Chapter 27
The Loss
Sirius and Harry were working as a tandem team with fighting my boyfriend's father, and everyone in the Order were fighting Death Eaters, either solo or in pairs for some of the more vicious ones.
The biggest mistake they made?
Let's put the psycho Bellatrix Lestrange, who hates the Potter twins for destroying her master with Hannah Potter!
"Uh, guys!?" I called, trying to dodge a few Cruciatus Curses that Bellatrix was throwing my way "I have no experience fighting psychos!"
Bellatrix sneered "You can't dance forever, pretty!" she shouted, sending another Cruciatus Curse my way.
I jumped again and somersaulted out of the way, landing flat on my back.
Bad…Bellatrix stepped on my chest before I could get up.
"Uh oh…" I said nervously. "HARRY, SIRIUS! SOMEONE GET HER OFF ME!" I screamed.
Come on, Han! I thought to myself You can do better than just scream for help! You're not a damsel in distress, like Malfoy called you last term!
I snarled and grabbed Bellatrix's ankle, throwing her off by tripping her before putting a foot on her chest, pointing my wand at her face.
"Who lost now?" I asked, smirking.
Bellatrix sneered. "Me!" she shouted, rolling out from under me and gripping my arm.
I tried to grab hers and throw her off, but she took my other arm and pulled me up off the ground.
"Bet you didn't think that I was able to fight like a Muggle, did you, you filthy half blood?" she sneered, pinning me to the floor.
I thrashed around trying to break free, but it didn't work. Bellatrix drew her wand and pointed it at me.
"Crucio!" she hissed.
"Ah, Skinner, here we go again." I thought before I was hit with the Cruciatus Curse for the third time in my life and vaguely familiar pain coursed its way through my body.
I screamed "SOMEONE GET HER OFF ME!" until someone did…breaking her concentration on torturing me by trying to Stun her.
It was Sirius.
"Keep your wand of my goddaughter, cousin!" he barked, sending another Stunner Bellatrix's way.
Bellatrix snarled. "You wouldn't want to duel me, cousin. You'll be leaving in a body bag!" she snapped.
Sirius smirked "Bring it." he said.
Bellatrix smiled evilly, creeping me out. "So be it, then." she said, sending hex after hex at him.
"Hannah, help us!" Sheila and She-Cat shouted together.
I shot up from my place, my chest heaving with adrenaline as I rushed over to Sheila and She-Cat, who were fighting Avery.
"Easy enough take-down." I said quietly to them ducking under a rampart and sneaking up behind him.
"Cheap shot, I know, but he'd be cheaper." I muttered to myself before giving Avery a good hard kick to the ribs, shouting "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE, YOU PRAT!"
"GREAT FIGHTING, PRONGSLETTE!" Sirius shouted to me.
I turned to him, smiling as someone kicked me in the side, making me grab Dolohov's foot and throw him off me.
I suddenly gasped…my prophecy…it was in the pocket that Dolohov kicked!
My hand flew to my pocket…and there it lay, completely safe.
I sighed in relief and suddenly heard a loud CRASH.
It was Malfoy…and he dropped the prophecy Harry found, and it shattered as a foggy image of a bug like woman with large spectacles and endless beads and shawls moved her mouth, her words being left unheard by the raging fight.
I gaped. It was Trelawney.
Suddenly, someone grabbed me from behind and I started to grab them to throw them off.
"Han, Han, calm yourself!" Ivy shouted "It's just me!"
I sighed in relief "Ivy, you really should know that in a fight, where I already had to get physical, you don't sneak up on me!" I shouted "What?" I asked.
"Han, there's something you should know, Sirius is about to-" Ivy started before I heard Sirius's laugh like a bark.
"C'mon, is that the best you can do!?" he shouted to Bellatrix.
"Avada Kedavra!" she shouted, a jet of green light sailing straight to Sirius, who was too busy laughing to notice.
"SIRIUS, LOOK OUT!" I screamed.
I was too late…the jet of light hit Sirius in the chest, mid-laugh.
His eyes widened, the laugh still on his face as he fell backwards…into the veil.
"SIRIUS!" Harry and I shouted together as he fell backwards, the veil enveloping him, a quick rustle of it, and it was still.
"SIRIUS!" Harry shouted "SIRIUS!"
I smirked "Please, Harry, he's just gone to the other side of the veil, it's not like he died or anything!" I said, laughing as I walked over to the veil to help Sirius up.
