Chapter 1: Hermione Gets Kidnapped

"So Professor do we have your permission to do this?" asked Draco. He and Professor Umbridge, who had just been appointed Headmistress, were in her office talking about an evil plot.

"I don't see why not Draco, but just remember not to go to far with this ok?" Umbridge replied.

"Thanks Professor, I promise it won't get out of hand," Draco said with a smirk on his face, "I'll go and tell the others." Draco went to the Slytherin common room and told all the other Slytherins about his scheme.

"Okay guys," He began, "I asked Umbridge about being able to hypnotize all the Gryffindor fifth year girls so that they do whatever we want them to. We can make them do our homework or something, but not much beyond that."

"Really Draco, she said we could do that?" Pansy Parkinson asked while looking dreamily at Draco. Everyone knew that Pansy and Draco liked each other, but the had never admitted their feelings.

"Yea she said we just can't go overboard with it." said Draco.

She continued to fawn over Draco, but suddenly was hit with a thought.

"What if Snape won't let the Gryffindor girls down here, you know how much he hates that house!" she exclaimed.

"I was just about to go and ask him for permission," He said and then strolled out of the room, leaving several very impatient Slytherins in his wake. Draco approached Snape and inquired about the plan.

"Well normally I would not like Gryffindors in our tower, but I guess that given the goal of this project it would be acceptable."

Draco thanked Snape and left his office to go back to the common room. He told everyone that Snape had given the go ahead for the plan, and they all began mapping out their quest, which would occur that night.

After dinner, Draco followed a group of Gryffindors to the portrait of the fat lady and listened to them give the password. He called on his cronies, Crabbe and Goyle, and waited until he was sure everyone was asleep. Then they broke into the tower and made their way towards the girl's dormitory and captured Hermione.

Meanwhile, up in the boy's dormitories, Ron was awakened by faint squeaks of terror. He ran out into the common room to see what was making all the commotion. He squinted into the darkness and two huge shapes carrying a limp form with bushy hair out of the common room. He also saw a shorter form struggling to get the thing he was carrying through the portrait hole. Then saw a couple more people going back up to the girl's dormitories and carrying out more girls. Ron was confused but he didn't know what to do. He knew the first girl that had been carried out was Hermione, but she was gone now and he pondered what action he should take. Should he go save the girl he loves or just wait for an explanation? He ran up to the boy's dormitories and woke Harry up to tell him what had just happened.

"Ron are you insane! Why didn't you go after them and try to save Hermione?" Harry inquired when Ron was finished ranting.

"Harry, if you'd had seen those two guys you wouldn't have been going after anyone either! They were massive! And I think they had already knocked Hermione out! I wasn't about to get in their way!" Ron sputtered.

"Well I still think you should have gone after them dimwit! What if they had hurt Hermione?" Harry scolded.

TO BE CONTINUED...

What will happen to Hermione? Will Ron get the courage to go and save her? Will he ever figure out who Hermione's kidnappers were? Please review this chapter and be sure to look for updates!