Chapter 24
"Ron? Ron! Pay attention!" Hermione hissed.
"Hermione, why do I care what year the Ministry of Magic passed some law about werewolves?" he whispered back.
"Because it could be on the OWLs!" she hissed again.
"Or because you know one!" Daisy said from behind. "But really Hermione, it's only History of Magic and we have...three minutes before we're free and it's the weekend."
"Didn't yell at Harry," Ron mumbled.
"She did but I ignored her," Harry said from Hermione's other side.
"Two and half minutes," Daisy said.
"I can't believe none of you are taking this seriously. The OWLs are just a few months away. If you don't want to revise extra yet, fine, but you pay attention in class."
"One and a half minute."
"Come on Herm, Binns doesn't even notice what he's saying. We could be doing second year all over again and never know," Harry said.
"One minute."
"I'd know," Hermione shot back.
"Yes because you were still completely insane then," Ron said. "You've really improved on that."
"Thirty seconds," Daisy said trying not to laugh at the look on Hermione's face.
"That's bloody annoying, Daze," Harry said.
"Well lucky you. I'm done because..." Daisy raised her hand and pointed in the air. The bell rang, "...class is over!"
"Free! two and a half days of nothing!" Daisy said running down the corridor away from the History of Magic classroom.
"Well that's not quite true." Harry reminded her. "We've got Quidditch Sunday and the meeting with your uncle tomorrow, plus O.W.L. review."
"Potter, chill. It's the first really beautiful day in weeks. The O.W.L.s are over a month away." Daisy smiled as she walked backwards.
"Careful Daze," Ron said.
Daisy turned back around and waved him off. "So we're going out by the lake, right? Everyone's meeting out there?"
"Yeah," Neville said.
"I've got to change out of my robes," Hermione said pulling at the heavy black fabric to create air.
"Definitely!" Daisy agreed. "It really is very hot for mid-April."
"A tube top, Daze?" Hermione asked.
"But it's silver and it sparkles!" Daze said with a smile.
Hermione rolled her eyes. "Herm, would you rather have me wear a sparkly tube top or be all depressed and mopey?"
"Well, when you put it like that, I guess the tube top's the best choice. Thank goodness you snapped out of that."
"If I was so awful to be around why did you guys always stick so close?" Daisy asked turning serious.
"Daze, I love Ron and Harry to death, but I wouldn't trade you for either of them. Of course I wouldn't trade either of them for you, but it's just really nice to have a girl friend." Hermione smiled at Daisy.
"What about Ginny? She's been around a lot longer then I. It's not like she's so much younger either. I mean she our age now."
"I know, and Ginny and I get on really well, but well she's been spending so much time with Neville lately, and even before, when we were the only two girls we were never very close."
"You've been spending quite a bit of time with Justin," Daisy said with a teasing air.
Hermione grimaced "I never did thank you for that did I?"
"No, but I'll live," Daisy said braiding her hair.
"So what's up with you and Harry?" Hermione asked sitting next to Daisy in front of the vanity.
"Nothing. Well, he's probably, just, I don't know!" Daisy finally said.
"He likes you, you know."
Daisy looked at Hermione through the mirror. "I know, but he's probably the person I'm closest to in the world. I don't want to screw around with that. I don't need a boyfriend, just a friend. That's all I want!"
Daisy looked down at the top of the desk and started fiddling with a hair tie in front of her. Hermione put an arm around her shoulders.
"I know what you mean," her friend said.
Daisy smiled weakly. "Herm, can I ask you something that you swear to answer honestly?"
"Sure."
"Why didn't you really go for Ron? Even while I was going with him I knew he liked you. I should have just stepped aside but I was being stubborn."
"He was your boyfriend, you had every right to be stubborn. Did he say anything to you?"
"Well, no."
Hermione stood. "There we are then. I think Ron and I just work better as friends. Right after you two broke up, I felt guilty. Then I was angry at him. I mean, how could he do that to me? How could he use me to get to you?"
"But, Hermione, he didn't know I'd be there. It was just you."
"Because he was upset about you. No, you just wan to be friends with Harry. I can understand that because I just want to be friends with Ron. Besides, we're both seeing other people. And I like Justin."
