Disappering Acts

They felt the familiar tug on their bellybuttons as the portkey whisked them off to 12 Grimauld place.

The headquarters for the order of the phoenix.

When they arrived, Hermione swayed with uneasiness.

"Oh Merlin, Hermione?" Ginny Weasley screeched as she and Harry ran up to Hermione and caught her right when she collapsed.

"Lucius almost got us, luckily the portkey activated right when we needed it to" Draco said as if nothing big had happened.

Harry came from Hermione's side and right in front of Draco's face.

"How can you say it as if it were no big deal, Malfoy" Harry bellowed "you two almost died".

"Well we're not" Draco said lowly and bumped his shoulder into Harry's.

"This isn't good, everyone was supposed to think you two are dead," Harry said as he paced the ground. "No one was supposed to survive"

He rounded on Draco "I swear if I find out you fouled this up purposely, so help me-"

Draco stood up so that he was right in Harry's face "you'll do what?"

"Oh bloody hell would you two stop it" Ginny pushed them away from each other "we have to contact Dumbledore and tell him the plan didn't fall through"

Pop. "I'm already here Miss. Weasly and I know what has happened" Dumbledore came and stood in-between Harry and Draco.

"Ow...my head" Hermione groggily said as she came back into consciousness.

"Would you like a cup of tea, Miss Granger" Dumbledore offered looking at her wearily, she nodded yes.

He summoned a kettle from the fire and some teacups.

"Now would anyone care to explain to me the whole story?" Dumbledore said to Draco and Hermione.

"I thought you already knew" Draco quipped; he really did not feel like dealing with Dumbledick.

"I know about the house burning and Lucius trying to kill you to but I need to know what went wrong so start from the beginning"

FLASHBACK

Lucius Malfoy and at least a dozen death eaters were in the basement of the Malfoy Manor, torturing a captive.

"Where is Harry Potter?" bellowed Bellatrix Lestrange.

Phfft. Hermione spat a mixture of blood and saliva out of her mouth and at her captor.

"Fuck off" she said to them. A spell was shot at her and pain. It fell like every atom was on fire, the pain much worse than before.

"Let's go," said one of the cloaked figures, "we can continue this later".

"Yeah, all this torturing is making me hungry and tired," said another.

"But she hasn't given us any information, even with the vertisserum" screeched Pansy Parkinson out of anger and disappointment.

"We'll have all day tomorrow" Lucius announced, he then looked down at Hermione as if she were the filthiest creature that lay before him, and kicked her in her ribs.

He continued "if anyone would like the house elves have prepared a splendid feast and there are more than enough rooms for everyone" he began to walk out the others following suit.

They started to file out, as each one of them as they passed kick, punch, or hurt in any way their captive, laughing at her pain as if it were the funniest thing in the world.

The group made their way to bed after a fulfilling feast full of merriment and wine, with a full belly and not a worry on their mind.

Draco then made his way back down toward the dungeons; silently for fear that, someone might hear him.

He heard Granger whimpering and felt his heart sink, no one deserved to be treated like this, he thought.

When he made his way to her cell, she tried her best to crouch and cover herself until she saw that the person was Draco, which frightened her even more.

"Don't worry Granger" Draco whispered, "I'm here to get you out" he said some spells to unlock her chains and conjured decent clothing for her.

"I can't walk" she said that's when Draco noticed her right leg was swollen to twice its size. He said a spell to heal the swelling and conjured a splint for her leg.

"We have to go before anyone wakes up" he whispered as he swung his arm underneath her for support.

"What about my wand?" Hermione said

"That's the least of your worries," said Pansy at the exit to the dungeons, she had look of triumph on her face, "Draco you fucking disgust me helping out her kind, I thought you had sense"

Expelliarmus, Draco said the spell before Pansy knew what hit her and in the time of her shock, he stunned her.

"Now we have to go because they'll have heard that" he gathered the limping Hermione in his arms and towards the stairs.

Reavlus, and a hidden stairway showed its self "this leads to an exit at near the front entrance, keep going and no matter what happens keep going"

"What about you? You can't stay here" she looked at him worry crossing her face.

Lumos, a dim light littered the walkway.

His eyes darkened "I have something to take care of. Now go!" he yelled at her and she limped down the walkway.

Draco made the hidden doorway hidden again and pushed pansy in a dark corner. He then went up stairs to find Jules Zabini and Craig Bulstrode coming towards the dungeon.

They hadn't noticed him so he hid in the darkness of the shadows until they passed.

He ran the length of the hallway and towards the foyer, any minute now the alarm would sound.

A loud ringing filled the hallways and stunned death eaters gather from their beds.

Draco then said a spell so that they wouldn't be able to escape the vicinity of their rooms, he knew it would only last a short time but that's all that he needed.

He ran out of the huge manor and towards the entrance gate. When he got a good twenty feet away he pulled out a small square box, it was a trigger for a bomb.

