Hello again everyone! Once again I am so sorry it took so long I know that most of you have probably lost all interest in reading the rest of this story but hey, writting it gives me something to do while working. Anyway, I am going to try and get Part 1 of this story finished as quickly as possible so please be patient and Review! Hehe thanks!
Diary of Harry Potter:
"WHERE IS HE?" Pansy screamed at me as she ran across the expansive lawn of the grounds in front of the castle and came face to face with me, I had stood quickly when I saw her heading and glaring in my direction as she pushed past a group of first years who were heading back up the trail to the castle.
"What?" I asked looking at her strangely. Neville, Ron and Seamus, who had been sitting with me stood up behind me and were giving Pansy probably a very similar expression as I was.
"WHERE IS HE?" She yelled and pushed me hard in the chest. She was crying hysterically, her nose was red and cheeks puffy. I realized then exactly who 'he' was and my eyes must have gone wide for she glared even harder at me.
"Don't look at me like you have no idea because I know you do! You've taken him haven't you? Where did you take him! He won't tell you anything...oh you will pay for this Potter--" she said between clinched teeth hatred dripping from every word.
"Who the blazes is she talking about?" Ron asked in a confused voice behind me.
"Malfoy..." I whispered.
"I knew it! You took him! Let him go now...where are you keeping him?" she began looking around as though she thought she would see him hiding somewhere.
"What the devil would we want with ferret boy?" Ron asked and the Gyrffindors laughed.
Pansy pulled out her wand and pointed it directly at Ron's chest, "How dare you--"
"Mrs. Parkinson! What do you think you are doing?" Hermione's voice said from behind her startling all of us, though she was still technically a prefect ever since the start of the year she had not really disciplined any of the students. She was walking as fast as she could towards our little 'party'. Pansy did not lower her wand but instead turned it and her blood shot eyes to Hermionie. "You...you're apart of this, you're the brains of this "golden little trio", you must have told them to take him...why? I'll kill you all if you don't let him go."
Hermione looked horrified, but I could senses that it was not in fear but in shock that Pansy was capable of such strong emotions.
"I have no idea what you are talking about." she said after stopping a few feet in front of her.
"She thinks we've kidnapped Malfoy." Neville said to my right who was trying to keep Ron from flat out tackling Pansy for threatening his girl friend.
"No I know you did...just you wait unti---"
"Are you saying that Malfoy is missing?" Hermione asked with a surprised expression.
"Stop acting like you don't know anything, you're the only ones who could have taken him!"
"No..." I said softly and everyone tuned to look at me, "No...No we're not..." I shook my head and looked up at Pansy. "When was the last time you saw him?"
"What does it matter , you're the one who took him...he was suppose to be watching you and now he's missing it's your fault!" the crying girl this time turned her wand thankfully away from Hermione and now pointed it at me.
"I did not take him, none of us did." I said in a very serious voice. "But if you help us maybe we can get him back...alive..."
"Me? Help you?" she asked and then laughed, "You're trying to trick me...just like you did to him!"
"No...I'm not...look...even if we did take him you killing us all isn't going to get him back--"
"No but it would make me feel a lot better." she said with a glare. I could see out of the corner of my eye Hermione pulling her wand from her robe pocket as slowly and inconspicuously as possible.
My mind was reeling trying to figure out a way out of this situation with out having to resort to using spells, not to mention that if I was going to find Draco I would need Pansy's help.
"I can prove it to you..." I said in a firm voice.
"WHAT!" Ron and Pansy yelled at the same time.
"I said I can prove it to you that I did not take him..."
Though her wand did not move she seemed to be thinking about it, "How?" she finally said.
"I have a map--"
"NO!", "Harry Don't tell her!" said my two friends behind me. I hushed them with a look.
"I have a map that shows everyone in or around the castle, there is no way I could have kidnapped him and taken him off of the grounds...someone would have noticed, like the other two spy's you have on me for instance." I said and pointed over my shoulder were a Slytherin 7th year stood watching us, failing at his attempt at looking casual by the edge of the lake.
