A/N
– Hi guys… I'm sooooo sorry this took so long… I didn't mean for it to be this
long, I had a lot of trouble with this chapter… grrr, anyways, it's here now,
so here you are….
This
chapter is dedicated to Candidus Dragon
Harry
felt sick to his stomach. He could only
watch as the dragon that was supposed to be him approached the Weasleys. He tried to call out, to do anything to stop
it, but he was still merely a spirit. Then as the dragon drew up in front of them Harry saw it… On the other
side of the room was his alter ego… The side of him that was pure
darkness. A perfect copy of himself
shimmering with dark light with a look of pure hatred in its eyes as it
controlled the dragon… It's controlling me! Thought Harry in desperation. Just as his 'reflection' was conjuring up the Avada Kedavra, a look of
triumphant malice on his face that reminded Harry so strongly of Voldemort that
it terrified him, Harry noticed Snape separate from the other Death Eaters and
leap forward bringing a glinting dagger down into the dragon's back…
"Nooooo!" Cried his alter ego at the same time as
Voldemort.
Harry
smiled in relief, but soon saw the danger of the situation.
He
realised that he would have to take control of the dragon's body to protect his
friends. He ran towards the dragon and
concentrated as hard as he could on creating a shield.
To
his surprised delight a shimmering white glow built itself around all of those
whom Harry wanted to protect. But not
before Snape had been hit by a stunning spell from one of the Death Eaters.
Harry
could feel the life draining from his own body, which he stood next to,
invisible to the eyes of the friends he was protecting. Then he saw the dark version of him walking
towards him burning with rage, Harry drew himself up and held out his hand.
"I
wont let you hurt them! Go away Tom
Riddle!" He cried.
"Ahhh
but Harry, you are confused… I'm not Tom Riddle… I'm you!
I'm
the part of you that wants to be greater than Dumbledore,
The
part of you that would do anything for respect and power,
The
part of you that knows that these muggle-loving fools are not worthy to live…
You
know it's true, so just give it up Harry! It's your destiny!"
His
angry alter ego spoke with such a cold calculating voice that it sounded as bad
as Voldemort's and it was killing Harry to hear 'himself' talk in that way…
"No! Destinies aren't set in stone! Even if you are part of me, you're not the
part I want ruling my life! I'm a good
person! I know the difference between
right and wrong! Now leave me
alone! I have to save my friends!"
His
alter ego just laughed… The mocking laugh so similar to that of his nightmares,
Harry shuddered and tried to concentrate on the shield, not to think about
anything else.
"Harry,
I'll never just leave, I'll always be here, questioning your stupid values and
your weaknesses, and you can't get rid of me. You need me."
Just
at that moment the Avada Kedavra hit the shield, Harry's strength faltered but
the curse rebounded harmlessly.
Harry's
energy was running low and his alter ego's dark aura was seeming to grow with
Harry's feeling of hopelessness, and then he realised that Percy had tried to
awaken his body, and failed. Harry
realised that he had to get back inside his body somehow, to be able to control
it better. He had to get the Weasleys,
Snape and Fudge out of there, away from Voldemort before they were all killed.
Harry
touched the glinting golden scar on his dragon body and felt himself being
sucked inside… He shut his eyes, and hoped against hope.
~~~*~~~*~~~
"Ginny! Wake up
Gin!" Urged Ron,
"Sirius! Really,
you've frightened her half to death!" He said holding his sister's hand worriedly.
"I… I'm sorry…" Mumbled Sirius faintly.
"Sirius, sit down a minute, you look pale as death, what's
wrong?" Said Hermione decidedly.
Sirius sat shakily on the grass holding his head in his
hands
"It's Harry… I'm so scared… But right now we have to look after Ginny." He said regaining himself slowly.
Just as they noticed Neville, Fred and George returning
with Dumbledore, Figg and for some strange reason Draco Malfoy, Ron felt Ginny
start to move.
Dumbledore knelt down next to Ginny raising an eyebrow
questioningly at Sirius but saying nothing.
"Professor Dumbledore! Sirius Black! Harry! Oh dear!" Cried out Ginny disorientated.
"It's alright Miss Weasley, there's nothing to worry
about. Sirius Black isn't going to hurt
anybody. He's an innocent man."
Said Dumbledore helping Ginny up gently.
"But Harry!" Whimpered Ginny
"As for Harry, we'll just have to wait and see, have faith
in him Ginny!"
Said Arabella wearing a rather forced smile but sounding
determined.
Hermione was fingering Snape's note rather guiltily in her
hands having suddenly remembered what they had been doing.
"I think you'd better give it to us now Miss Granger,
Thankyou for unscrambling it for us."
Said Dumbledore without looking up.
"It was Fred and George that did it."
Confessed Hermione shaking her head as the headmaster once
again demonstrated his shrewd intuition, and handing him the parchment.
~~~*~~~*~~~
Remus pulled his cloak up to conceal himself as best he
could, he hated going into Ministry buildings. As he strode down the corridor following a ministry official to Dawn's
office he received a few odd glances but not as much as he'd feared.
"Here's the office."
Said the short tired looking official he'd been following,
she turned and left him outside the door without looking him in the eye once.
Remus sighed and turned to go inside.
"Dawn?" He called.
He saw her sprawled on a small couch surrounded by papers
looking very worn.
