Chapter 27 -
"Why the hell are you following me?!" Harry hissed as he walked through the forest with Ginny Weasley following behind
"Firstly because I'm alone in this bloody forest if you leave, secondly because you saved me and I can see that my chances of surviving are increased by sticking with you" Ginny answered as she looked around, hoping to see her friends and family but still being on the look out for any more people who were waiting to ambush her. She looked back and nearly jumped out of her skin when she saw Harry was no longer there. "Harry!" She whispered as she looked around "Harry!"
"Hey" A rough voice called, Ginny turned and her eyes widened in horror and her face grew paler as she saw two people in skull masks walking towards her. The lack of robes told her that these were those 'Libra assassins' that Harry had told her about, the two walked forwards with their right hand aimed towards her and flames blazing out of both of their hands.
"Wait please!" Ginny put her hands up, she knew she'd be blasted before she could even reach for her wand.
The two figures stopped, and both seemed like they were about to fire. One of the figures suddenly started choking just as a cut appeared on his throat, blood poured out and the assassin fell to the ground. The other assassin had turned to the direction of the cutting curse almost immediately after the blood began spilling out, but his hand was caught and redirected away just before a knife stabbed him in the side. He was pushed against a tree just before the knife was taken out and reentered his body two more times.
The knife was then pulled out again but this time it went under his chin and through his mouth and pierced through his upper mouth. The assassin slowly fell to the floor, Harry watched as the life drained from the eyes that were visible despite the mask. Once it was gone, Harry removed the knife. He didn't glance at Ginny, he didn't stare at the assassin, He just walked off while Ginny held back some vomit, she coughed and followed after him.
"You...you don't seem too bothered by killing" Ginny said quietly, she was rather worried about his reaction though she couldn't help but ask. Harry didn't answer, he just quickened his pace and she did so as well just so he didn't leave her behind. As soon as she caught him she had her eyes on him just in time to see him raise his wand.
A piercing curse went through a Libra assassin, the assassin stumbled back after receiving a hole in his chest, but Harry shot another curse before he could do anything and he went down. After hitting the floor Harry fired a third one just to be sure.
"You know what" Harry said without looking at her as he walked over the body "you might be right"
"Ginny" A voice had called, she and Harry had turned to face whoever had called though Harry's wand had lit up and was aimed at the owner of the voice with a spell ready to fire.
"Ron!" Ginny said as she pushed Harry's hand down
"Ginny!" Ron rushed up and hugged her followed by Neville and Hermione "We were so...what the hell?!" It appeared that the trio had just now noticed Harry and pulled their wands out
"Wait!" Ginny hissed and they stopped "That's Harry!"
"Harry?" Neville blinked
"Harry Potter!" Ginny elaborated and the three turned to Harry in shock
"Why is he dressed like one of those death eaters?!" Hermione demanded
"Have any of you seen my girlfriend?" Harry cut them off, not possessing the patience to listen to them
"No but why are you..." Neville didn't get to finish his question as Harry had turned and started walking away the second the word 'no' had come out of Neville's mouth.
"Come on!" Ginny whispered and followed after him.
"Ginny what are you doing?!" Ron hissed as he and his friends followed after Ginny.
"I'm sticking with him" Ginny said as she pointed to Harry "he's our best shot of surviving this"
"Ginny, he's just a student like us" Hermione started "sure he can help a little but..."
"Hermione" Ginny cut her off "I saw him kill eight of them"
"What?" The girls face slowly went pale as all three heads snapped towards Harry who was casting spells designed to locate the presence of hidden people "He...killed them?"
