A/N: I don't own this. I really don't.
Chapter 28- Gryffindor vs. Slytherin and more
"The key to changing your hair and nails is to concentrate and picture your new hair or nails in your mind," Professor McGonagall told Harry and Hermione. It was their first lesson on how to become an animagus because Professor McGonagall was able to find a stag and a cat shortly after Harry and Hermione had told her what animals they wanted to be.
Harry and Hermione looked down and saw that they had managed to change their nails and hair to the way they wanted it to. Professor McGonagall watched them and gave them a slight smile before she showed them the technique needed to actually change into an animal. To their surprise and to the delight of Professor McGonagall, Harry and Hermione were able to successfully transform on their first attempt.
"Congratulations Mr. Potter and Miss Granger. It appears that you no longer need to have me teach you how to become animaguses any longer because the two of you have mastered it already," McGonagall said, giving them a rare smile. "Professor Dumbledore has also informed me to tell you that you should not reveal the fact that you are animaguses to anyone," Professor McGonagall said.
The next day, Harry and Hermione were practicing a spell with Sarah Aberdeen when Professor Dumbledore appeared in the classroom. Dumbledore observed them for a few minutes and then he interrupted them.
"Miss Aberdeen, may I speak with Mr. Potter for a moment?" Dumbledore asked.
"Of course Headmaster," Sarah replied.
"Ah Mr. Potter," Dumbledore said when Harry walked over. "I would like to inform you that starting tonight, you will be learning about wandless magic with Professors Moody and Flitwick in Professor Moody's room," Dumbledore said before leaving.
Later on that day, Harry said goodbye to Hermione and went to Professor Moody's room. He knocked then entered the room and saw Moody and Flitwick sitting down.
"Mr. Potter! You have arrived," Flitwick said.
"Right Potter, wandless magic is simple. Just try to focus with your mind and then say the incantation," Moody said, before demonstrating a summoning spell without using a wand.
For the next hour or so, Harry tried to use wandless magic but found he had difficulty doing so. Flitwick and Moody gave him advice after each unsuccessful attempt and Harry was able to leviate a quill after what seemed to be an eternity.
"Well done Mr. Potter!" Flitwick squealed.
"Potter, once you can do the simplest spell without a wand, you can do anything without a wand. Try some more complex spells," Moody said.
Harry thought about the form of his patronus. He decided to try out the Patronus charm without a wand. Thinking of the first time he and Hermione kissed, Harry said the incantation. "EXPECTO PATRONUM!" Harry said. A stag then emerged in front of Harry, bowed and went away. Harry then tried a stunner, reductor curse and more complex spells Sarah had taught him.
"Congratulations Potter, you are an extremely fast learner," Moody said.
"Well, I think we are done with our lessons Mr. Potter," Flitwick said.
For the next few days, Harry and Hermione continued to train with their instructors and were able to make excellent progress in all of their training sessions, causing instructors to be excited. Harry even used wandless magic in some training sessions, impressing Hermione and his instructors. Soon enough it was Friday night, the night before the Slytherin and Gryffindor Quidditch match. Harry had gone to sleep early and Hermione had declined his offer to sleep with him. Up in his bed, Harry was having a pleasant sleep until he had another dream/vision.
"My lord, we are ready to carry out your wishes," a Death Eater said.
"Very well then. Get Nott, Crabbe and Goyle to follow you," Voldemort said.
Voldemort then apparated over to Salem in America along with his followers. People were still up in Salem and they looked at Voldemort and his Death Eaters in surprise. Laughing madly, Voldemort and his followers started to kill people left and right. Suddenly, a group of a dozen American Aurors appeared out of nowhere.
"By order of the Ministry of Magic, surrender your wands!" one of the Aurors shouted.
"What happens if we don't?" Voldemort asked.
"We have the power to use any force necessary to get you to surrender your wands," the Auror replied.
