CHAPTER 8
THE POTIONS MASTER
In the classroom all of the desks had disappeared and in their place were two small wooden chairs placed on their own in the middle of the classroom. The benches around the sides of the potions class, all held the remains of jars and bottles that had been smashed into pieces. The potions that they contained were dripping onto the stone fall, and in some cases burning holes through the benches. Harry looked around and he saw the two chairs were facing away from the doorway, he also noticed a flash of red hair appear over the top of one of the chairs. his heart leapt into his throat, Ginny he thought. He ran over to the chairs and saw that Ginny was tied up and looked as though she had been knocked out by some kind of charm. Her face was tear streaked and red. She had a hand mark across her cheek, she had been hit by someone. Harry dragged his attention awa from Ginny as he heard a groaning noise from the chair beside him, he looked up and saw that there was a man tied him in the chair beside Ginny, he too was knocked out by the charm, but he was slowly starting to come around. Harry looked more closely at the dishevelled man and realised that it was Proffessor Snape himself. He motioned for Ron and Hermione to come and see what he had found, tears of anger running down his face, he was shaking and ready to kill whoever had done this to Ginny. Ron came over and took one look at his little sister just sitting there unconsious and he too started shaking, only more violently than Harry, as Ron had a much worse temper than him. Hermione heard a noise at the door and pulled Ron and Harry into a corner, and threw the invisibiltity cloaks over them just in time, as they crouched down to see who was entering the room.
They looked around at the five people who had just entered the room, they all immedeately recognised one of the five men who were standing in the room. Lucius Malfoy, they recognised his smarmy voice and his silver hair that Draco had obviously inherited from him. Ron and Hermione didn't recognise any of the others but Harry told them that they were all Death Eaters that he had seen when he was taken by a portkey to Voldemorts rebirthing.
''I don't understand, what do they want with Gin and Snape?'' Ron whispered to a very confused Harry.
''I don't know, we'll have to wait and see.'' Harry mumbled back.
Hermione gripped tightly onto the two boys arms and signalled for them to stop speaking as the Death Eaters started to talk. Even after Harry and Ron had stopped talking she didn't let them go as she was very frightened but didn't want to admit it. She felt Ron move and then take her hand in his, and she was soothed, as long as she was with Ron she knew nothing bad could happen to her.
''What are we going to do with these two then?'' asked a man with a big hooked nose.
''We've already been over the plan. We are going to keep the girl here to lure in Potter, and when he comes to save the day. We'll be waiting for him, then we''ll knock him out and take him to the Dark Lord so that he can finally get whats coming to him.'' Lucius Malfoy told the group of Death Eaters. He seemed to be the leader of their gang.
''What will we do with this traitor, this lying, good for nothing excuse of a man?'' questionned the man with the hooked nose again.
''When we have got Potter we will no longer need the girl, so we'll dispose of her and then we will frame our friend Snape here for her murder. that will teach the two faced bastard not to turn spy for Dumbledore.''
''Why don't we just kill him too?'' questionned another Death Eater.
''Because.....'' Lucius Malfoy began, ''If we kill him, he will stop suffering, but if we frame him for murder he will be sent to Azkaban and have to endure things far worst than death there.''
Harry, Ron and Hermione sat quietly in the corner trembling, each of them knew that they had to do something to save Ginny and Snape, but none of them knew what it was they should do. Hermione was thinking that they should try and sneak out and go to Dumbledore, he would know what to do. Harry thought that they should sneak up behind the Death Eaters and start shouting out as many different curses as they knew. Ron was thinking that he throw the cloak off his head run out and just start punching people out of his way until he got to Ginny. If it wasn't for the feeling of Hermiones hand in his he probably would've followed his plan through, but she steadied his nerves and made him think more rationally
''Where is Potter, he should've got the note by now?!'' the man with the hooked nose was shouting.. ''Maybe he doesn't care about her and he wants us to get rid of her to do him a favour!'' he grinned as he sdaid this revealing his crooked yellow teeth.
