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Chapter 6
Hermione had to contain her gasp as she heard the familiar drawl of none other than Draco Malfoy.
"The Clinical Clergyman", Odd name for a spell book don't you think?"
"Very strange indeed but the answer has to be in here", a strangely familiar female voice called.
Hermione slowly crawled under the table to get within an easier earshot of the conversation. A large dusty book lay between the seated figures of Pansy and Draco; they seemed to be pouring over its antiquated pages.
"It's only a silly map Draco, honestly, what is the difference."
"A map that has my father's name in it and my aunt and god knows that other guy, Higgs or whatever his name is."
Hermione couldn't help looking at Draco's profile, it was quite charming when he was concentrating, he was quite smart, and in fact he was second behind her. Her thoughts snapped back to reality, she had to get back to Harry and Ron.
Trying not to make her exit obvious, silence was golden. It was hard enough trying to maneuver through the countless piles of junk without trying to be unobtrusive. She passed a few clocks and a very eerie looking doll with no face.
"Crap, where am I going??", Hermione muttered. Crawling to the familiar doorway she ducked.
A wizard in dark green robes flew and crashed towards the spot she had been. The pained look on his face seemed a warning. Screams could be heard outside as people ran and pointed to a wall. Trying to maintain her cover, Hermione ran as fast as she could outside of the store. Everything was a blur as three bodies crumpled lifelessly to the ground.
"WHAT THE HELL!!". Draco ran outside ignoring Pansy to see the cause of all of the commotion. He was still holding the book in his hand. Passing a bloody wizard on his way out, he ducked in horror.
"Shit, no, no, no, not now!", he muttered to himself... he ran."
The narrow alley was not the best place to be as people trampled each other to get out of the way. Now 8 bodies lay bloodied to the ground as flashes of green light reflected onto the alley's walls and facades. Draco ran and ran out of the way, dodging the flurry of curses that were ricocheting all over the place.
"WATCH WHERE YOU"RE GOING", He yelled at a passerby who knocked him to a wall
He pushed people out of the way as a black hooded wizard looked at him straight in the face. He seemed to have stopped all movement only to focus in on Draco's position.
"Avada Kedavra", was shouted in his general direction. As if the phrase was as common as hello, it echoed throughout the place. As Draco dodged he saw someone about to curse a pretty witch in his general direction. He jumped into the cursor's path,
"EXPILLIARMUS", the wizard's wand flew up out of his reach.
Draco pushed the witch onto the ground blocking her with his own body as realization came to his mind. Her brown hair lay splayed all over her face as she lay stunned.
"GRANGER, GRANGER", he yelled into her ear while shaking her violently. "IF YOU DON'T WANT TO DIE MUDBLOOD GET YOUR ARSE UP!".
Immediately Hermione got up and ran with him in an unknown direction. The screams and trampling panic of the crowd caused mass confusion. They pushed through the crowd and hid under an isolated crate in a remote alley.
They sat there panting trying to make sense of what just happened. People still overflowed in torrents to every possible open space; however, no one seemed to notice their position.
"What are you doing here?", Hermione asked him harshly.
Draco slapped his hand to Hermione's mouth, "Be quiet you filth! unless you want your innards on display"
For an odd reason Draco looked very scared, "What just happened, why are you running aren't you one of them?"
"I told you to silence yourself mudblood filth!" slapping his hand to her mouth again.
"GET OFF ME YOU INSIPID ...", She forcefully pried his hand away from her face as she peeked out her head to glimpse what was happening.
Hermione's eyes filled with terror as the Dark Mark flashed bright green onto an adjacent wall. She curled to the furthest corner of the crate. Any where but here was much better, safer in fact.
Draco sat on the opposite side keenly aware of her presence.
"Granger you are really going to get us killed, I should have left you... "He saw an image of his mother being stabbed brutally, and then a flash of rotting corpses. The air around them felt cold.
"MALFOY WATCH OUT!" Hermione screamed as she tried to pull his cloak.
