Chapter 2: The Dark Mark?!

Suddenly, everyone froze. There were 3 cracks, and a bellowing voice outside the train, "WHO PLAYED THIS PRANK?!" Then another voice, "Ron, calm down! You sound like Diggory!" Another voice, "Dean!"

Yet another 2 cracks were heard barely a fraction of a second apart. Then 2 women's voices overlapping one another, though each one could be heard quite clearly. One shrieked, "RONALD BILIUS WEASLEY! JUST BECAUSE I WAS WORKING ON SOMETHING ELSE IN THE AUROR OR DARK WIZARD CATCHER OFFICE DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU DO NOT INFORM ME ABOUT THIS!"

The other voice screamed, "HARRY JAMES POTTER! HOW DARE YOU NOT INFORM ME ABOUT THE DEATH EATERS MARK IS CAST ABOVE CHILDREN?! AND NOT JUST BECAUSE I WORK FOR THE DAILY PROPHET!"

Ron and Harry looked terrified by their wives sudden and angry appearance. They spluttered to think of an excuse for Hermione and Ginny, but they were too slow. Or at least Harry was. He never was great at Occlumency, the magical art of blocking out the mind from Legilimency, the magical art of breaking into the mind and delving into the deepest thoughts.

"Now don't even try to do that! You know you can't! So answer me or I'll get it out of you!" said Ginny sternly.

Ron however, knew Occlumency and got off. "Honey, I was in a big rush! Sorry!" Hermione just rolled her eyes at her husband's lame excuse.

The other man, Dean, a family friend, spoke, "Okay people, I'd love to break up this fight, so let me remind you, THE DARK MARK!"

"Oh. Yes. Right," said Harry, glad to escape Ginny's clutches.

Harry and the rest of the Aurors along with Ginny (who was the editor of the Quidditch section of the Daily Prophet) and Hermione (who was Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement) walked into the train.

"Mum! Dad!" said both Albus and Rose. Perfect coordination again! They again whirled their heads to each other kind of freaked out.

Ginny and Hermione ran to them. "Oh thank goodness you're okay! We need to look in the compartments and ask if anyone is missing!" Hermione gasped.

"We're on it!" Harry and Ron said together. They then proceeded to opening the compartment doors to some very scared kids.

At that time, James, Fred, and Louis came bursting out of a compartment with Molly behind them.

"What the—"is all they got to say before they were bombarded with 2 very worried aunts hugging them.

"Aunt Ginny! Aunt Hermione!" was heard from the hugging crowd that had a majority of kids that were pretty embarrassed.

Suddenly, Ginny pulled away. "Dominique, Victoire, where are they?!"

"They're in the compartment over there!" said Louis concernedly. He was right for at that moment, Victoire and Dominique stepped out.

Before they could ask about anything though, Louis darted over to them and gave his sisters a huge hug!

"All the kids on here are okay!" said Harry walking towards where everyone else was.

"Um, I'm suddenly really cold!" Ginny said nervously.

"Dementor," whispered Harry in a deadly voice.

All the Aurors and Ginny ran outside and immediately, Albus heard his mum yell, "EXPECTO PATRONUM!" Again, she said, "Incarcerous!" Now the Dementor was tied up.

Then Dean's voice, "We need to send a Patronus to the Ministry! Harry, your stag is the fastest!" "Got it! Expecto Patronum! Dementor at Hogsmeade Station! We have it caught and a Patronus. Send someone from the right Department or Office to Apparate NOW!" came Harry's panicked voice speaking into his stag Patronus, "GO PRONGS!"

CRACK! "Ernie! The Dementor, it's here!" Hermione said concernedly.

"Stupefy!" said Ernie, the Ministry worker at the Dementor. It fell back. "Harry, I need permission for the Imperius Curse."

"I Harry Potter, Head Auror give you Ernie Macmillan permission for the Unforgivable Imperius Curse to perform on a creature that should not be here," Harry said in a monotone.

Ernie took a deep breath, "Imperio." Nothing happened.

"Um, Ernie, I think you need to point the wand at the Dementor," Hermione said gently.

"Oh, um, yes. It's the first time I'm doing the Imperius on the job," said Ernie nervously.

"Imperio," he said quickly. He then cleared his throat. "Go back to the islands where you belong and don't stop to make anyone miserable on the way," he commanded.

The kids heard a 'whoosh' and two cracks. Then the Aurors came back into the train.

All except Harry who was still outside. "Finite," he said.

Even though he couldn't see it, Albus knew the Dark Mark was gone.

"Everybody, there is no need to panic. We will find out how this happened. The Death Eaters' mark will not be ignored," Ron told the Hogwarts Express.

Harry came in at that moment, "Ok guys, it's gone."

"Well, kiddos, you guys will probably be seeing more of us at Hogwarts," smiled Dean warmly at the kids.

With that, they Disapparated with some CRACKS.