''He'll be here, Potter never misses an oppurtuity to be the hero.'' Lucius sniggered arrogantly.
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Meanwhile, as the Death Eaters had been talking Snape who had regained consiousness, had been trying to silently wriggle free of his bonds. When he had managed to get free, he brought out his spare concealed wand that he always kept on him incase anything like this happened. He pulled out the wand from inside his sock and held it in his hand thinking of the most dangerous curses he knew and waiting for the right moment to attack.
He knew that there were five of them and one of him, but he had to give it his best shot. He slowly got up and he creeped aa close to the Death Eaters as he could get before uttering the curse that was supposed to send them all flying, unconsious across the room. As Snape was still drowsy after being knocked out the spell only worked on three of the Death Eaters, and Snape was left facing two of the Death Eaters who were staring at him with looks of pure hatred in their eyes.
''Well, well Lucius it's our old friend Snape.'' drawled the man with the hooked nose.
''Lucius, Carlton.'' Snape acknowledged them both as he tried quickly to think of what to do next.
Snape ran over to Lucius and grabbed him around the neck and forced his wand into the side of his head. But Carlton, was to quick for him and as soon as Snape had grabbed Lucius, Carlton was pointing his own wand at Snapes heart. Just as Carrlton was about to perform the Adava Kedavra curse on Snape, three voices could he heard shouting Stupefy simultaneously. Snape looked across to where the voices had come from and he saw Harry, Ron and Hermione all standing there with their wands pointing at where Carlton had been standing. he looked to the floor, and saw Carlton spread out unconcious on the floor, blood trickling out from under his hair.
Snape smiled at the three students then looked at Lucius who had gotten free during the distraction. Snape and Lucius were stnding opposite each other, with their wands pointing directly at the other.
''We are even now.'' Snape smirked as he looked at Lucius who didn't look as calm and confident as he did when he had all his croonies around him.
''Yes, a fair duel.'' he replied nervously, not noticing Hermione run out of the door, straight up to Dumbledore's office.
''Expaliarmus'' Snape screamed and he swiftly caught the wand that had flown out of Lucius's hand.''
Snape pointed both wands at Lucius, and grinned evilly at the terrified look on his face. ''Go and sit on that chair.'' Snape barked at Lucius. Lucius did so straight away, he wasn't going to argue with a man with two wands. Snape pointed the wands at him and long chords flowed out of the ends of them both, binding Lucius tightly to the chair. ''How does it feel Malfoy?'' Snape, looked at Lucius with a disgusted look in his eyes. ''How does it feel to be tied up, with no way of protecting yourself?''
''You wouldn't dare do anything to me, one of the Dark Lords most trusted supporters.'' Lucius snapped, not beleiving a thing that he had just said.
''Ha!!, You one of his most trusted supporters, you can't even bring your self to say his name.'' spat Snape. ''I think I ought to teach you and all the others a lesson.''
''What are you going to do?'' asked Lucius his voice trembling.
''I'm going to curse you into a million pieces.'' Snape answered, holding up the two wands and pointing them both at Lucius's head.
''That's enough Severus!'' came a voice from the doorway behind them.
Snape looked around and saw Dumbledore standing in the doorway with Hermione.
''Ahh, Lucius Malfoy, what a pleasant surprise.'' Dumbledore said sarcasticlly. ''Call them in Hermione.'' And with that five extremely large men, from the ministry of magic came in and each one of them grabbing one of the Death Eaters, that had been magically bound by Harry and Ron, and carted them all off the Azkaban.
''You wait,'' cried Lucius Malfoy. 'The Dark Lord will hear about this and he will avenge us.''
''The Dark Lord cares for no-one but himself. He'd see you rot in Azkaban before saving you.'' Snape retorted. As the biggest man carried Lucius Malfoy out of Hogwarts.
