A/N; If you think I own Harry Potter then you are really stupid.

*Where ever Harry, Ginny, Luna, and Malfoy are.*

"We need to make bed or something to sleep on. My back and neck demand it." Ginny said while she rubbed her neck. "We need to go pick some food today." Harry said looking at the very small food of food. "Alright. So far on our to-do-list is beds of some sort and food. Anything else?" Luna asked. "We probably need to lug some more firewood near the fire." Draco said also rubbing his neck. Ginny suddenly shot up and ran out the cave. The three others exchanged glances and then got up the follow her. They found Ginny tendering to the fire, nursing the coals to a flame. "Oh, yeah. Good thinking, Ginny." Harry said when he figured out what she was doing. "Thanks." She replied.

They ate the meager amount of food they had left and then split up to go gather supplies. Malfoy and Harry had to go collect wood since they're strong then the girls, not that Ginny would admit that, and Ginny and Luna went to collect food.

"This awful. It's like being a muggle." Malfoy complained sometime later to Harry. Harry glared and said, "Muggles haven't had to do this for the past hundred years. Some even before that."

"Yeah, right. Aren't they still living in shacks with only fires to keep them warm?"

"No, they aren't Malfoy. I would know I was raised as a muggle."

"Then you should know of all people that their filth."

"Not all muggles are like that, some are just like some wizards are filth."

"Muggleborns and Blood Traitors."

"No, people like your father."

Malfoy froze but snapped out of it quickly. He turned around slowly, with cruel cold eyes, and said darkly, "What did you say about my father?" Harry straightened up and said with a hint of a challenge, "He's the filth of the wizarding world. He is a cruel man."

"Liar."

"What did you call me?"

"A liar. A filthy liar. No one likes you, Potter. They just like your fame."

"Take it back." Harry said dangerously.

"Take what back? That you're a liar? Or that your so called friends only like you because you're famous?"

"It's not true."

"Yes, it is Potter."

"You're the liar."

"You're a friendless liar."

"Coward."

"Git."

"Daddy's boy."

"At least I have a father."

"A father who's in prison."

"For being on the right side."

"Please, the murdering and torturing side?"

"Like your side is any better. At least we don't try and cover up our mistakes."

"Like what? What mistakes do we cover up?"

"You pretend to the accepting and non-racist side but look at the werewolves. At least we're open about not liking them."

"Not everyone is like that. I can name thirty people who don't have a problem with it."

"What about the Unforgivables?"

"What about them?" Harry asked trying not to look guilty.

"The aurors were allowed to use them near the end of the First War but we get years of prison for even trying to use them."

"The Death Eaters are using them on innocent people, who have families and friends and lives."

"And Death Eaters don't? My father is a Death Eater and so is my aunt and uncle. A lot of the Death Eaters sent to prison or were killed had children or spouses."

"They were killing hundreds of people."

"To try and restore the wizarding world to it's former glory. When wizards were in charge and they didn't have to hid like rats."

"The end doesn't justify the means."

"So you want the muggles to be put their place?" Malfoy said smirking at Potter.

"No…just that none of them would know about magic." Harry said slowly, choosing his words carefully

"Something that probably won't ever happen with all the muggleborns around."

"Yeah, I guess."

It was quiet for a long minute before Harry bent down and started picking up wood again. After watching him for a few seconds, Malfoy joined him. They didn't say anything for the rest of the time they spent picking up wood. They were both lost in their own thoughts. Harry was thinking about their argument. And Draco was thinking about how Potter had acted since they had got here, was it only yesterday?, and comparing it to how Potter acted at Hogwarts. Here it seemed like Potter did have some brains of his own, he overheard what Potter told Weasley they weren't as quiet as they would like to think, instead of having Granger as his brain like at Hogwarts.

"Well, you guys took forever." Ginny said when Harry and Malfoy to back to the site of the fire. "Just because you got off easy by picking berries doesn't mean that Potter and I can do our job as fast as you." Malfoy said sneering at Ginny. "You're just picking sticks off the ground. Luna and I were getting food, you know so we can live?" Ginny said with a sneer almost exactly like Malfoy's on her face. Harry cough pointedly, bring Ginny's attention to him. When she looked at him with a 'What the heck do you want?' expression on her face. He gestured at himself but Ginny didn't get the pointed. By now Malfoy was starting to crack up. "What is so funny, Malfoy?" Ginny asked harshly. "Potter was also 'just picking stick off the ground' while you and Lovegood were picking berries." Malfoy replied with an amused smirk. Ginny glared at him and then turned to Harry and said, "Sorry." Harry nodded with a small, slightly forced smile.

