A/N: Okay... I just saw the HBO: First Look of CoS! That's it! I am now a fan of Lucius Malfoy! AAARGH! Jason Isaacs is so gorgeous! ::faints::
Okay... I gotta control meself.... I still despise the guy, but hey... he is a looker! I must now indulge a little bit.... forgive me my fangirlness for this....
Word of note, right now I'm in a battle with the Austin Public Library. I'll find a way to get this stuff up, so don't you worry. Have fun reading!
Chapter Fifteen
February came and Harry was being pressed by Hermione to get Ginny a valentine. He remembered his second year when that dwarf sat on him and sang that horrible poem Ginny had written.
"You've got to give her one. You forgot last year!" Hermione growled at him. "Lord knows what she's going to do to you if you forget again!"
"What about Ron? He forgets just as easily as I do!" Harry huffed at her.
"He's different... I have my ways of getting him to remember...." Hermione said with a sly smile.
"Alright... alright.. I'll figure something out... I just hope there is no repeat of that one valentine....." Harry said. He cringed at the thought of the valentine and the dwarf.
"It wasn't THAT bad.... honestly... you are worse than Ron, you know that!" Hermione growled.
"Worse?! How can I be worse than the guy who chases Veela in his spare time!" Harry said.
"Like you don't? Really, Harry... what's the matter?" Hermione calmed down and breathed deeply.
"It's just this whole valentine's day business.... After that one valentine's day in our second year with LOCKHEART, I was pretty much turned off from the idea..." Harry said. He calmed himself as well.
"You shouldn't blame Ginny for that mess.... She may have made the valentine, but she was only trying to give you a clue...." Harry stared at Hermione with a half smile. "Blame the old Lockheart for the dwarves dressed as cupids. I hated them even more than you did." Harry raised his eyebrows at her. "Long story and it's not one I'm willing to tell...."
Harry dropped it and sighed. "Okay... what do you suggest, oh mighty valentine goddess?"
Hermione blushed slightly and smiled. "Well... I don't think I'm THAT good...." She composed herself and thought. "How about a nice bunch of flowers and your own valentine card. It's not much of an idea, but it is nice and sweet..."
Harry suddenly got an idea. He grinned. "Thanks, Hermione! I've got the perfect thing!" Then, he hurried off to the library.
He nearly ran into Astra on the way. Astra slapped him on his shoulder when he stopped. "Watch it, guy! I'm goin' somewhere too, and I'd like to get there in one piece."
"Sorry, Astra... I have something to do! Bye!" Harry, then, hurried off. Astra stared after him incredulously, then smiled.
She continued to walk toward the dungeon area. She had stowed in her bag a valentine card she had made Draco. She blushed slightly at the thought of giving it to him.
Suddenly, she ran into someone. "Oops! I'm sorry, sir, I d--"
"Hello, Miss Knight..." sneered Mr. Malfoy down at Astra. "I was just looking for you..."
"What are you doing here..." Astra said.
"Well... I got a letter from Draco saying that he was in love with a lovely girl.... His mother knew that he was talking about you, but she never said anything, the poor dear..." Mr. Malfoy said. He had with him his cane with the silver snake head. He lifted it to Astra's forehead and brushed her hair aside. "To think I gave Draco every opportunity to become great..."
Astra shoved the snake head cane away. "You are talking about Pansy, I expect...."
"She is a good girl... just right for Draco...." Mr. Malfoy stated.
"She's obsessed with Draco.... The woman ought to be in a padded cell!" Astra said through gritted teeth.
"She reminds me so much of Narcissa..." Mr. Malfoy said with a satisfied smile.
"And that explains her many quirks..." Astra finished.
Mr. Malfoy narrowed his cold eyes down at Astra and she could hear her heart start to pound. He advanced on her until Astra realized that her back was against a wall. "How dare you talk about my wife in that manner..." he said in a hushed tone.
