Secrets

  Chapter 19

   Harry was lying on Hermione’s bed staring at the ceiling. He had nothing to do, he didn’t know where to start for to look for Hermione and that scared him more than anything, she was in the hands of Krum and he had no idea what he was doing to her. Harry closed his eyes as ideas came to his mind, he tried to force them out but it wasn’t working, they just became more disturbing.

Harry let out a soft brokenhearted groan and turned on to his side as he buried his face in to her pillow, smelling the scent of her as he tried to get some sleep. Everyone had forced him up to the room because he was shattered and they knew that he didn’t have a clear mind. They told him that they would send someone up when they got something.

   Ron stood at the door staring at his best friend; he hated seeing Harry like this, like there was nothing to go on for. He knew that if something was ever to happen to him, Harry would go after his murderer and kill him but with Hermione, well, she was the only sane thing in his life and now that she wasn’t here, telling Harry that everything was okay just made him lose it.

   Dumbledore had sent Ron up to check on Harry to make sure he wasn’t doing anything stupid, all of them were worried about Harry and what he might do.

    Hermione was pacing her room, Voldemort and Krum had left her alone but they had taken her wand so she had no way of getting out, she thought about going out of he window but they had been one step ahead of her and made sure that they were on the top level which meant a very long drop that one wouldn’t live to survive it.

“What am I gonna do? What about Harry? Poor Harry, he must be worrying himself sick!” Hermione muttered to herself, scared and concerned for her best friend, she loved him, she knew she did but she couldn’t tell if he loved her, he kept his emotions to his chest and rarely lets it out which made him unreadable and harder to predict.

Hermione sat on the bed with a sigh and lay back on. She wished that she were in Harry’s arms that he was comforting her and placing a kiss on her forehead like he normally does.

“Well, one can dream.” Hermione muttered and closed her eyes as she fell asleep.

    Miles away, Harry closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep, wishing that Hermione was in his arms Ron sighed when he saw Harry sleeping and placed the covers over him so that Harry wouldn’t be cold during the night, he left room but looked over his shoulder before shutting the door.

Harry looked around the room that he was in; it wasn’t strange yet it wasn’t familiar so he was confused.

“Hello?” Harry called out, there was a rustle of clothing behind him, which caused him to, spun around, he saw a foot and a white wisp of a dress as it disappeared, there was a giggle and Harry smiled, he knew that giggle anywhere. “Mione, come out where ever you are.” Harry teased in a singsong voice as he went off in the direction he saw the foot. There was another giggle.

“Gotta catch me first.” Hermione teased back in a singsong voice.

“Boo!” Harry snarled as he jumped out from behind her, which caused her to squeal as she spun around. They both smiled and Harry held out his arms so that Hermione could run into them. They both hugged. “I wish you were real and could tell me where you were.” Harry whispered and Hermione pulled away and looked at him, she smiled then leaned back in to his ear.

“I’m in Krum’s place. Come and get me soon. Be careful. Voldemort is here as well and is going to use me as bait.” Hermione whispered then kissed the shell of his ear and she disappeared. Harry found himself clutching air as he looked around.

“Mione? Mione?” Harry asked.

“MIONE!” Harry screamed as he bolted up in bed. Ron came bursting back in.

“Harry?” Ron asked and Harry breathed heavily as he looked around then locked gazes with Ron.

“Voldemort has Hermione, she is at Krum’s place.” Harry whispered and Ron looked at him stunned.

    Hermione woke up to someone shaking her.

“Get up now!” Krum’s voice snarled as Hermione opened her eyes and glared at Krum. “Master wants you, so get ready and begin your duty as a bait.” Krum sneered as he flung the clothes at her and stormed out of the room. Hermione picked up the clothes and stared at it in a shock, it was a long floor length red dress with a low-neck line.

“What on earth?” Hermione muttered as she stared at the dress then looked at the door wondering what was going on and what the plan is about.

    “Are you sure?” Cho asked and Harry nodded. They were all in great hall, Harry had told them his dreams.

“Yes I’m sure, all my other dreams were connected to Hermione and there is no evidence to say that this one isn’t linked to her.” Harry stated firmly and Dumbledore nodded.

