Summary: After Sirius death, some special events will happen for Harry.and he will have to cancel out a great danger for the magical world.will he be able to do this?

Rating: R

Disclaimer: I don't own none of the characters; they are property of JK Rowling

Harry Potter and the Shield of the Magical Power

Chapter Nine

"The castle"

After about an hour, he arrived in front of a rusty gate; it seemed normal, and on a plate it was written: "McWelsh Manor"; Harry tried to open it, but suddenly the gate took life and tried to bit his hand.Harry, a little surprised, retracted it just in time, then he cried: "Reducto!", and the gate disappeared.

Harry started to walk on the path which from the gate led to the castle entrance, through a park that by now was totally wild, with his wand raised, ready to defend himself from everything could have been appeared; suddenly, an Hippogriff came out from a bush, so, remembering what Hagrid taught them, he stared in the animal's eyes, and bowed; the Hippogriff didn't seem to want to do the same, and Harry was ready to stun it, when it folded its forward paws, and bowed; then, the animal returned in the bush, without attacking Harry, who was relieved, and went on, always vigilant.

Few passes forward, Harry was near to stomp on some weeds, when he recognized them as the Devil's Snare, which he had already met in his first year; in that occasion, without Hermione, he and Ron would have surely died.yeah.Hermione.he grasped his amulet, and saw her in the common room; she was studying.no, she wasn't studying.she was drawing.she was making an Harry's portrait.and she was crying.

He left the amulet, and felt encouraged, seeing that she loved him so much, so he thought: "I have to exit all right from this place; I have to do this for her, I don't want she'll suffer for me." and he resumed the walk, avoiding the Devil's Snare.he was now near the door.he was quite arrived.the park was now totally behind him.

Suddenly, few meters before the door, an huge tree emerged from the ground, and it started to try to hit Harry.he jumped back, and the tree stopped.he moved forward, and the tree restarted to move his branches furiously.

"Perfect.I needed only a Whomping Willow to guard the door.and now, how can I overpass it?" he thought, then he remembered the knot on the tree that Crookshanks pressed when they entered in the Hogwarts one, in their third year.he took a long wood, and he tried to go nearer, running and avoiding the branches.he was near to hit the knot."Crash!".an enormous branch went down on him, who just in time rolled on his back, avoiding it.but he was scraped, and on his shoulder the pain was terrible.he dragged forward, and reached the knot.the tree stopped, and dived again.

Harry stood up, bleeding from the shoulder, and he reached the door.tried the "Alohomora" spell, but it didn't work, so he used the Sirius' magic knife, that he used also to enter in the Umbridge's office.he entered in the entrance hall, and he looked around himself, lighting his wand: "Lumos!"

He found what he was searching.the stairs.as what Dumbledore told him, the shield was at the end of a corridor in the third floor.Harry started to climb up, but after some steps, he fell down, again in the entrance hall.the stair transformed itself in a slide, as the female dorm's steps at Hogwarts when a boy climbed up.

He started to search another way to go upstairs, and while searching, he crushed on what seemed air.he understood that something was hidden there, and used a Disillusionment counter-spell.but it doesn't worked.so he tried an Invisibility counter-spell, and another stair was revealed.he climbed it, and reached the first floor.

There, he searched another stair, but there was nothing, so he had to enter the only door that was there.immediately, as he opened it, an extreme cold hit him.he started to think to the happiest thing he could, his first kiss with Hermione, and he cried: "Expecto Patronus!" and the coldness vanished.he went on, and entered another room, totally dark.he lighted his wand, and he saw a Boggart, which took the shape of a dead Hermione; he cried "Riddikulus" and the Boggart changed to a dead Ron.Harry cried another time: "Riddikulus" and the Boggart vanished.

He knew it was only a Boggart, but he grasped the same the amulet, and saw her crying, in the common room, telling to Ron what she had seen.the Boggart taking the shape of her dead, then of Ron dead. Ron tried to consulate her, saying: "Well.see the good part of the medal.if his worst fear is to see you dead, he really must love you very much, Hermione."

Harry left the amulet and wanted to go on as quicker as possible.he wanted to return to her.he found the other stair, and went up to the second, and then to the third floor; he entered an huge room, but unfortunately also the monster in it was huge.

It was a crossing between a basilisk, a giant spider, and a griffin.Harry was so quick in turning, that he avoided its eyes, but how could he defeat the monster, without facing it?

"This time Fawkes is not here to help me, blinding the monster." he thought, then he had an idea.he looked the monster's shadow on the wall, and from over the shoulder he cast an "Incendio" spell, directed to the monster's mouth.or, at least, Harry thought it was this.

However, the creature closed his eyes, and Harry turned crying: "Reducto!" to the Basilisk head, which disappeared.now, he had only to worry about its spider body and its griffin wings and claws.

"Reducto!" Harry cried again, and this time the spider paws vanished; the rest of the body fell on the ground, but the monster wasn't defeated.it launched a web, which imprisoned Harry, and then it started to drag itself toward him.

"If only I could move the wand..." he thought, but then added: "Maybe I can do this even without wand." and yelled: "Diffindo!"; the web was cut, and he was free again. the monster was very close, now, and extended a wing, with its claws, on Harry, scratching his back.now he was bleeding also from there.

Harry cried: "Reducto!" and the wings disappeared, then he tried a curse on the rest of the monster: "Avada Kedavra!" but the monster didn't die; instead, it jumped nearer to Harry, and was launching another web."Incendio!" Harry cried, remembering it was the most feared spell by the spiders, and the web took fire, as all the spider body.Harry escaped and opened the door behind the monster, entering the corridor he was searching.at the end he could see the door.the shield was so near.then he heard a noise behind him, and immediately the well-known voice:

"Good job, Potter.you spared me the dirty work.very nice from you."