Chapter Thirty Nine: All Hallows Eve
October 30th
Hermione was pacing in the tower again.
"SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT!" she announced rather loudly for the tenth time that night.
Draco Tom Hanna and Ron cleaned their ears so that they still worked.
"Hermione, you've said that like Ten times? Give it a rest, none of us can think of anything that could be amiss!" Hanna whined.
"I still hold to my statement." Hermione notified them, "I've been to the washers, people, I know when something bad is going to happen."
"WE KNOW!" they all shouted.
"Tom not even you?"
Tom shook his head. "No."
"I'm going to my room." She announced.
And she left the rest just sitting there.
"Tell us Ron," Draco started, "Does she claim these feeling often?"
"Surprisingly no, normally it's Harry." Ron responded.
"Well Ron," Hanna prompted, "Why don't you ask The Boy who lived if he feels anything is amiss?"
"Sure and have him get even more worked up!" Ron rolled his eyes. "It's almost Halloween Han; take a wild guess why Harry would be worked up and why I shouldn't talk to him."
"His mum and da." She responded, defeated.
"Yeah."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*
Hermione sat on her bed writing a letter to Harry.
'Dear Harry,
I apologize for making you doubt your trust in me. You want to know anything about me; it's in here, the book attached. Yes it's large, I've been writing in it since I was seven, it's kind of like my pensive; I keep facts in my mind and memories here.
Read as much or as little as you'd like, most will make you unhappy, I warn you now, but if you want to.
Tom never needed to read this, he knows things oddly enough, Hanna was told stories, and Draco read the entirety of this book over the summer, so he knows me inside out.
I hope you will understand and forgive me Harry.
Hermione E. Granger'
She thought it sounded alright.
"Ishtar, Dagda," she whistled.
Both birds flew her direction. She petted them and thanked them for helping her out, Ishtar carried the book and Dagda the note.
They flew off in a burst of ivory and ebony feathers.
She smiled.
Things would finally be going right.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Kat was pacing her room, she felt, wrong in a way, like something should happen that wasn't happening.
She tried phoning Dora and Ray, only to find that they were visiting a friend.
Just like Mia was always doing.
She sighed and sat on her bed, bringing her legs up to her chest. She felt really wrong now. She wanted to call someone she was getting so scared.
She picked up the phone and dialed Mione's number, and willed for her twin in soul spirit and looks would be on the other side.
She whished with her whole heart.
"Hello?" A lady picked up.
"Is Mione there?"
"No she's at school." The lady answered.
"Is Dora or Ray there?"
"No dear I'm sorry." Mrs. Granger apologized.
"Do you know where they are?"
"At the Malfoy's I would suspect." The lady responded.
"The large black Mansion?"
"The very same, look is everything fine Kathleen? You normally don't call looking for your friends here unless something is bugging you."
"I'm fine; I just need to talk to them."
"Well go over knock and announce yourself to the door, the Malfoys are particular a bunch."
"I will thank you."
"No problem dear, Be well."
"Bye." And Kat hung up.
Walking down stairs she sees her father on the couch beer in one hand and remote in the other. She shook her head to herself.
"Da! I'm heading out, be back before dawn."
"Aye Lass." He waved her on.
Kat smiled brightly and left.
Half way down the street she had a tug that said turn back, so she ran to the black mansion. She knocked hard, and announced "I'm Kathleen Douglas! I have to speak with Rachel Smith or Doreen Spinet immediately!"
A man that looked like count opened the door and looked down at her worriedly.
"Girls, come quickly." He yelled back into the house and the two girls came to the door.
"Kat!" they announced.
"Kat what's wrong?" Dora asked.
"I don't know, just I have a horrible feeling, it feels wrong, very wrong, and I felt I needed to talk to you and get out of the house."
Ray and Dora exchanged dark looks with the other two occupants of the house.
"Kat, why don't you and Mr. Malfoy have some hot chocolate, me and Dora will go down to your house and see if anything is amiss."
"No that's ok it's probably my imagination."
