Chapter Twenty-One
Disclaimer- Please don't sue me, I am only a person who lives off of whatever is in the refrigerator at the time, and wished I made money off of this. In fact, that didn't cross my mind until a few weeks ago, when somebody brought that up.
A/N: I am going to put the Authors note here, not at the end. I couldn't put it at the end. Not with this chapter, it would ruin the whole chapter. This very chapter is the climax chapter of the whole story, and has taken me over three weeks to write on paper, and it took a lot of thought to get through this chapter.
On a different note, I now have 70 reviews! I love you all for making that possible!
I am removing the two authors notes that I put up. Apparently you are not allowed to have them, so I have to get rid of them. If you have any questions, or ideas for future chapters, e-mail me. My e-mail should now be posted in my profile, if not, here it is: hpgal186@yahoo.com So, if you e-mail me, put something like, fan fiction or Silent Night as the subject of the e-mail. I am going to take ideas for the sequel. So if you have an idea that you really like that could happen with this story, let me know. So, PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!
Also, I have a Christmas fic of sorts out. It is called A Harry Potter Christmas Carol. And Voldemort has graced us with his wonderful talents of coming back from the dead and being Scrooge! Hopefully, all of it will be posted by Christmas, but I'm not sure. So read it if you want, and please review!
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The walk to the Great Hall seemed to go too fast for Harry and Ginny, even though they stopped every five minutes to have a snog fest. But, that didn't last long. Ron happened to run into them on his way to dinner. Obviously disgusted, Ron quickly found a different to the Great Hall. As he left, Harry couldn't help but start to laugh. Soon, Ginny started laughing too. The look on Ron's face was priceless.
"Gin," He whispered into her ear, "meet me in the old Charms Classroom after dinner tonight." Ginny smiled to herself.
"Sure." She said mischievously, walking into the Great Hall. Harry followed, and the two sat down at the giant table set out for the students who bothered to stay at Hogwarts for Christmas.
Dinner was a very formal affair. Nobody talked much, and there were only a few students at dinner. Harry noted that Hermione and Malfoy weren't at Christmas Dinner, and Harry had a sinking feeling in his stomach. Ginny still didn't know.
Soon, the feast was over. 'All too soon.' Thought Harry. Something wasn't right, and he could feel it. Even though it was Christmas and all should be right, it wasn't.
Outside, Bellatrix Lestrange waited until the right time. She knew Potter and his flame-headed girlfriend had something planned for that night. One of her numerous spies had told her so. Bellatrix just needed the right time. When everyone was vulnerable. That would be her time.
A shrill call of a bird found its way to Bellatix's ear. That was the signal. It was time to fulfill Lucius' wish.
~*!!*~
Ginny walked into the old Charms Classroom. It was dark in the room, and the normally cold stone floor was covered in feather quilts. Someone was coming, and she knew they were coming. It was Harry. He entered the Classroom, as Ginny got up, welcoming him with a kiss that he gladly deepened, and they fell on the soft ground. Harry's hand's found their way past the barrier of her robes, and his hands were attempting to undo her bra. Suddenly, all the occupants of Hogwarts heard a sound like an atomic bomb setting off, and green light filled the air. Scared students began to scream, trying to find a way to get away from the horrid, nasty, sickening, green light that looked like a thousand killing curses.
"Harry! Harry!" Ginny screamed, "don't leave me!" She said, holding onto Harry for dear life.
"I'm not leaving you!" Harry told her, holding her tight, as the green light grew brighter. Screams of terrified students rang in the air, as the sounds of walls falling competed with the screams.
An evil laughter cracked the sounds of screaming. Both Harry and Ginny knew that laugh, and it chilled them to the bone. They both were thinking the same thing. Bellatrix Lestrange was attacking Hogwarts.
~*!!*~
Ron Weasley watched as Harry and Ginny walked off after dinner. It wasn't that he didn't trust Harry, Ron just didn't want to see Ginny get hurt. She was his little sister, and he was sworn to protect her.
Hermione wasn't at dinner; Ron figured that she wouldn't be at dinner, her and Malfoy needed to talk things over. Ron was happy for her, don't get him wrong, its just something in him was wishing that the Hermione was carrying his baby. Ron had felt something when he kissed Hermione. She felt nothing, he was sure of that, but he sure did.
And that was what had bothered him, the fact that he might have more than friendly for his best friend. It scared him more than you can imagine.
Ron just sighed and continued his way to the Gryffindor Common Room. That was when he heard it, the boom, and the screams. Ron was scared. Harry and Ginny where God-knows-where, Hermione could die in her condition, she was also with Malfoy, his sworn archenemy, and Hogwarts was under attack. Things couldn't get much worse.
