part 35

"Crucio," Astoria Greengrass, the second student pointed at Hermione.

Hermione crippled over in pain.

"You bitch! Draco should have been mine. I can't believe my own sister helped you the other night. I would never have, mudblood."

Astoria, Hermione could understand, the first student, she couldn't. Ernie. Ernie the Hufflepuff. Ernie, the goodytooshoes. Ernie the Prefect. Ernie!

She stared at Ernie once the curse was lifted.

"I wanted you," Ernie explained. He was confident, arrogant, and no longer sweet and kind, but he still had the strong posh English accent. "I needed you, but fate bestowed you on Malfoy, who did not at all deserve you."

"Now, unfortunately you will have to die. You could have prevented this, all you had to do was come find me and I would have happily helped you." Ernie continued, "Thus, I was never good enough for you, never smart enough."

Hermione was crying, "How?" Her body was killing her; her head injury seemed like nothing.

"Bellatrix wanted Astoria and Pansy's help. Pansy threw the note away, maybe thinking it was a hoax. I found that note. I contacted Bellatrix," Ernie sneered.

"You should have been a Slytherin," Hermione snarled.

Ernie smirked, "The sorting hat did plan to put me in Slytherin however with my cunningness and intellect I was sorted into Hufflepuff. No one would suspect anything."

Ernie shrugged, "Yes, I guess I would've made a good Slytherin, since I'm a pure blood, and am a descendant of nine consecutive generations of pure blood witches and wizards."

"Now you have two choices Granger -" Astoria stared.

"Malfoy," Hermione corrected.

Bellatrix pointed her wand at her, "Crucio. You are not a Malfoy!"

"Like I said two choices. One you die, two we obliviate your memory and Draco's. He marries me, you run off with Ernie," Astoria smiled. "Choice is yours, live or die."

Hermione muttered, "I'd rather die than live without him."

"Have it your way bitch," Astoria laughed.

Bellatrix chuckled, "A little fun first." She started throwing random curses at Hermione, who screamed in pain. Hermione could feel everything bad that had ever happened to her in her life, come back to haunt her. She saw her father with that secretary. She saw her mother crying. She saw her parents dying. She saw Harry being attacked by Voldemort. She saw Draco catching her with Ron. Then she saw something she had never witnessed, she saw Voldemort torturing Draco. Torturing him, like the way she was tortured by him, the way she felt now. At this point she knew that somehow she was entering Draco's mind.

Draco heard it; he could hear her scream in his head. He could feel old memories appearing in his head. She was here. He ran towards the burial chambers. The door was shut. He had to open it but he couldn't remember how.

"I know this," Draco said to himself.

Harry appeared behind him, with his mother and Fred.

"Fred, go back get help. Narcissa aurors now," Harry ordered as he heard a scream.

"Draco, blood is the key," Narcissa said before she left.

Draco looked at Harry and then back at the door.

"My blood," Draco sighed. He used his wand to prick his finger, which now bled. He placed his finger on the door and it shifted open.

He ran in. There was an entrance hall there and then two paths, one leading to the left, the other leading to the right. When he heard Hermione's scream, he ran to the left and then down some stairs, followed by Harry. There in front of them was Hermione, unconscious and bleeding. Bellatrix was laughing, Astoria and Ernie were watching, not doing anything.

"STUPEFY!" Draco shouted and pointed at Ernie who fell to the ground.

Bellatrix and Astoria turned around. Bellatrix dodged the curse Draco sent at her. Astoria was not lucky as she was stunned by Harry.

Bellatrix had a shield up and looked at the two boys and then at her nephew. She stunned Harry.

"I am doing this for you," she snarled at Draco. "Why are you fighting me?"

"Because I love her," Draco said.

"You cannot love a mudblood."

"Don't call her that!"

"You blood traitor!"

"I'd rather be a blood traitor then a bitter old hyena."

"AVADA KED-" Bellatrix stared.

From behind Draco, Narcissa appeared, she sent her sister flying against the wall.

"You bitch," Narcissa showed her Black temper. "You dare attack my son? Kidnap my daughter in law? Who do you think you are?"

"Me? I am keeping your lineage pure! You let that thing," she pointed at Hermione. "Into your house."

"She is not a thing!" Draco shouted as he sent a curse to Bellatrix, who now was bleeding.

Fred and George arrived with Percy and looked at the sight. Bill had to send a stunning charm to Ernie who was getting up.

Bellatrix muttered, "Avada Kedavra," she aimed for her sister but the curse was shot at Percy as her aim was off.

Percy who was not looking at Bellatrix, and was trying to somehow help Hermione, moved away when the green light of the killing curse passed the shield Harry had put up.

Astoria got up, and she screamed, "Petrificus Totallus." The body bind curse hit Percy. Fred saw that and hit Astoria with the Stunning charm, and she fell on Ernie. The Weasleys were checking on Hermione when both Ernie and Astoria got up again. But it was a battle of the four Weasleys against Astoria and Ernie. Within moments, Bellatrix's minions were put of commission, Bill had stunned Ernie, and George had tied him up with magical ropes.

To have fun, Fred shot the Tarantallegra curse at Astoria and her legs began dancing uncontrollably. Fred and George started howling with laughter, and Percy firmly tied Astoria with magical ropes with a stiff smile.

Meanwhile, Bellatrix started screaming curses like a one - woman army, her extensive Death eater training helped her keep Harry, Draco and Narcissa at bay.

Suddenly, Draco was dangling in the air, and Bellatrix had her wand pointed at him, Harry immediately understood that Bellatrix had used 'Levicorpus' and immediately pointing hiswand at Draco he thought, "Liberacorpus."

Taking advantage of this distraction, Bellatrix turned her attention towards Harry and started to shout, "CRUCIO."

But that didn't happen, Narcissa Malfoy knew that she shouldn't miss such a wonderful opportunity; Bellatrix was preoccupied.

"Avada Kedavra," It was Narcissa who killed her sister. As soon as she done it, she fell to the ground in a heap. She had killed her sister. Her sister.

She was sobbing, Draco told Harry to take her to Andromeda or Molly but not keep her here. Draco then ran over to Hermione who was bleeding badly.

"St Mungo's," Percy said.

Draco nodded as he picked up his wife and apparated to St Mungo's. The healers quickly grabbed the young woman and set her up.

"What's wrong with her?" Draco demanded.