Chapter 14
"Queen Muirnin"
"Nooo" Harry shouted jumping from where he lay, for the nightmare he was having would have driven him insane if it lasted much longer. "This can't be, this can't be" He said frantically searching for his glasses.
"Harry, Harry, calm down. Ohh thank Merlin you are awake" came the reassuring voice of Cho. "Be quiet though, we don't want them to come back." She whispered as Harry located his glasses, and placed them on.
"Then it wasn't a nightmare, w-where are we?" Harry asked weakly, it seemed he had been out for a while. "Harry, I will explain, please whisper though I don't want her to come back." Cho answered, and Harry could tell she was terrified.
"He's awake, get the master. Potter is finally awake" Harry heard as he struggled to get to his feet. Realizing that his hands, and legs were bound, and remembering what had happened to cause this, Harry turned to look at Cho, only to instantly realize it was a mistake.
"Cho, where are we, what happened?" he asked looking directly into her beautiful blue eyes, and seeing them shimmering with tears. "Ohh Harry, I am so sorry, they hexed me from behind, I didn't have a chance." She said falling into him, and crying on his shoulder. When Cho's hand touched his face, Harry was engulfed momentarily in light, and as if he had seen it from her view, understood exactly what had happened.
"Malfoy" Harry hissed as the light vanished, and he was pushed back into reality. "Ah Potty and orphan finally chose to wake up, how grand." Draco spat walking down a few steps, and making his way into the light.
"Malfoy you slimy." Harry shouted advancing on the death eater in front of him. "Now, now, now" Malfoy laughed, watching as Harry suddenly crumbled to the ground, clutching his scar. "How pathetic." Draco laughed, stepping back as Voldermort entered, followed by Lucius Malfoy, and a woman who looked identical to Cho.
"Voldermort." Harry said looking up through pained eyes, and glaring through the cage doors at his new visitors "Lucius, I should have known, your foul scent is all over this." Harry hissed, taking in Lucius as well, and turning to the woman. "I don't know If I have meet you before." Harry said stunned, the resemblance between the woman, and Cho was scary.
"Bow before your queen" Voldermort hissed casting the crucactus curse on Harry, as the woman impersonating Cho transformed. "I will never bow to her, or you." Harry shouted, as he forced himself to stand, glaring at Voldemort for only a second, before turning his eyes to the woman.
What he saw shocked him however, for the woman in front of him had changed. She was young, and beautiful, her hair was red like his mothers, and her eyes, her eyes were a mesmerizing green.
"Who are you" Harry asked, he was unable to pry his eyes away from her. "She is your queen, or will be shortly." Voldemort shouted, pulling his wand, and shouting Imperio. Finally able to break the hold the mysterious woman had on him, Harry turned to Voldemort and laughed. "And your week curse has no effect on me," he shouted, stepping forward, and raising his hands in front of him.
With a blaze of Red fire, and a rush of wind, both Harry and Cho disappeared. Seconds later however the two reappeared, and Harry was furious. "Where have you taken us?" Harry shouted, feeling the chains that once bound him melt away. Voldermort however just laughed as Lucius answered his question.
"Well Potter, normally we would not allow such foul creatures into our home, but since Azkaban was destroyed and we are in needs of a holding cell, I have chosen to make the exception." Lucius laughed as he glared hatefully at him.
"This will be the last mistake you ever make Lucius" Harry shouted regaining the strength he had lost during his attempt to apparate out of the cell, and advancing on the deatheaters in front of him. "Stupefy" he shouted casting a wandless spell, and pointing his hands at both Draco, and Lucius. What happened next however startled Harry, for instead of the two Malfoys falling to the ground stunned like they normally would, Harry was catapulted into the back of the cell where he fell unconscious next to Cho.
"I see he has full control over his magic." Voldermort laughed as Cho looked on with fear. "Good thing we put up that protection charm." He finished walking out of the cell with his cloak billowing behind.
"Muirnin my dear, are you coming?" He asked as his queen had not moved, but instead she stood her ground staring directly into Cho's eyes. Next thing Cho knew she was suddenly overcome with such a fierce burning sensation that she fell to the ground screaming.
"No please don't, please." Cho begged falling from the bed she was sitting on, and holding her head. The pain that now burned through her body was more than she could handle, and within moments, Cho had passed out.
Laughing as she made her way from the cell, Muirnin addressed the stunned Malfoys. "She did not fear me. There is a reason Lord Voldermort chose me above the rest, and it would be wise to learn that." "I am sure she does now my dear." Voldemort laughed, as the four left the damp dungeon, the two unconscious prisoners forced into darkness.
