DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER. I ONLY OWN THE PLOT

Two

Back at the Order

"Ron what did you say to Hermione?" Harry demanded angrily. Ron looked up from the paper at Harry who was staring at him with bloody murder. Harry looked at the paper and did a double take. Ron was reading? The paper? On his own free will? Oh now Harry knew there was something wrong with Ron. Ronald Weasley never read the paper by himself. Hell, Ron didn't read at all unless it was for a really important assignment.

"Nothing! What are you talking about?" Ron demanded.

"You know very well what I am talking about! What did you say to Hermione before she left? She didn't come back and it's almost eleven o'clock!" Harry shouted loudly. Ron looked around wildly as though wishing Hermione would appear out of thin air.

"Oh yes you did! I called her parents and they said that Hermione left at eight o'clock!"

"Well I don't know what happened to her! Do I look like her care taker?" Ron asked. He felt the nervousness begin to seep into his bones and he had a feeling that Hermione wasn't going to be coming back any time soon. Before Harry could finish his sentence the elders walked into the room looking extremely worried.

"Ron, do you know where Hermione is?" Mrs. Weasley asked him concern for the young witch apparent on her face. Ron threw his hands up in the air. Why was everyone suddenly asking him where the hell Hermione was? He wasn't her body guard or anything.

"Mum, do I look like I know where Hermione is?" Ron exploded. His father gave him a warning look but Ron ignored him. It wasn't as if Hermione had told him when she was going to be back. She was a big girl and she could handle herself. Just because he had asked her why they weren't together didn't mean that he was to blame if she wasn't home.

Ginny caught the look on his face and put her hands on her hips and looked at him until Ron squirmed. It was scary how both Hermione and Ginny had mastered that look of hands on hips and the murder in their eyes. Before it had been his mother now it was his sister, mother and ex-girlfriend! It was unnerving.

"Spit it out Ron. What did you say?" Ron scowled at his little sister. Damn her for being such a stubborn female.

"I didn't say anything! Well I asked her why we broke up and Hermione just threw up her hands and left." That was enough for the whole room, except for Mrs. Weasley. She wanted to know why Hermione had left without giving Ron a second chance.

"Oh Ron! Did she say anything to you?" Ginny rolled her eyes. Just because she was in love with Harry that didn't mean Hermione had to be in love with Ron. Everyone was different but their mother didn't seem to understand that and neither did her brother.

"That's the thing mum. She said nothing except for roaring and then leaving!" Before Mrs. Weasley could begin her rant again, Dumbledore stepped in the conversation. Mr. Weasley looked relieved. He was completely on his daughter's side but his wife made it impossible to disagree with her.

"I believe that our main priority is Hermione at this moment. And according to Serverus who has just come inside we have breaking news."