((A/N: Allo, this will be the second to the last chapter of this story *sigh* Well, carry on!))
"Bring her here, Wormtail," Said a bone chilling voice that was coming from a dark, shadowed side of a clammy, boarded up room.
"As you wish, my lord," said Wormtail in his normal squeaky voice as he dragged the unconscious Hermione along the floor.
"Don't be rude, Wormtail. Put her in the chair," the voice hissed. Wormtail did his best to push her into a chair that was in the middle of the room. As soon as she sat down ropes sprung out from the chair and gripped around her.
"Excellent..." The figure stepped forward to reveal a snakelike man with slits for eyes and a very pale complexion. He stepped right next to Hermione and ran one of his long pointed fingernails along the side of her cheek which awoke her immediately. She opened her mouth to scream but nothing came out.
"So I finally meet Miss Hermione Granger," he hissed. "Bring out the other one Wormtail," he called.
Wormtail nodded and walked through a small door and dragged out a lifeless looking blonde boy. Malfoy looked paler then his bleached blonde hair and was dressed in torn school robes that had a large blood stain near his shoulder.
"Pity really... one of my own servants... the heir of the protector," Voldemort shook his head with dismay. "Lock them both away." he yelled as he stepped a few feet away from Hermione. Wormtail nodded and threw Malfoy onto the ground next to Hermione and walked over to a dark corner and pressed something. A cage instantly surrounded them, not made of steel or any metal material, but made of some white beams. Hermione was now free of the chair that had some how disappeared and raced over to Malfoy who was sprawled out on the ground with blood dripping down his face.
"Draco...Draco," she called. His eyes slowly flickered open and he looked up at her.
"What? Where am I?" he said, looking around.
"I don't know exactly... but we need to get out of here," she murmured to him.
"You see... I'm afraid that is impossible. These bars can hold anyone or anything in... even a... ghost, for example," Voldemort smirked as he snapped a finger. A large glowing cage came down from the ceiling with the Grey Lady struggling in it.
"Lara!" Hermione cried.
"You let them go, Tom! They're just children..." Lara yelled.
"There is no Tom!" He roared.
"You know, I never liked you. You were always such a cruel little boy. I could sense it the day you walked in on your first day of Hogwarts!" She spat.
"Quiet!" Voldemort boomed. "Now... as I was saying. I need these children more then I need you here," he sneered at her.
Lara flashed a glance at Malfoy. "I understand what you want with Hermione... but what about the boy?" she murmured.
"You do not even recognize the heir of Merzile?" Voldemort grinned twistedly, walking closer to Lara's cage.
Lara's eyes widened. "You horrid..." she swore loudly.
"Merzile?" Hermione and Draco said with a puzzled expression.
"Wormtail! Grab me my chair. I need to give a little... history lesson. At least until the two others get here," he grinned slyly as Wormtail pushed an large leather chair to him.
"Oh no! Ron and Harry!" Hermione screamed.
"Now... as I was saying..." Voldemort began. "As you know, there were four founders of Hogwarts. Two founders more so enemies then companions, Salazar Slytherin, and Godric Gryffindor." Voldemort said.
"I was best friends with Godric when we were in our teenage years, a few years before they founded the school. We had another friend... Merzile Gera. He didn't quite see eye to eye with us, but he was always there for us. He had a twisted mind and always liked getting into trouble with the Ministry" Lara murmured. "But...there was another person..." Lara glared at Voldemort.
"Godric always got in the way of Salazar's work. So naturally, he sought to kill him," Voldemort hissed.
"Merzile found out about the plan and told me. We decided to do our best to save Godric by putting a spell on each other, to make us his protectors."
"The system was called the Red Rose, which was only used out of love for their friend. Salazar found out and did his best to come up with a plan that the Red rose could not protect Godric against." Voldemort mumbled.
"... I was in love with Godric, but I never told him. He knew that if Salazar found out a way to get around the Red Rose, the wizarding world would be full of darkness that no one could stop. So the only way was to have an heir of his own, so his children could protect the others. So he married and his wife bared a daughter. But he and his wife knew they weren't in love with each other..."