******Later that night*****
"Ron, have you seen Harry, I need to speak with him" Remus asked coming into the Marauders common room just after dinner. "Sorry Professor, but I haven't seen him since this morning, is everything alright?" Ron asked standing along with Hermione, and looking into the eyes of their professor.
"I'm not sure Ron, we had a student come to Dumbledore's office just a minute ago. It seems she overheard a few of her classmates talking about how Harry and Cho had been captured." Remus answered walking past Ron, and up through the hall that lead to Harry's room.
"Its locked" he said pulling his wand, and aiming it at the door. "Alohamora." He shouted hearing the latch click, and pushing it open. "Ron, do you know where Harry keeps the Marauders Map?" Remus asked as Ron entered the room and immediately headed for Harry's trunk.
Waiting patiently for Ron to locate the map, Remus looked around the empty room. Noticing Godric Gryffindors sword hanging on the wall where Harry left it the night before. James's old wand in its box on the nightstand table, and the dragon skin boots Harry wore almost daily next to his bed where they had been kicked off the night before, Remus was suddenly terrified something was wrong.
"Follow me, I believe we may have a problem" Remus said as Ron handed him the map. Activating it as the three made there way to the fireplace. Both Hermione, and Ron took in a deep breath as Remus let out a long sigh.
"It is true then, Harry has been taken" Remus said speaking the password, and stepping into the hearth. Moments later the three found themselves in Dumbledore's office, where they were met by the other five order members.
"So" Sirius asked anxiously the second the three stepped out of the fire. "I am sorry Padfoot, but Harry and Cho are not on the school grounds" Remus said walking over and handing Sirius the Marauders map. Just then Ron, and Hermione were made aware that another student was in the room, and turning around, they came face to face with none other than Erika Bell.
"I told you this, why will you not listen to me?" She practically shouted. "Some of my classmates have been planning this, and according to their leader, they took both Harry, and Cho Chang this morning." Erika spoke evidently put off at the fact no one had believed her.
"You," Hermione hissed pulling out her wand, and pointing it at Erika, It was less than a week ago that Erika had cursed Hermione in Potions class causing her to add to much crushed beetles into her potion and destroying her healing elixir.
"Tell us pray you, why a Slytherin such as yourself would care about either Harry, or Cho." Hermione practically shouted. "Like I told the headmaster before you arrived Granger, although I am in Slytherin, I do not believe in a lot of things my classmates do, and even though I despise both Chang and Potter, I don't think they deserve to die." She finished.
"Now if I can be excused, I do have classes to study for." She said turning and heading for the door. Dumbledore however was not about to let it go there, and with a snap of his fingers. Miss Bell found herself sitting in the chair directly in front of him.
"Who?" Dumbledore asked. It was more a command, than a question. "I don't know, I only heard them, never saw them." Erika answered not meeting the headmasters piercing stare.
"Miss Bell, I am sure you would be able to determine who they were by voice alone. I ask you one more time, who." Dumbledore said again, this time there was a fire behind his eyes, and Erika did not have any other choice but to answer. "Sir, this is a fellow Slytherin, I do not want to cause him trouble, or get points taken away." She answered, and Sirius crossed the room.
"If what you are saying is true Miss Bell, he is already in trouble. Tell us now what we need to know, for if my Godson is harmed I promise It will be more than trouble headed your way." He threatened, and Erika seemed to break down under his harsh words.
"Very well, but if you tell him.." she begun, only to stop as Dumbledore cut in. "Miss Bell everything you have said in here will remain confidential, your house will not know you came to me." He said interrupting her, and pushing past Sirius.
"Draco, Crabb, Goyle, Millicent, and Pansy" She answered standing up, and walking out of the office. Dumbledore sighed in frustration, and turned to Sirius. "Bring them to me" he said, and seconds later Sirius was out of the headmasters office, in search of all of the above.
The interrogation of the five mentioned by Erika did not go as well as hoped. Although all five spoke about how they planned on getting Potter, none of them would admit to planning an actual kidnapping, only numerous pranks, and stunts.
"Very well, thank you for your corporation" Dumbledore spoke after giving Malfoy the counter potion for Veritaserum. Malfoy, although giving information freely about plotting to capture Harry, had some how managed to conceal all information about if he in fact acted on his plan, and where Harry had been taken.
"Fifty points will be taken from you Malfoy. Plotting to harm a fellow student is a severe issue, and I will be talking with the school governors about your expulsion" He finished excusing the five. When they had exited the Office, the seven order members walked down the stairs to join the headmaster.
"We must watch them, all of them. I do not believe that they are ignorant in their knowledge of where Harry is, and hopefully they will slip. Ron, take Harry's invisibility cloak, I want you to be a shadow to Draco, wherever he goes you follow, I want..." again Dumbledore stopped. Not because he was rethinking his plan, but for just then a black owl flew in the window, and by the emblem hanging around its neck, everyone knew it was from Voldermort.
