Disclaimer: These characters are not mine. . . They belong to the wonderful Mrs. J.K. Rowling :o)
Lucius Malfoy walked out of the room, and after about 5 seconds returned with Harry's wand. He walked past Harry and handed it to Voldemort before returning to his spot in the circle of deatheaters.
"Now don't try anything stupid Potter." Voldemort smirked before tossing Harry's wand to him.
Harry caught it quickly and clutched it with all his might, still confused why Voldemort was giving him his wand. Although, he was ready for anything that might be thrown at him.
Suddenly, another door appeared, this one was tall, and made of black, cracked wood. Right after the door appeared, out walked in Fenrir Greyback, the only deatheater that was a werewolf.
"Greyback, there you are." Voldemort said in a serious tone "Will you escort Potter downstairs and show him to a room?"
"Potter? Of Course my Lord." Greyback said licking his lips fiercely, then walking over and grabbing Harry by the back of his shirt.
Harry could smell the horrible stench of blood and sweat together as Greyback stood behind him. At the same time trying to concentrate on what was going on, but the smell was too horrible to comprehend.
"Oh and Greyback . . ." Voldemort added as Greyback started to push Harry out of the room "don't get any ideas."
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"Come on Buckbeak." Ron said to the great hippogriff and he gently clapped his heels against the animal's sides.
Just as he said that, Buckbeak walked outside of the pen, and took off flying over the dark woods.
Their shadows glided over the lake, then the trees, and then flowed smoothly over the trees beneath them.
"Ron what do you expect to do after we get there? We can't exactly barge in on a group deatheaters, and the most dangerous wizard in the world might I add, and demand Harry back." Ginny commented as they flew through the night.
"Hold on I'm still working on that." Ron answered unconvincingly.
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"Come on Potter." Greyback said as he pushed Harry forward.
Harry started to walk a little faster, but was practically jogging already and didn't want to find out what room Voldemort had been talking about.
"Turn here" Greyback's gruff voice said as he pushed Harry again towards a metal door with a lock on it.
Harry looked down on the lock and went to open that door, before Greyback spoke.
"You gotta use that unlock spell thing." Greyback said pointing at Harry's wand with one hand and wiping the blood and sweat off his mouth with the other.
"Aloha Mora" Harry recited the incantation before taking off the lock and opening the door.
When the door swung open, Harry looked into the room and saw a small room made up of red bricks. In the room were two chairs. One chair had a yellow, glowing rope that was entwined through the legs of it. This made Harry nervous, but didn't worry him.
"Wait here!" Greyback said as he pointed to the chairs and pushed Harry in before he shut and locked the door.
Harry cautiously sat down in the chair without the ropes on it and stared at the walls. He was glad to finally be away from Greyback's horrible stench but was still wasn't sure what was going to become of him. As he sat, Harry stared from the wall, and then down at the chair, and he wondered what the ropes were for. But he didn't have any more time to wonder because the door reopened and Lucius stood there looking at him suspiciously, scanning him from top to bottom.
"Come on." Lucius said in a low voice, still scanning Harry.
Harry got up and slowly walked out the door. Outside the door was a big group of deatheaters all staring down on him, causing Harry to grip his wand even tighter.
"Come on Potter, we're expecting company." Voldemort smirked as he walked outside the door, and the deatheaters followed making sure Harry didn't try to run.
"Lucius, Nott, and Avery, take Potter and keep walking while the rest of us will go greet Potter's little rescue squad."
"You said you wouldn't hurt them!" Harry shouted angrily as he flew towards Voldemort, but was held back by the deatheaters.
"I said I wouldn't hurt them, but my followers aren't me are they?" Voldemort added slyly.
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"Oh my gosh, I think I see it!" Ginny cried as they flew towards the abandoned prison.
"Yeah, I think that's it . . ."Hermione said looking towards the crooked building.