"That's right. He was in love with you, wasn't he?" Voldemort smirked. "Well, anyway, Salazar found out a way to kill Godric, and poisoned him."
Lara sighed heavily from her cage. "A month after he was married and before he was poisoned, me and Merzile decided to get married ourselves and have children of our own, so that the Red Rose would continue through our children, so they could defeat the evil inside of Slytherin. So I married a man named Arak and had my daughter, Elana. Arak and I broke up a month after Elana was born and he took care of Elana. A month later, on the day of Godric's 32nd birthday, Godric was poisoned... I was there when he died." Lara whimpered. "He told me... that he had always been in love with me. But... I never replied. I never told him... how I truly felt... and he died."
"You two have obviously heard of soul mates, and destiny and whatnot." Voldemort said to Hermione and Draco who nodded with bewildered expressions, wondering why he was talking to them about that.
"Well... you see. It was destiny for Lara and Godric to be together, but they didn't know it, therefore did nothing about it. But that was the problem...they never were together. Some magic is different than others. So their love haunted their heir's veins. But there was a slight problem..."
"None of them matched up like Godric and me. They had to be the same age, the same gender, and the same magic flowing inside of them. For one thing, Godric was born with magical parents and I wasn't " she said quickly. "So the destiny was never sealed..."
"Until now that is..." Voldemort sneered, glancing over at Hermione.
"Wait... who's the heir of Gryffindor?" Draco asked.
"Well, he should be arriving... right, about." As if on cue, Harry and Ron burst through one of the doors with their wands out, now pointing straight at Voldemort.
Voldemort chuckled at them. "Do you actually think you can hurt me with those, you silly little boys," Voldemort held out his hands and their wands shot into them. "Don't worry... I'm not going to kill you with these." He dropped their wands onto the ground.
"Now let's see..." He looked around the room at all the people and smirked. "Let me see: there's one heir of Gryffindor, one heir of Merzile, one heir of Lara, Lara herself..." He flashed a glance at Wormtail who was shivering in a corner of the room. "One measly rodent... one heir of Slytherin, and the boy who lived..." He cackled. "Now..." he sighed heavily. "I would like to get something off my chest before I kill you all."
Lara glared at him.
"Miss. Freedingwald has been asking about this ever since she arrived... why was it Harry. Well, Harry, do you remember in your third year when you went to Professor Trewlany and she predicted that Wormtail would rise and become my faithful servant again... and then Dumbledore said that it was the second time she made a true prediction? Well... before I began to fulfill Salazar's work, I went to her to see if there were to be any flaws. At this time your Professor Trewlany was only a fortuneteller in Diagon Alley. She told me there was one... one person that could destroy all my work... you. So stupidly, your parents made Wormtail their secret keeper and Wormtail told me exactly where they were. So I decided I would just kill you then and there, so the prophecy would never come true. But they wouldn't stay out of the way. And well, you know the rest." Voldemort shrugged.
"But that doesn't mean you have an advantage here," Lara yelled.
"You see that's where you're wrong." He held out his hands again and caught both of the wands that were lying on the ground. "I have their wands." He smirked and pointed one of the wands at Ron. "Avada..." Lara breathed in deeply and ran straight threw the cage. She hastily floated to the ground and landed on her feet with one hand clutched around her from the pain.
"Don't you dare," Lara sneered at him.
Voldemort turned to her and smirked. "And what do you think you're going to do?"
"Just because I'm a ghost, doesn't mean that I don't have magic," Lara said. She quickly glanced over at Ron and Harry and motioned towards the cages that Hermione and Draco were locked in. They nodded and ran towards them.
Lara smirked and stepped towards Voldemort. "Let's finish this like I should have over a thousand years ago."
"Before we start, I think we should make this a little more fair," He pointed his wand at her. "Mortalia Exerctia," He yelled. A flash of light hit her. She began to glow as her body raised in the air. Her body and clothes began to turn their natural shade of color, as she became a whole figure. The glowing stopped and she fell to the ground. Instead of her silvery clothes and hair, she had long wavy brown hair with a long blue silky dress on. She didn't look like she was a day over 30.
"He made her mortal." Ron gulped.
"But... that's against the code of Merlin," Hermione murmured.
