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Chapter Thirty- Four
Harry nodded and the door was opened, the locks undone. He stepped inside wand drawn; the prisoner in a corner on a bed, his hair grew over his face hiding the torment of being locked up, day and night.
“Malfoy” said Harry warily,
“Potter” he said angrily. He flicked his hair away from his eyes to look at him, his hands chained to the wall in shackles, which clinked when he moved.
“I need you to tell me where Voldemort is” the name came from his lips directly; he didn’t want to avoid it anymore.
“Like I am going to tell you” Draco’s head moved, looking away his hair no longer shiny and glossy and his skin no longer perfect but worn and tired from lack of sleep.
“You have to, you freedom depends on it” He saw a flash of light across the figures cold grey eyes and disappear as quickly as it had come. “If you tell me, I will do everything I can to protect you and your family from the ministry and the order”
“Why would you do that? What has happened that has forced you to take pity on the likes of me?”
“Im going to die” He replied simply, and Draco looked up staring into his eyes, looking for the lies.
“Your not joking” he replied quietly, “And your ready for it” it was not a question but a statement,
“I am, because I’m going to die to save someone else”
“Weasley” Said Draco, Harry continued,
“Help me stop him, tell me where he’s hiding and you will be free to live your life”
“How can I guarantee my own safety?”
“You have my word, when I die he will to. We are linked, we share blood and I have a part of him in me that can only be gotten rid of when I die”
“How can I trust an enemy?”
“The same could be said for trusting you, but im ignoring it, as a fellow wizard help me save lives and stop him destroying more. Every second you wait, you hesitate not to tell me, she is closer to death and I’m further away”
Draco sighed, “How can you sacrifice your self like that? I don’t understand what goes through your head half the time Potter”
“It’s my fault she is in trouble, I have to right this mess, my problems are my own I don’t expect anyone understand but she does. She will understand why I have to leave her, why I do what I do and that im sorry” Said Harry putting a hand to his head and sighed, pacing the small cell floor.
“I couldn’t do it, that’s how I ended up in here in the first place, im selfish and it’s who I am”
“That’s your problem not mine, tell me where he is, where he would keep her?”
“I CAN’T RISK MY LIVE” Draco shouted suddenly.
“IT’S NOT JUST YOUR’S AT STAKE, DO SOMETHING GOOD FOR ONCE, HELP ME SAVE HER AND END THIS WAR” Harry shouted in reply, his patience wearing thin after the last argument with Aberforth and the guards. The door opened and Caleb stepped in, “It’s time to go Harry” he closed the door standing outside.
“DRACO TELL ME” Harry stood still, his wand lowered, “TELL ME WHERE”
“A manor that belongs to my family, not the main house but another no one else knows about. It’s in York but you can only apparate close by you won’t get in alive”
“He wants me alive for now” Harry said, “show me where” he took out an old English A to Z from muggle life and from his bag handing it to Draco.
Caleb looked at his watch, “Potter you have to go now” he shouted through the door to Harry
“One more minutes, let him find it”
“Here” said Draco pointing it out,
“Are you sure?”
“Yes” Harry took the book and looked before putting it away, hiding it from Caleb. “If it’s not and she dies, I will come for you, even as a ghost and I will torment you as long as you live”
“I’m certain you will” Malfoy replied and Harry left the door slamming behind him, the bolts locking back in place.
*****
“Where is she?” said Molly, her eyes red and swollen,
“We do not know, Im so sorry Molly” Said Professor McGonagall, “We can only be sure that Harry has gone to find her”
“He has but…but what about the order, can’t they do something don’t they have any idea?”
“Im afraid not, any death eater brought into custody has denied knowledge of knowing where he is hidden, including Draco Malfoy and Vincent Crabbe”
“Harry will find her” said Ron quietly, “I know he will”
“Don’t be so silly Ronald, it’s his fault she’s gone, if she…if she… I will find him responsible and if he hasn’t been killed already I will do it” said Molly angrily
“If he dies, he’ll die trying to save her, I know him better then you do” Said Ron beginning to get angry again, not only with his own ignorance but his mothers as well.
“How will he know were she is Mr Weasley?”Cut in the professor, asking Ron before his mother could reply.
“It’s Harry; he’ll find away, he loves her” Replied Hermione for him.
“LOVE” Shouted Mrs Weasley, “IF HE LOVED HER HE WOULD HAVE STAYED AWAY FOR HER SAKE, SHE WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN TAKEN”
“I thought the same, until I saw his face, the pain…” Ron’s thoughts drifted off with his words as Professor Jacobs knocked and walked in.
“My contact at the prison, says Harry’s been there, he’s spoken to Draco Malfoy”
“Why would he?” said Hermione “… Of course, he knows where Voldemort is”
Molly looked up, “Does your contact know where as well or are we to rest our hopes on Harry?”