Dumbledore,
I know have in my possession your saviors. Both the Heir to Gryffindor, and The Heir to Ravenclaw lie dead at my feet. What I started twenty years ago is now within my grasps, and with your blood I will gain immortality, and the world will be mine for the reaping.
"I refuse to believe this, Harry is more powerful than all of us, and there is no way that he could have been taken this easily." Sirius shouted, He had watched the note written in blood, burn at his feet.
"Malfoy, he hissed, pulling his wand from his pocket, and rushing for the exit of Dumbledore's office. The remaining in the room however did not move. Shocked by the news they each sat in there own thoughts for some time before finally Dumbledore stood, and walked to the window.
"Harry is not dead." He spoke, and all eyes in the office turned to him. "Cho is alive as well." He said again, turning to face the others in the room "Albus, the letter, how can you be so sure?" Minerva asked eying the burned parchment that lay on Dumbledore's desk.
"Because the foundations of Hogwarts are still up" Dumbledore answered, and everyone looked at him with confusion. "As most of you know, Harry holds the keys to Hogwarts. Because of this, when he passes away, and without producing a heir of his own, the keys, protections, and walls of Hogwarts pass to victor.
"So what you are saying is that if Harry was killed, then Voldermort would already be here." Hermione spoke up, being the only one to truly understand what Dumbledore had said.
"Yes Hermione, and we would be helpless to stop him." Dumbledore answered. "What do you think Voldermort is waiting for then?" Ron asked. Harry was his best friend, and brother. The idea of loosing him was eating away at Ron.
"Voldermort wants Harry to suffer, and there is nothing that would cause him more pain than to see those he loves harmed." Dumbledore finished. "We must close the school. I am expecting Voldermort will waste no more time." Dumbledore finished walking over to what looked to be a megaphone, and tapping it with his wand.
"Attention students of Hogwarts. As you know with Voldermorts return we have been constantly watching out for your best interests. Because of that I regret to inform you that we a temporarily closing the school. Please head to your dorms, and pack your things, for first thing in the morning we will all be taking the Hogwarts Express back to London." With this said Dumbledore tapped the megaphone once again, and returned it to its shelf.
"Minerva, gather the head boy, and prefects. I will need to explain to them in more detail what has happened." Dumbledore said taking a seat in his chair, and looking at the others. We must do everything we can to keep the rumors down, no one is to know of the letter I received" he finished addressing the others in the room, and excusing them to there thoughts, and duties.
Regardless of Dumbledore's efforts to keep the rumors away, word of Harry's death spread like wild fire through the wizarding world. Everything that Dumbledore had fought so hard to restore after the first fall of Voldermort had been destroyed over a five-day period, and through mass chaos, out of control rumors, and public fear, the foundations of the wizarding world were crumbling apart.
Voldermort had planned this perfectly, for as chaos broke out, he intensified his recruiting. One week after the disappearance of Cho, and Harry, he had succeeded in destroying three muggle towns, two wizard towns, and many more families had suffered from the killing curse.
"Silence" Dumbledore shouted standing at the head table at Hogwarts. He had summoned the Order Of The Phoenix to meeting, and so far for the past hour they had accomplished none of their objectives.
"First of, we must not panic. It is true that Harry Potter, and Miss Cho Chang have gone missing. As for the rumor that they were killed, that at this point is still just a rumor. Now," He said satisfied that for once he had complete silence.
"Our job is to defeat Voldermort. We cannot do this if we are not willing to believe that we can, and without Harry we must band together. This is why I called this meeting. As of today we break into four groups. There are 100 of us here, which means 25 to each group. Let them be red, yellow, blue and gold." Dumbledore spoke raising his hands, and the order members in the room watched as a band of one of the four colors appeared across their right sleeve.
"Since we have not heard of either Sirius Black, or Remus Lupin in over a week, the team leaders will be Mrs. Arabella Figg, Minerva McGonagall, Charlie Weasley, and Myself. Break off now into your groups, once assembled go to the nearest battle, and do all you can to fight back Voldermorts forces."
"Ron, Hermione, Fred, and George. Your job is to locate first Sirius, and Remus, and second to bring back Harry." Dumbledore shouted, really showing the age of his years, yet displaying a great since of power. Sweeping through the hall, Dumbledore let the way out of the school, and walking to where they could apparate, Dumbledore vanished with a pop, only to reappear in the middle of the residential part of Diagon Alley, where once again Voldermorts forces were attacking.
***** Back to Harry******
By the time Harry woke up from his collision with the back wall, it was three days into his imprisonment. Listening to a mumbled cry of help, and hearing the screams of Cho next to him, Harry fought to clear his blurred vision, only to realize that he and Cho were not alone in the cell, but next to Cho, was Voldermorts Queen, and she was in the process of draining blood from a deep gash in Cho's arm.
