The Prophecy of the Phoenix- chapter 20
Harry's body began to shake violently as he continued to scream out his best friends name. His screams carried over the snow that covered the grounds of Hogwarts. Slowly turning in to loud wounded sobs of pain, rage, and fear. The pulling in his heart and mind so great, he couldn't see thru the haze of tears as they fell down his face turning to ice before hitting the ground. The emptiness he felt in his soul, yet it was full with her feelings and memories. Her finally gift, and the pain and the death of Severus Snape were going to drive him mad. Finding his voice he began, whimpering out her name and begging for release from this pain that was driving him beyond reality.
(Hagrid's hut)
She lay in silence moaning in pain or anguish, the man who had watched her grow from a nervous first year to the brave woman she had become .Try as he might everything he had done to wake her had failed. Professor Snape was dieing and she was the key, to his recover. Turing from her Hagrid moves to check the fire silently whispering to himself, "Dumbledore will know what to do, if only I could get him." Lapsing into silence an eerie silence that could claim the most timid of men Hagrid returns to the girls side fixing her blankets that have falling off in her fevered struggle. The wind out side begins hollowing as if in pain, then a scream of pure pain, rage, and loneliness shatter the eerie silence and Hagrid shivers with fear. Walking slowly to get his cross bow he opens the door ready to battle the creature. Opening the door a cold wind whips at Hagrid's face and body, struggling to see who or what it is Hagrid slowly descents the stairs and begins to walk towards the sound. Shock grabs a hold of the giant when he sees Harry kneeling in the snow scream and sobbing. Dropping his cross bow he runs to the boy, falling to his knees beside Harry, Hagrid begins to shake Harry out of his trance like state. " Harry, you got to snap out of this, you're going to freeze to death out here." Hagrid yells at the boy. Harry is beyond hearing Hagrid, as he begins to rock back and forth sobbing. As the rocking becomes faster Harry begins to mumble, " dieing with out the light, two souls trapped, answer in me, must keep, Voldemort gonna kill us, trophy a port key, all dead, blood can't get the blood off, chamber gonna die in the chamber. Can't stop the pain eating away."
Grabbing Harry by the arms Hagrid tries to pull him to his feet only to have a blast of energy throw him across the ground. Turning to see were the energy came from Hagrid shakes in fear, as the girl is awake and burning with power and rage. Trying to stand and move Hagrid find his limbs failing him as the girl moves toward him in a rage. Fear like he's never felt before grips his heart as she lifts him and throws him as if he were merely a rag doll.
(Infirmary)
Albus Dumbledore slowly stands and walks towards the window. "Severus you must not die my boy I need you now." He whispers. Glancing up Albus notice a bright light outside on the grounds just as he was about to move closer to see what it was a scream pierced the air as Hagrid smashed thru the infirmary window. Hagrid laying in shreds of broken glass, blood running from dozens of cuts all over his face, and body. Pulling himself off the floor where the impact of the giant coming thru the window throw him Albus hurries to Hagrid's side, "Hagrid, can you hear me?" Albus calls. "Harry sir he's out there sir, Hermione, she's back." Hagrid is able to whisper before he passes out. Looking around, Albus notices his wife and most of the school's teaching staff standing in the doorway, fear etched on there faces. "Poppy" Albus calls. The media witch shaken to her core hurries to the giant side. Albus Dumbledore slowly walks to the window his games keeper just was thrown thru and looks out upon the grounds and there in the snow covered grounds are Harry, and gods above Hermione. "Albus whats going on, whats happening?" Minerva ask the fear lacing thru her words and shaken her to her core. Turning and slowly gliding toward the doorway Albus stops next to Sirus Black and whispers " Stay with Poppy she will need you here, if anything happens get the remaining students to safety." Sirus nods and with that Albus is gone down the corridor towards the ground followed by the remaining teaching staff.
(Grounds of Hogwarts)
The rage is filling the void within her, the power is so addicting. Yet there is something in her that knows what she is doing is wrong, something is missing. "Mione please" he whimpers reaching out his hands towards the young woman in front of him. Reaching out her hand she slowly lift the young man by the chin with her finger. His whimpering causing her to smile, what pleasure his cries make me feel, the power he holds, just waiting to be taken. "Beg, beg till you can beg no more, then if I tire of you I will release you, then maybe again I won't." she says. "Mione please" Harry cries.
