Draco Malfoy was not pleased – and neither would the Dark Lord be, when he found out of Draco's progress. Leaving the badly behaving Gryffindors behind, Malfoy wrenched open the door to the seventh floor hall, and was spotted by Fred and George.

"Heya, Ferret!"

Not wanting to spend a second with the terrible twosome, Malfoy planned to Slytherin away by directing their attention away from himself.

"Your sister is in the Room of Requirement."

"Thanks Ferret."

"We'd owe you one….

"But we aren't in the habit of dealing with slimeballs."

Malfoy sneered the most dignified manner he could muster, and marched off, nose in the air.

Down the next corridor, Peeves was waiting with a sack of Dungbombs…

Leaving Malfoy to the Prefect's bathroom, let us return to the leader of our expedition, Ronald B Weasley, who was interrogating a potential suspect, who was suspected of harbouring the fugitives.

"Say, Hagrid, has Harry come here?"

"No he hasn't been here. Say, congratulations fer winning the cup though, you were great. Suppose you'd be wantin' to tell him, though?"

"Red Rover paging General Ginger. Red Rover paging General Ginger."

Ron pulled a strange looking device out of his pocket.

"This is General Ginger, come in Red Rover."

"We have intelligence that our targets are hidden in the Room of Requirement. Over."

"Hold your position Red Rover, reinforcements are on their way. Over."

"As you command, General. Over and Out."

"This is General Ginger to all units. Converge at the Room of Requirement. Over and Out."

Ron turned to Hagrid. "Thanks, Hagrid. I'll see you later." Ron waved goodbye, leaving Hagrid scratching his beard in puzzlement.

Ron arrived as the last of the…erm…searchers made their way to the seventh floor.

"Now, what do I need to think?" Ron pondered.

"RON! I think I know how to get to them." Fred shouted.

Ron nodded his approval, and Fred paced three times, and doors appeared on the wall.

"What did you think?" Ron asked.

"I need to find the place where Harry and Ginny are hidden."

"Nice." George commented. "But I don't see them."

"That's because they're hidden." Hermione spoke up.

"Well, you heard her! What are you waiting for? Bring them to me!" Ron commanded, and the crowd fanned out down, slowly cornering their quarry.

Harry heard those first, footsteps. Spotting a wardrobe, he and Ginny slipped into it, and with the door left ajar a sliver, Harry watched.

A Hufflepuff pair came down the corridor, and the noises were louder as more and more people came up conducting the sweep of the room. In order to prolong detection, Harry let the door gently close, and in the pitch blackness, everything went quiet.

Harry and Ginny waited for a few minutes, feeling that, at any second, the door would open and they would be discovered, but through sheer luck, no one thought to open the door and look in.

After about ten minutes of absolute silence, Harry decided to push the door ajar. There was silence. Furthermore, the room had changed from a large, well lit cathedral sized room filled with contraband to a smaller, greyer room, basically bare.

"Do you think the room could've changed, Ginny?"

Ginny pushed the other door open slightly. "I don't like the look of this." And she drew her wand. Harry did the same.

Slipping out of the cupboard, Harry performed the Muffilato spell on himself and Ginny, and Ginny performed a few spells on them.

"Might give us a bit of help if we run into trouble." Ginny explained.

The two crept toward the door. Harry was ready to laugh if the seventh floor corridor appeared in front of them when they opened it, even if the Ron and his rovers were waiting for them.

Pulling the door open, Harry and Ginny realised that this was not Hogwarts. Instinctively they pulled away from the door just as someone appeared in the darkened hall. Ginny slammed the door shut and the two sealed it as best they could.

Harry and Ginny ran for the cabinet, and Harry realised what was going on. Malfoy had been trying to fix the broken Vanishing cabinet in Hogwarts – the one that had a sister in Borgin and Burkes – or rather, had…Harry suspected that it had been moved – most likely to Malfoy Manor.

As the two were halfway to the cabinet (would it work again, and would anyone follow them back?), the door burst open.

Harry spun around to face them and got a split second glimpse of Lucius Malfoy, Bellatrix Lestrange, Antonin Dolohov and Fenrir Greyback before feeling a sudden pain that knocked the breath out of him and sent him flying into the cupboard, the last thing he saw was Ginny fist pumping and deflecting a hex from Lucius Malfoy.