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THE POTIONS MASTER
In the classroom all of the desks had disappeared and in their place were two small wooden chairs placed on their own in the middle of the classroom. The benches around the sides of the potions class, all held the remains of jars and bottles that had been smashed into pieces. The potions that they contained were dripping onto the stone fall, and in some cases burning holes through the benches. Harry looked around and he saw the two chairs were facing away from the doorway, he also noticed a flash of red hair appear over the top of one of the chairs. his heart leapt into his throat, Ginny he thought. He ran over to the chairs and saw that Ginny was tied up and looked as though she had been knocked out by some kind of charm. Her face was tear streaked and red. She had a hand mark across her cheek, she had been hit by someone. Harry dragged his attention awa from Ginny as he heard a groaning noise from the chair beside him, he looked up and saw that there was a man tied him in the chair beside Ginny, he too was knocked out by the charm, but he was slowly starting to come around. Harry looked more closely at the dishevelled man and realised that it was Proffessor Snape himself. He motioned for Ron and Hermione to come and see what he had found, tears of anger running down his face, he was shaking and ready to kill whoever had done this to Ginny. Ron came over and took one look at his little sister just sitting there unconsious and he too started shaking, only more violently than Harry, as Ron had a much worse temper than him. Hermione heard a noise at the door and pulled Ron and Harry into a corner, and threw the invisibiltity cloaks over them just in time, as they crouched down to see who was entering the room.
They looked around at the five people who had just entered the room, they all immedeately recognised one of the five men who were standing in the room. Lucius Malfoy, they recognised his smarmy voice and his silver hair that Draco had obviously inherited from him. Ron and Hermione didn't recognise any of the others but Harry told them that they were all Death Eaters that he had seen when he was taken by a portkey to Voldemorts rebirthing.
''I don't understand, what do they want with Gin and Snape?'' Ron whispered to a very confused Harry.
''I don't know, we'll have to wait and see.'' Harry mumbled back.
Hermione gripped tightly onto the two boys arms and signalled for them to stop speaking as the Death Eaters started to talk. Even after Harry and Ron had stopped talking she didn't let them go as she was very frightened but didn't want to admit it. She felt Ron move and then take her hand in his, and she was soothed, as long as she was with Ron she knew nothing bad could happen to her.
''What are we going to do with these two then?'' asked a man with a big hooked nose.
''We've already been over the plan. We are going to keep the girl here to lure in Potter, and when he comes to save the day. We'll be waiting for him, then we''ll knock him out and take him to the Dark Lord so that he can finally get whats coming to him.'' Lucius Malfoy told the group of Death Eaters. He seemed to be the leader of their gang.
''What will we do with this traitor, this lying, good for nothing excuse of a man?'' questionned the man with the hooked nose again.
''When we have got Potter we will no longer need the girl, so we'll dispose of her and then we will frame our friend Snape here for her murder. that will teach the two faced bastard not to turn spy for Dumbledore.''
''Why don't we just kill him too?'' questionned another Death Eater.
''Because.....'' Lucius Malfoy began, ''If we kill him, he will stop suffering, but if we frame him for murder he will be sent to Azkaban and have to endure things far worst than death there.''
Harry, Ron and Hermione sat quietly in the corner trembling, each of them knew that they had to do something to save Ginny and Snape, but none of them knew what it was they should do. Hermione was thinking that they should try and sneak out and go to Dumbledore, he would know what to do. Harry thought that they should sneak up behind the Death Eaters and start shouting out as many different curses as they knew. Ron was thinking that he throw the cloak off his head run out and just start punching people out of his way until he got to Ginny. If it wasn't for the feeling of Hermiones hand in his he probably would've followed his plan through, but she steadied his nerves and made him think more rationally
''Where is Potter, he should've got the note by now?!'' the man with the hooked nose was shouting.. ''Maybe he doesn't care about her and he wants us to get rid of her to do him a favour!'' he grinned as he sdaid this revealing his crooked yellow teeth.