"Yeah" Ginny nodded though she looked a bit sick at the memory "the last person he hit with three spells that tore through him, the one before that he stabbed a couple of times before he shoved a knife up his mouth"
"You're joking!" Neville said in disbelief as he stared at the back of Harry's head
"No" Ginny slowly shook her head "he did it. The people in the skull masks, the ones not wearing robes, he said they were assassins. They're called 'Libra'"
"They can't be that good if he can just kill seven of them" Ron said
"That's because they were just the omega soldiers" Harry spoke for the first time since the trio had arrived
"Omegas?" Neville asked
"The bottom ranks" Harry elaborated "they're challenging but nothing I can't handle. The problem is that they are all under the command of a delta soldier, he or she will be more of a problem. The deltas command anything between twenty to fifty omegas. Now I need you all to do me a favour"
"What?" They asked
"Shut your mouths and go away, I am too busy killing people and I am not being held back because I have to baby sit"
"You can't..." Ronald Weasley started only to be cut off by Shadow who appeared and pulled the red head into the shadows below his feet, he then returned quickly and did the same with the other three. A few seconds later he landed on Harry's shoulder
"Thanks" Harry said appreciatively "I need you to go and watch the sky's, tell me if you see anything important and try and find Fleur" Shadow rubbed his head against Harry's "fine, you can assist me when I start fighting but search for Fleur when I'm not" Shadow squawked before flying off.
"What do you bloody want?! Leave him alone!" The twin Weasley's shouted as the were on the floor, two wands pointed at them by two Libra assassin.
While a third had Charlie, their older brother and second oldest Weasley sibling in a body bind, the third assassin was in fact a female, as evidenced by her figure and the long black hair in a ponytail. She was straddling Charlie's chest, a knife in one hand as she slowly lowered it towards his face which she held still with her other hand. There were two more assasins, each standing guard, to make sure nobody would disturb.
"This is going to hurt!" The female Libra assassin whispered sadistically, just as the knife drew blood from Charlie's right cheek. He would've usually protested and screamed at her but he was hit with a silencing spell.
"Aaaargh!" A scream was heard just as one of the Libra assassins in charge of standing guard landed next to Charlie with a burn chest. The female assassin had quickly jumped to her feet just as the other assassin in charge of guarding had his throat cut by a cutting curse, but before he could fall to the floor he was struck by an elbow from none other than Harry Potter and he fell backwards.
Harry ran forwards and rolled to avoid a killing curse, he then jumped to his feet and shot a bright light from his wand to blind everyone, he tackled one of the assassins that had aimed their wands at George and Fred while he sent a banishing spell at the other one, causing him to fly backwards. Harry immediately began elbowing and kneeing the assassin he had tackled to the floor, his strikes were fast and powerful and struck wherever they could reach. Eventually the assassin fought back, he blocked one elbow and hit Harry in the face with one of his own.
Harry was knocked off but thankfully his mask absorbed a lot of the damage. Harry and the assassin both got to a kneeling position, the assassin threw a punch which Harry blocked before slashing his wand across his opponents chest, causing a wound to open up and blood to pour out. A squawk from above was heard, everyone ignored it, everyone except Harry. His eyes widened, just a millisecond before he grabbed his opponent and pulled him closer.
The knife that was aimed for Harry had suddenly pierced the assassin after Harry used him as a human shield, Harry then swept his leg and fired two piercing curses that hit the assassins chest and ended his life. Harry was pulled off his feat by a very strong gust of wind and slammed into a tree, he let out an involuntary gasp of pain before he slid down but managed to stay on his feet. His eyes opened and he saw two spells coming for him, both were green and he didn't want to be hit by either.
He didn't bother trying to dodge as Shadow had already dived in and grabbed Harry before pulling him down into the shadow of the tree he was leaning against. The assassin that Harry had banished earlier had began looking around while the female assassin did the same. Both used spells to try and find Harry but couldn't.
Suddenly the assassin felt a rope wrap around his neck and he was pulled up into the air at a fast pace, just as he reached a tree branch he saw the owner of the rope, it was Harry Potter, perched on the branch with the rope coming out of his wand. The rope disconnected from the wand just as the assassin was in mid-air. Harry then released another rope, except this time it had a small spearhead at the head of the rope and it pierced through the assassin's chest, Harry then yanked the rope and the assassin was pulled closer and hit his head and chest off the branch that Harry was perched on.
The rope disconnected and the assassin fell to the floor, but Harry didn't have time to see him fall all the way as he jumped off the branch just in time to see a knife heading towards him. The knife scratched his left shoulder, causing a small cut to appear on his shoulder. He aimed his wand at the female assassin and fired a body bind spell at her, just before he flipped backwards and kicked off a tree. He guessed that his body bind missed if the cutting curse that he just avoided was any indicator.
