Chapter Eleven -- The Dementor's Kiss

"Julianna, are you all right?" Hermione asked aware of her friend's bruises and scratches.

"What are you doing here?"

"That's a pretty obvious question, mate!" Ron said.

"You're not suppo-"

Another red light hit them. "How thoughtful," Voldemort said, "your friends came all this way to help you die." Hermione was laying flat on the ground and so is Ron.

Julianna came in front of Ron and Hermione as the two tried to stand up. "You two get out of here, I'll take care of this." she breathed.

Voldemort laughed, "Such confidence, Potter! You really do amaze me."

"But Julianna," Hermione protested.

"Go!"

"No, were not leaving without you!" Ron said.

"AVADA KEDAVRA!" both Voldemort and Julianna said that made Ron leaped backwards. Their wands like before sort of intertwined.

"Get out of here!" Julianna yelled but Hermione and Ron wasn't moving.

"What's this?" cried Voldemort, "No-t again!" he said as his wand made a jerking motion and out came Cedric Diggory, who was looking at Julianna with great support. Another one appeared from Voldemort's wand, a muggle.

"Hold on, Julianna. You're parent's are coming." Cedric said with an airy voice.

"No!" Voldemort said and with a great heave everything around them exploded.

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"Julianna!" Sirius shouted as he saw the silvery stag swerved passed him and hit two dementors. The stag galloped around them again and continued hitting dementors with his huge horns.

"That's really something, Black!" Lucius said, "But your opponent is me!"

Sirius ducked at Lucius' Stunning Spell and sends another curse at him, "Remus, back me up, Julianna is here!" But Lupin was busy as two Death Eaters came towards him, obviously unaware of Wormtail behind him. Just as before Wormtail made a lunged at him with his silver hand the stag shove his horns at him and send him flying away, landing about ten feet across them.

Sirius looked around then ducked again as a stream of blue light narrowly missing his ear. He went to Lupin and the two Death Eaters lay flat on the ground in an instant.

"That stag…" Lupin said as the stag keep on hitting every dementor in sight.

"She's around here somewh-" Sirius' voice broke as the cliff not far away from them exploded.

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"Julianna!" Hermione coughed and was trying to fan off the dust that surrounded them.

"Julianna!" Ron called too but there was no answer. "H-hermione…"

"What?"

"Do - do you feel a bit chilly here?" He shivered and collapsed.

"Ron!" she came around him, "Get up!" But she too was getting cold and clammy, she knew this feeling…

The dust abated and Hermione couldn't believe what she saw. A group of dementors was now encircling Julianna, as she lay unconscious on the ground.

"Ex… ex… Ron, wake up! Julianna… expecto -" she was getting weaker. She couldn't even raise her own wand. "Help! Over here…Help!" she squeaked. "Julianna!"

A dementor grabbed Julianna's shirt like a ragged doll and she could feel its long death-like fingers. "No.." she heard herself say as visions flooded her brain.

Mum… Dad…

Think of happy thoughts.

Ron… Hermione…

Think of happy thoughts.

Lily, its him. I'll hold him off. Get Julianna.. Go..

Think of happy thoughts.

Kill us now Dumbledore… end the pain..

No.. I'm not like him..

Julianna tightened her gripped of her wand as the dementor lowered its head. "ex - pecto -" she was weak and her body hurts abominably.

End the pain…

She was remembering that incident…

End the pain…

She was not saying this but at the back of her mind she wanted to..

And I'll see Sirius again…

"And I'll see Sirius again…" she repeated and dropped her wand as she felt something cold touched her lips and her energy was being sucked from her.. her life..

"EXPECTO PATRONUM!" roared Dumbledore and the dementors were blasted off in an instant. He ran towards Julianna's lifeless body… no.. it was not lifeless… it was… colorless.. Her body was cold and clammy and… pale.

"Julianna!" cried Sirius as he kneeled beside her, taking her off Dumbledore's arms and into his. He looked at Dumbledore.

"She's still alive Sirius… but.."