Chapter 5
An Interesting Trip
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And with no further ado...Drum Roll... Chapter 5!!
As the weeks until September the first slipped by, there were lots of activities at the Burrow. Two weeks before they were to leave for school, Fleur and Bill came home from their honey moon. Fleur, it seemed by the way she talked about it, thought that their honey moon would have been better in Paris. Bill, unfortunately, had come up with his own argument come back He had paid good money for a trip to Hawaii and thought Fleur unfair for her lack in personal judgement. In the end, the couple kissed and made up. No side was won, except through personal thought. Neither would admit the other as right or wrong.
The days until school flew by quickly after that. One day in their last week at the Burrow, Harry, Ron, Fred, George, Bill, Ginny, and Hermione went up on the hill by the house. Hermione settled herself down by a shady tree, and opened a book. The others kicked off from the ground on their brooms, and soared up into the air.
They had fun throwing apples to one another. They played tag up in the air, but this ended up being very dangerous. As Fred tried to tag Bill, he managed to crash into a tree. When Fred finally did tag Bill, he tagged him so hard that Bill about feel off his broom. So with that, the group played monkey in the middle using apples. This, they soon found, wasn't as dangerous if they spread out enough.
Ron, Hermione, Harry, and Ginny's last night soon came. Dinner was amazing: Roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, soup, salad, chicken. It was all wonderful, and Harry felt the evening all ended too soon. Fred and George ended off the evening with some of their own fireworks. Everyone ate pudding for the desert, as they watched the many multi-colored fireworks soar in the sky. As soon as it was over tho, Molly whisked them all to bed, making sure they wouldn't stay up to talk.
As Harry slept, his mind drifted off into an odd dream. He was at Hogwarts sitting as the Gryffindor table. Ginny was snuggled against his body. He slide his arm around Ginny, making it appear like they were together. Ginny looked up into Harry's eyes, moving up to kiss him but Harry turned away. He now looked towards the doors where someone was entering the Great Hall.
The girl that came into the hall passed out the other girls standing around her in almost everything. Her hair was pinned up in the back coming down in brown, soft, curls which bounced as she walked into the hall. Her smile was award winning, every turn of her head brought new beauty to her features of her smile. Her eyes sparkled with light, as her eyes took in the hall. Her posture was kept erect, her shoulders back, her waist line skinny, her hips curving just right applying a gorgeous person. Her stomach was thin, able to show more enjoyment to any beholder of this gently new creature.
As the girl drew nearer, Ginny pushed away from Harry. He looked at her, and say that she looks hurt yet determined. She seemed to know what she was doing, as she smiled slightly and pushing him away. Suddenly the scene changed to where Harry was standing in a white room. Everyone else seemed to have disappeared. He looked around for a sign of anyone, his eyes finally resting on the person in front of him. It was the same girl he had seen walking down towards him in the Great Hall. Her hair was down loose, but it was still in soft curls. Her eyes bore in his, yet her face an eyes were expressionless. Harry noticed her long eyelashes, saw how they flickered slightly in a blink. She was wearing a pure white dress, which moved slightly as she breathed. Harry racked his brain trying to put a name to her face. It finally came as she stepped closer towards him, breathing in time to his. It was Kristy.
"Hello Harry," Kristy breathed, stepping away from him.
"Kristy?" Asked Harry, shocked by her beauty.
Kristy turned around gracefully, her hair spinning with her, barely keeping away from whipping Harry. She walked away from him, then paused to turn around to look back at where Harry stood. Kristy looked back, no expression in her face or eyes. Then thick mist engulfed her, white billowing clouds as she cringed with fright and fear raged over her head as she disappeared. Harry tried to run after her, but his legs wouldn't move. He was falling backwards, into the thick, gathering, darkness.
Harry awoke in a sweat that he was startled to find there. He noticed how dark it was, figuring it was probably midnight or there about's. He could hear Ron's light snoring, just as his eyes adjusted to the gathering gloom. Harry reached for his glasses, putting them on to rid him of the blurry images of his surroundings. Harry worked on controlling his breathing, so perhaps his heart rate would drop to normal.
