I Cannot Tell A Lie
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Chapter 12 ~ Death To Those Who Know Too Much
Ron's eyes bulged.
'A hologram, are you sure?' He stammered.
'Yes,' Harry nodded. 'I'm positive.'
'But how, and why? And what happened to all the blood? And Lillian's body? What's going on!' Ron wailed.
'I have no idea, and I don't think Malfoy would know either,' Harry replied.
'If this is some sort of sick joke, it's not funny!' Ron cried.
'I know it's not funny, and I don't think it's meant to be a joke, someone's messing with our heads, not for fun, but because they have to in order to get Hermione away,' Harry said softly.
'What would anyone want with Hermione?' Ron asked.
'She's a death eater, she's probably setting all this up,' Harry said thoughtfully. 'I say we go find Malfoy, and find out what the hell is going on,'
'Good idea,' Ron replied, and the two left the Gryffindor common room.
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Draco scowled, he'd just found out that the people he was trying to talk to weren't listening, infact, they looked rather distant. He waved his hand over their faces, no response.
'Hello? I was talking to you!' He growled, punching the arm of the nearest guy. Much to Draco's surprise, his fist went straight through the arm like the guy was a ghost. Draco yelled in surprise and bolted out of the library.
He kept running down the corridors, occasionally looking over his shoulder to make sure no ghosts were following him.
Before he knew it, Draco had crashed into two boys. He fell back and rubbed his head, groaning.
'Next time, watch where you're - Malfoy! Just the person we were looking for,'
Draco stood up off the ground to face the two people he least wanted to see at that time, Ron Weasley and Harry Potter.
'Great,' He grumbled. 'Just what I need at a time like this,'
'At a time like what?' Ron asked.
'Look, we just found out that "Hermione" was a hologram, would you happen to know anything about that?' Harry asked.
'Great! You're accusing me of helping whoever did this to kidnap Hermione! I'm being framed I tell you!' Draco cried.
'We aren't accusing you of anything, simply asking whether you have noticed anything strange going on in the school,' Ron tried to stay calm. Draco frowned suspiciously.
'So what if I have,' He tested.
'Then you either tell us, or you go down for the kidnapping of Hermione,' Ron threatened.
'Fine, fine, but I don't know anything about Hermione being kidnapped, I only know that just before, I was in the library, then all of a sudden the people who I was talking to stopped moving, they looked in a daze,' Draco paused before considering to tell them about the arm. 'I punched the closest one in the arm, but my fist went straight through it,'
'That's like Hermione, I went to touch her and I went straight through her, then she disappeared, she was a hologram,' Harry said.
'What's going on?' Ron asked no one inparticular.
'I don't know,' Harry replied blankly.
'Then where's the real Hermione?' Draco asked.
'We don't know that either, you dimwit, or else we would be saving her right now!' Ron exploded. 'I can't take much more of this, my mind's being tampered with, my close friend is gone, and there isn't a damn thing I can do about it!'
'It's going to be okay Ron, we'll get Hermione back somehow, I haven't figured out how yet, but we'll get her back,' Harry said. Draco looked around.
'Er, do you guys hear that?'
'Yeah, that's the bell for classes to begin,' Harry said.
'What else do you hear?' Draco continued. Harry and Ron paused for a few moments to listen, trying to work out what Draco was talking about.
'I don't hear a thing,'
'Nothing,'
'Exactly, nothing, where is everyone?' Draco said. This question left Harry and Ron dumbstricken.
'I don't know,' Harry finally said.
'This is too creepy,' Ron shivered.
'Yes, yes it is,' Harry said.
'Maybe it's all a bad dream, we'll wake up in the morning and none of this would have happened, Hermione wouldn't be a Death Eater, and we wouldn't be in this mess,' Ron suggested.
'That's not going to happen, Weasley,' Draco snapped.
'Don't get me started, Malfoy!' Ron spat.
'Hey! We have to all be civil if we're going to get anywhere in this situation,' Harry yelled. 'We all have to keep a cool head on our shoulders, no spinning out,'
'Whatever,' Ron grumbled and looked away from Draco.
All of a sudden, there was a large flash of green light and heavy smoke clouded the hallway. Draco, Harry and Ron covered their eyes and coughed to get the smoke out of their lungs. When the smoke cleared, the boys looked up.
'You three know too much,' A cloaked man said in a deep voice.
'What do you mean we know too much?' Harry asked, and turned to Ron, 'What does he mean we know too much?'
'You know about our plans, and now you must die,' The cloaked figure lifted his wand and spoke the words, 'Avada Kedavara,'
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~* Oh dear, yes my apologies for the length, but this is the chapter leading to the final chapter! I did mention at the very beginning that this wouldn't be a very long fiction. The next chapter is the last! No more I Cannot Tell A Lie after that! How sad… well sorry for keeping everyone waiting with this chapter, I'll get the final chapter up as soon as I can! *~
~Gryffindor Gal~
