Chapter 7 – Seeing, meeting and talking.

Laura almost raged and screamed at the poor house elf when she saw what it had brought her to wear. It was a bright pink robe with frills at the bottom making it more like an old women's pyjamas than a wizardry robe.

Looking to see if the house elf was looking Laura waved her hand over the robe turning it into a simple black robe with, if you looked closely enough, a pack of silver wolves running around the bottom hem. Laura looked at the robe with a small smile and put them on, and then turned to look at herself in the full length mirror on the wall.  She shook her head sadly when she saw what she looked like. A beautiful robe on an under weight, hag like person just didn't go.

Winky looked up from the where she was cleaning the bath and towels. Winky wondered why the kind girl was so sad .  She had been quite happy the last few minutes but now she was depressed and filled with sadness. The girl looked pretty now, all cleaned and dressed and Winky would have to tell Master Dumbledore that the girl could do magic. That was the main reason for the horrid robe. Master had wanted to see what if the girl could do some magic.

"Miss, looks pretty."

Laura didn't reply verbally and just simply shook her head and looked again once more into the mirror. However this time the mirror didn't show her, her reflection but triggered a vision.

The room was dark and cold and smelled of something beyond vile. Laura felt herself being tugged towards a certain room and she then realised that she wasn't in a room but rather in a hallway. The hallway had several rooms on both sides but they looked more like dungeons and cells when she looked more closely.  Finally the tugging stopped and to her shock she flew right through one of the doors and gasped at what she saw. In the corner of the room was boy the same age as herself and he was not looking well. Laura quickly rushed over to see if she could help him forgetting that this was merely a vision and she wasn't really solid in form. Kneeling next to the boy she saw that he had silver  blonde hair that was covered in grime and blood. Looking closely and concentrating as hard as she could she tried to get an estimate of how badly he was hurt. There really wasn't an area on him that wasn't bruised or damaged and looking at the odd angles some of his limbs there was quite a few broken bones.

"I want to help you, but how?" she whispered to herself.

"Who..?" Draco muttered at her.

Draco had been awake and had thought he had been dreaming when he saw a girl fly through the door but he was quite sure he was awake cause if he was dreaming his body wouldn't be hurting this bad.

"You can see me?"

Draco nodded slowly so that the dizziness he was experiencing wouldn't get worse..

"Then I must be here to help you or else you wouldn't be able to see me." Laura muttered to herself.

"Mmm."

Draco murmured. He had long ago given up hope of getting out of the hell hole he was in. He had no friends and no one cared and the one person who did had been killed right in front of him. Draco would have laughed if it wouldn't have aggravated his broken ribs. Some girl who wasn't even solid was going to get him out of here? He really doubted it.

"Could you tell me your name and where you are. I can get you out of here then." She asked softly.

"Draco Malfoy." Draco whispered, hate lingering in his voice.

"Well Draco. I then presume that we are at Malfoy Manor?"

Draco nodded slowly once again.

"Funny how the one place I ran away from still gets me to come back some how."

Laura sighed shaking her head sadly. You could never run away from the past because it always found a way of coming back for you. Wait a minute. Draco…Drac. Boy with silvery blonde hair. Of course how could I have forgotten.

"Drac… I'll get you out of here. I promise. Just hang on okay." Laura  whispered to him as she felt herself  fade but before she had completely disappeared someone charged through the doorway and with out thinking cast the Cruciatus curse at her. Unfortunately for Laura the spell didn't just go through her as everything else had but hit her and she screamed inside at the pain it caused.

You won't scream aloud. You've felt this to many times before to scream now. Just as it the curse had doubled she slammed back into her body.

Laura collapsed to the floor breathing heavily and trying to find out how bad the damage was that had been inflicted on her. Laura sighed inwardly with relief, the damage wasn't to bad and she should be fine in a few hours.

"Damnit!" she whispered furiously.