He sat up, feeling only small amounts of sweat dropping down his back. As quietly as possible, he got out of bed and moved to the window. Harry could hardly see anything, which was how the world should be. Harry sighed, and pushed himself away from the window. What he needed was to figure out why he was dreaming about Kristy. For some reason he couldn't figure out why tho, especially if he tried to think on it. Harry was sure he didn't feel any attraction to her, other then not being able to get her amber brown eyes out of his head.
You can't think about her, Harry thought angrily, you love Ginny! Harry paced around the room, uneasy about sleep. The bed seemed to be calling him to lie down and rest. Harry tried to ignore the temptation, but soon it became overpowering. He sat down on the bed, trying to sort out what his dream meant. He laid down, trying to rack his brain 'causing a headache. His head hit the pillow, eyelids closing slowly, and rolling over he knew no more.
"Harry, come on mate, get up!"
Harry could hear the voice but he wanted to keep sleeping. He could feel a bright light shining through his eyelids. He squinted his eyes tightly, trying to keep himself asleep. The voice was talking to him again. It was silent for a few seconds then a pillow came flying down on top of Harry, making him jolt to life.
"Harry, mum says you need to eat before we have to leave! It's almost eleven. It's ten thirty actually."
Harry sat up, rubbing his eyes as he did so. He yawned, stretched, and jumped out of bed. Harry quickly got dressed, double checked his trunk, coached Hedwig into her cage, placing it on top of his trunk, then ran downstairs. Molly was doing dishes with Hermione and Ginny. There was a plate of porridge, bacon, and an egg sandwich sitting on it. He ate the food quickly, while Molly turned around, spotted Harry and said, "good morning Harry dear. Sleepy this morning?"
"Yeah," Harry said, finishing his sandwich, "I had a bad dream last night that woke me up. I can't remember the dream tho. But it was bad enough to wake me up."
"You poor dear. Well you'd better go bring down your trunk and Hedwig so we can leave. We might be late."
Harry nodded and ran upstairs to Ron's room. They smiled at each other and began dragging their trunks with Hedwig and Pig down the stairs. They almost dropped Hedwig's cage twice, and they actually dropped Pig, who went rolling down the stairs. His screeches of discomfort sounded throughout the whole house. Lucky for Pig, he was caught by Hermione at the bottom of the stairs who happened to have been going up to get Crookshanks. Harry then clearly remembered they had no way of transportation to Hogwarts, recalling how Ron and himself had stolen and crashed the Weasley's car.
"Er, Ron, how are we getting to the train station?" Harry asked apprehensively.
"I think we're apparating. I believe we'll apparate close to the train station..." Ron replied a little nervously.
The two boys got downstairs and saw two other trunks, plus the girls, Molly, and Arthur. Harry noticed there were wheels on the corners of the trunks, and handles on the end. Molly stepped forward and conjured wheels and handles for the boys.
Molly smiled, "well, looks like we're all set! Arthur, go ahead and explain your nonlogical plan."
Arthur cleared his throat several times, "okay, well we're going to apparate... It's this alleyway by the train station... Me and Molly will take Ginny's things and you three will take your stuff. So that's the plan. Let's go!"
Harry, Ron, and Hermione exchanged nervous glances. There was a scramble to pick up belongings. Harry grabbed his trunk, and Hedwig's cage. Molly pulled Ginny close to her, while Arthur grabbed her trunk. Hermione fussed over Crookshanks cage while gripping her things tightly. Ron put some cloth over Pigs cage and found the handle to his belongings.
"On three then," Arthur smiled, "one-two-three!"
Harry pictured the alleyway, and turned on his heel. The sensation of being pushed through a small, air tight, tube over came his body. He could feel himself running out of oxygen. Finally with a load crack he found himself in the alley. Hedwig beat her wings wildly against her cage, hooting in fright. Soon Ron was by his side, and shortly after Hermione. Crookshanks hissed madly, clawing at the basket. Arthur, Molly, and Ginny got untangled as they arrived.
"All right, everyone?" Asked Artuher. "Good? Everyone has their own body parts?" Okay, we're off to plat form nine and three-quarters then!"
The group moved off, all four children pulling their trunks and carrying pets. They walked into the station, grabbed carts, and headed towards the barrier. Stopping in front of the right barrier to get reorganized, Hermione leaned over to Ginny whispering excitedly. The two smiled and giggled happily at whatever the two had exchanged.
"All right, in twos. Harry, Ron, go ahead," Arthur said, waving his hand toward the platform entrance.
