OK, here is part six of my story. I'm working on two HP pieces now... and
I'm gonna try not to blend them. Just kidding! I know what I'm doing here
people! Get ready for some more Snape... cuz I love him too! Think of a
shape called a triangle!
Thanks to all my reviewers! Thanks for sticking around after my evil cliffhanger! The snow is melting, but the rain is here. First we get snowed in, now were getting flooded out! Maybe I won't have school one day this week and I can write lots and lots! Check out my other HP piece "Out of the Blue." As of 2/22 I only had a prologue... but even short pieces need good reviews! Thanks in advance.
Part 6
"Bloody hell!" Ron shouted with a smile, the next morning. "You both just won me ten galleons!"
"So, you're not mad?" Hermione asked as she tightly held Harry's hand. She had been so worried.
"Are you kidding? Dean, Seamus, Fred, George and I have had a bet going for years! I told them you wouldn't admit it till at least seventh year. Dean was out like four years ago!"
Harry let out the breath he had been holding. Both young men smiled and shook hands. "I thought she was going to die," Harry said.
"Hey!" Hermione punched his arm.
"OK, I was worried too," he admitted. He slipped an arm around Hermione's shoulders and kissed her temple.
"One rule," Ron said seriously, "no snogging in front of me!" They all laughed. "Ready for breakfast? I'm starving!"
"I'm so surprised," Hermione said with a sarcastic tone.
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Alone in her classroom at the end of the day, Samantha sat huddled over two open textbooks and a two foot long piece of parchment. Her glasses were perched on the end of her nose, and her long auburn tresses kept falling in her face. With an exasperated sigh she picked up her wand and aimed it at her hair. "Up," she commanded, her eyes never leaving the book. Her hair magically transformed into an intricate knot atop her head.
"I'm extremely impressed," a voice came from her doorway.
"Many, many mornings of bad hair," Samantha said, glancing up to see Sirius leaning in her doorframe. "What can I do for you, Sirius?"
"Hermione told me that you had hidden yourself down here all afternoon, and I think it's my job to rescue you," he informed her.
"Oh, and why were you asking my sister about me?" She asked with a smirk.
"What makes you think she wasn't just handing out random bits of information about you?" Sirius asked. Samantha raised one eyebrow at him. "OK, I was asking where you were," he admitted, coming into her room. "I haven't seen you around in awhile."
"I saw you last night," she reminded him.
"OK, listen," Sirius said, sitting down in one of the unoccupied desks. "I like you," he said.
"I like you, too," she said, softly. "Even though I'm beginning to think you're stalking me," she teased.
"No, no!" Sirius panicked. "I'm not."
"I'm kidding," she laughed.
"OK, good because I wanted to ask you out on a proper date," he responded.
"I'd like that," Samantha smiled. Sirius grinned at her. "Now, let me get back to work," she begged, picking up her glasses again.
"Oh, no, Professor. I promised your sister I would get you to eat. So, I'm taking you down to dinner."
Samantha scrunched up her nose at him, and laid down her glasses. She closed her books and rolled up the parchment before she stood. She stopped before Sirius, "Does this count as our date?" She asked looking up at him.
He laughed out loud, "No, I have a little more class than that!"
Upon arriving in the Great Hall, Sirius and Samantha detoured to the Gryffindor table. "I found her," Sirius announced, nudging Samantha.
"Well, well, you are still alive," Hermione smiled.
"You were in class today, weren't you Miss Granger?"
"Yes, Professor," she laughed. "I should have realized when I didn't see you around that you were just like me."
"I don't understand," Samantha said.
"Your sister spends more time in the library then she does in classes and sleeping combined," Ron said, after he swallowed some chicken. Hermione kicked him under the table.
"You have your NEWTs coming up this term, I would expect you to be studying extra hard, Herm."
"See, I told you all that time in the library was for a good reason," Hermione chided Ron and Harry.
"Did Hermione tell you?" Ron asked, eyeing his friends.
"Ron," Harry warned.
"No, it's OK, Harry," Hermione insisted as she turned to Sirius and Samantha. "Harry and I are seeing each other," she turned to Harry and they both smiled. "We're a couple."
"How nice," Sirius said. "How much did you win, Ron?"
"Ten Galleons," Ron told him. Sirius slapped his back.
