Title Lune Soleil
Author: Samantha Riddle aka Slytherish
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by J.K. Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended. Oh, and it has some Order of the Phoenix Spoilers.
Summary: Ginny Weasley has always been stereotyped as the youngest, innocent Weasley. No one in her family seems to understand her, and she secretly wishes for her chance to show them the truth. When she's captured by Death Eaters, her new backbone is put to the test. Why does Lord Voldemort want her? What does it have to do with her first year at Hogwarts?
Meanwhile Draco Malfoy is asked to gain Ginny's trust and watch her in between her 'lessons' with Lord Voldemort. When he's not frustrating himself with thoughts of Ginny, who is the only girl who manages to make him speechless, Draco is worried about his now broken family. Determined to make sure his mother is happy, Draco must turn against his father.
But what happens when a love forms between them, and suddenly the most important issue at hand is how can they stay together forever? Will Draco break away from Voldemort? Will Ginny turn on her family?
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Chapter Eighteen: And the Moon Reacts
There wasn't time to think about what he was about to do. Draco slipped his arms around Ginny protectively, with the last of his energy. Voldemort turned his red eyes upon him, creating a horrible pain to erupt in Draco's Dark Mark. Ignoring it as much as he could, Draco focused on gaining the strength to pull Ginny back away from the Dark Lord.
Voldemort's attention was, very fortunately, drawn away from Ginny and Draco seconds later as the Order retaliated from Arthur's murder by a fresh waves of curses, sending a rainbow of colors into a fog-like substance that as now floating around the room. With everything in him, Draco struggled to move Ginny backwards.
He couldn't move much farther then he had managed to bring her. He gently dropped her onto the floor and slugged around her to be able to reach her arm. He searched franticly for a pulse and found it, although it was very weak and irregular. Panicking, Draco pulled her into his arms again giving her the only thing he could now offer- protection.
In front of him, a battle unfolded. Death Eaters were streaming into the room from the doors and windows, obviously called by Voldemort who had realized that two Death Eaters and himself would not do much to hold back the Order for long. It seemed as if Voldemort had fled, and Draco couldn't help but grimace in satisfaction.
A now furious and adrenaline filled Order of the Phoenix were not even attempting to just stun anymore, something that Draco knew had been standard rules. He cursed anyone and everyone out of their way until through the smokey dust, Draco was sure the Death Eaters were retreating.
Yet the fight was still not over. Rouge curses still flew through the air as the Order began to fall back as well, picking up their injured and returning to their headquarters at number twelve Grimmauld place.
Panic against swept through Draco's chest as he looked around him, into the fog for someone's help. He couldn't get Ginny out of there on his own, and might even have problems getting himself out. His panic was short lived as Tonks appeared at his side and quickly scooped Ginny out of his arms.
Lupin appeared on his other side and gently helped Draco to his feet, demanding quietly that he lean against him as Lupin could Apparate them to safety. He didn't need to be told twice, he pushed himself away from the ground with Lupin's help. He swayed dangerously, as he looked around him once again, this time to locate Ginny. It appeared that Tonks had already left.
Before Draco could question Lupin about this he felt again the sensation of Apparating somewhere else. Being already rather weak and injured, Draco quickly felt as if he was about to be sick and closed his eyes tightly, leaning heavily against Lupin. As soon as his feet hit the ground he collapsed to the ground in a near faint.
No, Draco told himself firmly, I will not faint.
His eyes still blissfully closed, Draco felt two pairs of hands lay him down onto a bed, and then a great deal of whispers around him. He wanted so much to drop off into an uneasy slumber, but just as he was about to, he felt his shirt being gently torn from his body and his eyes finally snapped open.
A young Healer stood at the end of his bed, her round brown eyes wide with the marks on Draco's chest from the many spells he had encountered. Her fingers gracefully dancing along his chest as she examined it.
"Watch it," Draco said rather hotly. She looked up at him and gave him a reassuring smile.
"You'll be alright Mr. Malfoy," She said very clearly and slowly as if he was a four year old.
"Of course I will," Draco snapped just as Lupin appeared to his right.
"He was under the Cruciatus Curse for some time," Lupin explained to the nurse who nodded, "and I believe he was also hit in the chest a few times... perhaps other Dark Magic spells as well..."
Lupin turned his eyes upon Draco very cautiously, as if deciding if what he was going to say was the right thing. "They said that Ginny will recover," His voice shook slightly and Draco frowned.
