i think this chapter was the hardest to write cause i didn't know how to begin,its been a few days and ive been busy looking after my flu ridden family luckily for me it seems im imune ! i had a choice of draco, neville,dean or seamus but i don't know what made me pick what i did but without out futher a ado heres some more hope u like it ! x

Chapter 6

The search

“There not here Ron,” As they finished up searching the manor “then where the hell is she!” he yelled “Why did he have to take her?” Ron sat down on a chair covered with a white sheet. “Im going to look at the burrow, and too see if she’s left a message at the flats, you two go to Malfoy’s” Said Ginny, “We only want Hermione so don’t do anything stupid” Again she kissed and hugged them both and told them to be careful and apparated to the door of the Burrow.

“Harry” Said Ron “what if she’s not with Malfoy after all and she’s been taken by those anti S.P.E.W protesters” Harry couldn’t look at him “I doubt it Ron, lets go to the Malfoy’s place” they stood up and apparated to an alley way near the house. “Look,” Said Ron “He’s loaded No wonder she wanted him and not me” Harry shook his head at how easily Ronald Weasley could put him self down “Come off it Ron, we’ve known her eleven years she doesn’t care about money, stop feeling sorry for your self and change your face so they won’t recognise us” while he removed his glasses covered his scar with his hair now blonde “easier said then done “as he held his wand up to his face and changed his own hair to black and gave him self a beard to match “Ready” said Harry “Yes” as the walked up through the gates and down the drive “I don’t think we’d be welcome as Potter and Weasley” Smiled Harry as he knocked on the door

“Hello” said a tall black haired woman with dark blue eyes. “Mrs Malfoy?” Said Harry “yes” she replied coldly “Is Draco here, we need to talk to him about some things that have come up at the ministry” Said Harry, Ron looking at him surprised at the lie “of course, and who shall I say is calling” She replied leading them into the large drawing room “Romlin Worthlby and Pascal Delaney” as they sat hands in pockets holding there wands. “The house elf will be through in a moment with drinks, and she is being paid” she smiled “I know the Miss Granger at the ministry and have managed to persuade Draco to agree to something’s she suggests in regards to the lowly creatures” Ron’s ears turned a violent shade of crimson, and Harry nodded “Well that’s good to know” he replied as she left the room. “Well if Malfoy’s coming I don’t think she’s here” Said Harry looking at Ron “He’s probably got her locked up somewhere you seen those dungeons in Malfoy Manor we did get to stay in them five years ago” Ron looked out the window and Harry replied “What he snuck her in with out his wife noticing, I hardly think so”

*****

Ginny sat at the burrow kitchen table with Molly. “Hermione’s gone missing we think, she not at her flat I’ve checked Ron’s and mine and Harry’s old one but there no sign of her, and Ron and Harry have gone out looking for her” Molly looked at her worry on her face “ She can’t have gone far, and she wouldn’t not tell any one have you checked her parents?”
“We never thought about there, we were just thinking our world not muggles” as she got up “I’ll go now, there’s no point sending a message to the Harry and Ron since im not sure where Malfoy’s house is” she gasped and placed a hand on her mouth “Why are they at Malfoy’s Ginny?” Said Molly, as she picked up on her mistake, Ginny ran to the door “Ginny! Ginny! You come back here this instant young lady and tell me what’s going on”

But she had apparated before she could get a reply and she was standing in an empty alley way next to a Chinese restaurant. This was the alley used by her and Hermione when they went to visit her parents because there fireplace wasn’t allowed to be hooked up to the network due to the muggle company her parents kept. She walked out and down the street until she found the house and knocked on the door.