"Harry, look for a trigger to get rid of this cage," Ron said. Harry began to look around for a type of lever.
Ron quickly looked back at Lara who could barely stand up straight. "Oh no... She doesn't know how to walk."
"She hasn't been walking for over a thousand years," Hermione murmured.
Voldemort quickly looked over at Lara. "Arania eximay," He yelled to her as a beam of light hit her as she fell over onto the ground.
"Now..." he looked back at Ron who was also looking around for any kind of lever. Voldemort extended his head and a purple light clutched around Ron and lifted him in the air, his head now drooping low. "You better not struggle or you'll only die faster."
"Hermione..." He croaked. "I need you to do something for me..."
((A/N: Ah yes... the ultimate cliffhanger... *gulps* Please don't kill me! I do not like being killed! But I did need a cliffhanger for the last chapter *shrugs*
Anyway, please check out my new Humor/Romance called "Freaky Friday" in which the professors come up with a twisted plan to keep Ron and Hermione from fighting so much by letting them know how hard the other persons life is... in a twisted sort of way ^_^. But Ron and Hermione make the worst of the situation and decide to ruin each others lives in a whole new way.
And I might not make a sequel to this. I am planning on making a sequel to the actual fifth book but wasn't planning on making one for this one. So if enough people tell me to make a sequel of this one, then I will.
Last thing I want to say is that I came up with the reason why Voldemort wanted to kill Harry BEFORE the actual 5th book came out. More about what I mean after the next chapter.
Thank you to all of my reviewers!:
I love Orlando Bloom: Thankyou!
HerMioNe WeaSlEy: I'm not sure. I might. But check out my new one: Freaky Friday! Thanks for reviewing!
muykiay:A funeral, eh. Hmm... lol True, J.K. will probably make the least expecting person die.
Julie: I say we all fly to England and protest if she kills of Ron and Hermione ^_^ jk. But it wouldn't be that bad of an idea ^_^
Magical*Me: I KNOW!!! I feel so cool after reading that agaiN!!!! I could have foreshadowed something without even knowing it!!! Well *cough* Anyway, thank you!!!!
Wicked Witch of Slytherin: There is so much truth in that ^_^
"Bring her here, Wormtail," Said a bone chilling voice that was coming from a dark, shadowed side of a clammy, boarded up room.
"As you wish, my lord," said Wormtail in his normal squeaky voice as he dragged the unconscious Hermione along the floor.
"Don't be rude, Wormtail. Put her in the chair," the voice hissed. Wormtail did his best to push her into a chair that was in the middle of the room. As soon as she sat down ropes sprung out from the chair and gripped around her.
"Excellent..." The figure stepped forward to reveal a snakelike man with slits for eyes and a very pale complexion. He stepped right next to Hermione and ran one of his long pointed fingernails along the side of her cheek which awoke her immediately. She opened her mouth to scream but nothing came out.
"So I finally meet Miss Hermione Granger," he hissed. "Bring out the other one Wormtail," he called.
Wormtail nodded and walked through a small door and dragged out a lifeless looking blonde boy. Malfoy looked paler then his bleached blonde hair and was dressed in torn school robes that had a large blood stain near his shoulder.
"Pity really... one of my own servants... the heir of the protector," Voldemort shook his head with dismay. "Lock them both away." he yelled as he stepped a few feet away from Hermione. Wormtail nodded and threw Malfoy onto the ground next to Hermione and walked over to a dark corner and pressed something. A cage instantly surrounded them, not made of steel or any metal material, but made of some white beams. Hermione was now free of the chair that had some how disappeared and raced over to Malfoy who was sprawled out on the ground with blood dripping down his face.
"Draco...Draco," she called. His eyes slowly flickered open and he looked up at her.
"What? Where am I?" he said, looking around.
"I don't know exactly... but we need to get out of here," she murmured to him.
"You see... I'm afraid that is impossible. These bars can hold anyone or anything in... even a... ghost, for example," Voldemort smirked as he snapped a finger. A large glowing cage came down from the ceiling with the Grey Lady struggling in it.
"Lara!" Hermione cried.
"You let them go, Tom! They're just children..." Lara yelled.
"There is no Tom!" He roared.
