Mine (harry potter fan fic)

Chapter 37 - snatchers

" 'mione! Hermione!" Harry calls as we make it back to the tent.
"Is everything alright?" Hermione asks clearly concerned,
"It's fine, actually it's more than fine." I smile urging her forward.
Ron smiles and raises his hand at Hermione,
"Hey!" He greets her, Hermione storms forward yanking Rons bag off and throwing leaves at him. She shoves him hard enough for him to fall but he keeps his balance.
"You complete arse! Ronald Weasley! You shop up here after weeks and you say 'Hey'!" Hermione slams Rons bag into his side before dumping it on the floor, I bite my tongue to stop myself laughing at the scene.
"Where's my wand, Harry? Harry Potter you give me my wand!" Hermione struts towards Harry, he backs up into a tree holding his hands up in defence claiming he doesn't know.
"How come he's got your wand?" Ron asks,
"Never mind why he's got my wand!" Hermione snaps, that's when she notices the destroyed horcrux.
"What is that?" She gestures to the locket. Ron holds it up. "You destroyed it?" Hermione furrows her eyebrows in disbelief. "and how is it that you just happened to have the sword of Gryffindor?!" Hermione continues with he questions.
"It's a long story." I chip in, Hermione shoots a glare at me.
"Don't think this changes anything!" Hermione hurries back into the tent.
"Course not, I only just destroyed a bloody horcrux! Why would that change anything?! Look, I wanted to come back as soon as I left, I just didn't know how to find you." Ron explains stopping Hermione in her tracks.
"How did you find us?" Harry asks Ron, Ron pulls out the gift that Dumbledore gave him.
"With this, it doesn't just turn off lights. I don't know how it works but Christmas morning, I was sleeping in this little pub keeping away from some snatchers and I heard it." Ron's lip spread into a smile.
"It?" I cock my eyebrow at the red headed boy.
"A voice, your voice Hermione, coming out of it." Ron notifies us all,
"And what exactly did I say may I ask?!" Hermione hisses her arms folded across her chest.
"My name, just my name like a whisper. So I took it, clicked it and this tiny ball of light appeared. I knew, sure enough it floated toward me, the ball of light; it went right to my chest. Straight through me. Right here." Ron points directing in the middle of his chest. "And I knew it was going to take me where I needed to go. So I disapperated. Came to this hillside, it was dark I had no idea where I was. I just hoped that one of you would show yourself, and you did." Ron's eyes finally move from Hermione to Harry.
It wasn't too long after that we all head into the tent, I sit beside Hermione as we bury our noses in our books. I've missed just sitting and reading, I've always loved muggle books.
Suddenly we hear a yell.
"What's going on in there?!" I burst back inside,
"Nothing." The boys say in unison, I roll my eyes and place my hand on my hip.
"We need to talk." Hermione interrupts. "We need to go see Xenophillius lovegood." Hermione holds out her book,
"What?" Harry stares down at the book as do I.
"See this, it's a letter Dumbledore wrote to Grindelwald. Look at the signature, it's the mark again. It keeps popping up. In beedle and bard, in the graveyard in godrics hollow." Hermione sits down staring down at the symbol.
"It was there too." Harry mutters,
"Where?" Hermione rises to her feet drawing her eyes away to look at Harry.
"Outside Gregorovitch's wand shop." Harry informs us.
"What does it mean?" Ron asks.
"Look we all have no idea where the next horcrux is but this, this means something. I'm sure of it." Hermione's eyes switch to each of us.
"Hermione's right, we ought to see lovegood. Let's vote on it. Those is favour..." Ron raises his hand, yet none of us do. We all will be going if we don't like it or not, it's our only choice.
I follow Hermione as she exits the tent again,
"So you really think that lovegood knows something about the next horcrux?" I ask sitting down beside her again.
"He has to know something, he wore the exact same symbol. He's on our side, he has to help." Hermione sighs shaking her head reopening the book again.
"I guess you're right. Look, 'mione get some sleep. We'll need our energy." I tell her before sliding into my own bunk.
It doesn't take too long to reach the lovegood residence fortunately, I stick at the front with Ron as Hermione and Harry fall behind.
"Keep off the dirigible plums." Ron mumbles the sign that lays outside the house.
I reach forward knocking on the door of the lovegoods.
"What is it? Who are you?" Xenophillius answers the door looking rougher than normal. "What do you want?"