"Hermione let Harry go." Albus Dumbledore screams as he comes to a stop not far from her. "Hermione doesn't live in this body anymore, call me only the Phoenix old man." She says with rage. "Oh god Harry, please let my son go" Lily screams coming to a stop next to Albus. One by one the teachers begin sending spells at her trying to free Harry. "You fools your magic is no match for me" she laughs throwing them one by one to the grown with a mere thought. "Phoenix let Harry go and take me instead," Albus says walking closer to the creature his granddaughter has become. "Don't worry old man after I'm thru with the boy who lived you'll be next." She said as she and Harry begin to slowly circle in the air, getting faster as the went. The screams of a mother lost on the wind as power begins to consume then.
In the vortex of power it is only Harry and the Phoenix, and the struggle for power. Harry reaches with in himself and with a love and power he's never felt he calls to his best friend. " Mione please help me fight the Phoenix". A friendship bound by love, begins to sep into the soul of the phoenix, and the woman she was, fights for control. A scream of pain rings thru the crisp air as they fall to the ground. Rushing to his side Lily Potter falls to her knees sobbing uncontrollable as she touches her sons face. "Mom" he whispers slowly opening his eyes. Helping him sit up she wraps her arms around her son, thanking god he was alive.
Albus rocking his granddaughter back and forth in his arms sobbing. Pulling away from his mother Harry rushes to her side. "Mione" he whispers. Slowly her eyes open and she looks up at her grandfather and then to her best friend tears falling down her face, for in her heart she knows that she can not continue to control the phoenix with in even now she is slipping. Reaching her hand up to touch his face she whispers " thank you Harry, you have given me back the part I was missing and have given me time to say goodbye to you all. I cannot contain the phoenix forever, she will rise with in me again and I fear what she, what I will do. You must strike me down before I turn again please I beg you." Tears streaming down her face. "No, there is another way, will find it you just have to hold on." Albus sobbed. Pulling away from them she rises into the air, tears streaming down her face and she pleads for her death. " End it please, before it's to late , she is gaining power with in me." She screams at them all. A shrill laugh erupts from the young woman. "You fools, you let your love for that pathetic girl rob you of the chance to destroy me, now it's to late and it will be you who will feel my wrath and deaths pull.
She feels something pulling at her mind, binding her, freeing the other with in. Turning to the old man she sees him muttering a spell. Harry watches as the phoenix moves towards Albus, noticing the headmaster arms are raised and he's performing a spell, power surging around him as he mutters the spell over and over again. "You old fool you can't win, you can't bind me ,I won't let you, you think she can help you, that pathetic granddaughter of your has given up I control our body now." She screams. Her power hits Albus and he staggers but continues to chant the spell, soon Harry and the others begin to chant. "I will not give up the body, I w..i..l..l..n..o..t" she whimpers as the woman trapped with in gains grown and the phoenix losses hold of her mind, Hermione with the help of the people around her binds the phoenix with in her own mind.
