A/N: I'm so sorry! *tear* I was too mean, really. Please forgive me!
I'm usually really impatient and I like getting things done, and sometimes
I forget that other people do things differently. Also, fanfiction is
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compensation, I will post the chapter tonight! :-D Thanks to all my
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Chapter 58:
Harry tried to swallow, but his mouth was completely dry. "It's- it's in my trunk," he said, the blood draining from his face.
Hermione bit her lip. "Well- there's been an emergency DA meeting called. A- and I don't think it's good at all, Harry... Come on."
Harry jumped out of bed, hurriedly pulling on a robe. "Merlin, I need to start sleeping with that and abide by my own rules... any idea what's happened? Should we fetch Voldemort? Who's in the DA room now?"
"Ernie and Colin... Oh, Harry; this is really dangerous! What if it's You-Know-Who? In the school?"
Harry shook his head. "If he's on the way to the school, he'd be in Hogsmeade. Come on." Harry exited the room, not caring about the amount of noise he was making. Hermione and Ron caught up with him, while Ginny, Lenore, Neville, Dean, and Seamus followed in their wake. Parvati was in the Common Room with Lavender, and both were pacing.
"I was just on watch," breathed Parvati anxiously, "And I didn't see anything! But on my way here my Galleon began burning, so I came up and woke Hermione, Lavender, Lenore, and Ginny..."
"It's fine, Parvati," said Harry, brushing by her. "Come on..." The castle was smothered in an eerie, ominous quiet. Harry couldn't brush off the feeling that something was dreadfully wrong. They were almost to the hidden portrait when Harry stopped dead in his tracks.
"What is it, mate?" asked Ron, sounding shaky.
"The Order... Don't you think they would know by now?" Ron nodded for a moment.
"But it just happened less than five minutes ago, Harry..."
"I- I know, but... something's not right. Hurry up."
"You're the one whop stopped," muttered Ginny crossly. Harry ignored her. Soon, he was in front of the portrait. Hermione muttered the password and opened it.
"Harry!" yelled Colin, running over to him.
"What is it, Colin?" asked Harry, hurrying over to the maps.
Ernie was pacing the floor.
"You-Know-Who!" gasped Colin, "In Diagon Alley! It looks like he went into Gringotts! Yes... there he is..."
"Harry!" gasped Hermione. "What if Gringotts is where the thing is being kept?"
"It's either Gringotts or Hogwarts," said Ron, furrowing his brow. Harry nodded.
"Let's go," he said immediately. Everyone dropped their mouths.
"What?" asked Lenore incredulously. Harry nodded.
"It's the only way... the Order members will be there already... we have twelve suits, if I'm correct... there are actually twelve of us here," he said, counting... Lenore, Hermione, Lavender, Parvati, Ginny, Ernie, Colin, Neville, Dean, Seamus, Ron, and himself...
"What about us?" asked Draco as he entered the Common room suddenly, with Tabby. Tabby looked very pale and frightened.
"Hmm," said Harry. "We're wasting time. Dean and Seamus stay here and alert all of the other DA members." They nodded.
"Now, we'll take the map," said Harry aloud.
"Er, Harry?" said Hermione weakly.
"What?" he asked impatiently.
"Well... there was a permanent sticking charm, so that nobody could take it out of the room." Harry's heart sunk.
"Wait!" said Lenore suddenly. "Harry, the mirror I gave you! The two-way mirror... they could talk to us while we're in there!" Harry nodded.
"Yes, yes...Hmm. Lenore, Ginny, Draco, and I can Apparate there so we might be able to get there quickly enough." Harry turned to Ron and Hermione. "D'you think you all can get Thestrals?" Hermione looked upset, but she nodded nonetheless.
"You mean we have to ride thestrals again?" exclaimed Ron. "How will we attract them? None of us have seen anyone die!"
"I have," said Neville quietly.
Ron's face fell. "And I can Apparate," said tabby suddenly. "The age is different in the States..." Harry nodded.
"All right. Seamus, go wake up everyone in the DA in Gryffindor. Ernie, you get Hufflepuff... maybe you shouldn't come; we need you here..." Ernie nodded. "There aren't any Slytherins beside Draco, Tabby, and Malcolm..."
"Malcolm is sick," said Draco.
"Okay, then," said Harry. "Who can get the Ravenclaws?"
"I can get Padma to," said Parvati suddenly. "We have always been rather close, and we have a two-way mirror..." Harry nodded.