"The only place I could have taken him to would have been somewhere here in the castle...right?"
She thought about it for a moment, her wand still pointed at me though she glared a the Slytherin boy for a moment she otherwise did not take her eyes from me.
"Alright...where is this map...?" she asked still glaring at me, her tears had finally stopped.
Glaring all the while Ron dug in my book bag and found the old piece of parchment and turned around so that he could whisper the words "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." with out Pansy hearing. Turning back he handed me the map which I then offered to Pansy. Slowly, she took it with her other hand, as though afraid that if she were to lower her wand for one moment we would all attack her.
Finally her eyes moved over the parchment looking at each moving dot in search for her classmate.
"He's not here..." she said after ten minutes. "How do I know this isn't fake? " she asked though her voice held little conviction.
"Look a little out on the grounds by the tree." Hermione said behind her. Pansy dropped the map, having obviously seen 5 dots one with each of our names beneath it.
After moment of shaking her head she said, "But then...who could have taken him."
"I don't know...but I promise you that I will find out…and I know that we could find him a lot faster if you were to help us."
"How...?" she asked in a voice hardly a whisper still shaking her head as if in disbelief.
"First...when was the last time you saw him? " I asked her in as calm a voice as I could muster , I could feel Ron's frustration and anger behind me, and Neville's concern and confusion, Hermione was just watching the other girl with a thought filled expression but was otherwise unreadable.
" Last night...he came back to the Slytherin common room...I know because I have a charm that lets me know when ever he comes back...but last night he wasn't alone. I know that much because he never turns his wards and silencing charms on unless he has company. "
I tried to hide my surprise at learning she had charms to alert her when he came back to the common room, I knew also that I was the one who was with Draco last night...and I tried to keep from remembering how we had fought.
"He didn't get up for breakfast...his room was still locked...but he wasn't there...I got worried so I broke through his spells but when I got inside he wasn't there. I searched the whole castle but I knew he wouldn't be there... I knew he had been taken by someone. I've been in his room many times, and though there wasn't anything really out of place it just had a very strange feel and smell to it." she said with another shake of her head as a tear rolled down her cheek.
I nodded and then turned to Ron who had moved to stand beside Hermione and had his arm around her waist glaring ruefully at Pansy.
"You two get the D. A together...Neville very discreetly ask the professors if they know anything...Pansy..." I said, she looked back up at me , "Can you talk to the other Slytherins and see if you can get anything out of any of them?"
"Good luck.." she said with a snort and pocketed her wand.
"Please try?"
"Where are you going?" Ron called back, I could hear the anger in his voice and I knew he and I would have to talk later.
"Dumbledore's"
"Do you think he had something to do with this?" Hermione asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I don't know...but I do know that there are very few things that go on in this castle with out him knowing about it. Then again, he might have had something to do with it...but I just don't know... I'll meet you all in the R.R" I said and turned and quickly walked back to the castle.
I didn't have to go to Dumbledore's office he was there standing just inside the castle in the entrance hall, just standing there as though he had been waiting for me. I stopped just inside the hall and glared at him, my heart was racing the anger that I had for him was still overpowering any rational thought in my mind.
"What part did you have in this old man?" I asked between clinched teeth.
"Of what matter are you speaking of, Harry?" he asked , that amused glint as always taunting me from his eyes.
"Malfoy….Where is he?" I asked, tried of his games, I just wanted answers.
"Ah, yes…I was aware that Mr. Malfoy's whereabouts are currently unknown, professor Snape informed me this morning that he had plans to meet with his student and he did not make the appointment. But we are as of yet unable to determine where or what has happened to him."
"How did they get him off the grounds with out anyone noticing?" I asked, my anger abating in light of the situation. If Dumbledore was not responsible for Draco's disappearance then I would probably need his help as well as Pansy's to find him.
