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CHAPTER 28-

'Are you sure you want to do this?' We were stood on the steps of Luna's house in the middle of nowhere. It was dark in colour and it was strangely shaped, with weird fruit growing outside of the house.

'Yep. I just want to tell him that Luna's safe.' Pansy and Blaise stood hand in hand behind and I tried not to think about how me and Hermione used to do that as I knocked on the door. A loud crash was heard from inside, and shortly afterwards the top half of the door opened. A man with the same colour hair as Luna was looking curiously at us, wearing the strangest cardigan I have ever seen.

'Who are you?'

'Death eaters.' His eyes widened and he began to shut the door but I placed my hand firmly on it. 'Nice death eaters. We're friends with Luna.' He opened the top half of the door fully.

'What do you want?'

'Can we come in?' After a few seconds of an awkward silence, he nodded and opened the bottom half of the door for us to step in.

'Please, go upstairs and make yourselves comfortable. I'll make a fresh pot of tea.' We nodded and Pansy smiled at him whilst he fumbled around in the kitchen. We made our way up to the first floor of the house and sat on the rickety arm chairs. Luna's dad came up a couple minutes later, carrying a tray with four steaming mugs on them. We each took a sip and it didn't taste like tea at all. I smiled regardless, said thank you and placed it on the table. 'Have you heard from Luna recently? She hasn't been replying to any of my letters that I've been sending to Hogwarts.'

'She's safe, Mr Lovegood.'

'Why would three death eaters come and tell me that? Besides, if she was safe, why isn't she replying to my letters?' I sighed and sat up straight in my chair.

'She's in the dungeons at Malfoy Manor.' Mr Lovegood looked confused for a moment, then his eyes became large once more.

'Malfoy manor… Malfoy… Draco Malfoy!' He stood up and tried to draw his wand from his pocket, but his hands begin to shake and he couldn't do it.

'I haven't hurt her, and I won't hurt you. Nice death eater, remember?' He sat back down slowly.

'How is she?'

'She's okay. She hasn't been subject to the cruciatus curse yet, and she gets food twice day.' I nodded and his face looked lighter, like he'd been holding a breath for a lifetime's worth. I leaned forward, resting my elbows on my thighs. 'Mr Lovegood, do you know that Luna was told they were keeping you locked up, and therefore betrayed the light side?'

'She wouldn't do that.' He practically snapped at me. 'She is pure.'

'I never said she wasn't. She's already agreed to fight on the light side.' He nodded and I noticed he had begun to act quite jittery. I pushed it to the back of my mind and stood up. 'Thank you for your time, Mr Lovegood. And for the… tea.' If you could call it tea.

'You're not going to cruciatus me then?'

'We're nice.' He remembered once more and Pansy and Blaise stood up. 'We'll see ourselves out.' He smiled and we went down the stairs and out the front door and walked across the field a little before talking. 'He was strange.'

'What did you expect, Draco? You've seen how Luna is at school: why would her dad be any different?'

'No, I don't mean that. Towards the end, he started to shake… like he was hiding something. I don't know, maybe I'm just being paranoid. I don't want You-know-who and my father finding out we're talking to the prisoners.' We joined hands and apparated back to the Manor, just outside the wards, and we commenced to walk down the central drive to report back to Luna in the dungeons.


I was sat in the tent reading 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' with my ancient runes books I had brought in my purple beaded bag with me spread out on the floor. Harry was collecting firewood and Ron was sat on his bed listening to Potterwatch. I tapped my wand impatiently on the introductory page of the book Dumbledore had given me. On it, there was a symbol which I couldn't find in any of my books. It was a triangle with a circle and a line in the centre of it, and after trawling through my memories of all of the books I had ever read before, I still couldn't work out what it meant. I sighed, and the radio transmission ended.

'What's up with you?' I glanced behind myself at Ron.

'I can't work out what this symbol means. Do you recognise it?' The bed creaked as he got off it and came over.

'No, sorry. You're better asking Harry: you know what my memory's like.' He returned to his bed and laid down, and I waited for Harry's return. There was the sound of wood being placed on the ground outside and Harry entered the tent. I stood up and showed him the book.

'Do you recognise this symbol?' His brow creased as he thought and then he smiled.

'Yes, Luna's dad was wearing it on a necklace at the wedding.' Ron sat up and came over to us. 'Do you think it might be important, Hermione?' I nodded.

'Do any of you know where Luna lives?'