Harry Potter And Voldemort's Ally
Part 22
"HOW COULD YOU FAIL SUCH A SIMPLE ASSIGNMENT?" Voldemort spat into Malfoy's white , scared, face. "Lord, Wills blew away the fireball aimed at Potter and blew apart the floor beneath us, so we were forced to fight them, and run" Voldemort's face contorted with anger as the Death Eater answered "Then why didn't you kill him on the ground ?" He roared at Malfoy.
"Potter, and then red headed Weasley were cursing the table apart with lightning and lava, I couldn't kill him" Voldemort's wand flared up "THAT IS NO EXCUSE, CRUCIO! " Malfoy collapsed into a screaming, bellowing heap on the floor. The feeling that flames were burning through every fiber in his body, continued for several seconds. Until Voldemort let Westerner at him.
Westerner drew his cruel blade in his right hand and lifted Malfoy of the ground with his left. Pressing the blade into his chest. "Why, did you let one of my Prism's die at the hands of that werewolf, Lupin?" He hissed into Malfoy's ear, slowly, he pushed the blade deeper.
Malfoy stuttered out an answer "T...t...the wolf, it j..j... came so fast, I,I couldn't stop it" Westerner said quietly "So, you just hide, as one of my Prisms fought Wills, and Wills won, you say?" He pulled Malfoy closer. Malfoy nodded. He hurled him aside. Malfoy's head striking the side of the wall. Westerner spat at Malfoy's figure.
A Dementor glided from a side passage, and turned it's hooded face to Malfoy, and began to advance. A chill ran down Malfoy's neck, then all over, as the Dementor moved closer and closer. "Stop!" Voldemort cried, waving his wand. A jet of green flames licked the Dementor pushing him away. "You may be starving but, you can't pick upon one of my Death Eaters, even if he is a cowardly dog" Voldemorts looked at Malfoy "Improve, or die, go" He pointed away from him. And Malfoy, dejected, walked off.
"I don't now what you see in him, he's a fool" Westerner said, turning to him "He has no talent" Voldemort's nodded, and said "I believe that his talents aren't what they should be, but he does show ruthlessness, self-preservation, and other needed talents of a Death Eater, thought he has no other magical or fighting talent, I admit "
Westerner agreed, with a shake of the head, before he walked away. Voldemort smiled, Westerner was begging to get to big for his boots. He would soon have to be down sized, Voldemort thought maliciously. He walked away from the main hall. He walked down the corridor to his private chambers, He opened the door. and walked to his leather chair, and sat down to think.
With Malfoy's bungle the mood of the Death Eaters was dropping by the second. The Prism's have always faith in there leader, whatever they do, so they were in no trouble. But the Dementors were a problem. They were on edge, wanting to suck up the souls of a couple of stray Death Eaters. They were hard to control, they needed something to eat.
The thought's of Potter filled his mind. That wretched boy had defeated him every time, with the help of James, James,James and his merry little band, but things are going to change. But what is Wills problem, sometimes it almost like he could sense the danger. Voldemort shook his head. The Dementors are a problem. 'I could hold them for 2 months tops at this rate' he thought. But, and idea appeared. Perhaps at the end of these two months these hunger problems would end..............
"I can't stands this" James swore. Harry nodded. The Common Room was pack to capacity , with students and tables. The were eating a rather unhappy meal of chops and other meats. James shook his head as he ripped apart another chop. "I mean, two bloody months stuck up here, 2 months"
Ron nodded. Ever since Voldemort's little attack things were awful. Now Aurors patrolled halls. Guarded doors. Escorted every class from class to class. Then they couldn't even go the library, or even toilet without having an Auror chasing them. And no Quidditch.
