Chapter 12: Into the Dark Abyss

Lucius was sitting in his study when he heard someone walking in the hallway. He waited until there was a knock on his door and a few seconds later, a soft knock came.

"Enter," Lucius said still writing in his journal.

"Master! Master!" the house elf exclaimed running into the office.

"What is it, Dinky? I'm busy, can't you see?" Lucius said angrily.

"Master Goyle and Master Parkinson were arrested."

Lucius looked at the house elf with disbelief. "That's not possible, how do you know of this?"

"It's true, Malfoy," Dolohov's voice came from the door.

Lucius looked up and saw Dolohov casually leaning on the door frame. "Parkinson and Goyle were arrested just an hour ago. There was a tip that they were part of the mudbloods' deaths."

Lucius growled. "Who would let that slip?"

"Isn't it obvious? We knew who we're messing with. She may be only a child, but that mudblood is much brilliant than anyone else," Dolohov said.

"No it wasn't Granger. The mudblood disappeared from Hogwarts today," Lucius said.

"So the plan to attack Hogwarts is not in effect anymore?"

Lucius laughed. "Oh yes it is, but it won't be us," he smirked, "I think it's time we have our new friends do the job."

Dolohov smirked. "What's the plan?"

"Prepare the beasts, we're giving Hogwarts an early warning."


[Before the Parkinson & Goyle arrest]

Crabbe and Theo were pushed up against a wall in the Potions Corridor roughly.

"WHERE'S HERMIONE?" Harry shouted.

Ginny, Neville, and Luna had their wands on Crabbe, Theo, and Pansy.

"Fucking hell, Potter. I don't know where the fuck the mudblood is," Theo said.

Harry growled and threw his fist hitting Theo right on the nose.

"You're going to tell me what you know about Hermione's parents' death," Blaise said.

"Why the fuck are we going to do that?" Pansy said but then whimpered when Ginny poked her wand on her neck.

"Because if you don't, we'll just force it out of you."

Theo laughed. "You're going to torture us? I'd like to see you try."

"Are you forgetting the one thing other than torture that can have you talking?" Ginny said swinging a vile.

"Go ahead, we don't care."

Blaise and Harry swung again. Crabbe and Theo groaned. "TELL US!" Blaise shouted.

"Kill us first," Crabbe said.

"That won't be a problem," Blaise said.

"Blaise, no! They're the only ones that know about Hermione's parents," Luna said.

"Give them the potion, Luna, before I do kill them," Blaise growled.

"Open their mouths."

Blaise put his hand underneath Crabbe's chin and forcibly squeezed open his mouth, Harry and Ginny did the same thing to Theo and Pansy. Luna poured the potion into their mouths. Blaise, Harry, and Ginny forced them to swallow it.

"Now tell us, where is Hermione and Hailey?" Luna asked.

"We don't know!" Crabbe shouted.

Blaise and Harry was about to punch them. "No!" Ginny said.

"Who murdered Hermione's parents?" Luna asked.

Theo, Crabbe, and Pansy laughed. "My father enjoyed watching them die," Pansy answered.

"The mudbloods were nothing to my father," Crabbe said.

"ANSWER THE QUESTION! WHO KILLED HERMIONE'S PARENTS?"

Theo was holding it in, but he knew he couldn't fight it. "Dolohov, Goyle, Parkinson, and a pack of werewolves," he said.

Blaise, Harry, Ginny, Luna, and Neville looked at them. "Knock them out," Ginny said.

Blaise and Harry hit Crabbe and Theo one last time causing them to knock out. Ginny punched Pansy once and she was gone.

"We need to tell McGonagall," Ginny said.


Hermione and Hailey left Fred and George's flat not long after they got there, because Hermione couldn't trust them as much. She felt that either Fred or George sent McGonagall a letter telling them that they were there.

They left at night when Fred and George were sleeping.

"Did we really have to leave the twins' place at one in the morning?" Hailey asked yawning.

"I think McGonagall knows that we're gone," Hermione said.

