Harry's Twin by Gemzgurl Chapter: The Dementors Attack: Part II
Light! Lei thought desperately. She'd read in the book about dementors that light repelled them, or something to that effect. I need a light.
"Light!" she said feebly, and clapped her hands together. A dim light flashed through the room and then disappeared. The dementors were stunned, but only for a moment. They continued to glide toward the students, sucking in cold air as they came. "Light!" she said again, this time a little louder, and clapped her hands again. Another light, slightly brighter this time flashed, then faded away. She couldn't produce a bright enough light to make the dementors go away.
Harry reached for his wand with shaking fingers. He had to stop the dementors from taking the souls from anyone in the Great Hall. No one deserved to be a soulless vegetable. He heard Lei saying, "Light!" over and over again, and a light kept shining through the Hall, but it didn't last very long. But it was distracting the dementors away from everyone else.
All six of the dementors were now gliding toward the source of the flashes of light. Lei's head throbbed even harder as the dementors got closer and closer to her. Harry realized that they were heading right at her, probably to kiss her, which would take her soul out of her body.
"Expecto Patronum!" he said, pointing his wand toward the general direction of the dementors and Lei. A small wisp of silver came out of the tip of Harry's wand. He tried thinking quickly of a happy thought. Winning his first Quidditch match came into his mind, and he cried, "Expecto Patronum!" Another silver strand came out of his wand, but nothing more.
"Light!" cried Lei, and clapped her hands together loudly. The light that appeared was still not very bright but it kept the Great Hall illuminated for a bit longer than before. In the several seconds that she had created light, Lei could see all six of the towering figures coming straight at her. She began to hear a cold, high-pitched laughter in her ears, but she refused to give up yet.
She tried to remember the general direction of where one of the torches was on the wall. Glancing over there, she squinted her eyes, picturing the torch in her mind and concentrating on that picture. Suddenly the torch on the wall burst into flame, only to be put out again by the dementors.
"Lei stop making light!" Harry whispered at the ground where he could hear Lei sniffling. "You're only making it all the more easier for them to find you!" He guessed that they didn't have dementors in Italy, since Lei didn't know what to do about them.
He tried thinking of another happy thought, but, like Lei, Harry started to hear the high-pitched laughter of Voldemort when he had killed Lily and James. He thought of seeing his parents in the Mirror of Erised and tried again. "Expecto Patronum!" A stronger strand of silver came out of his wand, but nothing more.
Lei reached up and took Harry's hand and held it tightly. Harry cursed softly when he dropped his wand because he was shaking so hard. Lei reached out to grab it for him, but when she extended her left hand (her right hand was holding Harry's left hand), it felt as if she had stuck her hand in something extremely cold, like a bucket of ice water. She realized with a start that she had grabbed one of the dementors' black robes instead of Harry's wand. She hurriedly let go of the robe and fumbled for Harry's wand.
Just as her hands closed around the thin wooden wand, Lei's wrist was grabbed by something scabby, bony and cold. Her eyes shot to her left arm, where a discolored hand had a tight grip round her wrist. She screamed and tried to pull her hand free, but the dementor's grip only tightened in response.
High-pitched laughter filled Lei's ears.
Little Lei Potter clung tightly to her mother as Lily began crying and begging for the man in front of her not to kill Harry and Lei. The sounds of the twins' dad's struggles had stopped a minute or two before. Lei didn't understand what was going on. The man had a wooden thing in his hand, which he was pointing at Lily. She seemed to be afraid of this wooden thing, even though she had one herself. Lei had seen it before.
The man laughed when Lily began to beg. "You couldn't have bothered begging before, when I offered to let you join my allegiance, Lily Potter," he said cruelly. Lei didn't like the sound of his cold voice. She looked to her twin. Harry looked back, emerald green eyes wide, because he knew that something bad was happening, though he didn't know exactly what that was.
"Please don't kill Lei or Harry," Lily sobbed. "Don't kill Harry, not Harry and not Lei. Take me instead, just not them!"
The man laughed again and pointed the wooden thing over Lily's heart. Lily whispered into her children's ears, "I love you both, my wonderful darlings. Be safe."
"AVADA KADAVRA!" the man shouted, and there was a bright green flash of light. Lily screamed one last time and then fell to the floor, bringing Harry and Lei with her.
Harry realized that there was something wrong with Lei and pried his wand from her fingers. He had to think happy thoughts, even though he could now hear the voice of his mother ringing through his ears not to kill him.
Lei fell to the ground when the explosion hit the house. Cinzia began to cry, and Lei saw that her little sister's head was bleeding. Giovanni was huddling over Cinzia and motioning for Lei to come over there with them. Lei's adoptive mum hurried over to where her children sat huddled in the corner, grabbing Lei along the way. Lei looked around wildly, trying to find the wizard that had attacked their Italian home.
