Days went by yet Harry still refused to talk to Hermione. Hermione, every day getting closer and closer to a breakdown, kept trying to talk to him when she had the chance. "Harry." She said as she saw him in the hall on day. And then Harry ran away. It seemed never ending.
They had been back for about a month and it was time for the first Quidditch game after the Christmas Holiday. The game will be Gryffindor verses Hufflepuff. Gryffindors new Quidditch captain, Alicia Spinnet had them working harder than even Wood ever had ("Come on Alicia, just one day without practice!" The Weasley twins always complained.). In addition to Alicia becoming captain there was a new keeper, and chaser. The keeper position had been taken by a fourth year Zac Roman and the other chaser by a third year Traycee Fult.
The team was in the locker room, getting their pep talk form Alicia, and all Harry could think about was Hermione would be watching him. He didn't want that. He wanted her as far away as possible. Harry tried to forget this as he flew on to the field with his scarlet colored robes waving in the wind.
Madam Hooch released the bludgers, then the golden snitch (Harry tried to followed it with his eyes, but then lost it), she held on the red quaffle, "I want a nice, fair game you all!" Then she threw the quaffle into the air. And the game began!
"THE QUAFFLE WAS TAKEN BY THE NEW CHASER FOR GRYFFINDOR!" Lee Jordan was announcing for his last year. "FULT IS GOING DOWN THE FIELD... PASS TO JOHNSON, BACK TO FULT, TO SPINNET, OUCH! THAT'S GOTTA HURT. SPINNET GETS HIT BY A BLUDGER LESS THAN THIRTY SECONDS INTO THE GAME, AND HUFFLEPUFF IN POSSESSION NOW!" It was a cat and mouse game. After 10 minutes the game was scoreless. Harry was still high up searching for the snitch on his Firebolt. The most action Harry was getting was when a bludger missed him by inches. After an other ten minutes the score was now moving up. 10-20 Gryffindor. Harry kept searching when... A flash of gold light was coming from the Gryffindor stands. Harry knew he must go after it even though Hermione was there. He was speeding there as fast as he could closely followed by the Hufflepuff seeker. The snitch was now running. Harry missed the stands by inches as he started to go towards the Ravenclaw stands.
As Harry was speeding towards the snitch there were people screaming. Harry looked down as he saw many black, hooded, cloaked people walking onto the field. Harry knew they must have been Death Eaters. He looked toward the staff stands yet Dumbledore was nowhere to be found. "He must be out on Hogwarts business." Harry thought. But now all the students were fleeing the stadium... Except for one Harry noticed. Hermione was not moving. Harry turned around to look at his teachers going down onto the field to get rid of the Death Eaters. He saw some get hit, fall, and get back up. He knew he had to do something about Hermione. He edged his broom over there as fast as he could. "Hermione! What are you doing?! Get out of here!"
"No Harry. Not until I know why you are so damn pissed at me! You are acting like I am shit! I did not do one damn thing wrong!" Hermione was obviously pissed. Harry was shocked because he had never heard her say anything like that to him in his whole entire life.
"Fine if you must know... I know you are cheating on me. Now get out of here!" Harry could hear the screams of teachers and student alike.
"Wait Harry! I never once even thought of cheating on you!" Hermione's eyes were turning into fire.
"Don't lie to me! Now I have to go help the teachers!" Harry had turned his broom around.
There was a single tear coming down Hermione's face. "Harry..." She said softly. "I am not lying to you." She was now crying hysterically.
Harry had turned back around. "What about the letter to Krum?" He said nicer but he still had malice in his voice.
"You mean the letter about me seeing his school. With the 'But I could not get to Durmstrang to see you' letter?" Harry nodded. His eyes although kept darting to the field. Some of the teachers were down. "He asked me to come and see Durmstrang. I thought it would be a good experience. And the thing about me not wanting you to see it was because I suspected something like this to happen."
"Well..." Harry had some worry in his voice. "What about the 'With Love, Hermione" thing?"
"Harry, I do that on all my letters. You should know that. You know what, even when I got my letter that I was accepted into Hogwarts and it said, 'Wee shall accept your owl no later than July 1st' And I owled Professor McGonagall back I put, With Love, Hermione."
