Chapter 43
"What are you talking about?" Autumn Lewis asked walking up to her boyfriend. "Who just stabbed you in the heart?"
Draco could tell that Autumn's temper was rising, and she was starting to get jealous, "Your looks of course….your so beautiful that it stabs me right in the heart." Draco said with a cunning smile, hoping that Autumn had taken the bait. Autumn smiled slyly at him and leaned in to kiss him, 'Thank Merlin, she believed that.'
"What took you so long?" Sirius asked exasperated.
Susan smiled one of the biggest smiles she'd ever smiled, except for when she was thinking about Draco Malfoy. "I met a guy."
Harry and Sirius's mouths dropped so far down, they probably reached the field below. Thanks to Susan and her big mouth she got about fifty million questions about this new guy, but she didn't speak a word. Until about ten minutes later, "Are you sure you want to find out who my 'mystery guy' is?" Both Sirius and Harry nodded, "But why would you want to know when there is a perfectly good Quidditch Match going on." They realized that they were missing the Quidditch Match, "We'll discuss this later." Sirius said as Harry nodded so they both turned around to see the game, and as the game was about to end Susan snuck out and went to the first fireplace that she could find so that she could Floo to The Three Broomsticks to try and get there before Oliver and use her new power before he got there.
At The Three Broomsticks…
Oliver Wood had left the Quidditch Match right after he'd met Susan Potter, and he wanted to be there when she showed up. Every time the door would open Oliver looked desperately at the door hoping it would be Susan, but was wrong.
Someone had come into The Three Broomsticks, but when Oliver turned around to see who'd come in he didn't see a soul. 'That's odd, I could of swore I heard the bell go off.'
'Oh Merlin he's already here!' Susan said to herself as Oliver turned around and she entered the store. 'It's okay, breath, breath.' She was approaching him….
"Hey, stranger." Oliver said smiling at her, 'What happened?' She thought to herself, just seconds ago she'd been invisible.
"Hey," Susan smiled at him slyly.
"Game over?" She shook her head no. "Oh?"
"Almost done though. S peaking of the game, as much as Harry has told me about you, your suppose to be some kind of Quidditch Freak…so why aren't you at the game."
'Great, he's already told her how stupid I am?' Oliver thought to himself and then spoke, "Just didn't feel like staying."
"Alright, Susan games over, spill." Harry said as he and Sirius turned around to see her seat empty. "Dang it! She left before we could find out!"
"That's Lily's quite slyness, Susan surely didn't get it from James…that boy never shut up."
Adora sat in her four-poster bed looking at pictures she had taken when she'd first met her mother and was becoming acquainted to Draco and Narcissa. It was really strange for Adora to think that she'd never see her mum or sister ever again, and knowing Lucius, Adora wouldn't be able to see Draco during the summer. Ron came inside of the fifth year girls dormitory to check up on his girlfriend, once again her drapes were drawn around her bed and he could hear her sniffling again. 'Oh, no.' Ron thought to himself, 'She's crying again.' Ron was beginning to walk out of the room.
"Ron, we need to talk."
'Those words are never good together,' Ron thought to himself.
Cho Chang was desperately pointing her wand everywhere, trying to get the house clean before Harry showed up. Harry was coming over and spend sometime with David and Cho. Since, Harry and Ginny recently broke up she was going to ask Harry now if he'd go the annual Seventh Year Dance. "Cho are you here?" Harry asked looking at such a clean apartment that it looked deserted. "Um, Cho?"
Cho came running out of a room, "Hey Harry."
Harry glanced up, Cho looked different. "Hey. What's up with the house? Where's David?"
"Well I figured that I really really needed to clean the house, and as for David." Cho had a sheepish look in her eye that Harry truthfully didn't like. "Cedric's mom and dad wanted to have David this weekend and I agreed."
"Okay?" Harry asked totally confused as to why he was here then. "Why am I here?"
"Well, I need to ask you something." Cho said grinning as big as she could.
Harry sat down on the couch and she sat beside him, "Shoot."
"Do you think you'd go to the Seventh Year Dance with me?"
"Um, Cho." Harry said feeling totally uncomfortable now. "If you hadn't heard, Ginny and I recently broke up…."
"Exactly, so now Ginny can't get mad at you."
"Um, no. You see I'm trying to get back with Ginny, trying to prove to her that I don't have that silly little crush that I use to have on you anymore."
"Oh."
"What's wrong?"
"Well," Cho said a single tear running down her face. "It's just that Cedric always promised to take me to his Seventh Year Dance and he would have brought me to mine. Since, he…."
"I understand…." Harry just started. "Yeah, sure I'll go. It's not as if Ginny's interested in me anymore anyways, she's trying to get with Colin, or that's what Susan tells me."
Cho looked at Harry strangely there was something here she wasn't catching on to, "But, Harry I thought that you were like Susan and Ginny you know that like that you can read minds."
Harry looked at her oddly, "Yeah, I can. Why do you ask?"
"Well, if you're a mind reader, why can't you read Ginny's mind?"
