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Chapter 2:Learning
As Hermione, Ginny and Ron trekked back up to there common room, no one said a word. Ron looked at Ginny and could tell that she had been crying. Amazing considering that he is not that observant. When they reached the common room, she had flopped down on the couch in front of the fire place. Ginny began to go over what all had transpired these last few weeks. First the man of her dreams had noticed her, second she was happier than she could remember. Next was that the most powerful wizard of the light had been brought down. Lastly her happiness was taken away from her because he is doing the right thing, well that's what he thinks anyways. She looked at the fire and just screamed "AARRRGH".
Moments before the scream Ron walked in and dropped into a plush armchair while Hermione takes a seat in front of him on the rug, resting her back against the front of his legs. He thought to himself, "we are doomed Dumbledore was the only one you-know-who was afraid of he will start attacking us at any time." Hermione was in the same thought process, "I can't believe I defended Snape to them, he was just a ruddy Death Eater." Then they were brought out of there thoughts when Ginny sat down and gave a scream.
"AARRRGH," Ginny broke the silence, "I can't believe this, there is no one to stop Voldemort now." They looked at her and Ron spoke up, "Ginny, don't say that , there is a power that he knows not… Hermione looked at Ron thinking "Ron what are you saying Harry has not told her the prophecy yet." He continued as if reading her mind, "well the power is me, Hermione and… you, it is all of us who fight for what is right. I am going to do what ever it takes to stop that mad man." Ron stopping not realizing when he actually stood up or when he raised his voice or when he got an audience of some of his lower classmates. He was brought out of his revere when some started to clap, he blushed and looked around and sitting fast. Hermione was staring at him in awe trying to decide if it was at that moment that she saw him as a man that she could love. She thought, "Such conviction and love in his words and his demeanor." Before she could say anything Ron said, "I am going to go check on Harry." "No," Ginny interrupted him, "I will go I need to talk to him about some things." "Oh, okay,"Ron replied, "tell him we are down here if he needs us for anything." Hermione looked at Ron and thought "I could go ahead and tell him that we should be together, I have fallen for him since third year. No, I will tell him on the train or at the Burrow, just bad timing." When she stopped babbling to herself she noticed Ron looking at her, well staring at her more like it. "Uh, Mione," "I love it when he calls me that," Hermione thought. "I've been thinking and it c, c, comes to my attention that you and I have been friends for six years now. Pretty good friends in those years. Well I would like your advice on something, I am… I mean to say that I fancy this girl and don't know how to really tell her." He paused and looked at her, seeing her face go from confused to nervous the straight to anger. He figured he should just come out and say it, "I'vebeeninlovewithyousince," he took a breath "thefirsttimeIseenyouonthetrain." Ron was gasping for air and then something he didn't contemplate, Hermione reached over and kissed him on the lips. Her lips were soft, like what a cloud in the sky would feel like. She was thinking, "My god it took him long enough, I have been around him way to much. I could understand all of that first off and second he surprised her yet again today and last I understood what he just said." She broke the intimate kiss and said, "I love you too, Ronald Bilius Weasley." Then she kissed him again.
Ginny was passing the first year dorms, she started to get nervous. Passing the third and fourth dorms, she began to walk faster. She passed the fifth year room and as she stated the steps to the sixth year floor she heard a pop, "that couldn't be what that sounded like." She reached the door and raised her hand to knock but then made a fist a pounded on the door and at the same time yelling, "HARRY JAMES POTTER, OPEN THIS DOOR THIS INSTANT WE NEED TO TALK RIGHT NOW!" She grabbed the handle after a second or two and flung the door open. She looked around saw nothing, the bed he had slept in looked like it was never slept in and none of his stuff was there. "RON, HERMIONE GET UP HERE!" After a few moments Ron and Hermione reached the room both looking beet red and out of breath. "What is going on?" They both asked. Ginny stepping aside letting them in, "Well it looks like Harry has pulled a vanishing act on us. All of his stuff is gone. On the way up here I thought I heard someone apparate out of here, before you say it Hermione I know you can't inside of school." Hermione, always the voice of reason said, "Lets go to Professor McGonagall, and tell her what is going on, she will be able to tell us what's going on."
Entering her new office, Professor McGonagall was standing at the edge of her desk. "What is it students?" Hermione spoke first, "Harry professor, he has some how left the school, Ginny went up to talk to him and he was gone." Ginny started, "Well I got close to his room and I thought I heard someone apparate but he couldn't have, right." Ron added, "all of his stuff is gone, his trunk, Hedwig and her cage." "Well Miss Granger, Miss Weasley and Mr. Weasley please sit down. There is something I am going to tell you before I can tell you anything at all."
\The night after Albus Dumbledore Fell/
On a hillside, in a thick canopy of thick trees. Lord Voldemort's compound. Figures in black robes were cowering to an evil grunting laugh. Voldemort stared at his kneeling followers with his eyes blazing crimson started to speak, "Wormtail…" "yes, master" "Where is Severus?" "I don't know master, he was to come here after the events of last ni..." "Crucio" Voldemort said lazily, "Do not tell me things that I know you bumbling fool." "Forgive me my lord, I forgot my place," Wormtail whimpered. "We have moved forward with our cause, Dumbledore the filthy mudblood lover has fallen. Harry Potter will die by my hands soon." Voldemort said laughing.