Chapter 9
Death to the Boy Who Lived
"I REALLY don't want ANY living quarters, no 'special' treatment, no bowing, no calling of 'sir', GAH! YA'LL MAKE ME FEEL SO OLD!" Ron yelled perturbed.
"Ron, calm down," Harry said as he grabbed his arm. "Now you know how I felt," they looked into each other's eyes as friends do.
"Harry, you should be the one who has the living quarters, the royal treatment! You're the 'boy who lived'!"
"But, Ron, YOU are the Oracle! You are my side shadow," he laughed, "I obviously need protection, so you need to be protected as well, so *I* don't die," Ron giggled at this, but still didn't like being treated so differently.
All the while, Hagrid was gazing at them with love. *They're such good friends* he thought *No wonder Ron was chosen for this*
Although Hagrid didn't know it, Ron was reading everyone's thoughts in the room.
"Hagrid, thank you," Ron said as he turned to him, "but I still don't want living quarters! And Hermione," he again was enraptured by the deep, brown eyes that he loved so much,
"Don't be scared, me and Harry aren't leaving you. Harry, I see how much trust you have in me and that's the only thing that scares me. I might do something wrong and not be able to save you as I'm supposed to."
They all stood silent for a moment, not knowing what else to say. But finally, Hagrid spoke, "Well, it's a grea' day 'o be ou'side ain't it? Go on, run 'n' play," with those last words they all ran outside to feel the warmth of the sun embrace them.
They went to their usual spot and didn't say anything to one another, just thought of all the changes that were taking place so fast. Suddenly, Ron heard a distant whisper, "Rrrrrrrrooooooonnnnnn" it echoed. "Rrrrrrrroooooooooooonnnnnn!"
"Hello?" he answered.
"Ron? No one said anything," Harry and Hermione looked at him confused.
"Rooooooooonnnnnn"
"What is it?" Harry asked.
"I don't know," Ron turned this way and that, but saw no one, but Hogwarts students walking around with books, brooms, balls, and even another of the opposite sex in hand.
Harry and Hermione followed Ron's lead and looked around too.
"What is it?"
"Nothing," Ron lied. He had a sudden urge to go to the book. "Umm... I got to go," he called after them as he got up and raced to the back of Hagrid's hut. When he knew no one was watching he went into the tree covered area. He didn't know where he was going this time, for the last time he was back there the unicorn had led him, but instead he followed his heart. He raced passed tree stumps, vines, even small insects that seemed to call out 'master' as he passed. He ignored all this until he realized he had probably been running for about 30 minutes. He slowed his pace, but noticed in the distance something familiar. He quickened up once more, and there, only a few feet away, was the rock that he had been to only once before.
"I don't have a horn!" he said as if just realizing it.
He placed his hand on the rock and felt around, hoping to find some sort of switch. Just then a sudden gust of hot air befell him. He was being pushed forward into a daze. When the rushing stopped he was still in the Forbidden Forest, but there were two other people in the far off. He walked over to them and realized one was Harry and the other looked to be like a dementor. It had a black cloak on, covering its face, it stood far from Harry, but no matter how far it was, Harry looked petrified. His feet were glued to the spot. And Ron could see faint drops of panic diminishing from his temples.
"Harry!?!?" Ron called
No one moved, Ron knew that this was another prediction again for the fact that no one could hear him and that his voice was distant. He watched in fright of what was going to happen. He seen Harry's wand at the foot of the demented looking creature.
"Voldemort!" Harry had yelled.
Ron's eyes widened as he seen Voldemort's head turn straight at him. *He knows I'm here somehow* Ron thought. He looked straight into the red, fiery eyes that he loathed so much. Then when Harry's head turned to see what caught Voldemort's eye, he had raised his wand and called out, "DERE TIMOTRE!" Harry hit the floor from the blast and a hollow figure stepped out of his body.
"NOOOOOO!" Ron called as he was taken aback. He was being pushed even farther away from Harry's ghost. Until he found himself in the Gryffindor Common Room, there *he* was again, a second Ron. He was standing there with Hermione, kissing her. When, Ron (the second Ron) grabbed his heart and yelled out in pain.
"Ron!" Hermione yelled back as she lay beside him screaming for help.
