The group suddenly found themselves surrounded by a barren wasteland that was the
desert. As far as the eye could see, there was nothing. No trees, no nothing. The Sun
shone down on them, making the sweltering heat feel all that much worse. Instantly
everyone was sweating. It was immediately decided that less clothes were going to be
needed. The group still had on their school robes and it was an awful heat. They removed
their robes and all of them quickly changed clothes, each facing away from everyone else.
Once they all had shorts and T-shirts or tank tops, they were ready to begin looking.
James pulled out his wand and said, "Locatoeur Harry" and the wand instantly pointed to
James west, in the direct path of the sun.
The group turned and began marching.
"You know this would be a lot easier if we had broomsticks." Michelle said pointedly at
her brother.
Everyone laughed except Hermoine. She was thinking about Harry. Not for the first time.
She thought about all of the pain he must be going through. She had only felt his pain for
mere seconds, and it was incredible, she felt a great swell of sadness at this. Then a great
swell of anger. Whatever it was that was hurting her Harry was going to die. She had just
got him. She had just gotten his love, when he was taken from her. Oh yes, someone was
going to pay, and she knew just who it was.
*********
Harry was being tortured, again. But it wasn't as bad this time. He had developed a block
to the pain. It didn't seem as bad. Instead of feeling like he was dying, he just felt like he
was having his limbs broken. Which believe it or not, was an improvement.
He wasn't really screaming anymore, just grimacing in pain.
The two men had stopped for a moment, apparently to switch devices, when a man
entered. The man that entered was someone who Harry hated almost as much as
Voldemort. It was Lucious Malfoy.
"Master." Lucious said, "They are in the desert, they should be here within the hour."
"Excellent Lucious." Voldemort said looking very pleased.
Luciuos bowed and, with a last look of hate at Harry, left quickly.
"It seems, " Voldemort began, "That you friends have come to try and rescue you."
"You had to have known they would." Harry said
"Oh yes. I knew." Voldemort said with a cruel smile, "In fact, I was counting on it."
With that Voldemort exited the room, while the men continued the work.
**********
"Locateur Harry" James said again. His wand pointing straight ahead and slightly to the
left.
The group of young wizards and witches began marching in the direction the wand had
pointed. Once they reached the top of a small hill of sand they saw a small building. It
seemed to be made of wood.
"That's it." Hermoine said.
"Good." James said.
"Well what now?" Michelle asked.
Instead of Hermoine answering Michelle's question, Malfoy did.
"Well I think someone should circle the house from a distance, to check for any other
exits. I'm sure there are perimiter alerts, they probably already know we are here. But it
will be good to know if there was any other exits. I'm sure they are torturing him
underground, because that house would become too hot. If there are two exits, we should
split up and approach from both sides."
Malfoy said this entire statement without looking at the group. Once he turned his attention
he found everyone staring at him amazed.
"What?" asked Malfoy.
"Nothing." everyone murmured.
They were all secretly suprised that Malfoy could coordinate and attack.
"Aight, well I figure that the two teams should be like this, Me, Michelle, and James, and
then Hermoine and Ron."
Everyone just nodded their agreement.
James then spoke up, "Hermoine, you and Ron ought to approach from the back since there is only two of you.If there is a back exit, raise your wand and fire blue sparks then move it., if there isn't, just come back. "
Hermoine nodded and began walking off. She stopped when she noticed Ron wasn't with
her. He was hugging Michelle and whispering to her. She nodded, they shared a brief kiss
and Ron ran to Hermoine.
Minutes after Hermoine and Ron had left, they saw blue sparks fly into the air.
James turned to Michelle and Malfoy, they nodded, and the group of three began a slow
crouching walk up to the front of the building.
In the back Hermoine and Ron did they same.
James reached the door first. He told Michelle to open the door from the side and he
would go in first.
They all pulled their wands, and Michelle opened the door.
James came into the room quickly. To his great suprise, there was no one in the first
room. It was a simple room. It looked just like a family living room. Couches and chairs.
A table. Michelle and Malfoy entered.
