Differences

Chapter 1: Secrets Revealed

"Emma!" cried Draco, as he ran into his mansion. He had been waiting since Christmas to see his twin sister again. He couldn't even owl her, because some one might find out about her.

He saw Emma run down the steps, "DRACO!" she cried as she flung her arms around him, "I missed you!" she whispered in his ear.

"I missed you, too." he replied. She saw her father walk in. How much she despised him. Just because she was a girl, she was not allowed to go to Hogwarts. According to him, having a girl in the family was a disgrace.

She saw the menacing look in his eyes, and she ran up the stairs, followed closely by Draco.

"EM! Stop, you can stop now!" said Draco.

"Draco, you're his favorite, you're his little boy! He loves you, and you wouldn't understand!" she cried.

"Yes, I would!" he shouted.

"Gee, Draco, I never saw him use the Cruciatus curse on you! He hates me, with a passion! The only reason he hates me is because I am not a boy, like you! Gosh, the only people who even know I exist are you, mum, Lucius and Dumbledore! I am fifteen years old, just like you! And I should be able to go to Hogwarts!" she cried.

"Like I don't know that Em, there is just no way to get that through father's thick skull!"

"Draco, just leave me the heck alone!" she shouted as she ran into her room, slamming the door in

Draco's face. He knew not to follow her.

*~*~*~*~*

"RON!! Would you please just chill! Its only been a day since we left Hogwarts, and you are already worried about Harry!" said Ginny.

"Ya know what, I can't. It impossible. For all you know, You-Know-Who could have found him and killed him already!"

"SHUT IT RON! Don't talk like that, besides, Tom is a complete idiot! I will take him a million years to discover that Harry is living with the Dursleys!"

"GIN! How do you know that You-Know-Who hasn't put a charm on the house, and is listening to our conversation, right now?" bellowed Ron.

"Will you stop it with this You-Know-Who nonsense, because that is all it is. Why can't you be like me, Harry and Hermione, and call him either Tom or V-V-V-"

"See, you can't say his name either!" laughed Ron.

"Yes I can! I call him by his real name, not his 'new' one. Besides, when he was sixteen, he was very cute," said Ginny, as she turned red.

"Yeah, you were the gullible one, to be writing in his diary!" laughed Ron, "And the winner of the Miss Gullible Award, is Virginia Weasley!"

"Hey, that is funny!" chuckled Fred and George as they entered the room. "We just came to say that, dinner is ready."

"That, is extremely funny though," chuckled George.

"I am sorry, but something, somewhere, doesn't seem right!" Ron thought to himself.

*~*~*~*~*

"Get! Get up in your bedroom!" bellowed Uncle Vernon as soon as Harry walked in the door of the Dursley's house. "NOW!"

Harry was glad that he didn't have to stay and face Dudley and Aunt Petunia. He didn't want to see anyone, anytime soon. He dragged his trunk and Hedwig upstairs and locked the door behind him. He had stocked up on all kinds of sweets on the train ride home, so that he could be in his room for the whole summer if he wanted to.

He wanted to hear nothing from his friends, or even talk to the Dursleys. Everything hurt too much. "I killed Cedric!" he thought to himself, "It'll be a Hogwarts victory, yeah right, all I did was kill him. I can't believe what an idiot I was. I should have known it was a trap, but I was too bigheaded. I will not talk to anyone over the summer. Besides, its impossible to because I am having all letters except from Hogwarts and Sirius blocked."

Harry looked out the window and stared at the clouds. His eyes never left that window, he was thinking about all the things he had seen through it., the moon, the stars, the sun, the clouds. Passing airplanes, a flying turquoise car, the Weasleys, owls of many shapes and sizes. He fell to the flat pillow on his bed and fell asleep.

*~*~*~*~*

He woke up to the sound of pounding. He looked at the clock 6:45, he had been asleep for almost six hours. The pounding continued.

"WHAT!?" shouted Harry, still not completely awake.

"Harry, lets go, DINNER, NOW!" the voice shouted. It was Dudley.