Ron left the scene just as he, himself, was being raised from the ground with the help of other Gryffindor's. There he was back in the Forbidden Forest, back, next to the solid rock that he thought would never move. His eyes filled with tears, he fell to his knees and couldn't rise again; do to the burring of his vision.
"Why wasn't I with Harry!?!? Why was I with HER!?!?!?"
"I have to stop this!" he said aloud and began racing through the forest again. This time he did not tire out but ran even faster and seemed to have gotten to the front of the forest in a seconds time. He looked back at the lake where he had left Hermione and Harry, but they weren't there. He began to run again, until he ran smack dab into, who else, but Draco Malfoy.
"Sire," he bowed.
"Malfoy, cut that out! Have you seen Harry?"
"No?"
"When you do, tell him I need to find him!"
"Yes, sir."
"MALFOY! You do that again and I'm afraid I'm going to have to hurt you!"
"Yes, sir... I mean Ron?"
"That's better," Ron began to run again. Up the stairs to the entrance hall, up some more flights to the second floor, third floor, fourth floor, yelled the password to the Fat Lady as he came flying down the hall, she quickly opened to let him in, in fear that he might crash into her.
"HARRY!" he called, but no one was there, except one. "Where is Harry, Nisym?"
*The boy who lived is nowhere to be found at the moment. You have to calm down, today is not the day*
"What? You want me to calm down? YOU WANT ME TO CALM DOWN! I just witnessed my best friend, who I'm SUPPOSED to be protecting being KILLED BY VOLDEMORT! AND YOU WANT ME TO CALM DOWN!?!?!?"
She looked at him, with eyes closed, but seem to have the facial expression of no remorse.
*Today is not the day, tonight is when. There is no need to worry. You cannot warn him! Your predictions are to be kept secret! Unless you want to screw the whole world... your future*
Ron looked at her amazed, he never thought SHE would use the word 'screw'.
"But I have to warn him!"
*NO!*
Ron took a deep breath.
*Besides, today is our mating day.*
"Our what?" Ron looked at her in disbelief, "What kind of 'mating' are you talking about?" Ron's eyes widened at whatever thought, and he broke out in a sweat, "I don't want to...."
*As you would call it, our wedding day*
Ron gave a big sigh of relief (a/n: we wonder what HE was thinking lol). "OH!"
*Follow me* she muttered telepathically. Ron was still uneasy about not warning Harry, but thought it best not to get on her bad side and followed. She led him through the window that he had first walked through, down to the very back of the school, passed gawking children, right onto the lake, which they walked on without falling through. Ron looked down into the glass puddle; he got a little uneasier about everyone watching. Then he realized Dumbledore standing just a few feet from him. He was wearing white robes and his hair was laid neatly down his back. Harry was there also, and when Ron saw him, his stomach gave a lurch. Harry was also robed in white, and as he looked down at himself, somehow, he was too. He followed Nisym right up to Dumbledore, who took Ron's hand and looked at the ring that had been given him nights before.
"This isn't going to be like a normal wedding, Ron. It's just when you make it known that you are the Oracle now, Nisym will become you're 'mate' so to speak. You may begin Nisym," Dumbledore protested.
Ron looked at Nisym confused. She, weirdly enough, opened her eyes, and for a split second Ron saw gorgeous, vivid blue eyes, but they then turned to a dark purple that Ron had never seen before. Unexpectedly, a beam of orange/white light flowed from her eyes and into his. Ron felt like he had just fallen into a frozen lake, with the freezing rush of water enrapturing him. There was another ray of light shining forth from her forehead, it was a green light that hit Ron hard. He felt everything, from love, to the meek sadness that he, with no doubt, knew he would have to live with.
It all took but a second, but to Ron it felt like an eternity for the pain to stop. Although, it was a rough moment, Ron stood still through it all and let what had to take place, happen. Ron didn't know what to do next; because Nisym had vanished... he had vanished. He was back in the common room with all the Hogwarts children, 1-6th years, around him bowing. He looked at those kneeling in disgust and went to his dormitories without a word. The whole thought of Harry's death was driven out of his mind.
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dun-dun-dunnnnn
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That night, he, again, couldn't go to sleep. *UGH!* he thought, so he went down stairs to maybe go get a glass of water, but there was a surprise waiting for him. "Hermione?"
"Ron! I'm so glad you came! I need to talk to you"
"What is it?"