"Never doubt yourself Kat, remember when you and Mione started studying rather hard in Third because you had a horrid feeling that there'd be a test the next day? And there was? And it was worth half our grade?" Ray reminded her.
"Go check you two, I'll keep her here, and remember even if there is nothing wrong." His eyes went dark; Dora and Ray tapped their pockets and nodded.
Mr. Malfoy led the girl inside.
"Hello child." A lady commented. "I'm Mrs. Malfoy, and this is my husband, Lucius Malfoy, welcome to our home." She welcomed the girl.
"Thank you."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Ray and Dora ran down to Kat's house while fingering their cards and sending a talking signal out to their friends at Hogwarts.
When they arrived there they changed their message instantly.
Hanging over Kat's now destroyed house was what they were taught was the "Dark Mark" or the Symbol of Voldemort, a Man who was the Wizarding version of Hitler.
"Well, well, more Muggles!" a spitting noise could be heard.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Hermione practically flew from her room, "Someone fetch Snape, whoever doesn't feel like fighting, someone else Dumbledore, come on! The rest we're helping Dora and ray!
"I'll get Snape." Draco offered. "Death eaters can't spot me or dad'll be caught."
"Good idea."
"I'll get Dumbledore," Tom offered.
"Then Ron Hans, your coming with me, Wands arms and spells at the ready, were hunting death eaters."
They all left in appropriate directions.
Ron said he needed to get his cloak so he ran up to Gryffindor tower while the two girls went off to help Dora and Ray.
Ron didn't need his cloak; he needed to let Harry know what was going on.
"WHAT!" Harry exclaimed when he heard what was happening.
"Yeah, figured you'd want to know."
"Yeah, and I'll be damned if I won't help." Harry grabbed his cloak.
"No Harry." Ron ordered. "You stay put. You are still a main target for them if they see you they won't hesitate to kill you!"
"They can't kill me Ron." Harry told him as he clasped his cloak with the invisible one underneath it. "Voldemort won't let them, Voldemort wants to kill me."
"And he could be there in a second, and I say no. Plus you can't get there without me."
Harry looked at his friend frightened.
"You have to floo, and the only fireplace in the school that will let you floo from it is in the Head tower, you need me for the password to get in and then the name of where to go, so if I say no Harry, I mean no. I just figured you ought to know. Bye!" and Ron left to meet up with the others.
Harry cursed. The older he got, the more of a kid everyone treated him like.
*~*~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~
When Hanna and Hermione came out of the fireplace, Kat was lost for words to say the least.
Draco's Dad's eyes darkened. "Is something off?" he asked.
"Death eaters, Ray and Dora say they have attacked Kats house." Hermione notified them.
"Shit!" Lucius cursed, "Bloody hell why now?!" he ran and grabbed his cloak, "Come on you three." He nodded at Ron who just came in, "Dress up time, have to play sneak and destroy, hurry up."
With in second they were all wearing pitch black robes and White masks. Kat passed out ages ago.
"You three can change you clothing to anything in a second?"
They all nodded.
"Good." And they left. "Let me do the talking." Mr. Malfoy warned.
Again, everyone nodded.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Down near Kat's house, Ray and Dora knew and were glad that the death eaters were merely playing games with them.
"Let's liven thing up a bit, Inflmore!" and fire, which was supposed to hit them, and light them on fire like little roman candles, encircled them instead.
After all, that puny spell couldn't penetrate a simple barrier, of which Ray had quickly cast.
Both wands remained hidden; the barrier was made with perception magic.
This scared the death eaters a bit.
Now there weren't all of them, which would be very dumb on Voldie's part, but only six or seven.
"Patrificus totallus!" They heard Mr. Malfoy cry. The both tried not to look overly joyful at this.
"What is wrong with you?" he shouted at the group, "The mark is in the sky, the Ministry will be here in seconds, do you want to be arrested?" he hissed, "Hurry up, come on, you're useless to our lord in prison."
"What about you Lucius?" one spat, "Our Revels lower then you now?"
"I had work, or I would have gone, same rule applies now, come on, move your arses!"
Hermione Ron and Hanna Moved over to Ray and Dora.
