Everyone turned around. Professor Mcgonagall ran towards them.
"What is it professor?" Yuna asked worried.
"There's been an attack!" Mcgonagall cried.
"By who?" Harry asked stepping forward.
Mcgonagall sighed. "Voldemort."
Everyone gasped.
"He and his followers just stormed through Hogsmade and killed a bunch of wizards."
Yuna's face went pale.
"What?!" Tidus cried, "But if he's near here then that means he could be coming for Yuna, right?"
"I'm afraid so." Mcgonagall said sadly, "Dumbledore has instructed me to bring you to the castle where it's safe."
"No." Yuna said firmly.
"But milady..."
"Someone has to perform the sending for those poor people." Yuna persisted.
Mcgonagall sighed. "I suppose you're right, we don't really want anymore dementors wandering around."
"Huh?"
"In your world the ones who aren't sent become fiends and pray off the living, but here they become dementors and feed off of people's souls."
Mcgonagall turned to the students. "Everyone except Potter, Weasley, and Granger please return to your common rooms and wait for further instructions." The rest of the students hurried off to the castle.
Mcgonagall led them into a clearing not to far from the edge of the forest. There was a small pond in the middle. On the other end of the pond there were ten coffins. Harry shuddered. Yuna walked towards the water. Harry blinked. He realized Yuna was walking ON the water. She held out the staff and began spinning. The dance was slow and graceful. As it went on Harry could see small pink lights floating out of the coffins. He realized those must be the victim's souls. A column of water rose up out of the pond. Yuna was dancing on top of it.
Tear spilled down Yuna's face. She always cried at sendings but never like this. Every second she danced she hated Voldemort more and more. These people hadn't done anything wrong. He'd just slaughtered them for his own amusement. They had been murdered in cold blood. That manic deserved to die. Yuna had never wanted to hurt someone more than him.
The column lowered and the dance ended. Yuna stepped from the water tears still spilled down here face.
"What's wrong Yuna?" Tidus asked.
"It's just so awful what he did to those people." Yuna said wiping her eyes.
Harry started to say something but he stopped when he saw something move in the trees. He whipped out his wand. "DUCK!!!" He yelled.
Everyone ducked to the ground.
"Loca Morta Mortuis!" He yelled. A spell flew out of the end of his wand and into the trees. Everyone heard a loud scream. Mcgonagall ran to the spot where it came from.
"I stunned him." Harry explained putting away his wand.
"HE HAS A DEATH EATER TATOO!!!" Mcgonagall yelled, "Get to the castle, I'll deal with him!"
"What the heck is a Death Eater?" Wakka asked.
"Someone who works for Voldemort." Ron explained.
"That's all I needed to hear!" Tidus yelled grabbing Yuna's arm. "We gotta move!"
They ran out of the forest they could see the castle up ahead. Suddenly Harry felt a chill run down his spine. A familiar stench entered his nostrils.
"Dementors!" He yelled yanking out his wand. Ron and Hermione did the same. Tidus pulled out his sword and Wakka pulled out his blitzball.
"Yuna, run!" Lulu instructed, "We'll deal with them!"
"No," Yuna said firmly, "I'm staying and helping."
There wasn't any time left to argue. At that moment an enormous crowd of Dementors materialized in front of them.
"I summon Ixion!" Yuna screamed. A black vortex appeared. A huge skeletal unicorn emerged from it.
"WATERGA!" Lulu yelled waving her hand. A huge wave or water came and blasted away some of the Dementors.
"IXION! USE THUNDERGA!" Yuna yelled. A huge lightning bolt blasted from Ixion's horn. Since water conducts electricity many of the Dementors were blown to bits.
Meanwhile Wakka was using his fire overdrive attack to knock out a large group of Dementors while Tidus slashed through them.
"EXPECTO PETRONUM!" Harry yelled waving his wand. A huge ghostly stag, which was a symbol of Harry's father, burst out of his wand tip and wiped out half the Dementors.
Lulu finally knocked out the last one.
"Phew," Ron said taking a deep breath, "That was close."