They all looked at each other and shrugged. Seconds later the back door came flying open
and Ron came flying in followed by Hermoine. They looked around and then looked to
James, Michelle and Malfoy and shrugged.
There was a hallway coming off of the room. James placed his finger over his mouth, to
tell them to be quiet, and the pointed to the hallway. Everyone nodded and they began
moving down it.
At the end of the barren hallway was a stairway.
The had almost reached the stairway when someone could be heard coming up it.
Everyone moved back, but James. He stood and waited, Once the person got to where
James could reach them, he simply kicked out and hit them square in the face, knocking
the person unconscience.
James pulled the person up the rest of the way up the stairs, and rolled him over. It was a
man that none of them recognized.
James simply hit him in the face again, just to make sure he was out cold, and laid him to
the side.
They began the descent down the stairway very slowly. Once they reached the bottom they
found themselves in another corridor. This one was just like the one above, except this one
had many doors on it. James looked at the others, who shrugged. He pulled his wand and
whispered, "Locateur Harry." The wand pointed down the corridor to the left.
"You know this is a trap right?" Hermoine whispered to James.
"Do we have another choice?" James responded in a whisper
They walked down the corridor and were almost at the door that the wand had indicated
when the door directly across from it opened and none other than Voldemort himself
exited.
He looked to the group and smile a cruel smile and said, "Welcome."
Malfoy was the first to turn and look behind him, thinking of running, behind them was his
father, accompanied by 3 other people whom, he assumed, were death eaters.
Everyone turned to look with the exception of James. His eyes never left Voldemort.
"As you can see, you aren't going anywhere." Voldemort said.
Suddenly a smack was heard as James had just hauled off and hit Voldemort square in the
face.
Voldemort's head rocked back. No one moved or uttered a word.
"That was for fucking with my friends." James said.
Voldemort looked absolutely deadly after this. He quickly pulled his wand and said
Crucio. James began writhing in pain. But he did not fall. Tears were leaking out of his
closed eyes, but he did not murmur a word of pain.
Once Voldemort had lifted the curse, James simply stood there with his eyes closed until
he could be sure of himself to open them.
What happened from there was a blur. Hermoine suddenly fired a curse and Voldemort,
which of course didn't do anything. The Death Eaters began firing on the group, and
Voldemort himself fired a few. While the battle waged, Malfoy had managed to get to the
door which the wand said Harry was inside of. He opened it to a truly horrifying sight.
Two men were standing over a body, doing awful things to it. There was blood
everywhere. Bloody knifes and different torture devices were all over the place.
Malfoy looked at the person and thought he might throw up. It was Harry. He was bloody
from head to toe. His skin had been ripped open in more than one place. His eyes were
both puffed up badly.
Even his toes were bleeding.
Malfoy suddenly became very angry at the scene that lay before him. He completely forgot
about his wand and launched himself at the two men.
Harry looked up when he heard a cry of anger to find the greatest, and oddest, sight he had ever seen. Malfoy was launching himself at the two men. 'Malfoy is rescuing me?' Harry thought to
himself. Then he thought, 'Why do I care who it is, they're here!'
Malfoy hit the taller man first, because he was closest. He kicked the shorter man in the
head and then turned and punched the taller one in the head, knocking him to the ground.
The short one stood up and was immediatly knocked down again by Malfoy.
"Hello Potter" Malfoy said after the two men were both on the ground.
"Hey Malfoy." Harry said in a whisper.
Malfoy then said, "Hang on mate, I'm getting you the hell out of here."
Malfoy seemed to remember he had a wand and pulled it out. He put the body bind of both
of the men. He then helped Harry out of his ropes. He knew that Harry couldn't walk, so he put the levitation charm on him. Malfoy went to the door to check outside. The battle
still waged.
He turned back to Harry. "I don't think we can get out there."
"If I could only use my magic I could heal myself." Harry said, then he suddenly had a
thought. He hadn't tried to use his magic since that first day. He then realized he didn't his
wand, but he didn't really need it anymore, his training had taught him how to do magic
without it. He reached out his hand and pointed it at one of the briefcases that the men
carried. "Accio briefcase."
The case floated up and into Harry's hand.
