Ron and Hermione were excited to see Haley again. They were on their way to their fourth year at Hogwarts. Things for the three friends were a little weird. Haley was very famous because as a baby she killed an evil wizard named Voldemort. Now everyone wants to know her. Haley felt bad for bringing her friends into her fame but they stuck by her no matter what. Ron was particularly nice. His family always let Haley stay at their house. They often considered her a part of the family. Hermione however was her best friend. They never fought or disagreed. They were two peas in a pod. Unfortunately neither had been able to see Haley since school let out. The Weasleys went to Romania to visit Charlie all summer and Hermione's parents took her to France. They sent letters but it wasn't the same.

As soon as the train left the station Ron and Hermione went to search the train for Haley. They checked every booth three times over.

"Where is she?" Hermione asked.

"There were a few booths that were locked. Maybe she was in one of them," Ron suggested.

"Possible but unlikely. She hasn't seen us in months. You would think she would want to talk with us."

"Maybe she's with Neville, Luna, or Ginny," Ron told her. "Let's just meet her at the feast."

Hermione sighed, "Alright."

The train ride was long but when they finally arrived they found Neville climbing onto a carriage and decided to join him.

"Hello Neville. Have seen Haley? We couldn't find her," Ron informed him.

"No but this is only the third carriage to go out and the first two only cared Slytherins. If you want to find her so badly we could just wait at the doors for her," Neville suggested.

"Great idea, Neville!" Hermione said happily.

The three got off the carriage at the end of the ride and waited as each carriage dropped off a load of students. But as the last carriage left they still had not found Haley.

"I think we should tell someone that Haley's missing," Hermione said fearfully.

As much as the guys hated it they definitely agreed with her. They rushed to the first professor they saw.

Hermione s quickly said, "Professor McGonagall, Haley's not here. We couldn't find her on the train so we decided to wait for her as they carriages were dropping people off but she never showed up. We can't find her anywhere."

"Alright, Ms. Granger," Minerva said calmingly, "I will look into the matter immediately. Please relax child. We will find out where she is. You three just head to the feast."

Before the sorting ceremony Hermione, Ron, and Neville saw McGonagall talking frantically to Dumbledore.

"Where could she be?" Neville asked but no one had an answer.

The sorting started and ended without any hint that something was wrong. After the meal Dumbledore got up and did his regular speech with the rules and warnings but surprised everyone by saying, "And finally, has anyone seen Ms. Haley Potter?" Most people shook their heads. "It seems that Ms. Potter is missing at the moment but we will get to the bottom of this. Now off to…"

Dumbledore's speech was cut off a large patronis in the form of a tiger appeared in the middle of the Great Hall. It said, "If you ever want to see your precious hero, Haley Potter alive again you will have five million galleons ready for me as soon as possible. If you do not comply you will never see Ms. Potter again. I will not lie to you. Haley is not alright. She has been tortured and it is unlikely to stop until I get my money. So I would hurry if I were you. I will give you further details later."

The Great Hall was stunned. "Everyone will go to their common rooms immediately!" Dumbledore announced before turning to the staff. "Filius and Pomona go with your houses. Vector take the Slytherins. Hooch take the Gryffindors. Severus, call the Aurors. Minerva, come with me to my office."

Once the Aurors arrived in Dumbledores office with Snape, Dumbledore was surprised to see Cornelius Fudge and Amelia Bones also arrived. He must have mentioned that it had to do with Haley Potter. Dumbledore presented his memory from the feast.

"We're going to pay right?" Minerva whimpered.

"We will get the money ready and wait for further instructions," Amelia told her. All three of the Aurors headed to Gringotts leaving Minerva, Albus, Amelia, Snape, and Fudge alone.

Suddenly a large black dog burst through the door. Minerva, Fudge, and Amelia screamed.

"Not a good time, Snuffles," Dumbledore said sternly.

The dog transformed to a scruffy man and he said, "I don't care if I go back to Azkaban. Where the hell is my goddaughter?!"

"Sirius Black!" Fudge yelled and drew his wand.

Sirius ignored him, "Hermione sent me an owl. What is going on Albus?"

Albus sighed, "Haley was kidnapped. They asked for a ransom. Amelia is getting the ransom money."

Sirius had tears running down his face and he punched the desk, "I can't lose her too, Albus. Not after Lily and James."

"You're the reason Lily and James are dead," Fudge accused.

Sirius finally turned to him, "Minister, you are an idiot! I was innocent! You didn't even give me a damn trail!"

"We could give you Veritaserum right now. If you are innocent then I will have it in the papers by morning and you will be immediately freed. Then you can be there for your goddaughter when we get her back," Amelia told him.

"Severus, please get some Veritaserum," Dumbledore requested.

Moments later Sirius was a free man but he didn't feel any better. The fireplace roared and two people rushed out but stopped at the sight of Sirius.

"Sirius Black?!" the pair asked. It wasn't really fear but shock.