Astra gulped and felt the blood drain from her face. She still kept her own cold gaze locked onto Mr. Malfoy's. There was a cold, cruel smile that spread across Mr. Malfoy's pale face. "You keep this up and you'll be a Mrs. Malfoy yourself...."
He bent down to her ear breathed on it. "I'll expose you for what you are...." He used the snake head on his cane to trace a line from her jaw to her collarbone. Astra's breathing became shallow as she tried to keep her heart from pounding so loudly.
"And what would that be....?" she managed to say in a cold tone as her voice shook some.
He took his face away from her ear and smiled at her with a cruel smile. She became aware of his other hand on her waist. He squeezed her waist in a nasty way that hurt. Astra's eyes began to tear up, but she kept her face as straight as she could. "You're afraid of me..."
"I'd be an idiot if I wasn't...." she growled.
He squeezed her side again, harder than before. A gasp of pain escaped her lips. "Don't patronize me...." He said in a low growl. "Why don't you attack me...."
"Because you're Draco's father...." She said with a squeak. "As much as I despise you, I won't harm his family...."
"How noble of you...." Astra felt the fangs of the snake head cane pierce the skin on her collarbone. She felt the metal scratch across her skin, drawing a small trickle of blood. "This is going to make it easier to show Draco what kind of a girl you are...." His face was inches from hers. "A money grubbing harlot...."
"Like Pansy isn't? Puh-leez!" Astra growled. The hand on her side squeezed again, pain shooting through her body. "Specially Mrs. Malfoy.... If you say that she is like Pansy...."
Mr. Malfoy growled at her, showing his teeth like a predator. "That's it! How dare you insult Narcissa that way!" Mr. Malfoy grabbed Astra's necklace and ripped it off. Astra fell to the floor in pain. She felt as thought her entire body was splitting in half. She saw him smile coldly at her and show her the star locket. "My, my.... isn't this interesting... I think I shall give this a proper burial...."
Astra felt something fall into her hand as she doubled over again as pain swept through her. She tried to cry out, but her voice felt like it was doubled. Then.... she blacked out.....
Harry sat in the infirmary and waited. Sirius and Professor Lupin had told him that they had found Astra lying on the ground in the hallway. Harry had not realized why it took both of them to carry her there until he, Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Kennedy, Avalon and Nevaeh had gone to visit her.
There on two beds were two Astras. One sat up, wearing a white version of what the second Astra was wearing. A white scoop necked sweater and skirt. The second wore what Harry had seen Astra wearing that day, a black scooped neck sweater with red writing on it that said "charmed" and a black skirt.
"This is fun! I didn't realize why my mom was so ditzy until now!" The one in white said.
"Yeah... only because of that damned idiot...." The one in black growled. "I find him, I really will kill him!" Harry saw two small scratches on Astra's collar bone. He also noticed something that he didn't see when he came in. The one in black had human ears.
"You can't do that! Draco will have us for lunch!" The elf Astra gasped.
"That might not be such a bad thing..." smirked the human Astra. There was a groan from Nevaeh and Avalon. "Ah so you two are here... good.. Go find Mr. Malfoy so that I can't tell him that he is a complete a-hole!"
"Mr. Malfoy did this? How?" Professor Lupin asked.
"I don't know how... I just know he did!" growled the one in black.
"Why would he do such a thing...." said Hermione.
"Probably to try to discourage Draco from being with Astra...." Nevaeh said.
"That would be impossible... the way she is now, Draco would be enjoying himself rather than despise this..." Harry said. He tried not to laugh at Ron, who looked as though he were going to be sick.
A grumbling Draco walked into the infirmary. The Astra in black jumped up and pounced on him, wrapping her arms around Draco's neck. "DRACO!"
"Bloody hell!" Draco gasped as the Astra in black nuzzled her nose against his neck. "Why is it that I see two of you?"
"Because your father was so kind to rip our necklace off...." The elf Astra said with a cheerful smile.
"What?!"
The entire room was silent. "Please explain this again?" asked Professor Lupin. Sirius looked as though he were ready to take someone's head off.