"Leave here" Harry shouted pushing off the ground weakly in an attempt to stand, and crashing back down. "She has done nothing to you" He shouted fighting to move, something had happened why he was unconscious, and by the looks of the empty potion vials on the floor, Harry could tell that it was something bad.
"Your awake, now I don't know how that is possible with the amount of draught I gave you, but it doesn't matter, you have no strength to stop me" She laughed, cracking Harry across the face with the back of her free hand, and smiling as her ring created a gash on his right cheek.
"You will learn to respect me." She spat, standing up, and corking the vial now full of Cho's blood. "What have you done to me?" Harry responded, he lay on his back unable to move as Muirnin approached him. "Now, now, I can't tell you that, but what I can reassure you is that it is only the beginning." She laughed, her cold cruel voice echoing through the cell causing Cho to scream out in pain.
"Leave her be." Harry shouted again. He was trying to move once again, but the women clad in pure black had now cradled his chest, forcing him to remain where he was. Suddenly, and with out warning, the laughter stopped. Sitting there staring into the deep green eyes of Voldermorts queen, Harry felt her enter his mind.
"You can not beat me this way." Harry shouted. He quickly closed off his mind to the invasion. "Maybe" was all Muirnin would say before roughly reaching behind his head, pulling him into a passionate kiss. Overcome with a feeling as if his eyes were closing, Harry forced his lips closed. Sighing in frustration Muirnin pulled back as well, and seconds later a ripping sound was heard through the quiet cell, followed by the anguished screams of Harry, as the Queen of Darkness slashed her knife over his chest, deep enough to expose a rib.
"I have only given you a few of my newest potions, My lord still wishes to turn you for some reason Mr. Potter." Muirnin whispered. "It seems that every mind control elixir I have tried so far has failed." She spoke, reaching under his head, and again pulling him into a passionate kiss. This time however Harry was not able to pull away. As if his mind was suddenly struck dumb, Harry allowed the sweat taste of Muirnin to consume him. Before he knew what had happened his eyes had rolled to the back of his head, and a cloud of black crept over his mind ensnaring his senses.
Fighting off the effects of this witches kiss, Harry fought to sit up, screaming out no, Harry opened his eyes, only to find himself lying alone in a thick pool of his own blood, the sound of someone whimpering in the corner could be heard.
"Cho" Harry coughed, forcing his body to role over from its position on his back. "Cho, what have they done to you?" He asked, noticing what looked to be a hospital fluid bag attached to a rode above her, and the liquid slowly draining into her blood stream.
When Cho did not answer, Harry begun to seriously worry. Forcing the pain he felt to the back of his mind, Harry fought his way inch by inch until he was close enough to reach her. "We have to get this out of you." Harry said fighting against the magical charm used to keep the bag where it was.
"Cho, I need your help." Harry told her releasing the cords that held down her uninjured hands, and telling her to pull on the needle stuck in her arm. When Cho did not answer, or even move, Harry once again forced away the pain, and pulled himself up to where he could see his beloveds face. The sights that meet him however terrified him.
"Cho, Cho can you hear me?" Harry asked, it was evident by his voice that he was beyond worried. "Listen to me sweetheart, I need you to fight off whatever it is they are doing to you. Come on." Harry almost yelled refusing to break eye contact.
What had happened to Cho over the time Harry was unconscious, he did not know. Instead of looking into her crystal blue eyes, Harry had looked into eyes that bleed from both the amount of torture and pain she had gone through, as well as the effects of the potion. As if the potion entering her body was controlling her mind, half of here eyes were now blood red.
"We need to get this out of you." Harry shouted one more time, and summoning up as much strength as he could, He successfully broke the charm, and separated the potion bag.
"Cho." Harry whispered taking her limp body in his arms, and cradling her to his chest. "I will get you out of this, I promise." Harry spoke, closing his eyes, and moving his hands up Cho's body to where they rested on her temples. Once there he began to concentrate on gaining access to her mind.
"Cho, listen to me, I know you can here my voice, come back to me." Harry spoke mentally; it had been three hours since he had entered her thoughts, and he was still searching for her.
"My Queen, he is awake, come quick" Were the words that forced Harry from his trance. Turning to the door, Harry watched as Muirnin, Voldermort, and Lucius rushed down the steps next to where Draco stood.
"Cho, I am out of time, please forgive me for what I am about to do." Harry whispered to her. Some how a image had come to him, and with a flash of white light, Harry Potter disappeared from the cell at Malfoy Manor, and as the smoke cleared in the room, all that was left was Cho lying motionless on a bed, here eyes shinning a magnificent emerald green.
