Corrupt || Draco Malfoy

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In a matter of minutes their lives had gone from already bad to utterly disastrous. No more than five minutes ago they were escaping Death Eaters at the Lovegood house. When they finally think they are safe they are surrounded by snatchers. Life sure is a bitch. Lorelai, Ron, Hermione and Harry were running all in opposite directions away from the snatchers trying their best to not get caught, but luck was not on their side. They weren't very fast runners, especially Lorelai.

Lorelai wondered of the perspective of the chaser, if they can fathom the fear of the chased. For in this need to escape her head and heart go to the place that is crushed and without light or match to bring a comforting spark. She feels the screaming of her lungs and the will of her muscles to go far beyond what exercise could ever demand. This is the body and brain if full survival mode and it is nothing but pain. By this time Ron had already been caught and Hermione and Harry were surrounded. Lorelai paused momentarily wondering if she should go and help her friends out, but one look at Hermione's face told her otherwise. If she was able to escape she would be able to make it to the order and get help.

Lorelai kept running but she knows her time is up. Out of the corner of her eye she sees something bright and red coming towards her. She tries to jump out of the way but it's too late. She screams giving away her position but the pain is unbearable. She collapses to the ground. As she lays there with chains wrapped around her body, she can't help but think about her death. It was so close. She was sure that it was moments away. Without a doubt she was going to be taken to Voldemort. He wouldn't have any mercy on them. At least Hermione wad able to distort Harry's face.

A snatcher picks Lorelai up and drags her to where Harry and Hermione are before going to get Ron.

"The Hallow's exist." Harry pants. "But he's only after one of them— the last one. He knows where it is. He's going to have it by the end of the night. You-know-who's found the elder wand."

Before Hermione or Lorelai could even register what Harry just said, a snatcher goes up to them and pulls up Hermione roughly from the ground.

"Don't— don't touch her." Ron shouts, struggling against the chains earning him a punch to the gut.

"Leave him!" Hermione shouts.

"Your boyfriend'll get much worse than that if he doesn't learn to behave himself." Scabior himself calls out as he approaches the struggling wizards.

Scabior was the "leader" of the snatchers. Voldemort put him in charge because he was supposedly the most ruthless and disgusting one of them all. He was a rotten human being. He walks up to Harry and takes a good look at his face, noticing that something was off. He noticed that it had just happened and asked: "What happened to you, ugly?" Harry doesn't answer, instead, one of the snatchers looks up at him. "No, not you." He says before adverting his attention back to Harry. "What's your name?"

"Dudley. Vernon Dudley." He lies. Smart choice.

"And you my lovely?" He asks as he approaches Hermione who is trying her hardest to get out of a snatchers grip. "What do they call you?"

"Penelope Clearwater. Half-blood." She answers.

Before Scabiour can answer, one of his snatchers speaks up. "There's no Vernon Dudley on here."

"Did you hear that, ugly? The list says you're lying." Scabior leaves Hermione and walks back towards Harry. "How come you don't want us to know wh0 you are?"

"The list's wrong. I told you who I am." Harry answers.

"My, my, my, look who we have here." A man says from behind Lorelai. Just as Lorelai thought they could be safe things take a turn to the worst. She reckognized that voice. It was the voice that belonged to one of the Death Eaters she stunned at the Malfoy mannor when she managed to escape. Looks like he was demoted to snatcher. But this was bad. Really bad. No no no this couldn't be happening. She begins to breath heavily. "Well well, if it isn't Lorelai Byrne."

"Who?" Scabior asked turning his attention away from Harry and onto Lorelai.

"Malfoy boy's little girlfriend. The one who escaped."

"Is it now?" Scabior asks amused.

"A young witch doesn't just escape past the Malfoy's and three Death Eaters. No, I think she had help. I think her little boyfriend helped her."

"Leave him out of this. He had nothing to do with my escape." She hissed. "You're just a pathetic excuse of a wizard."

A smirk formed onto Scabiors face as he suddenly came up with an idea. "Change of plan." He said. "We're not taking this lot to the ministry."

There were only two places they brought the wizards and witches they caught. Either the ministry or Malfoy Manor. Those who were brought to the ministry were sent to trial. They were questioned by Umbridge for one hour and if, in the end, they were found guilty, they would be sent to Azkaban, or killed, nobody knows. Already having been in an unpleasant situation at the Manor, Lorelai knew what came ahead. She knew well enough who spent all their time in that house. Bellatrix. She might not recognize Harry, but she would recognize Hermione, Ron and herself. They would get tortured for sure. Lorelai even more from escaping.

Draco would be there. She wouldn't be able to look at him, least of all imagine the pain and suffering he must be going through every single day of his life. Lorelai missed him terribly, she thought of him every second of every minute of every day. She feared for him. She hoped that he thought about her just as much as she has, but she wouldn't ever know. Little did she know, Draco also thought of her constantly during the day. He was miserable without knowing if she was alive or not, if she was okay or if she was hurt. They were both in for a nasty shock and they didn't even know it.

"Let's go!"  Scabior commands before he dissaparates into thin air.

No more than a few seconds later Lorelai felt like she was being forced through a very tight rubber tube. Apparation was by far the quickest way of wizard transportation, but it was also the most complicated. Although she had already apparated a ton of times, she always felt queasy if she did it more than once a day. In her case, she did it three times today. They land in front of the Malfoy Manor, just as she expected. It was looking as gloomy as ever. Her feet stuck like cement to the ground as one of the snatchers tried to drag her to the gates.

There were already three Death Eaters at the gate who Lorelai couldn't yet make out. They were too far to see who it was. It was only when they walked a few feet forward that she was able to make out the silhouette of a woman with crazy black hair. Bellatrix Lestrange, what a surprise. The snatcher holding Harry walks all the way up to the gate so Bellatrix could get a good look at him. Lorelai didn't even know she was holding in her breath until she noticed that nobody knew who Harry was. Just moments later a pair of crazy brown eyes lock into hers. A smirk formed on the deranged womans face.

"Get Draco." She whispers before turning around and heading back to the Manor, the young wizards being dragged behind her.

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