The beginning of the school year was met with mixed feelings. Harry Hermione and Ginny were going back to help keep order and oversee the new school system science the death of Dumbledore and Voldamort. Sidda Went in as an apprentice to Snape and lived down in the dungeons with him. Draco came back but had to go back to his stuck up ways. Is the lessons began things seemed to be going as planned. Nobody knew about the plan to capture the deatheaters but the 6 people that had been present in the kitchen.
"It sucks that we don't get to hang out with Sidda like we did this summer," Harry said pouting.
Hermione laughed at this while feeling her plate with toast and jam. She looked over to Ginny to see if she was laughing with her at Harry lovesick feelings but she only found her staring longingly at Blaise who sat with a similar expression across the room. When she looked at him laughing she found Draco looking at him shaking his head at is sad sorry puppy love filled friend. This only made her laugh harder.
Up at the heads table Sidda, who was hidden as a blond green eyed short slight pug of a girl, looked on smiling sadly at the seen wishing she could be apart of it. Snape looked at her and wished he could do something for his daughter but knew that it would not only put her, but the rest of the wizarding world in danger if they broke character before the time was right.
The weeks went by until it was the end of November. During this time Harry and Ginny began to notice that Draco was starting to act more like his old self. At first the thought it was to keep in with the Slytherns but than he started doing it even when nobody else was around. You could feel the tensions building around Hermione and him and even find her crying after Draco would say particularly nasty things to her. They would try to go down to the dungeons to talk to Sidda but she would blow them off, acting distant and hatful. It was taking its toll on everybody but the fact was they didn't know what it was.
`On November 23 they found out.
During dinner after everybody had sat down to eat the enchanted ceiling exploded with thunder and lightning. All the younger children screamed. Even some of the older ones did as well because the ceiling had never done anything like this before. If anybody was paying half a mind they would have notice the blond apprentice disappear into a side room. They would have seen Hermione Granger Sitting stock still and tense in her seat gripping her wand. Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape looked almost identical in her actions.
The silent alarms alerted the staff that intruders were making their way to the castle. Snap and the others cast a protection charm on the students under the age of 16 so that they might have a chance to escape even though the charm wasn't much it would allow the younger students to get away while the older ones, as was new school protocol, might be able to fend of the attackers. All at once the hall went quite. The doors burst open and in walked what looked to be the remaining Deatheaters.
The first of them to speak was Lucius Malfoy.
"Severus my old friend it seems you have been holding out on us."
"And what pray tell do you mean by that?"
"No time for idol chat. Where is the girl?" Belletrix asked with a snarl.
"I'm right here you bitch."
Everybody's focus went from the Deatheaters to the girl with raven black hair and eyes to match. Sidda was standing on the end of the Ravenclaw table looking a fierce site.
"There's my future queen," Lucius said with a smirk as a walked slowly toward her.
"You think so huh? And why is that?"
"You are the most bright and powerful witch in the world, aside from the mudblood over there. Why wouldn't we pick you as our queen? We have been looking for a long time for you my dear. Just think if you accept us you will be loved and obeyed. Worshipped and honored in every way you could want."
"Come with us my lord we need you to lead us we want you to lead us." Belletrix cooed in a seductive voice.
Sidda walked to the middle of the table where Lucius meet her and took ran her finger down his jaw line.
"You want me that bad?" What else are you willing to do for me?"
"Anything you ask. You are more beautiful than we ever imagined you could be this makes things all the more easier. All we ask is for an heir to carry on after your rein."
"Oh is that all?"
"Yes of course we will have to dispose of some unwanted people before things are perfect." He said looking around the room pausing on Harry and Snape.
"what a tempting offer I must say. But I don't know."
"well, how about I help you decide hmm? Draco come here boy."
Draco was at his father side in a split second.
"Why you son of a bitch!" Harry called and looked at Hermione who looked sullen and still.
"Shut up boy you will soon learn your place. Draco I think we need to help Miss Snape out with her decision. Let's make her the only number one shall we?"
With that Draco Smirked and bowed down to his father and went over to the Gryffindor table and jerked Hermione up by the hair to stand in front of him with his wand pointed in her back. She let out a scream form the surprise and pain that went through her.
"NO," cried Harry and Ginny as the stood up trying to get to her. Bellatrix cast a spell that froze them in place forcing them to watch what was about to happen to there best friend.
"Well, don't just stand there Draco, get started!"
"I am going to enjoy this like you wouldn't believe," Draco whispered into Hermione's ear as he ran his hand down the side of her face. In a split second everything changed Draco had place her wand in her hand and Sidda had hers pulled out and held under Lucius' chin. Draco Quickly jumped in front of Hermione shielding her so that the Deatheaters couldn't get to her while she unfroze Ginny and Harry. Blaise leapt onto the Slytheirn table and took aim at Belletrix while Snape made his way toward the back of the room cornering the rest so they had no escape.
"Drop your wand you mother fuckers!" Sidda growled through clinched teeth.
"Or what?" Lucius dared ask. Dropped her wand and pointed her hand at him and he froze in place and started screaming in pain.
"I know plenty of ways to make you beg for mercy and not one of them with a wand. If I were you all I would do as told. There was a reason you wanted me to be your queen and Granger has the same power as me so drop them and lay down on the ground before we start killing."
Belletrix looked up and laughed in her evil crazed manner and said, "No."
Curses started flying around the room. The teachers that up till this point had been watching the seen like a person watches a car wreck jumped up and began leading the children out of the hall towards safety. The older students that could fight jumped in a began defending their home and friends. Harry leapt into the fight with an anger the swelled up in him like it had only once before. Sidda had turned to help take Belletrix out and for got about her hold on Lucius. He quickly regained his senses and turn just in time to grab Hermione by the throat. He slammed her back against the table look and looked down at her from where he straddled her and sneered.
"You think you're a cleaver little mudblood? Let me tell you I was going to spare you and play with you after we won this war but now I think you are just becoming a nuisance. I do believe it is your time to die."
He was so caught up in Hermione he didn't see the rest of the Deatheaters fall. He was the last remaining one. As the rest of the noise quieted down the room began to notice what was going on. just as Lucius was about to seal her fate a sword that had been transfigured at some time during the fight ripped through his back just enough so that it went through him but didn't cut Hermione. Lucius' eyes went could as he coughed up blood splattering her face. The sword was pulled out of his back bringing with it a spray of blood that covered her savior. As his body went limp she pushed him off of her onto the floor to see who had saved her. When she did get a glimpse what she saw made her cry harder than she had already been. Draco stood there with blood and tear stand face staring down at her right before he collapsed to his knees. Hermione leaned forward to support him. And he leaned into her taking any strength she could give him. They looked up into each others eyes leaning their foreheads together whispering things the rest of the room couldn't hear to each other before exhaustion took over. They were among the first to pass out from the fight but they certainly weren't the last.
