Chapter 5: The First Exorcism
"And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison" Revelation 20:7
Harry was lying awake in his bed, pondering about the things that had happened the previous night, all of a sudden, he felt a great sense of pain and sadness. He sat, upright in his bed and suddenly felt himself shivering and sweating despite the warming spell which had been cast on Hogwarts at the beginning of winter. He was suddenly aware of another presence in the room, he closed his eyes to try to banish these thoughts out of his head, but when he opened them, he found himself in a huge room that looked as if it could take the whole Hogwarts castle, the whole room was made of fire and in front of Harry were three thrones and on the throne in the middle, was a huge dragon with seven heads, on the dragon's right, was a huge creature that looked exactly like a lion with seven heads and ten horns and wore a huge medallion which bore the inscription: THE GREAT BEAST: 666. On the dragon's left was a creature that looked like an ox and had the mouth of a dragon.
All of a sudden, one of the dragon's heads leapt and bit Harry on the waist. A searing pain shot through Harry and he heard voices saying: "Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him?" At that instant, Harry awoke with a scream and found himself completely alone.
The next morning, during breakfast, Harry recollected his dream to Hermione and Ron and their reaction was one of total amazement and horror, "We had the exact same dream," said Ron, indicating to himself and Hermione.
"That's strange," said Harry.
That night, Harry was awakened by a dreadful screaming coming from the common room. He leapt out of bed, grabbed his glasses and rushed down the stairs of the dormitory. When he reached the bottom he was met with a gruesome sight, a fifth year girl was walking like a crab along the ceiling and a mixture of blood and saliva dripping from her mouth, she was screaming in Latin which Harry could not understand. Harry suddenly heard another scream and realized that the whole Gryffindor house was staring with looks of horror at the girl. Harry turned to Ron, who had just appeared, and said, "Go call the first teacher you can find."
Ron nodded and ran out the portrait hole. Half an hour later, Ron returned with Professor McGonagall, "Oh my God," she exclaimed in shock.
"Professor," said Hermione, "Can't you do something?"
"Potter," she said, "Go call Professor Roberts, he might know what to do."
Harry ran off and five minutes later, he was knocking on Roberts' door screaming, "Professor Roberts, Professor Roberts."
Eventually, Roberts opened the door, he was still in his black suit and wearing the various medallions around his neck, "The explanation you are about to give me had better be exceptionally good."
"Professor," said Harry, "Come quick."
"Not good enough," said Roberts, "Go away."
As he was closing the door, Harry said, "We have a big problem."
"What kind of problem?" asked Roberts.
"I think you need to see for yourself," said Harry.
"OK," said Roberts, "But if I come with and find out this was all a prank, I will kill you, and anyone who stands in my way."
When they both arrived in the common room, they found that the students had finally tied down the girl and Professor McGonagall was trying some spells on her, all of which, had no effect on the girl. Roberts' expression suddenly turned to one of seriousness, he pushed his way towards the girl and when she saw him, she stopped squirming and said in a masculine voice, "Hell, Father Roberts."
"Do you want to tell me your name?" asked Roberts.
The girl began to laugh, a cold, cruel, unholy laugh.
"All right," said Roberts as he retrieved a small, glass bottle, filled with water, "You want to do this the hard way? So be it."
He then put a drop of the water on the thumb of his right hand and then put that thumb on the girl's forehead, all of a sudden, she began screaming and erupted into immense seizures as Roberts chanted, out loud, "I command you, unclean spirit, whoever you are, along with all your minions now attacking this servant of God, by the mysteries of the incarnation, passion, resurrection, and ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ, by the descent of the Holy Spirit, by the coming of our Lord for judgment, that you tell me by some sign your name, and the day and hour of your departure."
He repeated this over and over again until, suddenly, the girl stopped shaking and when Roberts looked up, he saw on the wall, written in blood, the words:
LUCIFER, THE MORNING STAR.
SATAN, THE ENEMY OF GOD.
NEVER.