A/N: Wow you guys, I'm glad you like this but as I said before the chapters
will be slower coming because I've got a ton of work to do for classes,
this is getting to be crunch time and my studies are more important than
working on this fic unfortunately. I'm not paying $25,000 a year to become
a fanfiction writer, or any writer for that matter so I'm going to focus
more on my schoolwork than this fic. If I get inspired I'll write but I've
got too much work to do to make this a very high priority. Just please be
patient with me, I've got a break coming up in a couple of weeks and I'll
be able to write freely then. But here's chapter 24 I hope it doesn't
suck. ENJOY
Chapter 24
The rest of the day passed by uyneventfully and before the trio knew it dinner was over and Harry was headed down to his father's rooms. Harry entered the quarters and no sooner had he closed the doors to the room than out of the corner of his eye a red light was seen hurtling towards him and his world went black.
Harry woke up to his father leaning over him with a smirk on his face. Harry attempted to sit up but his father pushed him gently back down. Harry felt a knot forming on the back of his head and said indignantly,
"What'd you do that for?"
"To see how much you were on your guard." Severus replied
"Well wasn't there any way to do that without stunning me?!" Harry retorted
"No, not really." Severus said.
Harry merely snorted a squeezed his eyes shut, trying vainly to fight off the rapidly intensifying headache.
"Harry I'm sorry that I stunned you, but I had to see if you were on your guard. Which clearly you weren't. I spoke with the Headmaster and we both agree that you need to be trained for the coming battle and that given my background that I am the best person to do the training. The first thing that I felt you needed to learn is to constantly be on your guard."
Harry opened his eyes and pained green locked onto his father's onyx and said,
"All right, I get the picture. Constant Vigilance."
Severus smirked and said while helping Harry up,
"That's right. Now the stuff I'm going to be teaching you is very advanced magic that you normally wouldn't learn here. However; Dumbledore feels it necessary that you learn it because Voldemort and the Death Eaters aren't going to hold anything back in the battle."
Harry snorted because he knew that point all too well. The next 2 hours were spent learning hexes, curses, countercurses and blocking spells. At 8:30 Severus stopped the practical part of the training. Harry sankonto the couch, tired and sweating, while Severus walked over to a bookshelf and grabbed a medium sized (about 300 pages) book and brought it over to Harry. Harry took the book and looked up curiously at his father.
"I want you to have this read by tomorrow night, it's not that big so you should be able to do it." Severus said and sat down next to Harry.
"Now I won't lie to you and say that this won't be difficult or painless, but you know that you can always come to me whenever you feel frustrated or anything at all."
Harry nodded and said,
"I know and understand Dad." Harry stood up and said,
"I'd better get back to the Tower."
Severus stood up and said,
"All right Harry. I want you to come down here at 6:30 every night. We'll train for an hour so that way you can still have time for quidditch practice and homework."
Harry nodded and said,
"All right Dad, I'll see you tomorrow then."
"Night Harry, don't forget to take your potion tonight."
"All right Dad." Harry smiled and left the quarters and made his way up to Gryffindor while thumbing through the book his father had given him. From what Harry could tell it was a book on hexes and curses. After giving the Fat Lady the password he entered the common room and started to walk towards the prefects quarters but stopped when he heard his name being called.
Harry turned and saw Ron and Hermione sitting on a couch in front of the fire. He walked over to the couch while Ron said,
"Hey mate, where've you been?"
"Snape had to talk to me."
"About what, Harry?" Hermione asked.
"Nothing important. Nothing that you guys need to worry about."
Hermione and Ron gave eachother a look, shrugged their shoulders and Hermione said,
"All right Harry."
"Look guys, I've got some reading to do so I'm going to go to my room. I've got to get this done tonight."
"All right Harry, night." Hermione said.
"Night mate, see you tomorrow." Ron said
"Night guys." Harry said and retreated to his room and got into his pyjamas and sat in his armchair and immersed himself in the book his father had given him.
By 11:30 Harry had finished the book and had committed the hexes and curses to memory. Harry stood up and yawned and stretched, got a gobletfull of potion and git into bed. Harry took the potion and promptly fell asleep.
Severus again was awakened by his dark mark burning. Acting quickly he got dressed and apparated into the same room he was in the previous night. Only this time there were dozens of death eaters with him. Voldemort raised his hand and the room instantly fell silent.
"Now that you all have finally decided to grace me with your presence I will start and you will listen or suffer the consequences."
The room was so silent that you could hear a pin drop.