"You know, I never liked you. You were always such a cruel little boy. I could sense it the day you walked in on your first day of Hogwarts!" She spat.
"Quiet!" Voldemort boomed. "Now... as I was saying. I need these children more then I need you here," he sneered at her.
Lara flashed a glance at Malfoy. "I understand what you want with Hermione... but what about the boy?" she murmured.
"You do not even recognize the heir of Merzile?" Voldemort grinned twistedly, walking closer to Lara's cage.
Lara's eyes widened. "You horrid..." she swore loudly.
"Merzile?" Hermione and Draco said with a puzzled expression.
"Wormtail! Grab me my chair. I need to give a little... history lesson. At least until the two others get here," he grinned slyly as Wormtail pushed an large leather chair to him.
"Oh no! Ron and Harry!" Hermione screamed.
"Now... as I was saying..." Voldemort began. "As you know, there were four founders of Hogwarts. Two founders more so enemies then companions, Salazar Slytherin, and Godric Gryffindor." Voldemort said.
"I was best friends with Godric when we were in our teenage years, a few years before they founded the school. We had another friend... Merzile Gera. He didn't quite see eye to eye with us, but he was always there for us. He had a twisted mind and always liked getting into trouble with the Ministry" Lara murmured. "But...there was another person..." Lara glared at Voldemort.
"Godric always got in the way of Salazar's work. So naturally, he sought to kill him," Voldemort hissed.
"Merzile found out about the plan and told me. We decided to do our best to save Godric by putting a spell on each other, to make us his protectors."
"The system was called the Red Rose, which was only used out of love for their friend. Salazar found out and did his best to come up with a plan that the Red rose could not protect Godric against." Voldemort mumbled.
"... I was in love with Godric, but I never told him. He knew that if Salazar found out a way to get around the Red Rose, the wizarding world would be full of darkness that no one could stop. So the only way was to have an heir of his own, so his children could protect the others. So he married and his wife bared a daughter. But he and his wife knew they weren't in love with each other..."
"That's right. He was in love with you, wasn't he?" Voldemort smirked. "Well, anyway, Salazar found out a way to kill Godric, and poisoned him."
Lara sighed heavily from her cage. "A month after he was married and before he was poisoned, me and Merzile decided to get married ourselves and have children of our own, so that the Red Rose would continue through our children, so they could defeat the evil inside of Slytherin. So I married a man named Arak and had my daughter, Elana. Arak and I broke up a month after Elana was born and he took care of Elana. A month later, on the day of Godric's 32nd birthday, Godric was poisoned... I was there when he died." Lara whimpered. "He told me... that he had always been in love with me. But... I never replied. I never told him... how I truly felt... and he died."
"You two have obviously heard of soul mates, and destiny and whatnot." Voldemort said to Hermione and Draco who nodded with bewildered expressions, wondering why he was talking to them about that.
"Well... you see. It was destiny for Lara and Godric to be together, but they didn't know it, therefore did nothing about it. But that was the problem...they never were together. Some magic is different than others. So their love haunted their heir's veins. But there was a slight problem..."
"None of them matched up like Godric and me. They had to be the same age, the same gender, and the same magic flowing inside of them. For one thing, Godric was born with magical parents and I wasn't " she said quickly. "So the destiny was never sealed..."
"Until now that is..." Voldemort sneered, glancing over at Hermione.
"Wait... who's the heir of Gryffindor?" Draco asked.
"Well, he should be arriving... right, about." As if on cue, Harry and Ron burst through one of the doors with their wands out, now pointing straight at Voldemort.
Voldemort chuckled at them. "Do you actually think you can hurt me with those, you silly little boys," Voldemort held out his hands and their wands shot into them. "Don't worry... I'm not going to kill you with these." He dropped their wands onto the ground.
"Now let's see..." He looked around the room at all the people and smirked. "Let me see: there's one heir of Gryffindor, one heir of Merzile, one heir of Lara, Lara herself..." He flashed a glance at Wormtail who was shivering in a corner of the room. "One measly rodent... one heir of Slytherin, and the boy who lived..." He cackled. "Now..." he sighed heavily. "I would like to get something off my chest before I kill you all."
Lara glared at him.
