Author's Note: Sorry about the wait.

Chapter Three:

Luna wiped her tears with her shirt sleeve and tried to stop crying. McGonagall looked like she was going to give Hermione the biggest scolding of her life. "Please forgive Hermione, Professor McGonagall. It's been hard for her here. Old memories keep popping up and when the people we knew in England start popping up from the grave! We had to move several times when they recognized Hermione," Luna whispered to McGonagall.

"It must have been….emotionally hard," McGonagall replied doubtfully. "It is different from what we used to go through, "Luna told her, "In England it use to be mortal danger. Now it is emotional heartache and mortal danger." Professor McGonagall must understand what Hermione had gone through, thought Luna desperately as she caught McGonagall's gaze. Luna continued in a soft voice, "They were engaged to be married."

"Who," McGonagall asked bewildered. "Hermione and Ron," Luna replied in a soft voice. "Oh." "Going through that would hurt," said Luna. "You girls do not talk about him?" "Not much, so please do not bring him up," Luna pleaded. "Sometimes it is better to talk about heart ache," McGonagall said slowly as she tried to say the right thing.

Hermione came back into the living room whistling after she put the groceries away. "Listen Luna, I am so sorry this happened today. I really thought that," Hermione thought for a moment as she tried to find a name to call their prisoner and then she waved her hand towards the closet and continued, "that person was Professor McGonagall. She did not even give me a chance to ask her a question because she immediately pulled me off to the side and told me…something that no one should have known but her." "All is all ready forgiven Hermione," Luna told her.

Hermione noticed Luna's tear stained face. "What's wrong?" "Daddy's dead," Luna told her heartbrokenly. "Oh Luna," said Hermione as she tried to figure out what she could say to comfort her. "It is not a big surprise that he is dead," Luna told her. "But it still hurts a lot," Hermione said as she came over by Luna and gave her hug.

"No one stupefied that death eater," McGonagall almost shouted at the two witches beside her when she remembered that the death eater had not been stunned by any one. Hermione yawned because she had been having a lot of sleepless nights lately. "Don't worry Professor McGonagall, we have those wards that prevent people from apparating." McGonagall sighed in relief. McGonagall wanted a break from running. She was an old woman and figured that she deserved a full nights rest before she had to deal with the unexpected events of tomorrow.

"So any news from here, or from England," Hermione asked McGonagall. "Don't you receive a newspaper here," McGonagall asked her. Hermione told her, "No. We thought it would be safer to not be registered with the newspapers here. We wanted it to be harder for the Death Eaters to track us down." "Well, I've been stealing the newspapers here," McGonagall told them.

Hermione and Luna looked like two hungry dogs after the same juicy bone. "What did you learn," they eagerly asked at the same time. McGonagall smiled at their hunger for knowledge of the world around them. "Well, you girls were wise when you decided not to apply for the magical newspaper they have here," McGonagall told them as her smile faded away. "It's gotten pretty medieval in England. No one is opposing Voldemort, and what they have been doing to the muggles over there," McGonagall shuddered as she remembered what befell a lot of muggles in England.

"Was Daddy dead for a while before it got that bad," Luna asked McGonagall. "Your Father was killed when they were trying to keep up the charade that the Ministry of Magic was trying to keep up the charade with the muggles in England. You girls remember right? The whole thing with muggles not knowing about magic?," McGonagall asked them gently.

Author's Note: What did you think? Next chapter should be up by next Friday if all goes well. This was three pages on Word Document. I know its hard to believe but it was three pages long! Right now it looks like one page.