Hermoine pov.
'The last two weeks have passed so slowly. I think I might go insane. I would think that
time would go faster because we have anigmus training, and then all the studying I have
been doing, but no, time refuses to go any faster. I wish he were here. I just want to tell
him how I feel. He probably wont' even care. After all he hasn't sent me a single letter. Of
course he has only sent one to the others, the night he left, but still. I remember wanting to cry when I watched Ron and Draco open their letters. Then later I had to watch James and Michelle open theres. I felt like I wanted to die. And for some reason, probably to punish me or something, I wasn't allowed to read any of them. I have
spent less and less time with James lately. Not because I blame him, but I just don't want
to be close with anyone right now. I haven't really even talked to Ron or Michelle. I don't
know what is wrong with me. OH right, yes I do, the same thing that makes me cry myself
to sleep every night. The fact that the one person in the world that I love, probably hates
me. OH well. Stupid muggle girl manages to fuck something else up. On a brighter note,
Professor McGonagall seems to think that I will be able to start learning how to
transfigure myself with my wand ahead of schedule. She said she should have expected the
amount of studying I have done on my animal. The eagle really is a fascinating creature. I
can't wait. Ron is coming along quite well too. He is a little behind me, along with Malfoy,
but they are still both doing very well. I can't wait until everyone in the order is an
anigmus. I will be so great for us to be able to go out at night together in our animal
forms. Ron, Michelle, James, Malfoy, Me, and Harry. Harry. Now why did I have to go
and think his name. Now I feel horrible all over again. Oh well, I guess I should be used to
it by now. I wonder what time it is. Oh my. It's 6:00. I guess I should head down for
supper. Maybe I won't get asked a thousand questions at supper. Ever since Harry has
been gone everyone in the school seems to have asked me where he went, and it's starting
to get on my nerves."
Back to Normal pov.
Hermoine exited her dorm room, where she had been studying before her mind was
sidetracked, and headed down to the Great Hall. She was suprised to see so many people
eating at the same time. It seemed if the entire room was full. She didn't see a single seat
empty at the Gryffindor table, except the one she usually sat at. The one beside James. She
sat down with a greeting to James, Michelle, and Ron. She wasn't really that hungry. She
hadn't really eaten much since Harry left. But she resolved that she had to make herself
eat. She put a few things on her plate and began picking at them.
"What's wrong Hermoine?" James said with a knowing glance.
"Nothing." Hermoine replied
"Sure." James said totally unbelieving.
"OH come on James." Hermoine said, "What do u think is wrong? The same thing that is
wrong everyday."
James opened his mouth, determined to try and make her feel better, but he was
interrupted before her could start by Hermoine, "And don't either. I don't want to hear
anything about it. Let's just eat, OK?"
"Sure." James said.
"You allright there Hermoine?" Ron asked.
He received a swift kick under the table from James.
"Ow." Then looking James who had a 'don't ask' look on his face, said, "Nevermind."
Ron then turned his attentions to the beautiful blonde sitting next to him. "You gonna eat
that?" he asked with a smile.
Ron had a plateful of food, and Michelle did too. He was just uselessly flirting, "Well u eat
everything you have and then ask me that OK?" Michelle replied with a smile and wink.
Ron felt his insides flip-flop.
"Allright." He said with a smile.
The next thing he heard was a tinking sound made by Professor McGongall, this was her
usual sign that Dumbledore wanted to say something. Every was quiet immediately and
Dumbledore rose.
"I would like to inform you that this year on the last day of term, which is now 1 and a
half months away, we are going to hold a Christmas banquet. Only 5th years and up are
allowed to attend however, as more than that would just be too much. You may all
continued eating."
After Dumbledore sat down, but before everyone could begin talking, a loud slam was
heard as one of the doors to the Great Hall was thrown open.
A man came walking in. Limping badly on his right leg. He had black hair, that seemed
singed in more than one place. Both of his eyes were badly bruised and swollen. His nose
was huge and looked broken. His robes were in tatters. The entire room was silent.