"Ron, I DO love you!" she cried. Ron wasn't expecting that
"I can't stop thinking about you! I don't want you to go! That kiss! That kiss DID mean something, Ron! It did! Please don't go," she sniveled.
"Hermione, I'm not going anywhere," Ron took her into his arms with the sweetest embrace, and kissed her softly on the lips, but suddenly backed away.
Hermione looked at him with utter confusion, "Hermione, I'm sorry! I got to go!"
He realized that all that was recognizable, "The forest!" he yelled as he walked through the window leaving Hermione crying by herself.
Ron didn't even think! He just, sort of, appeared there on the spot where he had seen the incident would occur. And, sure enough, there was Harry rooted to the spot again, with his wand at the foot of a stature that was covered in black. He looked at the black figure evilly, and there was a sudden rush of assurance. He noticed Voldemort turning his head and knew what was about to happen.
It all seemed to be in slow motion, just as Harry's head was turning, Ron gazed at Voldemort maliciously and a radiant light surrounded Ron. He lifted his arms heavenward and there was a roar of lightening, and a boom of thunder, cold raindrops seemed to blur Voldemort's vision from Harry.
"DIE!" Ron yelled JUST as Voldemort's lips began to utter words. There was a shaft of light that exploded out of his eyes, straight at Voldemort. Then another beam from the other side of the forest hit the Dark Lord. Ron, without looking, knew that it was Nisym helping him. They both stared at Voldemort with all their might. A few electric shots of God's bolts slashed around Voldemort and there on the spot did he disintegrate into a casement of the fiery Hell. As he was being dragged under the earth Ron heard him scream, "Ickce asla fifa!!!!! (IT'S ONLY THE BEGINNING!!!!!)" Ron shut his eyes and ran toward Harry. He caught him just as he was about to hit the watery ground out of shock of what had just happened. Just then a brush of warm air hit Ron's face and he automatically knew that Nisym had left. As he was helping limping Harry back to the front of the forest, he heard a whisper that made him shiver, "Death to the Boy Who Lived."
*~*~*~*~*~ A/N: IT'S NOT OVER YET! (dun-dun-dunnnn)! Plz review!
Death to the Boy Who Lived
"I REALLY don't want ANY living quarters, no 'special' treatment, no bowing, no calling of 'sir', GAH! YA'LL MAKE ME FEEL SO OLD!" Ron yelled perturbed.
"Ron, calm down," Harry said as he grabbed his arm. "Now you know how I felt," they looked into each other's eyes as friends do.
"Harry, you should be the one who has the living quarters, the royal treatment! You're the 'boy who lived'!"
"But, Ron, YOU are the Oracle! You are my side shadow," he laughed, "I obviously need protection, so you need to be protected as well, so *I* don't die," Ron giggled at this, but still didn't like being treated so differently.
All the while, Hagrid was gazing at them with love. *They're such good friends* he thought *No wonder Ron was chosen for this*
Although Hagrid didn't know it, Ron was reading everyone's thoughts in the room.
"Hagrid, thank you," Ron said as he turned to him, "but I still don't want living quarters! And Hermione," he again was enraptured by the deep, brown eyes that he loved so much,
"Don't be scared, me and Harry aren't leaving you. Harry, I see how much trust you have in me and that's the only thing that scares me. I might do something wrong and not be able to save you as I'm supposed to."
They all stood silent for a moment, not knowing what else to say. But finally, Hagrid spoke, "Well, it's a grea' day 'o be ou'side ain't it? Go on, run 'n' play," with those last words they all ran outside to feel the warmth of the sun embrace them.
They went to their usual spot and didn't say anything to one another, just thought of all the changes that were taking place so fast. Suddenly, Ron heard a distant whisper, "Rrrrrrrrooooooonnnnnn" it echoed. "Rrrrrrrroooooooooooonnnnnn!"
"Hello?" he answered.
"Ron? No one said anything," Harry and Hermione looked at him confused.
"Rooooooooonnnnnn"
"What is it?" Harry asked.
"I don't know," Ron turned this way and that, but saw no one, but Hogwarts students walking around with books, brooms, balls, and even another of the opposite sex in hand.
Harry and Hermione followed Ron's lead and looked around too.
"What is it?"
