AUTHORS NOTE: Don't Own.

Thank you to the beta who has agreed to help me with my story. OmenProphecy!


It was Elena's birthday, March 15th. She would be twenty-two today, and while she knew she wasn't supposed to know, she had discovered that Harry had planned a surprise party at Spinners End for her. Holding it there so her wizarding friends from America could come, which was also supposed to be a surprise. Harry had simply told her that after her last class, he wanted her to come to his office so he could give her her present, and that he wanted to take her to a special place for dinner. She knew that when he was going to apparate them to "the restaurant", that they would really end up in the back gardens of the manor where the guests would be waiting. She loved how she was able to get information out of the house elves.

So there she was her last class ended, and she was walking to Harry's office, when a pair of arms wrapped around her, a hand covering her mouth with a cloth, and then everything went black...

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'Elena is late'. Harry sat in his office chair, looking at the clock once again. She was supposed to have been in his office fifteen minutes ago, so far he simply assumed she had gotten held up with a student or something. So he summoned a house elf and asked him to please pop into Elena's classroom, to see what the hold up was. When the elf returned with news that she was not in her class, or office, he asked the elf to check her chambers, again receiving news she was not there either.

He suddenly got a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach, something was wrong, and he knew it. Severus was already at Spinners end, so he asked the elf to gather the others and do a magical sweep of the castle, receiving a nod in response as the elf disappeared.

Harry reached into the locked drawer of his desk and pulled out his old map. "I solemnly swear I'm up to no good" He tapped it with his wand. He had discussed the map with Remus some months before the final battle, and had learned that with a simple command of "Point me" along with the name of the person you were trying to find, you could locate anyone inside the school or as far onto the grounds as the map went. So he tapped the map again and said, "Point me, Elena Masters." He watched as the picture on the map spun and moved rapidly before the page went blank, and words began to form.

We Sirs, Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, regret to inform you that whomever you are trying to find is not currently in the maps capacity to locate. May we suggest simply getting off your lazy bum and looking the old fashioned way?

To locate another persons, please repeat the locating spell, to return to the full map, simply tap twice and repeat the opening spell.

Good Day.

If it hadn't been for his worry, he would have laughed at the message, Moony had obviously placed it, with the obvious input from Sirius or James, since Remus was the only one of the Marauders who would be so polite.

He was worried now, according to the map Elena wasn't even present on Hogwarts grounds, so unless she was in the Forbidden Forest, she was no longer anywhere near the school. He waited a few moments longer until the house elf he had called to help him came back, he clutched something small and shiny in his hand and had a solemn look on his tiny face.

"Professor Harry Potter, Sir, We elves search the whole school, and no sign of Professor Elena Masters, but we find this." He held out his hand and Harry took the small earring it held. He knew this earring, Elena had told him the set had been a gift from her mother when she graduated school and had gotten accepted into University. He looked at the elf, confused.

"We elves feel something sir, near where it was. We felt anger and fear, Sir. Mullin fears for Missus Elena, there be dark purposes at work here sir." The elf gave Harry a sad gaze, awaiting further instruction.

"Thank you Mullin, one last thing before you go, please alert Professor Malfoy of the current events and tell him that I want him to handle everything here. I need to firecall the Headmaster."

He had just kneel down and was about to shout his desired destination when Mullin reappeared again.

"Professor Harry Potter, Sir. Mullin knows you wanted him to locate Professor Draco Malfoy, but Mullin is unable to. He is not in the castle, and when Mullin was in his office, he sensed the same anger that was near Miss Elena's jewelery, and he found a bottle that had weird smelling stuff in it, but is not a potion, there is no magic in it."

Harry took the bottle and wafted the scent towards him. It was a smell he knew, a muggle chemical that he had used with Hermione during the war when they had needed to knock Ron out after splinching himself and Hermione had been afraid of putting any potions other than the one to heal him into his body.

"Chloroform. Oh Draco, what have you done?" He immediately stuck his head back into the fireplace and firecalled Spinners End. When Severus's head reappeared, asking why they were so late, he rushed his words out, wanting to waste no time.

"Sev! Listen to me, call Ron, and send the guests home. Elena's been kidnapped." At his friends suddenly panicked and also very angry expression, he halted at his next words, but knew he had to do it.

"Sev, it get's worse. I know who took her. It was Draco Malfoy."


AUTHORS NOTE: Uh Oh! Draco's been a naughty boy, and poor Elena, not exactly the gift she wanted for her birthday!