"Goodbye everyone, see you hell" he whispered before pushing the button a nanosecond later a massive explosion shook the ground and blasted the building, into a fiery inferno.

Fire and chaos were everywhere. Draco looked around to see if Hermione had made it out of the tunnel all right but didn't spot her.

"Damn Granger" he said to himself as he went to the exit for the hidden walkway. As soon as he opened the door he felt the heat and saw the smoke.

Oh shit, he thought to himself as he didn't see Hermione and ran even deeper into the underground walkway.

He got fifteen feet into the walkway before he say Hermione straining in the darkness.

"Draco" she squinted her eyes

"Yeah Granger it's me" he put his arm around her waist and slipped her arm around his neck to balance.

They walked safely out of the walkway and towards the gate entrance.

"Draco I can't walk" Hermione cried out in pain, "the pain it hurts too much"

Draco went through his pockets and pulled out a vile "drink this"

"What is it?" she questioned as she eyed the vile with suspicion

"Will you just drink it'll make the pain subside" they walked out the tunnel, "I can't believe after all this you still don't trust me"

She drunk the liquid and felt her pain going away immediately.

BOOM! Another ground shaking blast then the underground tunnel caved.

Hermione turned around at the rubble"what the hell did you do?"

"I used a muggle device and some muggle explosives C4," he explained to her as they walked off the mansions property "it's the only way for everyone to be safe"

"Voldermort's not dead yet, his followers are extendable. He'll get more"

Draco new Hermione was right "yeah but killing twenty of them will put a huge dent, Mrs. Know-it-all." He sneered at her.

"How are we going to get outta here, did you bring a broom, because I'm top weak to apperate." She asked.

"I left the portkey Dumbledore gave me out here it's going to activate" he looked at his watch "in about ten minutes so we have to find it"

"You lost it. You lost the port key"

"No I left it out here for safe keeping", they got to the graveyard that was about 15 feet away from the end of the street, "now help me look for it"

They searched for seven minutes "its not here" said Hermione angrily

"Let's look near the end of the street," Draco said panicking

Draco and Hermione staggered to the street, barely escaping their deaths.

I feel like crap, Hermione thought as she limped to safety.

She looked behind her at the burning wreckage that was once Malfoy manor.

The 3-story building that was once the Malfoy manor was ablaze with smoke and burning flesh; Not theirs but the death eaters who had tried to kill them.

She felt him tug her arm, "we have to keep moving Granger, unless you want open season for death eaters on your arse"

She glared at him and snatched her arm away, "we need to find the portkey Dumbledore left for us".

She knelt down and started carefully searching the ground. CRUNCH!

Hermione stepped on a tin canister that said fizzing wizbee across it, none other than the portkey.

"Okay it should be activating soon" she looked at her watch 60 seconds to go.

End Flashback

"Then Lucius came and tried to kill us" recalled Draco "we got away in the nick of time"

"Well" Dumbledore said, "It looks as though we have a predicament on our hands, no one was supposed to survive that blast. And Lucius did. No one was supposed to know you to are alive. And Lucius does. He will without a doubt report this to voldermort, so we have to act quickly"

Dumbledore stood up and went to the fireplace, threw some floo powder in it, "mistress of magic's office" then he put his head into the fire.

For what seemed like an eternity, he talked to the mistress of magic, then finally he withdrew his head from the fireplace, stood up, and sat back in his previous spot.

"Ms. Bones completely agrees with me that you two are in serious danger and we will have a meeting about it in her office at the ministry of magic tomorrow morning, but for now I believe you two have earned a good nights rest. Mr. Potter and I have some things to discuss, if you'll join me in the kitchen Harry."

Harry followed suit and went to the kitchen to talk to Dumbledore.

They sat still not knowing what to do a few seconds, "where shall I sleep" asked Draco.

Not that I want to sleep in this shabby place, Draco thought disdainfully.

"There is an empty room two flights up second door on the left," Ginny quickly said before she helped Hermione up the steps.

"g'night" he said as they left. Then he left and went towards the kitchen.

He heard Dumbledore and Potter talking.

"I don't think it's such a good idea Professor"

"Harry I have the same worries as you do but Mr. Malfoy did prove himself as he has over and over again. We need them to be safe and the way for that to happen is for them to disappear"

"I know I know but putting Hermione's safety in Malfoy's hands just isn't cutting it for me" he started pacing worriedly.

Dumbledore put his hand on Harry's shoulder.

"I wish I knew a different way but being secret keeper is just not full proof enough Ms. Bones has a suggestion we will discuss tomorrow. I think its time for me to get back to the others"

"Yes Dumbledore I will see you tomorrow. Good night"

"Good night Harry" he paused and went to the door where Draco was eavesdropping "and Mr. Malfoy"

Draco's heart stopped, dammit how does he always know.

Pop. Harry came to the door and opened it fully glaring at malfoy.

Malfoy glared back. "go to bed Malfoy" Harry said as he walked past him and up the stairs.