Everyone stared at the stranger.
As he got closer to the Gryffindor table, Hermoine thought there was something that she
recognized about the man, but she couldn't place it. As he finally got close enough so that
she could see his face, she almost fainted, it was Harry. He was beaten badly. His robes
were bloody and in tatters. As he passed by she saw on his back three huge claw makes
down his back. They were so long that they had ripped most of robe away. They were
dried over with blood.
People began whispering quietly. Hermoine could hear some of them.
"Is that Harry Potter?"
"He looks awful."
"I wonder what happened."
Ron leaned across the table to Hermoine and whispered, "he's back."
Hermoine didn't know if she was going to be sick, or faint. She was just in shock.
Harry walked slowly up to the teachers table. Walked around it. Bent down and talked
quietly to Dumbledore. Dumbledore nodded with a smile. He then got up and followed
Harry back out of the Great Hall.
As he was walking in between everything, Dumbledore stopped and turned to then entire
room and said with smile, "You may continue eating now."
He then looked at the members of the order of light and nodded at them, meaning, come
with me.
James, Ron, Michelle, Malfoy, and Hermoine got up from their tables and followed
Dumbledore.
As Hermoine got to the exit she could hear all at once everyone in the Great Hall begin
speaking.
The all followed Harry and Dumbledore silently to his office.
"Chocolate Frog." Dumbldore muttered and then group entered his office.
They all say down in chairs that were situated around Dumbldore's desk.
Once they all were inside Ron immediately looked at Harry and said, "Well mate you look
like Hell, but I'm glad your home."
"Me too." Harry said with a horse voice.
"Man, did they try and kill you or something?" James said.
"Almost. More than once actually." Harry replied with a scowl.
"So I take it you passed their test?" Malfoy asked.
"Yes I suppose." Harry answered him.
Dumbledore then said, "I suggest that you all let Harry get a good night's sleep and get
cleaned up before you begin assaulting him with questions."
"It's allright Albus." Harry said.
Everyone seemed kindof shocked that he called Dumbledore by his first name.
Dumbledore just smiled.
Everyone began asking questions at once, everyone except Hermoine. Harry did his best
to answer them.
"Wait Wait Wait. Just stop. Let me just explain everything that happened OK?" Harry
said.
"Now." Harry began, "The morning after I arrived I awoke to a Large Man telling me to
get up. So I got up. He led me outside after I had put on a few clothes, and led me deep
into the Forrest. He then told me to wait, and left. I must have stayed there for a day it
seems. I was starving. I was thirsty. I couldn't sleep because I feared I would be attacked.
Well after the sun rose on the next day, I could hear something coming through the
woods. It was you. All of you. All 5 of you. You all had death marks on your arms and
your wands raised. You began firing curse after curse at me. It hurt. Badly. I was hit with
every unforgivable curse. I was hit so many times I thought I would die. I was hit with the
killing curse, yet I didn't die. After hours of this, the pain was suddenly gone. I looked up
and the same man was there. He said that I had done well and that now I had to learn how
to block out the pain. So then more people suddenly appeared. They all shouted 'Crucio' at
the same time. I have never and will probably never feel pain like this ever again. And it
never stopped. I figured I would lapse into unconsciousness. But I never did."
Everyone watching him had their mouths open and horrified looks on their faces. But
Harry just kept going.