"Nothing," Ron lied. He had a sudden urge to go to the book. "Umm... I got to go," he called after them as he got up and raced to the back of Hagrid's hut. When he knew no one was watching he went into the tree covered area. He didn't know where he was going this time, for the last time he was back there the unicorn had led him, but instead he followed his heart. He raced passed tree stumps, vines, even small insects that seemed to call out 'master' as he passed. He ignored all this until he realized he had probably been running for about 30 minutes. He slowed his pace, but noticed in the distance something familiar. He quickened up once more, and there, only a few feet away, was the rock that he had been to only once before.
"I don't have a horn!" he said as if just realizing it.
He placed his hand on the rock and felt around, hoping to find some sort of switch. Just then a sudden gust of hot air befell him. He was being pushed forward into a daze. When the rushing stopped he was still in the Forbidden Forest, but there were two other people in the far off. He walked over to them and realized one was Harry and the other looked to be like a dementor. It had a black cloak on, covering its face, it stood far from Harry, but no matter how far it was, Harry looked petrified. His feet were glued to the spot. And Ron could see faint drops of panic diminishing from his temples.
"Harry!?!?" Ron called
No one moved, Ron knew that this was another prediction again for the fact that no one could hear him and that his voice was distant. He watched in fright of what was going to happen. He seen Harry's wand at the foot of the demented looking creature.
"Voldemort!" Harry had yelled.
Ron's eyes widened as he seen Voldemort's head turn straight at him. *He knows I'm here somehow* Ron thought. He looked straight into the red, fiery eyes that he loathed so much. Then when Harry's head turned to see what caught Voldemort's eye, he had raised his wand and called out, "DERE TIMOTRE!" Harry hit the floor from the blast and a hollow figure stepped out of his body.
"NOOOOOO!" Ron called as he was taken aback. He was being pushed even farther away from Harry's ghost. Until he found himself in the Gryffindor Common Room, there *he* was again, a second Ron. He was standing there with Hermione, kissing her. When, Ron (the second Ron) grabbed his heart and yelled out in pain.
"Ron!" Hermione yelled back as she lay beside him screaming for help.
Ron left the scene just as he, himself, was being raised from the ground with the help of other Gryffindor's. There he was back in the Forbidden Forest, back, next to the solid rock that he thought would never move. His eyes filled with tears, he fell to his knees and couldn't rise again; do to the burring of his vision.
"Why wasn't I with Harry!?!? Why was I with HER!?!?!?"
"I have to stop this!" he said aloud and began racing through the forest again. This time he did not tire out but ran even faster and seemed to have gotten to the front of the forest in a seconds time. He looked back at the lake where he had left Hermione and Harry, but they weren't there. He began to run again, until he ran smack dab into, who else, but Draco Malfoy.
"Sire," he bowed.
"Malfoy, cut that out! Have you seen Harry?"
"No?"
"When you do, tell him I need to find him!"
"Yes, sir."
"MALFOY! You do that again and I'm afraid I'm going to have to hurt you!"
"Yes, sir... I mean Ron?"
"That's better," Ron began to run again. Up the stairs to the entrance hall, up some more flights to the second floor, third floor, fourth floor, yelled the password to the Fat Lady as he came flying down the hall, she quickly opened to let him in, in fear that he might crash into her.
"HARRY!" he called, but no one was there, except one. "Where is Harry, Nisym?"
*The boy who lived is nowhere to be found at the moment. You have to calm down, today is not the day*
"What? You want me to calm down? YOU WANT ME TO CALM DOWN! I just witnessed my best friend, who I'm SUPPOSED to be protecting being KILLED BY VOLDEMORT! AND YOU WANT ME TO CALM DOWN!?!?!?"
She looked at him, with eyes closed, but seem to have the facial expression of no remorse.
*Today is not the day, tonight is when. There is no need to worry. You cannot warn him! Your predictions are to be kept secret! Unless you want to screw the whole world... your future*
Ron looked at her amazed, he never thought SHE would use the word 'screw'.
"But I have to warn him!"
*NO!*
Ron took a deep breath.
*Besides, today is our mating day.*
"Our what?" Ron looked at her in disbelief, "What kind of 'mating' are you talking about?" Ron's eyes widened at whatever thought, and he broke out in a sweat, "I don't want to...."
