A/N: after this chapter the war will be soon. I'm not quite sure how many chapters away but probably only 2 or 3 more!! Hope you like this chapter!! Finally the old guy will hope fully make sense!! Lol don't forget to Read and Review people!!
Summary: John Smith and Diane Chancer have their missions for their sides. Though falling in love and a special rose wasn't mentioned.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Chapter 11
The Other Prophecy
The old man sighed as he stepped back from the crystal ball; he knew that it wouldn't be long before they arrived, it would be risky to go out in public. But since the shop was gone thanks to Voldermort he had little choice.
Quickly he grabbed the silk bag and apperated away. When he arrived he hid inside of an alleyway opposite where the shop used to be.
The old man did not have to wait very long until they arrived. Quickly he strode out of the alleyway and over to the pair.
"Follow me," he whispered as he led them into the alleyway that he had just come out of. Once they were well hidden from the people walking past he quickly grabbed their hands and took a rose out from his silk bag on his waist.
"Take hold of the rose and don't let go," he said as he quickly shifted them to his safe house. Once they arrived he saw the girl look outside and a look of puzzlement soon came across her face.
Before she had a chance to question him his disguise quickly fell away from him as if he had just shaken a layer of dust off himself.
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Hermione couldn't believe what she was seeing outside the window of the house that they had appeared in. there was a castle and the people out in the fields were dressed in clothes that dated to the Middle Ages.
"Who are you?" Hermione suddenly asked, though her question did not startle or surprise him, it was as if he knew she would ask him this very question.
"Who do you think I am," he replied Hermione was furious this old man had not only brought them to this unknown place that seemed to be back in the Middle Century but now he was playing a game with her when her friends needed her help and she needed to figure out what had alarmed Voldermort.
Quickly she huffed and folded her arms around her chest while a slight frown appeared on her forehead.
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Draco took one look at Hermione as she sat there, he could tell she was annoyed. That was exactly the same thing she would do every time he annoyed her.
Suddenly Draco stopped, that last though of his had sure freaked him out. Then he looked back at Hermione and saw she was about to snap so he decided to step in.
As he looked at the old man he couldn't help but think he had seen the man before and not in the shop but even earlier before that, in a book.
"Look," he began to the old man as he went over to Hermione and helped her up. "We don't have a lot of time to waste so can we just hurry this along?"
With this he saw the old man smile; "follow me" was all he said before he left the room and walked down the passage.
Quickly Draco realised that the man was not going to wait for them. So he took Hermione's hand and the pair followed the old man down stairs.
Then just as they entered the small library down stairs Draco realised where he had seen the old man before.
Flashback
It had been their first year at Hogwarts and when the lady with the sweets trolley had strolled past Draco had been the first to jump up and grab one of everything. As he sat back into his seat in the compartment, he saw a small box at the top of the pile of sweets and opened it. Suddenly a chocolate coloured frog jumped out of the box onto the floor before hopping out of the compartment and into pansy's hair.
Draco smiled he remembered that was the first time he had ever truly hear a girl scream and after that he had tried whenever possible to make sure it never happened again. Though the other thing he remembered was the card that had been left in the bottom of the box, a card with a photo of the very man in front of his smiling.
Merlin……
End of Flashback
Draco quickly walked over to the old man and looked up at him. "Why are we here?" he asked "I know that you are Merlin though what I do not know is why we are here."
Merlin smiled "it did not take you very long I see" he replied, before picking a book up off the shelf "ah he we are, this should explain everything" he said as he walked over to the chairs in the corner and took a seat before opening the book to the first page and glanced up at Draco and Hermione waiting for them to join him.
Draco glanced over at Hermione and saw that she was not going to be moving anytime soon. Instead she was just standing there mouth wide open like a goldfish. After taking her arm and leading her over to a chair next to Merlin Draco took a seat of his own and waited for Merlin to explain.
