Harry Potter and the Elements of Life

Chapter 11: Saying Goodbye

By: Crystal Lily Potter

¥Phoenix Talk¥

§Snake Talk§

°Eagle Talk°

?Badger Talk?

¤Lion Talk¤

"Normal Speech"

Thinking

(Harry speaking Telepathically)

{Jasmine speaking Telepathically}

[Gemma speaking Telepathically]

/Author's Notes/

A Phoenix - Fuego (Fire in Spanish)

A Griffin - Merlin

A Dragon - Lightning

A Lion - Coura

A Snake - Salzar

A Badger - Sly

An Eagle - Hurricane

An Owl - Hedwig

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Everyone walked into the Great Hall the next morning in low spirits.none of them knew weather they'd be coming back or not.

As the three Potters entered the Hall Lily waved for them to come over to her.

They walked over to her and Lily said quickly, "Now listen.they need all the teachers here over the holidays to try and figure out what's going on so."

Harry cut his mother off by saying, "What are we gonna do if Sirus, Remus and you are all here?"

"That's just it Harry.since the three of you have no place to go over Christmas you are the only students staying.but there will be no trouble, no staying up late, and stick together.I don't want any of you hurt," Lily said looking more towards Gemma who was mostly with Parvati, Seamus, and Terry but since they were going home for the holidays she would probably wander off along.

The three of them nodded and walked over to the Gryffindor table were everyone was eating a quick breakfast.

Hermione was done first and asked, "Harry can you help me carry my trunk down the stairs? It's a little too heavy for me to on my own."

Jasmine couldn't help it but giggle and said, "That's from all your books.but I'm not one to talk am I?"

"Nope," Hermione said well laughing as she and Harry walked up stairs.

Soon they were hauling Hermione's things down stairs and Harry said, "Yeash Mione, take a break off the books."

"Oh shut it.by the way where are your things?"

Harry looked at her for a moment then said, "All the teachers are staying here. So Jasmine, Gemma and I have no place to go. So the three of us are the only students staying here."

Hermione's eyes went wide with worry and she said, "Well, just be careful! There's a murderer in the school and he's only after the Gryffindors! And all that's staying behind is three Gryffindors!"

"It's ok Mione . the three of us are sticking together and we won't cause any trouble, and I'm sure you'll all come back," Harry said to her and gave her a kiss as they reached the front door.

"Yeah, I know you will.well take care Harry.and don't do anything stupid," She said as she kissed him on the lips then walked away towards the train with the other Gryffindors.

Soon everyone was gone.the castle was once again, just like in the summer time.

Although it wasn't that bad.the three teens got to wear normal cloths instead of uniforms, and basically just ran around like maniacs.

The days passed by much like that and the next thing they knew it was Christmas Eve.

"Wow.I can't believe how quickly time flies," Jasmine said as she and Harry walked out of the library.just having finished their holiday homework.

"Yeah.by the way where's Gemma?" Harry asked her well looking around.

"Dunno.I think she said something about using the bathroom," Jasmine replied with a shrug.

And sure enough that's where Gemma was.she was staring directly at the mirror.

"My eyes.they changed again," She mumbled.

Sure enough her eyes weren't green anymore.and they wouldn't change back either.

She sighed and walked up to the library to find Harry and Jasmine gone.

"Oh well.they always tell me I should take time to do my own work, maybe I should take them up on that," She mumbled to herself and sat down where her books were.

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Up in the Gryffindor tower Harry and Jasmine were TRYING to play Exploding Snap but Jasmine bewitched the cards so they had to be used in a certain amount of time before they exploded.

Jasmine, at the moment, was laughing her head off because one of the cards exploded in Harry's face.literally.

He smiled sheepishly then said, "Wonder how Gemma's doing with her homework?"

"No idea, probably to hard for her little mind," Jasmine said well laughing.

Harry looked at her and said, "Jasmine Potter! I'd never thought I'd see the day you would insult somebody for no reason."

She smirked and said, "Maybe the House-Elves spiked the Pumpkin Juice."

Harry couldn't help but laugh and say, "The way your acting you'd think so."

"Back when I lived with the muggles I'd always act like this around Christmas," Jasmine said well looking at the fire.

"When I lived with muggles I never had a Christmas.not really," Harry said well also looking in the fire.

"Oh, well, sorry," Jasmine said then took a sip out of the Pumpkin juice she and Harry had got from the kitchen earlier.

Harry also took a drink of his and suddenly felt very sleepy and light headed.

"Jaz, what's in this?" He said well wobbling a bit.

"It's normal pumpkin juice, I saw the House Elves pour it," She said well falling over onto the couch she was sitting on.

