A/N- This chapter was SO hard to write. I am so scared that I am going to
disappoint you all. I still have about four more chapters to go after this
and possibly an epilogue. I don't think I am going to do a sequel but I am
going to continue The Velvet Glove and I will start another story. The
Velvet Glove will be worked on on weekends and the other one which I
haven't decided on the name yet will be during the week. I have so many
ideas I HAVE to get them all down soon. I read one of the best hg/ss
stories the other day by Slytherin Girl called quills or something. If you
are an hg/ss shipper then you should really read it. Also if you know any
good HG/SS stories then put them in your review so I can look at them. I
love those lots. SO.here is the next chapter. I hope you like it. I HOPE
HOPE HOPE you like it. PLEASE REVIEW! I will most likely not update till
this weekend so have a very HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! I am going to be a hippy and
I have to see the Ring at a party. *shiver* That is such a scary
movie..Anyway, enough of my rambling. Here is the next chapter!
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Dead and Alive
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"HARRY POTTER!" a voice echoed throughout the whole castle. Harry cursed and ran out the door and down to the entrance hall. He felt his neck to make sure the amulet was there and thankfully it was. Harry felt so stupid for being so slow up in the hospital wing but he thought they wouldn't be there for awhile. Harry was about to blast open the entrance door but he stopped when he heard a cool voice in the hallway to his right.
"Severus Snape," Lucius Malfoy hissed, "it is time you pay for you disloyalties."
Harry jumped out silently and saw Snape and Malfoy senior about thirty feet from each other with their wands raised. Just as Lucius was about to use an unforgivable on his potions master he was able to put the deatheater in a bind. Luckily Lucius didn't see anything coming so Harry's attempt was a successful one.
"Thanks for that Potter, come on!" Snape yelled grabbing Harry's shoulder. Harry had to find Voldemort and fast before people started dying. Walking outside Harry could see curses flying everywhere. It was now thunder storming and the only reason that Harry could see was because of all the light being shot from the curses. Aurors everywhere fought hundreds of deatheaters and twice as many dark creatures as before. Harry could see Malfoy fighting the adult Crabbe and the order members fighting others. He couldn't see Voldemort anywhere. He dodged curses that swooped by his shoulders and under his legs.
Then he saw Voldemort..
And Fallyn.
They were fighting each other. "Avada Kedavra!"
"No!" Harry yelled running over to his friend and actually ignoring Voldemort. Malfoy managed to bind Crabbe and go to Fallyn as well. When they both touched her shoulder the world around them froze.
"She can't die!" Harry pleaded forgetting about everything else that was going on. Voldemort was frozen just 5 feet away from them with a mad grin on his face. The rain had stopped like everyone and everything else. Harry wasn't sure whether Voldemort really was frozen because he was supposed to be immortal. He wasn't human just like Remus. Remus floated over to them and looked around. Voldemort was almost standing over them.
"She isn't dead right?" Harry cried.
"Harry, I'm sorry," Remus said sadly.
"Harry lets put her over there and end this fight once and for all. We have to unfreeze time and get this over with. We should levitate the amulet soon and we can't do magic when time is frozen. I would want to use the amulet now but I don't think the binding spell that holds the skin and blood works right now."
"How about we drag her over to Voldemort and then put the amulet on him suddenly after we unfreeze time?" Harry asked.
"We can't do that because she's dead Harry," Draco whispered sadly.
"Oh, well then I guess we will just have to do it like we planned. As soon put her over there we I will run as fast as I can to a place where he can't see me. Then I will levitate it like we planned and keep it on him till whatever happens happens."
"Okay," Draco sighed again after walking over to a shady spot. They both got ready to run after they gave Fallyn one last hug.
"Ready?" Harry asked.
Draco nodded and they suddenly let go and ran where Voldemort wasn't looking.
"Harry watch out!" Malfoy yelled when a green beam of light headed his way. Harry ducked and reached up to his neck to get his amulet and he almost had a heart attack when he couldn't find it.
"It isn't here!" Harry whispered with rage and fear.
"Where is it?" Malfoy asked with shock.
"I don know. Let's look. Accio it!" Malfoy suddenly said.
"Accio amulet!" Harry yelled but no one could hear him because of all the background screams and other noises of thunder and curses. Nothing happened.
"Stupefy!" Malfoy yelled. Harry turned around and realized that Malfoy had just stunned a deatheater and more were coming up quickly. Harry looked around for as many seconds as he could spare and saw Lucius Malfoy and feet away from him was his potions professor. Voldemort was using the Cruciatus curse at anyone in his way. The dark lord was now going on a killing frenzy. At least 10 aurors were killed in the last minute to Harry's surprise. He actually wasn't surprised, more like horrified.