He then dropped the case and put his hand on his heart. Malfoy heard him murmur a few
words and there was a bright white light that encircled Harry. Once the light was gone,
Harry stood up and, to Malfoy's disbelief, he was partially healed. He still had severl deep cuts. His stomach wound was still open, slightly. But his toes and face weren't bleeding any longer and his legs looked healed.
"Now then." Harry said, "I want out of this hell hole."
Malfoy nodded and stood aside and Harry blasted the door off its hinges. Harry stepped
into the battle and began firing curses at the Death Eaters.
No one noticed Harry standing there. Voldemort was the first one. Once Voldemort noticed Harry's partially healed state, the evil wizard disappeared.
'Coward' Harry thought to himself.
Once the Death Eaters realized they were outnumbered and that Voldemort was gone,
they disappeared as well.
Everyone turned to Harry. No one said a word, until Hermoine ran to him and practically
tackled him with a hug. Her face was bleeding where something had hit her, but she didn't
care right now.
'He's here. He's alive. Oh thank god.' Hermoine kept saying over and over in her mind.
Hermoine looked up into his eyes then. Those emerald eyes she loved so much and said in
a whisper, "Is it really you Harry?"
"Yes it's me Hermoine." Harry replied
Their lips met in a kiss. To Harry it was like all of the pain he had felt in the last few days
simply wash away. In Hermoine's mind and heart, she felt the same thing.
After a moment of kissing, someone cleared their throat, it was James. "Hey guys, can't
you wait till we get back to do that? I'm not much of a watch it guy, more of a do it guy."
Everyone laughed and Harry and Hermoine separated their hug. James and Malfoy both gave Harry a handshake and Michelle and Ron both gave him hugs. Harry reached and grabbed Hermoine's hand. They still held hands as they walked out
of the building.
"Umm How are we supposed to get back?" Ron asked.
"I'll apparate us home." Harry told him.
"Harry you can't apparate on Hogwarts grounds, you know that." Hermoine said.
Harry smiled and said, "I'll apparate us to Hogsmeade then.
"Cool." Ron said.
Harry enveloped everyone in a massive hug and instantly they disappeared.
desert. As far as the eye could see, there was nothing. No trees, no nothing. The Sun
shone down on them, making the sweltering heat feel all that much worse. Instantly
everyone was sweating. It was immediately decided that less clothes were going to be
needed. The group still had on their school robes and it was an awful heat. They removed
their robes and all of them quickly changed clothes, each facing away from everyone else.
Once they all had shorts and T-shirts or tank tops, they were ready to begin looking.
James pulled out his wand and said, "Locatoeur Harry" and the wand instantly pointed to
James west, in the direct path of the sun.
The group turned and began marching.
"You know this would be a lot easier if we had broomsticks." Michelle said pointedly at
her brother.
Everyone laughed except Hermoine. She was thinking about Harry. Not for the first time.
She thought about all of the pain he must be going through. She had only felt his pain for
mere seconds, and it was incredible, she felt a great swell of sadness at this. Then a great
swell of anger. Whatever it was that was hurting her Harry was going to die. She had just
got him. She had just gotten his love, when he was taken from her. Oh yes, someone was
going to pay, and she knew just who it was.
*********
Harry was being tortured, again. But it wasn't as bad this time. He had developed a block
to the pain. It didn't seem as bad. Instead of feeling like he was dying, he just felt like he
was having his limbs broken. Which believe it or not, was an improvement.
He wasn't really screaming anymore, just grimacing in pain.
The two men had stopped for a moment, apparently to switch devices, when a man
entered. The man that entered was someone who Harry hated almost as much as
Voldemort. It was Lucious Malfoy.
"Master." Lucious said, "They are in the desert, they should be here within the hour."
"Excellent Lucious." Voldemort said looking very pleased.
Luciuos bowed and, with a last look of hate at Harry, left quickly.
"It seems, " Voldemort began, "That you friends have come to try and rescue you."
"You had to have known they would." Harry said
"Oh yes. I knew." Voldemort said with a cruel smile, "In fact, I was counting on it."
With that Voldemort exited the room, while the men continued the work.