"After what seemed like hours of this, I finally got a thought in my head. I thought, I
should stop this. I should stop this from hurting. And as soon as I thought this the pain
lessened a little bit. I reached for my wand. I wondered why I hadn't grabbed it sooner. I
began screaming every curse I knew in any direction I could. The pain became less. I then
thought to myself, that this shouldn't hurt. This wasn't real pain. It was magical. There was
nothing actually being done to me. Then the pain almost stopped completly. I found
strength in myself I never knew. By then I began shouting curses again. Finally once the
pain was completly gone, I blacked out. I woke up the next day in the little hut I was
staying in. The man was there again. I asked him why I didn't die when the killing curse hit me. He just told me that if I had died then I wouldn't have been worthy. I, of course, got excited by this, thinking that I was already worthy, but then he chuckled and told me I wasn't through yet. He pointed to a table of books. I had never seen any
books like these before. They seemed to be full of words, but they were all forced together
and didn't make any sense. He told me to tap my wand to them and clear my mind. So I
walked over and did. And I was instantly hit with a pain unlike any I have ever known. I
felt like my brain was melting. It was ALMOST as bad as all of the crutatious curses hitting
me, but JUST ALMOST. I finally pulled my wand away. The man the changed the bed into a
Lion and it attacked me. Without a second thought I said, 'Reverindo', and the bed
changed back. The man told me I was to learn everything in all 5 of the books laying
there. The report to the same spot in the woods."
He paused to take a breath.
Everyone was looking at him intrigued.
"I stayed up for days learning everything in those books. There was everything.
Everything from magic healing, to curses, to counter-curses, to reverses, to fighting. To
hand to hand combat. Everything. Skills in magic I never knew existed. The ability to slow
down time to almost a standstill. Things that I thought weren't possible. After I had gotten
to the point that I touched each book and nothing happened I realized that I must be done
learning. I had a small though to why everyone considers Albus the best wizard in the
world. Because he had already done this. I went back out into the clearing. I closed my
eyes for a moment. I opened them again and in from of me was an army. An army of
everything imaginable. Spiders, Dragons, Dementors, Wizards, Every hell beast that their
is. All commanded by Voldermort. They began attacking. And I began defending. After I
defended myself for well over two days I began attacking. I gave as good or better than I
got. After a solid week of curse, heals, and fights, there was only me and Volermort left.
We circled each other. He wasn't hurt at all. No marks. I was bleeding. I was tired, almost
dead. Wore out. I was sure I was done for. He attached first with the crutatious curse. It
did nothing. He ran at me. Began throwing punches and screaming curses in between. He
changed into a huge snake and attacked me. I got worried because I didn't know how to
change into an animal. Then suddenly, like someone flipped a light switch, I knew. I
changed into a Dragon at first. But the snake was so low to the ground I couldn't do
anything. So then I tried a Phoenix, no luck, then a Lion, no luck again, A unicorn,
nothing. I kept changing from animal to animal. And everytime I did I would get bitten by
Voldermort. He was poisonous, so I was getting weaker and weaker. So I thought to
myself, what is a snakes natural predator? I thought forever, while running from
Voldermort, then I suddenly remembered, One of a snakes natural predators is a
Mongoose. And if you don't know what a mongoose is it is similar to a ferret. So I
changed myself into a large mongoose and attacked Voldermort. Within seconds I had
snapped the back of his neck with my teeth and he was dead. As soon as he was dead,
everything disappeared and I was back in my hut again. The large man appeared and told
me that I had done well, but I still had another task. I had to face a Gryffindor, and
without magic, defeat it."
He paused at everyone's gasp.
"Well I went out the door and in front of me stood a 20 foot tall Gryffindor. I looked back
and the hut was gone. We were suddenly in the middle of a desert. I was looking around,
like an idiot, and then the Gryffindor attacked. Well I won't give you all the details. Let's
just say, many cuts, scraps, bleeding, and pain later I won."
Harry finally finished his story and he looked dead tired. His eyes were barely open
already, because of the swelling. He then said, "I don't know why I didn't heal myself, but
I just wanted to get back very very badly." He then took out his wand and placed it over
his heart. He mumbled something and all the cuts and things began to heal, until he was
completely healed.
He still looked like death. His eyes were baggy and bloodshot. His eyes didn't hold the
light and youthfulness it once did, now they looked older and wiser. He looked genuinely
sad.
