The Key (A Draco Malfoy Love Story)

Chapter 48: And It All Begins

(A/N: I'm using what Snape and Voldemort said in the film for this one, because I thought it was really creepy :/ all credit goes to J.K Rowling and the film producers, okay?)

Amelia's P.O.V

Well, what can I say really? Snape has somehow found out that we have been in Hogsmeade, which is just what we need. Note my sarcasm, please. At least we're inside the castle, which -I hope- Snape doesn't know about. So we have time, I don't know how much, but we have some. The Order have been called, and are on their way. That's when I knew it was really happening. I tried to put it off in my mind, but I can't now, the moment where we win, or lose. I hope it's the first one. Obviously. And what makes it worse, while all of it is going on, we have to find and destroy a Horcrux, no, not one. TWO! That vision I had made me realize, when Voldemort said to Nagini "And you must stay close." He said that because she's a Horcrux. How in Godric's name we're going to kill her, I don't know. We'll find a way, we kind of have to. Otherwise Voldemort will get us for sure, so we have to kill him before he finds us. Which to me, makes no sense, because he has to find us so we can kill him...? Oh don't even listen to me, I have no idea what I'm saying. I don't know anything anymore.

"The Order people are arriving, so Ron, Hermione, you need to go and sneak them into the castle without Snape knowing. Me and Amy are going in with the others for the assembly. Okay?" Harry explained to us and we nodded, agreeing to the last minute plan that just popped into Harry's head. I hugged both Ron and Hermione goodbye before they set off with the invisibility cloak with them, sneaking through the heavily guarded halls of Hogwarts. Once they had draped the silvery fabric over themselves the two figures vanished, slipping through the door and into the seventh floor corridor. Everyone else in the room was getting ready to go down to the assembly, consealing us within them.

"How're we going to get into the Great Hall? They'd notice us instantly without the invisibility cloak." Harry muttered to me and I sighed, glancing at eveyone else, racking my brain for an idea. Then, without warning, my face lit up, making Harry question me, his face full of interest. I put my index finger up as if to say 'one minute' which made him ask even more, desperate to hearmy answer. Instead of answering, I grinned at him, running to the front of the room, my hair flicking out behind me. I came to a stop in the space Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville and I stood only ten minutes ago, put both my pinky fingers in either side of my mouth and blew, letting out an ear-splitting whistle, making everyone's attention turn to me, like I predicted it to.

"Hey again!  Do you have two spare Gryffindor robes that me and Harry can disguise ourselves with?" I asked everyone, and Neville nodded at me, tossing over two black robes, the edged lined with the Gryffindor maroon. I caught them both in my outstretched arms, but the material of one covered my face. I shook my head to get it off and blew the hair that had fallen onto my face.

"Much apriciated." I thanked andwalked back to Harry, giving him one of the robes in my arms.

"Problem solved." I slipped my arms through the sleeves pulled the hood over my head, tucking my hair in.

"Simple, yet genius." Harry observed, copying my actions, apart from he didn't need to tuck his hair in. Since he didn't have hair down to his waist. Tucking a lock of hair behind my ear that fell through my hood, and put my hands by my side, balling my hands into fists. When we get into that assembly, Harry and I are going to reveal ourselves, which will probably make Snape call Voldemort, and in a matter of hours, the Second Wizarding War will have started. People will die, I know, but we're strong, all of us, and I know that we can defeat him. Hogwarts. A place I never thought would go from being a home, a school, and a place we all love, to a battle field. I've known this was going to happen for ages, but I only pushed it out of my thoughts to try and forget it, and now I can't forget that it's really happening, and it made me uneasy. To be honest, I don't know what I felt about the whole situation, I was scared for everyone I loved, willing to fight to protect them, worried that we won't find this Horcrux and anger towards Voldemort, if it weren't for him, none of this would've happened.