**********
"Locateur Harry" James said again. His wand pointing straight ahead and slightly to the
left.
The group of young wizards and witches began marching in the direction the wand had
pointed. Once they reached the top of a small hill of sand they saw a small building. It
seemed to be made of wood.
"That's it." Hermoine said.
"Good." James said.
"Well what now?" Michelle asked.
Instead of Hermoine answering Michelle's question, Malfoy did.
"Well I think someone should circle the house from a distance, to check for any other
exits. I'm sure there are perimiter alerts, they probably already know we are here. But it
will be good to know if there was any other exits. I'm sure they are torturing him
underground, because that house would become too hot. If there are two exits, we should
split up and approach from both sides."
Malfoy said this entire statement without looking at the group. Once he turned his attention
he found everyone staring at him amazed.
"What?" asked Malfoy.
"Nothing." everyone murmured.
They were all secretly suprised that Malfoy could coordinate and attack.
"Aight, well I figure that the two teams should be like this, Me, Michelle, and James, and
then Hermoine and Ron."
Everyone just nodded their agreement.
James then spoke up, "Hermoine, you and Ron ought to approach from the back since there is only two of you.If there is a back exit, raise your wand and fire blue sparks then move it., if there isn't, just come back. "
Hermoine nodded and began walking off. She stopped when she noticed Ron wasn't with
her. He was hugging Michelle and whispering to her. She nodded, they shared a brief kiss
and Ron ran to Hermoine.
Minutes after Hermoine and Ron had left, they saw blue sparks fly into the air.
James turned to Michelle and Malfoy, they nodded, and the group of three began a slow
crouching walk up to the front of the building.
In the back Hermoine and Ron did they same.
James reached the door first. He told Michelle to open the door from the side and he
would go in first.
They all pulled their wands, and Michelle opened the door.
James came into the room quickly. To his great suprise, there was no one in the first
room. It was a simple room. It looked just like a family living room. Couches and chairs.
A table. Michelle and Malfoy entered.
They all looked at each other and shrugged. Seconds later the back door came flying open
and Ron came flying in followed by Hermoine. They looked around and then looked to
James, Michelle and Malfoy and shrugged.
There was a hallway coming off of the room. James placed his finger over his mouth, to
tell them to be quiet, and the pointed to the hallway. Everyone nodded and they began
moving down it.
At the end of the barren hallway was a stairway.
The had almost reached the stairway when someone could be heard coming up it.
Everyone moved back, but James. He stood and waited, Once the person got to where
James could reach them, he simply kicked out and hit them square in the face, knocking
the person unconscience.
James pulled the person up the rest of the way up the stairs, and rolled him over. It was a
man that none of them recognized.
James simply hit him in the face again, just to make sure he was out cold, and laid him to
the side.
They began the descent down the stairway very slowly. Once they reached the bottom they
found themselves in another corridor. This one was just like the one above, except this one
had many doors on it. James looked at the others, who shrugged. He pulled his wand and
whispered, "Locateur Harry." The wand pointed down the corridor to the left.
"You know this is a trap right?" Hermoine whispered to James.
"Do we have another choice?" James responded in a whisper
They walked down the corridor and were almost at the door that the wand had indicated
when the door directly across from it opened and none other than Voldemort himself
exited.
He looked to the group and smile a cruel smile and said, "Welcome."
Malfoy was the first to turn and look behind him, thinking of running, behind them was his
father, accompanied by 3 other people whom, he assumed, were death eaters.
Everyone turned to look with the exception of James. His eyes never left Voldemort.
"As you can see, you aren't going anywhere." Voldemort said.
Suddenly a smack was heard as James had just hauled off and hit Voldemort square in the
face.
Voldemort's head rocked back. No one moved or uttered a word.
"That was for fucking with my friends." James said.
Voldemort looked absolutely deadly after this. He quickly pulled his wand and said
Crucio. James began writhing in pain. But he did not fall. Tears were leaking out of his
closed eyes, but he did not murmur a word of pain.
Once Voldemort had lifted the curse, James simply stood there with his eyes closed until
he could be sure of himself to open them.
