I sealed the piece of parchment with a bit of red wax and pressed the potter crest ring into the cooling wax, charming the parchment to become invisible to anyone until noon the next day and placed it to rest upon the pillow. I then drew the curtains shut on the bed afterwards. I would be gone my the time that they decided to look in the most obvious spot. After packing everything that I would ever need and leaving behind anything that held no significance to me or could not be easily replaced, i put my treasured items in a medium sized ebony chest, that was charmed to shrink the moment I shut it. I placed the shrunken trunk in my pocket, and exited the portrait hole for the last time. In four hours time, I would be leaving hogwarts forever. I walked slowly to the great hall, running my fingertips along the wall. I would miss the castle. Not the students or the teachers, and most definitely not the headmaster, but the castle itself never harmed me in any way. I entered the Great Hall and scanned the room, and upon seeing who I was looking for, sat down beside Neville, one of my only real friends.
Neville cast a notice me not spell on the two of us, and we discussed the plan for the last time, just running over everything to make sure it ran smoothly. After much deliberation, the plan that we, Tom and I, decided on, was that I would be heading to hogsmeade with the two traitors, Ron and Hermione, like I always do, every Hogsmeade weekend. After about a half hour of milling around the shops, there would be a 'sudden and unplanned' death eater attack, where I would be 'ambushed' by four masked death eaters, Severus, Lucius, Fred, and George. They would cast some minor dark magic hexes towards me, but carefully missing hitting me, and grab and apparate me to Riddle Manor where I would meet up with Tom and a select few others to discuss the future and what role I would take in the up and coming Second Wizarding War.
The entire plan was constructed so that no one would suspect that I, the Boy Who Lived (a lie), was joining the Dark side. By the time I finished eating breakfast with Nevill, everyone was only just starting to drift in to eat. I checked the time using a wordless tempus charm, and saw that it was only around 9:00 am. Only two more hours to go, before the plan would begin.
I sat and quietly talked with Nevill about random things until we were finished, before heading back to the common room to join Ron and Hermione, to prepare for the short trip ahead. As soon as the two were ready, we set off to the all wizarding village near the school. I was to meet the four outside of the Three Broomsticks at exactly 11:00 am, but saw Severus giving the signal for the raid to start, early. I guess the plan was happening sooner than expected. Now its time for my side of the plan to be put into action.
