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Harry was lost. He was somewhere in the south wing…or was that the south part of the north wing? He had no idea. But wherever he was, it wasn’t where he wanted to be.

“Sir?”

Harry jumped at the timid voice.

“Sir, why is you wearing an invisibility cloak?”

Harry turned to see a House Elf cowering near the wall. He moved farther into the shadows near the Elf. “I’m trying to help Draco.”

“Master Draco? Master Draco is being in the north tower, sir…sir is being Master Draco’s Harry!”

Harry nodded and the House Elf nearly clapped with joy.

“How can I get to Draco?”

“I can take Sir close to there.” Harry nodded and the walls seemed to bend and blend around him to form a new hallway.

Draco tried the door and found it locked. Reaching up, he plucked a single feather out of his wings and, after it turned to steel, jammed it into the door. After a hard push, the door creaked open.

The small amount of light from the stairwell shone on the floor of the old owlery. Draco felt all his feathers turn to steel as he stepped further into the room. His father lay chained to the wall, wings retracted. There was almost no trace of his normally regal presence and strange burn marks covered his body, dried blood coated his arms and torso. Only the slight movement of his chest told Draco that he was alive.

Harry’s vision swam as a sharp pain shot through his skull. Anger, Draco’s anger, swirled around him like a cloud. Checking to see that there was no one in the hallway, he began sprinting down the halls, trying to make as little sound as possible.

A hiss sounded near his father’s feet and Draco found himself staring into the eyes of the longest snake he had ever seen. It rose to look Draco in the eyes, its tongue flickering out as if to taste the air…or his fear.

Draco began to edge away from the snake, trying to see if he could get to his father by going around it. The snake turned to continue to watch him as he stepped deeper and deeper into the shadows. Draco couldn’t see the stone floor nor what was resting on it. He froze as he bumped against something that was not the stone wall.

A deep hiss cut through the darkness and Draco jumped back across the light that was cast into the room from the hallway. A creature moved in the darkness and began to crawl out of the shadows and into the small beam of light.

Harry winced as the somewhat familiar feeling of pain began to spread across his stomach. Draco was in trouble. He crossed into another hallway and turned down into the corridor that connected to the tower entrance.

Draco looked up into jeweled faceted eyes whirling in a red fury as the dragon loomed over him. As he looked up at the black scaled monstrosity, he never saw the large snake slither out of the room.