Chapter 7: All for Nothing

Lefty-Fact: In the sport of polo it is illegal to play left-handed. The only conceivable rationale for this might be an effort to preserve the safety of the sport wherein the horses would be trained to expect the mallet to be swung on the right side. Doing so on the left may spook them. -Lorin's Left-handedness Site

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The "much better way" of Draco's turned out to be an underground passage starting at the fence/wall line and leading all the way to the wine cellar in the house above the dungeons.

Probably an escape-way for Death Eaters on Ministry Raids. Ginny mused when Draco lifted a patch of grass up next to a large rock. Underneath was a door leading down to a rather dark and moldy underground passage.

"Erm are you sure about this?" She asked.

"Nope," Draco answered walking down the earthen steps. Ginny sighed, well it was better than nothing. Shifting her pack, she walked cautiously after him.

It seemed as if they walked for a very short distance when in reality it was almost a mile to the wine cellar door. They reached the cellar door and carefully walked out amongst the wine bottle racks and barrels of other stored goods.

"This way," Draco whispered motioning to the heavy door. The stone hallway that they followed led them down to the dungeons. Ginny started to sweat, hugging the stone wall, staying as close to Draco as she dared, jumping at every little sound.

"Are- are you sure they're d-down here?" she asked nervously.

"Probably," he said absentmindedly, looking around a corner. "My father always boasted at parties that our dungeons were the best and could hold anyone." Draco sounded a little sarcastic when he said this.

"How lovely," she answered just as sarcastic.

"Shhhh!!" There were footsteps coming down the hallway, a torch lighting the way, the glow coming closer and closer.

Ginny and Draco scrambled to the nearest door but found none, instead opting to hiding around the corner in shadows.

"Have they been transported yet, Goyle?" asked Lucious' drippy voice.

"Yes, just as you instructed."

The light reached the edge of the student's hiding area. Ginny could see Lucious' nasty, slicked back hair in the yellow light and Goyle's little hunched back.

"Good, we should be off. Don't want to keep our Lord waiting, see that Potter and his friends are heavily guarded as soon as they arrive..."

Ginny slowly let out a breath as the two Death Eater's voices became inaudible down the hallway and out of sight.

"Oh this is just great!" Draco fumed. "My one chance to foil my father's plans to spite him and they move the rescue-ees!"

"Well do you know where?" Ginny asked her nervousness threatening to reveal itself.
"Yeah but its about a million kilometers away!"

Ginny raised her eyebrow. "Perhaps we should continue this as soon as we escape you father's evil dungeons and house."

Ginny dragged her companion down the hall and into the wine cellar.

Once down the underground passage which got them thoroughly dirty from the low, dirt ceiling, Ginny got Draco to tell her where his father had taken Harry and the others.

"You-Know-Who probably ordered him to bring Potty to our townhouse/estate in New Orleans."

"Why in New Orleans?" Ginny asked ducking a low root.

"My family is French and we inherited a house a few years back from my great aunt or something." Draco sighed.

"Well." Ginny said as they climbed out the hole. "I guess we're off to New Orleans."

"What?" The look on his face was priceless.

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"We are not going to America." Draco argued.

"I don't see why this is such a debate," Ginny answered back defiantly as they hid behind some bushes. "We've come this far. Plus we have stop You-Know-Who from getting my brother and his stupid friends as much as I would love to have them out of my life I couldn't wish them dead."

"You don't have to wish, they will be whether they go or not. Come this far nothing too, your talking about going alllllllll the way across the ocean! To a city full of Death Eaters and Voodoo and.and. creatures of the Night! (Ginny laughed at this) Anyways we should go back to Hogwarts where everything is safe and full of Dumbledore's majick so we don't have to die. Plus (he smirked thinking he had had her) how would we get there? We cant fly there or apperate!" He finished this with a little "haHa" which sent Ginny into another round of laughter.

"Stop that cackling!"

"Heehee- oh we an get there, and we are going because it's the right thing to do and I know you really don't want to go back to the boring old school." She opened her pack looking for something when Draco noticed something peculiar wedged between some clothes.

"What the-?" He asked loudly pulling the object out.

It was Lauren.

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Bumm bummmm bummmmm- She returns! Well hows that for a new chapter people? Please review for anything I don't care what: flames, happiness, oddness.

"Good Night and thanks for the Bread!" ten points for anyone who can guess who said that!
-Stella