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Harry and Ron stared, mouths agape, watching the two Slytherins as they intensely discussed what they were going to do.

"I am not going to let a new mark get burned into my skin!" Pansy spoke angrily. "Over my dead body! I am not going to be a pathetic servant for a Dark Lord! I have a life!"

"I know, I know! But what the heck are we going to do?! I will try to find a way to skip the meeting, but knowing Lucius, he will track me down and drag me to the meeting! Who the heck is the new Dark Lord anyway!?"

Pansy looked shocked as she looked at Draco, "You mean Lucius didn't tell you?" Ron was sure that he saw Pansy's eyes flicker over to Harry and himself for a second.

Draco shook his head slowly, "Who?" he demanded sharply. "Who is it? Why didn't Lucius tell me? Why did your father tell you while my father didn't?"

Pansy stared on the ground as if trying to burn a hole through it. Kicking a pebble and avoiding Draco's eye, she muttered, "He didn't want you to know cause he knew you wouldn't believe him."

Hearing this, Draco grabbed Pansy by the shoulders and forced her to look up at him. "Why not?! Then why did your father tell you?!"

Pansy tore her hazel eyes away from Draco's cold grey ones and instead landed them on Ron and Harry. "Because I forced and bugged him too... You wouldn't want to know." Pansy added softly.

"Who is it Pansy!?" Draco half yelled as he shook Pansy again. Pansy reluctantly locked her gaze with Draco, cursing under her breath, she mumbled, "Granger the Mudblood, Hermione Granger."

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Hermione sat on the throne that had once belonged to that old fool Voldemort. Watching, amused, at the purple mist TV in front of her, she watched as the old wizard in Diagon Alley was being "rescued" by the Ministry of Magic wizards. Fudge squatted down next to the unconscious wizard and mumbled, "Enevate". The wizard immediately sat up, eyes milky white, and said in a dead voice "the new Dark Lord Hermione Granger says hello to all you fools out there. She has defeated the weakling Voldemort and is now more powerful than ever!!" With those last words, he burst into pieces, blood splattering everywhere, and Fudge was thrown backwards by the force.

Hermione chuckled softly as the mist vanished. She had gotten rid of the Shadowers (short form of Shadow Stalkers) for a while by asking them to go out and gather some information. Now she could finally have some peace.

Retrieving Dark Crescent and stroking it, Hermione laid back. "Why are you doing this?" an inner voice cried out "Stop it!" Hermione's eyes snapped open. What on earth were those weird voices?

Frowning slightly, she thought hard. "What did I do last time during the school break?" She squeezed her eyes shut tightly. She could barely remember anything, all she remembered that she was in Knockturn alley and what happened after that. Hermione focused hard, sweat breaking out all over her forehead. She tried to think about her other years in Hogwarts but she could only remember this year. Her 7th year. Wait! She could remember bits and pieces of other years.

Like when Malfoy insulted and called her a Mudblood. When she was always called a know-it-all. Her fights, mostly concerning Malfoy. That bitch Rita Sneaky-er (I changed the surname on purpose). All the lies, the fight with Ron, the misunderstandings.

Hermione clawed at her face as she grabbed her hair tightly. Where were all her other memories?! "AARGHH!" Hermione let out a scream, she couldn't remember anything! All her anger and hatred built up inside her as she recalled every single bad memory.

Breathing frantically, she slowly looked up. She could feel her blood boiling and pounding through her ears. She would show them that she wasn't a weakling at all!! NO!!

Hermione cackled evilly as her voice bounced off the walls and echoed around. She would, she would show them all!! Hermione smiled, breathing hard with a crazy but wicked glint in the eye. Holding up her right hand, she whispered, "Hogwarts, here I come!" Hermione tossed her head back and laughed eccentrically, as a purple mist surrounded her. Once the mist had slowly disappeared, all that was left was nothing but a Hogwarts Crest that had been printed over by the Shadow's Crest, lying on the ground.

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Ron snorted, "Hermione? The Dark Lord? Yeah right! She's already dead! By Lucius Malfoy!" he yelled bitterly at Draco.

Pansy gripped Draco and held him back as he tried to make a move to hit Ron. Giving Draco a look, Pansy let go of Draco and walked up to Ron and Harry. Sticking out her left forearm in front of the two Gryffindors, she said, "Proof number 1. you-know-who is dead." The Dark Mark had almost faded away and only the blurred outline remained.

"Proof number 2" Pansy shoved her letter into the two boys faces and watched them as their eyes scrolled down the paper.

Ron and Harry whose eyes were threatening to pop out of their sockets gasped as a picture appeared, showing none other than Hermione sitting down on a black, evil-looking throne, looking smug.

Ron shook his head in disbelief, backing away from the letter. "No way!" Ron mumbled in between gasps, "You're just framing her!! You!" Pointing a finger accusingly at Pansy, he spat angrily, "That's it right? You're just framing her!"

Harry joined Ron and stared at Pansy looking insane and mad. "Ron is right" Harry said quietly but firmly with a hint of anger. "You are just framing her. Nothing more. Go back and stop feeding us lies. We will just figure this out and find Hermione ourselves."

