Darkness and Light
Chapter 18!
This story's longer than the last! I'm happy!
Angel of the white moon - ^.^v Yay! Thanks!
Midnight Moondrops - Thanks. But the sad part (about my list) is that I've reached thirty and have to delete one...
Mae - I want to tell but I can't...*sob*
LilSha2Cool - Oops, sorry! It didn't send it to me like it usually does. So - 1) it kind of seemed right, plus he went to fight at the end of PoH. 2) That will be explained later. I think I answered in the last chapter what a Lethifold was. And my Sn on Neopets is Lady_Snape575. But I hope you do get your story up soon.
Oh, yeah. Thanks 2 hpisfitandsoischandler in Princess of Hogwarts! And thanks to Chelsea for putting this in the DP! Domo arigato gozaimasu!
Okay, I'll stop talking and start writing.
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(Instant Replay)
"So what's up?" Ginny asked.
"Nothing," he said. Harry got up and opened the common room door to find...Lavender!
"Tooooo much wiiiine..." She slurred, going up to the girls dorms. Harry watched her hobble up the stairs then turned back to the open portrait to see...
Cosmos!
"C-Cosmos! What hap-"
"Yes, yes, I disappeared, I came back.."
"Cosmos?" Ginny appeared next to Harry. "Um, you're bleeding," She said pointing to the side of her head.
"I am," She agreed walking in. Something about her just wasn't right. "You're right, it isn't."
"Isn't what?" Harry said getting a feeling of familiarity.
"What?"
"What you said it isn't."
"What's that?"
"I don't know, what is it?"
"What's what?"
"I don't know!"
"...You'll have to tell Remus Lupin that he can leave." She said after a moment. "And tell him to get better soon."
"Okay." He said, avoiding getting confused again.
"How do you know about that?" Ginny asked.
"...Well, really, it...was partially my fault that he was made temporarily blind and ultimately my fault that you were in hospital wing."
"It was?" Someone said from the stairs. Hermione came down the stairs. Harry made a mental note to ask her where she had been last night.
"Yes, well..." Cosmos said, taking a breath and settling herself on the couch in front of the fire. The others moved away from the common room door and over by the fire. "You remember that Lord Voldemort was speaking through Ron. Harry's scar hurt immensely at the time and he could barely do a thing at the time. Hermione was there at the time when I came up the stairs. I had sensed him near the castle trying to find a way in."
"How could he have gotten his mind into Ron in the first place?" Hermione asked. "I mean, with all the spells and such surrounding the castle."
"Well, if it were Harry, Chibiusa, you, or I, that would be an easy question to answer. Harry is connected to him through his scar, which, I'm sure you've heard innumerous times. Hermione, Chibiusa, and all of the other Senshi-Knights are related in some way through hatred."
"And you?" Ginny asked.
"I...well...I'm getting to that. Anyway, it was quite odd that he could get himself into Ron. But then I realized it - it was quite simple, really."
"What was it?" Harry asked.
"He had the power that Ginny needed to successfully transform."
"Oh yeah, while you were gone these Lethifolds came and attacked us." Ginny said.
"Which was odd because it was daylight and none of us were in any vulnerable position." Hermione said.
"Yes, and right before that, we all transformed without meaning to, and all of us-"
"Except me," Hermione said sadly.
"-Had become Senshi-Knights."
"Really," She said, not actually sounding amazed. "I assume this means that battle draws near. You didn't see anyone unusual at that time. No one came to the school, yet had no business here?"
Immediately Neco came to Harry's mind. But she had said that, and I quote, 'There was some business I had to attend here anyway,' so she was surely invited. But, then again, what business was there?
"No," He said.
"But you were talking about why You-Know-Who was connected to you." Ginny said. Harry had a feeling that Cosmos did not want to tell her, or any one, for that matter.
"Right...I was." She stared into the flames in the fireplace for a moment, then back to the underage. "And this is where the part of the Hospital Wing comes in. Well, I believe that we all would like to see the end of Lord Voldemort, and when he had spoken through Ron-"
"She tried to kill him!" Hermione exclaimed. "And then you stunned me!"
"Indeed I did." Cosmos said. "But...well, I've been trying to hold off on telling you as long as I could, but someone must know at some point, I suppose."
"You mean, why You-Know-Who's connected to you?" Hermione asked.
"Yes." She said, softly. "It's not that it's something that shouldn't be heard by anyone or that it's something that would plague your mind with nightmares...It's just...it's something I've kept to myself for quite awhile. No...I shall tell you.
"I knew who he was before he himself knew what he would become. At that time, I was at Hogwarts in business that I cannot tell you without getting the permission of Professor Dumbledore. But anyway, I looked quite different than I did now - I had purposely changed my appearance. Due to certain circumstances, I was to do my tasks during the night. No one was to see me. I lived in the most concealed of rooms - even your map doesn't show it, Harry." She said addressing him. "Anyway, well, of course, a young Mr. Riddle found me. He didn't know who I was, however. But he told me his plans, his plans being the Basilisk...and everything else he has done and shall do.
"My identity was soon revealed, which was when Voldemort knew that I could be the key to his plan, for the power I had shown at that time was nothing to the things that you may think of as extraordinary or horrifically great. But then..."
"You don't have to tell us." Hermione said.
"Yes, well...I suppose. Anyway, when he was inside of Ron, he brought this up...in a way that...well, it made me a bit livid. He had already gone when I had hit Ron's body with the Spell of Dispersion. But I wanted him to be gone - to never return and suffer for all the pain he's caused people - muggles and witches and wizards alike. I kept repeating the spell, hitting you two and Ron. And for that I apologize. After that, the spell had used so much of my energy that I passed out and transported myself somewhere without meaning to. That someplace was Little Hangleton, the birthplace of Voldemort."
"What does this have to do with Lupin?" Harry asked.
"I'm getting there," Cosmos said. "Well, I had no mean to be there and told him quite plainly that I had a class to teach. He then put me under the Imperious Curse and that, if I'm not mistaken, put some silver in Remus Lupin's eyes to make him temporarily blind, which is where both myself and Voldemort informed him of the job that he had to do." She took a breath, and continued. "It took me a while to snap myself out of the curse. When I did, I escaped from him, and, here I am."
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Okay. Yes short, bad ending, but I wrote this all tonight cuz I saw I hadn't updated in a while. But please review. Bai!