MIDORI – Chapter 4
Disclaimer: I own Jason, Myleene and Kym and the plot. JKR owns the Harry Potter stuff and Linkin Park own the lyrics to In The End (Well, technically the writers do but I have no idea who they are).
Harry jerked awake as a scream cut through the night. He fumbled for his glasses as he heard footsteps and shouts from outside. Ron yanked at his curtains, light flooding in and Harry squinted, trying to keep the light out of his eyes.
"Harry!" Ron shouted. "Something's happened! C'mon, let's move!" he explained urgently. Harry heaved himself up, and followed Ron down the stairs towards the common room. They were met with utter commotion, Gryffindors filled the room, many crowding Professors McGonagall and Dumbledore. Harry spotted Hermione and motioned for her to come over, meeting her on the way towards the Headmaster.
"Harry, what's going on?" she questioned.
"I have no idea." He muttered in reply. He stepped towards Dumbledore and pulled on the sleeve of his robe. Dumbledore turned towards him, worry etched onto his face.
"Sir?" Harry asked. "What's going on here?" Dumbledore shook his head.
"I'll explain later. I want you three to follow me after I try to calm everyone down, understand?" Harry, Hermione and Ron nodded in unison, stepping back as Dumbledore called for attention. The common room became quiet.
"As most of you know, something happened down here tonight and it is of no direct concern to most of you. I will tell you exactly what happened as far as I know, however." He paused and looked around the room intently, many of them shifting under his gaze. "Ginny Weasley was kidnapped, no doubt for some plan of Voldemort's. I want you to go back to your dormitories and get some sleep. I fear much is ahead for us." He nodded towards McGonagall who nodded in reply and began barking orders to the other students. Fred and George Weasley stared at Ron who's eyes were wide with shock.
Dumbledore motioned for Harry, Hermione and Ron to follow him and they left the noisy common room, into the silent hallway. Dumbledore's steps were large so the three students almost had to run to keep up with him.
"Professor," Hermione gasped. "What else is there that we're supposed to know?" Dumbledore did not reply so the rest of the trip to his office was silent, except when Ron began muttering, "Why do things like this always happen to Ginny?"
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As Harry settled himself into a chair, Ron and Hermione were looking around the room in wonderment – the Sorting Hat, Fawkes, all of the things that Harry had seen before. Dumbledore settled himself into his chair and looked at them all. He cleared his throat and began talking.
"Mr. Potter, I fear this has something to do with you directly. Mr. Weasley, Miss. Granger, I think you're both just in for the ride." He looked Harry in the eye. "Harry, have you noticed something… peculiar about Miss. Weasley this year?"
Harry nodded vehemently. "She's been hanging around those three new exchange students, Jason, Kym and Myleene. She's been going out with them to clubs I think and I've seen her hung over before. I think that they're a really bad influence on her." Ron and Hermione nodded in agreement.
"Well, indeed your suspicions are correct. Before the unfortunate incident occurred, I have reason to believe that the two girls had visited none other than Voldemort himself." All three students mouths hung open as they heard this new information and Ron was the first to recover.
"You mean… they took Gin to… to… him?" he gasped.
"That is my theory." Dumbledore concluded and leant back in his chair, staring at the students his look empty. Harry cleared his throat.
"What can we do?" he asked finally.
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Jason listened to what Dumbledore had told Harry, Ron and Hermione, hiding under Harry's Invisibility Cloak. He clenched his fists and stepped out of the office, walking back towards the Gryffindor common room.
'Typical,' he thought angrily. 'Potter just has to be right. Well, Mr. Goodie-Goodie-Two-Shoes, your about the get done out.'
He dropped to Cloak in Harry's dorm, Neville's snores blocking any sounds he might've made. He ran back towards his room, grabbed his broom and jumped out the window, flying towards Voldemort's headquarters.
He jumped off the broom and ran towards the castle, knocking wildly on the doors. He stepped back as he waited for a Death Eater to open the door. A black hooded figure opened the door and motioned for Jason to step inside. He walked towards a huge room and saw Kym and Myleene sitting down talking.
"Hey, guys!" he called, his voice echoing in the empty hall. They turned towards him, eyes slits and then Kym grinned and waved. Myleene slapped her arm down and Kym looked down towards the ground. Myleene stood up and walked towards Jason. She smiled as she neared him. A tingle of fear began to stir inside him and he forced himself to smile.
"Hey My. How are you?" he asked slowly. She grinned and Kym walked towards them.
"T'riffic, J!" she replied with feigned perkiness and grabbed his by the shoulders, walking him towards a door near the exit to the room. "Guess what, J?" she looked as though she suddenly remembered something and Jason raised his eyebrows.
