After a War ((Old Copy))

Chapter 6 Book 3

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Hermione sat across from Pansy in the great hall. Draco was supposed to be back from the Burrow soon. He should have been back hours ago, but he had popped in quickly, told Hermione that he would be a while longer, kissed her, and disappeared again. So, there they sat. Quite bored.

"Hermione!" Maya yelled as she ran in the room. Hermione and Pansy snapped their gaze from the book they were looking at, to Maya.

"Yes?" Hermione asked, her eyebrows furrowed and she slowly became worried at the fear behind Maya's eyes. Not much could scare Maya.

"I tried to stop him! I really did! I told him what was in the woods! He said that's why he was going! I tried everything I could! There was no way I could save him!" Maya rushed. Both of the seated girls stood and tried to calm Maya down enough for her to actually say what happened.

"Maya? Who?" Hermione asked.

"Ron! He went behind the waterfall!" Maya said, still rushing. Now, Hermione was running towards the door. What was the git doing!? Did he really think he could take on Voldemort and all his followers on his own? Was he being controlled? Blackmailed? What could they possibly have offered him or what could have possibly gotten into his head? Wasn't he supposed to be at the Burrow with Draco, Harry, and the twins? Hermione tried to stop asking herself questions and get moving.

"Maya, inform Harry and Draco. Pansy, I need you to fly overhead and make sure nothing comes my way, for all we know, Ron may not be in his right mind. Who knows the power of these people, they could be stronger than last time, faster, smarter." Hermione ordered. Maya nodded and turned on a different corridor, the way to the Slytherin common room so she could floo. Her apparition wasn't working either. Pansy turned into a bird and flew along the halls, everyone knew about them, so it didn't matter anymore, only Solomon mattered. A Wampus could not be seen roaming the halls, it would risk his life. Hermione turned into a fox and ran faster. Harry could Apparate Draco to the waterfall, unless Harry's apparating had gone out too. Hopefully not.

The forest was darker than usual, but she could smell Ron, where he had stepped. Being a animal was odd, she could smell what he ate. She could smell other animals, a wolf had ran out, only a hour ago, it was Maya, Hermione could tell. But there was another wolf. Hermione stopped running to smell the air.

"Hermione?" Pansy asked as she turned into a human next to her. Hermione looked around for a moment before turning into a human.

"There's the smell of another wolf, and Solomon is here." Hermione said. A large six legged panther walked up behind them.

"I know that smell. Hermione, you remember that wolf that attacked you? That was Bella, its the same wolf." Solomon said in human form.

"Bella was with Ron!" Hermione yelled.

"Shh! We have to be careful." Pansy said. Hermione turned back into a fox and smelled the air again, no blood. Wait. What did blood smell like? She started running to the waterfall again, she could hear the roaring of the water now, and she could see Harry, Maya, and Draco by the edge of the forest.

"You ok? What's wrong? Maya got us." Draco said, Hermione turned into a human by him.

"Ron, I don't know what's going on exactly, turn into a Lynx and smell the air." Hermione said. He furrowed his brows and did as told.

"We found something, a little bit upstream, its a sleeve from one of Percy's old shirts, I'm guessing Ron was wearing it." Fred said as he emerged from the woods, with George behind him.

"Oh my Godric." Hermione and Harry said at the same time.

"I know what he's doing." Harry said.