"GO AWAY! I'm not hungry!" bellowed Harry.

"Harry, can I talk to you?" he whispered, because he didn't want his mum and dad to know.

"NO, you can't I just want you to leave me alone!" he bellowed.

"Fine, but if you really wanna talk to me, I'm here!" he said, and Harry heard him stop down the steps.

He went back to thinking. He wanted to visit Ron or Hermione, or even Draco, he just wanted to get away from the Dursleys, and quick. Harry heard the sound of a doorknob opening.

He stared at it, as though to keep whoever it was who was trying to get in, out. The doorknob slowly turned, and Harry back far away from the door. "Oh, no, he found me! This is it! Voldemort found me, and this was supposed to be a secret."

Harry heard the doorknob click, and dived for the trunk. He quickly opened it, and threw on the invisibility cloak. "If it is him, what am I saying, only a wizard could open that door, I want to make it harder for him to find me" Harry thought.

The door pushed open, and standing in the doorway, was a large, pink-skinned, blonde boy. Dudley.

*~*~*~*~*

Hermione sat at her desk, trying to get all of her homework done in one day. She was looking forward to seeing Viktor in Bulgaria over the summer, and didn't want school work to get in her way. The door opened, and Hermione looked up.

She saw her little sister, Katie standing in the door. "Hey Katie!" she said as she put her quill down. Katie was an exact copy of Hermione, all down to the shape of her nose.

"Hey Herms!" she said, "I just came in to tell you that, 'You've got Mail'!"

"Ha! Ha! Very funny!" chuckled Hermione.

"No, I mean, really you do!" she said.

"Oh, ok, I'll be right down." she said shooing Katie out the door.

"Who do I know, that would write to me in snail-mail? All my friends write to me with owls!" she thought, "I wonder who would be writing to me!?"

She capped her ink bottle and bookmarked the page she was on in her schoolbook and walked casually down the steps. She saw a stack of junk mail and other letters sitting on the kitchen table and she carefully peeled through them, looking for the one with her name on.

When she came to it, she found it very hard to pick up. It was in a heavy, parchment envelope, with the name Hermione Granger, written across the middle. She began to panic, when she saw that there was no return address, "Is this someone's idea of a practical joke?" she thought, as she yanked the letter from the pile.

She turned the envelope over and saw the crest on the back of it. It was in emerald green, and there was a giant "S" with a black outlining.

She took the letter, and ran up to the privacy of her room, where she knew she would not be disturbed. Hermione carefully turned the envelope around and began to open it, very slowly. She slid her finger under the flap to close it, and a warmth flew through her. She slowly moved her finger cautiously, as not to rip the letter inside. When she finally got it open, she read the note:

To my dearest Hermione,

It is I, Viktor Krum, and I could just not wait until August to hear from you again. It is very cold here in Bulgaria, so make sure you wear something warm when you come. I don't want to wait any longer. I know that the two of us are perfect for each other. I want you to come now!

~VIKTOR~

PS: When I say now, I mean NOW!

She felt herself being flung forward at a great speed.

*~*~*~*~*

Meanwhile, at Malfoy Manor, Lucius, Narcissa and Draco were sitting down for a nice, peaceful meal.

"Well, son, how was your year at Hogwarts?" asked Lucius.

"JUST PERFECT!" he shouted, "Potter was everyone's favorite again. And, I got turned into an "Amazing Bouncing Ferret" by Professor Moody, or should I say, Barty Crouch Jr.! Um.... Diggory is well, he's dead and that is about all the big stuff that happened," he explained.

"Well, if Diggory wasn't so bigheaded, he wouldn't have been killed, now would he?"

"SHUT IT!" came a loud voice. It was Emma.

"Who invited YOU to come to the table?" spat Lucius.

"No one!" shouted Emma. "I was just hungry and I really wanted to eat. You got a problem with that?"

"Yeah, I do, now I will give you a chance, go back up to your room, and I won't hurt you!"

"Make ME!" she shouted, as she sat down next to Draco.

"Are you defying me?" asked Lucius.