"Hello! Mr. Lovegood, I'm Harry Potter we met a few months ago." Harry pushes forward, "could we come in?"
Xenophillius allows us inside and we all sit quietly in his rather cramped living room. He silently makes us tea then sits back in his own chair.
"Where's Luna?" Hermione breaks the silence.
"Luna? She'll be along." Xenophillius mentions staring off blankly, we all raise our cups to our mouths taking a sip.
I place the cup down leaning forward slightly,
"So how can I help you Mr. Potter?" Xenophillius speaks before I do.
"Well, actually it was about something you were wearing around your neck at the wedding. A symbol." Harry explains.
"You mean this?" Xenophillius pulls his neckless out, the same symbol from the book hangs on the end.
"Yes, that exactly." Harry reaches out fiddling with it. "What we wondered is what is it?" Harry withdraws his hand.
"What is it? Well it's the sigh of the deathly hallows of course." Xenophillius' clear accident emphasising on its meaning.
"The what?" We all ask,
"The deathly hallows, I assume you're all familiar with the tale of the three brothers?" Xenophillius raises his eyebrows at us creasing his forehead as he does.
"Yes." Hermione, Ron and I nod but Harry doesn't.
"I have it in here." Hermione digs her hand inside her bag revealing her book.
"There were once three brothers who were travelling along a lonely, winding road at twilight." Hermione starts us off.
"Midnight, mum always said midnight." Ron adds on. We all stare at him flatly. "twilights fine, better actually."
Hermione then continues.
"There were once three brothers who were travelling along a lonely, winding road at twilight. In time the brothers reached a river too treacherous to pass. But being taught in the magical arts, the three brothers simply waved their wands and made a bridge. Before they could cross however they found their path blocked by a hooded figure.
It was death and he felt cheated.
Cheated because travellers would normally drown in the river, but death was cunning. He pretended to congratulate the three brothers on their magic, and said each had earned a prize for having been clever enough to evade him. The oldest asked for a wand more powerful than any in existence, so death fashioned him one from an elder tree that stood nearby. The second brother decided he wanted to humiliate death even further and asked for the power to call loved ones from the grave. So death plucked a stone from the river and offered it to him. Finally turned to the third brother, a humble man, he asked for something that would allow him to go forth from that place without being followed by Death. So it was death reluctantly handed over his own cloak of invisibility.
The first brother travelled to a distant village where with the elder wand in hand, he killed a wizard with whom he had once quarrelled. Drunk with the power that the elder wand had given him, he bragged of his invincibility but that night another wizard stole the wand and slit the brothers throat for good measure. And so death took the first brother as his own. The second brother journeyed to his home where he took the stone and turned it thrice in hand. To his delight the girl he had once hoped to marry before her untimely death appeared before him. Yet soon she turned sad, and cold for she did not belong in the mortal world. Driven mad with hopeless longing the second brother killed himself so he could join her. And so death took the second brother. As for the third brother death searched for many years but was never able to find him. Only when he attained a great age did the youngest brother shed the cloak of invisibility and give to his son.
He then greeted death as an old friend, and went with him gladly to parting his life, as equals." Hermione closes the book laying it on her lap.
"So there ye are, the deathly hallows." Xenophillius stares out his window at the boisterous crows.
"Sorry, sir, I still don't understand." Harry mentions politely.
"Aye, where's the pen?" Xenophillius crawls around his house muttering to himself.
He finds a pen soon drawing us the symbol.
One line: the elder wand, the oldest wand ever made.
One circle: the resurrection stone.
One triangle: the cloak of invisibility.
"Together they make the deathly hallows, together they make one master of death." Xenophillius keeps his voice hushed as he speaks, a chill runs down my spine and I avoid everyone's gaze.
"That Mark was on a grave at godrics hollow...Mr lovegood does the peverell family have anything to do with the deathly hallows?" Hermione brings up that question.
Xenophillius rambles to himself almost avoiding our question.
"Let's get out of here, I'm not drinking any more of that stuff, hot or cold." Ron grumbles which a hint of panic in his voice, I lead down the stairs.
"Thank you for..." Hermione goes to thank Xenophillius but ends up startling him.
"You forgot the water...for the tea..." Ron stutters.
"Did I? How silly of me!" Xenophillius giggles hobbling around the house.
"It's no matter, we really should be going anyway." I interrupt as he goes to fill the pot.
An alarming scream from Xenophillius forces me to pull my wand out.
