Opposite Ends (Draco Malfoy)

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Easter Holidays have now arrived and Eva was dreading it. She hated staying at the manor. Draco and Evangeline were on speaking terms again, but just as friends.

"I can't wait til this is all over." She whispered to Draco as the two of them were walking downstairs. Lucius demanded that they come downstairs immediately.

When they entered the main space, Eva saw that Bellatrix was holding a boy hostage.

That boy was Evangeline's brother. His face was swollen.

What had they done to him?

Evangeline saw Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley being held hostage by other death eaters as well.

"Well?" Bellatrix asked, holding her wand to Harry's throat. "Is it Harry Potter, Draco?"

Eva's heart dropped.

"I can't be sure." Said Draco.

Bellatrix then looked at Evangeline, "Well? You should be able to recognize your brother."

"He doesn't look like my brother...his face is wonky." She lied.

"Draco..." Lucius grabbed the back of his son's neck, "Look closely, son. If we are the ones to hand Potter over to the Dark Lord. Everything will be forgiven. It will all be as was."

Eva couldn't help, but scrunch up her face in judgement of Lucius's desperation for the Dark Lord's validation.

A snatcher spoke up, "I hope we won't forget who actually caught him, Mr. Malfoy."

Lucius grew angry, "How dare you speak to me like that in my own home!"

His yelling made Draco jump a bit. Bellatrix stood up, grabbing Draco and Eva's hands and leading them to Harry, "Don't be shy, sweeties. Come over." She makes the two kneel down and she does the same at their side, "Now, if this isn't who we think it is, and we call him, he'll kill us all. Except you, Evangeline. He'll lock you in the cellar for the rest of your life."

Draco asks, "What's wrong with his face?"

"Yes. What is wrong with his face?" Bellatrix repeated, asking the snatchers who caught the three teenagers.

"He came to us like that." The head snatcher stated, "Something he picked up in the forest, I reckon."

"Or ran into a stinging jinx..." Said Bellatrix, standing up and pointing at Granger with her wand, "Was it you, dearie?" Bellatrix slowly strutted over to Hermione, "Give me her wand. We'll see what her last spell was."

Harry and Eva make eye contact. His eyes filled with confusion and hers, worry.

Bellatrix screamed at Lucius not to touch his dark mark, saying that they would "all perish if the Dark Lord comes now." She demanded to know where the snatcher got the sword in his hand from and then she stunned four of them for their "lack of respect" towards her.

"Take the boys to the cellar!" Yelled Bellatrix, "I want to have a little word with this one." She gets in Granger's face, "Girl to girl! Draco! Evangeline! Go figure out if that's Harry Potter!"

Evangeline and Draco follow the death eaters that were roughly handling Harry and Weasley. They threw the two boys into the cellar, and Eva stood in front of the gate with Draco.

Once the door at the top of the staircase shut, indicating that the other death eaters left, is when they began to speak.

"Come here." Eva demanded.

Harry and Weasley both did so.

Harry gave her attitude, "So you're a death eater, now?"

She ignored his question, "The Dark Lord has more Horcruxes than you know."

Harry furrowed his brows at her.

"You and I are both Horcruxes, Harry." She continued to explain, "I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner. I'm only in this position because I told Vold- The Dark Lord that I'm a Horcrux and now he doesn't want to kill me. There's a reason we would have those dreams where we were the Dark Lord. Part of his soul lives inside of us."

Harry couldn't believe it. He didn't want to. And Eva could see it in his face.

Hermione began screaming and Dobby had teleported into the middle of the cellar.

"Dobby?" Said Draco.

Harry turned around and saw the elf, "What are you doing here?"

"Dobby has come to rescue Harry Potter, of course. Dobby will always be there for Harry Potter."

"Are you saying you can apparate in and out of this room? Could you take us with you?"

"Of course. I'm an elf."

Harry turned to face his sister, "Come with us."

"I can't." She rolled up her sleeve, revealing her dark mark, "He'll find me."

The door at the top of the cellar opened and down came Peter Pettigrew.