Disclaimer: I have no intentions of owning Harry Potter *closet behind her opens and tons of papers labeled "plans for Harry Potter take over"* pay no attention to the documents behind me.
Yes, Yes I am still alive. You know how I said my Aunt died well my Uncle (her Husband) had a massive heart attack and died. So my family flew out to Boston for the funeral. So that's why it took so long to update Sorry.
Italics=thoughts
Love Through a Child's Eyes
Chapter Six: Stand Tall, and Face Your Destiny
"Ouch pain, ouch more pain," Ron commented as he stood up. He had a feeling he had been unconscious for a while. Ron looked around the yard; it was full of small craters and black scorch marks. Hermione was looking around the yard sometimes stopping to feel a scorch mark or put her hand in a crater. "What are you doing?" he asked her.
"Looking."
"Well, duh, I mean what are you looking for?"
"Anything. Anything that will give us clues as to where Harry and the Death Eaters are."
"Oh," Ron knelt down and began looking too. Then something caught his eye. It was sparkling in the moonlight; he went over and picked it up. It was a crystal on the end of a golden chain. But it didn't look like a normal crystal. It was in the shape of a drop of rain and had what appeared to be glowing blue liquid inside. The liquid was pouring in a steady stream to a pool in the bottom, and then the liquid would run up the sides and pour down again. "Hey Hermione! Look at this!"
Hermione stood up and brushed the dirt off of her skirt and walked over to Ron. He held out something for her to look and she picked it up. "Wow its beautiful. I bet a Death Eater dropped it."
"D'you think it's rare?" Ron asked. "I do, I've never seen or heard of anything like it."
"I'm sure it is rare and some of the Death Eaters will-," Hermione paused a plan forming in her head. "Come back for it!"
"Isn't that bad?"
"NO! When they come we make them capture us and then we get taken to where Harry is!" Hermione cried nearly jumping for joy.
"Yeah, yeah! And then we escape!" Ron added.
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"My Lord we've captured Harry Potter!" Lucius Malfoy flung Harry down before an armchair with its back facing them. Voldemort's base was currently in the old abandoned Riddle House. Harry had gone unconscious during the transport, so he just lay there, limply on the floor.
"Ahh, well done Malfoy. I see he is going through that ridiculous procedure they do at that school. Children are among the stupidest things to walk this earth." Voldemort stood up and put the wand to Harry's forehead. "Miraius." A bright light filled the room and when it was gone Harry was back to the size of a normal fifteen year-old. His eyes fluttered open and he pushed himself up into a kind of sitting position. Harry looked around then he eyes fell on Voldmort.
"Oh god…you!" He scrambled backwards until his back was up against the wall. Damn it! He captures me and this one time I don't have my wand! I can't defend myself, I'm finished….I'm as good as dead…….
"Yes me." Voldemort smirked. "Throw him in the dungeon in the basement I want to have some fun with him later." Malfoy and another Death Eater grabbed Harry's arms and began to drag him away. Harry did not try to fight; he was finished anyhow.
"My Lord!" Wormtail came rushing in. "McNair has something to tell you, sir." McNair walk slowly in to thhe room. He knelt before the armchair where Voldemort had sat back down.
"Master I'm terribly terribly sorry, but I lost the Shinjitsu Stone. I must have dropped it while trying to fight the children to get Potter. I beg your forgiveness." Voldemort got out of the armchair and glared at McNair with his blood red eyes.
"I gave that stone to use as to test it's power and give you the power to capture Potter. I shall consider giving you forgiveness after you have gone back an got the stone!"
"Yes master," he bowed and apperated away.
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"421,698?"
"Nope, guess again." Hermione sighed.
"1?"
"Yup. Now you pick a number between 1 and 1 million."
"No, Now we play, 'Guess the Animal'. Okay I'm thinking of an animal."
"Owl?"
"No."
"Blast-ended-skrewt?"
"Nope. Try again."
"Otter."
"Yes."
"I knew it."
How?"
"Whenever we play this game when you and me are waiting for something you always pick 'otter'."
"And you always pick the number '1'."
"Well…" Ron sighed. "I'm bored, when are they coming? I thought that you were always right."
"Oh, they'll come. You just wait and see."
"Hey Hermione? Have you ever kissed someone before like a boy?" What the hell?! Ron thought. Why am I asking her this?! Why do I care if she's kissed someone? I do care because I think I-I think I like her…Yes I do like her I have since last year but what if she doesn't like me… Is that why I don't tell her because I'm afraid she won't like me back? Yes that is it. I am afraid.
"Well first of all you really shouldn't be asking me this. But no I haven't. I'm saving my first kiss for a certain someone." But who? Who is that special someone? No I think I know who it is, its Ron. Yes all of summer I was thinking about him. I my liking him has grown stronger since this project. But I can't tell him. Why? Because what if he doesn't like me back. I am afraid. Suddenly she heard a pop; the sound of someone apperating…. Then out of the darkness someone wrapped an arm around her neck, and pulled to his chest so she was in a bind.
"Now listen here bitch. You'd better tell me were the Shinjitsu Stone is and I won't have to kill your friend." The man (who was obviously a Death Eater) wheeled her around so she could see that he was pointing his wand at Ron. Ron had on a look of false fear and shock. Hermione's eyes traveled down his body and stopped at his hands. Ron's right had give her the thumbs up. The signal.
