Let me say it like this, I really like Ginny's character (I actually thought about making Luna open Harry but that didn't really fit with it at all, I needed someone more open, emotional and easier angry). And I just love Bellatrix' evilness, so open, so clean and still so dirty and evil. And now the ending excitement comes. At last I'll be able to upload these last two chapters. No more cliffies, they're going to go up tonight, you guys have waited enough.
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Harry ran through the empty corridors of Hogwarts, skidded to a halt infront of Dumbledore's gargoyle.
"Fainting Pastries" he yelled and the gorgoyle stepped aside. Knowing the password from Dumbledore talling him it.
Harry ran up the stairs and crashed into Dumbledore's office. Ron and Hermione were already inside, with Dumbledore behind his desk and in the fire was the head of Mrs Weasley. Everyone seamed intensely serious as they suddenly looked surprised up at Harry.
"Where's Ginny?!" He yelled, hoping that she was either in the Common Room, eating dinner or still at Hogsmeade.
"She's gone!" Mrs Malfoy's head yelled as she started crying heavily and her head disappeared from the fire.
Everything stopped for Harry, he just stood there and stared into space.
"Bellatrix has really taken her..."
"S- She- She never returned from Hogsmeade" Ron said, looking like he didn't know what do to, think or how to feel. "No one has seen her since noon..."
Harry felt how feelings of guilt rose up his spine like boiling water.
"What's the matter Harry?" Hermione suddenly asked, looking like she was going to start crying any moment now. "It looks like you've killed someone by mistake."
"Funny that she would say that..."
"Is there anything about Ginny you can tell us Harry" Dumbledore asked as if he could read Harry's thoughts.
"Bellatrix got her" Harry said shortly as Ron and Hermione gasped. She suddenly started crying like it was what she had expected all along.
Ron just said "Nononono".
"How do you know" Dumbledore said as he kept his calmness. But the familiar twinkle was gone from his eyes again.
Harry walked into the room as he closed the door behind himself. Preparing to tell them the dream but thought that he should probably keep some key elements away. "They would never let me go alone to save her, to give myself freely to Voldemort, damnit I'm don't even want to go back to them, I know I'm scraed of them and of what they are capable of doing."
"She contacted me through a dream" Harry said. "Taunted me and showed me that she had Ginny."
Ron woke from his mumbling and grabbed Harry's t-shirt, pushing him up against the wall.
"How was she?! What have they done to her!" he yelled at him.
Harry swallowed and thought about how it must have been when he disappeared, the frustration they all must have felt.
"She didn't look hurt Ron" he said. "She was unconsciouss..."
Ron realeased him as Dumbledore walked over to them.
"Mr Weasley" he said. "I need to talk to Mr Potter alone, could you escort Miss Granger back to the Gryffindor Common Room?"
Harry noticed how she was sitting on a chair with her face in her hands. Mumbling "Not again, not again".
Ron also looked over at her.
"Right" he said as he walked over to her, took her arm gently and they both walked out of the room slowly with their arms around eachother.
After the door was closed Dumbledore looked back at Harry who looked back at him.
"There is more in that dream I guess" he said.
Harry hesitated, and then decided to tell him everything about it. As he talked Dumbledore went back behind his desk and sat down, Harry took one of the chairs in front of the desk and sat down too.
When Harry had finished his tale a silence filled the room, Harry guessed that he was worrying about what Harry would decide.
"Professor?" Harry finaly broke the silence and Dumbledore looked up. "I've spent a lot of time with Bellatrix during my captivity. I can't let Ginny face that destiny and I can't let her die, not because of me..."
"I understand" Dumbledore said and surprised Harry with that answer. "I've made too many mistakes in my life, trying to control destiny and people, I can not and will not stop you from doing whatever you decide. I will not tell the Order about Bellatrix wanting you to go to her, but I will tell them about the death threat resting above Ginny's head and advice caution to everyone."
As silence again settled in the room Harry rose up and made it to the door.
"Harry" Dumbledore said as Harry placed his hand on the door knob. "Please, be catious and come back alive, if you decide to go."
Harry nodded and left. He walked aimlessly through the corridors and suddenly saw that he was outside Moaning Myrtle's bathroom. He thought back to when he left that bathroom four years ago, having Ginny with him, alive and well.
Harry finally returned to his bedroom, entered and sat down on his bed, watching the moon rising through his window. He thought back to the time he was kidnapped, admitting that he liked being back and would even face the reporters in Hogsmeade rather than going back. But he couldn't lose the feeling that it was his fault that Ginny was kidnapped and probably tortured.