"The Professors and I are still trying to figure that one out as well, Harry."
"Let me know if you find anything." I said curtly and started to walk away from him.
"Do you intend to find him, then?" my headmaster asked in an amused tone.
"You know I do."
"Harry, I must advise you to not do so…isn't it possible that all of his affections and attentions towards you was only a means to achieve the goal of bring you to Voldemort?" he asked, I didn't look at him, but my shoulders slacked of their own accord.
"Yes…it is possible…" I said finally turning to look into the strange eyes of my once mentor. "But you don't know the things I feel from him…the feelings, emotions and thoughts that I can sense in him…there is something good about him, I know it…."
"But you know, better than I, that those feelings can be false...remember it is not just your life that you sacrifice by making such rash decisions—"
"I know!" I yelled at him, my fists clinching at my sides as I interrupted him, "Don't you think I know that? Merlin, it's all I think about, all day…that damned prophecy which since you've lied to me about everything else in my life I don't even know if it is true! But one thing I do know is that if you had not "prearranged" my friendship with Ron and Hermione then Draco and I would have been friends a long time ago---"
"Which is exactly what I was trying to avoid, I knew with out my interference you and he would eventually be acquaintances." The old wizard said, surprising me enough to straighten up and look at him oddly.
"Why? Because you thought he would turn me into a death eater?" I asked confused "Well I know that never would have happened…..I'm not like that. I was never like that even before I came here I would have never been on that side of the spectrum---"
"No…Harry I knew you would never …the prophecy shows that you are the one who can defeat Voldemort, I never had any doubt of the person you would become."
"Then why---?"
"Because…there…" he looked away from me for a moment, "Because there is a Prophecy about Mr. Malfoy as well." I blinked in surprise.
"W-what does it say?"
He cleared his throat, "Unfortunately I was not there when the seer spoke the prophecy about Mr. Malfoy but the words are written down in my office if you would like to read---"
"I want to read it now." I said and turned to walk towards his office, I think I heard him sigh behind me but I didn't care. I waited for him at the entrance to his office at the stone gargoyle. Finally he arrived and opened the entrance and I followed him up the spiral stair case to his chamber.
I didn't sit as we walked in but crossed my arms and waited impatiently.
Sitting on Dumbledore's desk was a small silver box that I had previously thought was a snuff box but I was proven wrong as the headmaster pulled a small silver key from mid air and unlocked the box, revealing a single piece of white parchment. He pulled it out and handed it to me.
As the one with the power to vanquish the dark lord rises to our world
The power of his betrayer grows stronger
Born to those who serve serpents best
In platinum light the truth Is known
Darkness lies secretly with in an unknown heart
And the champion will find his demise in his own
The One with the ability to destroy the savior of the world shares his fate
His power is his lips the weapon, his kiss
As their love severs the darkness, despair consumes
The one who holds the power to crush the hero
Will change the heart of the world.
I read it over and over trying to make since of the entire thing, but it wouldn't sink in. When I finally looked up at the headmaster he was sitting behind his desk watching me closely.
"How…how do you know for sure that this is about Draco?" I asked in a weak sounding voice.
"Can't you see it, Harry? Born to those who serve serpents best? Platinum…think of his hair and his fathers and mothers as well. Harry who else could it be?" the old headmaster asked me quietly giving me a pitying expression.
"I won't believe it…you're just trying to control me again!" I yelled as I backed away from the door the parchment clutched in my hand.
"No, Harry…I'm not…use your legimancy if you must, but know that I am not lying…I did not make this prophecy nor your own up…Wait Harry!---" he cried out as I turned and left his office slamming the door behind me.
I didn't want to believe it, I couldn't believe it. I felt a hot tear stream down my cheek as I finally made it to the hall way. My mind was running in circles as my feet carried me of their own accord.
