A/N: Heres the long awaited chapter. Where the plot takes a humongous turn, this is the saddest harry potter chapter in the book! Do please read, and again there are some changes I have made but the story line stays about the same.

Disclaimer: do not own most of this chapter. Story belongs to JK Rowling the fantastic author! I have only added some changes. Most of this chapter is from 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' chapter 'Beyond the Veil' by JK Rowling. MAJOR SPOILERS!

Chapter 11: Beyond the Veil

They stared as Harry desperately shook Hermione's shoulders, whose composure slowly drifting away, and his eyes were filling with a new raw fear…

"Hermione…please wake up…"

James could hardly choke down his own tears at the raw sight of it all. He knew Hermione survived… but it was so painful to see anybody go through that kind of torture, especially his own unborn son.

The 'Longbottom' kid, waddled over to Harry and knelt down beside him, grabbing for Her wrist as blood poured freely down his face. The scene was tense.

"Dat's a pulse, Harry, I'b sure Id is."

Such a huge sigh of relief went through the group that some of them had to laugh.

"She's alive?" Harry asked anxiously. The relief in his eyes seemed to be contagious, because soon they were all feeling relieved.

"Yeah, I dink so"

"Neville, were not far form the exit, were right next to the circular room, if we could just get you across it and find the right door before the death eater find us, I'll bet you could get Hermione up the corridor to the lift…then you could find someone and raise the alarm…"

Nobody spoke. They all closed their eyes waiting for the shout-

"YESSSSSSSSSS! I WAS RIGHT!"

And there it came.

Sirius was jumping up and down like a little kid who just got Christmas early. He was sticking his tongue out at Auror Longbottom who was shaking his head.

"It was Neville! Aren't I S.M.R.T…"

"Oh God Siri…please do shut up…"

"Alrighty then"

Neville shook his head stubbornly "and whad are you going to do?" he said moping his bloody nose over his sleeve.

Harry looked around them anxiously " I've got to find the others…and…"

"And whad? Harry dob't do anyding stupid…" Neville whispered frowning.

Harry looked at him sharply. "Fine, but listen you got to get out of here! Take Mione' with you! She needs help" he looked at the door fearfully.

"I'b going wid you" Neville stated strongly. No room for argument.

Harry looked at him strangely "Look Neville! This isn't some game of toughness! It's about getting out alive before Voldemort decides to come in himself and fry our arses himself! I'm not going to have him kill you too! Got it? Cedric was enough to watch…" he gulped and looked away.

The group was now confused. Cedric? Who was he? And why did he watch him die?!

Neville still stood strong though "I'b not leaving…here" he scooped up Hermione's limp body and threw one arm around himself. Harry sighed but reluctantly pulled the other one around him.

"Look, this is what were going to do, were going to find the others and get out of here okay?" Harry whispered towards Neville, who just nodded in agreement.

"Wait" harry said, then stooping down snatched up Hermione's wand. "You might need this"

Neville looked at the broken fragments of his wand lying on the floor where the death eater had kicked him. Then he took the wand Harry handed him.

"My Gran's going to kill be" he muttered, "Dat was by dad's old wand"

Harry looked at the broken fragment son the floor and sighed rather heavily before him

And Neville thunked towards the closest door, wobbling under Hermione's weight.

The group followed them as Harry Cautiously poked his head out the door looking around. "Come on…stay close behind me…"

They walked out into the circular room again, and as soon as the door closed behind them it began to spin rather recklessly.

James leaned on Sirius for support. The room finally came to a sudden halt.

"so which way do ya reckon-,"

but before they could make a decision a door to their right split opened and James recognized, Ginny, The blonde haired girl, and Ron come tumbling out.

"Ron! Ginny! Are you all-,"

But something happened which surprised them all slightly. Ron reached out with groggily eyes and grabbed the front of Harry's robes, dragging him in a half sort of bow.

"Harry" he whispered "there you are…ha-ha…you look funny harry…you're all messed up…"

"Ginny…" Harry asked fearfully "what happened?"

But when James looked at Ginny he noticed she had raspy sort of breathing. And her ankle was bent at a weird angle, clearly broken.