"I totally agree James" Hermione said "I'm worried that I'm getting behind with out some books to help us with our elements and grades" A hint of concern was in her voice. James nodded. "I can't wait for us get outside in the fresh air" He said angrily "We hardly get any exercise up here, even if it is only a little down there at the grounds, it's better than up here"
"You can say that again, personally I'd like to go see Hagrid" Harry said as the meal began to end. Ron nodded as they began to move away from the table to were they left their book bags. James bent down to grab his and Hermione's. He handed Hermione to her and she grinned "Thanks James" He grinned back "My pleasure" They made for the portrait hole with the other 5th years.
Outside was a large group of Aurors. Twenty eight altogether Harry counted, four for each grade. He reached walked over to were the Auror (Nelson) who was responsible for there grade was going to escort them down to Herbology. The waited as the others gathered. Ron murmured in James "You're a real sweat heart now aren't you?" glancing at Hermione. James scoffed "I don't thinks so"
"Well you did give her the necklace" Ron said, then Harry leaned in and said "And you got her book bag" James looked slightly annoyed but shrugged it off "Look I was just being nice" Harry grinned "I think was it more than that" Ron joined in "Yeah"
James began to fume "Look what are you trying to do?" he asked as they started walking down to the Great Hall. "Well" Ron began as he walked "We were just wondering, what did you do on Christmas night?" James rolled his eyes. He had refused to tell Harry or Ron anything that he did after he left the hall for the last 2 months except saying, "We talked" and again James gave the same answer.
"We talked, and why do you want to know of all my time, what did you do Ron?" He eyed Ron suspiciously. Ron looked away from James' glance. This time Harry joined Ron's side "Come Ron, what?" Ron shook his head and looked at James "I asked you first" James fumed and said shortly "Fine, I kiss Hermione' and then went in at a gut feeling, now you" Harry gasped, he was right, "You kiss Hermione?" He ask amazed. "Yeah, sure, but she did start it" James pointed out. Then looked at Ron "Well, what did you do?"
Ron turned grinned sheepishly and then started to talk "I was with Kathy and we .." Ron suddenly fell as he tripped over a stair leading down to the Entrance Hall. Nelson looked back "No talking back there" Ron grinned saved by the bell, or in this case, Nelson. James stuck his middle finger up at him as he turned back to the front. Harry muffled a laugh. They were soon joined my some Hufflepuffs. Who fell into steep.
They reached the entrance hall with no real fuss. They all walked down into the mid morning sun shine. Outside was the normal greenhouse and greenhouse 1A which they now always used. They reached the door were Professor Sprout waited. He ushered them inside, Aurors waiting outside. He began to talk "Now class, the most common cure for any injury is a healing potions but there is a simple alternative, glassweed" He pointed over to a small tray.
On the tray were very small pale blue white weeds, each simmering in the light, a few of the girls let out small gasps and a few "Isn't it beautiful!?" James, Hermione, Harry and Ron just looked on. "Although they might look harmless" Sprout began. "The plant has a defense system to stop it being harvested" He reached forwards to the glassweed. It suddenly sprung up, out of the soil and under the leaves revealed long sharp silver claws.
Professor pulled his hand aside just as the claws came down were his hand had been. The it landed into the same spot it was in before being disturbed. "As you can see" Sprout said, steeping back "It is quite a dangerous pant, but if you catch the claws and pull them off, they're harmless"
So the Professor sorted them into groups to try to harvest the plants. Harry and his friends set to work on one. They soon had quite a few. James sneered one as soon as it jumped out. He ripped off the claws with a satisfying crunch. He looked out the clouded greenhouse glass. There was lots of darkness to one side. "Looks like some dark clouds coming" James said as Harry looked towards them.
Then suddenly a students closest to were he was looking screamed and fainted. James draw his wand instantly with his right hand , left on his amulet. Professor Sprout raced over to the student, who turned out to be Justin-Finch Fletchly. "Justin?" Professor said as he rolled him over onto his back. He was breathing heavily, his eyes rolled right up into his skull, his colour slowly draining from his face.