"I don't know." Harry paused for a moment, "I've never been able to read her mind, actually. We had been dating a few months when Arabella found out that Ginny was reading Sirius's mind when out of nowhere she starts giggling at Sirius and Arabella just turned to Ginny and asked what she heard. After Ginny told them they both turned red, so then Arabella told Sirius to think of something and turned to me to see if I could read Sirius and I could he wanted Arabella to cook him some pancakes. Then she told Ginny and I to think of something and to try to read off each other, when we both said we couldn't Sirius and Arabella got this really happy look and Bella said very well. When Susan found out that we couldn't read each others minds she went absolutely crazy and then she hit me. Susan told me I shouldn't have come over here, and she said I should of gone and made up with Ginny."
"Well, um." Cho muttered, 'Oh Merlin! They're suppose to be together, no way. No way am I letting that happen, Harry is mine. Ginny can just…just…find someone else, yes that's right someone else.' "I don't know Harry, I have no clue what you should do."
Harry just nodded and began to get up, "Harry? Is there anything wrong?"
Harry stopped right before the fireplace, "Yes, Cho, yes there is."
"What?"
"You forget I'm a mind reader. Damn, it. I thought you were my friend!"
"I. …I…I am Harry, it's just I don't want to be only your friend. You remember when you use to like me? Well, why can't that happen between us now?"
"Because," Harry said approaching her. "I had feelings for you then. I love Ginny. I love her the way you loved Cedric. All this time you've been using me to get me to replace him. Cho you've got to move on, Cedric would have wanted you to."
"I thought you were my friend, Harry! How dare you bring Cedric into this. Go on, get out of my house! Go get that little whore of yours."
"Whore! Are you joking me! Cho, you're the one that slept around! You're the one with the kid! Ginny's a virgin!"
"Oh, yea?"
Harry was stunned at Cho's behavior, "Yes."
Cho smiled the evilest grin that Harry had ever seen on her face, "Revel-o!" Cho said to reveal not Cho, but Autumn Lewis. "Well, Harry Potter." Autumn spat out, "She won't be for long." Then began to cackle, a cackle identical to her father's.
"WHERE THE HELL IS SHE AUTUMN!" Autumn kept on laughing, Harry approached her and pulled her by her robes. "WHERE THE HELL IS GINNY?"
Autumn spit on him, "She's not in hell, yet." Harry swore out loud and Flooed back to the Gryffindor Common Room. When he got in there everyone was screaming there was blood everywhere bodies everywhere, Harry ran around the room for what seemed ten minutes until he found his best friend, Ron Weasley, on the ground grasping his leg. "Ron!" Harry practically screamed.
"Harry! They've got them!"
"Got who? Who's got who?"
"Susan, Ginny, and Adora. Voldemort sent Lucius Malfoy, their after you. They said they didn't even want Ginny they wanted the three Gryffindors, she's bait to get you there."
"Get me where!"
"Autumn's house," a voice behind Harry said. Harry turned around to see someone who didn't belong in this common room.
"Should of guessed, huh. How the hell would you know, Malfoy. What the hell are you doing in Gryffindor Common Room?"
"Oh, yeah Potter, let me tell you I just love being in this hideous common room, not. Duh, after the attack Dumbledore said all of the prefects were to report to the Gryffindor Common Room to help you and Weasley, as you two are the boy Gryffindor Prefects, figure out who's all missing, the dead, wounded and alive." Malfoy began to look around the room, looking for Susan and Adora. "Where's Adora?"
"Adora was one of the taken, like my sister, and Susan." Ron said still grabbing his leg.
Harry turned to Draco Malfoy, "How do we get to your little girlfriend's house?"
"Avada Reveal-o!" Adora replied tapping the two boys on their shoulders.
"I THOUGHT YOU WERE KIDNAPPED LIKE SUSAN AND GINNY!" Ron roared outraged.
"What about me?" Susan asked stepping between her brother and Adora.
"Wait a minute! Where's Ginny?" Harry asked really starting to freak out, "And how did you two escape?"
"Adora and I were in the same room, I guess they were going to let us sit there until they decided to kill us. We had no clue Ginny was there to, not until now. They're probably interrogating her into finding out where you were."
"Well, I guess she told, because Autumn turned out to be Cho."
"Wait…what!" Ron asked totally flabbergasted. "You mean, my little sister dumped you tonight because she thought Cho was hitting on you when it was that scum bag Autumn!"
"Your guess is as good as mine is," Harry said wanting to kill himself for going 'help' Cho tonight. Harry walked up to the fireplace.
"Where the hell do you think you are going!" Susan yelled at Harry.
"Avada Reveal-o!" Harry was gone.
"Damn it, damn it, damn it!" Susan yelled at the fireplace and turned around to talk to Adora who was standing next to Draco. "Why doesn't he ever listen!"
"Potter for you." Malfoy responded and for once Ron actually agreed with Malfoy in which both girls began to pelt both boys until they remembered what they were suppose to be doing.
Voldemort's secret lair….
"If you are not going to speak, that'll make it so much easier, Weasley. We'll just kill you now and then we can make sure the future won't happen." Lucius Malfoy said, "That's okay. Your little boyfriend will be here soon enough and then master will kill Harry and then your little dirty tail."