"I think I'm going to take a nice shower and go to bed if that is allright with everyone."
Harry asked.
Everyone just nodded.
He nodded to Dumbledore who smiled back. He got up and left.
Seconds after he left Hermoine suddenly got up and ran after him.
Harry could hear someone behind him in the hall.
He turned to see Hermoine behind him.
"Harry. I need to talk to you." She said through tears.
"I can't. Not right now." Harry said.
"Why didn't u write to me?" Hermoine asked.
"I did write to you. I just didn't send it to you." Harry replied.
"What, Why?" Hermoine asked confused.
"Because I was hurt, or scared, or confused, or I don't know, I just didn't." Harry said,
He began to walk off. Then stopped and turned around. He reached into the inside of his
cloak and pulled out a letter. He handed it to Hermoine and walked off without another
word.
She opened the letter and began reading.
'Hermoine,
I debated whether or not to write to you. I decided to write, but I doubt I send this. I am
currently in the middle of nowhere. I fell so awful about earlier. I hate the way we left
things. Everything is such a mess. I'm sorry for jumping to those stupid conclusions. And
I'm sorry that I yelled at you. The only thing I don't regret is the last thing I said to you. I
don't know why it took me so long to figure it out, and I don't know why I just couldn't
admit it to myself, but I love you Hermoine. I love you with all my heart. And I wasn't
lying when I said I would be thinking about you the whole time I am here. I don't know
what I will face here, but you will be with me in whatever I face. I hope someday you can
forgive me. I don't know how you feel about me. I'm sure you think I am just your friend
and nothing more. But I just had to tell you. I must go now.
With All My Heart,
Harry.'
By the time Hermoine was done reading this, she had tears openly streaming down her
face. Michelle came up behind her.
"What's wrong Hermoine?" She asked.
Hermoine just handed her the letter and collapsed on her shoulder crying.
"Oh Dear." Michelle said reading it.
"It will be OK Hermoine." Michelle said soothingly.
"After all those horrible things I said to him, he still loves me. What am I supposed to do?"
Hermoine asked in-between her sobs.
"Well don't do anything tonight. Harry is tired and needs his rest. I'll go talk to him
thought and see what he is thinking." Michelle said.
"OK." Hermoine said.
"What you need to do is go to your room and go to bed." Michelle told her.
"Allright." Hermoine said as she walked off.
Michelle turned around to find Ron, James, and Malfoy standing behind him.
They all looked her knowingly.
"Not now." She said before they could begin asking questions.
"Ron, I need a favor." Michelle asked seriously.
"Allright Allright, I know what to do. Meet me in the common room in 30 minutes." Ron
said walking off.
He walked up to the 7th years dorm to find Harry just getting out of the shower.
"Hey man." Ron said.
"Hey" Harry said with a frown.
"How are you?" Ron asked.
Harry replied, "Shitty."
"Well Hermoine is even worse right now." Ron told him.
"I doubt it." Harry said.
"What happened out there man? There is something you aren't telling us." Ron said.
"Your right, there is. And I'm not tell you either." Harry said coldly.
"And I thought you were my best mate. I guess I was wrong." Ron said hurt.
"OK OK, I'll tell you what is wrong with me." Harry said, "I left out some tests that I had
to go through. I had to watch, over and over again as you, and Hermoine, and Michelle,
and James, and even Malfoy were tortured over and over again. While I just watched
helplessly. Then I watched my parents die. Then Sirus, Then Lupin, Then Dumbledore, I
have seen every person on this earth that is even remotely related to me die over 100 times
in the past two weeks." Harry almost broke down crying.
"Oh My god." Ron said quietly, "Harry I didn't know."
Ron went to Harry to try and comfort him, but Harry just pulled away from him. "Get
away from me Ron. Everything I get near is in danger. Everything I touch just dies." With
that Harry went to the window, opened it, and jumped out, turning into a phoenix as he
did. He just flew off.
"Well this sucks." Ron said.