"Hermione..." Harry gave her a quick kiss on the lips and then darted toward the field with a new sense of hope. As he reached the field he looked back to see Hermione running to get out. She was the last student left in the stadium.
"HALT!!! DEATH EATERS AND TEACHERS ALIKE!!!" It was a cold and icy voice. Harry recognized it as Lucius Malfoy's. "Well, well, well, what do we have here. Mr. Harry Potter." Harry just stared into his icy, cold, gray eyes.
"Why are you here...? Voldemort is dead." Harry said still staring.
"No he is not." His voice made Harry shiver. "He is with us always." Malfoy held up a small, forest green colored sphere. Harry's scar started burning at the site of this ball. "He is waiting to one day, again, to comeback to power. We need you to die although. So if you just walk away with us, we will leave Hogwarts alone." Malfoy smirked.
"No! Never! I would rather get the Dementor's Kiss than go with the likes of you!" Harry was reaching for his wand when all the Death Eaters were mounting brooms Malfoy made pop out of mid air.
"Fine then. If you will not come with us peacefully we will force you to come. The Death Eaters started flying toward Harry. He thought they were just going to pick him up out of mid air when they turned around. They were heading towards the grounds. Harry decided to follow them thinking they may attack the school when he saw there other target.
"HERMIONE!!! GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY!!!" Harry yelled louder than he had ever in his life. Hermione was running to the castle, she was almost there. She must not have heard Harry because she never looked back. She was running, then picked up, and flown away. Harry could not believe it. He was not paying attention and he fell off of his broom 20 feet to the ground. When he hit the hard, somewhat frozen ground, he got knocked out.
He awoke a day later in the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey was walking around everywhere giving teachers medicine. Some of the teachers he saw in the hospital wing were Professor Flitwick, Professor Sprout, Madam Hooch, and even Professor Snape.
"Madam Pomfrey!" Harry yelled to her.
"Oh thank goodness you awaked today." Madam Pomfrey was checking Harry.
"Why is it so important I awake today?" Harry asked confusingly.
"Because all the students are going home tonight." Harry's jaw dropped in Horror.
"WHAT! WHY!" Harry thundered.
"SHHHHHHH! There are other patients in here." Madam was not happy.
"Sorry." Harry said in a whisper.
"Well all the students are leaving because of recent events. Except for you." Madam Pomfrey said still checking him.
"Why am I staying?" Harry asked.
"I am not at liberty to discuss it. Perhaps you should ask Headmaster. You seem to be fine. You just got a bump on the head. You can leave." Madam Pomfrey got up and went to check on Madam Hooch who seemed to be in the worst condition... Probably since she was the first one down there on the field.
Harry got up and started towards Professor Dumbledore's office. On his way he saw Fred and George and decided to ask them what happened to Ron. "Hi, Fred and George."
"Oh... Hiya Harry." There normal peppy tone was gone.
"Umm... do you know what happened to Ron?" Harry asked.
"He is up in the common room trying not to cry because of Hermione." Fred said.
"Yeah he is with Lavender... *Sigh* It does not have the same affect as it normally does." said George.
"Thank you." Harry said. He then went off to Dumbledores office. As he was getting there he realized he did not know the password. As he walked up to the statue, that was really the entrance to Dumbledores office, he saw someone coming out of his office. It was Professor McGonagall. "Umm... Professor." He said.
"Oh thank goodness Mr. Potter. You have awaken. I was just going to check on you. Headmaster wishes to speak with you." She said with a spark of happiness in her voice.
"Thank you, but I don't know the password."
"Oh." Professor McGonagall walked up to the statue and said, "Tutee Fruity" And the statue began spinning around with stairs rising up like an escalator. Harry got on the top stair and waited to get up to the.
As he got to the top he saw Dumbledore reading something. "Umm... Professor?" Harry said.
"Oh Mr. Potter. I see you are awake. We need to talk. Let me just set this report on the recent events from Professor McGonagall down." Said Professor Dumbledore. After he had situated all his stuff he started to talk. "Mr. Potter let me come out and say it. The future of this world belongs in your hands." Harry was confused and shocked.
