Department of Mysteries

Ok yeah I know...really sad thing to do...killing Sirius and all. But I want Leah to change big time. She may not be little miss nicey nicey right now, but trust me, she's gonna get a whole lot worse after this chapter.

Hermione led Harry, Leah and Umbridge into the forest where they ran into the centaurs. Then Grawp appeared. Then the centaurs and Grawp had a kind of fight. Leah guessed the centaurs carried Umbridge away, she never saw. She, Harry and Hermione all ran off back to the castle. They were still slightly in the forest when Ron and the others showed up, each looking slightly bad.

Next that happened was them getting Thestrals and flying to the visitor entrance to the Ministry of Magic. Now they were all crammed in the battered telephone box.

"Whoever's nearest the receiver, dial six two four four two." Harry said. Ron did it because Leah couldn't get her arms out.

"Welcome to the ministry of magic. Please state your name and business." The cool female voice said.

"Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Leah Black, Ginny Weasley, Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood." Leah said.

"We're here to save someone, unless your Ministry can do it first!" Harry said.

"Thank you." The same voice said. "Visitors, please take the badges and attach them to the front of your robes." Seven badges slid out the return coins slot. Hermione picked them up and handed them around. Ginny helped Leah with hers. "Visitors of the Ministry, you are required to submit to a search and present your wands for registration at the security desk, which is located at the far end of the Atrium."

"Fine." Harry said. "Now can we move?"

"I still say there's no reason to be here." Leah said.

"Leah…he wasn't at the house…you felt pain." Harry said.

"Someone's pulling a trick on us Harry." Leah said.

"What if their not?" Harry asked. Leah looked at him. He looked so worried. Leah sighed then nodded.

The door opened and they all got out of the box as quickly as they could. Leah ran to catch up with Harry.

"No one's here." She said. "This doesn't feel right. How could my dad and Voldemort be in here and there not be a single security person?" Harry didn't answer. They all went into the elevator and Harry pushed the down button until they got to the level with the department of Mysteries.

"Let's go." Harry whispered. Leah stayed next to Harry. She was the only one without a wand out. Luna was right behind them. "Ok listen." They stopped close to a door. Harry looked at everyone and Leah tilted her head. "Maybe…maybe a couple of people should stay here as a…as a lookout…and…"

"And how're we going to let you know something's coming?" Ginny asked. "You could be miles away."

"We're coming with you, Harry." Neville said.

"Let's get on with it." Ron said. "Umm…Leah…where's your wand? Malfoy didn't have it?"

"Shoe." Leah said. Everyone raised an eyebrow. Leah sighed before bending over and pulling her wand from her shoe. They went into a large circular room with doors all over the place and candles that were lit with blue fire.

"Someone close the door." Harry said. Neville did. As soon as the door closed the wall rotated. Leah could tell, as soon as the wall stopped sliding, that everyone had a blue streak across their eyes.

"What was that about?" Ron whispered.

"Probably to stop us knowing how to get out." Leah muttered.

"How're we going to get back out?" Neville asked.

"Well, that doesn't matter now." Harry said. Leah groaned then bit her lip. She was getting more pain in her chest. "We won't need to get out till we've found Sirius…"

"Don't go calling for him though!" Hermione said.

"Where do we go, then, Harry?" Ron asked.

"I don't…" Harry said. Leah looked at him. He made them all think that Sirius was in danger and he didn't know where to go? She felt like smacking him again. "In the dreams I went through the door at the end of the corridor from the lifts into a dark room…that's this one…and then I went through another door into a room that kind of…glitters. We should try a few doors. I'll know the right way when I see it. C'mon."

"I just know this is gonna end badly…I know it!" Leah said. Ginny gave her hand a quick squeeze. Leah sighed then forced a smile to make Ginny think that she helped. They went to the door right in front of them. Harry pushed it open to reveal a room darker then what they were in.

"What're those things?" Ron whispered. Leah looked at him then to where he was looking. There was an enormous glass tank in the middle of the room with pearly-white objects drifting around in it.

"Dunno." Harry answered.

"Aquavirius Maggots!" Luna said. "Dad said the Ministry was breeding…"

"No." Hermione said. She moved to look through the side of the tank. "They're brains."

"Brains?" Ron asked.

"Yes…I wonder what they're doing with them." Hermione said.

