A/N: Once again I had not classes to attend because of all the ice on the
ground and roads, so as I said yesterday expect another chapter today and
here it is.
blackunicorn: sorry that I gotta make ya wait, but oh well. Glad to hear you like it. I fear you may not like some of what's still to come though. The tragic ending is coming soon. Though the ending itself isn't really tragic, just some of the stuff that happens due to what happens within this chapter ends up being a little tragic and making things all sad like.
white owl: I know. I really feel sorry for Harry and I really hate to have to write about him being in pain and all that kind of stuff, but for this fic I have to to accomplish what I want to do to set it all up for an uberly cute fluffy sequel. I'm not just a Potter lover, I'm a Potter obsessive. C'mon I mean lat night I slept with, on , under and in Harry Potter. That was totally meant to sound wrong, but I have HP sheets and blankets (on and under), a plush Harry doll (with) and I was slept in my HP shirt (in) last night. It's nice and red and has a great pic of Dan as Harry playing Quidditch. My absolute fave shirt. I know what you mean about people thinking reading and writing fan fics is a waste of time but it's really not. It's entertainment, and for me it's entertainment and writing practice.
singing-bluebird: gland to hear you like it. I'd say there's maybe two more chapters to go right now. I hope by the end of the week to be starting on the sequel. Sorry about some of the typos but I don't catch them all the time, but I think the more major typos were when I was having to type my fics up in a different program other than Word like I'm using again now.
Katy999: well it doesn't sound good and I'll tell ya now that it's not good. Yup yup, and as I said I'd have another chapter today and here it is.
frizzy: thanks, and here's the next chapter for ya.
Randomness of the Moraco: SUGAR IS GOOD!
~ To Love a Master ~ Chapter 27 Sleepless Beauty ~
It was the end of the year feast at Hogwarts. All the students would be leaving in the morning to go home for the summer holiday. Harry would be staying at Hogwarts with Severus again.
Everyone seemed to be very excited at the feast, especially the seventh years who as of this day were no longer Hogwarts students. Harry kept picking at his food, but not really eating.
'Harry, what's wrong?' Ron asked.
'I'm just not very hungry,' Harry replied.
'Something's bothering you,' Hermione said. 'It's your dream isn't it?'
'I don't want to talk about it. At least not here.'
'Then come on.' Hermione grabbed Harry's arm and dragged him away from the table, leaving the great hall. Ron followed. They went to the Gryffindor common room where nobody was to be found because they were all down at the feast. 'What happened in your dream Harry?'
'A battle, here at Hogwarts. Professors and students against death eaters,' Harry explained.
'You don't- don't think it's actually going to happen, do you?' Ron asked with his voice full of worry.
'I think it is. If not today then tomorrow, but I don't know.'
'This is one time I hope you're wrong, Harry, but I have the worst feeling that you are,' Hermione said. 'We should go back to the feast. It's going to be the last time we get to see everyone here at Hogwarts.'
'Might be the last time to see some of them at all,' Harry whispered. He knew Ron and Hermione had heard him but decided that they probably pretended not to.
~
After the feast they all went back to Gryffindor Tower for the night to get some sleep before leaving the next day. Sleep was something Harry couldn't manage to do. He sat awake in his bed for many hours until he didn't even know what time it was. He finally got up from the bed and sat in the window seat staring out at the grounds. It was still dark, but he could see the sun rising over the hills which meant he'd been awake all night.
Harry watched the sun rise and greeted his roommates as they woke up, all of them in their dormitory for the last time in their lives. Hogwarts was over. Once everyone left today, all that had been seventh years left the school and witches and wizards to go out into the wizarding world and fulfill their dreams. As they all got dressed and packed their things, Harry pulled out a camera from his trunk Hermione had given him one Christmas, and made it his mission to take a picture of everyone in the dormitory. After they all came down to the Common room before heading for the front of the school Harry managed to get Ginny Weasley to take a picture of a group of all the Gryffindor graduates one last time before they left Hogwarts.
Harry was not leaving so he didn't have his trunk and everything with him, but was going to walk with everyone to the front of the school and bid them goodbye as they boarded their carriages to go to Hogsmeade to catch the Hogwarts express to take them all home for the summer. The faculty was in the entrance hall bidding the graduated students goodbye for hopefully not the last time. As everyone proceeded outside before anyone could board the carriages, one of the Ravenclaw girls screamed and ran back into the entrance hall. 'Death eaters! They're coming from the dark forest!'
Harry's eyes widened at hearing the news. So that's how they got onto the grounds. Dumbledore probably didn't think they'd risk coming through someplace so dangerous to get to Hogwarts.
The next thing Harry knew, someone had a hold of his arm and was dragging him. He looked up to see that it was Severus. He was dragging him down the stairs to the dungeons. 'Where are you taking me?'
'To my chambers. No one's going to think to look for you there,' Severus explained.
