The Dark Lady
Chapter 14 – Break Out
By gracie5412

Shout outs to-

JKIJ,
Kendra is cheese,
Ice-Pheonix-Tears,


A month passed quickly with Hermione making plans for the break out and sending false letters to Harry, Ron and Ginny telling them about her 'holiday' so they didn't become suspicious. But the day they had been waiting for was upon them so everyone was feeling slightly jittery. Except Hermione, she had the knack of being able to burry emotions that she didn't want.

At noon she apperated to the Ministry telling the front desk she had an important message for the Aurors after they had weighed her wand. She looked back to see Draco was hidden between the goblin and the house elf in the fountain in his lizard form. Instead of going to the Aurors' floor she carried on going until she was in the department of Mysteries.

As she walked down the corridor and through the door her mind went back to the time she had done this before in her fifth year with Harry.

When she was in the black, circular room she quickly turned and marked the door before the wall rotated and she was trapped. She watched as her green cross spun around past her until the wall stopped again. She walked through a door and came out in the corridor that she and Thomas Duffy had arrived in when they had flooed there. The fireplace had, of course, disappeared as that had only been there as a one off that had been specially arranged.

Ben Miller was already stood outside the door waiting for her when she arrived. She ignored his pleasantries and pulled out the key that was hung around her neck. She yanked it, and the chain links broke, before sliding the key into the lock and turning it three times clockwise and once counter clockwise like she had seen Thomas Duffy do only a few months ago when all this had just started. When she still didn't have full control, but now it had been two weeks since the former Hermione had surfaced and that had only been for a second or so. The door slid open and a rush of cold, stale air hit them before they walked in.

"Whoa! That's a lot of sleeping people!" Ben exclaimed as he looked at the number of little silver doors that lined the walls. "How the hell are we going to stop them all from killing us. They may not have wands but they sure as hell have hands."

"Don't worry about it I've got a plan." Hermione said and got out her wand, after saying a few spells all the deatheaters were out of their holding cases and hovering a few feet off the ground. "OK wake them up now." She instructed.

Ben stepped forward and closed his eyes he muttered a spell under his breath and repeated it like a mantra. As he continued a blue mist swirled around the deatheaters slowly coaxing them awake. Once they all were the mist vanished and Ben stepped back against the wall hoping to become unnoticed by the menacing expressions that the men and women all wore.

Hermione simply stepped forward as her prior spell wore off and everyone landed on the floor and advanced towards her. She pointed her wand and said. "Finite Incantatem" all movement stopped as everyone found themselves unable to operate their limbs. She then pointed her wand up into the air and shouted. "MORSMORDE!" a jet of black shot from her wand and formed a large dark mark in the air above their heads.

"Now I have your attention I can introduce myself." She said to them as they gazed in wonderment "I was known to you as Hermione Granger. I am now the Lady of Darkness, you new Mistress. Things have changed. I killed Voldemort and I have now taken over where he left off as his power was transferred to me by a spell he made. My first task was to regain my troops. So if you'd be so kind as to follow me then we can get back to Riddle House. The others should have made a distraction by now."

She started to walk to the door and her deatheaters followed, Ben Miller being pulled along with them all.

She stopped as she got to the thresh hold. She pointed her wand back at them all and cast a spell upon them so they became invisible to anyone who wasn't a deatheater. "Now follow me and stay close." She ordered as she walked along the hall. The distraction had worked as no one stopped them and they all successfully got to the street outside the Ministry. From there they were able to apperate back to the Riddle House were all the deatheaters were directed into the meeting hall to be addressed by Malfoy while Hermione dealt with Ben Miller.

"Ha, ha good one! You were so convincing I almost believed you!" He laughed as he followed her like she had ordered him to.

"What are you blabbering on about?" Hermione spat.

"The whole taking over from You-Know-Who and how did you learn that spell to do the Dark Mark thing? That was a good addition. Anyway I forgot to tell you I owled Dumbledore just before you arrived to let him know I had arrived and that we were about to get them all. Unfortunately the only owl I could find was very old and slow so he's probably only just gotten it. In fact I said I'd owl him again when we arrived at the holding place so I better go and do that now." He said and realised Hermione had stopped walking.

"YOU DID WHAT?" She shrieked. "You complete idiot! Want to know something? All that wasn't a performance when I first met you thatwas a performance! I have taken over form Voldemort." She pulled up her cuff and showed him her dark mark. "So yes you just helped me get my army back but now you've blown my cover!"

Ben turned very white, as reality dawned on him "Y-you won't get far if Dumbledore already knows its you h-he'll kill you." He stammered.

"What you mean like this?" Hermione asked as she rounded on him. "Avada Kedavara." His body crumpled to the floor and she stepped over him saying "Nah I don't think he will." As she walked away.