Leah and Harry joined Hermione at the tank. They were brains. Leah shivered. She kept her mouth clamped shut to keep any noise from escaping. She didn't want Harry to think that she believed him about Sirius. Leah knew Sirius wasn't there…she just came to make sure no one got hurt and to brag about being right when Harry found out he was wrong. She was still getting sharp pains in her chest.

"Let's get out of here." Harry said. "This isn't right, we need to try another door." Leah fully agreed with getting out of that room.

"There are doors here too." Ron said. Leah looked around at the doors. How big was this place?

"In my dream I went through that dark room into the second one." Harry said. "I think we should go back and try from there."

So they did. Hermione did a charm that put an X on the door they just left. They went into a room with an arch. They left that one, Hermione did the charm again, then found a door that wouldn't open. Charm was done again, then another room with a jar that had an egg that changed into a butterfly then back again. Hermione did the charm again and then they finally found the right room. They walked through what looked like a church, to row ninety-seven.

"He's right down at the end." Harry said. "You can't see properly from here." He led everyone to the end of the row. "He should be near here. Anywhere here…really close…"

"Harry?" Hermione asked.

"Somewhere about…here." Harry said. They reached the end of the row. "He might be…" Harry looked down the other alley. "Or maybe…"

"Harry?" Hermione said.

"What?" Harry asked.

"He's not here." Leah said. "I told you so." No one spoke. Harry ran down the alley. Everyone looked at the shelve with the little glass balls on it.

"Harry." Ron called.

"What?" Harry asked.

"Have you seen this?" Ron asked. Leah moved over to him.

"What?" Harry asked. He came back over. "What?"

"It's…It's got your name on." Ron said.

"My name?" Harry asked. He and Leah both looked.

S.P.T to A.P.W.B.C

Dark Lord

And (?)Harry Potter

"What is it? What's your name doing down here?" Ron asked.

"And what's with the question mark?" Leah asked.

"Harry, I don't think you should touch it." Hermione said.

"Why not?" Harry asked. "It's something to do with me, isn't it?"

"Don't Harry." Neville said.

"It's got my name on." Harry said. He picked up the ball and stared at it. Nothing happened. Harry brushed the dust off the ball.

"Very good, Potter. Now turn around, nice and slowly, and give that to me." Lucius Malfoy said from behind them. Everyone turned around and Leah winced when her eyes crossed one of the people. "To me, Potter." Lucius held his hand out. Leah looked at Harry. He was thinking the same thing…they were trapped. "To me."

"Where's Sirius?" Harry asked. Leah rolled her eyes and felt like punching Harry. Several the of the Death Eaters laughed.

"The Dark Lord always knows." Bellatrix's said, coming out of the shadows to the left.

"Always." Lucius said. "Now, give me the prophecy Potter."

"I want to know where Sirius is!" Harry said.

"I want to know where Sirius is!" Bellatrix mimicked. Now Leah felt like hitting her.

"You've got him." Harry said. "He's here. I know he is."

"The little baby woke up fwightened and fort what it dweamed was twoo." Bellatrix said in a baby voice. "You should have listened to your little girlfriend."

"Don't do anything." Harry muttered as Leah was about to jump at Bellatrix. "Not yet…"

"You hear him? You hear him?" Bellatrix said, laughing. "Giving instructions to the other children as though he thinks of fighting us!"

"Oh, you don't know Potter as I do, Bellatrix." Lucius said. "He has a great weakness for heroics: the Dark Lord understands this about him. Now give me the prophecy, Potter."

"I know Sirius is here." Harry said. "I know you've for him!"

"Harry! He's not here. I told you. Now because of you…we're trapped." Leah said.

"Well…at least this Black has some brains." Lucius said. "It's time you learned the difference between live and dreams Potter." Lucius said. "Now give me the prophecy, or we start using wands."

"Go on then." Harry said. Leah looked at him to see raise his wand. Everyone else but Leah did the same.

"Hand over the prophecy and no one need get hurt." Lucius said.

"Yeah right." Harry said, laughing. "I give you this…prophecy, is it? And you'll just let us skip off home will you?"

"Accio Proph…" Bellatrix started.

"Protego!" Harry said, quickly. Leah let out a breath that she hadn't realized she had been holding.

"Oh, he knows how to play, little bitty baby Potter." Bellatrix said. "Very well then…"

"I TOLD YOU NOW!" Lucius shouted. "If you smash it…"

"Better listen to your boss Bella." Leah said. "He knows what's good for you."

