Chapter 14: The Results Are In
A/N: That's right, it's up!!!!!! I've FINALLY finished chapter 14. So, after being longtime overdue…chapter 14, ladies and gentlemen!!! Enjoy!!!!!
Melissa was in astonishment at what she saw.
"Melissa, what is it?" Hermione asked anxiously. Neville, Parvati, and the other Gryffindors stared in earnest at her.
"Hang on," she muttered, thrusting Hermione's Omnioculars back at her. She flew down to Harry and Malfoy, who were struggling fiercely on the field, their broomsticks lay forgotten.
"Harry, what's going on?" Melissa hissed, hovering above the two captains.
"We've both got it," Harry replied, never taking his glaring stare off his rival.
"What?!"
"We've both caught the bloody Snitch," he replied as he landed a blow in the side of Malfoy's head.
"Ohhhhh," Melissa moaned. She floated up to Hermione and the others, smacking her forehead with the palm of her hand. "You guys, they've both got it."
"WHAT?!"
"What d'you mean, they've both got it?" Parvati shouted.
"They've both caught it," Melissa repeated, shrugging. She flew back down to the fighting boys. Oliver had just landed.
"Okay, you guys, what's going on?"
"What on earth do you think is going on, Oliver?" Harry asked through gritted teeth as he ducked a punch Malfoy had thrown.
"Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, stop!" Oliver demanded, breaking the two boys apart and grabbing the Snitch from them. "I hereby declare this a faulty catch as both the Gryffindor Seeker and the Slytherin Seeker have somehow caught hold of the Snitch."
A collective groan rose in a wave as Ginny, still stunned, announced this new spin on the game.
"Oliver, that's not going to work," Melissa told him, disembarking.
"Mel, I don't know what else to make of this catch," Oliver explained to her. "I've never seen anything like this. It's never happened before in all my years at Hogwarts."
"Well, then why did both of you have to catch it?" Melissa asked furiously. "I mean, it's only common sense to—"
CRASH!!!!!
Screams were heard throughout the stadium as an enormous roar of thunder exploded directly above them. The next second, the sky opened up and a heavy downpour fell upon them.
"Wonderful," Melissa muttered, soaked to the skin in seconds. "Can we get the game underway again? Please? So we can get out of the freaking rain?"
"Okay, time in!" Oliver shouted, blowing his whistle. A neon yellow-white bolt of lightning struck a tree just beyond the Ravenclaw spectator section, eliciting screams from the Ravenclaws. "Okay, time out!" he yelled, giving two short blasts on his whistle. "Be right back, you guys," he called, jumping on his broom and flying through the driving rain to the teachers' stands.
"Oh, this is aggravating," Kara groaned as she, Dean, Seamus, Ron, and Lavender landed around Harry and Melissa. The Slytherin team landed around Malfoy and, staring murderously at the Gryffindors, backed away from the other team a bit to regroup.
"So, Captain, what now?" Seamus asked with a mocking salute.
"Shut up, I don't know," Harry snapped, massaging his temples. Something inside of Melissa snapped too; she whipped out her wand and pointed it at her twin.
"Avada Kedavra!" she shouted sharply. A huge burst of neon green light burst out the end of her wand and flew at Harry. His eyes wide and scared, Harry dove out of the way seconds before the jet of light would have hit the place where he was standing. The rest of the Slytherin and Gryffindor teams jumped out of the way, as well. They were all staring at the pretty Gryffindor girl in fright as her skin tightened around her cheekbones and her eyes seemed to sink into their sockets, though still gleaming with a strange brightness. She smiled thinly through strands of limp hair as her robes grew ratty and moldy-looking.
"Mel?" Harry whispered worriedly. Melissa's face grew solemn for a moment before a cloud of smoke went up about her. When it settled, where Melissa had been, now stood a werewolf. The wolf—Melissa, everyone presumed—let out a terrifying snarl before changing back into the redhead Gryffindor. She shot a couple of hexes at players around her, watching Harry all the while.
Melissa stood glaring at the thirteen people on the ground before her. She Summoned her broomstick, jumped on, and kicked off. When she was about fifty feet up in the air, she halted and turned to look scornfully down on the hundreds (A/N: thousands? Anybody know?) of students below her. She once again focused her wand on the huddle of Quidditch players down on the field and shouted a spell, casting a waterproof fire to encircle the players. There were screams of terror from all around the pitch, which caused Melissa to smile grimly with satisfaction. She turned her back on the horror and chaos beneath her and zoomed off into the darkness.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Down on the field, Harry stared at his sister flying off among the shouts of "Accio!" as his fellow teammates and his rivals Summoned their broomsticks to get out of the raging inferno.