Could it be possible that it was all just a game, just some messed up trick of Draco's and his families to try and kill me? But what about all of the things I felt from him? Felt when I was inside him? I felt like I was going to be sick. I made it into an empty room and slammed my back into the wall beside the door after I closed it and then crumbled sobbing to the floor, the parchment still clutched in my hand.
"Harry?" a voice called out to me surprising and shocking me so that I stood again quickly. Ginny stood before me looking at me with very concerned eyes. I felt stupid for having not sensed her, then again maybe I had sensed her which is why I had ended up there alone with her, who knows. We were in the Room of Requirement, it was done up as the D.A room but we were totally alone.
"Are you alright?" she asked, stopping a few feet in front of me. I didn't say anything only nodded and looked down at the paper in my hand for a moment before pushing it into my pocket.
"You're going after him aren't you?" she asked tilting her head to one side, there was something deeply sad in the way she was looking at me and I could feel her anguish as easily as I could feel my own. I closed my eyes against her emotions and tilted my head back against the wall.
"Yes…" I finally said, I didn't realize at first that my body was shaking but It was. I
"There is nothing I can do to try and stop you, is there?" she said in a defeated tone and I reopened my eyes to see that she had turned away from me. Only the movements of her shoulders revealed her tears.
"I'm sorry…" I whispered, I knew what she was thinking, I was betraying them all. Draco was our enemy and now I was leaving all of them, including Ginny who loves me, to go and try and rescue him.
"Why? Why is he so important to you? Why can't you see that this is what they want?" she asked, her voice cracking a bit.
"Because…I don't know anything for sure….I don't know what is true and what isn't true….something in my heart pulls me to him, I…I love him, Ginny…and that to me is worth the entire world." I said taking a few cautious steps towards her. She must have felt me moving for a moment later she turned and flung her arms around my neck and clung to me desperately.
"You are so Stupid!" she proclaimed, "They are going to kill you!" sobbing into my shoulder. I rubbed her back lightly trying to calm her.
"Not unless I get to them first…" I said with a shake of my head and a small smile. I pulled back and brushed the tears from her cheek and lost myself in her intense brown eyes. I could feel her fear then, her pain at losing me, her desire to find someway for me to stay. Her emotions were once again being projected towards me and I closed me eyes to them, part of me wanting to push them away and the other part of me wanting them more and more each second.
"Stop it…" I whispered.
"Stop what?" she asked in a genuinely confused and slightly hurt tone. When I looked into her eyes I could see that she was watching me carefully as though she thought something was wrong, and I realized that this time she didn't even know it was happening. Her hand came and cupped my cheek but not in any romantic way as she stared into my eyes.
"Are you sure you're alright?" she asked softly , I could feel her concern and her worry, and her love for me as it swelled forth and washed over me. I don't know how but I knew that as my eyes closed once again to her emotions that her eyes had drifted to my lips.
"Harry….don't go…" she whispered.
"I have to….I'm sorry…" I said looking back at her. "Even if this is just a trap the reason Draco is missing in the first place is because of me."
"But…You didn't even go after---" she cut off and her cheeks flushed.
"I know…and I should have…but this time…I—"
"It's different because you're in love with him?" she asked as a tear rolled down her cheek. She tried to turn away from me but I held her arms tightly and she shook her head. "Just go then….leave everyone who has ever cared about you over someone who is destined to kill you!" she stammered between sobs.
"You know about his prophecy?" I asked and she froze, tears still falling down her cheeks.
"Yes…since the day I told Dumbledore about you and Malfoy….I was standing out side his office when I heard him talking about it to someone."
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"I…I was afraid you wouldn't believe me." She said with her head low and I blinked at her a few times.
"Oh, Ginny…I'm sorry…." I said, and if felt as though I would never say that enough to her or any of the Gryffindor after this.
"Please don't go…You don't even know where it is that he has gone—"
"No…but I think Pansy can help me with that…they are suppose to be coming here soon."