Then suddenly another, and this time ever where towards were pointing at each other and Professor Sprout looked shocked even more so, when he passed out. All the students raced for the doors and Harry heard something No please, not Harry Take me. And Harry turned white "Harry what the hell is this?" James said, he now was also hearing things You snotty son of a bitch, your fool of a father has caused me much grief. And Hermione and Ron was also looking scared.
Harry raced for the door. And there in the distance was the most dreaded things imaginable: Dementors. Harry gulped as they were coming closer and closer. "What are they? " James gasped "Dementors" Hermione said and James swore. "Run!" They yelled at each other, as the shape drew within a hundred meters.
They raced away with the others, all yelling and screaming. They reached the hall. and skidded to a stop Dementors were everywhere. They moved in. People began to faint as they moved closer from every angle. They voices in Harry and James heads grew and grew.
Then Harry remembered the Patronus. He thought about the Sirius, being free,Cho and all the happiness. Then he cried out focusing everything he had he yelled "Expecto Patronum! " A cloud of silver flew out of his wand and race forwards, forming it self into his fathers sign, the galloping stag.
It charged the staircase separating the Dementors. "GO!" harry yelled at the other students. Pointing at the staircase. People raced away carrying there friends, and crying , yelling and screaming. James. Asked quickly "How'd you do that!?" Harry quickly called back "Think happy and say what I did" James nodded. He recalled the memory of himself winning the Australia Youth Quidditch Championship. The screaming crowd, the brand new broom. "Expecto Patronum! "He bellowed and a bird sped from James' wand. The burning Phoenixuss chased the Dementors away from them. It's burning tail leaving a swirling pattern in the air.
Hermione and Ron joined into the call "Expecto Patronum! " they both bellowed. Hermione's wand released a leopard. It's had black neat fur and it's eyes were like black pools of water as it charged down they Dementors. Behind it, a massive lion, with a scorpions tail and wings launched after them. The four Patronus' cornered the Dementors, all shrinking away. Then all of a sudden voices cried "Need some help?" Fred, George,Seamus and Colin ,Colin ?!
James yelled upwards, losing concentration on his Patronus. "Get out of here, NOW" But it was to late. The Dementor saw James' Patronus stagger for a moment as James turned his mind to the others. And then, with a wave of a rotting hand there was a blast of energy.
Harry felt himself lifted off the ground as the wave came outwards. He feet left the ground, he felt the other beside him yell and also soar through the air. He came crashing back in to the wall with an awful crunch. "Those aren't normal Dementors" Ron said through gritted teeth.
"Tell me about it" Hermione said staggering to her feet. "They must have been enhanced somehow, but in the process, the must have lost some of their draining power" James pulled himself up and saw some of the other unconscious Seamus and Colin amongst them.
The Dementors came closer. And so did the sounds, and the ever draining cold. No please it echoed in Harry's head. He pointed his wand and again focused at the happy memory Sirius. "Expecto Patronum! " He bellowed. The stag flew out towards the Dementors. It's head down antlers pointing to the Dementors.
The Dementors scattered. Leaving a road to Seamus and the others. The were begging to recover. But a rogue Dementor cruised past the Patronus as it circled towards Harry and the others. It cruised up the stairs. Fred And George both fumbled their wands. It came very close, but ignored them. They both passed out. It went for Seamus.
James saw what's was happening. He grabbed his wand from the ground where he had dropped it and raced forwards to the stairs. Hermione gave him cover"Excepto Patronum! " Her leopard raced to cover his trail, holding the Dementors at bay. Harry followed James.
Seamus was riveted by the Dementor as it move up to him. He wasn't even aware as the hood came down. The skin was brown and rotting, scabs covered post of it's head. All around them were large globs of sticky yellow puss. Most of the skin around the eye and nose was gone, replaced with rotting, stinking flesh. It eye dripped puss , one was missing from the socket, leaving a large red hole in it's face. The other had a hole through it.
