Loving Lily: A Snily Story

Chapter 92 - A New Teacher

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While Severus and Lily sat through yet another Death Eater meeting late one August night, Ellery and Draco found themselves unfortunately headed down the same hallway towards the same room at the same time.

Forced to walk side by side down the seemingly unending corridor that led towards the Malfoys' dining room, each boy wore a frown as they approached.

Draco stopped abruptly as they listened to the conversation that echoed through the empty corridor from the dining room.

"What's the matter?" Ellery asked his foe before he thought better of it, as Lily's kind heart led him to frown in concern at the suddenness of Draco's unexpected halt.

"Now that I've finally gotten you alone, Snape, I can ask you what I need to know." Draco spat as a horrible scowl twisted his features.

Ellery grimaced in fear as Draco took a threatening step towards him while he demanded, "Where....is your sister?!"

".......What?" Ellery blinked.

"Where is your sister?!" Draco hissed, "I know your parents are lying!.....They know where she is! You know where she is! She isn't ill at all, is she?"

Ellery let out a startled gasp as Draco found the courage to berate someone younger and smaller than himself.

Without hesitation, Draco grabbed hold of Ellery's collar and hoisted him towards his face as he snarled, "TELL ME WHERE SHE IS OR I'll-"

"-Draco?"

Draco whirled around with Ellery still in his grasp to see his mother standing in the doorway to the dining room, having come to look into the hallway once she heard her son's voice.

"The meeting's about to start, my dear." Narcissa frowned, "The Dark Lord will join us any moment, please.....You can revisit your quarrel with the Snape boy afterwards. Come along and take your seat."

Grateful for the interruption, Ellery still cried out when Draco gave him a rough shove backwards as he relinquished his hold on his robes.

Disappointed and miserable, Draco stalked off to obey his parents yet again after Narcissa closed the door, but before Draco's fingertips touched the knob, Ellery called to him.

"I told you the truth!"

Draco scowled as he snapped his head in the direction of Ellery's voice.

"What?" He demanded in a gruff tone.

"We don't know where sissy is." Ellery confessed with a shuddering sigh, "We don't know if she's dead or alive......We don't know.....anything. We don't!"

Draco turned away as Ellery put his head down and tried to stop the tears that gathered in his dark eyes.

He mistook Draco's march through the door, away from him as a sign of angry indifference.

Draco had been unable to bear the pained look on Ellery's face.

Harriet's brother's awful expression of pure dismay had sent a festering pit of anxiety gathering in the bottom of his stomach.

As Draco sat at the long, ebony table and confirmed Ellery's claims to be believable by the nervous scowls on Severus and Lily's faces, he wondered if he would vomit.

How could he be expected to do anything knowing that Harriet was in danger?

How could he possibly go on living if she......if she never returned?