Fredy - Thank you for the absolutely awesome review. I'm surprised that nobody has flamed my story yet! Anyways, you must really love caps lock, eh? –laughs- Joking. Anyways times two, I do love writing but I highly doubt that my writing is actually, um, Well, I can't think of the right word but I think my writing is a bit kiddy write now. I should try and find out what it takes but I've also set my heart on getting a job in government. I'll keep the writing option open though.
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'A thick layer of fog had set over Privet Drive. The small child-around the age of nine-walked around unnoticed by the people in the houses.
The small boy with and odd scar and far too big clothing tried to find out what the flash of light had been just a few minutes previously. It was green and it looked oddly like a laser. It had almost hit him but missed by a mere few millimeters.
Harry was the boy's name, although his 'family' preferred to call him 'boy' or nothing at all. Harry continued to search until he saw a figure walking towards him at a turtle slow pace.
After what seemed like a few hours, the figure stopped in front of Harry. The man's face resembled a snake's face and his 's' came out in a hiss.
"Harrrry Pooootterrrr, ssssssssssee what you have done to me? You sssshhhall pay for your inssssssolenccccccce." Harry found it very hard to understand the snake man but he listened anyways. "Come to me and we sssshhhall take care of your little problem. Jusssssst go toward the white light and you'll never have to feel pain ever again."
Harry shook his head and frowned. He didn't mind pain, it's not like he experienced a lot of it. He turned around and tried to run but the snake man grabbed onto his shirt and wouldn't let go. The more he struggled, the tighter the grip got.
"Leave me alone! I didn't do anything!" Harry screamed.
The snake man laughed and just pushed Harry into the white light.'
Harry opened his eyes to find is vision blurred. He reached to his left side for his glasses but was only greeted with a hard cold surface. He sat up slowly, relieved to find that he was only in minimal pain. Harry squinted and looked around. From what he could see, he was in a cell type thing that was made out of stone.
He stood up and used the wall for support. Before he could start walking around, Lord Voldemort himself and a few Death Eaters arrived.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't the boy-who-lived in the flessshhh. Not sssssso sssssstrong with out your pressssious Dumbldore now are you?" The Dark Lord hissed smugly.
Harry didn't answer, he just looked around and realized that he was standing right next his glasses. He picked them up and placed them on his face. Harry grimaced when he saw Tom Riddle's face but didn't show his fear that was slowly rising.
"I ssssssee that you are not willing to talk. I'm ssssssure you want to talk to an old 'friend' of yourssssss. I'll sssssssend her in. Sssssshe hasssss been quite helpful in my quest to capture you." Tom Riddle exited the cell and a few minutes later he returned with another clocked Death Eater.
"Enjoy your little...chat." All of them, except for the new arrival, left.
Once he was sure they were gone, he asked the masked villain who she was and how did she know him. Instead of a response, he got a whimper and what sounded like a choked sob.
The girl slowly removed her mask. Harry was still unable to see her face so she removed the Death Eater clock.
Harry nearly fainted in pure shock of who it was. "Who...what...why? How could you? I thought...I thought you cared. You selfish little..."
"I know, I have no excuse. I should have said something I never meant to hurt you. I just want my parents back. I just want to live a normal life where I don't have to cheat and lie just to get what I want." Tears streamed down her face and she turned away so that Harry couldn't see how ashamed she was of herself.
"Crying's not going to make a difference! You still tricked me and used me! I thought I knew you better then that! We were such good friends! And what the hell are you talking about? Your parents are alive, Hermione!" Harry tried hard to not cross the cell and strangle the one person he thought was his friend.
"They are but they don't love me. They never did. They think I should be more powerful like when we first found out I was a witch!" Hermione had turned around again and was now glaring daggers at Harry. "They think I'm worthless because I fell in love with a weak wizard! They think you're the greatest thing to ever happen! They think I should be dating you instead of Ron!"
Harry gapped at her but once again gained his composure. This time he was far more mad then anyone had ever seen him. "Your mad because your parents thought you could be stronger, and thought that you should date me! ARE YOU COMPLETELY INSANE! WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE BESTFRIENDS! AT LEAST YOU HAVE PARENTS! I'VE HAD TO DEAL WITH PAIN AND DEATH AND PEOPLE THAT I THOUGHT LOVED ME, FOR MY WHOLE LIFE! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO BE UPSET JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO TALK TO YOUR PARENTS ABUOT THEIR ISSUES!"
