Chapter 3

Malfoy Cliff


Harry and Draco flew through the clouds on Harry's Firebolt for almost an hour before they finally landed in front of a large cliff that stood about twenty feet above. Harry climbed off the broom first, walking up to the side of the cliff. Malfoy held the broom in his hand and walked up alongside.

"I can't see to find it in the dark." Malfoy said as he pulled out his wand. "Lumos!" A bright light was suddenly emitted from his wand. He pointed his wand at the cliff revealing the indentation of a snake in the rock wall. Harry was used to bizarre magical entrances after living at Number 12 Grimmauld Place for so long, whatever Malfoy seemed to be doing, it didn't amaze him. When Malfoy put his hand on the snake it slithered around the cliff, revealing and oddly shaped door, almost in the same way that the door to the Chamber Of Secrets had opened for Harry years ago.

Malfoy opened the door and walked inside, and Harry followed. The hallway just inside the cliff door was luxurious and it was covered with pictures on both sides. The first picture to Harry's left was Malfoy's father Lucius, and to his right was a picture of a raven-haired woman that Harry knew must be Draco's mother Narcissa. As Harry progressed down the corridor, he realized that the pictures on the left were the Malfoy side of the family. Harry knew what the right side was, but he refused to look at any of the pictures after Narcissa, he knew that those pictures were of the Black family, Sirius' family. Narcissa Malfoy was Sirius' cousin.

Harry couldn't keep himself from looking. After looking at each of the pictures of Lucius' family, he quickly glanced to the other side each time until he found the picture that he was looking for. It was strange though, seeing Sirius' picture on the wall. Harry had always thought that the rest of Sirius' family hated him and thought he was a traitor.

Harry stopped in front of Sirius' picture, he remembered back to everything that had happened in the Department of Mysteries. He remembered Sirius being attacked by his own relative, and knocked back into the veil. He still couldn't believe that it was over, he couldn't believe that something so simple could bring Sirius' life to an end.

"You alright there, Potter?" Malfoy asked. He walked over next to Harry and looked at the picture. "That's my mother's cousin Sirius, broke out of Azkaban three years ago. Some say they've seen him, but I think he'd had to have died by now. Draco noticed Harry begin to tense up.

"You don't know what happened to him Malfoy." said Harry angrily. "Don't speak of what you don't know. He broke out of Azkaban, but he should never have been there. It wasn't him that cursed all of those people, it was Pettigrew." Harry had almost forgotten that Malfoy had no idea about what had happened with Sirius over the last three years.

"Lighten up, Potter." Draco said to Harry. "You're right, I don't know him, never even met him once. How do you know so much about him?" Harry relaxed a little when he realized that some of the things that happened last year would be important for Malfoy to know.

"Sirius was my godfather." Harry said reluctantly. "The only family I had up until last year. He came to me in our third year, which is when I found out he was innocent. He's been communicating with Dumbledore and I all up until last year when I actually had to stay at his house with the Order, so I could be protected from Voldemort."

"The Order?" Malfoy said. He had heard his father speak of them before.

"That's not important." Harry said. "Anyway, Voldemort convinced me that he was holding Sirius captive in the Ministry Of Magic, so I went to save him. Only when I got there, I found out that he didn't want Sirius, he wanted me. That's when I saw your father.

"My father was involved with that?" Malfoy asked. All of this was a bit hard for Draco to comprehend. "I thought He was surprised that he could be so oblivious to all of this. Malfoy was surprised that his father was at the Ministry Of Magic that night when Voldemort showed up. He had read a little bit about what happened but now he was sure that he didn't know the whole story. He was also surprised that Sirius, a man who his mother had told him was a criminal all along, was alive and fighting against Voldemort. "So where is Sirius? Maybe he knows something about my father."

Just then, Harry felt like a twig that had just been snapped over Draco's leg. "Just like you said," Harry said to him. "He's dead. He died in the Ministry of Magic that night. He was murdered...by her." Harry pointed to the picture of Bellatrix Lestrange on the wall. Harry saw the look of shock come over Draco's face.

"B-B-Bellatrix?" Draco stuttered. "You mean," He gulped. "She's a death eater too?" Harry nodded his head. This clearly crushed Malfoy, he must have been close to her, but how could he be close to someone so sick, so horrifying, and so evil? "No, it can't be. I just saw her last year, she hasn't changed since I was little."

"She's been on his side since you were little." Harry said. He didn't want to stand there any longer. He didn't want to be upset about Sirius, and Malfoy about Bellatrix any more. Harry hated her for what she did, he would kill her right now if he could. He tried to use the Cruciatus curse on her last year, but it didn't work. That moment made Harry realize just how cruel you had to be to use one of the unforgivable curses on someone. Harry forced himself to stop thinking about the situation. "Come on, Draco. Let's go to your father's room. We've got to be able to find something there."

Harry and Draco pulled themselves from the pictures on the wall and walked down the hallway until it met a gigantic room. At the end of the hallway, Harry saw another familiar picture. The very same picture of Mrs. Black that was on the wall in Number 12 Grimmauld Place was right there on the wall in the house of the Malfoys. She immediately began screaming at Harry.

"TRAITOR!" Mrs. Black screamed. "Associating with the TRAITOR! Get this-"

"Silencio!" Malfoy exclaimed. Mrs. Black's screams were muffled immediately by Draco's spell. "She must not like you, Potter. She doesn't usually scream like that." Malfoy thought that it meant nothing, but his mother, Narcissa, seemed to think different. She came running down the stairs at the alarm of Mrs. Black.

"Get out of my house!" Narcissa screamed as she pointed her wand towards the hallway. As soon as she saw Draco she was relieved. Nonetheless, she immediately began to shout again. "Draco! Where have you been? You should have been off the train and here hours ago!"

"I've been worried about him, mother." Draco said softly. "You are too, I know it."

"Draco, I've told you." Narcissa began to speak. "Your father left us, he'll never come back. He's a cruel man, he never cared for you."

"That's not true!" Draco shouted. "Dumbledore has told you and I both otherwise. Father is held to You-know-who by a spell, he isn't there voluntarily." Draco paused. Narcissa said nothing to him. She knew that the only thing she could do is try to stop him, but it would do no good. "Potter and I will find a way to get him back."

"Harry...Potter?" Narcissa was incredibly amazed to see Harry there. She had heard from Lucius about how ruthless and horrible the Potter boy was. She had heard about every plan that Harry had ruined. She only heard horrible things, but now that she saw him, he didn't appear to be that bad at all.

"If you'll excuse us, mother." Malfoy said. "We've got things to do." Malfoy quietly spoke to Harry. "This way Harry, I'll show you to my father's study." Draco began to walk up the large set of stairs. When Draco passed Narcissa she gazed into his eyes with a of concern. She was concerned about her son.