"Harry there it is!" Malfoy whispered poking him in his side. Harry saw where it was and without giving it another thought he used the strongest levitating charm he knew and unseen to Voldemort the amulet was placed on his cold dark heart. Harry ran out in front of Snape who was about to be killed with Avada Kedavra and knocked him on the ground. It was just in time because Voldemort exploded and the last thing Harry saw before he blacked out was a bright gold light.
The next thing Harry knew he was lying down in a comfortable bed somewhere and he heard whispers. He still didn't feel the need to open his eyes but he listened intently to the conversation between two people at the right side of the end of his bed. He recognized the first voice as Remus Lupin's and the second one as Sirius Black's.
"I can't believe this all happened. Fallyn said earlier that it is the strangest feeling and it really is. I can't describe it," Remus whispered.
Fallyn.Harry remembered everything suddenly. It all came flooding back into his mind and he realized the Fallyn was dead. They had gotten to be great friends since the beginning of the school year and now she was gone. She died and so did lots of other people. But wait..Remus said "Fallyn said." How can Fallyn say anything when she's not able to speak anymore?
Harry opened his eyes and reached over to the left side of his bed and put on his glasses. The two occupants in the room didn't notice that Harry had awoken. He looked at the foot of his bed and almost choked in surprised. Sirius and Remus were both sitting there conversing quietly. But it wasn't the ghost Remus, no it was the real Remus. , the living breathing solid Lupin. He wasn't a ghost anymore to Harry's amazement. Harry tried to talk but nothing came out. There were no words to describe how he was feeling. He bolted upright in his bed and grabbed his former professor in a great hug. Remus was quite surprised at this because he didn't even realize Harry was conscious. Lupin tensed up for a second but relaxed quickly and hugged the boy back. He did remember telling him he loved him after all.
"Harry you're up!" Sirius exclaimed.
Harry lay back down.
"How are you feeling?" Remus asked.
"Fine, aren't you supposed to be..well dead?" Harry asked with a raspy voice.
"Harry, we were going to ask you the same thing." Remus replied with a grin.
"What are you talking about? What happened?" Harry asked.
Remus hesitated before he began to tell the whole story.
"I saw it when it happened Harry. I was there. Just as Voldemort was about to kill Snape with an unforgivable you knocked him out of the way. There was a gold flash of blinding light and a lot of people were blacked out from that. A lot of people were sent to the hospital wing but you're the last one up. It's been a week."
"I've been sleeping a whole week?" Harry asked. "What happened after that?"
"Well, all the deatheaters apparated away after Voldemort was gone. The creatures did too. Everyone was sent to the hospital wing that needed to. About fifty aurors died in the battle but about an hour after it happened, the dead aurors started waking up. I saw Fallyn and she said she had felt nothing weirder. I felt the same thing moments later and I knew I was alive."
"Just like that? But why?"
"I don't know Harry but that isn't all. When Dumbledore sent the order members out to the grounds to inspect it, there were hundreds of people there. Possibly even thousands. After talking to them we found out that they were all people who had been killed by Voldemort in the last six years. They were all people who died from being killed by Voldemort or his deatheaters since the day you started school.
Harry couldn't believe what was being said right now. That would mean that Cedric, and Fallyn and Bertha Jorkins and.everyone would be alive.
"Everyone? Where are they now?"
"Most people have gone home. The students are still here and so is Fallyn. Cedric also decided to stay for a couple of weeks because we haven't been able to reach his family. Everyone is now safe," Sirius said.
"So, he's gone forever?"
Sirius nodded. Harry was again speechless.
"The papers are eating it all up. Celebrations have been taking place 24/7 and no one can believe this has all happened. They are amazed that the dead came back to life but there is no logical or wizarding way to explain it. Cedric told Dumbledore what it was all like," Remus told him.
"What what was like?" Harry asked.
"Being dead."
Harry raised his eyebrows then looked at Sirius.
"And where were you the whole time Sirius?"
"I was stuck in bed. Thank you for bringing me up here. That boulder hurt like hell."
Harry sniggered. "That was hardly a boulder Sirius but I had to bring you."
"How did you bring me up here anyway Harry? There were also many aurors here too but I hardly think you could do something like that directly in the middle of a battle."
"Well, it is kind of a long story and I would rather tell it later so I don't have to explain more than once. First I wanted to see Hermione, Ron, Draco, Fallyn and Professor Snape," Harry told them.
"What about Cedric?" Remus asked slowly.