“I agree with him, it all fits. Voldemort hasn’t been doing anything at all which made me suspicious and with Hermione being kidnapped by Krum, why would they pick this night thought is the one thing that confuses me, I mean, is their any special purpose?” Dumbledore asked and Harry shrugged.

“Hermione just told me that she was a bait for me but that what they told her, I’m assuming that they didn’t know that she could contact me through her dreams so they made her think that.” Harry said and Dumbledore nodded.

“It is possible that there is something out there that we’ve missed. Something that involves Hermione.”

Dumbledore said and everyone looked at him confused.

    Hermione found herself in the dress, she blanched lightly when she saw the low cut, the top swell of her breasts was visible and she wasn’t comfortable with it but there was no way of altering it so she had live with it.

Krum came in and smiled when he saw Hermione in her dress.

“You are breath-taking.” Krum breathed slimly and Hermione wrinkled her nose.

“What is going on? Why have I got to be in this dress if I’m bait?” Hermione demanded and Krum laughed.

“You really believed that? For a smart witch you can be dense sometimes. We have a special evening waiting for you. You are going to be one wonderful gift for a special power.” Krum sneered as he waved his hand and chains appeared on Hermione’s wrists and ankles. He snapped his fingers and two men came forward and took an elbow each as they led her out of the room. Hermione struggled but it was no use, they were stronger than her so it wasn’t easy to break away.

They dragged her into the dungeons, Hermione gasped when she saw all the death eaters standing in a circle with Voldemort sitting in a chair with Lucius Malfoy to the right hand side of him and Bellatrix Lestrange to the left hand side of him.

They were grinning and Hermione could see that the Death eaters were very excited as well; her heart began to sink. She knew that it was nothing good.

    “What’s the plan?” Snape asked.

“We have to go to Krum’s house, what ever is going to happen I have a feeling that it is going to happen tonight so we need to prevent it.” Harry said and looked around. “We’ll split in to groups in order to make this go quickly as possible, we don’t need casualties but if you see a death eater knock them out! Don’t waste time trying to think up a spell just say the first thing that comes to your mind so we are not wasting time. Each house will split into four then mix together.” There were a few groans. “I don’t care! We need to get Hermione out of the house as quick as we can and that means we have to work together! You will mix then will split back up in small groups of ten so this way we are spread out so we can cover the house more.” Harry ordered and everyone nodded, they all split up and got into groups then split back up. Harry nodded his approval. “Good, Professors I want you to each take a group and lead them, this way no one will get lost and I want you all to look out for each other! This is no time to play about or try and get your own back on anyone because this is not a game, this is life and death and trusts me when I say if you play about, it will be the last thing you do. I want the first years to stay behind because they have just joined and don’t have lot of experiences, is that okay?” Harry asked and the first years nodded.

“Who is going to stay behind with them?” Snape asked.

“The seconds year will also stay behind because most of you are not ready to go in to battle, You are going to look after the first years and I want you all to go to the kitchens and stay there! No moving about, there are toilets in there and the house elves will give you what ever you need, Professor Dumbledore, if you could, could you please conjure up sleeping bags for them?” Harry asked and Dumbledore nodded, Impressed how well Harry was at taking charge and he was delighted to see one of his dreams come true, for the houses to work together.

He led the two years to the kitchen and got them settled while Harry hurried up to his office to collect what he needed. He grabbed the sword, remembering how it saved his life the last time and tucked it into his belt. He hurried back down to the great hall.

“Right, make sure that your wands are ready to be used and are in a easy place to access because you won’t have time to be fumbling about for your wands. I want you all to go up to your room and put black clothes on so that way we are blending in with the darkness, we can’t afford to let ourselves be seen before we have to.” Harry said and everyone hurried up to his or her room to pull on black or dark clothes. Harry was already in his black jeans and a black jumper and black sneakers and he went over to the table and looked at the map so he could plan where he was placing each groups. ‘Hang on Hermione, I’m coming.’ Harry thought out to Hermione.

   ‘Please hurry Harry.’ Hermione thought to Harry as she was chained to a rock and Voldemort was getting everyone to collect ingredients for the ceremony as he looked over the book. She had a bad feeling about this and really didn’t want to know what was going to happen.