The professor looked angry as she replied, “Harry is more capable then you might think. You once treated him as family; don’t give up on him yet. My contact doesn’t know where Harry’s heading except its east of the prison, he only got a glance at the map and since Harry spoke to Draco, he won’t speak a word and is just staring at the walls”
“What did Harry do to him?” Said Hermione,
“Nothing, they just spoke, Draco can talk he’s just refusing to” Replied Willow, “Whatever he said, has changed him”
“You can’t change a Malfoy” said Arthur angrily “There evil to the core”
“They maybe, but whatever Harry said has had an affect on Draco to a certain degree”
“What do we do now?” said Molly anxiously,
“Im afraid it’s just a waiting game until the order find where he is and where Harry has gone, there is nothing we can do unless Harry makes contact or a death eater decides to talk”
“Can’t the ministry force them to; surely aurors can use some level of persuasion to get through to them” Said Arthur hopefully.
“I can promise you on behalf of the order, we’re doing all we can to get your daughter back”
“Why didn’t you get anyone to follow Harry from the Prison?” Said Ron looking up from his hands, firmly clasped around Hermione’s.
“He has his cloak, they couldn’t see him or where he went” Willow replied, “He’s being too careful for us to track him, there’s nothing we can do to find him with that cloak on magic or no magic” she sighed and leaned against Hermione’s chair. “Like I said we can only wait”
Mrs Weasley broke into fresh tears against her husbands already wet chest, while Hermione, Ron and both professors were consumed in thought about what to do now.
*****
Ginny eye’s opened and she sat up. Her whole body cried out in fierce protest at the movement. She had been left on the floor, still tied up, her robes stained with her blood and her head spinning from the earlier attack. He was no where in sight and of course neither was her wand. She could make out the shape of a window on the wall, and the heavy wooden desk she had focused on before. She found a way to stand up, ignoring the pain and somehow made her way to the window looking out. It was bewitched, there was no way to get rid of it without her wand, and she sighed making her way back to the upturned couch. She sat on the back of it, now on the floor, and lent her aching head against the cushions closing her eyes just as he walked in.
“Miss Weasley” he moved past her to the window, he didn’t look her in the eyes as she opened them and glared at him, not returning his greeting.
“I don’t expect you to be willing to talk to me, but believe it or not I do still have a duty to my students”
“You haven’t been my teacher for nearly a whole year Snape, you became reinstated as a death eater remember”
“Don’t try my patience child”
“Don’t insult me by calling me a child, I know what you are and what you’re capable of doing, spare me the lecture and tell me when I’m going to die”
“If you die it will not be by my hand” he turned to face her looking guiltily at the wall behind her and not her face.
“Where is he? You know the big, bad boss; I want to speak to him and not his pet”
“The dark Lord cannot be summoned because you want to chat to him” Severus spat angrily.
“Isn’t that what your dark mark is for? Use it get him to come here and kill me, it will make Harry so angry and he’ll have a real fight, isn’t that what he wants” She smirked, “I mean an angry Harry is easy to posses I bet he’s easy to kill too”
“Don’t be foolish-”
“Foolish!” she laughed though her ribs were causing her to scream internally, “You call me foolish, when you’re serving at his right hand, helping him murder and torture innocent people. You should be ashamed, you trusted by Dumbledore till the day you killed him”
“I HAD TO YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND”
“I UNDERSTAND YOU’RE A COWARD SEVERUS SNAPE” she shouted in reply when the door swung open and Voldemort glided into the room. “Stop disturbing our guest Severus” He said placing himself behind the desk. Snape nodded and left as Voldemort studied Ginny carefully, his long white fingers interlaced with each other as he placed his hands on the desk top.
“Such a spirited young woman, I can see why he would pick you from the choice he had” He smirked as she sat in silence watching his moves, memorising what he did. “You will make a fine addition to my ranks or a pretty corpse for your family to bury with the worms. It is entirely your choice”
“What a fantastic choice, I have though I think I will prefer death to anything else you have to offer” her face remained stony, her gaze lay on his every movement as he opened the desk, looked at her or sat still.
“Would you like me to tell you how it felt in his body, to feel his emotions, a part of me inside of him that I can connect to and control him with?”
“Tell me why you do these things, why you kill and torture and destroy families”
“I will not explain my actions to the likes of you” he replied simply
“If im going to join you, I need to know your motivation”
“So you’d chose to sacrifice your life for his?” he smirked, his eyes glinting with evil.
“If I have to, I love him, something you’d never understand”
“I DON’T NEED LOVE, I HAVE THIS EMPIRE” He gestured to the window “I HAVE POWER, AND FEAR AND HUNDREDS AT MY COMAND” He stood up “LOVE IS A WORTHLESS EMOTION SHOWN BY THE WEAK TO TRY AND JUSTIFY THERE ACTIONS”
“Love’s what’s driving Harry to stop you, don’t you realise taking away anyone he has only makes him stronger, I bet you feel it when you’re in his body, and you don’t understand so you’re just disgusted”
“You know nothing!” he sneered and waved his wand sending her to a small room, bars on the door and cold stone floor. It looked like a dungeon, but she was more relieved to be here then thrown about his study again.
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