Kelly jumped up, spun in mid-air, and kicked the wall behind them. ((A/N: Almost, but not quite, a blatant Matrix rip-off.)) The wall burst open, revealing a hidden doorway. They raced down more steps, which they now realized was an underground passageway, Harry silently protesting about the countless secrets in the manor that were starting to annoy him. He had hoped to get in, rescue Ron and Hermione, and get back out. The detours were many and irritating.

They raced farther down, uncertain of when it would stop, the only light in the freezing tunnel the torches that cast the eerie glow around them. They could hear the Death Eaters close behind, cursing one another at the other's stupidity for not hexing them earlier.

They hit level ground and started racing along that, looking around them for some means of escape, but all they could see was the endless tunnel ahead.

"I'm… tired…" Ron protested after racing for several minutes down the tunnel.

"Well, then you stay here and die," Kelly shot back, still looking ahead for any sign of a way out.

No one protested after that.

"There!" Kelly finally exclaimed after what felt like an hour. The Death Eaters could still be heard behind them, but Harry thought he, Ron, and Kelly had been slowly getting farther and farther ahead.

Stairs rising upward were ahead. Ron moaned, but Harry hit him upside the head. Ron glared at him, but ceased.

They raced up the stairs, hoping these wouldn't be too far. Torches were still around, still casting an eerie glow. Ron was trailing behind now, and Harry was getting very tired himself. Kelly, also, seemed to be going slower than usual, and the Death Eaters seemed to have been saving up their energy for this time. While Harry, Ron, and Kelly were slowing down, they were gaining.

"OUCH!" Kelly yelled.

"What?" Harry asked, bumping into her as she made a sudden stop, and Ron bumping into him.

Kelly looked up. "A door!"

She opened the door, which had been placed directly above her, and hopped out, helping Harry and Ron out after her. Harry looked around. They were in the middle a field.

"Perfect! Just perfect! Where are we going to hide?" Ron asked hysterically.

"This way!" Kelly urged, as the Death Eaters neared.

Harry refused. She was urging him back toward Malfoy Manor. "That's the way we just came!"

"The thestral is there!" Kelly pointed out.

Harry silently resigned himself to racing back toward the place he was trying to leave.

A muffled cry announced that some unlucky Death Eater had made the same mistake Kelly did, by bumping their head on the door. Harry, Kelly, and Ron raced on harder, not daring to look back at what was coming out of the tunnel.

The trio entered the forest in front of the manor. They flew through the area, destroying any S.P.I.E.S.s that dared show their ugly faces. Ron almost leaped with fright when he first saw one of the S.P.I.E.S.s, thinking it was his old pet Ralph back from the grave. Harry was personally amazed Ron would have had a pet anything remotely similar to one of the S.P.I.E.S.s, but didn't say so. They hexed several creatures whose species they were unsure of, and one Harry felt sure was a werewolf, his suspicions helped on by the fact that it was a full moon.

They exited the forest, looking around desperately for the thestral. The Death Eaters were close behind, they knew. Harry looked around, and almost screamed again.

"Kelly!" he exclaimed, running toward a pair of hoof prints. They had moved around a bit, and then disappeared. The thestral had taken flight.

Kelly moaned in frustration. "That was our last hope!"

"No, it wasn't," someone said behind her.

"May!" Harry exclaimed, relief all over his face.

"Come on," Riles said, flying down beside her. "They'll be here any moment."

Vikki and Crystal flew out from the trees. "They're just around the corner!"

"Let's go!" Riles grabbed Harry's hand, May grabbed Kelly's, and Vikki grabbed Ron's. As one, the seven of them rose high above, away from sight of the Death Eaters.

"Where'd they go?" Lucius Malfoy exclaimed as he exited the forest.

"I don't know!" Avery exclaimed.

"You mean they're not there!" Bellatrix exclaimed, infuriated.

Amazingly, Harry, Kelly, and Ron weren't lagging behind, but were right beside the people grabbing onto them. Ron was amazed, Kelly seemed relieved, and Harry was too tired to care about the new bit of magic he was a part of.

"Hermione?" Crystal asked them.

No one spoke for a moment. Then it was Ron, surprisingly, who answered. "We faced a troll, with our hands tied. We freed each other, but when we got to Hermione, she wasn't there."

Crystal and May looked sharply at Vikki and Riles, but neither looked back, each lost in thought. Riles suddenly looked at May. "Switch."

"Absolutely not," May replied swiftly, as though she'd known all along what Riles was going to ask.

"Now," Riles ordered.

"No, you'll just--"

"Switch," Kelly said quietly.

May looked at her, horrified. "You… you want to…"

"Switch," Kelly repeated in the same voice.

"Oh…" May looked from Riles to Kelly, back and forth. "Oh… very well, then!"

Riles quickly grabbed Kelly's hand, and May quickly grabbed Harry's. Riles and Kelly slowed their flight down, and started talking whispers, glaring at each other, and occasionally saying things loud enough that Harry could hear.

"Killed…"

"Wasn't…"

"Close enough…"

"Done… too…"

"As if…"

"Don't worry about them," May said quietly. "They're just getting on each other's case."

"How come they hate each other so?" Harry inquired of her, for what seemed the thousandth time.

May looked at him thoughtfully. "I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you."

Harry was taken aback at this response. "But…"

"If you want to know," May interrupted, "you'll have to ask them yourself. I cannot and will not tell you their secret."

Harry looked at her. "Their secret? Can Riles do all that stuff Kelly did? All that fighting and stuff? Can—"

"Harry," May interrupted again, "ask them yourself. Yes, it is their secret. They are the two primary people between their secret. If you want to know their secret, ask them yourself. I am not involved in their secret and am therefore not entitled to tell you."

Harry sighed and looked back at Riles and Kelly. The two were at each other's necks with words. Harry turned forward again, wondering if he would ever know.