'The last two weeks have passed so slowly. I think I might go insane. I would think that
time would go faster because we have anigmus training, and then all the studying I have
been doing, but no, time refuses to go any faster. I wish he were here. I just want to tell
him how I feel. He probably wont' even care. After all he hasn't sent me a single letter. Of
course he has only sent one to the others, the night he left, but still. I remember wanting to cry when I watched Ron and Draco open their letters. Then later I had to watch James and Michelle open theres. I felt like I wanted to die. And for some reason, probably to punish me or something, I wasn't allowed to read any of them. I have
spent less and less time with James lately. Not because I blame him, but I just don't want
to be close with anyone right now. I haven't really even talked to Ron or Michelle. I don't
know what is wrong with me. OH right, yes I do, the same thing that makes me cry myself
to sleep every night. The fact that the one person in the world that I love, probably hates
me. OH well. Stupid muggle girl manages to fuck something else up. On a brighter note,
Professor McGonagall seems to think that I will be able to start learning how to
transfigure myself with my wand ahead of schedule. She said she should have expected the
amount of studying I have done on my animal. The eagle really is a fascinating creature. I
can't wait. Ron is coming along quite well too. He is a little behind me, along with Malfoy,
but they are still both doing very well. I can't wait until everyone in the order is an
anigmus. I will be so great for us to be able to go out at night together in our animal
forms. Ron, Michelle, James, Malfoy, Me, and Harry. Harry. Now why did I have to go
and think his name. Now I feel horrible all over again. Oh well, I guess I should be used to
it by now. I wonder what time it is. Oh my. It's 6:00. I guess I should head down for
supper. Maybe I won't get asked a thousand questions at supper. Ever since Harry has
been gone everyone in the school seems to have asked me where he went, and it's starting
to get on my nerves."
Back to Normal pov.
Hermoine exited her dorm room, where she had been studying before her mind was
sidetracked, and headed down to the Great Hall. She was suprised to see so many people
eating at the same time. It seemed if the entire room was full. She didn't see a single seat
empty at the Gryffindor table, except the one she usually sat at. The one beside James. She
sat down with a greeting to James, Michelle, and Ron. She wasn't really that hungry. She
hadn't really eaten much since Harry left. But she resolved that she had to make herself
eat. She put a few things on her plate and began picking at them.
"What's wrong Hermoine?" James said with a knowing glance.
"Nothing." Hermoine replied
"Sure." James said totally unbelieving.
"OH come on James." Hermoine said, "What do u think is wrong? The same thing that is
wrong everyday."
James opened his mouth, determined to try and make her feel better, but he was
interrupted before her could start by Hermoine, "And don't either. I don't want to hear
anything about it. Let's just eat, OK?"
"Sure." James said.
"You allright there Hermoine?" Ron asked.
He received a swift kick under the table from James.
"Ow." Then looking James who had a 'don't ask' look on his face, said, "Nevermind."
Ron then turned his attentions to the beautiful blonde sitting next to him. "You gonna eat
that?" he asked with a smile.
Ron had a plateful of food, and Michelle did too. He was just uselessly flirting, "Well u eat
everything you have and then ask me that OK?" Michelle replied with a smile and wink.
Ron felt his insides flip-flop.
"Allright." He said with a smile.
The next thing he heard was a tinking sound made by Professor McGongall, this was her
usual sign that Dumbledore wanted to say something. Every was quiet immediately and
Dumbledore rose.
"I would like to inform you that this year on the last day of term, which is now 1 and a
half months away, we are going to hold a Christmas banquet. Only 5th years and up are
allowed to attend however, as more than that would just be too much. You may all
continued eating."
After Dumbledore sat down, but before everyone could begin talking, a loud slam was
heard as one of the doors to the Great Hall was thrown open.
A man came walking in. Limping badly on his right leg. He had black hair, that seemed
singed in more than one place. Both of his eyes were badly bruised and swollen. His nose
was huge and looked broken. His robes were in tatters. The entire room was silent.
