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The Brotherhood

A/N - I should let you know that chapters will not be coming out very fast for a while. For one, I've reached the end of my pre-written chapters, and for another, my mom is in the hospital and the stress has given me a severe case of writer's block. I'll press forward though and attempt to get in at least one chapter a week. Thanks to those that reviewed the last chapter. Your reviews are very much appreciated.

~~~ Chapter Eleven ~~~

Harry lounged lazily on the couch, Ginny on the floor at his feet with Sirius sitting across the room. Ginny was reading the Marauder's Guide to Mischief Making out loud, reading some of the more amusing pranks that the quartet of troublemakers had played on various people.

Harry was chuckling at one of the more elaborate pranks on Snape when Sirius sighed. Both teenagers paused and looked over at him. "I need Moony to understand. I need to convince him I'm innocent," he stated.

Ginny closed the book and sat up straight. "School starts in two days. When I'm back at Hogwarts, I won't be able to help you with anything, so if you're going to do something, do it now," she stated.

Sirius frowned at her. "I don't even know what to do though. Without Wormtail, our plan is completely useless," Sirius murmured, his eyes going blurry as he thought back to previous times.

Harry sighed. He understood how Sirius felt. Although he had Ginny by his side, the rest of the world hated him - the same world who had loved him, praised him even. They had claimed him as their hero, and then gone and turned their backs on him at the first opportunity.

"On that note, Ginny, what are you going to tell everyone? They all think you were abducted by us, so what will they think when you show up at Hogwarts?" Harry asked.

Ginny smirked, "I was thinking of telling about an epic escape or something."

Harry snorted, "No, really."

"I'll tell them the truth. You came, I believed your innocence, I left with you, and then I decided to come to Hogwarts rather than stay with you, because your lack of bathing caused you to stink, and it was getting to me," Ginny replied.

Harry rolled his eyes. "It's not that bad."

"How long has it been since you took a shower?" Ginny asked.

Harry didn't answer.

~~~TB~~~

Remus was setting up his office. The thought made him pause. He had an office. That was never something that he thought would happen. As a werewolf, he never had a stable job, but here he was, setting up his office as the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts.

He hadn't really wanted the job but Dumbledore had convinced him, saying that it would also provide a safe place where Black and Potter couldn't find him. Remus paused again. He also had never thought, when he was younger, at least, that he would be hiding from two people with the last names of Black and Potter. Back then, those names meant friendship, not fear.

Sighing, Remus continued to stack his books, trying to push the dark thoughts away.

~~~TB~~~

Molly Weasley was troubled. Her only daughter, Ginny, had disappeared off with Harry Potter; the boy who had murdered her son, Ron, and then escaped from Azkaban with the infamous Sirius Black. She hadn't heard from or seen her daughter since then, so she had a very qualified reason to be worried.

What had brought this thought to her mind, once again, was the fact that it was the morning of September first, and for the first time in nearly fourteen years she wasn't at King's Cross Station, sending children off to Hogwarts. Of course, she had known it would end some time, but she had thought that she had three more years of it. Now, Ron was gone, and Ginny was missing, so neither would be going this year.

Molly gazed sadly across the breakfast table, which was deserted. Arthur had left early to go into work. Bill was in Egypt and Charlie in Romania. Percy wasn't speaking to the family and the twins were living in their shop. Her house was empty. There was no one to care for anymore. They were all gone.

This was why Molly was thinking about her daughter, somewhere out with two criminals, probably never to be seen again.

~~~TB~~~

Ginny sighed as she stood outside of King's Cross Station, Padfoot at her side. Harry had opted to stay at Grimmauld Place rather than come in disguise, but Sirius had come in dog form to make sure nothing happened to her.

Walking inside, Ginny glanced around the station and was glad to see that there was nobody there that she knew. That didn't last long though, as soon as she crossed onto Platform Nine and Three Quarters, she was surrounded by familiar faces. Nobody seemed to notice her, or Padfoot, as she walked along trying to act normal.

Loading her trunk into an empty compartment, Ginny bent down so her face was level with Padfoot's face. "I'll try to keep in contact," she murmured.

Padfoot yipped softly, then turned and made himself off of the train and off the platform. Ginny watched him go. She sat down in her seat then, her stomach flipping with nervousness. No, it wasn't running off with two supposedly dangerous criminals that made her nervous. It was coming back that set her nerves on high.