A Family Once More

TEN ~ Death Eaters at Hogwarts

Lucius, Bellatrix and Peter Pettigrew arrived to Hogsmade with a pop. All three of them were wearing their death eater cloaks and masks. 

"Peter, lead the way." Lucius drawled, sounding bored. 

Peter just nodded and started walking quickly in the direction of the shack. Once there, he transformed into his rat animagus form to touch the knot on the womping willow in order to freeze the tree so that they could pass through to enter Hogwarts.  

Bellatrix nodded at Wormtail, satisfied with his work. She had a slight smirk to her face, eager to capture Harry and have some fun with him before bringing him to the Dark Lord. 

The three of them proceeded to enter the gates of Hogwarts and made their way to the Astronomy Tower. 

At the sight of the sleeping boy, Bellatrix started laughing. Lucius knew that she would soon wake up the whole castle and alert Dumbledore so he cast the silencing charm over the tower. 

_Harry's POV_ 

I awoke to some sounds of laughter. Slowly sitting up, I aimlessly waved my hands across the floor in an attempt to find my glasses so that I could see better and figure out the time right now. 

After a while, I managed to get my hands on them. Once I put them on, I was shocked by the sight I was met with. 

Bellatrix Lestrange, Lucius Malfoy, and Peter Pettigrew. I was disgusted by the fact that Wormtail would dare show up in front of my face after he escaped from our grasp. I did not know much about Bellatrix but Sirius told me some tales about her last summer and Voldemort had mentioned something about the Lestranges at his father's grave where we duelled. I knew she was right in Voldemort's inner circle and was his right hand man, or well woman. 

As soon as I saw them standing in front of me, and Bellatrix having a sickly smirk on her face, I stood up abruptly with my hand gripped tightly in my pocket, ready to whisk it out if needed. Seeing as Lucius had come as well, I figured Voldemort had something to do with this. 

I wondered what Voldemort would need from the castle, it must be something important. 

Suddenly, a thought struck me, Voldemort didn't need something, he needed someone. And that someone was me. 

Great. What did I get myself into, sleeping in the open. 

I stared straight into Bellatrix's eyes, figuring she was the one that would be the most vicious while trying to get me to Voldemort. 

I saw the ends of her mouth start to twitch even more, making me realise that she was going to attack soon. I increased my grip on my wand, preparing myself to duel here soon, mentally and physically. 

To be honest, I was internally shaking with fear, I had not have much experience in duelling, and I definitely did not want to duel with her of all people. 

As expected, she thew a curse at me. I managed to dodge it in time because I had predicted it. 

She started throwing more curses at me while I just tried to avoid them. 

Lucius did not looked bothered at all. He was not assisting Bellatrix, he was just looking straight at me with no interest at all. He even looked bored. I wondered if he would join the duel, making it two to one. 

Peter on the other hand was hiding behind a pillar, looking as scared as a rat. He looked like he wanted nothing more than to scurry away from the scene before him. 'Pathetic' I thought. 

But I did not have much time to concentrate on what they were doing. Bellatrix was not making it easy for me. She was constantly throwing curses at me, all sending out different colour sparks.