But they just did.
The walls began to shake. Something was going on. And Ron didn't like this one bit. Ron heard a person clumsily trying to get out of the hallway behind Ron. He spun round to see who it was. His heart skipped a beat when he saw that it was Hermione. Then, jealousy took over when he saw Malfoy carefully handling her, to make sure she didn't get hurt. The, Ron saw the look on Hermione's face. She was scared. And he was that. His heart softened. He really did feel for her.
"Hermione!" Her said, running over to her, letting out the breath he had unconsciously been holding as he ran to his friend. "Are you okay?" He asked worriedly.
She shook her head yes. "Ron, what is going on?" Her voice was dripping with fear.
"I don't know. I'm just happy that you are okay." Ron said, hugging Hermione. Suddenly, people ran up from behind Ron and hit him over the head with pieces of stone. Hermione screamed as they tried to do the same to her.
"Expelleariums!" Draco yelled, disarming the people. Hermione started to cry, as she fell to the ground, cradling Ron's limp form, while Draco held her tight, neither knowing that what was going on could change their lives forever. And if Ron knew that Hermione was holding him in her arms, he most defiantly would not be out cold.
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"Ginny! I need you to go to the dungeons." Harry screamed at her, over the noise of all the commotion going on around them.
"Why? I can't leave you Harry!" Ginny cried, close to tears.
"I don't want to lose you! I love you! I would die if I let myself lose you!" He said to her, holding her close to him. Ginny started to cry, tears making her face tear stained.
"Oh, I wouldn't send her down there, half the free Death Eaters are down there, waiting for you two. They all have my word to kill you on sight." Harry and Ginny turned around to see the owner of the voice. Bellatrix Lestrange stood inside the door, an evil smile playing across her face, as she played with her wand in her fingers. She was calm amidst this entire killing spree that she was on. And that sickened Harry.
"What do you want you bloody bitch?" Harry snapped at her, sounding braver than he felt.
"My, my, the little Boy-Who-Lived has got a mouth? Well, this is surprising." Bellatrix mocked. "What do I want? Why that is a stupid question if I ever heard one. It is obvious what I want."
"Unless you just want to kill me for the hell of it, not really. I would have thought you evil types would have figured out what you want by now, because really, just trying to kill me is getting old." Harry said, passing time. The longer he talked, the more time they would have. "So, really, what do you want?"
"Shut up you idiot boy!" Bellatrix screamed. "SILENCIO!"
But Harry was too fast for her. Ginny toppled to the floor, which thankfully was soft, as Harry shouted "PROTEGO!" Bellatrix's spell was stopped from hitting anyone.
"Think your brilliant, do you Potter? Well, sorry to burst your bubble. CURIO!" Bellatrix said, screaming the curse. Harry ducked, as the curse hit a wall. "Ha, Ha. You can doge little Potter, but you can't run forever!"
Ginny looked up to see Harry dodge another one of Bellatrix's curses, and Bellatrix cry out in anger.
"You'll pay Potter!" She said, "first, with your little sweetheart!" Looking down at Ginny, Bellatrix screamed, "CURIO!"
But at the same time, Ginny said, "EXPELLIARMUS!" The result was the two spells meeting. What happened is only known to happen once in history. That fateful meeting only happened three years before, in a normally silent graveyard.
The beam of spells, connecting the two wands started to glow purple. Harry let out a gasp. Bellatrix and Ginny had sister wands. He wasn't the only one to share a wand with evil forces.
As it had in history, the light beam began to splinter, forming a purple web around Bellatrix and Ginny. They both had the same look on their face. Fear.
What was happening to Ginny and Bellatrix scared both of them. Slowly, they began to rise off of the floor.
"What the bloody hell is going on?" Bellatrix screamed, as the few still loyal Death Eaters came running into the room.
"Harry," Ginny cried, tears falling down her face, "what is happening?" She was scared. Frightened. Ginny was facing death, and it broke Harry's heart to see it.
Harry wanted to comfort Ginny, make everything right again. Then, he remembered what Ginny had said to him, the night when Bellatrix told him that his time was up. And her words him like a bomb as he stood there, in the Charms Classroom, watching Ginny fight for her life.
"Harry," He recalled her saying, "don't tell me everything will be alright. It never will. Nothing will ever be alright." And then he held her. He wanted nothing more than to love and protect Ginny in a world with no Voldemort, Death Eaters, and a world with no pain.
Screaming suddenly brought Harry out of his thoughts.
