In The Fight To Survive (Golden Trio Era) {4}

Never Surrender

The Burrow fell into silence after breakfast, for the first time since the Order HQ was moved to the Burrow, there was no non-Weasley Order members hanging around the house. They all were either gone off on missions or just nursing a hangover from last night activities. Last night, Hermione decided that she would apparate Harry home, before returning to her own house because she's was feeling a little homesick. She had told Mikayla that she missed her parents immensely and feels terrible about not seeing them since they left Hogwarts.

Since Hermione would soon be going on the Horcrux Hunt, meaning that she won't be able to see her parents until the quest is complete and Voldemort is dead, Mikayla understood her need to go home. However, the blonde also felt lost without helping Hermione preparing her survival bag. Ron was also understanding and supportive about Hermione's decision of going home and seeing her parents. Although, he has been quite obviously pining over their bushy haired friend's absence as he has been quietly shuffling around the house in a brooding mood as he did his chores.

As for Fred and George, they have left to go to their shop in Hogsmeade to do some potion brewing and replenishing their stocks for postal delivery. They believed that their Hogsmeade premise is a lot safer than their one in Diagon Alley, the rest of the Order agreed with that premise because there hasn't been any Death Eater activity in the magical village since the attack on Mikayla. The boys were getting a lot of owl orders since they shut up shop. In fact they've sold almost all of their previous stock, hence the need to make more.

They are starting to struggle to keep on top of the demand for their products, people even resorting to send them threats or bribes for them to receive their orders ahead of everyone else. The boys would send a warning to threats that if there's another incident that they'll refuse service, as for the bribe's they send it back with a letter saying that they don't accept bribes. Since Dumbledore's death there has been a severe spike in all of their sales, specifically for their protection items, but some people are still seeking prank items to give a little laughter back to the world.

Angelina is also away this morning. She is now a fully licensed healer and is starting her official practice in St. Mungo's Artefact Accidents Department today. She was very nervous about it, but whenever she talked about all that she's learned in becoming a healer, it's clear that it was her calling. There was always so much passion in her voice as she described her training sessions and the satisfaction she felt when of helping someone get better. Andromeda has taken her under her wing, teaching her some cheat codes that she learned when she was working in the Artefact Accidents Department, to make her everyday life a little easier. Andromeda also offered Angelina her aid, should she need some else to look at a patience's symptoms before she has her diagnosis.

Arthur had an emergency meeting with the head of Magical Law Enforcement, Pius Thicknesse. They've discovered that there's been a five pound note floating about the Muggle world that has been cursed to kill Muggle's hours after they've come in contact with it. Thicknesse seemed to be reluctant to have a meeting with Arthur, claiming that the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts was no longer Arthur's job. Apparently there's a lot of truth in the statement that old habit die hard. Now that Arthur leads the Office for the Detection and Confiscation of Counterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Objects, he's been insanely busy either way, as a lot of people are trying to profit from other's fear. But his passion for the stopping the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts will always be his number one career priority, as it should be considering no one else seems to care about Muggles all over dying because of nasty wizards.

As for Bill and Fleur, Gringotts has upped it's security due to the current climate, causing them to be forced into doing a lot of overtime because Gringotts' is severely understaffed. Over the last three weeks a lot of Gringotts employees have been targeted by Azkaban escapees, from a multitude of breakouts that haven't been printed in the prophet, who they have refused service to, going as far as denying them access to their own vaults. The Ministry only started their investigation into the incidents a couple of days ago. It seems as Scrimgeour was willingly turning a blind eye to the activities going on at Gringotts when it was just the goblins being murdered.