AN: I hope you all had a happy Christmas, if you celebrate it, mine was good. I had a lot of free time to write so here is the next chapter for you. I hope you all enjoy it. Lucius amkes another appearnce, one a little closer to himself. Oh and some more Umbridge bashing as well. So look out it is going to be Umbridge bashing galore. Enjoy.
CHECK OUT THE AUTHOR'S NOTE AT THE BOTTOM! PLEASE!
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Review Response:
Fade to Blue: I know it did take a while to get them together. I can also understand it is hard for those three little words, but Draco acted a little dense, understandably. It was cute I thought, his whole confession. Thank you for the review and I hope you had a wonderful holiday.
faxness-rulz: well here is the update for you. I am glad you liked the last chapter. Just to let you know I will be dabbing a bit into the fifth movie for references, but only for a bit. So yeah you'll see some changes, but you find out what his vision was. Thank you for the review and I hope you had a wonderful holiday.
Faye Cullen00: It's fine that you do not have questions yet. Any will do I was just hoping for some reader input so it is more dimensional, and less instigated by myself. I am glad they are finally together as well. Yes unfortunately the story will be over soon. I am a little sad to see it end in a few chapters as well. I am glad it is one of your favs. Maybe my next one will be too. I have an idea for it, I just have to work out some kinks. Thank you for the review and I hope you had a wonderful holiday.
Sterling Fire Kitty: You very well may have been a Seer in your past life. Yes I know Draco was a little dense, but love is not something taught to Malfoy's openly so give him a little leeway. Though I do agree he was quite dense. Thank you for the review and I hope you had a wonderful holiday.
maraudrergirl02: Your welcome for the gift. Wait no more for the next update because here it is. Thank you for the review and I hope you had a wonderful holiday.
Snuffle-sweetie: I am glad I made you laugh with that. Poor Draco can be a little slow at times. I am just glad they are finally together. I am glad you loved it though. Thank you for the review and I hope you had a wonderful holiday.
Hanna Loves Lupin: I am glad you liked how I got them together. I hope this is a good chapter as well. Thank you for the review and I hope you had a wonderful holiday.
BlackHenna: I am glad I was able to get so many people laughing at his failures. It was funny to write. Oh Lord Voldy will be quite shocked when he finds out, but that is not until later on, when he makes his début. See I added some Ron and Harry. This chapter you will also see Fred and George shine a bit. But not an innocent Prank…you'll have to read to find out. Thank you for the review and I hope you had a wonderful holiday.
Black Clad Butterfly: Thank you so much for the compliment. I know many people are Anti-OCC. Well at least I have encountered a few of them. I am honored you think so highly of me and praise me so well. I did have a great holiday, and I hope yours was the same. I wish you an AMAZING/FANTASTIC/WONDERFUL New Year! As well. Thank you for the review and I hope you had a wonderful holiday.
en-elin: I am glad you think they are cute together. I am also glad they are together. Now I can focus my attentions on leading up to the final battle. Thank you for the review and I hope you had a wonderful holiday.
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Dedication: To Black Clad Butterfly for saying "I must say this is the most possibly right OOC story I've ever read." That really made my day. Remember I appreciate all reviews, but I usually only chose one for a dedication.
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₰The Gryffindor Misfit₰
Chapter Twenty-One: Happiness and a Vision
It was springtime at Hogwarts and life had begun to calm down somewhat. In the past few months many people had begun to accept Brittany and Draco together. At first many people were in shock over the fact that the couple actually worked well together. In fact they were the only Slytherin-Gryffindor pair left in Potions. Not by lack of talent, simply choice.
It was time for their O.W.L's and Umbridge had been on everyone's case. She began making new rules, which interfered with anything. Brittany wrote to her Uncle to beg him to put an end to her Reign of Terror. He wrote back and stated that only if Umbridge crossed her would he do such a thing.