"Sir?" I keep my wand lowered and step in front of the trio.
"You're my only hope. Dey where angry, ya see I been writing. So they took her, they took my Luna." Xenophillius trembles tears coming to his eyes. He touches Harry's head moving his hair to see the scar.
"But it's really you they want."
"Who took her, sir?" Harry whispers.
"Voldemort." Xenophillius dares to speak his name.
My throat tenses and with one word death eaters fly about us.
"Take my hand! Now!" I bellow as we crawl about the floor, blasts of crumbling building falls around us. Glass, plates, plants falling with it.
The three take hold of me and I disapperate us out.
"That treacherous little bleeder, is there no one we can trust?!" Ron exclaims.
"They kidnapped her because he supported me, he was just desperate." Harry defends Luna's father.
"We ought to set up camp again, we need to get hidden before the death eaters send another set to blow us to pieces." I demand, Hermione stares at me for a moment. I send her off and wonder behind nearby tree.
I stop when I noticed snatchers.
"Hello beautiful." The leader no doubt smirks at me.
Ron, Hermione and Harry all take off at high speeds.
"You have no business here. These are mine, no one important" I lift up my sleeve to show the dark Mark.
"Well, matter in fact I do. And looks like I just found myself a traitor if what you're saying is a lie." Scabior's wicked grin widens.
"No! I was waiting for the right time." I defend myself.
"Course you were." He grabs my arm and disapperates.
I'm taken to Malfoy manor and thrown to the ground before he leaves to get the others.
"Cleo, what a surprise. May I ask what you're doing here especially brought in by one of our lords own snatchers." Lucius circles me. He may seem confident but his shaky voice doesn't improve his position.
I go to stand but his foot stops me, he keeps me lain on the floor until Bellatrix enters.
"I asked for her to be brought." Bellatrix smirks, Lucius lifts his foot allowing me to scramble to my feet and stand beside Bella.
"What was that for?!" I bark, Lucius turns his back on us.
"You may go after dark, I'd like a little chat first." He tries to control me. I scoff and stand off to the side.
"You need to talk to me, Lucius? You can't keep me here." I snap. Lucius sneers at me pulling out his wand.
"Forget her, Lucius, what would he do if you hurt one of his prized possessions" Bellatrix stops Lucius lowering his hand.
I jump up and down on my feet impatiently, I need to get back to the others.
It isn't long that we hear news of a trio that need checking out.
In the mean time I take bellatrix off to the side.
"Why have you taken Luna lovegood?! What has she done that deserves this?! Her father isn't all bad! He may support Harry but he could come in handy but if you have his daughter then he'll go bloody mad!" I hold her against the wall my wand pointed at her neck.
Bellatrix giggles moving my sleeve down.
"I see you are no longer hiding your mark with those silly charms." Bellatrix notices.
"No, the charms aren't working." I hiss "Now answer the goddamn question!" I demand.
"It's all part of the job." Bellatrix bites her tongue smiling widely, I push away from her and run my hands over my face.
"What did I ever do to deserve this?" I mutter to myself.
"You were born, cus. It's in your blood." Bellatrix brushes past me to join her brother.
Around twenty minutes later, the captured trio enters the grounds.
I rush upstairs listening in to the conversation, however I caught a glimpse of the three on the way in.
It's Hermione, Ron and a rather mangled faced Harry.
"Caught these three in the woods" Scabior explains as he enters the room I was just in.
They force Draco down to make sure that Harry is Harry.
"Well?!" Bella hisses, Draco clearly sounds worried.
"I can't be sure."
Lucius steps forth,
"Draco, look closely son. If we are the ones to hand Potter over to the dark lord, everything will be forgiven, everything will be as it was. You understand?" Lucius assures his son, I roll my eyes listening to the bullshit that leaves his lips.
"Now you won't be forgetting who actually caught him, I hope, Mr. Malfoy" Scabior raises his voice distinctively enough.
"You dare to talk to me like that in my own house!" Lucius bursts out, his wife is quick to calm him.
"Don't be shy, sweetie, come over. Now if this isn't who we think it is, Draco, and we call him. He'll kill us all. We need to be absolutely sure." Bellatrix explains, Draco moves in closer.
"What's wrong with his face?" Draco asks.
"Yes! What is wrong with his face?" Bellatrix echoes the question.
"He came to us like that, something he picked up in the forest I reckon." Scabior informs her.