"I just now figured it out...." The elf Astra said cheerfully. "When he ripped off our necklace, we split into these two halves...."
"How on Earth is that possible...." said Hermione and Nevaeh.
"Jinx!" Nevaeh laughed.
"Not funny..." Hermione growled.
"Uh uh! You can't say a word until someone else un-jinxes you...." Kennedy smiled.
"Hey! I can deal with that!" Ron said with a wide grin. Hermione growled angrily at him and he gulped. "I un-jinx you... How on Earth is that possible!"
"How did you know to do that?" Kennedy said.
"Hermione does it to me sometimes...." Ron sighed as Hermione gave Nevaeh a satisfied smile.
"I remember when we went into that one shop in Hogsmeade...." The elf Astra said. "There was this strange Irish fellow behind the counter of this one jewelry shop."
"Yeah! He said some weird crap about a warrior in black and red...." The human Astra giggled as she clutched onto Draco.
"Black and red.... That's what Devnet was wearing when we found her!" said Harry as he remembered her fully now. He remembered her armor.
The elf Astra held out the Raven's Eye stone and smiled. Harry stared at the stone. He remembered seeing the light glint off of it in that cave. He walked over and took it from the elf Astra.
"What's this?" Harry indicated the small indentation on the stone.
"I don't know..." said the elf Astra.
"Who did this to you...." said Draco to the Human Astra. Harry turned and watched as Draco traced the small scratches on her collar bone. "They look rather famil---" He stopped as his face went pale. Then, his cheeks twinged pink. "Father...." he said softly.
"He cornered us when we were going down to see you..." said the elf Astra with a smile.
"He was trying to jump us..." said the human Astra with a straight face.
"He reasoned that we were unfit to be your girlfriend...."
"He was trying to prove that we were a money grubbing harlot...."
"We had assured him that we weren't after your money..."
"In a matter of speaking...." said the human Astra. "We told him that Pansy was that kind of girl, but I don't think he liked that..."
"Then, he started squeezing our waist much like you have a tendency to do...." said the elf Astra with unshakable cheerfulness.
"Which is now a large and painful bruise that hurts like hell..."
"Then, we told him very plainly that we weren't like that...."
"We called Mrs. Malfoy a money grubbing harlot...."
"And for some reason he didn't like that...." said the elf Astra.
"You called my mom a--" Draco started with a growl.
The human Astra lifted her shirt off of her stomach. There was a large blue and black bruise on her extremely pale skin. "He ripped off our necklace with our star locket on it and walked off as we started to split in half, saying that he was going to give the necklace a nice burial..."
"There's something about the two pendents being together that kept Astra in her own form...." Hermione said.
"I'll say... we had better find Mr. Malfoy before we lose that locket!" said the Human Astra.
Harry stared at the stone again. He saw the indentation again. "I wonder why..."
"Come on! Harry get off your duff and help out!" said Ginny. Harry gave the elf Astra the stone and trotted over to Ginny.
Harry and Ginny ran to Professor Dumbledore's office. "Oh hell... we need the pass word!" Ginny sighed.
"Not to worry... being Head Boy has its absolute privileges." Harry said with a grin. "Blood Worms!"
"Those awful candies at Honeydukes?" Ginny said in a surprised manner as the gargoyle hopped aside to reveal the door to Professor Dumbledore's office. "I guess it worked!"
They walked up the staircase and emerged in the small office. Fawkes the phoenix was sitting on his perch, staring at Harry with those eyes of his. "Hello Fawkes..."
"Hello, Harry... what brings you and Miss Weasley here?" said a smiling Professor Dumbledore.
"We need to know where Mr. Malfoy went..." said Harry.
"Lucius? I don't recall him saying he was going to visit this weekend..." Dumbledore said in an offhanded manner. "Maybe is skipped his mind... but he really ought to have come to me first...."
"We think that he has done something to Astra, sir..." said Ginny. "I think he tried to scare Astra away from Draco..."
