Harry Potter and the Deathday Curse
Chapter 14 The Deathday Curse
A.N. In this chapter we will learn what the Deathday Curse is, and someone unexpected will show up. Anyway, Read and Review!!!!!!
J Malena J
Harry and Ginny just stood there, their lips locked together. Harry lifted up his hand and put it on the back of Ginny's head. When she pulled away, she turned a brilliant shade of red and looked shocked.
"I-I'm sorry," Ginny stuttered, "I d-don't know what came over me-"
"Don't worry," Harry said, a little dazed. "It was… excellent." Harry was having trouble describing the kiss.
"Really?" Ginny said, turning a little less pink and giving a small smile. "Wait till I tell Courtney that I had my first kiss with Harry Potter."
"That was your first?" Harry said. Ginny nodded.
"Well…" Ginny said slowly. "I guess that this is good night…"
"Yeah, I guess so," Harry said. "'Night Ginny." Harry turned toward the portrait of the Fat Lady (who was smirking down at them) and gave the password. The portrait swung forward and let them into the Common Room.
Harry bid Ginny goodnight and gave her a soft kiss on the cheek. She turned pink again and walked up to the girl's dormitory.
When Harry walked up to the boys dorm and found it deserted, he changed out of his dress robes and got into bed. A few minutes later Ron, Dean, and Seamus came into the room.
"Hey Harry," Ron said, starting to pull off his dress robes. "Have fun?"
"Oh yeah," Harry said, taking off his glasses and lying back in his bed.
"Did you get lucky?" Dean said, smirking.
"He'd better not." Ron said, glaring at Harry.
"No," Harry said. "Well, I sort of did. Ginny kissed me."
Seamus started catcalling.
"Harry, Harry, Harry," Dean said. "You are so lucky. I could hardly get Parvati to look at me, let alone kiss me."
"Of course," Ron said, still looking a little shocked about his little sister's actions, "Ginny has had a crush on Harry ever since she's started Hogwarts. It was bound to happen sometime."
Harry threw a pillow at Ron.
"So, Ron," Harry said. "You and Hermione hit it off tonight. Are you going steady?" Ron turned the same color as Harry's Quidditch Robes.
"Maybe," He said.
"Did you get lucky?" Seamus asked, climbing into his own bed.
"No," Ron said, glaring at Seamus.
"Did you get kissed?"
"Well… on the cheek." Ron said, turning red again. "But that's the extent."
Dean and Seamus scowled, and lay back in their beds. A few minutes later Neville stumbled into the dorm and muttered something about not being able to remember his date's name. He just fell onto his bed and didn't even bother getting out of his dress robes.
Harry didn't see Ginny the next day, Sunday. The next time he had a chance to talk to her was at breakfast on Monday.
"Good morning Ginny," Harry said at breakfast. "How did you sleep."
Ginny smiled at Harry and said, "Fine"
"I've just thinking about Saturday," Ginny sighed. "It was… great."
Harry smiled.
"I'm glad you thought so." Ginny nodded and turned back to her plate.
"Hey, Harry!" David came running up. "When's our next Quidditch Practice?"
"Tonight," Harry said, putting syrup on his pancakes. "We have a game in about a week."
"'kay," David said, returning to his seat.
About 10 seconds later, Ron and Hermione turned up. Hand in hand.
"Well, well, well," Ginny said, loosing her shy attitude. "Here's the lucky couple."
Hermione blushed, but she looked pleased all the same.
"I take it Ernie is a little ticked that you and Ron won," Harry said, grinning slyly. "After all, he thought that you were meant to be with him."
Hermione picked up a piece of bacon and threw it at Harry.
"How un-Head Girlish," Harry said.
Hermione scowled.
"I can still be Head Girl, even if I don't act like it," Hermione said, sitting down across from Ginny. She took a piece of toast off of the platter and started to eat at top speed.
"Don't tell me," Ron said, staring at her, "You're starting spew again."
"No," Hermione said, "I have to get to the library to study."
"Study?"
"The N.E.W.T's are coming up," Hermione said. "I've got to go. See you at Defense Against the Dark Arts." She ran out of the Great Hall and turned left.
"Mental," Ron said under his breath.
Harry finished his pancake and then leaned over to Ginny and kissed her on the cheek.
