Hush by msscribe
Summary: Hermione Granger has been missing from Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry for almost four months. Everyone thinks she's most likely dead. Everyone except Harry, who's beginning to hear things…
Disclaimer: No profits are being made off the fiction on these pages. Harry Potter, associated characters and the associated Harry Potter universe is © J. K. Rowling and respective publishers.
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Prologue
She is the one in the picture. The one with the long curly brown hair and the wise eyes. The newspaper calls her brave and smart. She, and two others are hailed as having stopped four Death Eater attacks. He has been watching her in secret for weeks, planning this night.
He leans over her bed, letting her sleep for a while before he opens his mouth and begins to pull the air from her lungs. Her eyes spring open, and a look of pure horror washes over her as she clings to the mattress, struggling to breathe. He loves to watch them at this moment. Usually he would kill a human shortly afterwards, but his goal is different this time.
He picks her up effortlessly over his shoulder, climbing quietly out of her window. He can feel her body convulsing with terror, but her screams are silent...
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