The Potter Twins

Chapter 4: Innocence Lost

I was so happy to have Draco with us, it felt so right to have him there. He wasn't mad that I never told him where we were, but I still felt I had to explain myself. I told him everything we'd been through, the attack at the wedding, breaking into the Ministry, Ron leaving and getting attacked by Nagini at Godric's Hollow. 

We walked to the Lovegoods' house and knocked on his door. Mr. Lovegood answered, he looked very different than he did at the wedding. His hair looked grayer and uncombed, his clothes looked in disarray like he'd been up all night. "Can I help you?" He choked out hoarsely.

I pushed me way over to him. "Hello, sir. We met at the wedding, Haley, remember? We were wondering if we could come in and talk to you for a bit?" He nodded and let us in. We sat in his living room and he made us some tea. 

After we were all served, he sat down with us. "What can I help you with, Miss Potter?" 

"Well, I remembered you had a symbol around your neck at the wedding and we were just wondering, what it was exactly."

"The Deathly Hallows symbol? Are you all familiar with the Tale of the Three Brothers?"

Ron, Hermione and Draco all answered 'yes' at the same time Harry and I answered 'no'. 

"I have it here." Hermione said and pulled out her book Dumbledore left her. "'There were once three brothers traveling along a lonely road at twilight.....'" she started to read. 

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"'Only when the youngest brother reached a great age did he take off the Cloak and give it to his son. Then he greeted Death as an older friend and went with him gladly, departing his life as equals.'" She finished.  

"The cloak, the elder wand and the resurrection stone. They make the Deathly Hallows, they make one the master of death." Then he stood up, grabbed the tea pot. "Your tea's gone cold, I'll make more." 

Ron stood up then. "I'm not drinking anymore of that stuff, hot or cold." We all agreed and got up to leave. We headed down the stairs and found Mr. Lovegood at the sink staring out the window. 

"Thank you, Mr. Lovegood."

"You're leaving?" 

"I'm afraid so, sir. We need to continue our journey." I said and held out my hand for the man, who only pushed past me and blocked the door. "Sir?!"

"I can't let you leave!" He screamed then started to sob. "They took her. They took my Luna. He was angry at what I'd been writing, but they don't want her. They want you." 

Draco grabbed my hand. "He told them we were here. We need to go!" Then two Death Eaters shot spells into the house, we all ducked and joined hands. 

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We landed in the forest again and started to run. They had followed us and were chasing us through the woods. We all shot spells at each other, trying to fight our way out. We came to a clearing and Hermione hit Harry with a Stinging Jinx and the Snatchers caught up to us. Ron grabbed Hermione protectively and Draco did the same to me. 

"What do we have here?" One of the Snatchers said. "You're a long way from home, Malfoy. We're taking this lot to the house." 

At the Malfoy Manor, we were all thrown into the basement as prisoners. Draco's parents were disgusted and humiliated when he came in with us that they wouldn't even look at him. I felt bad to see them treat him like that but we both knew that's how they probably would have reacted. "How do we get out of here?" I asked him. 

"Haley?" a voice called out. 

"Luna? Is that you?" She, Mr. Ollivander and Griphook stepped out from the darkness. Luna ran over to me and hugged me.

"Oh, I'm so happy to see you!" She said and looked around at everyone. "What are you doing down here?" She asked Draco.

"Not the time, Luna. He's with us. How did we get out of here?" 

She looked from me to him. "Oooohhh! We don't know, otherwise we would have left already." Just then Dobby apparited into the room. 

"Hello everyone!" 

"Dobby?" Draco asked. "You can apparite in and out of this room?" 

Dobby's replied was the best."Yes, sir. I'm an elf." 

"Dobby, can you take them someone safe than come back for us?" He nodded and Ron told him where to go. Dobby apparited out and Bellatrix and Pettigrew came down into the basement. Draco pulled me behind him again and Ron and Harry stood in front of Hermione. 

"Who are you talking to down here?" She asked, waving her wand at Draco.

"No one." 

As she turned around to leave, Dobby apparited back into the room and disarmed Pettigrew. We all ran over to Dobby as Bellatrix shot spells our way. Dobby was appariting us all out when she threw a knife at him.

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We landed on a beach in the middle of nowhere. It took us all a second to realize we were safe. 

"Ow! Oh my God!" I screamed. Bellatrix's knife had cut straight across my arm and it was deep and stringing. Draco ripped his shirt sleeve off and wrapped my cut to stop the bleeding when we heard Dobby's weak voice calling for Harry. We all looked to see the knife in his stomach, he pulled it out and toppled over. 

Harry caught him before he hit the sand and held the house elf in his lap. "Dobby is happy to be with his friends," was the last thing Dobby said before he took his last breath. Harry cradled the poor elf like a baby and started to cry for him. 

I went over to my brother and knelt down in front of him. "We should close his eyes." He nodded and I did. "Now he's just sleeping."

Harry wanted to bury him properly so we let him dig the hole. After we buried Dobby, Harry sat out there for a long time. The rest of us sat in the living room of the cottage waiting for him to come in. "How did you know about the eye thing?" Draco asked me. 

"I had a foster sister in the house with me when I was about 12, Stephanie. She was six and had cancer and she was the only foster sister I was ever close too. She died in the middle of the night one night, I thought she was awake when I woke up but she wouldn't move. When my foster mother came in and closed her eyes, 'She was sleeping with her eyes open.' She told me. 'We need to let her sleep.' Being a 12 year old, I just listened to my foster mom, I didn't know she had died until we went to her funeral. But thinking she was asleep made me feel better." 

Harry finally came in and we stayed in the seaside cottage for several days. It was nice to have a real roof and real beds. But we knew we would have to leave soon, we needed to find the other Horcruxes. Needed to destroy them and then kill the Dark Lord once and for all.