"Boys," said Daisy, "can't live with them, can't hit them up side the head."
"Wait, you do hit them up side the head."
"Oh! Never mind then." The girls laughed together for a few moments.
"Come on. They're probably waiting for us by the lake already."
Daisy and Hermione were laughing as they approached their friends' spot by the lake.
"'Dant da! Get away!' Come on Hermione, you grew up in the Muggle world. I know you know it!" Daisy said in a sing-song voice.
"You're not getting me to sing." Hermione said.
"Then dance!" was Daisy solution. She grabbed her friend's hands and began to sing, pulling Hermione's arms and making her swing back and forth. "Bant- da! Somethimes I feel I've got to run away. I've got to get away, from the pain you drive into the heart of me."
Daisy offered a hand to Ginny, and the three girls danced looping though each other's arms and spinning, and trying not to collapse in a fit of giggles.
"The love we share seems to go nowhere, and I've lost my light, for I toss and turn I can't sleep at night.
"Once I ran to you, now I run from you. This tainted love you've given, I give all a girl can give you. Take my tears and that's not nearly all. Tainted love, oh tainted love. Now I know I've to run away. I've got to get away.
"You don't really want anymore from me to make things right. You need someone to hold you tight. And you think love is to parade, but I sorry I don't parade that way.
"Once I ran to you, now I run from you. This tainted love you've given, I give all a girl could give you. Take my tears and that's not nearly all. Tainted love, oh tainted love. Don't touch me please. I cannot stand the way you tease. I love you thought you hurt me so. Now I'm gonna pack my things and go!
"Tainted love, ohh tainted love. Tainted love, ohh tainted love. Touch me baby tainted love. Tainted love, ohh tainted love."
"That was quite a show," Blaise said sitting next to Draco.
By way of response Daisy began to sing again and offered a hand to Blaise who waved off but watched as Daisy sang.
"I come home in the middle of the night, my mother says 'watch ya gonna do with your life?' Oh mother dear aren't we the fortunate ones? Oh girls, girls just wanna have fun!"
Unfortunately she didn't much further in the song because she did collapse in a fit of giggles.
"You all right?" Ron asked with raised eyebrows.
Daisy nodded as she laughed. Harry couldn't help thinking that Daisy was finally back to her old self. Music and laughter and a sly smile every now and again, that was Daisy Dumbledore at her best.
After that Daisy didn't really say anything. She laid down on the grass and watched the white fluffy clouds pass over head. Ron noticed Harry watching her.
When he thought about it, Ron hadn't seen Harry with anyone for a while. He knew that Harry and Blaise had ended quickly and she had recently taken up with Malfoy, which didn't seem to bother Harry at all. There was that thing with Ginny back in the very beginning of March, something that didn't please Ron at all. But that was over quickly and Ginny had been seeing Neville for the past three weeks, something else that didn't please Ron overly much.
Ron had switched girlfriends himself. He and Susan had parted amicably and she had set him up with her best friend Hannah Abbott. Susan was now with Ernie McMillian, who was Justin's best friend. Since Justin was with Hermione, the Hufflepuff's had been spending a lot of time hanging out with them. They were all down here now, along with Malfoy and Blaise, Seamus and Padma Patil, Dean and Pavrati, and Lavender and her boyfriend who Ron didn't know.
Harry and Daisy were the only ones not attached. And it looked like Harry would dearly love to change that.
"Har," Ron whispered. "Talk to her," Ron said with a nod in Daisy's direction.
"Not happening, Ron," Harry said with a smile. "She opens her mouth and it won't close."
"I heard that," Daisy said still watching the sky.
"Then stop listening in on other people's conversations."
"Can't help it, Wonderboy," she said raising an eye to them before plopping her head back down. "I've been handing around you too long."
"Ha-ha."
Daisy was still lying on the ground when she began to hear smacking sounds. Ugh! The snogging had started. Only two couples weren't engaged in the mass make-out sessions. Hermione and Ron were having pity on Harry but neither they nor Justin and Hannah looked happy about this. Daisy tried not to laugh.
After another minute a long shadow fell across her.
"Hey Hagrid," Harry had said.
Daisy opened her eyes and looked up, up, up at the half giant. "What's up?" she asked. "Besides you, of course."
