Disclaimer: Harry does not belong to me, but rather belongs to JK Rowling.

A/N: This is the sequel to Harry Potter and the War of the Wizarding World. I suggest that you read that first or else you won't have any idea what's going on in this story. Not that I'm saying you can't read this, but in all honestly, I truly believe you will be thoroughly confused...

Summary: This is a story about Harry's summer before and during his seventh year at Hogwarts. Just after Harry turns 17, Privet Drive is attacked and Harry is forced to protect the family who had never showed him love. Shortly before the start of school, a close friend of the trio disappears and Harry is thrown into turmoil. School begins and the friend returns, but only as the shell of a person. Harry has much more on his plate this year with N.E.W.T.S and the battle against Voldemort coming ever closer.

Warning: There are scenes of torture, mention of rape, and implied sex within this story. The rating may be raised because of this.

Title: Harry Potter and the Battle of the Worlds

Ch. 7

The Dinner Surprise

Harry awoke to Ron shaking him. He rolled over and sat up. The sun was just rising, so he didn't understand why he had been awaken.

"What's up?" He asked Ron.

"Hermione's already awake. She wants to come up, but she didn't want to disturb you. I told her I'd wake you." Harry nodded and Ron left to go and fetch Hermione. Blaise and Neville seemed to already be awake as well and opened the curtains around their beds. Harry nodded to them and moved off his bed and to his trunk. He opened it and discovered the picture frames that Tally had given him for his birthday. He removed them from his trunk and stared at them as he sat on his bed. They had been happy. They had been together.

"Harry?" He looked up to see Hermione standing in front of him, he hadn't heard them enter the room. He handed over the pictures to Hermione who took them and placed them on his nightstand. Harry took out some more robes and went to the bathroom to clean himself up. Blaise stood at one of the sinks shaving. Neville was showering in one of the two showers.

It didn't take him long to shower and change before he was back in the dorm room with his friends. They were talking quietly as to not wake Dean and Seamus and looked up at him when he neared them. Harry noted the dark circles beneath Hermione's and Neville's eyes.

Neville, who Tally had once explained to him was like a brother to Tally, and so he knew that her disappearance was probably affecting him the most. He knew her the longest as he had grown up with her and been with her through the toughest years. Hermione, being the person she was, had become close with Tally when they had finally gotten over their differences. Tally was the only real female friend Hermione had. Harry sighed and motioned for them to head to breakfast.

When they entered the Great Hall, very few students were there. Those that were, watched them closely as they passed. Luna was among them and stood and walked with them to the Gryffindor table. She sat down beside her boyfriend and ate her breakfast with the only people who had ever considered her a good friend.

And so that was the ritual that began. Every morning the Seventh year Gryffindors plus Ginny and Luna would sit in the same seats early in the morning and eat their breakfast in silnce. They stayed up late at night to talk and do their homework. The Trio and their closest freinds rarely talked to anyone else, unless asked a direct question. Harry and Hermione did their Head Boy and Girl duties and Ron his Prefect duties with Parvati. No one questioned them, not even the Professors. When they walked down the hall, the students moved to either side to allow them through. Even the Slytherins left them in peace.

Professor Adams couldn't pull himself together to teach his DADA classes, so he gave the reins to Snape until further notice. Although Snape sent loathing looks in Harry's direction, he kept his sneers and comments to himself. Harry clung to the whispersfrom Tally he heard in the back of his head for sanity, but even those were beginning to fade and Harry knew time was running out.

Harry sat down beside Neville at the dinner table. The first week of N.E.W.T.S. classes and worry for Tally had left Harry feeling drained. Looking at his friends, he found them to look the same. Parvati and Lavender looked much worse than Harry as they were extremely close with Tally. Harry looked to the head table and found Adams looking like Harry felt. Adams sat head turned down staring into his untouched food. His face was pale beneath his olive skin, his hair limp. He looked as though he hadn't slept in days with dark circles beneath his eyes.

Harry stood to make his way to the head tableto talk to Adamswhen the doors to the Great Hall burst open. A small, fragile, and extremely filthy looking creature stumbled into the Hall and completely lost it's balance and fell hard to the floor. Those closest to the doors let out cries of shock and alarm. Many students ran to help the creature that was still laying, shaking on the floor. The creature let out a blood-curtling scream when the students came to close and had quickly gotten back onto its feet, running further into the Great Hall mumbling incoherently to itself.

"MERLIN'S BEARD!" Hermione cried out from beside Harry. He turned his head to her, confused at her out-cry, "Tally..." she whispered. Harry whipped his attention back to the creature, to his surprise and horror, Hermione was right. There standing in the middle of the Hall, caked in mud, sweat, and blood, hair limp and oily from days of unwashing, clothes (a t-shirt and boxer shorts) torn, filthy, and hanging off from her malnurished body was Tally. Harry ran to her, Adams already trying to reach her, but the more people tried to get closer to her, the louder her frantic mumbling became and she would quickly move away. Every-so-often Harry would catch what she was saying,

"Know nothing...no more...didn't happen...get them off me...just keep running..." She would constantly grab at her hair or rub her hands over herself as if trying to get an invisible bug off of herself. Her eyes were wide and unfocused, Harry didn't think she was even aware that she was in the Great Hall, but rather back in the horrors she had had to endure. "ANGEL!" Her sudden outburst caused most of the students and Professors to jump. "Angel? Where...?" Her eyes focused for a moment and she immediately locked eyes with Dumbledore. She walked up to him and whispered to him, "I didn't tell them...I didn't...know..." Her eyes glazed over once more and she moved back away again, "No more...don't know..." She started banging her hands to her head, " No, please, no more. Don't curse..please!" Adams panicked and tried to reach her but she screamed out for her house-elf while looking wildly around. Her eyes came to rest on Harry as he felt himself shiver under her stare. Her eyes were fierce and held the look of pure insanity. However, after a moment her eyes returned to their normal warmth and she walked slowly towards him, "Harry, did you hear me? Did you wait for me?" She smiled lightly before fear fell across her face and her chin began to tremble, "He's coming. He's coming..." As suddenly as her recoveries were, her relapses were just as quick. She started muttering again. She swung around as if searching for someone, her eyes frantic, her ramblings grew louder with every turn she took. She spoke only one word, a name. When her voice had reached maximum volume, she scream, "ANGEL!" before whirling around to face everyone. Her eyes no longer frantic or crazed, she stared at her brother, " I can't feel her." Those were the last words she spoke as her eyes rolled back into her head and she collasped to the floor.