"Melissa?" he whispered again before Ron showed up with Harry's broom, yelling for him to jump on.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
The next day, after Dumbledore and the teachers managed to put out the magical, waterproof fire, Harry, Ron, and Hermione sauntered down to the field.
"I still don't understand why she should would try to—to…kill you, Harry," Hermione mused.
"I don't get it either," Ron added. Harry, however, said nothing, only stared in shock at the field.
"Ron, Hermione…" he faltered off, holding out his arm to halt the other two Gryffindors.
"What's wrong, Harry?" Ron asked, glancing at his friend.
"Look," was all Harry could utter. Hermione and Ron glanced at each other before looking out over the field. What they saw made them gasp in horror.
Directly in the center of the field, where there should have been regular scorch marks from Melissa's fire, was a menacing, black mark: the Dark Mark.
"Well, this isn't good," Ron murmured.
"Definitely not," Hermione agreed.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Hundreds of miles away, a redheaded teen landed in front of a tall, black- cloaked man and immediately fell to one knee, head bowed.
"Master, it is I, your loyal servant," the teen muttered mechanically. The man smiled thinly.
"Good," the man greeted. "Welcome to the forces of Dark, Ms. Potter."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Harry, Ron, and Hermione walked through the next few days in a numbed daze. They just could believe Melissa was really an instrument of the evil Voldemort.
"She couldn't be," Harry objected loudly one day during a particularly quiet Transfiguration class, as though he and the other two were continuing a casual conversation. Professor McGonagall had kept him after class to tell him off on how he mustn't disrupt classes even though his sister's turned evil. Hermione lectured him later on in the common room on that, also.
"Harry, you can't get hung up on it," she said sternly. "McGonagall's right, you know. You still have to focus. It's not your fault Melissa's gone to the Dark side, on top of pulling a Thriller."
"Wait. A what?!" Ron exclaimed, looking positively puzzled.
"A Thriller," Hermione explained, laughing.
"Thriller's a song by a Muggle performer, Michael Jackson," Harry told him. "In the beginning of the music video, he turns into a werewolf, then, later on, he dances as one of the undead."
"Vampire?" Ron asked quizzically.
"Zombie," Hermione corrected. "I'll show it to you sometime."
"Sure. Why not?"
A/N: Hey, everyone!!!!! Sorry it took so long to get the chapter up. As I said before, I had major writer's block. Anyway, on to the good stuff! How did you guys like the twist on the story? I felt it was getting kind of boring. Tell me what you think!!!! Okay, before I go, shout-outs!!!!!! Gotta have 'em, right? 'Kay, I'm talking to everyone that's reviewed from the beginning because…well, I never did that and I've been meaning to. So there.
To starheart, bubblegum*girl, SarahPotter1, Authoress, liza, Articuno, ann, KK, Aly, Extremely Kewl Person, Video Game God 1134, Kathryn, Saphire, Lindsz, and The annoying coffee drinker: OMG, I love you guys so much!!!! I haven't gotten one thing from you guys (excluding my friends, the ones that seem to know me. lol) except ideas and inspirations!!!!!!! Love you guys soooooooo much!!!!
To BumbleB: Thanks! Good idea. …BABE!!!!!!!!! Hahaha, lol, never gonna forget that. Hmmm, never going to give it up, either. *big grin* Hey, review my Lily story, too. I've only gotten, like, two in about a week and it's kind of, well, disappointing. Tell Julia to, also, k?
To ROXY ANGEL: Thanks soooo much for your suggestions. Here's a hint: some of your suggestions are going to be used in an upcoming chapter. Keep an eye out! There'll be little note acknowledging you!
To Pikachu13: In an interview, JKR said that James Potter actually was a Chaser, and not a Seeker, contrary to what was showed in the Harry Potter film. Not trying to be snotty or anything. Just telling what I heard.
To Angel: Enough conflict?
Remember, love you guys lots!!!! Keep reviewing and I'll love you even more!!!!!! Talk to me through email and IM; I get bored when none of my friends are on. It's DanceLuvr723!!!!! Can anyone guess what the "723" stands for????? And a note to my friends: Not a word!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh! Before I forget. P.S. Does anyone know how to put, like, underlines and italics and stuff????? Cause it never works for me. Help!
