Peter was smiling happily as he locked the
cell door, Hermione's sobbing was music to his ears. That Ron boy had also been
entertaining.
"Well, hello peter" said a deep voice
behind him. Peter froze, it couldn't be could it? He turned around fearfully.
It was! It was Sirius Black!
"Sirius I can explain!" He said trying to
slide away.
"I don't think so peter." Sirius snarled,
clapping handcuffs around Peter's chubby wrists. "Tell it to the judge, friend"
he sneered, hauling Peter up the stairs. The sight that met him was one of
utter chaos. His master lay unconscious on the floor with handcuffs on his
wrists, a limp Harry being clutched by a tearful Draco one hundred yards from
the body. Dumbledore looked as if he was recovering from a heart attack with
Madame Pomfrey hovering over him, and Severus Snape and Remus Lupin were tying
up a furious Lucius who had tiny Professor Flitwick sitting on his chest madly
producing tickling charms.
Peter was horrified. They'd been beaten?
His master had fallen? This was impossible!
Then he saw the two dementors by the door,
and fainted clean away.
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Draco sobbed over the still figure of
Harry. His mind had shuddered at the sight of Harry and Voldemort shouting
curses at each other.
Voldemort had just been getting ready to throw another curse at
Harry when Draco had picked up a vase and lobbed it at Voldemort's head.
It had hit him, distracting him
unconscious. The vicious looking green flash had still hit Harry though, and he
stopped only long enough to whack a pair of handcuffs on Voldemort before
hurrying to Harry's side. There he had staye4d until Madame Pomfrey had
appeared by his side. Shifting out of the way, she examined Harry, Draco waited
anxiously.
Madame Pomfrey finished her examination
then handed Draco a large block of chocolate and said "Feed this to him when he
wakes up".
Draco took the chocolate then sat fixedly
by Harry until he began to stir. When he regained consciousness, Draco shoved
the chocolate at him and commanded
"Eat this!"
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Harry woke up to the sight of Draco's
tearstained face gazing down at him. He had only a moment to take that in
however, before an extremely large chocolate bar was thrust into his face.
"Eat this!" Draco commanded sternly. Harry,
completely exhausted, obeyed meekly, reflecting on what had just happened.
Entering the mansion, the large group of
wizards and witches had caught Voldemort and Malfoy coming out of the dungeon.
Harry remembered fighting desperately with Voldemort, flashes of light darting
all around, and Harry dodging madly. Then one hit him, and Harry knew no more.
"What happened to Voldemort?" asked Harry,
chewing on the rich, dark chocolate.
"I hit him with a vase" said Draco, his
pale skin flushed. "He was knocked out, and I put a pair of those magic
blocking handcuffs on him. He wont be terrorizing any longer," Draco said with
a triumphant grin.
Harry grinned back at him and offered him a
piece of chocolate.
"No Harry, you need it"
"I can't eat it all Draco, I'll be sick.
You fought as well, you should have some too."
"Yeah, but I only threw a vase, you threw
multiple curses" Draco replied, reaching for some chocolate.
"Yeah, but if you hadn't, I might be dead
now"
"That's not funny Harry" Draco said, the
smile wiped from his face.
"It wasn't supposed to be," said Harry,
also serious "You saved my life Draco."
"I had to Harry. If you had died, I
couldn't live either"
Harry regained his grin and said, "Now the
only problem is, how can I ever repay you?" He tried to look as innocent and
virginal as possible.
"Oh, I'm sure I could think of something."
Draco replied archly. "But first, Hermione and Ron"
"Oh my god!" Harry said, looking past
Draco.
"What?" Draco asked, then turned around and
gasped in horror.
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Ron lay on his back, not daring to move.
His knees had been crushed, he had a permanent dark mark etched into his back,
and he had been raped. All that, coupled with numerous burns and the horror of
watching Hermione also getting raped, had brought him to the state of mind
where he longed for the sweet embrace of death to sooth his broken body.
Light hit his face, and then cool hands
were on his head, pouring something sweet down his throat.
And then Ron knew no more.
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Hermione felt light hit her like a physical
blow. She moaned and tried to curl up tighter. She felt the rough wool of a
blanket on her bare flesh and looked up to see Madame Pomfrey looking at her.
"Come on dear, it's time to go home now."
Ron was floating in the air by the door, also draped in a blanket. Hermione got
up and shuffled after Madame Pomfrey.
The stairs to the top of the dungeon were a
trial for Hermione who ached all over. She reached the top of the stairs and
saw Peter, Lucious and Voldemort being dragged out unconscious by Sirius, Remus
and Snape respectively.
Harry and Draco were sharing some chocolate
on the floor. Then Harry saw her "Oh my god!" he said, sitting up.
"What?" Draco asked turning and gasped as
he saw her.
"Are you okay Hermi?" asked Harry as they
both rushed over to her. "Yes, I'm fine." She said blankly.
"Away with you!" ordered Madame Pomfrey.
"Go back to Hogwarts. You can come and see Miss Granger and Mr. Weasley in the
infirmary in a few days time."
Harry and Draco reluctantly headed off
towards their brooms. Halfway there, Draco turned to Harry and said "Wait, I
should get something while I'm here" Draco rushed off, leaving a bewildered
Harry to follow him.
Draco turned a corner and when Harry
followed, Draco could not be seen. "Draco?"
"In here Harry!" Draco replied from a room
to Harry's left. Harry walked in and found Draco kneeling down over a chest on
the floor of a very dark and musty room.
"What are you doing?" Harry asked as Draco
pulled out an old, moth eaten carpet.
"Getting out my flying carpet," he replied.
"It's really good for long journeys, especially for more then one person, and
it has auto-pilot, so you don't have to steer it, just tell it where to go."
"It doesn't look that…good"
"That's
an illusion to stop muggles from wanting it. Here, I'll show you. Revealeum!
And viola!"
Draco was now holding up a magnificent
Turkish carpet made of fine wool.
"Wow!" said Harry
"I know, pretty cool huh?!"
Draco spread it flat on the ground then sat
down on it. It was a large rug, about the size of a kitchen table (6 chairs).
It was mainly black, with an intricate gold design, and a long gold tassel at
each corner.
"Come on Harry!" Draco said, motioning for
him to get on.
"What about our brooms?"
"We'll get them on the way"
So, only stopping to pick up their brooms,
Harry and Draco made their way back to Hogwarts.
On arrival, Professor McGonagall met them.
"Harry, Draco, there you are!" she
exclaimed as they flew in through the main door. "Now, I want you to go
straight to bed. Draco, your in with the rest of the 7th year
Griffindors now."
With that she turned away and headed
towards her office.
The two boys got off the carpet and headed
up the stairs. When they got to the fat lady's portrait, Draco stood there
looking stumped.
"Errr…."
"It's gob smacker" Harry said
The fat lady heard and opened the door,
even though she did not like the idea of a former Slytherin residing under her
house.
They made their way up the stairs to their
dorm, and flopped on their respective beds.
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THE END
Well
it's finally finished but I'm sorry to say that there is a sequel and I will be
writing it up one of these days but until then I'm only going to say its about
Hermione and Ron with special appearances from a number of people. Bye and
thank you to all those who reviewed with helpful hints and mean flames!