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THE FEATURE PRESENTATION!

Chapter 10- Hogsmead

It was Christmas morning and Hermione woke up feeling very content. In the bed next to her was Harry, sleeping like a baby. Ever since Harry had proposed, Hermione had been sleeping in his room with him. She got out of bed, and began to get dressed. When she was finished Hermione stopped in front of the mirror for a second and then headed down to the common room. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"You will finish what this pathetic rat started. How he was ever sorted into Gryffindor is beyond me. If you are successful you will be heavily rewarded, otherwise, you will end up like Wormtail over there."

Peter Pettigrew was lying on the floor in the background, shaking unstoppably from pain.

"Yes, master. Your bidding is my command." Lucious Malfoy stooped to one knee and bowed his head respectively.

"You know the plans. I have a group of the strongest and most loyal deatheaters ready; they will be under your command. Guide them to Hogsmead and then attack. It is a Hogwarts weekend there, get rid of as many students as you can. Obviously, you will leave the children that are loyal to me."

"Of course, master. We have already gone over this, but you said that there was some further instructions?"

"Yes, Yes. Now, if I know who I'm dealing with, this is what will happen . . ."

After about ten minutes of animated talking, it was about time they finished.

" . . . then you will bring him to me. Do you understand?"

"Perfectly, master. Give me the cue and I am there."

"Good, now leave me." Lucious left the room, dragging Peter behind him. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Hey, babe." Harry said, sitting next to Hermione, slipping an arm around her waist.

"Hi Harry. Sleep well?" Hermione was just finishing a rather large breakfast, when she started making a plate for Harry.

"For the most part," Harry lowered his voice considerably. "This morning, I woke up with my scar hurting more then it has in a long time. I think Voldemort is near."

"Harry! You must go see Dumbledore!" Ron exclaimed with his mouth full of food. Harry just shook his head.

"It won't do any good. It has stopped hurting and I don't know if it was just a coincidence." Harry started eating his breakfast. Hermione started getting up from the table.

"Excuse me. I have to go." Hermione walked rather quickly out of the Great Hall. Harry and Ron just shrugged. They figured it was a girl thing.

Hermione broke into a run once she was out of the Great Hall. She ran into the bathroom, where she threw up her entire breakfast. When she was finished she swore and went up to the Gryffindor tower.

By ten thirty all the gryffindors were in their dormitories opening their presents. Hermione's were in the boys' dormitory since almost everyone knew she stayed there.

Hermione, Harry, and Ron were sitting on the floor, busy opening their presents. Among them they had gotten sugar quills, books, Quidditch supplies, and much, much more. From Hermione, Ron got the newest brand broom; from Harry he got a cleaning/waxing kit for his broom and book of muggle practical jokes. Harry had gotten a book of muggle practical jokes from Ron, "Hey, Great minds think alike," was what Ron had to say; and from Hermione he got a picture of all three of them, in first year, waving to the camera standing in front of the Hogwarts Express. From Ron, Hermione got practically see-through night gown, which went only to mid-thigh. When she raised her eyebrows at him he said, "Just something I thought Harry would like." From Harry, she got a book titled, "How to keep your Husband under Control." Everyone in the room found this extremely funny. Harry just looked around and said, "Hey she's going to need it!" Soon, there was only one present left in the pile. On the card it simply said, "To Harry". Harry carefully took it, and unwrapped it. Inside was a book, which looked very old and tattered. The book was title, "Animagi training for beginners".

Harry, Ron, and Hermione quickly hid the book with their bodies.

"It's obviously from Snuggles. Who else would send you this?" Hermione said. Just then an owl flew into the room. The letter it was carrying fell right in front of the trio. Harry reached for it, and opened it.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione,

I hope you like my present. I know I wrote "To Harry" on the card, but it really was for all of you. I hope you put it to good use. It was the same book the marauders used. Drop me a line sometime.

Snuggles

The three put the book in a safe place and got the Weasleys, and other students to have a snowball fight outside.