A/N: That's right, it's up!!!!!! I've FINALLY finished chapter 14. So, after being longtime overdue…chapter 14, ladies and gentlemen!!! Enjoy!!!!!
Melissa was in astonishment at what she saw.
"Melissa, what is it?" Hermione asked anxiously. Neville, Parvati, and the other Gryffindors stared in earnest at her.
"Hang on," she muttered, thrusting Hermione's Omnioculars back at her. She flew down to Harry and Malfoy, who were struggling fiercely on the field, their broomsticks lay forgotten.
"Harry, what's going on?" Melissa hissed, hovering above the two captains.
"We've both got it," Harry replied, never taking his glaring stare off his rival.
"What?!"
"We've both caught the bloody Snitch," he replied as he landed a blow in the side of Malfoy's head.
"Ohhhhh," Melissa moaned. She floated up to Hermione and the others, smacking her forehead with the palm of her hand. "You guys, they've both got it."
"WHAT?!"
"What d'you mean, they've both got it?" Parvati shouted.
"They've both caught it," Melissa repeated, shrugging. She flew back down to the fighting boys. Oliver had just landed.
"Okay, you guys, what's going on?"
"What on earth do you think is going on, Oliver?" Harry asked through gritted teeth as he ducked a punch Malfoy had thrown.
"Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, stop!" Oliver demanded, breaking the two boys apart and grabbing the Snitch from them. "I hereby declare this a faulty catch as both the Gryffindor Seeker and the Slytherin Seeker have somehow caught hold of the Snitch."
A collective groan rose in a wave as Ginny, still stunned, announced this new spin on the game.
"Oliver, that's not going to work," Melissa told him, disembarking.
"Mel, I don't know what else to make of this catch," Oliver explained to her. "I've never seen anything like this. It's never happened before in all my years at Hogwarts."
"Well, then why did both of you have to catch it?" Melissa asked furiously. "I mean, it's only common sense to—"
CRASH!!!!!
Screams were heard throughout the stadium as an enormous roar of thunder exploded directly above them. The next second, the sky opened up and a heavy downpour fell upon them.
"Wonderful," Melissa muttered, soaked to the skin in seconds. "Can we get the game underway again? Please? So we can get out of the freaking rain?"
"Okay, time in!" Oliver shouted, blowing his whistle. A neon yellow-white bolt of lightning struck a tree just beyond the Ravenclaw spectator section, eliciting screams from the Ravenclaws. "Okay, time out!" he yelled, giving two short blasts on his whistle. "Be right back, you guys," he called, jumping on his broom and flying through the driving rain to the teachers' stands.
"Oh, this is aggravating," Kara groaned as she, Dean, Seamus, Ron, and Lavender landed around Harry and Melissa. The Slytherin team landed around Malfoy and, staring murderously at the Gryffindors, backed away from the other team a bit to regroup.
"So, Captain, what now?" Seamus asked with a mocking salute.
"Shut up, I don't know," Harry snapped, massaging his temples. Something inside of Melissa snapped too; she whipped out her wand and pointed it at her twin.
"Avada Kedavra!" she shouted sharply. A huge burst of neon green light burst out the end of her wand and flew at Harry. His eyes wide and scared, Harry dove out of the way seconds before the jet of light would have hit the place where he was standing. The rest of the Slytherin and Gryffindor teams jumped out of the way, as well. They were all staring at the pretty Gryffindor girl in fright as her skin tightened around her cheekbones and her eyes seemed to sink into their sockets, though still gleaming with a strange brightness. She smiled thinly through strands of limp hair as her robes grew ratty and moldy-looking.
"Mel?" Harry whispered worriedly. Melissa's face grew solemn for a moment before a cloud of smoke went up about her. When it settled, where Melissa had been, now stood a werewolf. The wolf—Melissa, everyone presumed—let out a terrifying snarl before changing back into the redhead Gryffindor. She shot a couple of hexes at players around her, watching Harry all the while.
Melissa stood glaring at the thirteen people on the ground before her. She Summoned her broomstick, jumped on, and kicked off. When she was about fifty feet up in the air, she halted and turned to look scornfully down on the hundreds (A/N: thousands? Anybody know?) of students below her. She once again focused her wand on the huddle of Quidditch players down on the field and shouted a spell, casting a waterproof fire to encircle the players. There were screams of terror from all around the pitch, which caused Melissa to smile grimly with satisfaction. She turned her back on the horror and chaos beneath her and zoomed off into the darkness.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Down on the field, Harry stared at his sister flying off among the shouts of "Accio!" as his fellow teammates and his rivals Summoned their broomsticks to get out of the raging inferno.