If he had followed her to Hogsmeade then they'd be able to hide in the hordes of reporters, or if he had never started to like Ginny this wouldn't have happened either.
He watched the stars, wondering why he always was placed in these kinds of situations when there is so much space in the Universe, so many places he could have been born in, so many possible lifes. And yet he was there. Sitting by his window, knowing what he had to do because he would never be able to live if he didn't do it. Even though he feared what he would be facing by doing it, actually he had never been more scared in his life. Sitting there knowing that he would soon be going freely into the hands of his terrible and painful doom.
Harry slowly rose from his seat, went over to his trunk, took out his Invisibility Cloak and his old broom, the Firebolt, the first gift he ever recieved from Sirius.
"Never again will I lose anyone close to me because of something like this. Never again."
He opened his window which was not locked any longer, dragged the cloak over him and sat down on his broom, trying to cover it too. He floated out of the window and took up speed as he turned eastward and flew as fast as he could. Not knowing that Lupin knocked on his door a few minutes later and entered when no one opened.
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"If
you read this line, remember not the hand that wrote it
Remember
only the verse, songmakers cry, the one without tears
For Ive
given this its strength and it has become my only
strength.
Comforting home, mothers lap, chance for
immortality
Where being wanted became a thrill I never knew
The
sweet piano writing down my life"
"Teach me
passion for I fear its gone
Show me love, hold the lorn
So
much more I wanted to give to the ones who love me
Im sorry
Time
will tell (this bitter farewell)
I live no more to shame nor me
nor you
And you... I wish I didnt feel for you anymore..."
/From "Dead Boy's Poem" by Nightwish
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Harry flew on throughout the night, taking pauses to use the "Point me"-spell Hermione taught him before the third task in his fourth year to check if he had the right course. That task at the beginning of this hell.
After some hours of flying Harry finally gave up and landed. He created a small camp by sticks, leaves and used his school cloak to keep himself warm.
He woke up in the dawn after a dreamless night, drank some water from a nearby stream and took off again, feeling very hungry and worried, not to mention lonely.
"'A few kilometers', yeah right, she's gotta be kidding with me" he thought.
He flew on as the sun got higher and higher and as the mountains got lower. The forbidden forest was still below him but getting thinner.
Suddenly as it was getting close to noon Harry's seeker eyes noticed something on the ground through the trees. Something metalic. He descended and found a metalic plate with something scribbled on it.
At a closer look he noticed that it was some text, it said "Use this to find us baby-Potter". He held the plate in his hands and wondered how he was supposed to use it to find them. Feeling like he was tricked he threw it down on the ground and kicked it into a tree. It suddenly lit up as it crashed against the tree. Harry catiously went closer to it as a beam suddenly shoot out of it. A small yellowish beam, going up to the same height as his head. Then it suddenly expanded, going through the woods like a rope. Harry understood now that Bellatrix knew how he would react when finding that plate and that the beam went to where Bellatrix was hiding.
Harry ran back to his broom, picked it up together with his Invisibility cloak and took off, flying as fast as he could through the forest. Following the beam.
He didn't need to fly for long now, before he knew it he reached a familiar looking rock wall. The same kind which he saw Ginny being chained to in his dream, it was a part of a ruin spread throughout this part of the forest
Harry stopped maybe fifty meters from one of the rock walls and hid his broom under som brushes before approaching by foot under his Invisibility Cloak.
He walked amongst the ruins for maybe five minutes, searching for Ginny and Bellatrix before he heard someone sniffing.
He hurried towards the sniffing totally forgetting about sneaking without being detected. And then he saw her, sitting by the wall, hands chained to it as in his dream, her eyes were red and there were tears on her face. She looked up towards the sound of Harry's feets.
"W-who's there?!" she asked and Harry's heart broke into thousand parts as he heard the fear in her voice. He ran over to her and sat down on his knees beside her as he pulled off the cloak.
"Ginny, it's me, I'll get you outta here, don't worry" he said. Her eyes opened in surprise as she saw how he came out of thin air beside her.
"Harry?!" she said weakly. "Get away from here, she's here somehwere."
Harry grabbed her head and watched her right into her eyes.
"I know".
Suddenly it felt like time stopped as they sat there and looked eachother into their eyes. Getting closer and closer, feeling eachother breaths on their lips. But they abruptly broke apart when a laughter surprised them. Harry recognised it and looked around, seeing Bellatrix taking off another Invisibility Cloak, holding her wand in her hand.
