7. Interrogation
When Harry was finally brought back to the dungeons he looked weak. He was injured and had cried. Tears were still running down his face and he was shaking. The Malfoys followed him and Draco helped Harry to his friends. "Bellatrix tortured him and Jade... Jade did something worse"
"What could be worse?" Ron looked at Draco who took a picture from Harry's hand. After he gave it to Ron he walked back to his parents who sat in a corner of the dungeons in their own home. Ron and Hermione felt a bit sorry for them but even more for Harry after they looked at the picture of James and Petunia.
"She said... she..." Harry couldn't speak and Hermione looked over her shoulder to Draco. He swallowed before he could say anything. "Jade told him who his mother is. Because he had magic Lily took him... Jade said something of a spell that bound Lily to Harry and his real mother... she maybe doesn't even know he exists..."
"She does... I saw her some years ago. It was dark but it was her" Ron told them how the Dursley's had treated Harry. A mother wouldn't treat her son like this and so it must be true that Petunia Dursley had no idea who Harry really was. "What will they do now?"
"Bellatrix wants to kill them"
Jade watched Bellatrix giving orders to send her sister away and call the Dark Lord. Scabior and his snatchers were sent to kill the Dursley's which Jade didn't like. Her story was not known in all details and he wanted to talk to Petunia herself.
While Bellatrix was playing with a sword and yelled at everybody around her Jade played with her gobstones in her pocket and went downstairs unnoticed by everyone else. With her wand she opened the gate to the dungeons and closed it behind her. "You all be quiet. The Dark Lord will be here every moment"
"What?" Harry froze looking at Jade who walked closer to him and put one gobstone in his hand. Harry dropped it and felt her hand slapping his face again. "I wasn't finished boy. You give me what I want to hear and I tell you what Bellatrix is screaming about. A piece of soul... I don't think Bellatrix has ever used Salem magic"
"She knows where..." Hermione stopped and let Jade put her gobstone in Harry's hand. After the golden shine disappeared she took it back and nodded to Hermione. "Bellatrix is angry that somebody could have entered her vault. Something must be hidden there... and something is hidden inside him" Jade walked back to the dungeons gate and left while Hermione gathered all of them together. A noise upstairs worried them and the voice of the Dark Lord echoed through the halls.
"Ron, quick!" Hermione urged her friend to use his deluminator when they suddenly heard a pop. Two house elves had come to rescue them and disappeared the moment the gate exploded.
Astoria felt dizzy when she woke up. Jade was nowhere to see and Daphne barged into the room. "This stupid witch! And you! What are you thinking? You spent two days in here and... oh, get up Astoria. You help me tidy up now"
Astoria didn't understand anything but followed her sister. Together they tidied up the living room and the kitchen. Daphne even let Astoria tidy up Daphne's room before the younger Greengrass fell in her own bed and didn't know what to feel.
"Dobby! Kreacher! This was brilliant! Exactly the right moment and..." Ron's joy faded seeing Hermione's concerned look. Dobby and Kreacher had stood closest to the explosion like Lucius Malfoy. Hermione's spells weren't strong enough and the last salve she had used for Luna. It was too late to save them.
Harry and Draco both cried for their lost. A friend and a father they would have to bury today close to the house of Xenophilius Lovegood. Luna ran inside to ask her father for help. They brought flowers for the new graves but couldn't ease the pain.
"Scabior!" Jade ran after the snatchers and ran from the Dark Lord's wish for revenge. He had missed Harry Potter and a chance to kill the boy. Jade didn't want to get in his way and instead she stood close to the man she had scared a few months ago. "I want to speak to Petunia Dursley"
"Bellatrix..."
"Who scares you more? Bellatrix or I?" Jade looked angry and stared at Scabior who quickly nodded. "Never be the enemy of a Salem witch. Why do you want to talk to this woman?" They used brooms to fly through the night and get to London where Scabior and his men would start looking for hints of where they had gone.
"I only want to speak the truth. You are ruled by fear and instincts but truth and solved secrets are might and my power. Whoever controls truth controls everybody" Jade watched Scabior and his men started searching while Jade casted spells to keep the neighbourhood quiet.
"Their trail is months old. If they were wizard I would say they had a secret keeper but they were muggles..." Scabior's idea brought a new grin on Jade's face. "They protected a wizard. Somebody knows and if we find the secret keeper... I can make him talk"
Xenophilius made tea for his unexpected guests. He gave Harry the key to his house and told the friends he will leave with Luna. This war was too dangerous for a man and his daughter and so he suggested Draco and his mother leave as well. Narcissa didn't say anything and Draco held her hands. "We have nowhere to go"
"What about Grimmauldplace? It belonged to the Black family and you are related to them. Harry, we won't go back there and they might be save"
Harry didn't answer Ron's suggestion and let his friend decide who explained Draco how to get to Grimmauldplace and how to enter it. Draco and his mother would be save there for some time and Bellatrix would never start looking for them there. The house was invisible to those who didn't know about it. "Some of Harry's supporters could know about it but they won't harm you if you explain them what happened. They are not like the Dark Lord and his..."
"Thank you Ron... I was too much influenced by my parents and what they believed in. I never thought about... what happens if I don't follow them... maybe Astoria is right... I'm a coward..." Draco started crying again and Ron looked helpless to Hermione.