Hagrid smiled down at her. "I was wondering if you and Harry wouldn't mind helping me with somethin'."
After half a second of listing to more kissing noise she said, "Yes, absolutely!"
"I guess so," Harry said as he rose. "See you guys later."
They waved briefly at the other who really didn't notice.
Daisy and Harry followed Hagrid to the edge of the forest. "So what's going on Hagrid."
"I could use a bit a company, tha's all. I've got to take a brief walk in the forest. Don't worry, you won't have to do anythin'. But you looked like you need rescuein'."
"Yeah, thanks," said a slightly torn Daisy. It was almost never a good idea to go into the forbidden forest. The place was aptly named, but she had definitely wanted to be rescued from her friends.
They followed Hagrid into the forest for a good twenty minutes. "Where are we going, Hagrid?" Harry asked.
"You'll see," he said cryptically.
Daisy could almost see a clearing up ahead.
Harry however, was watching Hagrid. "Hagrid, are you getting shorter?"
The half giant turned and smiled at them. Daisy began to panic. That wasn't Hagrid's smile. That was a cruel, twisted smile. Hagrid had never had a look like that on his face.
They came into the clearing just then. On the far side was a huge hunched figure, bound and gagged.
"Hagrid!" Harry called when he saw him.
They turned to the not-Hagrid now, which was definitely shrinking. The not-Hagrid had shrunk to a small man with watery black eyes and a silver hand, Wormtail!
"Well you managed to get them here." It was Belle who can out from the trees followed by Lucius Malfoy and Vince.
Harry could almost here Daisy mumbling, "This is not happening."
She was panicking. Harry took half a step in front of her protectively.
"It was surprisingly easy," Wormtail said.
"What have you done to Hagrid?" Daisy shouted.
'That a girl!' Harry thought, 'Don't let them get you,' reminding himself of the same thing.
"Stupid girl," Malfoy said. He waved his wand at them and they went flying.
Harry had hit a tree. He saw stars briefly.
Daisy.
Where was Daisy?
She was across the clearing. Vince was walking towards her. Harry got up but before he could do anything else, he found himself bound and gagged by magical ropes. Daisy was also bound, but not gagged.
She was backing away from Vince, fear in her eyes. She backed into a tree and was stuck. Vince ran his hand down her face. She was stricken with a look of horror etched on her pale face.
Harry remembered talking to Draco about what Vince might have done to Daisy. From the look on her face they weren't even close to figuring out what she had gone through.
"Well," said Vince. "The Dark Lord has given me permission to teach you how to follow orders. I was a good teacher wasn't I?" He asked leaning close. "Have you told your new little boyfriends they own me a thank you for teaching you how to please a man?"
When she didn't answer, Vince grabbed her face forcefully. "Well, you always were a slow student. But I made you go through with the lessons."
He kissed her then, very harshly. Tears were running down her face. Harry wasn't sure if it was from the pain of his hand crushing her jaw or the fact that her was kissing her. Her screams were muffled against his mouth. Then Harry noticed his other hand. It was traveling all over her body before finally pulling down her top. He seemed frustrated by the fact she was wearing a strapless bra under neither, and slammed her head into the trees behind her.
"That's enough." Wormtail was saying, trying to stop the boy.
Harry didn't notice he was so incensed. Suddenly his bonds bust and with a wave of his hand he sent Vince and Wormtail flying away from Daisy. They were knocked unconscious against a tree; Wormtail took the brunt of it.
Harry ran to Daisy who had crumpled to the ground but was conscious at least.
"No you don't," Malfoy said. He lifted Harry in the air with his wand.
Daisy was able to stand and lean against the tree but not much more. There were tear tracks down her face. Belle went over to her little sister.
"Ah, poor Little One. It's a shame everyone loves you so much." Belle fixed her shirt for her and patted her arm.
"How could you let him do that to me?" Daisy said in an anguished voice bearly above a whisper.
Belle shrugged. "Didn't bother me any."
Two fat tears ran down Daisy cheeks.
Harry was disgusted. "You sick...how could you? She's your sister."
"Half sister," Belle corrected, never braking eye contact with Daisy.