Soon enough it was time for dinner. Harry and Ron made their way to the Great hall, but Hermione said she'd meet them there. She had to go get cleaned up. Harry and Ron found seats and began an interesting conversation with Dean, Lavender, and Parvati.

They had saved Hermione a seat, but she didn't show up all through dinner. Ron and Harry practically ran to the common room to see if Hermione was there. When they reached the entrance, they found the Fat Lady in tears.

"What's happened?" Harry panted.

"They forced their way past me, please don't be mad, I couldn't stop them!" Harry and Ron said the password hurriedly and ran up to their dormitory.

"HERMIONE! WHERE ARE YOU?!" Harry was yelling.

"Uh, Harry, you might want to see this." Ron said, beckoning Harry over. On a pillow on Harry's bed there was a note.

Potter,

We have the mudblood, and we aren't giving her back. Don't bother to try to save her, you can't. She will be mine after all.

Malfoy

"AHH!" Harry screamed while he kicked over a nightstand.

"Harry, calm down! We need to think about this. About how we're going to get her back. Let's go talk to Dumbledore."

Harry agreed and they made their way to Dumbledore's office. They got there and the gargoyle moved out of the way by itself again. They raced up the stairs and burst into Dumbledore's office.

"Professor! We have an emergency!" Harry said, out of breath.

"Calm down. Now, tell me what has happened."

"Hermione has been kidnapped. The Malfoys took her. We have to get her back!" Ron said, butting in. He put the note in front of the headmaster. He read it quickly.

"This isn't possible. Mr. Malfoy was taken out of school when winter break started. He has not been here, and won't be coming back."

"That makes it all the more possible. Do you know where the Malfoys live?" Dumbledore shook his head.

"They just moved. I do not know where they are."

"Then, there is nothing we can do?" Ron asked disbelievingly. Again Dumbledore shook his head. Harry fell into one of the chairs next to him. He had a glazed look in his eyes. He couldn't believe this was happening. Everything had just been perfect. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Dear, you must wake up now. We have work to do."

Hermione woke up to a woman shaking her. She did not recognize her. Hermione jumped up, off of the wooden bed she had been laying on.

"Where am I?" Hermione asked shakily. The last thing she remembered was being in the boys' dormitory, and taking a sip from a glass of water.

"You are at the master's home. You were brought here last night. Master said to take you in like one of our own."

"Who is your master?"

"Why, the Malfoys!" Then, it hit Hermione. The water- it was drugged, so she would fall asleep. She sighed loudly.

"My name is Hermione. I don't belong here, am going to find a way out."

" 'lo there. My name is Agnes, back there is Mallory and Kate. None of us belong here. We were brought here by master. You better get used to it, you will be here for a long time, there is no way out."

Agnes had chin length, blonde hair. She was about an inch and a half taller then Hermione and had bright blue eyes. Kate had shoulder length, brunette hair, freckles, and was a little shorter than Hermione. Mallory had brick red hair, which went down to her bottom. She had huge, green eyes, and was the tallest of the four of them, with super long legs. All three of them were extremely thin; obviously they weren't fed very well. They were in a small room with four beds, one on each wall, all wooden. There was a toilet and a sink in one corner of the room.

"Is this where you stay?" Hermione asked.

"Yes, except for when we are working." Kate said.

"What kind of work do you do?"

"We cook, clean, and almost anything else master wants." Kate answered.

"Does he make you, you know, sleep with him?" Hermione suspiciously asked.

"Sometimes, if he is in the mood, one of us has to spend the night with him. He decides which one of us he wants that night." Mallory said.

Just then the door opened. A man poked his head in the door.

"Hi, Jimmy! Good morning." Agnes exclaimed. "Hermione, Jimmy is the butler here. If you need help you can go to him or any of us."

"Good morning all," Jimmy was saying as Hermione nodded her head, "I believe you should get to work, master is going to be very upset if he finds you here." The three girls nodded their heads, and turned to Hermione.

"Come with us, we will show you what to do." Mallory said. All four girls and Jimmy left the room to get to work. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

During the whole winter break Harry barricaded himself in the boys dormitory. Ron brought Harry up food, even though he hardly ate it. Everyone could tell Harry was miserable without Hermione.