She blushed, but she looked happy all the same.
"See you at lunch," Harry said.
"Bye," Ginny said.
Harry walked up to Gryffindor Tower to get his homework that he had left there. He pulled open the door and found someone sitting on his bed.
"Hello Harry," said Sirius, standing up. "How've you been?"
"Sirius!" Harry exclaimed. "What are you doing here! Don't you know that you could get caught-"
"Relax Harry, I'm invisible to everyone but you," Sirius said. "Listen, James, Remus, and I are going to be staying in the mountain cave for a while. It would be too risky to go back to Lupin's. The Death Eaters have already been there in search of James. It's a good thing that you both have the Fidelus Charm on you." Sirius looked anxious for a moment.
"I've already been to Dumbledore, he said that there is a Hogsmede trip next weekend. I want you to visit us. Ron and Hermione can come too, but no one else." Sirius smiled.
"I'll see you then." Sirius said. He walked past Harry and down the spiral staircase. Harry got his homework and went to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.
The desks were no longer in rows, instead they were in a circle. The people in their class didn't look to happy about it, but they sat down anyway. Hermione came rushing in about a minute before the class started. She took a seat between Harry and Ron.
A minute after Hermione, Professor Perry came in. She was wearing silver robes with gold ivy embroidered all over it.
"Good morning class," She said. "I hope that you all had a good time at the dance. Ron, Hermione." She smiled slyly at them. Ron turned redder than Harry had ever seen him. Hermione elbowed him hard.
"Today we will be learning about ancient curses, and I hope that I won't sound too much like Professor Binns," Professor Perry chuckled. There were a few weak smiles.
"Anyway…" For the next thirty minutes or so, they sat around taking notes on the many curses Professor Perry described. After a moment she paused.
"Have any of you heard of the most powerful curse in the world?" Professor Perry said.
"Isn't that Avada Kedavra?" Lavender said. Professor Perry shook her head.
"Oh, no. The curse I'm talking about is much worse than that. Has anyone heard of the Deathday Curse?"
Everyone shook their head. Even Hermione looked bewildered.
"Well, I hope that you never ever come in contact with it," Professor Perry said, shaking her head. "Of course…"
"What?" Ron said, leaning forward intently.
"Well, I'm not supposed to tell you about it. The information of the Deathday Curse is strictly concealed by the Ministry."
"Oh, go on!" Cried the class.
"Well, all right, but you have to promise that you don't tell anyone about it." Professor Perry cleared her throat and looked around the room.
"The Deathday Curse is a powerful and dangerous curse. If you were to come in contact with it, you wouldn't' even have time to wince before you'd be dead. The one book about the spell says that you can die even before the opposing wizard mutters the beginning of the spell. However, that is not the extent of the damage. Even though you are dead, your mind is still working. You can see people, and you can still feel."
"So basically, you get buried alive and are bored for the rest of your life," Seamus said.
"Oh, no, Seamus," Professor Perry said, shaking her head. "You see, you suffer severe pain in the afterlife also. And once a year, on your Deathday, you come back to life, but you are pure evil. Back in 1125, the Dark Wizard Qeparnon killed one wizard for everyday of the year with that spell. Eventually, he had killed about 10 people per day of the year, and he practically had an army of the victims of the Deathday Curse. The only reason that Qeparnon died was because all of the victims revolted against him and he was killed."
"So, that's a really powerful spell than," Ron said.
"Yeah, about ten times as powerful as Avada Kedavra, and very few wizards knew it. The only reason that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has not used the spell, is because that the ancient book that holds the spell in it was lost about 500 years ago. Who knows what would happen if the Dark Lord found the book. For one thing, we probably wouldn't be alive for much longer."
There was a tense silence in the room.
Professor Perry sighed.
"Well, anyway, the Barniculus Curse…" She went on rambling about other ancient curses.
Harry, however, had stopped taking notes and was thinking about what Professor Perry had just said.
Who knows what would happen if the Dark Lord found the book. For one thing, we probably wouldn't be alive for much longer.
A.N. Okay, now you know what the Deathday Curse is. In the next chapter Ron, Harry, and Hermione will go visit Remus, Sirius, and James. Please Read and Review, and if you can, e-mail me!!!!!!!
J Malena J