"Umm... Come again?" Said Harry.
"I knew this would be a bit of a shock for you."
"A bit of a shock! This is not a bit of a shock!" Harry not realizing he was yelling what he was thinking.
"Calm down Mr. Potter. Have a seat and let me explain." Harry sat down and started to listen. "Let me start from the begging. When your mother died for you with her love it set you down this long path. Because her love was so strong for you she changed the future. She sealed your fate as a Protector of the Wizarding and Muggle World Alliance. Or PWMWA for short. Only one person every millennium gets this honor. You may think you are to young for this but It may be you are to old. Most of the time you know about your destiny around age ten and start training around age eleven. But you are now sixteen yet you will still be able to work this out. Now while everyone is gone for a month you will start and finish you training. A week after all the students get back you will leave to go find Lucius and the other Death Eaters, Destroy Voldemort, by the way I will explain how to do that after your training, and rescue Hermione." Harry had forgotten about her with all of this new information.
"WAIT! Won't Malfoy kill Hermione by then?" He asked shaking.
"No because the stars say she is the key to all of this. That is how I found out you were a PWMWA. Now no more questions until I am finished. When Mr. Ron Weasley gets back he will also play a major role. He will record your progress and spread rumors that are not true about why you are gone. You will get your training schedule tomorrow at breakfast. There will be two new Professors here from the Ministry to train you. There names are Professor Ray VanDerLindin and Professor Kav Chesbro. By the way, Sirius and Professor Lupin will be back to help you with your training. Any questions?" Dumbledore was finally done.
Harry was so glad that Sirius and Lupin would be back. "Yes I do. Do all the teachers know Sirius is innocent?" Harry asked.
"Yes they do. Now I suggest you go and say your good byes to all of your class mates. You may leave." Dumbledore said.
Harry left and started towards the Gryffindor Tower. As he got there it was pretty un-eventful. He pretend to pack so they would all think he was staying. He said all of his good byes. As everyone was leaving he was walking with all his friends but pretended he dropped his wand in the common room to get away from them and stay. As soon as everyone was gone... The castle was eerily quiet.
They had been back for about a month and it was time for the first Quidditch game after the Christmas Holiday. The game will be Gryffindor verses Hufflepuff. Gryffindors new Quidditch captain, Alicia Spinnet had them working harder than even Wood ever had ("Come on Alicia, just one day without practice!" The Weasley twins always complained.). In addition to Alicia becoming captain there was a new keeper, and chaser. The keeper position had been taken by a fourth year Zac Roman and the other chaser by a third year Traycee Fult.
The team was in the locker room, getting their pep talk form Alicia, and all Harry could think about was Hermione would be watching him. He didn't want that. He wanted her as far away as possible. Harry tried to forget this as he flew on to the field with his scarlet colored robes waving in the wind.
Madam Hooch released the bludgers, then the golden snitch (Harry tried to followed it with his eyes, but then lost it), she held on the red quaffle, "I want a nice, fair game you all!" Then she threw the quaffle into the air. And the game began!
"THE QUAFFLE WAS TAKEN BY THE NEW CHASER FOR GRYFFINDOR!" Lee Jordan was announcing for his last year. "FULT IS GOING DOWN THE FIELD... PASS TO JOHNSON, BACK TO FULT, TO SPINNET, OUCH! THAT'S GOTTA HURT. SPINNET GETS HIT BY A BLUDGER LESS THAN THIRTY SECONDS INTO THE GAME, AND HUFFLEPUFF IN POSSESSION NOW!" It was a cat and mouse game. After 10 minutes the game was scoreless. Harry was still high up searching for the snitch on his Firebolt. The most action Harry was getting was when a bludger missed him by inches. After an other ten minutes the score was now moving up. 10-20 Gryffindor. Harry kept searching when... A flash of gold light was coming from the Gryffindor stands. Harry knew he must go after it even though Hermione was there. He was speeding there as fast as he could closely followed by the Hufflepuff seeker. The snitch was now running. Harry missed the stands by inches as he started to go towards the Ravenclaw stands.
