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Mal
"Where the hell are we?"
"How should I know!"
"Shut up Weasley!"
"You!"
"YOU!"
"BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP!" Seamus yelled, his anger getting the best of him.
"YOU!"
Harry rolled his eyes and pushed past another bushy tree. Ron, who was behind him, let a branch snap back and hit Draco in the face.
"ARGH!" Ron sniggered slightly and kept on walking. Draco had been annoying them all day.
"I'm cold," Draco whined.
"Okay, how about this," Ron said. "If we can't find any food, Draco is the first to go."
"Ron!" Hermione exclaimed.
"Wouldn't he be rather bony, though," Harry joked.
"Hey! What are you talking about! You're talking about me, aren't you!?" Draco exclaimed.
. "We're talking about dinner." Seamus said with a twisted grin.
Harry laughed and looked at the sky.
"Come on, we'd better keep going. It's going to get dark soon."
~*~
Mad in a way, but I don't say,
It's what you're used to.
I got the words but can't convey
I know you'll turn it all around
~*~
"Come on! We'd better get going! It's going to be dark soon!" Sirius said. "Let's go! Just a few more minutes! They could be right over there."
"You've said that they were "right over there" sixteen times," Remus said. "It won't do any good looking for them if it's dark."
"Besides," Professor Dumbledore said calmly. "We have found over 100 other students today. Don't you feel good that those students are now sleeping soundly at Hogwarts?"
"Yeah, but I want to find Harry," Sirius said, pushing a bush out of the way. "And I didn't really appreciate you spontaneously turning me into a squirrel!"
"Well what was I supposed to do! No one can see you in your real form!" Remus sighed. "Im sure we'll find Harry tomorrow. I mean, there's only so many places that a fifteen year old boy could be!"
"Yeah…" Sirius looked off into the trees. "Couldn't we set off a spot light or something, so that Harry will be able to find us."
"But you are forgetting, that a spotlight would also allow Voldemort to locate us."
"Oh…"
"It would be best for us to rest now, so we can be alert tomorrow," Remus said.
"As much as I would like to stay here," Dumbledore said. "I must go first to the Ministry and then get back to Hogwarts."
"But-"
"We understand," Remus said quickly. "You go to the other students. We'll continue searching tomorrow."
Dumbledore nodded, and then disappeared.
"Should we set up camp?" Sirius asked.
"You should sleep in your Animagus form, just in case anyone comes across us," Remus said. Sirius nodded and quickly changed into his dog-like form. Remus pulled off his cloak and lay down on the ground, using his cloak as a blanket. A few minutes later they both drifted off to sleep.
~*~
Get it back and you're not obliged to say,
Not intact but you're better off anyway,
Somehow it's never up to me.
What should I say?
Simple words I can't relate.
I don't place upon your view
It's the rhythms that you go through.
~*~
"Harry. Harry!"
"What is it Neville?"
"I can't sleep."
"I'm sorry, I can't help you there."
"Can I talk with you."
"SHHH!"
"Can it, Malfoy."
"Neville, just… count sheep or something."
"I'm scared of sheep!"
"SHHH!"
"Try counting something you're not scared of then."
"Can't we just go to sleep?" Seamus moaned.
"Neville, you'll fall asleep eventually," Hermione said, putting her head on her arm. "Just think, tomorrow we'll probably find someone."
"Good night."
"'Night, Ron."
"G'night."
"ARROOOOOO!" The sound of wolves in the distance reached their ears. None of them slept that night.
~*~
He stared at the place where just a day or two earlier there had been absolute mayhem. The Ministry workers hadn't done a very good job of cleaning up the area of the train wreck. Pieces of burnt wood and twisted metal lay scattered on the ground. A cruel smile played his lips as he looked into the woods. That's where most of the students had fled to… The Death Eaters hadn't killed any students, he had ordered them not to kill anyone except Harry Potter. Unfortunately, they had failed him once again… Which, needless to say, pissed him off. But now Potter was in those woods…
"Master…" a voice hissed. Voldemort looked down and saw his pet, Nagini, circling his legs.
"What is it Nagini?" Voldemort spat in parseltongue.
"I sense something," the snake said. "Something in the forest…"
"I know, Nagini."
"Where are we to go now?"
"You are going into the forest, while I go and prepare the Death Eaters."
"But master-"
"Go," Voldemort said in his nastiest voice. "And don't come back until you have done what I told you to do earlier."
The snake shrank away, and slithered into the dark forest.
~*~
I know what I want,
You just take me through the motions
I know what I want
And that's more than you can say
~*~
"What's the date?"
"I don't know?"
"How long have we been out here?"
"I don't know."
"When are they going to find us?"
"MALFOY SHUT THE HELL UP!"
"Oh good Merlin…"
"Let's just all be quiet for a moment," Hermione snapped. "We're all tired, cranky, and not in the mood to talk. Malfoy, don't ask questions, and Ron, don't yell."
Harry rolled his eyes and held his wand up higher in the air. There were footprints on the ground.
"Someone's been here," he said softly. Ron and Seamus both looked down at the footprints.
"They look really… big," Seamus said. "Where are they going to?"
"They're going back that-a-way," Harry said, pointing at the place that they had been coming from.
"Hmm… oh well, maybe we'll find the place they're came from," Malfoy said. Suddenly he let out a horrible wail.
"What is it now, Malfoy?" Ron snapped. Malfoy's eyes were wide open and he pointed at something behind Harry and Seamus. They both turned and saw-
"AHHHH!" They yelled as the enormous snake tried to entrap them. They jumped out of the way, and all that the snake got was a bunch of leaves.
"Run!" Seamus bellowed. They all turned and started to run in the opposite direction, but the snake tried to trap them again. They turned again, jumped over the snake, and ran through the trees.
Harry could hear the snake calling after them.
"Here, children, I'm not going to hurt you…"
They dashed through the trees, getting cuts from the branches scratching them. Ron stumbled behind Harry, almost falling. The snake gave a mad hiss when he managed to continue running.
They didn't know how long they ran. They didn't know how far they went. They only bothered to stop when they could no longer hear the snake's hissing behind them, and they were too exhausted to continue.
"What-was-that-thing-doing?" Seamus panted.
"I have no clue," Harry said, crouching beside a tree. "It didn't say."
"Why did I have to be stuck with you! The most wanted boy in the Wizarding world!" Draco moaned. "Ow…"
Hermione didn't speak, just sat on the ground, trying to regain her breath.
"Well, whatever it wanted," Ron said. "It didn't get it. It's going to be coming back."
"Oh crap! Do we have to run some more?"
"Shut up Malfoy."
"You!"
"SHHH!" Harry said suddenly. "Do you hear that?"
"Hear what?" Hermione asked.
Harry paused, and then turned toward the trees. He walked forward and the others heard him say, "Oh no…"
"What's the matter?" Ron asked. There was no answer. "Harry?" He walked through the trees as well. The others followed.
"Harry, what's wrong?" Hermione asked. Harry had sat down on the ground, his chin in his hand and a blank look on his face. He trembled slightly.
"Harry?"
"Oh. My. God." Ron said, looking through the trees.
"What is it?" Ron pointed at something right outside of the forest. A graveyard.
"What are those people doing there?" Hermione asked. "A funeral?"
"That's no funeral," Ron said. "Those are Death Eaters. Everyone, be quiet, and don't move."
Harry gave another shudder. All of a sudden a new sound reached their ears. The sound of hissing. Nagini was back…
~*~
All the time you thought worth saving
You still end up with memories fading.
After all that you wouldn't do
It makes no sense
But that's the rythems that you go through.
Since you found me out…
Since you found me out…
~*~
