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Chapter Four – The Unknown Variable
The Grimmauld Place Hall is buzzing with people. The music hangs in the air and the foods and firewhisky are everywhere. The Lords of different pureblood families are going back in forth greeting each other and also lingers a little longer where Lord Voldemort is, hoping to have a glimpse and opportunity to be introduced. The Lord is surrounded by Cygnus, Nott, Avery, Crabbe, Goyle, Rowle, Lucius Malfoy and his father Orion Black at the northeast corner of the Hall near the door towards their second floor. Cygnus is waving his hand like he was trying to convey something to his father while the Lord seems paying a closer attention to his father reaction.
"What do you think they are talking?" curious Severus Snape asked him.
"I do not know. Something important may be." he shrugged. " Perhaps you know Rabastan?" He turned to his classmate.
"I don't know either. It may be about the Ministry election coming up. You know Lord Voldermort is expected to be the next Minister. May be they're trying to get your Father's support." Rabastan guessed.
" I know you know more than that Rab, you after all arrive alongside with them." Severus said eyeing Rabastan suspiciously.
Rabastan raise his to hands in defeat. "Hey. I really do not know. All I know is that except Regulus father, all the man surrounding the Lord is a member of some kind of organization. My brother and sister-in-law is also a member. I asked them once what is it but they said I am not allowed to know anything yet. So my best guessed is that they're trying to recruit your father Regulus."
Regulus did not reply. He just observed his father. His father appears to be attentively listening to his Uncle Cygnus. But he know better, his father stance resting his weight to his left foot indicate that his father is not listening and the timely nod that he father gives shows that he wanted the discussion to be over immediately.
It seems it is not only Regulus who noticed the demeanor of his father. He saw the Lord raise is hand and his uncle stopped talking. All the men turned to the Lord, patiently waiting to what he would say. The Lord walks toward his father telling him something. His father nodded and both men walks out the hall towards the door to the second floor. Regulus knows that his father study is on the second floor, thus, he wondered what the Lord would tell to his Father that would require the privacy of his Father's study.
He rose up from his chair. "I am going to the loo. I will be back in a minute." He said to Severus and Rabastan and then headed towards the door where his Father and Lord Voldemort just walks out. He didn't wait for his friends reply. When he walk outside the hall and immediately turned to the stairs to ascend . He was about to take another step when he hears the floo network near the drawing room activate.
"Sirius! Sirius where are you!"
He heard a frantic call of a woman's voice. He stops and immediately readied his wand. As far as he knows, they set the floo network to automatically bring anyone who will try to floo into their house outside their front door.
He dillusioned himself, wand at ready, and slowly walks to the drawing room to investigate. He was about the fire a stunning spell when he saw a disheveled woman in a red dress walking out in their fireplace and dusting the floo powder from her knee and quite revealing to him a portion of her breast.
He cast off the dillusionment charm and the woman immediately notices his presence and pointed her wand towards him. He was ready to defend himself but the woman unexpectedly lunged herself to him.
"Sirius!" the woman hugged him. "You frightened me! I thought you were a Deatheater under that dillusionment charm. I almost sent a stunner towards you!"
"What?!" he said. He eyed the woman warily. She wore a knee length red dress that obscenely shows her cleavage.
"Where is Harry? I sent him first while holding off other Deatheaters with Remus! Oh my god! Remus! We need to help him!" the woman now is crying.
He didn't know what to do to a crying woman. But he is sure now that he didn't want any of her tears ruining his dress robes. "Unhand me woman!" He said and forcibly removes the woman grasp from him. He took two steps away from her. "You mistake me of my brother. I am Regulus Artucrus Black, Sirius Black is no longer in this house. He was disowned and, as far as I know, he lives in the Potters house."
The woman look at him baffled. "Don't be ridiculous." The woman said. He gave her the 'look'. The woman then looks around the room as if processing everything. She took several moment before turning to him looking wide-eyed. The next thing he hears from her made him want to wash her mouth with soap.
"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! What bloody year is this?" the woman asked him. He wasn't sure if she was kidding or just purely mental.
"When I woke up this morning its August 8, 1976." Regulus said.
"1976!" she paced back and forth, then suddenly slaps herself. Now Regulus is quite sure that the woman is really mental.
"Where Sirius? Wait, you already answered that."
He watched the woman seems in deep thought. "Who are you and how are you able to floo in our house?" Regulus asked her.
"Oh, I'm Hermione." She replied. "I just floo'd here because I thought Sirius is still here. Yeah, something like that."
"Don't give me that reason. Our floo automatically send any visitors outside our house. Now you need to tell me better lie than that." He said and pointed his wand towards the woman. "Again I will ask you, how were you able to floo directly inside the house which is under the Fidelius Charm? What are the Deatheaters, Harry, and what do you need from my brother?
The girl scoff, "Funny you still call Sirius brother."
Regulus finally snapped. He swished his wand and cast a disarming spell at her.
"Expelliamus!"
"Protego! What the hell are you doing! Are you mental?" The woman shrieked.
"Insindio!" He throws another spell again. The woman side stepped and was narrowly missed by the spell. He sent several spells towards her but woman block all of them. She never threw a single offensive spell towards him. She is impressively good duelist making him more suspicious of her. Finally, he was able to catch her off guard and a binding spell hit her. The woman falls in the floor. He grinned and walks towards her and get her wand. "Now answer my question."
"I warn you. Release me now." The furious woman said to him.
He sneered. "You are in no place to warn me. Now answer my question and I will hand you over to the Aurors." He bluffed. He will definitely not call any Aurors into the House. They have many dark artifacts and he would not take any gamble.
" I already answered your questions. I do not know why the floo did not send me outside. It was Sirius who told me the place before. Harry is my friend and I know you have a fair idea who are the Deatheaters are. Now release me. It is clear to me now that I went to a wrong place. Please..." The woman plead.
"No. Not yet. I will hand you to Lord Crouch. He is from the Ministry. You trespassed in our house and you are clearly not invited in the ball." He said.
"Lord Crouch?! You know he is very paranoid right? He will surely not hand me to Aurors! He will send me to Azkaban immediately!" she was clearly alarmed.
He contemplated. The woman was right about Lord Crouch though, he personally doesn't like the man. Lord crouch gives him creeps. "Okay. I will personally bring you to the ministry instead." Then a thought hit him. He remembers what Rabastan tells them earlier. If he hand her to the Lord then this might help him to recruit his father into supporting him as the next Minister. Father would be grateful to him for saving them the trouble of the Aurors. "On the second thought, I will just hand you to the Lord. He knows better what to do with you." He said.
"Lord who" the woman asked again.
"Lord Voldemort." He casually said. The next thing he knew is that he heard her saying "stupefy" and found himself flying in the other said of the room and everything blackout.
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