"HELP!!!" Yuna screamed suddenly.
Everyone spun around. A single Dementor was standing in front of her. It held her face in its rotting hands. Yuna had a hypnotized look on her face. The creature was reaching up and beginning to lower its hood.
"OH NO!!!" Hermione screamed clamping her hand over her mouth.
"What's it doing?" Tidus asked.
"It's going to perform the Dementor's Kiss! It'll suck out her soul!"
She didn't need to tell him again. Tidus shot forward like a bullet and tackled the Dementor before it could do anything. Yuna fell to the ground and blinked. The hypnotized look on her face vanished.
"What-What just happened?" She said rubbing her head, "I feel so strange, I remember that thing grabbing me, and then I was suddenly seeing Sin killing a group of people."
"Dementors can do that," Harry said sadly, "They make you relive the worst moments of your life, they used to do that to me before I learned the Patronus Spell."
"What do you see when the Dementors are near?" Lulu asked.
Harry sighed. "I see Voldemort murdering my father while he's screaming at my mother to take me and run, then I hear her pleading with Voldemort not to kill me but to kill her instead, and then I see her being murdered."
"Oh Harry I'm so sorry." Yuna said in shock.
At that moment Professor Mcgonagall came out of the woods.
"What happened?" Hermione asked.
"He disappeared before I could stop him." She sighed. Then she noticed Tidus hacking the last Dementor into little bits. "What on earth are you doing?"
Tidus stood up. The last remains of the Dementor floated away like wispy smoke.
"That thing tried to give Yuna the Dementors Kiss," Lulu explained, "Whatever the bloody hell that is."
"See? You're learning from me already." Ron said smiling.
"You say that like it's a good thing." Hermione said rolling her eyes.
They all hurried back to the castle. Along the way Harry explained what the Dementors Kiss could do. How it could suck out a person's soul and make them a lifeless shell, how it was used only as a punishment for prisoners in the wizard prison Azkaban, and how he had learned the patronus spell to ward them off.
They entered Dumbledore's office. Harry explained to him all about the Dementors and how a death eater had almost attacked Yuna.
"This is bad." Dumbledore said frowning, "He's already trying to capture Yuna, and we'll have to be on our guards."
"Professor?" Yuna asked.
"Yes?"
"Well, back outside Harry, Ron, and Hermione helped us, if it hadn't been for them we would have been overcome...I'd like them to become my guardians."
Harry couldn't believe his ears. Yuna wanted them to become her guardians? Being a guardian is supposed to be a great honor, but why would she want them to help Tidus and the others protect her?
"I see," Dumbledore said not sounding at all surprised, "Well, Harry and the others will have to agree to it, no one can force them to do this."
"I don't know," Harry said sounding unsure, "Why would you want us to protect you from the most evil sorcerer in the universe?"
"I guess it's because I trust you, and I feel like we've become friends in the short time we've known each other."
Harry thought about it. He did consider Yuna and the others to be his friends, but would he be willing to risk his life for them? He sighed. Of course he would.
"I'll do it." He said firmly.
"Me too." Hermione agreed.
"Good for both of you." Ron said starting to sneak out of the room.
"YOU'RE HELPING TOO!" Both Harry and Hermione yelled grabbing the back of his robes and pulling him back.
"Goodbye cruel world!" Ron wailed, "Now I'll never be a prefect!"
Meanwhile in the dark forest...
"You failed me Wormtail." An icy voice whispered.
"Forgive me, please my master." A small man sobbed throwing himself at the other man's feet and kissing the hem of his robes. The taller man swung his foot and kicked the sniveling man in the face.
The first man was looking down into a large cauldron filled to the brim with a foul-smelling liquid. Inside they could see the scene in Dumbledore's office. This man was none other than Lord Voldemort.
"Potter, protect a summoner?" He sneered, "That pipsqueak can barely protect himself!"
"But master," Another man said, "He dueled with you last year and got away."
Voldemort shot this man such and intense look of hatred, that he recoiled.
"Potter, escaped by a lucky shot, but he won't be so lucky this time," A cruel smile formed on his face, "Lady Yuna's life-force will be mine!"