A rope shot out of his wand and he used it to swing to the ground, once his feet had landed on a solid floor he turned and fired a blasting curse at the female, but she dodged and sent a yellow acid spell at Harry, Harry rolled to avoid it and took cover behind a tree, he sent a spell at her while using the tree as cover, the girl dodged but stumbled back and landed on her back. Harry fired another spell at her but she managed to block it before getting back up to her feet.
The female Libra assassin pulled out a whip, she slapped it against the ground, she then flicked it towards Harry and the length of the whip extended, Harry moved his body back behind the cover of the tree, the whip hit the tree but the tip had curved around and struck Harry in the left shoulder, right above his cut, causing him to hiss in pain. The whip came again and this time it hit him in his other shoulder, the whip had returned a second later and struck him in his right leg before matching his other leg.
The next time the whip had struck the left side of his body, Harry's hands had instinctively went there and a second later he was hit in the right side of his chest. Harry growled, he tried to reach out and blast her with a fire blast using his left hand but the whip struck his hand before he could do anything. Harry growled again and flicked his wand and a black King Cobra snake jumped out and landed in front of him. Harry waved his wand and the snake was turned invisible.
"Go kill that bitch!" Harry ordered in parsletounge. The snake nodded, even though Harry couldn't see it "Sneak up on her and bite her! Don't stop until she's dead!" Harry added, the snake nodded again before slithering off.
Harry winced in pain just as the whip connected with his right thigh, this time Harry was ready. He paid attention to the wind, observing it and waited for the subtle shift. When he detected it he quickly turned left and caught the whip just before it connected with what would've been his left shin, Harry focused and sent his flames running up the whip. He heard a small scream of pain which he correctly guessed was the female's hand being burnt.
Harry span out of his cover and shot a piercing curse that went through the girls shoulder, and she stumbled back before falling on the ground. She shot a green spell at Harry, Harry aimed his wand up in the air when he saw her aiming her wand at him, a rope shot out from his wand and Harry was pulled up into the air just as the spell hit the tree behind him. Harry swung towards the girl when his rope was cut, he fell down and was about to do something when he was blasted mid-air.
Harry's left arm crashed against a tree before his back crashed against another and he fell to the ground where he rolled to reduce the impact, fortunately nothing was broken. The second that Harry had gotten up an ear piercing scream was heard and he was knocked down by a powerful sound wave. His wand had fallen next to him and his hands immediately went to his ears. He looked up just in time to see another female Libra assassin arrive, though this one had curly blonde hair.
She helped the black haired assassin up who gave an appreciative nod before the two of them started advancing on Harry. The blonde who's skull mask had a hole in the area for her mouth, let out another scream and Harry's was bombarded with painful sounds. Meanwhile the black haired assassin had pulled her wand out and cast a few protective charms on herself so her ears weren't damaged by the screams. Once the blonde had finished, she gestured to the black haired girl to finish it.
The black haired girl raised her wand and it lit green, however it was snatched from her hands before she could fire, her eyes tracked Shadow as he flew off with her wand but before she could do anything she suddenly felt a horrible and painful feeling in her lower legs and her legs collapsed just as an invisible King Cobra began repeatedly biting her.
The blonde removed her wand but Harry powered through the pain and discomfort and grabbed his own, he shot a piercing spell through the hole in her mask and it went through her tongue and out her mouth, causing the girl to scream in pain as blood poured out her mouth. Harry kipped up to his feet and sent a small cutting curse at her throat, it opened up a hole and Harry shoved his left hand in. Harry let out a primal roar before he pulled out what he believed was her throat. Harry walked past her as the other girl was dying from being constantly bitten by one of the most venomous animals on the planet.
He waved his wand over his hand and vanished the blood and cleaned it just as he walked off, ignoring the now dead assassins and the gaping Weasley's.
