An- I am working on editing my mistakes in the last two chapters. Vilmaris is sweet enough to go though them for me too! Thanks you again! I noticed I had a lot of grammar problems if you see one point it out and I will fix it. Hope you all are enjoying this so far. I have a lot more to go with it, but here is 3 for now.
Chapter 3
Land of Confusion
"Now, did you read the news today? There's too many men, too many people
They say the danger has gone away
But I can see the fire's still alight
They're burning into the night
Making too many problems
And there's not much love to go around
Can't you see this is a land of confusion?
Land of confusion, Distubed
A loud bang echoed through the halls. Harry jumped off the bed falling to the floor. Again another loud crash was heard. What the he...thought as he reached for his glasses on the night stand. Harry heart dropped in his chest. Did the death eaters find headquarters? Were they being attacked?
A soft knock on the door sounded, then Hermoine burst into the room. She was still dress in her pajamas and had soft white bunny slippers silencing her foot steps. She look around back into the hall then shut the door behind her. She turned and blushed seeing Harry in his boxer.
"Harry get dressed something is happening downstairs, Come on!" She rushed him, throwing clothes from the closet at him. Harry stumbled and tripped as he pulled on winkled clothes, then grabbed his wand on the nightstand. Hermoine moved to the dresser and pulled out the shining material of Harry's invisibility cloak. She moved the cloak over top of them, making sure to cover them comepletely.
"Moine, Whats the heck? Its nearly three am!" Harry asked as she pushed him out of the room into the hallway.
"Snape brought someone here tonight, that's got everyone in a up roar. I am surprised you slept through all the shouting down there. I wanna find out whats going on. Come on?" She said leading Harry down into the hall.
"Hermoine Jane Granger are you seriously wanting to sneak around? I am shocked" Harry whispered suppressing laughter. Hermoine gave him a sharp look as she slapped his arm.
"And you Harry James Potter are giggling like a girl, Now come on" She moved them silently down the corridor and danced down the steps between the squeaking stairs.
They made there way down the maze of stairs and hallways, until they reached the entrance to the kitchen. Hermoine moved them to the side, close to the door, and like she choreographed it, she sweeped them into the room as some opened the door to leave. With silent footsteps they weaved there way into the corner of the room by the fire place.
"Albus how could you? You knew this whole time and you kept your silence?" Sirius screamed at the old headmaster sitting at the table. He paced around the room, picked up a dish from the sink and tossed it across the room. Harry and Hermoine were only able to miss it by and inch before it hit the wall beside them and shattered.
"I was aware but I had no idea the situation. Had I known that what was going on I would have told you" Albus replied.
"Do they even know I am innocent?" Siruis asked. Harry didn't understand anything, he looked at Hermoine with a quiestioning look. She gave a tight shake as to not knowing anything. Harry felt he was in the land of confusion.
"Sirius, sit down. There is nothing we can do at this moment. I think it would be best if we waited to find out more. These are only speculation, if we asked the right questions maybe we can get the answers you need?" Remus spoke, lifting his head from the cup of tea he was nursing.
Sirius huffed in a reply, crashing into a chair near by. He look like a train wreck, bags under his eyes and the makes of tears running down his cheek. What was so bad that Sirius had to cry about? Harry's mind raced with questions, it had to be bad.
"Ah, Remus, right as always." The headmaster said. "Now in a few moments, one of the spys will be contacting me. I would like you both to be on your best behavior and respect him. I have know doubt in his loyalty." The room fell to silence and the two last marauders gave a slight nod.
" Dumbledore you should never have to explain your self" The occupants of the room jumped, except the headmaster, at the voice that sounded at the kitchen doors.
A figure was cloaked in black, covering their face to their feet. Whoever he was, he wasn't very tall, standing only around 5"5'. Hermoine nudged Harry to get his attentions and pointed to the floor, a small dip of blood marked the floor. He must be bleeding..He must have just come from a meeting
"Wolf, how are you? I haven't had the pleasure of seeing you in a while. Got your owls though!" Albus spoke as if there were the greatest of friends, smiling and bellowing out a joyful voice.
The figure moved closer to the headmaster, sliding to stand by his chair. Harry peered around him, watching as more drops of blood trailed around him. "Tom, has organized more forces and is planing to attack the train on september first. Snake said, and I quote "Tell the old man, that everything is as planned and have his golden on borded, because he won't get hurt. "
A amused smile and a twinkle lit up Dumbledore's face as he replied. "Aww snake is as sweet as ever. Now since we have business out of the way. I should have you know that the dragon is alive and hanging in there. Severus is attending to him no, would you like to see him?"
