Harry Potter and the Guardian of Light
Chapter 6: Hogwarts revealed
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Last time in the Guardian of Light.
Ron smiled slightly "More danger, you know Harry, never happy unless he's doing something more dangerous then the last" Neville looked even more nervous while Luna still kept her dreamy look. "You mean more dangerous then fighting death eaters in the Ministry?" From Harry's nod he smiled "Alright, what are we waiting for?" With that the group carefully made there way towards the Gryffindor common room, with Luna and Neville tucked away under Harry's Invisibility Cloak.
A/N: Alright, Cho Chang will join the Merry little band of adventurers in this chapter. Now in any review you might give, please note whether you want Harry to be involved with Cho, tonks, or no one for a third girl, or if you have someone else in mind please mention it, ill consider it. But remember, Hermione and Ginny are staying with Harry, this is not debatable.
The gang had to dodge aurors and teachers that patrolled the halls, but thanks to the mauraders map they were able to avoid them or slip by them unnoticed. Upon reaching the Gryffindor common room they all released the invisibility spell of themselves while Neville pulled off the cloak. The fat lady eyed them suspiciously but said nothing as Neville spoke the password. "Dumplings" The Fat lady reluctantly popped open the common room allowing the group in.
Walking in Harry smiled seeing that no one was in the common room "Ok let's look around, and if we can't find anything we'll try the ravenclaw common room. Luna smiled with the same dreamy look "This place is wonderful, much better then the ravenclaw common room, although they have more books...So Harry what exactly are we looking for?""
Harry chuckled at the enthusiastic Luna who was probably just thankful to have friends "some kind of secret passage way, and thanks a lot for coming along Luna, we appreciate the help" He received and nod from her before she quickly began searching the room with the others. They searched for what seemed like an eternity before Harry groaned "i don't think anythings here, might as well move on to the Ravenclaw room." He received slow nods before they left the Common room, once again making themselves invisible. As they got closer to the ravenclaw common room he noticed an auror coming around the corner and quickly whispered "Look out, auror ahead"
Everyone seemed to hear him, except for Neville and Luna who almost ran into him when he came around the corner. Stumbling to move out of the way they tripped and fell with a loud thump, quickly pulling there legs under the cloak they hoped to be spared.
The auror wiped around in several directions with his wand drawn "What the hell was that?" He looked around for a few minutes and came dangerously close to finding the pair lumped up on the floor before he walked off rubbing his eyes "God i'm so tired i'm hearing things." '
When they were sure he was far out of earshot they all sighed in relief. Ron groaned helping the two up "You two almost blew are cover, we would have had to stun an auror" They all rushed to the common room grumbling and fighting with each other, it was amazing really they weren't caught.
Upon reaching the Common room entrance in the ravenclaw tower Luna came out from under the cloak and approached a suit of armor which promptly pointed a sword at her. She simply smiled when Neville pointed his wand at it "Strawberry Cream" The Armor stayed still for a moment before moving to the side revealing a small door. They all crawled inside before taking off there invisibility charm.
Harry smiled slightly looked around, indeed there was a lot more books and a lot less comfortable items. "Wow, i had no idea it was behind a suit of armor..." Ron groaned slightly plopping down in one of the chairs "Well i kind of hated that walk...So what should we look for to take it as an entrance?"
Hermione sighed shaking her head "Really Ron you really are useless" She received a glare but ignored it "Well it's true Ron, if there is an entrance it will most likely be some sort of little serpent thing meaning Harry has to use Parseltoungue, or it will be hidden."
Ron sighed before beginning to search with the others. It had only been two minutes before Ron groaned his complaint again "This is useless!" Every one quickly glared at him who threw up his hands defensively "Sorry sorry, ill be quieter, but wouldn't it be more realistic to put it in slytherin house? I mean he was there after all. Talon shook his head slowly "To obvious, remember he's hiding them, not inviting us to destroy them"
Luna jumped up enthusiastically as she pulled a book off a shelf "Is this something!" She was quickly surrounded by harry and the gang who stared intently at a small serpent. Harry smiled slightly "Could be, let's move this book case" They all nodded and took a place around the large book case, except for Talon and attempting to pull it free from it's place against the wall.
