I felt someone knee me in the small of my back and I heard a gruff voice say, "Move it, Potter." I tripped over a root and fell forward flat on my face. I heard the Death Eater laugh, and I tried to get up, but I couldn't, I was too weak from the seemingly endless torture and the hours of travelling. I just lay for a few moments until I heard the man yell from somewhere above me, "I said GO!" He pulled me up by the scruff of my tattered robes and pushed me forward only to have me fall forward again. But this time he didn't try to make me walk again, he just muttered, "Mobilicorpus" and I started to hover a few inches above the ground (A/N: I think that's what this spell does). I floated forward along the forest floor until we entered a large cave.

"Leave Potter and come with me." Voldemort was in the cave, but thankfully he just walked past me and out of the cave.

'You know,' I thought to myself, 'for a so called Dark Lord, he's not very smart is he, leaving his prisoners unguarded'

I heard a slithering sound and I looked up to see what must have been hundreds of snakes approaching me from all directions. 'Never mind.'

"We were sent to guard you."

"Le'me guess, you work for Voldemort." The green snake in the front nodded.

'Well then, I can't really say it was nice meeting you because, well, it wasn't, and that would be lying, so I'm just gonna go now."

I tried to stand up but the snakes all barred their fangs at me and hissed so I let myself fall back to the ground again. "Okay I guess that wasn't the best of ideas, now was it." I always talk to my self. You would to if you were locked in an underground cell for four years with no company but the spiders, rats, Death Eaters, or Voldemort himself. It gets dreadfully lonely after a while.

"You will not leave." Hissed the same snake again.

"Tell me, what do you get out of working for Voldemort?"

"The satisfaction of doing good deeds"

"Doing good deeds? Why do you think I'm here, for a tea party?"

"What do you mean?"

"You're not doing good deeds, you're holding an innocent man capture, who has undergone four years of torture for no reason whatsoever, might I add.

"You're lying."

"Ya sure, and grass is make out of chocolate…though, that would be quite tasty." I replied with a grin.

"How do we know you're not lying?"

"You don't. And that's a problem, now isn't it?

Before the snake could reply, another snake said something that I couldn't hear to the green snake that I had been conversing with. The green snake nodded and looked at me and said, "I have been reminded that it is impossible to lie in the language of the snakes, so we will have to confront our master."

About half the snakes left, and came back a few moments later. But what surprised me was when I saw that the green snake had it's tail coiled around my wand.

"Is this yours?" it questioned. I nodded and reached out with my unbroken arm for my wand.

"We found it lying in the grass out there. We will go now…all of us." He looked around at all the other snakes who nodded at him. "I believe you," he said in a low voice so only I could hear, 'so I'm giving you a chance to escape." He raised his voice so the other snakes could hear, "Let's go."

The snakes left and, using a simple spell, I healed all my wounds and gave my self a drink of water. I stood up and walked slowly to the entrance of the cave, seeing as I was still weak. I looked out of the cave, the outside was a deserted forest. I stuck my leg out to see if anything would happen, but nothing did. 'Good, it wasn't a trap.' I thought to myself. I stepped warily outside, looking left and right, no one was around. I couldn't believe my luck. I must have tried to escape from Voldemort at least 15 or 20 times, you'd think he would have tightened security around me.

I took a few steps out, but as soon as I did, I heard Voldemort's cold, high voice yell, "Get the Potter boy, he's escaping!" Great. Just my luck. I made a break for it; I ran as fast as I could, I could hear Death Eaters firing spells at my back. I pointed my wand over my shoulder and yelled "Protego!" A silvery shield sprang up behind me, blocking whatever spells they were shooting at me. I muttered another spell that caused me to speedup and easily out ran the Death Eaters.

I stoped in a deserted clearing, and looked behind me, but I couldn't see, nor hear any Death Eaters. I leaned over, panting before setting of again at my slow pace.

I walked, and walked, and walked until I realised that I had no idea what so ever as to where I was going. I groaned. 'Great, perfect.' I thought wryly. After a while of thinking it over I decided to just keep going the way I was going, for one main reason: if I went the other way I would run right into Voldemort again

I walked what must have been for days. It got dreadfully cold at night and frost would materialise on my robes even as I was walking. Of course, seeing as I have the best of luck, it started to snow. Yahoo. Great. I was frozen to the bone, day and night and the only thing to keep me warm was walking. I had forgotten completely about my wand.

The only times I would stop, were to drink water from the streams or to eat some berries left over from last summer or spring. I was sitting in the middle of a snow covered clearing eating some raspberries I had found in the bushes, when I thought absently. 'Ginny loved raspberries.' I felt my throat constrict at the thought of Ginny. I had started to think about Ginny a lot now. How she was doing, what she had been doing these last four years and stuff like that. I missed her so much, the way she looked, the way she always had that flowery scent around her. I missed Ron and Hermione to, 'I wonder if they've finally gotten together yet.' I thought with a small smile. It was obvious that they liked each other since the Yule Ball in our fourth year at Hogwarts.

'I should probably start walking now.' I stood up and headed back up the path I was using. You can't imagine how proud I was of myself when I started to recognise where I was. Ron had shown me this place when I was staying at his house one summer. He said that when their mom was really angry with one of them, that person would come here to hide and to give their mom a chance to cool of.

It was really dark out and the trees looked really creepy. It was one of those nights when the moon is hidden behind clouds, and there's absolutely no light at all. I shivered. I grinned widely when I could just barely make out the shape of the Burrow roof above the tree line. In about 20 minutes I walked out of the forest and around a bend and the entire house came into view. I stoped for a few moments just to look at the house and to catch my breath again, seeing as I was still so weak. I saw a light in the kitchen come on so I started forward towards the house.

I walked up the porch steps without looking where I was going and when I reach the top of the stairs I knocked over the large umbrella stand causing a large thump. I heard glass shatter inside. I quickly picked the stand up again and started towards the door. I had to keep one hand against the wall to stop myself from falling over, that umbrella stand was really heavy and used just about all of the energy I had left just to pick it up again. I knocked on the door, and Ginny opened it.

Her hair was a mess and she was wearing a bathrobe over her pyjamas, but to me she looked gorgeous. She dropped the fire poker she was holding in surprise and I tried to smile at her, but I had no energy left.

She screamed. Loudly. Very, loudly. I saw lights flicker on in the up stairs windows. I couldn't take it anymore, I was too weak. I fainted on her doorstep.