Everyone stared at the stranger.
As he got closer to the Gryffindor table, Hermoine thought there was something that she
recognized about the man, but she couldn't place it. As he finally got close enough so that
she could see his face, she almost fainted, it was Harry. He was beaten badly. His robes
were bloody and in tatters. As he passed by she saw on his back three huge claw makes
down his back. They were so long that they had ripped most of robe away. They were
dried over with blood.
People began whispering quietly. Hermoine could hear some of them.
"Is that Harry Potter?"
"He looks awful."
"I wonder what happened."
Ron leaned across the table to Hermoine and whispered, "he's back."
Hermoine didn't know if she was going to be sick, or faint. She was just in shock.
Harry walked slowly up to the teachers table. Walked around it. Bent down and talked
quietly to Dumbledore. Dumbledore nodded with a smile. He then got up and followed
Harry back out of the Great Hall.
As he was walking in between everything, Dumbledore stopped and turned to then entire
room and said with smile, "You may continue eating now."
He then looked at the members of the order of light and nodded at them, meaning, come
with me.
James, Ron, Michelle, Malfoy, and Hermoine got up from their tables and followed
Dumbledore.
As Hermoine got to the exit she could hear all at once everyone in the Great Hall begin
speaking.
The all followed Harry and Dumbledore silently to his office.
"Chocolate Frog." Dumbldore muttered and then group entered his office.
They all say down in chairs that were situated around Dumbldore's desk.
Once they all were inside Ron immediately looked at Harry and said, "Well mate you look
like Hell, but I'm glad your home."
"Me too." Harry said with a horse voice.
"Man, did they try and kill you or something?" James said.
"Almost. More than once actually." Harry replied with a scowl.
"So I take it you passed their test?" Malfoy asked.
"Yes I suppose." Harry answered him.
Dumbledore then said, "I suggest that you all let Harry get a good night's sleep and get
cleaned up before you begin assaulting him with questions."
"It's allright Albus." Harry said.
Everyone seemed kindof shocked that he called Dumbledore by his first name.
Dumbledore just smiled.
Everyone began asking questions at once, everyone except Hermoine. Harry did his best
to answer them.
"Wait Wait Wait. Just stop. Let me just explain everything that happened OK?" Harry
said.
"Now." Harry began, "The morning after I arrived I awoke to a Large Man telling me to
get up. So I got up. He led me outside after I had put on a few clothes, and led me deep
into the Forrest. He then told me to wait, and left. I must have stayed there for a day it
seems. I was starving. I was thirsty. I couldn't sleep because I feared I would be attacked.
Well after the sun rose on the next day, I could hear something coming through the
woods. It was you. All of you. All 5 of you. You all had death marks on your arms and
your wands raised. You began firing curse after curse at me. It hurt. Badly. I was hit with
every unforgivable curse. I was hit so many times I thought I would die. I was hit with the
killing curse, yet I didn't die. After hours of this, the pain was suddenly gone. I looked up
and the same man was there. He said that I had done well and that now I had to learn how
to block out the pain. So then more people suddenly appeared. They all shouted 'Crucio' at
the same time. I have never and will probably never feel pain like this ever again. And it
never stopped. I figured I would lapse into unconsciousness. But I never did."
Everyone watching him had their mouths open and horrified looks on their faces. But
Harry just kept going.