Samantha kissed her sister's cheek then leaned over to Harry and whispered in his ear. "She's very lucky, Harry," she said, then lightly kissed his cheek. Harry blushed and smiled at her.
"Shall we eat, milady?" Sirius asked dramatically. Samantha laughed and followed him to the head table.
"What do you suppose is going on with them?" Ron asked.
"I don't know," Hermione said, "but I saw a beautiful orange rose in her apartment yesterday."
"So?" Harry commented.
"Do you two read anything? Ever?" Hermione said exasperated. "An orange rose symbolizes enchantment, desire and fascination."
"Again I ask, so what?" Harry said, and Ron nodded in agreement.
"How dense are you both?" Hermione asked, gesturing toward her sister and Sirius. They were seated next to each other at the head table, talking and laughing amongst each other. "He fancies her," she smiled.
Ron and Harry looked at each other. "Is it a woman thing?" Ron asked and Harry nodded. Hermione gave them both a dirty look. "You're not going to play matchmaker are you, Hermione?"
"I don't need to," she said, matter-of-factly. They all turned and watched the conversation between their Charms teacher and Harry's godfather.
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The next night, Samantha wandered around her common room in search of her parchment papers. Realizing that she had left them in her classroom, she turned, went into her bedroom and changed from her day robes to her nightgown. She yawned and looked over at her clock. She groaned when she saw it read 11:30 in the evening. She rolled her eyes and let her hair down as she climbed into bed. "Nox," she murmured to turn out the lights as she pulled the curtains around her bed shut.
She was asleep before her head hit the pillow. But it wasn't long before there was a loud banging on the portrait leading into her room. She sat straight up, panting, and thinking she had been woken by a nightmare. Just as she was going to lay back down, there was more pounding. She pulled open the curtains and shouted, "Lumos!" Samantha grabbed her dressing robe, slipped into a pair of soft shoes and pulled the sleeveless garment over her nightgown.
As she ran into the common room, the pounding returned. "Goddamn it! Samantha Granger open this portrait now!" It was Sirius.
"Lexicon!" She shouted and the portrait burst open. "What in the name of Merlin himself are you doing, Sirius Black?!" She shouted. He was panting as he came to stop before her. He did a double take when he saw what she was wearing. Her nightgown was light blue and her sleeveless dressing gown was of the same shade. The sleeves of the gown were sheer and the whole ensemble appeared to be froth-like. Her hair was curly and out of place. He had clearly woken her up. "What is it?" She shouted.
He shook his head and took her hand, "It's happening," he told her. "There are Death Eaters surrounding the castle." He dragged her out of the room and down the hall.
"Where's Harry?" She asked, still being dragged down the hall. Sirius turned to her, and she could see that he too had been woken from his slumber. He had a shadow of a beard and his hair stuck up in various places. He was wearing a pair of tan slacks and his white shirt was sloppily untucked with the sleeves cuffed to his forearms.
"McGonagall was going to get him. I don't know what she was planning to do with him. The others are gathered in the entrance hall. Prefects have been told to seal their students in the dormitories," Sirius explained as he jogged down the stairs. Samantha struggled with her long nightgown as she ran down the stairs behind him.
When they reached the bottom, and entered the expansive entrance hall, Samantha would have thought it was a pajama party if she didn't really know what was going on. Dumbledore was clad in dark purple robes and a night cap and McGonagall was clad in a green gown with heavy robes around her. The only professor not in their night clothes was Snape who looked like he had not been asleep when the chaos started. "Where is Harry?" Sirius asked.
"He's safe," McGonagall assured them. "How many are there, Albus?" She asked, wand in hand.
"Twelve, I believe," he said, his wand also drawn. "I have contacted this Ministry via the flames, but they tell me that they cannot apparate into Hogsmeade," he said. Samantha gaped at him in horror. "It would appear that we are on our own."
"Who is leading them?" Samantha asked.
"Whoever it is," Snape growled, "they have a dark mark. They're calling the Death Eaters," he said, pulling up the sleeve of his black robes. The ugly black tattoo was dark and menacing. Samantha winced as she looked at it. "This person is powerful."
Lupin appeared in the hall next. "The students are locked in their dormitories. I have enchanted the paintings along with their passwords," he informed the small group of professors.
