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Ch 2 Harry

In few minutes our portkey would leave. Ron, Hermione and I were standing right in front of it. I had two bags with me and was packed completely with everything we would need in the one month. We wouldn't be coming back in the mean time so as we couldn't apparate so far. Moreover the ministry wouldn't authorize so many portkeys as the death eaters might find out if so many portkeys were used to and from the same place.

Ron said,'' Another minute and we'r leaving."

After a few seconds it started glowing and Hermione counted," 10,9,8…2,1 Now!"

I touched it and my feet flew off the ground and the world started to spin in front of me. It took a longer time than normal and soon my feet slammed into the ground. I lost my balance and fell while my glasses fell from my face. After the dizziness had gone and I put on my glasses everything came to focus.

We were in a lawn outside a small but decent looking looked very neat but very old. It had around 5 floors and around us there was a huge lawn facing a busy street. The back of the hotel overlooked the brilliant shining sea with a small beach. It was a beautiful place overall. Beside me Ron exclaimed," This place is huge."

Hermione said," Yeah, but where are we?"

Suddenly some one came to us and said," You are at Diggins one of the best wizarding hotels of New York. I am the manager and you must be the Aurors from England"

I nodded saying," Nice place, can you show our rooms place."

Just then two people in blue robes apparated tight next to us. They introduced themselves," Hi nice to meet you. We work for international magical department. We were to show prove our identification and show our passes to enter the USA. After all that was over the manager escorted us inside to our rooms on the 4th floor. I walked into mine and sat down on the couch. I downed a glass of water and sat down hinking about the next course of action.

Hermione had acquired a sheaf of notes with complete details of Dolohov and Nott. I took out a copy of them and just skimmed through it. I didn't think it was very helpful except that Dolohov loved quidditch and even supported Serpent Fire an American quidditch team. I took out the newspaper of that day and checked the sports page on the quidditch standings. Serpent Fire was in the semifinals of the league. This was a stroke of luck as maybe just maybe he would try to go to the match. This was the only lead we had for now and I rushed to tel Ron and Hermione of the news. When I reached I burst out saying," We have to get tickets for tomorrows quidditch game."

Hermione looked at me like I was crazy and said," Harry you cant be thinking of quidditch on a mission like this. Your not kidding right."

"No Hermione but Serpent Fire is in the semifinals, we have to go"

Ron interrupted," Oh so you follow the American League too."

I didn't know how to explain.I took a deep breath and said," Dolohov supports the Serpent Fire."

Ron the idiot he was said,'' When did you start liking what Dolohov like."

But Hermione understood and said," Oh so you mean to say he might be there. But Harry are you sure because will he risk his life to just watch a match."

" I don't know but he doesn't know we are here. He might be roaming free in the streets right now coz no one recognizes him here. Plus it's the only lead we've got right now. What else can we do."

Ron said," Yeah I'll book the tickets. When is the match? Oh tomorrow morning. Fine I'll do it right now."

Hermione said," Till then lets just get familiar with the place. I think we should try and find out who Dolohov is working for. He came to USA for a reason. He could have gone to many better places. If you ask me he is behind the murder of the auror Edward Firwin of USA.

I nodded. We all knew about the death of the auror whose body was found in the forests of New Jersey and it didnt have a trace on it. Only few curses could do that. One of them was an invention of Dolohov. A curse in which purple fire would shoot towards the enemy engulf him in flames but when the fire died down no trace would be on the body as the curse burns the soul but doesnt harm the body. " Yeah but one question Hermione they arent gonna come normally. They'll definitely be in disguise. How are we gonna recognize them." Simple mate " Ron called from the bedroom," we go normally and try to gather attention. They wont lose a chance to kill us and thus will come in the open."

"Or they might go away and will remain alerted which will cause us lots of problems and we dont have a lead as it is." said Hermione.

Ron said," No I'm positive they wont leave if they spot us. Dude think we humiliated them and their lord, dont you think they'll want revenge."

" Not if their clever" snapped Hermione.

I interrupted," I thinks Ron's rigtht Hermione. Besides we haven't got another just have to pray it woks."

" Fine I give in. Majority wins wins. But I still think its a bad idea. But your right we dont have another choice."

Ron said," Good and by the way tickets are ready. I chose seats at different parts of the stadium so that we can watch more people. Now lets go out for a walk and scout the place.

We went out. This place was the american equivalent of Leaky Caouldron or as close as it could be. The Diggins was situated in Clifton Boulevard. We strolled around looking around. It was so alike Diagon alley that I longed to go there. There were wizarding shops only it looked a little bigger . After looking around for two hours we learnt that there was a Cleverley square next to it from which we could enter the muggle world 5th avenue. They were also a couple of wizarding streets but thats all there was in New York. There were also many people who lived here.

The whole day was spent just looking around and preparing for tomorrow. By that night we were ready to go as we had our plan ready.