"As much as I would like to see him, I have a pressing matter to attended, I do have ever have this to give him" The dark figure thrust a role of parachment into the headmasters hands. "Its from Snake and me, should explain everything. See that he gets it." He turned and walked to the door, it was then that Hermoine noticed the small limp in his walk.
"Wolf, do take care of yourself more and see that Snake takes care of that leg. I will see you very soon, all is in order for your next task" Headmaster smiled sadly as the man left.
Sirius and Remus sat stunned at the encounter, it had happened so quick neither had time to ask anything. Remus's wolf could taste the blood in the air, whoever it was is bleeding. Sirius's mouth moved like a fish gulping air before he composed himself.
"Was that the spy? Why didn't you ask him to stay." Sirius shouted.
Remus put a hand on his friends shoulder pulling him back into his chair. "Sirius enough of this, act like an adult. Albus excuse him he is not himself"
"That is alright, we all have our moment. It would seem that I have much to plan for. We will all discus this at the meeting tomorrow."The headmaster said as he sucked on his lemon drops.
Harry felt confused, more then ever. Who was that? What where they taking about? And why the hell was Sirius acting this way? Harry's head started to spin giving him a slight headache. Hermoine gave Harrys hand a soft squeeze of understand and smiled. She has got to be the best-est friend ever...Harry smiled back and turned to watch the room. There silence thickened in the room, everyone of them looked deep in thought.
The flames burst out of the fire place and Mrs. Weasey burst out of the fireplace. Making them dance for the second time that night. "Albus I came as fast as I could. Where did you need?" She spelled soot and dust off her.
"Molly, thank you for coming. Severus is in the study, Come I will show you?" spoke the headmaster as he sat up. As they moved to the door, Hermoine guided Harry after them under the cloak. They slipped behind them in pace, stay only a foot behind them. The heamaster led them down the hallway to a door Harry had never noticed before. The headmaster opened it to let Molly in. Hermoine moved fast rushing them inside. Harry could have sworn Professor Dumbledore held the door long enough for them too. Molly gasped and rushed back out of the room, they duo had just enough time to move out of the way and into the corner.
A body , pale as the moon lay painted black and blue across the bed. It was covered in angry red lines and welt. Harry was sure there was words burned into skin, too. Snape sat next to the boy, digging into a black bag, mummering to himself and shaking his head. After a few moments, Snape poured vile after vile down the boys throat. It seemed to bring a light flush to the skin. Snape ran his wand over top of the boy and start to cast wordless spells. Mrs. Weasley rushed back into the room with a bowl and started wiping dried blood away from the body,reveling blonde hair and familiar sharp features.
Harry gasped as he realized it was Malfoy. He's alive. Hermoine nudged Harry in the shoulder making a motion to keep quiet. He pulled the cloak tighter as they backed closer into the corner. He couldn't believe it, Malfoy had survived the attack from that vampire, barely. He had never seen some much blood, come from one person. Harry was sure he would have been dead, but seeing him here now, was shocking and made him feel...happy Malfoy was alive.
Harry stared as Snape did a number of spells and potion on the broken boy. Mrs. Weasley looked like she was going to cry just from wiping the blood and dirt away. Harry turned and looked at Hermoine and was surprised, she looked like she was going to cry at the sight. He understood, it may have been Malfoy, but no one deserved this.
"Albus, his heart is still faint but I sure he will be fine in a few hours.."Snapes voice trailed off pulling another potion from his bag. His voice broke the silence and tension building in the room.
"I am glad you were able to save him, if it had been anyone else...Mr. Malfoy would have been lost forever." Dumbledore turned from the bed and transfigured a lemon drop into a comfy purple chair. He sat turning to smile at the corner of the room. "It seems that our little wolf and snake have made more progress then we had expected.."
"I wish you would inform me on your new connections with in the dark lords circle. It is hard enough for me to get any information anymore, not with this..this..harlot being his second." For once Harry had to agree with Snape. Voldermort's new "pet", Alexis, maybe beautiful but she was horrid, vile!
" Ah yes this mysterious Alexis, it would see she in Voldermorts queen piece in his game of chest. I have found very little information about her, but what I have heard, I do not like. Did she inject the venom into or was he only meant to be drained?" The headmaster asked.
"I found small traces of the venom, surprisingly it was what was keeping him alive. I have no doubt that he will remain human. If I had any say in it, I would kill your spys reported anything about this weapon? They seemed to do a brilliant job of hiding Draco" He spat, pulling himself to pace the room.
"We have little to fear, my boy. It has come to my attentions of this weapon and it would appear to be that it will back fire on Tom. That I have no doubt of. Severus do you remember what happened?" Hermoine moved slightly to here the headmaster better.