"Now, the time has come to wage my attack and take over of Hogwarts. I have found a way to get around the wards on the school now you all are here so you can be told the actual plan and your orders."
The room stayed completely silent showing Voldemort that they understood.
"Now, the attack will happen on the evening of Halloween. We will attack the school while the students are at the Halloween Feast. We will enter the grounds where I'm sure we will be met by much of the staff and faculty and hopefully, Harry Potter. I want to make it absolutely clear that Potter is mine, nobody is to touch him unless it is to bring him to me which I don't think will be a problem. If I find out that anybody has done a thing to him they will be killed instantly."
Each death eater unconsciously paled behind their masks.
"As I said, nobody is to touch Potter. Anybody may have at Dumbledore but Potter is mine. Am I clear?"
A chorus of "Yes master" followed.
"Good, just making sure I got through those thick skulls of yours. We will conveigne in Hogsmeade at 6 o' clock that evening am I understood?"
Another chorus of "Yes master" followed.
"Good, now leave and don't forget or you will not live to see the next day."
The Death Eater's then apparated out. Severus hurriedly walked up to the castle and to the Headmaster's office. Severus gave a password and entered Dumbledore's office. Dumbledore rose and gestured for Severus to sit in a chair in front of his desk.
"Well Severus, what did Voldemort want this evening."
"To give us the plans and orders for the attack on Hogwarts."
"Well what did he say?"
"The attack is going to happen some time during the Halloween Feast. He ordered the death eaters to meet in Hogsmeade at 6 o'clock and then they'll proceed up to the castle. He said that he is to have a clear shot at Harry, nobody else is to touch him under threat of immediate death. He also said that if anybody should 'forget' that they wouldn't live to see the next day."
Dumbledore sat thinking for a minute and said,
"All right Severus, thank you. At least we know what we're up against and what to expect. I was expecting this to happen for some time now. How did tonight's session with Harry go?"
"It went well, he learns very quickly and thankfully he has a very strong knowledge for Defense so he should be fine. I think what we need to concentrate especially on is finding a spell that will completely and totally get rid of Voldemort forever. I think this should include destroying his soul because he has one, that much is certain. This way not only his body but his soul is also destroyed."
"I completely agree Severus but there is no known spell in existance. Not that I am aware of. We could ask Professor Flitwick, but I really don't think that there is a spell in existance to do that."
"Why don't we ask him right now because we'll need all the time we can get if Harry's going to learn this spell and if it needs to be developed we'll need all the time we can get."
"I agree."
Dumbledore rose from his desk and grabbed some powder off of his mantle and threw it into the fireplace and called out "Flitwick."
The tiny charms professor's head appeared and said
"Yes Albus."
"Severus has just brought word back from a death eater meeting that Voldemort is planning an attack on Hogwarts. What I need to ask you is if there is a spell in existance that will destroy a person's body and soul."
Flitwick's eyebrows knitted together and said
"I am certain that there is no spell of that nature. Though I'm certain that it could be created but it would take some time. When will the attack be?"
"Halloween. During the Feast to be precise."
"Well Albus, I will get going on developing that charm, I believe that I will ask Ms. McKinny for help, she's rather good."
"An excellent idea, keep me posted on the development. Oh make sure not to mention this to anybody else."
"I will Albus, good night."
"Good night." Dumbledore said and returned to his desk.
"Well there we have it. We should be all right. I will inform the rest of the staff at the next staff meeting now you should go to bed. I imagine that Harry will be quite upset when he wakes up in the morning."
"Yes I imagine so Albus, good night."
"Good night Severus."
Severus left the office and made his way to Gryffindor Tower. Giving the password to the Fat Lady and entering the silent and empty common room Severus made his way to Harry's room. He entered the room and saw Harry sleeping peacefully. Walking over to the bed he saw the empty goblet on Harry's night stand and smiled. He sat down on the edge of the boy's bed and brushed Harry's bangs back and an errant lock off of his cheek. This simple act caused Harry to shift positions slightly and sigh but stay asleep.
Severus walked over to Harry's desk and got out a scrap of parchment and loaded a quill with ink and wrote a note to Harry telling him that he got back fine and already reported to Dumbledore and not to worry and that he'd see him in the morning.
Severus folded the note and left it on Harry's night stand over the boy's glasses so he wouldn't miss the note and quietly left the room and retrated to his own dungeon rooms.