Finally, the weekend came. Ron saw it as a way to get Harry out of the dormitory since they would be going to Hogsmead. Now, all Ron had to do as talk Harry into going.

"Harry," Ron said barging into the room, "its time you get out of here. We're going to Hogsmead, now. I know you miss Hermione, and so do I, but Dumbledore is working hard to find her. Hermione wouldn't want you to be like this."

"Ron, I will go only on one condition. After I go you will let me be. You will let me stay here and be alone. I'm not trying to be mean to you, but I just want to be alone."

"Fine, but you are coming with me now. Lets go." Ron pulled Harry off of the chair he was on, and they left the room.

When they reached Hogsmead they headed straight to The Three Broomsticks to get butterbeer, where they talked about Quidditch with Dean and Ginny, who was now on the Quidditch team along with Hermione, who decided to try flying and was very good at it. Ginny and Hermione were chasers along with Dean, while Ron was the keeper. Fred, George, Alicia, and Angela were the beaters and they rotated every game. Of coarse Harry was the seeker.

After about an hour of such talk the group looked up suddenly as they heard screams outside. All four of the students ran out the door to see what was wrong. When they were outside chaos greeted them. They saw students and towns people alike running through the streets screaming. The four determined students ran the opposite direction of everyone else. Finally, they came across the source of the hysteria. A large group of deatheaters were slowly, yet surely making their way through the town, killing many people as they went. The three boys gasped and tears ran down Ginny's face at the sight before them. There were many people lying in the street dead, and they could make out quite a few Hogwarts students. They could also see Dumbledore, McGonagall, other professors and students, mainly seventh years, fighting back; using all the curses and spells they knew.

Harry turned back to the three behind him. "Let's go, we need to help." All three nodded and they made their way further into the crowd. Soon enough they were within twenty feet of the deatheaters. Harry, Ron, Dean, and Ginny all drew their wands and prepared for the worst.

"Expelliarmus!"

"Stupefy!"

"Impedimenta!"

"Rictusempra!"

"Tarantallegra!"

These were a few of the spells that could be heard being shouted by the students towards the deatheaters. The professors were, of course, using more advanced spells. Obviously, the students and professors weren't enough to keep the deatheaters at bay, since they kept advancing upon them and there were more Hogwarts casualties on the ground than deatheaters. All of a sudden a loud "Crucio!" could be heard followed by an ear-shattering scream.

"Ginny!" Ron started running towards his sister, who was now lying on the ground shaking from pain. When he reached her he bent over and picked her up.

"Ron! Take Ginny to the Three Broomsticks. She'll be safe there!" Harry yelled while firing more curses and hexes toward the deatheaters. They had been pushed back so far by the deatheaters that they were now only a good fifty feet away from the Three Broomsticks, whereas when they started the four students had to run all the way down the street to get to the deatheaters. Harry saw many townspeople watching the battle going on in the middle of the street.

"Please, help us!" Harry begged.

Many men nodded and kissed the women, then made their way to the street with their wands drawn. With the reinforcements of the towns people they had a better chance, but were still outnumbered. Ron had soon returned and the three remaining sixth year boys fought harder than ever. Soon, it seemed hopeless. More deatheaters just kept coming. It seemed that for every deatheater they killed two more apparated in. Harry looked to his left and saw Dumbledore signal him to come over. Harry made his way, dodging curses as he went.

"What is it professor?" Harry asked out of breath.

"I want you and the rest of the sixth years to go back to the castle with any other students you can find under seventh year." Harry shook his head.

"Nope. This is a battle I am fighting."

"I figured you would say that. Now if you really want to fight," Dumbledore looked at Harry who nodded his head, "then I have somewhat of a mission for you, and Misters Weasley and Thomas." He looked at Harry, and then continued.

