Wanted
Ginny walked into the kitchen of number twelve, Grimmauld Place and sat down at the table next to Hermione, who gave her a warm smile and leaned close to whisper in her ear "Snape's just arrived, he's apparently got some information about the targeted attacks that have been going on."
Ginny nodded and looked round at all the grave faces in the room. Her best friend Hermione Granger, all her brothers other than Percy (who it was generally agreed could not be trusted to keep important Order plans quiet from Fudge), her parents, Remus, Tonks, Kingsley, Moody, Luna Lovegood, who was engaged to Ron, and Harry Potter, currently deep in conversation with Dumbledore. All of them looked strained; the Death Eaters, who had been relatively quiet for the last two years or so, had lately been attacking muggle schools and hospitals, which created a lot of friction between the muggle and wizarding world, and of course produced mass hysteria. The Ministry and Order had both been enormously occupied covering up the attacks as best they could to stop the muggles discovering the wizarding world, which involved a lot of modified memories of the surviving witnesses and frantic negotiations with muggle government officials. The muggle newspapers had been saying that the attacks were the work of terrorist groups that had not been identified, although they failed to explain, or even mention, the rumours of bright flashes of ghostly green light and people appearing out of thin air.
Now Snape was apparently coming to tell them the latest developments on the situation from the Death Eater side of things. Joy. Ginny hated seeing Snape more than ever recently, because he reminded her of a certain other former Slytherin who she had not seen for months. It had been a year since that magical night by the sea, and Ginny had only spoken in person to Draco twice since then, and once by letter. She hated the situation they were in. It was extremely unfair and cruel. They had been together throughout Ginny's fifth and sixth year and then Draco, Harry, Ron, Hermione and all the others had graduated. Harry, Ron and Hermione to become full Order members, and had starting up their own company as Dark Wizard Hunters, preferring now to work for Fudge, and Draco had taken his 'rightful place' at his father's side. But unbeknown to Lucius Malfoy, his son had already been a well respected Order member for a year before he left school, providing the Order with vital information as to Voldemort's movements and plans. But when he graduated, Draco had to become a Death Eater, and go deep undercover in his dangerous new role as a double agent. He couldn't risk anyone being suspicious of him, and he succeeded perfectly - he had the complete trust of Voldemort and his father. No Death Eater even suspected that Draco Malfoy - the cold, ruthless Draco Malfoy - was repeating their every move to Dumbledore. That the unfeeling, uncaring Draco Malfoy loved Ginny Weasley more than life itself.
Now Ginny had just graduated from Hogwarts two weeks ago, and had not seen or heard from Draco for three months, when he sent he a hastily scribbled 18th birthday card, which she treasured. In the past six months the Death Eaters had become more active, and all over Hogsmeade, Diagon Alley and the Prophet there were posters of the Ministry's Most Wanted Death Eaters, and among them was Draco Malfoy who was slowly making a name for himself as one of Voldemort's most devoted followers. So his life was constantly at risk from Aurors. But, mainly due to Ginny's constant worrying, Harry Potter - 'The Boy Who Lived' and star Dark Wizard Hunter - had warned Aurors off killing Malfoy, his story was that he wished to deal with the man himself, as they had previous history. No one challenged this, because everyone knew of the two wizards' hatred for each other at school, no one realising that they were now good friends. So, much to Ginny's relief, Malfoy was to be brought in alive if possible for Harry to deal with.
"You okay?" Hermione asked her quietly. Ginny smiled thinly at her friend, noticing the concerned look on her face. Ginny nodded and briefly squeezed Hermione's hand, reassuring her there's nothing to worry about. Hermione still looked sceptical though.
"Its nothing. Just…you know, stuff." Ginny finished lamely. Good one Ginny, she's really gonna stop worrying now she thought wryly.
As predicted, Hermione started to look all sympathetic. "Draco?" she asked quietly. Ginny nodded but said nothing, hoping Hermione would get the hint and drop it. Luckily, she was saved by Snape of all people. Looking his usual gorgeous self I see she thought with a smirk. Greasy haired, sallow skinned, hook nosed, ugly moron. She realised that Hermione was looking at her with her eyebrows raised and Ron, who was leaning against the wall next to Hermione caught her eye and winked. Ginny realised too late that she'd actually spoken out loud, but to her relief, quite quietly.
Silence fell in the already quiet room as Snape stalked in front of them and began telling them swiftly of the Death Eaters plans for the next few weeks. He knew of two muggle primary schools that were next to be targeted. After they finished discussing plans for the protection of the schools Snape asked for any questions and when Harry called out that he had one, Snape glared at him and grudgingly told him to continue.
"These attacks have only started five or six months ago, and already five schools and two hospitals have been attacked, which is more that one a month. Close to five hundred muggles have died, and thirty two wizards. Whoever's doing this needs to be brought in. Who thought this up?" He asked, trying to keep his voice civil.
"I think we're all well aware that it needs to stop Potter" Snape said acidly. "It was Dolohov who came up with the idea. You wont get near him, he's turned completely paranoid in the last few months and now won't leave the Dark Lord's side." he sneered, lip curling in disgust.
"But who's leading the attacks?" Harry persisted.
Snape quickly glanced at Ginny and her heart stopped beating. She swore she saw something close to pity in that look.
"Bellatrix" he said shortly "And Draco Malfoy".
The room was silent. Ginny could feel everybody's eyes on her, she could sense the sympathetic looks. Hermione asked hesitantly "But he's still on our side, right?"
Snape looked coolly at her. "Yes Granger, of course he is. He obviously did not want to oversee the operation, but clearly he couldn't say that. He had no choice in the matter. Bellatrix does most of the … practical work, Malfoy's job is more to organise the attacks and make sure it all goes smoothly. Unfortunately, he was seen by a Ministry Auror in the attack last week, so tomorrow it's to be printed in the Prophet; Fudge has ordered that he's to be brought in: 'Dead or Alive'."