"Are you giving me orders now?" Bellatrix asked. She stepped forward and pulled off her hood. "Your wand isn't raised…what makes you think you'll strike me before I strike you?" Leah felt Harry pull her backwards.

"You'll have to smash this if you want to attack any of us." Harry said. "I don't think your boss will be too pleased if you come back without it, will he?" Bellatrix didn't say anything. "So…what kind of prophecy are we talking about, anyway?"

"What kind of prophecy?" Bellatrix asked. "You jest, Harry Potter."

"Nope, not jesting." Harry said. "How come Voldemort wants it?"

"You dare speak his name?" Bellatrix whispered.

"My god…are you guys afraid of his name too?" Leah asked.

"Yeah." Harry said, cutting into what he knew would make Leah do something stupid. "Yeah, I've got no problem saying Vol…"

"Shut your mouth." Bellatrix said. "You dare speak his name with your unworthy lips, you dare besmirch it with your half-blood's tongue, you dare…"

"Oh shut up Bella." Leah said.

"Did you know he's half-blood too?" Harry asked. Hermione moaned. "Voldemort? Yeah, his mother was a witch but his dad was a muggle…or has he been telling you lot he's pure-blood?"

"STUPEF…" Bellatrix started again.

"NO!" Lucius deflected Bellatrix's spell and a glass ball fell from the shelf and broke. An old bearded man, looking like a ghost, rose from the broken ball and started talking. "DO NOT ATTACK!" Lucius sounded real pissed off. "WE NEED THE PROPHECY!"

"He dares…he dares…" Bellatrix said. "He stands there…filthy half-blood…"

"Wait until we've for the prophecy!" Lucius said.

"You haven't told me what's so special about this prophecy I'm supposed to be handing over." Harry said. Leah felt his foot tap her own.

"Do not play games with us, Potter." Lucius said.

"What?" Leah whispered. She looked down to see Harry's other foot tap Hermione's.

"I'm not playing games." Harry said.

"What?" Hermione whispered this time.

"Dumbledore never told you the reason you bear that scar was hidden in the bowels of the Department of Mysteries?" Lucius asked.

"I…what?" Harry said.

"What?" Leah and Hermione whispered urgently.

"Can this be?" Lucius asked. The Death Eaters laughed.

"Smash shelves…" Harry whispered.

"Dumbledore never told you?" Lucius asked. "Well this explains why you didn't come earlier, Potter, the Dark Lord wondered why…"

"When I say now." Harry whispered. Leah looked around at the shelves before whispered to Luna, who was right next to her, what Harry said. She looked around again. "NOW!"

"REDUCTO!" All six teens behind Harry shouted, making glass balls fall from the shelves.

"RUN!" Harry shouted. They all ran forward, running into the death eaters…And knocking them over. Leah, Ron, Ginny and Luna all went a different way from Harry, Neville and Hermione.

"If we split up, it might keep the majority of the Death Eaters away from Harry long enough." Leah muttered. They ran into a room and slammed the door shut. "Colloportus!" The door sealed itself.

"Bloody hell…you were right." Ron said.

"About what?" Leah asked, pushing her hair out of her face.

"About Sirius." Ron said.

"Yeah…I know." Leah said. "But Harry's just so thick headed. I wasn't feeling the pain Sirius felt…someone…no doubt that it was Bellatrix…was forcing me to feel it so that I'd believe that Sirius really was in danger."

"Why?" Luna asked.

"Because I'm connected to my family through more then just blood." Leah said, playing with her necklace. There was a bang on the door and she backed away from it. The door got blown open but at that moment, all four of the teens had hidden.

"Come out, come out wherever you are." A Death Eater said. Leah pulled Ginny, who was hiding with her, back a bit more. She looked out to see how many Death Eaters there were there.

"Ok…there's about five of them." Leah Whispered. "I'm gonna try and lure them away. As soon as I do that…you get Ron and Luna out of here."

"What?" Ginny asked.

"Don't worry…I know what I'm doing." Leah whispered. "Just don't try to stop me and get out of here as soon as I get those guys out."

"Fine…but if you get hurt…Harry is gonna kill me…so is Sirius and your mom and your grandpa." Ginny whispered.