"Will recover... but with what side effects?" Draco asked quietly. Lupin didn't answer, he just shook his head.
"Rest Draco, you did well today."
Before Draco could comment, the Healer thrust a cup of purple potion into his hands. He drained it, the disgusting taste of what was almost burned bread, causing him to give the Healer a very annoyed look. She smiled politely.
"Just close your eyes and relax Mr. Malfoy," She said warmly.
The last thing Draco remembered before letting the darkness engulf him was the Healer leaning down to wrap up his bruised chest with a bandage, her fixed smiling looking down at him unpleasantly.
And he was flying.
Soaring above the clouds like a bird, he looked around him and inhaled the soft breeze. The clouds were like puffy pillows that he felt if he reached just a little more he could reach. And yet he wasn't flying a broomstick....
Why did you have to fly on a broomstick to fly? What was the point of it really? He felt so much more free flying this way... with no restrictions and no limitations... and look! There just coming into the distance, was Hogwarts castle.
Or was it?
There was something very unusual about Hogwarts. The enormous building seemed to be rather small suddenly. As he got closer he noticed how it seemed to be separated into four smaller castles instead of one enormous one. What was up with that?
Each castle had a flag floating up above it from the roof. Draco strained his eyes to see that each flag had certain House colors. It took a few more seconds for Draco to realize what this meant. Hogwarts School had split up into four separate schools for the Houses? Had House rivalry gone that far?
He needed to see more of this for himself. Without thinking, he began to fly down to the school in hopes to get a better look at things. This wasn't the Hogwarts he knew. Even though he hated anyone from other houses, Hogwarts wouldn't be Hogwarts without all the Houses together.
What sort of sick world was this?
He gracefully landed on the ground and looked back up at the blue sky he had been flying in. What if he never got the chance to fly again? All because he just had to know what was going on at Hogwarts...
Draco's gray eyes looked around him onto the now divided Hogwarts grounds. Something just wasn't right about this. He looked off into the distance for the giant gamekeepers hut and found none.
Although his glee for Hagrid's disappearance was evident, he knew that this wasn't right. Dumbledore couldn't possibly be headmaster if this was how Hogwarts looked. Dumbledore was very good at promoting house ties, and it would take a lot to get Hogwarts to split if he was in office.
Then if Dumbledore wasn't headmaster... who was? And what had happened to him? Draco's eyes spun back onto the building before him, which looked like the Gryffindor section of Hogwarts. Sure enough, a Gryffindor walked out right before his eyes.
Yet this wasn't like any Gryffindor he was used to. The boy arm had a black band around it, and his face was pale and grunt. He looked as if he hadn't eaten in weeks. His robes were obviously second hand. Behind him, a Slytherin boy was walking, a look of delight on his face. His robes were clean and new, and he looked very well fed.
The Gryffindor looked around, and suddenly made a wild break for freedom towards the Forbidden forest. The Slytherin let out a shriek of laughter and pointed his wand at the runaway. The Gryffindor screamed, clutching the band around his wrist.
"No! Please, stop!"
"Stupid Mudblood lover," The Slytherin spat, "Get back here you worthless idiot."
Draco had said many horrible things to the Gryffindor before, but this just seemed to be taking it a bit far. He recognized the writhing screams as something that could be heard from someone suffering from the Cruciatus curse. Why was this student putting such a curse on another student?
The Slytherin walked over to the terrified Gryffindor, who was now on the ground, and kicked him sharply in the side. Draco gathered himself together and moved forward. "Excuse me? What do you think your doing?"
"Mr. Malfoy!" The Slytherin looked horrified now, "I'm sorry sir... I know, we're supposed to kill those who try and run away but-"
"Kill?" Draco repeated his voice hollow. The Gryffindor looked very faint suddenly. "Why?"
The Slytherin looked at Draco as if expecting him to laugh and say "I'm kidding!", but Draco did no such thing. The boy shifted uncomfortably. Raising his eyebrows at the boy, he wondered how much trouble he'd get in if he gave his boy a nice smack.
"Because that's what the Dark Lord tells us to do," The boy said finally, "He is Headmaster to our school."
Draco felt the bottom fall out of his stomach.
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Note: Sorry for the delays! I had a computer problem and then I started school on Wednesday so I have been rather busy. Wow, two more chapters left! This is starting to get exciting. I've never finished a fic before! Well then, please read and review!