She found him almost instantly. He smiled wickedly at her, and she swallowed, knowing that she and her family probably wouldn't make it out of what was left of the house alive. She closed her eyes, trying to forget that she'd just witnessed as the same wizard that now stood in front of her murdered her papá and her older sister in the kitchen.
"Avada Kadavra!" shouted the man in a foreign accent. Bright green light filled the room. Lei shouted one word at the same time the wizard shouted the killing curse, but Lei's word was lost in the noise of the house collapsing all around her.
When she opened her eyes again, Giovanni and her adoptive mum were lying face down, dead. Cinzia lay on her back; her pale grey eyes were wide open as if she were staring at the sky above her. Her whole family was dead now, and she was an orphan yet again.
Lei's hand had gone limp in Harry's, but he still held on to it. He wondered distantly which memories Lei was being forced to relive. Whatever ones they were, they were so terrible it made her pass out, like Harry had on several occasions with the dementors.
That's it, he thought, Lei. I was happy when I first saw her, because I knew that she really was my sister.
Still clinging onto Lei's hand, he shouted, "EXPECTO PATRONUM!" A silver stag shot out of Harry's wand and went for the closest dementor, the one that had a hold of Lei's other arm. The stag charged at it and the creature was forced to let go of Lei as it went flying up into the air, crashing into the dementor behind it.
"Go for those ones over there!" Harry commanded the stag. The stag charged again at a group of dementors, and soon they were over by the doors like their other companions by the door, and there was only one dementor left.
Without being told to the stag charged at the last dementor, pushing it over to the doors to the Great Hall. The silver stag pawed the ground, getting ready to shove them out of the doors, but they glided out on their own.
When the torches were lit again and the Hall filled with light, both Lei and Harry were on the floor, hand in hand and unconscious.
Author's Note: Ciao persona! (Hi peoples, basically, I think.) I would like to apologize for my misuse of the Italian language, as one of my reviewers said. I didn't mean to make Lei's cat's name "A little bit of girl" at all (which was what this reviewer said that Ragazza Poco meant), but I am only just learning Italian, so I probably make a lot of mistakes, but hopefully I'll get better! I'd like to thank this review for telling me about my mistake, so I have decided to change the little kitty's name to Piccola, which means small, okay? So now when you see Piccola, you'll know what I mean. Okay, I'm done now...really, I am. Now, onto the next chapter! (((
Light! Lei thought desperately. She'd read in the book about dementors that light repelled them, or something to that effect. I need a light.
"Light!" she said feebly, and clapped her hands together. A dim light flashed through the room and then disappeared. The dementors were stunned, but only for a moment. They continued to glide toward the students, sucking in cold air as they came. "Light!" she said again, this time a little louder, and clapped her hands again. Another light, slightly brighter this time flashed, then faded away. She couldn't produce a bright enough light to make the dementors go away.
Harry reached for his wand with shaking fingers. He had to stop the dementors from taking the souls from anyone in the Great Hall. No one deserved to be a soulless vegetable. He heard Lei saying, "Light!" over and over again, and a light kept shining through the Hall, but it didn't last very long. But it was distracting the dementors away from everyone else.
All six of the dementors were now gliding toward the source of the flashes of light. Lei's head throbbed even harder as the dementors got closer and closer to her. Harry realized that they were heading right at her, probably to kiss her, which would take her soul out of her body.
"Expecto Patronum!" he said, pointing his wand toward the general direction of the dementors and Lei. A small wisp of silver came out of the tip of Harry's wand. He tried thinking quickly of a happy thought. Winning his first Quidditch match came into his mind, and he cried, "Expecto Patronum!" Another silver strand came out of his wand, but nothing more.
"Light!" cried Lei, and clapped her hands together loudly. The light that appeared was still not very bright but it kept the Great Hall illuminated for a bit longer than before. In the several seconds that she had created light, Lei could see all six of the towering figures coming straight at her. She began to hear a cold, high-pitched laughter in her ears, but she refused to give up yet.
She tried to remember the general direction of where one of the torches was on the wall. Glancing over there, she squinted her eyes, picturing the torch in her mind and concentrating on that picture. Suddenly the torch on the wall burst into flame, only to be put out again by the dementors.
"Lei stop making light!" Harry whispered at the ground where he could hear Lei sniffling. "You're only making it all the more easier for them to find you!" He guessed that they didn't have dementors in Italy, since Lei didn't know what to do about them.
He tried thinking of another happy thought, but, like Lei, Harry started to hear the high-pitched laughter of Voldemort when he had killed Lily and James. He thought of seeing his parents in the Mirror of Erised and tried again. "Expecto Patronum!" A stronger strand of silver came out of his wand, but nothing more.
