Having finished sorting his mind, Harry looked over to see that Ron was still asleep, then he looked out the window to see that daylight was shining through the curtains. He got dressed and headed downstairs, satisfaction and worry in his mind at the same time.
While it was a good idea to look through Voldemort's memories in order to find out his horcruxes and to feed him pain by thinking hard about his friends, he knew that if Voldemort simply scanned Hary's mind, he would easily find out that Harry knew about the horcruxes and what he was planning for the train. A sudden inspiration suddenly flashed into his mind. Another mind-trunk holding what he learned from Voldemort placed under what he labelled the "emotion mind-trunk" would be perfect! Should Voldemort attempt to rummage through Harry's mind, he would merely try to open the first trunk and get a blast of painful love and friendship emotions which would cause him to leave, not even worrying about what else there might be.
Downstairs everyone (minus Ron) was eating breakfast and talking about the new list requirements for Hogwarts. As he sat down, Ginny handed him his and he checked it to see what was so important about it. His eyes widened when he saw that with the usual 7th year requirements there was en extra statement "For Dark arts classes, you will need one copy of "Dark Magic, the best type there is, from Borgin & Burke's". Looking around, he signalled for Hermione and Ginny to come upstairs with him. Mr and Mrs Weasley didn't notice due to their talking about the lists.
Once upstairs, Hermione and Ginny folled Harry into his and Ron's room. He shook Ron awake very hard (after Ginny suggested using a water spell and Hermione was about to conjure spiders). He explained his idea of the mind and emotion trunks and about what the new classes.
"It's fairly obvious that the Death Eaters have taken over Hogwarts isn't it? I think our journey will have to start as soon as we leave our parents' sight," Ginny said
"That is a problem, I think I have a solution, but it will require some changes once we are aboard the train Harry" replied Hermione, obviusly thinking hard. Then Ron snapped his fingers "I know, what if we get on the train, and as soon as it starts off, we go down to the luggage compartment, get our gear, and apparate elsewhere to start our journey?"
"Not a bad idea Ron, except for the tiny problem that the train has an anti-apparating shield upon it," Hermione said. "In that case, we can't get on the train, because we will be stuck going to Hogwarts, and the DeathEaters will comb the ranks of every person attending in an attempt to find us. We'll have to miss the train if we want to avoid the Death Eaters."
"Well, we could always intentionally miss the train on purpose, by sitting on our gear, and hiding under the invisibility cloak," Harry suggested
"That could work, as long as we put it on before we go through the fake wall," said Ron. "Otherwise, people could see us disappear from the platform."
And so, it was decided. Naturally there was some argument from Mrs Weasley about apparating to the station instead of driving, but once they explained that they would be under the invisibility cloak and that Ginny would side-along with Harry, she eventually capitulated. Of course, that didn't stop her from smothering them all with her usual goodbye hugs that almost rivalled Hagrid's (naturally they were all happy that this wasn't done on the platform).
Once they apparated there, however, Harry saw that Amycus and 3 hooded adults, one much larger than the other 2, were all watching the train entrances. Harry was reminded that Fenrir was going to be on the train, and was about to let his hero complex (A/N Lol) take over, until he remembered that Voldemort has told Fenrir not to attack until the other 3 had him and his friends. He had another flash of intuition as he remembered how to send messages to other people, and so, on top of their luggage, the 4 teenagers left to begin their hard journey, which would have interesting events occur.
A/N Sorry to leave you with a minor cliffhanger, but them's the breaks, lol. Special bonus points to whoever guesses where they apparated to from the platform. However, the points will only be awarded to someone who guesses how he sends the messages to the other people (hint, it's not the protean-charmed galleons.
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