"Scare her away... I do believe that sounds like him..." Dumbledore said. "I recall him scaring the rest of the Slytherins away when he was going out with Narcissa..."
"Please sir... we need to find him... he has Astra's locket..." Harry said. He was beginning to get anxious. Dumbledore gave him a calm stare.
"I think I heard Professor Snape saying something about him today...." Dumbledore said. "About him going to see someone in the Astronomy tower."
Harry would have started laughing if Astra was not split into her two halves. "Thank you, Professor!" Harry dragged Ginny out of the office and headed straight for the Astronomy tower. He ended up running into Draco and the two Astras.
"Watch where you're going, Potter!" Draco snarled. He stood up and brushed himself off.
"Bleeg.... I hate running around in circles like this..." The human Astra said.
"You made up a new word!" The elf Astra said.
"I'll make up yer head if you don't shut up!"
"I think we had better find that locket before the human Astra kills the elf..." Ginny said.
"Where were you two headed for....?" Draco said impatiently.
"The Astronomy Tower...." Harry said hurriedly.
Draco perked up at that. "Isn't it a bit early for that, Potter?" He sneered. Harry blushed as red as Ginny.
"Stuff it! We were told that Mr. Malfoy was headed up there..." Harry growled.
Suddenly, Hermione and Ron were running up from the dungeon area. "Gangway! Evil white wizard with a nasty streak coming through!" they shouted. Avalon, Nevaeh and Kennedy were running up behind them.
"He's coming behind us!" Nevaeh shouted.
"With a very hot temper to boot!" Kennedy shouted.
Suddenly, Harry saw wand blasts coming from behind them. Lucius Malfoy was running after them with his wand out. "I told you to go away!"
"Get him!" shouted the human Astra.
"I agree..." said the elf Astra. The two of them pounced on Mr. Malfoy.
"Give me my friggin necklace!" growled on of the two.
"Give it back before I fry yer ass!" said the elf Astra.
"You have your powers?" said the human Astra in surprise.
"What... you think I wouldn't because I am you?" the elf Astra said.
"Nevermind.... let's get this freak down!"
They managed to get Mr. Malfoy onto the ground. The human Astra started punching Mr. Malfoy on the jaw. The elf Astra was trying to get one of his leather clad hands open. "He's got it in this one! I know it!"
The human Astra took hold of the front of Mr. Malfoy's robes and pulled him up. She growled at him. "Give it back, Mr. Malfoy, or you will know what it is like to be electrocuted..."
Harry walked over and took out his wand. "Mr. Malfoy... do what she says or I'm going to bring you to Professor Dumbledore for disturbing the peace...." He pointed his wand down at Mr. Malfoy's pale, pointed face.
Mr. Malfoy rolled his eyes and threw the human Astra off of him. "I got it! He threw it at me!" said the human Astra after she hit the floor.
"Take it! I don't want something as stupid as that thing..." he growled. He stalked over to Draco and snarled. "Son... you marry this girl and I'll disown you...."
The two Astras blushed pink. Draco stared at his father with a snarl on his pale lips. Harry was astounded at how much Draco looked like a younger version of his father. He looked as though he were having an internal struggle.
There was a long silence until Draco finally growled out something Harry would never have though possible. "Get stuffed, Father! I will be with whomever I wish and if that means being with someone you don't approve of, then that's fine with me!"
Harry stared on in stunned silence as Draco stalked over to the two Astras. He looked as though he were going to show Mr. Malfoy just how much he wanted Astra, but she was still in her two halves. "Damn it...! We need to get her back to normal so I can defy my father!" Draco said.
"I have it!" Harry said. He had been trying to figure it out during the conflict. "The stone on Astra's locket is a chip off of the Raven's Eye stone!"
"So that means all we would have to do would be to just put them together." said the elf Astra.
"I've got the locket..." the human Astra held out the locket.
"I've got the stone...." the elf Astra held out the Raven's Eye.
They put them together and there was suddenly a brilliant light. Draco was enveloped into the light, as was Nevaeh and Ginny. Harry suddenly felt himself become enveloped in the light as he watched Avalon disappear into it. Then.... everything went white....