Laura was finally feeling healthy enough to leave and get out of the castle and now she had not only had a vision that was by far the weirdest of them all but she got hit with the Cruciatus. She glanced around the room and with a pleased smile she realised that the house elf wasn't there so she had not seen Laura while she was in her vision or she hoped that she hadn't.  Grabbing onto the edge of the bath she slowly started to pull herself into a semi- standing position. Her legs wobbled but with a certain grim determination  she straightened out was standing on her own two feet. Her muscles and bones screamed against the abuse of having to stand up so quickly after a vision and the curse but Laura ignored it. If she wanted to get out of here and keep these people alive by not being seen here she would need to show that she was fine and that there were no problems what so ever so that would let her go. She would leave even if they tried to keep her here.

"I won't be locked inside again."

A knock startled her and she almost lost her balance but somehow she stayed standing.

"Come in."

The portrait swung open to reveal a rather angry looking female.

"I'm to take you up to Headmaster Dumbledore. Hurry up please I have other things to do."

Minerva couldn't believe that she had been turned into a chaperone. Not just a chaperone but to a girl who was obviously mentally unstable. I don't like her at all. Sickly, pale looking Death Eater. Wouldn't surprise Minerva at all if the girl pulled out a wand and killed everyone on the spot. It was obvious that the Death Eaters had thought of some plot to get into Hogwarts and they had succeeded. Snape was in on it too, with he's story of how the poor girl suffered and had such a horrible life. Codswallop. Dumbledore was soft enough to believe a sad story such as he was told. The girl obviously was hiding a lot of things and one of them would definitely be the fact that she was a Death Eater.

Laura almost gasped in surprise at the air of anger that radiated from this women. What could she have possibly done that would make this women so angry at her?

"Well are you coming or not?" The women snapped.

Laura shook her slightly and followed her out of the room.

~*~

Harry awoke and for the first time in his life he felt slightly less depressed. As Harry awoke fully he remembered the one thing he shouldn't have done. Telling Sirius what type of life he lived at the Dursleys was definitely the wrong thing to do. Sirius would now give him pity gazes and try make everything better. There was no way that everything would be fine again.

"Harry! Breakfast!" Sirius yelled.

Sirius had woken about an hour again and decided that it would be best for Harry if he didn't mention what had happened last night and if Harry wanted to talk more about the Dursleys then he could.

Sirius was shocked at the appearance of Harry. He had changed into a black outfit that made him seem paler and more ill looking than he was. The biggest shock was the dull green Harry's eyes were. The had been the same dull green earlier but Sirius had hoped that the talk they had last night would have helped him. Sirius looked at Harry and with out realising it they pity and shame that he felt shone clearly through his eyes.

Harry almost started laughing. What a shocking surprise. Sirius felt pity for him and the miserable life he had had.  What Harry really wanted was someone who understood what he was going through and not someone who had no idea. Sure Sirius had spent years in Azkaban but that was something different. He hadn't been told by his own flesh and blood how useless he was. Harry blinked away the memories that  tried to resurface. They were buried for the time being and they would only be unburied when Harry decided that it was needed.

"Dumbledore sent me an owl this morning. He wants us to go to Hogwarts to talk to the girl."

Harry nodded and smiled inwardly. He couldn't wait, he could finally speak to her and find out why she was where she was and why she had seemed relieved when he had told he his name.

He would wait though. Wait till they were alone and then  ask his questions.

A/N Okay I do realise that this is shorter than my normal posts and the fact that it's been  about 2 months since my last update but I hit a little block at one piece in here. Well anyway thank you to all those that reviewed and I have a little question for you all.

Should a more than friendship relationship build between?

A) Harry/ Laura

B) Draco/ Laura

C) Harry Draco

D) Laura/ and a other original character that will pop up later in the story.

Let me know cause I've been thinking about it for ages and I still can't chose.

Another thing is could someone PLEASE help choose a title?? I have had several suggestions but they just don't fit with my story line or I they just didn't seem right. So any help is more welcome.