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The betrayal.

Dragon scooped Sirius's unconscious up into one of his claws and the he took of the ground with the phoenix's little form flying next to his head. When they neared the windows of the great hall they saw a flash of green light and they started to fly more quicker, knowing something was going very wrong.

Mrs. Weasley shouted when she opened her eyes again and saw her youngest son lying sprawled in front of her, without doubt having been hit by the killing curse that had been aimed to her. Everyone was looking horrified at the young teenager that was lying motionless on the ground. The death eaters took that as their cue to leave and slowly edged to the doors. The teachers, realising their enemies were about to flee raised their wands to stop them but then a great roar sounded through the hall and a golden dragon appeared in the room with a phoenix. They both landed in front of Ron and with a pop they turned into Harry and Hermione, with the boy still clutching his godfather tightly. Everyone was looking astounded at the two teenagers. The death eaters were suddenly very afraid, the faces of the two friends were edged with fury and they didn't wish to stay and find out what was about to happen. All of them turned around sharply and started to run to the door when it suddenly
closed with a loud bang. Harry let go of his godfather's wrist, letting him slump on the ground next to Ron, and started to walk towards the death eaters.

"Now, I don't think you would want to miss the party's ending, now would you?" The teenagers voice sent shivers down to everyone's backs, even Dumbledore's. Phoenix on the other hand didn't move from her place, but her anger was radiating from her forming a golden aura around her slight body. Suddenly, without previous warning the two teenagers broke into a run and started to pound down on the death eaters much like Ron had done before. It was a matter of minutes. Not ten minutes latter all death eaters had been rendered unconscious and had been tied down by Dragon and Phoenix. Most of the people in the great hall were gapping at them but they didn't mind them. Dragon strode over to Ron's body and scooped him into his arms. He then turned to look at Sirius who still was not giving sings of waking up. He looked at Lupin and said.

"Be careful when he wakes up, he was put under the imperious and I'm not sure if it has been broken." Without waiting for an answer he left the room closely followed by Phoenix. The closing of the door to the great hall awakened them all from the stupor they had fallen in. Mrs Weasley broke down crying and her older sons ran to her trying to comfort her with tears in their eyes. Ginny was also being comforted by her father. Remus was now kneeling next to Sirius and was talking quietly with Arabella and Mundungus as to what they should do with their friend. Dumbledore sighed and told everyone to go to their rooms to try and get some rest, he had to go to the ministry and make sure the death eaters would be taken care of.

Harry and Hermione had quickly made their way to the sixth's year boys room and laid Ron on his former bed, that for some reason had still stayed there. While Phoenix had went to fetch some things from her room, Harry checked Ron out. He hadn't been worried about his friend being dead, he knew good enough what to expect from the necklaces. Griffin would probably be awful sore and drained the next day but nothing else. After checking his friend over and seeing he didn't have any other injuries he changed his clothes and put his pj's on. He was just tucking him in when Hermione came back, already clad in her pj's.

"Is he ok?" Harry yawned and stretched.

"Fine, just the usual. You're going to spent the night here?" Hermione nodded and laid down into Seamus's bed with a book on her lap. "Ok, then I'm going to change." He walked to the bathroom and took a shower letting his muscles relax under the warm water. When he came back into the room Phoenix was sitting next to Ron who had woken up. They both looked up at him and smiled.

"Hey mate, good to see you awake, how are you feeling?" Ron's voice was rough when he talked.

"Like I have been run over by a train, otherwise fine." Harry chuckled softly and sat at his friends other side.

"That's to be expected, you jumped in front of the killing curse. The phoenix necklace can only do so much." Ron nodded and closed his eyes.

"What happened after they knocked me out?" Phoenix told him what had happened, and after that they stayed in silence for a while. Finally Ron talked.

"They think I'm dead, right?" his friends nodded. "Why didn't you tell them?"

"We weren't sure what you wanted." Ron looked at Harry questioningly. "If they think you're dead you can start a new life without them, you won't have to see them ever again, you can be in the wizarding world without having to be constantly afraid they will be looking for you. Of course that's your choice, if you want to tell them you're alive it's more then alright for us, but we thought you at least had to get a chance to choose." Griffin nodded in understanding and closed his eyes. He was thinking in Ginny's words, she had been right he had been afraid to hurt her feelings by shouting that evening. Did he really want to lose his only family? Even with what they had done to him he still loved them. he wondered if it was enough to get him to accept them back. He opened his eyes again and looked at Harry and Hermione who were waiting patiently his answer.

"I want to tell them the truth, they still are my family, I think I'm finally ready to give them a chance." Phoenix and Dragon smiled widely at him and the girl embraced him and whispered in his ear.

"I'm proud of you, Griffin." The boy smiled and then closed his eyes and drifted of to sleep. Taking his cue, Harry and Hermione went to their beds and laid down too.

To be continued...

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