Once in control Hermione, slowly walks to her grandfather and embraces him for the first time in months. "Mione" Harry calls as he walks towards her. "Harry" she yells smiling runs into her best friends arms. Pulling away from Harry she looks around at this group of people and love and pride over whelms her heart. Turning back to her grandfather she reaches for his face and says " I love you, and I always will, I will always be with you ." Tears of sadness run down his face as he knows it must be this way for the sack of all. "No you can't leave , your better now." Harry screamed thru tears falling down into the snow. "Kneeling down into the snow taking his face in her hands her own tears falling she says. " I can't stay , no matter how much I want to Harry, it's not safe." "But she's contained, you're in control of the power now." He whimpered thru tears. "Yes for now I'm in control, but what happens when she breaks free and takes over again." She whispers. " That won't happen your in control , I'll help you , Ron will help you, you can't leave I need you. Who will keep us out of trouble, who will make sure we do our homework." He sobbed. "Oh Harry , I wish I could stay , my heart is breaking. But I can't control her every second of everyday, I can't live with the constant fear of losing control and killing everyone I love. Would you have be become worse then Voldemort? You don't need me Harry, you will be ok." She said threw sobs. "No" he whimpered. "I will always need my best friend," he says. Moving closer their foreheads touching Hermione brushes her lips a crossed Harry's. Pulling away from him, she looks at all the teachers, her family and says "Please listen to me and understand I love you all. I can't stay, if I do it would only be a matter of time before I lost control again and destroy you all. Controlling this power is to hard, I will fail. You must let me go, I beg of you, this power consumes me. You don't need me anymore" She says turning from them. "Your wrong, he needs you Hermione. Can't you feel him, he's dieing, with out you, will you let him die. Snape needs you Hermione, don't forsake him." Harry screams. Turning back to them she looks past them to the school and there on the steps stands Sirus Black carrying his enemy. Slowly carrying his worst enemy down to Hermione and the others he yells to her. " This man is my enemy, for more wrong reasons, then right, I have spent years hating him, and I no longer remember why. My angry has clouded my heart and mind, yet this man has put his life on the line for my godson so many times I can't count. For three years he has put his life on the line to save us all, his sacrifice has been greater then I could comprehend thru my angry. Yet as I faced my own death and rebirth , I have come to understand to what depths he has gone to make right the wrongs of his past. I regret the hateful things I have done to this man, it has taken my death and his courage in his years of spy work for me to come to respect and want to say thank you, to my enemy, to Severus Snape. Those years didn't kill him but the lose of you his other half is pulling the will and every breath from his body. I ask you Hermione look with in yourself and feel. I ask you phoenix give him back his life and his reason to live. "Phoenix, I beg you , we beg you, help him." Lily whispers thru tears.
Reaching out she lefts Severus with her mind and brings him in front of her. Looking at Severus, Hermione reaches within her heart and soul and begins to rebuilt and heal him from cell to cell. As he begins to reshape and heal her mind is flooded with his memories. Gently she lays him on the ground and whisper "My gift my love." Tears falling down her face with out end, as she watches her love take breath and slowly open his eyes. "Phoenix" Albus calls with a look of puzzlement on his face. " The gift of the phoenix to her love. For love he would have died, for devotion I have wiped away the painful years, his memories of those years remains but now they are clouded and simply what they are the past and memories. Memories that will not hunt him any longer. A second chance at life, twenty years wiped away. A young man starting over is my gift. Happy nineteenth birthday my love, let your future happiness be endless. Always remember I love you, don't forget that, but remember you must live, the bravest thing in life is just to live." With those words she begins to pull away and leave. Weak and tired from months of being on the verge of death Severus cries with a horse voice. " Don't leave me again please." His plea falling around them and touching deep with in her heart. "Phoenix" Albus yells. "Yes headmaster" she whispers turning her head to the side. "Why do you remain within Hermione, your job is done here, give her back to us and leave here." He yells his voice carrying on the wind. Turning back to face them ,smiling at them all she screams as she is engulfed in the full power of the phoenix. No longer do tears fall ,her eyes are void of color, and she calls to them all. " As you wish , so shall it be, the girl known as Hermione, will be free. My time here is over. I am the entity known only as the phoenix. She the chosen has given her life for the prophecy. So the prophecy has come to pass, love will set her free." Power surges thru her and pain rips thru her soul as she and Fawkes are ripped apart. " I love you Hermione and I need you" Severus Snape whisper. "We all do Nobbie, come back to us." Albus and the others yell. Power rips thru her body her screams of pain rip thru the night air as she and Fawkes are no longer one. Her body falling lifelessly to the ground. Severus runs to her and gathers her in his arms. His tears falling gently upon her face. Slowly she opens her eyes and looks into the eyes of the man she loves, and whispers " I need you too." Joyous laughter fills the air as everyone around her begins to cheer. "Promise me you'll never leave me again Hermione?" Severus says thru tears. "Never my love." She smiles. Gently pulling her up into his lap Severus Snape slowly runs his hands thru her hair. "Marry me Hermione?" He whispers. Looking at her true love, she says " You are the husband of my heart and soul." They meet in loves sweet glow and there lips meet with passion and forever love.