Harry and Ron pushed their carts to the barrier. They broke out in a run, picking up speed, faster and faster. The barrier was inches away, unable to stop the carts. Suddenly it was over, and slowing to a stop by the train. Harry looked around at who was there, quickly spotting Neville, Luna, Seamus, and Dean.
Hermione and Ginny came running up behind them. All four smiled quickly to each other, and moved out of the way as Arthur and Molly appeared out of the barrier. Molly came over to them, then began fishing out sandwiches for everyone. After being given a pack of sandwiches, Harry was pulled into a tight hug by Molly.
"Oh, do be good this year," Molly whisper to him.
"Aren't I always?" Harry answered her sarcastically.
"I'm serious, be extra careful and good."
"I will, don't worry." Harry said reassuringly.
Molly let go of him, then grabbed Ron. Ron, taken by surprise, struggled for release. "Oh, Ron," cried Molly, tears slipping down her cheeks, my last son in his last year at Hogwarts!"
"Mum! Mum, please don't," Ron begged his mother for release.
"Ron, you look after Ginny. Do you hear me? Look after her!" Molly cried finally releasing him.
Ron rubbed his stomach, trying to regain breath from being hugged so heard. Ginny tried to avoid her mother, but was caught anyways. At first she looked taken aback and embarrassed, but she eventually calmed down just to allow her mother to hug her. Molly let go of Ginny, and then suddenly grabbed Hermione. Hermione, very shocked, quickly gave Crookshanks cage to Ginny. Molly gave her a tight squeeze, then let her go just as the train whistle rang loudly.
The four of them dragged their trunks to the train, helped each other push their trunks through one of the doors, then leaned out the door window to say good bye to Mr. And Mrs. Weasley. Molly hugged Arthur tears falling down from her eyes. Arthur raised his hand and waved at them, Molly soon joined him. The train started to move and Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny waved ecstatically. The train was picking up speed, they were coming to the corner where they would loose sight of the platform. Then the smiling, waving, parents were gone and the four friends moved away from the window.
Hermione smiled, "Ron, we have to go up to the front and tell the prefects what they need to do, remember?"
Ron nodded, "yeah, lets first get a compartment, then we'll run up there."
They all began dragging their trunks down the hall. The group was in the last train, moving towards the last compartment. Harry was in front, he reached out to grab the door handle, when another softer, smaller hand did the same. Harry looked at the other person and gasped in surprise. It was Kristy.
"You!" They both cried out in surprise.
Kristy was not alone, there were an additional two girls with her. One of the girls had very dirty brown, crimped, medium length hair and beautiful brown eyes. The other had long golden blond, wavy hair, Crystal blue eyes, Each girl wore an expression of curiosity, watching Harry and Kristy stare at each other. Hermione cover her mouth, while Ron and Ginny gaped at Kristy. The two stared at each other for some time, unable to move or speak.
"Excuse me, but," Kristy began, "I believe my friends Chii, Nicole, and I got here first."
"What?" Harry asked, "I think we got here at the same time!"
"Then step aside," Kristy said menacingly.
"Why should I back down? I honestly feel," Harry replied coldly, "that we should just share the compartment!"
Kristy laughed, "over my dead body."
The girl with dirty brown, crimped hair spoke up very quietly. Her voice was high pitched, but very unique. Like tiny bells tinkling, all tho turned into a voice. "Kristy, just back down. It's not worth it and I'm not just saying that because it's the Harry Potter."
Kristy looked over at her friend, "Nicole, you're right." Kristy then turned back to Harry. "One word of mistreatment and you'll be stuppified faster then you can say 'owl'"
With that Kristy opened the compartment door and dragged her trunk in with her. Her two friends followed, giving Harry a warning look that they'd gladly want him to have a fateful accident then sit with them. Harry stood there for a moment dumbfounded, the dragged his trunk and partially himself through the door.
Harry walked in and got his trunk up on the rack so it wouldn't be in the way. Hermione, Ron, and Ginny followed suite. Hermione smiled, "don't worry, we'll be back soon."
Harry smiled weakly back, wishing that he wouldn't be all alone, especially with four girls including one that obviously hated him. Ron nodded at Hermione's comment, grabbing his badge while Hermione grabbed hers. Hermione waved half heartedly, then the two friends were gone. Harry looked over at Kristy, finding her starring out the window almost as if she were concentrating on a huge conversation in her mind; which in fact, she was.