Lei reached up and took Harry's hand and held it tightly. Harry cursed softly when he dropped his wand because he was shaking so hard. Lei reached out to grab it for him, but when she extended her left hand (her right hand was holding Harry's left hand), it felt as if she had stuck her hand in something extremely cold, like a bucket of ice water. She realized with a start that she had grabbed one of the dementors' black robes instead of Harry's wand. She hurriedly let go of the robe and fumbled for Harry's wand.
Just as her hands closed around the thin wooden wand, Lei's wrist was grabbed by something scabby, bony and cold. Her eyes shot to her left arm, where a discolored hand had a tight grip round her wrist. She screamed and tried to pull her hand free, but the dementor's grip only tightened in response.
High-pitched laughter filled Lei's ears.
Little Lei Potter clung tightly to her mother as Lily began crying and begging for the man in front of her not to kill Harry and Lei. The sounds of the twins' dad's struggles had stopped a minute or two before. Lei didn't understand what was going on. The man had a wooden thing in his hand, which he was pointing at Lily. She seemed to be afraid of this wooden thing, even though she had one herself. Lei had seen it before.
The man laughed when Lily began to beg. "You couldn't have bothered begging before, when I offered to let you join my allegiance, Lily Potter," he said cruelly. Lei didn't like the sound of his cold voice. She looked to her twin. Harry looked back, emerald green eyes wide, because he knew that something bad was happening, though he didn't know exactly what that was.
"Please don't kill Lei or Harry," Lily sobbed. "Don't kill Harry, not Harry and not Lei. Take me instead, just not them!"
The man laughed again and pointed the wooden thing over Lily's heart. Lily whispered into her children's ears, "I love you both, my wonderful darlings. Be safe."
"AVADA KADAVRA!" the man shouted, and there was a bright green flash of light. Lily screamed one last time and then fell to the floor, bringing Harry and Lei with her.
Harry realized that there was something wrong with Lei and pried his wand from her fingers. He had to think happy thoughts, even though he could now hear the voice of his mother ringing through his ears not to kill him.
Lei fell to the ground when the explosion hit the house. Cinzia began to cry, and Lei saw that her little sister's head was bleeding. Giovanni was huddling over Cinzia and motioning for Lei to come over there with them. Lei's adoptive mum hurried over to where her children sat huddled in the corner, grabbing Lei along the way. Lei looked around wildly, trying to find the wizard that had attacked their Italian home.
She found him almost instantly. He smiled wickedly at her, and she swallowed, knowing that she and her family probably wouldn't make it out of what was left of the house alive. She closed her eyes, trying to forget that she'd just witnessed as the same wizard that now stood in front of her murdered her papá and her older sister in the kitchen.
"Avada Kadavra!" shouted the man in a foreign accent. Bright green light filled the room. Lei shouted one word at the same time the wizard shouted the killing curse, but Lei's word was lost in the noise of the house collapsing all around her.
When she opened her eyes again, Giovanni and her adoptive mum were lying face down, dead. Cinzia lay on her back; her pale grey eyes were wide open as if she were staring at the sky above her. Her whole family was dead now, and she was an orphan yet again.
Lei's hand had gone limp in Harry's, but he still held on to it. He wondered distantly which memories Lei was being forced to relive. Whatever ones they were, they were so terrible it made her pass out, like Harry had on several occasions with the dementors.
That's it, he thought, Lei. I was happy when I first saw her, because I knew that she really was my sister.
Still clinging onto Lei's hand, he shouted, "EXPECTO PATRONUM!" A silver stag shot out of Harry's wand and went for the closest dementor, the one that had a hold of Lei's other arm. The stag charged at it and the creature was forced to let go of Lei as it went flying up into the air, crashing into the dementor behind it.
"Go for those ones over there!" Harry commanded the stag. The stag charged again at a group of dementors, and soon they were over by the doors like their other companions by the door, and there was only one dementor left.
Without being told to the stag charged at the last dementor, pushing it over to the doors to the Great Hall. The silver stag pawed the ground, getting ready to shove them out of the doors, but they glided out on their own.
When the torches were lit again and the Hall filled with light, both Lei and Harry were on the floor, hand in hand and unconscious.
Author's Note: Ciao persona! (Hi peoples, basically, I think.) I would like to apologize for my misuse of the Italian language, as one of my reviewers said. I didn't mean to make Lei's cat's name "A little bit of girl" at all (which was what this reviewer said that Ragazza Poco meant), but I am only just learning Italian, so I probably make a lot of mistakes, but hopefully I'll get better! I'd like to thank this review for telling me about my mistake, so I have decided to change the little kitty's name to Piccola, which means small, okay? So now when you see Piccola, you'll know what I mean. Okay, I'm done now...really, I am. Now, onto the next chapter! (((