"Come on, Blanc. Let's just get them back to our master."
"What's the matter, Malfoy? Scared of a couple of wittle kiddies?"
"You'd be too if you'd seen this one duel."
Belle smiled slowly, and viciously. "No he wouldn't dare risk hurting his Wild Flower."
Belle grabbed Daisy's shoulder and moved her forward. Then she grabbed her braid and rapped around her hand, tilting Daisy's head up to expose her throat.
Harry's anger got the better of him again. This time though, he was able to focus it. Lucius Malfoy's wand, still trained on Harry, snapped in half. Harry fell to the ground and quickly stunned Malfoy.
Harry spun and faced Belle who just laughed. Then she produced a large boa knife and held it to Daisy's throat.
"You really don't want to tempt me, Potter," she said jerking on Daisy's hair.
Harry stood frozen. He didn't know how to help her. Then he noticed her foot was rising. Daisy's hands may have still be pinned to her side but she could get her own blade in her boot.
Harry took a step forward. Hoping to distract the woman for Daisy. Belle's knife cut through Daisy's skin. As her blood hit the blade it began to glow. Harry saw Daisy's eye's flicker behind her glasses as her strength began to be slowly sapped.
"Do you know how this blade works, boy? It sucks the magic out of the blood. Make you next move carefully!"
Harry didn't have to move though. Daisy had gotten her dagger from her boot and stabbed her sister in the thigh.
Belle winced. It was barely visible.
"Harry run!" Daisy shouted.
"I won't leave you Daisy." Harry said. "Help will come. Ron and Hermione, they'll look for us, bring help."
"Harry get out of here. I can hold her off!"
"I won't let you die for me!"
"Don't be so full of yourself, Potter," said Belle with a cruel smile. "This is as much about her as you. Really, Daze, this is the boy your lover?"
Daisy twisted the dagger in her sister's leg. Belle didn't have a choice it was either leave or have her magic sapped from her body.
She removed the knife from Daisy's throat and was able to move her leg away from the dagger. But her was still rapped in Daisy's hair. She viciously cut the braid just above her hand and disapperated. Daisy collapsed.
"Ron? Ron! Pay attention!" Hermione hissed.
"Hermione, why do I care what year the Ministry of Magic passed some law about werewolves?" he whispered back.
"Because it could be on the OWLs!" she hissed again.
"Or because you know one!" Daisy said from behind. "But really Hermione, it's only History of Magic and we have...three minutes before we're free and it's the weekend."
"Didn't yell at Harry," Ron mumbled.
"She did but I ignored her," Harry said from Hermione's other side.
"Two and half minutes," Daisy said.
"I can't believe none of you are taking this seriously. The OWLs are just a few months away. If you don't want to revise extra yet, fine, but you pay attention in class."
"One and a half minute."
"Come on Herm, Binns doesn't even notice what he's saying. We could be doing second year all over again and never know," Harry said.
"One minute."
"I'd know," Hermione shot back.
"Yes because you were still completely insane then," Ron said. "You've really improved on that."
"Thirty seconds," Daisy said trying not to laugh at the look on Hermione's face.
"That's bloody annoying, Daze," Harry said.
"Well lucky you. I'm done because..." Daisy raised her hand and pointed in the air. The bell rang, "...class is over!"
"Free! two and a half days of nothing!" Daisy said running down the corridor away from the History of Magic classroom.
"Well that's not quite true." Harry reminded her. "We've got Quidditch Sunday and the meeting with your uncle tomorrow, plus O.W.L. review."
"Potter, chill. It's the first really beautiful day in weeks. The O.W.L.s are over a month away." Daisy smiled as she walked backwards.
"Careful Daze," Ron said.
Daisy turned back around and waved him off. "So we're going out by the lake, right? Everyone's meeting out there?"
"Yeah," Neville said.
"I've got to change out of my robes," Hermione said pulling at the heavy black fabric to create air.
"Definitely!" Daisy agreed. "It really is very hot for mid-April."
"A tube top, Daze?" Hermione asked.
"But it's silver and it sparkles!" Daze said with a smile.
Hermione rolled her eyes. "Herm, would you rather have me wear a sparkly tube top or be all depressed and mopey?"