"Great. Everyone grab an Invisibility suit and go. I'll go get my mirror. Come on, Lenore... Everyone who needs to wake someone, go on. Ron; Hermione; Neville- take the Thestralers when they all get back. Dean, come with me and Lenore so you at the castle could have a mirror. Actually, Ginny and Draco come too. We'll go straight to Hogsmeade."
"Why are we wasting time?" asked Draco angrily. "ACCIO TWO-WAY MIRRORS OF LENORE AND HARRY!" Harry opened his mouth in surprise. A moment later, something could be heard slamming into the portrait. Ginny hurried over and opened it, and ducked as the mirrors whizzed to Draco, who looked smug. Draco handed one to Seamus and the other to Harry.
"Now come on," he said. "We have something- to save." Harry looked at everyone bravely, praying that this wouldn't be the last time he saw any of them.
"I- I'll see you soon, then," he said. Hermione hugged him tightly, and Ron shook his hand.
"See you soon, Harry," he said bravely. Ginny hugged her brother and Hermione.
"Bye," she whispered.
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After several minutes, Harry, Draco, Tabby, Lenore, and Ginny were in a passageway, heading for Hogsmeade. Lenore was clutching the mirror with one hand and Draco with the other. The whole way there was the loudest silence Harry had ever endured. Nobody really had heart to speak. Soon enough, they ran into steps, and finally, the trapdoor.
Harry took a deep breath before opening it up and climbing silently into Hogsmeade. The five put on their invisibility suits.
"Are you still there?" asked Lenore in a hushed whisper.
"Yeah," said Harry. "Now, don't Apparate into Gringotts. Too much noise. Apparate into the street in front of it, all right?" There was no response, and Harry hoped that they had all nodded.
"On three, then," said Tabby. "One... two... three." Harry stayed long enough to hear four earsplitting cracks and to hear the Honeydukes security alarm go off before Apparating away himself. He landed a moment later outside the white marble steps of Gringott's Bank.
The street was sinisterly quiet. The shops were closed, and the streetlamps were flickering. But the lights of Gringotts were all on, as the bank was open 24 hours. It looked strangely different at night. Harry looked up and realized that it was a full moon.
"Are you all here?" came Ginny's quiet voice. Draco answered first.
"Yes."
"Yeah!" came Lenore's voice.
"I'm here," called Harry.
"Tabby?" called Lenore worriedly.
"BOO!"
"Ahhh!" yelled Lenore.
"Tabby!" scolded Harry and Ginny.
"I was just having fun," she said crossly.
"Now is not the damn time for fun!" hissed Draco.
"Come on," said Harry, looking around. "We may as well go ahead in."
"All right," said Ginny. They all headed up into the building. Harry saw a door open in front of him.
"Thanks," he whispered to whoever it was.
"You're welcome," came the voice of Lenore. Harry slipped into the opening of the door. None of the goblins had looked up, thankfully. They were all sitting at their desks. Harry grabbed the closest hand, which happened to be Ginny's. He whispered for her to grab the next person's hand. Soon they were all linked. Harry led them in through an open door, into an empty corridor. Harry then shed his invisibility suit.
The others followed his example. Next to Ginny was Draco, and on the other side of him was Lenore. "Where's Tabby?" asked Harry angrily. Draco shrugged. Lenore looked anxious.
"If she gets us caught," began Harry angrily. He then sighed. "Lenore, let's get out the mirror."
She nodded and took it out. "Seamus! Dean!" she called. A moment later, Harry heard Dean's voice.
"Hey, Lenore. Thank Merlin; we were beginning to get worried... Can I talk to Harry?" Lenore nodded and passed the mirror. Harry looked into Dean's face.
"Harry! We see where you are; there's three Death Eaters in the corridor to your left!"
"Are they moving?" asked Harry. Dean shook his head.
"Not right now."
"Okay; we'll move in a minute... So, where's Voldemort?" Dean cringed.
"Tom Riddle went downstairs about twenty minutes ago. The map doesn't show the lower levels of Gringotts..." Harry nodded. "How are things there?"
Dean frowned. "Well, the people on Thestrals took off only fifteen minutes after you. Some DA members didn't show up, but most of them are here and are creating a huge commotion. We have Lisa and Serena watching the Hogwarts map; Dumbledore's gone; as is McGonagall... Susan, Katie Bell, and 2 other 7th year Gryffindors are watching Hogsmeade, and Seamus, Ernie, and I are watching Diagon Alley. The whole place is swarming with Death Eaters; Malfoy, Nott, two Lestranges, Crabbe, Goyle, Pettigrew- wait, isn't Peter Pettigrew dead?"