"Melissa?" he whispered again before Ron showed up with Harry's broom, yelling for him to jump on.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
The next day, after Dumbledore and the teachers managed to put out the magical, waterproof fire, Harry, Ron, and Hermione sauntered down to the field.
"I still don't understand why she should would try to—to…kill you, Harry," Hermione mused.
"I don't get it either," Ron added. Harry, however, said nothing, only stared in shock at the field.
"Ron, Hermione…" he faltered off, holding out his arm to halt the other two Gryffindors.
"What's wrong, Harry?" Ron asked, glancing at his friend.
"Look," was all Harry could utter. Hermione and Ron glanced at each other before looking out over the field. What they saw made them gasp in horror.
Directly in the center of the field, where there should have been regular scorch marks from Melissa's fire, was a menacing, black mark: the Dark Mark.
"Well, this isn't good," Ron murmured.
"Definitely not," Hermione agreed.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Hundreds of miles away, a redheaded teen landed in front of a tall, black- cloaked man and immediately fell to one knee, head bowed.
"Master, it is I, your loyal servant," the teen muttered mechanically. The man smiled thinly.
"Good," the man greeted. "Welcome to the forces of Dark, Ms. Potter."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Harry, Ron, and Hermione walked through the next few days in a numbed daze. They just could believe Melissa was really an instrument of the evil Voldemort.
"She couldn't be," Harry objected loudly one day during a particularly quiet Transfiguration class, as though he and the other two were continuing a casual conversation. Professor McGonagall had kept him after class to tell him off on how he mustn't disrupt classes even though his sister's turned evil. Hermione lectured him later on in the common room on that, also.
"Harry, you can't get hung up on it," she said sternly. "McGonagall's right, you know. You still have to focus. It's not your fault Melissa's gone to the Dark side, on top of pulling a Thriller."
"Wait. A what?!" Ron exclaimed, looking positively puzzled.
"A Thriller," Hermione explained, laughing.
"Thriller's a song by a Muggle performer, Michael Jackson," Harry told him. "In the beginning of the music video, he turns into a werewolf, then, later on, he dances as one of the undead."
"Vampire?" Ron asked quizzically.
"Zombie," Hermione corrected. "I'll show it to you sometime."
"Sure. Why not?"
A/N: Hey, everyone!!!!! Sorry it took so long to get the chapter up. As I said before, I had major writer's block. Anyway, on to the good stuff! How did you guys like the twist on the story? I felt it was getting kind of boring. Tell me what you think!!!! Okay, before I go, shout-outs!!!!!! Gotta have 'em, right? 'Kay, I'm talking to everyone that's reviewed from the beginning because…well, I never did that and I've been meaning to. So there.
To starheart, bubblegum*girl, SarahPotter1, Authoress, liza, Articuno, ann, KK, Aly, Extremely Kewl Person, Video Game God 1134, Kathryn, Saphire, Lindsz, and The annoying coffee drinker: OMG, I love you guys so much!!!! I haven't gotten one thing from you guys (excluding my friends, the ones that seem to know me. lol) except ideas and inspirations!!!!!!! Love you guys soooooooo much!!!!
To BumbleB: Thanks! Good idea. …BABE!!!!!!!!! Hahaha, lol, never gonna forget that. Hmmm, never going to give it up, either. *big grin* Hey, review my Lily story, too. I've only gotten, like, two in about a week and it's kind of, well, disappointing. Tell Julia to, also, k?
To ROXY ANGEL: Thanks soooo much for your suggestions. Here's a hint: some of your suggestions are going to be used in an upcoming chapter. Keep an eye out! There'll be little note acknowledging you!
To Pikachu13: In an interview, JKR said that James Potter actually was a Chaser, and not a Seeker, contrary to what was showed in the Harry Potter film. Not trying to be snotty or anything. Just telling what I heard.
To Angel: Enough conflict?
Remember, love you guys lots!!!! Keep reviewing and I'll love you even more!!!!!! Talk to me through email and IM; I get bored when none of my friends are on. It's DanceLuvr723!!!!! Can anyone guess what the "723" stands for????? And a note to my friends: Not a word!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh! Before I forget. P.S. Does anyone know how to put, like, underlines and italics and stuff????? Cause it never works for me. Help!
