Chapter 8

A few hours earlier (Flashback)

"Harry you made it! I can't believe that you really made it!" George yelled as he entered the tent where all of the champions were. He didn't care that Madame Pomfrey, Cedric, Viktor or Fleur was there as he went straight to Harry and hugged him and then placed a kiss on his lips.

"I… I did it! I did Accio!" Harry said after they broke apart from each other, George frowned confused.

"Of course you did, you said that you had learned it…" Harry smiled and shook his head "No, not really…" he confessed "I never did a proper spell so I didn't tell any of you so you wouldn't get worried…" he finished.

George just stood there quiet but then he smacked on the back of Harry's head. He laughed a little and kissed Harry again. He knew that Harry didn't like when people was worried about him all the time so he would let him go, for this time.

"HARRY CONGRATULATIONS!" Hermione yelled when she came into the tent and went straight to Harry and hugged him tight. Then there was Mrs. Weasley and that hug almost left him with no air left in his lungs.

"Oh, Harry dear! I was so afraid!" she said and whipped away a tear from her eye. George, Fred and Bill rolled their eyes but she ignored them, again for now.

"Great job, Harry! Me and Bill made a bet of how you would catch the egg and I-" said Fred but got interrupted by Bill "It wasn't fair, Fred! You knew already that Harry was going to use Accio!" he said annoyed.

"Yes, but still I won!" said Fred and had a huge grin on his face. The boys laugh and Hermione and Mrs. Weasley just shook their heads. Boys…

After Harry had received the points and the students started to go back to the castle for dinner and the Gryffindor table ate as fast as they could so they all could party and celebrate Harry, back in the common room.

Fred and George had taken a huge part from their collections of different kinds of candy, sweets and jokes so they could share to everyone. They had also managed to sneak in some butterbeer and firewhisky, which neither Hermione nor the prefects liked, so they had a huge eye on the younger students so they didn't drink that or too much.

However, everyone else drank and Seamus and Dean had a competition between them of who could drink the most of butterbeer before any of them threw up.

As the time got more late, and as the younger students went to bed, George realized that he hadn't seen his younger brother during the night. Ron wasn't his favorite person right now but he was still his little brother and George couldn't help to wonder where he was and what he was up to.

He then realized that Harry wasn't in the main common room. The two of them had been close to each other mostly of the night but, since Harry was the champion and the two of them wanted to take it slow before they decided to go out public to the rest of the Gryffindor's and school, Harry had to socialite with almost everyone.

And that also meant that George had a watching eye on his boyfriend so no one else touches him the wrong way!

But now when he didn't know where Harry was, he started to worry. He excused himself from Fred, Lee and Angelina and went up to where Harry's dorm was. He wasn't there but before George closed the door he heard voices from the bathroom.

It was Harry and Ron's voices!

They weren't yelling or saying any curse words to each other, which made George to not go inside the closed door but instead he pressed his ear to the door so he could hear what they said to each other.

"Why" George heard Harry's voice say through the door. "I was afraid to lose you… You are or were my best friend… You have been like a brother to me and I fell so stupid! Stupid for letting myself go so low like I did!" Ron's voice said.

Ron was apologizing to Harry!

George pressed his ear to the door closer to hear if Harry said something but it was quiet for a while before Harry finally spoke.

"You know it will take a while for me to completely forgive you…" Harry's voice said "So we are friends again?" Ron asked Harry. "In time" Harry said and the two of them started to laugh, which made George smile to himself. He felt relieved, Harry had become friends again with Ron and George knew that Harry would be happier from now on.

George decided to hide behind a curtain before Ron or anyone else would find him. As Ron left George made his move and went to the bathroom door only to meet Harry's green eyes.

Somehow Harry didn't seam surprised to see George there, but his smile grew wider and he launched himself into George and the two of them kissed, happy to have their friend and brother back.

Present time

George gasped when he came down to the common room together with Fred and Lee. There were a few students up by now, but since it was a Saturday most was still asleep or somewhere else. After Harry had launched himself into George's embrace, the two of them had a gone to Harry's bed and kissed each other endlessly.

George had to control himself to not do anything more then just kiss and cuddle. He was sixteen and Harry only fourteen so he thought the two of them could wait a bit before they did anything that didn't involve cloths.

In reality, George was scared.

He hadn't had a serious relationship before, or actually he had never been in a relationship. There was a thing between him and Angelina in their fourth year but neither of them could make it work so they became friends instead. And it turned out well for the two of them, now Angelina was one of he's closest friends.

Anyway, one other reason George was scared, was because he had never imagined being in a relationship with a boy before. Sure, he had thought that some boys were handsome or good locking, but to be in loved with one! And with Harry Potter!

George felt he had to be carful when it came to sex or some other things that considered Harry. He loved him too much to lose him for something stupid, but he thought since Harry was younger than him…

Harry should decide when he wants to take it to the next level.

For now, George was happy to dream about Harry in his dreams during the night.

When he, Fred and Lee came down into the grand hall, George noticed two things. One: neither Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape nor Moody were in their seats. Second: Ron, Hermione and most important Harry wasn't there was well.

Somehow George felt something in his heart that made him turn and he started to run up of the castle. Fred and Lee yelled after him, both confused over what George were so upset about.

George opened the doors to the infirmary and his instinct was right. Not that it was anything good.

Right in front of him stood every one who was missing from breakfast around a bed. McGonagall with Hermione in her arms, Moody sat in a chair at the opposite wall and hadn't any expression on his face.