"Nooo" Harry shouted jumping from where he lay, for the nightmare he was having would have driven him insane if it lasted much longer. "This can't be, this can't be" He said frantically searching for his glasses.
"Harry, Harry, calm down. Ohh thank Merlin you are awake" came the reassuring voice of Cho. "Be quiet though, we don't want them to come back." She whispered as Harry located his glasses, and placed them on.
"Then it wasn't a nightmare, w-where are we?" Harry asked weakly, it seemed he had been out for a while. "Harry, I will explain, please whisper though I don't want her to come back." Cho answered, and Harry could tell she was terrified.
"He's awake, get the master. Potter is finally awake" Harry heard as he struggled to get to his feet. Realizing that his hands, and legs were bound, and remembering what had happened to cause this, Harry turned to look at Cho, only to instantly realize it was a mistake.
"Cho, where are we, what happened?" he asked looking directly into her beautiful blue eyes, and seeing them shimmering with tears. "Ohh Harry, I am so sorry, they hexed me from behind, I didn't have a chance." She said falling into him, and crying on his shoulder. When Cho's hand touched his face, Harry was engulfed momentarily in light, and as if he had seen it from her view, understood exactly what had happened.
"Malfoy" Harry hissed as the light vanished, and he was pushed back into reality. "Ah Potty and orphan finally chose to wake up, how grand." Draco spat walking down a few steps, and making his way into the light.
"Malfoy you slimy." Harry shouted advancing on the death eater in front of him. "Now, now, now" Malfoy laughed, watching as Harry suddenly crumbled to the ground, clutching his scar. "How pathetic." Draco laughed, stepping back as Voldermort entered, followed by Lucius Malfoy, and a woman who looked identical to Cho.
"Voldermort." Harry said looking up through pained eyes, and glaring through the cage doors at his new visitors "Lucius, I should have known, your foul scent is all over this." Harry hissed, taking in Lucius as well, and turning to the woman. "I don't know If I have meet you before." Harry said stunned, the resemblance between the woman, and Cho was scary.
"Bow before your queen" Voldermort hissed casting the crucactus curse on Harry, as the woman impersonating Cho transformed. "I will never bow to her, or you." Harry shouted, as he forced himself to stand, glaring at Voldemort for only a second, before turning his eyes to the woman.
What he saw shocked him however, for the woman in front of him had changed. She was young, and beautiful, her hair was red like his mothers, and her eyes, her eyes were a mesmerizing green.
"Who are you" Harry asked, he was unable to pry his eyes away from her. "She is your queen, or will be shortly." Voldemort shouted, pulling his wand, and shouting Imperio. Finally able to break the hold the mysterious woman had on him, Harry turned to Voldemort and laughed. "And your week curse has no effect on me," he shouted, stepping forward, and raising his hands in front of him.
With a blaze of Red fire, and a rush of wind, both Harry and Cho disappeared. Seconds later however the two reappeared, and Harry was furious. "Where have you taken us?" Harry shouted, feeling the chains that once bound him melt away. Voldermort however just laughed as Lucius answered his question.
"Well Potter, normally we would not allow such foul creatures into our home, but since Azkaban was destroyed and we are in needs of a holding cell, I have chosen to make the exception." Lucius laughed as he glared hatefully at him.
"This will be the last mistake you ever make Lucius" Harry shouted regaining the strength he had lost during his attempt to apparate out of the cell, and advancing on the deatheaters in front of him. "Stupefy" he shouted casting a wandless spell, and pointing his hands at both Draco, and Lucius. What happened next however startled Harry, for instead of the two Malfoys falling to the ground stunned like they normally would, Harry was catapulted into the back of the cell where he fell unconscious next to Cho.
"I see he has full control over his magic." Voldermort laughed as Cho looked on with fear. "Good thing we put up that protection charm." He finished walking out of the cell with his cloak billowing behind.
"Muirnin my dear, are you coming?" He asked as his queen had not moved, but instead she stood her ground staring directly into Cho's eyes. Next thing Cho knew she was suddenly overcome with such a fierce burning sensation that she fell to the ground screaming.
"No please don't, please." Cho begged falling from the bed she was sitting on, and holding her head. The pain that now burned through her body was more than she could handle, and within moments, Cho had passed out.
Laughing as she made her way from the cell, Muirnin addressed the stunned Malfoys. "She did not fear me. There is a reason Lord Voldermort chose me above the rest, and it would be wise to learn that." "I am sure she does now my dear." Voldemort laughed, as the four left the damp dungeon, the two unconscious prisoners forced into darkness.
******Later that night*****
"Ron, have you seen Harry, I need to speak with him" Remus asked coming into the Marauders common room just after dinner. "Sorry Professor, but I haven't seen him since this morning, is everything alright?" Ron asked standing along with Hermione, and looking into the eyes of their professor.