"I believe now that food and firewood are taken care of, we are going to turn our attention to beds?" Luna said, startling the three others. Ginny and Malfoy nodded eagerly and said, "Yes." at the same time, They turned and glared at each other and demanded, "Don't no that." again at the same time. "Stop that." "You stop that." "Stop it." "You stop it." "Don-" "As fun as this is, we're figuring out how to make beds without a rope or knife." Harry said interrupting Malfoy and Ginny's said at the same time demands. "Right," Ginny said "How are we going to do that?"

"That's what we're trying to figure out, Gin." Harry said slowly. "Don't call me that." Ginny exclaimed. "What Gin?" Harry asked confused. "Yes." Ginny said firmly. "Fine, okay," Harry said still confused "How about we just lay some of that long grass on the floor and put some of the big palm leaves on top of it?" Luna said. Three heads turned towards her with utterly confused looks on them. "For beds?" Luna said after a long moment of them looking at her confused and her staring back with a distance expression. "Oh, I guess that would work." Harry said once he processed the information. "Palm leaves and grass? What are we in the Black Plague?" Malfoy asked somehow mixing sarcastic with outrage. "Well, if you have a better plan, why don't you tell us?" Harry challenged. "Fine let's go with Lovegood's idea." Malfoy said putout after thinking for a minute.

Some they put the long grass near the river up wit their bare hands and then Harry and Malfoy climbed up the palm tree and tore out some palm leaves. Malfoy was upset that Ginny and Luna didn't have to climb the trees but he could argue with, "We're wearing dresses, long dresses. We can't climb trees in dresses if we have problems walking around here it them."

When darkness started approaching it found Harry, Ginny, Luna, and Malfoy sitting beside the lake with their hands and feet in the water trying to relieve some of pain from the work they did today. "This just isn't suppose to happen in real life. Sunsets like this don't exist and things like this don't happen." Ginny said softly staring at the fading sunset. "Weasley, I think it's pretty safe to say it does happen." Malfoy said sarcastically. "And no muggles our whole lives aren't suppose to really happen. What's to say that there's something that keeps its self a secret from wizards?" Harry added.

"Wizards, pureblood wizards, are the highest beings." Malfoy said snobbishly. "Muggles don't believe in us. So maybe there's something that treats us like we treat muggles?" Harry countered. "That is impossible. Wizards can use magic to change or create almost anything, nothing is high than us." Malfoy replied. "But maybe there is something smarter. They knew we were more powerful so they made us think they didn't exist. Shulderbugs did it many years ago." Luna interjected. "What on earth is a shulderbug?" Malfoy asked. "You're missing Luna's point, Malfoy." Ginny said quickly before Luna could go into a detailed explanation of whatever a shulderbug was. "Whatever. If there was something smarter than us, why would it hide?" Malfoy's tone made it clear he highly doubted the possibility of something being smarter than wizards. "Because in all likely hood together we are much more powerful than them." Luna replied calmly.

"If- well- umm- maybe you have a point, Lovegood." Malfoy said after trying to find some logical way to argue with that. "I think it is time to eat and then go sleep." Luna said completely off topic. Harry nodded in agreement along with Ginny. They got up and started heading to the fire with Malfoy trailing behind them.

They ate some of the berries the girls had picked while sitting around the fire saying nothing. After that by silent agreement they headed up to the cave and slept on their newly built beds.

"Wake up, everyone." Ginny said way too cheerfully. "What?" Malfoy groaned rolling over. "It's morning and I found something." Ginny replied eagerly. "What'd you find?" Harry said groggily. "Another hut. I went to go get more firewood while I wait for you guys to awake up and I found a hut." Ginny said literally bouncing up and down. "Does someone live there?" Luna asked somewhere under her tangled long hair. "No," Ginny said losing a bit of her giddiness, "Everything's covered with dust and the hut is pretty broken down but there's knives, blankets, and other stuff like that in there we can get."

