a/n: THIS CHAPTER ROCKS!!! Hotness errupts, not even kidding...both good and evil! Just read...highly unlikely to be disappointed, unless...well, that's not appropriate...just read....

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Chapter 4: Escape

"Um, may I help you?" Mr. Granger asked.

"Well, I believe I have some unfinished business here to finish," Lucius said.

"Do I, know you, sir?" Allen asked. Mrs. Granger entered the room, wiping a dish in her hand and just stared.

"I'm Lucius Malfoy. My son here, Draco goes to school with your daughter," he said putting a hand on Draco's shoulder. "May we?" Lucius said, stepping over the threshold.

"Please do, err, Lucius. I'm-"

"Allen, yes, I know...the ministry has talked of nothing but you these past few days," Lucius interrupted him.

"The ministry? Of magic?" Mr. Granger asked curiously.

"Harry, do you think we should go downstairs?" Hermione asked.

"Are you mad?!" Harry asked. "That'll just make things a whole lot better, especially with our best friend, Draco, down there. You know they love to pick on me!"

"Well, but-"

"No, we're staying here. I don't want Malfoy to know that I'm staying here. They have connections, Hermione! C'mon, use your common sense, or has the summer gotten to you that much?" Hermione just silenced and kept watching as Lucius kept talking to her father.

"Yes, the Ministry of Magic, Allen. One of my co-workers has reported that he caught sight of you speaking of OUR world, which you know, I'm sure, is against the law, to some of your muggle friends."

Mr. Granger was beginning to sweat a little, and he began fidgeting with items in his pockets.

"Well, I assume that he was just being misled, because I have never spoken of the magical world in front of any muggles in my life."

"Don't lie to me, Allen," Lucius said raising his wand. "My client saw you, heard you, and recorded you, now don't tell a lie to my face, because it's only going to lead to a very unpleasant ending." Mr. Granger was beginning to become very uneasy, Harry could see. Hermione was clutching Harry's shirt and crying lightly.

"Lucius," Mrs. Granger butt-in, "pardon me, but my husband only spoke of it for a good reason I assure you. There was no harm involved, believe me."

"I don't believe I was speaking to you, Joyce!" Lucius said in a nasty tone. "Draco, go search the house, I have a feeling that we're being watched."

Draco nodded, and headed through the living room into the kitchen.

"THIS IS PRIVATE PROPERTY, LUCIUS! I DEMAND YOU LEAVE MY HOUSE AT ONCE! AND DO NOT SPEAK TO MY WIFE IN THAT TONE!"

"No need to shout, Allen. He's not going to ruin your beautiful home, don't fret. He's only doing his duty. Now, where were we?" Lucius said smirking. Mr. Granger was furious, hands shaking at his sides, while Mrs. Granger was holding his shoulders standing behind him.

"The Ministry doesn't accept any 'reasons' for speaking of such things-"

"Look, I was talking to one of my buddies at work, and I brought up the fact that Hermione was to be graduating from school this year. And he no doubt asked what school, and it slipped. I told him Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. What? Did you want me to lie to him?" Mr. Granger snapped angrily.

"Yes, Allen. Lying would've been the better way to go, but since you spoke truthfully, I'm going to have to take you for a while."

"Take me?" Mr. Granger asked. "Take me where?"

"We're going to have to question you, a sort of trial, I suppose. If you are guilty, well...well, we'll get to that later."

Draco had finished searching the main floor of the house, and was now heading upstairs.

"Hermione, run! To the bedroom, quick!" Harry whispered. Hermione did as he told her. She fled to the bedroom, opened the door, and let them both inside.

"Harry, get under the covers in my bed."

"Why? He'll see that there's a huge lump in it!" Harry exclaimed.

"Oh, just do it!" Hermione said annoyed. She, too, jumped under the covers, turned on the television, and pretended to just be watching a TV show, when Draco knocked.

"Yes? You may enter." Hermione's pleasant voice said. Hermione was lying right on top of Harry, who was smothered beneath the hot covers. He was beginning to sweat, and it was getting hard for him to breathe, but he tried to remain as quiet as possible. Draco opened the door, and Hermione let out a faint scream so that her parents wouldn't hear her.

