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Chapter 16

"Umbridge"

Harry

A rush of multi-colored curses rushed at the group in the center, which resulted in most of them being tied up. If they had an Umbridge here, it would take most of them to fend against her. She sauntered in as if not having noticed what they just did. I didn't know Darla, but it appeared she was just like her sister, as she stepped daintily over some of the tied up UAU.

In a few seconds I was proved right in that assumption, because she smiled sickly sweet and said. "Harry, dear. So nice to finally meet you."

I had my wand pointed in her face, and she had hers held in both hands. "What are you doing here?" I spat.

"Why, whatever do you mean?" she replied politely. "I am just here on business." With that, her smile grew...in that same toad-like way her sister's smile was.

"Here, let me help you with your buisness...Immob--"

Just as I was about to complete my 'immobulus' spell, she jumped me, and drug me to the stage, her wand pointed to my neck.

"No one try anything. I will have moved Harry in the path of your spells before they ever reach me." I could hear the smile still stuck in place but what happened next, I had no clue was going to happen. "Portus"

I had no idea that something as big as a stage could be used as a portkey, but apparantly there was a lot I didn't know. Like how Dumbledore could've overlooked putting up wards against portkeys.

My stomach lurched and my insides were but one second behind my body. My vision was blurred, and I could think of nothing else but landing. A moment later we landed somewhere. Darla let me go, and I could hear her footsteps going away from me, but only a few steps. I finally had it in me to look up, and Umbridge seemed to think that I had been unconcius. I took advantage of that by barely lifting my head and barely opening my eyes in slits to take brief looks around. It was always better, I learned, to pretend that you were still out cold, that way, you could understand your surroundings and maybe develop a plan.

The place in which we were in, was small and dimly lit. 'Typical' I thought. It was typical. A place typical of death eaters and the sort.

Umbridge. Oh, If it was even possible, I loathed the name and the people in the family even more. She was looking at something on the wall...a map...and she was talking to herself and chuckling. The map had blue pins on it and they were glowing, except each one was moving around. It looked like something I had seen at the ministry in the auror department, except that one had red pins and marked places of death eaters.

...yes...they would be looking for him...I assume dumble-dumbass would be notified, naturally...they'll never find this place. one of the largest and most protected death eater establishments...still...dumble-dork is always finding these things out and saving the boy...I mean look at the fifth year at the ministry...Is he still unconcious? Oh well, I'll leave the stupid scaredy cat lying there for now...back to those aurors...

It went on like this for a minute or so, and then I decided to think of a plan to escape. It wasn't going to be easy, and learning that this was a large and protected death eater place didn't help me out. This piece of information meant that I would have to get past a lot of death eaters alone. There was two doors; one to the left of me, and one to the right of me.

Come on, Harry. You can do it. You can defeat her, just like her sister before her. Where has your confidence gone to? COME ON!

"Silencio" I muttered quietly and quickly. Suddenly, her inane ramblings stopped and she didn't notice for a minute. I took advantage of that and then muttered, "Incarcerous"

She was tied up quicker than a flash of lightning. I got up and looked over her bent form. I kicked her.

"That's for Dumbledore and this," I kicked again, "Is for the trouble your family has caused me, and is trying to cause me." I gave her a sickly sweet smile, when an idea formed in my head.

I propped her up in a chair and looked around. With a potions case in mind I said, "Point me" and my wand, as if magnetized, led me to a blank space on the wall. I frowned for a second and remembered a spell Hermione did once. "Specialis Revelio" At once, a shelf full of potion appeared, just as quickly as a smirk had appeared on my face.

I looked at the labels until I found what I was looking for. Veritaserum.

Thinking of nothing but escape, I uncorked the bottle and forced it down her throat. "Speak" I said with my wand pointed at her throat, so that it would undo the silence spell I had done. "Now. Tell me how to escape without alerting anyone of my presence."

I could tell she was trying to work against the potion. Her face was screwed up in concentration. She couldn't open her mouth to scream, because if she did, only the truth would come spilling out instead.

This was going to take a while.

Draco

I stared blankly for a second at the spot where Harry had dissappeared. It had taken a few seconds for the whispered sound of 'portus' to come through my ears and register in my brain. Darla Umbridge had just done an illegal portkey on the floor of a stage and stolen my boyfriend!

Everyone around me was just as stunned, or at least I thought so, because no one moved.

"Mr. Malfoy, come with me...you too Miss Granger and Mr. Weasely." Came Mcgonagal's stern voice over the hushed crowd. That seemed to shake everyone out of their daze, because people started charming the tied up bodies of the UAU to float and follow them. "All those with spelled bodies, go to the dungeons immediately. Authorize Filch to use the old punishments on the UAU members for any information they have...especially on Ben."

They were a few muttered 'Yes Ma'am' from them, and with that they headed down to filch's office.

"Mr. Malfoy! Come on!"

Hermione

"Professor, I hope you don't mind, but I told a couple of the D.A. to remain behind and see what they could find out about the portus that was cast...if it was still working, and tracer spells to see where it led...you know?"