"I don't know about taking that stuff." Harry said. "Come on, Potter. It's not stealing if no one lives there." Malfoy said finally sitting up. Harry looked at all their faces and saw he was outnumbered. "Fine." He said to them. "Well, come one then." Ginny said as she held up her dress so she come run. Malfoy, Luna, and Harry followed her to the decaying hut. They searched through the hut and nearby area.

By the time they left to eat breakfast they had three small knives, a rusty machete, five blankets with small holes in them, a large clay pot with a hairline crack near the top, five whole clay plates, three halves of clay plates, a bent metal spoon, two slightly bent metal forks, a chipped bowl, and three chipped clay cups.

"I guess this is a step up from our hands." Malfoy said at they sat near the fire with some berries on a newly washed plate in between them. "We have silverware and plates don't we?" Harry replied. Malfoy shrugged in response. "We need to get more food." Ginny said. "We just got some yesterday, Weasley." Malfoy replied. "We didn't have anything to put it in really yesterday, Malfoy. So Luna and me just got some to last a day or two." Ginny explained annoyed. "Well, you and Lovegood can go get some then." Malfoy ordered. "Me and Luna? What about you and Harry?" Ginny cried outraged. "Potter and I did our share yesterday. We have enough firewood to last a long while. You and Luna only got a small amount of food. Now, you girls can go run along and do your job." Malfoy said confidently. Where he got the idea Ginny Weasley listens to anyone, let allow him, Harry had no idea. "You can't order me around like some servant." Ginny yelled at him. "I can and I did, Weasley. Now go get us food." Malfoy commanded. And, surprise surprise, Ginny didn't listen. "I am not going to go get you food while you sit on your lazy butt and do nothing." She yelled at him. Malfoy wiped imaginary spit from his brow and said, "Potter and I have lugged logs and sticks over to the fire so we have warmth. And we climbed trees so you would have somewhat comfortable beds. We are clearly going to be doing the manuel labor so you can at least go pick food with Lovegood for a few hours." Malfoy explained calmly with a bit of a condescending tone. Ginny opened and closed her mouth a few times before huffing and stalking off to where she had been picking food before. Luna got up, grabbed the clay pot, and walked the direction Ginny had gone. Harry and Malfoy sat in a awkward silence before Harry said, "You reliaze Ginny never let's someone get away with telling her what to do, right?" "Why? I won. She's off picking berries with Lovegood." Malfoy said confidently. Harry shook his head. "Ginny still won't get away with it. She always has to be right and if she's not the person that is pays for it." He said knowingly. "So I was right?" Malfoy said mockingly "Never thought I would see the day Harry Potter said I was right." Harry shrugged and said, "You're the one that's going to pay for it. I didn't say anything so I'm in the clear, maybe." "If you're telling the truth then Weasley sure is vicious."

"Of course, Ginny's vicious. I knew that when she still was too shy to talk around me."

"Weasley, shy?"

"Yeah, I barely even heard her said more than three words at a time."

"I don't believe you."

"Did you ever say anything to her before fourth year?"

"Not really. I knew she was is the school but I didn't see any reason to say anything to her."

"Well, if you had you would believe me."

"Potter, don't you know by now that distrust is the foundation at our interaction?" Malfoy said with a very slight sarcastic tone, so slight Harry barely caught. "How could I? You cowering out of the duel in first year sealed it." Harry replied. "Malfoys are not cowards." Malfoy retorted angrily. "Whatever," Harry replied dismissivedly "Coward." "What about you, Potter? If you weren't pushed head first into things, would you even do anything against the Dark Lord? Everyone praises you for it but if you had choice would you do?" Malfoy said cruelly. "Of course I would. He killed my parents and Cedric and Si- my godfather." Harry said. Malfoy would have believed him if he didn't sound so unsure of himself. "There are other orphans, Potter. They're afraid of him and don't do anything. I think you're afraid of him too. I think that you're just a normal teenage wizard who tries to trick everyone into thinking you're a hero." "I'm not a fool, Malfoy. He may scare me but it's only because only someone brain damaged wouldn't be. He's powerful, he's got a lot more experience, and if whatever happened that Halloween hadn't happened he would be ruling the wizarding world right now. And I'm not trying to trick anyone into thinking I'm a hero, they trick themselves." Harry said quietly and confidently. Malfoy started at him for a long time before saying, "Let's go explored some. Maybe we'll find something useful." Harry nodded slowly and said, "We'll need to try and be back before the girls." Malfoy nodded in agreement and the boys headed off to explore the nearby area.