Okay... I gotta control meself.... I still despise the guy, but hey... he is a looker! I must now indulge a little bit.... forgive me my fangirlness for this....
Word of note, right now I'm in a battle with the Austin Public Library. I'll find a way to get this stuff up, so don't you worry. Have fun reading!
Chapter Fifteen
February came and Harry was being pressed by Hermione to get Ginny a valentine. He remembered his second year when that dwarf sat on him and sang that horrible poem Ginny had written.
"You've got to give her one. You forgot last year!" Hermione growled at him. "Lord knows what she's going to do to you if you forget again!"
"What about Ron? He forgets just as easily as I do!" Harry huffed at her.
"He's different... I have my ways of getting him to remember...." Hermione said with a sly smile.
"Alright... alright.. I'll figure something out... I just hope there is no repeat of that one valentine....." Harry said. He cringed at the thought of the valentine and the dwarf.
"It wasn't THAT bad.... honestly... you are worse than Ron, you know that!" Hermione growled.
"Worse?! How can I be worse than the guy who chases Veela in his spare time!" Harry said.
"Like you don't? Really, Harry... what's the matter?" Hermione calmed down and breathed deeply.
"It's just this whole valentine's day business.... After that one valentine's day in our second year with LOCKHEART, I was pretty much turned off from the idea..." Harry said. He calmed himself as well.
"You shouldn't blame Ginny for that mess.... She may have made the valentine, but she was only trying to give you a clue...." Harry stared at Hermione with a half smile. "Blame the old Lockheart for the dwarves dressed as cupids. I hated them even more than you did." Harry raised his eyebrows at her. "Long story and it's not one I'm willing to tell...."
Harry dropped it and sighed. "Okay... what do you suggest, oh mighty valentine goddess?"
Hermione blushed slightly and smiled. "Well... I don't think I'm THAT good...." She composed herself and thought. "How about a nice bunch of flowers and your own valentine card. It's not much of an idea, but it is nice and sweet..."
Harry suddenly got an idea. He grinned. "Thanks, Hermione! I've got the perfect thing!" Then, he hurried off to the library.
He nearly ran into Astra on the way. Astra slapped him on his shoulder when he stopped. "Watch it, guy! I'm goin' somewhere too, and I'd like to get there in one piece."
"Sorry, Astra... I have something to do! Bye!" Harry, then, hurried off. Astra stared after him incredulously, then smiled.
She continued to walk toward the dungeon area. She had stowed in her bag a valentine card she had made Draco. She blushed slightly at the thought of giving it to him.
Suddenly, she ran into someone. "Oops! I'm sorry, sir, I d--"
"Hello, Miss Knight..." sneered Mr. Malfoy down at Astra. "I was just looking for you..."
"What are you doing here..." Astra said.
"Well... I got a letter from Draco saying that he was in love with a lovely girl.... His mother knew that he was talking about you, but she never said anything, the poor dear..." Mr. Malfoy said. He had with him his cane with the silver snake head. He lifted it to Astra's forehead and brushed her hair aside. "To think I gave Draco every opportunity to become great..."
Astra shoved the snake head cane away. "You are talking about Pansy, I expect...."
"She is a good girl... just right for Draco...." Mr. Malfoy stated.
"She's obsessed with Draco.... The woman ought to be in a padded cell!" Astra said through gritted teeth.
"She reminds me so much of Narcissa..." Mr. Malfoy said with a satisfied smile.
"And that explains her many quirks..." Astra finished.
Mr. Malfoy narrowed his cold eyes down at Astra and she could hear her heart start to pound. He advanced on her until Astra realized that her back was against a wall. "How dare you talk about my wife in that manner..." he said in a hushed tone.
Astra gulped and felt the blood drain from her face. She still kept her own cold gaze locked onto Mr. Malfoy's. There was a cold, cruel smile that spread across Mr. Malfoy's pale face. "You keep this up and you'll be a Mrs. Malfoy yourself...."