Hermione just shrugged. "So what, it doesn't matter anymore. All I need to do is complete my mission and my master shall grant me great power."
Harry continued to glare at Hermione. "Oh, and what is your mission, oh unfaithful one?" Harry asked uninterested.
"I am faithful! Just not to you!" Hermione screeched. "My mission is none of your business so don't you even bother asking!" Hermione turned around and was about to leave but she turned to Harry again and asked, "I don't suppose you've ever hear of the Room of Visions, have you?"
Harry rolled his eyes and mental filed away the name of the room for later. Hermione once again headed for the cell door. Once she left, Harry slumped against a stone wall and once again slowly drifted off to sleep.
Meanwhile at Hogwarts...
"Severus, would you be so kind as to owl the Ministry and inform them of Mr. Potter's kidnapping," the Headmaster requested as he contemplated over what Terady had told him, Snape, and McGonagall half an hour earlier.
"Albus, do you think it is wise to get the Ministry involved this early? Shouldn't we inform the Order first?" Professor McGonagall questioned nervously.
"Ah, yes, I was just about to inform the Order but I do believe that the Ministry might find it interesting that Tom has struck once again," Dumbledore replied, his eyes twinkling as he tried to figure out how to rescue Harry.
The Headmaster sent an owl to all the Order members. He waited patiently with Minerva McGonagall and wondered if he should send students home. After all, it Voldemort was able to get into Hogwarts, Hogwarts was no longer safe.
Soon Order members started flooing in. First the real Mad-eye Moody, then Remus Lupin, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley, Tonks, and so on.
As soon as everyone arrived, Dumbledore announced what had happened. Every broke into horrified chatter. Many questioned Terady on what she had seen and who the Death Eaters were.
Professor Dumbledore cleared his throat and everyone stopped talking. "Please, we do not have enough time to chat, we need a plan that will not fail. I do believe that Severus knows the location of Tom Riddle's newest hide out."
Snape nodded and stepped forward. "The Dark Lord is at the Riddle Mansion. He thought it was a good place since it has already been searched and there are multiple cells in the basement. Mr. Potter is more or less in one of those cells."
"How are
we going to get in there? He must have enough Death Eaters to cover
every square inch of the Riddle Mansion!" Tonks asked commented
curiously.
"Patience, my dear. We must first find out who
helped the Death Eaters onto Hogwarts property in the first place."
Dumbledore waited for any suggestions.
"It could be anyone! Wait, now that I think of it, Ron had owled earlier because he wanted to know if there was something wrong with Hermione. She had been acting strangely and he thought she might be sick but she wouldn't tell him," Mr. Wesley said thoughtfully.
A look of realization hit Dumbledore's face. He rarely lost his composer and this was one of those rare times. "I remember Ms. Granger asking permission to go to Hogsmead this evening. I asked her why and she hesitated before telling me that she needed some supplies for an upcoming transfiguration project."
Professor McGonagall shook her head sadly. "I haven't mentioned a project to anyone since the last assignment. That assignment was due a week ago."
No one spoke. After all, who would have thought that 'Hermione Granger' would have been the cause for the kidnapping of on of her closest friends.
They continued to stand there in silence until Terady spoke up, "Can we please try and get Harry back? I don't care who the cause was, I just don't want to find him dead when we do finally go and get him!"
The Headmaster sighed and nodded sadly. "I think we should all get a good nights rest before we attempt at rescuing Mr. Potter. I believe that this will be much harder then we all may think it is."
The group mumbled in agreement. Only Terady was shocked that they weren't going to do something. She ran out of the office as silent tears made their way down her face. She ran as fast as she could to Gryffindor tower.
When she finally reached it, she entered and found that only Ron, Neville, and Ginny were awake.
"Terady! What's wrong? Where's Harry? What's going on?" Ginny asked franticly.
Terady let out a few choked sobs before sitting by the dieing fire. "He...he was kidnapped. We were outside and Death Eaters came and took him away." Terady let lose another round of tears. "I went to Dumbledore and they found out who let the Death Eaters it."
"Who the hell was stupid enough to let Death Eaters in? Whoever it was, I'll ring their neck!" Ron stated angrily.
"I...I highly doubt that, Ron. It was...it was...," Terady shuttered and continued. "It was Hermione. I can't believe it but it was!"
