For the next three weeks, Harry, Draco, Hermione, and Ron went to visit Aragorn. In their last visit, Aragorn did something new...
"So, since you both have to stab him at the same time, but for this project, I need a little magic," said Aragorn.
"What do you need?" asked Hermione.
"I need one of you to make this," Aragorn pulled out a stuffed dummy from a cupboard, "Move, if you can, like a real person."
"Personomes Immobilus," Hermione waved her wand at the dummy. It came alive.
"Ah, Legolas, come here, can you make this dummy know sword ship?" asked Aragorn.
"Yeah," said Legolas, he muttered something at the dummy.
"Hermione, will the dummy get tired?" asked Aragorn.
"Yes, if you fight it long, yes. It's mostly has the same feeling and actions as humans, but you can't hurt it," said Hermione.
"Ok, good. Now Harry and Draco, I want you both to attack it at the same to get it tired, then one of you has to stab it from the front and the other has to do it from the font," said Aragorn.
Harry and Draco fought the dummy for about an hour when it finally got tired. Harry went in front and Draco went behind it. They both ran toward the dummy. Both swords went all the way through it. The dummy fell down into a lifeless heap.
"Very good, but, of course, Voldemort will be stronger, so it might take longer to get him tired.
Same time next week?" said Aragorn. Draco and Harry nodded. Draco took out the portal and opened it. He, Harry, Ron, and Hermione went through.
"You guys are really great," said Hermione. "But, you really smell. Go take a shower." Harry and Draco got up and went to the bathroom. Dumbledore added two more showers last week.
"This is something we never expected to happen," said Ron.
"Yeah, I would have never thought," said Hermione. "Tell the guys I went to bed. Goodnight."
"Goodnight," said Ron.
While Harry and Draco were practicing with each other the next day, Hermione decided to go for a walk.
She was sitting at the edge of the lake when she saw someone's reflection in the water. She knew that person. She had seen her in her fifth year at Hogwarts in the Department of Mysteries?
Hermione got up and spun around. "You?"
"Well, well, well, Who would of thought. You and Draco Malfoy? What does he see in a mudblood like you?" smirked Bellatrix Lestrange.
"Who cares? Does 'Lord Voldemort' care? Well, guess what? Draco doesn't care what kind of family I come from and he isn't going to the Dark Side, so you can just tell your master that," said Hermione.
"Ron, where are you going?" asked Harry.
Ron went to his and Harry's room. He came back with Harry's map. "Do you really think it's safe for her to go out alone? I personally think it's not. I solemnly swear I am up to no good." They map of Hogwarts crawled onto the parchment. Ron scanned the map.
"Where is she?" asked Harry. Draco went to Hermione's room and got her Evil Detector Orb. It was…
"It's black; something's wrong. Where is she? asked Draco.
"She out at the lake," said Ron. "Hang on, there's someone coming to her. Harry! It's Bellatrix Lestrange!"
Without saying anything, Harry, Draco, and Ron ran out of the common room. Harry and Draco dropped their swords and grabbed their wands that were on the table. They didn't want Voldemort knowing how they plan to kill him.
Dumbledore was wondering around the hall when Ron, who wasn't watching where he was going, ran right into Dumbledore.
"What the rush boys?" asked Dumbledore.
"Hermione...out...lake...Bellatrix...here!" panted Ron.
"Where is she?" asked Dumbledore.
"How did you get here unnoticed?" asked Hermione. Then, she knew it; it hit her after she said it. They color of her hair and her ears were a little pointed. She was an Animagus.
"Like I would tell a little brat like you," said Bellatrix, interrupting Hermione's thoughts for about two seconds.
'She was that cat Harry, Ron, and me saw in Hogsmead last year. Oh my God she is. She's the cat I saw on the grounds two nights ago,' thought Hermione.
"Well, now I have two things on you to get you busted," said Hermione.
"What?" snapped Bellatrix.
"Like I would tell a little brat like you," mocked Hermione. Before she knew it, she was on the ground screaming in pain. Her bones felt like they were on fire and she was twitching in pain. She was hit by the Cruiatcus Cruse. One of the Unforgivable curses. The spell was released and she laid in a heap on the ground. Hermione looked up at her. Then, Draco dropped down to her. Bellatrix turned into a cat and ran, but Dumbledore stunned her. He saw her turn into the cat, but Harry and Ron didn't.
"Hey, we saw that cat wondering around in Hogsmead last year. It wouldn't stop looking at us, huh Ron," said Harry when he spotted.
"Yep," said Ron.
"It's Bellatrix Lestrange. She' an unregistered Animagus," gasped Hermione.
Dumbledore muttered a spell and slowly Bellatrix become to her true form. Harry just glared because Dumbledore held him back. Dumbledore put invisible cords around her before she woke up.
"Ron, go to Hogsmead and apparate to the Ministry of Magic and get Fudge. Bring him back here. If you can, bring …Mad-Eye.. Moody," said Dumbledore.
"K," said Ron. He ran towards Hogsmead.
"I'll get you for this; all of you, I'll get all of you. If I can't, then Voldemort will," cackled Bellatrix.
"You should have went to Azkaban two years ago, but you escaped with Voldemort," glared Harry.
She laughed coolly. "Yes, the night I killed my husband's traitor bother." Smiled smirked at Harry. Harry went at her.
"Harry! No!" shouted Dumbledore. Draco was holding him back.
She laughed at him struggling to get at her. Ron, Fudge, and Moody (as fast as he could) ran to where Dumbledore, Bellatrix, Harry, Draco, and Hermione were.
"Ah Fudge, I have another Death Eater for Azkaban. Make sure she's in a high-security cell," said Dumbledore. "And she's an Animagus."
"Really? Well, me and Moody will take her to Azkaban right away," said Fudge. He muttered something and she turned back into a cat. Then, he conjured a kitty box and put her in it. Then, he out an Unbreakable Charm on it so she can't transform back. "I'll take her out and into her original form when we get to Azkaban."
After Fudge and Moody left, Dumbledore turned to Draco, Harry, Ron, and Hermione. "From now on, you need to be with one another, no more solo walks."
"Ok," they said together.
"Ok, go back to your common room. Harry, Draco, practice a little more," said Dumbledore.
They nodded and went to their common room. They were all shaking, scared of what just happened. Harry was shaking in anger too.
"Oh Harry!" cried Hermione, she flung her arms around Harry's neck. He didn't know what was going on. "I didn't know how bad the Cruistcus Curse hurt until today! And you had it twice like one hour!" She cried into his chest.
"Hermione, it's ok," said Harry. He looked at Ron and Draco; they just shrugged.