Chapter 6:

Harry crept into the house, making sure as to not disturb anything or more importantly let anyone know that he was here. He continued through the house slowly, quietly checking each room he passed to make sure that they were empty and then locking them with a charm afterwards. He crept quietly up the stairs being careful to stay to the edges of the stairs so as to make as little noise as possible when he heard a small thump coming from the room at the top of stairs. He paused for fear of being found out before he wanted to be. Harry stayed still as the door in front of him creaked open slightly. He braced himself. Suddenly a rat came running out of the gap of the door and ran down the stairs as fast as it could away from Harry.

"Oh no you don't." Harry said as he said the 'Wingardium Leviosa' incantation and the rat was lifted off of the floor. He levitated the rat into the room that it had just tried to escape from, and whilst keeping the levitation spell on it he transformed the rat back into Wormtail. "Hello Wormtail."

"Potter? What are you doing here?" Wormtail asked unable to keep the slight hint of fear out of his voice.

"You know something that I want to know, so naturally, you're going to tell me."

After twenty minutes of interrogation Wormtail still hadn't told Harry anything useful. So he binded him to the wall, and went back downstairs to get Ginny in from the cold. When he got outside the front door, he shivered. He looked around for Ginny until he realised that she was wearing his cloak.

"Ginny? Where are you?" he called just loud enough for her to hear.

No answer.

"Ginny?" He called again.

Still nothing.

He walked towards where he had last seen her and began carefully feeling around in that spot. Eventually he found her, she was unconscious. Harry began to feel immediately guilty having left her out here, and he picked her up and carried her up the stairs, hugging her close to him to try and make her warm and laid her down on the couch, when he got back to the room with Wormtail in it.

**

Another hour later Ginny still hadn't woken up, and Wormtail had said barely anything, so Harry began to try different methods to get him to talk and tell him where the real Ron and Hermione were. Harry took off the spell that bound wormtail to the wall and let him stand up.

"What are you doing Potter?" Wormtail spat.

"I want information; you want… well whatever you want. What ever it is you want you're not going to get it until I get what I want first. Understood?"

Wormtail just stood looking at Harry, looking slightly surprised and a little more frightened, but he still did not answer.

"Fine have it your way iFernunculus!i" A rash of boils began to appear on Wormtails face. He cried out in pain causing Ginny to stir, until Harry put a silencing charm on him, (iSilencioi). When Wormtail had calmed down a little Harry took off the silencing charm. "So lets try again shall we? What does Voldemort have to do with the disappearance of my friends?"

**

That night Draco lay in his bed at his house staring at the ceiling. He was unable to get to sleep, for two reasons. One of these reasons was the fact that it was Christmas the next day, and the other was the Dark Lord's voice going round and round in Dracos' head, continually telling him what he wanted him to do.

As he lay there he was also contemplating whether or not he should do it.

'It's not Potter and I are friends No! Wait what am I thinking? I don't want to turn out like my father!'

These thoughts went around and around in Dracos head until eventually he fell asleep.

**

When he woke up refreshed the next morning he knew exactly what he was going to do.

…"So lets try again shall we? What does Voldemort have to do with the disappearance of my friends?"

"Okay, Okay!!" Wormtail cried finally breaking "All I know is that the Dark Lord has some plans for them. I don't what he is going to do them. I swear!" Harry looked at him with a piercing stare not dissimilar to that of Dumbledores.

"iStupefy/i" Harry stunned Wormtail and the floated his unconscious body (iMobilicorpus/i). He walked over to where Ginny had been asleep and shook her gently. She didn't awake. "Ginny?" He continued to shake her. She still didn't wake. He checked her breathing and breathed a sigh of relief when he found that she was still breathing.

"Ginny, come on wake up!" He began to get more frantic now, she didn't even stir. He pointed his wand at her, "iEnervate/i" she stirred but did not wake up. Harry pulled her close to him to try and make her as warm as possible, before using the enervate spell on her again. This time however she opened her eyes.

"Harry?" She said groggily. She suddenly became more aware, and wide-eyed. "Harry look out…"

Harry spun around and came face to face with Wormtail. He had somehow woken himself up after Harry had stupefied him, and now that he was awake he was no longer floating.

"iAvada Kedavra/i" he cried pointing his wand at Harry. He tried to dodge the curse, but it hit the tips of his fingers. He fell to the floor. Wormtail then pointed his wand at Ginny and began to say the Cruciatus Curse, when a tall figure appeared in front of him.

"iStupefy!!/i" An angry voice shouted at Wormtail. This time he fell to the floor, and couldn't wake back up.

"Miss Weasley, are you okay?"

"Professor Dumbledore?"

"Yes my dear. Can you stand we are going to have get you all back to Hogwarts. Ready?" Dumbledore floated Wormtail and picked up Harry, taking them both to the fire place along with Ginny and taking them back to Hogwarts, by floo powder.

**

When they got back to Hogwarts, Ginny began crying. "Professor? What are we going to do? This is bad, worse than if it were anyone else except maybe you. The world is going to be in a panic when they find out." Ginny sobbed. Dumbledore however didn't answer her. He bound Wormtail to a chair and laid Harry on a couch. He pointed his wand at him prepared to say an incantation, when Harry opened his eyes. He groaned, and cried out in pain but he none-the-less alive. Ginny was speechless.

"Wha..How?" She began completely confused "It hit him. I saw the curse hit him!!"

"I'm not sure." Was his only answer, he whisked Harry onto a stretcher and took him to the hospital wing. Ginny followed behind.

When they entered the hospital it was empty except for madam Pomfrey who was promptly coming out of her office to see to Harry.

"Ginny, go and get Professor McGonnagol, and Professor Snape, please." She nodded and went to do as he asked.

"What is it Headmaster? What has happened to Potter this time?"

"I'm not entirely sure Poppy all I know for sure is that he was hit with the Killing Curse."

She gasped, then looked at him confused. "Then how…?"

"I don't know, he is truly a mystery young Harry here."