"When he disappeared from the hospital wing last year, you know I tried to find him. At first I thought it was Lucius, but when he came to me demanding his son, I knew that Draco was gone. Lucius slipped some very interesting information, something about "That damned spell wore off". I think we are missing something, Albus. The Draco I knew at the manor was always smiling and soft spoken, but at school he was, quiet frankly a brat. He never came for advice to me anymore, like when he was younger. I feared that Lucius' abuse and manipulation had finally gotten to my godson. Then two nights before Potter and Draco dueled in bathroom, he came to my quarters. I had never seen act the way he did. He kept rambling about pain, voices, and some about a necklace. I sat and listened, but then he just stood getting a cold mask on his face he hadn't spoken about anything at all and left. I fallowed him and cast a spell to detect the imperio,it came back negative. Honestly, I think that the Draco we know at school is not the Draco that is truly there." Snape paused taking a few deep breathes, Harry had never seen emotion come from his potion teacher before. "Then when the Dark lord started to search for him, I knew something wasn't right. I remember asking you and you said you would look into it, said if you found him you would put him into hiding. What sort of hiding would have Draco subjected to this? Albus, you know how I found him, dieing on the floor bleeding out. All the while that Harlot was prancing naked around the room...I almost lost him. He may not be my blood, but he is my godson, my son." Snape put his face into his hands, ashamed of the tears leaking from his eyes.
Harry and Hermoine gave eachother looks. This was by far the most far fetched thing they had ever heard ,or seen Snape was crying. Was Draco Malfoy really Draco Malfoy? Malfoy at anytime they ran into him was a comeplete brat. Calling Hermoine mudblood, making fun of the Weasley's money, and poking fun at Harrys scar. Even outside of school; a the train station, quidditch cup, diagon ally, and Hogsmeade. He was insufferable to the golden trio, everyday since Hogwarts started/
Dumbledore gave a small glance at the hidden dou. " It wound seem that we have a mystery on out hands. One that will not be relieved until has awakened. I think some research is needed. I have not known much of the matter, my spys informed me of nothing invovling him. If they had been hiding him, they might have given him up to keep there standing in the circle. " He spoke with knowing twinkle at Hermoines direction.
"Albus, Severus..What are we going to do with him once he wakes up? I don't think it will go very well when the others see him, the younger ones will surely want to fight. Knowing how Ron has been, punch first, speak later." Mrs. Weasley spoke for the first time form the chair beside the bed.
"Molly, I think it would be best if you went home and spent more time with your family there. I am very pleased you where able to help us, with Poppy visiting her family in Wales, we would have been lost without you. A mothers touch is always welcome" The headmaster complement caused a blush to creep onto her face.
" I will contact you in a few days. I think some more time at home, the children will be better off, please tell Harry and Hermoine we are sorry. Well if you need me anymore, I am just a floo away." She bid Professor Snape and Dumbledor farewell and shut the door softly as left.
"I think that I am in need of a cup of tea and maybe a chocolate frog, come Severus. There is nothing you can do at this moment. He will be fine awhile alone." Dumbledore stood, ushering Snape out of the room. Before he closed the door a he gave a pointed look at Harry and Hermoines direction then smiled.
As soon as the door shut, Hermoine throw the cloak off of Harry and her. She moved closer to Malfoy leaning down to exam his wound on his neck. Sighing she sat in the chair next to the bed. "You know Harry, I actually feel bad for this git. I mean, he maybe a brat but he didn't deserve this. I think it even bothers me more to know that you had to watch him go throw this."
"I know what you mean, Mione" He answered moved to stand next to her, placing a hand on her shoulder. He lent down closer for a second, examining the broken body better. It was horrible, blood still cracked and dry covering slash marks, more bruises then flesh, and his breathing was shallow and fluid sounding. "Come on lets go to bed, if Snape finds us in here. We won't be having any sleep."
Hermoine smiled as she stood up." I think that tomorrow we will have to pay a visit to the library. I have a feeling something isn't right." Harry gave her a knowing look at her statement and sighed. Just what I wanted to do on my vacation...smiled at the thought before fallowing Hermoine slipping out the door and under his cloak. Before he shut the door he gave once last glance at Malfoy, then moved with Hermoine up the stairs.
"Hey Moine, ever noticed how creepy it is when the headmaster looks at us when we are under the cloak...its like he knows we are there." Harry asked standing at his door. Hermoine gave him a funny look then laughed, bidding Harry goodnight as she shut the door to her room. Harry shook his head once again in confusion. Sighing climbed his bed, escaping the land of confusion.
AN- Ello all! Okay so that was Chapter 3, see Draco is alive...for now...he is fate is in your hands...review or I kill him MWAHAHAHAHA. J/k Anyway I will try to have chapter four up beginning of the week, would do it 2maro but the beach is calling my name! XOXO
Next chapter -
Research
revelations
and Sirius was married?