Talon chuckled as it didn't budge and simply shook his head "Move out of the way" At there questioning looks he glared causing them to all quickly shuffle to the side. Ginny sighed slightly placing her hands on her hips "What are you doing?" The older wizard simply chuckled before aiming his staff at the case "Remo advestive" They all looked at him strangely before he calmly moved the case aside with a levitation charm. "It was stuck in place by an adhesive charm, simple but effective for a first line of defense"
Harry smiled placing his hand on the serpent, he winced pulling his hand away quickly "Ow! What in the world?" He saw the snake looking at him now his fangs showing each with a drop of blood on it. It hissed something which harry translated in his mind. "The blood has been given? What in Merlin does that mean?" His question was answered as that part of the wall began to slide away to form a stone passage way.
Hermione gasped healing harrys small bite marks after curing the poison she found in his body "guess he wanted to slowly kill the person who figured they got in without anything but a bite mark" Harry smiled giving her a quick kiss "Thanks Hermione" This earned a blush from her and a grumble from Ginny who was obviously still getting used to the new situation.
Talon chuckled before smiling "Well Shall Lord Potters little force keep moving?" They all nodded but were interrupted by an unexpected person. "H-hold it right there! Who are you? Why are you in the common room!" She had her wand pointed at them and didn't notice them with there hoods up, but she quickly noticed Luna and blinked "You let strangers in here!"
Luna shrieked hiding behind Neville "Yes assistant professor" Harry was barely able to form words but finally pulled his hood off "Cho? I thought you graduated?"
Cho gasped when she saw Harry and temporary forgetting about the situation she smiled nervously still having a bit of feelings for the young wizard "I did...i'm an apprentice under Flitwick now.." Finally noticing the whole behind him she gasped "Harry! Where did that come from...and i thought you weren't coming to school this year."
Harry sighed slightly looking to Talon "Should i tell her?" He simply shrugged sitting in an armchair "Up to you Lord Potter, if you think she's a potential ally go right ahead" Cho looked behind the two her wand hand shaking, she knew if they deciding to attack she would be outmatched.
Neville and Luna seemed to be talking about what was going on and Harry's other friends simply stared at him "Well Cho...if you'll put your wand down we can have a little chat. Luna, Neville you should listen to" He then went on to explain most of what was going on, mostly just telling them about the horcruxes.
Luna had dreamy eyes when he spoke of there adventures in finding the first one "Wonderful Lord Potter! I will help you find the rest to, it's the least i can do for such good friends" Neville shuffled his feet while looking at the ground "I think ill follow to Harry, Make my grandmother proud."
Harry smiled slightly "Thanks you to...and Luna you don't have to call me Lord Potter." He sighed since she didn't seem to be listening to him. He finally looked to Cho with worried eyes, she could prove a good ally or an unfortunate enemy.
"I-i don't know what to say Harry...it sounds so impossible." She stared at the ground before staring at Harry "I trust you Harry, so i will follow you into that pass, and if what you say turns out to be true i will help out"
With a thankful nod Harry started into the passage, the other 7 of his companions following behind him. Ron seemed to be directly behind him and grinned "Notice how the girls always seem to join your little adventures?" Harry chuckled slightly before grinning back "Except for you of course, is there something your not telling me, want to come out of the closet?"
Ron glared at him before breaking out in laugher "The golden boy has jokes, wonderful..." They both laughed now leaving the girls, and Talon who was behind the rest very confused. When the light started to Dim in the passage Harry used a Lumos charm letting the tip of his staff glow brightly as he led them.
Eventually they reached a huge circular room with large rocks and boulders everywhere, He instantly wished he never had lit up his staff when he realized what was in the room. There were three rather large dragons thankfully they all seemed to currently be sleeping.