"I'll explain later," said Harry. "Are all the Death Eaters in Gringotts?" Dean nodded.
"And a lot of the shops are filled with people... Some Weasleys, a Tonks, Moody, Oh- there's McGonagall, Hagrid... someone that's an H. Jones....I'm seeing several Aurors- hey, there's my parents! Wait, Harry? Why are there three Weasleys in your corridor?" Harry frowned.
"There's not, there's just- "
Suddenly, Ginny looked mad. "All right, which ones are you? Come on, show yourselves!" Suddenly, Fred and George appeared out of nowhere, clutching their invisibility suits.
"Dumbledore wants us tailing you," said Fred, "If you happened to come..."
George sighed sadly. "You're all under corridor arrest..."
"What?" asked Harry sharply, looking away from the mirror.
"Dumbledore and Mum asked us to tail you, and we said okay, but we didn't know about the Charm..." said Fred angrily.
"What charm?" asked Ginny suspiciously.
"We can't get out... Fred and I have been trying to get out of this corridor for the past five minutes. Neither door works." Draco's mouth dropped open.
"Are you serious?" George nodded, sighing wistfully.
"FRED! GEORGE! YOU IDIOTS!" shrieked Ginny.
"It's not like we want to miss out on the action!" said George angrily. "But we're stuck babysitting..." he grumbled. Lenore ran over to the door and pushed on it. It wouldn't budge.
"Alohomora!" she yelled. Still wouldn't move.
"Damn!" yelled Draco. Harry turned back to Dean.
"Are the others on any maps yet?"
"They left the grounds awhile ago, but they're not in Diagon Alley yet... even if they were, I don't know how we'd be able to communicate with them..."
"Great," sighed Harry sarcastically. "Ahh, well... call us if you see anything important."
"Okay," said Dean, nodding.
"Oh, wait!" said Harry suddenly.
"Yeah?"
"Do you see Tabby anywhere?"
"Hang on.... Harry... what the hell...? She's about to go down!"
Lenore paled, and Ginny gasped. "Is she out of her mind?" exclaimed Harry. "I'll talk to you later, Dean."
"Bye." With that, Harry put down the mirror. He strode over to the door and tried to open it. It wouldn't budge.
"DAMN!" yelled Fred rather loudly. Suddenly, the door opened, from the outside.
"Fancy seeing you here, Potter," said none other than Augustus Rookwood, pointing his wand at Lenore's heart.
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Chapter 58:
Harry tried to swallow, but his mouth was completely dry. "It's- it's in my trunk," he said, the blood draining from his face.
Hermione bit her lip. "Well- there's been an emergency DA meeting called. A- and I don't think it's good at all, Harry... Come on."
Harry jumped out of bed, hurriedly pulling on a robe. "Merlin, I need to start sleeping with that and abide by my own rules... any idea what's happened? Should we fetch Voldemort? Who's in the DA room now?"
"Ernie and Colin... Oh, Harry; this is really dangerous! What if it's You-Know-Who? In the school?"
Harry shook his head. "If he's on the way to the school, he'd be in Hogsmeade. Come on." Harry exited the room, not caring about the amount of noise he was making. Hermione and Ron caught up with him, while Ginny, Lenore, Neville, Dean, and Seamus followed in their wake. Parvati was in the Common Room with Lavender, and both were pacing.
"I was just on watch," breathed Parvati anxiously, "And I didn't see anything! But on my way here my Galleon began burning, so I came up and woke Hermione, Lavender, Lenore, and Ginny..."
"It's fine, Parvati," said Harry, brushing by her. "Come on..." The castle was smothered in an eerie, ominous quiet. Harry couldn't brush off the feeling that something was dreadfully wrong. They were almost to the hidden portrait when Harry stopped dead in his tracks.
"What is it, mate?" asked Ron, sounding shaky.
"The Order... Don't you think they would know by now?" Ron nodded for a moment.
"But it just happened less than five minutes ago, Harry..."
"I- I know, but... something's not right. Hurry up."
"You're the one whop stopped," muttered Ginny crossly. Harry ignored her. Soon, he was in front of the portrait. Hermione muttered the password and opened it.
"Harry!" yelled Colin, running over to him.
"What is it, Colin?" asked Harry, hurrying over to the maps.
Ernie was pacing the floor.
"You-Know-Who!" gasped Colin, "In Diagon Alley! It looks like he went into Gringotts! Yes... there he is..."
"Harry!" gasped Hermione. "What if Gringotts is where the thing is being kept?"
"It's either Gringotts or Hogwarts," said Ron, furrowing his brow. Harry nodded.
