author: Brandi Vincent

disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, nor Harry Potter. Joss Whedon and J.K. Rowling own their characters from their imaginary story.

title: Hogwarts and The Scoobies

chapter: 16 One Cold Night

recommended fanfictions: Paint the Stars In the Sky, The Seed of Good and Evil, I Hate Goblins!, Spike and I are in a Band, Keep my Heart



******Chapter 16: One Cold Night******

"I love it! I love it! I love it!" Dawn said over and over again, riding her Xtreme 5000 on the field. It was around 7:25 PM.

"Dawn, it's getting colder! Let's go inside!" Buffy shouted at Dawn, rubbing her glved hands together.

"Hold on!" Dawn shouted back, zooming farther.

"Dawn!" Buffy started getting colder and colder by the minute. "Dawn!" Dawn wouldn't listen. She was having way too much fun on her own. "Dawn!" Her mouth started getting dry and she couldn't shout Dawn's name anymore. Only a scratchy cough came out. Then she saw, up ahead, dementors crossing the field out of the foggy, snowy distance. "Dementors." She squeaked. She taught a class once in Defense Against the Dark Arts about dementors. She knew alot about them. But she couldn't move. Her feet were numb and frozen, she tried running but fell. The dementors got closer, pointing their boney, white fingers at her and nodding together. Her happiness fell apart and her mind went blank. But she could hear a distant voice in her head. She could hear herself in her lonely scene of life panicing over her mother. Then the screams of the innocent from Glory and her minions, and her falling into the hell mouth. She closed her eyes tight and took a deep breathe. Those horrible stages in life taunted her and the dementors floated closer. Dawn felt the same senseation as well. She looked down and was horrified on what she saw. Child hood memories of mistakes in life floated through. Was it just her? She had no way of knowing. She saw Buffy laying motionless on the ground and paniced. She stooped down and lifted Buffy with much exhaustion onto the broom and flew off, away from the quite close dememtors. Then she realized something. She remembered Harry, Malfoy, and herself banging on the door at the beginning of the year. It was locked. Her lips quivered and she was terrified. What would she do? What could she do? Buffy was unconsciouse. The only thing left was to bang hard on the door, hoping Anya was on her night walk through the castle. Nobody opened it. The dementors came closer to them. There was no way out. She fell to the ground and slept ut of exhaustion and numbness. Nor could she remember what happened next. Just awaiting the morning. The next day she would hopefully be awakened by the bright sun and Buffy and she would go inside and act like everything was alright. If only, if only.

******At Breakfast******

"Hey guys, where's Buffy?" Willow asked, sitting down at the porfessor's table.

"Last time I saw her, she was going to get Dawn's new broom." Tara replied.

"New broom?" Anya asked.

"Dawn got on the Gryffindor Quidditch team." Tara replied.

"Where is she now?" Willow asked.

"Where's Dawn now?" Xander asked too, glancing from table to table for Dawn.

"Look at the last table you ninny." Spike replied.

"She's not there." Xander informed.

"Where are they?" Giles asked.

At the Gryffindor table.

"Have you seen Dawn yet?" Harry asked Hermione.

"She didn't go to bed last night." Hermione replied.

"Well she went to go see Professor Summers. You know, her sister. I don't know why."

"Maybe she fell asleep there."

"She's on the Quidditch team."

"Maybe she went to get a new broom."

"What if she's in...AH!" Harry was lifted up off of his seat. You can guess it wasn't Malfoy.

"Where are they? Where is she? What happened?" Spike ordered, slamming Harry on the table, crashing against the plates.

"I don't know where Dawn is!" Harry shrieked. "I was hoping you'd know!"

"Well, I don't. And her sister is gone as well." Spike gritted his teeth. Everybody was looking now.]

"Spike. Calm down." Oz said, grabbing hold of Spike's arm and pulling it off of Harry.

"Shove off tender foot." Spike hissed.

"Hey. I'm not a tender foot." Oz pulled Spike's arm behind Spike's back and flipped him on the ground.

"Ouch. Watch it!" Spike hollered. Oz helped Harry off of the table.

"He gets a bit carried away when he's under pressure." Oz said.

"Seems so." Harry replied, carrassing his arm.

"Ladies and gentlemen." Dumbledore announced. "May I have you attention please!" Everybody turned from Spike to Dumbledore, who looked very anxious about something. "I'm sorry to say one of our porfessors and one of our students are under the care of Madame Pomfrey, who just came back yesterday. They were out all night. And I hope all of you should know what that means." A commotion through out the students errupted.

