[4] UNREQUITED ENEMIES ━ Draco Malfoy

07. Like Hell

SEVEN LIKE HELL

Xander isn't sure how much time passes in that basement. He finds out that it wasn't Diana, Luna Lovegood was there, along with Ollivander. Xander remembers buying his wand from Ollivander's shop when he was eleven, funny how much things had changed since then. Funny how it wasn't funny at all. There was another prisoner, a goblin named Griphook, but he wasn't very talkative. The death eaters didn't get any information from Xander mainly because he didn't know anything, but he had the cuts and bruises to show for it.

"You shouldn't have come," Diana mumbled one day, "Now we're just gonna waste away together. You don't deserve this -- Alecks and Jo need you."

"And your family needs you," Xander reassured, "We're not gonna waste away, we're going to get out of here, I know it."

As if on cue, the gate that was locking them in opened, and they were met with two new figures tumbling down the stairs. The gate was immediately locked and the two figures slammed themselves against it but to no avail.

"What are we gonna do? We can't leave Hermione alone with her?" one of the figures asked and Xander recognized him as Ron Weasley. If that was Ron that meant the other had to be Harry Potter, but something about him looked off.

"Ron?" Luna called out as she came out from behind one of the many columns in the cellar, "Harry?"

Ron raised something in his hand that was too thick to be a wand and a ball of light swept through the air, lighting the lantern that had gone out days ago. Harry spoke next, "Luna?"

Xander cleared his throat, "Hi, we're here too."

"Merlin, what have they got you lot in here for?" Ron asked, sounding bewildered to see three of their former classmates together in a situation such as this.

"Aren't you Malfoy's friend?" Harry asked, "What're you doing down here?"

Xander shrugged, "It's been a bit complicated since he tried to murder Dumbledore, gonna be honest with ya."

Their conversation was cut off by the sound of bloodcurdling screams upstairs and Xander hated to admit it was something he had grown used to.

"We have to do something!" Ron exclaimed and Xander's heart grew heavy as he realized those screams must belong to Hermione Granger considering she was never seen without the two boys.

"There's no way out of here, we've tried everything! It's enchanted," Ollivander exclaimed, his voice scratchy and frail.