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Draco in an unexpected situation

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All of them were taught how to take care of a house and themselves, cooking, Elven movement, and a little Elven magic.

Draco was very impressed. He was very glad that his schedules were not as busy as Ginny and Harry's. He had however started to wonder what the Elves were planning exactly, and how big a part he will have in their plans, with Ginny and Harry clearly having more of a role.

12) Draco, Where the hell are you?

The Easter break had arrived at Hogwarts. Draco was none the wiser about the school period and continued as per normal with his training with Dobby. He was still waiting for the next person to be brought to join them in their camp.

Dobby did mark the occasion however.

"Draco, we is going for an adventure today. Have you ever been to Stoircairt?" Draco had not been. All he knew of the wizarding village was that it was located in Germany, but he assumed that it was much like Hogsmeade in Scotland.

On the first Friday of the Easter break, Dobby and Draco got up half an hour later than usual, and prepared for the day. After having worked out for so long, Draco did not want to give up his workout routine. He had grown to love it, so he compromised by cutting it down by half an hour, but he did find that he missed it, and did not feel fully happy with the effort he put in.

When they were adequately washed, dressed and fed, they stood outside the cottage. Dobby took Draco's hand, and warned him "try to carry on breathing, but don't move your body".

Dobby then twisted in a strange way, pulling himself and Draco through a tear that he had created within the air. As the air closed around them, a loud crack could be heard outside the cottage, or it would have been heard if someone had been around to hear it. When they popped themselves out of the air in Stoircairt, another crack could be heard. This one was heard by a multitude of elves. They had apparated into a very small alleyway that was one grey paving slab wide. Dobby had taken Draco to the Elves alleyway at the back of the shops. He then led Draco to where the main street met this back entrance for Elves. Draco then was left to explore the street. There was little pavement to walk on, but there were no vehicles so it was not a problem for the throngs of people to walk in the road that went down the centre of the town centre. Draco was fascinated by everything. The wizards generally spoke in German, although he heard several conversations being held in English as he worked his way through people. Draco stopped outside several shops, seeing the similarities with Diagon Alley and with Hogsmeade Town Centre. Draco wondered for a while how he was to buy anything. He had been given some money by Dobby, but he was not completely sure of how the currency worked. It was not the usual Galleons, Sickles and Knuts that he was used to.

After half hour or meaningless wandering, Draco was brave enough to go to the apothecary to look inside. Inside it was dark and dusty, and most was indistinguishable from everything else. On closer inspection however, everything was labelled in English. Draco therefore ended up buying some items that he knew exactly what they were, and how to use them within potion experiments and recipes.

After his success in the apothecary, Draco rewarded himself with an ice-cream sundae. He was not used to some of the flavours and sweets available, so stuck with his tried and trusted vanilla ice-cream with hot chocolate sauce and hazelnut combination.

He enjoyed spending his day browsing items, buying the occasional item that he had a good use for, and relaxing. After several hours, and starting to get bored, Draco went into the local pub and was pleased to find that they sold him a pint of Ale, which he drunk slowly. He did not risk his luck though, and stuck to butterbeer after that (which was all butter with a vague beery flavour). He sat there, reading a book that he had bought called 'Wizarding Weaponry through the ages'. Printed in English, with some sections in Latin, he was completely comfortable with the book and enjoyed reading it.

At approximately 3pm, Dobby came in, and collected Draco, and took him back to the Island, which Draco was coming to think of as 'home'.

"Weird" thought Draco. "I am enjoying living like this. It is hard work, but I look at things in a very different way".

Whilst Draco was enjoying his day, Goyle was back in the UK muttering to himself.

"Draco, where? Where Draco? Got to find…. Find him… find… Draco, where are you? Drake… where… WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?"

Goyle was slowly going insane from the inability to find Draco. He had been failing quite badly in his classes and he knew that the majority was down to Draco not being there.

"Draco…" Goyle whined from the comfort of the corner of his bedroom "Let me find you". He hugged his arms tighter around himself. "How can I find you?"

Tani stood at the other side of the bedroom door. She was scared. She knew where Draco was, and knew that it would only be a matter of time before Master Greggy asked her to take him to Draco. The other house elf was busy working, but in the midst of taking the winter curtains down to put the summer curtains up, he came next to Tani, put his hand on her shoulder briefly and said "Chappy take Master Greggy. Chappy go. Chappy not scared". The stretch of putting his hand on Tani's shoulder must have taken him some effort. The tiny elf quickly whisked to the window again, to hang the lighter curtains, whilst Tani remained by the door, nodding to herself.

Chappy didn't know that Tani had important duties to attend to.

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