"Oh please Mr. Scary Death Eater Man! Don't kill us! I don't know what stone you are talking about.
"I know you do! You probably went and gave it to that old fool Dumbledore!"
"We didn't! We don't even know what you are talking about! " Ron cried in what would be a scared/urgent voice.
"Now look here I'm not allowed to harm you in anyway as not to draw attention to our selves. But my Master he can kill you if he pleases. Then once he finds that stone he'll use it to kill Dumbledore! Come here!" He gestured to Ron to walk towards him. Ron did so, but very slowly dragging his feet; when Ron it made to them. McNair grabbed his arm painfully and transported them to the riddle house.
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Harry opened his eyes as he heard the sound of the cell door being opened. "Get in there you brats!" And he saw two bodies being thrown into the dark and musty cell. It was two people one appeared to be male and the other was female. But in the dark Harry couldn't make out they're faces.
"Oww! He threw us! How impolite!"
"I know! Whatta bastard!" One of the figures hopped up and ran to the bar door and rattled the bars furiously. "Hey get back here and apologize you miserable S.O.B.!" One of the guards walked back to the cell.
"If you don't shut up I'll rip out your tongue, wrap it around you neck, and strangle you with!" The Death Eater snarled. The Boy nodded and walked backwards slowly to the back of the cell and plopped down cross-legged.
"Git." Harry looked up. He recognized that way of speaking; that voice! But it couldn't be, could it?
"Ron? Is that you?"
"Yup! At your service! Glad to see your back to normal size again!"
"And Hermione?"
"Oh but of course!" Then Harry realized something, maybe Ron and Hermione being here wasn't such a good thing after all.
"But that means you've got captured!" Ron chuckled.
"Don't worry mate! We did it on purpose to get here and save you!"
"Harry I want to give you something," Hermione took something out of her pocket. It was the stone they had found. "This is why we got captured. The Death Eaters and You-Know-oh forget it-V-Voldemort
Need this to conquer the Magical World. We don't know what it does. They think we know were it is but they don't think we have it. But as an extra precaution"-She dropped the stone into his hand-"You keep it."
"And what ever happens don't give it to them." Ron said seriously. Harry nodded.
"I'm so sorry. This is my entire fault. You two wouldn't even be in this mess if it weren't for me." Ron shook his head.
"No. We have been involved with you and You-know-ah crap I'll be brave too-Voldemort ever since we tried we to keep the Sorcerer's Stone away from him. This is part of our lives too." The sound of the door being opened filled the room. A Death Eater walked in.
"You two"-He pointed to Ron and Hermione-"Come with me." They both nodded and briefly grasped Harry's hand and got up. Red ropes came from the Death Eater's wand and bound them selves around Ron and Hermione's wrists. They walked out of the prison and out of the basement into a large room that was obviously added on with magic. The Death Eater slammed Ron and Hermione up against the wall. He then waved his wand and glowing ropes appeared and bound around their arms and stomach, then sunk into the wall, binding them there. Ron looked around the room it appeared as all the Death Eaters were there.
"Do you think they're going to kill us?" He asked Hermione.
"Considering we aren't telling them anything, probably."
"Oh well dieing beside you wouldn't be a bad thing." Hermione Blushed.
"Thank you. Same here." Then suddenly then all of the Death Eaters Became silent. They heard the creaking of stairs; Voldemort was coming down. The end was near.
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"Damn it, damn it, damn it!" Harry cried as tears fell down his face. "Why do I keep losing people?! Its not fair! Ron and Hermione shouldn't die! They haven't done anything wrong! And all for this stupid, stupid, stupid stone!" He banged the fist holding the stone furiously on the stone floor. "God I hate this thing! Stupid worthless thing!" He opened his right hand to glare at the stone, when he noticed something. The liquid, which had previously been blue, was now red, and the stone was emitting a soft red glow.
"The stupid thing changed colors. Maybe it's a stone that predicts the future maybe it means I am going die soon, I hope." He walked over close to the bar cell door and stretched out his right hand to hold on to on of the bars. The bars started melting. Harry pulled his hand back and looked at it. What was doing that? Was it the stone? YES! It was the stone! It had to be. He, Harry could not do something like that with out his wand. Now maybe he had a chance at saving Hermione and Ron! He reached his hand back out and melted the bars away. Harry walked out of the cell and looked around. He was standing in a huge hallway, To the right the hall was dark, but to the left there was light at the very end and he could hear voices. In a split second he know the correct path and hurtled down the to left.
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Hermione and Ron stood, chained against the wall awaiting their fate as Voldemort talked to some of the Death Eaters. He spoke quietly to each one so they couldn't hear what he was saying to to them.
"Hermione." Ron said in a shaky voice. She looked at him.
"Yes?"
"I want to tell you something. It's really important so listen well. I lo-" He stopped as all the Death Eaters and Voldemort looked at something. It was Harry. He looked he had been crying and angry, but most importantly he looked like a hero.
"Voldemort, you bastard. Let My friends go!" Harry shouted.
"What can you do?" Voldemort sneered. Then he caught sight of Harry's right hand. "The Shinjitsu Stone?! Where did you get it?!"
"A little birdie gave it to me." Harry smirked then his face turned serious. AS if on instinct Harry raised the stone of over his head. "Now Voldemort DIE!!!" The red glow filled the area, then the room exploded into light.
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