"Dawn! Wake up."
He muttered, shaking her gently, she flopped over and her
flailing arm caught Remus on the cheek with a loud slap.
"Ow!"
Dawn's eyes fluttered open and she was surprised when she
saw Remus Lupin bending over her, holding his cheek.
"Remus! Oh God I'm
sorry!"
She croaked before sinking back down onto the couch in
exhaustion.
"That's alright Dawn. I've been sent by Dumbledore to check on you, how are you feeling?"
Said Remus rubbing his sore cheek tentatively.
"Not bad." Said
Dawn with what little voice she had left.
"Yeah, right. I
think maybe you should come back to Hogwarts with me, you don't sound to
good." Said Remus grinning.
"Um, okay."
Mouthed Dawn, her voice finally gone.
"We can use this portkey,"
Said Remus digging out the coin.
Together they grabbed the coin and in a whirl they found
themselves in a dark chamber.
"Albus!"
Called Remus looking around for the headmaster.
"I guess he's not gotten down here yet… Lumos!"
Dawn started to cough and was getting very pale.
"We'd better get you out of here, come on, the hospital
wing is right next…"
Remus stopped in mid-sentence seeing Dawn start to wobble
on her feet, he grabbed her and managed to help her to make her way along the
corridor to see Madame Pomfrey.
~~~*~~~*~~~
Mundungus gave up sending spells at the shield, it could
block anything! He noticed that
Voldemort had also come to this conclusion and was speaking into a mall dark
orb in his hand.
Mundungus leant over to hear.
"Send in the dementors straight away, they should attack
now. I will send back up soon. Hogwarts will be ours!"
He was surprised to hear the voice of Avery reply... it was
the first time that the death eater was being trusted with an attack…
"Yes my lord! Dumbledore will fall without the boy and we will have
Hogwarts!" Simpered Avery.
Mundungus frowned and moved away quickly.
"Fletcher! Next
time you want to eavesdrop you ought to remember the consequences! Crucio!"
Mundungus writhed for only a few seconds before the spell
was removed. Voldemort had other things
to worry about.
"Malfoy! Nott! You two round up the Death Eaters, we attack
Hogwarts today!" Cried Voldemort.
Mundungus shuddered, memories of his time at Hogwarts
flooded back to him and he felt a slight twinge of guilt that was becoming
familiar to him since joining the death eaters.
~~~*~~~*~~~
"Sirius, I trust you'll handle this situation… Fred,
George, Ginny and Arabella, would you four come with me please?" Said Dumbledore giving Fred and George's
shoulders a squeeze,
So Dumbledore, Arabella, Fred and George made their way up
to the castle, leaving Sirius to talk to Draco, Hermione, Neville and Ron.
They remained silent until the other group had disappeared
into the castle.
Then Sirius got shakily to his feet.
"I'm probably not the best person to talk to you about
this, I feel like I'm being a hypocrite, but there's no arguing with Professor
Dumbledore..."
"Go on!" Said
Hermione smiling at Sirius indulgently
"We have to have faith that Harry is going to come through
for us, I admit that I'm finding it hard at the moment, but there's always
hope. You guys are Harry's best
friends."
Draco snorted at this,
"Well, you're his friends."
Ron snorted at that giving Draco an unfriendly glare,
"Well you all know him better than I do!"
Said Sirius grinning.
"That, I suppose we can agree on."
Said Draco raising his eyebrow at Black.
"So anyway, I just don't want you lot to loose hope. Harry's never failed you before, and I don't
think he'll be start… Oh God… No!"
Sirius started to moan in fear and fell to the ground in a
crumpled heap.
"Get away from me!" He yelled
"Sirius what's the matter?!"
Shouted Ron as Draco, Neville and Hermione edged backwards.
"Ron! L-Look… D-d-dementors!"
Stuttered Neville.
"Hundreds of them!"
Shrieked Hermione.
"Draco go and tell Dumbledore what's happened, we'll look
after Sirius!"
Said Ron pushing Draco towards the castle.
The three Gryffindors watched Draco Malfoy run as fast as
he could up the slope before turning back to Sirius who was still a shaking
mess.
"Come on Sirius!"
Begged Hermione, but none of them could get him to move.
"Aaargh! They're
getting closer!" Said Neville
shivering.
"We have to do something!" Yelled Ron
"We need a patronus… Think of a happy thought
everyone! Come on! We can do it!"
Said Hermione taking out her wand.
"Expecto Patronum!" She shouted,
A silvery mist came out of her wand, the same happened with
Ron's and the mist started to swirl.
Neville brushed up his sleeves nervously starting to shake
violently from the effects of the dementors.
"Expect---Expecto Patronum… EXPECTO PATRONUM!" He yelled, at the top of his voice.
The jet of silver went into the cloud and the three spells
merged together and grew to a huge swirl of silver, which started to come
together to form some sort of beast.
The three of them came closer together and watched in awe
as the most enormous lion, one straight from the Gryffindor emblem, bounded
from the mist towards the dementors.
They watched in disbelief as the hundreds of approaching
dementors were scattered by the lion, which was roaring and bounding at them.
Eventually the magnificent silver animal came back towards
them before lying down at their feet and disappearing.
It was only then that coming out of their shock they heard
the voices approaching.
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