A/N I know. It's been to long since I last updated But school has been taking up a lot of my time lately, I'll try to update again soon. R&R please.

CHAPTER 8

Both of the girls froze in place and then slowly turned around. Harry wasn't watching at any of them, but looking at the floor in front of him: "I heard noise outside and looked out the window. I saw the two of you dragging in one of those creatures, harpies I think, who were battling Hagrid, Albus and some woman. Snape froze, too shocked to acted, luckily for him somebody seemed to take over. Averinda moved a bit closed to Harry on the couch so that the were almost touching: "Please Harry, you wont tell, will you? We thought it might be useful to ask her for information about you-know-who." She pleaded him while looking at him nervously with big innocent eyes.

Harry was kinda shocked by this sudden action, he could smell her very clearly now, a strange mix of spices and something else, something familiar. But before he could think of what it was he heard Ginny utter a soft scream at his other side, he quickly looked at her and saw her looking with big eyes at the wall across the room: "Ginny, what's wrong? What did you see,......" suddenly he saw a soft riple appear in the wall, instantly his scar started hurting like hell, he could feel something dark approaching, and then he heard it: "Well, well Potter. All alone while your valiant protectors are gone to battle some useless minions. You'd think they take better care of their hero. But now it is too late, they can never reach you in time now. And further more, I made sure that nobody will harm you because of a nice silencing charm a certain headmaster thought me when I was still a student here." then softly the voice faded away. Instantly as the voice was gone a form started to force it's way trough the ripple. Trough it came a huge monstrous form. It had a huge bulky body with black skin except for the face which is dark purple. Large spikes grow from it spine and a huge curved horn sprouts from it's head. It's mouth hangs open revealing a row of curved fangs. On the place where it's nose should be is instead a gaping hole and a bit above it are two dull gray eyes without pupil or iris. But it's most disturbing feature was the fact that it was dragging itself forward with it's powerful muscular arms because it was missing anything below it's belly, with it's organs still hanging out dripping purple blood over the red carpet of the common room. It looks at the three teenagers and it let's out a terrifying roar and starts making it's way towards them.

Snape was shocked, DEMON!!!! But how? The only way it could leave the dark pits of hell was by means of a gate created by one of the thirteen Horns of Decay and those were supposed to be destroyed centuries ago. They had to flee, no wizard or witch can stand up to a demon! But unfortunately Harry had already drawn his wand, Damn that Gryffindor courage. But he had a job to do.

For a second Harry was unaware of what to do, he saw ginny pushing herself into a corner of the room and he saw Averinda looking with huge eyes at the monster in front of them. YOU TWO!!!! RUN!!!!" he bellowed at them. Ginny seemed not to respond but to his surprise Averinda pulled out her black wand and placed herself besides Harry. "What do you think your doing?" he snapped at her. he was surprised when he got no response other than a venomous glare: "You're not the boss of me she snapped at him. If I choose to die here, that's my choice to make, not yours." Harry, Quite shocked by this suicidal statement looked at her with surprise at her: " Well, you certainly fit in gryffindor well. You got the spirit to be here." Snape, totally shocked by this insult wanted to make a respond but his attention was shifted as the demon roared. It was getting near them now: "Obliviate!" Both she and harry yelled at the same time. The spells hit the demon right in the chest but all it did was flinch for a second and started making it way towards them again.

Ginny, who had been taken out of her trance by the two teenagers yelling their spells. Looked in surprise at the demon, it's powerful presence had subdued her when it had entered the room but know she had overcome that she could look at the demon properly. From her side position she saw small blacks liquid like wires coming from the ripple in the wall and they were attached to the back of the demons head. She noticed that both Harry and Averinda were still shooting speels at the Demon. She suddenly remembered something from history of magic. And Binns boring voice was suddenly in her mind: "A demon is a terrible thing to summon. Not only are they immensely powerful, they are also capable of breaking trough protection spells places by summoners who had no teacher to learn them the proper way of doing the protection spells. There is a rumor about a certain type of artifact which allows the user to summon a demon but in the same time creating several wires that makes the demon to obey the summoner. As the summoner becomes more accustomed to summoning the wires become thinner until they completely disappear and the summoner is now a master." She gulped and pulled out her wand, and placed herself next to Harry.

Harry looked surprised at Ginny placing herself besides him: "I thought I told you to run?!" he told her angrily. "So? Like i could live with myself if you died here fighting too save my live AGAIN!!!!" She snapped at him, quickly trying to remember the spells she had learned in DA last year. "Sanctifosia Wingardium" Averinda yelled, and suddenly a wind started to blow trough the room, With all its furious might the wind threw itself at the demon and at the same time it picked chairs, couches, tables and desk and threw them at the demon. All this power slowed the demonic beast down but did not managed to stop it. At the same time Harry and Ginny were throwing basic dueling spells at the monster. Averinda oncentrated and tried to remember everything she new about demons, She knew that if the cut the summoning wires the demon would be sucked beto whatever abyssal layer voldemort had got it from, But the problem was getting near the wires. He knew they were placedbehind the demon but how to get there? Suddenly from behind them came a voice: "Incantatia Demonica Arq'desium." He immediately heard a sharp screeching and three raven like birds flew over them, A chill came over her spine as she saw the birdsdisappear behind the demon, a few second later a snapping sound could be heard and the demon suddenly was slowly being pulled back in. A soft cry was heard from their beside the demon. There in the opening to the staircase of the girls dormitories stood one of the first year girls.

It only took Harry a second to figure out what was probably going to happen next: "Lisa, Watch out!" he shouted and dashed towards her. But she didn't move frozen by the figure being pulled back into the void, With a quick grap with one of its massive claws it grabbed the girl. Instantly she was paralyzed by the toxic slime covering its skin, As she was pulled into the void the lastthing she saw was Harry, ginny and Averinda shooting spells at his claw to get her free. Then everything wend red. Harry dropped on the floor out of despair, this couldn't be happening. He balled his fist around his wands only to see some spark flying off from it in protest, when he suddenly heard a male voice behind him: "Well, that didn't go too well."