"Hmmm... that's a really hard question... DUH!! Yeah I am!" she said.

"Em, listen to me, please just go, I will bring something up for you later," hissed Draco in her ear.

"No! I will not go up to that, holding cell, and I am eating, and I am eating now!" Emma shouted.

"Please, silly girl, I don't want to hurt you! Hey, what am I talking about, of course I do. If you decided to disobey me, you will suffer the punishment. You have one more chance."

Emma got up from the table and headed towards the steps, when she turned around. "NO!"

"Fine then!" bellowed Lucius, "Crucio!"

*~*~*~*~*

"HARRY!" shouted Dudley. He couldn't see Harry, due to the fact that he was invisible under the invisibility cloak.

"Harry, I know you're in here! You were in her just a second ago!" he hollered.

Harry took off the invisibility cloak, "H-H-how did you get in here?"

"I don't know, how did you become invisible?" asked Dudley.

"Umm," he said, "special item."

"Oh, well, you know that I was held back a year, and mum and dad are always lying about my age, right?"

"I guess so."

"Well, I am a year older than you."

"And your point is what?"

"Well, I sorta got a letter from Hogwarts, but, I was never allowed to see it. I knew it was from them, because I saw the crest on the back.

"OK, you're really starting to scare me!"

"I'm just like you Harry!"

"W-W-WHAT!?" Harry nearly shouted.

"SHHH!!!" he whispered urgently, "I'm not supposed to tell you this."

"Why?" bellowed Harry, not keeping his voice down.

"I'm just not, OK?"

"Yeah, fine."

"I used my weak magical powers to well, open that door."

"OK, so, you're a wizard, like me, but you never went to Hogwarts, and you were held back a year in school!"

"Technically speaking, Yeah!"

"SHEIZ!" said Harry.

*~*~*~*~*

Hermione fell flat on to a cold, hard, stone floor. She felt her right arm shatter underneath her. She knew better than to try to stand up, but she tried anyway. She lifted her body up on her left arm. As soon as she got up onto her knees, she fell to the floor again, all her energy was gone, just like that.

Once she built up enough energy, she got up onto her feet and took a step forward. All of a sudden, she saw a bright red light erupt from the wall, forcing her against the opposite, stone, cold wall. She felt chains come from the wall, and try to wrap around her arms and legs, but she took the remnants of energy she had, and attempted to get away.

Chains flew out from the wall and trapped her arms and legs, and dragged her back to the wall, having no energy left, she didn't fight against them. "Where the heck am I?" she thought to herself trying to piece together the bits of what happened together. "OK, I opened the letter from Viktor and read it. As soon as I read the last word, it transported me here, wherever here may be."

She saw a figure emerge from the darkness. "Hermy-own-ninny?"

"YOU!! I thought that I could trust you. I thought you loved me!" she screamed.

"I did!" he said.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DID!"

"Well,"

"WELL WHAT?" she screamed, starting to get very irritated.

"What he mean to say is... " said a voice. A sudden pain coursed through her body. She winced in pain. "Is this what the Cruciatus Curse feels like?" she thought. The pain stopped and she looked up and saw a pair of red menacing eyes come from the darkness. She remembered no more.

*~*~*~*~*

"God Ron! Will you stop fretting?" asked Ginny.

"Heck, at least you can owl your friends, or should I say your friends and BOYFRIEND!" bellowed Ron.

"SHUT IT RON!" shouted Ginny, "NOW!"

"You have a boyfriend, Virginia, why didn't you tell me?" asked Mrs. Weasley.

"He's not my boyfriend mum, and please don't call me Virginia anymore, it is annoying!"

"Alright then," sighed Mrs. Weasley.

"Thank you!" she said, as she tried to burn a whole through Ron's head.

"What do you mean, he's not your boyfriend. When Harry was in that maze, you two were hugging, and kissin' and," started Ron.

"That is enough RONALD Weasley!" shouted Ginny.

"Ooooo, We saw ya too!" said Fred.