She was talking to Fawkes through thought, telling him that things were starting to look bleak.
He's so ignorant
what? Since when was Harry labeled as ignorant?
When I met him, that's when.
That's kind of harsh.
It's the truth tho, that little 'I've got to save the world' brat. He's such a suck up!
Kristy, I happen to like Harry. He's really nice, go on get to know him.
Let me think about that... Heck— no!
Kristy, please...
Fawkes don't—
"So how was the rest of your summer, Kristy?" Harry's voice rang through Kristy's head.
Kristy turn to look at Harry, her eyes blinking rapidly. She at first gave him a look that said, 'why should I tell you?' but softened up while Fawkes whispered, don't say what you were just thinking Kristy. She sighed deeply, trying to muster the ability to remain polite. She closed her eyes, summed up the courage to speak, then opened her eyes slowly.
"Thanks to you, I got grounded for the rest of the summer. If you consider not being able to leave the house any fun then sure, my summer was great."
Harry starred at her, "well, that's not my fault. You got me, Ron, and Hermione into trouble too!"
Kristy glared at Harry, "if you wouldn't have grabbed me and apparated, neither one of us would have gotten into trouble!"
Harry could see that what Kristy had just said was true, but he didn't want to let her know that. In stead he decided to go back to his thoughts that she might be a death eater. It was a likely idea, which could possibly be correct. He looked over at her hard glare, then asked, "Kristy, can I talk to you in another compartment, please?"
"Why not, what can it hurt?" Kristy said, getting up and walking out of the compartment.
Harry quickly followed her, making sure she wouldn't leave. They walked down the hall a bit, found an empty compartment, and went inside it. Harry closed, locked, and pulled down the blinds on the compartment door so no one would see in. Harry turned around looking at Kristy, whom had her arms folded.
"What do you want to—"
Harry grabbed her left forearm, turned her around sharply, while still holding her arm. He grabbed her right arm and twisted it back, pinning it between her body and his. Kristy gasped in pain, crying out as she did so. Harry ignored her cry and pulled up her sleeve on her left arm. He was expecting to see the dark mark, but then shocked to find nothing there.
Too surprised to find nothing there, Kristy was able to free herself. She wrenched her arm away from Harry glaring at him. "I thought I told you," Kristy said rubbing her arm, "that I am not a death eater!"
"Well, next time show proof!" Harry snapped, folding his arms angrily.
Kristy sighed in disgust, rubbing a sore spot where Harry had gripped her. She shot him a menacing look, which Harry returned with a glare. Kristy's eyes narrowed, as she averted her gaze to the floor. Harry continued to glare at her ignorance, yet maybe it wasn't ignorance... Harry could feel guilt lapping at his feelings like ocean waves.
Kristy looked back at him, "I don't see why any girl would like you, and I don't think I ever will."
With that she pushed her way around Harry, unlocked the door, and headed back to where her friends were. Harry tried to rid his thoughts of guild and shame, but it was harder then he had imagined. It wasn't strong guild and shame at first, but slowly it started to grow telling him quite plainly that he had hurt her physically.
Harry eventually got up the courage to go back to his stuff. He opened the compartment door to find Ron and Hermione back. Kristy and her friends were bent over a newspaper, The Daily Propeht, reading it rapidly. Nicole covered her mouth in chock as she read, while Kristy shook her head along with blond, which Harry guessed to be Chii.
Obviously the three girls weren't going to tell what the article was about, but Hermione soon gasped, "that's horrible!"
"What's horrible?" Ron asked suspiciously.
"This article, it's horrible!" Hermione said, covering her mouth with her hand.
Ron snatched the paper from her and Harry joined with Ron to read the article:
Giant Attack
A few days ago, there have been several spottings of giants on the move. A few brave teens decided to follow them. As they followed, the Giants felt their presence and started attacking them. Three of the five teens were killed, while the other two were taken to St. Mungo's with severe injuries. Doctors are still unsure weather the two tins will live.
Harry reread the last line to himself, 'Doctors are still unsure weather the two teens will live.' Harry blinked, unsure what to think about the article. Ron, too, seemed unsure what to make of it all. Hermione took back the paper, her eyes swimming in tears. She rubbed quickly at her eyes, trying to hide her sadness.
