His Darkest Hour

Lumos reveals all

Disclaimer: Alas, I am not J.K.Rowling, just an aspiring young writer!

A/N: Well thanks very much to my one and only reviewer whitewingedstallion I have decided to dedicate this chapter to you, and yes I will make it longer this time. Sorry it took me so long to update but I have just started my GCSEs and I am already loaded down with coursework. Anyway enough of me chatting…Enjoy!

Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger were sat in the neglected, overgrown excuse for a garden that belonged to Number 12 Grimmauld Place. It was a beautifully sunny day and a clear blue sky smiled down on them. But the expressions on each of their faces were far from smiling, infact they were almost stormy. The youngest of the three; Harry Potter was shaking slightly as he fought the urge to cry. He had just been discussing his plans on how to find the hocruxes of Voldemort, and when Harry had reached the part about Dumbledore's theories on what the hocruxes may be hidden in, and had found that he could continue no longer, as his words hitched in his throat.

"It's alright mate," Ron told Harry kindly.

"Yea, you can tell us another time," added Hermione, who had a look of deep sadness in her hazel eyes.

The passing of Dumbledore had hit every one hard, but none were as distressed by it as Harry. He would sit alone in his room every night, reliving that night on the astronomy tower, and planning his revenge on Snape, until he cried himself into an uneasy sleep. Voldemort and his black-hearted death eaters had taken every father figure he had ever known. Harry had a gaping hole in his heart desperate to be filled, and he was sure now that he would always feel empty inside. But it was not only this that troubled him, he was now faced with the almost impossible task of finding and destroying all of the remaining hocruxes and Voldemort himself.

It was a Thursday evening when just after dinner harry was heading to his room when Ron called him back.

"Harry, come on lets go for a walk tonight, I know we're not meant to go out, but if we stayed under your invisibility cloak I'm sure we would be safe"
Hermione raised her eyebrows as ron said this. But decided not to interrupt, as she hoped that Harry would agree, and didn't want to give him any reason not to.

Harry seemed to ponder this for a while. So many thoughts were racing through his raven-haired head, a sudden wave of recklessness overcame his young body, but soon after that he felt wary. They had been warned not to leave the burrow. They were not safe anymore, no one was, and Harry would hate his desire to go out to be the cause of any harm to come to his much needed friends. But he just had to get out, so he decided that they would only go out for a short while.

" Okay, okay. I'll come out", he sighed wearily." But only for a while".

Soon they were walking through narrow alleyways, laughing, as friends should. Hermione and Ron were pleased to see that Harry seemed to have forgotten about the darkness in his life at the moment.

But then as they walked down a particularly filthy, smelly alley they heard a shuffling noise a few feet in front of them. They stopped suddenly, then without really thinking Hermione wrapped her delicate hand around her wand and muttered "lumos".

Fear arose in the pit of Harry's stomach, he didn't know what to expect, were they in danger? Should he summon help? Or should he just wait and see what it was? As Hermione raised her long slender wand towards whatever made the shuffling noise Harry could hear Ron's ragged breath on the left of him. The wand light had now reached what was at the end of the alley, and it took Harry a while to register what he was looking at.

None of them would ever forget what they saw, lying infront of them was a curled up and very broken human form, when Harry stepped closer and peered at the body on the floor he discovered that it was none other than Draco Malfoy.

A/N: Well hope you enjoyed it, I will try and update sooner next time, and please review. I don't mind if you criticise me as long as you make it constructive. Thanks for reading my story so far……………. xXxXx