Chapter 17 - You'll never be as good as Dumbledore

The great hall did not look as it usualy did. Tables were turned over, there was glass every where and in the corner coiled around Proffesor Scroggins was a twenty foot long snake.

"Tell me where he is." The snake hissed.

"I..I.. Don't know," Proffesor Scroggins confessed.

"Then you shall die." The snake informed him.

"I don't think so." Hagrid said from the door way. His crossbow was rested on his shoulder and on either side of him stood Sirius and James, their wands out ready.

"I see.." The snake hissed, dropping Proffesor Scroggins, "That you have made your way through my Goblin army. But at the loss of a friend."

Sirius answered this with a smile across his face, "I think it's you who is at a loss. A loss of an entire Goblin Army."

The Snake turned on them and raised it's self till it's head rest on the top of the ceiling through which the night sky could be seen.

"I am the mighty Lord Voldemort," The snake hissed so loudly that the walls began to shake, "Join me now or you shall perish."

"Join you ?" James said suddenly confident. "Who would want to join you ?" Hagrid looked stunned at James bravery, but Sirius could see that he had a plan. "And as for Mighty. Ha ! What proof do we have of that ?"

James moitoned to the room around him. "Some turn over tables ? A broken window. I, for one, am yet to see anything as impressive as Dumbledore could have done."

The snake swooped down so that his head was level with james, his tongue inches away from James face.

"What did you say little boy ?" The snake hissed.

"I said that so far nothing you have done or said is up to the standards of Albus Dumbledore."

THe snake shot back up again and made it's self as big as the hall would allow it. "Name it." It hissed.

James paused, pretending to think, "Albus Dumbledore would have made his snake bigger than that." James muttered and at that the snake began to grow. It's head exploded through the ceiling and it expanded until the three of them where squashed to the side of the hall.

"That better ?" The snake hissed.

"Yeah," James said, "But Dumbledore would have never been a snake, I think anyone with any class would be a dragon."

And at that the snake slowly grew legs and Gigantic wings grew from it's sides breaking the walls.

"There." The Dragon said. Now do you fear the mighty Lord Voldemort ?"

He said moving down so that his face was level with James's.

"No!" James replied and in one quick movement he took the crossbow and fired the an arrow into the dragons eye.