Chapter 3 Tears
"ROSE, ROSE!" Hermione called darting across Diagon Alley searching franticly some people looked at her in alarm but she didn't care her baby was missing.
"Excuse me have you seen a little girl she's 5 with red hair and blue eyes" the stranger stared at Hermione then shook their head before scurrying off leaving a defeated Hermione standing there.
"Hermione is that you?" Hermione turned around Padma Patil was standing there they hadn't seen each other in years not since after the battle of Hogwarts.
"Oh Padma could you help me please my little girl Rose she's gone she was with me outside of Flourish and Blot's but when I turned she was gone.
"Oh of course one minute though" Hermione nodded and for the first time noticed Padma was holding the handle of a buggy normally she would ask Padma about the baby but now was not the time.
"Cormac, Cormac" Padma called into the shop which turned out to be Quality Quidditch supplies and someone else Hermione hadn't seen in years emerged and he looked as surprised to see her and it was to see him.
"Hermione it's good to..." Cormac Mclaggen began but was cut off by Padma.
"Now is not the time Hermione's little girl has went missing take Ajay to my parents I'm going to help search" Hermione listened to Padma giving orders but continued to look around her as if Rose would appear out of nowhere.
"Ok I'll come back though and..." Hermione listened now and said.
"No before you come back get Ron and Harry Harry's at the ministry the auror department and he can get Ron" Cormac nodded and strode off as fast as he could pushing the buggy.
"Ok Hermione where was she last, show me" Padma said taking control of an inconsolable Hermione. The two women had searched nearly the entire of Diagon Alley by the time Cormac, Ron and Harry turned up.
"What took so long?" Hermione said relived and angry to see them.
"Had to get Hugo to Ginny and then she wanted to helps we had to take them to mum Ginny's going round the rest of the family now in case Rose wandered in somewhere and flooed herself to one of the houses" Ron said out of breath.
"How long has she been gone?" Harry said he was still in his auror uniform and his appearance in general always caused a stir.
"About half an hour ago" Hermione said looking at her watch.
"Ok have you searched everywhere" Harry said.
"Yes ok" Padma was frustrated as well now.
"What about Knockturn Alley" Cormac said the other four turned to him in shock.
"No Rose would never go down there" Hermione said the fought was almost laughable.
"Well she might have been lured down their" he said matter logically and reasoning dawning on Harry and Ron's faces made them turn and sprint towards the entrance to Knockturn Alley followed close behind by Hermione, Padma and Cormac.
"I've never been down here" Padma said shining her wand in the dark alley.
"Neither have I can't say I'll be coming back" Cormac said glancing in a shop window displaying human fingernails.
"Are you two done" Ron said turning angrily Padma and Cormac looked sheepish Harry and Ron were combing each few metres with their wand for an hidden entrances while Padma and Cormac light the way Hermione impatient had went ahead her wand light could still be seen by them as a speck in the distance.
"RON!" Hermione screamed and then silence.
"HERMIONE, HERMIONE!" Ron said rushing forward the others close behind him on reaching Hermione they saw her knelt on the ground bent over as if in pain.
"Hermione" Ron said falling next to her she wouldn't put her head up though.
"Ron look" Harry said solemnly from behind him Ron swivelled on the spot to what Harry Padma and Cormac were staring at a dark pool of blood was on the ground with a small tiara in it that Ron recognised instantly.
"My baby" he whimpered taking the tiara and holding it close he didn't care that he got blood all over him. Time past quickly after that Ginny arrived on the scene after a patronus from Harry both Harry and her managed to get Hermione and Ron to move from the ground more aurors arrived and started questioning them.
"COAL!" A shout filled the house which was falling down the house elf scurried from the kitchen to just see her master throw a small girl in the hallway cupboard and slam the door shut.
"Yes master" Coal said timidly glancing anxiously at the cupboard.
"Get me some dinner I'll be in the study" Jugson said gruffly not even looking at the house elf.
"Of course master" Once Coal prepared a soup she took it to him but as she made to leave.
"Coal I have an order for you and I want you to listen carefully" Coal turned and looked at him.
"I am going to kill the girl and I want you to take the body to the ministry" Coal nodded shaking and then left as quickly as she dared she couldn't believe him master used to such a good little boy how could he kill a small girl then she remembered years ago when he was part of an organization called Death Eaters he had killed then too.