"Oh, Hermione...Thank you so much...I don't know what I would've done without you here.." Mcgonnagal had replied to me, seeming for the first time, that age had caught up to her.

"Professor...are you.."

"I'm fine Ms. Granger." She stated, regaining composure.

We arrived at Dumbledore's office door, and I was at a loss as to why we were coming here. Our job was done...I suppose he would want to talk to us about the battle...

Knock Knock Knock

"Come in." Said a quiet, calm, voice. "Ah, Ms. Granger, Mr. Weasely, Mr. Malfoy...lemon drop?"

No one really answered, so he put the lid back on the huge jar of his lemon drops, as he observed me and Draco sat on one side when Ron and Mcgonnagal sat on another.

"Professor," Draco began, "Do you have any idea how Umbridge got in here, and more importantly, where she took Harry?"

Dumbledore inclined his head and finished off his lemon drop before answering. Which, by the way, didn't help Draco's nerves one bit. I could only imagine what was going through his head.

Draco

That stupid git! Hurry up and eat your damn lemon drop! My boyfriend is more important than rotting your teeth out in front of the lot of us!...WELL! COME ON!

Hermione

Probably thinking sad thoughts about memories of him and Harry together.

Anyway, finally Dumbledore finished his lemon drop and started a reply to Draco's question. "I let her in. Not myself of course, I just simply set the school magic wards to allow her to get in. All she would have to have done was tried."

"WHAT?" We both shrieked at the man.

"Professor, that isn't very safe, mind you put about the whole school in danger of her wrath."

"Yes..and no."

"WHAT ARE YOU BLOODY TALKING ABOUT YOU CRAZY OLD MAN?" Draco yelled.

"She could've gone after the school...but, I knew she was only after Harry."

"SO YOU LET HER COME IN TO STEAL MY-- Friend?" Draco suddenly faltered.

Dumbledore's eyes twinkled mischieviously as he replied. "Yes...and no."

It was my turn to say something. "Professor, what is it exactly that you planned to do once she...acquired him?"

His smile only grew. "My plan, was to use him as bait, and then when she blindly and willingly took it, I would find her most significant hide out."

The simplicity of it struck me. I was the one who had alerted him of Ben and who led him and the UAU, so naturally he wasn't going to let the D.A. have all the fun. So to speak. He formed a plan to do more than just foil her...he would defeat her.

Harry

It had been a few minutes since she struggled against the potion and it looked like, she was about to break.

"Well?" I said impatiently. "How do I escape this place, without alerting anyone or anything to my presence?" I modified my question, so that she couldn't find a loop hole.

Her lips trembled and she had her eyes shut tightly, and here and there little sounds kept escaping. She might be powerful, but even she wasn't powerful enough to over-power veritaserum.

"The door!" "THE DOOR!" "THE DOOR!" She screamed.

"Silencio" I muttered, angrily. She could've alerted someone.

It looked like she was smiling, but I couldn't tell really. Her eyes were still shut tight...but her mouth looked like it might've been trying to smile.

I'd had enough. This hag wasn't going to help me.

I took her wand from her, so that the ministry couldn't detect that my wand was doing this magic, and then I said it. Something I'd wanted to do to Dolores since day one.

"Crucio."

Her eyes widened, and it looked like she wanted to scream. She couldn't. She just sat there twitching from time to time. I knew my crucio wasn't as powerful as the dark lord's would have been on her, but I wanted her to have a taste of the pain in me...pain that her kind had caused me, my whole entire life.

"This. This is what it feels like. This is for my parents, first of all..This is for everything your kind has ever done to me. This is for Dumbledore, This is for the fight for good. This is for you to go to hell."

I welled up all my anger and with all my magic energy I could muster into a word, I re-did the spell.

"Crucio" I spat.

This time, she jolted in her chair, back in forthk, rythmically, and never ceasing. She kept going. Eyes opening and shutting in intense pain. I would've smiled if it wouldn't have made me sick. But I knew where to stop. I knew where good could draw lines and evil couldn't. So I did.

"Relievus" I whispered to relieve her of the cruciatus spell. Instead of a spell to knock her out, I conjured a wrench and beat her over the head and she fell unconcious.

I sat there looking at the bruise and cut I had left near her eye. It could be damaged...what have I done...

Your not evil, Harry. Your doing what you will to survive. You're only surviving in enemy territory by necessary means. Don't regret fighting the enemy!

The voice. It was right. In other times he hadn't been so sure it was there to help him...but now, he was sure.

Now what was this..door...Umbridge kept talking about?

Draco

I sat there for the next half hour listening to Dumbledore and Hermione alternate between explaining his thoughts and theories.

"Enough!" I said. "Can you please show me what good you did by letting Harry be captured?"

"Sure." Dumbledore only smiled slyly, and led everyone to the back of his enormous office. There was two old overstuffed chairs, with a table in the middle of it, and a huge map of the enitre world and every detail on it...red pins were glowing and even moving about...and amidst one of the largest parts of red on the entire map, was one single blue.

