A/N: Chapter Two! I really hope you guys like this fic...I personally love it, but it's mine, so...no reviews yet! Then again, I just posted it today...Okay, here it is. Oh, and if you read the disclaimer, put 'duck' in your review! (Sorry, it's tradition)

Disclaimer: Harry Potter belongs to the wonderful Jo Rowling. I'm just borrowing him.

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Blood Lines
"Tout le sang qui coule rouge; All blood is red."
Eugene Bullard

Chapter Two:

Surprise

"If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door."

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Harry and Ron struggled to get free from the people who were holding them. Harry looked up at one of them and recognized him immediately. It was Lucius Malfoy, and he was smiling maliciously at their struggle. There were others surrounding them. Death Eaters.

Suddenly the sound of a twig snapping came from behind the trees to the left. Motioning to a burly Death Eater Lucius said, "Go." The Death Eater just stood there, stupidly. "The trees!" He pointed.

"Oh." The Death Eater walked into the darkness, then there was a bright flash and a 'thump' was heard.

"An ambush! Get your wands out!" Lucius ordered the others. The Death Eaters holding Harry and Ron threw them aside, their hands still bound, and the Death Eaters spread out.

There was another rustle and a Death Eater turned quickly, stunning one of his own. Lucius glared at him. "You idiot! Do you want them to find us?" He motioned for the fallen man to be revived.

After a few minutes of silence, Lucius found it high time to gloat. "So...we finally have the Great Harry Potter. And his trusty sidekick too." He said, glancing at Ron. Another twig snapped and he turned around, dropping Harry in the grass. "Crabbe, Goyle, find out what that thing is!"

They went into the darkness, and, after a few minutes of shuffling, came out with a figure in a plain black robe. The hood was up, but it was obviously a girl, probably about seventeen. They dropped her on the ground and stood there menacingly.

Lucius glared at the girl. "Deal with her."

A Death Eater went over to her and cracked his knuckles. "Alright, girly." He grabbed her face and wrenched it towards his. "Who are you?" The girl wriggled out of his hand and managed to grab her wand.

"Stupefy!" The Death Eater fell back. "Girly?" She said, raising her eyebrows as she kicked the stunned Death Eater. "And get some mouthwash." She added.

"Crabbe! Goyle! Get her!"

Pulling her hood down, the girl turned to face the oncoming spells. "I wouldn't do that if I were you, Lucius." Her strawberry-blonde hair shone in the moonlight as she took out her wand and pointed it at them.

Her blue-gray eyes transfixed Harry and he couldn't manage to tear his gaze away. "Who- who is that?" He asked.

Ron stared too. "I dunno," he admitted. "Do you think she has veela in her?"

Lucius didn't heed her warning, and fired stunning spell after stunning spell at her. Using a combination of shields and what looked like gymnastics, she managed to dodge them, reflecting quite a few, and knocking out the Death Eaters one by one. When they were all unconscious, the girl turned to them. "No, I don't have veela in me, and stop gawking. I'm not your type." She rolled her eyes and reached into one of her inconspicuous leather boots. She pulled out a knife and flipped it open, then cut their bonds.

"You could be. I mean-" Ron said

She sneered at him. "No, really. I'm not your type." She snapped the knife closed and stuck it back in her boot.

"But-"

"I said no. First of all, I'm way to old for you, second of all, you're annoying, and third of all, you don't even know me. Do you always go for the ones that turn you down?" She got up and started walking off, then turned around. "Is it too much to ask that you get back without needing me to rescue you again?" She shook her head and left the clearing, disappearing into the darkness.

Ron turned to him. "What just happened?"

Harry blinked. "I dunno." He stood up and glanced around the clearing, which was brighter and more Death Eater-filled than before. "We'd better get back."

Ron nodded. "Yeah. They'll be wondering where we were."

They reached an unspoken agreement to not tell anyone about their strange midnight meeting, though they did find it hard not to laugh at Mr. Weasley's expression when he realized there were half a dozen stunned Azkaban escapees on his property.

The days and weeks swept by and, before he knew it, Harry was getting on the Hogwarts Express and heading toward Hogwarts.

Besides an incident with Draco Malfoy and the end of Harry's wand, the train ride was pretty uneventful.

Finally they were seated at the familiar Gryffindor table and the only thing between them and food was the traditional Sorting ceremony.

"Really," Ron was saying to Hermione. "I think they do it every year to make us hungrier before we get to eat so we won't talk so much and bother them on the first day!" Hermione rolled her eyes in response, and the Sorting Hat began to sing.

A millennia or more ago

Four wizards who about you know

Changed the future with a grace

They made a pact and built a place

To school young children, mold their mind

Four houses where they'd put their kind

Gryffindor chose brave at heart

Ravenclaw, you must be smart

Hufflepuffs will always try

Slytherin if you're cunning and sly

Now my friend here will read your name

And I'll give you a house that you'll claim

So in the end all of us win

And to quote great authors: Fin

The entire hall united in rousing applause. When they settled, McGonagall pulled out her scroll. "Aaron, Kelly!" She called, and the first student walked forward to put on the hat.
"RAVENCLAW!" It called after a few seconds. Soon Harry was too tired to pay attention and only just barely caught "Zedekiah, Julian!" and the call of "HUFFLEPUFF!"

He forced himself to eat a bit after the food appeared, but by that time, all he wanted to do was sleep. Finally, the desserts disappeared and Dumbledore started talking. A very comforting blanket of sound fell over him and he leaned onto the table. Then a 'bang!' sounded and Harry sat up with a start.

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