"Thanks hun." Leah said, hugging Ginny. "Ok…see ya." She got out from under the table and whistled. "Yo…dumbasses! Bet ya can't catch me!"

"There's she is! Get her!" A Death Eater said. Leah ran out a door and heard footsteps behind her. She led them straight into the veil room but when Leah turned around to see which ones were following them, she collided right into someone else.

"You never could keep your eyes on where you were going." Bellatrix said, reaching down and yanking Leah to her feet. Leah winced as a fresh jolt of pain shot through her. "You feeling the pain aren't you little girl."

"Bite me." Leah muttered, kicking Bellatrix in the shin. Bellatrix released her and Leah ran around her…and into Lucius. "God! I hate you people!" A few minutes later everyone else showed up and things went too fast for Leah to keep track of. All she knew was that Neville was getting tortured and Harry was about to hand over the prophecy.

Two doors burst open and five people ran in: Sirius, Remus, Moody, Tonks and Kingsley. Tonks stunned Lucius. Leah suddenly realized that she wasn't being held anymore and just fell to her knees.

"Leah! You gotta get out of here!" Tonks said. She pulled Leah to her feet. Leah ran over to Harry and Neville just as Sirius rammed a Death Eater away from them.

"Petrificus Totalus!" Harry shouted, making the Death Eater freeze.

"Nice one!" Sirius said. "I want you to get out of…" Leah yanked Harry down just as a jet of green light barely missed hitting Sirius. "Harry, Leah, take that prophecy, grab Neville and run!" He ran to fight Bellatrix. Harry and Leah went to help Neville.

"Can you stand?" Harry asked.

"Come on Neville." Leah said. "Put your arms round our necks…" Neville did that and Leah and Harry tried pulling him to his feet.

"The prophecy, give me the prophecy Potter!" Lucius said, suddenly lunging at them, knocking everyone over.

"No…get off me…" Harry said. "Leah…catch it!" He threw the prophecy and Leah grabbed it before putting it into Neville's hand and trying to pull him up again. Lucius aimed his wand at them. "Impedimenta!" Lucius was blasted backwards.

"Round up to the others and GO!" Remus said.

"We're going, we're going!" Leah said.

"Come on!" Harry said, helping Leah pull Neville to his feet. Neville's feet kicked the prophecy and it flew and broke.

"Harry, I'b sorry!" Neville said. "I'b so sorry, Harry, I didn'd bean do…"

"It doesn't matter!" Harry said. "Just try and stand, let's get out of…"

"Dubbledore!" Neville said.

"What?" Harry asked.

"DUMBLEDORE!" Leah said, pointing. She let out a sigh of relief. IN a few minutes, Dumbledore had practically all the Death Eaters round up. The only one's still fighting were Sirius and Bellatrix. "Oh no." Leah's mind flashed to her dream. This was it. Bellatrix was gonna get the last blow and Sirius was gonna…

"Come on, you can do better than that!" Sirius yelled. A jet of red light hit him right in the chest and Leah screamed. She and Harry ran down the stairs. Sirius' body curved and he fell backwards through the veil hanging over the arch. The look of fear and surprise on her father's face sent a lot of pain through Leah's chest but she ignored it.

"SIRIUS!" Harry yelled. "SIRIUS!" Leah and Harry reached the ground but were grabbed by Remus. Leah fought against him.

"There's nothing you can do…" Remus said.

"Get him! Save him! He's only just gone through!" Harry said.

"It's too late, Harry." Remus said.

"It's not…Remus we gotta get him!" Leah said.

"No…Leah…" Remus said.

"We can still reach him." Harry said.

"There's nothing we can do…nothing…he's gone." Remus said.

No!" Leah said. "He's not…he can't be!" She fell to her knees.

"He is…Leah…he's gone." Remus said.

This doesn't really count as a cliffhanger because you people already know what happens. I'm gonna tweak it a bit, of course, for Leah. But it'll still be pretty much the same. Next chapter is gonna be the last for the fifth year and the chapter after that is gonna be the summer. From there on…it's all me…not gonna add anything from the book because, obviously, I won't have it by then…I think. Well, I am getting the book, like I said, but sixth and seventh year…all me.

The list of problems that Leah has will grow too. I might bring Sirius back, in seventh year, really all depends on how badly you people want him back for Leah's sake, and how much I need him to be there to give the whole father-interrigation thing.