"What?" he countered as a voice inside his head said, 'stop walking stop walking stop walking!'.
"I have a little friend for you to talk to. I believe you know her. I believe you heard her scream earlier tonight." Jason suddenly jerked himself out of her reach. She was already smiling.
"GINNY!" he roared. He seized her by the collar of her robe. "What have you done with her?" he snarled. Myleene simply flicked his hands of like a fly and knocked him against the wall with a flick of her wrists. He collapsed to the ground, groaning. Kym stood and watched silently, her eyes wide with fear. Myleene walked calmly towards Jason who was struggling to get up. She yanked him up by the back of his shirt.
She put her mouth to his ears and whispered, "It doesn't matter what we've done to her, does it? 'Cos you're not supposed to give a damn about her, isn't that right, J? But oopsie daisy – you went and fell in love with her. And you know what this means, don't you, J?" she shook her head and waggled her finger at him. "I hope you rot in hell!" She lifted him up and howled when all of a sudden she dropped him.
Jason opened his eyes groggily. He watched as Kym wrestled with Death Eaters. He looked over a little bit and saw why they grasped her – Myleene had blood pouring from her head, a plank of wood next to her body. He picked himself up and knocked over some Death Eaters and he grabbed Kym by the forearm. She howled in pain but he was louder.
"RUN!"
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Dumbledore began talking about strategies of how to get to Ginny when Ron fell off his seat. All the professors present, as well as Harry and Hermione turned their heads to face him. He blushed scarlet.
"Sorry." He whispered, then he yawned. "But I'm so tired. I mean, we've been here for, how long? Three hours at least." He turned to Harry and Hermione who's faces showed they were trying not to laugh. "C'mon guys! You're tired too, aren't you?" Harry shook his head.
"I can believe you, Ron. Your sister's life is at stake and the fate of the wizarding world and all you can care about is three hours sleep?" he criticised. Ron opened his mouth to protest when, all of a sudden, there came a banging at the door and Jason and Kym burst in, completely out of breath. Harry stood up and walked up to them. Jason grabbed Harry by the shoulder as he rested on him while he caught his breath.
"Potter," he gasped. "You… have… to… save… Ginny!"
"Where is she?" he asked urgently. Kym waved her arms towards him and coughed. Hermione brought her some water and she drank it thirstily. Harry grabbed a cloak and his wand while she did this as to not waste anytime.
"She's… with my Master. In a really big castle, by a graveyard." Harry nodded. 'It must be the place after the Triwizard Tournament.'
"I have no idea where he took her though. I think down. There's a staircase down and you go through that but that's only what I think." She explained. Harry grabbed Jason's broom and kicked open the window. He jumped out and flew. He didn't know how but he knew exactly where he was going.
"I hope he's not too late." murmured Kym.
I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
And for all this
There's only one thing you should know
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Dumbledore's office was dead silent after Harry flew out. Jason suddenly shook himself out of his reverie and turned to Kym, urgency in his eyes.
"Kym!" he shouted and grabbed her by the shoulders. Kym's eyes were wild and she searched his face.
"What?"
"What was Master's plan? What did he want to do with Gin and Potter?"
Suddenly, it dawned on Kym. "Oh, my God!" she moaned. "He wanted to trap Harry and then kill him, as well as Gin!" she paused and saw the shocked expression on Jason's face. "And you as well." She murmured. Jason suddenly understood why he had been left out of all these 'meetings'. It was because he was involved in it – however, on the wrong side of the scheme. He spotted a broom in the corner of Dumbledore's office and ran towards it. He picked it up and grabbed Kym by the wrist.
"C'mon!" he snarled at the frightened girl. "You're coming with me, too! You can tell me everything on the way!"
With that, he ran towards the window that Harry had already kicked open and jumped out, Kym, complaining, in tow.
Silence once again filled the room. Ron suddenly jumped.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Aren't we going after them?" his blue eyes were wide and his gaze swept through the room. "You can't be serious? We're not just going to stand here?"
Dumbledore began laughing. "Indeed not, Mr. Weasley! Come on, everybody! Let's hope we're not too late!"
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Harry had flown far from Hogwarts at this stage and suddenly, he saw a huge castle. He began to descend, the wind messing up his already messy black hair. He came to a halt as he slid on the ground and threw the broom into some bushes outside of the castle. He looked up and gaped at the size.
'Geez!' he thought. 'Typical though. A great, big honking castle for a great, big honking Dark Lord.'
