Chapter Two- The Sorting
The 6 children entered the Great Hall. As they looked up at the staff table and the occupants, they all remembered why they hated this place so much. The old man had taken everything from them, including the very fabric of their lives.
"I'm going to make this place suffer." Hermione said suddenly and quietly as she glared up at the staff table. Draco took her hand and moved closer.
"Stop! We can't draw attention to ourselves yet Mia. Remember that this is a slow mission." He said and she turned to look at him for a second before nodding her agreement.
"Granger, Hermione." McGonagall yelled out for the second time, and Draco pushed Hermione forward. She moved forward and made her way to the hat. Seconds passed after she put on the hat. Everyone could see that she was arguing heavily with it. Suddenly it opened its mouth, and Draco held his breath.
"SLYTHERIN!" it yelled and the 5 waiting children all let out the breath they hadn't realized they had been holding. Next up was Harry who let the hat place him in the right house, and he joined Hermione at the end of the table. Draco was next, with the smirk he always wore. As he walked up and put the hat on his head, he thought back to the last time he had been placed here. His father had been happy and that summer had started his training to become a killer. A path that Draco hadn't wanted in the first place.
'That training can help your goals Young Malfoy. But if you still prefer I can put you in a different house.' A voice said in his head and he jumped as he realized the hat was speaking to him.
'But I don't want to be like my Father again. Why would you give me that option?' he asked in his head and the hat laughed.
'Because of your response tells me that you can fight it. Get the training. Use it to your advantage. You have a beautiful wife who will remind you of who you really are. But this time you have to actually listen to her.' The hat said and then opened its mouth,
"SLYTHERIN!" it screamed and Draco yanked the hat off his head and vowed in his head to burn the damn hat as soon as he could. He turned to go to the table and saw Hermione looking at him in concern. He shook his head and mouthed that he would tell her later.
Hermione and the others stood in the Room Of Requirement, it had styled itself to look like a circle, only it was all lined with bookshelves.
"I assume that the hat told us all something. It told me that it knew we were from the future. He also told me that he knew that I was actually Miss Dagworth-Granger. " she said and Draco sat down at a table in the middle of the room. It was much like the Round table of the Knights in History. Hermione had purposefully asked for this room.
"It told me that the training my Father will give me will help with our goals. To trust my Wife." Draco said as he refused to make eye contact with anyone in the room. Hermione sat down next to him and put her hand on his.
"What happened will not happen again. I won't allow your Father to use you as a Pawn again." Hermione vowed and then looked around the table.
"Well mine and Neville's were the same. Trust our feelings, trust in ourselves." Luna said and looked at Neville for confirmation that what she had said was true.
"The Hat told me that the map and the cloak aren't real. Albus made them both. The real cloak is locked away in his vault. The map was Albus's way of keeping track of us. Whoever held it was tracked." Harry said and everyone looked angry. Everyone in the room had touched the map at least once during the last of the war. Silence followed and everyone was keeping it that way for a short time.
"There is another problem." Ginny said as she finally looked up from looking at a book she had picked up,
"The hat told me that Death sent another person back. But he refused to tell me who. Someone who knows more than we do at this present time. Someone that Draco knows very well." Ginny finished and everyone looked at Draco.
"That would be Blaise or Pansy. I did hang out with Goyle and Crabbe, but I wasn't really that close to them." He told her, and she nodded.
"We will deal with that later. Right now, we need to think of a name for ourselves. If we do what we are thinking, we have to have a name." Luna said and everyone nodded,
"The Knights of Darkness?" Ginny asked suddenly and everyone gave her an odd look.
"What?! It's a good name, and I got the idea from Hermione's choice of décor!" Ginny defended herself and Harry chuckled,
"Well I like it. Anyone else?" he asked and slowly everyone else said yes.
"Good. The Knights of Darkness it is. Our first order of business is to take out Snape. He was nothing but a liability in our future, and it was his reports that got us hurt." Hermione said and then looked around, she wanted to make a list, and was waiting on all of them to compile names.
"My Mum. She hindered our ability on purpose. I once heard her talking to Dumbledore about how we were doing things we shouldn't be. And I want to take my brother Percy out as well." Ginny said and Hermione wrote it down.
"My Father. His training is what made me into a Monster. He cant get away with it a second time." Draco spoke up and Hermione nodded.
"Anyone who went against us in the War. It was because of them that we lost and the Dark Lord was able to take over. " Neville said, he took hold of Luna's hand and then looked back at the others.
"Ok. So now we have somewhat of a plan. If things go according to plan, no one will know what hit them." Ginny said, Hermione opened her mouth to speak, but was interrupted by a loud gasp.
"I found this outside your door." A voice said and the door opened to reveal Blaise Zabini. He was holding Cho Chang by her hair, and she was starting to cry. Hermione stood up and went over to her.
"We have a place in mind for her. I take it you are also with us?" she asked and he smirked,
"My mother can take her. Make her a slave. Unless you would rather she be found in pieces?" he asked and Hermione smiled as Cho sobbed. Suddenly a fireplace appeared in the room and he began to drag her to the fireplace.
"My mother will love breaking you. You should have fun." He said and Cho began to scream and claw her way away from him, which wasn't doing much good considering that he had a hold of her hair. He simply laughed and threw her into the fireplace and followed after her.