The room was deathly quiet all of a sudden. Nobody dared to move. Out of all of them, except for Terady, Ron was the most shocked.
"No! It can't be Hermione! Hermione would never do something stupid like becoming a Death Eater! She's muggle born! They would never accept her! Not Hermione...," Ron had finally calmed down and trailed off sadly. Ginny hugged her older brother. He smiled at her and nodded towards Terady to continue.
"They won't get him tonight! They said to wait until tomorrow! What if it's too late tomorrow! What if he's already dead!" Terady breathed in a shaky breath and slowly started to calm down. "We have to do something, and quick. I say we go to the Riddle Mansion, where he's held capture, and get him ourselves."
The other three nodded in confidence. The four of them started to devise a plan to get them in and out with as little commotion as possible. The night wore on and once they were done, the bells on the clocks in the common room chimed that it was now midnight.
"Do you think this'll work? I mean, there are gotta be a lot of Death Eaters there," Neville commented apprehensively.
Everyone sat in silence and contemplated that thought. They looked at one another and with four quick nods, they headed out the portrait.
All of them walked in complete silence. Not only because they didn't want to get caught, but they feared for their lives and Harry's life. Would they be too late? How long will it take? Would they even survive without getting hurt too badly? All these questions ran threw their heads as they finally reached the doors that would not be able to protect them anymore.
"It's now or never. We can either chicken out or be Gryffindors," Ginny whispered as if she were telling a secret. No one answered her. The four students just continued down the path to Hogsmead where they would go to the rent a broom shop. From there, they would travel to the one place that brought them the most fear at the moment, Riddle Mansion.
After convincing the rent-a-broom manager that it was very important that they rent brooms, they were in the air and about half an hour away from the Riddle Mansion. Nobody understood why they were doing this but after Terady's pleas, no one was able to back down. It kind of surprised them how much she cared, in a freaky sort of way.
They spotted the house underneath them so they flew to the forest and landed. With a few well placed silencing charms and they were on their way to save Harry.
Once they reached the edge of the woods they searched the area around to back door of the mansion for ant sign of it being guarded. Ginny mumbled a couple of spells to make sure there were no invisibility cloaks or invisibility potions being used.
The coast was clear. The four nervous Gryffindors walked towards that back door as quickly and as quietly as they could possibly manage.
The small window on the door was cracked so they were able to hear when a group of five Death Eaters walked into the hallway from a room in the Mansion.
"Time's running out, can't we just kill him?" A female Death Eater whined.
"No, not yet. We have to find the room of visions. The Dark Lord said that we were allowed to do anything to him as long as we find out about the room. That old fool must have told him something," another Death Eater stated firmly.
The four students looked at each other and gave the silent okay to start stunning the Death Eaters.
The curses flew and hit their targets within a matter of seconds. The Death Eaters never knew what hit them. From what the Gryffindors gathered, there were no alarms or spells to notify the other Death Eaters of intruders. That was a big plus for their side.
"Let's move," Terady ordered in a whisper. Just because they couldn't hear anyone didn't mean that they could risk it.
The four tip-toed towards an open door and looked through it. Just their luck, they found a set of stairs that lead downstairs. Before the headed down them, Neville cast a radar spell on each of their hands so they would know if any Death Eaters were within an eight foot range. "It's just something Gran taught me over the summer."
The stair way was dark but it was better then being caught. It seemed like hours before they reached the bottom. TO their surprise, no Death Eaters were stationed at the bottom of the steps. They checked their radars and spotted a group of ten Death Eaters stationed outside a door five feet to their left.
They once again tip-toed quietly. They looked around the corner and spotted the group. No sooner did the curses start to fly did the killing curse from the death Eaters. Terady and Ron managed to take down six out of the ten. Ginny took down three and Neville took down one before he was hit with a stunner.
The trio unfroze Neville and walked quickly towards the unprotected door. They listened for the sound of foot steps and checked their radars. They were safe for the time being. They unlocked the door with a simple spell and nearly fainted at the sight.
Hermione stood at one end of the cell with her wand raised, apparently she hadn't heard the commotion outside. She had and evil smirk on her face. Harry was crumpled on the floor defenseless. He was bleeding quite a bit and whimpering every time he tried to move.
"So it's true!" Ron shouted accidentally.
Hermione whipped around to face the group of four. She looked shocked but that shock soon turned into pure anger. "Who did you get in here?" She asked while pointing her wand at them. "Do those fools know how to do anything right?" Hermione continued to ramble on how incompetent the other Death Eaters.