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Hermione sat in the chair amazed here was the greatest wizard of all times and all she could do was sit there and look like a goldfish. Though she was not allowed to remain with her thoughts for long as Merlin quickly began his explanation of why they were here and why the book in his lap was of great importance.
"You know of the prophesy containing a boy you both know of a Harry Potter and an evil wizard?" he asked them. "Yes" Hermione replied surprised by her sudden response.
Merlin smiled well there was another prophesy though it was destroyed man years before even Voldermort's birth though as I was the one who heard the prophesy and set the first of the two prophesy's into motion I felt that it was my duty to make sure that the second one was fulfilled.
Hermione was confused "what prophesy? What pair? What are you talking of?" she suddenly blurted out. The old response she received was a smile from Merlin and a look of agreement from Draco.
"Before I explain why you are here I think that you had better read the prophesy first otherwise my words shall not be understood. Here," he said as he placed the book on the table between them still open to the first page before walking out of the room asking if they would like any refreshments.
Hermione stared at Draco and when she saw that he wasn't going to be picking up the book anytime soon she decided that she would.
With the book in her hands she began to read the first page out loud.
The Forgotten Prophesy.
A single rose shall bring destruction,
A monster filled with evil.
After 50 years have come and passed,
The rose shall try once more.
To right its wrongs,
And bring together,
A pair from opposite sides,
To end the war that it has caused,
And leave only undying love behind.
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Draco didn't know what to say…
He felt scared,
No trapped…
Now he understood what Potter the 'Wonder Boy-Who-Lived' must have felt when he learned of the prophesy involving him and Voldermort.
Though why would he want to turn and fight against the side he had always been on.
'Many prophesy are never fulfilled.' He though to himself, before Merlin returned to the room with a tray of what looked like tea and biscuits.
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Once the tray was safe on the table he grabbed Draco by the scruff of his jacket and almost dragged him out of the room into the kitchen.
"You would dare consider Voldermort over her?" he said to Draco the moment they had entered the kitchen. "That girl in there gave you a second chance and if you ask me maybe you should just tell her now that the world is doomed and let her go and enjoy what little time she has left with her family and friends before they find her than with you while you lie to her."
Draco looked at the old fool before sneering his reply "you think you know everything you old coot, you know nothing of Voldermort and his power you have not been there to witness his moments of anger at one of his own."
Merlin sighed "yes," he replied "I many not have that kind of a memory of his though I have many others instead after being on the rum from him for over 30 years."
"Why?" was all that Draco could say in response.
"How do you think that I was able to single you out?" Merlin began, "this is not the first time you have been here you just don't remember it."
Draco looked back with a puzzled expression.
Merlin sighed, "as the bearer of this prophesy I am to make sure that it is fulfilled and until then I will not be able to rest. The first time I did nothing and let you two merely go about naturally and let's just say that once you both discovered who you really were you went running and the next morning Hermione was found dead in her bed and Voldermort won"
Draco turned away and left his back facing to him. Merlin understood he knew that for Draco that would be hard to take because this time he had made sure that there was a bond between the two of them.
"How can Hermione and I have any effect in this war" Draco asked, "were only two people caught up in this whole mess?"
Merlin smiled he had the boy this time, "unlike me Voldermort does not remember what happens just like everyone else, so while he knows that I am to be his downfall if I succeed he does not know who the prophesy concerns and by the time he does it is always too late."
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Draco turned around and faced Merlin once more.
"Will anything happen to her?" he asked Merlin.
Merlin shook his head, "if all goes to plan then both of you will come out alive and with all limbs still attached."
Then they heard a voice from the door way, "if what goes to plan?"
A/N hey guys well i hope this makes sense to you all!! my email has been down so i've had to read you reviews through my story and I only thought of that last night!! please forgive me though thank you to everyone who reviewed i'm glad that you did (it makes me feel loved!! lol) anyways the next chapter is in writing and this story may be over within a month or two tears begin to form in corner of eyes anyways people please don't forget ot not only read but also REVIEW!!
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