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Chapter 11

Once inside the dungeon, Flitwick removed the chains from Ron's and Hermione's wrists and legs.

"Have fun." He said laughing before exiting the room and closing the heavy wooden door.

Ron could hear a number of locks and bolts sealing itself from the outside. He looked around the dimly lit dungeon and saw two cots on one side of the room, a basin, and a hole in the ground, which Ron guessed was supposed to be the toilet. Then, his eyes fell on Hermione who stood frozen a few feet away from him.

Her eyes widened as she surveyed the room, "Ron…what're we going to do?" she asked her voice trembling.

"We'll think of something." Ron said hoping he didn't sound as uncertain as he felt. He took her hand, brought her to him, and enveloped her in a hug.

His heart started racing as he felt her arms encircling his neck.

Suddenly, Hermione pulled away from the hug and looked at him accusingly, "Where's Harry? And Ginny…and-and…" her voice trailed off as she thought of more names.

Ron looked at the ground, "I left them in the Great Hall."

Hermione groaned, "The Death Eaters are going to kill them, Ron!" she exclaimed.

"What're you talking about Hermione?"

"He told me…he told me everything!"

"I don't understand." Ron took her hand and leaded her to the cots. He noticed that the sheets were dirty beyond belief and they had several holes, which meant that there must've been rats lurking in this dungeon somewhere.

"I can't sleep on that!" Hermione exclaimed, "That's so unhygienic!"

Ron sat down on the cot and said, "Well, then, at least sit on it." He motioned to the empty space next to him.

Hermione slowly sat down and looked at him anxiously.

"Tell me everything."

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Flashback

When class was over Hermione was one of the last people to get up from her seat.

"We'll wait for you outside." Harry said.

"No it's okay, you guys go ahead." Hermione said, "It'll only take a few minutes."

"Okay, well, good luck, Herm." Ron said and then they both exited the room.

Hermione walked cautiously to Professor Flitwick's table. He was busy sorting out some papers.

She stood there for a good few seconds before saying, "Um, Professor, you wanted to see me?"

Professor Flitwick looked up at her and her heart almost stopped. His eyes were blood red, "Yes, Miss Granger. I've been waiting for you."

"P-professor…your eyes!"

"Yes, Miss Granger, please come with me, and don't make a sound."

Hermione had a bad feeling about this, "Professor, maybe you're not feeling well, I'll just be going now." She backed away from his desk.

"No!" Professor Flitwick shouted leaping over his desk and grabbing her arm, "Come with me, girl."

Hermione's eyes widened in surprise, no teacher ever talked to her like that before!

They waited about five minutes before heading out into the corridors. Professor Flitwick must've planned everything perfectly because, there seemed to be no teachers or students or even ghosts loitering in the hallways.

When they reached the grounds where Hagrid's cabin and the Forbidden Forest were located, before entering the forest Professor Flitwick took out his wand and said "Accio wand!"

Hermione's wand zoomed out of her school robes and flew into Professor Flitwick's hand.

"I might need that!"

"Not where you're going." Professor Flitwick pushed Hermione forward.

As she stumbled over a rock, she heard Professor Flitwick muttering something behind her. Before she could hit the ground face first, she felt something pressing hard into the skin around her wrists and her neck.

It felt as if an invisible rope was pulling her back onto her feet.

Hermione looked down at her wrists and saw that there were deep red lines forming, "Where are we going?" she demanded.

"Come with me and I'll show you."

Professor Flitwick and Hermione walked deeper into the forest not stopping once even for a rest.

"We're almost there." He said about thirty minutes later.

Hermione felt very dehydrated, sweat was dripping down her forehead like raindrops.

Suddenly, she felt the invisible ropes pressing into her skin again, which meant that Professor Flitwick wanted her to stop walking.

He pushed past her to the tree in front of them. He walked to the other side of the tree; bent down and pulled something out of the roots of the tree.

He pointed his wand at the bottle and said, "Portus!" The bottle lighted blue and shook tremendously, then became still.

Hermione gasped, it was a Portkey!

"C'mon girl…we have only ten seconds." Professor Flitwick said hurrying back to where she was standing. He grabbed her hand and pressed her forefinger onto the empty water bottle.

