ORDER ONLY: HOW COULD YOU?

[alt_hermione]

I thought you all were going to take care of me. I trusted you. I believed you knew what was best.

I just -

It turns out Mr Lupin was all right after all, and you all just were going to sit around, I've already told the Headmistress this and I want you all to know too: I don't know -

I just -

What will happen to them? I suppose they'll have to go to the colony, won't they? But will the colony have them since they aren't wizards? If the colony won't have them you all had better have them, you had just better take care of them, or I swear I will run away from Hogwarts and help them myself, and I'll steal Draco's wand again and I'll have a wand then, and you all will just be able to go hang!!!!

I didn't realise they were hostages for my good behaviour, I ought to have known, how on earth could I have been so utterly stupid?!

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[alt_arthur]

Bugger, bugger, bugger.

Soon as I saw this, I apparated to the Ministry and fetched the Grangers' file. They were remanded from the custody of camp jurisdiction, Muggle Division to--well, I can't quite make out the signature. But according to the parchment added magically to their file as of 3:00 a.m. this morning, their control has been transferred to Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, the Being Division.

My god, that's the werewolf registry. And the seal affixed to it proclaims that it is at the order of the Lord Protector himself. Now that I look at again, I think that signature might be one of Bellatrix Lestrange's underlings.

Hermione, my poor child, what did they tell you?

[alt_alice]

Oh no. He wouldn't.

She saved Harry, for Merlin's sake! And this is how he repays her?

Have they already been transferred out of the camp? Can we intercept them?

Frank and Stephen can be ready in minutes.

[alt_molly]

Stand by, Alice. Arthur just contacted me by Patronus; he's going to the camp to see if they're still there. If not, he'll try to learn where they've been taken.

Merlin, tonight's the full moon, isn't it?

[alt_arthur]

I'm here at the Ipswich camp, where the Grangers were assigned. I was too late. They're gone. MLE came to get them at 10:00 am this morning. They were given ten minutes to pack, and ordered not to bother bringing any of their dental instruments, since 'they won't be needing them anymore.'

I'm still trying to find someone, anyone, who knows anything about where they might have been taken.

Hermione, I am so sorry. Surely you know we never would have wanted anything to happen to them. I will keep trying to find them.

[alt_frank]

let me know if you need an extra hand. I've got the papers from last time we went to the camps, some polyjuice, we can be there just as soon as you give us the word.

[alt_kingsley]

The Players are standing by, too, Arthur.

[alt_alice]

We should've thought ahead. The moment she went to Harry, we should've taken steps to protect the Grangers. The thought of that awful man using them to hurt her... it's just so monsterous. She's a little girl.

It makes me ill, Molly.

[alt_molly]

I know, but we still . . . we still may have some time. Oh, if we can only find them in time!

[alt_hermione]

Professor McGonagall came in and told me that there was going to be a very bad punishment, but that she had seen to it that I would be safe, and that I needed to remember that my parents were strong and they loved me and they would rather them than me. I don't know if that's true or not. But she said she couldn't stop it.

And then the Lord Protector came and told me that I had did right by protecting Harry but that there had to be an example set and also that I had done wrong to ever think to touch a wand. I didn't look at him. So he said my parents would have to pay for me, since I am still young, and he said that he knew that his son would be upset if I were killed, which I think is true, so he wasn't going to kill me, and also that it was worth it for me to protect him as long as I knew that I was never to do it with magic again and that I should step in front of curses instead.

And then he told me that they were going to be bit. But then later I was sat down in Professor McGonagall's office waiting and he said they were going to let them speak to me once by Floo so that they knew exactly why they were being bit, because I had been bad, but instead they didn't because Mr Lupin had gone and they had to change their plans. And I got sent back to my cell. So now I don't know but I'm sure they're going to do it anyway, Mr Lupin isn't the only werewolf after all, and -

Has anything happened? Have they been saved??

[alt_arthur]

Just saw this when I was writing a reply to your comment above.

My dear child, we're trying to find them still. The Players have apparated to just outside five different werewolf enclaves, trying to get more information. Bill's gone to a sixth. I will send word if I learn more.