Crossover

Chapter 3

The Promise He Can't Keep

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"HARRY!!!" A voice shouted from Harry's behind, made him startled and stopped. Harry turned around and found Ron is approaching him from the other path Harry had passed before. "What are you doing here? Everyone was worried sick looking for you."

"I have to see Dumbledore immediately." Harry uttered firmly. "I have to tell him something."

"Then I suggest you to wait, Harry." Ron explained, pulling Harry's wrist to prevent him start walking again. "Dumbledore is out for another Ministry calling." Ron quickly said. "And he won't come back until the day after tomorrow."

First Harry's jaw was hung followed with a low 'what' whispered from his dry lips. With Dumbledore's gone, who else should he talks to about Draco's freedom. "Ron, it means I have to go see Prof. McGonagall." Harry said finally with his frantic voice.

"What's up, Harry? You seem really disturbed." Ron said, uttering his curiousness of Harry's strange behavior. His hand kept lingering around Harry's wrist.

"Ron!" Harry shouted exasperated for Ron who stopped him to go. "It's really important! It's about Malfoy! He is blameless!"

"What!?" Ron responded confusedly. His mind told him Harry has gone mad. "Come on, Harry." He, then, pulled Harry back to Hospital Wing direction. "You need some rest."

"I had enough REST!" Harry snapped, pulled out his hand roughly from Ron's clench. "I'm not mad, Ron! Don't you see, he is the one that brought me back to Hogwarts from that place!" Harry's voice heard higher and impatient.

"Oh, come on, Harry. Everyone knows Malfoys are in the dark side. Don't be such a naïve to completely believe on what he had done." Ron said. "It maybe just a trick to make us believe him so he could sneak into us and put his wicked eyes on everything we moved on."

"He is not! You just don't know how hard our way to came here." Harry still insisted. "Look! At least you don't have to put him in such a jail!" Harry's mind flew back to the fear shown on Draco's gray eyes. That gave him a sudden shiver.

"There's no better place for him but there." Hermione appeared from Harry's back and said firmly. "And tomorrow he will surely transferred to Azkaban." She added.

"AZKABAN!?" Harry shouted. So, that's why Draco's eyes shown such a fear. He has known he would have to face those Dementors tomorrow. "How the hell~" but his word was unfinished as the world around him suddenly became darker and darker. He still heard Hermione is muttering some kind of collapsing spell before he completely lost his awareness.

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The sound of birds tweeting penetrate trough Harry's mind and slowly called his awareness back. Harry found himself after opening his eyes is lying on the white sheeted bed of the hospital wing. The room bathed with morning sun gleam and comfortable warmth that felt a little unfair for Harry when he remembered about Draco in a sudden.

Harry fought to sit on the bed while he pierced his eyes to prevent the sudden light. The circumstance around him is strangely calm and peace. Then Harry remembered about the Azkaban thing. After a soft gasp, it surely made him jumped out of the bed to seek some information. Right when his feet touched the cold floor beneath him, Snape entered the hospital wing, staring directly at him.

Snape beckoned Harry to climbed back to his own bed as he approached elegantly. Harry obeyed but not completely. He just sat on the edge of the bed and waited until Snape reached his place. "Draco…" Harry began, as Snape was close enough.

Snape gave him a stern look, which mean for him to stop questioning. But this time Harry completely disobeyed him.

"Where is Draco?" Harry asked, firm but also desperate. "Where is he?"

"Silence for a moment, Potter." Snape started. "I won't explain anything while you are so frantic like this."

"But…"

"Calm down." Snape's low voice somehow gave Harry a chill. Harry stopped finally. "Well… it has been 2 days since you collapsed by Miss Granger's spell."

Harry blankly stared at him, waiting for some miracle as franticness began to creep from beneath his stomach. Just like the night when Draco embraced him, he had a really bad feeling about this.

"We got Miss Granger a detention for that." Snape continued.

"Did you send Draco to the Azkaban?" Harry asked suddenly.

Snape stared at Harry for a moment before answering. "The night when you were brought to the hospital wing, someone else pick him up using the authority of the Ministry of Magic." He explained finally. That gave Harry widening eyes of shock. "Yes, Harry. His family picked him up."

For a moment, Harry silenced. He needed some time to digest all the possibilities and all the consequences of what Snape had just said. "His… family…?" He repeated blankly. He remembered the possibilities of Draco to deceive him and pretending to join his side while exactly he becomes a spy. But Harry abruptly banished it away.

"Yes. His family." While saying, Snape's eyes shone with a great pity and grim as he stared deeply at Harry's. "He was taken back."

"But… but…" Harry stammered, "After he betrayed his family and saved me…"

Snaped nodded sadly. "They still took him back, increasing the number of people who doesn't believe in him."

"You… you believe it, don't you? About his rebel and his efforts to bring me back here." Harry questioned in surprised. "If you do believe, then why don't you save him!?"

Snape eyed Harry for a moment. It seems like he is trying to recall the worst part of his memory. "I had tried. But as for me, an ex-Death Eater, Harry." Snape smiled bitterly. The most sorrowful smile Harry ever saw from Snape's face. "It's still hard for people in your side to be entirely believe in me." He placed his hand on Harry's shoulder and gave him an encouraging grip before he turned and left the hospital wing.

And right after, Harry's tear burst over as he placed both his palm over his face and cried desperately. He had failed. He had failed to save Draco. He had failed to fulfill his promise. Failed to wash away those painful look from Draco's eyes. And the most important, he had failed to keep Draco in his side. The side against Voldemort.

TBC

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A/N: What do you think? Really sorry, Draco… (wailed!) Basically, I just want to tell about how hard your effort will be if you wish to leave one side and join the other side. And sorry for taking Draco as the object of my selfishness this time!!! (Hontouni gomenasai!!!) Hehehehe… ^_^ then… care for submit a review?

The next!!! Well… this is the slashy part! (evil grin!) Harry as usual never accepts the fate just as easily. He went for a secret visit and confess his feeling towards Draco. But… what will be Draco's answer? Find out in the next chapter, ok?