"Where are we anyway?"

"The Forest of Dean," Hermione looked around the forest they were in now, "we can make camp here for now," she said.

Hailey nodded. Hermione pulled out the tent and put it on the ground. "Erecto," she said.

The tent popped up.

"You can go rest, I'll put up the protective charms," Hermione said.

"I'll help you," Hailey said.

Hermione nodded.

The two casted their protective charms and once they were done, they went into the tent. Hermione couldn't sleep, but she made sure Hailey would sleep.

"You should sleep, Hails," Hermione said.

Hailey nodded, "Okay, wake me up when you feel you need to sleep," she said.

Hermione nodded. She sat down in the small kitchen of the tent and was looking into the photo album that she and her parents made. The photo album was filled of all the pictures of her life; from when she was born, to her first walk, to her first time in kindergarten, to her first time at Platform 9 ¾, and her 18th birthday.

She was crying when she kept seeing her parents' smiling faces. Every time she looked at their faces, the images of their scared expressions and bloodied faces kept popping up. Hermione growled and then pushed the photo album to the floor. The pictures scattered and Hermione cried even harder.

Hailey got up and walked towards Hermione. She sat down next to her and hugged her. Hermione turned and cried on Hailey's shoulder.

"Why did it have to be them?" Hermione asked.

"I don't know, Mione, I don't know," Hailey said.

"I miss them so much, Hailey."

Hailey sighed. "I know sweetie, but hey," she made Hermione look at her, "you have me and the others with you. You mean just as much as you meant to your parents. We won't let anything happen to you," she said.

Hermione looked at Hailey. "Hailey, there's something I need to tell you," she said.

"What is it?"

"You know how I've been acting really weird lately?" Hailey nodded, "I have a reason why I've been acting that way."

"Why?"

"You're going to think I'm crazy, but it's true."

"What is?"

"I've been hearing voices in my head. Or well not voices, but a voice. And it's been haunting me since the first encounter at the Room of Requirement."

Hailey looked at her with this confused look. Hermione sighed. She didn't want to explain it, but she had to. "What voice, Mione?"

"Bellatrix Lestrange."

"But ho…

"I don't know. She kept saying that she's part of me now, because I drank the polyjuice potion with her hair. I've searched and searched through every book that had anything written about polyjuice potion, but there was nothing about having a part of the person in you."

Hailey looked at her and then remembered something. She got up and walked towards her rucksack. She dug inside to find her school rucksack, when she found it; she took out one of the books. She had taken the book out of the restricted section before Hermione called her. Hailey found a lot of dark magic in this book, especially one dealing with the fyre gripper and more.

"What is that?" Hermione asked.

Hailey didn't say anything, but instead she brought the book to the table and started scanning through it. Hermione watched her as she skimmed the book. Hailey got to the page that she was reading before Hermione called her and turned the book to Hermione.

Hermione looked at the title of the page.

Polyghost (A rare effect of the Polyjuice Potion)

Hermione looked at Hailey. "You think this is what's happening to me?"

"Read it," Hailey said.

Hermione looked back at the book and started reading.

"The Polyghost is a very rare side effect of the Polyjuice Potion. It may be rare, but it is not impossible. Over hundreds of polyghosts were said to have appeared in the past five hundred years. Proof has been scarce, but it has been given.

The polyghost can take the form of anything around you, but particularly a form inside your own mind. The polyghost isn't like any other kind of ghost. It is some kind of possession.

A polyghost can only be formed when the witch or wizard that you are trying to look like is a very powerful witch or wizard. It does not matter if they are either good or evil, as long as they're powerful, a polyghost can be formed.

There is nothing safe about being possessed by the polyghost. If they break your sanity, you will no longer be the person you were before being possessed.

The trickery of the polyghost can cause the victim to be distant, angry, and have horrific night terrors. The victim will not last 24 hours if the polyghost continues to torture them through their state of mind. The stronger the victim is, it is possible to keep the polyghost dormant in their head.

