Right, I got there. Part 34. (I'm having a flash memory of the last time I was writing Fanfiction for something else and telling myself my stories should be shorter.). Not that this one looks like ending right now.

I hope you enjoy it. It's not as easy to write tension as it is a Weasley family dinner.

Harry felt sick as the realization of what had happened slowly weighed on him. Robards had flooed Harry and Ginny straight into the Auror department at the ministry, placing them back the room Harry had been in the first day after the battle to write out his story on what had happened causing Harry to feel trapped again.

Ginny's pacing wasn't helping either. Even though he had to admit she had just taken over what he had done for the first 10 minutes they were in the room. After she had insisted he sit down, climbed onto his knee and burst into tears she had pulled herself together and started pacing just like she had told him not to do 15 minutes earlier.

The door finally opened with a bang and looking over Harry saw Bill enter just before he was almost knocked over by his little sister flying at him. "Oh Bill, they've been taken."

Fleur side stepped the siblings and came to place a hand on Harry's shoulder. "Ez Terrible." She sighed. "Just to zink we were all free."

Harry nodded up at her and looked back at Ginny and Bill who seem to have pulled themselves away from their hug just to stare at each other and make sure they were really there before Bill turned to Harry. "What have you been told so far?"

"Not much." He grumbled, running his hands through his hair. An action he had probably done so much in the last half an hour he imagined his hair looked like he was half crazed. Which to tell the truth probably wasn't too far from what he was feeling. "Robards meet us as we returned from my vault, told us the family had been taken from the Burrow and then dumped us here in this room."

"Did they tell you anything?" Ginny asked.

Bill shook his head. "It wasn't even until we arrived here they told us what had happened, they were more interested in getting out statements before we returned to Shell Cottage."

"We just entered our ouse and zese men grabbed Bill." Fleur shook her head.

Bill just grinned at his wife. "She's brilliant. She just blasted them and had them stunned before I could do anything, a bit of a knock to the ego when your wife saves you, but hey." He half shrugged.

Harry nodded. "Did you see Kingsley out there at all?"

Bill shook his head. "We didn't even see Robards. I doubt we would have come with the Aurors if they hadn't been some of the ones we knew."

Ginny just threw he hands up in the air and started pacing again muttering away to herself. "This is crazy when are they going to tell us what on earth is going on."

Bill watched her for a moment before turning to Harry. "How long has she been doing that?" He asked.

"About twenty minutes. She started after telling me to stop pacing and then crying on my shoulder." Bill nodded at Harry's answer and Harry noticed the slightly smirk that slipped out on Bill's face at the fact Ginny was now doing what she had told Harry off for.

It was another long thirty minutes till the door opened again this time to show quite a frazzled Freda and Ian Johnston followed by Katie and Lee. The Auror showing them in took one look around the room and said. "Ahh, I think we need to find somewhere more comfortable for you all if you would like to follow me."

Harry stood and grasped Ginny's hand to stop her pacing as she walked past him, pretty much ignoring the new people in the room. "They are going to take us to a more comfortable room." Harry told her as people filed back out the door.

"I don't want somewhere more comfortable I want to go and get my family back." Ginny muttered away clearly flustered.

"How did you hear?" Bill asked Lee and Katie as they walked down a corridor.

"We turned up at the burrow to check on Ange and there were Auror's everywhere." Lee shook his head. "We came straight into see Ian, and then up here to demand what the hell was happening."

The Auror opened the door to a room that looked a little like a Hospital waiting room, but Harry was pleased to see at least the couches and chairs looked a lot more comfortable if they were going to be stuck here for a while.

Harry waited as Angelina's parents, Lee and Katie entered first, with Fleur and Bill behind them, stopping himself when he saw the two Auror's that were meant to be escorting Ron and Hermione to Australia walking down the hall with Robards.

Hearing Bill mutter a swear word which would have made his mother scourgify his mouth, Harry stepped out in front of them. "Where's Ron and Hermione?" He demanded. Surely if they were here they would have been placed with the family.

