Snowballs

Part 10

A fan fic made by Pikachu

Author's notes: Oh. This fic is getting too long, don't you think? Oh well, there are pretty nasty shocks coming ahead. I'm not going to mention the people who reviewed the chapter 9. Sorry about that. And I just saw the ending of Sakura Teisen…Sakura and Ohgami should be together!!!!!!!!! Anyway, please enjoy.

***start***

Harry immediately went down to the ground. He hopped off his Firebolt and ran quickly to where Ron was.

"Where is she?" Harry asked them. "Where did she go?"

"By the accounts of the Fat Lady, it seems like someone wearing an Invisibility Cloak had put some Sleeping Draught in a cloth an put it on Hermione's mouth. Then later, her body was dragged away to the dark corridor and vanished." Lupin explained.

"Do you know anyone who would try to do this, Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley?" McGonagall questioned them.

"Krum." Harry said angrily.

"Viktor Krum? Mr. Krum of Durmstrang Institute? (A/n: It was Institute. Sorry. It was in the fourth book.)" Dumbledore said disbelievingly.

Ron and Harry started to explain what had happened last summer.

"Very well. C'mon then. Durmstrang ship." Dumbledore said. They headed straight to the lake where the ghostly ship lay. Fred, George and the others stared at them.

They walked through the thick layer of snow easily, following the deep channels the Durmstrang students have made. As they arrived, they stepped onboard, heading towards the largest cabin. Dumbledore knocked three times.

"Karkaroff? Vladimir? Are you here? Open this door, if you please." Dumbledore said. The door opened and revealed a very drowsy Vladimir Karkaroff.

"What is happening?" he said drowsily.

"I want to know where your student Viktor Krum is." Dumbledore demanded.

"Oh. Viktor…let's see then… He passed by, saying it was a real family emergency, he really has to go back to Bulgaria." Kararoff replied between yawns.

"BULGARIA?????" Harry cried. Hermione couldn't have been with Krum, could she?

"Yes. Well, he was carrying something large though…like a person who was unconscious." Karkaroff answered.

"Thank you, Vladimir. We'll see you." Dumbledore said calmly. As soon as the door was shut, Harry turned to Ron.

"How the hell will I get to Bulgaria?!??!??!" Harry screamed.

"I don't know." Ron replied.

"Harry, there's a way. There has to be." McGonagall said. They walked to the gates and waited for quite sometime, then a low rumbling was heard.

A magical black car was speeding towards the gates. It stopped abruptly and revealed that the man who was driving it was no one than Sirius Black.

"Sirius!! But—I—you—were on the run!" Harry exclaimed. Sirius grinned.

"Nah. My name's cleared last September." He replied.

"Then why didn't you tell me?" Harry said.

"He wanted to keep it as a surprise." Lupin answered.

"Then if he was released, wouldn't it be on the papers and everything?" Ron inquired.

"Well, I asked the Ministry to keep quiet of the trial. They did, and they seemed a bit scared of me too. Too bad Lucius Malfoy wasn't around." Sirius replied. "Well, we better get going. Harry, Ron, Moony, hop in. Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore, I trust you wouldn't mind?"

"Of course not. We have the school to look after." Dumbledore smiled.

"Well then, off you go. For you to find Miss Granger." McGonagall said. Sirius put his car into drive and set off swiftly.

"I thought Sirius had a motorbike." McGonagall said to Dumbledore as they waved goodbye.

"Don't you remember when Hagrid used his bike and he said 'He won't need it anymore?'" Dumbledore replied.

"Oh. Well then better get back to the castle."

"Yes, yes."

***Sirius***

"Hey Sirius, how come you never told me that you had a car?" Harry asked him.

"And how come you never told Harry about your house in Godric's Hollow?" Lupin asked him.

"And how come your name and your car has the same name?" Ron followed.

"Ron!" Harry snorted. The rest of the night, they flew across seas and drove quickly through the lands. After thirty minutes, they were already inside the town where Krum was living.

"Excuse me, but can you tell us where Mr. Krum lives?" Sirius asked a man. He pointed down the wood's road.

"Thanks." Sirius replied. They drove down the twig-filled and snow-covered path, Harry hoping Hermione was all right.

***Krum's HUGE mansion…***

Hermione stirred awake, her eyes half opened. As she sat up straight, she looked around the magnificent room. She wasn't in her dormitory, in the common room, in the Gryffindor Tower, in Hogwarts, or even maybe she wasn't in U.K. anymore!