Harry had just Flooed into a room that looked a lot like a muggle interrogation room, Harry recognized it from a strange dream he'd had at the beginning of the year that he'd shared with Ginny. 'This is it, this is when this happens. I had this dream earlier for a reason, I've got to change something.' "Where's Dumbledore?"
"Where's Ginny?" Harry said his voice never failing him.
"My questions come first, Potter." Voldemort sneered at him. Harry remained standing not trusting his mortal enemy, "Where's Dumbledore?"
"What do you mean where's Dumbledore?"
"Are the rumors true? Arabella Figg is alive?" Voldemort slammed his fist on the table.
"Who's this Arabella Figg you speak of, I don't know of her."
"Where are they hiding him?"
"We're not hiding Dumbledore, your just not looking in the right places!" Harry said smugly.
Voldemort stared straight into Harry's brilliant green eyes, and said "Okay, so you won't talk, huh? Fine! 'Crucio' !"
Since Voldemort performed The Cruciatus Curse on Harry, he was suppose to bend in all kinds of ways, but Harry just sat there and laughed at him. "You really think I'd fall for that old trick again, Voldie?"
"How dare you call me this…this… 'Voldie', you speak of! How can you resist the curse?" Voldemort said in a hiss like voice. "Oh, well. I know one way of hurting you…bring the girl in!"
Lucius Malfoy who was standing beside Voldemort nodded and a few minutes later brought in Ginny Weasley and threw her into a chair next to Harry. Ginny looked at him threw tears in her chocolate brown eyes. 'I love you,' Ginny mouthed to Harry.
Harry kissed her on top of her head, "I love you, too."
'Don't think like that,' Harry told Ginny telepathically.
'I thought you couldn't read my mind?' Ginny began to sob harder.
'I still can't but I can read the expression on your face. Everything's going to be alright, I promise.'
"Aww, yes! The only way to bring down 'The Famous Harry Potter', by this sniveling, rotten, blood traitor. 'Crucio'!" With that Ginny went into all kinds of odd shapes and began to scream bloody murder, until a there was a song that could be heard softly at first but eventually getting louder and louder. A song from a very well known band from the America's especially in the lower part of Texas and Louisiana.
When I look, at your face your still as pretty as angel,
But there's something out of place
What's wrong with you baby, I don't understand,
Is it just me or do you want another man?
'You know better than that, Harry.'
Take my hand,
Say you'll be true say those simple words,
Oh I love only you Take my hand,
Ohhh and hold it tight
Take my hand and everything will be alright.
'I love only you,' They both said to each other. Harry listened, as Ginny still going into all kinds of odd shapes, but she wasn't screaming anymore.
Still got the moves that blow me away
And when you kiss me baby I
Still don't know what to say
But deep down inside me girl something wrong
I'm still a fool for you honey was I your fool all a long
Take my hand,
Say you will be true and say those simple words. Oh I love only you
Take my hand, oh! and hold it tight
Take my hand and everything will be alright.
This song sounded so familiar to Harry, too familiar. No matter what, Harry wouldn't let go of Ginny's hand and slowly but surely she quit moving. Voldemort and Malfoy just sat there stupefied at this sight. Behind Voldemort and Malfoy, was a couple that Ginny and Harry recognized immediately and it brought tears to Harry's eyes, in fact anyone in the Wizarding World would be able to recognize this couple. The spirits of Lily and James Potter were dancing around with baby Harry on Lily's hip and baby Susan on James's hip. Just then, as if Lily and James noticed their surroundings, Lily mouthed a few words but Harry heard them loud and clearly. 'You take care of him for me, okay?' Lily mouthed and it went straight into Ginny's head in which she nodded.
Oh I got the feeling that you want a new life
But I was hoping someday oh you'd be my wife
I understand if you wanted someone new
I could just about imagine how long it would take to get over you
Oh take my hand
Say you'll be true say those simple words oh I love only you
Take my hand oh and hold it tight
Take my hand and everything will be alright, Yeah Yeah Yeah
Take my hand say you'll be true
Say those simple words oh I love only you
Take my hand oh and hold it tight
Take my hand and everything will be alright.
Harry suddenly knew what he had to do, and Harry looked up at his mother one more time and Lily smiled and nodded. Lily blew Harry a kiss and rubbed her stomach. Harry had a feeling at that moment his mother was pregnant. Everything that everyone had been trying to make appear so clear, was loud and clear now. Harry knew what he had to do now, the only way that would get them home. Just then Harry felt his pocket feel heavier, 'A portkey, but only for tonight.' Lily's voice said inside of Harry's head. 'After that she'll never take it off of her hand.'
Harry got down on one knee. "Ginerva Molly Weasley, would you do me the honor of becoming my wife sometime in the future?"
Ginny's eyes filled up with tears, "Of course, Harry!" All of the torture Ginny had was completely gone, and then the portkey/Engagement Ring pulled them back to the Gryffindor Common Room.
"NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO! I'll get you, Potter!" Voldemort yelled, as they were gone.