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Chapter Two

Hermione got up and walked around the silent house, stopping by each room to stare at the order's members. McGonagall, Sprout, Seamus, Neville, Ginny, Snape, Hannah, Lavender…and the list went on- but only to a certain number. They were all asleep; after all, they still had three more hours of zzz to catch up on. It was sunrise- a silent time for reflection. Draco used to watch it with her; they'd get up early in the morning before everyone else- but not anymore.

Hermione walked into the room, blatantly oblivious to the eerie silence that surrounded the hall. She sat down in a velvet armchair, peering out from underneath her cloak. It was dark burgundy, designed to keep her warm, comfortable and disguised. In fact, the part she loved most was that no one could see her facial features, only her mouth. It had been the last gift from Harry and Ron, (given unknown to Draco) so that when they were in danger, she could still walk around unnoticed and safer. But, the feeling she felt right now was simply out of place. Though the building was old and grey, it usually felt more homely. Now it simply felt forbidding.

From afar, four pairs of eyes watched her every move. And though they weren't sure exactly who she was, they were sure she was 'the one', the leader of the Order of the Phoenix. She walked into the kitchen, and they watched her bake cookies, each one filled with a love for someone now gone. Normally, they wouldn't wait this long to capture someone, but this person was a special case. All the deatheaters watched as they now had a homemade breakfast to go. They would waste no more time now, they would get the job done.

Four deatheaters surrounded Hermione, their black cloaks billowing out behind her as they walked toward her.

"Since you have baked us a nice meal to go, we shall let you have one spell to defend yourself from your demise." One deatheater sneered.

Hermione said a concealment charm; she could not let anyone outside of the Order know her identity, since she had gone 'missing' she would simply have to appear as someone else. Hermione also said a protecting spell on everyone else in the Order, at least they would be safe. They deatheaters had only heard this spell- stupid people. She had also left and nice note for her fellow side saying that she was captured. Hermione was pretty confident that she could escape anyways- because she would win- for Harry, Ron, Dumbledore so many lives lost in this battle, maybe even Draco.

They had all died for this cause, and it had not yet ended. And it would not go without the light side winning, because they had to. Who knows what would happen if the dark side won.

But Hermione was forced out of her thoughts when a deatheater yelled "crucio!" Hermione ducked, feeling the whoosh of the air as the curse hit the wall, and burst into an array of red sparks.

After a half an hour, there was only one deatheater left. Hermione recognized him Theodore Nott, and quickly finished him off, but all of a sudden, about 15 more deatheaters appeared. Mondays, she thought. She'd never liked them anyways…and then, her vision went black.

Hermione woke up slowly, and stretched. She yawned, not quite getting where she was until…she walked into the metal bars that surrounded her. Once she noticed, she screamed, letting everyone else know that she was awake. She quickly realized that she was unarmed, and that the new dark lord who was currently sneering at her, had it. Unfortunately, he hadn't though that she had learned wandless magic, even if it was only a little bit. Hermione quickly released herself from her prison, except she now was wandless, facing a dark lord, and about 500 deatheaters, though only 50 were in the room.

Constant vigilance. Hermione thought, every step she took closer to the dark lord, the closer she would get to escaping. But, the dark lord, had different thoughts.

"So, I welcome you too our kingdom, and eventually, so will all of Europe. Here, you will stay, and here you will die." The Dark Lord drawled, and shot a hex at her, barely missing her, only by millimeters did he neglect getting her.

"I will escape, and the light side will always win! In darkness, there will always be light, and light shall overcome the darkness!" Hermione shrieked, missing every curse and hex he seemed to throw at her.

"Must you have so much trust in your side? Play fair you might say? But when the other side does not? Tell me, why does your side play…fair? You are not any better than us, you kill, you murder." The dark lord asked with a slight edge of curiosity.

"We will never be below you! You uncompassionate fool! You have never felt love!" Hermione shrieked, getting impatient with her somewhat civil conversation with the Dark Lord.

"I have you little female canine dog don't you dare say that again or you will suffer much, much more! Crucio!" The Dark Lord screamed, in a fury that none other had ever seen before. Hermione writhed in pain; not wanting him to see the hurt that it caused her, she'd never let him win.

Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, he left the curse off, and Hermione quickly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Accio wand!" Hermione said, and her wand flew at her falling safely into her hands. Though Hermione felt (and probably looked like) the living dead, she felt more energized than she ever had before. She stared straight at the Dark Lord, and they started on a very fast paced duel. The deatheaters, not wanting to suffer under a stray curse, quickly scurried toward a door, but a few were unlucky. There simply were more than a few 'adava kedara's' to go around and so Bellatrix suffered the same fate as Malfoy Senior, which was death.

The Dark Lord was surprised that the Order's new leader could duel this well, but he sent a curse that would make one die slowly, and painfully, and not know what it was. And so it was that Hermione once again heard the sea of blackness wash over her once again. She fell to the ground bruised and beaten with almost no hope of quite 'living' once again and with the only wish that she could see Draco one more.

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