She glanced around and saw a sulky figure sulking (hey, too much sulking) near the fire.

"Viktor?" Hermione mumbled. Krum looked at her.

"What am I doing here? I'm supposed to be in Hogwarts. Where are we anyway?"

"Inside my house." He answered flatly.

"Can you please take me back to Hogwarts?" Hermione asked him uncomfortably.

"Even if I can, I vill not." He answered.

"Why are you even doing this to me?" Hermione said. A lump was now forming in her throat.

"Because I vant you, Herm-own-ninny. I love you." Krum said, looking at her.

"Well, if you do love me, you'd want me to be free right, to let me be happy. To let me enjoy my life to the fullest extent." Hermione reasoned. "You'd let me free, even though…even if…"

"Even if you don't feel the same vay?" Krum said angrily. "No I vill not let you free. You'd haff to understand! You said you loved me too!" Viktor shouted.

"I did not! When did I ever tell you that my heart belonged to you?! I never told you that! Never! Then you say to me that I said that to – to you?" Hermione raged on. She couldn't believe it. He was making up stories for his own crazed sake. She has to get out of there, no matter what.

"No matter. You vill stay here vith me. Ve'll be together. And I von't let you free." Krum said.

"No! You have to understand me! I – I – love – someone else!!" Hermione cried.

"You do? Vell, I am only going to let you free if you tell me vho the scum is that you are going to replace. Is he more famous as I am? Is he more handsome than I am? Is he talented as I am? Can he – can he – love you more than I did?!" Krum shouted at her.

"Well…um… you see…" Hermione struggled to say. She didn't want Viktor to know that she loves Harry.

"See? You're just making me see that you are just making up that excuse to get avay from me!" Krum shouted. He grabbed Hermione's wrist and threw her down a chair.

"I am sorry that I haff to do this, but this is for your own good." Viktor said while binding her body to the chair with magical cords.

"This is not for my own good!" Hermione cried, struggling. She had managed to grab her wand that was almost dangling from her pocket. She was now bewitching the rope to untie her. Just then, the door was kicked open.

"Harry!" Hermione gasped, running towards Harry and Ron. But Krum grabbed her wrist and threw her back again. This time he held tight.

"Let her go!" Harry said, pointing his wand at Krum. "I said, let her go!"

"I von't." Krum said. "I'm just taking vat's mine." Harry grimaced.

"She's not yours!" Harry said.

"So you're saying she's yours…" Ron mumbled.

"What did you say?" Harry asked him, his eyes devilishly green.

"Nothing."

"So, do we have to decide this with a duel?" Harry asked him, his voice mixed with threat and disgust.

"If you vant it that vay." Krum said. Hermione was mouthing "NO!" to Harry.

"Well then. Ron, go take Hermione and get out of here." Harry commanded.

"No! Hermione stays here vith me." Krum protested. "She is going to vitness the vhole thing."

They bowed to each other and before the duel was about to start, someone threw the door open.

'This room's going to fall apart.' Ron thought. Sirius and Lupin came walking forward.

"Stop this right now!" Lupin said, crying 'Expelliarmus' a while later, Krum's wand caught by Sirius. Hermione ran to Harry and Ron. Krum stood frozen in his spot.

"Well, what do you have to say for yourself?" Sirius snarled. "Causing this much trouble. Involving the Hogwarts teachers. Especially me."

"Sirius Black." Harry said.

"The convicted murderer." Hermione continued.

"Who was the one and only able to--." Ron added.

"Escape the wizard prison Azkaban." Lupin finished.

"Next time I'll let you do a chorus." Sirius chuckled.

"Sirius!! We're doing something here!!! Something serious!!" they all said in unison.

"See? I made you do a chorus!" Sirius laughed. "And we're doing something about me too."

"Ahem." Lupin cleared his throat loudly.

"Okay, okay. Now, I expect for you not to come back to Hogwarts ever again. And you'll have to accept the fact that you have been beaten, once again, by my godson Harry Potter. And if you hurt one of these three, or their friends, or anyone they know, or their relatives, but not only the ones who I don't know, you'll be answering to me. Got it?" Sirius returned to his snarl. Viktor Krum nodded, terrified.

Author's notes: Well, there you have it. Chapter 10: The Confrontation. Please REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Any problems, questions, comments or suggestions, e-mail me at alex_pikachu1822@hotmail.com or just review in that little box right down there.

       -With sincere gratitude,

                                A. Pikachu