Dumbledore stood with Madame Pomfrey and Snape a few meters away from the bed and were in a argument, but you couldn't here them. Probably they had a powerful silencing charm since it looked like that Madame Pomfrey was going to literally explode any second.

Ron sat in a chair next to the bed and it seamed he had cried.

By his brother's face George knew he was right. He ignored the faces turning to him when he reached the bed and saw Harry lying there, lifeless.

"What happened…" he managed to say when he felt Hermione go to him and hug him. No one said anything, since they didn't even know but George didn't know that.

"I said WHAT happened?!" he said again and Fred and Lee came into the room and they too saw Harry. However, Lee cast a confusing stare when he saw George being so concern about Harry.

"We don't know George…" Hermione said and she started to sob again "H-he's… he's… he's dying George…" she said and with that George's world turned up side down.

McGonagall came to him and placed a hand on his shoulder "Albus and Severus has a plan to make him all right but…" she said and turned her gaze to the other three. It seamed that Dumbledore and Snape had calmed Pomfrey down but she had an expression on her face that told everyone that what ever it was, she didn't like it one bit.

"Before I say anything, I would like that Mrs. Granger, Mr. Jordan and you two-" he pointed at Fred and Ron "to leave the infirmary. George, you should be here since this concerns you as well"

George nodded slowly but he didn't leave his gaze from Harry.

Both Ron and Hermione wanted to stay but Madame Pomfrey shooed them out, George heard though Lee ask Fred about why he would still be in there.

"George…" Dumbledore said and placed a hand on George's shoulder "Maybe you would like to sit beside Harry?" he asked him. George nodded and went slowly to the chair where Hermione had been sitting before him.

He took Harry's hand in his and hold it tight.

McGonagall let out a soft sigh when she saw George and Harry. She knew she had to owl the Weasley's after this since Molly and Bill had departed after yesterday's dinner. When she saw the two boys, it really moved her. She couldn't help to think back about her own youth and the time she was in love… She got a tear in her eye, and Dumbledore met her eyes and nodded and gave her a small smile, the one thing left in the world to make her calm.

"George…" Dumbledore began and looked at the older boy.

"Why…" George said almost too quiet for anyone to hear him, but of course Dumbledore heard him "Sorry?" he asked George.

"Why… is he… here?" George managed to say, Dumbledore gave Snape a look.

Snape sighed.

"Potter here has been exposed to a very dangerous toxic that have made his brain and organs to collapse. This venom is something that I have never seen before. But I have a feeling that what ever Potter drank or ate, it had multiple toxics from different animals and potions" Snape said and George didn't have the strength to fight or get annoyed with him when Snape clearly thought this was fabulous.

"However…" Snape said again "With Madame Pomfrey's analysis of her cheek ups on Mr. Potter, I have combined every single potion there is to prevent the boy to get worse, however…" Snape suddenly stopped and George couldn't help to look at him from where he was sitting to the standing potion-master, near the end of the bed.

For the first time, Snape looked unconfident and unsure of himself in front of people, except for Dumbledore who had seen that look on Snape multiple times.

"Since the toxic has damaged his brain, we can only hope that… His magic can cure him by it self… Theirs is nothing more I can do…"

"AND THANT'S NOT ALL!" Madame Pomfrey suddenly yelled which made every one in the room jump in surprise.

"WITH THE COMBINED POTION THERE'S A HUGE CHANCE THAT IT WILL ONLY MAKE POTTER WORSE THAN NOW! HE MIGHT ACTUALLY DIE IF WE DO THIS!"

"He will die if we don't do this" Snape said with a glare to the woman "Both me and Albus have already told you that St Mungos don't have the resources to help Potter from his state. This is the only way to help him" Madame Pomfrey didn't calm down by that.

"THERE HAS TO BE ANOTHER WAY!" She yelled "ALBUS, PLEASE! THERE HAS TO BE A WAY WITH OUT RISKING HIS LIFE IN THE PROGRESS!" she pleaded to Dumbledore.

George couldn't help to feel sorry for her. There hadn't been a death in Hogwarts since the chamber of secrets fifty years ago, and George would never say this to any one, probably because he would get Pomfrey after him. But, one day when he and Fred was there after a mishap of their experiments, he heard Madame Pomfrey talk to Dumbledore about Harry and how she really cared about him and that she was so worried about him every day since first year.

Dumbledore gave her a sad smile "I don't like this either Poppy… But Severus is right this is the only way… If there was another way I would had done it from the beginning but, since this poison is too strong even for me… There is no other way…"

"How big is the risk that he might die of this?" asked McGonagall "Since he isn't dead already…" Snape said with the sarcasm clear to everybody "There is a ninety percent chance he might not make it. Or, if he makes it, his brain might not cope with the huge amount of different toxins in his body and he might become brain-dead…"

It became quiet in the room. Everyone was thinking about different possibilities but since time was short no one could find a different solution. And finally George spoke.

"Do it…" he said with a confident voice.

"George?" Dumbledore said and looked at him. "If there's a slightly chance he will make it then do it… If we don't he will die… And I will not be able to live by myself if I knew that there was a chance to prevent his death from happening… I love him and I know he would do it for me if I were in the same situation as he is now…" George took Harry's hand and kissed it.

The teachers looked at each other and nodded. Snape went to Harry's other side and opened his mouth slightly and took the potion he had in his pocket, opened it and poured it down in Harry's mouth and then he closed it.

Now they all had to do was to wait...