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Chapter 17

"Unheard Voices"

Harry

"So you don't know where we are either?"

"No Harry, for the second time, I do not know where we are." Draco replied to me, sounding a little more than just agitated.

"Look, don't get--"

"I'm sorry." he said quietly. "It's just I've been in here for a little while. The last thing I remember is turning around in Dumbledore's office. I had told everyone that I was coming to help you...to rescue you."

I didn't need a light on to be able to tell he was blushing, and I thought it was simply adorable.

"You would do that?" I asked suprised a little. I knew he loved me, but I didn't know that it was this much.

"Do you even have to ask that?" He replied, leaning in and brushing our lips together. That was all the inclination I needed, as I climbed ontop of him and straddled him. I kissed him again and could feel him smiling into it.

Someone once said that smiles were contagious and I guess that person was right because I smiled too.

Before we progressed too far along, we heard something...as if someone had cleared their throat.

Ahem.

Ok, now it was evident that someone had, but it wasn't Draco and it wasn't me. "Draco" I whispered.

"Yeah?" he whispered back.

"Let's move back."

We started moving towards an aparant corner and stopped when we reached it. We were holding onto eachother firmly.

"What do you suppose that was?" Draco asked, leaning in to whisper in my ear so no one else could possibly hear.

I did the same before I replied. "Well, obviously it's another person...but I don't know anything beyond that. We could only guess that it's our captor...or maybe our resucuer."

"I don't think it's the latter." He stated.

"Excuse me." The someone said. Then suddenly candles lit all around the room. It was a room, with a bed and a desk and little other trinkets. There was a woman standing in front of the two, smiling at them.

"Who are you?" asked an emboldened Draco. Instinctively we both reached for our wands. But for some reason we didn't feel the need to point them at her, so they just held in our hands, lazily by our sides.

She smiled.

Hermione

Right after the rock dissappeared, I immediately told the members of the D.A. to go in, wands at the ready. About two went in, when a thought struck me. I didn't know how long the portkey was going to be active...in fact it could go out any second. That thought was all I needed, and I walked right onto the last part of the stage. If anyone was going to be there to save Harry, I would be damned if I wasn't part of the group.

I guess my instincts were right, because when I arrived at the end destination of the portkey, I waited for a few other members, but none came. One could only assume that after my jump, it sealed itself.

I looked around and prospects grew dim of Finding Harry. "Report." I stated to no one in particular.

"We appear to be in Darla Umbridge's office." Colin said, pointing to the name header on the desk. "It also appears Harry reprimanded her." He also indicated her body tied in the chair, limply.

"Well," I began uncertainly. "There's about four of us here, so I need two of you to search the door to the left, and we'll take this one."

They did as was told. "Oh! A hallway...maybe Harry is navigating the halls now...we're going to have to check ALL the doors..." Dennis said.

The prospects became even more less hopeful. "Still, go ahead and continue searching. Harry has to be here somewhere."

I walked over to the door I assigned myself and Lee jordan, after stating that fact. I took a hold of the handle and with a deep breath, I twisted the knob...only it didn't budge.

"It's locked." I whispered more to myself than to anyone else. "IT'S LOCKED!" I yelled, and started banging on the door.

"Alohamora." Lee cast the spell, but when I tried the door again it still wouldn't work.

"Bombarda!" I stated. But even that strong of a spell wouldn't even phase the door. All it did, was make a thump sound.

This was going to take a while.

Draco

The lady told us to make ourselves comfortable which we did, but still, that did not help the suprise that followed her words.

"So, you're...an unheard voice?" Harry asked beside me.

"Yes. I am your unheard voice. My name is Athalla"

I couldn't help but snort in laughter a little. "Harry, your unheard voice is a girl."

The woman just inclined her head at my remark and gave a small smile. "Yes Draco. Unheard voices aren't gender specific. In fact the gaurdian assigned to you, is also female."

It was Harry's turn to snort in laughter, and I thumped him playfully on the arm. "Hey!" was his indignant response. I would've kissed him right there but the...Unheard Voice stopped us.

"I don't have much time, Harry. Our meeting is going to have to be brief. So if you would be quiet, I have much to explain."

"Sorry Athalla." Harry replied, giving me a chastising look, "I won't interrupt you again, and neither will Draco."

"Good." She smiled. "Now, Unheard Voices have two types. Temporary and Long-term. Temporary Unheard Voices go to the wizard in question, and in some form, influence them. Give them nudges in the right direction. Wether through dreams or even thought-speaking, they will contact you. Once things are in order, the Unheard Voice will leave. Now, the second type is long-term. The Unheard voice will have been inside the wizard or witch since birth, having been assigned by the Supreme. They watch over the wizard or witch, and keep them safe, and also, give them nudges in the right courses of action. We're like...muses...but with more power."

"Wait." I said. "So Who is this supreme?"

"The supreme are a council of our kind, who dictate the orders given to Unheard Voices. They are elected, and once having been elected, they work like...a government or...a ministry." She replied, referring to the ministry of magic.

"So it's like a Wizengamot, only it has full power, like the minister of magics power?"

"You could look at it like that, yes." Athalla replied.

"Are you long term or short term?" Harry asked

"I was short term." Athalla said with a small smile.

"Was?" Harry asked again.

"When you were in danger, I was receding. I was leaving because the events that are meant to be, had finally occured, and my job was done. But then, I knew that if someone didn't help you, you wouldn't stand a chance, and so I stayed. I needed to help you, when..."

"When no one else could." I finished for her.

"What?" Harry asked after me. "You mean, the Supreme wouldn't send anyone to help me?...You...Disobeyed orders?"