"I think her ankles broken" said the third person, the loony one James noticed, who seemed to be like the unspeakable almost. Too mysterious. "I heard something crack," she whispered. She seemed to be the only one unhurt. "Four of them chased us into some dark place, full of planets, it was a very odd place, some of the time we were just floating in the dark…"

"Harry we saw Uranus up close!" said Ron still giggling feebly "Get it Harry? We saw Uranus…Ha-Ha…"

"Anyway" she continued "one of them grabbed Ginny's foot, I used the Reductor curse and blew up Pluto in his face, but…"

She gestured helplessly towards Ron "I don't know what they hit him with, but he's gone a bit funny…I hardly got him along…"

"Harry" Ron said again pulling Harry closer "you know who this girl is Harry? She's Loony…Loony Lovegood…Ha Ha Ha…"

"Luna Lovegood? Isn't they're a junior writer for the daily prophet with the last name Lovegood?" an auror asked from the back.

James shrugged "Beats me, but it does sound familiar."

The group began to heave them selves towards a door, when another one burst open and three death eaters sped in, led by Bellatrix.

"There they are! Get Potter!"

Harry dashed ceremoniously from the spells fired at him and dropped Ron rather unceremoniously, Trying to help Neville pull Hermione into a room where the others ran to.

The door clicked behind them just as the death eaters reached the door. Harry hurriedly locked it and the others ran about doing the same to the other doors.

"WE'VE GOT HIM! HE'S HERE!"

Harry muttered something incoherent that James was sure would earn him a 'time –out' from Lily. He struggled not to laugh at the thought.

Harry spun around. They were back in the brain room; James could hear more footsteps pounding closer outside the doors…

"Luna-Neville- help me!"

They dashed around the room locking all the doors as they went. James had to stumble a roll of eyes as Harry crashed into a table and rolled over it in haste to reach a door.

"Colloportus!"

More footsteps were pounding closer…

"Collo-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!"

He spun around to see Luna getting blasted off her feet as the door blasted open revealing 5 death eaters surging through the door.

"GET POTTER!"

She dodged at him, and Harry jumped out of the way running to the other side of the room…

"Hey!" Ron said giggling feebly "hey Harry! There are brains in here…Ha ha ha…brains… isn't that weird Harry?"

Harry turned to see Ron walking half drunkenly towards him. "Ron! Get out of the way! Get down-,"

But Ron didn't seem to here him as he pointed his wand towards the tank and said "honestly Harry…their brains look…Accio Brain!"

The scene seemed to momentarily stop. James would have found this funny if a small tiny brain weren't zooming out of a tank at full speed spreading out little ribbons, straight at Ron. Even the Death Eaters seemed to stop momentarily, almost reluctantly just to see what happened.

"Ron NO!" harry yelled as Ron reached out to grab it.

Too late.

The moment his hand made contact with the brain it began to unravel itself like tiny ribbons, all encircling and attaching themselves to him.

"No…no I don't like it Harry…no…stop -Stop!-,"

Some of the aurors flinched. It wasn't pretty watching a kid who lost his mind, struggling to throw off something like a brain that was strangling him…

"Diffindo!" harry yelled, but the ribbons weren't breaking and Ron fell over still thrashing against the bonds.

"Harry! It will suffocate him!" yelled Ginny, struggling to stand up on her broken ankle. The death Eaters seemed to have snapped out from their daze though and one of them sent a stunner straight at her, hitting her square in the face.

"STUBEFY!" yelled Neville "STUBEFY! STUBEFY!"

But nothing happened.

One of the death eaters sent their own stunner at Neville, which missed him by inches. Now it was only Harry and Neville fighting the oncoming group of Death Eaters.

James watched Harry out of the corner of his eye, he was very good at fighting, and he distinctly wondered how he got so good so young.

Suddenly harry made a move, which stunned them all. He raised his arm holding the prophecy and shouted like a kid playing tag:

"HEY BELLA! WANT THE PORPHECY? COME AND GET IT!"

And with that he ran full speed out of the room diving oncoming attacks and stunners, Bellatrix hot on his heels, not to mention the others.

Moody growled "what a stupid and smart thing to do."

Sirius was running alongside him "that makes no sense!"

"Well I didn't really expect you to know what sense is so I figured it wouldn't matter!"

The group reached the room where Harry disappeared through and noticed with dismay, which he was falling from stone step to stone step…in the room that contained the veil.