As Harry was speeding towards the snitch there were people screaming. Harry looked down as he saw many black, hooded, cloaked people walking onto the field. Harry knew they must have been Death Eaters. He looked toward the staff stands yet Dumbledore was nowhere to be found. "He must be out on Hogwarts business." Harry thought. But now all the students were fleeing the stadium... Except for one Harry noticed. Hermione was not moving. Harry turned around to look at his teachers going down onto the field to get rid of the Death Eaters. He saw some get hit, fall, and get back up. He knew he had to do something about Hermione. He edged his broom over there as fast as he could. "Hermione! What are you doing?! Get out of here!"
"No Harry. Not until I know why you are so damn pissed at me! You are acting like I am shit! I did not do one damn thing wrong!" Hermione was obviously pissed. Harry was shocked because he had never heard her say anything like that to him in his whole entire life.
"Fine if you must know... I know you are cheating on me. Now get out of here!" Harry could hear the screams of teachers and student alike.
"Wait Harry! I never once even thought of cheating on you!" Hermione's eyes were turning into fire.
"Don't lie to me! Now I have to go help the teachers!" Harry had turned his broom around.
There was a single tear coming down Hermione's face. "Harry..." She said softly. "I am not lying to you." She was now crying hysterically.
Harry had turned back around. "What about the letter to Krum?" He said nicer but he still had malice in his voice.
"You mean the letter about me seeing his school. With the 'But I could not get to Durmstrang to see you' letter?" Harry nodded. His eyes although kept darting to the field. Some of the teachers were down. "He asked me to come and see Durmstrang. I thought it would be a good experience. And the thing about me not wanting you to see it was because I suspected something like this to happen."
"Well..." Harry had some worry in his voice. "What about the 'With Love, Hermione" thing?"
"Harry, I do that on all my letters. You should know that. You know what, even when I got my letter that I was accepted into Hogwarts and it said, 'Wee shall accept your owl no later than July 1st' And I owled Professor McGonagall back I put, With Love, Hermione."
"Hermione..." Harry gave her a quick kiss on the lips and then darted toward the field with a new sense of hope. As he reached the field he looked back to see Hermione running to get out. She was the last student left in the stadium.
"HALT!!! DEATH EATERS AND TEACHERS ALIKE!!!" It was a cold and icy voice. Harry recognized it as Lucius Malfoy's. "Well, well, well, what do we have here. Mr. Harry Potter." Harry just stared into his icy, cold, gray eyes.
"Why are you here...? Voldemort is dead." Harry said still staring.
"No he is not." His voice made Harry shiver. "He is with us always." Malfoy held up a small, forest green colored sphere. Harry's scar started burning at the site of this ball. "He is waiting to one day, again, to comeback to power. We need you to die although. So if you just walk away with us, we will leave Hogwarts alone." Malfoy smirked.
"No! Never! I would rather get the Dementor's Kiss than go with the likes of you!" Harry was reaching for his wand when all the Death Eaters were mounting brooms Malfoy made pop out of mid air.
"Fine then. If you will not come with us peacefully we will force you to come. The Death Eaters started flying toward Harry. He thought they were just going to pick him up out of mid air when they turned around. They were heading towards the grounds. Harry decided to follow them thinking they may attack the school when he saw there other target.
"HERMIONE!!! GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY!!!" Harry yelled louder than he had ever in his life. Hermione was running to the castle, she was almost there. She must not have heard Harry because she never looked back. She was running, then picked up, and flown away. Harry could not believe it. He was not paying attention and he fell off of his broom 20 feet to the ground. When he hit the hard, somewhat frozen ground, he got knocked out.
He awoke a day later in the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey was walking around everywhere giving teachers medicine. Some of the teachers he saw in the hospital wing were Professor Flitwick, Professor Sprout, Madam Hooch, and even Professor Snape.
"Madam Pomfrey!" Harry yelled to her.
"Oh thank goodness you awaked today." Madam Pomfrey was checking Harry.
"Why is it so important I awake today?" Harry asked confusingly.
"Because all the students are going home tonight." Harry's jaw dropped in Horror.