They had just stumbled around in the forest by a little bit before they found it. Well, Malfoy ran into it. Well, Harry was laughing behind his hand at Malfoy, Malfoy was trying to get up. "Ha-ha, very funny." Malfoy said under his breath once he finally got up. "What did I run into?" Malfoy asked the air as he inpected it. "I think it's a rock." Malfoy said answering his own question. "That's one big rock," Harry observed looking closer. "There's some sort of markings on it." "They look like runes," Malfoy said explamining them, "This one looks like circle of protection but this line is too long and instead of a cross here it's a x and this looks like a guardian rune but it's circle is more like the one in-" "Malfoy, I have no idea what you're talking about." Harry said interrupting Malfoy's monologue. "And that is different from normal because?" Malfoy said drawling out the because. Harry glared at him and lightly shoved him. Malfoy ignored him and continued inspecting the huge rock. "If I'm right then there are more rocks like this. And if there's a circle of protection in the form of rocks, then they have to be protecting something. Let's go find the girls, Potter." Malfoy said, more like ordered, and started walking back the way they had came without waiting to see if Harry was falling him. "Malfoy," Harry called out to Malfoy's back. "Malfoy wait up." Harry sighed and started running after Malfoy when he started disappearing from view.

Ginny and Luna were starting to head back to their makeshift camp with their findings. In the clay pot was a whole lot of edible roots and plants, a handful of blueberries, four carrots, a few bean pods, and several handfuls of blackberries. Being carried in Ginny's hands were three potatoes and five carrots. Feeling very tripump, Ginny into camp only to stop short at the sight of no Malfoy or Harry, She expected them to sit around and bicker while she and Luna did real work. Where are they? Ginny sat her potatoes and carrots down on one of the plates while she went to go look to see if they were in the cave. Just then Malfoy came into view, she opened her mouth to ask where Harry was when he came into sight. "Oh good. You're here," Malfoy said once he caught his breath. "Potter and I were looking around forest and we found a rock. It has something very close to a circle of protection on it." Not seeing the reaction he expected, well he expected from Ginny Luna was a complete mystery to him, he explained more, "A circle of protection is a rune, a very powerful one. It takes someone with a lot of skill to make one properly, this one wasn't properly made but it's still very powerful. A circle of protection is the highest kind of protection rune you can make. To make a circle of protection you have to have eight strong solid items. You carve the rune into all of them and then you have to place them in a near perfect circle around whatever you want to protection. You carve a series of runes in between two circle of protection runes that detail what you want protection from. Weather, enemies, a bear, it doesn't matter but the more or stronger protection you want the better the circle of protection rune has to be carved. Most people only use it to guard something very very special, powerful, or dangerous." Two blanks stares and one distance stare met him when he finished his explanation. "There is something powerful or dangerous in the forest." Malfoy said slowly as if he was speaking to five years olds. "How do you know it's dangerous or powerful?" Ginny asked. "It could be something that the Ministry thought should be hidden away." Luna added. "Why else would there be a circle of protection in the middle of some island?" Draco asked rethorticly. "This could have been inhabited before and the people that lived here wanted to protection their royals or something like that. The huts mean that someone sometime ago lived here." Harry said. Draco muttered something under his breath that sounded like, "Wow, Potter knows how to use logic. Surprise, surprise." But Harry couldn't be sure. "We have only found two huts. If natives did create the rune then there would have to be more huts." Malfoy replied to Harry's statement. "They could've been distoried or a lot of people lived in one hut and the huts were spread out a lot." Ginny said. "Perhaps tomorrow we can go and look at it? It will be dark soon and so I believe we should eat and then talk about it more." Luna suggested. "Yeah, I just we can do that." Malfoy said relundently.

They eat most of the berries since those will go bad the fastest and a root each. They sat around the fire and watched the sun set in silence until it was dark. They moved the logs around in the makeshift firepit to keep the embers and then they headed up to the cave. "Night, Harry. Night, Luna. Malfoy." Ginny said as she laid down on her makeshift bed. "Night, Ginny. Night, Luna. Malfoy." Harry replied laying down on his own bed. "Good night, Ginny. Good night, Harry. Good night, Draco." Luna said serenely from her bed. "Potter, Weasley, Lovegood." Malfoy said.