He landed with a crash on his back, which looked like it knocked all the breath out him. The group heard the Death Eaters laughter as they began to advance towards him. Harry barely got to his feet, though James noticed they were trembling badly, then Harry backed away looking towards the thing his legs just hit-the dais. Climbing slowly he got on the level as the Veil and continued to back away. The death eaters all halted.

"Potter you're race is run" Lucious drawled, "Now hand me the prophecy like a good boy"

Harry was breathing heavily "let-let the others go… and I'll give it to you!"

"You're in no position to bargain Potter" Lucious continued "Oh how pleased our lord will be when we not only give him the prophecy …but you with it" he smiled wickedly. "Now lets see…there's ten of us…and one of you. Or has Dumbledore never told you how to count?"

"He's dot alone! He's still god be!"

The group turned around to see Neville standing at the top of the stairs, wand raised.

Harry visible blanched. He obviously thought Neville was safe, James mused.

"Neville- no-go back to Ron-,"

One of the larger death eaters grabbed Neville from behind pinning his arms and legs together. Harry watched helplessly as he struggled.

"Longbottom isn't it?" Lucious said.

The group stared.

And stared

And stared.

Until Sirius broke the silence.

"Ya im good! He is soooo related to you! I knew it!"

Nobody else had anything to say, but James could see out of the corner of his eyes, Auror Longbottom looking at the child with a new eye…

Lucious smirked "Well you're grandmother's used to losing family members to our cause…your death will not come as a great shock…"

"What is he talking about…" James muttered?

"I don't want to know" Franck said fearfully.

"Longbottom?" repeated a very gleeful Bellatrix. "Why I have had the pleasure of meeting you're parents boy"

"I DOE YOU HAB!" Neville yelled struggling harder.

"No, no, no…" said Bellatrix. She looked transported, alive with excitement as she glanced at Harry then back at Neville. "No lets see how long Longbottom lasts before he cracks like his parents…unless Potter wants to give us the prophecy"

"DON'D GIB ID DO DEM!" Neville yelled at Harry desperately.

Harry just stood their frozen almost staring wide-eyed at them.

"Crucio!"

Neville screamed. The group covered their ears as his scream reverberated around the room. The death eater dropped him to the floor as his screams continued in agony.

"That was just a tester!" Bellatrix said breathlessly lifting the spell so Neville lay on the floor "Now Potter either give us the prophecy or watch you're little friend die the hard way!"

The group stared hard at Harry, while Franck glared at Bellatrix with a new found hatred

Harry suddenly had a determined, but painful expression on his face as he looked at the prophecy in his hand and held it out.

The group gasped as Lucious greedily reached for it then-

"BANG!"

They spun around wildly and saw to their astonishment 5 more crash into the room, Sirius, Lupin, Moody, Tonks, and Kingsley. All of them had serious or fury etched onto their faces as they started firing off spells.

The group was stunned. Sirius actually looked the part. Serious.

The real Sirius was gaping at himself; there was a wave of something like anger, darkness, and determination spilling off him in waves. But something that James saw made him flinch. Sirius' eyes. They were so…dark and empty as if he had gone through too much…seen too much, and there were so many shadow shone his face, as if he hadn't had sleep for so long…

Malfoy shot a stunning spell towards Tonks, who avoided it, by ducking, Harry seemed to take this chance to jump out of the way, still holding the prophecy and diving towards Neville.

James noticed that the entrance of the Other 5 had distracted the others by a far foot. They hardly saw Harry dive out of the way.

"Are you Okay?" Harry yelled to Neville as a spell flew overhead.

"Yes"-said Neville trying to pull himself up.

"And Ron?"

"I dink he's all righd- he was still fighding de brain when I lefd-,"

Suddenly James shouted as a figure came behind Harry and grabbed him around the neck gruffly hanging him against their chest in midair so his feet barely scraped the ground. A wand was pointed in his chest. James noticed to his horror that everybody was busy dueling to notice Harry's situation except Neville-

"ARGH!"

Neville lunged out of nowhere and jabbed Hermione's wand into the Death Eaters eyehole in the mask.

The death eater let out a loud howl as he dropped Harry and fell to the floor. Harry sat there gasping for breath then suddenly yanked the Death Eaters mask off to reveal…

"Macnair" he growled.

"Wait!" Franck said suddenly. "How does Harry know Macnair's a death eater? He's way too young for all this! Why is he even here? And why is Voldemort want him …alive?" confusion laced his voice and many's thoughts as they pondered this.