Robard's stopped, and flushed a little red in frustration. "We were just coming to tell." He muttered something that Harry couldn't workout while rubbing the back of his neck.

Alice Rivers spoke up. "We were on our way to report in this morning before coming to pick them up."

Her husband took over from there. "We woke up an hour ago in an alley way not far from the ministry."

Harry groaned. Looking at Robards. "Do you have any idea…" He started to ask.

Robards just nodded. "Yeah, they have them. We received word just now. They say they will be the first lives to be taken if we don't respond to their demands."

"Idiots, you're all bloody idiots." Ginny started in what Harry could only imagine was going to surely be a wild lecture. "Nine months. Harry, Ron and Hermione were on the run, and kept themselves safe for nine months. My family was in hiding for two and we were fine. One week, one week in your care…."

"Gin, calm down it's not…." Bill attempted to rain his little sister in.

Harry was more tempted to let her go full swing and see if she could blow them from ministry. But knew that probably wasn't about to help anything. He could already feel the magical tension around her growing.

"Miss Weasley. I can understand how upset…." Robards tried to talk.

All it did was make Ginny take a breath. "Upset, upset that the ministry didn't learn from the break in eight months ago that workers could get stunned and someone use poly juice to sneak into the ministry and that was achieved by three teenagers who had only just come of age."

But when the glass window in the door to the room they were being shown into started to shake Harry knew it probably wasn't going to help if Ginny blew something up. Stepping behind her he wrapped his arms around her, pinning her to him. She struggled a bit, but stopped speaking long enough to allow him to whisper. "It's going to be alright, just remember, we've got help. We won the war, we can win this."

Ginny took a deep breath and swallowed, leaning back into him. Harry knew tears were about to fall again and quickly turned her so that she was facing him with her head buried in his chest. Looking at Robard's Harry waited until the Head Auror was looking him in the eye. "I want a full brief. Bill and I need to know everything. Do you understand that? Because if you don't we will do this on our own and then you won't know where any of us are. Do I make myself clear?" Harry was surprised at how even and confident his voice sounded. He knew for sure he wasn't feeling that confident on the inside. "I'm sure if you lost Harry Potter as well as most the Weasley family your job would be on the line."

Robards just nodded. "We have a full breakdown conference in half an hour. Minister Shacklebolt has requested a full briefing as well. I will have someone come and get you."

"Good." Harry nodded almost dismissing the Head Auror.

Once they were all in the waiting room, Harry sat Ginny down on a couch she was slowly pulling herself together. "I want to be briefed too." She grumbled.

"I know it's just probably not going to help us if you blow up half the Aurors and the Minister of Magic." Harry told her then was almost surprised when she nodded her head in agreement.

"It's just so annoying. We were fine at Grimald Place. You were even thinking of moving us to your manor. It's them that told us we could go home." She shook her head, the frustration still clearly showing.

"So what do we know other than the fact one of the men who attacked me had a dark mark?" Bill asked.

Harry thought back to what Robards had said at the bank. "They are demanding the Ministry lets all the death eaters arrested go, or they will start taking one life a day. I think that was it anyway."

Fleur nodded. "Starting wiz poor Ron and ermione." Harry saw her wipe a few tears of her own away. "It's just orrible."

Bill groaned. "So we know nothing really."

Ian Johnston leant forward. "We are just going to have to wait till you and Bill are briefed. At least we know you'll be in the meeting now, instead of just told a short version afterwards."

Freda sniffed next to her Husband. "Oh, I hope Angelina has her medication. She needs to keep taking it or her lungs….." Harry shifted uncomfortably. He hadn't even really thought about the fact Angelina was meant to be on bed rest still her poor parents almost losing her a few days ago after the first attack, and now she was kidnapped with her new boyfriend's family.

"George will be looking after her as much as he can." Lee tried to assure them.

