Breaking All the Rules

Chapter Six

Breaking All the Rules

Knowing where to Go

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"Where the hell did that come from?" Harry said as he looked at the chart behind him. There was a detailed map of London on display and they had all turned to stare at it in disbelief when two dark crimson colours lit up in Regent's Park.

"Here," Ron said as he pointed to it. "Right by the eastern entrance. Holy Merlin," he added in disbelief.

"What?"

"It's the Blade of Light, where the hell did they learn that?"

"The what?"

"It's a rare charm," Hermione said as she walked into the room. The whole section was on alert and the high level Aurors had started to arrive. "It's very rare and extremely difficult to learn. They stopped teaching it in Aurors training classes because no-one could master it, it's very hard to control. From the looks of it, this wizard or witch has high levels of control because they've released more than one."

"What!" Ron exclaimed.

"And here look, a small expelliarmus spell just ahead of it was cast moments before. It's probably a duel or something, the other person tried to disarm them but they were too strong." She put her finger on the smaller mark. "What's this?" she said as her hand trailed to a foggy area a few metres away from the two marks.

"Erm, " Harry said squinting. "It looks like multiple wands, it was a chant or something. Perhaps they were trying to help."

"No, look at it. It's a dark spell. They probably ganged up on the poor guy." Her finger went back to the smallest mark. "He didn't have a chance."

"Well let's go and find out." Ron turned and signaled for the rest in the room to follow him.

"Wait," she said stopping them. They all paused and turned. "Look, don't you find something strange here?"

Harry returned to the map. "What do you mean?"

"I mean look at it, there are no names here. A large group with a chant, one rare charm and an expelliarmus and our spells can't pick up one name."

"Well that one mean one thing, doesn't it?" Ron said smiling.

Harry turned to him and nodded. "'Unknowns,'" they said simultaneously.

Harry smiled, finally a challenge. "They're wanted."

Ron waved his hand for the rest to follow again. "Come on, let's bring them in." They left for the apparition room and apparated to the scene of the crime to find... no-one.

"What?" Harry said deflated. He looked around, there was nothing there.

"Where did they all go?"

"I don't know." Suddenly there were loud noises surrounding them. "Oh Merlin." Harry turned to see the flashing lights approaching the park.

"What, what is it?" Ron turned to see them too. "What is that?" he said squinting to see cars coming in their direction.

"We have to go, we can come back later."

"Why?"

"The police are here."

***

Ginny sat on the bottom stair that faced the front door. She knew that the outside of the door looked nothing like it did inside. She knew that the patterned glass and mahogany wood was replaced with rusty metal and chains that encircled old metal fences and locks. It was a safe hideaway that any man would want, where no-one would find them or even think of looking. As she sat there, staring at the door, she suddenly felt safe because she knew no-one could get to her.

"I have decided, I want to go to Venezuela. I need to check up on those servants anyway. I haven't been there in ages and I don't trust them to keep everything in tact."

"When do we leave?"

"Well it's four in the evening now and they're about five hours behind so it's about eleven o'clock there. We can leave now."

Draco sighed. "Fine. Ginny?" he called. Ginny turned around to face him from the stairs. "We're leaving."

Ginny, knowing she had no choice anyway, got up. If she stayed, she was probably going to get killed and if she left there was less of a chance of that.

Blaise pulled at Draco to speak softly. "We have to make a stop first."

"Where?" Draco asked as Ginny walked up beside them.

Blaise looked at her. "La isla."

"What?" he said loudly making Ginny jump. She grabbed at her chest. "No! If you take her there they'll kill her on sight."

Ginny's head shot up suddenly interested in their quiet conversation. "What?"

"If they don't know who she is it'll be fine. The list doesn't go that far. It's not as if it's likely that a mark would go on the island anyway. They'll never know."

Draco looked contemplative. "Fine, but you-." He turned to Ginny and caught her gaze immediately. "-you stay close to me and don't you dare leave my sight."

"You don't-."

"I mean it. Think back to the park. If you think two of us after you are bad don't try to think what an island of us can do." He walked into the room with Blaise leaving her at the door.

Ginny stood frozen. "An island?"