Harry froze for a moment in thought. All the guilt that he felt previously had vanished. Cedric, Fallyn, and Remus were all alive and everything he felt guilty for didn't seem to matter. Voldemort was gone and the dead lived on. Harry was alive, everyone was alive. No one was in danger because of him anymore and it was because he and his friends defeated the most evil creature the wizarding world had ever seen. But.did he really want to see Cedric? What would he say? Would he blame Harry for sending him to an early death..even if he did come back two years later? Probably not but he wouldn't really know how to start a conversation with his old classmate. After thinking for a couple seconds Harry nodded.
"Okay, I'll see Cedric too," Harry whispered.
"Okay Harry. I'll let you leave if you are feeling okay. Are you?" Sirius asked.
"Yes I'm fine but what about Madame Pomphrey. I doubt she will want me to leave without even being let known that I'm awake and talking."
Sirius laughed. "That's why you should not lose you chance Harry. Go see your friends."
Harry got up and hugged the two who he felt were as close to him as anyone ever and he headed towards the door but then stopped and turned back around.
"I'm so glad you're here Moony.Wait, can I still call you Moony?" Harry asked realizing something. He hoped his suspicions were true.
"Well, the name doesn't exactly apply to me now. It does to my past though so I wouldn't want to be called anything else."
"You aren't a werewolf anymore?" Harry grinned.
"Nope, now go. I will see you after dinner tonight. It is still early so have a good day. Go talk to Dumbledore too and make sure you go to the ministry sometime soon. I think you have to make a speech to the press."
"Great," Harry said sarcastically and rolled his eyes.
He wanted to see his friends so bad. He didn't spend as much time as usual with Ron and Hermione this whole year and he felt bad for that but he felt that they understood. The closest place on his list was the dungeons so he made his way to the potions classroom and knocked.
"Enter," came a harsh voice.
Harry walked in and saw Professor Snape sitting behind a desk that had papers all over. He thought that classes might be canceled for a bit of a celebration but it had been a week. A whole week of celebration had past by Harry.
"Hello Professor," Harry said.
"Potter, you're up. That was quite a show you put on last week," Snape drawled but in a surprisingly less harsh tone.
"I wanted to um.see if you were alright Professor."
Snape looked shocked for a second but hid his expression.
Snape sighed and looked at Harry in the eye.
"Thank you Potter for saving my life. I um...owe you-"
"You don't owe me anything. We are colleagues in a way so it was something I felt I had to do. Just put aside the fact that you hate me as a student and as you say 'the golden boy' and just think of me as a real person, the minister if you want. I'm glad you're okay though."
Snape looked searchingly in the boy's eyes and found the sincerity he was looking for.
"You sure are a different person then I thought you were Potter..Harry."
A/N- please don't hate me for this chapter! I know so much happened and I am having doubts whether it's good or not. I need conformation. TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK PLEASE!! REVIEW! I BEG OF U!!!!!!
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Dead and Alive
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"HARRY POTTER!" a voice echoed throughout the whole castle. Harry cursed and ran out the door and down to the entrance hall. He felt his neck to make sure the amulet was there and thankfully it was. Harry felt so stupid for being so slow up in the hospital wing but he thought they wouldn't be there for awhile. Harry was about to blast open the entrance door but he stopped when he heard a cool voice in the hallway to his right.
"Severus Snape," Lucius Malfoy hissed, "it is time you pay for you disloyalties."
Harry jumped out silently and saw Snape and Malfoy senior about thirty feet from each other with their wands raised. Just as Lucius was about to use an unforgivable on his potions master he was able to put the deatheater in a bind. Luckily Lucius didn't see anything coming so Harry's attempt was a successful one.
"Thanks for that Potter, come on!" Snape yelled grabbing Harry's shoulder. Harry had to find Voldemort and fast before people started dying. Walking outside Harry could see curses flying everywhere. It was now thunder storming and the only reason that Harry could see was because of all the light being shot from the curses. Aurors everywhere fought hundreds of deatheaters and twice as many dark creatures as before. Harry could see Malfoy fighting the adult Crabbe and the order members fighting others. He couldn't see Voldemort anywhere. He dodged curses that swooped by his shoulders and under his legs.
Then he saw Voldemort..
And Fallyn.
They were fighting each other. "Avada Kedavra!"
"No!" Harry yelled running over to his friend and actually ignoring Voldemort. Malfoy managed to bind Crabbe and go to Fallyn as well. When they both touched her shoulder the world around them froze.
"She can't die!" Harry pleaded forgetting about everything else that was going on. Voldemort was frozen just 5 feet away from them with a mad grin on his face. The rain had stopped like everyone and everything else. Harry wasn't sure whether Voldemort really was frozen because he was supposed to be immortal. He wasn't human just like Remus. Remus floated over to them and looked around. Voldemort was almost standing over them.
