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When we were safely back in the house, we stood in the hallway outside our rooms.

Just before I went into my room, I asked Draco, ""Should we tell Snape or Tonks about what happened?"

"Yeah," he replied. "We had better let them know. You do realise that they're gunna let you have a lot less freedom now that they know my dad might try to kidnap you and hurt you, right?" he cautioned.

I sighed with resignation. I had been mulling over that before I had asked him the question but I felt that I'd rather have less freedom than be killed.

"Ah well, we'll tell them when they get back. I'll see you in a few hours," I replied and went into my room, quietly closing the door.

Nadia was fast asleep so I tried to be as quiet as possible while I got ready for bed. It was already 5:30 am so I could only have about three hours to make sure that I would be so that nobody would be suspicious and find out that I had snuck out during the night.

I woke up at around eight in the morning, dressed and headed downstairs for breakfast. I found everyone at the breakfast table, except Nadia. Apparently she had gone home already. The Goodman's weren't there either as they had gone off to work. Most importantly however, Snape and Tonks were there.

"Morning, Hermione," Tonks greeted me, after passing some toast and jam.

I looked at Draco, trying to get a clue whether he had already talked to them or not. He noticed me looking at him questioningly and gave me a quick nod. Thank god nobody noticed of course. I didn't want a lecture from anyone about us going out and all that.

After breakfast was cleared, Snape, in a bad mood as usual, didn't feel that we should know anything and immediately left the table. Luckily, Tonk's stayed behind to talk to us.

"Look," she said. "Don't worry nothing much is going on. We're just trying out some new spells and curses and charms that are legal to fight back with. Anyways, that is all I can say for now," and she got up and left the kitchen.

I wanted to leave to. I didn't want to hang around here. After all, what was there to do anyway?

"Hey Hermione?" asked Harry, as soon as Ron and Draco had left the table and were out of sight.

"Yeah?" I answered.

"What's going on between you and Malfoy?" he asked.

"Umm, nothing. Why?" I replied. I didn't want Harry to know that I liked Draco and that we were going out. Well, at least I thought we were.

"You two sure seem friendly. That's all," he replied, sounding unconvinced.

I shrugged and said, "Yeah, well. We have to stick together right now. Why hate each other?"

"Yeah, I guess you're right," He replied grudgingly.

I finished my breakfast, told him I'd see him later and left the kitchen.

I was making my way out the back door and someone grabbed my shoulders from behind. I shrieked, making a grab for my wand.

"Breaking the rules now, are we?" Draco asked, smirking.

"Um, no. Can't I at least go out in the yard or am I under house arrest too?"

"Yeah well, it would be easy for someone to kidnap you right outside the house," he replied.

I sighed. I did not like not being able to go out and do simple everyday things.

"Come on, we'll go do something," he offered, sensing I wasn't too happy with the new arrangement.

"Well, I was thinking of going over to Nadia's and seeing what she's up to," I said, knowing perfectly he wouldn't want to hang out with two girls. "Of course you could come along and talk about clothes and stuff," I said, grinning evilly.

"Um, pass," Draco replied, looking as if he'd rather sit through a whole week of History of Magic Classes than come along with me.

I put my cloak on and said dramatically, "Well, walk me over to Nadia's in case some tries to kill me, then you can save me!"

I knew I should be taking Lucius's threat seriously but we all have our own way with coping with things and mine was joking about it.

"Ok, I'll walk you over there. I'll come walk you back in an hour," he said.

"An HOUR?!" I wailed, incredulous.

"Ok, ok. A couple of hours then. Just make sure that if Nadia and you decide to go out, leave a note or inform someone or something, ok?" Draco replied.

I nodded grudgingly. I truly felt like screaming but I didn't argue back as we walked towards Nadia's.

When we got to Nadia's, her mum let me in and told me she was up in her room. I ran upstairs and found her writing in her diary. She hit it immediately when she saw me.

"Writing your life story?" I joked.

"Ha-ha As if I have anything exciting to write about," she replied, laughing.

I flopped onto her bed beside her and went on to tell her about what had happened earlier that morning.

"Oh, that's awful! You poor thing. You must be frightened," she exclaimed, hugging me.

"Yeah I am. I don't know what Lucius will do if he kidnaps me. He might keep me alive and torture me or he might even kill me," I replied, realising the possibilities.

I wanted to cry but I wouldn't let myself. There wasn't really a point as nothing had happened yet and it wouldn't if I was careful.

Nadia hopped of the bed and said, "Come, lets do something fun to take your mind off things."

It seemed to me that Nadia always wanted pretend that nothing bad had or could happen and her answer to everything was to go out and do something and at the moment that didn't seem like such a bad idea so I got up and followed her downstairs.

"Mum, Hermione and I are going to do a bit of shopping. See you at 1:30!" she yelled as we made our way out of the house.

