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“Well, there goes that idea,” Ron muttered.

“Attention! Will all students please return to their Common Rooms immediately!” McGonagall’s voice sounded through the school.

“We have to tell Dumbledore,” Hermione spoke, her tone leaving no room for discussion, not that Ron would have protested anyway.

Harry rolled out of the fireplace and just missed hitting the leg of a mahogany desk.

“What was that?” a gruff voice asked.

“What was what?” another answered.

“I thought I heard something.”

“I think you’ve gone crazy.”

“Shut up.”

Harry pulled the invisibility cloak tighter around himself as he edged towards the open door. The two Death Eaters began to argue as he slowly slipped out. Harry ducked into a dark corner just outside the door. If Snape was right and the Death Eaters hadn’t rerouted the floo system, he should be somewhere in Lucius’s wing…which was on the opposite side of the house as Draco’s. Now that he was actually here, he didn’t really know exactly what he was going to do. Somewhere in this house was Draco, Lucius, a whole lot of Death Eaters, and maybe Voldemort. He had to find the first two without running into the second two.

“Master Draco!” a House Elf squealed as the boy slipped into the kitchen. The boy hushed the House Elf, listening to see if there was any movement in the hall before turning back to the creature that was cowering at his side.

“Speak quietly. What has happened?”

“Oh it was awful, Master Draco!” The House Elf, buried her face in his robes as she sobbed. “They sent these things to attack Master Lucius, Master Draco, big black creatures that make the air freeze!”

“Is my father alright?” Draco recognized the description of a Dementor.

“They is ordered not to hurt Master Lucius, Master Draco. That was for…s-someone else…they said. Then other people came, lots of people in black like Master Lucius used to wear.”

Black like his father used to wear? His father still wore…Draco then realized what the Elf was saying. Black like his father used to wear, black robes like his father used to wear, Death Eater robes.

“Then a man with red eyes came!” the House Elf continued. “Eyes like blood, Master Draco, and skin like no one who ever came to the Manor had!”

Lord Voldemort was in Malfoy Manor?

“When was all this?”