"You three," Lucius Shouted "deal with those two, but make sure the ministry can't take anything from them. You know what I mean." They turned and nodded, he left with the other Death Eaters.
Once they were sure the Death Eaters were completely gone, Hermione Ron and Hanna changed back to being their normal selves.
"You know what Mione? These cards work out quite well." Hanna Decided. "And you were right, something was amiss."
They all laughed.
"You five, come on move it!" Snape ordered form behind them, "Lucius is right, the ministry will be here soon, and we don't need them finding muggle witches, Dumbledore is at Mr. Malfoy's place and already handling the young lady there."
They all went to Draco's home, feeling rather excited. They didn't fight at all, or talk for that matter; however they managed to help out their friend, though they couldn't save her home or father.
It was war truly, and in war people suffer Daily.
*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*
"Kat are you alright?" Hermione had changed her clothing to the muggle kind. She raced over and hugged her friend.
"Died, dead, fire, my fault." She was obviously shocked.
Hermione held her close and rocked her back and forth "sh.. .. .. .." she ordered softly, "Don't say dumb things that aren't right, you're better than that Kat. Come now, I'm here, everything will be fine."
The fire flickered. Draco walked in with Poppy, who took the scared girl form Mione.
"I want to stay with her." She told her professors.
"That won't be possible Ms. Granger." Poppy said shortly.
"It will be possible I'm staying with her!" Hermione shouted, shocking everyone.
"Ms. Granger, there is hardly any need for hysterics." Snape informed the girl.
"Oh yes Professor there is," she said darkly then added something that only Hermione and a few select few knew about, "I'm not abandoning my twin sister. Not with her like this."
The nurse really had no choice at that point, "Very well, you may come with Ms. Granger."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
AN:
Well there is action now. The ball will come soon, if you hadn't noticed this was at night on the day before Halloween so yeah.
Also I would like to apologize for not updating in ages.
I have been swamped with homework to say the least, plus its been hard to be in contact with a comp, so I'm horribly sorry!!!!!
Enjoy I hope
And review!
Relena~
October 30th
Hermione was pacing in the tower again.
"SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT!" she announced rather loudly for the tenth time that night.
Draco Tom Hanna and Ron cleaned their ears so that they still worked.
"Hermione, you've said that like Ten times? Give it a rest, none of us can think of anything that could be amiss!" Hanna whined.
"I still hold to my statement." Hermione notified them, "I've been to the washers, people, I know when something bad is going to happen."
"WE KNOW!" they all shouted.
"Tom not even you?"
Tom shook his head. "No."
"I'm going to my room." She announced.
And she left the rest just sitting there.
"Tell us Ron," Draco started, "Does she claim these feeling often?"
"Surprisingly no, normally it's Harry." Ron responded.
"Well Ron," Hanna prompted, "Why don't you ask The Boy who lived if he feels anything is amiss?"
"Sure and have him get even more worked up!" Ron rolled his eyes. "It's almost Halloween Han; take a wild guess why Harry would be worked up and why I shouldn't talk to him."
"His mum and da." She responded, defeated.
"Yeah."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*
Hermione sat on her bed writing a letter to Harry.
'Dear Harry,
I apologize for making you doubt your trust in me. You want to know anything about me; it's in here, the book attached. Yes it's large, I've been writing in it since I was seven, it's kind of like my pensive; I keep facts in my mind and memories here.
Read as much or as little as you'd like, most will make you unhappy, I warn you now, but if you want to.
Tom never needed to read this, he knows things oddly enough, Hanna was told stories, and Draco read the entirety of this book over the summer, so he knows me inside out.
I hope you will understand and forgive me Harry.
Hermione E. Granger'
She thought it sounded alright.
"Ishtar, Dagda," she whistled.
Both birds flew her direction. She petted them and thanked them for helping her out, Ishtar carried the book and Dagda the note.
They flew off in a burst of ivory and ebony feathers.
She smiled.
Things would finally be going right.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Kat was pacing her room, she felt, wrong in a way, like something should happen that wasn't happening.