A/N: Well I think that's a good stopping point for this chapter. Now please review and tell me if I did that Voldemort scene good enough because I'm not totally sure if it was okay. The next chapter will probably be slow coming but I'm not totally sure so just be patient and bear with me. It's getting to be crunch time at this point in the semester and I have a ton of projects and presentations to write and put together so I just have so much work to do so I'll write when I can but please don't forget to review and tell me what you think of this chapter. THNX!
Chapter 24
The rest of the day passed by uyneventfully and before the trio knew it dinner was over and Harry was headed down to his father's rooms. Harry entered the quarters and no sooner had he closed the doors to the room than out of the corner of his eye a red light was seen hurtling towards him and his world went black.
Harry woke up to his father leaning over him with a smirk on his face. Harry attempted to sit up but his father pushed him gently back down. Harry felt a knot forming on the back of his head and said indignantly,
"What'd you do that for?"
"To see how much you were on your guard." Severus replied
"Well wasn't there any way to do that without stunning me?!" Harry retorted
"No, not really." Severus said.
Harry merely snorted a squeezed his eyes shut, trying vainly to fight off the rapidly intensifying headache.
"Harry I'm sorry that I stunned you, but I had to see if you were on your guard. Which clearly you weren't. I spoke with the Headmaster and we both agree that you need to be trained for the coming battle and that given my background that I am the best person to do the training. The first thing that I felt you needed to learn is to constantly be on your guard."
Harry opened his eyes and pained green locked onto his father's onyx and said,
"All right, I get the picture. Constant Vigilance."
Severus smirked and said while helping Harry up,
"That's right. Now the stuff I'm going to be teaching you is very advanced magic that you normally wouldn't learn here. However; Dumbledore feels it necessary that you learn it because Voldemort and the Death Eaters aren't going to hold anything back in the battle."
Harry snorted because he knew that point all too well. The next 2 hours were spent learning hexes, curses, countercurses and blocking spells. At 8:30 Severus stopped the practical part of the training. Harry sankonto the couch, tired and sweating, while Severus walked over to a bookshelf and grabbed a medium sized (about 300 pages) book and brought it over to Harry. Harry took the book and looked up curiously at his father.
"I want you to have this read by tomorrow night, it's not that big so you should be able to do it." Severus said and sat down next to Harry.
"Now I won't lie to you and say that this won't be difficult or painless, but you know that you can always come to me whenever you feel frustrated or anything at all."
Harry nodded and said,
"I know and understand Dad." Harry stood up and said,
"I'd better get back to the Tower."
Severus stood up and said,
"All right Harry. I want you to come down here at 6:30 every night. We'll train for an hour so that way you can still have time for quidditch practice and homework."
Harry nodded and said,
"All right Dad, I'll see you tomorrow then."
"Night Harry, don't forget to take your potion tonight."
"All right Dad." Harry smiled and left the quarters and made his way up to Gryffindor while thumbing through the book his father had given him. From what Harry could tell it was a book on hexes and curses. After giving the Fat Lady the password he entered the common room and started to walk towards the prefects quarters but stopped when he heard his name being called.
Harry turned and saw Ron and Hermione sitting on a couch in front of the fire. He walked over to the couch while Ron said,
"Hey mate, where've you been?"
"Snape had to talk to me."
"About what, Harry?" Hermione asked.
"Nothing important. Nothing that you guys need to worry about."
Hermione and Ron gave eachother a look, shrugged their shoulders and Hermione said,
"All right Harry."
"Look guys, I've got some reading to do so I'm going to go to my room. I've got to get this done tonight."
"All right Harry, night." Hermione said.
"Night mate, see you tomorrow." Ron said
"Night guys." Harry said and retreated to his room and got into his pyjamas and sat in his armchair and immersed himself in the book his father had given him.
By 11:30 Harry had finished the book and had committed the hexes and curses to memory. Harry stood up and yawned and stretched, got a gobletfull of potion and git into bed. Harry took the potion and promptly fell asleep.
Severus again was awakened by his dark mark burning. Acting quickly he got dressed and apparated into the same room he was in the previous night. Only this time there were dozens of death eaters with him. Voldemort raised his hand and the room instantly fell silent.
"Now that you all have finally decided to grace me with your presence I will start and you will listen or suffer the consequences."
The room was so silent that you could hear a pin drop.
"Now, the time has come to wage my attack and take over of Hogwarts. I have found a way to get around the wards on the school now you all are here so you can be told the actual plan and your orders."
The room stayed completely silent showing Voldemort that they understood.