"What is it professor?" Yuna asked worried.
"There's been an attack!" Mcgonagall cried.
"By who?" Harry asked stepping forward.
Mcgonagall sighed. "Voldemort."
Everyone gasped.
"He and his followers just stormed through Hogsmade and killed a bunch of wizards."
Yuna's face went pale.
"What?!" Tidus cried, "But if he's near here then that means he could be coming for Yuna, right?"
"I'm afraid so." Mcgonagall said sadly, "Dumbledore has instructed me to bring you to the castle where it's safe."
"No." Yuna said firmly.
"But milady..."
"Someone has to perform the sending for those poor people." Yuna persisted.
Mcgonagall sighed. "I suppose you're right, we don't really want anymore dementors wandering around."
"Huh?"
"In your world the ones who aren't sent become fiends and pray off the living, but here they become dementors and feed off of people's souls."
Mcgonagall turned to the students. "Everyone except Potter, Weasley, and Granger please return to your common rooms and wait for further instructions." The rest of the students hurried off to the castle.
Mcgonagall led them into a clearing not to far from the edge of the forest. There was a small pond in the middle. On the other end of the pond there were ten coffins. Harry shuddered. Yuna walked towards the water. Harry blinked. He realized Yuna was walking ON the water. She held out the staff and began spinning. The dance was slow and graceful. As it went on Harry could see small pink lights floating out of the coffins. He realized those must be the victim's souls. A column of water rose up out of the pond. Yuna was dancing on top of it.
Tear spilled down Yuna's face. She always cried at sendings but never like this. Every second she danced she hated Voldemort more and more. These people hadn't done anything wrong. He'd just slaughtered them for his own amusement. They had been murdered in cold blood. That manic deserved to die. Yuna had never wanted to hurt someone more than him.
The column lowered and the dance ended. Yuna stepped from the water tears still spilled down here face.
"What's wrong Yuna?" Tidus asked.
"It's just so awful what he did to those people." Yuna said wiping her eyes.
Harry started to say something but he stopped when he saw something move in the trees. He whipped out his wand. "DUCK!!!" He yelled.
Everyone ducked to the ground.
"Loca Morta Mortuis!" He yelled. A spell flew out of the end of his wand and into the trees. Everyone heard a loud scream. Mcgonagall ran to the spot where it came from.
"I stunned him." Harry explained putting away his wand.
"HE HAS A DEATH EATER TATOO!!!" Mcgonagall yelled, "Get to the castle, I'll deal with him!"
"What the heck is a Death Eater?" Wakka asked.
"Someone who works for Voldemort." Ron explained.
"That's all I needed to hear!" Tidus yelled grabbing Yuna's arm. "We gotta move!"
They ran out of the forest they could see the castle up ahead. Suddenly Harry felt a chill run down his spine. A familiar stench entered his nostrils.
"Dementors!" He yelled yanking out his wand. Ron and Hermione did the same. Tidus pulled out his sword and Wakka pulled out his blitzball.
"Yuna, run!" Lulu instructed, "We'll deal with them!"
"No," Yuna said firmly, "I'm staying and helping."
There wasn't any time left to argue. At that moment an enormous crowd of Dementors materialized in front of them.
"I summon Ixion!" Yuna screamed. A black vortex appeared. A huge skeletal unicorn emerged from it.
"WATERGA!" Lulu yelled waving her hand. A huge wave or water came and blasted away some of the Dementors.
"IXION! USE THUNDERGA!" Yuna yelled. A huge lightning bolt blasted from Ixion's horn. Since water conducts electricity many of the Dementors were blown to bits.
Meanwhile Wakka was using his fire overdrive attack to knock out a large group of Dementors while Tidus slashed through them.
"EXPECTO PETRONUM!" Harry yelled waving his wand. A huge ghostly stag, which was a symbol of Harry's father, burst out of his wand tip and wiped out half the Dementors.
Lulu finally knocked out the last one.
"Phew," Ron said taking a deep breath, "That was close."
"HELP!!!" Yuna screamed suddenly.
