Emerald - Draco Malfoy

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"He trusts me! I was chosen!" Draco quickly pulled up his left sleeve of his shirt, revealing the Dark Mark on his left arm.

Draco was marked by Voldemort. 

Draco was a deatheater. 

Draco was one of them. 

My heart felt like it was going to explode. 

My throat tightened, as tears filled my eyes. 

Not Draco.

Harry quickly put his hand over my mouth, before my cries escaped my lips. 

Dumbledore's eyes drifted down through the floor boards at us, only for a second, before they went back to Draco.

"I shall make it easy for you..." Dumbledore humbly raised his wand into the air.

"Expelliarmus!" Draco castes, disarming Dumbledore.

"Very good, very good." Dumbledore congratulated Draco. 

I could hear the faint creak of a door opening in the distance. 

"You're not alone? There are others? How?" Dumbledore quickly asked Draco.

"The Vanishing Cabinet in the Room of Requirement. I've been mending it." Draco spat, taking another step closer.

"Let me guess... It has a sister? A twin?"

"At Borgin & Burke's. They form a passage."

"Ingenius. Draco, years ago, I knew a boy who made all the wrong choices. Please let me help you." Dumbledore begged Draco. 

Please Draco, let him help you!

Harry lifted his wand into the air, and pointed it at Draco through the holes in the wood above us. 

Snape appeared next to Harry and I.

Our eyes grew wide, as Snape put his finger to his lips to hush us. 

Harry tightened his grip on my mouth. 

Snape stepped out of the room, as he slowly walked up the stairs. 

"I don't want your help! Don't you understand?" Draco began crying. 

The skin around his eyes and nose turned red, as the tears fell down his cheeks. 

"I have to do this! I have to kill you! Or he's going to kill me..." Draco whispered as he quietly wept. 

Bellatrix Lestrange apeared up on astronomy tower, followed by a group of deatheaters.

Draco had let deatheaters into Hogwarts. 

My heart shattered into a million pieces, as I silently wept. 

I felt light headed, like I was going to pass out.

"Well, look what we have here. Well done, Draco!" Bellatrix smiled, as she walked over to Draco. 

She softly kissed the back of his head.

"Good evening, Bellatrix." Dumbledore announced, "I think introductions are called for."

"Love to, Albus, but I'm afraid we're on a bit of a tight schedule." Bellatrix stepped closer to Dumbledore. 

She quickly turned her head back to Draco.

"Do it!" She hissed at Draco.

Draco's body trembled, as he tried to swallow his cries.  

Draco was going to kill Dumbledore.

"He doesn't have the stomach... just like his father. Let me finish him in my own way!" Another deatheater stepped forward, pointing his wand at Dumbledore. 

"No! The Dark Lord was clear, The boy's to do it." Bellatrix yelled at the deatheater. 

She looked back at Draco.

"This is your moment. Do it! Go on, Draco! NOW!" She ordered him. 

Draco slowly began lowering his wand. 

Draco couldn't kill anyone. 

Draco didn't have the heart to do it.

"No." Snape said, as he stepped next to Draco. 

'Severus... please." Dumbledore begged. 

Snape turned toward Dumbledore, and slowly pulled his wand from his pocket.

Snape took a deep breath in. 

"Avada Kedavra!" Snape casted the unforgivable curse at professor Dumbledore. 

Dumbledore fell back, over the railing of the astronomy behind him. 

Dumbledores lifeless body fell from the top of the tower to the ground.