Before Hermione even had a chance to think of where the Portkey would take her, she felt as though a hook just below her navel had been suddenly jerked irresistibly forward. She could feel her feet leaving the ground. In a swirl of color and howling wind, they sped forward…until finally Hermione felt her feet hit the ground, hard.

She stumbled but the caught herself before she actually hit the floor. She looked up at her surroundings; they were in a very large patch of land in the country.

Without a word from Professor Flitwick, he hurried towards a barn house, pulling Hermione along with his invisible ropes.

Ignoring the pain, Hermione noticed that the whole place was deserted, it was supposedly to be a farm, but there were no animals in sight.

"W-where are we?" Hermione asked.

"No time for questions." Professor Flitwick answered curtly. He gave the invisible ropes a hard tug and Hermione slid ever so slightly on the small pebbles that covered the ground.

"Almost there…almost there…" Professor Flitwick started mumbling hungrily as if he were in a trance.

Professor Flitwick pushed open the wooden door of the barn house and walked in.

Magically, the doors slammed once they were inside.

"Did you bring her?" called a voice from somewhere inside the room.

"Yes, sir. J-just in t-time too. As you can see…" Professor Flitwick stuttered. He must've let go of the invisible ropes because, she didn't feel it pressing to her skin anymore.

Hermione watched in horror as Professor Flitwick's body slowly turned fat and round, his eyes turned small and watery. The hair on his head turned thin with a large bald spot.

Hermione took a few steps backwards; she couldn't believe what she was seeing.

"I will forever remain the loyal servant of My Master." Peter Pettigrew proclaimed, sniffing the air with great importance, but his eyes betrayed him.

Hermione could see fear in his eyes, "How did you do this?" she exclaimed completely flabbergasted.

"Use your brains, Hermione." Came the voice of someone familiar. The person stepped forward into the light.

Hermione gasped, "Viktor!"

Viktor stood right in front of Hermione and traced his finger along her jaw line, "V need you, right now."

Hermione trembled, his touch felt like ice.

"Now, now Viktor. You'll have your time with Miss Granger soon, in a few months perhaps." Lucius Malfoy said grinning widely.

Hermione felt her cheeks flush, "How did he do this? If he used the Polyjuice potion, then he would've needed pieces of the real Professor Flitwick's hair or something of that sort to change into him!"

"That needn't be so, Miss Granger. We are far better and more advanced wizards to be using that simple potion. Think Miss Granger, I'm sure you'll come up with something." Lucius drawled in a condescending tone.

Hermione searched her brain, thinking of any related potion. Then it hit her, "The Copious Liquid Potion!" she exclaimed, "but that's very…" she trailed off.

"Deadly?" Lucius filled in, "Yes, of course. But, Peter here is the loyal servant, as he so boisterously proclaimed and is willing to do anything to bring the Lord back into power."

Hermione looked around the room and saw a number of Death Eaters slowly surrounding her, "How did you do it? Anyone would notice him if he just walked into the castle." She pointed at Peter in disgust.

"That's true, but no one would notice him as a rat, now would they? Peter here went into Flitwick's chamber one night when he was alone and transformed himself into his human self. Let's just say Flitwick put up such a fight you wouldn't believe, but being the small man he was, we eventually overcame him."

Hermione saw Peter nodding energetically in agreement.

"Then, Peter went to the window of the room and called on one of the Death Eaters to take Flitwick and him back to our temporary home of our Master." He motioned to his surroundings.

"Once inside this room, we set up the cauldrons and everything else we needed, which included the late Professor Flitwick."

"Y-you killed him?" Hermione asked. Her heart was racing. What if they kill me too? She thought, she felt the fear taking over.

Lucius nodded, "Of course. We had to chop him into little bits and then put him in the cauldron with all the ingredients, every few days Peter came back here, before the full moon to drink his potion."

"What do you need me for?" Hermione asked shrilly.

"Information. Every few days Peter will come to collect you and bring you to us. Now that we've got that out of the way…tell us everything you know." Lucius said pointing his wand threateningly at Hermione, "Or else…"

Hermione gulped the large lump that was forming in her throat. There was only one question running through her head. Why me?

End of Flashback