Harry tried to struggle out of his grip. 'No, Severus. I can't run. If my classmates are going to be out there fighting I should be with them.'
'No, Harry. No doubt this attack is to get to you. We have to keep you safe for as long as possible, no arguments.' Severus was too strong for Harry to get out of his grasp, and when they arrived at his chambers he threw Harry in and closed the portrait. 'Don't let Mr. Potter out.'
'Yes, sir,' the young girl in the portrait replied.
Harry was so furious, he grabbed one of Severus' tea cups from the dining area of the room and threw it across the room into the stone wall. He then proceeded to kick things, like the couch. 'How could you do this to me, Sev?!' Harry screamed out loud.
~
Severus hurried back to the entrance hall, where he had to squeeze through many second to fourth year students to get outside. The first years had gone to Hogsmeade by way of boat, like they'd come so they had already safely left. As he got outside he grouped alongside the professors and students fighting. He ended up fighting next to Sirius of all people. 'Where's Harry?'
'Safe,' Severus confidently told him.
Eventually with all the spell slinging they got split up and more and more death eaters continued coming. At some point, no one noticed when, Albus was on top of the school muttering, no one knows what. The stone statues that lined he top of the castle all began coming to life and joining the fighting. They did some considerable damage knocking death eaters out. Severus looked up for a moment at Albus. When he came back to his senses that he was still in a battle he noticed three death eaters coming straight for him, he tried cursing them but they managed go block the curses and disarmed Severus, capturing him, dragging him around to another side of the castle. They drug him inside through a side entrance to the castle where they met up with none other than Voldemort himself and Peter Pettigrew.
'He took the boy to his chambers in the dungeon my lord,' Pettigrew spoke.
'And why would my once faithful servant, be hiding the boy who lived,' Voldemort's hissing voice asked.
Severus said nothing.
'Answer, you pathetic grease ball.' The third man who wasn't holding him punched him in the stomach. The voice whom spoke could belong to no one other than Lucius Malfoy.
'Come now, Lucius, no need to take brute force,' Voldemort told him. He then looked to Peter. 'Do you know the location of the man's rooms?'
'Yes, sir,' he said as he led the way into the dungeon.
~
A/N: Sorry, but I felt like leaving it at a slight cliffy cause I got some stuff I need to do before I go to work, so I need to stop writing for now anyway. Please tell me what you think, and I apologize in advance since this is going to get sad in the next chapter, or two.I'm still not sure how much more I'm writing before I start on the sequel.
blackunicorn: sorry that I gotta make ya wait, but oh well. Glad to hear you like it. I fear you may not like some of what's still to come though. The tragic ending is coming soon. Though the ending itself isn't really tragic, just some of the stuff that happens due to what happens within this chapter ends up being a little tragic and making things all sad like.
white owl: I know. I really feel sorry for Harry and I really hate to have to write about him being in pain and all that kind of stuff, but for this fic I have to to accomplish what I want to do to set it all up for an uberly cute fluffy sequel. I'm not just a Potter lover, I'm a Potter obsessive. C'mon I mean lat night I slept with, on , under and in Harry Potter. That was totally meant to sound wrong, but I have HP sheets and blankets (on and under), a plush Harry doll (with) and I was slept in my HP shirt (in) last night. It's nice and red and has a great pic of Dan as Harry playing Quidditch. My absolute fave shirt. I know what you mean about people thinking reading and writing fan fics is a waste of time but it's really not. It's entertainment, and for me it's entertainment and writing practice.
singing-bluebird: gland to hear you like it. I'd say there's maybe two more chapters to go right now. I hope by the end of the week to be starting on the sequel. Sorry about some of the typos but I don't catch them all the time, but I think the more major typos were when I was having to type my fics up in a different program other than Word like I'm using again now.
Katy999: well it doesn't sound good and I'll tell ya now that it's not good. Yup yup, and as I said I'd have another chapter today and here it is.
frizzy: thanks, and here's the next chapter for ya.
Randomness of the Moraco: SUGAR IS GOOD!
~ To Love a Master ~ Chapter 27 Sleepless Beauty ~
It was the end of the year feast at Hogwarts. All the students would be leaving in the morning to go home for the summer holiday. Harry would be staying at Hogwarts with Severus again.
Everyone seemed to be very excited at the feast, especially the seventh years who as of this day were no longer Hogwarts students. Harry kept picking at his food, but not really eating.
'Harry, what's wrong?' Ron asked.
'I'm just not very hungry,' Harry replied.
'Something's bothering you,' Hermione said. 'It's your dream isn't it?'
'I don't want to talk about it. At least not here.'
'Then come on.' Hermione grabbed Harry's arm and dragged him away from the table, leaving the great hall. Ron followed. They went to the Gryffindor common room where nobody was to be found because they were all down at the feast. 'What happened in your dream Harry?'