"Yeah, don't try to hide it from us!" chimed in George.

"Who was it, I want to know right now, young lady!" demanded Mrs. Weasley.

"I was terrified, and he was comforting me, that's all it was, ok?" she said.

"WHO WAS IT?" asked Mrs. Weasley.

"No, I won't tell you, not right now anyway!" She smiled.

"Tell me, now please!" asked Mrs. Weasley again.

"No, not now. Maybe in a month or two." She smiled again.

"Mum, don't try to fight her, or we will be here all summer," remarked Ron.

"Oh, fine, I'll give up, but I will find out one way or another!"

*~*~*~*~*

"So, let me get this straight, you are sixteen, not fifteen and you are a wizard, with almost no magical powers, right?" asked Harry.

"Well, I never said that I had no magical powers," smirked Dudley.

"What are you talking about?" demanded Harry.

"I am not a muggle, like you think. My strength almost rivals your's but I'm not trained, so I can't use them too well.!"

"WHAT!?" Harry screamed.

"Kinda, strange isn't it!" Dudley remarked.

"Strange, is an understatement!"

"Well, you have a point!"

"GET OUT!" screamed Harry.

"Huh?" asked Dudley.

"I said Get Out NOW!" he screamed once again.

"WHY!?"

"JUST GET OUT, PLEASE!"

"Fine, then, I will." Dudley walked out the door, Harry didn't know, what horrible events were to happen next.

*~*~*~*~*

"Hermione, wake up, please, wake up!" came a voice. Hermione slowly opened her eyes. She was looking into the eyes of her little sister, Katie.

"Good, you're awake, you gave us quite a scare there."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, you were missing for like seven hours."

"WHAT!?"

"Yeah, then I walk in here, and you are sleeping in bed. Where were you?"

"I really don't know, I would like to know that myself."

"Oh, you mean you didn't know where you were either?"

"No," then she remembered, the letter, falling, Krum, Voldemort.

"You have that look in your eyes, you're lying, I can tell, Tell me the truth!" her sister demanded.

"I DON'T KNOW!! OK!! I JUST DON'T!! OK? SO LEAVE ME ALONE!" she shouted, in her sister's face.

Hermione saw tears swell up in Katie's eyes. "I-I-I thought that-" she started.

"I'm sorry Katie, I just don't wanna talk about it right now."

"Well, you could have just said that instead of screaming in my face."

"I'll remember that next time, k?" she said as she reached out to hug Katie. She went to hug her, and her arms went completely through her.

"AHHHHHHHH!!!!" she screamed. "What the heck is happening? Where am I?"

"You are in room, to which there is no entrance, or exit! HA HA HA HA!!!" bellowed a voice from above her.

"TOM! YOU GIT!! WHERE AM I AND WHAT THE HECK DO YOU WANT WITH ME?" she hollered.

"I want you to stay here, until you are needed," he said coldly.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN?"

"I mean, that you are never going to leave this room, again, ever!" he cackled.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN? UNTIL I AM NEEDED?"

"You Miss Granger, are a special part of a well though-out plan."

"WHY ME?"

"Because, well, I don't know, why?" he said.

Another voice joined Voldemort's, "She is very useful to me." It sounded like someone familiar, but Hermione couldn't put a face to the voice.

"DON'T YOU THINK THAT MY FRIENDS WILL MISS ME?" she shouted.

"Nope," said Tom and other man together.

"WHY?"

"Well, that I can't tell you!" said Tom

"Why?"

"Because it is top secret!" said Tom.

"WHO AM I GONNA TELL?! Not like I will get any interaction from other people in here!" she spat.

"OH, but you will, little girl, you will," cakcled Voldemort.

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Who is Ginny's boyfriend ("HE'S NOT MY BOYFRIEND!")? Sorry, who is Ginny's mystery guy? What happened with Hermione? What is with Dudley being a wizard? What are these horrible events? Can ya tell that I love cliffhangers?

Next Chapter... we find out who Ginny's mystery guy is. Something happens with Draco and Emma. In other words, a really dark chapter!

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