Umbridge had stopped and Quidditch Practices that were still going on, despite the fact that there was no season. She banned the use of All Weasley Products. She banned music from being used. She then began inquiring teachers even more. Finally she was determined to kick out Professor Trelawney.
As everyone gathered around the courtyard they watched in horror as Umbridge tried to out one of the teachers. Brittany had enough, Professor Trelawney, though sometimes weird, was a good teacher. Just as Umbridge was finishing stating that she was to leave the Professors came out. Unfortunately for them, Brittany got to her first.
With Faia on her shoulder Brittany stepped forward. Faia transformed into her true form, only having grown to the size of one and a half tigers, she still had a little more to go to become an adult. Faia began burning and Brittany's emerald eyes turned a fiery red.
"You shall not say another word." She hissed angrily.
Umbridge turned around to address the student who dared interfere. What she saw made her gasp. "How dare you keep such a pet here Ms. Kai?"
Faia let loose a roar of anger and Brittany smirked. "I would not do that if I were you." She taunted.
"I will have your pet removed at once, such a dangero…OUCH! Hot it's HOT!" Umbridge screamed.
Faia had set fire to the hem of Umbridge's dress. "Never call a familiar a pet. Especially when she is a Nyx oh one with little brain. Now stop Faia, Uncle would be cross if we burned her alive."
Faia stopped immediately and turned into her cute lovable tiny form and once more perched on Brittany's shoulder. Umbridge's dress stopped burning but she had lost about six inches of her hideous dress.
"I'll have you expelled you little wretch!" Umbridge shrieked.
"Then Faia will have you barbequed. Nyx are above school rules, seeing as how they are celestial. Besides I have no pet. A familiar is allowed to any student in their fifth year and above. Just because my Nyx could kick your ass does not mean you have to be cruel." Brittany taunted. "So kindly back off. Uncle Cornelius is quite proud his niece was chosen as a Nyx's mistress. I doubt he will split us apart."
With that Brittany smiled at Professor Trelawney. "Go back inside Professor. Professor Umbridge won't be bothering you anytime soon." With that Brittany walked confidently over to Draco took his hand and walked off.
Everyone burst into applause. Well except for Umbridge that is. She complained to Cornelius, who simply stated she did not have the power to expel Brittany on the grounds of her Nyx acting in anger. She should have remembered not to insult the proud creatures, and thus it was her fault. He did grant her the power to make more ridiculous rules though.
Umbridge continued on despite the fact that Brittany had bested her again. She did not allow for people to meet in groups of more than three. The only places to not be affected by that were the Common Rooms. She stated that boys and girls had to stay at least eight inches apart. That made any couple angry. None more so than Draco.
"Come on just owl your Uncle. He'll let us be close." Draco pleaded after two days of not being able to even hug Brittany.
"I am not going to abuse my power for that!" Brittany huffed. "Everyone would start hating me again."
"But I will still love you. Besides I know you are sick of this as well." Draco shot back.
"I really want to Draco, but I just can't. It is not fair to everyone else." Brittany sighed.
"Since when has life ever been fair to you." Draco declared. Fuck the rules. He walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her. "You deserve leeway more than anyone else in this school."
Unfortunately in that moment Umbridge walked over the hall towards them. "Ah, Mr. Malfoy and Ms. Kai. I thought I made it clear boys and girls were not allowed any closer than eight inches from each other."
Brittany hissed in anger as Draco let her go. Before that could even happen Draco's Owl appeared. It dropped a letter right into his hands. It had the mark of the Ministry upon it. Draco opened it and smirked.
"My father owled to warn me of his coming. Professor Dumbledore is sending him here as we speak." Draco haughtily stated.
Speak of the devil and he shall arrive. Lucius came strutting down the hallways with Dumbledore next to him. Seeing Umbridge trying not to glare at the two they sped up. Umbridge turned around to see a calm Dumbledore with a very happy Lucius.