"Bloody hell," Ron said staring at the strange prison "Let's land away from it a bit so we have the element of surprise, which might work to our advantage." Ron suggested, before landing Buckbeak behind a tree and signaling him to stay here. Buckbeak apparently understood because when they walked away he didn't budge.
"Okay, so what was your plan again Ron?" Hermione asked nervously before poking her head out from behind a tree to make sure the coast was clear. . .
"Well I was thinking . . ." Ron began as they walked further towards the caste being interrupted by a cold, low voice.
"Oh I doubt this was part of your plan, Weasley." Voldemort sneered from behind them.
Turning around slowly to find his worst nightmare had come true, Ron quickly shouted to the others, "Hermione, Ginny get out of here!"
But it was too late. Deatheaters had surrounded them and were closing in.
"Don't even bother trying to run away . . . You'll be with your friend soon." Voldemort smirked as he leaned in and grabbed Ginny.
"LEAVE HER ALONE!" Ron yelled running towards Voldemort.
"CRUCIO!" Voldemort shot the spell at Ron and he fell to his knees, pain splintering throughout his whole body.
"Ron!" Hermione yelled as the deatheaters grabbed her. She tried to shoot spells at them but only was able to hit four of the many deatheaters.
"Leave them alone!" Ron shouted as he was constantly dodging spell after spell cast by Voldemort.
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Harry could hear the fight from where he was, and wanted to help, but knew that the deatheaters would overpower him. Thinking quick, he pretended to trip.
"Get up Potter!" Lucius laughed at Harry's "stupidity", but as he stopped to wait for Harry, Harry didn't get up. Lucius then walked over to Harry eying him suspiciously.
Harry quickly grabbed Lucius's foot and pulled him down, tripping him. Thinking fast, Harry ran, as Avery continued to fire spells at him, but Harry kept using protego.
"PETRIFICUS TOTALAS!" Harry shouted the incantation towards the deatheaters, and managed to hit Avery, and since Nott didn't have his wand, Harry was able to run
away from them to help his friends in need.
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"You let them go!" Ron shouted at Voldemort with every last bit of bravery he had.
"Ron! Don't!" Hermione yelled still struggling and trying to get away from the deatheaters tight grip.
"Hermione shush!" Ron shouted back.
"Let them go, and take me instead." Ron said calmly, yet he was shaking unnoticeably.
"Ron Don't!" Harry yelled.
"Harry?" Ron asked, hearing the familiar voice of his friend. Hermione, Ginny and Ron all turned around to see Harry running towards them.
"Ron! Watch out!" Harry tried to yell, but it was too late. Voldemort had already hit Ron hard, knocking him out.
"Ron! NO!" Hermione shrieked.
"Forget the girls! Hurry, get him!" Voldemort ordered, as the deatheaters ganged up on Harry and held him back.
"Harry!" Ginny cried, tears strolling down her cheeks.
"Harry . . . Ron . . . Hermione . . . Ginny?" three familiar voices shouted as they grew nearer and nearer. It was Tonks, Lupin, and Bill.
"GO!" Harry yelled from inside the circle of deatheaters.
Ginny and Hermione did as they were told and ran towards the aurors.
"I love you Harry!" Ginny yelled back to Harry as she ran.
Harry would've yelled back, but the deatheaters were lifting him off the ground and he only saw her face for a split second before he, Ron, and the rest of the deatheaters appearated. When Harry saw Ginny crying, he felt like his heart had just been ripped out of his chest. It seemed like he was appearating for longer than a second because his mind was racing. But as soon as Harry felt his feet hit hard land again, he looked around to find himself standing before a large acreage of woods, behind him, were more woods, yet they were standing on a dirt road that just stopped as it touched the edge of the forest.
"Come on, the cabin is at the other side of the forest. We can stay there, before . . ." Voldemort began as he looked down at Harry and sneered.
"Go on Potter," Greyback said, pushing Harry forward. But as they walked Harry heard a sigh and he turned around to look at Ron. Harry hadn't even noticed they had captured him too.
"Ron?" Harry asked running back towards him.