*As you would call it, our wedding day*
Ron gave a big sigh of relief (a/n: we wonder what HE was thinking lol). "OH!"
*Follow me* she muttered telepathically. Ron was still uneasy about not warning Harry, but thought it best not to get on her bad side and followed. She led him through the window that he had first walked through, down to the very back of the school, passed gawking children, right onto the lake, which they walked on without falling through. Ron looked down into the glass puddle; he got a little uneasier about everyone watching. Then he realized Dumbledore standing just a few feet from him. He was wearing white robes and his hair was laid neatly down his back. Harry was there also, and when Ron saw him, his stomach gave a lurch. Harry was also robed in white, and as he looked down at himself, somehow, he was too. He followed Nisym right up to Dumbledore, who took Ron's hand and looked at the ring that had been given him nights before.
"This isn't going to be like a normal wedding, Ron. It's just when you make it known that you are the Oracle now, Nisym will become you're 'mate' so to speak. You may begin Nisym," Dumbledore protested.
Ron looked at Nisym confused. She, weirdly enough, opened her eyes, and for a split second Ron saw gorgeous, vivid blue eyes, but they then turned to a dark purple that Ron had never seen before. Unexpectedly, a beam of orange/white light flowed from her eyes and into his. Ron felt like he had just fallen into a frozen lake, with the freezing rush of water enrapturing him. There was another ray of light shining forth from her forehead, it was a green light that hit Ron hard. He felt everything, from love, to the meek sadness that he, with no doubt, knew he would have to live with.
It all took but a second, but to Ron it felt like an eternity for the pain to stop. Although, it was a rough moment, Ron stood still through it all and let what had to take place, happen. Ron didn't know what to do next; because Nisym had vanished... he had vanished. He was back in the common room with all the Hogwarts children, 1-6th years, around him bowing. He looked at those kneeling in disgust and went to his dormitories without a word. The whole thought of Harry's death was driven out of his mind.
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dun-dun-dunnnnn
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That night, he, again, couldn't go to sleep. *UGH!* he thought, so he went down stairs to maybe go get a glass of water, but there was a surprise waiting for him. "Hermione?"
"Ron! I'm so glad you came! I need to talk to you"
"What is it?"
"Ron, I DO love you!" she cried. Ron wasn't expecting that
"I can't stop thinking about you! I don't want you to go! That kiss! That kiss DID mean something, Ron! It did! Please don't go," she sniveled.
"Hermione, I'm not going anywhere," Ron took her into his arms with the sweetest embrace, and kissed her softly on the lips, but suddenly backed away.
Hermione looked at him with utter confusion, "Hermione, I'm sorry! I got to go!"
He realized that all that was recognizable, "The forest!" he yelled as he walked through the window leaving Hermione crying by herself.
Ron didn't even think! He just, sort of, appeared there on the spot where he had seen the incident would occur. And, sure enough, there was Harry rooted to the spot again, with his wand at the foot of a stature that was covered in black. He looked at the black figure evilly, and there was a sudden rush of assurance. He noticed Voldemort turning his head and knew what was about to happen.
It all seemed to be in slow motion, just as Harry's head was turning, Ron gazed at Voldemort maliciously and a radiant light surrounded Ron. He lifted his arms heavenward and there was a roar of lightening, and a boom of thunder, cold raindrops seemed to blur Voldemort's vision from Harry.
"DIE!" Ron yelled JUST as Voldemort's lips began to utter words. There was a shaft of light that exploded out of his eyes, straight at Voldemort. Then another beam from the other side of the forest hit the Dark Lord. Ron, without looking, knew that it was Nisym helping him. They both stared at Voldemort with all their might. A few electric shots of God's bolts slashed around Voldemort and there on the spot did he disintegrate into a casement of the fiery Hell. As he was being dragged under the earth Ron heard him scream, "Ickce asla fifa!!!!! (IT'S ONLY THE BEGINNING!!!!!)" Ron shut his eyes and ran toward Harry. He caught him just as he was about to hit the watery ground out of shock of what had just happened. Just then a brush of warm air hit Ron's face and he automatically knew that Nisym had left. As he was helping limping Harry back to the front of the forest, he heard a whisper that made him shiver, "Death to the Boy Who Lived."
*~*~*~*~*~ A/N: IT'S NOT OVER YET! (dun-dun-dunnnn)! Plz review!