"WHAT! WHY!" Harry thundered.
"SHHHHHHH! There are other patients in here." Madam was not happy.
"Sorry." Harry said in a whisper.
"Well all the students are leaving because of recent events. Except for you." Madam Pomfrey said still checking him.
"Why am I staying?" Harry asked.
"I am not at liberty to discuss it. Perhaps you should ask Headmaster. You seem to be fine. You just got a bump on the head. You can leave." Madam Pomfrey got up and went to check on Madam Hooch who seemed to be in the worst condition... Probably since she was the first one down there on the field.
Harry got up and started towards Professor Dumbledore's office. On his way he saw Fred and George and decided to ask them what happened to Ron. "Hi, Fred and George."
"Oh... Hiya Harry." There normal peppy tone was gone.
"Umm... do you know what happened to Ron?" Harry asked.
"He is up in the common room trying not to cry because of Hermione." Fred said.
"Yeah he is with Lavender... *Sigh* It does not have the same affect as it normally does." said George.
"Thank you." Harry said. He then went off to Dumbledores office. As he was getting there he realized he did not know the password. As he walked up to the statue, that was really the entrance to Dumbledores office, he saw someone coming out of his office. It was Professor McGonagall. "Umm... Professor." He said.
"Oh thank goodness Mr. Potter. You have awaken. I was just going to check on you. Headmaster wishes to speak with you." She said with a spark of happiness in her voice.
"Thank you, but I don't know the password."
"Oh." Professor McGonagall walked up to the statue and said, "Tutee Fruity" And the statue began spinning around with stairs rising up like an escalator. Harry got on the top stair and waited to get up to the.
As he got to the top he saw Dumbledore reading something. "Umm... Professor?" Harry said.
"Oh Mr. Potter. I see you are awake. We need to talk. Let me just set this report on the recent events from Professor McGonagall down." Said Professor Dumbledore. After he had situated all his stuff he started to talk. "Mr. Potter let me come out and say it. The future of this world belongs in your hands." Harry was confused and shocked.
"Umm... Come again?" Said Harry.
"I knew this would be a bit of a shock for you."
"A bit of a shock! This is not a bit of a shock!" Harry not realizing he was yelling what he was thinking.
"Calm down Mr. Potter. Have a seat and let me explain." Harry sat down and started to listen. "Let me start from the begging. When your mother died for you with her love it set you down this long path. Because her love was so strong for you she changed the future. She sealed your fate as a Protector of the Wizarding and Muggle World Alliance. Or PWMWA for short. Only one person every millennium gets this honor. You may think you are to young for this but It may be you are to old. Most of the time you know about your destiny around age ten and start training around age eleven. But you are now sixteen yet you will still be able to work this out. Now while everyone is gone for a month you will start and finish you training. A week after all the students get back you will leave to go find Lucius and the other Death Eaters, Destroy Voldemort, by the way I will explain how to do that after your training, and rescue Hermione." Harry had forgotten about her with all of this new information.
"WAIT! Won't Malfoy kill Hermione by then?" He asked shaking.
"No because the stars say she is the key to all of this. That is how I found out you were a PWMWA. Now no more questions until I am finished. When Mr. Ron Weasley gets back he will also play a major role. He will record your progress and spread rumors that are not true about why you are gone. You will get your training schedule tomorrow at breakfast. There will be two new Professors here from the Ministry to train you. There names are Professor Ray VanDerLindin and Professor Kav Chesbro. By the way, Sirius and Professor Lupin will be back to help you with your training. Any questions?" Dumbledore was finally done.
Harry was so glad that Sirius and Lupin would be back. "Yes I do. Do all the teachers know Sirius is innocent?" Harry asked.
"Yes they do. Now I suggest you go and say your good byes to all of your class mates. You may leave." Dumbledore said.
Harry left and started towards the Gryffindor Tower. As he got there it was pretty un-eventful. He pretend to pack so they would all think he was staying. He said all of his good byes. As everyone was leaving he was walking with all his friends but pretended he dropped his wand in the common room to get away from them and stay. As soon as everyone was gone... The castle was eerily quiet.