"I'm not sure Ron, we had a student come to Dumbledore's office just a minute ago. It seems she overheard a few of her classmates talking about how Harry and Cho had been captured." Remus answered walking past Ron, and up through the hall that lead to Harry's room.
"Its locked" he said pulling his wand, and aiming it at the door. "Alohamora." He shouted hearing the latch click, and pushing it open. "Ron, do you know where Harry keeps the Marauders Map?" Remus asked as Ron entered the room and immediately headed for Harry's trunk.
Waiting patiently for Ron to locate the map, Remus looked around the empty room. Noticing Godric Gryffindors sword hanging on the wall where Harry left it the night before. James's old wand in its box on the nightstand table, and the dragon skin boots Harry wore almost daily next to his bed where they had been kicked off the night before, Remus was suddenly terrified something was wrong.
"Follow me, I believe we may have a problem" Remus said as Ron handed him the map. Activating it as the three made there way to the fireplace. Both Hermione, and Ron took in a deep breath as Remus let out a long sigh.
"It is true then, Harry has been taken" Remus said speaking the password, and stepping into the hearth. Moments later the three found themselves in Dumbledore's office, where they were met by the other five order members.
"So" Sirius asked anxiously the second the three stepped out of the fire. "I am sorry Padfoot, but Harry and Cho are not on the school grounds" Remus said walking over and handing Sirius the Marauders map. Just then Ron, and Hermione were made aware that another student was in the room, and turning around, they came face to face with none other than Erika Bell.
"I told you this, why will you not listen to me?" She practically shouted. "Some of my classmates have been planning this, and according to their leader, they took both Harry, and Cho Chang this morning." Erika spoke evidently put off at the fact no one had believed her.
"You," Hermione hissed pulling out her wand, and pointing it at Erika, It was less than a week ago that Erika had cursed Hermione in Potions class causing her to add to much crushed beetles into her potion and destroying her healing elixir.
"Tell us pray you, why a Slytherin such as yourself would care about either Harry, or Cho." Hermione practically shouted. "Like I told the headmaster before you arrived Granger, although I am in Slytherin, I do not believe in a lot of things my classmates do, and even though I despise both Chang and Potter, I don't think they deserve to die." She finished.
"Now if I can be excused, I do have classes to study for." She said turning and heading for the door. Dumbledore however was not about to let it go there, and with a snap of his fingers. Miss Bell found herself sitting in the chair directly in front of him.
"Who?" Dumbledore asked. It was more a command, than a question. "I don't know, I only heard them, never saw them." Erika answered not meeting the headmasters piercing stare.
"Miss Bell, I am sure you would be able to determine who they were by voice alone. I ask you one more time, who." Dumbledore said again, this time there was a fire behind his eyes, and Erika did not have any other choice but to answer. "Sir, this is a fellow Slytherin, I do not want to cause him trouble, or get points taken away." She answered, and Sirius crossed the room.
"If what you are saying is true Miss Bell, he is already in trouble. Tell us now what we need to know, for if my Godson is harmed I promise It will be more than trouble headed your way." He threatened, and Erika seemed to break down under his harsh words.
"Very well, but if you tell him.." she begun, only to stop as Dumbledore cut in. "Miss Bell everything you have said in here will remain confidential, your house will not know you came to me." He said interrupting her, and pushing past Sirius.
"Draco, Crabb, Goyle, Millicent, and Pansy" She answered standing up, and walking out of the office. Dumbledore sighed in frustration, and turned to Sirius. "Bring them to me" he said, and seconds later Sirius was out of the headmasters office, in search of all of the above.
The interrogation of the five mentioned by Erika did not go as well as hoped. Although all five spoke about how they planned on getting Potter, none of them would admit to planning an actual kidnapping, only numerous pranks, and stunts.
"Very well, thank you for your corporation" Dumbledore spoke after giving Malfoy the counter potion for Veritaserum. Malfoy, although giving information freely about plotting to capture Harry, had some how managed to conceal all information about if he in fact acted on his plan, and where Harry had been taken.
"Fifty points will be taken from you Malfoy. Plotting to harm a fellow student is a severe issue, and I will be talking with the school governors about your expulsion" He finished excusing the five. When they had exited the Office, the seven order members walked down the stairs to join the headmaster.
"We must watch them, all of them. I do not believe that they are ignorant in their knowledge of where Harry is, and hopefully they will slip. Ron, take Harry's invisibility cloak, I want you to be a shadow to Draco, wherever he goes you follow, I want..." again Dumbledore stopped. Not because he was rethinking his plan, but for just then a black owl flew in the window, and by the emblem hanging around its neck, everyone knew it was from Voldermort.
