The Hope Spell.
By: Princess Lalaith
"Harry Potter" and "Card Captor Sakura" Crossover.
Disclaiming: I don't own Card Captor Sakura, nor Harry Potter, *snif*; If I owned any of them now I would be on a vacation around the world, and not sitting here in my house writing this(luckier for you).
Chapter 17.- Advertisement.
"And as the new Seeker: Shaoran Li." Tomoyo called from the microphone.
The Quidditch players of Hufflepuff and Slytherin where on their brooms, ready to start the match as soon as the whistle was blown. An it was.
The game was tough, most of the Slytherins were really rude against the Hufflepuffs. Shaoran stood higher than the rest, alert, ready for the snitch. When he saw it, he flew strait to it, and just as he was touching it, he felt his broom shake.
"Li catches the snitch, and this game ends; Slytherin wins over Hufflepuff 180 vs. 40." Tomoyo was saying, when she noticed the broom shaking. "What's happening with Li's broom."
Just then the broom started shaking more violently, as if it wanted to shake Shaoran off.
"Shaoran-kun!" Sakura shouted from the benches.
"Calm down Sakura." Hermione said taking her hand. "Everything will be alright, it's probably just a light problem."
*Iie, it isn't* Sakura replied mentally. *It's dark magic. Shaoran-kun's broom is cursed.*
*You think death eaters may be here?* Hermione asked.
*I don't know.* Sakura replied.
Harry and Ron just looked at both girls, they looked like they were thinking hard about something(obviously they couldn't hear them mind- talking.)
"He's gonna fall!" a girl yelled.
*Can't we do anything to help him from here?* Hermione asked. *There must be a useful spell, I don't know, to levitate, or float, or a breeze, something.*
*That's it Hermione-chan!* Sakura mentally-exclaimed.
Hermione looked at Sakura puzzled.
Sakura closed her eyes.
Harry and Ron thought she was afraid to see what could happen to her boyfriend.
But Hermione knew she was doing something, she could feel it, as well as Eriol, Tomoyo and Shaoran himself.
*Onegai(Please) save him.* Sakura pleaded in her thoughts. *Windy!!*
Hermione noticed a faint brightness in the star key, and then in Sakura's pocket.
"Ah..." the general gasp made Hermione turn around.
Shaoran was somehow floating in some kind of strange breeze that kept swirling around him. Then it slowly led him down.
And just as that was done Sakura dashed to the ground, Hermione at her heels.
Tomoyo was about to do the same when...
*Don't Tomoyo-chan.* Eriol told her. *Stay here.*
*Nani?(Why? or How?)* Tomoyo asked without turning around, her sight fixed on the ground.
*Everything is okay, you know it.* Eriol answered. *There's no need for you to worry.*
*Hai.* Tomoyo answered. She turned her attention fully to what was going on down.
"Daijobu(Are you alright?) Shaoran-kun?" Sakura asked worriedly.
"Hai, Sakura-chan." Shaoran said standing up. "Arigato."
Sakura smiled at him.
"You know who might have done this?" she asked.
"Malfoy maybe." Hermione suggested. "After what happened in the library, and him being punished, he might have wanted revenge."
"Iie." Sakura said shaking her head.
Shaoran and Hermione turned to look at her, puzzled.
"Why do you say that Sakura-chan?" Shaoran asked.
"I know he didn't do it, don't ask me how, I'm not sure, but I know he wasn't." Sakura said, she sounded really sure, but then: who did it?
"We need to discuss this further." Shaoran said.
The girls nodded.
"Are you alright Li?" Harry asked as he and Ron arrived.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Shaoran replied. "Come on Sakura-chan, lets go."
Sakura nodded and took his hand, following him. After a few steps she turned around.
"Are you coming Hermione-chan?" Sakura asked.
"Sure Sakura." Hermione said reacting. She turned to the boys. "See you later guys."
Ron nodded and said nothing, but Harry followed Hermione a few steps.
"Hermione." He called.
"Yeah, Harry." She said turning around. *I'll catch with you Sakura, Shaoran*
*Hai* Sakura replied mentally. *Tomoyo, Eriol, we wait for you in the Sorcerers' Room; and if you see Auntie Sonomi, bring her too.*
*Hai.* Tomoyo's and Eriol's replies came.