However, there will always be a way a polyghost would find a way to come out of it's dormant state.

There is one way to destroy a polyghost completely, but it is very difficult magic. Magic that hasn't been used since the early 1200s. The victim must use all their magical and willful powers to come up with a very strong enemy of the polyghost. The enemy must be as realistic as the polyghost.

However, there is an awful debt if the victim was to use this magic. Death will be a certainty to the victim, because he or she will be using all of the power of their body to destroy the ghost."

Hermione looked at Hailey and she had a worried expression in her face. "Are what they said what the polyghost does what is happening to you?" Hailey asked.

"Yeah," Hermione said.

"How long have you been hearing the voices?"

"Almost two weeks now."

"How have you been fighting it off?"

"I've kept answering back to it. I kept the dominance."

"That's good, but you need to get that thing out of you."

Hermione sighed, "If I do, I might die. No… I will die," she said.

"We don't know about, Mione. This book is over hundreds of years old. Maybe they've found a way to get the polyghost out of you without you dying."

"But what if there isn't?"

Hailey sighed and hugged her best friend. "We have to have hope, Mione. Right now, that's all we have."

Hermione sighed. Hailey started humming a soft tune to sooth Hermione down and surprisingly it was working.


Harry, Ginny, Blaise, Neville, and Luna were by the Black Lake planning. Christmas break had started just today and they needed to find Hermione, Hailey, and Draco soon.

"What are we going to do? We have no idea where they are," Ginny said.

Harry and Blaise were pacing while Luna and Neville were looking out at the lake thinking. "How the hell are we going to find them?" Blaise asked Harry.

"I don't know! I'm freaking out right now. They've only been gone for one day, but we don't know what could happen in that one day," Harry said.

"Ugh! Why didn't I think of that earlier?" Luna said smacking her forehead.

Everyone looked at Luna as she got up. "What do you mean?" Neville asked.

"Follow me," Luna said.

The group followed Luna up to the castle that they didn't notice something moving in the Forbidden Forest.

"When?" Goyle asked.

Dolohov watched as the group ran up the grounds. He could hear the growls of the werewolves and the grunts of the trolls behind him. Once there weren't any kids by the Black Lake, Dolohov smirked.

"Let them loose," he said.

Goyle and Nott smirked before flicking their wands and releasing the beasts. The werewolves and the trolls ran out of the Forbidden Forest towards the castle.

The three Death Eaters watched as they scattered across the entire grounds. "And now, we wait," Nott said.

"Yes we wait."


Harry and the others got to the heads' dormitory and waited for Luna to explain what she meant. Luna got out the coin from the D.A. that she wore as a necklace. "This is how we find Hermione," Luna said.

"How the bloody hell is a coin going to help us?" Blaise asked.

"The D.A. coin is not a regular coin," Ginny gasped, "Luna, you're a genius!" she exclaimed.

"Explain please," Neville said.

Luna took off the coin and put it on the coffee table. "During the time of the D.A., Hermione was taking precaution with the organization, so she put a locator charm on every coin. Not just the jinx if you snitched," Luna said.

"So we can find Hermione like this?" Harry asked.

"Yes. I know Hermione hasn't taken off her coin, so yes we can find Hermione like this," Luna said.

"Okay so give it a wave and let's get a move on."

"Get me a map."

Ginny ran into Hermione's room and got out the map. Luna took the map and placed the coin over it. She pointed her wand to the coin. "Locate Hermione Granger," she said.

A dark blue spark came from the wand and flew to the coin. The group watched as the coin started moving. It was circling all over the map when it stopped. They looked at it closely and Harry couldn't believe it.

"What is she doing there?" Harry asked.

"Never mind what she's doing there, let's go," Ginny said.

"But what if we're not coming back? We haven't prepared," Neville said.

"Ginny and I are two steps ahead of you," Luna summoned five rucksacks, "everything we need is in here; clothes, food, books, and then some," she said.

"How did you…

"Hermione told us to always be prepared. Now let's go!"