Harry ducked just in time to avoid a cutting curse that would've definitely taken his head off, he fired one back and killed the caster. He quickly rolled and took cover behind a tree just as a second caster fired a blazing blue spell at him, Harry shot a spell back and it hit the caster, flipping him over so he landed on his back. Harry walked out of cover and began firing spells at the caster who had rolled away and took cover behind a tree.
The Libra assassin listened as Harry let out a war cry, he felt the tree he was leaning against taking heavy damage from Harry's spells. He took a chance and look over his right, only to see Harry wasn't there. He was about to look over his left when he was struck in the face and elbowed in the neck, Harry grabbed him and tossed him to the floor. Harry banished his head to the ground, causing his skull to crack from the force and speed of impact. Harry followed by stomping on his head several times, once Harry was sure he wouldn't move again he lifted his foot and walked off.
He looked up and saw Shadow circling a spot slightly further ahead. He understood what Shadow was saying, that's where Fleur was.
Fleur was trying desperately to think of a way to escape, she was on the floor with her legs tied up and her hands tied behind her back, alongside her was her sister and father who found themselves in the same position. She knew that she could probably burn the ropes off, but then that would attack the attention of the people who had tied her up in the first place and everyone knew that that was a bad idea. They also didn't know that she was a veela, at least she hoped they didn't as she had kept her allure under a fair bit of control, though if they did then she really didn't want to antagonise them even more.
Her captivators were three people that were wearing skull masks, two of them seemed to be under the command of the third. The third one was the apparent leader, his hair was black and spiky, his eyes were brown and cold. His body told her that he was around Harry's age, speaking of which, she wasn't sure if she wanted Harry to be here. On one hand she thought it could be amazing if she was saved by her romantic love, but there were far more things against the idea. Namely: she looks like a weak damsel which was the least horrible problem here, Harry could be injured which would be horrible, Harry could be killed which would utterly destroy her. Harry, Gabrielle and her father could be killed which would definitely lead to suicide as far as she was concerned.
Suddenly the option was taken out of her hand as a giant flame attacked the three, two of the skull wearing assassins screamed in pain as they were taken out by the flames, though the commander didn't seem too bothered. The commander turned once the fire had disappeared and turned to see Harry, he stood with his wand in his right hand and a flame in his right.
Fleur, though ecstatic at seeing her mate, knew that this was probably the worst time to see him. She had to help, she began burning through the rope though she did it slowly, if the commander noticed then he'd quickly kill her and that wouldn't be helpful to her, her family or Harry.
The commander punched his fist towards Harry and a flame blast shot out of his hand and torpedoed towards Harry, Harry backhanded the flame blast and it dissepeared. Harry then responded with his own flame blast and the commander ducked under it before firing two flame blasts, Harry dodged them both before he sent three cutting curses directly at the commander, the commander rolled out of the way, he then slammed his fist on the ground and a piece of earth the size of a basketball rose up into the air, the commander waved at Harry and the ball shot towards him. Harry slammed his foot on the floor and a wall rose from the ground, made of the same earth that created the ball, the ball crashed against the wall.
The commander was mildly suprised, but he didn't get too long to stay surprised as the wall began rushing towards him. The commander tapped his feet rapidly and several earth balls the size of tennis balls rose up into the air and shot towards the wall, each one causing severe damage until the wall was destroyed. One ball remained and had went past the destroyed wall and towards Harry, Harry waved his wand and turned the ball into a bird that he sent towards the commander.
Harry shot several more birds out of his wand before he changed their wings into steel wings with razor edges, the birds flew towards the commander who raised his hand and shot huge flames that devoured all the birds, the flame headed towards Harry. Harry roared and punched the flames, dispelling it, he then slapped his hands together and a blade made of flames shot towards the commander. The commander dodged it though he didn't return fire, he just stared at Harry.
"You're powerful" He said
"Thanks for noticing" Harry shrugged "now I've got to be honest, I don't really give a shit about what you want to do. Unfortunately you have a few people that I care about, give them to me and we're done."
"You're one of us, aren't you?" He asked, ignoring Harry's last statement.
"Not anymore" Harry shook his head
"You can't just leave" The commander said as if Harry was an idiot.