"Well, when you put it like that, I guess the tube top's the best choice. Thank goodness you snapped out of that."
"If I was so awful to be around why did you guys always stick so close?" Daisy asked turning serious.
"Daze, I love Ron and Harry to death, but I wouldn't trade you for either of them. Of course I wouldn't trade either of them for you, but it's just really nice to have a girl friend." Hermione smiled at Daisy.
"What about Ginny? She's been around a lot longer then I. It's not like she's so much younger either. I mean she our age now."
"I know, and Ginny and I get on really well, but well she's been spending so much time with Neville lately, and even before, when we were the only two girls we were never very close."
"You've been spending quite a bit of time with Justin," Daisy said with a teasing air.
Hermione grimaced "I never did thank you for that did I?"
"No, but I'll live," Daisy said braiding her hair.
"So what's up with you and Harry?" Hermione asked sitting next to Daisy in front of the vanity.
"Nothing. Well, he's probably, just, I don't know!" Daisy finally said.
"He likes you, you know."
Daisy looked at Hermione through the mirror. "I know, but he's probably the person I'm closest to in the world. I don't want to screw around with that. I don't need a boyfriend, just a friend. That's all I want!"
Daisy looked down at the top of the desk and started fiddling with a hair tie in front of her. Hermione put an arm around her shoulders.
"I know what you mean," her friend said.
Daisy smiled weakly. "Herm, can I ask you something that you swear to answer honestly?"
"Sure."
"Why didn't you really go for Ron? Even while I was going with him I knew he liked you. I should have just stepped aside but I was being stubborn."
"He was your boyfriend, you had every right to be stubborn. Did he say anything to you?"
"Well, no."
Hermione stood. "There we are then. I think Ron and I just work better as friends. Right after you two broke up, I felt guilty. Then I was angry at him. I mean, how could he do that to me? How could he use me to get to you?"
"But, Hermione, he didn't know I'd be there. It was just you."
"Because he was upset about you. No, you just wan to be friends with Harry. I can understand that because I just want to be friends with Ron. Besides, we're both seeing other people. And I like Justin."
"Boys," said Daisy, "can't live with them, can't hit them up side the head."
"Wait, you do hit them up side the head."
"Oh! Never mind then." The girls laughed together for a few moments.
"Come on. They're probably waiting for us by the lake already."
Daisy and Hermione were laughing as they approached their friends' spot by the lake.
"'Dant da! Get away!' Come on Hermione, you grew up in the Muggle world. I know you know it!" Daisy said in a sing-song voice.
"You're not getting me to sing." Hermione said.
"Then dance!" was Daisy solution. She grabbed her friend's hands and began to sing, pulling Hermione's arms and making her swing back and forth. "Bant- da! Somethimes I feel I've got to run away. I've got to get away, from the pain you drive into the heart of me."
Daisy offered a hand to Ginny, and the three girls danced looping though each other's arms and spinning, and trying not to collapse in a fit of giggles.
"The love we share seems to go nowhere, and I've lost my light, for I toss and turn I can't sleep at night.
"Once I ran to you, now I run from you. This tainted love you've given, I give all a girl can give you. Take my tears and that's not nearly all. Tainted love, oh tainted love. Now I know I've to run away. I've got to get away.
"You don't really want anymore from me to make things right. You need someone to hold you tight. And you think love is to parade, but I sorry I don't parade that way.
"Once I ran to you, now I run from you. This tainted love you've given, I give all a girl could give you. Take my tears and that's not nearly all. Tainted love, oh tainted love. Don't touch me please. I cannot stand the way you tease. I love you thought you hurt me so. Now I'm gonna pack my things and go!
"Tainted love, ohh tainted love. Tainted love, ohh tainted love. Touch me baby tainted love. Tainted love, ohh tainted love."
"That was quite a show," Blaise said sitting next to Draco.
By way of response Daisy began to sing again and offered a hand to Blaise who waved off but watched as Daisy sang.
"I come home in the middle of the night, my mother says 'watch ya gonna do with your life?' Oh mother dear aren't we the fortunate ones? Oh girls, girls just wanna have fun!"
Unfortunately she didn't much further in the song because she did collapse in a fit of giggles.