The group got out of the heads' dormitory, but stopped when they started hearing screaming and explosions.

"What the hell is that?" Neville asked.

"That doesn't sound good, let's go!" Harry shouted.

They ran down the seventh floor corridor and towards the stairs. When they looked down from where they were, spells were being casted, stairs were exploding, and students were running away.

"What's going on?" Blaise asked.

"I don't know, but we can't get down by the stairs," Ginny said.

"Accio Firebolt!"

Everyone followed Harry and summoned a broom. When the brooms came flying towards them, they grabbed it and rode it. "We have to get out of here!" Ginny shouted.

"We have to help them!" Luna shouted back looking at the students.

That's when they noticed what's attacking them. There were werewolves, trolls, inferi, and snatchers all over the ground floor of Hogwarts.

"WE HAVE TO HELP THEM!" Luna shouted again.

"WE CAN'T! IF WE DO, WE MIGHT GET HIT!" Blaise shouted back.

"NO WE HAVE TO!"

"LUNA! WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME!" Harry shouted as they flew trying to maneuver away from the werewolves, trolls, inferi, and snatchers.

"YOU THREE GO ON WITHOUT ME AND NEVILLE. WE'RE GOING TO STAY AND HELP!"

"LUNA!"

"GO NOW! HERMIONE AND HAILEY NEED YOU!"

Harry, Blaise, and Ginny flew out of Hogwarts, but then started casting jinxes, defensive spells, and so much more, because there were more snatchers outside.

Ginny looked back and saw Luna and Neville fighting off the snatchers with Professor Flitwick and Professor Slughorn.

"Will they be alright?" Ginny asked.

"Let's hope so, we have to get out of the barrier to apparate," Harry said.

The three flew away from Hogwarts and out of its barriers. Once out of the barriers, Harry grabbed onto both Ginny and Blaise before apparating.


Draco had no idea where he was going, but he needed to find Hermione. Before Jingle had found him, Draco was able to hear a few snatchers talking about his father looking for Hermione. He wanted to kill his father, oh yes, he really wanted to kill him, but right now Hermione was his first priority.

He was in a forest that he didn't even know, but for some reason he felt that he would find Hermione here. He couldn't explain it, but he knew that Hermione was here.

"Damnit Hermione, where are you?" Draco asked looking around.

Draco walked further into the forest when he heard rustling. "Nox," Draco said and hid behind a tree. He was thankful that he was using black, but he hated that his hair had to be so freaking light.

"I know she's here," he heard a familiar voice.

"How do you know Scabior? We need to give Malfoy what he wants or he kills us," he heard another voice.

"I can feel it. This place is somewhat special to her. Granger was here with Potter a few months back," Scabior said.

"So we search until we find her?"

"Of course."

Draco needed to find Hermione faster than these two, but he knew that snatchers didn't go by duos; they were either in threes or fours. He looked around and noticed that the other two were in front of him about twenty feet away from him. Draco put his hood for his jacket on to hide his hair and crouched down.

He walked slowly away from the tree he was in when Scabior and the other snatcher moved to the other side of the tree. Once he heard the snatchers far away, he made a run for it. He knew that he was going the right way to find Hermione.

Draco looked everywhere for something off in the scenery. He walked maybe fifteen meters into the forest when he noticed something off. He looked to his west nearly the lake and noticed that some part of the lake, a slight part, was being pushed out. The snatchers wouldn't have noticed it.

He walked towards it and noticed the snow as well. There was something here. Draco took a step forward and the first thing he saw was a small tent like the ones he saw at the Quidditch World Cup a few years ago.

He moved to the tent slowly with his wand at the ready, when he got to the entrance of the tent. He didn't even see it coming.

"Petrificus Totalus!"


Harry, Ginny, and Blaise fell on the forest ground when they got out of apparition.

"Damnit Potter, warn a fellow when you're going to do that," Blaise said.

"Shhh," Harry said, "Hide!"

Blaise and Ginny did as Harry said and hid; Blaise behind a tree, Ginny inside a bush, and Harry behind a rock.

