Harry and Eloise Potter

Chapter Eight

Eloise's POV:

It was parents day, but something seemed off. Very off. I've been having the nightmare again. The nightmare of Dumbledore killing my grandma. The nightmare that I might not be getting out of this alive. I don't know what happened, but I lost the sheet of my inheritance test and you're only allowed one in your lifetime so I am back to square one with research. I was reading at the table when the door slammed open. I looked up and saw the Minister. And he looked really mad.
"Albus Percival Wolferic Brian Dumbledore, you are hereby under arrest for the murder of Euphemia and Fleamont Potter, Regulus Black, and many others. Bring him to Azkaban. No trial. Now... Rosalie..." he approached me. "Where is Eloise Potter?" He asked me. Everyone looked to me, Mum, Dad, Harry, Sirius, and Remus standing up.
"I don't know. I told everyone this before, she doesn't tell me where she is during the school year." I said nervously. "For her protection." I told them before standing as well.
"Rose.." Draco took my hand softly as I walked by him. I looked at him as he handed me a familiar paper. "You need to tell them..." he whispered.
"No I don't." I took the paper and headed out of the doors.
"I order you to tell us where my daughter is!!" Dad exclaimed. "I want my daughter home!!"
"She doesn't want to go home!!!" I yelled. "You didn't believe her when she needed you most!!!! You betrayed her!!!! She's better off if you ask me!!!" I yelled at them before running to the dungeons and going to my room and dropping onto my bed. I felt my eyes sting and took a deep breath, trying to calm down.
"Tell them where she is!!! They deserve their daughter back you freak!!!!" Pansy came in yelling at me.
"Yeah!!!" A few girls exclaimed. "Tell them where she is or we force it out of you!!!"
"Stop.." I whispered slowly covering my ears. "Stop, stop, stop... stop, STOP IT!!!!!" I finally screamed. They shut up. I grabbed my wand before running out of the dorms and through the common room. I ran through the halls until I got to the whomping willow. I slid straight under it and ran through the underground tunnel before finally stumbling into the shrieking shack. I was hyperventilating and couldn't breathe. Tears streamed down my cheeks as I curled into a ball in the corner, hands over my ears and gripping my hair tightly, my whole body shaking as I started sobbing. And I couldn't stop.
"Elle..." a voice whispered. I slowly looked up and saw Draco. He took me to him and held me to his chest as I broke down again. "Shh love, you're okay. It's okay. Everything is okay now. You're safe." He whispered similar things until I calmed down and was breathing normally. "There ya go love." He whispered again. "Now what happened?"
"The other girls just started yelling and I got so overwhelmed. I ran here to get away from it."
"Why didn't you go back to them?"
"Because they weren't there for me! They weren't there when I needed them most. The dreams were so scary. I had to watch them get killed over and over again, trying to scream, but I couldn't. They weren't there Dray. I'm scared they may not consider me their daughter anymore because I'm a Slytherin. You know how they treated Professor Snape when they were all at Hogwarts. I don't want to tell them who I am if they just start to treat me like they did him. I'm scared enough as is and... and I don't want to add to that. I haven't been sleeping because the dreams have been getting worse and worse every night. I'm just so scared Draco. Of what they could do. I had to bully my own twin because I had to keep up an act to get Dumbledore. I had to diss mum and dad because of the facade I had to keep up. And it hurt so much, but it was either that and cry myself to sleep for doing it or everyone finding out and potentially getting killed by Dumbledore. I ran into Harry that day on the platform in first year because I wanted to hear his voice. Him, mum, dad, Remus, Sirius, all of them. Even if Sirius did show up in his dog form. So many people have died and... and I didn't want to blow my cover and possibly get them killed too." I choked up again.
"Shhh love, shhh." Draco cooed softly.
"The Dumbledore they arrested wasn't the real Dumbledore. That's why I didn't go to the Ministry. Why I can't reveal myself. Dumbledore, the real Dumbledore, is still out there."
"We need to tell the Minister." Draco told me. I cast a spell on myself to look fully normal and not like I had been crying before we left. We headed back to the Great Hall where everyone was in a frenzy.
"We need to find her!! For all we know that Rosalie girl is keeping her hostage!!" Molly Weasley yelled before noticing me and Draco had come in. They cleared a way and the hall went quiet.
"I can't tell you where Elle is because the Dumbledore you arrested wasn't the real one. The one you arrested was a man that was imperioed and under a powerful polyjuice potion. I risk losing my best friend to him and I can't tell you because I'm keeping her safe. I'm not holding her hostage, I'm protecting her."
"How do we know you aren't lying?" The Minister asked.
"Watch the imposter for the next 24 hours, tomorrow morning he'll morph into Barty Crouch Junior under an imperius curse. That's why I haven't gone to the ministry. I had to find the real Dumbledore beforehand. I needed proof. My priority is Elle, not your happiness nor your need for her to come back, her. And I'll be damned if I let her get killed because you idiots made the mistake." I turned around and walked out, everyone in shock. I headed to the common room again and got out my map before heading back to the Great Hall. "This is a map of England. Every possible place Dumbledore could be is on here. You find him, make sure it's him, and then I'll tell you where she is. Only if we both believe it's safe." I turned back around. "I'd still check out the crossed out locations, he might've went back to one."
"Thank you Rosalie." Dad told me.
"Don't thank me. Just find him so maybe even I could go home. My parents threw me out for not believing Dumbledore is a good guy. I'm not allowed back in the manor or any properties of theirs until I'm proven right. So just find him."
"We will." Remus told me, nodding seriously.
"Being Sirius is his thing. Doesn't suit you." I told him before walking out. Blaise, Theo, Fred and George, as well as Draco headed out with me.