Chapter 43-

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Last Time

Harry was indeed Crabbe, Ron was Goyle, Ginny was Pansy, and Dumbledore turned into Nott.

"Oh Draco. Of coarse I will marry you!! I love you more than anything. Just not here. We have to get away from them first." Hermione said as she pulled him to his feet.

"Deal." he said as he kisses her gently on the lips. "Now, there is one other thing. I have an ulterior motive for bringing you here." he said after a short pause.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I thought that we could research and try to find some way out of here." he said.

"Great idea!! Let's get started!" Hermione said as she took his hand and pulled him towards one of the thousands of bookcases.

Draco smiled and rolled his eyes as she immediately dug into the books.

They searched the books for a few hours with no success what so ever. "This seems totally pointless. I am getting hungry. Let's take a break."

"I am going to keep looking. Why don't you go get us a bite to eat?" Hermione said without looking up from the book she was reading.

"No. I am not going to leave you here alone." he replied before walking to a small marble fire place against the far wall. "Topsy!!" he yelled after throwing she powder into the fire.

"Yes, Master Draco?" said a small house elf who appeared next to him almost immediately.

"Please bring my fiancée and I some lunch." Draco asked nicely, knowing of Hermione's fondness of house elves.

"Yes, Master Draco sir." Topsy said before snapping her fingers and disappearing.

"Draco!" Hermione said as soon as the elf had disappeared.

"What??" Draco said in a defensive tone, thinking that she was going to yell at him.

"You were nice to that house elf." she said a half amazed, half amused voice.

"Yeah, so."

"I thought that it was sweet even if I don't like the way you called her here."

"Right. Let's just get back to work." Draco said before heading to the pile of books he had left on the table earlier.

Hermione smiled at him one last time before burying her nose in the book one again.

"Dumbledore, we are almost there." Ginny yelled up to the boy flying in circles high above the others.

"Gosh, you would think that he has never ridden a broom before. I think he had going mad." Ron said as he too tried to get their headmasters attention.

"Let me go get him." Harry said before zooming up to where the aforementioned professor flew. "Professor Dumbledore!" Harry yelled as he approached.

Dumbledore turned his head and looked at the boy. "Isn't it wonderful to be young? I feel like a kid again." Dumbledore said with a mischievous grin. Now, you must call me Nott. If people were to hear you it would give us away, Crabbe."

Harry flinched at the names, but when he recovered he raised an eyebrow. "Whatever you say, Profe--Nott. Anyway, as you probable already know, we are almost there." Harry said as he pointed to the huge mansion poking over the hills and trees.

"Right you are, Crabbe. Let us go to Pansy and Goyle." Dumbledore said as he suddenly swung into a dive, heading straight at the two Weasleys.

Harry took a deep breath before following. Ahead of him, Dumbledore was just pulling gainfully out of his dive. 'Show off.' he thought to himself as he joined the others. When he arrived, Dumbledore had just got finished telling them that from now on they had to use the names of the body that they were in.

A few minutes more and they were right above Malfoy Manor. "What now?" Ginny/Pansy asked.

"Well, it is almost sunset, so I think that we should find a place to hide until we think that everyone is in bed." Harry/Crabbe replied.

"Great idea, Har--I mean, Crabbe." Ron/Goyle said.

"Yes, good idea, but where shall we hide?" Dumbledore/Nott asked.

"I know. Do you guys remember that room that was connected to Draco's room? Draco told me that noone ever goes in there and that he is the only one who knows about it." Ginny/Pansy said.

"I don't remember that." Ron/Goyle said.

"Well, you two were probably talking or something. But I remember it. Draco told me that he has the only key for it. He told me where it was hidden, but I can't remember. Hold on." she said before rolling her eyes back trying to remember where Draco had the key hidden. "I remember!! He said that he hid it under a loose floorboard by his dresser. I remember because he said that when I stepped on the board and it creaked!!"

"Alright, Gin-- I mean Pansy!" Ron/Goyle said.

"So we are going to go into his room, get the key, and then hide in the secret room?" Harry/Crabbe asked.

"Right."

"Man, this place is bloody creepy! I have never heard of a house with so many secret hideouts and passages." Ron/Goyle said.

"Well, let's go." Dumbledore/Nott finally said.

The other three nodded and they all headed towards the ground, Harry/Crabbe in the lead.

When all four had landed, Harry/Crabbe opened the door to Draco's hidden entrance. The others all climbed in and Harry/Crabbe followed.

He led them through a few passages before finally arriving at the door to Draco's room. "Okay, we are here. Shh." he said holding a finger to his lips. For several seconds, they stood there listening. "I am going to go first and I will signal you if it is clear."

The others nodded, so Harry/Crabbe quietly opened the door. He glanced around the room before stepping over the threshold. Once inside the room, he heard movement. Harry froze and spun around towards the origin of the sound.