"Ah Dolores fancy running into you." Lucius smirked. "I heard a strange rumor about you banning any boy a female within eight inches of one another."
"That is true. It interferes with their studies if they have the temptation of well anything." Umbridge defended.
"Ah. I see." Lucius smirk grew dark. "So you are infringing on matters not even a Headmaster can touch."
"What do you mean?" Umbridge asked trying to keep her smile in place.
"Matters of relationships are impervious to rules, unless students show a huge lack in their school work. As it is shown the only class any student is doing poorly in, is your own." Lucius taunted. "I wonder why?"
"Lucius." Dumbledore warned.
"Of course." Lucius nodded his look less dark. "In addition seeing as how you are infringing on a couple's future marriage; gives me reason to believe you need to undergo an inquiry of your very own."
Three shocked faces looked at Lucius. When Umbridge turned to look at Draco and Brittany, Lucius and Dumbledore winked. The two immediately understood Lucius was making it all up as he went. Becuase he knew that Brittany and Draco were too young to think about marriage any how.
"Well they look just as shocked as I am. Obviously this is a lie." Umbridge challenged looking quite smug she caught Lucius.
"Unfortunately this had been decided a while ago. My son bought her the ring you see on Ms. Kai's finger for Christmas, and soon after made his intentions known. We simply wanted to keep this matter under wraps. Seeing as how you are treating everyone we were forced to reveal it." Lucius declared with a wide smirk upon his face.
"I see no reason to change the rule for one couple." Umbridge stated in her sickly sweet voice.
"I am glad you se it our way. We are changing it for all the students." Dumbledore smiled.
Umbridge tried to retort but Lucius handed her a piece of paper. "This is a petition sighed by all the school governors, without any manipulations or threats this time. If there are anymore incidents of any sort whatsoever, you will undergo an inquiry." Lucius smirked and walked over to the pair of stunned teenagers.
"Thank you father. I wondered what took you so long. I was about to have Brittany ask her Uncle to get rid of this ridiculous rule herself." Draco responded immediately.
"Ah but you need to do everything for her Draco. You will not allow your Princess to lift a finger. Or your mother will have another Howler sent to you. Understood?" Lucius declared sternly.
"Of course father." Draco sighed.
"You take care of him Ms. Kai. Oh yes, Narcissa sends her greetings." Lucius told her with a tiny smile on his face.
"I will. Tell Narcissa I said hello as well." Brittany responded happily.
"I shall. Now I must be off. Cornelius will want to know his brother can stop worrying about his daughter's happiness." Lucius smirked. "I am glad I do not have a daughter, yet."
With that he and Dumbledore walked off. Brittany smirked at Umbridge. She wrapped her arms around Draco and kissed him happily. Draco pulled away from the kiss and smirked openly at Umbridge. They both ran off to the Slytherin Common Room to spread the good news, before running off to the Gryffindor Tower as well.
Umbridge stood stunned, she really hated children. Unfortunately for her, her life was about take a turn for the worst. Within a few days Fred and George had noticed a poor first year come crying out of Professor Umbridge's office. She simply smirked stating that naughty children deserved to be punished.
"You know George, I've always felt our futures lay outside the world of academic achievement." Fred stated as Umbridge walked away.
"Fred, I've been thinking exactly the same thing." George replied with a smile on his face.
The next day was the Owl Exams. Every fifth year sat in the Great Hall and were watched over by Umbridge herself. Soon enough there was a thud outside the doors of the Great Hall. People turned to look and another was heard. As it grew louder Umbridge was losing her smile. She walked over to the door to the Great Hall, her heals clicking the whole way.
She reached the doors and opened them to peer around to see what was going on. She noticed a little spark begin flying around. It passed her and entered the Great Hall. There is changed colors and divided itself into three sparks, before exploding as fireworks.
Umbridge's smile faded fully with that and she looked around trying to find the source of the annoyance. Soon enough Fred and George were seen flying into the room yelling the whole way. The waved their wands and the exam papers went flying. The sent more sparks all around the room making quite the ruckus.
