48 - Back to Hogwarts

                                    

                                          
Draco's POV:
                          
      My aunt went down into the dungeon and came out with Serena. "Who's this?" she asks her. After Serena doesn't answer, she decides to look into her mind. Serena froze for a few seconds and then she starts screaming. She begs Bellatrix to stop and looks at me. Her eyes are begging for me to make it stop. I move to try to get my wand but my father stops me. "You do this and I'll kill her myself," he growls. Then Bellatrix tells my father to go get the Boggart. My father leaves the room and returns a few minutes later with a trunk. 
                          
       Bellatrix starts whispering something in Serena's ear but when she doesn't respond, Bellatrix snatches her wand and opens the trunk. The boggart was in the form of Cedric Diggory. "I left you on purpose. I never cared for you," the boggart says. Tears were streaming down Serena's face. She was always sensitive about the topic of Cedric and she was going to break. A green light flashes and the boggart Cedric is on the ground again. "No, no. Please," she pleads. It hurt me to see her like this. You put her in this position. A voice says at the back of my head. Then my aunt screams. "Take the two boys and her. Leave the mudblood with me," she says. 
                          
        As soon as Potter, Weasley, and Serena were taken to the dungeon, Bellatrix goes on top of the mudblood Granger. She starts carving something into Granger's arm and Granger starts screaming. There was a loud crack that came from the dungeon. Did something happen to Serena? Then Potter and Weasley run up the stairs and they start shooting stunning spells in all directions. My aunt picks up Hermione and holds a knife to her throat. "Drop your wands or she dies," she says. Potter and Weasley reluctantly drop their wands. "Pick them up, Draco," she orders. I pick up their wands and Serena's. I hear a squeaky noise and I look up. Our old house-elf, Dobby, was unscrewing the chandelier. The chandelier crashes down on the floor as my aunt jumps backward and Granger runs forward. Potter runs over to me and grabs the wands I was holding. "Stupid elf! You could've killed me!" Bellatrix yells. My mother takes out her wand and Dobby snaps his fingers. My mother's wand flies out of her hand and Bellatrix yells, "How dare you take your master's wand!" "Dobby has no master. Dobby is a free elf," Dobby replies and he starts to apparate. My aunt throws one of her poisoned knives and it disappears with Dobby. There was a crack. It was the same one from the dungeons and that's when I realized Serena had already left. 
                          
         I spent the rest of Christmas break in my room. I was packing my stuff to go back to Hogwarts when my mother came in. "The Dark Lord requests that you stay here. He said he might need us when the time to fight comes," she tells me. I sigh. This is how life was now. I just had to listen to the Dark Lord without question. Why couldn't Potter just win this thing already?



                          
Serena's POV:
                          
        I've spent a really long time at Shell Cottage with Luna, Bill, and Fleur. I think it might have been a month or two since Christmas. "Zat cake you made for our wedding was delicious," Fleur says one day. "I thought you guys didn't have the time to eat it?" I ask. "Well, Arthur went back to zee Burrow and saw zat zee cake was still intact so he brought it home to us," Fleur explains. "Glad you enjoyed it," I say. I fiddle with the charm bracelet Draco gave me. "Luna, you left your coin on zee table," Fleur calls. She goes to pick it up and drops it suddenly. "Luna, your coin is burning," Bill says. Coin? Burning? My attention is on the DA galleon. Luna picks it up and examines it. "Harry's at Hogwarts. Neville told us to go to Hog's head and speak to the barman!" Luna exclaims. "Well, what are you waiting for? Let's go," I say, grabbing my wand. 
                          
       "Are you sure about zat? Do you want one of us to come with you?" Fleur asks. "I think we can manage," I say. "But how are you going to get there?" Bill asks. "We can apparate," Luna says. "But you didn't take the test yet," I point out. "You can take me with you, can't you?" Luna asks. "Well, I could. But I don't want to risk you getting splinched," I say. "Don't worry. I trust you. Besides, daddy says splinching is a sign that you're going to find something," Luna says in her dreamy voice. "Um, alright, then. Grab on," I say, holding out my arm. She grabs on and I apparate. 
                          
          We arrive at Hog's Head and it's nighttime. We walk into the pub and I see the barman. "Excuse me, our friend Neville-" I start to say. "Go through the portrait," he says gruffly. The portrait of a young girl swings open and I walk through. Luna follows me and the deeper we go, the steeper the tunnel got. Finally, we reach an end and there's a door. 
                          
           Luna pushes the door open and we walk through. We enter a large room with beds and showers and most of the Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws. "Harry!" Luna says. "Is this the Room of Requirement?" I ask Neville in amazement. "Yeah. It's really outdone itself this time," Neville replies. "We need to get going," Harry says suddenly. "Alright, what's the plan?" Neville asks. "Well Hermione, Ron, and I need to find something and then we'll get out of here," Harry explains quickly. "What is it?" Luna asks. "I can't tell you," Harry answers. "Harry, why are you always shutting us out like this? It's just like when we went with you to the Ministry. Can't you tell that if your going to fight... Voldemort, then we'll help?" I say. "Let us help. We want to be part of it," Neville says. 
                          
             "Alright. Ok," Harry says finally. Harry starts to say, "Er, we need to find an object and I think it has something to do with Ravenclaw. I know that's not much to go on-" "That's nothing to go on," interrupted Seamus. "There's always Rowena Ravenclaws Lost Diadem," Luna points out. "Well it's been lost for centuries. No one alive has ever seen it," Cho Chang says. "No one has ever seen anything like it?" Harry asks. "I can always bring you to our common room to see it. Raveclaw's wearing it in her statue," Luna suggests. "Alright, let's go. The rest of you, er, just wait for me here," Harry says, grabbing his invisibility cloak. He throws it over him and Luna and they dissapear.