"She isn't dead right?" Harry cried.
"Harry, I'm sorry," Remus said sadly.
"Harry lets put her over there and end this fight once and for all. We have to unfreeze time and get this over with. We should levitate the amulet soon and we can't do magic when time is frozen. I would want to use the amulet now but I don't think the binding spell that holds the skin and blood works right now."
"How about we drag her over to Voldemort and then put the amulet on him suddenly after we unfreeze time?" Harry asked.
"We can't do that because she's dead Harry," Draco whispered sadly.
"Oh, well then I guess we will just have to do it like we planned. As soon put her over there we I will run as fast as I can to a place where he can't see me. Then I will levitate it like we planned and keep it on him till whatever happens happens."
"Okay," Draco sighed again after walking over to a shady spot. They both got ready to run after they gave Fallyn one last hug.
"Ready?" Harry asked.
Draco nodded and they suddenly let go and ran where Voldemort wasn't looking.
"Harry watch out!" Malfoy yelled when a green beam of light headed his way. Harry ducked and reached up to his neck to get his amulet and he almost had a heart attack when he couldn't find it.
"It isn't here!" Harry whispered with rage and fear.
"Where is it?" Malfoy asked with shock.
"I don know. Let's look. Accio it!" Malfoy suddenly said.
"Accio amulet!" Harry yelled but no one could hear him because of all the background screams and other noises of thunder and curses. Nothing happened.
"Stupefy!" Malfoy yelled. Harry turned around and realized that Malfoy had just stunned a deatheater and more were coming up quickly. Harry looked around for as many seconds as he could spare and saw Lucius Malfoy and feet away from him was his potions professor. Voldemort was using the Cruciatus curse at anyone in his way. The dark lord was now going on a killing frenzy. At least 10 aurors were killed in the last minute to Harry's surprise. He actually wasn't surprised, more like horrified.
"Harry there it is!" Malfoy whispered poking him in his side. Harry saw where it was and without giving it another thought he used the strongest levitating charm he knew and unseen to Voldemort the amulet was placed on his cold dark heart. Harry ran out in front of Snape who was about to be killed with Avada Kedavra and knocked him on the ground. It was just in time because Voldemort exploded and the last thing Harry saw before he blacked out was a bright gold light.
The next thing Harry knew he was lying down in a comfortable bed somewhere and he heard whispers. He still didn't feel the need to open his eyes but he listened intently to the conversation between two people at the right side of the end of his bed. He recognized the first voice as Remus Lupin's and the second one as Sirius Black's.
"I can't believe this all happened. Fallyn said earlier that it is the strangest feeling and it really is. I can't describe it," Remus whispered.
Fallyn.Harry remembered everything suddenly. It all came flooding back into his mind and he realized the Fallyn was dead. They had gotten to be great friends since the beginning of the school year and now she was gone. She died and so did lots of other people. But wait..Remus said "Fallyn said." How can Fallyn say anything when she's not able to speak anymore?
Harry opened his eyes and reached over to the left side of his bed and put on his glasses. The two occupants in the room didn't notice that Harry had awoken. He looked at the foot of his bed and almost choked in surprised. Sirius and Remus were both sitting there conversing quietly. But it wasn't the ghost Remus, no it was the real Remus. , the living breathing solid Lupin. He wasn't a ghost anymore to Harry's amazement. Harry tried to talk but nothing came out. There were no words to describe how he was feeling. He bolted upright in his bed and grabbed his former professor in a great hug. Remus was quite surprised at this because he didn't even realize Harry was conscious. Lupin tensed up for a second but relaxed quickly and hugged the boy back. He did remember telling him he loved him after all.
"Harry you're up!" Sirius exclaimed.
Harry lay back down.
"How are you feeling?" Remus asked.
"Fine, aren't you supposed to be..well dead?" Harry asked with a raspy voice.
"Harry, we were going to ask you the same thing." Remus replied with a grin.
"What are you talking about? What happened?" Harry asked.
Remus hesitated before he began to tell the whole story.
"I saw it when it happened Harry. I was there. Just as Voldemort was about to kill Snape with an unforgivable you knocked him out of the way. There was a gold flash of blinding light and a lot of people were blacked out from that. A lot of people were sent to the hospital wing but you're the last one up. It's been a week."
"I've been sleeping a whole week?" Harry asked. "What happened after that?"
"Well, all the deatheaters apparated away after Voldemort was gone. The creatures did too. Everyone was sent to the hospital wing that needed to. About fifty aurors died in the battle but about an hour after it happened, the dead aurors started waking up. I saw Fallyn and she said she had felt nothing weirder. I felt the same thing moments later and I knew I was alive."
