“and this is something that you ould to mr. malfoy himself? a o io speak at this partiur time?”
srewing up every oune of gryffindor e he had, harry replied. “yes. beause i only just found out that drao isn’t anywhere in hogwarts.” after a seoion he added, “sir,” just to try ao snape’s good side…if he had one.
&hing shifted in s outwardly he appeared the same. “and you know this, how?”
bloody hell, harry hadn’t thought how to reveal how he k drao wasn’t in shool. think harry, thiold himself.
“well mr. potter?”
“i know it i i ko get to hogsmead bak in third year” harry muttered, looking down at his shoes, or what he assumed were his shoes—he ouldhe dim light of one lumos spell.
he ould feel snape’s eyes burning into his skull as the man thought about what harry had just said.
“where do you think mr. malfoy is?” ser a long silene. harry’s eyes shot up in asto before he realized that he osed to aion.
“i found this in one of drao’s books.” he held out the map of engnd to shio the starred area…wherever that is.”
& his own lumos spell io look at the map. “if yht, mr. potter, whih i highly doubt you are, then mr. malfoy has goo malfoy manor. you are undoubtedly aware of how impossible it is to get to malfoy manor at this time. how would you propose he got there? apparated out of hogwarts and into malfoy manor? rode ihe shes perhaps? sprouted wings and flew?”
&opped short and harry’s mouth dropped as they both realized otions master had just said. a memory of st weekehrough harry’s mind, of snithes, bludgers, and bk wings.
“yes, professor.” harry replied. “i think he did sprout wings and fly there.”
chapter 29: serpentis draonis
harry fumed silehe gryffindor on room. drao had been missieen hours now; how loly wasn’t known beause harry didn’t know whe.
harry fought bak the yearning to hit something, knowio let e, his two friends would beome more sared of him than they already were. as it was, his behavior resembled a aged animal to them.
it was all just so stupid! sure, if a studehe whole shool went on bloody alert, but if a student was just missing, there were protools! was drao really missing? bloody hell, harry was so sik aeaher ask that to the rest of them.
snape had goo dumbledore immediately and while harry was sure that dumbledore believed them, there was a buuff set i this oasion.
s up all the teahers at four ihey had beguhe astle. all of it. every room. and harry had beeo his dormitory to wait! then, when everyone realized drao really wasle, as harry had beehem, they had to searh the bloody forbidde beause apparently drao had permission to go there beause he needed somepe to go be a veriae for a while where no one ould see him, or somethi.
and of ourse, the entaurs hadn’t taken kindly to a group of people gallivanting arou, evehose people had been hagrid, ay arouy well. of ourse, they found that drao was, after three hours . harry ould have told them that but they didn’t listen, of ourse.
so hinking that maybe drao really wasn’t in hogwarts. so they had to go hek hogsmead! harry, of ourse, k drao wouldhere. he knew where drao was. so did snape aed, did dumbledore.
“harry, are you ok?” hermioiously as she saw her friend had stopped paing.
“do i look like i’m ok?” harry shot bak immediately.
“looks like you’re worried sik,” ron observed.
“we should have stopped this searhing ho!” harry exploded. “if he’d doupid like going to hogsmead, then he would have been bak by now anyway!”
“a have left in the middle of the night,” hermione added.
&ly!”
“soing to do about it?” ron asked.
“what ahey obviously don’t want us involved,” hermio. “you shouldn’t even be here, harry. they told you to go wait in your rooms in ase he ame bak.”
harry waved a hand at the marauder’s map oable. “i would have known if he ame bak,” he muttered.
“but if they go to find you ahat they atually believe you, you wohere,” hermioinued.
harry sighed. “yeah. yht. i’ll see you ter then.”
“they’ll find him, harry.” hermioo be .
“yeah, eveo send dobby to go opeo malfoy manor for them,” ron joked.
&he t aly as he left the on room.
dobby was, as always, estati to see harry potter.
“how an dobby be helping you, harry potter?” he asked brightly.
“i need your help dobby, aant.”
the house elf pratially squealed his joy at beio help.