He bent down to her ear breathed on it. "I'll expose you for what you are...." He used the snake head on his cane to trace a line from her jaw to her collarbone. Astra's breathing became shallow as she tried to keep her heart from pounding so loudly.
"And what would that be....?" she managed to say in a cold tone as her voice shook some.
He took his face away from her ear and smiled at her with a cruel smile. She became aware of his other hand on her waist. He squeezed her waist in a nasty way that hurt. Astra's eyes began to tear up, but she kept her face as straight as she could. "You're afraid of me..."
"I'd be an idiot if I wasn't...." she growled.
He squeezed her side again, harder than before. A gasp of pain escaped her lips. "Don't patronize me...." He said in a low growl. "Why don't you attack me...."
"Because you're Draco's father...." She said with a squeak. "As much as I despise you, I won't harm his family...."
"How noble of you...." Astra felt the fangs of the snake head cane pierce the skin on her collarbone. She felt the metal scratch across her skin, drawing a small trickle of blood. "This is going to make it easier to show Draco what kind of a girl you are...." His face was inches from hers. "A money grubbing harlot...."
"Like Pansy isn't? Puh-leez!" Astra growled. The hand on her side squeezed again, pain shooting through her body. "Specially Mrs. Malfoy.... If you say that she is like Pansy...."
Mr. Malfoy growled at her, showing his teeth like a predator. "That's it! How dare you insult Narcissa that way!" Mr. Malfoy grabbed Astra's necklace and ripped it off. Astra fell to the floor in pain. She felt as thought her entire body was splitting in half. She saw him smile coldly at her and show her the star locket. "My, my.... isn't this interesting... I think I shall give this a proper burial...."
Astra felt something fall into her hand as she doubled over again as pain swept through her. She tried to cry out, but her voice felt like it was doubled. Then.... she blacked out.....
Harry sat in the infirmary and waited. Sirius and Professor Lupin had told him that they had found Astra lying on the ground in the hallway. Harry had not realized why it took both of them to carry her there until he, Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Kennedy, Avalon and Nevaeh had gone to visit her.
There on two beds were two Astras. One sat up, wearing a white version of what the second Astra was wearing. A white scoop necked sweater and skirt. The second wore what Harry had seen Astra wearing that day, a black scooped neck sweater with red writing on it that said "charmed" and a black skirt.
"This is fun! I didn't realize why my mom was so ditzy until now!" The one in white said.
"Yeah... only because of that damned idiot...." The one in black growled. "I find him, I really will kill him!" Harry saw two small scratches on Astra's collar bone. He also noticed something that he didn't see when he came in. The one in black had human ears.
"You can't do that! Draco will have us for lunch!" The elf Astra gasped.
"That might not be such a bad thing..." smirked the human Astra. There was a groan from Nevaeh and Avalon. "Ah so you two are here... good.. Go find Mr. Malfoy so that I can't tell him that he is a complete a-hole!"
"Mr. Malfoy did this? How?" Professor Lupin asked.
"I don't know how... I just know he did!" growled the one in black.
"Why would he do such a thing...." said Hermione.
"Probably to try to discourage Draco from being with Astra...." Nevaeh said.
"That would be impossible... the way she is now, Draco would be enjoying himself rather than despise this..." Harry said. He tried not to laugh at Ron, who looked as though he were going to be sick.
A grumbling Draco walked into the infirmary. The Astra in black jumped up and pounced on him, wrapping her arms around Draco's neck. "DRACO!"
"Bloody hell!" Draco gasped as the Astra in black nuzzled her nose against his neck. "Why is it that I see two of you?"
"Because your father was so kind to rip our necklace off...." The elf Astra said with a cheerful smile.
"What?!"
The entire room was silent. "Please explain this again?" asked Professor Lupin. Sirius looked as though he were ready to take someone's head off.
"I just now figured it out...." The elf Astra said cheerfully. "When he ripped off our necklace, we split into these two halves...."