With fireworks of all kinds going off the two flew around the room laughing at their ultimate prank. It caused quite a stir and Peeves the Poltergeist came to watch the scene. Sparks encircled Brittany as she laughed happily. They used to do this for her to cheer her up, when she would stay at their house.
Umbridge reentered the Great Hall trying to dodge all the sparks flying recklessly around the room. Fred and George passed each other going opposite ways and clapped hands as they passed. Filch arrived on the scene with a mop.
"Bloody lot of good that'll do him, eh George." Fred teased as he sent a spark right at Filch's ass.
"Took the words right out of my mouth Fred." George laughed back.
Umbridge and Filch advanced on the two who were hovering in the air. Fred pulled out a huge fire work and waved it. "Ready when you are." He said.
"Give her Hell for us Peeves." George called out to Peeves who saluted the two.
Fred let the firework go and explode into many additional separate ones. Then there was a humongous dragon head that appeared from all the fireworks. Its eyes set themselves upon Umbridge. Its fangs glowed brightly.
"Thank Faia for the inspiration." Fred and George yelled to Brittany as they passed her.
The Dragon then began to follow Umbridge, who in turn ran as fast as her fat little legs could go. Fortunately the firework dragon was much faster. Right as she exited the room the mouth chomped onto her. A million sparks came from the explosions destroying everyone of the ridiculous rules on the wall.
As the paper and glass fell around the hall their wooden frames came crashing down. Umbridge stood shocked as well as scorched, while her entire work fell to the ground around her. It was right where it belonged.
Fred and George passed over her as she ducked to avoid them. The flew outside the Castle to the sky. All the students ran past Umbridge cheering as the Weasley Twins made their final finale. George threw the last firework as Fred lit it with his wand. Thousands of fireworks exploded.
A few of the Professors were watching the event with smiles on their faces. Professor Flitwick was right there at the scene to watch it though he stayed calm. He looked around for a bit as everyone continued cheering and applauding and screaming. Up in the sky the thousands of fireworks formed into a Giant "W." Professor Flitwick Pumped his arm quickly before looking around again.
All was not well because soon enough Harry began to feel really weak and leaned on his sister. Brittany noticed her brother's state and stopped cheering. Hermione noticed as well and both called out to him. Draco, Ron and Blaise turned around at their yells.
Within minutes Crabbe and Goyle went to work making people move. Brittany felt her head splitting in pain as well. Suddenly she fell against her brother holding her head in her hands. Draco immediately was at her side.
"What is it? What is wrong with you two?" He asked frantically.
"I don't know. Get Harry out of here." Brittany whimpered.
"No way in hell am I leaving you behind." Draco declared as he picked her up, his ice blue eyes shinning in determination. "Blaise and Weasley, help Potter, we're off to the Hospital Wing."
With that Blaise and Ron grabbed one of Harry's arms each and helped him to the Hospital Wing. Crabbe and Goyle were leading them, making people move out of their way. Draco was behind Blaise, Harry, and Ron, with Brittany in his arms, bridal style. Hermione took up the rear.
When they finally reached the Hospital Wing Harry stood up on his own. Brittany's head stopped hurting as well. Dumbledore and Snape had arrived quite soon after.
"It's begun." Dumbledore sighed.
"No! I won't risk it." Snape hissed. "Take Brittany to Madam Pompfrey just in case. Her old head wound might be the cause of her pain." Snape ordered.
Draco seemed to hesitate for a moment, until Snape's eyes flashed in anger. "Of course Professor." With that he walked into the Hospital Wing with Brittany.
"Severus we have to tell them." Dumbledore sighed.
"No! I will not let her do something so dangerous." Snape snapped in anger.
"She must! It is why she has suffered so much. She has a right to choose!" Dumbledore yelled. "Lily would have wanted her to know at the very least!"