Harry gasped and said, "A Sleeping Drought." Just after that Jasmine's eyes closed and she fell asleep.

Harry saw in a light vision what was about to happen before he collapsed on his chair.

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Gemma was walking through the library looking through books, just to read for once.

She stopped by a big white colored book, who's title was 'The Elements of Life'.

She pulled it off the shelf, and as she did a purple orb fell to the floor.

She reached down and picked it up.

"Wow.it's so beautiful," she said then noticed the cover of the book she was holding, there were colored orbs on it!

"It's an Element of Life," She said with a gasped and looked through the book to see which one it was.

"Oh wow.I've gotta show this to Harry and Jasmine," She said as she started running towards the Gryffindor common room.

As she reached the Charms corridor she heard a noise behind her and turned around sharply.

She saw what, or who, was behind her and screamed well dropping the book and orb to the ground.

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Harry shot up, the sleeping potion's effect gone as did Jasmine just in time to hear Gemma's scream.

They both look at each other then ran as quickly as they could to where they believed the scream came form.

(Gemma? Gemma?) Harry was looking for a telepathic reply but nothing came.

"She won't answer me either," Jasmine said as she and Harry reached the charms corridor.

She stopped when she heard a splash as she ran on some kind of liquid.

She looked at the ground and gasped then said, "H-Harry."

"What?" He said then looked at the ground and went really pale.worse then Ron had when Ginny died.

"Blood," Jasmine said also the same color as Harry.

They followed it and what they saw made them both scream/yell in pure shock.

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Lily had also heard Gemma's scream and was looking through the school for her when she heard Harry and Jasmine yell.

She followed their voices and turned at the Charms corridor and stopped.

She looked with wide green eyes at the scene before her.

Harry and Jasmine were both crying, there was blood on the floor, and there hanging from a rope was Gemma.dead.

"Gemma, no.GEMMA!" She screamed and ran over, tears spilling down her cheeks.

Harry looked up at his sister's snow-white face.he thought Jasmine would be the one to die and spent all his time with her.but it was Gemma all along. He could hear her laugh, her voice and still see her smile. He could also still see the twinkle of adventure in her deep blue-green eyes. Wait, blue- green!

"Who would do such a barbaric thing?" Jasmine said weakly voicing her family's thought, who WOULD hang a teenage girl?

"Lily I heard Harry, Gemma and Jasmine scream and." Sirius stopped right there, as did all the other teachers.

"Oh my god," Remus said with a croak.

Dumbledore's eyes lost their twinkle and he said, "Get her down."

Sirius, Remus and Snape got her down and they took her to the hospital wing.they knew there was no way possible to being her back, she was dead.

Harry reached down and picked up the orb and noticed the book laying open on the floor.

Jasmine looked at it, then the orb in Harry's hand then said, "It means.family."

"Gemma, I'm sorry," Harry said unaware of the red glow around him and the blue glow around Jasmine.

"Harry, Jasmine, I guess I'll see you after they explain it all," Lily said weakly causing her two remaining children to look at her just before they vanished.

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"Where are we?" Jasmine said well looking around the world of white light they were in.

"I've been here before.this is where I met the founders and Merlin," Harry said to her.

Sure enough five figures appeared out of nowhere.

"I'm sorry we didn't tell you who was going to die.it had to be done though," Merlin said automatically to Harry then turned to Jasmine and said, "I am Merlin. And these are Gordic Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff, and Salzar Slytherin."

"Jasmine, look at this," Rowena said well causing a mirror to appear out of thin air and passed it to the girl.

Jasmine looked at her reflection and gasped, "My eyes.they're blue."

Harry nodded and said, "I was told that one of my sisters would die. The one with dark aqua eyes.Gemma, was suppost to die well the one with sapphire blue eyes, you, was suppost to live."

Gordic nodded and said, "Your father changed your and you sister's eyes to green so your mother wouldn't worry too much."

"Now to business, I believe Harry, you know you are the Keeper of Gryffindor and you now know Jasmine's the Keeper of Ravenclaw. And I know you thought you were a Magik Master and a Magik Mistress as did Gordic and I but we discovered you aren't, infact your what's called a Seraphs," Rowena said.

"Isn't that the highest order of Angel you can get?" Jasmine said.

"Well yes, but there's also a different kind of Seraphs, mortal ones. They are people with immense power but there hasn't been one since Rowena and myself, which is why you both look so much like us. A male Seraph has to have raven black hair and emerald green and the female must have raven black hair and sapphire blue eyes," Gordic said.

"There are some powers you can use right away, many you have to learn to use, but I believe you are used to that now, right Harry?" Rowena said.

The other three powerful wizards/witch kept out of this.it was up to these two to explain it.

"Now, close you eyes," Gordic said.