"Thanks!" harry yelled as he pulled Neville to the side as Sirius and other Death Eater came flinging by, dueling so fiercely that their wands were blurry lines.

Dolohov came out suddenly and pointed his wand at Harry "accio proph-,"

But Sirius came hurling out of nowhere and rammed Him to the ground. Harry took this chance to yell. "Petrificus Totalus!"

The Death Eater's sides snapped together and he crumpled as still as a board on the floor. Sirius forced both Neville and Harry's heads down as 2 stunners flew over their heads. "Now I want you to get out of here-,"

They both ducked again as some of the group gasped. A jet of green light nearly missed Sirius by inches, and a loud scream echoed through the room as they saw Tonks tumbling from stone step to stone step then finally lying motionless at the bottom. Bellatrix standing at the top, laughing maniacally. Sirius let go of Harry.

"Harry, take the prophecy, Neville, and RUN!"

James noticed Harry nod and watch Sirius go off to fight Bellatrix. Harry tried to support himself and Neville up the stairs, but another Death Eater came by and hit Neville with a 'Tara tangula" curse. His legs went flying everywhere as Harry tried to haul him up the steps while holding the prophecy in the other hand.

James wanted to shout watch out, but he knew Harry couldn't hear him. Because at that moment Lucious Malfoy came steaming up behind him and grabbed him like the other death eater did.

"Give me the prophecy Potter!"

"No-get-off-me-Neville-Catch it!" the group watched in silence as Harry flung the prophecy towards him. Neville span around and scooped the ball up to his chest. While Harry jammed his own wand over his shoulder and yelled "Impedimenta!"

Lucious flung back and let go of Harry as harry struggled to stand up in the blazes of it all.

Suddenly Lupin came spinning out of nowhere and grabbed Harry and Neville "Harry! Round up the others and GO!"

"Good old Remus" Sirius smirked.

James rolled his eyes "didn't we just see you being the serious one a minute ago?"

"Please, don't remind me"

"Come on!" Harry yelled trying to haul Neville up the stone steps. James saw Harry put the prophecy in his pocket and he grimaced. It was easier to break that way, but it was probably for the best.

They watched as Harry gave Neville another tremendous heave, and Harry's robes split along the seam, the prophecy was falling just as one of Neville's floundering feet kicked outwards, and hit the little glass ball some ten feet to the side, where it broke.

Nobody seemed to notice what was happening as they were so wound up in their own battles, that they didn't see Neville and Harry staring wide-eyed at the ghostly figure rising from the broken shatters.

James strained to hear what it said, but found it was too loud for any of them too hear.

"Well, at least nobody heard it…well that wasn't supposed to anyway" Franck said quietly. Dumbledore nodded his head too, almost in a relieved kind of way.

"It doesn't matter Neville! We can't fix it now…so get moving!" Harry gasped trying effortlessly to pull Neville up the stone steps. But Neville didn't seem to hear him as he shouted;

"Dubbledore!"

Harry quirked a brow "huh?"

"DUBBLEDORE!"

Harry's gaze followed Neville's finger and James gaze followed it to, and was shocked ot find Neville pointing at the REAL Dumbledore,

Until Dumbledore moved out of the way.

An aparation Dumbledore was standing there, stone set in the gravest expression he had ever seen Dumbledore wear so far, he had to do a double take. The man before him showed no twinkle in those blue eyes. Ice-cold ones stared straight ahead, fury etched in every line on his face. James now knew why you never crossed Dumbledore. Obviously Harry saw this too because he looked away just as Dumbledore bound a group of Death Eaters who had tried to run for it when Dumbledore walked in. Sirius had to control his laughter at their stupidity.

But just as Harry looked at the dais something caught his eye. Sirius and Bellatrix's duel was taking place, the only one really going at the moment.

"Come on! You can do better then that!" Sirius yelled, his voice echoing around the cavernous room.

Everybody's attention was now stuck on that pair, even the aparations.

Bellatrix second jet of red light though hit him square in the chest.

The laughter had not quite died from his face, but widened in shock.

James noticed Harry release Neville almost subconsciously as he started running towards the Veil. Dumbledore seemed to just noticed too as he turned towards the dais.

James felt a sudden pang of unease build up inside him. Everything seemed to be going slow motion…then it happened.

Sirius fell beyond the veil.