"You all right?" Ron asked with raised eyebrows.
Daisy nodded as she laughed. Harry couldn't help thinking that Daisy was finally back to her old self. Music and laughter and a sly smile every now and again, that was Daisy Dumbledore at her best.
After that Daisy didn't really say anything. She laid down on the grass and watched the white fluffy clouds pass over head. Ron noticed Harry watching her.
When he thought about it, Ron hadn't seen Harry with anyone for a while. He knew that Harry and Blaise had ended quickly and she had recently taken up with Malfoy, which didn't seem to bother Harry at all. There was that thing with Ginny back in the very beginning of March, something that didn't please Ron at all. But that was over quickly and Ginny had been seeing Neville for the past three weeks, something else that didn't please Ron overly much.
Ron had switched girlfriends himself. He and Susan had parted amicably and she had set him up with her best friend Hannah Abbott. Susan was now with Ernie McMillian, who was Justin's best friend. Since Justin was with Hermione, the Hufflepuff's had been spending a lot of time hanging out with them. They were all down here now, along with Malfoy and Blaise, Seamus and Padma Patil, Dean and Pavrati, and Lavender and her boyfriend who Ron didn't know.
Harry and Daisy were the only ones not attached. And it looked like Harry would dearly love to change that.
"Har," Ron whispered. "Talk to her," Ron said with a nod in Daisy's direction.
"Not happening, Ron," Harry said with a smile. "She opens her mouth and it won't close."
"I heard that," Daisy said still watching the sky.
"Then stop listening in on other people's conversations."
"Can't help it, Wonderboy," she said raising an eye to them before plopping her head back down. "I've been handing around you too long."
"Ha-ha."
Daisy was still lying on the ground when she began to hear smacking sounds. Ugh! The snogging had started. Only two couples weren't engaged in the mass make-out sessions. Hermione and Ron were having pity on Harry but neither they nor Justin and Hannah looked happy about this. Daisy tried not to laugh.
After another minute a long shadow fell across her.
"Hey Hagrid," Harry had said.
Daisy opened her eyes and looked up, up, up at the half giant. "What's up?" she asked. "Besides you, of course."
Hagrid smiled down at her. "I was wondering if you and Harry wouldn't mind helping me with somethin'."
After half a second of listing to more kissing noise she said, "Yes, absolutely!"
"I guess so," Harry said as he rose. "See you guys later."
They waved briefly at the other who really didn't notice.
Daisy and Harry followed Hagrid to the edge of the forest. "So what's going on Hagrid."
"I could use a bit a company, tha's all. I've got to take a brief walk in the forest. Don't worry, you won't have to do anythin'. But you looked like you need rescuein'."
"Yeah, thanks," said a slightly torn Daisy. It was almost never a good idea to go into the forbidden forest. The place was aptly named, but she had definitely wanted to be rescued from her friends.
They followed Hagrid into the forest for a good twenty minutes. "Where are we going, Hagrid?" Harry asked.
"You'll see," he said cryptically.
Daisy could almost see a clearing up ahead.
Harry however, was watching Hagrid. "Hagrid, are you getting shorter?"
The half giant turned and smiled at them. Daisy began to panic. That wasn't Hagrid's smile. That was a cruel, twisted smile. Hagrid had never had a look like that on his face.
They came into the clearing just then. On the far side was a huge hunched figure, bound and gagged.
"Hagrid!" Harry called when he saw him.
They turned to the not-Hagrid now, which was definitely shrinking. The not-Hagrid had shrunk to a small man with watery black eyes and a silver hand, Wormtail!
"Well you managed to get them here." It was Belle who can out from the trees followed by Lucius Malfoy and Vince.
Harry could almost here Daisy mumbling, "This is not happening."
She was panicking. Harry took half a step in front of her protectively.
"It was surprisingly easy," Wormtail said.
"What have you done to Hagrid?" Daisy shouted.
'That a girl!' Harry thought, 'Don't let them get you,' reminding himself of the same thing.
"Stupid girl," Malfoy said. He waved his wand at them and they went flying.
Harry had hit a tree. He saw stars briefly.
Daisy.
Where was Daisy?
