I Know The End {Fred Weasley, ACT I}

Chapter 59- The Last Straw

"Where is he? Where is Harry right now?"

Everything was wrong. Voldemort couldn't have Sirius. That was impossible. Sirius was holed up inside Grimmauld Place, and with Dumbledore as secret keeper for the Order, there was no way any Death Eaters could have broken in.

Unless, of course, there was another spy in their ranks. A spy who had lured Sirius out of hiding and out into the open where Voldemort could have gotten his hands on him. It had happened before, hadn't it? With Peter? Dumbledore had been deceived once; he could be deceived again.

And last time she'd checked, Sirius and Remus were still living together. Remus wouldn't have let Sirius leave on his own. Having already lost Sirius, there was no way Lupin would allow such a thing to happen again. No, Remus wouldn't have let anyone deceive Sirius away from the safety of Grimmauld Place. He didn't even want Sirius going to Eleanor's graduation.

Of course, Eleanor hadn't written her godfathers back yet. She couldn't be sure that Dumbledore hadn't ordered Remus to return to the pack again. She couldn't even be sure that Dumbledore hadn't ordered Sirius out of hiding himself. That this was just another thing Eleanor could trace back to being Dumbledore's fault. Another thing for her to hold against him.

No, she was being nonsensical. Sirius would not leave Grimmauld Place. He would not be deceived again. Dumbledore, despite his many flaws, would not order Sirius on a mission while the man was a wanted criminal. Sirius was safe. Harry was wrong.

Except that Harry's last vision had been correct.

And if Sirius believed Eleanor or Harry to be in danger....

She needed to see Harry right now.

"He's... I don't know exactly," Ron stammered.

Eleanor resisted the urge to smack Ron upside the head. "Then tell me what you do know. Everything."

"We were in our History of Magic final and Harry went into one of his fits. The same kind we had to wake him from when he saw my dad..." Ron trailed off, swallowing at the mention of his own father's suffering. "And then... well, then I tried to finish my exam but with Harry being dragged out of the exam kicking and moaning, it was kind of hard to focus."

"I am so sorry that Harry broke your concentration with his horrible vision of Voldemort stealing our godfather," Eleanor sneered, "poor baby."

"I didn't mean it like that," Ron retorted, "I just... after the exam, Hermione and I found him freaking out-"

"Shocker."

"-And rambling about needing to save Sirius. That he had some vision of You-Know-Who torturing Sirius in the Department of Mysteries and that he needed to leave right away."

Eleanor's stomach dropped, and she held back the urge to dry heave as fear infected her veins.

"But... I don't know how that would be possible. I mean, no one can get into Grimmauld-"

"And no one was supposed to be able find Godric's Hollow, but they did anyway. Where is Harry?"

"I'm getting to that. We convinced him that he should double check before we did anything rash. He'd spoken to Sirius once before using the fireplace Umbridge's office, there was no reason he couldn't do it again."

"No reason other than the fact that Umbridge is a crazy cunt who would torture Harry for the fun of it!"

Ron looked sheepishly down at his feet. "Yeah, it wasn't the best idea, but... what else were we to do?"

"You should have told me immediately," Eleanor hissed. "This is more important than any exam could ever be. Did he get caught? Does she have him?"

"We all got caught," Ron muttered, refusing to meet Eleanor's stare, "but Hermione... she must have figured something out because she convinced Umbridge to take them to the Forbidden Forest."