Sirius looked at the red haired couple, "Hello, I'm innocent. You must be Molly and Arthur Weasley. I've met your son Ron. Nice boy. He forgave me for breaking his leg when I attacked him."

"You attacked my son!?"

"Sort of I'll explain later."

Molly shook her head remembering that Ron was fine. He had been the one to owl them. "Albus, Ron sent us an owl. Is it true?" Molly breathed.

Albus gave a sad nod, "Haley has been kidnapped."

Molly began to sob and Arthur pulled her close. "What are you doing about it?"

"We have no idea where Haley could be so right now we are following the instructions and getting the money," Amelia told them.

"Will she be alright?" Molly squeaked.

Snape answered, "He said she was being tortured so probably not." Minerva slapped him. "Ow! What?"

"Don't say that! You know Haley! She's strong! She'll be just fine!" Minerva yelled before putting her head in her hands and crying more.

Everyone was silent.

After a while the fireplace roared again and Remus stepped through, "Albus! Where is she?! What happened?!"

Sirius saw that his friend was hysterical. He got up and pulled him into a brotherly hug. Remus considered Haley his cub. She was a part of his pack so the wolf side of him was having a hard him with this. "Wait a minute. Sirius?"

"Yeah, turns out I'm innocent!"

"I knew that but no one else does."

"They do now. I'm a free man. And we are going to help Haley."

The Aurors came back a moment later and, after they were given an explanation to Sirius being there, handed the money bag to Amelia.

"Now what?" Arthur asked.

"We wait for further instructions."

They didn't need to wait long. Five minutes later a tiger appeared in the room.

"So you can follow instructions. I saw your Aurors at Gringotts. Now listen very carefully because if you screw up Ms. Potter will be the one paying for your mistake. Dumbledore is going to give the package to his phoenix. He will send the phoenix to the open area behind the Shrieking Shack. Fawkes will leave the money bag there and leave immediately. I will send someone to collect the money. If anyone tries to stop the collector Haley dies. If the money is tampered with in any way Haley dies. If the money we asked for isn't all there Haley dies. After we check the money over we will leave. We will place a time lock on Haley's chains. A while after we leave the chains will release her. She can grab her wand and leave. Follow the instructions perfectly and no more harm will come to your special Golden Girl. You have half an hour to deliver the money."

"You're going to do it right?" Remus demanded.

"We don't have much of a choice right now," Amelia said.

"Fawkes!" Dumbledore called and the beautiful bird landed on his desk. "I need a favor. Take this bag to the area behind the Shrieking Shack. Set it on the ground and come straight back. Alright?"

Fawkes nodded and grabbed the bag before disappearing in a fiery blaze. Moments later Fawkes returned.

They sat silently and waited until eight in the morning before finally the tiger appeared again.

"Thank you. That was almost too easy. We will be leaving our spot in twenty-four hours `s. Haley's chains will unlock a few hours after that. No more harm will come to her. Congratulations you saved your saviour. She is a bloody mess though."

"What?! We need to wait!" Molly screeched.

"We should go to the Great Hall. We could get some breakfast and tell the others what we know," Dumbledore suggested.

They followed Albus to the Great Hall. Fudge sat at the staff table. Amelia sat with her niece Susan. Molly and Arthur sat with their children and Hermione. Dumbledore went to the front and made a quick announcement. "I know we are all worried about Ms. Potter. The ransom has been paid and the assured us that she will be released soon but not today. They said that no more harm will come to her though. Oh and we will have a few guests today. There is Minister Fudge, Madam Bones, Molly and Arthur Weasley, Remus Lupin, and Sirius Black." At Sirius' name, uproar began. Dumbledore held up his hand successfully silencing the hall. "He never got a trial. Last night Madam Bones questioned him with a truth serum. He is in fact innocent of all the crimes he was convicted of. He is also very close to Haley as he is her godfather so I expect you to treat him with the same respect you show any of the other adults here."

After the speech Remus and Sirius entered the hall. They spotted the Weasleys and Remus asked, "Mind if we join you?"

They made room and Sirius gave Ron a sad smile, "How's the leg?"

Ron gave a small chuckle and said, "Madam Pomphery healed it up pretty well. Hurt like a bugger for a while though, especially when I needed to walk."

"I told you to sit down on the bed but you were all, 'if you want to kill Haley you're going to need to kill us to'."

"I thought you were a murderer and you just broke my leg! What did you expect?"

Remus cleared his throat and said, "Sorry for almost killing you both. I talked to Haley after that night but not you two."

"No problem, Remus. It's not your fault," Hermione told him.

Molly was going crazy, "What the bloody hell are you four talking about?!"

"Wow, Mum, calm down!" Ron said raising his hands.

