Harry Potter and the Troublesome Evie

By Trephinia Cealyn

Chapter 26 | The Battle

          Hermione, still whispering her incantation, felt dizzy. Besides the fact that the room was spinning she felt awful. Her stomach hurt and her brain couldn't handle the pressure. She fell on the ground gasping for breath. She could hear Evie's mocking voice in the background and she felt something in her gut. Something bad was going to happen…

          … and then she threw up.

          "Now that's disgusting." Draco said holding Ginny back from the circle. Harry, red in the face, got redder.

          "Hermione!" he yelled running for the circle. Draco rolled his eyes and grabbed Harry's wrist.

          "Now, now, Potter… if I let you do that Hermione would regurgitate on my face you big fat baby!" Draco said and then started to laugh.

          "Malfoy what was that?" Harry asked trying not to laugh.

          "I'm sorry go back to your mourning." Draco said stifling his laughter. In the funny moment Draco had let go of Ginny who now realizing it ran towards the circle.  

          "Uh, Draco…" Harry pointed towards Ginny. Draco whirled around.

          "No! Ginny don't!" Draco ran towards her and grabbed her cloak. She pulled against him straining for the circle screaming, 'No not Hermione." Draco grabbed her around the middle and pulled her towards him. "I can't lose you Ginny." She slumped in his grip and resumed her crying. Harry shook his head.

          Hermione threw up again and pounded her fist on the floor. She screamed in pain. She threw up blood. Evie laughed. Hermione cried. Her sickness… it was coming back. She threw up more blood and more food.

          "Help me." she said softly and looked at Harry. He heard her and wrenched out of Draco's grip he ran for the portal. "No, you can't." She said looking at him sadly. He stopped and looked back at Draco he sighed and went towards the portal. She frowned and said, "No." Hermione shook her head firmly. "Ginny." Ginny looked up nodded and retrieved her flute.

          "NO, you stupid girl!" Evie shouted. She reached for the portal but it shocked her she pulled her hand back cursing. She tried it again and it shocked her shocked her harder.

          "And that's why I stopped you." Draco said to Harry. Harry nodded but kept his eyes on Hermione, worried. The color was returning to her face and she stopped throwing up. She stood up and calmly faced Evie.

          "Don't stop playing Ginny." Harry said quietly and turned his back to the battle. He walked into a corner and stood facing the wall. "Please don't stop playing." Ginny nodded and played harder.

          "I'm ready Evelyn." Hermione said confidently. "I always have been."

          "I'm ready Hermione," Evie said smiling. "But I have an army." Hermione looked shocked at these words and her eyes widened. Draco looked up at Hermione smiling.

          "That's right!" he yelled. "You're a necromancer Hermione use your ghosts!"

          "Silence." Evie yelled her hand flew up and her wand, pointing at Draco's throat, shot a rope out of it that encircled Draco's throat and disappeared into his skin. Draco's hands flew up to his throat. It was choking him.

          "Draco!" Ginny yelled and stopped playing she threw the flute down. The color drained and Harry's face and he turned to run for the portal. Ginny ran for Draco and hit Harry as they crossed paths. They spun around and fell on top of each other.  The room was spinning even faster and it didn't help anyone.

Draco gasped for breath trying to cough and take in some oxygen as Hermione started to throw up again an again. "Draco!" Ginny yelled reaching her hands out for the boy.

          "Hermione!" Harry yelled reaching out for her. He tried to push Ginny off but she was pushing on him to help her stand up. "Play your flute Ginny." Harry yelled Ginny nodded and scrambled for her flute trying to stand up. Harry ran for Draco not knowing what to do.

          "CPR!" Ginny said stopping her playing for a moment.

          "Play your flute damnit!" Harry yelled her looked at Draco mustering up his courage. Hermione started to spit up blood. Ginny wasn't playing the right song.

          "C … P… R!" Ginny yelled between breaths.

"Play the bloody flute!" Harry took a deep breath and laid Draco on the ground. He listened to his pulse and then squinted up his eyes, held Draco's nose closed, and took another deep breath. Right when he was about to do it Draco started to breath.

"What the fuck! What are you doing Potter?" Draco said pushing Harry off, Harry skidded across the floor, and with a sigh of relief Ginny started to play with more emotion. The tune was happy and uplifting. She played with such emotion that Hermione felt better then she had in ages.

          "Sorry." Harry said sheepishly.

          "You better be sorry!" Draco looked at Hermione who seemingly had tackled Evie to stop the spell that was killing Draco. "Thank you Hermione." He said gratefully. Harry nodded.

          "Alright Evelyn. This is between you and me." Hermione stated her eyes flashing angrily. "You fight me not my friends."

          "Is that how you feel about it Granger?" Evie asked. Hermione nodded. Evelyn flashed her pearly white teeth. "Well I don't so you'll fight my friends." Evie flicked her wand and ghosts shot into the circle coming from the balcony. They encircled Hermione.      

          "Evelyn," Hermione stated calmly. "You don't fight fire with fire." She waved her hand and the ghosts disappeared. "This ends now Evelyn." Evie shrunk back.

          "No Mionie no." she said in her old voice. "Quiet. Mionie no! Quiet I said. Mionie! Quiet you fool. Help me! Quiet you bloody git! MIONIE!" It sounded as though Evie was fighting with herself. Hermione looking not a bit confused walked right up to Evie and held her shoulders. She looked straight into her eyes.   

          "I want it back." She said calmly. "All of it. You come back where you came from. Back into me."     Evie opened her mouth to protest and a black light shot out of her open mouth. Hermione reached for it opening her mouth to say something to Evie. A white light shot out of her mouth. The lights twisted into ropes and started to fight. The white one pulled towards Hermione dragging the black one with it. The black one struggling to get free and reaching for the edge of the circle emitted sparks of lime green sparkles. "I want it back." Hermione shouted and reached a hand for the white light. A green spark landed on her sizzling into her skin. She clenched her teeth and wrapped her hand around the white light. It seeped into her skin pulling the black one with her.

          "Done and Done."