"You're brilliant, Hermione, brilliant," Harry tells me. He, Ron, and I have been looking for Horcruxes, the key to Voldemort's immortality.
"Well, I'm just using-" I start, but the lights go away. I know who it is... Ron. "Ron, what's wrong?"
"Just heard you two making plans to kill Voldemort without me!" Ron spits.
"Ronald, his name's a tracking device you idiot!" I say, and Ron gasps.
"You don't get to call me an idiot, mudblood!" Ron says, and Harry swings at him.
Ron pulls out his wand and points it at me. "How about your filfty mudblood friend gets Crucio'd!"
"Expelliarmus!" Harry says, and Ron's wand goes flying towards him, and I catch it.
Ron comes running towards me, and starts to choke me, making me drop his wand. I put up my shaking hand and break off the locket from his neck. He looks at me and immediatly stops.
"What's going on?" he asks, and I hear voices.
I grab my wand and point it at Harry and Ron. "I'm sorry. Pertificus Totalus," I say, and they fall dow, frozen. I put the Invisibility Cloak on them and walk out.
"Who are you?" asks a man who's name is Fenrir Greyback.
"Hermione Granger," I say.
"Blood status?" Greyback asked.
"H-half-blood," I say, shaking.
He checks a book and grins. "There is no half-blood named Hermione Granger. There is however a mudblood named Hermione Granger... who looks exactly like you! Let's take her to the Malfoys. Some Crucio might do the trick. Maybe she'll tell us where Potter and Weasley are!"
Two men grab me by the underarms and apparate to Malfoy Manner. Bellatrix LeStrange is there, and she lets everyone in. The Snatchers didn't take anything out of the tent, as they were occupied intterigating me.
We walk into Malfoy Manner and Bellatrix laughs. "I can recognize her! That's Granger. Go, off with you Snatchers!"
"What about a reward? Like some Mud-blood blood!" Grayback says, and I shudder.
"You brought a Mud-blood here, good job," says Bellatrix sarcastically. "I think your reward should be hearing her screaming." She pulls out her wand. "Crucio!"
When you're hit with the Cruciatus Curse, it feels like you're dying, but after an hour or so, you're not dead yet. For me, it hurts even more.
I fall down, screaming at the pain. Everyone in the room laughs, except for one person. I don't know who.
I look around the room. There is Bellatrix, the Snatchers, Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa Malfoy, and... Draco Malfoy. But he doesn't look like he's enjoying watching my screaming. He looks angry, looks betrayed, and looks... hurt?When Bellatrix finally stops, she says, "Draco, take her to the cellar! NowDraco comes over and lifts me up and shoves me until we get halfway down the stairs.
"I can't belive you let yourself get caught, Granger," Malfoy spits.
"I can't believe you're still as pathetic as always, Malfoy," I spit back.
He pushes me down the rest of the stairs. "You know, for the brightest witch of our years, you're not the brightest when it comes to being kidnapped." He smirks.
"For a Malfoy, you're not exactly being one because of those looks of pain that you had when I was being tortured." I smirk.
He pushes me in the cellar and locks the door. "Point taken." He walks back up the stairs.
-0-I wake up to Draco shaking me. "Wake up, stupid!" I stand up and he shoves me all the way up the stairs.
When we get up there, I see Voldemort. He is grinning, his red eyes showing how happy he is.
"Mudblood Granger," Bellatrix tells him.
"Hello, Hermione. It has come to my attention that you have purposely given up your freedom for your friends. That takes great courage. Courage... that the Death Eaters need.
"You would be great with the Death Eaters. So I have a propisition for you... join the Death Eaters, and you will be at a great honor, refuse, and you will die a miserable death from me," he says. "Choose wisely."
What sould I do? Should I choose to be a Death Eater, betraying all my friends, or die for all my friends. It's a hard choice. But, I finally make my decision, with a lot of ways this could bite me in the butt.
"Give me the dark mark, My Lord."