"Hannah…" Harry choked as I heard someone run away, laughing and screaming in triumph. "Han, I don't think he's there…he was hit with Avada Kedavra."
I giggled "Yes, but he didn't seem to be effected by it!" I said, walking towards the veil and going behind it "You ok, Siri-?" I started before gasping.
Sirius wasn't there.
"But…but it's just a veil!" I said, looking to the other side as if Sirius was going to pop out from behind it laughing as he said "Got you, Prongslette, the look on your face!"
"Han…" Harry said "He's not coming out…he's gone. He's not coming back."
Suddenly, I heard Bellatrix singing in a high pitched voice as Remus had to hold Harry both up and back as he broke down.
"I KILLED SIRIUS BLACK, I KILLED SIRIUS BLACK! HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA ,HA, HA!" she screamed in a distant hall.
Suddenly, I was blinded. Not physically, but mentally by grief and fury and unadulterated loathing towards Bellatrix Lestrange.
Tonks held me back as I started to charge out where Bellatrix waltzed out.
"Hannah, no!" Tonks said to me.
I broke out and charged after Lestrange, not giving a damn who the hell she was. I didn't care if she was Draco's aunt, or that she incapacitated Neville's parents…I could've cared less.
Harry started running after me.
"GET BACK, SHE'S MINE!" I screamed, igniting a few fireplaces in my anger as I drew my wand and shouted for the very first time "CRUCIO!"
I knocked the running Bellatrix off her feet and she lied there, breasts heaving as I pointed my wand at her, hot angry tears pouring down my face.
Suddenly someone was applauding me. "Yes, yes. Excellent, excellent." Zimmerman said, walking past me to look at me "Your anger's made you strong. You see? This is where you belong!" she said, revealing her Dark Mark again "This is where our kind go."
"What kind!" I shouted.
"Slytherins…this is where we fit!" Zimmerman said, smiling. "Now, lower your wand and join your place at the Dark Lord's side."
I snarled and almost took her up on the offer. I was ready and willing to kill…I wanted to avenge Sirius and I didn't care who I had to kill to do it.
HANNAH, NO! my rationality screamed You can avenge Sirius by fighting to keep the wizard world from Voldemort!
I glared at her "No…I'll never join him! He killed my father!" I said, tossing my wand to the floor, where it rolled away.
Harry beamed as he picked up my wand "That's my sister." he said proudly before turning to Bellatrix and sneering "So what are you going to do now that that prophecy's been smashed?"
Bellatrix paled (if that was at all possible) and started rambling how Harry lied and tried to summon the prophecy Malfoy smashed. But all it did was try to make my prophecy go to her.
"Go ahead, it's not there! You can just go ahead and tell your boss that you failed!" Harry sneered, laughing coldly.
Bellatrix started wailing. "Master, I tried, I tried! Please don't punish me! Forgive me! FORGIVE ME!"
I barked out in laughter "Go ahead, cry your eyes out, he's not able to hear you!" I shouted.
"Oh, am I, Potter?" a high, cold, cruel voice asked behind me.
I turned around and gasped.
A snakelike man was standing before me, and my scar started to prickle. He was a pale man, with red eyes, with pupils like a cats, vertical slits. His nose was two slits and his mouth was a thin line. His black robes swished around as he took one step closer to me.
I nearly screamed.
It was Lord Voldemort.
"Well, well, well." he said, walking towards me as I stepped back in fear "Hannah Potter…"
"Master, I tried! I tried!" Bellatrix sobbed, throwing herself to Voldemort's feet.
"Get off, Bella!" Voldemort hissed "Head back to Headquarters…I shall deal with you later!"
Bellatrix sighed and kissed the hem of his robes before running off.
When a loud CRACK was heard Voldemort turned to me again.
"It seems that you've been able to defeat some of my Death Eaters." Voldemort said, smirking "I value someone that can fight and kill in my ranks."
I snarled "What are you saying?" I asked.
"Join me. My offer still stands, together you and I will rule the wizard world!" Voldemort said, smiling in a sinister way.
I swallowed and glared up defiantly "I will not join the Dark Side!" I snapped, tucking my wand away "You failed, my Lord! I'm an Order member like my parents before me!" I shouted.
Voldemort sneered and pulled out his wand "So be it." he said before raising his wand.