That had done the trick. Snape hung his head and agreed. He walked inside the Hospital Wing in silence. Dumbledore motioned for Blaise and Ron to take Harry in, and Hermione to follow.
"Mr. Crabbe and Mr. Goyle would you be so kind as to keep watch over the entrance to the Wing? We do not need any unnecessary interruptions. Not even a Professor may enter." Dumbledore requested.
The both nodded and were on their way to the entrance to the hall. Dumbledore smiled and turned and entered the Hospital Wing. There he saw Brittany pouting as Madam Pompfrey checked her over to see what was wrong. Draco stood next to her rubbing her back soothingly. Harry sat on a bed next to Brittany's and waited for his turn.
"That won't be necessary. If you would excuse us for a few minutes of privacy Madam." Dumbledore requested kindly. His eyes revealed that there was not refusing him.
Madam Pompfrey sighed and walked into her office and shut the door. Then Dumbledore turned to Harry. "What did you see?" He asked him sternly.
"I saw Voldemort torturing Sirius and Christopher. I've been seeing him do this to them for a while now in my dreams. I could not remember where I saw it. Then I remembered it was in the Department of Mysteries, where I had my trial. Mr. Malfoy was there talking to someone outside of that door." Harry explained.
"You saw the Hall of Prophecy." Dumbledore asked his tone serious.
"I guess. He said he needed the two Prophecies. They both told him they'd rather die first. He used the Curicatus Curse on them both. He said he was going to kill them. Then all I remember was a female screaming in anger and sadness, then fire." Harry exclaimed. "We need to get to them!" Harry declared.
"No!" Snape yelled. "You must stay here. The Dark Lord only wants you to see those images."
"Why are you lying dad? Faia is telling me to leave. She says it's our destiny. You can't stop it. That was why I never knew my mother! If we don't go, it will all have been for naught!" Brittany cried out in anger.
"I refuse to let you go!" Snape cried. "You are my only link to them left. I'll send for the Aurors to check it out. You are not to leave!" Snape declared angrily.
"You can't do this dad. You just can't!" Brittany yelled out tears in her eyes.
"It is for your own good." Snape declared. He stormed out of the room.
Dumbledore sighed and shook his head. "I am sorry, but he is your legal parent, albeit secretly. You cannot leave. Stay here for the night; we shall sort this in the morning." Dumbledore stated sadly before walking out as well.
Brittany pouted in her hospital bed.
Damn it all! If my adoptive father ends up dead I will hate them both forever. There has to be something I can do. If only there were a way to distract them long enough for us to leave. Maybe we can sneak into Dumbledore's office later and use the Floo Network to get to the Ministry. Oh what's the use, we're stuck here in the Hospital Wing. No way he'd ever let us leave. I am the Gryffindor Misfit, and I am trapped.
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Preview of the Next Chapter: The Two Prophecies
In the Next chapter The group must find a way to get to the Hall of Prophecy without anyone knowing. Ginny and Neville show up with some good news, and a plan is made. While people are distracted the group travels to the Hall of Prophecy and there they find no trace of Sirius, Christopher, or Voldemort. They continue on to find two Prophecies one for Harry and one for Brittany.
"That's it! I cannot believe it took me so long to figure it out. Of course we can do it that way, and no one would know!" Brittany exclaimed quietly.
"We're lost Potter, just admit it!" Draco sighed angrily.
"They have your names on them." Neville stated in amazement.
Two most dear to her shall lose their lives,
Then will her fire burn even the Devil's Soul
(That was a part of the Prophecy just so you know.)
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AN: Alright well the count down is on. 4 more to go until the story is done. Then comes the alternate ending with all the special features. Remember to think of questions for the cast and crew interviews. Also as you will not I took a few scenes for the Harry Potter movie and changed them a little this chapter. Well just so you know it will follow the movie a bit, but not too much. I look forward to your reviews. They make my world go around.
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