"It's nothing Mrs. Weasley. Really. Sirius was trying to get Scabbers and attacked Ron in the process. He dragged him into a tunnel under the whomping willow. Haley and I chased after them but the tree almost killed us but Crookshanks stopped it. When we got the end of the tunnel we found Ron and Sirius in the Shrieking Shack. Haley freaked at Sirius for being the reason her parents were died and almost attacked him when Remus stopped her. Then Snape showed up and the three of us attacked him at once knocking him out. We found out the rat was a man and Remus turned into a werewolf and almost ate us. So Haley and I time travelled to break Sirius out of his cell and flew off on a hippogriff. No big deal," Hermione turned back to her breakfast that she was just playing with.

"That made no sense," Molly said firmly.

"It does to us," Remus, Sirius, and Ron told her.

"Who exactly attacked Snape?" Fred asked.

"Hermione, Haley, and I hit him with the disarming spell at the same time," Ron informed him.

Everyone that heard this stared at the two. "And you're still alive!" George gasped.

They chuckled. "Yeah, I think he hit his head really hard," Ron told them.

"Wow Hermione! You actually did that! I mean I guess I can easy Ron and Haley doing that but you!" Fred gasped.

Ron snorted, "It wasn't even her first time attacking him."

"What!" Fred and George yelled.

"She set him on fire at Haley's first Quiddich game," Ron laughed.

"Ronald! No one is supposed to know that!" Hermione snapped.

Sirius and Remus were laughing like crazy. "Why?" Sirius finally managed to spit out.

Hermione blushed, "A teacher turned out to be an old bitter death eater. He was hexing Haley's broom. I looked into the stands and I saw Snape doing a spell. I thought he was the one attacking Haley so I ran to his stands and set him on fire. Unfortunately he was muttering a counter curse. I still saved her life though. On my way to do it I knocked the actual death eater out of the way breaking his eye contact."

"Why didn't we know any of this?" Molly asked.

"Didn't think it was important," Ron said shrugging.

"Of course it's important!" Molly yelled.

"Alright, calm down," Ron said, "I'll tell you if you really want to know."

"Thank you."

"First year as Hermione said someone was trying to kill Haley. We thought it was Snape. It was actually someone that was a close personal friend of You-Know-Who. Professor Quirrel. He was after an item that Dumbledore brought to the castle to protect and to kill Haley so he could be the next dark lord. He even had a troll attack her but she jumped on its back and stuck her wand up its nose. I knocked it out with a levitation charm. When Hermione, Haley, and I learned that someone was trying to steal the item we tried telling a teacher but they didn't believe us. Haley decided to go a get it herself. Obviously we wouldn't let her go alone so Hermione and I went with her. The problem was that there were several protections in place to keep people out. The first thing was a three headed dog. We just played music and it fell asleep. Then we jumped through a trap door and landed in devils snare. Hermione forgot she was a witch but when we reminded her she set it on fire. Then there was a room full of flying keys and four broom sticks. We had to catch a specific key. Haley did it easily. The next room was a giant chess board and we need to play as the pieces. I took charge and we won but there was one small problem. I had to sacrifice myself."

"What!" Molly, Arthur, Fred, George, and Ginny shrieked.

"No big deal guys. The queen just hit me unconscious. Hurt but I'm fine. After that Haley and Hermione had to move forward. The next thing was a troll but it was already unconscious so they moved on. When they entered the room both exits were blocked by fire. You had to solve a riddle that would tell which potion to drink to move on. Hermione solved it but there was only enough potion for one person to move on Haley drank it and Hermione drank part of the one needed to come back to help me. When Haley went forward she found Quirrel trying to finish the last task. It was a mirror that showed your desires. Haley knew how it worked but Quirrel didn't. Haley got the stone first and made a mad dash for it. She came running through the chess board yelling at us to run not long after I woke up. The three of us grabbed the brooms from the key room and flew out of the chamber. Quirrel however copied us and flew out behind us. We realized it was morning and most people would be in the Great Hall eating breakfast so we flew there avoiding Quirrel's curses. We flew into the Great Hall throwing the stone back and forth to avoid Quirrel. Hermione threw the stone all the way across the room and Haley did an awesome catch. Snape stunned Quirrel and Haley yelled to McGonagall, 'I thought you said it was safe'. It was hilarious."

They were stunned. Fred, George, and Ginny had a new respect for their brother. Molly and Arthur were horrified. There eleven year old boy did all that?

"I don't want to do anything that dangerous again," Molly said firmly.

"To late," Hermione sung earning a punch in the arm.

"What does she mean?" Arthur asked.

"Second year. But that's a story for another time. I need to use the loo," Ron said quickly before leaving.

Classes were canceled because everyone was on edge. The day went slowly. Most people spent the most of the day in the Great Hall hoping for an update but nothing came. Several people fell asleep there. At eight the next morning a tiger appeared in the middle of the Great Hall.

"We are leaving. The chains will unlock in four hours. I do not know how long it will take for her to get to you though. That would depend on her. She is still very much alive. It's been a pleasure doing business with you."

This was good news. Amelia had her Aurors searching for the girl. Any sign of her and they would know.