Adams reached Tally first and rolled her onto her back. He rested his head against her chest and Harry saw his face pale tremendously, fear evident on his face,

"SHE ISN'T BREATHING! I CAN'T FIND A HEART BEAT!" Harry's own heart seemed to leap out of his chest and then constrict painfuly back into place, "POPPY!" Adams yelled out, tears falling from his eyes. Poppy Pomfrey pushed through the crowd and knelt beside the dying girl.

"Everyone needs to stand back." Everyone did as they were told. Harry looked around and noticed that many of the girls were crying. Some of the guys looked mortified and some looked completely lost. Harry saw Malfoy and noted the look of concern on his face. Pomfrey whispered a spell, placing her wand just above Tally's heart. A blue light emitted from her wand and shot into Tally's chest. Her body rose off the ground in a large arch form so that her head and feet still remained on the ground and began to convulse rapidly. Pomfrey removed her wand and checked her vitals. When nothing happened, she proceeded again and continued three more times after that. Each time she did it, Harry's hopes diminished slightly. Ron, who was standing beside him with Hermione wrapped around his waist, had placed an arm around Harry's shoulders. Although Harry made no indication he had even felt this small gesture, he was immensely grateful to Ron. Harry felt as though he'd crumble if Tally didn't wake up...Please don't take her too! She's all I have. Let her wake up! On Pomfrey's fourth attempt to revive Tally, Tally's body didn't convulse like it had before. Instead as her body arched upward, her eyes opened wide and she screamed in pure agony. Pomfrey immediately removed her wand and Tally slumped back to the floor. Her eyes closed briefly. Josh leaned in close and whispered her name. She opened her eyes once more and spotted her brother leaning over her,

"Josh?" Her voice was harsh from her screams, but no longer held her frantic incoherent mumbles of a confused girl.

"Yeah, it's me." Tally started sobbing and Josh scooped her into his arms craddling her. He picked her up as he would a sleeping child. She clung to him and sobbed uncontrollably into his shoulder. As he made to follow Madam Pomfrey, Dumbledore stopped him.

"I'm sorry to do this, Josh, but I need her to recount her experience, lest she forget them." Josh made to protest but Tally cut him off,

"It's alright, but Harry comes too."

"I don't think that's-" Josh began before Tally interrupted him,

"He needs to know. I-I can't tell him..." Dumbledore nodded and they all followed him to his office. Once there, Josh (now covered in dirt and blood himself) placed Tally into a chair. Snape, McGonagall, Pomfrey stood off to the side, and Harry stood awkwardly by Dumbledore's desk.

"Tally, do you know how to use a pensieve?" Tally shook her head. "All you have to do is think of the memories you wish to place within the pensieve. Once you have the memory, your wand will do the rest, just place it against your temple." Tally nodded and closed her eyes in thought. It took about ten minutes before Taly was finished placing her memories into the pensieve. She had started crying after placing her first memory into the basin. "Good, thank you very much Tally. I know this was very hard for you to do. While we look over your memories, I wish for you to go with Madam Pomfrey. Listen to everything she tells you, alright?" Dumbledore spoke softly to her, but she still threw a panicked look at her brother,

"Don't worry, I'll be back shortly. You're safe here."

"Am I to go?" Harry asked. Though none of the Professors seemed to pleased by the idea, it was Tally who answered him,

"I don't think I can tell you...not everything, not ever. It's better this way." Her eyes were focused on the floor and Harry began to have second thoughts, afraid of what he might see.

"Come now, let's get you clean off." Madam Pomfrey said and took Tally from the rom.

"Remember, these are memories and everything you see, you cannot change. Also, Harry, I believe it wise not to tell anyone of what we are about to see without Ms. Adams' permission." Harry nodded and stepped up to the pensieve. Dumbledore indicated to everyone to grab hands, luckily Harry was between Adams and McGonagall so he didn't have to hold hands with Snape, and together they sank into the shadows of Tally's mind.

So, what'd'ya think? I tried to describe everything as best I could, but I don't think I did a very good job...anways, the next chapter will be of Tally's memories. I'm going to post it when I get at least 5 reviews, cause I like reviews...Of course I appreciate the people who always review, you guys are my new best friends.

Anyone else get an invite to The Sonora Academy of Witch Craft and Wizardry? I did and it's actually fun. It's a weird role playing game or something. It hasn't start yet, so I don't know how it'll go, but I've been talking to some of the other people and they seem cool.

Esrb99: Someone stole your fic? That's so friggin crazy! And you're very welcome for the shout-out! Also, thanks for the tips. I'll probably be posting my story on Mugglenet too, if they let me.

Indigo Feline: Obviously I'm allowing you all to see into Tally's memories so you'll know what she went through. That should be up in a couple of days, as long as people review...

Chibi Chingo: Yes, poor Harry :(

SiriusRulz14: I can't tell you yet, you'll just have to wait until the next chapter.