Harry

I needed a way to get out and I didn't care how. I checked the door to the right of her desk and it was a hallway. I closed it quietly and ran to the other door. I opened it slightly and quietly and it turned out to be a closet, filled with brooms and old clothes, and robes.

The hallway it is then.

I walked over to the desk, broke Umbridge's wand as a last revenge thing, and walked out of the door.

Mcgonnagal

"Headmaster Dumbledore. Do you mean to tell me that, the little blue pin moving about is Harry Potter?"

"Exactly! Very good Minerva." Dumbledore said unsarcastically.

"Do you wish to explain to me, why he is allowed to be there?"

"It's simple really. It was a way to locate Harry and Umrbidge's headquarters. That way we could save him, and take her down."

"Well...who's going to save him then? The ministry? The D.A? Who Albus, Who?"

"Now, that is the part of the plan I hadn't quite figured out yet..."

"WHAT?" Draco yelled furiously. "YOU MEAN YOU SENT HARRY DOWN THERE WITHOUT A MEANS TO SAVE HIM?"

"Mr. Malfoy please--"

"NO Professore Mcgonnagal, I will NOT calm down. You've gone too far this time."

"Oh, and what are you going to do about it?"

"I'm leaving. I'm going to save Harry."

When Draco had his back turned I did the only thing I could think of. "Protificus Totalis." Draco froze and dropped where he stood.

Hermione

Seeing Draco lying there frozen, by the hand of a teacher was quite unnerving, even though I understood why it had to be done. I stepped over his body to get closer to the teachers.

"Headmaster...should I go ahead and check on the D.A.'s progress with the 'portus' charm?"

"Yes, Ms. Granger. I would assume you want Mr. Weasely to go along with you?"

"No thanks." Ron piped up immediately.

"It's fine headmaster, really, I prefer working alone, thanks."

Dumbledore's eyes flashed a certain suspiciousness but he never voiced it as I left.

It took me a few minutes to get there, as always, but I guess each time I travel this pathway it seems shorter. Anyway, I opened what was left of the door to the auditorim and headed for the stage.

"Any luck on finding out information on the portus charm?"

"Yeah. We've learned that it's no longer active in the first three-fourths of the stage and we're about to test the last quarter."

"Alright. Here, let me do that." I replied. "Traceius Localis" I lifted the rock that I had put the tracer charm on and threw it onto the last part of the stage...and I watched as it dissappeared.

"Harry."

Harry

It was a long, never ending hallway, it seemed. I wouldn't know where to begin if I tried opening one of the doors, and it seemed that the point me spell was all done helping me out today.

Suddenly out of nowhere, I heard footsteps coming my way. I looked all around me, and I never saw anything so I stayed still and listened for the source. Whatever it was, seemed to understand what I was doing because suddenly it became quiet again.

I did the only thing I could think of, and ran back to Umrbridge's office. Once the door was in view and the handle within arms reach, It shut itself. I pulled at it, but it wouldn't budge.

"BOMBARDA!" I yelled and it blew the door apart. I kicked it in and then yelled, "REPARO!" Suddenly the locked door was back in place. I knew it was only a matter of time before they got back in, but I had just bought myself some precious time. Darla, still layed in her chair, unconcious. I looked at the closet...my only chance.

As I shut the door, dust had fallen from it's creases and hidden crevices and I coughed, albiet quietly as I could. Thoughts zoomed through my head, at an alarming rate.

'um...a broom...would that work? could I fly it past everyone? Not likely...um, the robes! I could disguise myself...no they'd notice..damn scar...ok...um locking it with magic wouldn't help...I can't perform a portus charm because those are illegal and only evil people seem to get away with it without the ministry knowing...The vents? Do they have vents? Nope...no need when you have magic...The floor boards? Any loose? Nope...

I slumped back against the wall and felt something jab my back. "Ouch!" I said quietly rubbing the spot it hit. It was probably just a broom.

'Help me.' was the silent plea that issued in my mind. 'Please...somebody'

I heard something outside the door, and without thinking I muttered the strongest locking charm Hermione had ever taught me, then backed it with several less powerful, each decreasing in power as the number increased, but any little bit helped I guess.

Suddenly, everything became pitch, pitch, black. It was darker than ever before. I heard breathing...it wasn't only mine...someone else was here. 'Lumos' I muttered, but nothing happened.

"That won't work Harry."

"Who is that?" I replied, slowly and ever so quietly backing into what I assumed was a corner, and a safe distance between me and that disembodied voice.

"Draco."

I gasped and instead I ran right to the voice, finding it's source, I drank it's existence up with my mouth.

"I'm so sorry Draco..."

"It's not your fault."

"What are you doing here...Where is here exactly?"

"I don't know...I was...hoping you could tell me."

A/N: God am I evil or what? Just leaving you like this? WoW. I'm bad. Ok, well try not to hate me. And until this week is over, Unbreak my Heart has been put on hold. Thanks. Please read and review! Love you all!

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