Voldemort started to laugh. "You want my wand? Here," he said, extending his wand to the Auror. The Auror reached forward to take it but Voldemort was too fast for him. "AVADA KEDAVRA!" he shouted, killing the Aurors. His Death Eaters then killed the remaining Aurors as Voldemort laughed evilly.
"My lord, we are done. Should we put up the Dark Mark and burn these buildings?" a Death Eater asked.
"Of course you should do that," Voldemort said, raising his arms to get the attention of his Death Eaters. "We have returned!" Voldemort shouted as the Death Eaters cheered loudly. "Soon, we will face no resistance whatsoever in our plans to control the world. This world will be ours!" Voldemort yelled as his Death Eaters cheered and set the buildings in Salem on fire. When they were done, Voldemort and his Death Eaters apparated back to England.
Meanwhile, the remains of Salem slowly burned to the ground, killing all people inside. It also served as a painful reminder that Voldemort was a threat to every nation.
Harry woke up with his scar hurting. Quickly, Harry wrote down the details of his latest vision on a piece of parchment, went to the owlery and got Hedwig to deliver his letter to Professor Dumbledore. He then returned to Gryffindor tower and saw it was six AM. Harry sat down and started to read a book. Finally at 8:30, Harry went down to the Great Hall with his teammates to eat. The Great Hall was full with students of all houses ready for the Quidditch match. Looking around, Harry saw most of the students were in Gryffindor colors while the rest were in Slytherin colors. After eating a quick breakfast of bacon, sausage and pancakes, the Gryffindor Quidditch team went to the locker room to change. Inside the locker room, everybody kept quiet until Ron spoke.
"Are we ready to win?" Ron asked.
"Damn right Ron, Slytherin is going down today," Dean said, smacking his bat into the palm of his hand.
"You got that right Ron and Dean. We're going to fly circles around them," Ginny said.
Ron then told everybody to have a seat and then he went to stand in front of everybody. Ron drew some diagrams on the board and then started to speak.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to play one of the biggest matches of our season. The Slytherins and their size advantage does not fucking matter at all. We have more damn talent and we are ready to beat the shit out of those assholes. Just do what we did in practice and we will be victorious today in the game. They can't match our speed, something we have to take advantage of. So I would advise the chasers to take every chance they have to get off to a running start. Beaters, you guys know what to do. Harry, I know for sure you know what the hell you're doing. Ignore the taunts of the Slytherins. Quidditch is part mental and the rest is based on your skill. We shall let our skills do the talking for us when we cream them," Ron said.
Harry went up to speak after Ron. "Well, you all heard what Ron had to say. We're superior to the Slytherins in everything but size and size is overrated. Everybody here had a great practice so just pretend we're having another practice. Now let's go out and win!" Harry said as the rest of the Gryffindor Quidditch team cheered and headed out toward the pitch.
"Here come the Gryffindors- Ron Weasley at keeper, Ginny Weasley, Victoria Wells and Sandy Harris at chasers, Dean Thomas and Randy Williams at beater and Harry Potter as seeker!" cried Colin Creevey as the team walked out to cheers from everybody except for the Slytherins.
Harry looked over at the Slytherin team and they were huge. There was no females on the team and everybody on the team seemed to be at least six feet tall. Harry then looked at Crabbe and Goyle, who noticed and they made a throat-slashing gesture at Harry. Harry then looked up the Quidditch stands where he saw Hermione sitting with Parvati and Lavender. Finally, Madam Hooch came forward and spoke.
"Captains, shake hands," she said.
Harry and Ron went up to shake hands with Crabbe and Goyle, who had become co-captains after Draco Malfoy had died. Crabbe and Goyle glared angrily at Harry and Ron and when Harry and Ron extended their right hands, Crabbe and Goyle spit at them. Luckily, Harry and Ron withdrew their hands in time.
"Captains, I want a nice fair game with no dirty tactics," Madam Hooch said, turning to the Slytherins. "Are you ready? One.. two.. three," Madam Hooch said, blowing her whistle and starting the game.
