Chapter 25
After The End
Then she looked up into Harry's blank face, searching for an answer, but Harry was too shocked to respond. She suddenly turned away and ran down out of the ally crying. After a few minuets of trying to understand what had just happened, Harry ran out of the ally and into the crowded street, where he frantically started shouting
"Cho, Cho, where are you?" Then he saw her, just outside the gates, she was going back to school. "Cho! Wait! Cho!" He ran as fast as he could towards the gates. She turned and saw him, then turned away and started running away. But suddenly a band of dark and strange looking people were making their way towards him. They had him cornered until he remembered, he could fly! He transformed into an eagle and was soaring up in the air. He looked down at the crowd of people who had ganged up on him but they had vanished, instead a swarm of things, horrible things Harry had only seen pictures of, Vampires. They where gaining on him, Harry didn't know what they wanted, but it he didn't want to let them catch up with him so he could find out. They where diving down, then harry realized, Cho! They where diving towards the carriage that was taking her back to school!
"Cho!" Harry was human again, but he was still in the air. 'Change Back, Change Back!' Harry thought to himself, Suddenly he was soaring back up in the air, and as he landed on the ground he ran as fast as he could after the carriage
"Cho! Stop! Stupefy!" He had done it Stunned the carriage. He charged and ripped the door open. "Cho!" He pulled he frozen body out and was soaring out of the carriage, His talons holding her tight. There it was! The castle! He ran, now back in his human form, through the doors in the entrance, straight up the stairs and into Dumbledore's office, but he had let the doors open and the Vampires were in pursuit. "Vampires!" he gasped, and with a glance of comprehension, he stood up and hurriedly opened the passage. It was like being in a storm cellar during a Tornado, Harry was holding Cho, who had been cut badly when clutched in his talons, but unstunned, and there was something swarming up above them above the layer of ceiling protecting them. Harry waited for what felt like days for Dumbledore to open the passage and tell them everything was alright, but his gentle, understanding face never came down to their aid. Instead it was Professor McGonagall who opened the passage and looked up on then with a face of grief, sorrow, and an emptiness they had never seen in her eyes before.
"Oh, thank goodness your both safe, you'd better come with me, there's something you need to see." She led them up the passage way, to the main room in Dumbledore's office, and in there was what seemed like the entire Order, the Weasley's, all the Staff, all of Harry's friends from Phoenix, and at least two dozen ministry workers including Cornelius Fudge. Everyone was tear eyed and many were crying. Two officials walked in sadly and said
"We examined his body thoroughly, he's really gone." Those who weren't crying began of cry uncontrollably, and those who were already crying began to weep horribly. Only Harry and Cho stood there confused and dry faced.
"What? Who? What's going on here?"
Hermione stepped over to them, and after drying her face she said, in a very shaky voice,
"Professor Dumbledore, he- he- he…"
Although Hermione was unable to finish her sentence, Harry knew at once what had happened to Dumbledore, and it felt like the world had come to an end.