Chapter 11: A Visit To The Malfoy's
The sky was clear that night. Hermione could see Scarlet clearly in the moonlight. Her hair was straight tonight. Her skin was paler that what Hermione had thought before.
"So," Scarlet said trying to make conversation. "You're in you seventh year?"
"Yeah," Hermione said as she continued to look ahead.
"Do you want to know something?" Hermione acted as though Scarlet hadn't said anything. 'Now I remember why I never had children,' she thought. "I went to Hogwarts, too."
Hermione looked at the for the first time. "You went to Hogwarts?"
"Yes," she replied happy to have a conversation going.
"What house were you in?"
"The same one you are, but that was after I transferred."
"Where did you go before?" Hermione was now interested.
"I went to a private school in the South of France."
"It must have been hard to leave your friends. What year did you transfer?
"My fifth," memories came flooding back to Scarlet. 'It wasn't so bad once I got there, and besides I made great friends. Lilly helped me out a lot."
"Lily," Hermione wondered out loud.
"The Lily you thinking is correct. Harry's mother was one of my best friends."
"So, you would have known James as well."
"Yes, I did. I'll tell you on thing Harry looks so much like James he could be his twin. Well, except for his eyes there the exact same color as Lily's."
"He gets told that all the time. Who else was you friends with?"
"Well, I wasn't really friends with James or Lupin till the end of our sixth year."
"So, you would have known Sirius?"
"Yes, I knew him." The sound of his name brought back a pain she would live with forever. She turned her face upward hoping Hermione hadn't seen the tears. God, she missed him. She had known him, but they had been more than friends. They were close to the woods now. " When we start in the woods stay close."
"Why," Hermione asked as she looked forward. For some reason the woods looked a lot like the forbidden forest.
"There are things in there," Scarlet nodded her head at the forest "that no mortal should see." They rode for a minutes neither one of them speaking. "Stay close Hermione. Do not let me out of your sight." Scarlet nudged her horses in the sides and he took off in a gallop. Hermione did the same trying hard to keep up.
"How much further," Hermione asked looking all around. They had ridden hard for about ten minutes. The fog was beginning to rise and it was becoming hard to see.
"Another ten minutes if we keep ridding like this." Scarlet heard something snap to her right. 'I hope we have enough time to get out of here. I really don't want Hermione to see them, and for her sake I pray they don't see her,' she thought, nudging the horses harder.
They came to the edge of the woods, and for the first time Hermione could see why Malfoy bragged. It was beautiful in it's own dark way.
Draco walked to the window in room. He saw Scarlet riding up to the stables. 'She has always been beautiful, but whoever is with her is gorgeous too.' He spun from the window and started toward the door. ' I have to met her,' he thought as he opened his door and started to go down stairs.