"Just like that? But why?"
"I don't know Harry but that isn't all. When Dumbledore sent the order members out to the grounds to inspect it, there were hundreds of people there. Possibly even thousands. After talking to them we found out that they were all people who had been killed by Voldemort in the last six years. They were all people who died from being killed by Voldemort or his deatheaters since the day you started school.
Harry couldn't believe what was being said right now. That would mean that Cedric, and Fallyn and Bertha Jorkins and.everyone would be alive.
"Everyone? Where are they now?"
"Most people have gone home. The students are still here and so is Fallyn. Cedric also decided to stay for a couple of weeks because we haven't been able to reach his family. Everyone is now safe," Sirius said.
"So, he's gone forever?"
Sirius nodded. Harry was again speechless.
"The papers are eating it all up. Celebrations have been taking place 24/7 and no one can believe this has all happened. They are amazed that the dead came back to life but there is no logical or wizarding way to explain it. Cedric told Dumbledore what it was all like," Remus told him.
"What what was like?" Harry asked.
"Being dead."
Harry raised his eyebrows then looked at Sirius.
"And where were you the whole time Sirius?"
"I was stuck in bed. Thank you for bringing me up here. That boulder hurt like hell."
Harry sniggered. "That was hardly a boulder Sirius but I had to bring you."
"How did you bring me up here anyway Harry? There were also many aurors here too but I hardly think you could do something like that directly in the middle of a battle."
"Well, it is kind of a long story and I would rather tell it later so I don't have to explain more than once. First I wanted to see Hermione, Ron, Draco, Fallyn and Professor Snape," Harry told them.
"What about Cedric?" Remus asked slowly.
Harry froze for a moment in thought. All the guilt that he felt previously had vanished. Cedric, Fallyn, and Remus were all alive and everything he felt guilty for didn't seem to matter. Voldemort was gone and the dead lived on. Harry was alive, everyone was alive. No one was in danger because of him anymore and it was because he and his friends defeated the most evil creature the wizarding world had ever seen. But.did he really want to see Cedric? What would he say? Would he blame Harry for sending him to an early death..even if he did come back two years later? Probably not but he wouldn't really know how to start a conversation with his old classmate. After thinking for a couple seconds Harry nodded.
"Okay, I'll see Cedric too," Harry whispered.
"Okay Harry. I'll let you leave if you are feeling okay. Are you?" Sirius asked.
"Yes I'm fine but what about Madame Pomphrey. I doubt she will want me to leave without even being let known that I'm awake and talking."
Sirius laughed. "That's why you should not lose you chance Harry. Go see your friends."
Harry got up and hugged the two who he felt were as close to him as anyone ever and he headed towards the door but then stopped and turned back around.
"I'm so glad you're here Moony.Wait, can I still call you Moony?" Harry asked realizing something. He hoped his suspicions were true.
"Well, the name doesn't exactly apply to me now. It does to my past though so I wouldn't want to be called anything else."
"You aren't a werewolf anymore?" Harry grinned.
"Nope, now go. I will see you after dinner tonight. It is still early so have a good day. Go talk to Dumbledore too and make sure you go to the ministry sometime soon. I think you have to make a speech to the press."
"Great," Harry said sarcastically and rolled his eyes.
He wanted to see his friends so bad. He didn't spend as much time as usual with Ron and Hermione this whole year and he felt bad for that but he felt that they understood. The closest place on his list was the dungeons so he made his way to the potions classroom and knocked.
"Enter," came a harsh voice.
Harry walked in and saw Professor Snape sitting behind a desk that had papers all over. He thought that classes might be canceled for a bit of a celebration but it had been a week. A whole week of celebration had past by Harry.
"Hello Professor," Harry said.
"Potter, you're up. That was quite a show you put on last week," Snape drawled but in a surprisingly less harsh tone.
"I wanted to um.see if you were alright Professor."
Snape looked shocked for a second but hid his expression.
Snape sighed and looked at Harry in the eye.
"Thank you Potter for saving my life. I um...owe you-"
"You don't owe me anything. We are colleagues in a way so it was something I felt I had to do. Just put aside the fact that you hate me as a student and as you say 'the golden boy' and just think of me as a real person, the minister if you want. I'm glad you're okay though."
Snape looked searchingly in the boy's eyes and found the sincerity he was looking for.
"You sure are a different person then I thought you were Potter..Harry."
A/N- please don't hate me for this chapter! I know so much happened and I am having doubts whether it's good or not. I need conformation. TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK PLEASE!! REVIEW! I BEG OF U!!!!!!