"Very good, Remus," Dumbledore said. "It appears that they are not moving," he commented on the Death Eaters.
"What are they waiting for?" Sirius asked to no one in particular as he looked out a window. "Why don't they fight?"
"Is that what you want, Black? A fight," Snape sneered at him. He stepped closer to Sirius. "Do you think we could survive this? We wouldn't even know who we were fighting."
"Do you want to just stand here and let them come? Let them tear down this castle?" Sirius yelled. The two men were standing less than a foot apart.
"Enough!" McGonagall yelled. "We cannot have this if we are going to survive this. Albus, what should we do?" She asked.
"We go out there," he said solemnly.
Sirius was once again standing by the window. "We don't have to," he said, turning to them, "they're coming here!"
Before anyone could react, the great oak doors swung open and a cold air swept into the hall, blowing the hair about Samantha's face. After she had brushed it away, she saw fifteen hooded figures surrounding them in the entrance hall. Sirius had stepped in front of her, his wand held in a defensive position. "We've come for the boy," a dark voice said.
"You'll not be taking anyone from this place tonight," Dumbledore said calmly.
"The time has come for Lord Voldemort to be avenged," the man said. The Death Eaters raised their wands. The professors did the same. "Harry Potter," he spat, "must die for what he has done." He raised his wand and flicked it toward the doors. Snape gasped and grabbed at his arm again. Suddenly, there were a dozen more of the hooded figures in the hall. They were completely surrounded. Again, the man flicked his wand and the doors shut. "No one leaves here until I have Harry Potter!"
"Scoprire!" Snape yelled, waving his wand.
The hood of the man who had been threatening Harry fell away from his face to reveal Lucius Malfoy. "You've always been foolish, Severus," he said, advancing on the potions master. "And that my old friend was extremely foolish," he growled. He raised his wand, and before any other professor could react, he had cast the curse "Crucio!"
"No!" Lupin, Sirius, and Samantha all screamed. Dumbledore advanced on Malfoy.
"Search the castle," Malfoy commanded. The Death Eaters spread out.
"Petrificus Totalus!" Samantha screamed at one of the Death Eaters.
"Get to Snape," Sirius yelled to Samantha as he and Lupin ran up the stairs after the Death Eaters. "Locomotor Mortis!" He shouted, and a Death Eater's legs bound together and he tumbled down the stairs. Dumbledore and McGonagall headed up another staircase.
Samantha dashed across the hall to Snape. "Finite Incantatum," she said and fell to her knees. Snape was panting and clutching at his chest. "You might have internal bleeding," she said.
"Don't," he warned. "You can't help," he moaned in pain. His breath was ragid.
"Let me help," she pleaded. She took out her wand. "Guarire," she said softly. A light red band came from her wand and spread over his chest. He suddenly took a deep breath and felt the warmth spread through his body.
He blinked at her and shook his head, "Not even Pomfrey can do that," he said, astonished.
"I am a charms mistress," she reminded him. "Come on, they're looking for Harry."
Snape stood and held out his hand to her. As she stood and they moved to the stairs, Lucius Malfoy appeared. He was dragging Hermione by the left arm. "So, I get two mudbloods for the price of one," he snarled.
Snape stepped in front of Samantha. "Let her go, Lucius."
"Oh, I think not. If I can't have Potter this evening, I'll take what he can't live without," he shouted. "And I'll take her sister too!"
"Hermione!" Harry stood at the top of a staircase, wand in hand.
"Harry, no!" Hermione shouted, struggling with Lucius.
Suddenly, the hall filled again. There were fewer Death Eaters, but all the professors still stood. Dumbledore was yet to return. Harry came down the stairs with Sirius close behind. "Harry, don't," he whispered.
"I can't let him take Hermione," he told his godfather. "It's me he wants," Harry said.
"Smart boy," Lucius said. He threw Hermione to the floor at Snape's feet. Snape picked her up and pushed her behind him. Samantha hugged her sister and they both backed away. Harry approached Lucius. "Very wise decision, Mr. Potter. You are brave. Dead, but brave."
"Harry," Hermione whispered. He turned to her and he saw a tear fall down her cheek.
"I shall enjoy killing you, Potter!" Malfoy said, raising his wand. Dumbledore entered the hall at that moment, distracting Malfoy.