He squinted his eyes towards the bed and saw a lump under the sheets. He tiptoed over to the bed and looked closer. He almost yelled when he saw that it was not only one body, but two bodies intertwined. It was none other than the two people that they had come to save. Draco and Hermione.

Harry was about to wake them when a hand touched his shoulder. He spun around and saw Theodore Nott standing behind him. He was about to let out a shriek when the other boys hand flew to his mouth. Sudden realization dawned on him and he relaxed against Dumbledore's hand.

After a minute, Dumbledore/Nott released his hand and said, "You cannot wake them. It is imperative that we do not let anyone know that we are here. Even Draco and Hermione."

"But--"

"No, I will explain it to you later. Let's just get the key and get into that room."

Harry/Crabbe nodded and headed towards Draco's dresser. He walked around until he heard a squeak. He stepped off of the board and quietly lifted it up. He reached his hand underneath and felt around before finding the key. When he had removed it, he headed back to where Dumbledore, Ron and Ginny stood.

"Got it." he said as he held up the key.

"Okay, follow me." Ginny/Pansy said as she headed towards the bed. Harry was momentarily worried at what Ginny would do when she saw Draco and Hermione, but she just walked past them with not so much as a glance. When she reached the wall, she reached her hand out and ran it along the wall. The others stood behind her and waited.

After a few minutes, Ginny stopped caressing the wall. She kept one hand on the wall and held the other out towards Harry. "Give me the key." Harry handed her the key and Ginny placed the key into the hole where her other hand was. A door appeared from no where and she pulled it open. "After you guys." she said with a smile.

The guys all filed in and Ginny quickly followed, closing the door after her as Harry had done earlier that night.

"Ginny, where's the light?" Ron asked as they stood in the darkness with light from only their wands.

"How should I know. I found the room. One of you has to find the light." she said in a defensive voice.

"Sorry." He said holding his arms up in surrender.

"Here, let me handle this." Dumbledore/Nott said as he pushed up his sleeves and held his hands out. He waved his hands and suddenly the room was thrown from darkness to light. "Well, we shall have a few hours before anyone is asleep, so why don't we take a short nap?"

"Why not?" Ron said happily before jumping on one of the couches.

"Are you sure? What if we don't wake up?" Ginny asked in a paranoid voice.

"Don't worry, Miss Weasley. You need the sleep so that we can be at the top of our game."

"Okay. If you say so." she said as she too took one of the couches.

Soon, Harry, Ginny, and Ron were all sound asleep with Dumbledore weeping watch.

"Master, what if they won't join our side? We will never be able to trust them." said a shaky voice.

"Don't worry so much, Wormtail. They will convert to our side, and they will want too." Voldemort said as he stared into the blue flames in the fireplace.

"B-b-but Master, how?? How w-will you g-g-get them to w-willingly c-come to our s-side?"

"Wormtail! When I tell you that it will happen, it will happen!" Voldemort said in his normal threatening voice. "But if you must know, it is the rings."

"The r-rings??"

"Yes, Wormtail, the rings!! The rings are slowly going to make their reality go away. They are bound to me and I am going to manipulate and change their memories through the rings. Soon they will have totally forgotten everything about their real pasts, and they will be totally under my influence and control." Voldermort replied with a sickly satisfied voice. "Now, I am going to bed. You should too. I am sure that tomorrow will be quite an eventful day."

"Yes, my Lord." he said before leaving.

'Ah, so that it is his plan. Well we will just have to see what we can do about that.' thought a man who happened to be eavesdropping in a passage that connected to the room that Voldemort was staying in.

"Wake up, you three. It is time." Dumbledore said as he shook Harry.

After a few minutes, everyone as up and ready to make a plan. "So, what are we going to do?" Ron asked.

"Well, I think that we need to get rid of those rings." Dumbledore said.

"But you said that we had to kill Voldemort in order to do that." Ginny said.

"Then what are we waiting for?"

"What? You want us to just go out there and try to kill him?" Ron asked in a high-pitched, scared voice.

"Yep."

"Wait, I have an idea." Harry said. "Remember the prophecy?"

"Yes Harry. Everyone knows that you have to kill Voldemort. But that doesn't tell us how." Ron said.

"No, I think that Mr. Potter is on to something. Go on, Harry." Dumbledore said as he nodded for Harry to continue.

"First, I am talking about Hermione's prophecy not mine!" Harry began in a slightly annoyed voice. "Second, I think that the prophecy will help us. Here's the plan….

AN- that's all till next time. I will try to update as soon as I can. It is hard with all the "College Stuff" that I have to do now-a-days. Right now I am in my Government class…yawn…zzzzzzzzzz… ::snores:: My government teacher is monotone and "Super Boring!!" Have a great week!!!!!!!!! I Love everyone who reads and reviews!! (And even those who don't review!!)

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