James saw it raise it's rotting hand up to Seamus' head. James knew that it was trying to kiss Seamus. James yelled out for his Patronus. It blazed out of his wand, straight ahead towards the Dementor. The Dementor through up a hand and it disappeared. James swore. No other choice left. He thought. He closed the distance between himself an he Dementor.
Seamus head moved closer to the Dementors. James came closer. Seamus' face moved closer. James was with in a few meters space. Seamus was centimeters near from the kiss. James sprung up as his ran, using the extra momentum to give him more speed as he knock the Dementor aside.
The Dementor was pushed away landing in a heap a few meters away, not moving. Seamus struggled up. Harry helped Fred and George up and saw the unthinkable. A Dementor had snuck past them all and was already lifting Colin's face up for the kiss. Harry sprinted to Colin, but it was to late. Harry let a strangled cry of "NNNNNNOOOOOOOOO" before the Dementor's lips closed on Colin's. Pushing Fred and George away he raced away.
Light seamed to rush to Colin's lips. An unearthly glow come up on his lips slowly rush from every inch of his body and hen disappeared. Colin flopped to the ground, soul-less. The Dementor spun round at the last inch as Harry used his Patronus at point blank range. "Expecto Patronum! " The Patronus had no time to form, but a jet of white light hit the Dementor, the same time as Harry did.
The light hit the Dementor in the face, and white flames engulfed it's face, slowly sweeping down it's robes, the heat was so intense that the rail behind the Dementor melted, and with Harry weight they both went down.
Hermione gasped as white as the Dementor body finally was engulfed as it fell, Harry still pushing down. Hermione murmured a charm. Harry stopped in midair. The Dementor didn't, with a sickening crunch it's flaming body shattered on the ground. Harry floated down safely.
James looked on with a grin, but this soon disappeared, the Dementor he had stunned was stirring. "Get out of here!" He bellowed at Seamus, Fred and George, needing no second bidding, they race away carrying Colin. Just as they left round a corner the Dementor rose. James looked down the stairs, more Dementors were coming. There was one behind him, and no way to escape, except......
James rush for the rail Harry and the Dementor had broken. He stopped at the edge and looked back, more Dementors were coming. So taking a deep breath he jumped. He let out a strangled shout as he shoot downwards. Hermione gasped, and murmured another charm. James rush toward the ground, faster, and then, stop. And dropped lightly to the ground. He grinned at Hermione, who grinned back.
Ron ran up "This ain't not time to kiss again you two, we need to get out of here!" Hermione nodded, as James help Harry up. Ron pointed, "The forest!" the Forbidden Forest, their only option. "But what about the Dementors?" He said looking back, as some went up the stairs, other went down towards them.
"Leave that to me" James called, as Harry finally got up shocked. "Get out of here! I'll fix 'em good!" Hermione nodded and pushed Ron and usher Harry out. James drew his amulet, and gathered the fire within. He saw he amulet shot out a beam that hit his wand, it crystallize around it. Pointing his wand up he bellowed "Firis Aagemnon! " A glowing ball of red formed above James, steadily glowing brighter. He raced out of the hall as fast as he could.
As he raced after Harry and the others, the hall exploded. The door were driven of their hinges by a wave on superheated gas and air, every window bellow out under a burning stream of air, the stone blocks of the hall crack and split, masonry fell of the roof and walls, the stair case collapsed, and the Dementors, were ripped apart by a wave of flames, first the robes melt, then their flesh burnt, and finally their skeletons exploded. This ended the Dementor threat, but put Harry,Ron,Hermione and James in a much bigger one!
Colin is soul-less, Harry is shocked and his friends are heading towards Voldemort's, what else can go wrong? A lot!
Disclaimer: Harry Potter , his friends and enemies are owned my J.K Rowling But I OWN James Wills And Michael Wills and all other strange characters (Except those mentioned in her novels)