When they all quietly filled into the room they remained talking in only whispers. Ron sighed slightly "Let's turn back Harry, Thats a Swedish red tail, and an English Howler" He studied the one in the middle for a moment with a confused look "Never seen one of those..."
Talon sighed slightly studying them "The one in the middle is a Silver Dragon, very rare, many thought they were already extinct. Supposedly they can talk."
Ginny shivered at the sight "How do we fight three dragons?" Hermione smiled brightly looking at them closely "Look at there necks, they all have a piece of a key around there necks, maybe if we just took the keys"
Cho shook her head with a sigh "Dragons are extremely sensitive, we can't escape this. Let's turn back..."
Talon stepped forward with a serious expression. "A dragons weak point is the under belly, although it's not the silver ones weakness we can worry about that one after the other two" Before the others could respond Talon slammed the end of his staff against the ground creating a large sound and a spark of magic.
"Are you bloody insane!" He could already see the Dragons standing up angrily "You just Killed us for god sakes!" Everyone quickly drew there wands at the sight of the dragons piercing gaze. Talon smiled slightly "We might as well fight them head on, can't do much else. Let's split into teams, Harry, Cho and Ron take the Swedish one, and the rest of you take the English one. Ill distract are silver friend." Before any of them could complain He jumped into the air transforming into an eagle.
Ron stood dumbfounded "Bloody hell that was cool!" He saw Harry running towards there dragon and groaned following. As soon as They came within 30 feet of the dragon it swooped at them, Harry and Ron ducking while Cho jumped out of the way.
Cho squealed dodging the giant tail of the dragon "Harry! Please tell me you have a plan!" When she didn't get an answer she fired a concussion curse, but it simply bounced off the tough dragon hide.
Harry looked around nervously trying to think of something "I-i think i have a plan, Ron! Distract him! Cho transfigure a spear!" They both look strangely at him but did as they were told, Cho made a rather sharp spear from a boulder and Ron was running around firing curses and such.
Harry ran towards the distracted dragon and grunted when it's tail connected with his chest. He screamed as he felt one of the long spikes pierce his shoulder, thankfully not the one he used his staff with. Gritting his teeth he pushed away the pain, breaking the spike off with a Reducto spell. He slowly climbed the dragon who was frantically thrashing to remove harry from his back.
When he was far enough up top he aimed his staff at it's neck "Viristido!" A long strand of silver energy erupted from the tip wrapping around the dragon's neck he treated it like taming a horse pulling on his staff.
Harry continued to pull on his staff keeping the dragon relativity still while looking at Cho "Think you can throw that spear through it's under belly?" She nodded slowly and he smiled pulling harder on the staff despite the pain in his shoulder. The strength was enough to put the dragon on two feet exposing the soft par of it's body.
Cho threw the spear with all her might, but as it pierced the flesh of the dragon she covered her ears from the loud roar of pain. Ron noticed it didn't pierce far enough since it seemed to become more fierce. Running forward he lunged for the spear. "AHHHH!" He felt the dragons teeth sink into his side as his hand clutched the base of the spear shoving it farther into the flesh.
It was another minute before the dragon collapsed, Cho looked horrified and quickly helped heal the wounds of the two, after detaching the teeth from Ron, and removing the spike from Harry's shoulder. Ron gasped leaning against a rock "That was unpleasant" He watched as Ginny finished off the second dragon with a rather strong blunt force spell to it's neck cutting off it's air and eventually killing it. Neville seemed to have a burn on his arm, since the English dragon breathed fire, Luna had a gash on her leg, while Hermione and Ginny looked fine except for exhaustion.
Harry gasped as Talon hit the ground transforming back into his human self slowly standing up as the others gathered around slowly. "Talon are you ok?" He slowly nodded clutching his staff "Things tough..." Ginny handed there piece of the key to Cho who merged it with There own.