"Em...well...I...it's just that..." Harry started.
"Harry, cool down." She said. "Breath, and say what you need to tell me."
Her smile convinced him to go on, so he breathed deeply and talked: "Would you come with me to the Ball?"
Hermione was really surprised, but all the same she smiled. "I would love to Harry."
Harry sighed, that hadn't been as difficult as he had thought.
"Then see you later Harry." Hermione said smiling brightly as she ran to catch up with her friends.
Meanwhile, in the alley beneath the Professors Seats, someone had find the least person he had expected.
"Sonomi!" he said really surprised.
"Hello Severus, looks like you remember me." Sonomi said smiling.
"Yes I do." Snape said. "Although I never expected to see you again."
"Well, it was obvious I would come sooner or later, after all, my daughter is here." Sonomi said. "And I know you're her godfather and everything, but I want to keep an eye on her and my niece."
"Niece?" Snape asked "You mean Nadeshiko's daughter?"
"Exactly. It seems you remember her too."
"How could I forget her? So sweet, so care, so beautiful..."
"You always fall in love with green-eyed women don't you?"
"I fell in love with you too."
"But you always knew I loved Daniel."
"As Lily preferred that stupid of James, and Nadeshiko that professor back in Japan."
"Well, that's how life is."
"It's cruel, and cold. Takes the lives of good people, and leaves some of us that aren't worth it."
"Don't say that Severus. Never. What would Lily said if she heard you? Or Nadeshiko anyways?"
Snape sighed.
"So you're here to take care of your daughter and niece." Snape said to change topic.
"And my godson too," Sonomi added. "You know, Harry."
"Yeah." Severus said. "After Laura died Lily decided you should be her son's godmother."
"As I decided you to be Tomoyo's godfather."
"Daniel didn't like the idea too much, eh?"
"Yeah, I remember that. Those were good times."
Remus looked at them in silence, he smiled, two old friends talking happily, that's what they were; and in fact, he hadn't seen Severus Snape smiling in quite a long time.
"Well." Remus Lupin murmured to himself. "I came here to watch Harry out, but it seems like there won't be any need, with his godmother here."
With that, Remus left without being noticed.
"Excuse me." Tomoyo called in that moment.
Sonomi and Severus Snape turned to look at her.
"Good morning oka-san, Professor Snape." Tomoyo said bowing.
"Hello Tomoyo." Sonomi said smiling.
Tomoyo didn't look surprised to find her mother with Snape, she already knew he was her godfather.
"Oka-san." Tomoyo said, speaking in Japanese. "Sakura-chan, Shaoran-kun and...us need to talk with you, you-know-where. It's important."
"Hai." Sonomi nodded. "I'll be with you in five minutes."
Tomoyo nodded and left.
As Snape understood very little Japanese, he didn't know what Tomoyo had said.
Just as Tomoyo had left Eriol appeared.
"Good Morning, Misses Daidouji, Professor Snape." Eriol said as he passed, he didn't even stop to talk.
~*~
Five minutes later Eriol crossed the panting to the Sorcerers' Room, he was the last one to arrive.
"What's wrong?" he asked smiling as he sat down in the coach next to Tomoyo.
"Shaoran-kun almost got killed five minutes ago and you're asking what's wrong?!" Sakura yelled.
"We're a little tense, aren't we?" Eriol asked staying calm.
"Calm down Sakura-chan, I'm fine." Shaoran murmured.
"I'm sorry, it's just that I was really nervous." Sakura apologized. "If it hadn't been for Hermione-chan I wouldn't have known what to do. Arigato Hermy-chan."
"What are friends for?" she asked smiling.
"And we go back to were we started." Tomoyo said. "Who did this?"
"Probably Malfoy?" Eriol suggested.
"We've talked about it, and let out that option." Sakura said, again she was calm.
"Why?" Hermione asked. "After all what he has done to you since you arrived. Especially after the manticora acid."
"The spell used on the broom." Shaoran explained. "Is too advanced for him. It would have implied a higher magic level than the one he posses, or even sorcery."
"You mean a Sorcerer did this?" Hermione asked.
In the last days she had talk with them a lot, and knew almost everything about sorcerers.
"Not necessarily." Eriol said.