Dumbledore,
I know have in my possession your saviors. Both the Heir to Gryffindor, and The Heir to Ravenclaw lie dead at my feet. What I started twenty years ago is now within my grasps, and with your blood I will gain immortality, and the world will be mine for the reaping.
"I refuse to believe this, Harry is more powerful than all of us, and there is no way that he could have been taken this easily." Sirius shouted, He had watched the note written in blood, burn at his feet.
"Malfoy, he hissed, pulling his wand from his pocket, and rushing for the exit of Dumbledore's office. The remaining in the room however did not move. Shocked by the news they each sat in there own thoughts for some time before finally Dumbledore stood, and walked to the window.
"Harry is not dead." He spoke, and all eyes in the office turned to him. "Cho is alive as well." He said again, turning to face the others in the room "Albus, the letter, how can you be so sure?" Minerva asked eying the burned parchment that lay on Dumbledore's desk.
"Because the foundations of Hogwarts are still up" Dumbledore answered, and everyone looked at him with confusion. "As most of you know, Harry holds the keys to Hogwarts. Because of this, when he passes away, and without producing a heir of his own, the keys, protections, and walls of Hogwarts pass to victor.
"So what you are saying is that if Harry was killed, then Voldermort would already be here." Hermione spoke up, being the only one to truly understand what Dumbledore had said.
"Yes Hermione, and we would be helpless to stop him." Dumbledore answered. "What do you think Voldermort is waiting for then?" Ron asked. Harry was his best friend, and brother. The idea of loosing him was eating away at Ron.
"Voldermort wants Harry to suffer, and there is nothing that would cause him more pain than to see those he loves harmed." Dumbledore finished. "We must close the school. I am expecting Voldermort will waste no more time." Dumbledore finished walking over to what looked to be a megaphone, and tapping it with his wand.
"Attention students of Hogwarts. As you know with Voldermorts return we have been constantly watching out for your best interests. Because of that I regret to inform you that we a temporarily closing the school. Please head to your dorms, and pack your things, for first thing in the morning we will all be taking the Hogwarts Express back to London." With this said Dumbledore tapped the megaphone once again, and returned it to its shelf.
"Minerva, gather the head boy, and prefects. I will need to explain to them in more detail what has happened." Dumbledore said taking a seat in his chair, and looking at the others. We must do everything we can to keep the rumors down, no one is to know of the letter I received" he finished addressing the others in the room, and excusing them to there thoughts, and duties.
Regardless of Dumbledore's efforts to keep the rumors away, word of Harry's death spread like wild fire through the wizarding world. Everything that Dumbledore had fought so hard to restore after the first fall of Voldermort had been destroyed over a five-day period, and through mass chaos, out of control rumors, and public fear, the foundations of the wizarding world were crumbling apart.
Voldermort had planned this perfectly, for as chaos broke out, he intensified his recruiting. One week after the disappearance of Cho, and Harry, he had succeeded in destroying three muggle towns, two wizard towns, and many more families had suffered from the killing curse.
"Silence" Dumbledore shouted standing at the head table at Hogwarts. He had summoned the Order Of The Phoenix to meeting, and so far for the past hour they had accomplished none of their objectives.
"First of, we must not panic. It is true that Harry Potter, and Miss Cho Chang have gone missing. As for the rumor that they were killed, that at this point is still just a rumor. Now," He said satisfied that for once he had complete silence.
"Our job is to defeat Voldermort. We cannot do this if we are not willing to believe that we can, and without Harry we must band together. This is why I called this meeting. As of today we break into four groups. There are 100 of us here, which means 25 to each group. Let them be red, yellow, blue and gold." Dumbledore spoke raising his hands, and the order members in the room watched as a band of one of the four colors appeared across their right sleeve.
"Since we have not heard of either Sirius Black, or Remus Lupin in over a week, the team leaders will be Mrs. Arabella Figg, Minerva McGonagall, Charlie Weasley, and Myself. Break off now into your groups, once assembled go to the nearest battle, and do all you can to fight back Voldermorts forces."
"Ron, Hermione, Fred, and George. Your job is to locate first Sirius, and Remus, and second to bring back Harry." Dumbledore shouted, really showing the age of his years, yet displaying a great since of power. Sweeping through the hall, Dumbledore let the way out of the school, and walking to where they could apparate, Dumbledore vanished with a pop, only to reappear in the middle of the residential part of Diagon Alley, where once again Voldermorts forces were attacking.
***** Back to Harry******
By the time Harry woke up from his collision with the back wall, it was three days into his imprisonment. Listening to a mumbled cry of help, and hearing the screams of Cho next to him, Harry fought to clear his blurred vision, only to realize that he and Cho were not alone in the cell, but next to Cho, was Voldermorts Queen, and she was in the process of draining blood from a deep gash in Cho's arm.
