Harry Potter and Responsibilities
Rated T
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A/N: Dude, does anyone else remember the X-men cartoons? Really different from the movies...and the comics... I've been around nerds too long. Oh, and one more question: Why are there so many holes in the Transformer movie's plot?
Chapter Twenty-Six
The Final Expulsion
Christmas was arriving and the team was still battling countlessly with dementors and lethifold. It was so drastic that Harry noticed his patronus was growing thin. He prayed that they could find the source in the next week so he could have a nice Christmas with Teddy and the Weasleys.
It was December 20th before closure came close.
Harry was patrolling the frigid grounds with Ginny and Proudfoot when he heard a noise from above. Nearly twenty dementors hovered around them, descending slowly. Harry could hear the high-pitch squeal in his head start before his wand was even raised.
"Ginny, go get back up!" Harry yelled before repelling a few dementors with his patronus. "And keep your eyes open for any lethifold."
"No! I'm not leaving you! Make Proudfoot do it!" Ginny's horse patronus had come back, and it was trampling around them agressively.
"I have more experience!" Proudfoot hollered. "Go, Weasley! Worry about your boyfriend later!" Ginny looked at Harry with a nervous glance, but all the same she ran toward the castle, waving her wand as she went.
Twenty minutes later, Ginny joined Harry, clinging right to his arm as they dodged the dementors swooping down.
"Expecto--what?" Harry stopped and watched the dementors as they retreated, and he joined several of the others as they all collapsed to the ground in relief and exhaustion. Ginny laced her fingers through Harry's and for a moment he forgot the danger. That was when he saw it.
It was the faintest movement of all, but in his years of being a seeker Harry knew. Someone was watching them from afar by broom.
"Ginny, I'll be right back," Harry murmured, slipping away and standing. Thinking on his toes, Harry summoned his newest broom, but before he could mount it, the small speck of a human began to fly off. Harry jumped onto his broom and began to shoot toward it, hoping speed was on his side.
Harry could see the man that had been watching them in less than four minutes Harry was beside their observer. He managed to reach over and twisted the front of his broom, knocking them both to the ground. Harry wrestled with him, yanking off the Death Eater mask. Underneath him fought the headmaster of Durmstrang himself.
"He came back once!" the crazed man spat. Harry stepped back numbly and allowed Nicole and Proudfoot to take over.
"It's done," Ron sighed, stepping to Harry's right.
"Yeah," Harry replied. "You know what?" Ginny stepped to his left, and he put his arm around her shoulders.
"What?" she asked.
"I'm taking the entire rest of the holiday off. I don't care if Merlin himself calls me in to work. I need time with my best mate, my best girl, my godson, and my family." Harry watched the sky as a gentle snowfall began. "I mean it this time, too. It's Christmas. My New Year's resolution is to keep my promises."
A/N: I know, it's short, and it's been a long time, but everyone at work was getting sick so I had to accomadate plus I haven't had much time to myself at all at work. I'll be back home soon for good so hopefully we can get this puppy taken care of.
Oh, new Harry Potter movie. Okay. Not the book.