Title: Into the Darkest of Hearts
Author: Jmaria
Disclaimer: I own nothing. J.K. owns her people, I just make up the circumstances.
Spoilers: Set post HBP, au!DH obviously (just because the movies are out, you can't make me believe its true)
Summary: When four Hogwarts students find themselves trapped in a Death Eaters dungeon they expect a quick death. None of them expected the true horrors that lurk in the heart of their captor.
A/N: I played around with this idea before, with a different pairing focus for both of the main characters. It was only when I was running through the dialogue for that piece that this idea hit me.
Into the Darkest of Hearts
Prologue: The Ignored
The first disappearances weren't that extraordinary. It started slowly as news of Voldemort's takeover spread throughout the Wizarding world. One by one, the population of Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry started dwindling. The once impenetrable fortress that had guarded the next generation of magical children had been fractured when Death Eaters had broken in to slay the Headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
Muggle-born students had been immediately taken to various safe houses, secreted away in the dead of the night by professors of similar background. Agitators such as the youngest Weasley siblings, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger were the next to be whisked away to safety. No one stopped to consider the threat to those students who possessed both Muggle and Wizard blood in their veins. And if they just so happened to be students in Slytherin house? They were even more forgotten than any.
So no one noticed at all when the half-bloods in Slytherin disappeared. Not a single person at all.