"She's here and she has a friend," Harry heard a familiar voice.

"How do you know, Scabior?"

"I remember her scent. It was vanilla and strawberries. She's here. I could feel it."

"Scabior! We're needed at Hogwarts!" they heard someone yell.

They heard Scabior growl. "Once we're done with Hogwarts, we go back to hunting Hermione Granger," Scabior said before turning into apparition.

When Harry heard the three other apparition sounds, he got out of his hiding spot and so did Blaise and Ginny.

"Who were they?" Ginny asked.

"Snatchers. The same ones that took us to Malfoy Manor during the war," Harry answered.

"They know Hermione is here," Blaise said.

"Of course they would. This is the Forest of Dean. Hermione used to go camping here with her parents."

"So how would we know where Hermione is?" Ginny asked.

Harry looked around. "Look for something off. Something that shouldn't be there," he said.

Blaise and Ginny nodded and then started looking.


"Lift the jinx," Hailey said.

"Finite," Hermione said.

Draco stood up quickly and looked up to see who the one that jinxed him was. When he saw Hermione and Hailey, he pulled Hermione into a deep kiss. He didn't care if Hailey was here with them.

Hermione gasped when Draco pulled her into a kiss. It didn't take her long to respond back. She missed him so much. She put her fingers in his hair and pulled onto his locks. When Draco moaned and Hermione lost it.

It was only until Hailey cleared her throat when Hermione decided they needed to stop. Hermione let go of Draco reluctantly, but Draco kept his hold on her.

"Now that we're all done with that, but as of right now, we need a plan on doing what we need to to stop Lucius," Hailey said.

"You aren't going to my father," Draco said.

"Yes I am, Draco. My parents are dead, because of him and his cronies," Hermione said.

"I'll handle it, Hermione. You and Hailey have to go back to Hogwarts."

"I am not going back, Malfoy," Hermione said angrily.

"And we're back to Malfoy," Hailey said.

Draco sighed, "Look I don't want to fight with you…

"I don't want to fight with you either, Draco, but if you are going to try and send me back to Hogwarts, you're going to have a big problem."

Before anyone could say anything, they heard rustling outside. Hermione, Hailey, and Draco got their wands at the ready. Draco walked slowly towards the entrance of the tent, he opened the flap to see and saw a figure standing right out of the barrier.

"What do you see?" Hermione asked.

Draco put his finger over his mouth. He watched as two more figures come towards the barrier. He noticed that one of them was a female; from her figure.

"I think I found it," the first figure said.

Draco noticed the voice and moved quickly to the figure. He pulled the middle figure in first, and then the other two.

"Blimey Draco! Shit, that fucken hurt," Blaise said.

"Get in the tent," Draco said.

Everyone moved into the tent quickly. When Harry saw Hailey, he ran to her and kissed her. After he kissed Hailey, he went to Hermione and hugged her tightly.

"We need to leave now," Draco said looking out of the tent.

"What? Why?" Ginny asked.

"There are snatchers out here."

"We know, we saw them. They left for Hogwarts," Blaise said.

"What happened at…

"They weren't alone. We need to leave now. Pack everything and let's go."

Everyone nodded and then packed up. When they finished packing the tent, they looked around and noticed that there was someone near them.

"I know where to go, all of you have to hold on," Draco said.

Draco grabbed hold of Hermione and then everyone else followed. Draco twisted them into apparition.


"Hogwarts has fallen completely," Dolohov said to Lucius.

Lucius smirked, "Good and Granger?"

"Potter, your son, the mudblood, one of the Weasley's children, and Antonio's son wasn't in the school."

"Have you found Narcissa?"

"No, but the snatchers are looking for them as well."

Lucius nodded.


Author's Note: I've been on a roll with so many situations for this story. The only thing that I am having a real hard time with is the smut. I'm still working on how I'm going to do the smut and so far it's not turning out the way I like it. My story is turning out the way I wanted it to though.