"Ran into a stinging jinx. What it you two?" Bellatrix struts towards Ron and Hermione. "Give me her wand, we'll see what her last spell was."
Bellatrix laughs maliciously, well until she spots the sword of Gryffindor from the sound of her gasps.
"Where's that from?!" Bellatrix doesn't sound too happy.
"It was in her bag when we searched her, it's mine now." The snatcher tells bella.
A sudden sound of a wand causes me to tense, I believe Bellatrix has trapped all the snatchers.
"Are you mad?!" Scabior barks.
She screams and bellows for the snatchers to leave.
"Take the boys to the cellar! I need to have a conversation with this one, girl to girl!" Bellatrix screeches.
I wait upstairs where Draco flees.
"Hermione's her friend, you'll need to take her wand if bellatrixs is torturing her." Lucius orders.
Draco takes my wand and pushes me into his closet.
"Draco! You bastard!" I scream banging on the wooden door.
The screams from hermione causes me to push harder on the door, I kick and scream and push.
Until the wardrobe falls apart.
Draco holds his wand up at me.
"Draco! What are you doing?!" I growl, I no doubt look horrendous. Sweat is thick on my skin and my hair is wild.
"What are you doing?! If you betray him, you'll be killed!" Draco's lower lip trembles, I punch the wall in frustration.
"Just let me save her." I plead.
Draco shakes his head.
"I can't, I'll be killed too." Draco murmurs through an uproar of tears.
The screams stop.
Draco being distracted is weak to my blast, I throw my hands into his chest knocking him off his feet.
I take back my wand then sprint down the stairs.
Hermione lays unconscious on the floor and the goblin from greengots is now the one being questioned.
"Drop your wand Bellatrix!" I warn her.
"Cleo, nice of you to rejoin us, I thought you'd stay upstairs forever." Bellatrix smiles, she points her wand to me but still keeps the goblin in her clutch.
I notice Hermione's eyes open, I step out of her view.
"Bella, don't be stupid. Let them go." I tighten my fingers around my wand.
Bellatrix just laughs then returns to scaring her victim.
Lucius soon has his wand on me as I go to disarm Bellatrix.
"Consider yourself lucky, goblin. The same won't be said for this one." Bellatrix returns to Hermione.
A sudden bolt of bodies appear from the stairs.
Harry and Ron enter, Ron goes to disarm Bella and Harry rids of Lucius.
A full blast battle between Ron, Harry and the malfoys start but I just run to grab Hermione's bag which includes the sword.
"Stop!" A voice cries out. "Drop your wands!" Bellatrix has hold of hermione.
The boys do, I keep hold of mine but don't dare use it.
"Well, well,well, what do we have 'ere then? It's Harry Potter." Bellatrix smirks, "he's all bright, shiny and new again." Bellatrix whispers into Hermione's ear. "just in time for the dark lord. Call him. Call him!"
Lucious lifts his sleeve to summon the dark lord but a high pitched squeezing noise distracts us all.
Dobby, the house elf, is sat on the chandelier unscrewing it.
It drops.
Bellatrix moves backwards screaming, tossing hermione forward into Rons arms.
"Go!" I shriek at the three.
Harry takes a wand from Draco then crowds with the others ready to disapperate.
"Stupid elf! You could've killed me!" Bellatrix regains her step.
"Dobby never meant to kill, Dobby only meant to maim or serious injure." Dobby argues with her.
Only then Dobby disarms Mrs. Malfoy.
"You dare to take your witches wand! How dare you defy your masters!" Bellatrix snarls.
"Dobby has no master, Dobby's a free elf! And Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends!" Dobby holds out his hands.
"Harry, you need to take the others and leave." I move backwards just as they go to disapperate.
Bellatrix throws her knife directly into the group.
"No!" I scream trying to knock it away.
Bellatrix smiles.
"Traitor!" She snaps losing her happiness.
"I was only saving my friends!" I growl, Bellatrix glares at me.
"One of your friends happens to be what the dark lord wants!" Bellatrix storms towards me slapping me around the face. "You wait! You'll be dead next time he sees you!" Bellatrix warns me.
I scoff and shake my head.
"Whatever, Bella." I then go to leave myself but she stops me.
"Oh no. you're staying with us until what is to be decided what to be done with you!" Lucius grunts.
I look around the room, panic fills my heart and anger fills my gut.
I'll be dead by morning...