Disclaimer: Sadly I do not own any Harry Potter characters or plots. If I did I would be on a beach with Severus, Remus, The Malfoy Men and Sirius.
A/N: Special thanks to my Beta reader Eva, who has helped me so much. I love her!! Thank you so much!!
Nick aka HarryPotterLover21
Walking Through Darkness
Prolouge
Wind and rain drops beat down onto the lone figure crouching behind the spiera bush. Lightening flashed; the flash lighted up the night sky revealing moving figures on the periphery of the forest. The crouching man was donned in a heavy black woolen cloak with a gleaming sliver mask a gruesome comical face imbedded in it. He raised his left hand, the moving figures stopped in their tracks and turned to the cozy looking home in the muggle neighborhood. The crouching man stood, with the others behind him they marched up to the back door. "REDUCTO!" Shouted the man who appeared to be the leader. His followers dispersed around the house and used their wands to send numerous curses which began to destroy the house. A piercing scream was heard; a woman in her late forties with auburn hair with strands of grey was grabbing onto a man in his fifties with all grey hair.
"Why are you wrecking my home?," shouted the older man, his eyes shifted from one attacker to another.
"Give us the girl," growled the leader.
"Never!" cried the women.
"Then we will take her with us by force," replied the leader, calmly, almost too calmly. "Upstairs the first door on the left."
His men moved up the stairs. Banging was heard, the old couple were hugging and in tears. Two men came down holding a young teenage girl with bushy chestnut brown hair and hazel eyes. She was struggling in her bear pajamas'. The men brought her up to the leader restraining her arms behind her back. The leader grasped his mask and removed it.
"Ah, Hermione Granger, the smartest witch of the age. We meet again, only too bad the occasion is such a dramatic one."
Hermione's contorted from shock to pure fury within a second.
"Professor Snape, what an honor to stand before you."
"You filthy little mudblood!" He sneered. "Speak with respect or do not speak at all."
"I'm sorry dear Professor," she replied with so much sarcasm that it made the tension in the room almost tangible.
"I'll take her from here," Snape grabbed her upper arm with a bruising grip. He yanked her forward and they went through the busted back door. Then the screams started.
Tears were flowing down Hermione's cheeks, but she remained silent Severus closed his eyes cringing at what Voldemort's Death Eater's were doing to her parents.
"We must go," he said quietly, "they will find you missing soon."
"Why?"
"Why, Miss Granger? Sorry but this is the beginning of your part in the final battle of the so called Chosen One and the Dark Lord."
He sneered down at her.
"Professor, why must you act so cruelly?"
"Let us go, it is not safe to converse here."
Snape grabbed her hand again, but without causing her pain this time. With a soft 'POP'they were at the gates of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. With a swish and flick of his wand the complex wards were down and they made the long hike up to the school in silence.