"It can also be someone with especial gifts, like oka-san." Tomoyo suggested.
"In that case it must have been someone with a very strong telekinesis." Shaoran contemplated the options.
"But still, why try to kill Shaoran-kun?" Sakura asked, a little afraid for the safety of her beloved.
"Probably they weren't trying to kill him." Sonomi said.
She hadn't spoken until then, but now everyone turned to look at her.
"What do you mean oka-san?" Tomoyo asked.
"I mean that probably the person that did this knew that there would be someone that wouldn't let Li-kun get killed in that fall." Sonomi explained.
"But then they would know we are..." Sakura started.
"Not necessarily." Hermione interfered.
Now everyone's attention centered on her.
"They may know You are here, but don't know who You are." Hermione explained, emphasizing the words 'You'.
"You mean that what they wanted was to see our magic, and probably tried to find who was using it?" Eriol suggested.
Hermione nodded, as well as Sonomi, who had been thinking about the same thing.
The rest of them just sighed.
"Ah!" Tomoyo said suddenly standing up.
"What?!" the rest of them asked doubtfully.
"I just remember I have your clothes for the Masked Dance." Tomoyo said
"But it's in three weeks." Shaoran said.
"It doesn't matter." Tomoyo said taking out a few boxes. "I had to make sure they fitted you."
The clothes were really beautiful, it was obvious they had been done with the care and touch Tomoyo used in her designs.
"So we're ready for the Ball?" Eriol asked looking at his girlfriend.
"And for anything else that is to come." Tomoyo added.
*~*~*~*~*
Not too long. I had many ideas for this chapter, but was afraid to make it too long and then get myself in more problems and delays. I don't want to say much so I don't spoil surprises for the next chapters but anyway, what you saw here, about Shaoran's broom, was just and advertisement of what's to come. In the next Chapter we'll have Christmas, and obviously the Masked Ball of New Year's Eve. As you can see there will be a lot of things to write about, and I may take a little longer to update(I'll try to do it as fast as I can, I promise); and the chapter might be longer than most of the ones I've written until now.
And Onegai, leave a Review. It makes me really happy, and it helps me know how many people are reading my fic and if they like it or not.
Arigato.
By: Princess Lalaith
"Harry Potter" and "Card Captor Sakura" Crossover.
Disclaiming: I don't own Card Captor Sakura, nor Harry Potter, *snif*; If I owned any of them now I would be on a vacation around the world, and not sitting here in my house writing this(luckier for you).
Chapter 17.- Advertisement.
"And as the new Seeker: Shaoran Li." Tomoyo called from the microphone.
The Quidditch players of Hufflepuff and Slytherin where on their brooms, ready to start the match as soon as the whistle was blown. An it was.
The game was tough, most of the Slytherins were really rude against the Hufflepuffs. Shaoran stood higher than the rest, alert, ready for the snitch. When he saw it, he flew strait to it, and just as he was touching it, he felt his broom shake.
"Li catches the snitch, and this game ends; Slytherin wins over Hufflepuff 180 vs. 40." Tomoyo was saying, when she noticed the broom shaking. "What's happening with Li's broom."
Just then the broom started shaking more violently, as if it wanted to shake Shaoran off.
"Shaoran-kun!" Sakura shouted from the benches.
"Calm down Sakura." Hermione said taking her hand. "Everything will be alright, it's probably just a light problem."
*Iie, it isn't* Sakura replied mentally. *It's dark magic. Shaoran-kun's broom is cursed.*
*You think death eaters may be here?* Hermione asked.
*I don't know.* Sakura replied.
Harry and Ron just looked at both girls, they looked like they were thinking hard about something(obviously they couldn't hear them mind- talking.)
"He's gonna fall!" a girl yelled.
*Can't we do anything to help him from here?* Hermione asked. *There must be a useful spell, I don't know, to levitate, or float, or a breeze, something.*
*That's it Hermione-chan!* Sakura mentally-exclaimed.
Hermione looked at Sakura puzzled.
Sakura closed her eyes.
Harry and Ron thought she was afraid to see what could happen to her boyfriend.
But Hermione knew she was doing something, she could feel it, as well as Eriol, Tomoyo and Shaoran himself.
*Onegai(Please) save him.* Sakura pleaded in her thoughts. *Windy!!*
Hermione noticed a faint brightness in the star key, and then in Sakura's pocket.