Harry ran his hand through his hair once again. "I don't think there is much time. We are going to have to wait until the meeting. But after that, if Bill and I don't think enough is being done we will have to do something ourselves." He announced.

Bill looked at him like he was a little unsure. Ian and Freda shook their heads like they didn't really agree. But Ginny, Lee and Katie all sat forward looking at Harry. Lee asking. "I've got my Galleon to alert the DA you could send a Patronus to update Neville. Get the team together on standby."

"Good thinking." Ginny agreed. "What about who is left of the order?" Ginny turned asking Bill.

"Gin, I'm not sure this…." Bill shook his head at her. "We don't know what we're up against."

"That's never stopped Harry before." Katie blurted out. "And it's always turned out for the best."

Bill coughed into his hand. "Department of Mysteries?"

Harry sunk into the chair at the comment. That was one time he had gotten it wrong and it had cost Sirius his life. But Lee threw up his hands. "At least after that the world knew 'You know who' was back."

"Exactly." Ginny agreed. "I trust Harry, more than this lot anyway." She waved her hands around her as if to say the ministry was useless.

Harry looked at Bill as they both sized each other up a little Harry saying. "We will wait until after the meeting. But I meant it, I'm not going to let anything happen to Ron and Hermione or any of the family, they've risked their lives too much for me as it is to just lose them now." Harry finally gave a little.

Bill nodded. "Fare enough. You've got us in that meeting then we will see."

When Bill and Harry were shown in to a large conference room which was literally buzzing with activity, paper planes were flying into the room, as wizards seemed to be spread out, reading notes and conferring with each other.

"At least they look like their doing something." Bill muttered as Harry and he were pointed to some chairs.

"As they should." They heard Kingsley's booming voice behind them. Harry turned to see the concerned face of the tall black man looking down at him. "I'm so sorry this has happened. I was really assured they would be safe."

Bill nodded. "I want to know how they got Ron and Hermione's travel details. You have a serious leak."

Kingsley raised his eyebrows. "I think we may have worked that out. You know them knowing when you were all delivered back to the burrow. But they clearly didn't know Harry wasn't with you all, even though they did know you were going back to the cottage." Kingsley almost growled in frustration then barked loudly. "Robards we are waiting, there are lives at stake. Lives we were meant to be protecting."

Everyone seemed to scramble into places, with a few Aurors standing still against the walls. Kingsley looked around. "Surely we don't need this many people in here. This is classified information. Extra's leave."

There was a few mummers, but Robards nodded at Kingsley and ordered. "Only the heads of the teams please, the rest of you will be briefed on what you need to know later."

Sure enough we were sitting at the large table with only a third of the people in the room a few minutes later making me pleased Kingsley was here. Leaks weren't going to help us get anyone back. Bill just looked at me, as if to say see Kingsley's on to it. I just half nodded back to him. Still not entirely convinced, after all I didn't have the best history with the ministry of magic.

"So what do we know?" Kingsley asked after the silence except for Robards whispering to someone went on for another minute.

Robards stopped and looked up, straightening the parchments in front of him.

"At four this afternoon I flooed into the safe house where the Weasleys were staying. Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley left with the two Auror's I brought along to visit Gringotts. After this I watched as each of the remaining resident's flooed through to the burrow, we had Auror's Stevens and Weatherby there. One inside and one outside the wards." He paused to take a breath. "I flooed there myself once they were all there. Upon arriving, Mr. Bill Weasley and his wife said they were returning to their home straight away, while Mr. Percy and his partner said they would stay for dinner before leaving. As we thought the situation was completely under control I just left one Auror on guard Weatherby outside the wards. At this stage we are guessing he is the leak."

Kingsley groaned. "Merlin man you were trained by Moody. Constant vigilance, don't assume anything. That's what got us into this mess."