"The quaffle is taken immediately by Joey Brighton of Slytherin and he starts flying toward the Gryffindor goal. Brighton passes but a bludger is hit at him by Dean Thomas of Gryffindor and Ginny Weasley gets the quaffle. She starts going toward the Slytherin goal with Victoria Wells below her and Sandy Harris behind her. This is a new formation for the Gryffindors, ladies and gentlemen. Ginny Weasley looks like she's going to shoot and a bludger comes flying toward her, hit by Crabbe of Slytherin. Ginny Weasley ducks, passes to Victoria Wells, who scores! Ten-nothing Gryffindor!" Colin shouted, as everyone but the Slytherins let out loud cheers.
Harry pumped his left fist in the air when he noticed Crabbe hit a bludger toward him. Harry ducked, then looked angrily at Crabbe. "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" he asked angrily while Ginny scored another goal to make it twenty-nothing Gryffindor.
"You are a murderer," Crabbe said, as he hit another bludger at Harry. "You are going to meet the same fate as Draco Malfoy."
"I did not kill Draco Malfoy and a life for a life is not right," Harry said.
Crabbe growled menacingly at Harry as Harry saw Goyle hit a bludger at him out of the corner of his eye. Harry ducked, the bludger flew at Crabbe, who hit it back at Harry. Harry barely ducked the bludger and heard a whistle being blown.
"Penalty on Slytherin for harassing Gryffindor's seeker," Madam Hooch said.
Ginny Weasley moved forward to take the penalty shot and she scored. The score was now thirty-nothing Gryffindor and Harry continued to look for the snitch. Harry suddenly saw another bludger fly toward him as Sandy Harris scored to make it forty-nothing Gryffindor. Harry ducked the bludger and called a timeout. He quickly went to the ground and the rest of the team followed him.
"Harry, what's going on?" Ginny asked.
"Those two blundering fools are hitting bludgers at me like there's no tomorrow. So instead of focusing on the chasers like they should be, they are trying to kill me," Harry said.
"Those fucking idiots. We'll get them for you Harry," Randy Williams said as Dean nodded.
"No, I want the two of you to fly with the chasers and hit any bludgers that come near them," Harry said.
"You sure about this Harry?" Ron asked.
"Yeah, I can handle these idiots," Harry said, signaling to Madam Hooch they were done.
Up in the air, Harry continued to duck bludgers that were hit by Crabbe and Goyle. Harry had to admit their aim was much better because most of the bludgers actually came close to hitting him. Meanwhile, Sandy Harris scored twice, Ginny Weasley scored four times and Victoria Wells scored three times and Gryffindor was now ahead 130-nothing. It was certainly one of the dirtiest games Harry had ever been in. Since the Slytherin team had no beaters watching out for their chasers, the chasers had to use dirty tactics such as holding onto brooms and grabbing the Gryffindor chasers by their face or hair. Madam Hooch called over a dozen penalties against Slytherin alone and a few on the Gryffindors who had decided to retaliate.
The score was now 200-40 in favor of Gryffindor. The crowd had started to get restless and Harry wanted to end the game before any of the Gryffindor players got hurt because of the dirty tactics used by the Slytherins. Harry suddenly saw a flash of gold near the ground. He went into a dive with the Slytherin seeker Miles Golden following behind him, ducked bludgers hit by Crabbe and Goyle and finally grabbed the golden snitch in his left hand while pulling up before he hit the ground. Harry raised his arm in victory but then felt a bludger hit him in the back. Harry turned to look behind him but did not see Crabbe or Goyle so he turned around.
"This is for Draco," Goyle said, flying at Harry then hitting Harry with his bat.
Harry felt Goyle hit his shoulders but he managed to stay on his broom. Crabbe then flew toward him and hit Harry in the chest with his bat. The crowd gasped as Harry fell off his broom and fell several feet down to the hard ground below him. The last thing Harry remembered was there was a girl screaming near him as everything around him turned black and Harry lost conciousness.
A/N: So um, please kindly read and review. Uh, yeah that's it.