Harry was sitting in the middle next to Hermione, who was now in silent tears. He put his arm around her comfortingly, and she put her head on his shoulder crying silently into it. Ron moved to the other side of Hermione, and his hands on her shoulders gently. She moved slightly, still in tears her bushy hair covering her face.
Hermione finally stopped crying, drying her tear stained face with her hand. She smiled half heartedly, making Harry feel sorry for his friends sadness. Hermione looked at her watch just as the voice, "Anything off the trolley" rang through the hall to their compartment. Hermione quickly got up, rummaged through her pants pocket finally pulling out some money for something to eat.
Harry got up at the same time as Kristy and both made for the door. They bumped shoulders attempting to make it out. Kristy and Harry glanced at each other, making their hearts race. Harry quickly shook off the feeling tho, and stepped back to allow her to go ahead of him. Kristy smiled, then went forward into the corridor, while she thought 'at least he's being polite to let me go first.'
They all got their treats silently, then went back to their seats and ate. Kristy took up a conversation with Nicole, whom nodded her head opening a chocolate frog as she did. Hermione began talking to Ginny, the two giggled happily. Everything seemed to be going well, it was actually peaceful almost.
Just as Harry was beginning to feel totally comfortable, the train began slowing down. The people who were talking stopped to see what was going on. Kristy went over to the window looking to see where they where. She frowned then sat back down as the trains wheels began to squeal on the tracks. The Hogwarts Express struggled to pick up it's speed, straining to keep moving.
As suddenly as it had begun, the train lurched forward, causing Kristy, Nicole, and Chii to fly into Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny. Nicole and Chii feel in a tangled mess o top of Ron Hermione and Ginny. Kristy feel lightly on top of Harry, but before anything could be said, the train lurched backwards so that Harry and his friends were now on top of Kristy and hers. There were several screams coming from various compartments up and down the train. Harry pushed himself off Kristy who ducked under his arm, opened the compartment door, and headed carefully down the hall.
The others followed her to the back of the train, where a door to an outside platform was open. Kristy had gone through it before they could even get there. The group filed out one by one, Harry in the lead. Harry had never been out on this platform before. Kristy looked back over her shoulder, then turned away, her hair flying in an unnatural wind. Harry moved to her side and was surprised to see she was glaring into the wind.
Kristy spoke in a soft low whisper that only Harry could hear, "He's controlling the train."
Harry new that "He" was the one and only, Voldemort. The rest of their friends gathered around them. The wind settled, finally stopping causing a deadly silence to settle on and throughout the train. Harry could hear every person in the groups shaky breath, their beating hearts racing. Everyone looked out towards the bridge they had just crossed mere seconds ago.
Harry heard Kristy's breath catch, as the bridge that everyone had been looking at blew apart. The train tracks started to point downward, causing the train to roll backwards picking up speed rapidly. Everyone screamed, trying to move out of their positions. Nicole, who was at the back, ran to the door, which had been closed behind them, and desperately tried to open the door. Nicole cried out in frustration, "it's jammed shut!" Hermione was closest to her, and quickly tried to help her push open the door. The train was nearing the gap faster and faster, the railing that Kristy and Harry were holding onto snapped underneath Kristy. She grabbed Harry out of fear as they got to the broken bridge. The train lunged forward over the edge of the broken tracks causing Kristy to topple over as the railing swung out with Harry as well.
Everything after that was in slow motion. As Harry and Kristy fell, Ginny surged forward grabbing Harry as the wheels locked on the broken track. She became unbalanced and tripped forward just as Chii rushed over to help. Chii ran head smack into Ron, who had been thinking to help out as well, and they both cried out in pain. Ron was in far worse pain, as he hit heads with Chii he jolted his head backwards out of surprise. When he did so, he hit his head on the wall where the door was. His eyes streamed with painful tears, as Chii barely managed to fly forward and grab hold of Ginny's arms. By now the weight of three people was just too much for Chii to hold. She screamed as she too toppled over the edge. Ron jumped for Chii's hand and luckily managed to grab it sufficiently. Ron struggled with the extra weight, he then carefully moved to one of the side rails and wrapped his leg around one of the bars for extra support. Even with the extra support tho, Ron just couldn't hold it for much longer.