“Hello Ginny, what a surprise to see you, I thought you were on your honeymoon” as Hermione’s mother led her into the house, “We got back yesterday morning, erm are you going away too?” As she eyed the suitcases by the stairs “no, no we just got back, didn’t Hermione tell you we went to Canada” as they sat down on the couch, “no, but that’s why I’m here, you see she’s kind of gone…” said Ginny “Gone” said Hermione’s father as he sat on the chair opposite, “Where?” She looked at him “We’re not sure, she was supposed to bring Harry’s car down to the new house with us to day after work, Ron and Harry are out looking and I came to check if she was here, but there’s not much you can do” Said Ginny as he rose from the chair “she’s in the magical community somewhere I’m sure and we’ll find her don’t worry she’s probably in Diagon alley reading in the bookstore” she said glancing at her watch, she knew it was wrong not to tell them she’d been taken by someone, but she didn’t want to worry them any more then she had to. “She’s obviously not here so I’ll join the Harry and Ron and keep looking, but do you know anywhere else she would go?” as she got up to leave, “what about people at work, she used to be
friends with that Irish lad from your school he helps her with those spew protests she talks about” Said her father “Or that funny girl she brought round for lunch one day kept going on about nargles and crumpled horned something or others” Said Hermione’s mother. “You mean Luna? I’ll go there and send the boys off to find out where Seamus lives, thanks, I’ll let you know soon don’t worry” as she hugged them both and apparated from there living room.


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Hermione got up and walked to the door “Im going for a walk don’t follow me, and don’t worry it’s not as if I can get out is it.” She said angrily and slammed the door behind here a cloud of dust rising from the muggle portraits lining the walls. “I have to get out here” she said talking to herself “there has to be a way out”. She carried on walking till she found the doorway to the library and looked through the windows with no luck; they were bewitched, and so turned to books looking for any hint of where she was. “I have to get a message out if I can’t get out my self” she thought to herself. After looking through the titles she realised this was a muggle house, void of any magic apart from that which was keeping her there, she tried to apparate but felt a squashing sensation on the top of her head and knew it was hopeless, she then tried a patronus but to no avail she was never very apt at producing them she tried four times but gave up knowing it would make her more depressed to know she couldn’t do it, she tried Bombarda Maxima and a range of other spells on the wall but I seemed nothing could break the enchantments Seamus was right she could only get out if he let her out.

An hour later he walked in “I thought you’d be here, you always we’re one to take refuge in the library I used to watch you in there at school, mind you Krum did get a bit jealous, he asked you to the Yule ball before I could but I always thought you’d have gone with Ron” Hermione refused to look up from the book she was hiding her tear covered face in. “Luckily Lavender got to you first, I’ve never thanked her for that” she said coldly hiding the shakiness of her voice. “Don’t mention her, she was awful I was so glad when she pounced on Ron but I could see you we’re angry, I knew I couldn’t make a move, I had to wait until you where completely over Ron and that’s why its been years” he walked over and sat on a large chaise long positioned in front of her, before he could continue she looked up and stared angrily into his eyes “You married someone else, you looked like you were happy, if you really liked me why not tell me you may have preserved our friendship, if you really knew me you would know I love Ron and nothing will ever change that”

He stood up just as quick as he had sat down and began to raise his voice slowly trying to remain in control. “I also knew you would never see me as an equal, that’s why I became your assistant on your crusade for house elf’s, that’s why I married to try and move on but I could but it seems Malfoy wanted my wife so it was a sign, you and I were meant to be, I was never allowed to move on from you” Hermione stood up to and ran to the door, the thought of Draco made her sick as she ran swiftly to the toilet in the room she had slept in. He followed her but she closed the door and used the muggle lock.

She vomited twice before collapsing in tears, sitting with her back against the closed door, “Let me in Hermione, I don’t want to have to use my wand, I just want to know your ok” He said banging on the door “Im fine, leave me alone or let me go” she pulled up her sleeve and looked at her watch it was nearing seven O’clock surely somebody would be looking for her she was supposed to be at Harry’s and she missed work this morning.
“If I tell you where we are will you come out?”
“Yes” she held on to the towel rack and pulled herself to her feet “Where are we Seamus?”
“At my grandmothers old house, on my Fathers side, we’re in England still, where I visited before going back to Ireland in the holidays, she died a few years ago and left me it”
“That explains why it’s a muggle house then” she side unlocking the door and walking to the bed, “are you sure your alright Hermione?” he said noticing the cold sweat on her pale green tinged face, “you don’t look well” He lifted the covers and placed them around her “sleep you might feel better in the morning”
She laughed coldly “nothing could make be feel better about being here”