Info: Sequel to" Shadows swallow. "
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Characters: a bit 'all
Rating: NC-17
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See them both here, on those beds, lost in the torpor induced by potions Madam Pomfrey, their eyelids flapping imperceptibly
... He sat, stunned, unable to do anything more than just reach out and touch them.
His sister, his Ginny, and Hermione, his best friend ...
As had happened in those few moments, in one night so happy?
When Lupin and Mad-Eye had persuaded Harry to leave a little infirmary, Ron had remained motionless, crossed by voices that seemed to hold up out of sheer inertia, crossing around him like threads of magic, weaving a network of thoughts and memories ... memories.
The memories were going to kill Ginny and Hermione.
truly risks of dying?
Terrified by that hypothesis, Ron had run up to feel bad, down the stairs, beyond the stone gargoyle and armor, over the entrance to the Great Hall, down to Hagrid's cabin. Thor the dog had received him with a bark, and the half-giant had wrapped in a hug.
He had left to weep, without asking anything for several minutes. He knew it all, Ron was sure. When
had thanked him, saying, however, had not the strength to talk about it, Hagrid was not offended.
Now that he had calmed down, were back together in the infirmary.
"Ron, you also go to rest. On the bench out there, if you want, but lying at least a little '. "Hagrid had said.
He discovered he could not yet responded.
The voices were still there. There was that of Ginny, who spoke of her happy and Seamus. There was one of Hermione, who assured him to see it gained much, that at the banquet the night before asking him to make him dance. There were screams of joy from both, just repressed when the judge had acquitted MacHayden Billy, while Malfoy - that they had understood long before he and Harry - was brought into the other room.
"Malfoy! "
"What is it, Ron? "
" Malfoy, Hagrid! "He cried, as if he had explained everything," I go to Harry, "she said quickly, shaking the big hand of his friend and running away," you can stay with them? "
" Of course rest with them, but what do you ...? "
Ron had already gone, and Hagrid to do is turn to the patients. "Well, girls ... I'm staying until Madam Pomfrey did not throw me out of here. All we need is there to give all the microbes of SNAS I am caring. "
" Harry, where are you ...? Harry, Malfoy! "When the excited voice
Ron came to the ears, Harry looked up from the bath mat, still stained with blood. Had not done it on purpose. It was found there, to open the door with his head as padded wadding, and Hermione's blood had nearly blinded, clear scarlet wool on the mat.
"Draco Malfoy, Harry. He can tell us all of that curse! "
Fortunately, not much occurred to shake Harry. Less than five minutes later, they were already in the classroom of Lupin.
But the professor had to dampen their enthusiasm.
"You could do, if there was the issue of arrests. We do not know where he is Malfoy. The house is no longer reachable even Bill. E 'protected by a Secret Keeper. Even your brother there was flabbergasted when he went to visit him. Has not been able to find the house number, and discovered soon after not even able to remember it. "
" Damn! "Harry swore.
"There is still a way," said Ron. "I need the help of Fanny. "
" You can do, Remus "confirmed McGonagall, when they arrived in his office and managed to describe the plan. "But we must not delude ourselves, guys. The presence of a phoenix is not a guarantee to overcome the constraint of the secret keeper. However, if the creature has seen at least once the person you're looking for ... "
" We know both me and Fanny, for that matter. And if we can not find Malfoy ... we will go to St Mungo. "
Minerva McGonagall nodded. "Are you thinking about Ylena? "
Harry understood at once that he would be very difficult, almost impossible to prevent yourself from illusions. He had never seen Ron so sure of himself in a situation like this urgency, the day of that game on the giant chess prepared by the same McGonagall to protect the Philosopher's Stone, at the end of their first year at Hogwarts.
Obviously Ron had been able to many acts of courage, but more importantly, what had led them in Azkaban transformed from Voldemort and his Death Eaters, and that enabled him to find it along with Fanny and members of the Order, Harry had not been able to live it firsthand. So, Harry was convinced even have lost his friend Ron ...
There was no time to be granted to remember, he thought as he ran behind Fanny.
the flight was more strange that he would probably never happen in her life, she found herself thinking, suspended in the air over the immense city of London. The stretch of sky above Hogwarts, the impression of going to crash into the mountains surrounding the lake ... He never imagined that Fanny could fly so quickly, despite the already asserted by a good half hour.
But above all, had not dared to hope that Ron would be able to turn back a third time, another example of the Phoenix now carrying Lupin. Quickly find a home hidden enchantment Fidelius would be a miracle, and Harry felt that there was no time to wait for a miracle.
"We have to go to St. Mungo! "He shouted, not knowing if other people would never have heard, they were immersed in the currents that whistled around them. Ron
Fanny and described a wide circle in the sky at midday, and totally changed direction.