She shook her head sadly, "He doesn't deserve you Harry…..even if what you say about him is true…he still doesn't deserve you." I smiled a bit and planted a small kiss on her brow and froze at the emotions it cause.
I decided that as soon as I got back from finding Draco I was going to figure out what the hell the connection between she and I was and what had caused it, but after a moment of drowning in her emotions and staring into her eyes our lips met softly and sweetly, again and then again. It wasn't lustful, or passionate, but fearful….and sad….as we both thought over never seeing the other person again.
After the third small kiss she rested her head on my chest and sighed softly and I held her close. The door to the room of requirement opened then and Hermione, Ron, Neville, Seamus, Luna and a curious Pansy walked into the room they all looked at us strangely before we broke apart and moved towards them.
"So this is where you have your little meetings ,eh? How cute." Pansy said sarcastically as she took a seat at one of the tables.
"Look I know it's going to be hard for you to learn what manners are , and I don't even know why Harry is even considering trusting you but before we go why don't you practice that if you can't say something nice then don't open your big mouth." Luna said taking a seat on the other side of the room with a large pillow.
Pansy opened her mouth to retort, "That's enough, come on…we are suppose to be working together."
"Yeah but why?" Ron asked in his angry cold voice.
"If someone has taken Malfoy why the hell should we even care? After everything he has done why should we risk our lives in trying to save him---"
"Because we are better than that." I said trying to come up with some sort of rational reason for my willingness to help him.
"Why the hell do you care so much?" Ron asked turning to glare at me, "Look at what he has done to all of us in the past years, not to mention what he did over the summer" he said giving an apologetic expression to his girl friend whose hand he was holding.
"But if they took him then they must have some reason behind it…a reason that we need to investigate." Neville said thoughtfully.
"What if it is just a trap."
"No…I don't think they would have expected Harry to go and rescue him." Pansy said from the corner , her chin was in her hand propped up on the table and seemed to be thinking hard on something.
"Well at least we will have the element of surprise." Neville said with a smirk at Luna.
"I'm going alone."
"WHAT?" Everyone but Pansy and Ginny yelled at once.
"I am the one that they want if this is in fact another trap, and it's my decision to go. I know all of you want to help me in the fight against Voldemort and you will but right now this is a rescue mission…which is what the Department of Mysteries was suppose to be …and I don't want anyone else getting hurt." I said in a very final way.
"But where would they have taken him?" Ginny asked me trying to change the subject. At this everyone turned and looked at Pansy.
"What?" she asked loudly looking back at all of us as though we were crazy before sighing. "Alright, alright….the only place that I can think of would either be where the lord is hiding, but don't ask because I don't know where that is, our minds are cleaned of that information every time. But ….maybe…the manor?" she suggested.
"What manor?" Ron asked in a harsh annoyed way.
"Malfoy manor you dimwit." She said and I could see Ron struggling to keep his temper under control.
"Do you know how to get there?" I asked quickly.
"Yes, " she nodded, " But it will take you two days to get there and there is only one way in---"
"So they will know you're coming." Hermione said in a shaking voice, I noticed then that she had been looking at me with a very concentrated expression like she was trying to figure something out, but when I looked at her as she spoke she quickly broke her gaze away from me.
"Did you learn anything from the Slytherins?" I asked her.
Shaking her head , "No, and if I would have pushed anymore it would have seemed suspicious."
"Neville?"
"Not a thing, McGonagall seemed really worried though and Snape just slammed the door in my face." He said with a shrug.
"Alright then, it seems the only plan so far is to go to Malfoy Manor and see if that is where they are keeping him, and maybe find some answers or clues if he is not there."
"What about the order?" Asked Ron who was still glaring at me.
"What about them?"
"Isn't this something that we should let them know about? I am sure that they would have a problem with you going at this alone."
"Dumbledore already knows that I intend to go after him…if he gets the order involved that is his decision, I will just have to hope that they will stay out of the way and not get them selves or Draco hurt."
