Saturday 9:00 am
"Okay everyone stand at one point of the pentagram," Sen instructed looking at the large pentagram drawn in the grass with white powder, approximately 5 yards long. Different color candles burned endlessly at each point as well.
"Harry," Sen said, "You go into the center. You'll be the one doing the main part of the spell, its really simple, you won't be alone either, we're going to try to do a total mind link so we'll all be helping you."
"The spell is easy enough," Ron said, "But you can do a mind link without a spell after a few months practice, but since we've been working on mind shielding and stuff Sen thought we should just do the spell."
Harry nodded nervously as he stepped into the center, everyone else going to separate points. Sen carried a few odd objects and set them at each point of the pentagon formed in the center of the pentagram.
"Those form the portal to the after world," Sen said, "Where his soul should have gone if he hadn't had all those protections on it."
"Its those protections we have to break through," Ron told them.
"But first we have to summon him," Sen continued, "It's a slightly different spell to summon something to a certain place rather than to you directly. The words are Anandla-Eyad. Then we'd just add on You-Know-Who's name."
"Voldemort you mean," Harry said and Sen nodded.
"Why don't we practice saying it a few times," Ron said looking worried, "As long as you say them right, it should work, especially with six of us."
"Does Dumbledore know about this?" Hermione asked wondering if this was going to turn out to be a stupid idea. They could all get killed quite easily. No one would willingly call You-Know-Who to the same room they were in, unless of course they were a death eater. She narrowed her eyes and bit her lip.
Ron nodded, "He's been doing all he can, but I guess he trusts us. Dumbledore's power is in magic, not in the supernatural. This is one situation where he isn't much help."
Hermione nodded, understanding. After mumbling the words over and over they decided to start.
"Okay," Sen whispered, "Everyone close your eyes then we'll start saying the spell. Try to imagine Voldemort's soul being called to this room, to the center of the circle. Then once his soul takes a form, it should be a whispy like see-through thing, not solid at all, you say seyalif, that creates a bubble on the pentagram, he won't be able to leave. If we don't do it quickly though he might go to one our minds. This is where we have to remember how to shield our minds. A soul isn't that strong, even Voldemort's soul and I think you've all had enough practice. Then you have to imagine yourself, well, pushing him into the portal, which is where Harry stands. We form the shield to stop him from leaving, the bubble spell. Ron will do the spell that will link our minds, that way Harry can share all of our strength, like how water and flour and sugar and stuff all separate aren't anything, but together they make a cake. Bad example, but anyway, the main thing is not to let him get away. We can hold him here until he weakens if we can't push him into the portal right away."
"Like a cake would stop Voldemort," Ron said with a hesitant smile.
"That's why it was an example Ron," Sen reminded him with a smile.
Hermione was just barely able to remember all this, but knew that with the mind link Sen and Ron would be able to guide what was going to happen. Her heart pounded loudly and she glanced at Draco's face. He looked just as scared as she was, but he wasn't backing down. None of them were, no matter how afraid they were, this was just too important.
"All right," Ron said, "Let's begin."
Sen started saying the words to the summoing spell and pointed her wand at the center of the circle, slowly the others all followed her example. Quietly at first, their chanting grew steadly louder until they were all nearly shouting. The room suddenly darkened, or had it been happening gradually?, and the candles flames grew higher, the objects at the center each glowing a different color. In that same instant the grass beneath the center suddenly turned shimmery the portal starting to open.
Hermione nearly stopped chanting when she heard a faint whispering slide through out the room almost as though many beings were just beyond the portal. She shivered slightly and chanted louder trying to feel Voldemort's soul being summoned to this room, to the pentagram.
In a few minutes the room had gone from bright to pitch black, the candles being the only source of light, illuminating their faces in a deathly way. A faint grayness suddenly started to materialise in the center next to Harry. Hermione squinted then blinked as it became more solid taking on the basic shape of a human.
Sen stopped chanting the summoing words and changed to the shielding words. Once again everyone slowly followed until Hermione almost felt a shield go up around the pentagram.
"This is it," Sen said and Hermione suddenly felt a blaring sense of openness in her mind then saw the room from each angle and felt the power of their magics centering in Harry.
"Keep your mind shielded, this is where we're going to be weakest," Sen whispered as they continued chanting, holding Voldemort there.
Hermione whipped up the mental stone wall around her head almost the same instant she felt something ice cold touch it. She hardened the wall and slowly felt the coldness drift away, only to feel it touch Ginny's mind, linger only briefly on Sen's, then move onto Draco and finally to Ron.
Sen mumbled something and suddenly Hermione wasn't a part of everyone's mind they were all converged in Harry's. She felt Harry's fear, his thoughts of facing Voldemort before, and nearly cried out at the slight onrush of what he was thinking. The mental link didn't allow her to look into her memories, only his current thoughts. She almost felt that their power matched Voldemort's. Harry started speaking a strange voice, almost a mix of everyone's and she felt a strong pull towards the portal.
The grayness had now become very solid, its feet touching the ground and the shape of the figure quite clear, color even starting to come in. She felt Sen frown and yell another spell, then heard her thinking that he was even stronger than they'd thought. That in the bodies of the students he'd been taking their power and building them up somewhere. Where though? How? They had to hope to be able to defeat not only Voldemort's soul's power but also the power he'd gathered. Sen's thoughts told her that he would have had to have something that his power was kept in, a sacred box or jar, something like that would have to be hidden, a abandoned room.
They pushed mentally at the almost alive looking figure, trying to get it to move into the portal, but he pushed back, and then started being pulled apart, the solidness disappearing as though wind was pulling it into the portal. Keep pushing, Sen thought.
Then, something felt wrong, Hermione felt her own soul started to be pulled away from its body towards the portal as well. If they got too far in it would completely pull them in! Hermione jerked back almost at the same time everyone else did. A noise like a gun-shot sounded throughout the winds and suddenly, the lights flickered back on and the portal closed up.
"Is he gone?" someone asked, Hermione was too dazed to think about who.
"No, he was too strong, he got away," another voice sounded scared and worried.
A slight tremor went through-out the school and the lights flickered then went out again, once again the candles being the only source of light.
A/N: Two nice long action chapters! Not as fun as romance packed chapters, but fun neverthe less. There was soo much I had to put in before Voldemort attacked, I was actually planning on one or two more chapters before these ones.. but I guess I'll save them for the third one, if it works out.
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