"Let's go," he said immediately. Everyone dropped their mouths.
"What?" asked Lenore incredulously. Harry nodded.
"It's the only way... the Order members will be there already... we have twelve suits, if I'm correct... there are actually twelve of us here," he said, counting... Lenore, Hermione, Lavender, Parvati, Ginny, Ernie, Colin, Neville, Dean, Seamus, Ron, and himself...
"What about us?" asked Draco as he entered the Common room suddenly, with Tabby. Tabby looked very pale and frightened.
"Hmm," said Harry. "We're wasting time. Dean and Seamus stay here and alert all of the other DA members." They nodded.
"Now, we'll take the map," said Harry aloud.
"Er, Harry?" said Hermione weakly.
"What?" he asked impatiently.
"Well... there was a permanent sticking charm, so that nobody could take it out of the room." Harry's heart sunk.
"Wait!" said Lenore suddenly. "Harry, the mirror I gave you! The two-way mirror... they could talk to us while we're in there!" Harry nodded.
"Yes, yes...Hmm. Lenore, Ginny, Draco, and I can Apparate there so we might be able to get there quickly enough." Harry turned to Ron and Hermione. "D'you think you all can get Thestrals?" Hermione looked upset, but she nodded nonetheless.
"You mean we have to ride thestrals again?" exclaimed Ron. "How will we attract them? None of us have seen anyone die!"
"I have," said Neville quietly.
Ron's face fell. "And I can Apparate," said tabby suddenly. "The age is different in the States..." Harry nodded.
"All right. Seamus, go wake up everyone in the DA in Gryffindor. Ernie, you get Hufflepuff... maybe you shouldn't come; we need you here..." Ernie nodded. "There aren't any Slytherins beside Draco, Tabby, and Malcolm..."
"Malcolm is sick," said Draco.
"Okay, then," said Harry. "Who can get the Ravenclaws?"
"I can get Padma to," said Parvati suddenly. "We have always been rather close, and we have a two-way mirror..." Harry nodded.
"Great. Everyone grab an Invisibility suit and go. I'll go get my mirror. Come on, Lenore... Everyone who needs to wake someone, go on. Ron; Hermione; Neville- take the Thestralers when they all get back. Dean, come with me and Lenore so you at the castle could have a mirror. Actually, Ginny and Draco come too. We'll go straight to Hogsmeade."
"Why are we wasting time?" asked Draco angrily. "ACCIO TWO-WAY MIRRORS OF LENORE AND HARRY!" Harry opened his mouth in surprise. A moment later, something could be heard slamming into the portrait. Ginny hurried over and opened it, and ducked as the mirrors whizzed to Draco, who looked smug. Draco handed one to Seamus and the other to Harry.
"Now come on," he said. "We have something- to save." Harry looked at everyone bravely, praying that this wouldn't be the last time he saw any of them.
"I- I'll see you soon, then," he said. Hermione hugged him tightly, and Ron shook his hand.
"See you soon, Harry," he said bravely. Ginny hugged her brother and Hermione.
"Bye," she whispered.
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After several minutes, Harry, Draco, Tabby, Lenore, and Ginny were in a passageway, heading for Hogsmeade. Lenore was clutching the mirror with one hand and Draco with the other. The whole way there was the loudest silence Harry had ever endured. Nobody really had heart to speak. Soon enough, they ran into steps, and finally, the trapdoor.
Harry took a deep breath before opening it up and climbing silently into Hogsmeade. The five put on their invisibility suits.
"Are you still there?" asked Lenore in a hushed whisper.
"Yeah," said Harry. "Now, don't Apparate into Gringotts. Too much noise. Apparate into the street in front of it, all right?" There was no response, and Harry hoped that they had all nodded.
"On three, then," said Tabby. "One... two... three." Harry stayed long enough to hear four earsplitting cracks and to hear the Honeydukes security alarm go off before Apparating away himself. He landed a moment later outside the white marble steps of Gringott's Bank.
The street was sinisterly quiet. The shops were closed, and the streetlamps were flickering. But the lights of Gringotts were all on, as the bank was open 24 hours. It looked strangely different at night. Harry looked up and realized that it was a full moon.
"Are you all here?" came Ginny's quiet voice. Draco answered first.
"Yes."
"Yeah!" came Lenore's voice.
"I'm here," called Harry.
"Tabby?" called Lenore worriedly.
"BOO!"
"Ahhh!" yelled Lenore.
"Tabby!" scolded Harry and Ginny.
"I was just having fun," she said crossly.
