"Ask..." She said, but before Harry could open his mouth to ask, there was knocking on the door

"Hermione!" came a distant voice from behind the door in the entrance hall

"Oops, I forgot!" Hermione said and palmed her face

"What?" asked Harry

"The order meeting" said Hermione and opened a door to a cupboard in the kitchen

"Hermione! are you there?" Another voice called Hermione from behind the door in the entrance hall

"Ssshhh somebody will hear us" another voice, which was vaguer, sternly told off the first voice

"What is taking her so long?" the first voice complained

"I'm coming!" Hermione shouted back as she pushed Harry's chair to the cupboard and closed the door behind him

Suddenly, all the voices out of the cupboard became obscure and vague.


Hermione opened the front door "Get in" she said and motioned to the others to do so

"What took you so long?" asked a young ginger woman

"It's a long story, Ginny" she said and closed the door after everyone was in "Where are the rest?" asked Hermione counting the people in her head

"They were followed, so they had to change their destination" Neville Longbottom answered, walking down the corridor to the kitchen

"Anyway, there are only two people missing, so we can start" said George who followed Neville to the kitchen

"Yes, I think so" Hermione agreed, and joined the group in the kitchen

"Today, father had to flee the ministry" said Fred calmly

"What?!" Hermione asked shocked

"He lost his temper with dear Potter and called him a murderer" George explained as he took a seat

"Not true!" said Hermione unbelievingly, also taking a seat

"Oh yes he did..." Ginny entered the conversation "I was helping my mother when he burst into the burrow" she started telling the story of what happened in the burrow and what Mr. Weasley told her has happened in the minister's office "Potter called my father today, and he asked for help"

"Help?" interrupted both Neville and Hermione together

"Yes, dad said something about that Potter needs someone to trust or something" Ginny said, trying to recall her father's story

"And then he asked about you and an-a-.." Fred tried to say something but he lost his track, and he stared at the floor

"Ron. He asked about you and Ron" George continued his brother's sentence and told Hermione

"He was also acting really clumsy today in the ministry" Luna said, speaking for the first time since the meeting has started

"How?" asked Neville interested

"Well, his head was full of wrackspurts" Luna said in her dreamy voice, staring at something invisible in the air

"I remember" George suddenly said "I saw him today, wandering the corridors in our department and he seemed lost"

"and I also spotted him leaving through the visitors exit" Fred added, taking his eyes off the ground

Knocking on the door again

"I'll open" said Neville, got up, and got out of the kitchen

"How is your father?" Hermioe asked the Weasley siblings

"We think he's safe in the burrow" Ginny said, "but if Potter is after him it might be even more dangerous than we thought"

"Mom is concerned" George added "she's convinced that they should leave the country"

"Sorry for being late" said Tonks as she made her way to one of the chairs in the kitchen "we were followed by Nott"

"I hope he didn't follow you here" said Hermione questioningly

"No we lost him" Tonks said and sat down

"Potter is missing!" declared the other person entering the kitchen

"What?" all the others except for Tonks and Hermione shouted, surprised

"Yes, I was just asked to inform Astoria that her dear husband is no where to be seen" said Draco Malfoy, on his face a smile of triumph

"I know where he is" declared Hermione, and silence fell on the room, everybody turned to look at Hermione.