Harry's body began to shake violently as he continued to scream out his best friends name. His screams carried over the snow that covered the grounds of Hogwarts. Slowly turning in to loud wounded sobs of pain, rage, and fear. The pulling in his heart and mind so great, he couldn't see thru the haze of tears as they fell down his face turning to ice before hitting the ground. The emptiness he felt in his soul, yet it was full with her feelings and memories. Her finally gift, and the pain and the death of Severus Snape were going to drive him mad. Finding his voice he began, whimpering out her name and begging for release from this pain that was driving him beyond reality.
(Hagrid's hut)
She lay in silence moaning in pain or anguish, the man who had watched her grow from a nervous first year to the brave woman she had become .Try as he might everything he had done to wake her had failed. Professor Snape was dieing and she was the key, to his recover. Turing from her Hagrid moves to check the fire silently whispering to himself, "Dumbledore will know what to do, if only I could get him." Lapsing into silence an eerie silence that could claim the most timid of men Hagrid returns to the girls side fixing her blankets that have falling off in her fevered struggle. The wind out side begins hollowing as if in pain, then a scream of pure pain, rage, and loneliness shatter the eerie silence and Hagrid shivers with fear. Walking slowly to get his cross bow he opens the door ready to battle the creature. Opening the door a cold wind whips at Hagrid's face and body, struggling to see who or what it is Hagrid slowly descents the stairs and begins to walk towards the sound. Shock grabs a hold of the giant when he sees Harry kneeling in the snow scream and sobbing. Dropping his cross bow he runs to the boy, falling to his knees beside Harry, Hagrid begins to shake Harry out of his trance like state. " Harry, you got to snap out of this, you're going to freeze to death out here." Hagrid yells at the boy. Harry is beyond hearing Hagrid, as he begins to rock back and forth sobbing. As the rocking becomes faster Harry begins to mumble, " dieing with out the light, two souls trapped, answer in me, must keep, Voldemort gonna kill us, trophy a port key, all dead, blood can't get the blood off, chamber gonna die in the chamber. Can't stop the pain eating away."
Grabbing Harry by the arms Hagrid tries to pull him to his feet only to have a blast of energy throw him across the ground. Turning to see were the energy came from Hagrid shakes in fear, as the girl is awake and burning with power and rage. Trying to stand and move Hagrid find his limbs failing him as the girl moves toward him in a rage. Fear like he's never felt before grips his heart as she lifts him and throws him as if he were merely a rag doll.
(Infirmary)
Albus Dumbledore slowly stands and walks towards the window. "Severus you must not die my boy I need you now." He whispers. Glancing up Albus notice a bright light outside on the grounds just as he was about to move closer to see what it was a scream pierced the air as Hagrid smashed thru the infirmary window. Hagrid laying in shreds of broken glass, blood running from dozens of cuts all over his face, and body. Pulling himself off the floor where the impact of the giant coming thru the window throw him Albus hurries to Hagrid's side, "Hagrid, can you hear me?" Albus calls. "Harry sir he's out there sir, Hermione, she's back." Hagrid is able to whisper before he passes out. Looking around, Albus notices his wife and most of the school's teaching staff standing in the doorway, fear etched on there faces. "Poppy" Albus calls. The media witch shaken to her core hurries to the giant side. Albus Dumbledore slowly walks to the window his games keeper just was thrown thru and looks out upon the grounds and there in the snow covered grounds are Harry, and gods above Hermione. "Albus whats going on, whats happening?" Minerva ask the fear lacing thru her words and shaken her to her core. Turning and slowly gliding toward the doorway Albus stops next to Sirus Black and whispers " Stay with Poppy she will need you here, if anything happens get the remaining students to safety." Sirus nods and with that Albus is gone down the corridor towards the ground followed by the remaining teaching staff.
(Grounds of Hogwarts)
The rage is filling the void within her, the power is so addicting. Yet there is something in her that knows what she is doing is wrong, something is missing. "Mione please" he whimpers reaching out his hands towards the young woman in front of him. Reaching out her hand she slowly lift the young man by the chin with her finger. His whimpering causing her to smile, what pleasure his cries make me feel, the power he holds, just waiting to be taken. "Beg, beg till you can beg no more, then if I tire of you I will release you, then maybe again I won't." she says. "Mione please" Harry cries.
