"Are you sure this is the way?" Theodore asked."Shut up or I will stick your wand up your a.s.s." Draco said getting annoyed, "This is the 58th time, that you have asked me that question."
"But we have been flying for hours now." Theodore mumbled, "There"s nothing but gra.s.ses here, its been 4 hours since we last saw another person."
"Che, why don"t you-- wait what is that?" Draco said pointing at the person below.
"What is what?" Theodore looked down, "Probably a muggle, we should fly a bit higher."
"We are literally in the middle of nowhere." Draco said, "Do you think a muggle would be just standing there."
"Maybe it"s the port guy." Theodore said shrugging his shoulders, "Let"s land."
Both of them flew down towards the guy who looked old and was wearing rugged clothing, from his reaction he didn"t seem like a muggle as he was just standing there watching them carefully.
Theodore looked at Draco and pa.s.sed his broom to him, "Excuse me are you the one in control of the illegal portkey here?"
The man nodded as he pointed at the bowl on the ground.
Draco put both his and Theodore"s broom inside his suitcase and walked over, "It is to Budapest, right?"
The man nodded again.
"So how much?" Draco asked taking out his pouch.
The man pointed 3 fingers out. "3 galleons?" The man shook his head again, "30 galleons?" The man nodded pointing at Theodore.
"So 30 Galleon for me?" Theodore said guessing, "Then what about him?"
The man pointed all 10 fingers,
"Are you trying to loot us?" Draco said angrily, "Why 30 galleons for him and a 100 for me?"
The man didn"t say anything and just stayed there silently.
"Don"t be so petty?" Theodore said grinning, "You are a rich man."
"Che, just because I am rich doesn"t mean I have to spend lavishly on stupid things." Draco complained throwing a small pouch filled with coins to the man, "130 galleons."
The man weighted the pouch in his hand and put it inside his coat. He then looked back at them signaling them to come forward. Both of them did and grabbed the bowl.
"A famous person will be charged more, especially when someone"s out looking for them." The man spoke suddenly.
"You can speak, you filth--" Before Draco could finish his sentence, he was sucked into the bowl along with Theodore as they disappeared from there, landing in an alley in the middle of nowhere.
"Ouch!" Draco said rubbing his back, "What the h.e.l.l was he talking about? Are there people really searching for me?"
"I don"t know." Theodore said looking around, "Where exactly are we right now?"
"Let"s look around, we might find some clue." Draco said. They walked out of the alleyway and looked around. People were running around here and there in wizard attire with no muggle in-sight.
"Well, at least we landed in a wizarding community." Theodore said, "You stay here, I will go around and search what"s going on."
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"What the h.e.l.l is this?" Narcissa said throwing the newspaper. "Anti-Dark force? Are they really planning on killing my son."
"It"s not a killing plan, they want to keep him under observation whenever he is out of Hogwarts." Lucius said sighing, "Some Aurors have come out of the dark to make sure Draco is protected and have joined the organization themselves, the primary goal for them is to lead children like Draco to a better place for the sake of future."
"By brainwashing them?" Narcissa sneered, "If you aren"t going to do something then, I will handle the situation myself."
"It"s not that simple Narcissa, try to understand." Lucius said, "This kind of stuff it"s not simple since a lot of ma.s.ses have supported the idea, of course, all the pure-blood families are against this but that stupid Fudge couldn"t handle the public pressure and ended up agreeing to it. Now the organization is already created and they want us to hand over Draco to them for training purposes."
"Hmph! Do you think they will train our child to become more strong? It"s a complete plan to harm him and his future." Narcissa snorted. "They are just afraid that another Dark Lord would rise up."
"I know." Lucius sighed, "I promise to you that I will handle the situation since us families have more power in the court, so we can shut the organization down but it will take time nonetheless, and besides we aren"t the only to oppose this, even Dumbledore has stood up against it."
"Dumbledore?"
"Yes, the savior Harry Potter is also one of the targets of the organization and Dumbledore has completely stood against them training Potter. So as long as Dumbledore doesn"t give up Potter we can hide under the banner of Dumbledore." Lucius said, "But the problem is Draco himself, running out alone like that is very dangerous especially in all of Europe."
"So what are we going to do?" Narcissa asked anxiously.
"Sigh! I will head to Romania today, I have a decent idea of where he is going."
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"This is ridiculous." Draco said throwing the paper in his hand.
"Well, it can"t be helped." Theodore said shrugging, "As long as you have your hair dyed no one can recognize you at a glance and with your eyes we can surely fool people that you are a vampire. Since Vampires are common in Romania we can surely hide without being noticed."
"I am not doubting my disguise." Draco said snorting, "Anti-Dark force? Confine me on my holidays? Are they f.u.c.king kidding me-- I will kill whoever f.u.c.king came up with this idea."
"Well, at least you aren"t alone." Theodore snickered, "At least you have your buddy Harry Potter with you."
"p.i.s.s off," Draco said looking out the train window. After asking around for a while they managed to get on a wizarding train that leads to Romania directly. And considering the distance, they will reach Romania by tomorrow.
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After getting out of the train the next morning, they booked a small room in a hotel. Luckily, finding wizards in Romania wasn"t too hard since they were basically everywhere. Unlike in the UK, wizards were very common in Romania, Romania housed a number of Dark creatures from all over the world, from Dragons to Vampire, everything was common here. The hotel they were staying at was your day to day wizarding hotel, with various wizarding tourist staying over. With the help of a little bit of Polyjuice potion getting a room wasn"t that hard.
Draco had kept some of Lucius"s hair, so acting as him wasn"t that difficult, the only problem was that he didn"t have much polyjuice potion with him, so he could only use it now and then. The potion wasn"t sold legally and had to be brewed by oneself, which took a month. A time which they didn"t have.
After a day worth of rest, they continued their trip to the Dragon farm, which was another tedious journey. After hours of flying, they finally reached their destination.
"Finally!" Theodore said sighing in relief, "I have never flown so much in my life, especially in this hot weather."
"Yeah!" Draco agreed, looking at the entrance of the farm, "Let"s go."
Both of them went towards the gate where they were greeted by a wizard.
"Excuse me, sir. How can we help you today?" The man asked looking at both of them.
"We are here to check on our farm," Draco said pa.s.sing a small letter. "This is the proof of ownership."
The man took the letter and looked at the two of them again, who were still hidden inside their robes.
"Can you wait a minute, sir." The man said running inside the gate.
"Do you think they will let us enter?" Theodore asked, "This is a weird situation where we need your face but we can"t show it as well."
"Well, they can probably guess it"s me." Draco said shrugging his shoulders, "We don"t have any other choices, do we?"
The man came running back with another man with red hair. The man"s face was full of freckles and he was short and stocky.
"Sorry for the delay." The man said giving the letter back, "This is Charles Weasley, who is taking care of your Dragon, so please follow him inside."
Draco and Theodore looked at each other and back at Charles who smiled and nodded at them. They started following Charles inside the dragon farm. Inside they could hear different roars of Dragon from time to time, which was quite frightening nonetheless. Charles who was walking in front of them, turned back to look at them.
"It"s hot to be wearing a robe in this weather, isn"t it?" Charles said but he didn"t get any response from both of them, "So-- my name is Charles Weasley."