Chapter 26
Potter Twins to the Rescue!
We walked through the door and saw that there were shelves on shelves of clear orbs with light blue smoky stuff inside them.
"They must be prophecies…" Hermione whispered "I read about these…Harry, we must be in the Prophecy Hall or something!" she said loudly.
"Shh!" I hushed. "You want us to get caught by Zimmerman?" I asked quietly, shaking a little at a sudden draft through the otherwise silent hall. "Is it me or is this place giving me the creeps?"
Luna strolled to my side as if the darkness didn't effect her at all. "Must just be you…" she said airily.
I just looked at her "Yeah…I'm going over to Harry now." I said, rushing up to Harry. "Where're we headed?" I asked, secretly scared.
"Row…no wonder you're scared, sis. You haven't got your wand lit!" Harry said, rolling his eyes.
I scoffed and drew my wand from in between my holster and the former dagger of Salazar Slytherin. "Lumos."
When my wand tip ignited, making me feel a little more at ease, I asked Harry my question again.
"Where're we headed, Harry?" I asked again.
Harry looked down a few rows of shelving as I suddenly had the feeling I was being watched. "Row ninety seven…" he whispered as I thought I heard a female giggle…the same female giggle I heard outside the room of requirement. And the feeling of being watched remained.
"Harry…you ever get the feeling you're being watched?" I asked.
Harry nodded "Uh huh…why?" he asked, scanning shelves for row ninety seven.
"I feel like I'm being stalked by someone." I whispered as Harry suddenly stood straight.
"Here…" he whispered "Guys, over here!" he called out quietly.
Hermione, Neville, Ginny, Ron and Luna rushed up to where Harry and I were, wands drawn.
"After you, sis." Harry said to me.
I took a deep breath, accidentally breathing in some old dust and coughing as I walked.
Eyes tearing up, I looked through names among names under balls of light blue smoke.
I shivered from a sudden draft and saw something…it had Harry's name on it.
"Harry…" I breathed, silent as a church mouse.
"What?" Harry asked, Mum's emerald eyes widening in shock at the fact I went ashen. "Hannah, what is it?" he demanded loudly.
"That…" I said, pointing up to the sphere with Harry's name under it. "it's…it's got your name on it." I whispered as Ron, Hermione, Neville, Ginny and Luna rushed to our side.
"My name?" Harry asked.
I nodded "Your name." I muttered.
Harry looked at me "You mind?" he asked.
I stepped out of Harry's way and watched as Harry picked the ball up as I reread the names under where it rested until Harry took it and was now dusting it off in spidery writing, was a date a little ways before Harry and I were born…and two names:
S.P.T to A.P.W.B.D.
Dark Lord
And Harry Potter
I took one look at the orb and gasped "What's this mean, Harry?" I asked.
Harry shrugged.
"This could have something to do with you and…him." I said, scared as I took the orb.
It was warm, completely confusing seeing as it was on a shelf untouched for Skinner knew how long.
I ran my fingers across the orb. "Could this have anything to do with why Voldemort killed our parents all those years ago?" I asked Harry "Maybe the answers…are all here." I said, holding the orb a little higher to look eye level at it.
I suddenly heard a slow applauding of one person ring out through the entire room, nearly making me drop the ball.
"Excellent…" a cold, sly, mirthless voice said in mock admiration "very brilliant deductions, Ms Potter. I see you have been reading the Sherlock Holmes my son's been sending you over holidays. Now…turn around, nice and slowly, and give that to me."
I gasped and whipped around, clutching the sphere tightly in my grip.
"To me, Potter." Lucius Malfoy ordered, holding out his hand.
"Yes, Potter." said a woman next to him…the same woman from the Daily Prophet…Bellatrix Lestrange. "Give us the prophecy…and no one gets hurt…will they, Ivy?"
Malfoy and Bellatrix stepped aside to reveal Ivy, Sheila, She-Cat and Fireball tied up at another masked Death Eater's feet.
"If you really value their safety, Potter, I highly suggest you come over to your rightful side and give us the prophecy." a female voice said smoothly as she lowered her hood, revealing blonde hair tied up into a high ponytail.
More Death Eaters cackled and I glared, rushing up to Ivy, Sheila, Fireball and She-Cat. "Guys!" I shouted, kneeling down at their side, clutching the ball in my fist as I groped around for my dagger.
"Hannah, look out!" Sheila screamed.
Suddenly I was thrown back from my friends, going far back to Harry, who took the ball from me.
"Give us the prophecy!" the masked female Death Eater ordered. "You don't want anything bad to happen to your friends…do you?" she asked, ripping her mask off.
I gasped as cold blue eyes glared at me.
It was Scarlett.
"You!" I said, stepping back, and gaping at her black Death Eaters robes. "You said you…you weren't a…a…a…"
"Death Eater?" she smirked, tapping her left arm "Oh, when I said I wasn't on last term I was telling the truth…but…I was in training to get Marked. And now I have." she said, ripping her sleeve halfway up her arm to reveal a black brand of skull and snake.