Sirius and Remus made their moves, running for Harry while Snape and Dumbledore ran for Lucius. Hermione brandished her wand and broke free of Samantha's grip. "Hermione, look out!" She yelled.
Lucius's eyes were furious. Remus threw the invisibility cloak over Harry and turned back to the Death Eaters. "Harry!" Hermione screamed because she didn't know where Harry had gone in all the confusion and shouting of various hexes and curses. Suddenly, two strong arms came around her waist and dragged her around a corner. A soft, silk-like cloth draped over her head.
"Don't say anything," he hissed in her ear.
"My sister," she moaned. They watched the action from under the cloak of invisibility.
Samantha was struggling with a Death Eater until someone cursed him and the black cloaked figure fell to the ground. She looked up to thank the person, but came eye to eye with Lucius Malfoy. "I swore I would kill someone tonight. It might as well be a mudblood bitch!" He raised his wand.
Samantha screamed for help and Sirius turned around to see Malfoy raise his wand. "Quatra dilatazione!" he shouted. A dark blue band shot out from his wand and enveloped Samantha.
"Avada Kedavra!" Malfoy spat at her. But nothing happened. Lucius gaped at the woman before him. "What is this magic?" Samantha sat staring at him. Her body was glowing in a soft blue. She was not affected at all by the killing curse. Malfoy rounded on Sirius. "This is not over! You will die for this, Black!" He clapped his hands once, and he and the remaining Death Eaters disappeared.
Hermione threw back the cloak and ran for her sister, but when she reached her, she reached nothing. "Samantha!" She gasped.
Samantha stood and looked around, eyes wide. "What's happened?" She asked. Her voice echoed slightly as she spoke.
Sirius approached her cautiously. The gown and robes gave her the appearance of a cloud and her hair glowed softly like a halo. To him she looked like an angel, but to the others she appeared ghost-like. "It's very old magic," Dumbledore said, as she approached them. "She will be all right," he assured them. "Sirius has sent her into the fourth dimension."
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End Part 6
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My curses and spells are in Italian cuz I like it better! Scoprire = reveal... Guarire = heal... Quatra = fourth... and dilatazione = dimensioning (couldn't get a straight "dimension" translation!)
Sorry 'bout the cliffhanger... deep down you know you love them! Please review... it's only a click away! Thanks!
Thanks to all my reviewers! Thanks for sticking around after my evil cliffhanger! The snow is melting, but the rain is here. First we get snowed in, now were getting flooded out! Maybe I won't have school one day this week and I can write lots and lots! Check out my other HP piece "Out of the Blue." As of 2/22 I only had a prologue... but even short pieces need good reviews! Thanks in advance.
Part 6
"Bloody hell!" Ron shouted with a smile, the next morning. "You both just won me ten galleons!"
"So, you're not mad?" Hermione asked as she tightly held Harry's hand. She had been so worried.
"Are you kidding? Dean, Seamus, Fred, George and I have had a bet going for years! I told them you wouldn't admit it till at least seventh year. Dean was out like four years ago!"
Harry let out the breath he had been holding. Both young men smiled and shook hands. "I thought she was going to die," Harry said.
"Hey!" Hermione punched his arm.
"OK, I was worried too," he admitted. He slipped an arm around Hermione's shoulders and kissed her temple.
"One rule," Ron said seriously, "no snogging in front of me!" They all laughed. "Ready for breakfast? I'm starving!"
"I'm so surprised," Hermione said with a sarcastic tone.
* ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *
Alone in her classroom at the end of the day, Samantha sat huddled over two open textbooks and a two foot long piece of parchment. Her glasses were perched on the end of her nose, and her long auburn tresses kept falling in her face. With an exasperated sigh she picked up her wand and aimed it at her hair. "Up," she commanded, her eyes never leaving the book. Her hair magically transformed into an intricate knot atop her head.
"I'm extremely impressed," a voice came from her doorway.
"Many, many mornings of bad hair," Samantha said, glancing up to see Sirius leaning in her doorframe. "What can I do for you, Sirius?"
"Hermione told me that you had hidden yourself down here all afternoon, and I think it's my job to rescue you," he informed her.
"Oh, and why were you asking my sister about me?" She asked with a smirk.