"Ah..." the general gasp made Hermione turn around.
Shaoran was somehow floating in some kind of strange breeze that kept swirling around him. Then it slowly led him down.
And just as that was done Sakura dashed to the ground, Hermione at her heels.
Tomoyo was about to do the same when...
*Don't Tomoyo-chan.* Eriol told her. *Stay here.*
*Nani?(Why? or How?)* Tomoyo asked without turning around, her sight fixed on the ground.
*Everything is okay, you know it.* Eriol answered. *There's no need for you to worry.*
*Hai.* Tomoyo answered. She turned her attention fully to what was going on down.
"Daijobu(Are you alright?) Shaoran-kun?" Sakura asked worriedly.
"Hai, Sakura-chan." Shaoran said standing up. "Arigato."
Sakura smiled at him.
"You know who might have done this?" she asked.
"Malfoy maybe." Hermione suggested. "After what happened in the library, and him being punished, he might have wanted revenge."
"Iie." Sakura said shaking her head.
Shaoran and Hermione turned to look at her, puzzled.
"Why do you say that Sakura-chan?" Shaoran asked.
"I know he didn't do it, don't ask me how, I'm not sure, but I know he wasn't." Sakura said, she sounded really sure, but then: who did it?
"We need to discuss this further." Shaoran said.
The girls nodded.
"Are you alright Li?" Harry asked as he and Ron arrived.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Shaoran replied. "Come on Sakura-chan, lets go."
Sakura nodded and took his hand, following him. After a few steps she turned around.
"Are you coming Hermione-chan?" Sakura asked.
"Sure Sakura." Hermione said reacting. She turned to the boys. "See you later guys."
Ron nodded and said nothing, but Harry followed Hermione a few steps.
"Hermione." He called.
"Yeah, Harry." She said turning around. *I'll catch with you Sakura, Shaoran*
*Hai* Sakura replied mentally. *Tomoyo, Eriol, we wait for you in the Sorcerers' Room; and if you see Auntie Sonomi, bring her too.*
*Hai.* Tomoyo's and Eriol's replies came.
"Em...well...I...it's just that..." Harry started.
"Harry, cool down." She said. "Breath, and say what you need to tell me."
Her smile convinced him to go on, so he breathed deeply and talked: "Would you come with me to the Ball?"
Hermione was really surprised, but all the same she smiled. "I would love to Harry."
Harry sighed, that hadn't been as difficult as he had thought.
"Then see you later Harry." Hermione said smiling brightly as she ran to catch up with her friends.
Meanwhile, in the alley beneath the Professors Seats, someone had find the least person he had expected.
"Sonomi!" he said really surprised.
"Hello Severus, looks like you remember me." Sonomi said smiling.
"Yes I do." Snape said. "Although I never expected to see you again."
"Well, it was obvious I would come sooner or later, after all, my daughter is here." Sonomi said. "And I know you're her godfather and everything, but I want to keep an eye on her and my niece."
"Niece?" Snape asked "You mean Nadeshiko's daughter?"
"Exactly. It seems you remember her too."
"How could I forget her? So sweet, so care, so beautiful..."
"You always fall in love with green-eyed women don't you?"
"I fell in love with you too."
"But you always knew I loved Daniel."
"As Lily preferred that stupid of James, and Nadeshiko that professor back in Japan."
"Well, that's how life is."
"It's cruel, and cold. Takes the lives of good people, and leaves some of us that aren't worth it."
"Don't say that Severus. Never. What would Lily said if she heard you? Or Nadeshiko anyways?"
Snape sighed.
"So you're here to take care of your daughter and niece." Snape said to change topic.
"And my godson too," Sonomi added. "You know, Harry."
"Yeah." Severus said. "After Laura died Lily decided you should be her son's godmother."
"As I decided you to be Tomoyo's godfather."
"Daniel didn't like the idea too much, eh?"
"Yeah, I remember that. Those were good times."
Remus looked at them in silence, he smiled, two old friends talking happily, that's what they were; and in fact, he hadn't seen Severus Snape smiling in quite a long time.
"Well." Remus Lupin murmured to himself. "I came here to watch Harry out, but it seems like there won't be any need, with his godmother here."