"What in the world are you doing here?" She asked wide-eyed.

"Searching..." he said casually.

"Why are you in my house? Get out! Get out now!"

"No, I have a right...my father made me search the entire home. Quite a pig sty, I wouldn't want to live here."

"Look, I didn't ask you if you wanted to live here, but you have NO right coming into this house, especially THIS bedroom!" Hermione said angrily. Harry could feel her shaking.

"Believe me, I have no pleasure being in a mudblood's house...makes you feel germinated." Draco said disgustingly. Harry was about to uncover himself, but Hermione elbowed him in the side.

"Well, why are you here?"

"None of your little mudblood business," he said walking over to the bathroom. "Nice bathroom. NOT! Eww! This is disgusting...and to think, you get naked in here!"

"MALFOY! CLEAR OUT NOW!" Hermione said pulling Harry's wand out, which he gave to her from underneath the sheets.

"Ooo!" Malfoy sneered. "I'm scared now...look, Granger, I got one, too!" He said pointing his wand at her. "You see, I can't get in trouble if I do magic because my father works for the ministry, and you're a, well, we know what you are...and if you use magic, you'll get expelled." Hermione lowered her wand, furiously.

"Look, I'm not afraid of you Draco," she spat. "You just wait till we're at school, you'll get it!"

He sneered at her, spit on her carpet, and walked out, slamming the door. Harry, at once got out from beneath the covers, sweating from head to toe his hair sticking to his head from all the moisture.

"That stupid son of a bitch! He's going to pay for all of that! I'm gonna kill him!" Harry yelled angrily, obviously having built up a lot of steam.

"Harry!" Hermione said desperately. "Don't be silly, c'mon, let's go back to the stairs." She said struggling to get out of the damp sheets. The door opened once again and Harry fell off the bed. Draco came back inside, and looked around confused.

"What's going on?" He asked.

"None of your business!" Hermione said ferociously.

"It smells like sweat. What have you been doing, you filthy little..."

"Malfoy shut the fuck up!" Harry said standing up from the other side of the bed, pointing his wand at him. "You don't ever say shit like that to her, you got me?"

"P-Potter? I can't believe it! The filthy little mudblood and the orphan are having an affair! How charming!" Draco said laughing. Harry couldn't take it any longer.

"EXPELLIARMUS!" Harry yelled at the top of his lungs. A flash of white light sprang from the end of his wand and hit Draco square in the chest. Draco fell backward and hit his head on the wall, and fell face-flat to the ground, motionless.

"HARRY! WHAT'D YOU DO THAT FOR?" Hermione exclaimed.

"LOOK, WE DON'T HAVE TIME! WE GOTTA GO!" He said. "ACCIO TRUNKS!" Harry grabbed Hermione by the hand and ran across the hall to the mahogany room and opened the window and climbed out.

"Harry? What are we doing?" Hermione asked worriedly.

"We have to get out of here, that's the second time I've broken the law, and Lucius Malfoy is here...believe me, we can't stay and enjoy the party." Harry helped Hermione climb out the window. "How do we get down from here?" Harry asked.

"Just hang on," Hermione gasped. "Sercosum," Hermione whispered and the both of them started gliding down to the ground.

"Woa, this is amazing," Harry muttered. When they reached the ground, Harry ran over to Buckbeak and bowed low...Buckbeak bowed back, and Harry helped Hermione get onto him.

"I hate flying, Harry!" Hermione whined.

"Just hang onto me, it'll be alright," Harry reassured her.

"Just wondering, Harry, where do you plan on going?" Harry thought about this for a minute, and then gave Buckbeak's sides a kick.

"TO THE BURROW!" He yelled, and Buckbeak began rising into the air. The night air was brisk, and the moon and stars were beginning to show through the clouds. Hermione had wrapped her arms around Harry's waist, and had laid her head against his back.

"I trust you, Harry, so you better not make us crash." She said smiling slightly.

"I won't, Hermione, just sit back and enjoy the ride," Harry said calmly, and he, too enjoyed the ride through the night air. Harry couldn't believe it, a few hours before he was at the Dursley's thinking about how he was planning to enjoy his summer, but it looked to him now, that the summer was rather planning to enjoy him.

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