"We have figured out that there are a few people who are controlling this massacre. They are letting the others know when to apparate here and are making further plans. We have found the location of these people. Now, if you are up to it, I would like to have you, Mr. Weasley, and Mr. Thomas, along with a few seventh years to sneak up on these people and try to distract them from their work. If they aren't sending in reinforcements them we have a better chance of beating them. I do not want you trying to kill them unless you must. They are much more powerful and experienced in such ordeals. Now, they are in the alley between Madam Malkin's Robes for all Occasions and Flourish and Blotts. Now, go and get the other two and make your way there, very carefully. The others will already be there. GO!" Dumbledore gave him a little shove and continues fighting.

Upon reaching the other two boys Harry explained the whole ordeal and they agreed to do it. They carefully made their way to the designated spot. When they reached the alley they poked their heads around the corner and saw three seventh years fighting four older men. There was a table in the background with papers scattered over it. They pulled their heads away.

"Now," Harry said, "Ron, you will have a very important job. I think we should bring back the plans that the deatheaters are making to Dumbledore. That will be your job. Dean and I will fight them along with the other three and try to distract them. You will have to carefully make your way to the table and put as many papers as you can get into my bag. Then get out of there. Got it?" Harry asked them both while handing Ron his book bag he was glad he brought with. When he got two nods he said, "Alright, let's go!"

The three boys made their way into the alley and started throwing curses at the deatheaters, who were a little surprised when they realized there were three more people attacking them. Dean and Harry managed to get the deatheaters looking away from Ron and he took off. He started shoving as much as he could into the book bag. When he had gotten nearly everything he heard-

"Hey, kid! Get away from there! Look, he's taking the plans!"

Ron grabbed the last piece of paper, shoved it into the bag and ran, dodging curses that were being thrown at him. He stopped near Harry.

"Ron, you and Dean go and take those to Dumbledore, we'll be okay here." Ron nodded and soon he and Dean were running down the street.

Fifteen minutes later Harry had dragged the last of the other three students who were cursed, but not dead, out of the alley. He reentered to face the only remaining deatheater in the alley. The others were dead. Both of them raised their wands.

"Expelliarmus!" Harry yelled. The deatheater's wand flew into Harry's hand. Harry smirked. He raised his wand, ready to finish him off.

"Wait! Don't you want to know where your precious mudblood is?" the deatheater lowered his hood to reveal . . .

(Gasp! Cliffy! Well you're just going to have to wait. Don't worry, I'm not that cruel! Hehe!")

"Lucius Malfoy!" Harry gasped.

"The one and only. Don't worry, the mudblood isn't dead. Yet. Accio wand." His wand flew into his hand. "Well, it was lovely to chat. Ta-ta!" Lucius Malfoy was gone after apparating with a smirk on his face.

Harry sadly made his way back to where the students and professors were. He noticed all the fighting was over and there were no deatheaters to be seen. Finally, he reached the Three Broomsticks, which was substituting as a hospital for the time being. He saw Dumbledore talking with Ron, Dean, and Ginny and walked over.

"HARRY! We were so worried, we didn't know if you had made it!" Ginny exclaimed rushing over to envelope Harry in a huge hug.

"I'm fine." Harry said sitting down next to Ron. He then buried his face in his hands.

"What's wrong mate?" Ron asked. Harry ten related the whole story to them, ending when Lucius Malfoy apparated.

"I let him go because I hesitated when he mentioned Hermione. It's my fault he got away."

"Harry, it is better that you didn't kill him. Now, we know that he definitely has Hermione and it will be easier to find her." Dumbledore said. "Let's get you cleaned up."

They had spent almost the entire night fighting the deatheaters so they all stayed in the Three Broomsticks for the rest of the night and most of the next day, resting. When they returned to Hogwarts it was time to go to dinner.

Halfway through eating Harry felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned around and in front of his stood-

"Malfoy, what do you want."

"I want to help you, Harry." Harry was taken back by the use of his first name and nodded. He followed his out of the Great Hall and into an empty classroom.

"How can you help me? And why are you here? I thought you left the school." Harry asked confusedly. Draco was nodding.

"I did leave. I snuck out of the house yesterday to come to talk to you. I know where Hermione is. But first I need to tell you the whole story, starting from the beginning."