"Miss. Freedingwald has been asking about this ever since she arrived... why was it Harry. Well, Harry, do you remember in your third year when you went to Professor Trewlany and she predicted that Wormtail would rise and become my faithful servant again... and then Dumbledore said that it was the second time she made a true prediction? Well... before I began to fulfill Salazar's work, I went to her to see if there were to be any flaws. At this time your Professor Trewlany was only a fortuneteller in Diagon Alley. She told me there was one... one person that could destroy all my work... you. So stupidly, your parents made Wormtail their secret keeper and Wormtail told me exactly where they were. So I decided I would just kill you then and there, so the prophecy would never come true. But they wouldn't stay out of the way. And well, you know the rest." Voldemort shrugged.
"But that doesn't mean you have an advantage here," Lara yelled.
"You see that's where you're wrong." He held out his hands again and caught both of the wands that were lying on the ground. "I have their wands." He smirked and pointed one of the wands at Ron. "Avada..." Lara breathed in deeply and ran straight threw the cage. She hastily floated to the ground and landed on her feet with one hand clutched around her from the pain.
"Don't you dare," Lara sneered at him.
Voldemort turned to her and smirked. "And what do you think you're going to do?"
"Just because I'm a ghost, doesn't mean that I don't have magic," Lara said. She quickly glanced over at Ron and Harry and motioned towards the cages that Hermione and Draco were locked in. They nodded and ran towards them.
Lara smirked and stepped towards Voldemort. "Let's finish this like I should have over a thousand years ago."
"Before we start, I think we should make this a little more fair," He pointed his wand at her. "Mortalia Exerctia," He yelled. A flash of light hit her. She began to glow as her body raised in the air. Her body and clothes began to turn their natural shade of color, as she became a whole figure. The glowing stopped and she fell to the ground. Instead of her silvery clothes and hair, she had long wavy brown hair with a long blue silky dress on. She didn't look like she was a day over 30.
"He made her mortal." Ron gulped.
"But... that's against the code of Merlin," Hermione murmured.
"Harry, look for a trigger to get rid of this cage," Ron said. Harry began to look around for a type of lever.
Ron quickly looked back at Lara who could barely stand up straight. "Oh no... She doesn't know how to walk."
"She hasn't been walking for over a thousand years," Hermione murmured.
Voldemort quickly looked over at Lara. "Arania eximay," He yelled to her as a beam of light hit her as she fell over onto the ground.
"Now..." he looked back at Ron who was also looking around for any kind of lever. Voldemort extended his head and a purple light clutched around Ron and lifted him in the air, his head now drooping low. "You better not struggle or you'll only die faster."
"Hermione..." He croaked. "I need you to do something for me..."
((A/N: Ah yes... the ultimate cliffhanger... *gulps* Please don't kill me! I do not like being killed! But I did need a cliffhanger for the last chapter *shrugs*
Anyway, please check out my new Humor/Romance called "Freaky Friday" in which the professors come up with a twisted plan to keep Ron and Hermione from fighting so much by letting them know how hard the other persons life is... in a twisted sort of way ^_^. But Ron and Hermione make the worst of the situation and decide to ruin each others lives in a whole new way.
And I might not make a sequel to this. I am planning on making a sequel to the actual fifth book but wasn't planning on making one for this one. So if enough people tell me to make a sequel of this one, then I will.
Last thing I want to say is that I came up with the reason why Voldemort wanted to kill Harry BEFORE the actual 5th book came out. More about what I mean after the next chapter.
Thank you to all of my reviewers!:
I love Orlando Bloom: Thankyou!
HerMioNe WeaSlEy: I'm not sure. I might. But check out my new one: Freaky Friday! Thanks for reviewing!
muykiay:A funeral, eh. Hmm... lol True, J.K. will probably make the least expecting person die.
Julie: I say we all fly to England and protest if she kills of Ron and Hermione ^_^ jk. But it wouldn't be that bad of an idea ^_^
Magical*Me: I KNOW!!! I feel so cool after reading that agaiN!!!! I could have foreshadowed something without even knowing it!!! Well *cough* Anyway, thank you!!!!
Wicked Witch of Slytherin: There is so much truth in that ^_^