"You…you're…evil!" I said, stepping back and pointing at her "I can't believe I trusted you!"
"I hate to say I told you so, Hannah…" Ivy started.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, you told me so." I muttered.
"Oh…" Zimmerman said brightly, checking her watch "it's now midnight! It's decision time, Potter! You going to release your friends and join us…or are you going to watch them die the Lestrange way?"
The Death Eaters around her laughed and I thought about it.
He killed your parents!
But it'd set V, She-Cat, Sheila and Fireball free…
But Voldemort killed your parents!
I wouldn't be compared to my brother anymore…
Draco doesn't want you to!
But I'd get back at the Muggles who abused me…
Then I remembered something Draco told me weeks beforehand.
"Now that the Dark Lord's back, it's not safe. There are going to be Death Eaters breaking out of Azkaban and rejoining him. The last time he was this powerful, he got the Dementors on his side. I can guarantee you that they've joined him again. And I'd bet my Nimbus that's how my aunt broke out. He's made some sweet cushy deal with the Dementors and they let all his followers out. He also had the giants with him, think the oaf, except a lot bigger. They won't be far behind. And once he gets his army back up and running, he's going to start from where he left off on his ultimate goal. The Dark Lord wants to take over the Ministry. And if he takes it over, he's going to try to keep it the way it is…and that's going to mean either getting you and Potter to join him…or…" he slid a finger over my throat. "I think you know."
I blinked "Then Harry's going to be in trouble. He's made it widely known he wants nothing to do with the Dark Side." I muttered.
Draco almost snarled "Then the Dark Lord will be after you. And I'm certain of the fact he'll want to get you to join him, and be absolutely sure you will not before…" again, he slid a finger across my throat. "because a) I know for a fact he will not willingly spill Slytherin blood and b) he knows you have powers that can help him take over the wizard world. He'll use you to his advantage, and I know it. You refuse him…" Draco trailed off, his lip curling into a sneer "damn it, I can't even bare to think about what would happen if you did."
"Then I'll-" I started, half guessing what Draco was thinking.
"No, Hannah!" Draco snarled, forcing me off him. "You don't want to live the life of a Death Eater. He will use you! You'll be nothing if you join him, nothing but his pawn that can easily be killed and replaced. You'll have to act like my father all the time. Do you really want that?"
I shook my head.
Yes, no…maybe…I didn't know! Both sides were so tempting! I glared into the eyes of Lucius Malfoy.
"And who knows?" Scarlett said "Maybe Mr Malfoy would like you better for his son…"
Draco…
"You don't want to live the life of a Death Eater. He will use you! You'll be nothing if you join him, nothing but his pawn that can easily be killed and replaced. You'll have to act like my father all the time. Do you really want that?"
But was it worth being able to have him with no death threats from his father?
Yes…it is. Do it, Hannah, it's so tempting! And there's nothing stopping you and your beloved Draco from being together forever.
But would Draco still want me if I was a Death Eater?
I swallowed as Zimmerman smirked in triumph.
"No." I said weakly.
Zimmerman, Malfoy, even Bellatrix looked shocked.
"What did you say to me, Potter?" Zimmerman demanded.
"I…said…no." I said, stronger. "I'll never join the bastards that killed my parents! You'll have to kill me first!"
Zimmerman smirked "So be it." she said, raising her wand.
"Now, now, Zimmerman." Bellatrix said, touching Zimmerman's shoulder. "Let's see if her brother gives us the prophecy. And if he doesn't…then you may leave her to me."
Bellatrix turned to Harry and the Death Eaters around him were so busy I was able to sneak back to my tied up friends, unseen as I pulled out my dagger and cut them loose.
"You still have wands?" I asked.
They nodded "Zimmerman's not the brightest bulb in the janitor's shed." Ivy said, drawing her own wand "She didn't think we could get to them, much less be busted out."
Sheila smirked at Fireball "You know what we're gonna do?" she asked.
She-Cat beamed "Are we going for cupcakes?" she asked.
We all glared at her "No, She-Cat!" we hissed together.
"If anything, we're going to kick some Death Eater ass!" I muttered. "Follow me." I said, walking from another aisle back to Harry's.
Suddenly, something caught my eye and I stopped to do a double take.
There was a prophecy…with MY name on it. Dated sixteen years previously:
Hannah Potter
And the Malfoy family
I gasped and reached out to touch it…holding my breath until I grasped it.
It was smaller than Harry's, small enough for me to tuck into my leather jacket pocket with a cushioning charm to keep it safe.
Good thing I did, too. Because before I knew what was happening, people were starting to smash the shelves.
"TAKE YOUR WANDS AND RUN!" I screamed, starting to run from the tidal waves of smashing prophecies.
Ivy and I ran as Harry shouted "HANNAH! WHERE'D SHE GO!?"
"WHERE'D THE CAPTIVES GO, ZIMMERMAN!?" Malfoy shouted.
