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A/N: So you get two chapters at once...how lucky are you? Now no one can shout at me for the cliff-hangers cause this pretty much sums up the story, but there'll still be another chapter left. If you want more stuff then sent me a review and tell me.
A rose by any other name... still hurts if you land on it
Harry and Ginny ran through the corridors looking for Dumbledore. As they approached his office they heard voices coming down the corridor. It sounded like Professor McGonagall.
"It's been hours since their capture, anything could be happening to them."
"Minerva, you know that Severus is there. He wouldn't let anything happen to either of them, even if it meant disclosing himself."
"But they're all the way across in Ireland, and in that wee rural town. No one would even notice anything out of place."
"Yes I know, Glenavy was a good choice for the Dark Lord. Quite unlike his usual attacks on us here at the school. I know you are worried about them but really they will be fine. They are fine." Dumbledore said reassuringly.
"I'm a lot more than worried let me tell you..."
Harry and Ginny turned to go to the library. They knew the location now and just needed to know where exactly that was. After looking through a few books they had found nothing. The only one that happened to have a map of Northern Ireland was missing a page. They were about to give up when they finally came across another map. It was rather old but Glenavy was still mentioned. Ginny used a spell to copy the map and the two headed up to the Griffindor common room.
By this time the common room was pretty empty, as dinner was not yet over. They decided to go to the Great Hall to gather provisions.
"How do you think we should get there?" Harry asked as they re-entered the common room.
"I think that brooms will probably be fastest."
"Don't you mean broom?"
"Oh, yeah that's right. Ron took yours. Couldn't you borrow one of someone?"
"Like who? The only one else who has a remotely good broom is on the Quidditch team and they would kill me if I borrowed one. I'm not meant to die by their hands." Harry said dramatically.
"Well then we'll just have to share mine." Ginny said defiantly.
Harry paced as Ginny ran upstairs to get her broom. His mind was racing. Why had Ron up and left like that? What on earth was he doing? 'Please don't let him get himself killed!'
Ginny skidded down the stairs, already on her broom. She screeched to a halt inches from Harry's nose.
"Jump on!" she yelled, swinging around.
Harry hesitated, then acquiesced. "Do you know where you're going?" he asked anxiously.
"Don't have to." She handed him a map. "You're navigating."
Two hundred feet above the ground, fifty miles from Hogwarts, and Harry was wishing he had offered to fly instead of navigate. She always could talk him into anything, even pretending that he knew where they were going. Unfortunately there was no one to even think about asking directions from... not that he would anyway.
Ron was flying over countryside and towns when he finally neared his location. He landed and took out Harry's invisibility cloak. He scanned the perimeter and went in for a closer look. The only building was a large tower with a metal door. Ron looked high up into the clouds and found only a few windows. 'It's just like the muggle books Hermione talks about. The princess is always in the highest tower.'
After retrieving his broom he flew up to one of the windows. He found that is was blackened out. After circling the tower he finally found one window that wasn't fully black. Through a small crack he could see robes billowing quickly past as though a fight was going on. He strained his ears to hear what was happening but all he could hear was the water running down the river.
Inside indeed a fight had ensued. Malfoy had been the target from many of the Death Eaters and had sustained many injuries. Just as he was about to fall unconscious he felt another pass over him. He felt himself being hoisted and dragged across the room. A window was opened and the world went dark.
Ron saw someone coming towards the window and hovered a few feet lower hoping that no one would see him. The window was opened and he saw a half-masked Snape dangle Malfoy out of it. 'I knew Snape couldn't be trusted. He's even trying to kill one of his own! No one could survive that fall.' Ron thought as he looked to the ground feeling slightly queasy at the sight.
Of course no one could survive that fall, not unless they were under a few clever spells from a rather smart, but not very pleasant, Potions master. Just as he was about to let go of the unconscious boy he spotted another very pale student. With a puzzled look, which melted into a sneer, he set Malfoy on the broom and returned to the room hoping that everyone believed he'd got ridden of the bad blood in the Malfoy line.
Ron just about managed to hold on to Malfoy and had no choice but to move towards ground level. When they were about 10 feet from the ground Ron cast about for a soft spot. He saw a pile of bushes, and dropped Malfoy in their general direction.
Unfortunately, they were rose bushes.
He returned back to his viewpoint in the hope of spotting Hermione. Hopefully Snape could get her out too.
I know I'm mean with cliffhangers and the fact that you haven't heard about Hermione in like 4chapters is not a good thing. I really didn't mean it to work out that way but Hermione will feature in person in the next chapter. I promise. All will be explained then too...so keep reading!