Both Potters nodded and closed their eyes.

Gordic put a hand on Harry's head and Rowena put a hand on Jasmine's head and then there was a lot of red and blue light.

When it died down Harry and Jasmine looked into mirrors and gasped.

Harry looked like a younger version of Gordic Gryffindor and Jasmine looked like a younger version of Rowena Ravenclaw.

"Wow," Jasmine said well touching her now curly hair.

Harry on the other hand was looking at their cloths. He had a scarlet red robe with gold around the bottom, arms and neck and also had a gold lion on the back. Jasmine had a royal blue robe with bronze around the bottom, arms and neck with a bronze eagle on the back.

"Our wands," Jasmine said weakly.

Hers was bronze with a few strips of sapphire on it.

Harry yanked his out to see it was still the same gold but had a few strips of rubies around it.

"Yes, they look the same as Gordic's and mine but I believe that they have different cores. Both Gordic's and mine are Dragon Heart Sting. Jasmine yours is Unicorn Hair and Harry yours in Phoenix Feather. Oh yes, here," Rowena put something around Jasmine's neck and Gordic put something around Harry's.

Harry looked down to see a silver pendant shaped like a lion with a ruby in it.

He looked over and saw Jasmine's was a silver eagle with a sapphire in it.

"Wait.I didn't notice that before! Jasmine you have a sword like mine!" Harry said suddenly.

Jasmine looked down, and sure enough there was a silver sword with sapphires in her belt.

She looked closely at it and saw the words 'Rowena Ravenclaw' written on one side then flipped it over to see 'Jasmine Potter' on the other side.

Harry also checked the other side of his sword and saw the words 'Harry Potter' on it.

"Good luck you two.we can't tell what your facing or anything. But be strong and brave," Gordic said.

"Keep your knowledge sharp," Rowena told them.

"Don't let your friendship waver," Helga added in.

"Remember you can have ambition.just not for evil," Salzar said.

"And always, ALWAYS remember, there is good and evil but there is power.the power in your heart," Merlin said then there was a blinding flash of light and they were back in the Charms Corridor in their normal cloths.

"Wow," Jasmine said well looking around with pain in her eyes. There was still blood on the floor.the rope was still there too.

"Come on, lets go find mom," Harry said as they both ran off.

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Lily looked up as someone knocked on her door.

As it opened Harry and Jasmine walked in, even though they looked a little different she knew it was them.

"Thank god! I was beginning to worry. Also on New Years there's going to be a funeral for Gemma," She said with tears in her eyes once again.

Harry nodded looking sad and Jasmine started crying.

Professor Dumbledore suddenly walked in saying, "Hogwarts will have to be closed now."

He trailed off when he saw the pendants around Harry and Jasmine's necks.

"My god," He said lowly.

"Professor, you don't need to close the school down, we WILL find the attacker but we'll need help from everyone," Jasmine said a look of confidents going across her sad face.

Dumbledore nodded, slightly confused and looked at Lily who mouthed, "I'll explain later."

"Very well. I'm deeply sorry abut your sister.but I hope you have a Merry Christmas," With that he walked off.

{He's hiding something}Gemma said telepathically.

(I know.and I wanna know what) Harry replied back.

"Well you better go back to the Gryffindor common room. Goodnight Harry, Jasmine," Lily said to them.

"Night mum," They both said and walked off.

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The next day Harry woke up and trudged down to the common room to see Jasmine sitting beside the Christmas tree waiting for him.

"Hi Harry," She said as he sat beside her.

"Well we better open these to get it out of the way." Harry said when he saw the name 'Gemma' on 1/3 of the gifts.

"What should we do with Gemma's things?" Jasmine asked.

"We'll talk to mom about it," Harry said after a minute then picked up a parcel from Mrs Weasley (Mr Weasley died remember?)

He opened it to see a navy blue sweater with the word 'Harry' sewing into it in medium blue and a lightning bolt behind it in silver.

"Wow, Mrs Weasley went all out this year," Harry said.

Jasmine opened her parcel from Mrs Weasley to see it was a purple sweater with the word 'Jasmine' sewing into it in medium purple and a silver moon behind it.

"Wow," She said well looking at it then thought Wow must be my favorite word.I say it so much

Harry opened his present from Hermione next, it was a picture album of their years at Hogwarts so far.

Jasmine got an interesting book about magical animals from Hermione.

From Ron they each got A LOT of candy.

Hagrid sent them both carved animals.Harry's a phoenix, Jasmine's a Unicorn.

Ginny had sent them both hard covered journals and a quill (Harry's was red, Jasmine's was pink).

Fred and George gave them both a bunch of joke things.