'A battle, here at Hogwarts. Professors and students against death eaters,' Harry explained.
'You don't- don't think it's actually going to happen, do you?' Ron asked with his voice full of worry.
'I think it is. If not today then tomorrow, but I don't know.'
'This is one time I hope you're wrong, Harry, but I have the worst feeling that you are,' Hermione said. 'We should go back to the feast. It's going to be the last time we get to see everyone here at Hogwarts.'
'Might be the last time to see some of them at all,' Harry whispered. He knew Ron and Hermione had heard him but decided that they probably pretended not to.
~
After the feast they all went back to Gryffindor Tower for the night to get some sleep before leaving the next day. Sleep was something Harry couldn't manage to do. He sat awake in his bed for many hours until he didn't even know what time it was. He finally got up from the bed and sat in the window seat staring out at the grounds. It was still dark, but he could see the sun rising over the hills which meant he'd been awake all night.
Harry watched the sun rise and greeted his roommates as they woke up, all of them in their dormitory for the last time in their lives. Hogwarts was over. Once everyone left today, all that had been seventh years left the school and witches and wizards to go out into the wizarding world and fulfill their dreams. As they all got dressed and packed their things, Harry pulled out a camera from his trunk Hermione had given him one Christmas, and made it his mission to take a picture of everyone in the dormitory. After they all came down to the Common room before heading for the front of the school Harry managed to get Ginny Weasley to take a picture of a group of all the Gryffindor graduates one last time before they left Hogwarts.
Harry was not leaving so he didn't have his trunk and everything with him, but was going to walk with everyone to the front of the school and bid them goodbye as they boarded their carriages to go to Hogsmeade to catch the Hogwarts express to take them all home for the summer. The faculty was in the entrance hall bidding the graduated students goodbye for hopefully not the last time. As everyone proceeded outside before anyone could board the carriages, one of the Ravenclaw girls screamed and ran back into the entrance hall. 'Death eaters! They're coming from the dark forest!'
Harry's eyes widened at hearing the news. So that's how they got onto the grounds. Dumbledore probably didn't think they'd risk coming through someplace so dangerous to get to Hogwarts.
The next thing Harry knew, someone had a hold of his arm and was dragging him. He looked up to see that it was Severus. He was dragging him down the stairs to the dungeons. 'Where are you taking me?'
'To my chambers. No one's going to think to look for you there,' Severus explained.
Harry tried to struggle out of his grip. 'No, Severus. I can't run. If my classmates are going to be out there fighting I should be with them.'
'No, Harry. No doubt this attack is to get to you. We have to keep you safe for as long as possible, no arguments.' Severus was too strong for Harry to get out of his grasp, and when they arrived at his chambers he threw Harry in and closed the portrait. 'Don't let Mr. Potter out.'
'Yes, sir,' the young girl in the portrait replied.
Harry was so furious, he grabbed one of Severus' tea cups from the dining area of the room and threw it across the room into the stone wall. He then proceeded to kick things, like the couch. 'How could you do this to me, Sev?!' Harry screamed out loud.
~
Severus hurried back to the entrance hall, where he had to squeeze through many second to fourth year students to get outside. The first years had gone to Hogsmeade by way of boat, like they'd come so they had already safely left. As he got outside he grouped alongside the professors and students fighting. He ended up fighting next to Sirius of all people. 'Where's Harry?'
'Safe,' Severus confidently told him.
Eventually with all the spell slinging they got split up and more and more death eaters continued coming. At some point, no one noticed when, Albus was on top of the school muttering, no one knows what. The stone statues that lined he top of the castle all began coming to life and joining the fighting. They did some considerable damage knocking death eaters out. Severus looked up for a moment at Albus. When he came back to his senses that he was still in a battle he noticed three death eaters coming straight for him, he tried cursing them but they managed go block the curses and disarmed Severus, capturing him, dragging him around to another side of the castle. They drug him inside through a side entrance to the castle where they met up with none other than Voldemort himself and Peter Pettigrew.
'He took the boy to his chambers in the dungeon my lord,' Pettigrew spoke.
'And why would my once faithful servant, be hiding the boy who lived,' Voldemort's hissing voice asked.
Severus said nothing.
'Answer, you pathetic grease ball.' The third man who wasn't holding him punched him in the stomach. The voice whom spoke could belong to no one other than Lucius Malfoy.
'Come now, Lucius, no need to take brute force,' Voldemort told him. He then looked to Peter. 'Do you know the location of the man's rooms?'
'Yes, sir,' he said as he led the way into the dungeon.
~
A/N: Sorry, but I felt like leaving it at a slight cliffy cause I got some stuff I need to do before I go to work, so I need to stop writing for now anyway. Please tell me what you think, and I apologize in advance since this is going to get sad in the next chapter, or two.I'm still not sure how much more I'm writing before I start on the sequel.