"Well I did" Harry smirked, not that his opponent could see seeing as they were both wearing masks "you're a beta, aren't you? When I realised that you guys were here I was expecting a delta or two, didn't think I'd meet a beta today."
"I haven't had a good fight in a long time, I'm glad I came here" The Beta smiled under his mask "now I get to fight you, if you continue to give me a good fight then I'll kill you, if you don't then I'll drag you back and have the council decide your punishment." The Beta said as he put his wand away.
"That's an interesting idea, how about this one instead? If you give me a good fight then I'll kill you" Harry said as he put his wand away "if you don't then...I'll still kill you" Harry stomped his foot on the ground and a wave of fire burst from his foot and towards the Beta. The Beta ran forward and jumped over the fire, a bigger wave of fire leaped out of his feet. Harry jumped over the wave and span in mid-air, he sent a wind blade towards the Beta.
The Beta dodged the blade though it grazed his right shoulder, he rushed towards Harry who charged at him. The Beta jumped and tried to knee Harry just as Harry slid along the floor and tried to take out the Beta's leg, both missed and had gone past each other. The Beta and Harry turned to each other, they rushed towards each other. The Beta's right hand and Harry's right hand had both become covered in flames, the Beta's flaming hand had punched Harry in the face, Harry responded with his own punch.
The two exchanged punches repeatedly, neither willing to back down to the other. This was no longer a mere test of strength, it was now a test of will. Harry let out a roar and his flaming hand struck the Beta with enough force to send him stumbling back, Harry followed up with a dropkick which sent the Beta to his feet. Harry kipped up to his feet and sent a flame blast at the Beta, the Beta rolled out the way and returned fire. He kipped to his feet after Harry dodged.
Harry ran forward and tried to punch the Beta, the Beta ducked and shoved Harry away with his shoulder. He then placed his right foot on Harry's chest, his leg was bent, he pulled his right hand back then slammed it on to his own knee causing wind to rush down towards his foot. His leg straightened and pushed Harry away with the assistance of the wind blast and Harry went flying backwards.
Harry managed to roll but ended up crashing his left shoulder and knee against a tree, Harry fell to the floor when he saw another fire blast coming towards him. He pushed off the tree and barely avoided the blast, while he wasn't worried about being burnt, the impact from the blast could be harmful. Harry threw multiple spinning kicks in the air, each new kick caused more flames to shoot out from his feet. The Beta copied all of his movements and sent his own flames out to counteract Harry's.
Harry took a step forward, he punched with his right hand but he twisted the fist so the back of faced his body. His left hand, which had a flame resting in it's palm, slapped his right shoulder and the flames travelled to his right fist. From his fist shot out a giant fire blast that was twice as big as the Beta who was already an inch or two bigger than Harry, the flames twisted in a corkscrew shape as they charged towards the Beta.
The Beta's eyes widened at the show of power, he shot several fire blasts as his own, all big though not bigger than the fire drill heading towards him. The smaller blasts eventually slowed down the drill enough, the Beta quickly shot another blast and the drill was finished. He didn't get to celebrate the moment as he was hit in the chest with a small fire ball.
Harry had chosen to abandon power in favour of speed, he repeatedly sent small fireballs at the Beta who was being overwhelmed by the speed. While the fire wasn't burning him, the impact was still knocking him backwards until he eventually fell on to his feet. Harry was prepared to continue when he heard a roar, he turned and saw two more Libra assassins. One was skinny with a knife in each hand, the other was a huge hulking brute.
The skinny one threw a knife at Harry who blocked it with a wind shield, the wind shield didn't last long as the big one had rushed forward with surprising speed, his hand lit up with flames and he used it to smash through the shield. He grabbed Harry by the neck and picked him before slamming him down on the ground, Harry groaned but he wasn't given time to rest as the big guy had picked him up again and tossed him up in the air. The skinny one had pulled his fist back before shooting it forwards and sending a wind blast that blasted Harry up and past the trees.
