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*Back at where ever Harry, Ginny, Luna, and Malfoy are*

"My neck is so stiff." Malfoy complained as he rolled over, right onto Ginny. "Get off of me, Malfoy." Ginny cried as she pushed him off of her. "What ever, Weasley." He said as he stood up. Harry groaned, sat up, and then leaned against the wall. "We should go looking for food today." Luna said she she sat up. "Yeah, I guess." Ginny said. Malfoy made a noise in agreement and Harry grunted. "Not a morning person, Potter?" Malfoy taunted. "Not a what ever is happening to us person, Malfoy." Harry quipped from his spot on the wall. "Well, get up. Let's go see if we can find some food." Ginny said getting up and heading to the door. "You are way too cheerful." Harry said as he got up. Ginny lead the way outside with the others trailing behind her until she stopped, turned around, and asked, "Where are we going?"

"Why don't we go a little bit into the forest? We'll probably have more luck that way and maybe we'll run into a Whispering Willow Violet." Luna suggested. "The forest? We don't know what's in there." Malfoy said heisetly. "Scared Malfoy?" Harry taunted. "No." Malfoy denied quickly. "You sure don't sound not scared." Malfoy opened his mouth to respond to that but Luna interrupted him by saying, "We should not fight. We need to rely on each other and fighting will only worsen our chances." Harry and Malfoy glared at each other but nodded and turned away from each other. "Let's go a little bit into the forest to see if we can find something." Ginny commanded. The others gave no arguments and followed her into the forest.

There wasn't really anything a few feet into the forest. At least nothing dangerous or edible. Trees, overgrown shrubs, some green vine that they keep tripping over, little white flowers, and little yellow ones. "Why don't we go in deeper?" Harry asked after thirty or so minutes of picking their way through the edge of the forest. "Because we might not find our way back out if we do." Malfoy explained slowly as if he was talking to a five year old. Harry glared at him and Malfoy smirked back. "Maybe we should. We can't find anything here." Luna pondered out loud. "We could get lost or eaten or killed or-" "How would that be any different than what might happen anyway? We need food and water and we might find it quickly deep in the forest." Ginny said interrupting Malfoy. Malfoy opened his mouth again to say something but then closed it and shook his head in defeat. Ginny smirked in triumph and Harry would have but he really didn't have the energy to be smug.

So the four teens stomped their way into the forest looking for food and water. After what felt like days but was probably only an hour their heard running water. They headed towards it and found a small stream. A beautiful, clear, shallow, wonderful stream. It was probably the best thing Harry had ever seen in all his life. Malfoy all but ran to the water, dropped to his knees, and cupped his hands to get a drink of water. Harry was quick to join him but Ginny voiced some objections, "But the water might not be safe to drink from. We don't know what's been in it." Her objections fell on deaf ears as Luna joined the boys in taking deep drinks from the stream. Ginny sighed and decided to throw caution to the wind and take a drink. As she did she decided that she should throw caution to the wind more often. It tasted wonderful. It felt so good and cool sliding down her dry throat. Like heaven in liquid form. Ginny started choking because she had giggled when she thought that. Harry pat her on the back until she stopped trying to kill herself with water. "Now what?" Malfoy asked after a few minutes of them just sitting there and looking at the stream. "We look for food." Luna said simply.

They looked for and found food nearby where they drank from the stream. They found berries they regronized, roots they knew were edible, and a pineapple tree with ripe pineapples. They grouped back together and looked at their findings. "How are we suppose to open the that?" Ginny asked looking at the pineapple in Harry's hands. Harry shrugged and said, "Who knows? Let's eat." Malfoy nodded in agreement. So they sat down near the stream and eat a small part of the food they collected. "What are we going to do? Here? You know with what ever this is?" Harry asked breaking the silence. They all looked at each other with worried eyes. Ginny said quietly, "We'll survive. We survive and live." Luna nodded softly and looked down at her hands.

"Potter, aren't you that one that keeps defying death? As much as it annoys me, I'm almost maybe glad we're at the same side for now if you keep up you know doing what you do." Malfoy said not looking at anyone but instead at his hands. "Luck, pure luck." Harry said looking over Ginny's shoulder at a tree. "Well, even if that's true the point still stands. We need luck and a lot of it." Malfoy said raising his eyes to look at a tree over Luna's shoulder. "Luck is always a very handy thing to have." Luna said looking up from her hands to look at Malfoy and Harry. Ginny murmured her agreement while trying to figure out why she kept feeling like she was watching something important like the battle between Grindelwald and Dumbledore. Something great or something terrible, she didn't know but it was important. She knew that it was important.

