Chapter 3

Time: 0:07

Observations: Everything moves unusually smoothly, I guess this experiment would prove nothing, unless I will kick up a notch of potential danger.

Ginny

She kept close to the wall, taking it as the cover. She was sure voice hard was belonging to him, her secret affection.

Ginny's hand automatically jerked to pockets, to grasp a wand, but her hand touched something else, heavier. It was a dagger.

She carefully grasped for the handle, taken it out slowly and started to inspect. It was sharp and shiny, brand new, seemed expensive with dragon patterns lightly cut into its blade. What is that weapon doing in my pocket? She looked up, imagining herself staring at her imaginary inspectors.

"Is that what you want me to do?" Barely heartless whisper came out from her scorched lungs, "Should I use this" she waved dagger, "against him?" Silence, only footsteps grew louder. Is that a test, maybe, I should obey the rules. What's the rule then?

Footsteps were closer, but not of one person, but two? Who was the one accompanying the Boy who lived?

Very concerning voice made her gasp, "Have you heard something?" It was harsh, aristocratic voice coming from blond, pure blood she loathed. What was Harry doing with him? The task is clear, she has to kill him, kill them both.

Draco

"Hear what?" Harry interrupted, is this brat really that deaf?

"A whisper." Draco whispers. Harry stopped and started to seek for noise, yes, he is idiot like Draco had thought he would be, clever people don't spend their time with someone like mud-bloods or Weasleys.

"You are making things up." He stated and continued to walk, pure blood followed him with grim expression.

Silence again, only continuous echoing sound of their steps.

"You know that the ones captured us aren't death eaters?" Draco said.

"Really," Harry gasped, with fake interest. "How are you sure about that?"

"Because pure bloods won't give us ligthieers, those are muggle stuff!" He stated surely, Harry raised his eyebrows, this time with real interest. "And won't capture one of them with someone like you, unless they want me to finish you off."

"Hah, maybe you're right." Boy who Lived agreed, "But anything that bad happens to me, is always because of your fellow Death Eaters. This darkness, dungeons, slipperiness and green glow is everything you fellow snakes like is it?"

The idiot was right, for the first time. "Whatever" Draco just waved his hand to ignore his fact. "That would back up the fact of you getting useless compass and me getting that fiery lightieer-"

"It's lighter!" He corrects aggressively.

"Still, what can you do with your little red arrow, I can ignite you when you're asleep." Blond talks constantly, keeping dark grim on his pointy face.

"I would keep an eye on you then..." Harry says, giving him cautious eye.

"Won't kill me?"

"No, I am not evil you know..."

Silence again, this time is Harry that halted unexpectedly, his companion did also. They stood lifeless lay for matter of seconds, when something fiery red moved in front of them.

"Ginny!" Was what Harry shouted happily, before she, with deadly facial expression and flaming hunger in her eyes, moved sharp weapon under he cloak.

Ginny

Like she had expected, Harry with his enemy. Is that even possible? Seeing them chatter and walk alongside without fight? This is not Harry, not Harry that she knew. This one is just magical projection, testing her on her obedience. She clutched the handle, her hands shaking. She always get stressed when he was around, with those piercing green eyes, and always untidy hair, this projection seemed so real.

He moved step forward, unsure. "Move closer and I would slash through your chest!" She warned him, pointing blade at his heart that was around six meters away.

"What did they do to you?" Harry whispered.

"They did nothing to me!" Giant gasps, they did nothing to her, they did something to him. "Now tell me, where's the real Harry and what type of test is that!"

"Real Harry? Test? She's nuts, not surprise, all gingers are like this." Pale slytherin sneered.

"You better shut up, or I'll have pleasure of doing so!" She commanded, unsure where her confidence came from.

"Ginny, you're wrong, this is the real me!" Harry states, or his projection does so. "What test you are talking about? Do you know why we are here?"

"No, I just guess. And stop persuading me, you fake projection!"

"Fake projection!?" Harry laughs, stepping forwards, brave as he always was, the projection portrayed real one very well. "Gin we also don't know what the hell is going on, but, hopefully it's not a test?"

"How I am supposed to trust you, huh?" Nasty smile spreads in her face.

"I really don't know, just listen, from where do you get the idea we are in some sort of test?" Weird question you chose to ask, projection.

"I just felt like it, most sensible answer I came up with!" And that weird feeling of being observed.

"From where did you get that knife?" He asks another question.

"It was in my pocket." She answers, he smilies, and takes something also out of his pockets, she clutched tighter on her weapon, thinking that he is about to take out another blade and duel with her. He, to her surprise takes out small metallic circle, which happens to be a compass.

"I also had so something inside, see, compass, I am not about to hurt you." He throws compass on the ground, metal falls with stud. "We also don't have idea what we are doing over here." He sounds so real, so reliable, she bits her upper lip, to trust or not to trust.

"We? What are you doing with him, huh?" She points at the blond, who goes even paler when She aims at him with her blade.

"Same what I am doing with you, I found him in the cave, he follows me since. Trust me, go with us, we all have something in our pockets, that should mean something, if you would kill me, we would never answer that."

She stares, sighs and hides the dagger back to the pocket, but does not let it go.

"Keep hand on your sword, I am allowing you to kill me I each time I look suspicious." He says. "For now, let's just go forwards, maybe there we would find answers."

She nods and he sighs, dagger leaves her grasp and lands in deep pockets.

Even if this is a test, she would not kill him, she prefers to fail that to lose him. And so, trio, continued through darkness.

How old the characters are?

They are 15, story is set from the middle of OOTP, they know ministry is their threat, Dark Lord had risen, Dumbledore is mysterious, Snape hacking minds and Harry had quitted with Cho.

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