"COAL CHECK ON THE GIRL" he shouted roughly through the house and that was when the ceiling shook and another tile fell from the ceiling. Coal glad she had a chance to look in on the poor thing opened the cupboard the girl lay there her red hair splayed out and matted with dry blood from a cut in the back of her head she was still unconscious.
"No master is a bad boy he shall not hurt you" Coal said she was a house elf who obeyed orders but her years of experience had taught her to twist the orders.
"Master the girl is dead" Coal said facing him lying was something he never said was wrong.
"Damn and I was hoping to have some fun oh well take her" Coal shuddered at his words but scurried out and for the second time that day Rose Weasley was apparated away to location unknown.
"Dad, dad" a small voice said Harry stirred slightly but didn't wake he was fast asleep on the sofa after collapsing on it Harry had been working late hours all week now ever since Rose disappeared.
"Dad" the voice was sobbing now and that seemed enough to wake him.
"Al" Harry said tiredly opening his eyes to see the face of his second son streaked with tears.
"Hey come here" he said sitting up and pulling Al onto his lap hugging him tightly Al continued to sob and Harry could guess the reason why.
"You miss Rose don't you" Harry said Al nodded still not looking Harry in the eye.
"Al we'll find her" Al had finally decided to give a response though.
"It's my fault" Harry looked surprised at the small child in his lap.
"What no it isn't" that seemed to make Al cry harder.
"It is I told her to go away and never to come back" Harry had heard about this from Ginny the argument her and Al had mere hours before Rose went missing.
"Al no don't blame yourself it's the people who took Rose's fault not yours" Harry said making Al look him in the eye the small boy nodded but Harry could still see he blamed himself and there was nothing Harry could do about that.
The next morning Ginny found both Harry and Albus fast asleep on the sofa glasses askew in the case of Harry and for Albus glasses on the floor.
Rose Weasley Missing
Rose Weasley daughter of war heroes Ronald Billius Weasley and Hermione Jean Weasley nee Granger went missing on a shopping trip in Diagon Alley with her mother. After an extensive search of the area an item belonging to Rose that she had on the day consisting of a small tiara was found down Knockturn Alley near a pool of blood which healers confirmed later after tests to belong to Rose. Rose's parents and family are now appealing for any information on Rose's disappearance any information is to be sent straight to the auror department at the ministry of magic in London.
The same articles were placed in the Daily Prophet and even abroad for several months but no other clues were left about where Rose had gone. Ron and Hermione started to get desperate and they fought more often until one night Ron walked out Harry found him the next day in the Hog's Head drowning himself in fire whiskey mumbling about Rose. Molly stepped in after that and turned Ron and Hermione's priorities back to searching for Rose and caring for Hugo who had felt slightly neglected his parents too concerned about his sister.
"Hi Grandma" a twelve year old Hugo said stepping out of the fire Molly turned from the cooker.
"Hello sweetie I didn't expect to see you today" Hugo sighed exasperated.
"Well mum and dad have been called to the ministry for a meeting and since they hate to leave me alone in the house dad practically throw me in the fire to get me to come here" Molly sighed Hermione and Ron were very over protective of Hugo after what happened to Rose they wouldn't let anyone else see him other then the family a couple years after the incident it was once he joined Hogwarts last year that the boy had started to get some freedom.
Meanwhile in the auror department of the ministry of magic.
"WHAT!" Ron bellowed slamming his fists on the table.
"Weasley calm down" Auror Newberg shouted Ron was angry but his wife Hermione was just sitting in the chair shaken silent tears running down her face.
"How could you?" Ron said reining in his anger Tia sighed this was the hardest thing to do telling family members.
"Ron I'm sorry the case has gone cold there is no more clues to where Rose is then 9 years ago the departments can't waste it's money on cases that can't be solved I'm sorry" Hermione has decided to speak now.
"So what about Rose is she forever going to be the girl who went missing" Tia winched it was a name the public had come up for Rose since she was the niece of the boy who lived.
"No as well we have been looking back at healer records of the blood that was found on the day it seems there was a lot their too much for a 5 year old to survive without so St Mungos and the Ministry have declared Rose dead I'm sorry" Ron had heard enough though he stood up and stormed out slamming the door behind him while Hermione broke into another bout of tears.
When the rest of the family found out they were devastated especially Albus he had spent the last 9 years blaming himself for her disappearance and now he started blaming himself for her death. Rose would have been 14 years old and in her fourth year at Hogwarts the year they declared her dead.