What happened from there was a blur. Hermoine suddenly fired a curse and Voldemort,
which of course didn't do anything. The Death Eaters began firing on the group, and
Voldemort himself fired a few. While the battle waged, Malfoy had managed to get to the
door which the wand said Harry was inside of. He opened it to a truly horrifying sight.
Two men were standing over a body, doing awful things to it. There was blood
everywhere. Bloody knifes and different torture devices were all over the place.
Malfoy looked at the person and thought he might throw up. It was Harry. He was bloody
from head to toe. His skin had been ripped open in more than one place. His eyes were
both puffed up badly.
Even his toes were bleeding.
Malfoy suddenly became very angry at the scene that lay before him. He completely forgot
about his wand and launched himself at the two men.
Harry looked up when he heard a cry of anger to find the greatest, and oddest, sight he had ever seen. Malfoy was launching himself at the two men. 'Malfoy is rescuing me?' Harry thought to
himself. Then he thought, 'Why do I care who it is, they're here!'
Malfoy hit the taller man first, because he was closest. He kicked the shorter man in the
head and then turned and punched the taller one in the head, knocking him to the ground.
The short one stood up and was immediatly knocked down again by Malfoy.
"Hello Potter" Malfoy said after the two men were both on the ground.
"Hey Malfoy." Harry said in a whisper.
Malfoy then said, "Hang on mate, I'm getting you the hell out of here."
Malfoy seemed to remember he had a wand and pulled it out. He put the body bind of both
of the men. He then helped Harry out of his ropes. He knew that Harry couldn't walk, so he put the levitation charm on him. Malfoy went to the door to check outside. The battle
still waged.
He turned back to Harry. "I don't think we can get out there."
"If I could only use my magic I could heal myself." Harry said, then he suddenly had a
thought. He hadn't tried to use his magic since that first day. He then realized he didn't his
wand, but he didn't really need it anymore, his training had taught him how to do magic
without it. He reached out his hand and pointed it at one of the briefcases that the men
carried. "Accio briefcase."
The case floated up and into Harry's hand.
He then dropped the case and put his hand on his heart. Malfoy heard him murmur a few
words and there was a bright white light that encircled Harry. Once the light was gone,
Harry stood up and, to Malfoy's disbelief, he was partially healed. He still had severl deep cuts. His stomach wound was still open, slightly. But his toes and face weren't bleeding any longer and his legs looked healed.
"Now then." Harry said, "I want out of this hell hole."
Malfoy nodded and stood aside and Harry blasted the door off its hinges. Harry stepped
into the battle and began firing curses at the Death Eaters.
No one noticed Harry standing there. Voldemort was the first one. Once Voldemort noticed Harry's partially healed state, the evil wizard disappeared.
'Coward' Harry thought to himself.
Once the Death Eaters realized they were outnumbered and that Voldemort was gone,
they disappeared as well.
Everyone turned to Harry. No one said a word, until Hermoine ran to him and practically
tackled him with a hug. Her face was bleeding where something had hit her, but she didn't
care right now.
'He's here. He's alive. Oh thank god.' Hermoine kept saying over and over in her mind.
Hermoine looked up into his eyes then. Those emerald eyes she loved so much and said in
a whisper, "Is it really you Harry?"
"Yes it's me Hermoine." Harry replied
Their lips met in a kiss. To Harry it was like all of the pain he had felt in the last few days
simply wash away. In Hermoine's mind and heart, she felt the same thing.
After a moment of kissing, someone cleared their throat, it was James. "Hey guys, can't
you wait till we get back to do that? I'm not much of a watch it guy, more of a do it guy."
Everyone laughed and Harry and Hermoine separated their hug. James and Malfoy both gave Harry a handshake and Michelle and Ron both gave him hugs. Harry reached and grabbed Hermoine's hand. They still held hands as they walked out
of the building.
"Umm How are we supposed to get back?" Ron asked.
"I'll apparate us home." Harry told him.
"Harry you can't apparate on Hogwarts grounds, you know that." Hermoine said.
Harry smiled and said, "I'll apparate us to Hogsmeade then.
"Cool." Ron said.
Harry enveloped everyone in a massive hug and instantly they disappeared.