"Ok, be careful!" her mum called back.

She took me to wizarding mini mall nearby. It was really cool. There was this store called Cosmic and it sold hip and up-to-date wizarding and even muggle clothes. I ended up buying a shirt that was red when you weren't wearing it but if you put it on, it changes colour according to your moods. I had never seen anything like it before.

Nadia then led me to a another shop nearby.

"Hermione, I'm buying one of these," she announced, walking over to a glass case that was filled with rings that were set with different magical stones.

"Oh no, Nadia. You don't have to…" I started.

"Yes I do. If something happens to you, at least your whereabouts can be traced if you were wearing one of these rings. All someone has to do is say the incantation with your name in it and your location would appear on a piece of parchment," she explained.

I had never read about rings like this before or even seen them in any shop in Diagon Alley.

"They've just been introduced. However, the stones aren't real so they don't cost much. Only four galleons," Nadia explained, as if reading my mind or at least the puzzled expression on my face.

I looked at the glass case and ended up picking a small emerald ring that was surrounded by diamonds. Of course the stones weren't real but at least it looked pretty. Nadia then dragged me to the counter so that she could pay for my ring. I was handed a form with a few questions from the cashier.

"What is this?" I asked Nadia.

"Well you need to fill it up for the ring to work," she explained.

So I took out and quill and set about answering the questions.

Name: Hermione M. Granger

Date of Birth: April 16 1988

Height: 5'7"

Weight: 118 lbs

Hair Colour: Brown

Eye Colour: Brown

I thought the questions were a bit irrelevant but I answered them anyway. I passed the form back to the witch behind the counter. She placed the ring on the form and pointed her wand at it, muttering a spell.

"Lavenalix" She said and the ring glowed with a purple light.

When the light faded, the form rolled itself into a tight roll and she placed it in a drawer and locked it.

"What are you going to do with it?" I asked.

"Keep it safe, my dear. So that no one can open it if you go missing. Only if someone that knows the same spell I just said and it would come to them and show them your whereabouts and anything else important," she explained.

I nodded and put the ring on. Nadia and I thanked her before we left.

Back at Nadia's, Draco was waiting for us.

"Had a good afternoon?" he asked, taking my hand as we walked back to the Goodman's.

"Yeah, as a matter of fact I did. How about you?" I asked.

"It was ok. I went and checked out some new brooms, that's about it. Oh and I went and got one of those iced coffees you showed me," he answered

I smiled. "You really like them. don't you," I teased, squeezing his hand.

"Yeah, they're great. Especially when you haven't had much sleep and need caffeine," he replied.

"Well you can always put a spell on your self for energy but I suppose iced coffee is a better option," I said, as we reached the house.

We went in, still holding hands. I had completely forgotten to tell him about the ring and its powers.

We had arrived in America around the beginning of October. Almost every other day, Snape and Tonks had left for meetings and yet we weren't told much about anything that happened at those meetings.

November was now almost over and I still hadn't decided if I'd forgive my mum and dad and go home for Christmas. We were allowed to go home for the holidays, like when we were at Hogwarts. I was still working on some assignments for school when I wasn't spending time with Draco, Harry or Ron or shopping hanging out with Nadia. Harry and Ron had joined a Quiddich team in the wizarding school here. They didn't have to go to the school. However they were allowed to take part in the activities due to the small number of students in New York.

On the morning of November the 27th, I had breakfast and talked to Draco, Ron and Harry. After eating, I was about to go up to my room to work on a paper for History of Magic when an owl tapped on my window. Ron got up and let the owl in and it landed on my plate, dropping a note on my lap. I opened it quickly, thinking it would be marks from school but it turned out to be a note from Nadia.

It read:

Hermione,
Some of my friends and I are having a little party tonight at around 8:00. Please come if you can.

By the way, it's kind of an all girls thing so I hope you don't mind not bringing you friends.

Nadia

I thought it was slightly odd since Nadia had never singled out my friends and her parties always had a mix of guys and girls. I frowned, wondering how I could get out of the house to the party alone. Nadia knew I wasn't supposed to be going out by myself. I looked out the window and saw that I was snowing heavily so I figured no one would be trying to kill or kidnap me in this kind of weather.

"Who's the owl from?" Ron asked.

"Oh just some marks from a Charms assignment I did," I replied. I hated lying but I couldn't tell them the truth.

I got up, taking the note and went up to my room. I placed the note beside on my desk and started work on the paper for History of Magic.

Later, while still working on the paper, I was interrupted by a knock on my door. I hurriedly pushed the note under a stack of books on my desk and yelled, "Come in!"

The door opened, and Draco entered. "Hi, I just wanted to see if you'd liked to go get some butterbeer later tonight," he said.

I thought frantically for an excuse.

Finally, I said, "I wish I could, but I really do have a lot of work to do."