Harry quickly removed his wand and shot out a rope that grabbed one of the tree branches and stopped him from flying away higher, he pulled the rope and he went down. He bounced off a couple off trees and used the rope to swing back into action. He swung back in and kicked the skinny one away upon landing. The bigger one growled and grabbed Harry before he slammed him against a tree, his hands wrapped around the neck of a struggling Harry.
One of his hands began pushing his mask up, revealing his mouth. Harry opened his mouth and sent out a jet of flames, the big assassin just laughed as he was unaffected by the heat. He didn't notice Harry using his other hand, the one with a wand in it, to conjure a small knife in mid-air. Shadow flew in and grabbed the knife just as Harry ended the flames, Shadow flew at the large assassin and stabbed him in the eye with the knife before flying off.
The assassin screamed in pain and had let Harry go so he could attend to his eye, Harry slid to his feet and adjusted his mask, he sent a delayed explosive curse to the knife and then he banished it further into the assassin's skull. He banished the assassin away and the assassin landed on the lower half of the skinny assassin, who protested under the weight. Eventually the head of the big assassin exploded and the shrapnel and impact from the explosion had taken care of the skinny assassin.
Harry heard a squawk from Shadow and quickly looked in time to see three more assassins coming from behind him, Harry didn't waste time and quickly attacked. The first two he took out by waving his wand twice and sending two big cutting curses and causing two massive cuts to appear on their body, as they went to the floor Harry rushed to the third and kneed him in the chest to create distance. Harry span his wand in a circle and some ropes shot from the wand and wrapped around the assassins upper half, Harry rolled past the assassin and then he swung his arm causing the assassin to fall.
Harry quickly sent piercing and cutting curses to finish them off, a second later he was blasted off his feet and suddenly realised that the Beta was up again. Harry rolled backwards and got to his feet just as a heavy punch struck him in the ribs, the punch was followed through with an elbow to the other ribs and then a knee to his chest that sent him back to the floor. The Beta grabbed Harry by this shirt and pulled him to his feet before tossing him at a tree, Harry groaned but wasn't given any rest as he was grabbed and kneed repeatedly in the stomach.
"You've done well" The Beta said as he shoved Harry's head against the tree with one hand and used the other to hold Harry's wrist so he couldn't attack with his wand "I must admit, you were better than I am but I will be the one who wins!"
Harry snarled and pushed the Betas hand off of his face with his free hand, he then headbutted the Beta. He grabbed the Beta and pulled him just as Harry moved his head to the side, causing the Beta's head to hit the tree that Harry was leaned against. Harry pushed the Beta away once his grip was lose enough, the Beta remained standing, Harry pushed off the tree and struck the Beta with an knee to the chest, the Beta recovered quickly and kicked Harry in his chest.
Harry was pushed back by the kick and his back hit the tree, Harry used his momentum to bounce himself off the tree and jumped in the air before punching the Beta in the face with a flaming fist. The Beta was knocked back and fell to the floor just as Harry fell to his knees. The fight had taken a lot out of him but he powered on and pushed himself to his feet. He walked closer when the Beta suddenly turned and shot flames from his hand, the flames didn't burn Harry but they distracted him long enough.
A second later Harry landed on the floor with a knife piercing his left shoulder, he cursed as his right hand grabbed the handle of the knife. The pain wasn't limited to his shoulder, his entire body was in pain, not just from his battle with the Beta but also from just the entire night. He wasn't prepared to fight tonight, if he was then things might have gone a bit better.
"I congratulate you" The Beta said as he stood over Harry and aimed his wand at him "you've been an impressive warrior, I will grant you a quick death. Be glad, you will die a warrior's death. Do you have any last words?"
"Yeah..." Harry coughed as he looked up at Beta and gave a discreet glance to the person behind him "yeah I do. You...you talk too much. Now Fleur!"
Beta was hit in the back by a blue fire ball, causing him to stumble forward. Harry raised his foot and struck Beta between the leg, Beta let out a gasp, Harry pulled his foot back just as he pulled the knife out of his shoulder. Harry struck Beta in the knee, causing Beta to fall on top of Harry. Harry grabbed the back of the Beta's head with his left hand to keep him in place. Harry brought the knife to his throat and he began cutting.