"DUMBLEDORE!" Neville called out, making me whip around.
I whipped around and gaped at the sudden appearance of a man with white hair and beard and long light blue robes.
It was Albus Dumbledore, his wand drawn and looking at Voldemort calmly.
"Very surprised to see you here, Tom." Dumbledore said calmly, smiling at Voldemort as if he was Dumbledore's favourite student.
"How many times must I tell you, Dumbledore, Tom Riddle's dead!" Voldemort snapped, drawing his wand and sending a Killing Curse Dumbledore's way.
"It was foolish to come here, Tom. The Aurors are on their way." Dumbledore said, drawing his wand as well before dissappearing in a whirl of cloaks and reappearing beside a fountai of a handsome wizard, a beautiful witch, a house-elf, a goblin and a centaur, all golden.
"By then I shall be gone and you will be dead!" Voldemort hissed, sending another jet of green light towards Dumbledore as if I wasn't even there.
"Get somewhere safe, Hannah!" Harry shouted at me "For God's sake, GO!"
I turned to Harry and nodded, running off to where Sirius fell through the veil.
Ivy stood there, gaping at the archway as if it was something she never saw before.
"He...he's gone." Ivy said when I approached her.
I nodded "Yeah...I can't believe it, either." I said, finally letting tears fall down my face. "He was the last family I had." I choked.
Ivy wrapped her arms around me, tears falling into my hair "I know, Hannah...I know."
...
Ivy and I stayed there in silence. Everyone had long since gone, leaving Ivy and I alone for a "Best Friends Moment" when Ivy tensed at let go of me, standing from our new place on the floor by the archway where Sirius died.
"Harry..." she said simply, walking out.
I shot up at the mention of my brother, following Ivy out until I saw him.
Dumbledore was kneeling at Harry's side, Harry was face first on the floor, shivering.
"HARRY!" I shouted, starting at a breakneck pace and pushing Ivy out of my way. "HARRY! Excuse me." I said, kneeling beside Dumbledore for the briefest moment before he smiled and got out of my way. "Harry, Harry, speak to me!" I said, tears falling down my face "Harry, I can't lose you too, not now!" I sobbed, shaking Harry. "Harry!"
Nothing happened. Harry lay there, shivering and unconscious.
"Harry...Harry..." I sobbed, pulling out my wand and pointing it at him "Rennervate. Come on, Harry. Rennervate. Harry, please!" I cried "Harry..." I said before finally giving up. I had thought Harry was done for. I had thought Harry was going to die on me and leave me in the world alone and without a family.
Spoke too soon, I had. Harry moaned and started sitting up.
"Han?" he moaned, looking up at me, his glasses at his side.
"HARRY!" I screamed, looking up and tackling him in a hug, kissing him all over his face "Never...ever...scare...me...like...that...again!" I said in between kisses, tears falling fast down my face "I thought you left me!"
Harry squirmed in my arms "Han, gerroff! Who knows who that mouth's kissed? I know I don't want Malfoy germs."
I growled and punched Harry hard in the stomach "You shut up and take your love like a man!" I said before going back to the protective little sister routine.
"Let him breathe, Hannah!" Ivy shouted, pulling me off him. "I know you're happy he's alive, but you don't need to go all Malfoy-grade kissie-kissie goo-goo crap."
I glared at Ivy and turned my back to Dumbledore so he wouldn't see the crude hand gesture I gave to Ivy.
"Whoa, Han. Where'd you learn that unladylike gesture?" Ivy asked.
I shrugged "Draco and Blaise showed me how to do it." I said as people started to gather around and Dumbledore started talking.
"Well, I'd appreciate it if you didn't do it again." Ivy said seriously "At least to me. Harry, Ron, Malfoy and Blaise are all fair game."
I smiled "Good. I'll do it to Harry, Ron and Blaise. But if you ever flip Draco the bird, you better run because I'll beat all the Skinner out of your ass!"
Ivy smirked "Same old Hannah." she said as Harry walked over to us.
"C'mon." he said, patting my shoulder "We're going."
I beamed. I could see Draco again!
"LET'S GO, PEOPLE!" I shouted as Dumbledore made a Portkey out of the handsome wizard's head, which Harry and I touched at the exact same time.
Dumbledore turned to a pyjama clad Fudge as I felt a jerk above my naval "I shall see you in a half hour, Cornelius." he said before we spun away back to school.
