Cho struggled against the magical bonds, no matter how useless it was to fight against them. She tried to dig her feet into the ground but the deatheater that was holding her just slung her over his shoulder. Cho let out a noise of discomfort
"Don't think you'll be getting any better." The deatheater growled. Cho tried to talk back but the gag they had stuffed into her mouth muffled the words. The deatheaters all laughed and took her into the castle. Cho turned and looked at the Hogwarts castle. It used to look so warm and inviting. Now it looked just like a cold, old and dangerous castle that looked like it had seen better days. The stones were a cold dark grey and the windows were dark. The crooks and crannies in the walls were elongated shadows and the lack of snow made the castle look daunting and the grounds threatening and dead. Cho raised her eyebrows, was this the same castle she had spent her teen years in?
"Finally here? Where's Potter?" asked Bellatrix.
"We couldn't find him but we got this girl." The deatheater said. Cho was thrown on the floor and she landed roughly on her bum. Her head was forced forwards slightly and her hair covered her face and she glared at the pair of feet in front of her. A dull pain forming in her rear end.
"Isn't that the Chinese girl?" Bellatrix asked.
"Potter's ex girlfriend according to my son." Said Lucius Malfoy as he glided down the main stairs. "Stand her up." Cho was hauled to her feet. Once on her feet she shrugged off the deatheater that was holding her. Lucious Malfoy smirked and looked at Bellatrix,
"I would have preferred Marsden, a Weasley or that mudblood, or even Potter himself but she'll do." Bellatrix said. Cho's eyes widened as Bellatrix said this. Cho knew everything that Bellatrix had done. What she had done to Neville Longbottom's parents.
"Where did you find her?" Lucius asked.
"We were in Diagon Alley and we bumped into a few Chinese Aurors." Said the deatheater that had carried Cho in. Cho looked at him.
"And what happened?" Lucius asked coolly.
"There was a fight, managed to kill a few of them. This one here was about to apparate off when we caught her and bound her." Said the deatheater, pointing to Cho. Cho wanted to ask the deatheater so many questions. Was Aunt Lee alive? What had really happened to the others she had been with? There was no way all the aurors had died. The Chinese prided themselves on having the best qualified aurors in the world.
"Do you think she'll have any information?" Bellatrix asked. Lucius looked into Cho's eyes before looking away.
"I think she would. She's been spotted with Potter a few times." Lucius said turning to Bellatrix, "Bring her with us." Lucius said as he and Bellatrix headed towards the dungeons. Cho straightened as someone pushed her forwards. Cho wasn't ready for it and she fell to the floor. She hit her head on the cold stone floor making her head ring for a few moments. Cho was pulled to her feet again and forced to walk forwards. She did so haphazardly and had to blink a few times to clear her vision. She didn't see exactly where she was going but she next found herself in a dungeon that she had used once before when she and Cedric Diggory had tried to find somewhere private. Cho kept her gaze on Lucius Malfoy as he took off his cloak and put it over a chair. Bellatrix Lestrange moved her head around to free her neck and got out her wand.
"I haven't done this for a long time." She said smirking. Cho looked at her. Bellatrix waved her wand and Cho's gag disappeared.
"What are you doing to me?" Cho asked quietly. Bellatrix grinned.
"You come from the supposedly cleverest country in the world and you can't figure out why you're here?" Lucius asked. "I thought you were supposed to be clever."
"I am." Cho said. "I just don't think like a sadistic pyromaniac-"
"Crucio." Bellatrix said lazily. Cho fell to her knees as she felt like a thousand knifes were slicing away at each part of her body, inside and out. The pain was unbearably intense and felt like it would never end even though it only lasted a few minutes. "I got bored." Bellatrix said to Lucius.
"Fine, Miss. Chang I want you to answer this question or you will have the curse put back on you. The Cruciatus curse is Bella's speciality" Lucius said with a cold and sadistic smile. Cho breathed heavily as she looked up at Lucius and Bellatrix. Her hands and arms still bound behind her back. She slowly got to her feet.
"I won't answer any question that you ask"
"Crucio." Bellatrix said again. Cho fell to her knees screaming this time as the pain returned. "Now, you'll answer our questions." Bellatrix said. "I won't hesitate to destroy a face like yours."
"Where is Potter staying?" Lucius asked.
"I don't know."
"Crucio." Cho fell to her side and wanted to curl up to try and stop the pain but couldn't.
"I know you're lying, tell us where he's staying." Bellatrix said at Cho.
"I don't know!" Cho screamed at her. She was hit by the curse again as she lied to the two deatheaters.
"Fine, we'll warm up with something easy. Where's my daughter?" Lucius asked. Cho looked at him confused.
"Who's your daughter?" Cho whispered.
"Emma Malfoy. Red hair, pale skin, fairly pretty." Bellatrix said. Cho thought for a moment. Why did that desription sound slightly familiar to her? She knew someone who looked like that. "Cho, this is my sister Emma. Emma this is Cho" Harry's voice said as it floated through her mind.
"Emma." Cho whispered as she thought it through. Emma was a Malfoy? What was Harry doing by claiming she was a Potter?
"I see you've heard of her." Lucius said with a smile, "We're making progress. Now, where is she?" Cho didn't answer him as she continued to try and make sense of Emma and Harry's relationship. "WHERE IS SHE!" Lucius shouted, startling Cho.
"I don't know." Cho said.
"Crucio." Cho let out another scream as pain was induced onto her body.
"I don't know, I swear!" Cho screamed at them when they'd lifted the curse. Lucius obviously didn't believe her, neither did Bellatrix as both of them put the curse on Cho.
Harry and Seamus crouched behind Honeydukes and peered up towards the gates to Hogwarts. There were dementors at the gates and a few deatheaters were walking around Hogsmeade.
