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The crashing of rocks and stones awoke Lucius Malfoy in the middle of the night inside of his small jail cell. It sounded like an avalanche as screams and the sounds of spells being fired could be heard from the hallway. Then through his blurry vision he realized that the bars of his cell were nearly all the way off. Apparently they had been hit was some kind of spell. He pushed it with all his strength causing the door to slam to the floor and he stumbled his way out into the hall.

He looked around and saw the bodies of aurors littered the floor as he stepped over them and followed the other prisoners out of the destroyed prison. Looking up at the sky, he saw about two dozen Dementors flying over him as other Death Eaters were yelling at them to hurry up.

Lucius kept going until he saw Bellatrix Lestrange, his sister-in-law in the distance.

"Lucius." Bellatrix yelled when she saw him.

She then looked at him more closely and immediately noticed he was no longer the somewhat handsome, older aristocrat he once was. His eyes were sunken in and had dark rings around them. His hair was dirty and messy and he had grown a little bit of facial hair that made him look much older than he was.

Bellatrix was surprised to see what had become of him only after a few months. She had spent years in Azkaban and it didn't affect her as badly as it apparently had done Lucius. But if he felt bad now, he was going to feel a lot worse when he found out about what had been going on while he was locked away.

"Bellatrix." He gasped weakly. "Get me out of here."

"I will." She responded while taking him by the arm. "You need to come with me, there is something you need to know."

While the other Death Eaters focused on getting the prisoners out and fighting what was left of the aurors Bellatrix completley centered her attention on her brother-in-law.

Bellatrix ended up apparating them to the Lestrange Manor, where she lived with her husband many years ago. While Lucius sat at the kitchen table, slowly eating a bowl of soup, Bellatrix approached him holding a paper in her hand.

"I'm sorry to have to inform you of this so soon, but it's important."

She sat the paper down on the table for Lucius to look at. Shock immediately came over him when he saw the headline.

'Narcissa Malfoy files for divorce from Death Eater husband.'

"What the hell is going on?" Lucius asked as he looked up at her.

"Apparently my dear little sister is trying to cut all ties from her past." Bellatrix responded in a harden voice. "Not only this, but I've heard that she has visited our blood-traitor of a sister, Andromeda as well."

Lucius continued to stare at her, taking the information in. He knew that Andromeda had been disowned for marrying a muggle-born wizard and that Narcissa hadn't spoken to her in years. What possible reason would she have for visiting her now?

He then began reading the paper and soon found out that Narcissa had been given the Malfoy Manor as well as full access to the bank vaults the two shared, as well as full custody for their son, Draco. She was literally trying to take everything from him.

"How could she do this to me?" He asked himself in a quiet voice.

"Why don't we go to the manor and ask her ourselves?" Bellatrix suggested as she took out her wand. "You know how to get past the defenses don't you? You can get us in."

Lucius thought to himself about the shield spells and other defenses he had applied on the manor over the years. But Narcissa was a smart woman and was sure to have altered them all by now, especially that she had filed for a divorce from him. But that was his house, and she didn't know all of its secrets. He knew a way they could get in.

"Of course." Lucius responded.

"Good."

"But not tonight. I need to rest for at least one night now that I'm out of that place."

Bellatrix nodded.

"Of course."

Lucius then got to make his way to the bedrooms upstairs.

"Thank you, Bellatrix." He really couldn't express the words to how greatful he was to her and the others for finally breaking him out of that hellhole.

"You don't have to thank me, my dear brother."

Bellatrix then watched as Lucius smiled at her a little before turning away and heading for the staircase. However, back at Hogwarts it was time for dinner and Harry and Draco left the dorm and descended the staircase together, and they made their way to the Great Hall.

They decided to sit at the same table tonight so they could continue talking, but not at the Gryffindor or Slytherin table, Draco also objected to sitting with the Hufflepuff's, so the only option left was the Ravenclaw table. Either that or sit on the floor and Harry couldn't ever imagine Draco doing that.

When they stepped into the Great Hall, people stared at them curiously when they saw them walking over to a table. A few of them started whispering to each other, but after a few minutes, everyone just went back to eating and talking like usual. Harry then nodded to Ron and Hermione, who didn't seem surprised at all, since they knew that he and Draco were god brothers.

Harry pulled food towards him and could sense the stares but ignored them as he went along eating. Draco did the same and they began talking quiet to one another before a voice yelled out;

"Hey Draco!"

Draco looked up to see that it was Goyle would yelled his name and that a small group of Slytherin's snickering. It felt weird to be on the receiving end of his classmates.

"What do you want, Goyle?"

"Why are you sitting over there? With Potter of all people?"

"None of your business, you fat moron."

Harry and Draco started laughing then Draco noticed Theodore sitting next to Goyle, giving him a dirty look.

"I think now that Weasley's moved out, Malfoy's moved in," said Nott. Crabbe and Goyle began laughing but Draco wasn't going to be mocked.

"Yeah," he stated loudly. "That's it. Harry and I are a couple now. And I'll add that we're quite happy, thanks."

Harry was laughing now and the group of Slytherin's sitting behind them were all looking at each other stupidly as if trying to decide if Draco was kidding or not. As it died down, Harry looked at Draco, oddly feeling proud of him as they went back to their dinner. He then looked around at the rest of the tables and saw that everyone else had done the same thing, they were no longer paying any attention to the two of them.

"I guess no one really cares." Harry then spoke.

Draco looked around and saw that no one was paying them any mind as well.

"I guess. You'd think that it would cause more, you know? Two arch-enemies sitting at the same table, eating and talking."

"I'm sure we'll get more questions about it later."

"Just don't let it slip out that my mother is your god-mother now."

"I won't." Harry assured.

"Good." Draco responded as he picked up his goblet and took a drink from it. "I don't want to risk putting her in any danger, no offense."

Harry nodded understandingly. He knew the risk he was with Voldemort after him and the risk Narcissa had taken by trying to distance herself away from Lucius. The last thing the wizarding world needed to know was that she was his god-mother. That would put her in even more jeopardy and the last thing he wanted to deal with was the chance of losing someone else in his life that was important to him.