"Draco? You're calling him Draco now?" Ron asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I….um…."
"What time are you planning on going?" Ginny asked out of the blue and I said a silent thank you to her in my mind.
"I don't know, I will have to find out what time the Hogwarts Express can leave---"
"Noon tomorrow." Pansy said with a smirk and we all looked at her with raised eyebrows. "What? So I looked into it."
"Alright then…Noon tomorrow it is….Pansy can you write down some directions for me?"
"Yeah sure." She said in a cynical tone.
I sighed a bit, "Okay…well then…um.."
"I still don't like you going alone." Luna said with a shake of her head and others nodded in agreement.
"I know, but it's the way it has to be. Dumbledore already knows that I am planning on leaving I am pretty sure that he wouldn't let any of you come with me---"
"So? We left for the Dept. of Mysteries with out him knowing!" Ron said loudly.
"Come on guys, I don't want anyone to get hurt…besides we don't even know if that is where he is…---"
"Yeah but just because he isn't there doesn't mean that there wont be death eaters there!"
"Look, I am going alone and that is it…I know I can't keep you from following me if you want to on your own but I am asking you to please stay and make sure that no one else goes missing….keep me informed of everything going on. Hermione, you take over the D.A lessons…and Ron if anything happens…" I said in a very serious tone locking eyes with the redhead, "You're in charge, you have the best strategic skills over us all and if the death eaters choose to make a direct attack on the school---"
"But they won't…will they?" Neville asked in a nervous tone, "I mean why would they?"
"To weaken the other side by lowering moral and raising fear to high levels. Being able to infiltrate what the wizarding population considers an un damageable location." Pansy said as though in a trance.
"Huh?" Ginny , Luna, and Neville asked all at once. Pansy rolled her eyes.
"Think about it, everyone in the world thinks that Hogwarts is the safest place to be, and that The Dark Lord only fears Dumbledore…if they were able to get to the school it would show just how powerful they are, and everyone would be afraid and probably too much so to fight against them."
"That's a good point…" Hermione said as though deep in thought, "Alright then, Harry we will send you any information on what happens over here and we will have to start training the D.A for on ground attacks."
"Formations.." Ron stated, "We have to teach them formations, find the weakest points of the wards around the grounds and castle and strengthen them…and then work around the areas that are most likely going to be attacked. "
"Sounds like you have your work cut out for you then." I said with a smirk feeling enthused and heartened that Ron was up for the challenge of taking over the D.A and preparing for an attack.
"Alright, everyone know what they are doing?" the circle of somber people nodded , "Any questions, then?" no one said anything, "Good…see you in a few days."
Luna and Neville left first then Ron and Hermione, who both gave me strange expressions as they did so, Ginny gave me a long hug before walking out the door, Pansy however cornered me.
"I don't care what you say or think but I am coming with you."
"No---"
"Shut up, Potter. You can't do anything about it, I am the one who knows how to get there and he is my fiancé so I am going with you weather you like it or not." She said glaring at me, and though her mention of their engagement struck a jealous nerve in me , I knew that I would need her to lead me to the manor.
"Fine," I said with a sigh, "But know that if you betray me---"
"Oh back off, Potter… I'm just trying to find him as much as you are, Merlin knows why you're really so interested in your enemies well being , but as little as I want to admit it I will need your help if I am going to get him back alive." She said interrupting me and then turning on her heal to the door.
"See you at noon tomorrow." She said then closed the door behind her with a short snap.
Tomorrow…if only I could leave today, right now. I am writing this I wonder if I will ever make it back to this school, and if not what will become of Hermione and Ron. Merlin please help me…what if the prophecy about him is true? What if he is just using me? No…I still can't believe that…I know what I felt…what I saw in his eyes…I just want him to be okay…I wish he were here….in my arms. I would have never thought that anyone could just be taken from Hogwarts like that…just vanish without a trace. Tomorrow…I hope I am not too late.