"What makes you think she wasn't just handing out random bits of information about you?" Sirius asked. Samantha raised one eyebrow at him. "OK, I was asking where you were," he admitted, coming into her room. "I haven't seen you around in awhile."
"I saw you last night," she reminded him.
"OK, listen," Sirius said, sitting down in one of the unoccupied desks. "I like you," he said.
"I like you, too," she said, softly. "Even though I'm beginning to think you're stalking me," she teased.
"No, no!" Sirius panicked. "I'm not."
"I'm kidding," she laughed.
"OK, good because I wanted to ask you out on a proper date," he responded.
"I'd like that," Samantha smiled. Sirius grinned at her. "Now, let me get back to work," she begged, picking up her glasses again.
"Oh, no, Professor. I promised your sister I would get you to eat. So, I'm taking you down to dinner."
Samantha scrunched up her nose at him, and laid down her glasses. She closed her books and rolled up the parchment before she stood. She stopped before Sirius, "Does this count as our date?" She asked looking up at him.
He laughed out loud, "No, I have a little more class than that!"
Upon arriving in the Great Hall, Sirius and Samantha detoured to the Gryffindor table. "I found her," Sirius announced, nudging Samantha.
"Well, well, you are still alive," Hermione smiled.
"You were in class today, weren't you Miss Granger?"
"Yes, Professor," she laughed. "I should have realized when I didn't see you around that you were just like me."
"I don't understand," Samantha said.
"Your sister spends more time in the library then she does in classes and sleeping combined," Ron said, after he swallowed some chicken. Hermione kicked him under the table.
"You have your NEWTs coming up this term, I would expect you to be studying extra hard, Herm."
"See, I told you all that time in the library was for a good reason," Hermione chided Ron and Harry.
"Did Hermione tell you?" Ron asked, eyeing his friends.
"Ron," Harry warned.
"No, it's OK, Harry," Hermione insisted as she turned to Sirius and Samantha. "Harry and I are seeing each other," she turned to Harry and they both smiled. "We're a couple."
"How nice," Sirius said. "How much did you win, Ron?"
"Ten Galleons," Ron told him. Sirius slapped his back.
Samantha kissed her sister's cheek then leaned over to Harry and whispered in his ear. "She's very lucky, Harry," she said, then lightly kissed his cheek. Harry blushed and smiled at her.
"Shall we eat, milady?" Sirius asked dramatically. Samantha laughed and followed him to the head table.
"What do you suppose is going on with them?" Ron asked.
"I don't know," Hermione said, "but I saw a beautiful orange rose in her apartment yesterday."
"So?" Harry commented.
"Do you two read anything? Ever?" Hermione said exasperated. "An orange rose symbolizes enchantment, desire and fascination."
"Again I ask, so what?" Harry said, and Ron nodded in agreement.
"How dense are you both?" Hermione asked, gesturing toward her sister and Sirius. They were seated next to each other at the head table, talking and laughing amongst each other. "He fancies her," she smiled.
Ron and Harry looked at each other. "Is it a woman thing?" Ron asked and Harry nodded. Hermione gave them both a dirty look. "You're not going to play matchmaker are you, Hermione?"
"I don't need to," she said, matter-of-factly. They all turned and watched the conversation between their Charms teacher and Harry's godfather.
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The next night, Samantha wandered around her common room in search of her parchment papers. Realizing that she had left them in her classroom, she turned, went into her bedroom and changed from her day robes to her nightgown. She yawned and looked over at her clock. She groaned when she saw it read 11:30 in the evening. She rolled her eyes and let her hair down as she climbed into bed. "Nox," she murmured to turn out the lights as she pulled the curtains around her bed shut.
She was asleep before her head hit the pillow. But it wasn't long before there was a loud banging on the portrait leading into her room. She sat straight up, panting, and thinking she had been woken by a nightmare. Just as she was going to lay back down, there was more pounding. She pulled open the curtains and shouted, "Lumos!" Samantha grabbed her dressing robe, slipped into a pair of soft shoes and pulled the sleeveless garment over her nightgown.
As she ran into the common room, the pounding returned. "Goddamn it! Samantha Granger open this portrait now!" It was Sirius.