"Hermione," Ron growled struggling.
"Not now Ron, we've almost got this door open," replied Hermione.
"Hermione!" Ron said a bit more urgently.
"We've almost have it o—"
"HERMIONE!"
Hermione turned around along with Nicole to look at Ron to see why he was calling for Hermione. It took Hermione two seconds to weep over the scene, realize that people were hanging over the edge, and that Ron needed help. She ran to Ron, but right as she got to him she slipped and fell onto the ground. Hermione wasn't out, but her head hurt badly. She forced herself up, grabbed Ron's hand, just as he lost his footing and both of them went sliding to the edge, Hermione barely holding the weight. Hermione threw her other hand out to grab something, anything to stop her from sliding. Hermione's hand made contact with Nicole's ankle, as she rushed over to help. Nicole was swept off her feet, and onto her stomach. It didn't stop them from sliding all the way to the edge. Totally winded, Nicole acted on impulse by trying to grab something strong. She screamed out of frustration and fear, trying desperately to find something to hold onto. Her feet going off the edge, the only thing she could do was their only hope. She grabbed below her th her left hand, found a bar of the broken railing that hard started the whole mess, and gripped it tightly.
Nicole screamed as she went over the edge holding tightly to the bar. She lifter her other hand to it, and hold onto it for dear life. She breathed hard, still holding on trying to control her heart rate. The full weight of six people hit her, and she cried out in pain as all the weight pulled down on her ankle. Nicole heard a snapping noise from her ankle, and knew it was probably broken.
As Nicole hung on tightly, Kristy sighed in exasperation, "look, we've managed to make a human chain!"
"Okay, well why did we all need to know that?" Asked Harry barely keeping his glasses on his sweaty nose.
"Who's at the top?" Kristy answered with her own question.
"Nicole," said Chii fear surging through her body.
"That's not good," Kristy said, with fear etched in her voice.
"Why isn't that good?" Ginny asked a bit confused.
"Because," Kristy answered fearfully, "she's terribly afraid of heights!"
"WHAT?"
"Yes, she's scared of heights," Kristy repeated reasonably calm.
"Now why didn't you say this sooner?" Harry asked, trying to stop sweating.
"Because, I just found out she was at the top!" Snapped Kristy.
"Well," Ginny said forlorn, "there goes long life and happiness to be replaced by sudden death! We're doomed!"
"Kristy," Nicole said from above, "start climbing."
"WHAT!" Kristy answered fearfully.
"You heard me," growled Nicole, "start climbing!"
"You've got be kidding me," said Kristy silently looking up the long way to the top.
Kristy started slowly, climbing up the chain of humans. She was about to the top, when her footing slipped. She screamed as she slid down pretty far, finally stopping by Ron. Her breath came in short gasps, her heart racing from fear. She started again a new bright flame burning in her eyes as she reached the top and climbed onto the platform. Kristy grabbed one fo the side rails to keep from falling back down.
"Harry, you next!" Nicole said angrily.
"Harry gulped, and followed the same trail that Kristy had taken. Soon Ginny, Chii, Ron, and Hermione came up shakily after. As soon as Hermione was up, she shook from head to foot, and backed away as far as she could. Nicole hung on tightly, until she felt a hand grab hers and help her up. The group all stood shakily, but soon it ebbed away to be replaced with triumph for their bravery.
Just as their triumph was about to the fullest extent, the caught train wheels lurched unpleasantly. Everyone went deadly silent, except Kristy. She whipped out her wand, pointed it at the gap in the tracks. A bright golden light spread from her wand. It bridged the gap, and as the wheels came loose, the train went backwards and evened itself out on the golden light. As the group starred at Kristy and what she had done, the door opened behind the and Tonk, Lupin, and Moody walked outside.
"Are you all okay?" Asked Tonks in a severely worried tone.
Everyone silently nodded, while Harry turned to Kristy, "What did you do?"
"I just saved our lives," Kristy answered pocketing her wand.
"No," Harry countered, "what spell did you do?"
"Now why," Kristy smiled, "should I tell someone, who hates me, that?"
"Because," Harry answered, "I've never seen or heard of a spell like that."
