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Chapter 10

In the Forbidden Forest

Harry, Ron, Hermione, 5:16, Forbidden Forest

The three of them stood in the middle of a circle of 6 death eaters. They, and the death eaters, all had their wands raised. "Draco," Hermione shouted suddenly, "Draco don't come here, go away!"

There was that brief moment that the death eaters were distracted by Hermione's yelling that Harry and Ron took advantage of took advantage of to disarm a few death eaters. Unfortunately, Hermione was also distracted and Bellatrix Lestrange disarmed her and then grabbed her.

"Drop your wands or the mudblood gets it," she sneered at the other two. The obediently let their wands fall to the ground.

Hadgrid, 5:16, Forbidden Forest

After Draco took off, Hadgrid lost track of him and was trudging through the forest looking for him and the others. He jumped suddenly when he heard a twig snap and spun around, holding out his wand.

"It's me Hadgrid," Remus whispered.

"Oh Remus, wha' are you doin' here?" he looked at the rising moon, "Ye take yer potion tonight?"

Remus nodded and hastily answered, "Yes, of course, where's the boy?"

"Well we 'eard 'Arry Ron and "Ermione yelling and he took off, I was just abou' ter go find them when you came along. Why? Wha's wrong?"

"They boy, the Malfoy boy they think he's a werewolf. They-" he stopped suddenly and he began to transform into a werewolf.

Hadgrid looked at him in horror, "If yer….then Malfoy?" Remus, unable to speak in English, nodded.

Draco, 5:18, Forbidden Forest

He stopped when he heard Hermione yell for him to stop but he was now not feeling to good….he felt as if he was going to faint. The moon shown down through the trees and he began to feel worse, all his limbs hurt and he felt strange. He fell to his knees and felt himself changing. He didn't remember anymore after that, he became a full werewolf.

Ginny, 5:20, Hogwarts Castle

Ginny and Neville gathered up as many of the D.A. members as they could. Looking at them now, Ginny realized that they were the same people who had answered her call for help that summer while searching for Hermione. Dean Thomas, Lavender Brown, Parvati and Padma Patil, Cho Chang, Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood as well as Seamus Finnigan stood before her armed and waiting for orders.

"I don't have time to explain," Ginny said, "Harry, Ron and Hermione are in the woods trying to warn Draco about a group of death eaters waiting for him but they also need to warn Hadgrid, who is with Malfoy, that Malfoy is a werewolf. McGonagall, Lupin, and Snape are out their right now so if you feel like you need to help you can leave." Nobody moved, "Alright then, let's go. No hurting the werewolves but don't get bit and try to avoid the death eaters. Any questions?"

"Um…did you say werewolves as in plural?" Cho asked.

"Lupin."

"Oh, ok, I'm good, let's go."

McGonagall, 5:25, Hogwarts ground

Snape joined her and Pansy at the edge of the woods. "Ms. Parkinson go back up to the castle, we'll take it from here," McGonagall ordered.

"But-"

"Now!" The girl left quickly and headed up to the castle. "Did Miss Weasly explain our situation?" Snape nodded, "Great, just find the boy and don't let the Death Eaters notice you helping us." They headed into the forest without word.

Pansy made it half way back to the castle when she ran into Ginny and her army. "Where are the others?" asked Ginny.

"In the forest, McGonagall told me to come back to the castle….but I want to help….I never wanted anyone to get hurt."

Ginny stared at her, making her decision finally she nodded, "Do you have your wand?"

Pansy pulled it out of her pocket, "I don't go anywhere without it."

Ginny nodded, "Good, join us but if you betray us you will regret it." Pansy nodded and joined the group.

Draco, 5:30, Forbidden Forest

The werewolf, new to its form crawled around awkwardly. Suddenly he stopped as he caught a whiff of something….something that smelled good. Human flesh…all around him. He hadn't realized how hungry he was. He began to go towards the direction of the biggest smelling being but stopped. There was competition that way, another werewolf. He sniffed again, there was a larger group of people in the opposite direction. They seemed to be waiting for something. Some were anxious, impatient, others were scared. Feeling satisfied, he followed the scent.

Hadgrid, 5:35, Forbidden Forest

Remus had also transformed and Hadgrid kept glancing at him nervously but he was to busy sniffing around for Draco to notice. He looked suddenly at Hadgrid causing him to flinch but Remus barked at him to make him follow him through the woods.