"I DON'T KNOW!" Zimmerman screamed "THEY WERE RIGHT THERE A SECOND AG - POTTER!" she shouted "YOU GET -"
"DON'T TELL US WHAT TO DO, YOU FOOLISH LITTLE GIRL!" Malfoy shouted "Bellatrix, you and Rodolphus go left and look for my son's dear, darling girlfriend. Rabastian, you and Crabbe go right after Potter with the rest of us. Jugson, Dolohov, straight ahead. Macnair, Avery, through there. Rookwood, over there. Mulciber, you're with me. We're helping Bellatrix get Ms Potter. NOW GO!"
Pounding footsteps started heading in our direction.
"LET'S GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE!" I shouted, bolting in the direction I knew Harry was going, I heard him shouting "THIS WAY!"
I followed Harry's voice, Ivy, Sheila, Fireball and She-Cat still on my tails.
"THEY'RE GETTING AWAY!" Malfoy shouted far off behind me.
"HARRY, WHAT DO WE DO!?" I screamed.
"Go through the door and hide somewhere!" Harry shouted as Hermione blasted the door open.
We all thundered inside the room and I gaped, frozen at what we were seeing.
It was a large archway, with something like a bridal veil curtaining it.
"Han, you honestly think now's the time for romantic notions?!" Ivy shouted.
"Stay out of my mind, Ivy!" I shouted back to her, running up into some of the stone stairs and seats.
"It must be an old courtroom…what the veil's doing there, I have no idea." Hermione said beside me.
I nodded and gripped the pocket of my leather jacket, where my prophecy laid, completely safe from all that.
Suddenly someone grabbed me by the hair…hard and pulled me down by the veil and making me scream.
"Silence you stupid girl!" Bellatrix's voice hissed to me. "Or I'll send you back to my nephew in pieces!"
I struggled, but she gripped my hair tighter in one taloned hand and gripped my arm in another, forcing me to my knees.
"Now…we have a little acquainting to get done." she said evilly "You probably know me already…I'm Draco's dear aunt Bellatrix…and you are?"
"Going to break out of this eventually!" I grunted, trying to shake her off.
"Ah, ah, ah." she said, yanking my hair back and placing her wand at my throat. "Let's try that again…I'm Draco's dear aunt Bellatrix…and you are?"
I snarled at her. "Hannah Potter." I said bitterly.
"Very good." Bellatrix sneered "It's considered good manners for filthy half bloods to treat us pure bloods with respect you know."
I snarled "I'll give you respect. You and the rest of your Death Eater posse can kindly go to hell!" I snapped.
Bellatrix snarled. "Hmm…we have a fighter here, Lucius." she said sweetly to Malfoy as I continued to struggle.
"Ah, I've seen her fight capacitated. I hate to say it, but she was left overwhelmed."
"YOU'RE FULL OF SHIT, I KICKED YOURS AND YOUR FRIENDS' ASSES!" I shouted.
"And left the fight with a broken ankle." Malfoy sneered "I don't think you'll be able to fight out of Bellatrix's grip anytime soon."
"LET HER GO!" Harry suddenly shouted from in front of me.
"Harry, I can do this myself!" I shouted, thrashing one more time out of Bellatrix's grip, ending with a large elbow to the stomach as I forced myself back to knock her off me.
That did it. I got her off and my prophecy wasn't even injured in the process (I love magic, I thought to myself.).
Harry was still holding the prophecy in a death grip and I looked up to him as I saw Bellatrix charging after me.
"HARRY!" I shouted, holding my arms up.
Harry smirked and lobed the prophecy over to me, which I caught above Lucius Malfoy's head.
"KEEPAWAY!" Harry and I said together, lobbing the sphere back and forth until Malfoy grabbed me hard and wrenched his grip, sending a sharp blinding pain to my arm.
"Give me that prophecy…NOW!" he shouted, gripping my arm ever tighter until I heard a crack in the bone.
Suddenly someone tapped Malfoy on the shoulder. He turned around, taking me with him.
And there stood Sirius. Standing there as livid as ever as he watched Malfoy man handle me.
"Get your hands off my goddaughter." he said coldly…before punching Malfoy in the nose as I handled the prophecy in another hand, giving it to Harry before I was let go.
Then bursts of white were coming into the entire room. Tonks, Remus, Mad-Eye and Kingsley Apparated into the room and started fighting Death Eaters as more bursts of white flooded the room.
Ivy, Sheila, She-Cat and Fireball all ran over and started to duel with Zimmerman as new arrivals and Tonks, Remus, Mad-Eye and Kingsley all found Death Eaters and followed my friends' example, duelling them.
Harry and Sirius took over Lucius Malfoy…and that left Bellatrix to me.
The Order of the Phoenix had come to back us all up.
A/N: OH! Hannah found a prophecy! What do you think it says in it? It involves her and the Malfoys...but you never know! R+R please and thank you!