Everyone spun around. A single Dementor was standing in front of her. It held her face in its rotting hands. Yuna had a hypnotized look on her face. The creature was reaching up and beginning to lower its hood.
"OH NO!!!" Hermione screamed clamping her hand over her mouth.
"What's it doing?" Tidus asked.
"It's going to perform the Dementor's Kiss! It'll suck out her soul!"
She didn't need to tell him again. Tidus shot forward like a bullet and tackled the Dementor before it could do anything. Yuna fell to the ground and blinked. The hypnotized look on her face vanished.
"What-What just happened?" She said rubbing her head, "I feel so strange, I remember that thing grabbing me, and then I was suddenly seeing Sin killing a group of people."
"Dementors can do that," Harry said sadly, "They make you relive the worst moments of your life, they used to do that to me before I learned the Patronus Spell."
"What do you see when the Dementors are near?" Lulu asked.
Harry sighed. "I see Voldemort murdering my father while he's screaming at my mother to take me and run, then I hear her pleading with Voldemort not to kill me but to kill her instead, and then I see her being murdered."
"Oh Harry I'm so sorry." Yuna said in shock.
At that moment Professor Mcgonagall came out of the woods.
"What happened?" Hermione asked.
"He disappeared before I could stop him." She sighed. Then she noticed Tidus hacking the last Dementor into little bits. "What on earth are you doing?"
Tidus stood up. The last remains of the Dementor floated away like wispy smoke.
"That thing tried to give Yuna the Dementors Kiss," Lulu explained, "Whatever the bloody hell that is."
"See? You're learning from me already." Ron said smiling.
"You say that like it's a good thing." Hermione said rolling her eyes.
They all hurried back to the castle. Along the way Harry explained what the Dementors Kiss could do. How it could suck out a person's soul and make them a lifeless shell, how it was used only as a punishment for prisoners in the wizard prison Azkaban, and how he had learned the patronus spell to ward them off.
They entered Dumbledore's office. Harry explained to him all about the Dementors and how a death eater had almost attacked Yuna.
"This is bad." Dumbledore said frowning, "He's already trying to capture Yuna, and we'll have to be on our guards."
"Professor?" Yuna asked.
"Yes?"
"Well, back outside Harry, Ron, and Hermione helped us, if it hadn't been for them we would have been overcome...I'd like them to become my guardians."
Harry couldn't believe his ears. Yuna wanted them to become her guardians? Being a guardian is supposed to be a great honor, but why would she want them to help Tidus and the others protect her?
"I see," Dumbledore said not sounding at all surprised, "Well, Harry and the others will have to agree to it, no one can force them to do this."
"I don't know," Harry said sounding unsure, "Why would you want us to protect you from the most evil sorcerer in the universe?"
"I guess it's because I trust you, and I feel like we've become friends in the short time we've known each other."
Harry thought about it. He did consider Yuna and the others to be his friends, but would he be willing to risk his life for them? He sighed. Of course he would.
"I'll do it." He said firmly.
"Me too." Hermione agreed.
"Good for both of you." Ron said starting to sneak out of the room.
"YOU'RE HELPING TOO!" Both Harry and Hermione yelled grabbing the back of his robes and pulling him back.
"Goodbye cruel world!" Ron wailed, "Now I'll never be a prefect!"
Meanwhile in the dark forest...
"You failed me Wormtail." An icy voice whispered.
"Forgive me, please my master." A small man sobbed throwing himself at the other man's feet and kissing the hem of his robes. The taller man swung his foot and kicked the sniveling man in the face.
The first man was looking down into a large cauldron filled to the brim with a foul-smelling liquid. Inside they could see the scene in Dumbledore's office. This man was none other than Lord Voldemort.
"Potter, protect a summoner?" He sneered, "That pipsqueak can barely protect himself!"
"But master," Another man said, "He dueled with you last year and got away."
Voldemort shot this man such and intense look of hatred, that he recoiled.
"Potter, escaped by a lucky shot, but he won't be so lucky this time," A cruel smile formed on his face, "Lady Yuna's life-force will be mine!"