Remus sent Harry an Advance Against the Dark Arts and an Advanced Transfiguration book (Those were Harry's best subjects). He sent Jasmine an Advanced Charms and an Advanced Potions book (God only knows how she was good at that).

Sirius sent them both new normal robes for them to wear in summer.

And finally Lily gave them both.a mix of a whole bunch of things.

There were quills, robes, books, and games, everything you could think of.

They looked at each other and nodded then grabbed Gemma's things and walked to their mother's room.

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Lily sighed and looked at the picture she had taken just a week before with Harry, Jasmine, Sirius, Remus, and Gemma.

"I can't believe you're gone," Lily said with tears in her eyes then mumbled, "Take care of her James."

Just then Harry and Jasmine entered the room with Gemma's presents and Jasmine said, "We didn't know what to do with them."

Lily started crying right there but said, "Send them home.say Banicco Raven Lion."

"Banicoo Raven Lion!" They both said together and Gemma's things disappeared.

"Where'd they go?" Harry asked after a moment.

"Home.to our house in Gordic's Hallow," Lily replied.

"I thought it was destroyed," Jasmine stated.

Lily shook her head and said, "No not our house.that was just one we were staying in for awhile. Our house IS in Gordic's Hallow but it's in the all- magic part of it. There's a secrets place there, which muggles can't get into. We live on Gryffindor Street and in the biggest house there. I wish Gemma would be here to see it.it looks like Diagon Alley and Hogsmead all put in one."

"She would have loved it," Harry said.

Jasmine started crying now and mumbled, "I really know now why people say, saying goodbye is so hard."

Harry and Lily nodded.none of them would ever forget Gemma or James Potter.

"Gemma Lily Hufflepuff Potter," Lily said well looking at a birth certificate.

"Huh?" Harry said and looked over her shoulder to see a different name on each paper.

'Gemma Lily Hufflepuff Potter', 'Jasmine Lily Ravenclaw Potter' and 'Harry James Gryffindor Potter'.

"The founders told me that I had a really long name," Harry said.

"So you wouldn't suspect anything," Lily said with her eyes closed.

There was a sudden coldness in the room and unknown to them two invisible figures floated side by side and the younger one said, "Goodbye Mom, Jasmine, Harry."

With that Gemma and James disappeared out of Hogwarts.

Harry blinked and looked around.he had heard Gemma speak a moment ago and mumbled, "Goodbye Gemma, Dad."

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Next Chapter Coming Soon!

Shdurrani - thanks for all the reviews! I know you'll be able to make a good story, besides it doesn't matter if other's like it or not.as long as YOU like it. So you don't have to worry about posting a story.

Fire Mistress - Umm.I can't really tell who you were guessing for but obviously Gemma was the one that died

Shadow - Happy? Yeah I guess if you read carefully I DID make it obvious who was the Ravenclaw Keeper, I noticed that and that's why I made Jasmine almost die before, to throw people off track

BDB - Thanks for the review, glad you like the story so far

Dontuwanano - Yes at one point I was named Scarlet Angle Kaylie. I agree that my other story 'The Legend of Gryffindor' got really stupid in the end, that's because I was new at this but hear me out.this one is WAY better then those ones. And, I don't mean to be mean, but I DON'T GIVE A DAMN WHAT THOSE OTHER PEOPLE WROTE! THIS IS MY STORY AND I'M NOT CHANGING A THING!

Julie Jewelrannah - Well you were right about Gemma dying and I'm glad you like the story so far

Clockwork - hmm.what do I have to say to you? Oh yeah.IF YOU DIDN'T LIKE THE STORY FROM THE FIRST THEN WHY THE HELL DID YOU EVEN READ IT? I KNOW I SPELL TERRIBLE! IF YOU DIDN'T SEE I ALREADY SAID THAT IN ANOTHER CHAPTER! So here's what I think about you.thanks for calling my story gay. Shit head! You are the one who needs a dictionary! Did you know that gay means happy, joyful and stuff like that? So thank you for the complement on the story. Also in one final words.I'm in grade 8, I use slang a lot.I live in a place where we use a shit load of it.oh yeah and what was that last one.OH YEAH! GO FUCK YOURSELF!

I'm just warning you.you flame me I'll hit ya right back.and if I actually know you I mean it literally.

I don't really give a damn what the flamers thing.they're just wasting their time by writing down what they think.

And if your gonna flame me make sure I didn't write down that I got a few problems with things like spelling, slang and such.

Well the next chapter will be up soon.and another note to Dontuwanano, I know a lot of other stories have Harry being the heir of Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, Slytherin and Merlin but unlike them this isn't ALL based around that, infact that's like ¼ of the plot in this.

Catch ya'll later

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~Crystal Lily Potter~