"I do not I never expected that we would give the opportunity to get out of that house. "
" Me neither. "The blond took the only chair to the right of the hospital bed.
Behind him, Dado snorted, intolerant to the oppressive gloom that prevailed in the single room of the hospital.
"Why did you do? "
" I wanted to thank you. It 'was an almost physical need .... "
She just smiled. "I would be I who owe you thanks. When Tonks told me about you, when I told you what the demon was doing. If I had not had you, to help at least a little, I would not have saved either. "
" What you did was much more than a little bit. "
" You do not look at all the conceited dandy that his brother Charlie and Bill Weasley I have described. "
" Oh yeah? Well, the Weasley I feel this time. "The boy waited a moment, glancing nervously at the pale hands before we begin again:" We will never be safe, right? "
" I'm afraid not, at least until that demon will continue to turn to England. "
" It has taken another. I am sure, have another baby ... now. "A
that call, the woman began to tremble visibly. He hardly dominated. " You must be very careful, then. The fact that you have heard the clear, unlike me, can only mean that ... "
" That my relationship with you is still tight. I know. I do not know how to break it. "Maybe, he thought to himself, helping someone like you helped me. But he had the courage to externalize thought. The possibility of having to put in play, having to remember ... "How did you do? "He asked," How could you bear to speak at the hearing. "
" It 's been worse to admit to myself what I did, believe me. "He paused. "Perhaps it will also the chance to redeem yourself.
In memory of that conversation, just three days after being there in that hospital room now completely empty, was even more painful.
Draco Malfoy sat on the bed afflicted.
"How is it possible? It would never have gone away without telling the other Auror. "
" I do not know what to say, boy, "replied the Wizard of mid-turn. "It 's a grown up person. He signed and was able to get out. Sure did not warn anyone? "
Dado, who now accompanied him almost happy in his exit, he remained motionless, incapable of saying any sentence of circumstance.
The blond was crossed by a horrible feeling.
But before he could assess it, or even to approach the thought without being burned, the rays of afternoon sun were painted red for a moment.
"wide awake, Granger. "As always
had happened in recent days, Hermione tearing from the arms of sleep the pain was gone by the mark.
"I do not hear an answer ..."
"... Good day, sir. "
Voldemort personally deal with his wrists chained off the hook for Hermione.
The girl fell to the ground like a sack.
"I worked hard on Potter last night. She cried often your name, you hear? "
"No ... master. "
" On your knees, Granger. I suggest you to wipe that ironic tone from your answers. "The
took his arm and lifted off the ground when he saw that it alone had the strength to rise. The contact of the hand of Voldemort with his skin near a wound Macnair outlined by the whip, and made her moan.
"Today I am all for my half-breed. "
" I can not do it, "Draco looked shocked the boy die, the professor and two phoenixes that the two guests on his shoulders. "You can not expect me to ..." He could be back.
"I do not pretend, Malfoy. I'm asking. "
asks him to remember, to leave his worst memories are free to recapture ... No, he could not accept it. He could not surrender to you again.
"Draco, I implore you if that's what you want. "
Potter was in despair, ready to give up his dignity? This maybe not, but there was very close.
"Hermione and Ginny are evil, Malfoy," said Professor Lupin began. "That night I fell into a coma. Meanwhile, at the same time ... If we can not find Miss Ylenia, we will ask you. You are the only ones who know more about the Curse of the demon that has admitted to having made on the two girls. "
Draco swallowed hard, his eyes staring in disbelief ice Harry Potter, still in front of him, fists clenched, ready to beg for help.
"Ylenia is ..."
"I know it's gone. It could be in danger too. "
" I assure you, I wish I had another chance, another way ... "The Gryffindor could not finish the sentence.
Draco sat on the bed, remaining as petrified when the two reached the Phoenicians on the white clean blankets. The brightness of their plumage almost blinded him.
"Harry is a Legilimens, Draco ..." said Lupin, " but there was no time to train this power. Without meaning to, once shared the memory in the mind of Hermione. E 'was horrible for both, and if trying to know something more than the curse in this way - from the mind of his girlfriend, or that Ginny ... "
" Do not do it! "Draco cried.
It was clear he was the obvious risk of Potter, but not only him, all of them, they would progress with that effort.
certainties were that he could not explain, yet they were carved in him as in a block of stone.
However, this meant that even he could no longer hold back. Better understand what he had to try Potter, if it was true that Granger was his girlfriend ... And Weasley, always protective of her younger sister ... Weasley had to be torn by grief.
While he realized he had already decided Malfy thought that the timing of their bickering, the stupid rivalry between Slytherin and Gryffindor, were irretrievably gone.
Continued ...
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