She tried phoning Dora and Ray, only to find that they were visiting a friend.
Just like Mia was always doing.
She sighed and sat on her bed, bringing her legs up to her chest. She felt really wrong now. She wanted to call someone she was getting so scared.
She picked up the phone and dialed Mione's number, and willed for her twin in soul spirit and looks would be on the other side.
She whished with her whole heart.
"Hello?" A lady picked up.
"Is Mione there?"
"No she's at school." The lady answered.
"Is Dora or Ray there?"
"No dear I'm sorry." Mrs. Granger apologized.
"Do you know where they are?"
"At the Malfoy's I would suspect." The lady responded.
"The large black Mansion?"
"The very same, look is everything fine Kathleen? You normally don't call looking for your friends here unless something is bugging you."
"I'm fine; I just need to talk to them."
"Well go over knock and announce yourself to the door, the Malfoys are particular a bunch."
"I will thank you."
"No problem dear, Be well."
"Bye." And Kat hung up.
Walking down stairs she sees her father on the couch beer in one hand and remote in the other. She shook her head to herself.
"Da! I'm heading out, be back before dawn."
"Aye Lass." He waved her on.
Kat smiled brightly and left.
Half way down the street she had a tug that said turn back, so she ran to the black mansion. She knocked hard, and announced "I'm Kathleen Douglas! I have to speak with Rachel Smith or Doreen Spinet immediately!"
A man that looked like count opened the door and looked down at her worriedly.
"Girls, come quickly." He yelled back into the house and the two girls came to the door.
"Kat!" they announced.
"Kat what's wrong?" Dora asked.
"I don't know, just I have a horrible feeling, it feels wrong, very wrong, and I felt I needed to talk to you and get out of the house."
Ray and Dora exchanged dark looks with the other two occupants of the house.
"Kat, why don't you and Mr. Malfoy have some hot chocolate, me and Dora will go down to your house and see if anything is amiss."
"No that's ok it's probably my imagination."
"Never doubt yourself Kat, remember when you and Mione started studying rather hard in Third because you had a horrid feeling that there'd be a test the next day? And there was? And it was worth half our grade?" Ray reminded her.
"Go check you two, I'll keep her here, and remember even if there is nothing wrong." His eyes went dark; Dora and Ray tapped their pockets and nodded.
Mr. Malfoy led the girl inside.
"Hello child." A lady commented. "I'm Mrs. Malfoy, and this is my husband, Lucius Malfoy, welcome to our home." She welcomed the girl.
"Thank you."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Ray and Dora ran down to Kat's house while fingering their cards and sending a talking signal out to their friends at Hogwarts.
When they arrived there they changed their message instantly.
Hanging over Kat's now destroyed house was what they were taught was the "Dark Mark" or the Symbol of Voldemort, a Man who was the Wizarding version of Hitler.
"Well, well, more Muggles!" a spitting noise could be heard.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Hermione practically flew from her room, "Someone fetch Snape, whoever doesn't feel like fighting, someone else Dumbledore, come on! The rest we're helping Dora and ray!
"I'll get Snape." Draco offered. "Death eaters can't spot me or dad'll be caught."
"Good idea."
"I'll get Dumbledore," Tom offered.
"Then Ron Hans, your coming with me, Wands arms and spells at the ready, were hunting death eaters."
They all left in appropriate directions.
Ron said he needed to get his cloak so he ran up to Gryffindor tower while the two girls went off to help Dora and Ray.
Ron didn't need his cloak; he needed to let Harry know what was going on.
"WHAT!" Harry exclaimed when he heard what was happening.
"Yeah, figured you'd want to know."
"Yeah, and I'll be damned if I won't help." Harry grabbed his cloak.
"No Harry." Ron ordered. "You stay put. You are still a main target for them if they see you they won't hesitate to kill you!"
"They can't kill me Ron." Harry told him as he clasped his cloak with the invisible one underneath it. "Voldemort won't let them, Voldemort wants to kill me."
"And he could be there in a second, and I say no. Plus you can't get there without me."
Harry looked at his friend frightened.