"Whoa . . . Harry?" Ron asked as he sat up and rubbed his head.
"I'm right here." Harry said as he helped his friend up.
"Come on you two." Greyback said as he stepped behind them and pushed them forward into the forest.
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"So what happened?" Lupin asked Hermione as she sat down at the base of a tree, hanging her head.
"I knew this would happen. I knew I should have stopped him." Hermione whispered to herself.
"What would happen? Stopped who?" Lupin asked confused.
"We found out where Harry had been taken. And the Order wasn't doing anything about it. So Ron wanted to go and rescue him, because he was tired of waiting for the news to come back and tell us that Harry was . . . well." Hermione began tears brimming the edge of her eyelids again.
"Hermione, you can't blame yourself. Voldemort is a very powerful wizard and is a sly one too. He could outsmart a couple of sixteen year olds easily." Lupin said comforting Hermione.
"I know, but I should've followed my instinct I knew this would happen." Hermione looked up through the branches in the woods, into the dark, starry sky.
"Hermione, just tell me what happened." Lupin asked patting her shoulder.
"Well, like I said, Ron wanted us to go rescue Harry. He was sick of Harry not being at Hogwarts with us and he couldn't wait any longer." Hermione began, "So we decided to go talk to Hagrid about it. But when we did, he told us we shouldn't go. I was already having doubts but I had hoped that Hagrid would tell the Order. The only reason I went was because I knew that he would've done the same for any of us. And every single time I would start to have doubts about rescuing Harry, I would think about the day he and Ron saved me from the giant squid . . . And then I would feel guilty."
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"The cabin is just ahead." Voldemort instructed as they hiked through the dark and eerie woods.
As Harry and Ron walked side by side, up the muddy hill, they exchanged reassuring glances every once in a while but, silently walked up through the woods.
But just as Voldemort had said, soon a small, moss-covered cabin came into view.
Voldemort stiffly walked up to the door and knocked rather politely, for a raging murderer.
Soon the door slowly opened, showing a hook nosed man in tall dark robes.
"My Lord, I didn't expect you so early," Snape said flatly as he open the door all the way and allowed in entry of Voldemort.
"Snape, could you possibly keep an eye on my . . . Guests," Voldemort inquired as he pointed to Harry and Ron. Harry was glancing back and forth from Snape to Voldemort trying to figure out what was going on.
"Of Course my Lord." Snape answered, also looking confused.
"Good. Greyback . . ."Voldemort said, before the large deatheater pushed Harry and Ron inside, and took them to a small library, where he locked them in by standing guard in front of the door.
"Uh, ok . . .why was Voldemort talking to Snape?" Ron asked very confused judging by the look on his face.
"Snape's' a deatheater." Harry explained, almost trying to hold back a laugh.
"What? And all that time . . . Dumbledore trusted him!" Ron seemed so dumbfounded by this news Harry couldn't help it and laughed for the first time in a while.
"Ron, calm down he's not actually a deatheater. He's double for the order." Harry explained whispering as quietly as he could, while also trying to block out any intruders.
"OH . . . That explains it . . ." Ron commented before slouching down onto a wooden chair in a corner.
It seemed to have been an hour before Harry heard the door open.
"Expelliarmus," Snape shouted the incantation, as both Harry and Ron's wand flew out of their hands.
Snape then conjured ropes around the both of them, tying the chairs they sat in, and them, together, as he stood there smirking. Harry was confused at first but as he saw Voldemort turn the corner he understood. Ron hadn't moved either, apparently understanding what was going on also.
"Don't try anything Potter or you either Weasley." Snape smirked as he left the two together.
"I'm still not following this." Ron said trying to turn to look at Harry, but being as they were tied together, it didn't work so well.
"Shh." Harry said trying to concentrate on keeping his thoughts clear, "I'll fill you in later."
Well, another Chapter done :o) Readers, I'm so sorry it took me so long . . . but with school starting I don't have as much time. . . but I should be having more time once I'm back into the swing of things :oP so please review and tell me what you think!