"Leave here" Harry shouted pushing off the ground weakly in an attempt to stand, and crashing back down. "She has done nothing to you" He shouted fighting to move, something had happened why he was unconscious, and by the looks of the empty potion vials on the floor, Harry could tell that it was something bad.
"Your awake, now I don't know how that is possible with the amount of draught I gave you, but it doesn't matter, you have no strength to stop me" She laughed, cracking Harry across the face with the back of her free hand, and smiling as her ring created a gash on his right cheek.
"You will learn to respect me." She spat, standing up, and corking the vial now full of Cho's blood. "What have you done to me?" Harry responded, he lay on his back unable to move as Muirnin approached him. "Now, now, I can't tell you that, but what I can reassure you is that it is only the beginning." She laughed, her cold cruel voice echoing through the cell causing Cho to scream out in pain.
"Leave her be." Harry shouted again. He was trying to move once again, but the women clad in pure black had now cradled his chest, forcing him to remain where he was. Suddenly, and with out warning, the laughter stopped. Sitting there staring into the deep green eyes of Voldermorts queen, Harry felt her enter his mind.
"You can not beat me this way." Harry shouted. He quickly closed off his mind to the invasion. "Maybe" was all Muirnin would say before roughly reaching behind his head, pulling him into a passionate kiss. Overcome with a feeling as if his eyes were closing, Harry forced his lips closed. Sighing in frustration Muirnin pulled back as well, and seconds later a ripping sound was heard through the quiet cell, followed by the anguished screams of Harry, as the Queen of Darkness slashed her knife over his chest, deep enough to expose a rib.
"I have only given you a few of my newest potions, My lord still wishes to turn you for some reason Mr. Potter." Muirnin whispered. "It seems that every mind control elixir I have tried so far has failed." She spoke, reaching under his head, and again pulling him into a passionate kiss. This time however Harry was not able to pull away. As if his mind was suddenly struck dumb, Harry allowed the sweat taste of Muirnin to consume him. Before he knew what had happened his eyes had rolled to the back of his head, and a cloud of black crept over his mind ensnaring his senses.
Fighting off the effects of this witches kiss, Harry fought to sit up, screaming out no, Harry opened his eyes, only to find himself lying alone in a thick pool of his own blood, the sound of someone whimpering in the corner could be heard.
"Cho" Harry coughed, forcing his body to role over from its position on his back. "Cho, what have they done to you?" He asked, noticing what looked to be a hospital fluid bag attached to a rode above her, and the liquid slowly draining into her blood stream.
When Cho did not answer, Harry begun to seriously worry. Forcing the pain he felt to the back of his mind, Harry fought his way inch by inch until he was close enough to reach her. "We have to get this out of you." Harry said fighting against the magical charm used to keep the bag where it was.
"Cho, I need your help." Harry told her releasing the cords that held down her uninjured hands, and telling her to pull on the needle stuck in her arm. When Cho did not answer, or even move, Harry once again forced away the pain, and pulled himself up to where he could see his beloveds face. The sights that meet him however terrified him.
"Cho, Cho can you hear me?" Harry asked, it was evident by his voice that he was beyond worried. "Listen to me sweetheart, I need you to fight off whatever it is they are doing to you. Come on." Harry almost yelled refusing to break eye contact.
What had happened to Cho over the time Harry was unconscious, he did not know. Instead of looking into her crystal blue eyes, Harry had looked into eyes that bleed from both the amount of torture and pain she had gone through, as well as the effects of the potion. As if the potion entering her body was controlling her mind, half of here eyes were now blood red.
"We need to get this out of you." Harry shouted one more time, and summoning up as much strength as he could, He successfully broke the charm, and separated the potion bag.
"Cho." Harry whispered taking her limp body in his arms, and cradling her to his chest. "I will get you out of this, I promise." Harry spoke, closing his eyes, and moving his hands up Cho's body to where they rested on her temples. Once there he began to concentrate on gaining access to her mind.
"Cho, listen to me, I know you can here my voice, come back to me." Harry spoke mentally; it had been three hours since he had entered her thoughts, and he was still searching for her.
"My Queen, he is awake, come quick" Were the words that forced Harry from his trance. Turning to the door, Harry watched as Muirnin, Voldermort, and Lucius rushed down the steps next to where Draco stood.
"Cho, I am out of time, please forgive me for what I am about to do." Harry whispered to her. Some how a image had come to him, and with a flash of white light, Harry Potter disappeared from the cell at Malfoy Manor, and as the smoke cleared in the room, all that was left was Cho lying motionless on a bed, here eyes shinning a magnificent emerald green.