"Now is not the damn time for fun!" hissed Draco.
"Come on," said Harry, looking around. "We may as well go ahead in."
"All right," said Ginny. They all headed up into the building. Harry saw a door open in front of him.
"Thanks," he whispered to whoever it was.
"You're welcome," came the voice of Lenore. Harry slipped into the opening of the door. None of the goblins had looked up, thankfully. They were all sitting at their desks. Harry grabbed the closest hand, which happened to be Ginny's. He whispered for her to grab the next person's hand. Soon they were all linked. Harry led them in through an open door, into an empty corridor. Harry then shed his invisibility suit.
The others followed his example. Next to Ginny was Draco, and on the other side of him was Lenore. "Where's Tabby?" asked Harry angrily. Draco shrugged. Lenore looked anxious.
"If she gets us caught," began Harry angrily. He then sighed. "Lenore, let's get out the mirror."
She nodded and took it out. "Seamus! Dean!" she called. A moment later, Harry heard Dean's voice.
"Hey, Lenore. Thank Merlin; we were beginning to get worried... Can I talk to Harry?" Lenore nodded and passed the mirror. Harry looked into Dean's face.
"Harry! We see where you are; there's three Death Eaters in the corridor to your left!"
"Are they moving?" asked Harry. Dean shook his head.
"Not right now."
"Okay; we'll move in a minute... So, where's Voldemort?" Dean cringed.
"Tom Riddle went downstairs about twenty minutes ago. The map doesn't show the lower levels of Gringotts..." Harry nodded. "How are things there?"
Dean frowned. "Well, the people on Thestrals took off only fifteen minutes after you. Some DA members didn't show up, but most of them are here and are creating a huge commotion. We have Lisa and Serena watching the Hogwarts map; Dumbledore's gone; as is McGonagall... Susan, Katie Bell, and 2 other 7th year Gryffindors are watching Hogsmeade, and Seamus, Ernie, and I are watching Diagon Alley. The whole place is swarming with Death Eaters; Malfoy, Nott, two Lestranges, Crabbe, Goyle, Pettigrew- wait, isn't Peter Pettigrew dead?"
"I'll explain later," said Harry. "Are all the Death Eaters in Gringotts?" Dean nodded.
"And a lot of the shops are filled with people... Some Weasleys, a Tonks, Moody, Oh- there's McGonagall, Hagrid... someone that's an H. Jones....I'm seeing several Aurors- hey, there's my parents! Wait, Harry? Why are there three Weasleys in your corridor?" Harry frowned.
"There's not, there's just- "
Suddenly, Ginny looked mad. "All right, which ones are you? Come on, show yourselves!" Suddenly, Fred and George appeared out of nowhere, clutching their invisibility suits.
"Dumbledore wants us tailing you," said Fred, "If you happened to come..."
George sighed sadly. "You're all under corridor arrest..."
"What?" asked Harry sharply, looking away from the mirror.
"Dumbledore and Mum asked us to tail you, and we said okay, but we didn't know about the Charm..." said Fred angrily.
"What charm?" asked Ginny suspiciously.
"We can't get out... Fred and I have been trying to get out of this corridor for the past five minutes. Neither door works." Draco's mouth dropped open.
"Are you serious?" George nodded, sighing wistfully.
"FRED! GEORGE! YOU IDIOTS!" shrieked Ginny.
"It's not like we want to miss out on the action!" said George angrily. "But we're stuck babysitting..." he grumbled. Lenore ran over to the door and pushed on it. It wouldn't budge.
"Alohomora!" she yelled. Still wouldn't move.
"Damn!" yelled Draco. Harry turned back to Dean.
"Are the others on any maps yet?"
"They left the grounds awhile ago, but they're not in Diagon Alley yet... even if they were, I don't know how we'd be able to communicate with them..."
"Great," sighed Harry sarcastically. "Ahh, well... call us if you see anything important."
"Okay," said Dean, nodding.
"Oh, wait!" said Harry suddenly.
"Yeah?"
"Do you see Tabby anywhere?"
"Hang on.... Harry... what the hell...? She's about to go down!"
Lenore paled, and Ginny gasped. "Is she out of her mind?" exclaimed Harry. "I'll talk to you later, Dean."
"Bye." With that, Harry put down the mirror. He strode over to the door and tried to open it. It wouldn't budge.
"DAMN!" yelled Fred rather loudly. Suddenly, the door opened, from the outside.
"Fancy seeing you here, Potter," said none other than Augustus Rookwood, pointing his wand at Lenore's heart.
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