After a War ((Old Copy))

Chapter 16 Book 3

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"We have to go back. They have to be keeping him there, at Malfoy Manor. It's not him they want, its us, so.... So that's what we'll give them." Hermione said breathlessly as she paced around. Her voice shook and cracked. Draco was sitting in the doorway, breathing heavily.

"Hermione, they wouldn't dare hurt him." Maya said, she was trying to be calm and rational about the whole thing, but she was crying too. Justin was innocent, he never did anything wrong, there was nothing he ever did that would ever hurt anyone. "They wouldn't Hermione!" Maya insisted when Hermione started mumbling to herself about what they were going to do.

"Maya." George tried to get her to hush so everyone could think about what needed to be done. Draco stood up.

"Hermione, my wand." He walked over to her and extended his hand. Hermione grabbed his wand from under her pillow, along with everyone else's. She handed them out and looked at Draco. "It's time we got this over with, I say we go to Hogwarts and get Harry. You said we need him in order to do this. He's gone too far, he's taken too many people. It's time we finally end this." Draco said firmly, though there was no emotion in his voice. There was no emotion in him but rage. It was his fault Justin was gone, and he was going to get him back or die trying.

"Draco, we cant-"

"-we can, together." Draco interrupted Hermione. She sighed and nodded. Everyone else left the room to prepare themselves to go.

"Draco?" Hermione asked quietly. Draco shook his head. He already knew what she was thinking.

"He's not dead." Draco insisted, he wrapped his arms around Hermione.

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A loud thunder clap and a steak of lightning proved that even though it was the last days of school, there would be no Herbology or Care of Magical creatures that day. Harry couldn't help but feel a little happy about it, tests were becoming a pain and nobody liked how stressed the teachers were. With five of their students missing, and then two more disappear after that.

At least Harry knew they were safe, wherever they were. He had lost his two best friends in one year, bloody brilliant idea it was to come back to Hogwarts wasn't it? He still had Ginny, well, sort of. She was away most of the time. With her family again. They had just gotten over the loss of Fred when they got him back, then they lost another one of their sons.

Then Fred and George disappeared again. Harry hadn't heard much about it, but one night he heard Fred yelling at George at the burrow, saying that they had to go find Maya. (There was mention of the other four that disappeared, but the focus was on the short blonde haired girl George liked so much.) Harry didn't know Maya well, but he knew George loved her, even if he wouldn't admit it.

He had also heard from Fred that Maya loved George, and that she had admitted it, he hadn't told George that, but he told everyone else.

Harry almost fell over when Ginny crashed into him.

"Harry! It's them! They're back! And-And Bella took Justin! They need your help!" Ginny yelled in such a rush, Harry barely heard her, she grabbed his arm and dragged him down the hall towards the way out of Hogwarts.

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Hermione hugged Harry when she saw him and Draco shook his hand. They were by the edge of the forbidden forest. Hagrid was in his hut, and Maya, Fred and George were explaining everything to him so he could spread the word around a bit.

Solomon and Pansy were getting a general look at the area to make sure nobody was hiding out in the woods. Pansy was watching from above, and Solomon was incredibly strong as a Wampus, and there was no point in hiding it anymore.