Here is the second chapter of the day! Thank you so much to the two people that reviewed and I hope you all enjoy the chapters that I uploaded today!
Disclaimer: I obviously don't own any rights to Harry Potter because my girl J.K Rowling has those rights. If I had the rights, I'd be a lot richer and would be traveling right now! In some chapters, I do use direct dialogue because I love the writing Rowling uses so it's only used to further my scenes where I've inserted my OC. Carry on! This chapter is going to be a shocker for many at the end. *insert evil laughter hehe* Also, Ginny is not a part of this because I wanted to keep the same number of students with my OC inserted instead so yeah, that happened. Enough blabbing, go read. You know you want to;)
Briar POV
Getting off of the Thestrals, we all walk cautiously through the Ministry of Magic following Harry. We all decided staying in groups of two was safer if we had to split up so I stay next to Hermione the entire time since we're a pair. For now, we all stay in a small cluster as we make our way through the Ministry, but I find myself distracted with my goodbye with Draco. The thought of him staying up tonight waiting for me to come home safely…
I feel an icy chill at the base of my spine making me snap out of my thoughts. Looking around, I feel like something is off. Just as I'm about to voice my opinion to Hermione and everyone else, Hermione nudges me to point at Harry who is standing in front of a prophecy a few steps away from us, but looking confused.
"He should be here," he says referring to Sirius. My heart jumps into my throat and his response reinforces that something is off.
"Harry," Neville says. "It's got your name on it." Harry hurries over and goes to pick up the prophecy. It starts speaking in a voice that sounds eerily like Trelawney's.
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches and the Dark Lord shall mark him as his equal," the prophecy continues. My entire body feels like electricity going through it like right before I shift into my Animagus form for protection.
"We need to leave. Harry, right now," I say frantically. Everyone looks at me in fear, but Harry raises his finger to finish hearing what the prophecy says. I can feel my legs itching to run and I nervously shift from one foot to my other as Hermione looks at me in concern. Everyone else is starting to get restless as well seeing my state.
"…but he shall have power the Dark Lord knows not. For neither can live while the other survives." I can't take it anymore and I feel like my Animagus is about to crawl out of my skin.
"Now, Harry!" I yell at him, but I'm interrupted by Hermione calling his name right after me. I turn around and see someone standing with a mask on.
Death Eater.
Harry rushes to the front of the group in a defensive stance and Hermione gets a little closer to him as I stand on the other side.
"Where's Sirius?!" Harry yells at the walking figure.
"You know, you really should learn to tell the difference between dreams…"
I know that voice. Oh Merlin…The dreams.
The masked man continues walking and waves his wand to reveal Lucius Malfoy.
…and reality. You saw only what the Dark Lord wanted you to see. Now, hand me the prophecy." I step in front of Harry and shove him back as I raise my wand towards Lucius in a defensive stance. He smirks and looks me up and down in a way that makes me want to hex him into next week.
"If you do anything to us, I'll break it," Harry says from behind me.
"He knows how to play. Itty, bitty baby, Potter," an eerie voice says from behind Lucius. Out of the shadows, Bellatrix Lestrange walks towards us.
"Bellatrix Lestrange," Neville says on my right from behind me.
"Neville Longbottom, is it? How's mum and dad?" She teases with a sadistic smirk.
"Better, now they're about to be avenged," Neville yells at her as he raises his wand. I turn to place a hand on his arm.
"Neville, she's trying to goad you," I whisper. I turn to look at Harry with a look of concern knowing how this is going to turn out. "Harry, my dreams were right which means we need to leave. Right now. Sirius isn't here and he never was," I say urgently. Behind me, I hear Lucius urging everyone to calm down because he only wants the prophecy. I whip around and glare at Lucius.
"Why Lucius? Why did the great Dark Lord need Harry to be here to come and get this? Why the games? Is he too much of a coward to come get a spherical crystal himself?" I sneer at him. Bellatrix yells in rage at me as Lucius puts his arm out to hold her back.
"You filthy child! How dare you speak about our Dark Lord like that!" I scoff and aggravate her more.
"Your Lord? He's not even close to being a Lord. He's afraid of a teenage boy. I don't fear him at all, Bella," I say tauntingly. She goes to say something else, but Lucius gives her a look and she glares silently at me while I smirk at her.
"Briar Griffin," Lucius drawls in an intrigued tone. "I can see why my son is enamored with you and disregarded my orders to stay away from you. As for your question, prophecies can only be retrieved by those about whom they are made which is lucky for you, really." From the corner of my eye, I see movement and turn to see more Death Eaters. We all take note of the walkways being blocked and each take a defensive stand to protect each other from the growing number of hostiles around us.