A dementor lurked into their alley. Its foul aura permeated the area with a tangible sense of negativity. It reached its hand onto Draco's shoulder, silently holding him fast. Draco's eyes glazed as the creature neared his face.
Responding quickly, Hermione gathered her strength, "EXPECTO PATRONUM!" Immediately light filled the area as a glittering blue otter swam towards the dementor causing it to retreat.
"GET UP!, MALFOY! PLEASE, GET UP!!." , Hermione dragged Draco, to the other end of the secluded alley way.
A crumpled heap was all that lay on Hermione's lap. Slowly coming to, Draco's eyes fluttered. Not soon after Hermione covered her face and ears as Draco started kicking and flailing about.
"GET OFF ME, GET OFF ME!!" batted Draco
"Get up Draco we need to leave NOW!! "
Draco looked at Hermione with urgency and dreamy eyes, "Where are we going love?"
"SNAP OUT OF IT YOU TWIT", slapping him on the face.
"LET GO OF ME MUDBLOOD," brushing himself off as if he touched a leper, "How dare you befoul my name with you taint. "Please, let's go." Hermione whispered flatly.
"So, Mudbloods do have a semblance of manners, interesting," scratching his chin as if in deep thought.
Draco and Hermione peeked out of the alley. Aurors apparated into Knockturn Alley, curses bounced over the place as the remaining death eaters disappeared into thin air. They slowly crept along the wall as not to attract attention.
A hand grasped onto Draco's shoulder, "Cavorting with filth? Tsk, tsk won't your father be so pleased?", the slippery voice belonged to no other than Avery.
"I have my purposes Avery, Mad-eye is sure to see you, Leave me be!"
Like all the others, he apparated before a well aimed curse hit him.
Harry heard great commotion coming from outside. His scar was searing with a white-hot pain that become too familiar.
"Shounds like somfin happen." Ron said as he forked a final piece of kidney pie into his mouth.
"Thank you for being obvious, come with me."
The two boys walked outside to see the entrance to Knockturn Alley barricaded by ministry officials. The area was teeming with Aurors and Medi- witches attending to the injured.
"A travesty and it will not be the first at this dark time..." Harry overheard a ministry official speaking to a reporter for the Prophet.
However, it was a young witch being questioned by an Auror that caught Harry's attention.
Pushing himself through the frantic crowd, he was disturbed to see Draco Malfoy sitting not to far from her. Ron tailed close behind.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER YOU FERRET!",ears red as his hair. Ron was now pushing Harry out of the way grasping for Malfoy.
"I will remind you that this is an investigation gentlemen, So I advise that you wait till I'm done with your friends here." The Auror continued questioning Hermione.
Twenty minutes later Hermione was released to Ron and Harry. Draco skulked away with Pansy. At the end of the matter it turned out to be 9 wizards killed with an additional 12 injured. Aurors caught two deatheaters whose names where kept anonymous.
"...So you ran into Malfoy at that shop, and he was snogging Pansy," Ron looked quizzically.
"No you dolt, I eavesdropped and I overheard them talking about some map. It was a book there at the shop, I have a mind to go back and look for it..."
"WHAT, after getting attacked by deatheaters and Malfoy! It's not that important Hermione, I could have lost you like I lost Sirius!" Harry jumped from his chair and stormed out of the room.
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"WELL YOU'RE THE ONE WHO WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THAT STUPID MAP ANYWAYS!", Fruitlessly yelling at the freshly slammed door.
"He has a point though, I mean if you didn't get lucky you could have been killed by that Death Eater..."
"And I suppose you care so much Ron," she spat, "Maybe for a moment you thought you could have saved me instead of Malfoy, well you weren't there Ron.
"Hermione, you don't even know..." Ron was shaking with anger at her last comment, "I have to go."
"Run like you always do Ron, be a coward because you can't handle your feelings".
For the second time that night she heard a door slam.
To be continued.
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