He shuddered from the cold, pulling his cloak around his body and stepped up to the door. He pulled out his wand as the door was opened by a hooded figure and he shouted "Gelo!". Everyone in the room froze and Harry grabbed some random things around the room. He was reaching for a sword on the wall when he spotted a door right in the furthest corner of the room. He slipped the sword into his belt, wondering if it would actually be any help to him, and ran for the door.
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"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Ginny's screams echoed through the cold and empty dungeon. They sent shivers of pleasure down Voldemort's spine. They sent feelings of fear and regret through Wormtail's body and had retired himself to a dark corner of the tiny room, trying to block out the sounds that Ginny made.
"Well, Weasley, it looks as though no one's here to save your skin. What a surprise! And yet, what a shame. I was hoping that Harry would come to rescue you, like he would for so many others, but I guess he decided to chicken out…" Voldemort tutted and spun his wand around his fingers.
Ginny didn't know how long she'd been down there with him but she knew how painful it was. She couldn't count the number of times the Cruciatus Curse on her, the number of bruises and cuts he had administered, the number of screams nor how loud they were. She most definitely couldn't count the number of tears had fallen or how many times she begged God for help.
She had heard that in Hell, one day on the mortal plane on Earth was one hundred years in Hell. She knew she was not in Hell, but she knew that this was almost as bad. She could no longer speak, only scream, wail and cry. The only things Voldemort was looking for – her anguish.
Voldemort paced around her, every now and again pressing one of her bruises which made her eyes water and a wail escape from her mouth, or cutting her some place he had not already cut her. Her clothes were ripped, her eyes swollen. She was chained and there was no escape.
Only pain.
Suddenly she heard something and, she assumed, Voldemort had heard it too. She heard footsteps down the stairs that she was dragged down.
'Finally!' she thought, relief flooding through her body. 'Someone's come for me!'
A Death Eater burst into the room, panic written on his face. Ginny slumped back down, her legs once again feeling numb. Voldemort strode towards the intruder and hissed, "What is it? I'm in the middle of something so it'd better be important."
"A young boy came and Myleene was going to kill him when the other, Kym, picked up a plank and killed her with it. They ran off, I'm sure, to get Potter."
"Traitor!" Voldemort hissed. He picked up a rock and threw it towards Ginny. It hit her on the cheek and she howled. Wormtail curled himself further into the corner and she, once again, began crying. Voldemort turned back to the Death Eater who looked more distraught but stood stock-still. "Then prepare for him. I want him dead before he can come save the Weasley, understand? I want him dead! I never want to see that boy alive again. WORMTAIL!" Wormtail's body shook as he stood up.
"Y-yes, M-master?" he stuttered.
Voldemort smiled. "Go with him. Make sure you stay out of their way. Just in case Harry decides to pull a little trick." He winked and Wormtail nodded. The Death Eater nodded as well, and both turned and ran up the stairs as quickly as they could.
Voldemort turned back towards Ginny and grinned as though he had never heard anything about Harry coming to save her and kill him. "Miss. Weasley! Where were we?" he saw a knife, already stained with Ginny's blood lying on a table next to her. "Ah, yes! A few more cuts should do it, yes?"
Ginny cried harder. "Just kill me already, would you?" she howled, her face twisted in agony. Voldemort grinned even wider, dropped the knife and took his wand out from under his robe.
"Very well." He raised his wand. "Avada Kedavra!"
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The moment Harry had left for the dungeon, Kym and Jason entered the room, kicking the door open. Shock was on both of their faces as they came face to face with frozen Death Eaters. Not one was moving.
"Well," Jason breathed after the first moment of shock passed. "Looks like Potter made it easy for-"
He was cut off as a hand covered his mouth and a dagger cut into his stomach. His eyes bulged and he slid to the ground, blood pouring from his wound.
"J!" Kym screeched and ran to his side. "It was Wormtail. He's probably gone to tell Master that we've come." Jason clutched her hand tightly and winced in pain.
"K-Kym, I… don't think I… I can go down. I don't… think… I'm gonna make it… Kymmy…" he trailed off and his head slumped to the floor. Kym shook his body, face covered in tears.
"J!" she wailed and clutched his body. "J! You have to wake up! You have to help save Gin! J…"
"G-goodbye, Kymmy. Make sure you save Gin, K? Just do that for me." His eyes closed and Kym cried and cried. She picked herself up and grabbed the dagger from Jason's wound. Her eyes were red from crying but they were determined.
She was going to keep that promise to Jason. Even if she had to die to do it.