With that, Remus left without being noticed.
"Excuse me." Tomoyo called in that moment.
Sonomi and Severus Snape turned to look at her.
"Good morning oka-san, Professor Snape." Tomoyo said bowing.
"Hello Tomoyo." Sonomi said smiling.
Tomoyo didn't look surprised to find her mother with Snape, she already knew he was her godfather.
"Oka-san." Tomoyo said, speaking in Japanese. "Sakura-chan, Shaoran-kun and...us need to talk with you, you-know-where. It's important."
"Hai." Sonomi nodded. "I'll be with you in five minutes."
Tomoyo nodded and left.
As Snape understood very little Japanese, he didn't know what Tomoyo had said.
Just as Tomoyo had left Eriol appeared.
"Good Morning, Misses Daidouji, Professor Snape." Eriol said as he passed, he didn't even stop to talk.
~*~
Five minutes later Eriol crossed the panting to the Sorcerers' Room, he was the last one to arrive.
"What's wrong?" he asked smiling as he sat down in the coach next to Tomoyo.
"Shaoran-kun almost got killed five minutes ago and you're asking what's wrong?!" Sakura yelled.
"We're a little tense, aren't we?" Eriol asked staying calm.
"Calm down Sakura-chan, I'm fine." Shaoran murmured.
"I'm sorry, it's just that I was really nervous." Sakura apologized. "If it hadn't been for Hermione-chan I wouldn't have known what to do. Arigato Hermy-chan."
"What are friends for?" she asked smiling.
"And we go back to were we started." Tomoyo said. "Who did this?"
"Probably Malfoy?" Eriol suggested.
"We've talked about it, and let out that option." Sakura said, again she was calm.
"Why?" Hermione asked. "After all what he has done to you since you arrived. Especially after the manticora acid."
"The spell used on the broom." Shaoran explained. "Is too advanced for him. It would have implied a higher magic level than the one he posses, or even sorcery."
"You mean a Sorcerer did this?" Hermione asked.
In the last days she had talk with them a lot, and knew almost everything about sorcerers.
"Not necessarily." Eriol said.
"It can also be someone with especial gifts, like oka-san." Tomoyo suggested.
"In that case it must have been someone with a very strong telekinesis." Shaoran contemplated the options.
"But still, why try to kill Shaoran-kun?" Sakura asked, a little afraid for the safety of her beloved.
"Probably they weren't trying to kill him." Sonomi said.
She hadn't spoken until then, but now everyone turned to look at her.
"What do you mean oka-san?" Tomoyo asked.
"I mean that probably the person that did this knew that there would be someone that wouldn't let Li-kun get killed in that fall." Sonomi explained.
"But then they would know we are..." Sakura started.
"Not necessarily." Hermione interfered.
Now everyone's attention centered on her.
"They may know You are here, but don't know who You are." Hermione explained, emphasizing the words 'You'.
"You mean that what they wanted was to see our magic, and probably tried to find who was using it?" Eriol suggested.
Hermione nodded, as well as Sonomi, who had been thinking about the same thing.
The rest of them just sighed.
"Ah!" Tomoyo said suddenly standing up.
"What?!" the rest of them asked doubtfully.
"I just remember I have your clothes for the Masked Dance." Tomoyo said
"But it's in three weeks." Shaoran said.
"It doesn't matter." Tomoyo said taking out a few boxes. "I had to make sure they fitted you."
The clothes were really beautiful, it was obvious they had been done with the care and touch Tomoyo used in her designs.
"So we're ready for the Ball?" Eriol asked looking at his girlfriend.
"And for anything else that is to come." Tomoyo added.
*~*~*~*~*
Not too long. I had many ideas for this chapter, but was afraid to make it too long and then get myself in more problems and delays. I don't want to say much so I don't spoil surprises for the next chapters but anyway, what you saw here, about Shaoran's broom, was just and advertisement of what's to come. In the next Chapter we'll have Christmas, and obviously the Masked Ball of New Year's Eve. As you can see there will be a lot of things to write about, and I may take a little longer to update(I'll try to do it as fast as I can, I promise); and the chapter might be longer than most of the ones I've written until now.
And Onegai, leave a Review. It makes me really happy, and it helps me know how many people are reading my fic and if they like it or not.
Arigato.