"Yes. I saw you were in danger, so I went to the Supreme with the idea that they give you someone experienced in these types of situation, which would have been one of the long-term Unheard Voices. But they simply would not allow, nor spare, a Long-term Unheard Voice to do a Temporary job. I knew how much I irritated you, and I was only a short-term. So therein layed my predicament. To give you an annoying Long-term, or to go against everyone and Temporarily help you out. I know it's risking myself. They even warned us never to get attached to our subjects...but I have compassion...something the Supreme sees little value in. We are there to do our job to the extent we can, and when something we see is out of our area of expertise we have to leave. It doesn't matter that they can help. They wouldn't."

"It made you angry didn't it?" I asked. "All that hard work to bring us together, and to see it destroyed by these people."

"I would never allow it." She finished.

"What about our relationship? You keep saying that you're here to put things in order, to restore what's supposed to happen...What do you mean?" Harry cut in.

"It means that you and Draco were always meant to be together...but things were...progressing too slowly for the time-line."

"The Supreme...they're time-keepers?"

"Yes. If something is out of order, or needs to be done, we are there to fix it...We give people courage, give them strength and honesty, and action...we are--"

"Their unheard voices. You give voices to thoughts that go unheard." Harry finished.

Again she gave her smile. It was beautiful.

"So what are you doing here now? Where are we?" I asked. She did after all, say that her time was limited.

"We are in The Room. It's a place that can be just as we imagine it. Everywhere, and No where. Displacing time, Bypassing it. I brought you both here, because I needed you to understand, but most importantly I came, to save you."

"Is this like..."

"The room of requirement?" Athalla finished. "Yes."

"Save us?" Harry asked.

"You both were in danger, so I brought you to one place, and I'm giving you a plan and an escape route. You two...you have this...love..and somehow your love creates power, and that power is greater than any we've ever seen before. It's not bad and it's something to be cherished. I'm saving that, even if it puts me at risk." She stated defiantly.

"Ok, but after we wake up, we're still going to be seperated, so how are we going to be saving eachother?" I asked.

"Well..." Athalla started.

Hermione

"Colin, Dennis! We need you over here. Harry may be locked behind this door, so right now our focus goes on this one. Colin, charm that door over there shut, and then come back over here to help us."

This was frustrating. I had worked for about twenty to thirty minutes on every spell in the book. There was only so many I could try. Alright I thought to myself. 'how do I get a door open, without using magic, but is locked with magic...think think think...Ancient Runes and Potions and Charms would be the three most useful classes to extract knowledge from...maybe transfiguration...

I looked around for anything that might be useful...a spellbook...a rune..."POTIONS!" I exclaimed.

I skimmed the labels on each potion and tried to remember what I'd read from the text in my books.

About a good fifteen to twenty minutes later, I found the Acidation Potion. Maximum potency that works just like acid.

I uncorcked the top, and walked over to the door. I didn't hesitate to throw the liquid on the door.

Harry

As I opened my eyes, It was still are pitch black. It took a moment to realize that yes, I had my eyes open, it was just dark. As my eyes adjusted, I recalled the last thing that happened. Athalla had given us a plan, and then said goodbye. The next thing I knew, I was waking up in what I assumed was still the closet I hid in.

"Draco?" I asked into the dark.

"Here Harry."

With those words the full memories I had of being in "The Room" with Athalla hit me. She had agreed to use her powers to send Draco here in the closet with me. If the situation wasn't as grim, I would have laughed at the thought of two gay guys together in a closet.

Anyway, she told us about this...door. Wait a second...Darla had said, "The Door" when I'd asked her how to escape. With that bit of information I felt my way around the walls.

"Draco! Draco, I found it! I found the Door!"

"Goodie, now could you open it so we can leave?" Draco replied.

"So this is what jabbed me in the back earlier." I said aloud as I felt the spot on my back the door handle had left.

I twisted the knob and pulled on the door. A bright blinding light filled the closet from the other side. Draco and I shielded our eyes, and waited for them to adjust to the light. Just then we heard what sounded like sizzling pancakes on a stove. Instantaneously we both turned around and so the door deteriorating right in front of us.

"Go!" Draco yelled and pushed me through, closing the door. "Harry, hurry, we have to lock the door."

I performed the same set of spells on this door that I did the one before it. Once inside the room, it seemed easier to see; our eyes being used to the light a little bit by now.

"This must be--"

"Hello." An elevator-sounding voice echoed through the room. "And Welcome to the Transport area. Please state your destination."

Without a moment's hesitation, we both said, "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!"

Hermione

As the acid cleared away, and the last of the door fell to pieces, I stepped through...A closet! What the hell...I spent most of the time trying to break into a CLOSET!

Just as I realized that the closet had a door, There was a sound coming from the door that I ordered Colin to lock. Death eaters. They were trying to break in, I could hear the spells they were roaring at the door. No one had tried Bombarda. I rather liked that spell...a bit more destructive than Alohamora.

"Colin, Dennis, Lee, COME ON!" I gestured. As everyone else ran to me, I grabbed for the knob. Again for the second frustrating time, the door wouldn't budge.

"THAT'S IT!" I yelled furiously. "TERMINATRUS!"

The wall completely dissapeared, only leaving the space behind the door. Light flooded our eyes and it hurt, but it didn't matter, because any second now, a large group of death eaters was bound to burst through the door.

We walked swiftly in, and then, a voice that sounded crisp, cheery, and refreshing, asked where they wanted to go.

Draco

The walls, and the blinding light disappeared into a vaccum of nothing. I felt the floor leave my feet, and I grabbed Harry's hand just in time, as we whirled around in a seemingly endless vortex. Suddenly, out of nowhere, my body hit ground.

It took me a minute but when I finally opened my eyes, I was looking up into the faces of Headmaster Dumbledore and Ron Weasely...and I was still holding Harry.

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