"How on Earth is that possible...." said Hermione and Nevaeh.
"Jinx!" Nevaeh laughed.
"Not funny..." Hermione growled.
"Uh uh! You can't say a word until someone else un-jinxes you...." Kennedy smiled.
"Hey! I can deal with that!" Ron said with a wide grin. Hermione growled angrily at him and he gulped. "I un-jinx you... How on Earth is that possible!"
"How did you know to do that?" Kennedy said.
"Hermione does it to me sometimes...." Ron sighed as Hermione gave Nevaeh a satisfied smile.
"I remember when we went into that one shop in Hogsmeade...." The elf Astra said. "There was this strange Irish fellow behind the counter of this one jewelry shop."
"Yeah! He said some weird crap about a warrior in black and red...." The human Astra giggled as she clutched onto Draco.
"Black and red.... That's what Devnet was wearing when we found her!" said Harry as he remembered her fully now. He remembered her armor.
The elf Astra held out the Raven's Eye stone and smiled. Harry stared at the stone. He remembered seeing the light glint off of it in that cave. He walked over and took it from the elf Astra.
"What's this?" Harry indicated the small indentation on the stone.
"I don't know..." said the elf Astra.
"Who did this to you...." said Draco to the Human Astra. Harry turned and watched as Draco traced the small scratches on her collar bone. "They look rather famil---" He stopped as his face went pale. Then, his cheeks twinged pink. "Father...." he said softly.
"He cornered us when we were going down to see you..." said the elf Astra with a smile.
"He was trying to jump us..." said the human Astra with a straight face.
"He reasoned that we were unfit to be your girlfriend...."
"He was trying to prove that we were a money grubbing harlot...."
"We had assured him that we weren't after your money..."
"In a matter of speaking...." said the human Astra. "We told him that Pansy was that kind of girl, but I don't think he liked that..."
"Then, he started squeezing our waist much like you have a tendency to do...." said the elf Astra with unshakable cheerfulness.
"Which is now a large and painful bruise that hurts like hell..."
"Then, we told him very plainly that we weren't like that...."
"We called Mrs. Malfoy a money grubbing harlot...."
"And for some reason he didn't like that...." said the elf Astra.
"You called my mom a--" Draco started with a growl.
The human Astra lifted her shirt off of her stomach. There was a large blue and black bruise on her extremely pale skin. "He ripped off our necklace with our star locket on it and walked off as we started to split in half, saying that he was going to give the necklace a nice burial..."
"There's something about the two pendents being together that kept Astra in her own form...." Hermione said.
"I'll say... we had better find Mr. Malfoy before we lose that locket!" said the Human Astra.
Harry stared at the stone again. He saw the indentation again. "I wonder why..."
"Come on! Harry get off your duff and help out!" said Ginny. Harry gave the elf Astra the stone and trotted over to Ginny.
Harry and Ginny ran to Professor Dumbledore's office. "Oh hell... we need the pass word!" Ginny sighed.
"Not to worry... being Head Boy has its absolute privileges." Harry said with a grin. "Blood Worms!"
"Those awful candies at Honeydukes?" Ginny said in a surprised manner as the gargoyle hopped aside to reveal the door to Professor Dumbledore's office. "I guess it worked!"
They walked up the staircase and emerged in the small office. Fawkes the phoenix was sitting on his perch, staring at Harry with those eyes of his. "Hello Fawkes..."
"Hello, Harry... what brings you and Miss Weasley here?" said a smiling Professor Dumbledore.
"We need to know where Mr. Malfoy went..." said Harry.
"Lucius? I don't recall him saying he was going to visit this weekend..." Dumbledore said in an offhanded manner. "Maybe is skipped his mind... but he really ought to have come to me first...."
"We think that he has done something to Astra, sir..." said Ginny. "I think he tried to scare Astra away from Draco..."
"Scare her away... I do believe that sounds like him..." Dumbledore said. "I recall him scaring the rest of the Slytherins away when he was going out with Narcissa..."