Terady took advantage of Hermione's distracted state and stunned her. Hermione feel with a loud thump. "Well, this wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I have a feeling this isn't the last we've heard of Hermione Granger." Terady glared at the frozen girl for a short while longer before rushing to her boyfriend's aid.
Ron, Ginny, and Neville went over to Hermione and tried to figure out what to do with her. They thought of several different ways to make her pay but they thought it'd be best to bind her to the wall instead. After that, they turned to find Terady talking softly to Harry. The trio went outside and decided to keep watch.
"It's okay, Harry. It's me, Terady, and Ron, Ginny, and Neville are outside keeping watch. We're going to get you out of here and keep you safe," Terady said in effort to calm the shaking boy down. She sighed sadly and used a spell to clean off the blood in order to identify where he was actually bleeding. There were only a few cuts on his arms and neck, the main source of his bleeding was cause by the large gash on the top of his head. Terady ripped the hem of her robes and used it as a makeshift bandage. She helped Harry to his feet and they made their way towards the exit of the cell.
"Is he going to be okay?" Ron asked Terady after her and Harry had finally gotten out of the cell.
"Yeah, he should be okay. Although, Ron, would you please hold him up? I don't think my knees can stand the weight anymore," Terady pleaded. Ron took Harry from Terady and she smiled gratefully. "Thanks, no offense to him, but man is he heavy."
The four unharmed students laughed but stopped when a swarm of Death Eaters came towards them at and alarmingly fast speed. Their wands raised, the Death Eaters were about to start casting spells when all of a sudden a Death Eater fell. The Death Eaters stopped in confusion. They looked at the children when more Death Eaters started falling but none of the children had their wands raised. They looked behind them and found Dumbledore and the rest of the Order casting curses and hexes.
The Death Eaters didn't stand a chance. After a short five minute battle, all Death Eaters were down and none of the Order was hurt.
"Ronald Wesley! How dare you sneak out and risk being killed! I don't care if it was to help, you should have at lease made your sister stay behind!" Mrs. Wesley scolded.
"I'm sorry Mum but you should have seen Harry before Terady fixed him up! Hermione really hurt him," Ron tried to defend himself.
Mrs. Wesley sighed and nodded. "It's alright. I guess you aren't little children anymore. Now come on, we need to apperate out of here are get Harry some help."
"Where is Ms. Granger?" Professor Dumbledore questioned. Terady pointed into the cell and Lupin went it. He came out a minute later with an unconscious Hermione in his arms. He then apperated out of the Riddle Mansion.
"Each of you hold onto the arm of an adult and we'll all apperate out of here. I'll take Harry," Mr. Wesley ordered. He took Harry from Ron and apperated to Hogsmead. Terady held onto Professor Dumbledore and in a matter of seconds they were in Hogsmead. Ron, Ginny, and Neville all appeared a few minutes later.
Nobody spoke on the way back to the castle. As soon as they reached the doors, Terady ran as fast as she could to the infirmary. She ignored the calls of the others, she just had to see if Harry was going to be okay.
The infirmary was deathly quite. Terady was afraid that she would awaken it's occupants if she walked to loudly. Madame Pomfrey spotted her but just pointed towards the bed farthest from the entrance.
Tears once again found their way into her eyes when Terady saw Harry's motionless body. Only the steady rise and fall of his chest indicated that he was indeed alive. She pulled a chair up next to the bed and sat down. She held his hand and watched as he continued to sleep. Sleep soon caught up to her and she too fell into a deep slumber.
-End Of Chapter-
Author's Note: HAHAHAHA! I bet you all thought it was going to be Terady! Well, HA, I guess you were shocked. I told my friend at school and she was shocked as hell because she thought it was going to be Terady as well. I'm sorry to all of those who love Hermione but I'm not a huge Hermione fan. In fact, she annoys me quite a bit, but that is just my opinion. Anyways, I'd like to that Fredy once again because you are also the reason I decided to update faster. It's always nice to get super nice reviews. Not that the other reviews weren't nice, I just thought that it was funny that the suggestion becoming a writer came up.
-harrypotterfan1247 D
P.S. The story isn't done yet! I've got some more action to put in the story first. I know that this is a lovely ending but don't you want to find out what's so important about the room of visions? –laughs- Please continue to R&R! Love y'all!