Face against a misted window
Chapter 10
Disclaimer: all these characters belong to J.K.Rowling.
The battle field was a cloud of dust and spells being randomly thrown. Hermione walked through the battle field searching for Ron. She was so intent in looking that she nearly fell as she stumbled against the body of one of the Hogwarts students. She nearly cried out in shock as she realized it was Colin Creevy's face that was now so distorted by the sectumsptra spell.
She recoiled and looked around her, absorbing everything for the first time. Her mind couldn't process the utter horror of her surroundings. The ground which had been so peaceful a few hours ago was now bleeding with so much death. So many sacrifices, so many terrors. Screams rent the air as one after the other, wizards and witches from both sides died.
A spell narrowly avoided Hermione, snapping her out of her reverie. Ron! She had to find Ron. She turned her head, looking wildly at both sides. Suddenly, she saw a flash of red hair. She ran towards it, praying it was Ron and not any of the other Weasleys. She reached in time to see Arthur Weasley go down, hit by an Unforgivable by Bellatrix Lestrange. "Nooooooo!" Hermione cried, Bellatrix swinging towards her, an insane smile on her face.
Hermione felt sick. This woman actually enjoys killing! She thought, raising her wand to defend herself. Just then Bellatrix threw her head back and let out a chilling laugh. She was still laughing when a jet of green light hit her in the chest, her face in a parody of her previous laughter as the Killing Curse claimed yet another victim. Hermione turned around her, to thank her rescuer. Ron walked up next to her, pushing his hood back. He walked up to his father and gently shut his wide open eyes with his hand. He then turned to Hermione without sparing a glance for Bellatrix Lestrange.
"Where's Harry? We have to find him fast!" he said urgently.
"Ron! Listen to me! You have to come- Harry? He's with Dumbledore! He's safe! He's safe…Right?" she said hesitating at the look of growing horror on Ron's face.
"No Hermione he's not! Come with me! We have to find him! Dawn will break in another hour! If the dark lord finds him and I know he will, he'll kill him. Hurry!" He said, dragging her along with him, frantically searching for a sign of Harry.
"What? I don't understand!" She protested.
"I'll explain everything! Now where is he?" he said, his voice sounding strange with authority.
She took him towards the back of the house, where Dumbledore and Harry were hiding. The back of the house consisted of a small garden surrounded by the woods. They went inside the woods to a small clearing. It was relatively quieter than the front.
They were just about to reach the clearing when they were ambushed a few Slytherin students led by Blaise Zambini.
"Going somewhere? Mudblood!" Blaise taunted, an evil smile on his face while Pansy Parkinson and Crabbe and Goyle snickered.
"Oh! Draco! I love you so muchhhhhhhh!" Pansy said in a high pitched girlish voice, her lips puckering and her eyes glinting malevolently, "Guess what Mudblood? Drake is just fooling with you! Did you really think that he could ever care for you? YOU!" she spat out. "And weasel boy here, eating his heart out for you! What an adorable triangle! So sickeningly sweet!" Blaise hissed. They were circling them now, stalking them like predators hunting down defenseless prey.
"Drake only loves me! Go ahead, ask him mudblood!" Pansy shrieked.
"You're wrong!" Hermione screamed. "He loves me!"
"YOU think you're so smart! Well little miss-know-it-all, this time you're wrong! And it's going to cost you your life because this time I'm right!!"
"Wrong again Pansy! Why don't you just give up? I'll never love a heartless bh like you! And NEVER call me Drake!
Incarcerous!" Draco coolly said, his wand pointing at Pansy. A second late, Pansy was helplessly tied up while the other Slytherin stared at Draco in shock.
Ron and Hermione sprang to life, Hermione getting their wands away from Crabbe and Goyle while Ron tied them up. Draco on the other hand was engaged in a duel with Blaise.
Blaise sent him such vicious curse which would cause Draco's skin to erupt in painful bursting boils. Draco quickly threw up his shield. He was attacked by a series of painful curses like the bone shattering curse, and the sectumsptra curse. Hermione raised her wand to hex Blaise when Ron stopped her, telling her that her interference would only cause Draco harm.
Just when Draco was about to send a dark curse towards Blaise, Blaise expelliarmed the wand out of Draco's hand.
Draco was left helpless.
"Now what are you going to do, Drake? How are you going to save your precious little mudblood and her boyfriend now?" Blaise evilly mocked him.
Draco did nothing for a moment. Then he muttered something under his breath. He flung his arms out towards Blaise, his fingers splayed open. Some invisible force hit Blaise, binding his body together, Draco and his wand falling out of his grasp, and rolling away. Blaise was left on the ground, glaring at them uselessly.
"By learning wandless magic, something you never did." Draco said and he turned towards Hermione and Ron who were staring at him with their mouths open.
Draco just lifted an inquiring brow in Ron's direction. "He's on our side." Hermione said quickly before Ron could say anything. Ron stared at Draco defiantly. Draco was about to protest when Hermione sent him a pleading look, begging him not to say anything.
Before anyone else could say a word, the sound of yelling was heard. They all recognized Harry's voice. Hermione ran in that direction. Draco and Ron were about to follow her except that Draco had to still retrieve his wand.
Ron stopped him. He looked like he was about to puke before he said in a strangled voice, " Um..Thanks for saving us back there"
Draco only responded by giving him a nod of acknowledgement.
Ron hurried on to say " But this doesn't change anything!"
Draco looked at him coldly and said in a voice that dripped icicles, "Not by a long shot."
They glared at each other again, feeling much happier with their enmity before they realized that Harry was in danger.
They had just about headed in that direction, when a loud voice screamed,
"AVADA KEDAVRA!!"