"What are we going to do?" Seamus asked.
"Someone needs to go and get April." Harry said.
"And leave you here, no." Seamus said, "I'm under orders to stay with you until I'm told not to." Harry gave him a stern look.
"Cho's life is at risk, do you want to help her or not?"
"I do but if that means-"
"Seamus just go!" Harry said a little loudly. A few deatheaters turned to look in their direction but they quickly hid around the corner. Harry looked at Seamus and he disapparated from the spot. Harry inched around the building as he heard the deatheaters going to investigate the noise. He found an entrance leading to the basement of Honeydukes and he quietly slipped in unheard.
"I swear I heard someone talking." Said a deatheater stupidly.
"It's probably just you hearing things again." The other one said as they passed above Harry. He gave a sigh of relief as their voices faded into the distance. Harry looked about him. The crates of sweets were piled high and there were numbers of unopened crates. Honeydukes obviously hadn't been doing very well since Voldemort took over the castle. Harry summoned a packet of chocolate mice and left a few coins on top of a waist high crate. He ate a few mice before deciding it was safe to emerge back into the cold winter air. He stuffed the sweets into his pocket and left the basement slowly.
"You've lost Potter?" came April's quiet but stern voice.
"I-I swear he was here, miss-master." Seamus stuttered.
"I'm here." Harry whispered. April looked at him and relief swept over her face.
"Is it true what Seamus was saying?" April asked.
"About Cho? Yes. She's been taken into the castle." Harry said. April frowned. "What?"
"A group of Chinese Aurors were found dead in Diagon Alley this morning. One of them was Lee Chang, Cho's aunt. Lee's fiancé is obviously devastated and as yet, Cho's father doesn't know. Cho wasn't found among them and a few people think she's gone to the dark side but if it's true that you saw her being taken into the castle, was she going willingly?"
"Unless you call being bound and struggling for you life willing then yeah." Harry said sarcastically. April scowled and looked at Harry.
"Go home and get your invisibility cloak and your map, we may need them. Tell Sirius what's going on but really quickly. Seamus, you go and call Kingsley and Jackson and I'll meet you two in the cave just up that hill." April said. Harry and Seamus nodded as she disappeared. Harry looked at Seamus and apparated back to Grimmauld place.
"AH!" Ginny screamed as Harry landed on her bed.
"Sorry." Harry said quickly as he jumped off the bed and went to Jenny's drawers to find his cloak
"Harry, what are you doing?" Ginny asked as she got up.
"Finding my invisibility cloak, do you know where Jenny's put it?"
"It's in your room." Ginny said, "Remember she gave it back the other day, oh no you won't because you weren't here!" Harry looked at Ginny.
"This is serious Ginny. Is my cloak in my room?" Ginny shied away slightly from the look in Harry's face and nodded quickly. Harry pulled the door open and went to his room, he nearly knocked Hermione over on the way and had her following him to his room.
"What's happening Harry? Sirius won't tell us anything." Hermione said as Harry opened his bedroom door.
"I can't tell you." Harry said. He remembered what April had said about having to isolate his friends. Did she mean it? How would it help? Harry didn't look at Hermione as he found his cloak.
"I'm supposed to be one of your best friends Harry." Hermione said to him slightly annoyed. "And I know that I'm not usually the one for spying."
"House elves." Harry reminded her.
"Ok, I do spy a bit but you can't not tell us what's going on." Hermione said. Ron wondered in the room with a bar of chocolate in his hands.
"What's going on?" Ron asked, "Harry." Ron grinned at him.
"I have to go" Harry said as he left the bedroom to go to find Sirius.
"Where are you going?" Ron asked Harry.
"To find Sirius then off." Harry said, "and I can't tell you where because it could get you killed."
"How many times have you told us that?" Hermione asked Harry.
"We want to help you out."
"You don't have enough training." Harry said stopping and turning to his two best friends.
"We can do just fine." Ron said.
"We only don't have enough training because you told us to go back to school." Hermione said, "and we could say the same for you, you're only a trainee auror." Hermione crossed her arms and looked at Harry. They both stared at each other for a while before Harry realised he'd forgotten his map.
"Accio map." Harry said as he got his wand out. The marauders map came flying out of his room and into his hands. "Where's Sirius?"
"Trying to negotiate with your relatives." Hermione said slightly annoyed. Harry nodded and went to the room his relatives were staying in.
"Sirius!" Harry called. Sirius came shooting out of the room and shut the door quickly behind him.
"You called." Sirius said looking at Harry.
"April wanted me to tell you that we have to save-" Harry saw Ron and Hermione standing a little way off, listening. Harry leaned closer to Sirius. "We have to save Cho, she's been captured by Voldemort and she's been taken into Hogwarts. We're going to go and try and save her. April told me to tell you that."
"Does she need any help?" Sirius asked concerned. Harry shook his head.
"No, we'll be fine." Harry said, "Just do what you've been doing recently." Sirius looked at Harry and gave him a grim smile.
"Good luck." Sirius said. Harry nodded and apparated. Hermione looked at Ron with a raised eyebrow.
"Did you hear that?" Ron asked Hermione quietly.
"Cho's in trouble?" Hermione asked casually, "When does she never get into trouble."
"She's knows too much about the order and about Harry." Ron said. Hermione looked at Ron like he was a genius.
"Hogwarts then?" Hermione asked getting her wand out. Ron nodded and Hermione disappeared with a crack.
"Hey, where are you going?" Sirius asked Ron as Hermione disappeared. Ron looked at Sirius then apparated out of the house
A/N:-Hiya. Here's hte latest update. I think there were sum stuff that i wanted to answer but i don't really have the time. I actually don't have time to do much anymore. Anyway. Hope you like this chapter. Cho's in trouble, haha!