Kristy starred at Harry for a moment then sighed, "it's a spell that my Grandfather taught me that I never could pass off. I remember countless times that I almost died, because I couldn't pass it off or perform the spell the correct way. My dad then forbid him to try and have me do that spell anymore because the last time I tried to pass it off I was knocked out for three days, and could hardly remember anything when I did wake up."
Lupin put a hand on her shoulder gently, "he would have been proud Kristy."
Kristy nodded, "thanks Lupin."
"Wait," Harry protested, "just tell me what kind of magic that was!"
Hermione pitched in, "it's a powerful Defense spell. It's very powerful, yet also really hard to use. Only the greatest of warlocks and witches have used it in history that's recorded."
"But, that doesn't tell me what the name of the spell is tho!"
"The spells name is the Spell of Golden Light," Kristy answered quickly.
"Thank you," Harry said happily.
"Potter!" Moody's voice floated over the small group left standing.
Harry turned to find Moody limping to him. He wanted to back away from the advancing Moody, but thought better of it. The only other two teens left were Hermione and Kristy, the rest had been told to get inside. Hermione and Kristy backed away from Harry in fear, leaving him standing all alone. Harry stood starring at Moody, until he was right in front of him.
"Potter," Moody growled, "as your guard, I— oh, are you all right?"
"I'm fine," Harry answered smiling.
"Well," Moody paused for a moment then said, "what were you thinking? You could have died!"
Harry opened his mouth but Kristy beat him to it. "Moody, it's my fault. Harry was only following me to make sure I would be okay. I'm sorry."
Moody looked at Krsity for a moment, then said, "go to your compartment, all three of you."
Kristy, Harry, and Hermione quickly went to the door and opened it to get to the hall way. They silently walked to their compartment, opening the door softly and going inside. Ron, Ginny, Chii, and Nicole looked up as the three came in. Ginny got up and hugged Harry, while Harry put his arms around her body. He then lifted her chin gently and lowered his lips to hers. Harry kissed her passionately, pulling Ginny closer to him. He could feel Ginny's joy peaking, feeling his own happiness doing the same. Kristy sighed exasperated from behind them, and the two separated quickly from each other. Kristy pushed past harry so she could sit down with Nicole and Chii.
Hermione watched Kristy with a soft expression. She had noticed that while Harry and Ginny were kissing, Kristy's expression had changed slightly. It had kind of changed to jealousy, almost longing. As if Kristy wished Harry were kissing her instead of Ginny. Just as soon as it had appeared tho, it had changed back to disgust. Hermione stopped starring and sat down next to Ron.
Harry and Ginny sat down together, Ginny blushing a soft pink. Ginny then looked at Harry then whispered to him, "what was the kiss for?" Harry smiled and answered quietly, "for just being there for me, and to let you know I still care for you. But we can't get back together... It's the best for both of us. I hope you can understand, Ginny."
Ginny nodded, "I understand Harry, we aren't together."
"Thank you, Ginny."
"You're welcome," Ginny answered Harry softly.
Harry said the next part out load to everyone, "Yes, Ginny, that kiss was the finally one for us..."
"All right, Harry," Ginny said, "I understand, we're through. I'll always love you."
It was silent for a long while. Hermione silently thought about Kristy's expression. Maybe the look of jealousy was a trick of the light. Hermione wasn't even sure if Kristy liked Harry, although she was willing to keep watching Kristy until she knew for sure. It was the only thing left to do, seeing as she couldn't just ask Kristy, 'hey, do you like Harry?'
Ginny, too, was lost in her own thoughts. Harry had kissed her, he kissed her! Ginny then countered the happy feeling. He just wanted to show he cares for me, but also show it's over at the same time. Ginny sat back forlorn, sadly thinking what it felt like to be dumped by the boy of your dreams twice. Then she smiled, at least I have all year to win his heart back over!
The train lurched, and started moving again, picking up speed while moving. Kristy smiled and laughed, "they got the train going!" Everyone let out a sigh of relief, then laughed cheerfully thankful to be alive. Nicole then grabbed her ankle, a pained expression on her face.
"Nicole!" Chii and Kristy cried out in fear.
"I forgot," Nicole said wincing, "that my ankle snapped. I think I"ll need to see someone about it..."
"Here, I'll go with you Nicole," Chii answered helping Nicole up so they could leave.
"Careful you two," Kristy called after them.