"Lexicon!" She shouted and the portrait burst open. "What in the name of Merlin himself are you doing, Sirius Black?!" She shouted. He was panting as he came to stop before her. He did a double take when he saw what she was wearing. Her nightgown was light blue and her sleeveless dressing gown was of the same shade. The sleeves of the gown were sheer and the whole ensemble appeared to be froth-like. Her hair was curly and out of place. He had clearly woken her up. "What is it?" She shouted.
He shook his head and took her hand, "It's happening," he told her. "There are Death Eaters surrounding the castle." He dragged her out of the room and down the hall.
"Where's Harry?" She asked, still being dragged down the hall. Sirius turned to her, and she could see that he too had been woken from his slumber. He had a shadow of a beard and his hair stuck up in various places. He was wearing a pair of tan slacks and his white shirt was sloppily untucked with the sleeves cuffed to his forearms.
"McGonagall was going to get him. I don't know what she was planning to do with him. The others are gathered in the entrance hall. Prefects have been told to seal their students in the dormitories," Sirius explained as he jogged down the stairs. Samantha struggled with her long nightgown as she ran down the stairs behind him.
When they reached the bottom, and entered the expansive entrance hall, Samantha would have thought it was a pajama party if she didn't really know what was going on. Dumbledore was clad in dark purple robes and a night cap and McGonagall was clad in a green gown with heavy robes around her. The only professor not in their night clothes was Snape who looked like he had not been asleep when the chaos started. "Where is Harry?" Sirius asked.
"He's safe," McGonagall assured them. "How many are there, Albus?" She asked, wand in hand.
"Twelve, I believe," he said, his wand also drawn. "I have contacted this Ministry via the flames, but they tell me that they cannot apparate into Hogsmeade," he said. Samantha gaped at him in horror. "It would appear that we are on our own."
"Who is leading them?" Samantha asked.
"Whoever it is," Snape growled, "they have a dark mark. They're calling the Death Eaters," he said, pulling up the sleeve of his black robes. The ugly black tattoo was dark and menacing. Samantha winced as she looked at it. "This person is powerful."
Lupin appeared in the hall next. "The students are locked in their dormitories. I have enchanted the paintings along with their passwords," he informed the small group of professors.
"Very good, Remus," Dumbledore said. "It appears that they are not moving," he commented on the Death Eaters.
"What are they waiting for?" Sirius asked to no one in particular as he looked out a window. "Why don't they fight?"
"Is that what you want, Black? A fight," Snape sneered at him. He stepped closer to Sirius. "Do you think we could survive this? We wouldn't even know who we were fighting."
"Do you want to just stand here and let them come? Let them tear down this castle?" Sirius yelled. The two men were standing less than a foot apart.
"Enough!" McGonagall yelled. "We cannot have this if we are going to survive this. Albus, what should we do?" She asked.
"We go out there," he said solemnly.
Sirius was once again standing by the window. "We don't have to," he said, turning to them, "they're coming here!"
Before anyone could react, the great oak doors swung open and a cold air swept into the hall, blowing the hair about Samantha's face. After she had brushed it away, she saw fifteen hooded figures surrounding them in the entrance hall. Sirius had stepped in front of her, his wand held in a defensive position. "We've come for the boy," a dark voice said.
"You'll not be taking anyone from this place tonight," Dumbledore said calmly.
"The time has come for Lord Voldemort to be avenged," the man said. The Death Eaters raised their wands. The professors did the same. "Harry Potter," he spat, "must die for what he has done." He raised his wand and flicked it toward the doors. Snape gasped and grabbed at his arm again. Suddenly, there were a dozen more of the hooded figures in the hall. They were completely surrounded. Again, the man flicked his wand and the doors shut. "No one leaves here until I have Harry Potter!"
"Scoprire!" Snape yelled, waving his wand.
The hood of the man who had been threatening Harry fell away from his face to reveal Lucius Malfoy. "You've always been foolish, Severus," he said, advancing on the potions master. "And that my old friend was extremely foolish," he growled. He raised his wand, and before any other professor could react, he had cast the curse "Crucio!"
"No!" Lupin, Sirius, and Samantha all screamed. Dumbledore advanced on Malfoy.
"Search the castle," Malfoy commanded. The Death Eaters spread out.
"Petrificus Totalus!" Samantha screamed at one of the Death Eaters.