"Hermione let Harry go." Albus Dumbledore screams as he comes to a stop not far from her. "Hermione doesn't live in this body anymore, call me only the Phoenix old man." She says with rage. "Oh god Harry, please let my son go" Lily screams coming to a stop next to Albus. One by one the teachers begin sending spells at her trying to free Harry. "You fools your magic is no match for me" she laughs throwing them one by one to the grown with a mere thought. "Phoenix let Harry go and take me instead," Albus says walking closer to the creature his granddaughter has become. "Don't worry old man after I'm thru with the boy who lived you'll be next." She said as she and Harry begin to slowly circle in the air, getting faster as the went. The screams of a mother lost on the wind as power begins to consume then.
In the vortex of power it is only Harry and the Phoenix, and the struggle for power. Harry reaches with in himself and with a love and power he's never felt he calls to his best friend. " Mione please help me fight the Phoenix". A friendship bound by love, begins to sep into the soul of the phoenix, and the woman she was, fights for control. A scream of pain rings thru the crisp air as they fall to the ground. Rushing to his side Lily Potter falls to her knees sobbing uncontrollable as she touches her sons face. "Mom" he whispers slowly opening his eyes. Helping him sit up she wraps her arms around her son, thanking god he was alive.
Albus rocking his granddaughter back and forth in his arms sobbing. Pulling away from his mother Harry rushes to her side. "Mione" he whispers. Slowly her eyes open and she looks up at her grandfather and then to her best friend tears falling down her face, for in her heart she knows that she can not continue to control the phoenix with in even now she is slipping. Reaching her hand up to touch his face she whispers " thank you Harry, you have given me back the part I was missing and have given me time to say goodbye to you all. I cannot contain the phoenix forever, she will rise with in me again and I fear what she, what I will do. You must strike me down before I turn again please I beg you." Tears streaming down her face. "No, there is another way, will find it you just have to hold on." Albus sobbed. Pulling away from them she rises into the air, tears streaming down her face and she pleads for her death. " End it please, before it's to late , she is gaining power with in me." She screams at them all. A shrill laugh erupts from the young woman. "You fools, you let your love for that pathetic girl rob you of the chance to destroy me, now it's to late and it will be you who will feel my wrath and deaths pull.
She feels something pulling at her mind, binding her, freeing the other with in. Turning to the old man she sees him muttering a spell. Harry watches as the phoenix moves towards Albus, noticing the headmaster arms are raised and he's performing a spell, power surging around him as he mutters the spell over and over again. "You old fool you can't win, you can't bind me ,I won't let you, you think she can help you, that pathetic granddaughter of your has given up I control our body now." She screams. Her power hits Albus and he staggers but continues to chant the spell, soon Harry and the others begin to chant. "I will not give up the body, I w..i..l..l..n..o..t" she whimpers as the woman trapped with in gains grown and the phoenix losses hold of her mind, Hermione with the help of the people around her binds the phoenix with in her own mind.
