Title: A Broken Beginning Ch 2
Author: Nicki C.
Email: Nimacu@yahoo.com
Disclaimer: "It's all been done before"- Barenaked Ladies. I don't own Buffy. Nor do I own the world of Harry Potter. They both belong to Joss and J.K.
Summery: Something happens that causes the Scoobies to head to England.
Feedback: Of Course I want it.
Setting: Ok, this is set during the middle of September. Harry and the gang our in their sixth year and in the Buffy verse it's set after a couple of weeks after episode 7.3, after that it's AU. Willow has been home recovering from the loss of blood.
On the other side of the world, far away from our worried Scoobies, there were two boys playing a gameā¦
"Couldn't you let me win just once?" Harry whined as another of his pieces stormed off of the chessboard. "You're a disgrace to this noble game" Harry's pawn yelled up at him. "And another thing Ron, why can't we play with pieces that don't talk?" Ron started laughing; "They're still mad at you for spell-o taping their mouths shut last week."
Ron loved playing Chess with Harry. Chess was the one thing Harry Potter, the Boy-who-lived was horrible at. Harry couldn't play chess if his life depended on it, and at one time it had; but Ron had saved the day then. Not that Ron was jealous; he was very content in the fact that his best friend was the most famous wizard of their time. But hey, he was only a sixteen-year-old boy and when you find something that you can consistently humiliate your best friend at you go for it.
"Check mate!" Ron started doing his famous "I won" dance. "I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, and you didn't." Harry wasn't really sure where Ron had learned the little song and dance routine, but he'd started using it over the summer before they'd returned for their sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; and it was getting really old, really fast. "All right, I get it. You won! " Harry grumbled as he started to head for their room. "Hey it's only eleven o'clock and it's a Saturday. It's too early for bed." "I'm tired." Harry wasn't really that upset that he lost at chess, but he knew if he had to watch Ron dance in circles one more time, he'd say something he'd regret. "Ok, I'll stop dancing. You know that nobody likes a sore loser?" Ron started to ask, but the moments the words were out Harry gripped his scar and fell to the ground in pain.
"What's wrong?" Ron was gripping Harry's shoulders trying to get him to sit up right. The third part of their trio Hermione Granger who was sitting nearby studying while the two boys played chess was gripping Harry's hand trying to get him to relax. The three of them were making quite a scene, and the whole Common Room was watching them. "Get Dumbledore now!" Hermione instructed a fifth-year student Colin Creevy who was standing near by. As soon as receiving the instructions the boy headed straight out of the room toward the headmaster's office.
Just as Colin returned with Professor Dumbledore Harry started to relax. "I haven't felt pain and anger like that since last year when Voldemort discovered that the Prophecy had been broken.
"Did you have any visions Harry?" Dumbledore asked.
"Not that I can remember, just incredible pain. He must be near here and very angry."
"Maybe we should continue this talk in private? Oh of course Miss Granger and Mr.Weasley can come."
"Like he'd ever be able to stop us," Ron thought.
But just as they were heading into the Headmaster's office, another professor came running up to them out of breath. "The Dark Mark.." Professor McGonagall was out of breath from running, and couldn't seem to manage anything but those three words. "The Dark Mark..," Again it seemed like she couldn't quite say what she wanted too. "Spit it out woman" Dumbledore snapped. McGonagall quickly regained some of her composure. " The Dark Mark has appeared over the Gate." She was finally able to say. At this news Dumbledore turned to the three children and said "We're going to have to continue this discussion later, you three must go to your common room, and Ms. Granger and Mr. Weasley as Prefects I expect you to make sure that all of your students stay there." He then sent them on their way.
"Minerva, have you sent anyone down there to see what's going on?" Dumbledore asked as he was rushing through halls. "No I thought it was better to alert you first." Dumbledore stopped for a moment and turned to the other Professor "Minerva I need you to get Severus and Remus and send them down to me immediately, and then I need you to make sure that all students are in their respective common rooms. When you're done gather the staff." She made a mental note of the instructions and headed to the dungeons to alert Severus.
As Dumbledore headed towards the gate a million thoughts ran through his mind. "What am I going to find? Who am I going to find? Will the others arrive in time? Wouldn't it be faster and safer if the teachers could apperate?" He often found that in times of stress inane questions popped into his head. But he was over a hundred and running a mile in the middle of the night, who wouldn't want to apperate? Finally he was close enough to the gate to see that there was something lying on the other side of it. Actually the closer he got he realized it was someone lying on the other side of it.
Dumbledore wasn't really sure what to do, they're a chance that this could be a trap, but he didn't sense any evil. The Dark Mark was starting to fade, that meant that it had to have been cast at least fifteen minutes ago. He looked closer at the body on the other side of the gate and noticed that it was lying in awkward position. "Nobody conscious would ever lay like that, whoever's over there is hurt." He spoke a few words that unlocked the gate and hurried out to see if the person was still alive.
It was a woman, a young woman by the looks of her. He felt for a pulse. It was there but it was very weak. Dumbledore quickly levitated her up, shut the gate and started heading back to the castle. Halfway there he ran into the two professors that he had sent Minerva to get. Severus and Remus started walking along side him as he led the body of the girl back to the castle. "Who is she?" Severus asked. "I don't know, I found her outside of the gate underneath the dark mark. She's still alive; but barely. I think she's some sort of message to us. But what the message is we will have to wait to figure out after she's been taken to Madam Pomfrey.
As soon as the three men and the unidentified woman arrived in the hospital wing, Madam Pomfrey whisked the girl off muttering something about bringing in people who were barely alive in the middle of the night. She worked long into the night on the girl aided by Severus and his potions. But nothing worked; finally she gave up. "I've used the antidote to everything dark spell that might have caused her unconscious state that I know of. The only other thing that I can think of is that someone tried to use the killing curse on her and somehow she lived through it." Dumbledore thought on this a moment. "Harry is the only person I know who has lived after being hit by the curse; but Harry reflected the curse, she seems to have actually been hit, but still alive." The other two wizards were sitting quietly by his side. "Is she going to live?" Remus asked. "I'm not sure, she's not getting any better. But she's not getting any worse."
"Well does she have any Muggle identification?" Severus asked. No one had thought to check. Madame Pomfrey handle Dumbledore the women's clothing and he started to rifle through them. On the inside of her jacket there was a tag that read "If found please return to Willow Rosenberg 1630 Revello Drive Sunnydale, California 90218.
A/N* Harry got the Headache at the exact time Buffy became sick in the basement. I'm so proud of myself I even checked time zones!
