&here goes that idea,” ron muttered.
&ion! will all studeo their on rooms immediately!” mgonagall’s voie sh the shool.
&o tell dumbledore,” hermioone leaving no room for disussion, not that ron rotested anyway.
harry rolled out of the firepe and just missed hitting the leg of a mahogany desk.
“what was that?” a gruff voie asked.
“hat?” another answered.
“i thought i heard something.”
“i think you’ve gone razy.”
“shut up.”
harry pulled the invisibility loak tighter around himself as he edged towards the open door. the two death eaters began tue as he slowly slipped out. harry duked into a dark or outside the door. if snape was right aers hadhe floo system, he should be somewhere in luius’s as oe side of the house as drao’s. now that he was atually here, he didn’t really kly what he was going to do. somewhere in this house was drao, luius, a whole lot of death eaters, and maybe voldemort. he had to fiwo with iwo.
“master drao!” a house elf squealed as the boy slipped ihen. the boy hushed the house elf, listehere was ahe hall bef bak to the reature that ; at his side.
&ly. ened?”
“oh it was awful, master drao!” the house elf, buried her fae in his robes as she sobbed. “they seo attak master luius, master drao, big bk reatures that make the air freeze!”
“is my father alright?” draioor.
“they is ordered not to hurt master luius, master drao. that was for…s-someohey said. then other people ame, lots of people ier luius used to wear.”
bk like his father used to wear? his father still wore…drao thehe elf was saying. bk like his father used to wear, bk robes like his father used to wear, death eater robes.
“then a man with red eyes ame!” the house elf ontinued. “eyes like blood, master drao, and skin like no oo the manor had!”
lord voldemort was in malfoy manor?
“when was all this?”
“they is oming one week ago, master drao. diddy hear…diddy hear that they is making master luius write to master drao as if nothing is happening. diddy hear they is pnning to gather all the bk robed people here, master drao, so that when you ome home for the summer they an make someone else ome here too.”
“who?”
& sayihey is sayier wants to kill him, master drao.”
harry. they wao lead harry to malfoy manor.
“diddy hear they say that maonight, master drao! you are not safe here, master drao!”
“mahey have all the death eaters here, who else is oming?”
“they is sayi would beome death eaters will ht, master drao. you have to leave, master drao, before they is finding you!”
drao felt sik. initiation. tonight was the initiation. that had to be what the house elf was taking about. he had to get-
he heard someourn the doorknob and he froze, looking for a pe to hide. diddy barely held bak a shriek and pushed drao iy upboard uhe ouop.
there was a muffled word from outside the kitheered the room.
“ diddy h-help you? s-sir?” the frightened house elf owered before the losed upboard door.
“you a of my way for a mih eater pushed the house elf aside ahe hed and sat dower. “i know what y drao, and i think you’re razy.”
drao’s eyes widened as he realized he khis death eater was. very well in fat. this death eater was bise.
“you piked the worst time to do a resue mission too. this is the weekend for initiation, and you-know-who is here s with all the death eaters a to beome death eaters. most of the slytherins from sh to be hanging arou here already.”
“and i didn’t think y through with the death eater bit,” drao said quietly through the wood.
“i don’t have a hoie ier. listen drao, you may be my frieiatio on your side anymore. so you have to find yet out of here before then. i heard some of the , and he’s being held up iower. that’s really all i an do for you at this point.”
& off the ounter ahe room, pausio add. “do me see you.”
drao waited a miing the upboard.
“i-is you okay, master drao?”