Once in control Hermione, slowly walks to her grandfather and embraces him for the first time in months. "Mione" Harry calls as he walks towards her. "Harry" she yells smiling runs into her best friends arms. Pulling away from Harry she looks around at this group of people and love and pride over whelms her heart. Turning back to her grandfather she reaches for his face and says " I love you, and I always will, I will always be with you ." Tears of sadness run down his face as he knows it must be this way for the sack of all. "No you can't leave , your better now." Harry screamed thru tears falling down into the snow. "Kneeling down into the snow taking his face in her hands her own tears falling she says. " I can't stay , no matter how much I want to Harry, it's not safe." "But she's contained, you're in control of the power now." He whimpered thru tears. "Yes for now I'm in control, but what happens when she breaks free and takes over again." She whispers. " That won't happen your in control , I'll help you , Ron will help you, you can't leave I need you. Who will keep us out of trouble, who will make sure we do our homework." He sobbed. "Oh Harry , I wish I could stay , my heart is breaking. But I can't control her every second of everyday, I can't live with the constant fear of losing control and killing everyone I love. Would you have be become worse then Voldemort? You don't need me Harry, you will be ok." She said threw sobs. "No" he whimpered. "I will always need my best friend," he says. Moving closer their foreheads touching Hermione brushes her lips a crossed Harry's. Pulling away from him, she looks at all the teachers, her family and says "Please listen to me and understand I love you all. I can't stay, if I do it would only be a matter of time before I lost control again and destroy you all. Controlling this power is to hard, I will fail. You must let me go, I beg of you, this power consumes me. You don't need me anymore" She says turning from them. "Your wrong, he needs you Hermione. Can't you feel him, he's dieing, with out you, will you let him die. Snape needs you Hermione, don't forsake him." Harry screams. Turning back to them she looks past them to the school and there on the steps stands Sirus Black carrying his enemy. Slowly carrying his worst enemy down to Hermione and the others he yells to her. " This man is my enemy, for more wrong reasons, then right, I have spent years hating him, and I no longer remember why. My angry has clouded my heart and mind, yet this man has put his life on the line for my godson so many times I can't count. For three years he has put his life on the line to save us all, his sacrifice has been greater then I could comprehend thru my angry. Yet as I faced my own death and rebirth , I have come to understand to what depths he has gone to make right the wrongs of his past. I regret the hateful things I have done to this man, it has taken my death and his courage in his years of spy work for me to come to respect and want to say thank you, to my enemy, to Severus Snape. Those years didn't kill him but the lose of you his other half is pulling the will and every breath from his body. I ask you Hermione look with in yourself and feel. I ask you phoenix give him back his life and his reason to live. "Phoenix, I beg you , we beg you, help him." Lily whispers thru tears.
Reaching out she lefts Severus with her mind and brings him in front of her. Looking at Severus, Hermione reaches within her heart and soul and begins to rebuilt and heal him from cell to cell. As he begins to reshape and heal her mind is flooded with his memories. Gently she lays him on the ground and whisper "My gift my love." Tears falling down her face with out end, as she watches her love take breath and slowly open his eyes. "Phoenix" Albus calls with a look of puzzlement on his face. " The gift of the phoenix to her love. For love he would have died, for devotion I have wiped away the painful years, his memories of those years remains but now they are clouded and simply what they are the past and memories. Memories that will not hunt him any longer. A second chance at life, twenty years wiped away. A young man starting over is my gift. Happy nineteenth birthday my love, let your future happiness be endless. Always remember I love you, don't forget that, but remember you must live, the bravest thing in life is just to live." With those words she begins to pull away and leave. Weak and tired from months of being on the verge of death Severus cries with a horse voice. " Don't leave me again please." His plea falling around them and touching deep with in her heart. "Phoenix" Albus yells. "Yes headmaster" she whispers turning her head to the side. "Why do you remain within Hermione, your job is done here, give her back to us and leave here." He yells his voice carrying on the wind. Turning back to face them ,smiling at them all she screams as she is engulfed in the full power of the phoenix. No longer do tears fall ,her eyes are void of color, and she calls to them all. " As you wish , so shall it be, the girl known as Hermione, will be free. My time here is over. I am the entity known only as the phoenix. She the chosen has given her life for the prophecy. So the prophecy has come to pass, love will set her free." Power surges thru her and pain rips thru her soul as she and Fawkes are ripped apart. " I love you Hermione and I need you" Severus Snape whisper. "We all do Nobbie, come back to us." Albus and the others yell. Power rips thru her body her screams of pain rip thru the night air as she and Fawkes are no longer one. Her body falling lifelessly to the ground. Severus runs to her and gathers her in his arms. His tears falling gently upon her face. Slowly she opens her eyes and looks into the eyes of the man she loves, and whispers " I need you too." Joyous laughter fills the air as everyone around her begins to cheer. "Promise me you'll never leave me again Hermione?" Severus says thru tears. "Never my love." She smiles. Gently pulling her up into his lap Severus Snape slowly runs his hands thru her hair. "Marry me Hermione?" He whispers. Looking at her true love, she says " You are the husband of my heart and soul." They meet in loves sweet glow and there lips meet with passion and forever love.