"Harry!" It was Ginny. More tears were falling down her face as she desperately looked at him. Fear shadowed her face. 'She shouldn't be doing this. None of this was meant for Ginny.' Harry thought.
A giant, ghost-like form erupted from the tip of Bellatrix's wand. It was Sirius Black.
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If Professor Dumbledore could recall, nobody in history had ever tried to attack Hogwarts. And now it was happening.
The evening had started out as normal as any Christmas evening. Albus had gone down to dinner, and observed two people who reminded him very much of Lily and James Potter, eat dinner, and then leave. Albus himself did very much the same thing, and then went to his office to examine some papers.
He heard it then. That god-forsaken boom, the screams. Albus sighed, stood up, and then prepared himself to fight for the safety of the only place he ever loved.
*~!!~*
"Sirius!" Harry croaked out.
"Well, that's some way to greet your godfather who has been dead for almost two years!" He said, a smile playing on his face. Ginny looked more terrified as ever, seeing a dead man suddenly appear out of a wand.
"Sirius?" Ginny said faintly.
"Hello Ginny!" Sirius' Ghost said happily, turning from Harry to her. "Did anybody ever tell you how much you look like Lily? Spitting image really. Except for the eyes."
"Black!" Bellatrix snapped, fearful of the apparition.
"Why, hello Bella! It is such a pleasure to see my killer!" Sirius said sarcastically. "Ginny," he said, turning back to the girl. "Don't break the connection until the right time. When the time comes, the connection will kill the one who is not fighting for love. You got that?" Ginny nodded her head numbly.
The Death Eaters began to circle around the two, unsure of what to do. Harry was still in shock of seeing his godfather. They stood like that for minutes, when Dumbledore came storming into the classroom.
"Miss Weasley! Break the connection! NOW!" The old man yelled.
Ginny looked over at Sirius, who nodded to her. She jumped aside, as Sirius turned to Harry. Bellatrix screamed. The web began to attack her and the terrified Death Eaters who were running around like chickens with their heads cut off as thin beams of light attacked them, making them nothing but pieces of charred cloak. Ginny ran to Harry, as he wrapped his arms around her, holding her like there was no tomorrow, a little piece of white paper sticking out of his hand.
Dumbledore looked at Bellatrix dieing, as the shadow of Sirius Black faded into the air. Dumbledore finally knew the world was safe.
Disclaimer- Please don't sue me, I am only a person who lives off of whatever is in the refrigerator at the time, and wished I made money off of this. In fact, that didn't cross my mind until a few weeks ago, when somebody brought that up.
A/N: I am going to put the Authors note here, not at the end. I couldn't put it at the end. Not with this chapter, it would ruin the whole chapter. This very chapter is the climax chapter of the whole story, and has taken me over three weeks to write on paper, and it took a lot of thought to get through this chapter.
On a different note, I now have 70 reviews! I love you all for making that possible!
I am removing the two authors notes that I put up. Apparently you are not allowed to have them, so I have to get rid of them. If you have any questions, or ideas for future chapters, e-mail me. My e-mail should now be posted in my profile, if not, here it is: hpgal186@yahoo.com So, if you e-mail me, put something like, fan fiction or Silent Night as the subject of the e-mail. I am going to take ideas for the sequel. So if you have an idea that you really like that could happen with this story, let me know. So, PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!
Also, I have a Christmas fic of sorts out. It is called A Harry Potter Christmas Carol. And Voldemort has graced us with his wonderful talents of coming back from the dead and being Scrooge! Hopefully, all of it will be posted by Christmas, but I'm not sure. So read it if you want, and please review!
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The walk to the Great Hall seemed to go too fast for Harry and Ginny, even though they stopped every five minutes to have a snog fest. But, that didn't last long. Ron happened to run into them on his way to dinner. Obviously disgusted, Ron quickly found a different to the Great Hall. As he left, Harry couldn't help but start to laugh. Soon, Ginny started laughing too. The look on Ron's face was priceless.
"Gin," He whispered into her ear, "meet me in the old Charms Classroom after dinner tonight." Ginny smiled to herself.
"Sure." She said mischievously, walking into the Great Hall. Harry followed, and the two sat down at the giant table set out for the students who bothered to stay at Hogwarts for Christmas.
Dinner was a very formal affair. Nobody talked much, and there were only a few students at dinner. Harry noted that Hermione and Malfoy weren't at Christmas Dinner, and Harry had a sinking feeling in his stomach. Ginny still didn't know.
Soon, the feast was over. 'All too soon.' Thought Harry. Something wasn't right, and he could feel it. Even though it was Christmas and all should be right, it wasn't.