Ginny, Harry, Luna, and Malfoy decided that it wasn't worth the risk of losing the water to try and find their way back to the hut. So now they were trying to find someplace to sleep tonight while staying close to the water. Currently they were walking on the water of the stream looking for a suitable place to sleep. The stream had started widening and now was more like a decent sized river. The river opened into a small lake or big pond and an the other side of the lake there was a cliff side with several cave openings in it. They walked around the lake/pond and looked into a few of the caves before they found one with enough room for all of them comfortably. "Creepy." Malfoy said as they stood looking around inside it. "You can go sleep outside, we don't care." Ginny said sneering at him.

"No thanks, although you're probably use to it aren't you? Living in filth." Malfoy replied looking down at her. Luna opened her mouth to interrupt them but Harry put his hand over it whispered in her ear, "Leave them. Maybe it'll get them to stop fighting every few minutes. Let's go get some firewood so we can see if we can get a fire going." Luna nodded and Harry lead the went out. They picked their way though the small and medium sized rocks to get to the forest floor.

The cliff was very small, only maybe fifteen or twenty feet high and fifty or so feet long. There were a lot of rocks littered around the cliff and several small caves across the cliff side. Harry and Luna gathered a small armload of wood and headed back to the cave they had left Ginny and Malfoy in. Malfoy and Ginny were still yelling and insulting each other the only difference was that the distance had closed almost all the way between them. Harry cleared his throat loudly and they jumped back a few steps and then turned around to glare at him.

"Sorry," Harry said although he didn't sound the least bit sorry "Luna and me gathered some wood while you two were arguing and now we're going to try and start a fire." After two hours of frustration, pain, and a few tears they finally had a fire. They built the fire near the shore of the river/pond and a bit away from the trees. And as they were sitting around the fire eating some of the fruit and berries, they talked, really talked like normal people.

"Potions is way better than Defense Against the Dark Arts." Malfoy claimed.

"No way. Defense Against the Dark Arts is much better. What's going to help more if you're attacked by a angry vampire? Potions or defense spells?" Harry countered.

"I think you are much more likely to be attacked by a angry Hillogryff than an angry vampire, Harry." Luna said serenely

Okay maybe not like normal people but they were talking like people who like each somewhat.

"Yeah right, Malfoy. You're just a pompous git." Harry said to Malfoy.

"I think you have gotten me mixed up with yourself." Malfoy replied

"No, he meant you Malfoy. You walk around the castle like you own the place." Ginny said with a sneer worth of Malfoy.

Okay maybe that wasn't the best example but this is…

"The Dark Lord is powerful. He's killed hundreds of people. You can't go against someone like that." Malfoy said disheartedly.

"Yeah, you can. I've gone against Volde-" "Don't call him that." "It's just a name. Fine, You-Know-Who and I'm alive." Harry said glaring at Malfoy for interrupting him.

"It's like you said earlier, Potter. Pure luck."

"I've gone against You-Know-Who before and I'm alive." Ginny said quietly.

"You don't have your whole family siding with him either." Malfoy said softly, looking into the fire.

"Just because your family sides with him doesn't mean you have to." Ginny replied as softly as he had.

Suddenly he turned to her, stands up, and walks over to her so he can stand right above her. "You don't get, do you Weasley?" He hissed dangerously. "I care about my family. I love my parents. So they make mistakes, everyone does. But everyone goes around and says how evil my father is and how wrong he is. But he isn't evil. A evil man wouldn't have taught me how to ride a broomstick or helped me when I had trouble learning French. He. Is. Not. Evil."

"I never said he was, Malfoy. I said you have a choice."

"No, I don't I don't have a choice, Weasley. Just like Potter didn't."

"What do you mean Harry didn't have a choice? He chose to fight for Dumbledore."

"No, he didn't have a choice. Dumbledore made sure he was under his thumb as soon as he enter the wizarding world."

"I had a choice." Harry said quietly interrupted Ginny and Malfoy. "Stop deluding yourself, Potter." Malfoy said harshly. "I'm not, Malfoy. Vol- You-Know-Who gave me a choice when I met him in my first year. He said I could join him, that I could be powerful and put my aunt and uncle and cousin in their place and hey would do what I said for once."

"Did you really think about doing it Harry?" Luna asked softly. There was a long pause where a three sets of eyes, one brown one grey-blue and one light blue, stared at Harry. Finally Harry broken the silence with a softly, almost not there, "Yes." Another long, quiet pause and then Malfoy broken it with, "Bloody hell," The three other teenagers jumped and quickly turned to him "If goody two shoes Potter actually thinks about joining the Dark Lord, there's no hope for the rest of us. See Weasley? The Dark Lord can be persuasive."