"After what seemed like hours of this, I finally got a thought in my head. I thought, I
should stop this. I should stop this from hurting. And as soon as I thought this the pain
lessened a little bit. I reached for my wand. I wondered why I hadn't grabbed it sooner. I
began screaming every curse I knew in any direction I could. The pain became less. I then
thought to myself, that this shouldn't hurt. This wasn't real pain. It was magical. There was
nothing actually being done to me. Then the pain almost stopped completly. I found
strength in myself I never knew. By then I began shouting curses again. Finally once the
pain was completly gone, I blacked out. I woke up the next day in the little hut I was
staying in. The man was there again. I asked him why I didn't die when the killing curse hit me. He just told me that if I had died then I wouldn't have been worthy. I, of course, got excited by this, thinking that I was already worthy, but then he chuckled and told me I wasn't through yet. He pointed to a table of books. I had never seen any
books like these before. They seemed to be full of words, but they were all forced together
and didn't make any sense. He told me to tap my wand to them and clear my mind. So I
walked over and did. And I was instantly hit with a pain unlike any I have ever known. I
felt like my brain was melting. It was ALMOST as bad as all of the crutatious curses hitting
me, but JUST ALMOST. I finally pulled my wand away. The man the changed the bed into a
Lion and it attacked me. Without a second thought I said, 'Reverindo', and the bed
changed back. The man told me I was to learn everything in all 5 of the books laying
there. The report to the same spot in the woods."
He paused to take a breath.
Everyone was looking at him intrigued.
"I stayed up for days learning everything in those books. There was everything.
Everything from magic healing, to curses, to counter-curses, to reverses, to fighting. To
hand to hand combat. Everything. Skills in magic I never knew existed. The ability to slow
down time to almost a standstill. Things that I thought weren't possible. After I had gotten
to the point that I touched each book and nothing happened I realized that I must be done
learning. I had a small though to why everyone considers Albus the best wizard in the
world. Because he had already done this. I went back out into the clearing. I closed my
eyes for a moment. I opened them again and in from of me was an army. An army of
everything imaginable. Spiders, Dragons, Dementors, Wizards, Every hell beast that their
is. All commanded by Voldermort. They began attacking. And I began defending. After I
defended myself for well over two days I began attacking. I gave as good or better than I
got. After a solid week of curse, heals, and fights, there was only me and Volermort left.
We circled each other. He wasn't hurt at all. No marks. I was bleeding. I was tired, almost
dead. Wore out. I was sure I was done for. He attached first with the crutatious curse. It
did nothing. He ran at me. Began throwing punches and screaming curses in between. He
changed into a huge snake and attacked me. I got worried because I didn't know how to
change into an animal. Then suddenly, like someone flipped a light switch, I knew. I
changed into a Dragon at first. But the snake was so low to the ground I couldn't do
anything. So then I tried a Phoenix, no luck, then a Lion, no luck again, A unicorn,
nothing. I kept changing from animal to animal. And everytime I did I would get bitten by
Voldermort. He was poisonous, so I was getting weaker and weaker. So I thought to
myself, what is a snakes natural predator? I thought forever, while running from
Voldermort, then I suddenly remembered, One of a snakes natural predators is a
Mongoose. And if you don't know what a mongoose is it is similar to a ferret. So I
changed myself into a large mongoose and attacked Voldermort. Within seconds I had
snapped the back of his neck with my teeth and he was dead. As soon as he was dead,
everything disappeared and I was back in my hut again. The large man appeared and told
me that I had done well, but I still had another task. I had to face a Gryffindor, and
without magic, defeat it."
He paused at everyone's gasp.
"Well I went out the door and in front of me stood a 20 foot tall Gryffindor. I looked back
and the hut was gone. We were suddenly in the middle of a desert. I was looking around,
like an idiot, and then the Gryffindor attacked. Well I won't give you all the details. Let's
just say, many cuts, scraps, bleeding, and pain later I won."
Harry finally finished his story and he looked dead tired. His eyes were barely open
already, because of the swelling. He then said, "I don't know why I didn't heal myself, but
I just wanted to get back very very badly." He then took out his wand and placed it over
his heart. He mumbled something and all the cuts and things began to heal, until he was
completely healed.
He still looked like death. His eyes were baggy and bloodshot. His eyes didn't hold the
light and youthfulness it once did, now they looked older and wiser. He looked genuinely
sad.