Outside, Bellatrix Lestrange waited until the right time. She knew Potter and his flame-headed girlfriend had something planned for that night. One of her numerous spies had told her so. Bellatrix just needed the right time. When everyone was vulnerable. That would be her time.
A shrill call of a bird found its way to Bellatix's ear. That was the signal. It was time to fulfill Lucius' wish.
~*!!*~
Ginny walked into the old Charms Classroom. It was dark in the room, and the normally cold stone floor was covered in feather quilts. Someone was coming, and she knew they were coming. It was Harry. He entered the Classroom, as Ginny got up, welcoming him with a kiss that he gladly deepened, and they fell on the soft ground. Harry's hand's found their way past the barrier of her robes, and his hands were attempting to undo her bra. Suddenly, all the occupants of Hogwarts heard a sound like an atomic bomb setting off, and green light filled the air. Scared students began to scream, trying to find a way to get away from the horrid, nasty, sickening, green light that looked like a thousand killing curses.
"Harry! Harry!" Ginny screamed, "don't leave me!" She said, holding onto Harry for dear life.
"I'm not leaving you!" Harry told her, holding her tight, as the green light grew brighter. Screams of terrified students rang in the air, as the sounds of walls falling competed with the screams.
An evil laughter cracked the sounds of screaming. Both Harry and Ginny knew that laugh, and it chilled them to the bone. They both were thinking the same thing. Bellatrix Lestrange was attacking Hogwarts.
~*!!*~
Ron Weasley watched as Harry and Ginny walked off after dinner. It wasn't that he didn't trust Harry, Ron just didn't want to see Ginny get hurt. She was his little sister, and he was sworn to protect her.
Hermione wasn't at dinner; Ron figured that she wouldn't be at dinner, her and Malfoy needed to talk things over. Ron was happy for her, don't get him wrong, its just something in him was wishing that the Hermione was carrying his baby. Ron had felt something when he kissed Hermione. She felt nothing, he was sure of that, but he sure did.
And that was what had bothered him, the fact that he might have more than friendly for his best friend. It scared him more than you can imagine.
Ron just sighed and continued his way to the Gryffindor Common Room. That was when he heard it, the boom, and the screams. Ron was scared. Harry and Ginny where God-knows-where, Hermione could die in her condition, she was also with Malfoy, his sworn archenemy, and Hogwarts was under attack. Things couldn't get much worse.
But they just did.
The walls began to shake. Something was going on. And Ron didn't like this one bit. Ron heard a person clumsily trying to get out of the hallway behind Ron. He spun round to see who it was. His heart skipped a beat when he saw that it was Hermione. Then, jealousy took over when he saw Malfoy carefully handling her, to make sure she didn't get hurt. The, Ron saw the look on Hermione's face. She was scared. And he was that. His heart softened. He really did feel for her.
"Hermione!" Her said, running over to her, letting out the breath he had unconsciously been holding as he ran to his friend. "Are you okay?" He asked worriedly.
She shook her head yes. "Ron, what is going on?" Her voice was dripping with fear.
"I don't know. I'm just happy that you are okay." Ron said, hugging Hermione. Suddenly, people ran up from behind Ron and hit him over the head with pieces of stone. Hermione screamed as they tried to do the same to her.
"Expelleariums!" Draco yelled, disarming the people. Hermione started to cry, as she fell to the ground, cradling Ron's limp form, while Draco held her tight, neither knowing that what was going on could change their lives forever. And if Ron knew that Hermione was holding him in her arms, he most defiantly would not be out cold.
*~!!~*
"Ginny! I need you to go to the dungeons." Harry screamed at her, over the noise of all the commotion going on around them.
"Why? I can't leave you Harry!" Ginny cried, close to tears.
"I don't want to lose you! I love you! I would die if I let myself lose you!" He said to her, holding her close to him. Ginny started to cry, tears making her face tear stained.
"Oh, I wouldn't send her down there, half the free Death Eaters are down there, waiting for you two. They all have my word to kill you on sight." Harry and Ginny turned around to see the owner of the voice. Bellatrix Lestrange stood inside the door, an evil smile playing across her face, as she played with her wand in her fingers. She was calm amidst this entire killing spree that she was on. And that sickened Harry.
"What do you want you bloody bitch?" Harry snapped at her, sounding braver than he felt.
"My, my, the little Boy-Who-Lived has got a mouth? Well, this is surprising." Bellatrix mocked. "What do I want? Why that is a stupid question if I ever heard one. It is obvious what I want."