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The professors had sprinted to the outskirts of Hogwarts and Disapparated to the castle while Ron and Hermione were riding on broomsticks towards where Harry, Jason and Kym had headed. The trip was silent. Both of them were lost in their own thoughts. This was the first time either of them had ever come face to face with Voldemort and both were petrified at what he could do, what he looked like and what he had already done to Ginny.
'I'll kill him.' Ron vowed. 'I'll kill him if Ginny's hurt in any way.'
They landed and noticed the professors waiting outside, already armed with wands. They ran towards them and Hermione whispered, "Are we going to go in now? Or is there an attack plan?" Dumbledore put his finger to his lips and motioned towards the door. His face was half hidden in shadow and looked as old as he was. The lines on his face were accented and he turned around and stepped up.
He burst open the door with a spell and stepped in. The others stepped up behind him and gasped at what they saw. The room was filled with frozen Death Eaters and, lying on the floor, was…
"Oh, my God!" gasped Hermione. "Jason! He's dead!"
All of them looked at his dead body. Was this an omen, a sign of what was to come? All of a sudden a scream cut through the air. All of their heads jerked up and looked towards the door leading towards the basement. They ran towards it.
'I hope we're not too late.'
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Ginny cried harder. "Just kill me already, would you?" she howled, her face twisted in agony. Voldemort grinned even wider, dropped the knife and took his wand out from under his robe.
"Very well." He raised his wand. "Avada Kedavra!"
All of a sudden, a sword and a howl cut through the air. The howl was one of desperation and shock. The sword barely missed Voldemort's arm.
Voldemort dropped his wand in shock and it sparked a little.
Ginny's eyes widened as she spotted Harry kneeling down, chest rising and falling as he gasped for oxygen. Her heart leapt as she saw him but it began to beat even faster as she watched from the corner of her eye Voldemort bend down to pick up his wand.
"HARRY!" she screamed. "LOOK OUT!"
His eyes flashed up to see Voldemort grin and raise his wand arm. Harry gasped and dived for him but Voldemort ducked out of the way.
"No, no, Harry!" he tutted and waggled his wand teasingly in front of Harry's eyes that were wide with fear. "I'm afraid we're going to do this my way." He grabbed Harry's arms and searched for his wand which was tucked in his robe. He continued. "And I'm afraid we're going to have to wait a while before you die. As well as Miss. Weasley here of course." His blood red eyes flicked towards Ginny before they focused back on Harry once more.
"How would you like a little torture treatment, hm? I think that'd do rather nicely, don't you think?" he raised his arm, ready to curse and, for the second time that night, he was interrupted.
"NO!"
Every single eye turned towards Kym, standing at the bottom of the stairs, clutching a dagger in her right hand. She stormed furiously towards Voldemort and went straight for his wand. She moved to kick him in the stomach but he was faster. He grabbed her leg and flipped her onto her back and turned his wand on her.
Harry seized the opportunity and jumped onto Voldemort. He snatched both wands and snapped Voldemort's in half. Voldemort turned, eyes flashing with anger and reached for Harry's wand but then Kym knocked him off his feet and he fell to the floor.
Kym jumped up and ran past Harry, forcing him to trip and drop his wand. His head knocked against the stone wall and he fell to the base of the wall, head spinning. However, she just ran on towards Ginny and found the keys to her chains over on the wall and hurriedly unlocked them. Ginny fell and as she tried to stand, her legs shook and she collapsed.
"Bloody hell!" thought Kym. "She can't even freaking walk!"
She slung Ginny's arm over her shoulder and tried to pick her up but she fell down with Ginny and groaned.
'Fine! I'll open the door and come back for Ginny.'
She turned around and came face to face with Voldemort, clutching Harry's wand.
"Not so fast, Kym." He spat out her name as though it was an old sock. Her eyes widened and flicked towards an almost unconscious Harry. She slowly back right near Ginny.
"That's right, you can die right next to a Muggle lover. You see, Kym, you were a Death Eater. No longer, of course, but I believe you still remember what I told you about Mudbloods and Muggle lovers. They're trash to our pure blood wizarding society and the Weasleys are perfect examples of Muggle lovers. Shame you should die next to one. But I'll torture you even more." He smiled sadistically. "I'll kill her first." He flicked Harry's wand and Kym went flying, knocking over a few things and she sat up watching, frozen, as he neared Ginny who was clutching her head.
Her eyes clouded over as Jason's last words ran through her head. "G-goodbye, Kymmy. Make sure you save Gin, K? Just do that for me."
She howled and got up. She ran as fast as she had ever run in her life and the scene passed slowly for her.