''He'll be here, Potter never misses an oppurtuity to be the hero.'' Lucius sniggered arrogantly.
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Meanwhile, as the Death Eaters had been talking Snape who had regained consiousness, had been trying to silently wriggle free of his bonds. When he had managed to get free, he brought out his spare concealed wand that he always kept on him incase anything like this happened. He pulled out the wand from inside his sock and held it in his hand thinking of the most dangerous curses he knew and waiting for the right moment to attack.
He knew that there were five of them and one of him, but he had to give it his best shot. He slowly got up and he creeped aa close to the Death Eaters as he could get before uttering the curse that was supposed to send them all flying, unconsious across the room. As Snape was still drowsy after being knocked out the spell only worked on three of the Death Eaters, and Snape was left facing two of the Death Eaters who were staring at him with looks of pure hatred in their eyes.
''Well, well Lucius it's our old friend Snape.'' drawled the man with the hooked nose.
''Lucius, Carlton.'' Snape acknowledged them both as he tried quickly to think of what to do next.
Snape ran over to Lucius and grabbed him around the neck and forced his wand into the side of his head. But Carlton, was to quick for him and as soon as Snape had grabbed Lucius, Carlton was pointing his own wand at Snapes heart. Just as Carrlton was about to perform the Adava Kedavra curse on Snape, three voices could he heard shouting Stupefy simultaneously. Snape looked across to where the voices had come from and he saw Harry, Ron and Hermione all standing there with their wands pointing at where Carlton had been standing. he looked to the floor, and saw Carlton spread out unconcious on the floor, blood trickling out from under his hair.
Snape smiled at the three students then looked at Lucius who had gotten free during the distraction. Snape and Lucius were stnding opposite each other, with their wands pointing directly at the other.
''We are even now.'' Snape smirked as he looked at Lucius who didn't look as calm and confident as he did when he had all his croonies around him.
''Yes, a fair duel.'' he replied nervously, not noticing Hermione run out of the door, straight up to Dumbledore's office.
''Expaliarmus'' Snape screamed and he swiftly caught the wand that had flown out of Lucius's hand.''
Snape pointed both wands at Lucius, and grinned evilly at the terrified look on his face. ''Go and sit on that chair.'' Snape barked at Lucius. Lucius did so straight away, he wasn't going to argue with a man with two wands. Snape pointed the wands at him and long chords flowed out of the ends of them both, binding Lucius tightly to the chair. ''How does it feel Malfoy?'' Snape, looked at Lucius with a disgusted look in his eyes. ''How does it feel to be tied up, with no way of protecting yourself?''
''You wouldn't dare do anything to me, one of the Dark Lords most trusted supporters.'' Lucius snapped, not beleiving a thing that he had just said.
''Ha!!, You one of his most trusted supporters, you can't even bring your self to say his name.'' spat Snape. ''I think I ought to teach you and all the others a lesson.''
''What are you going to do?'' asked Lucius his voice trembling.
''I'm going to curse you into a million pieces.'' Snape answered, holding up the two wands and pointing them both at Lucius's head.
''That's enough Severus!'' came a voice from the doorway behind them.
Snape looked around and saw Dumbledore standing in the doorway with Hermione.
''Ahh, Lucius Malfoy, what a pleasant surprise.'' Dumbledore said sarcasticlly. ''Call them in Hermione.'' And with that five extremely large men, from the ministry of magic came in and each one of them grabbing one of the Death Eaters, that had been magically bound by Harry and Ron, and carted them all off the Azkaban.
''You wait,'' cried Lucius Malfoy. 'The Dark Lord will hear about this and he will avenge us.''
''The Dark Lord cares for no-one but himself. He'd see you rot in Azkaban before saving you.'' Snape retorted. As the biggest man carried Lucius Malfoy out of Hogwarts.
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