"Please sir... we need to find him... he has Astra's locket..." Harry said. He was beginning to get anxious. Dumbledore gave him a calm stare.
"I think I heard Professor Snape saying something about him today...." Dumbledore said. "About him going to see someone in the Astronomy tower."
Harry would have started laughing if Astra was not split into her two halves. "Thank you, Professor!" Harry dragged Ginny out of the office and headed straight for the Astronomy tower. He ended up running into Draco and the two Astras.
"Watch where you're going, Potter!" Draco snarled. He stood up and brushed himself off.
"Bleeg.... I hate running around in circles like this..." The human Astra said.
"You made up a new word!" The elf Astra said.
"I'll make up yer head if you don't shut up!"
"I think we had better find that locket before the human Astra kills the elf..." Ginny said.
"Where were you two headed for....?" Draco said impatiently.
"The Astronomy Tower...." Harry said hurriedly.
Draco perked up at that. "Isn't it a bit early for that, Potter?" He sneered. Harry blushed as red as Ginny.
"Stuff it! We were told that Mr. Malfoy was headed up there..." Harry growled.
Suddenly, Hermione and Ron were running up from the dungeon area. "Gangway! Evil white wizard with a nasty streak coming through!" they shouted. Avalon, Nevaeh and Kennedy were running up behind them.
"He's coming behind us!" Nevaeh shouted.
"With a very hot temper to boot!" Kennedy shouted.
Suddenly, Harry saw wand blasts coming from behind them. Lucius Malfoy was running after them with his wand out. "I told you to go away!"
"Get him!" shouted the human Astra.
"I agree..." said the elf Astra. The two of them pounced on Mr. Malfoy.
"Give me my friggin necklace!" growled on of the two.
"Give it back before I fry yer ass!" said the elf Astra.
"You have your powers?" said the human Astra in surprise.
"What... you think I wouldn't because I am you?" the elf Astra said.
"Nevermind.... let's get this freak down!"
They managed to get Mr. Malfoy onto the ground. The human Astra started punching Mr. Malfoy on the jaw. The elf Astra was trying to get one of his leather clad hands open. "He's got it in this one! I know it!"
The human Astra took hold of the front of Mr. Malfoy's robes and pulled him up. She growled at him. "Give it back, Mr. Malfoy, or you will know what it is like to be electrocuted..."
Harry walked over and took out his wand. "Mr. Malfoy... do what she says or I'm going to bring you to Professor Dumbledore for disturbing the peace...." He pointed his wand down at Mr. Malfoy's pale, pointed face.
Mr. Malfoy rolled his eyes and threw the human Astra off of him. "I got it! He threw it at me!" said the human Astra after she hit the floor.
"Take it! I don't want something as stupid as that thing..." he growled. He stalked over to Draco and snarled. "Son... you marry this girl and I'll disown you...."
The two Astras blushed pink. Draco stared at his father with a snarl on his pale lips. Harry was astounded at how much Draco looked like a younger version of his father. He looked as though he were having an internal struggle.
There was a long silence until Draco finally growled out something Harry would never have though possible. "Get stuffed, Father! I will be with whomever I wish and if that means being with someone you don't approve of, then that's fine with me!"
Harry stared on in stunned silence as Draco stalked over to the two Astras. He looked as though he were going to show Mr. Malfoy just how much he wanted Astra, but she was still in her two halves. "Damn it...! We need to get her back to normal so I can defy my father!" Draco said.
"I have it!" Harry said. He had been trying to figure it out during the conflict. "The stone on Astra's locket is a chip off of the Raven's Eye stone!"
"So that means all we would have to do would be to just put them together." said the elf Astra.
"I've got the locket..." the human Astra held out the locket.
"I've got the stone...." the elf Astra held out the Raven's Eye.
They put them together and there was suddenly a brilliant light. Draco was enveloped into the light, as was Nevaeh and Ginny. Harry suddenly felt himself become enveloped in the light as he watched Avalon disappear into it. Then.... everything went white....