Robards nodded his head turning a little red again. "Weatherby is now missing, which is why…." He took a deep breath when Kingsley glared at him. "Right then, Arthur must have gotten off a patronus to warn us of their danger. That arrived here at around 5pm. Auror's immediately Apperated there to find no one but a note demanding the release of all known Death Eaters from Azkaban."

Kingsley nodded. "Have you had a team check out Azkaban?" He asked. "After all it is being guarded by Wizards and Goblins currently. The Dementor's have the wrong loyalties."

Robards coughed before answering. "Yes, someone checked with them through the floo network. The Goblins are tightening the wards and placing some hexes that I believe are used in Gringotts."

Bill nodded. "That should help. Not having dementors at Azkaban would make it an easier target."

Robards nodded then looked to the person who was sitting beside him. "Your interview with the death eater and wizard detained at Shell Cottage."

The Witch looked through her notes. "Not much actually. They refuse to talk. Other than to say their Lord's death will be avenged."

Robards nodded, flicking through his notes. "Known Death Eaters we don't have in custody are, Lestrange and Crabbe. Malfroy handed himself in, asking for leniency due to his wife lying to Voldermort about Harry being dead."

Harry shook his head. They should probably have all the Malfroy's in. But then again Draco and Narcissa were claiming to be turning over a new leaf.

Kingsley looked at Robards. "Right, I approve the use of Veritaserum, I want that started now." He looked directly at the witch who had spoken. She almost bowed to Kingsley as she stood gathered her papers and ran out of the room. "Do we know anything useful?" He boomed back at Robards.

Robards nodded. "We are thinking this could be the work of Rabastan Lestrange. His brother Rodolphus is being held in Azkaban. He was obtained at the end of the battle. We don't believe Crabbe has the guts or the leadership skills to pull this off."

Harry would have to agree. If Crabbe was anything like his son he was most likely to be led rather than lead. The Lestrange's hadn't given up looking for Volermort after the first war until they were placed in Azkaban. It made sense that they wouldn't give up now. Depending on how much they knew of the Horcrux's.

Robards looked at another witch. "Known Death eater Hideouts and houses?"

She quickly looked at her notes. "Malfroy Manor, we believe that would be too obvious. The Lestranges family home has always been unplotable and hidden through secret keepers." She talked reading through what she had in front of her. "There is a house they used in Hogsmeade but that's had Auror's all over it since the battle, was warded and hidden as evidence."

Harry rolled his eyes he doubted this was going to get them anywhere. Even though the Lestrange's Family home sounded like it might have some merit.

The Witch went on. "There is the place we haven't been able to track down yet that they were holding some Muggleborns in. The ones they were using as slaves. That's somewhere in the Lake District."

"We're not playing a guessing game here. We need leads, and we need them now." Kingsley's voice boomed out as his fist slammed on the table. "Do you, or do you not have anything concert?"

Everyone in the room jumped slightly and the witch who had been speaking looked up. "Lestrange family home. It's on record for having dungeons. We have statements from a witch whom managed to escape. She was being held there by Bellatrix and Rodolphus just before they were sent to Azkaban over the Longbottom case." She paused looking at her notes again. "It would be my guess. Death Eaters had too much freedom over the last year most of them gave up being secretive. But the Lestranges have always been Dark and secretive. Much like the Blacks It would be good if we could locate that family home as well."

Harry rolled his eyes but did make a note to have someone go over the house at some stage to remove any thing to do with dark magic.

Robards nodded. "Lestrange sounds logical, but we need facts. As to the Black house, it's clean and was left to Harry Potter by his Godfather Sirius Black. I don't think it's of any interest to us."

Kingsley shook his head. "Is there anything information other than what we know? I asked for a full briefing and all I'm hearing is guess work." Then turned to look at Harry and Bill. "I'm so sorry about this."

Bill just sighed, and Harry shook his head. He wished there was more to go on as well. He had promised Ginny they would work it out, and now there was nothing other than the guess that it was Lestrange, not that they even had any idea where to find him.

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