The dragon let out a booming roar before landing from it's flight staring at them "Who invades this dragons den" Although the words were sent out through a roar they were able to pick them out. "Bloody hell! It does talk!" This received a breath of blue fire which came inches from Rons face "Of course i can talk human!"
Harry gulped slightly clutching his staff weakly he stepped forward "I'm Harry Potter, we seek to continue past here on a quest" The dragon simply stared at him for what seemed like an eternity before roaring again "I will let you pass only if you can defeat me! And if you can i shall help you on this 'quest'"
Ginny gasped slightly "T-that thing will help...us?" Talon nodded slowly "Looks that way...Silver dragons never serve masters that can't overcome them" Harry gulped slightly "Alright, we will fight you" The dragon once again roared out its words "No! Young Potter, you must face me alone, prove yourself an honorable wizard!"
It was Hermione's chance to gasp "H-harry you can't! Don't, let us help!" He looked back at her with a weak smile before shaking his head "It's alright Mione...I'll take care of this" Cho unable to form words watched in horror as Harry went closer to the dragon.
He took in a deep breath clutching his staff "Alright, just you and me, If i win you let me pass and come with us on are quest. If you win...You kill me but let my friends go." He wasn't sure if dragons had a sense of honor but the dragon seemed to give a nod, although it was hard to tell. He was quickly taken by surprise as the dragon took flight and soared at him, ducking behind a rock be dodged the large silver dragon "Well he doesn't waste anytime..."
Although he knew his friends were talking he had no time to listen as he dodged constant attacks. Finally backed up against the wall the dragon landed near him "Young Potter, you have no chance" Harry gulped slightly his mind running over every spell he knew. Then it came, the dragon breathed the light blue flames which erupted towards him. In mere seconds before the flame touched his skin he raised his staff "Silvio entrap!" A thin silver screen appeared dispersing the flames almost as immediately as they touched to the dragons great annoyance. "Saive Filam!"A blast of silver light shot out hitting the dragon's head which caused it to roar in pain as it stumbled backwards with loud stomps.
Harry took a deep breath firing a few more as he backed the dragon up. In great pain the dragon spread its Silver wings and took to flight sending another jet of flames towards him which were dispersed by the same spell as before. Using an advanced form of the Blunt force spell the dragon hit the wall, the giant figure fall to the floor, slowly getting up "Not bad young wizard..." When it saw another jet of light it blocked with it's think silver wings and lunged at him, one of his giant claws piercing Harry's chest as he screamed din agony. "Ahh! Let me go!" He was dragged around, still attached to the claw for a moment before hitting the ground with a grunt. He used a great deal of magical energy to heal his wound and prevent further blood loss.
Slowly getting to his feet Harry leaned on his staff. "Not so bad yourself for an overgrown dragon. This just angered the mighty beast, and before he could move its hard tail slammed into his already wounded chest sending him into a wall. Coughing up blood Harry once again stood rather wobbly. "Try this on for size! Avana Federate!" A long golden net flew out and tangled the dragon up, the more it struggled the more it was caught in the net. Harry watched for 5 minutes as it struggled before finally roaring "Let me go human, you win this battle"
Reluctantly lifting the net from his opponent he gulped as it stood and approached him. Laying down in front of him the dragon snorted "Take the last piece" Cautiously approaching he reached up taking the piece of the key. "Don't forget the other part of the deal..." The dragon snorted again "I have not forgot human, i shall serve you Lord"
With a wave of his staff the dragon shrunk to a smaller size, now more like the size of a werewolf "Sorry about that, but your kind of large to walk around regularly, do you have a name?" He got no response for a moment but finally his new 'pet' answered "Meviso" Harry's friends crowded around them, some cheering for him, and others wondering where he got all those spells.
Harry grinned slightly handing the last piece of the key to Cho "Here" She smiled nervously and attached the last piece. "Well that's it, let's get to are next challenge" There all nodded and approached the large golden door in the back of the room.
To be continued
Next time: The end of hogwarts trials