She was across the clearing. Vince was walking towards her. Harry got up but before he could do anything else, he found himself bound and gagged by magical ropes. Daisy was also bound, but not gagged.
She was backing away from Vince, fear in her eyes. She backed into a tree and was stuck. Vince ran his hand down her face. She was stricken with a look of horror etched on her pale face.
Harry remembered talking to Draco about what Vince might have done to Daisy. From the look on her face they weren't even close to figuring out what she had gone through.
"Well," said Vince. "The Dark Lord has given me permission to teach you how to follow orders. I was a good teacher wasn't I?" He asked leaning close. "Have you told your new little boyfriends they own me a thank you for teaching you how to please a man?"
When she didn't answer, Vince grabbed her face forcefully. "Well, you always were a slow student. But I made you go through with the lessons."
He kissed her then, very harshly. Tears were running down her face. Harry wasn't sure if it was from the pain of his hand crushing her jaw or the fact that her was kissing her. Her screams were muffled against his mouth. Then Harry noticed his other hand. It was traveling all over her body before finally pulling down her top. He seemed frustrated by the fact she was wearing a strapless bra under neither, and slammed her head into the trees behind her.
"That's enough." Wormtail was saying, trying to stop the boy.
Harry didn't notice he was so incensed. Suddenly his bonds bust and with a wave of his hand he sent Vince and Wormtail flying away from Daisy. They were knocked unconscious against a tree; Wormtail took the brunt of it.
Harry ran to Daisy who had crumpled to the ground but was conscious at least.
"No you don't," Malfoy said. He lifted Harry in the air with his wand.
Daisy was able to stand and lean against the tree but not much more. There were tear tracks down her face. Belle went over to her little sister.
"Ah, poor Little One. It's a shame everyone loves you so much." Belle fixed her shirt for her and patted her arm.
"How could you let him do that to me?" Daisy said in an anguished voice bearly above a whisper.
Belle shrugged. "Didn't bother me any."
Two fat tears ran down Daisy cheeks.
Harry was disgusted. "You sick...how could you? She's your sister."
"Half sister," Belle corrected, never braking eye contact with Daisy.
"Come on, Blanc. Let's just get them back to our master."
"What's the matter, Malfoy? Scared of a couple of wittle kiddies?"
"You'd be too if you'd seen this one duel."
Belle smiled slowly, and viciously. "No he wouldn't dare risk hurting his Wild Flower."
Belle grabbed Daisy's shoulder and moved her forward. Then she grabbed her braid and rapped around her hand, tilting Daisy's head up to expose her throat.
Harry's anger got the better of him again. This time though, he was able to focus it. Lucius Malfoy's wand, still trained on Harry, snapped in half. Harry fell to the ground and quickly stunned Malfoy.
Harry spun and faced Belle who just laughed. Then she produced a large boa knife and held it to Daisy's throat.
"You really don't want to tempt me, Potter," she said jerking on Daisy's hair.
Harry stood frozen. He didn't know how to help her. Then he noticed her foot was rising. Daisy's hands may have still be pinned to her side but she could get her own blade in her boot.
Harry took a step forward. Hoping to distract the woman for Daisy. Belle's knife cut through Daisy's skin. As her blood hit the blade it began to glow. Harry saw Daisy's eye's flicker behind her glasses as her strength began to be slowly sapped.
"Do you know how this blade works, boy? It sucks the magic out of the blood. Make you next move carefully!"
Harry didn't have to move though. Daisy had gotten her dagger from her boot and stabbed her sister in the thigh.
Belle winced. It was barely visible.
"Harry run!" Daisy shouted.
"I won't leave you Daisy." Harry said. "Help will come. Ron and Hermione, they'll look for us, bring help."
"Harry get out of here. I can hold her off!"
"I won't let you die for me!"
"Don't be so full of yourself, Potter," said Belle with a cruel smile. "This is as much about her as you. Really, Daze, this is the boy your lover?"
Daisy twisted the dagger in her sister's leg. Belle didn't have a choice it was either leave or have her magic sapped from her body.
She removed the knife from Daisy's throat and was able to move her leg away from the dagger. But her was still rapped in Daisy's hair. She viciously cut the braid just above her hand and disapperated. Daisy collapsed.