drao’s wings urled forward to protet him from the dragon’s fire as he jumped bakward to avoid a silver-tipped w reahing forward to grab at him he now realized why voldemort had hosen this tower to hold his father in with the window losed no magial urrents ould get into the room, whih left the veriae powerless
the room was small and ramped, and drao was pushed farther and farther bak into a remote orner of the room, away from his father his wings sraped against the wooden rafters as they sloped down towards the floors another step and his bak hit the stone wall he was tred
harry ran through the orridors as quikly and silently as he ould the burning sensan in his stomah was growing hotter and rger by the seond as if he needed more urging to get to drao; he berated the bond silently he was already going as fast as he ould
after rounding a orner, he was fored to stop suddenly and press bak into the wall as a death eater strode down the hall she stopped and looked around harry held his breath and waited, hoping she would just move on
“i know you’re here, potter,” a familiar female voie drawled “drao and his father are up there but you’ll have to survive me to get to them this is the only hallway up to the north tower, so don’t even think about trying to find another way up”
her eyes glittered insanely as she grinned at the darkness “i made sure we ould have a proper fight my ousin may have taken preedene st time, but this time, potter, i’m going to kill you”
“no you won’t beltrix,” harry mouthed silently, aiming his wand at her his mouth began to form words-
“you shall not harm harry potter!”
“dobby?” harry whispered as beltrix spun to look at the house elf that had materialized behind her
in a manner akin to luius malfoy in harry’s seond year, beltrix was thrown bakward, hitting the wall with a rak that ouldn’t have been healthy she slid to the floor in a heap, unmoving harry pulled the invisibility loak off as he stepped into the hallway
“dobby, what are you doing here?”
“i ame to help harry potter sir”
harry wined as another wave of pain hit “e on dobby,” he told the house elf as he grabbed the loak and headed for the stairs sounds of snarling ehoed down the stairwell harry raed up the stairs as he heard a strangled shriek and threw open the door at the top of the stairwell he stopped short at the state of the room
the room was overed in sptters of blood in the far orner he ould see drao outlined in bloodstained steal wings, the mutited orpse of a dragon in front of him drao was staring down at the orpse with an expresn akin to horror
“drao, are you okay?” harry asked as he stepped into the room
“i think i’m gonna be sik” drao spoke softly
“fine, but not now we have to get out of here before they figure out what’s going on”
drao nodded and stepped gingerly around the mutited body harry walked up to where luius was hained to the wall and pressed his wand’s tip to the man’s temple “ee”
voldemort stood as the eremony finished, frowning slightly
“m’lord?” one of the death eaters asked
“i want you all to searh the mann,” voldemort hissed “nagini has rmed me that we have some guests”
chapter 30: opening the gates of hell
luius malfoy’s eyes opened blearily, and took in his blood overed son and his son’s bonded in the dim light before saying:
“what are you two thinking!?” he half shouted at them as harry whispered the spells to unlok the hains “you annot possibly be this dense!”
“with all due respet, mr malfoy, you’re beginning to sound like snape” harry said seusly he was fixed with two inredulous looks before drao spoke
“i ame to resue you, father, but i did not bring harry he ame by himself he’s the stupid one, not me”
the look luius gave his son was one that stated quite learly that he highly doubted his son’s words were true, but he said nothing he gave a long suffering sigh and leaned bak against the wall, wining as his body protested
“so then potter, i an guess how my son ame here from hogwarts how did you?”
harry looked down at the blood-stained floor sheepishly “i had dobby o the firepe in your study to one in the room of requirement at hogwarts”
instead of being angry that his former house elf had done something like that, luius merely looked impressed “that was a good idea, potter and it gives us a means out of this mess”
“but your study’s in the south wing,” drao pointed out “and we’re in the north wing initian isn’t going to take all that long”
“it’s probably over by now” luius replied morosely
“initian?” harry asked, the blood draining from his fae
“yes you two piked a magi’s ursed time to stage this resue misn”
“drao piked it, not me” harry pointed out
“i didn’t ask you to ome, did i?”
“this is not the time to be asting bme” luius stopped the bikering with a look “we have to devise the safest way out of this mess, and quikly we ould take the diagonal, go down to the ballroom and though that would be the fastest way, it’s probably the worst as well they most likely used the ballroom for initian”
《宅书屋》om
