his godfather died, his friends have died. Harry Potter was a great hero for ridding the world of "He who must not be named" but was that maybe the first domino to fall and his mind has been growing darker ever since that fateful day. He is only human and many a great wizard has been drawn to the dark side. Could it be possible that Harry Potter will be a name one day everyone fears to say?
"Get up!" Shouted a man at Hermione as he opened her curtains to let the light of the day stream in.
"Ron?" She asked confused, "Why aren't you at work?"
"George let me take some leave after all that has happened, I actually think he doesn't want one of Harry Potter's old friends scaring off customers,"
"Oh Ron it's terrible, it's just like last time. Please tell me that you know something about what's going on," Hermione stood up to hug Ron tightly.
"I've heard nothing, Ginny's frantic though, she had to take her kids to the express without Harry and let them board the train not knowing if their father's a murderer or not, can you imagine the hell that they are going to go through this term?"
"I know, it's going to be disastrous, at least before when Harry was being claimed to be mad, we knew the truth. Now we are in the dark as much as everybody else"
"Well I for one don't like the dark,"
"Ginny?" Said both Ron and Hermione at the same time as they turned to face the door.
"I'm sure this is just another scandal, Harry knows well enough that I can handle my own battles," Ginny said as she strode into the room and uncorked a bottle of wine.
Ginny did not look distraught like you would have expect after recent events, she looked determined, "I know the man I married and he would never have let me take our children to the station alone,"
"Ginny I know it's hard but what are we supposed to do, the ministry is looking for him, all we can do is wait,"
"Try impossible, Hermione, I'm not waiting for Harry to be found or killed and then be sent off to Askaban for something he didn't do," Ginny snapped.
"Right then, do any of us think Harry could have done this?" Ron asked but no-one said anything, "Good, so where do we start?"
"Start?" Hermione asked.
"Hermione, if there is one thing that we have learnt from all of our adventures, is that the ministry is bloody useless at this kind of thing. So we will investigate ourselves, who knows better than us on how to avoid the ministry, so we'll know the signs to look for, and we'll find Harry ourselves."
Ron had never really been a leader but one thing was for sure, Harry was his best friend and he would do anything for him, and he wasn't about to wait in the back seat while nothing got done and if that meant taking charge, he would take charge.
Over the next few days, they built up a list of people, places and random occurrences that might be in any way connected to their missing friend.
They sat back after three days of work to decide on their first move and it stuck out like a sore thumb:
Kingsley Shacklebolt