"Get to Snape," Sirius yelled to Samantha as he and Lupin ran up the stairs after the Death Eaters. "Locomotor Mortis!" He shouted, and a Death Eater's legs bound together and he tumbled down the stairs. Dumbledore and McGonagall headed up another staircase.
Samantha dashed across the hall to Snape. "Finite Incantatum," she said and fell to her knees. Snape was panting and clutching at his chest. "You might have internal bleeding," she said.
"Don't," he warned. "You can't help," he moaned in pain. His breath was ragid.
"Let me help," she pleaded. She took out her wand. "Guarire," she said softly. A light red band came from her wand and spread over his chest. He suddenly took a deep breath and felt the warmth spread through his body.
He blinked at her and shook his head, "Not even Pomfrey can do that," he said, astonished.
"I am a charms mistress," she reminded him. "Come on, they're looking for Harry."
Snape stood and held out his hand to her. As she stood and they moved to the stairs, Lucius Malfoy appeared. He was dragging Hermione by the left arm. "So, I get two mudbloods for the price of one," he snarled.
Snape stepped in front of Samantha. "Let her go, Lucius."
"Oh, I think not. If I can't have Potter this evening, I'll take what he can't live without," he shouted. "And I'll take her sister too!"
"Hermione!" Harry stood at the top of a staircase, wand in hand.
"Harry, no!" Hermione shouted, struggling with Lucius.
Suddenly, the hall filled again. There were fewer Death Eaters, but all the professors still stood. Dumbledore was yet to return. Harry came down the stairs with Sirius close behind. "Harry, don't," he whispered.
"I can't let him take Hermione," he told his godfather. "It's me he wants," Harry said.
"Smart boy," Lucius said. He threw Hermione to the floor at Snape's feet. Snape picked her up and pushed her behind him. Samantha hugged her sister and they both backed away. Harry approached Lucius. "Very wise decision, Mr. Potter. You are brave. Dead, but brave."
"Harry," Hermione whispered. He turned to her and he saw a tear fall down her cheek.
"I shall enjoy killing you, Potter!" Malfoy said, raising his wand. Dumbledore entered the hall at that moment, distracting Malfoy.
Sirius and Remus made their moves, running for Harry while Snape and Dumbledore ran for Lucius. Hermione brandished her wand and broke free of Samantha's grip. "Hermione, look out!" She yelled.
Lucius's eyes were furious. Remus threw the invisibility cloak over Harry and turned back to the Death Eaters. "Harry!" Hermione screamed because she didn't know where Harry had gone in all the confusion and shouting of various hexes and curses. Suddenly, two strong arms came around her waist and dragged her around a corner. A soft, silk-like cloth draped over her head.
"Don't say anything," he hissed in her ear.
"My sister," she moaned. They watched the action from under the cloak of invisibility.
Samantha was struggling with a Death Eater until someone cursed him and the black cloaked figure fell to the ground. She looked up to thank the person, but came eye to eye with Lucius Malfoy. "I swore I would kill someone tonight. It might as well be a mudblood bitch!" He raised his wand.
Samantha screamed for help and Sirius turned around to see Malfoy raise his wand. "Quatra dilatazione!" he shouted. A dark blue band shot out from his wand and enveloped Samantha.
"Avada Kedavra!" Malfoy spat at her. But nothing happened. Lucius gaped at the woman before him. "What is this magic?" Samantha sat staring at him. Her body was glowing in a soft blue. She was not affected at all by the killing curse. Malfoy rounded on Sirius. "This is not over! You will die for this, Black!" He clapped his hands once, and he and the remaining Death Eaters disappeared.
Hermione threw back the cloak and ran for her sister, but when she reached her, she reached nothing. "Samantha!" She gasped.
Samantha stood and looked around, eyes wide. "What's happened?" She asked. Her voice echoed slightly as she spoke.
Sirius approached her cautiously. The gown and robes gave her the appearance of a cloud and her hair glowed softly like a halo. To him she looked like an angel, but to the others she appeared ghost-like. "It's very old magic," Dumbledore said, as she approached them. "She will be all right," he assured them. "Sirius has sent her into the fourth dimension."
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End Part 6
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My curses and spells are in Italian cuz I like it better! Scoprire = reveal... Guarire = heal... Quatra = fourth... and dilatazione = dimensioning (couldn't get a straight "dimension" translation!)
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