A/N: i am back from the dead. i suddenly had a bout of inspiration so here you go, a chapter that got pulled out of nowhere.
Hermione's P.O.V
Harry, Draco and I have just finished our meeting with Tom and I decided that we have enough time to talk to Aberforth before we have to go back to the castle.
"Hurry up boys, we need to get back to the castle soon." I told them
"Okay, okay, we're coming. For the love of merlin slow down love. Not all of us are used to rushing around places." Harry replied walking up to me and taking hold of my hand. We stop to let Draco catch up.
"No but we all are rather adept at running away from danger, no thanks to you." I retort cheekily.
"Hey, it's not my fault that people have it out for me." I chuckle at Harry's reply.
"Not that this isn't cute but I would rather not see my sister and my friend flirting in front of each other. We also have other stuff to get done, such as the revenge plot against Dumbledore unless you have forgotten." Draco interrupts. We turn back towards the Hogshead and ready ourselves to walk in. We walk up to the door open it and come face to face with the person we could only assume is Dumbledore's brother Aberforth.
"Are you Aberforth by any chance?" Draco asks as I turn to look at the pub. The only words I could find to describe it would be Dull and dingy. Oh, and incredibly dusty. I turn my attention back to the men in the room.
"Depends who's asking."
"We'd like to talk about your brother.' I replied. 'Ask some questions if you don't mind?"
"I have no clue who you're on about, I have no brother. So, go unless you're here to buy anything" I look straight at him and order two butterbeers. We go and sit down at one of the tables that look like they haven't been cleaned for a couple of years. Once we're sat down, Harry beside me and Draco opposite us, Draco asks the question on all of our minds now.
"What do we do now?"
"We wait, when he comes back with our drinks we let him know that we are aware of Dumbledore's behavior. Hopefully then he will listen to us." Just as I finish Aberforth comes back with our drinks.
"Thank you for the drinks, it's a shame your brother is not as good as this butterbeer seems to be." I tell him, hinting that I know more. You could see clearly when he caught onto what I was saying to him. His posture shifted and he spoke.
"On second thoughts why don't you come through to the back? We can discuss this butterbeer back there. The boys look at me in shock.
"Come on boys." We head through to the back following Aberforth. He leads us to a small room where we all sit down in a chair. Aberforth casts a silencing and anti-eavesdropping charms on the room.
"What do you want with my brother?"
"Simple, we want to make him afraid of us. He done something, which he never should have done. He separated the Malfoy twins. That was his first mistake." I tell him. Draco carries on.
"His second mistake was hiding her in plain sight. His final mistake was making it so easy to trace it all back to him. We want to scare him so he won't try it to other families or try and scare us into keeping it quiet."
Aberforth's P.O.V
These kids scare me but I can't say I don't understand where they are coming from. I wanted him to pay for what he and Grindelwald done when we were younger. Because I know for a fact I didn't thrown a curse at Ariana. She was too dear to me. So I tell them something that will definitely help them.
"Did you know that I used to have a sister called Ariana? Not many people do, she died at the age of 14. Killed by a curse. Albus used to be affiliated with Gellert Grindelwald, over time he became obsessed with power and one day I got fed up of it. I confronted them both one day." I pause not looking forward to the bit that comes next. I look towards the children. They look like this news doesn't surprise them and honestly that scares me. My brother has done so much to these children that they are no longer surprised.
"I ended up dueling Grindelwald, Albus stepped in but he wasn't on my side. He attacked me. Ariana was in the corner crying, I turned to her to make sure she was okay. It was a fatal mistake. One of them fired a curse at me, when I turned it missed me and hit Ariana. I rushed to her but couldn't save her, she died in my arms." Granger, or should I say Malfoy, came up to me.
"We know what it's like to lose someone, we're sorry that it was you're sister that you lost. No one deserves that but you are making her proud. We hope that with your help no one else will have to go through what we did. Thank you for sharing your story." I look up to her and see determination in her eyes. She wants justice and merlin damn it if I don't help her with it.
"If you want to scare him make him think Ariana is either haunting him or alive. I don't know if he feels guilty over her or not but, if he thinks someone who can reveal who he really is around he might be too scared to try anything. That's the best I can do for you, I'm sorry it's not more."
"That's alright, what you have told us has helped immensely. Thank you." Potter thanks me.
"If you need any more help just let me know Ariana has a portrait connected to Hogwarts so find it and Ariana will give me the message."
"We will, now, we need to be going the carriages will be leaving shortly and we need to catch one if we don't want to have to walk back to the castle." The Malfoy boy says. With that all of us get up and the trio walk out. At the last minute Hermione turns to me.
"Things will get better, you just have to wait." With that she walks out. I'm left thinking. 'I hope they manage to deal with this because my brother will not make it easy for them. The odds may be against them but truthfully, I think they can pull it off.
Draco's P.O.V
We all walk out together and start to make our way towards the carriages. I look over too Mione and Harry.
"What are we going to do now?" I question the two of them.
"We're going to plan. Once we have a plan then we attack. We don't have to worry. We can wait, lull him into a false sense of security. Then we strike." I look over to my sister almost feeling a little bit bad for Dumb-as-a-door, key word being almost.
"I know I've said this before but if you weren't my sister I would be absolutely terrified." I told her.
"Mate, I'm her boyfriend and even I'm terrified of her sometimes. If you say you're not then you are lying to yourself. No offense Mione." He told the both of us.
"None taken, Severus is up ahead so remember, mention nothing to the adults. We don't want any interference. If he asks we were at the hogshead getting a butterbeer. It's the truth just by omission." We make our way up to Uncle Severus, he gives us a weird look but doesn't question us. Once seated in the carriage the thestrals start to head up to the castle. Once we get back we start planning.
Someone is going to suffer, and I don't need divination to know that.