CHAPTER ONE: Kidnap Capture

Dear Draco,

How are you? I thought, I would write you a letter, first. I have been appointed Head-Girl! I am so happy!

I am at home alone at the moment. My father and mother are out at the dental clinic for work; they work as dentists. I have no brothers or sisters, but there are times, when I really wish I did, but I can cope without them. According, to everyone to all the muggles, I know, they don't seem to like their siblings – they think I am lucky for not having any! You don't have siblings, do you? I have never heard you mention of any.

Do you live in a manor? It must be very lonely, when you're parents are away. So, big and isolated, deserted, I would feel scared to be all alone in such a enormous place. It would give me the creeps.

Talking about being scared. Does you're father know about us? Because, I don't think he really approves of me, being a Mudblood.

I was watching this muggle movie called '10 things I hate about you' the other day and, at the end, the girl reads a poem about the '10 things I hate about you' to this boy, and, I thought, that some of it sounds like the way I think about you:

I hate the way you talk to me,

And the way you cut your hair,

I hate the way you drive my car,

I hate it when you stare.

I hate your big dumb combat boots,

And the way you read my mind,

I hate you so much it makes me sick,

It even makes me rhyme.

I hate the way you're always right,

I hate it when you lie,

I hate it when you make me laugh,

Even worse when you make me cry.

I hate it that you're not around,

And the fact that you didn't call,

But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you,

Not even close, not even a little bit, not even any at all.

I am scared. I am terrified. I am petrified, Draco. Do you know why? Someone or something has been following me, dressed in black. I cannot see their face because it is always covered in a huge black hood. Out of the corner of my eye, when I am walking alone, I see this figure and it scares me. Someone is following me. Someone is stalking me. And, I don't know why. Has this got anything to do with your father? I am scared. I have no idea, what is goi –

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Someone grabbed Hermione Granger from behind her, while she was sitting at her desk, in her bedroom, writing a letter to Draco Malfoy. He was dressed from head to toe in black, his face was covered in a muggle balaclava and a gigantic black hood covered his head.

He clasped a hand over Hermione's mouth, while she struggled. He grasped the green, jade pendant in his pocket and the whole room shifted.

And, they were falling, falling, falling until they landed in a dark, dim cave or cellar. He stumbled and then grabbed Hermione and pointed his wand at her, as she stood on the spot, eyes wide and round, shaking, trembling with numbness, fear and the coldness that enclosed around her. He muttered under his breath, a burst of yellow light shot out of his wand at Hermione, and she fell to the ground – not dead – but barely alive.

The green, jade pendant was a portkey.

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This letter was never sent, and, never received…