Blood poured out from the Beta's neck, Harry's mask began turning red as it was being covered in blood. Harry watched as the life left the eyes of the Beta. Once it was gone, Harry shoved the Beta off and removed his mask.
"Arry!" Fleur ran to him while her father began freeing her sister
"Wait" Harry coughed as he held a hand up to signal her to stop.
"What?" Fleur stopped in her tracks, wondering why he didn't want to her to come close.
"You'll get blood on your dress" Harry laughed "I like that dress"
"Arry!" Tears poured from her eyes as she rushed towards him and hugged him tightly "I'll get another dress! I'll clean this one later if you want! Just please be okay! Be okay Arry!"
"Don't tell me what to do" Harry mumbled as he kissed her on the forehead "I'm fine" He said loud enough for her to hear.
"Wands down! Wands down!" Various voices shouted, several aurors and officials arrived with their wands out.
"Wait! Wait!" Jacques shouted "I am Jacques Delacour! French Minister of Magic! Put your wands down!"
"What happened here?!" One of them demanded
"Well..." Jacques struggled to think of an answer "...I don't fucking know! We're tired and we're cold and we've been attacked! Can we please get medical attention and then answer the damn questions!"
"Listen here!" One said "we..."
"No, he's right" Another voice said "look at them, we'll get them medial attention and then check them"
"Fine!" The first one grumbled
"Holy shit!" A third voice said "That's Harry potter!" He said and everyone turned to see Harry Potter, on the floor and being hugged by a teary Veela.
A.N: Wow, I did it. Hi guys, hope you liked the chapter (please like it). Now I just want to say a few things:
1) First of all, Harry and the Libra assassin's abilities will be explained in detail later in. I promise, and yes there is a reason why some of them were affected by flames and the others were not.
2) Second of all, after my last A/N where I wrote about Hermione, I decided to write one about Ron as well, read it if you want or skip it. Also it's all MY OPINION!
Ron is a bit complicated for me as I did like the character quite a lot, more than Hermione at least. I mean he was Harry's first friend and while he was rude to Hermione he was still nice to Harry and when I watched it as a kid, that was all that mattered to me. It also helped that Rupert Grint was brilliant, he and Ron made me laugh quite a bit. With Ron, I don't have quite as good of an argument as I do with Hermione as i can actually understand and forgive a lot of his faults. But on to the bashing:
Ron for me can be rude and he has his moments of irritating me. Some people complain that he's lazy but I think that's real life, not everyone is ambitious and some people prefer to have fun instead of studying, however that is not a good quality to spread around when one of your mates needs to defeat the worst dark lord of all time. Also his eating habits are horrible, I get being hungry and wanting to eat a lot but manners please.
In year one, he bullied Hermione and that was definitely not a good thing, even if I don't like her. Also, the bit where he says everywhere was full on the train, I call bullshit. He could've sat with any of his three older brothers, I doubt there wasn't room in at least one compartment and the Hogwarts express was a pretty big train and if everywhere else was getting full then you know at least one other person would have asked if they could sit with Harry in a compartment with only one person in it.
He also had that biasness against Slytherin, which I just don't like, I mean Malfoy's fair but all of Slytherin? Just no. He also accepted a duel on Harry's behalf, never mind the fact that Harry had the same knowledge as an average muggleborn and never mind the fact that it should've been up to Harry if he wanted to accept a duel. Especially when you remember that if Harry loses, it'd be worse for him seeing as he is the boy-who-lived and Malfoy could've been unbearable if he had beaten him.
In year two he had the 'brilliant idea' of taking the flying car to Hogwarts when they couldn't get on the train. Sure I could blame Harry as well but in this case I don't because Harry was in the wizarding world for all of a year and he likely trusted that Ron knew what he was doing and it makes more sense for him to forget about using owls than it does for Ron who grew up in the wizarding world. Plus Harry was just following and copying Ron, makes sense for him to do that when his character always wanted friends. Heck if Malfoy friended him first then there was a high possibility of Harry being a Slytherin.