Draco's face fell and I rushed to say, "I promise you that we'll do something tomorrow,"

He brightened up a bit and answered "Ok, that's fine."

After he left, I sighed. I was getting good at being a little liar and I couldn't say that I liked it.

Around quarter to eight, I got dressed and pulled on my cloak. I snuck quietly downstairs even though I knew everyone was out or busy doing something in their rooms. I checked anyway to make sure the coast was clear before I slipped out the back door. It had finally stopped snowing and the ground was covered with a thick white blanket of snow. I kept looking over my shoulder to make sure I wasn't being followed.

When I finally reached Nadia's, she let me in and we went up to her room where three of her other friends were talking and eating mars bars, chocolate frogs and some of those every flavoured beans that I didn't particularly like. I joined them sat crossed legged on the floor and Nadia introduced me to them. One of Nadia's friends, Nisha started talking to me and asking questions about the wizarding world back home when Nadia left to get some pumpkin juice for us. Another of her friend, Vanessa noticed my ring and asked me where I got it from. I couldn't remember the name of the store and told her to ask Nadia. Vanessa asked Nadia when she got back but Nadia got a kind of weird look on her face and tried to brush the question off.

She replied offhandedly "Oh, we got that form some store over in the many malls we shop,"

She then sat down on her bed and started talking to another friend, Megan about some school dance or something.

Well, this isn't much of a party. I though as I answered some questions about life back in England.

Then, Nadia got up and put in a CD of some popular wizarding band her. She waved her wand and her room transformed into a dance floor. We got into the mood, dancing and making up some crazy moves as we went along.

When it got to about ten o'clock, I got ready to leave. The other girls were staying over for a sleepover and as much as I wanted to stay back I knew I couldn't.

"Bye Nisha," I said, getting my cloak from the chair I'd tossed it on.

"Bye, talk to you soon," she replied.

I gave her the Goodman's address and told her to come over sometime. Nadia walked me downstairs and out of the house. She kept on talking as if to keep me from asking why she was following me so closely.

"You know the ring I got you?" she asked.

I stopped walking and answered, "Yeah. What about it?"

"Well. what I didn't tell you is that it means you can be traced anywhere anytime, no matter where you are," she said, not really sounding apologetic.

"What?!" I almost shouted.

Anyone could figure out the spell to locate me. I couldn't believe it. She knew how it important it was for me not to be easily located unless I had gone missing.

Laughing nervously, she said "Oh, there's something else you don't know."

"And what's that?" I snapped, annoyed.

"I'm not on your side. I've always been on the dark lord's side,"

"But, your mum and dad…you're half and half and…" I was sputtering out everything that could dispute what she had just told me, not realising what she had done to me.

"Yeah well, I had my chance and took it. I'm not going to hide out all my life, afraid to be killed when I could be on the dark lord's side," Nadia said, laughing evilly.

She's insane. I thought. I just stared disbelievingly at her.

"Don't look at me like I'm crazy. You and your little Order are the crazy ones!" She shrieked.

I backed away from her, walking as fast as I could. I had to get back to tell everyone what she had done. I tugged on the ring, trying to remove it.

"Losing that ring will not help you," she said, laughing again.

"Why wont it?" I asked, looking around frantically to see if there was anyone else around.

"Well, because it still has the spell on it to trace you since the parchment has all your particulars on it," she said, grinning evilly.

"How could you?!" I shouted at her. "I thought you were my friend and now you're trying to get me killed!"

"Be careful whom you trust, Mudblood," she retorted.

"You have a lot of nerve calling me that. You're one as much as I am even if you are half witch," I shot back.

"Whatever little Granger. You're going to keep your mouth shut about all of this. At least that I know for a fact," she hissed, grabbing my wrist and holding it tight, her nails digging painfully. into my flesh. "You're not going anywhere just yet."

"Let me go!" I yelled, struggling to free myself.

"Aren't we demanding," she sneered. "Well, I'm not letting you go so shut your mouth and do as you're told if you don't want anyone special to you getting killed," she warned me.

I couldn't think. I just wanted to fight back. I used my free hand to pry her vice-like grip on my wrist but she was too strong so I tried kicking her. However, she stepped away just in time.

There was a crack and before I knew it Lucius Malfoy was standing right in from on me. I panicked. I tried to run but Nadia put a freezing spell on me, preventing me from escaping.

"Well don't Nadia. You will be rewarded for you work. The Mudblood is a gold mine. She'll give us useful information about what the muggle-loving Dumbledore and his order of fools have planned. I'm sure she'll talk if she doesn't want Draco or Potter killed. I dare say that whatever killing will be up to the Dark Lord himself. I'm sure he'll be very successful making Miss Granger talk," Lucius Malfoy smirked.

The last thing I remembered was Nadia nodding enthusiastically and the both of them laughing evilly before everything went black.

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