"Harry didn't join him and he was eleven at the time so what reason do grown wizards and witches have for not doing what a eleven year old could? Right Harry?" Ginny didn't bother waiting for Harry to say something and just say, "Right. See Malfoy?"

"I thought you were friends with Potter? Haven't you reliazed that Potter is always the exception to the rule."

"My point still stands."

"Most of the Death Eaters join because they believe in the Dark Lord and his cause. He doesn't need to threaten them."

"So why are you afraid to join him? You've talked the talk for years but you're afraid to walk the walk?"

Malfoy mumbled something under his breath and Ginny asked sneering, "What was that? You are afraid?"

Malfoy took a deep breath and said, "Never mind, Weasley. It's pretty dark out. Let's go to the cave and tried and get some sleep before morning. Ginny opened her mouth to say something, most likely to mock Malfoy, but Harry put a hand on her arm and said quietly enough that only the two of them could hear it, "He's still Malfoy, Ginny. He's bigger than you and you don't have a wand. Don't push him, he might snap. I can't protect you if that happens and I'm not around and I can't do much more if I am. So just…let him cool off." "When did you become a expect on people?" "Ginny, it's not that hard to figure out. You could do if you tried. I don't want to be the one that tells your brothers Malfoy hurt you because you kept taunting him. I'm not sure if they know the expression 'don't kill the messenger'." Ginny breathed deeply for a few seconds and then nodded and started heading up the cave they had picked out.

The four teenagers made their way to the cave without out talking or looking at each other. Malfoy scowled at the dirty cave floor but laid down anyway. Ginny, Harry, and Luna followed his lead and soon the Harry and Ginny's breaths signaled that they were asleep. "Draco?" Luna asked softly sitting up to look at him. Malfoy ignored her. "I know you are not asleep." Malfoy rolled over to look at her and said harshly, "What?"

"I just feel you should know that what happens on this island stays on this island."

"You don't know that, Lovegood." Malfoy said sitting up.

"Yes, I do. I may not be very close to Harry or Ginny but I am their friend and I do know them."

"You still don't know that they won't go blabbing to the whole school. I've already said things I shouldn't of, I can't say anything else."

"You need to lean on someone."

"A Malfoy doesn't need anyone but themselves."

"What does Draco need?"

"I am Draco, Loony. I am Draco Malfoy."

Luna sighed and shook her head. "Well, Draco Malfoy, as all as you don't plan on killing or maiming Harry or Ginny…or me what happens here stays here."

"Maybe I am." Malfoy said with a challenging glare.

"You're not." Luna said matter of factly.

"You don't know what I am going to do, Lovegood. You don't know me."

"No, I don't but Daddy says I'm going at reading people."

"I'm not some book."

"No, you are far more interesting. And I don't think you are a killer or maimer, Draco."

"Whatever helps you sleep at night." Draco said laying back down and rolling over so he wasn't facing Luna.

"Draco, you're not a killer."

Malfoy took a deep breath and whispered softly, "I have to be."

"No, you don't." Luna said to Malfoy's back. He didn't respond so Luna just laid back down and tried to go to sleep.

*Somewhere Secret*

Lord Voldemort was having an off morning. First his alarm went off an hour early and then there wasn't any muffins for breakfast and now Potter was missing. It could be some scheme of Dumbledore but her doubts that. Dumbledore wouldn't hide his golden boy away somewhere. Which means that either Potter ran away or someone kidnapped him. Both seemed unlikely. Potter isn't the type to run and Potter's only enemies were Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Unless the boy had somehow and for some reason kept him from finding out about another enemy of his. Lord Voldemort could feel a migraine coming on, if only there was someway to escape those. You would think that he of all people wouldn't get migraines. And now he's getting off track, he was thinking about why Potter was missing. There was three other children that went missing at the same wasn't there? Oh yes, it was Lucius' son, the female Weasley, and some girl named Lovegood.

It's a shame that Lucius' punishment isn't going to work now with his son gone. Lucius cares much too much for his family to be a reliable Death Eater. Bellatrix on the other hand would kill her sister if Lord Voldemort asked her to, she may objet some but she would do it. And he's getting off track again. Potter, Weasley, and Lovegood were at the Department of Mysteries together so they're friends or at least allies. But what is Draco Malfoy's relationship to them? If he remember correctly the Weasleys and Malfoys had been feuding for centuries so it's safe to assume that Weasley and Malfoy don't like each other. He had once asked Lucius of his son's relationship with Potter. What did Lucius say? Oh, that his son hated Potter and Potter hated him.

Hmm, so what what Lovegood? He's never heard of that name so maybe a muggleborn or the child of a muggleborn. He'll get his Death Eater to look for more information.