Voldemort raised his wand and pointed it towards Ginny. His mouth moved but Kym didn't hear the words he spoke. She just ran between the end of the wand and Ginny.
She saw a green flash and suddenly she heard it.
"Avada Kedavra!"
She felt the spell hit her body.
She screamed.
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Snape kicked the door open, managing to overtake Dumbledore, Ron and Hermione. He started running furiously down the stairs and he felt Ron and Hermione overtake him as the slid down the bannister. He tripped on the last step and his eyes flicked upwards. He saw Ginny crouched by a barrel next to several chains lying on the floor. He saw Kym slumped, dead on the floor right next to her and he saw Harry slumped by a wall, blood pouring from his head.
"Jesus Christ…" he muttered. 'He's dead!'
"Harry!" Hermione shrieked. "RON! He's dead!"
The other professors poured into the room and stopped frozen at the scene that greeted them. A scene of death and utmost torture and violence.
Voldemort stood frozen as well. He recovered quickly and turned around to knock everyone off their feet and he raised his wand and, again, aimed it towards Ginny. He was determined not to miss her again.
"For the last goddamn time," he muttered. "Avada Kedavra!"
The room flashed bright green and a loud shriek was heard. The light began pulsing and then it stopped. Everyone got to their feet slowly and Ron ran towards Ginny who was seated still and quivering with fear. Hermione ran towards Harry and ripped the bottom of her robe to clean up his wound. She shook him.
"Harry?" she asked urgently. "Harry, come on, wake up!"
He shook his head and blinked several times before his eyes opened fully. He groaned and clutched his wound.
Dumbledore, however, walked right to where Voldemort had been standing and shook his head in disbelief.
"I cannot believe it…" he muttered under his breath. He looked towards the Weasleys, brother and sister caught in a tight embrace and both sobbing horribly. Then he smiled.
"Yet another has escaped Lord Voldemort. And, once again, he has gone."
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Later that year…
(A/N: OK, just imagine that Ginny went to rehab and got off drugs!)
Ginny Weasley held Harry Potter's hand as he led her towards the Gryffindor common room.
"Harry, honey?" she asked. "What are you doing?" he stopped and turned towards her, a grin plastered on his face. He winked as he opened the door and pushed her inside. She stumbled into the dark room and it was suddenly illuminated.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GINNY!!!!!"
Her eyes widened as they swept across the room. Every single Gryffindor had jumped out and was running towards her, all yelling 'happy birthday!' or similar messages. A huge sign hung over the fireplace and balloons and ribbons were scattered across the room.
"Oh, my God…" she whispered. She grinned widely and started laughing. "Oh, my God! Thank you, all so much!"
The rest of the night, Ginny stood around talking to people and finally, Hermione shouted. "OK! PRESENTS!" everyone in the room shouted to agree and sat down the shocked Ginny who was saying profusely that she didn't need anything else and that the surprise party was enough for her. They ignored her and passed her presents.
Books, chocolates, tricks, jewellery were only some presents that she received. One of the peculiar ones was a little green turtle with a red ribbon wrapped around its body.
"Oh, it's so cute!" she cooed and she asked her friends how they knew that she loved turtles.
"We overheard a conversation between you and someone else." They had replied and left it at that. The memory of Jason and Kym still haunted her and often prayed that they were happy and thanked them for saving her life.
Soon after, many people were complaining of tiredness and the party died down as people yawned and went up to bed. Soon, only she and Harry were left to clean.
She was putting some ribbon and remains of popped balloons into a bag to make disappear when she suddenly jumped when Harry wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her on the cheek.
"What's up, Harry?" she asked as she continued cleaning. She was dead off her feet and ready to just drop into a bed.
He put his lips to her ear and whispered, "I haven't given you my present yet."
She raised her eyebrows. "Really?" she was shocked.
"Uh huh. Close your eyes and I'll give it to you." She stopped cleaning and shut them tightly. She felt Harry hands move around her neck, lift up her hair and slide down her body. "OK. You can open them now." He said huskily.
She opened her eyes and looked down and gasped. Around her neck was a fine silver chain with a bright green stone hanging off. She turned within Harry's grasp and looked into his eyes, matching the green on her necklace almost perfectly.
"I… I can't accept this. It-" she started stuttering before Harry put a finger to her lips.
"I won't give it to anyone else. It belonged to my mum and I'm supposed to give it to the girl I love." Ginny melted and hugged him tightly.
He moved out of her grasp and kissed her on the lips. He pulled away and grinned shyly.
"I love you." He whispered. She began to cry.
"I love you, too." She whispered before she was caught up in another breathtaking kiss.