"You have to floo, and the only fireplace in the school that will let you floo from it is in the Head tower, you need me for the password to get in and then the name of where to go, so if I say no Harry, I mean no. I just figured you ought to know. Bye!" and Ron left to meet up with the others.
Harry cursed. The older he got, the more of a kid everyone treated him like.
*~*~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~
When Hanna and Hermione came out of the fireplace, Kat was lost for words to say the least.
Draco's Dad's eyes darkened. "Is something off?" he asked.
"Death eaters, Ray and Dora say they have attacked Kats house." Hermione notified them.
"Shit!" Lucius cursed, "Bloody hell why now?!" he ran and grabbed his cloak, "Come on you three." He nodded at Ron who just came in, "Dress up time, have to play sneak and destroy, hurry up."
With in second they were all wearing pitch black robes and White masks. Kat passed out ages ago.
"You three can change you clothing to anything in a second?"
They all nodded.
"Good." And they left. "Let me do the talking." Mr. Malfoy warned.
Again, everyone nodded.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Down near Kat's house, Ray and Dora knew and were glad that the death eaters were merely playing games with them.
"Let's liven thing up a bit, Inflmore!" and fire, which was supposed to hit them, and light them on fire like little roman candles, encircled them instead.
After all, that puny spell couldn't penetrate a simple barrier, of which Ray had quickly cast.
Both wands remained hidden; the barrier was made with perception magic.
This scared the death eaters a bit.
Now there weren't all of them, which would be very dumb on Voldie's part, but only six or seven.
"Patrificus totallus!" They heard Mr. Malfoy cry. The both tried not to look overly joyful at this.
"What is wrong with you?" he shouted at the group, "The mark is in the sky, the Ministry will be here in seconds, do you want to be arrested?" he hissed, "Hurry up, come on, you're useless to our lord in prison."
"What about you Lucius?" one spat, "Our Revels lower then you now?"
"I had work, or I would have gone, same rule applies now, come on, move your arses!"
Hermione Ron and Hanna Moved over to Ray and Dora.
"You three," Lucius Shouted "deal with those two, but make sure the ministry can't take anything from them. You know what I mean." They turned and nodded, he left with the other Death Eaters.
Once they were sure the Death Eaters were completely gone, Hermione Ron and Hanna changed back to being their normal selves.
"You know what Mione? These cards work out quite well." Hanna Decided. "And you were right, something was amiss."
They all laughed.
"You five, come on move it!" Snape ordered form behind them, "Lucius is right, the ministry will be here soon, and we don't need them finding muggle witches, Dumbledore is at Mr. Malfoy's place and already handling the young lady there."
They all went to Draco's home, feeling rather excited. They didn't fight at all, or talk for that matter; however they managed to help out their friend, though they couldn't save her home or father.
It was war truly, and in war people suffer Daily.
*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*
"Kat are you alright?" Hermione had changed her clothing to the muggle kind. She raced over and hugged her friend.
"Died, dead, fire, my fault." She was obviously shocked.
Hermione held her close and rocked her back and forth "sh.. .. .. .." she ordered softly, "Don't say dumb things that aren't right, you're better than that Kat. Come now, I'm here, everything will be fine."
The fire flickered. Draco walked in with Poppy, who took the scared girl form Mione.
"I want to stay with her." She told her professors.
"That won't be possible Ms. Granger." Poppy said shortly.
"It will be possible I'm staying with her!" Hermione shouted, shocking everyone.
"Ms. Granger, there is hardly any need for hysterics." Snape informed the girl.
"Oh yes Professor there is," she said darkly then added something that only Hermione and a few select few knew about, "I'm not abandoning my twin sister. Not with her like this."
The nurse really had no choice at that point, "Very well, you may come with Ms. Granger."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
AN:
Well there is action now. The ball will come soon, if you hadn't noticed this was at night on the day before Halloween so yeah.
Also I would like to apologize for not updating in ages.
I have been swamped with homework to say the least, plus its been hard to be in contact with a comp, so I'm horribly sorry!!!!!
Enjoy I hope
And review!
Relena~