Draco stepped up and stood beside Pansy. Pansy just looked defiantly at Harry and Ron. "Fine!" she snapped, "If you don't believe the truth! You will be at loss! It's not our problem. Draco and I will just figure out a plan! Get out of here, then! You don't belong here anyway!"

Ron, Harry, Pansy and Draco exchanged glares, and the two Gryffindors made a move to get to the door. They were almost half way out when Pansy called out, "you friend Granger is alive, but you won't be able to save her yourselves!"

That stopped them. Ron and Harry turned. "What do you mean?"

Pansy drawled, "I thought somebody didn't want to know how to save their friend?"

Ron hissed, and with a quick move, he had Pansy pinned tightly against the wall.

Draco immediately jumped forward to whack Ron on the head and help Pansy. But, Harry, at that moment, decided to get involved, and without warning, boxed Draco hard on the face.

Draco stumbled back from the impact. Wiping his bloody nose with his hand, he punched Harry in his stomach with all the strength that he could muster.

While the two seekers were having a fight, Ron muttered, "What makes you think we are helpless huh?"

Pansy who looked ever so calm answered lazily, "Thought you didn't want to know. Anyway, its not like I would tell you."

Ron stared at her, enraged. Pushing her harder against the wall, he whispered fiercely, "Tell me! Tell me how to save her!"

Pansy only laughed, "You fool! There is no way to save her! She is the one who wants to kill all of you; she isn't the Granger you know! And if you want to even meet her..." Pansy snorted. "You won't even be alive before you take a step two miles away from her location!"

"Why?" Ron demanded, not caring about the fact that his best friend was in a serious bloody mess. "Why? How can we get to her? Tell me! Just for once, just bloody tell me!"

Pansy raised her perfect eyebrows. " As for your first question. She has powerful magic and some sort of barrier to protect herself. And as for you second, that's easy. Join us."



Ron laughed. Join them? Ridiculous. He could and would never trust them. Letting go of Pansy, he turned around and grabbed Harry who was doubled over in pain. Taking out his wand and muttering some words, Ron healed Harry who had some really nasty bruises on his stomach. Out of the corner of his eye, Ron saw Pansy doing the exact same thing.

Helping Harry up, Harry spat, "Fuck you. You are no help at all. I shouldn't have expected you to be of any help anyway! Lets go, Ron!" he added.

Ron nodded angrily, "Yeah, see you Malfoy, Parkinson. Hope that you have a great time planning your wonderful future as a Dark Lord follower." He snapped sarcastically.

Walking out the door and leaving the two furious Slytherins, Harry took out the Map of Hogwarts. "We will look for Hermione ourselves." He told Ron, "I have a feeling she is near."

Taking out his wand, Harry muttered, "I solemnly swear I'm up to no good."

As the Map of Hogwarts began to appear, a purple dot appeared in the part where the Forbidden Forrest was suppose to be. It was moving quickly towards Hogwarts.

The purple dot read Hermione Granger.

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Draco was mad, he was mad, insane, angry, tired, irritated and totally stressed out. "Bloody Lucius!" he muttered, slamming his fist into a wall.

Pansy wasn't exactly having a great time either. Frowning as she absent- mindedly twirled a lock of black hair (its black right?), she muttered, "Why the heck do we have to be dragged into this insanity?"

Draco sighed as he sat down on a chair next to her. "At least I'm glad that I have somebody who is actually on my side and knows how I feel."

Pansy spoke softly, "Why us?"

Draco said nothing, but after a few moments, he spoke harshly, "Potter and Weasley both made things more complicated. They won't believe us about their Mudblood friend. Now, they know we are going to make a plan and they will be watching us. We need to be careful."

Before either of them could say anything else, a loud, "PAH-BOOM!!!" was heard followed by a force so great, it caused the castle to tremble.

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Dumbledore sat in his office, his face in his hands. He was helpless, he couldn't do anything! He couldn't confront Hermione; the negative energy in her was taking over. It ate up all the positive things in her. If he were to talk to her, she would take it severely and another bad memory would be added.

He couldn't stop the energy from entering her. That was impossible.

It had brainwashed her and terminated all the good and happy memories. All she could remember were all the bad and evil things.

Giving her more bad thoughts wasn't going to help.

Dumbledore sighed, she was now empty. Empty of all the goodness that was once in her. Free from all the good and happy memories that she had experienced and enjoyed so much.

All that was left was the bad and evil memories and thoughts.

Nothing else, but total emptiness.

A Dark Void.

Dumbledore knew this, but his knowledge of that matter was useless. He didn't know the alternative route. He knew that she would come back to Hogwarts very soon.

He also knew her motive.

But he didn't know when. Dumbledore knew that he had to get the students out of Hogwarts as soon as possible.

Dumbledore stood up and walked over to his fireplace. He took some powder and was about to throw it into the fire to summon the teachers when a loud unpleasant sound was heard and an unknown force shook his entire office.

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