"Oh no." Harry gasped and ran out of the door, up to the Hospital Wing.

"I take it that's not good." Xander said, they all glared at him.

******The Hospital Wing******

Buffy amd Dawn laid down on two seperate beds, eyes wide open and wouldn't blink until their eyes watered.

"Kitty. Kitty. I want a kitty." Dawn muttered.

"Coconut butter tastes good. Meow." Buffy said. They were a bit crazy. Dawn started singing.

"'If only, if only.' The woodpecker sighed. 'This bark would be softer.' He cried and he cried. The wolf down below, licked his fangs and his chops. Tried climbing the tree, but fell down with some bops. The woodpecker perched on top of a branch. Kept crying and crying. He would fly to a ranch. 'If only, if only.' The wolf below sighed. 'My claws would be sharper.' He cried and he cried."

"Dawn?" Harry asked, coming in. "Professor Summers?"

"Mr. Potter, I'd advice that you get out." Madame Pomfrey ordered.

"Can I just stay with Dawn?" Harry asked.

"Certainly-"

"Wait." Buffy said, interupting. They turned to her. She was sitting up and looking at Harry. "You. I know you. Who are you? You're my sister's boyfriend. You help her. You comfort her."

"Yea. I'm Harry." Harry replied.

"Hm. She wasn't like that before. I guess those Dementors didn't go completely to her head." Madame Pomfrey said.

"May I stay?" Harry asked.

"Little boy can stay." Buffy said and laid back down.

"'If only, if only.' The woodpecker sighed. 'This bark would be softer.' He cried and he cried. The wolf down below, licked his fangs and his chops. Tried climbing the tree, but fell down with some bops. The woodpecker perched on top of a branch. Kept crying and crying. He would fly to a ranch. 'If only, if only.' The wolf below sighed. 'My claws would be sharper.' He cried and he cried." Dawn sang again.

"She keeps singing that." Madame Pomfrey said. "I don't understand where that's from."

"Maybe a book, or somebody else." Harry thought, sitting next to Dawn.

"I remember song. The song from him." Dawn said.

"From who?" Harry asked intently.

"I woke up and he sang me back to sleep. He needed me asleep. He was going to take me." Dawn replied.

"Who? Take where?"

"It was dark and cold. He was coming. They were trying to get him. He ran away."

"Who?"

"He was old. His robes were torn. He had a wrinkly face. He kind of had long hair." Harry's eyes widened.

"Thanks Dawn." Harry said and kissed her on her forehead, running out of the door.

"I like him."

******Back at Breakfast******

Everybody was talking about the announcement. They all liked Dawn and Professors Summers. They were worried of what might have happened to them. Harry ran up to Dumbledore who was sitting down at the table.

"Sir?" Harry asked.

"What is it Harry?" Dumbledore asked, looking up at him.

"Somebody tried taking Dawn last night." Harry replied.

"What do you mean?"

"When they were outside, somebody sang her back to sleep so he could take her somewhere."

"Oh my. I think I know."

"So do I. But how could he get past the dementors?"

"Trust me. He's pretty insane, I'm pretty sure the dementors would have little affect on him."

"But...how?"

"Stupid gits didn't watch over every part."

"But I thought they were everywhere??"

"I should have known! Why wouldn't I have protected that spot?"

"What spot?"

"The very spot where the old rat Scabbers turned into a real old man."

"But didn't you block that up or something?"

"There is another entrance into there. Didn't think Petigrue would be that clever to find it. I opened the second entrance up when Professor Lupin came back...you know...for his once a month illness."

"And the dementors coildn't figure that out. Well that's just great."

"His death eaters are hiding somewhere. Our guess is in the Forbidden Forest, so we have dementors all along there searching. But it seems yet again they've failed."

"What do we do?"

"The only thing we can do."

"And that is sir?"

"First of all, Dawn's little recovery is most important on details of what happened. Second of all, we have to close that second entrance. But I guarantee you that they won't be there anymore. He's probably moving place to place somewhere. That's what Mr. Giles and I are trying to figure out. And he tried taking Dawn for a reason."

"What reason is that??"

"Maybe you should ask Mr. Giles. Let alone his friends. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to my studies on this whole mess." Dumbledore got up and walked down the aisle, going back up to his office. Harry just starred blankly back at him.

******Later, At the Library******

Spike, Willow, Tara, Lupin, Giles, Oz, Xander, and Anya met at the library after breakfast.