"I think I'm going to take a nice shower and go to bed if that is allright with everyone."
Harry asked.
Everyone just nodded.
He nodded to Dumbledore who smiled back. He got up and left.
Seconds after he left Hermoine suddenly got up and ran after him.
Harry could hear someone behind him in the hall.
He turned to see Hermoine behind him.
"Harry. I need to talk to you." She said through tears.
"I can't. Not right now." Harry said.
"Why didn't u write to me?" Hermoine asked.
"I did write to you. I just didn't send it to you." Harry replied.
"What, Why?" Hermoine asked confused.
"Because I was hurt, or scared, or confused, or I don't know, I just didn't." Harry said,
He began to walk off. Then stopped and turned around. He reached into the inside of his
cloak and pulled out a letter. He handed it to Hermoine and walked off without another
word.
She opened the letter and began reading.
'Hermoine,
I debated whether or not to write to you. I decided to write, but I doubt I send this. I am
currently in the middle of nowhere. I fell so awful about earlier. I hate the way we left
things. Everything is such a mess. I'm sorry for jumping to those stupid conclusions. And
I'm sorry that I yelled at you. The only thing I don't regret is the last thing I said to you. I
don't know why it took me so long to figure it out, and I don't know why I just couldn't
admit it to myself, but I love you Hermoine. I love you with all my heart. And I wasn't
lying when I said I would be thinking about you the whole time I am here. I don't know
what I will face here, but you will be with me in whatever I face. I hope someday you can
forgive me. I don't know how you feel about me. I'm sure you think I am just your friend
and nothing more. But I just had to tell you. I must go now.
With All My Heart,
Harry.'
By the time Hermoine was done reading this, she had tears openly streaming down her
face. Michelle came up behind her.
"What's wrong Hermoine?" She asked.
Hermoine just handed her the letter and collapsed on her shoulder crying.
"Oh Dear." Michelle said reading it.
"It will be OK Hermoine." Michelle said soothingly.
"After all those horrible things I said to him, he still loves me. What am I supposed to do?"
Hermoine asked in-between her sobs.
"Well don't do anything tonight. Harry is tired and needs his rest. I'll go talk to him
thought and see what he is thinking." Michelle said.
"OK." Hermoine said.
"What you need to do is go to your room and go to bed." Michelle told her.
"Allright." Hermoine said as she walked off.
Michelle turned around to find Ron, James, and Malfoy standing behind him.
They all looked her knowingly.
"Not now." She said before they could begin asking questions.
"Ron, I need a favor." Michelle asked seriously.
"Allright Allright, I know what to do. Meet me in the common room in 30 minutes." Ron
said walking off.
He walked up to the 7th years dorm to find Harry just getting out of the shower.
"Hey man." Ron said.
"Hey" Harry said with a frown.
"How are you?" Ron asked.
Harry replied, "Shitty."
"Well Hermoine is even worse right now." Ron told him.
"I doubt it." Harry said.
"What happened out there man? There is something you aren't telling us." Ron said.
"Your right, there is. And I'm not tell you either." Harry said coldly.
"And I thought you were my best mate. I guess I was wrong." Ron said hurt.
"OK OK, I'll tell you what is wrong with me." Harry said, "I left out some tests that I had
to go through. I had to watch, over and over again as you, and Hermoine, and Michelle,
and James, and even Malfoy were tortured over and over again. While I just watched
helplessly. Then I watched my parents die. Then Sirus, Then Lupin, Then Dumbledore, I
have seen every person on this earth that is even remotely related to me die over 100 times
in the past two weeks." Harry almost broke down crying.
"Oh My god." Ron said quietly, "Harry I didn't know."
Ron went to Harry to try and comfort him, but Harry just pulled away from him. "Get
away from me Ron. Everything I get near is in danger. Everything I touch just dies." With
that Harry went to the window, opened it, and jumped out, turning into a phoenix as he
did. He just flew off.
"Well this sucks." Ron said.