"Now, the attack will happen on the evening of Halloween. We will attack the school while the students are at the Halloween Feast. We will enter the grounds where I'm sure we will be met by much of the staff and faculty and hopefully, Harry Potter. I want to make it absolutely clear that Potter is mine, nobody is to touch him unless it is to bring him to me which I don't think will be a problem. If I find out that anybody has done a thing to him they will be killed instantly."
Each death eater unconsciously paled behind their masks.
"As I said, nobody is to touch Potter. Anybody may have at Dumbledore but Potter is mine. Am I clear?"
A chorus of "Yes master" followed.
"Good, just making sure I got through those thick skulls of yours. We will conveigne in Hogsmeade at 6 o' clock that evening am I understood?"
Another chorus of "Yes master" followed.
"Good, now leave and don't forget or you will not live to see the next day."
The Death Eater's then apparated out. Severus hurriedly walked up to the castle and to the Headmaster's office. Severus gave a password and entered Dumbledore's office. Dumbledore rose and gestured for Severus to sit in a chair in front of his desk.
"Well Severus, what did Voldemort want this evening."
"To give us the plans and orders for the attack on Hogwarts."
"Well what did he say?"
"The attack is going to happen some time during the Halloween Feast. He ordered the death eaters to meet in Hogsmeade at 6 o'clock and then they'll proceed up to the castle. He said that he is to have a clear shot at Harry, nobody else is to touch him under threat of immediate death. He also said that if anybody should 'forget' that they wouldn't live to see the next day."
Dumbledore sat thinking for a minute and said,
"All right Severus, thank you. At least we know what we're up against and what to expect. I was expecting this to happen for some time now. How did tonight's session with Harry go?"
"It went well, he learns very quickly and thankfully he has a very strong knowledge for Defense so he should be fine. I think what we need to concentrate especially on is finding a spell that will completely and totally get rid of Voldemort forever. I think this should include destroying his soul because he has one, that much is certain. This way not only his body but his soul is also destroyed."
"I completely agree Severus but there is no known spell in existance. Not that I am aware of. We could ask Professor Flitwick, but I really don't think that there is a spell in existance to do that."
"Why don't we ask him right now because we'll need all the time we can get if Harry's going to learn this spell and if it needs to be developed we'll need all the time we can get."
"I agree."
Dumbledore rose from his desk and grabbed some powder off of his mantle and threw it into the fireplace and called out "Flitwick."
The tiny charms professor's head appeared and said
"Yes Albus."
"Severus has just brought word back from a death eater meeting that Voldemort is planning an attack on Hogwarts. What I need to ask you is if there is a spell in existance that will destroy a person's body and soul."
Flitwick's eyebrows knitted together and said
"I am certain that there is no spell of that nature. Though I'm certain that it could be created but it would take some time. When will the attack be?"
"Halloween. During the Feast to be precise."
"Well Albus, I will get going on developing that charm, I believe that I will ask Ms. McKinny for help, she's rather good."
"An excellent idea, keep me posted on the development. Oh make sure not to mention this to anybody else."
"I will Albus, good night."
"Good night." Dumbledore said and returned to his desk.
"Well there we have it. We should be all right. I will inform the rest of the staff at the next staff meeting now you should go to bed. I imagine that Harry will be quite upset when he wakes up in the morning."
"Yes I imagine so Albus, good night."
"Good night Severus."
Severus left the office and made his way to Gryffindor Tower. Giving the password to the Fat Lady and entering the silent and empty common room Severus made his way to Harry's room. He entered the room and saw Harry sleeping peacefully. Walking over to the bed he saw the empty goblet on Harry's night stand and smiled. He sat down on the edge of the boy's bed and brushed Harry's bangs back and an errant lock off of his cheek. This simple act caused Harry to shift positions slightly and sigh but stay asleep.
Severus walked over to Harry's desk and got out a scrap of parchment and loaded a quill with ink and wrote a note to Harry telling him that he got back fine and already reported to Dumbledore and not to worry and that he'd see him in the morning.
Severus folded the note and left it on Harry's night stand over the boy's glasses so he wouldn't miss the note and quietly left the room and retrated to his own dungeon rooms.
A/N: Well I think that's a good stopping point for this chapter. Now please review and tell me if I did that Voldemort scene good enough because I'm not totally sure if it was okay. The next chapter will probably be slow coming but I'm not totally sure so just be patient and bear with me. It's getting to be crunch time at this point in the semester and I have a ton of projects and presentations to write and put together so I just have so much work to do so I'll write when I can but please don't forget to review and tell me what you think of this chapter. THNX!