Ron also ignored Ginny quite a bit, but then again all of her brothers did, though that is pretty understandable, he doesn't want to spend his year looking after his little sister who has a crush on his best mate. Understandable but I'm bashing Ron here so that's a point against him.
Third year, Ron was constantly arguing with Hermione about Crookshanks, now while Ron might have been right in the fact that Crookshanks kept trying to eat Scabbers, he still made a pretty big fuss over a rat that he has always claimed to hate. I mean hate it or don't. Though, again, I can understand he's reasoning because even though it's a rat, it's still his pet. But there was also the broom incident, and I think Ron didn't help matters for Hermione or Harry during that argument. Also in the book Ron was originally horrified when he had learnt that Lupin was a werewolf and that's just more discrimination on his behalf. Sure I can see his reasoning because Werewolves were known to be violent and Lupin turned out to be a friend of the man who they thought was a mass murderer, but he was still prejudiced against werewolves and made it sound like he hated Lupin because he was a werewolf.
Fourth year was when I felt like slamming my head (or Ron's) against a wall. I mean if I was friends with Harry Potter, a boy who ended up fighting trolls, Voldemort, Basilisks, Voldemort and confronted his parents murder in just three years of school, I would be a bit more supportive if I heard that he was in a tournament that was famous for people dying. But instead, Ron get's jealous. I mean he should know that Harry was abused or by that point he should at least realise that Harry hasn't had the nicest life (bars on his window rings a bell) yet Ron was acting like Harry was an attention seeking maniac. Never mind that Harry went out of the philosopher's stone to stop Voldemort, went into the chamber to save his sister and went into the shrieking shack because Sirius Black had dragged Ron in there.
I can understand Ron being jealous, he's poor and the sixth child and he was a teenager, that makes sense. What doesn't make sense is abandoning your best mate, the one who saved your sister and stopped Voldemort from rising two times since you met, when he tells you that he is forced into a tournament. We all know Harry is jealous of Ron for having a loving family, if Ron had gained another sibling then Harry would probably be more jealous but he wouldn't hate Ron. Or if Ron was in the tournament, we know Harry would've supported him.
Some can argue that Ron didn't know how dangerous the tournament was, that argument is punted out the bloody window when you realise that he knew about dragons, even then he still didn't tell Harry but had Hagrid do it instead. Also he only apologised to Harry after he had fought that Dragon. Not before, I mean imagine if Harry had died right then and died thinking that his friend hated him. I had originally liked Ron because he was loyal and funny, but in that year he was a prat and he was about as loyal as a starving dog.
There was also that crap with the ball, he loves Victor Krum but the second the dude asks Hermione he has an undeniable hatred that last years. That tells you that he's jealous and wanted Hermione, so why not ask her? if he doesn't have the guts to ask her or doesn't realise he likes her then fine, but why go out of his way to ruin her evening and he also ruined his date's evening as well.
Fifth year, he was with Hermione in the not sending letter's to Harry though he doesn't know as much about muggle communication. I don't remember him doing much to annoy me that year, at least nothing that I remember, probably have to re-watch the thing. in sixth year the Ron-Hermione-Lavender triangle just wasn't likeable at all for me. I mean we have Lavender who was acting like his future wife, Hermione who was being jealous and Ron who was pretty much just enjoying Lavender for a snog.
In seventh year,/book Ron did two things that bothered me. Firstly he interrupted Harry and Ginny's moment (kiss) in the book, never mind that Harry was essentially a soldier going off to war and that was the last moment that he would probably have with Ginny. He was also acting like Harry was just another boy who would use his sister, I would've thought that the guy had earned some trust by that point. It's also the second time he's messed with Harry's female relationships if you count him bothering Cho when she tried to talk to Harry.
There was also the bit where he abandoned Harry and Hermione, I don't think I need to say anything about that.
Like I said before, I like Ron a lot more than I like Hermione and I can understand more of what he does, but that doesn't mean I like everything he's done and how he reacted. And if I'm honest, I just like bashing him.
3) Harry now has a challenge, and like is said before, Hogwarts's doesn't contain all the people in the world. His challenge comes outside of Hogwarts.
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