Hermione, Harry and Ron, 5:40, Forbidden Forest

"Harry the sun," Hermione whispered.

"Shut up," snapped Bellatrix, "Well where is he?" she asked Lucius impatiently.

"He'll come."

"You don't understand," whimpered Hermione, "He-"

"I said shut up!" screamed Bellatrix.

There was a noise in the woods near them. "Something's coming," said one of the death eaters.

"Draco," Lucius called, "Come on Draco, we won't hurt you but we will hurt your friends here if you don't obey us."

Within seconds the circle that the trio was captive in was in chaos. Out of the woods where Malfoy had been calling to jumped an angry and hungry werewolf. There was spells being shot all over the place. In the panic Bellatrix let go of Hermione. Harry tossed her wand to her.

"Avada Kedavra!" someone shouted.

"No!" cried Hermione, "Don't! It's Draco!"

Luckily the curse had missed him but for a moment all the death eaters stopped and looked at her. Draco took advantage of this momentary pause and pounced on the nearest Death Eater.

"Draco don't!" screamed Hermione but he didn't stop.

"Come on," Harry mumbled as he and Ron grabbed her and pulled her deeper into the woods.

"They'll get him," Hermione protested.

"I think he has it under control for now," Ron said.

D.A., Forbidden Forest, 5:45

Ginny had hid with the others behind Hadgrid's house until McGonagall had disappeared into the trees. Now they were headed into the forest themselves.

"Is it safe for us to be in here?" Pansy asked in a whisper.

"No," answered her ten companions.

"Nobody made you come," Dean Thomas pointed out.

"We aren't always willing to let Slytherins join us," Hannah Abbot added.

"Join what? What are you?"

"We can't tell you," Luna said, "Hermione put a curse on a piece of paper."

"Would you shut up," snapped Ginny, "It won't do us any good if some other creature finds us; we are looking for a few specific ones."

"What exactly do you mean?" asked Padma.

"Draco Malfoy is a werewolf," Parvati explained.

"And Professor Remus is around here somewhere," Lavender added.

"Not to mention the death eaters," said Neville with a shudder.

"Death eaters!" cried everyone but Parvati, Lavender, Pansy, Neville, Ginny and Luna.

"Oh good," Luna said, "Just like last year, this will be fun."

"What exactly happened last year?" asked Ernie Macmillan.

"Would you all shut up!" snapped Ginny, "We don't anyone or anything to hear us; that would defeat the purpose." There was a sound of twigs breaking nearby causing everybody to jump and point their wand in that direction. There was sounds of heavy footsteps coming towards them. They all held their breath, expecting to be attack by some horrible creature at any second. They all heaved a sigh of relief when a scared looking boarhound nearly ran in to Ginny.

"It's just Hadgrid's dog," said Seamus Finnegan.

Ginny knelt down next to him, "Hey Fang. Where's Hadgrid huh? Can you take us to him?" The dog whimpered but turned and jogged the way he had come. He stopped suddenly and turned to bark at Ginny as if to tell her to follow. "Come on," she said.

"We're not seriously going to follow a dog are we?" Justin Finch-Fletchley.

"Do you see any other options?" Katie Bell asked him and then followed Hermione.

McGonagall and Snape, 5:50, Forbidden Forest

"Potter, Granger, Weasly," Minerva snapped when she and Severus found them, "What do you think your doing going after a werewolf and a group of death eaters by yourselves?"

"Well we're not alone now, you can help us," Harry said hoping they would understand.

"Oh I don't think so Potter, now you three get back up to the castle," Minerva said.

"Which way is it Professor?" Ron asked, "We will probably get lost in the dark."

"You wouldn't want us wandering around when there is a werewolf and 6 death eaters running around among the normal residence of the forbidden forest."

McGonagall glared at them, "Did you find Mr. Malfoy?"

Ron snorted, "We found them both."

"And Draco is a werewolf?" Severus asked.

"Last we saw he was attacking one of the death eaters," Harry said.

"Severus, you go find the death eaters and…do what you do," Minerva commanded, "You three, come with me, we are going to find Hadgrid and Remus," she turned as she walked away she mumbled, "This is going to be a long night."