"Unless you just want to kill me for the hell of it, not really. I would have thought you evil types would have figured out what you want by now, because really, just trying to kill me is getting old." Harry said, passing time. The longer he talked, the more time they would have. "So, really, what do you want?"
"Shut up you idiot boy!" Bellatrix screamed. "SILENCIO!"
But Harry was too fast for her. Ginny toppled to the floor, which thankfully was soft, as Harry shouted "PROTEGO!" Bellatrix's spell was stopped from hitting anyone.
"Think your brilliant, do you Potter? Well, sorry to burst your bubble. CURIO!" Bellatrix said, screaming the curse. Harry ducked, as the curse hit a wall. "Ha, Ha. You can doge little Potter, but you can't run forever!"
Ginny looked up to see Harry dodge another one of Bellatrix's curses, and Bellatrix cry out in anger.
"You'll pay Potter!" She said, "first, with your little sweetheart!" Looking down at Ginny, Bellatrix screamed, "CURIO!"
But at the same time, Ginny said, "EXPELLIARMUS!" The result was the two spells meeting. What happened is only known to happen once in history. That fateful meeting only happened three years before, in a normally silent graveyard.
The beam of spells, connecting the two wands started to glow purple. Harry let out a gasp. Bellatrix and Ginny had sister wands. He wasn't the only one to share a wand with evil forces.
As it had in history, the light beam began to splinter, forming a purple web around Bellatrix and Ginny. They both had the same look on their face. Fear.
What was happening to Ginny and Bellatrix scared both of them. Slowly, they began to rise off of the floor.
"What the bloody hell is going on?" Bellatrix screamed, as the few still loyal Death Eaters came running into the room.
"Harry," Ginny cried, tears falling down her face, "what is happening?" She was scared. Frightened. Ginny was facing death, and it broke Harry's heart to see it.
Harry wanted to comfort Ginny, make everything right again. Then, he remembered what Ginny had said to him, the night when Bellatrix told him that his time was up. And her words him like a bomb as he stood there, in the Charms Classroom, watching Ginny fight for her life.
"Harry," He recalled her saying, "don't tell me everything will be alright. It never will. Nothing will ever be alright." And then he held her. He wanted nothing more than to love and protect Ginny in a world with no Voldemort, Death Eaters, and a world with no pain.
Screaming suddenly brought Harry out of his thoughts.
"Harry!" It was Ginny. More tears were falling down her face as she desperately looked at him. Fear shadowed her face. 'She shouldn't be doing this. None of this was meant for Ginny.' Harry thought.
A giant, ghost-like form erupted from the tip of Bellatrix's wand. It was Sirius Black.
*~!!~*
If Professor Dumbledore could recall, nobody in history had ever tried to attack Hogwarts. And now it was happening.
The evening had started out as normal as any Christmas evening. Albus had gone down to dinner, and observed two people who reminded him very much of Lily and James Potter, eat dinner, and then leave. Albus himself did very much the same thing, and then went to his office to examine some papers.
He heard it then. That god-forsaken boom, the screams. Albus sighed, stood up, and then prepared himself to fight for the safety of the only place he ever loved.
*~!!~*
"Sirius!" Harry croaked out.
"Well, that's some way to greet your godfather who has been dead for almost two years!" He said, a smile playing on his face. Ginny looked more terrified as ever, seeing a dead man suddenly appear out of a wand.
"Sirius?" Ginny said faintly.
"Hello Ginny!" Sirius' Ghost said happily, turning from Harry to her. "Did anybody ever tell you how much you look like Lily? Spitting image really. Except for the eyes."
"Black!" Bellatrix snapped, fearful of the apparition.
"Why, hello Bella! It is such a pleasure to see my killer!" Sirius said sarcastically. "Ginny," he said, turning back to the girl. "Don't break the connection until the right time. When the time comes, the connection will kill the one who is not fighting for love. You got that?" Ginny nodded her head numbly.
The Death Eaters began to circle around the two, unsure of what to do. Harry was still in shock of seeing his godfather. They stood like that for minutes, when Dumbledore came storming into the classroom.
"Miss Weasley! Break the connection! NOW!" The old man yelled.
Ginny looked over at Sirius, who nodded to her. She jumped aside, as Sirius turned to Harry. Bellatrix screamed. The web began to attack her and the terrified Death Eaters who were running around like chickens with their heads cut off as thin beams of light attacked them, making them nothing but pieces of charred cloak. Ginny ran to Harry, as he wrapped his arms around her, holding her like there was no tomorrow, a little piece of white paper sticking out of his hand.
Dumbledore looked at Bellatrix dieing, as the shadow of Sirius Black faded into the air. Dumbledore finally knew the world was safe.