"I can't believe it. Again. They're not crazy...are they?" Willow asked.

"No. The dementors couldn't have gotten to them that badly...hopefully." Oz hugged her and kissed her on the forehead.

"And it seems Spike didn't hold it back much to take it on Harry." Xander smiled sarcastically.

"Could you make it more obvious, Spike?" Lupin asked.

"Hey! My girlfriend and her sister are up there hurt and...well...nutso." Spike defended.

"Well lodydo then." Xander mocked.

"Shut-up!" Anya yelled. Everybody looked over at her, shocked. "I'm sick and tired of everybody fighting. Dawn is that one that is most at risk and you all are fighting and sobbing instead of helping! And it's almost my wedding god damnit! I want everybody to be there! I mean EVERYBODY!" There was a long moment of silence.

"Well...Anya. We didn't know you felt that way." Tara finally said.

"Yea, well, I do." Anya said, holding her elbow.

"Anya. We all know what is going on. And we are sorry for the inconvinience. But-" The door opened and everbody looked over.

"Hi." Harry greeted briskly, walking in.

"What do you want?" Spike asked coldly. Harry walked over to Spike and punched him straight in the jaw. "Bloody hell!"

"I know you all know something. What is it? Voldemort is trying to capture Dawn for a reason." Harry said in a low tone, turning to everybody else. "You know something Mr. Giles that Dawn should know." Giles gulped and looked down.

"Well..." He hesitated. "You don't know this...but Dawn is...how should a put this...a key. A key to a hell mouth." Giles hesitated.

"A....what?" Harry asked, puzzlement crossing his face.

"Harry. There is probably alot Dawn left out when she told you about her life." Willow said.

"There is a hell mouth back in Sunnydale, California. I think you know that Professor Summers is a slayer. And last summer, this hell god, Glory, opened it and with Dawn. Dawn is a key. And I haven't told any of you yet, but Voldemort is trying to capture Dawn...in order to kill all of the muggles around the planet. Dumbledore called me over to help on some research. Evidently, I'm the only one he can trust with the information. Now, Dawn will be killed in this procedure. But we didn't tell her because we knew it would fright her. But it seems now we should have told her. Voldemort is going to do this powerful spell once he has her, in the Forbidden Forest. Since she is the hell mouth's key, she has this powerful blood in her that makes Voldemort's spell unstopable. Now that he almost has her, we have to be more cautious than ever. We don't exactly know what the spell is yet, so that's why we're still researching on what Voldemort is trying to do. It could be anything." Giles finally ended.

"Giles, you knew about this and you didn't tell us?" Willow asked. Harry just starred at him, shocked. He looked down for a moment, then ran out of the door. He knew all he needed to know, and now he had to visit Dawn.

******The Gryffindor Common Room******

Hermione was doing her homework at a desk, when the portrait of the fat lady flung open. Nobody except her and a few others were in it, they were either still eating breakfast of what they could, or just walking around somewhere. She didn't bother looking up, still continuing her work. Somebody stepped in, setting down a suitcase.

"Hermione?" A silent voice asked. She looked up and dropped her quill, shot up, and ran towards him.

"Ron!" She yelled and threw her arms around his neck. "We missed you so much! I'm terribly sorry about-"

"It's OK." Ron replied quickly.

"I'm so happy you're here."

"Me too."

"You've missed alot."

"About what?"

"About Dawn. About school. Alot. I've just missed you so much."

"So have I." Hermione and Ron pulled away slowly from each other and looked into each other's eyes. Hermione was almost crying. "I think about you all of the time." Ron whispered. Hermione smiled, and Ron leaned into her, kissing her tenderly on the lips.

******To be Continued******



Next Chapter of Hogwarts and The Scoobies: Dawn soon turns sane again but finds out it is much safer with Malfoy. Which everybody knows, but doesn't want to admit, that it's true. Christmas is soon. Ron and Hermione go out. And Xander and Anya's wedding is very close. For further details, contact me at my e-mail address, wolfgurl2001@email.com.

author's note: Muhahahahaha. Sorry. I just watched The Sixth Sense and I don't care what you say, but that movie is scary! I love Haley Joel Osmond. He's also in A.I., I love that movie. Haley Joel Osmond almost got the part of Harry Potter, but nooooooo! Daniel Radcliffe had to get it! But I also don't care what you think when I say I think he's cute also. So, R&R, and if you wanna ask any questions or blah blah blah, e-mail me. Ta ta for now! Cheerio! (I've always wanted to say that)