"Accio wand" she said before Harry had time to react and then "Accio Invisibility Cloak".
"Well, well, well, baby-Potter had fallen in love with his baby-Ginny after all and came to save her like a hero, what a failure, now both will go to the Dark Lord." She laughed more.
Harry stood up and took a step towards her.
"Realease her, you promised me that she'd be freed if I came freely" he said.
"Oh, I did, didn't I?" she said. "Now listen closely baby-Potter, Crucio"
Harry fell to the ground, screaming by the unexpected curse hitting him. When it was over he felt so exhasuted that he couldn't even rise, just looking up at her devilish grin.
"You see baby-Potter, it is I who have the wands, and you have none. I do hope the old fool in your school have taught you any math. But because you were so kind to come here, then I will let her return again, after a visit among us and our Dark Lord."
She laughed like a maniac again and kicked Harry in his stomach before sending a Cruciatus at Ginny.
Harry watched in horror as she twitched and screamed in agony. He felt helpless, it felt like it was him torturing her against his will. His anger rose with every breath, feeling a power rising in his back. He knew now that he really loved her, more than anything, he couldn't let this happen. The power went stronger, the power from his mother's protection, the power from his love for her.
He rolled around and screamed "Impedimenta" and felt how the power in his back shoot out through his hands at Bellatrix, making her to fly against a ruin wall behind her, crashing into it.
"Accio wand" he said and saw how his wand flew into his hand. He quickly threw a glance at Ginny and noticed that she was unconciouss. Forgetting all constant vigilance Moody had taught him he hurried over to her, tried to wake her without succeeding, but she was alive.
"She didn't take kindly to being exposed to the Cruciatus curse so often" Bellatrix said from behind. "She had a tendancy to faint yesterday too baby-Potter." She laughed as Harry turned around. If sights could kill then Bellatrix' body would be mangled into oblivion. Bellatrrix herself looked rather respectful now after Harry's rather powerful wandless magic. But she still tried to maintain the advantage she had earlier by taunting him.
"You will regret ever getting close to her your bastard..." Harry said with a low threatening voice as he felt how a power flowed through his spine, out into his fingers, strengthened by the power in his wand.
Bellatrix sent another Cruciatus at Harry who quickly brought up a Protego shield around him. But Bellatrix were persistent and held the curse, trying to get through Harry's shield. Sweat ran down her confused and strained face when suddenly she dropped the curse. Harry instead felt how the power from her curse was still in his shield and he concentrated his thought and sent it out at Bellatrix who quickly went out of its way. He dropped his shield and watched her, feeling angrier than ever.
She looked back at him, surprised by his sudden power.
"Then so be it, Potter, you want a fight, then I will do what my Dark Lord failed so many years ago, kill you."
They both took up their wands, prepared to duel to the death.
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Bleak
silence
Errors stigmatized in you
A weak worn out
friend
There's nothing left for me
Again and again
Your face
reminds me of a bleak future
Despite the absence of hope
I give
you this sacrifice
You're so far
Behind be my hero
Drift
away
Save yourself
Don't end up zero
Cause I'll look the
other way
/From "Borders and Shadings" by In Flames
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Sorry about this with the old "prince saving his princess from a wicth"-style, and sorry about yet another cliffie, and oh, two songs in one chapter, hehe felt like they fitted well. I think I'll fix the next chapter not so long after this one. So do not despair, you won't need to wait way too long for the next chapter.
Tricia-chan – Yeah, she is tough and she is a Weasley but I don't think anyone except the strongest person would be able to withstand Bellatrix for long, Dumbledore and Harry maybe.
captuniv – And ofcourse the vision wasn't fasle, I'm so evil but I kept Dumbledore in an intelligent way. I guess in a way that he fears Harry becoming a new dark lord.
Potato – Man, do I lvoe these kinds of comments, moahahahahaa.
Lady of Masbolle - "I absolutely adore this fic, the writer ::cough cough:: " hrm, I'll not comment that one. Well Harry is a bit impulsive and as you noticed he checked first. Though he took a risk by not having real proofs of her being in the hands of Bellatrix, but she was gone, where else should she be?
Discombobulatedperson – Poor guy yes, soon everything will be just fiiine, moahahahaha.
Anyway enough babbling, oh, thanks for all great reviews so far, it's like "oh I'm soon home and can check all the new reviews!!" instead of in the past when I thought "oh I'm soon home and can continue to play that new cool game". Upload time!