"Lucky how, Lucius?" I sneer as I face a Death Eater walking towards me. He ignores my question and directs his next sentence to Harry.
"Haven't you always wondered what was the reason for the connection between you and the Dark Lord. Why he was unable to kill you when you were just an infant. Don't you want to know the secret of your scar?"
He's getting too close, Harry. We need to fight our way out of here. PLEASE Harry!
I see him glance at me, but he glances back at Lucius to wait and see he'll say next.
"All of the answers are there Potter, in your hand. All you have to do is give it to me and then I can show you everything," Lucius finishes. There are two Death Eaters in front of me and Hermione, one for each of us now.
"I've waited fourteen years," he says and Lucius lets out an affirmation about him knowing he has waited so long for answers. The Death Eaters are now only a few steps away from us and I can feel my Animagus practically tearing at my skin. I let out a whimper of pain at keeping my Animagus at bay and almost miss Harry's last sentence. "I guess I can wait a little longer. NOW!" Harry screams and we all blast spells at the Death Eaters we're facing.
"STUPIFY!" We all yell at the same time before the Death Eaters vanish for a moment giving us a clear path to run through. We all sprint as fast as we can and I lead the way with Harry right next to me. We turn the first corner and come face to face with a Death Eater causing us to quickly run down another aisle. We get separated and I find myself with Hermione, Ron, and Harry and two Death Eaters appear out of nowhere. After fighting off Death Eaters and rounding endless corners, Hermione lets out a shocked scream as we all meet in the center together. I quickly yell "Reducto!" at a Death Eater flying down and see all of the prophecies starting to fall.
"Get back to the door!" Harry instructs and we all run as fast as we can; the sound of glass shattering following our every move. I find myself falling through the air once we make our way through the door and I quickly throw out a wandless spell to stop us from slamming into the ground. I groan and stand up shakily to see we're in the room from my dream.
"Harry," I whimper out while looking around. He looks around the room and realizes this is the room I kept seeing for weeks where I saw Lucius smirking at me. I'm so caught up in my thoughts that I don't notice Harry is speaking about voices while Hermione denies hearing any. Hermione places a hand on my shoulder and I just look at her in horror. I push a thought into her mind and she looks at me in fear and uncertainty, but nods her head in agreement.
"Get behind me," Harry says. I don't follow his directions and I stand next to him. He looks at me in confusion, but nods at me acknowledging we're equals in this moment. With a flash of dark smoke, I look around and see Harry and I are the only ones left when it all clears. Harry gets off the ground with the prophecy in his hand and I stand looking at Lucius who is walking towards us with his cane while our friends are being held by individual Death Eaters.
"Did you actually believe, no. Were you actually naïve enough to think you children stood a chance against us? I'll make this simple for you, Potter. Give me the prophecy now or watch your friends die," Lucius growls.
"Don't give it to him, Harry," Neville says as I stare down Lucius in pure hatred. Harry slowly hands over the prophecy and Lucius raises it with a leer on his face.
My dream just came true which means he should be here any moment...
"Get away from my godson," Sirius says before punching Malfoy to the ground. I take a deep breath and know it's almost time. Tonks, Mad Eye, Remus, and Kingsley appear and start to fight off the Death Eaters and I laugh evilly at Lucius who has just shattered the prophecy. He glares at me and throws a hex at me which I easily block.
"Is that all you've got, grandpa? Why do you need that cane to walk anyway?" I say in a nasty tone that I know is taunting him to fight with all he has. I fight against Lucius throwing hex after hex at him and find myself standing next to Harry and Sirius who are fighting two other Death Eaters. They both incapacitate their Death Eaters and I see Sirius trying to take the attention off of me from Lucius.
Where is that bitch, Bella?
Sirius is able to get Lucius' wand out of his hand and blasts him backwards with a powerful hex. I look past Sirius to a rock where Bellatrix is raising her wand towards Sirius who can't see her. It all happens in slow motion as I shove Sirius back.
"SIRIUS!" He falls into Harry and I find myself remembering my last kiss with Draco. The first and last time we got to make love to each other. The first and last time I got to hear him say he loves me. All the smiles, love, and sliding my hand into his and now I'm sliding into an unknown darkness. I see a flash of light encompass my body and I find myself falling to the stone ground. The last thing I see is Bellatrix's smirk and hear my name being yelled by my friends.
As I fade into the darkness, I can almost imagine Draco's voice calling for me. I think back to the thought I pushed into Hermione's mind right before the fight as everything goes black.
Tell Draco I'm sorry and that I love him.