Then the two were gone, silencing the compartment. It was a full hour until Chii and Nicole arrived back. They had some how managed to find Lupin, who had fixed Nicole up and brought her to the front of the train, just in case he had done anything wrong. Lupin had done it perfectly, so they had been allowed to go. Unfortunately, it took them longer to get to the compartment because almost all the new prefects decided to choose this time to walk through the hall ways, monitoring behavior. Finally, the two girls had made it back, Chii very annoyed with prefects.
Kristy moved slightly, "so your ankle's better then, Nicole?"
"Yeah," Nicole smiled warmly, "it's all good."
"That's great Nicole!" Kristy said happily.
It went silent again, everyone a little uncomfortable. Kristy closed her eyes, and leaned her head until it was resting on the window. A few strands of her brown, wavy, locks fell into her face. Most of her hair was pinned back, but a few had escaped her attempt to hold everything back behind her. Harry caught himself staring at her, as if everyone else had disappeared... She was peaceful, giving her a different look...
Harry shook himself angrily, ready to punish himself. I don't like her, she's not right for me...
A little mocking voice answered, you can't say—
Harry ignored the voice, disgusted with his conscious. Before he could really get after himself, Ron spoke with out warning.
"Well, we had better change, seeing as there two of us men— we'll go first."
Kristy opened her eyes, exchanging looks with Ron. All the girls exchanged disgusted angry looks. Harry watched this in horror, waiting for the girls to do something. Kristy looked at Ron, disgust in here eyes. Hermione too joined in Kristy's gaze. Harry closed his eyes, waiting, just waiting for the blow.
"Men?" Kristy asked a bit of annoyance in her voice.
"Yeah, we're men— girls," Ron answered.
Harry knew Ron had crossed the line as soon as he had said girls. Kristy stood up, her eyes now in a hard glare at Ron. She glared hard, very hard. Kristy shook with rage, her head held high.
"Up." Kristy said shortly.
"What?"
"Up, both men," Kristy answered.
Harry stood up, not wanting to anger her even more. Ron folded his arms indignantly, not moving a muscle to stand up. Kristy folded her arms, matching his moody. She waited patiently, until Ron finally gave in and got up. Kristy then grabbed Harry's arms, turned him around, opened the compartment door and walked him out the door into the hall. She then went back in to the compartment, grabbed Ron roughly by the shoulders, walked him to the compartment door, then shoved him out into the hall with Harry. The compartment door closed, and the two boys heard the lock click, and watched the blinds being pulled down.
"Well," Ron said to the silent corridor, "that went well."
"Depends," Harry answered coldly, "on what you, Ron, define as well."
The boys waited a full half hour before they were allowed to change. The girls filed out, before the boys could enter. The boys got changed, then invited the others back in. Kristy came in last of all, smiling a bit but then hid her smile. She walked over to the window, opened it, and leaned against the bottom of the window to look outside. Kristy cried out, pointing as they came around a corner.
"There it is!" Kristy said with pride.
Harry came over to look with her, going to her side and putting his hand on the middle of her back. Harry had never noticed that Kristy was pretty skinny. Her body curve could be seen very clearly if she weren't wearing her cloak. With his hand on her back, he could feel how her back curved in, just barely. She was definitely more in fit then Ginny... Why was he comparing Ginny with Kristy?
Kristy ended his comparison by moving so only his fingertips were barely on her back. Harry glanced at her, and was surprised to see Kristy looked close to tears. He felt her barely shaking, trying her hardest not to cry. Harry wanted to comfort her, to dry her tears, maybe try to get a smile, or a small giggle. Even if he could get a clear sounding laughter to come from her lips. Harry didn't like her crying like this. It made Kristy look weak, and she was definitely wasn't weak.
Kristy pushed away from the window. "Well it's been an interesting trip. Maybe we'll see each other around school, but I doubt we'll hand out much... You guys are always so busy— Well good luck with the school year."
"Yeah, it's been a really interesting trip," answered Harry as the train slowed down to the station, the train's lights shin ed into the darkness. No one had noticed the darkness had been there for the past hour and a half.
Look, I actually posted chapter 5! Okay, remember to review! I hope you liked it.
By the way, anything in the story written in bold is normally going to be animals talking to Kristy through thought... I hope that didn't confuse people...
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