Chapter 5:

"Can you believe that?? Potter, I thought he would always help you if he could!!" Draco exclaimed walking out of Dumbledores office.

"He's never said that he would just 'look into it' as if it wasn't a very important matter before. He always said that he would find out, or most of the time he already knew and told me to stay out of it but this time he didn't!"

"Harry, maybe he has his reasons."

Both Harry and Draco turned to look at her as if she had gone mad.

"Well I just mean maybe he wants you to look into it for yourself this time. I mean you are probably going to have to face you-know-who again at some point, so you might need to do these things for yourself." She reasoned.

"You could be right, but you also might be wrong. What if he isn't the real Dumbledore either?" Draco said.

"Yeah right who's powerful enough to kidnap Albus Dumbledore? Even Voldemort is afraid of him."

"Good point"

They continued down the corridors, stairs until they reach the Great Hall. Draco took off ahead of them so that they wouldn't be seen together. Harry and Ginny walked into the Great Hall and sat down on the end nearest the door so that they could finish quickly and meet Draco to work what they were going to do. An hour later Harry, Ginny, and Draco met in an empty class room on the fourth floor.

"I'm going to find out what happened to Ron and Hermione and I need your help." Harry said to Draco, "and yours if you'll help me"

"What are you planning on doing? Storming up to you-know-who and demanding to know what he has done with them?" Draco questioned, one eyebrow raised. "Even you could find out where he is right now, get passed his guards unseen, and get close enough to him without your scar hurting, he will just kill you anyway."

"I know. That's not my plan. I know where Wormtail is hiding out, and I'm sure Malfoy here knows where his father is we'll get to them and find out what has happened to them. Malfoy can you talk to your dad, seem interested, but not too interested and find out if he knows what has happened to them. Ginny and I will go and get Wormtail and make him tell us if he knows anything. Do you think you could help me with that Ginny?" Ginny nodded her head. "Right then I just have one thing that I have to take care of and then we can go?" Again she nodded her head.

Harry left the room and went to Gryffindor tower to pick up a few things that he thought they might need on their trip. When he walked inside the portrait hole he was surprised to see the common room almost empty. The only person in the room was Chloe, Ginnys friend.

"Hey Chloe. Where is everyone?" Harry asked her.

"Oh it's a Hogsmead weekend. Most people have gone there. Why haven't you gone Harry?"

"I forgot it was a Hogsmead weekend. Can I ask you a favour?"

Chloe turned her head looking slightly surprised but extremely pleased at the same time. "Sure."

"I have to go somewhere for a few days, I will be back for the dance before Christmas but I need you to cover for me. If anyone asks just say that the last time you saw I was going somewhere or something. Make out that I was here, and not, not here. Okay?"

"Okay, but on one condition."

"What's that?"

"YouGoToTheDanceWithMe." She said extremely quickly.

"Uh…yea sure, but shouldn't I be asking you?" Chloe's face went scarlet.

"But you wouldn't have asked me would you?"

"Now you'll never know." Harry said with a twinkle in his eye. He made his way up to his dormitory, got his cloak, map and broom and went back out of the portrait hole waving goodbye to Chloe as he left. He met Ginny outside by the lake. They both got onto Harry's Firebolt, and flew off into the forbidden forest.

Harry and Ginny had been travelling on his Firebolt for almost two hours now with only one stop, and they were beginning to get extremely uncomfortable. Ginny shivered.

"Are you cold, Gin?"

"A little but it doesn't matter. How long till we get where-ever it is that we are going?" She turned her head slightly to hear his answer and was surprised to feel his arms wrap around her.

"Still cold?" he asked.

Coming out of her shock and snuggling back into him she answered with a shake of her head. They continued to fly for another hour before Harry finally set down near a small house in a moor. Ginny guessed that it was somewhere in Scotland but she couldn't be sure.

"Gin, I need you to stay hidden outside and watch out for anyone that might be approaching. Okay?" He looked at her with both worry and question in his eyes. She just nodded her head, and got underneath the invisibility cloak with Harry. The small house was about a half a mile away. Harry marvelled at how much he and Ginny must have grown because the cloak didn't fit completely over them, every now and then one of them would accidentally let their arm or a foot be uncovered by the cloak.

"We need to walk closer to make sure that we don't get seen." Ginny moved over towards him a little so that their arms where just touching. "I think we need to be more like this." He pulled her towards him and put an arm around her waist. She stiffened at first but then relaxed into him relishing the warmth of his body. After about twenty minutes they finally reached the house. "Wait here" Harry whispered.

As he began to walk away he heard her shiver again. He took off his cloak and handed it to her. "Here take this its cold out here. I don't need it right now." And with that he silently broke into the small one storey house.

**

"Evening father." Draco greeted his father Lucius Malfoy as he entered Malfoy mansion for the Christmas holidays.

"Draco, come with me. I have some important business I would like you to witness." Draco nodded and followed his father. He was used to the lack of pleasantries and small talk from his father by now. He led Draco into the basement and along a corridor until they came to a room at the far end of the corridor. They entered and Draco sat down. Lucius went to the far wall across from the door, said an incantation and opened a secret chamber in the wall. Inside the chamber was an extremely large collection of Dark magic books and items that were restricted throughout the world.

"Father, are there any plans going on at Hogwarts at the moment?"

At this Lucius turned to look suspiciously at his son. "Why?"

"Well, I noticed that Potter was alone a lot more often. It turns out that the mudblood and the Weasel have been avoiding him. I just wondered if it was anything to do with you or the Dark Lord or if they had just finally come to their senses and left him alone."

"Ah, so you noticed. Well in fact there is something, but if you want to know more then you should the Dark Lord himself, he may want you to help in some way." Lucius looked at his son proudly, thinking how evil he is going to be when he has been fully raised.

**

A couple of days later, Voldemort arrived at the Malfoy manor. Voldemort was never able to have his own because of the Order of the Phoenix looking for him, and following any sighting that there was of him, they were continuously on his trail.

Later on that same day Draco had finally built up his courage enough to request to speak to the Dark lord. His request was granted and he was now, standing outside the door of the Dark Lords quarters.

"Come in, Young Malfoy." A hissing voice came from the other side of the door before Draco had built up enough courage to knock and risk disturbing him. He hesitantly pushed open the door and walked into the room. The Dark Lord beckoned for him to speak. Draco told the dark Lord exactly what he had said to his father.

"Yesss young Malfoy, Potters friends are indeed part of one of my plans. You ssee sso far he hass esscaped me whenever I have tried physsically, sso thiss time I am attacking hiss emotionss, making him break down. No doubt he will eventually find out that the oness at Hogwartss right now are not who they ssay they are, and he will come looking for them, a wreck and unable to defy me once again." Voldemort had a sickening smile on his face once he had finished telling Draco his plan. "This is where you come in."