Chapter 15 - The Truth Doesn't Lie
Once the door closed, they found themselves standing in the dark. Then Clara and Draco came through the door with their wands lit. Hermione looked around and walked up to the door that Harry disappeared into. She lifted her hands and placed them on the door and found it growing warming by the second.
"Why didn't you stop him?" Hermione asked. " Why?"
"Because it was his choice," Luna said. " Not mine, not yours, his."
"You could of held him for a few minutes," Hermione said." So I could have talked some sense into him."
"HERMIONE," Luna screamed. " You couldn't have, it was his choice. It was his choice alone, not any of you could have chosen for him. You never truly understood him did you, DID YOU?" No I didn't think so, he was clouded by darkness and known of you could see it, none of you."
"Luna what are you talking about?" Ginny asked walking in with Ron.
"None of you were truly his friends," Luna said. " You never saw the darkness growing in him, waiting to take over, day by day. Till finally it couldn't hold back anymore and did something none of us would ever thought possible."
"Luna?" Hermione said turning around. " Do you mean..."
"It was the darkness that got that door open," Luna said. " It wasn't love or a soul, it was dark magic. I felt it before he did it. He changed within a few minutes. He was so happy looking and then it just got mad or something, a blank look to his face. So dark and scary. Then he lifted his hands and somehow a burst of wind went by and opened the door."
"We have to go," Draco said." Now, tell Dumbledore that Harry went through this door."
They all nodded silently and walked out of the corridor. Once outside Luna was the first to leave, and Hermione the last. When they arrived back at Hogwarts, they informed Dumbledore of what happened and then they held a meeting in his office. Luna was the last to arrive in his office. She found Hermione, Ginny, Draco, Ron, Remus, Clara, Molly, Snape, Tonks, and Mad Eye there.
"Alright now there is no reason to believe Harry is in an danger," Dumbledore said.
"Any danger," Hermione said. " He walked through a door and never returned, he could be anywhere, anywhere."
"Now," Dumbledore said. " I'm sure he wouldn't go put himself in danger."
"Yeah, right," Luna said. " I mean its Harry, danger finds him."
"Luna tell me what happened," Hermione said. " Tell us what happened."
"Do you really want to know?" Luna asked.
"Yes," Dumbledore said.
"We got there and went looking for the veil," Luna said. " We found it, and that's when everything started to get weird."
"Weird, how?" Remus asked.
"Harry started to act a little different," Luna said." I shrugged it off and so after looking around the veil and stuff. Harry wanted to go check out this door. It was glowing so many colors, it was like a rainbow."
"What were you telling us when we were down there?" Ginny asked.
"That the darkness opened the door for him," Luna said. " It was once we got in that corridor everything changed. It got a little darker and Harry got darker. His face was like, well it looked awful, and he wasn't all there. He was so dark and sad. He went up to the door, and shook his head, agreeing with something, to himself or someone, I don't know."
"Someone?" Dumbledore asked.
"Yeah," Luna said. " Anyways, that's when I knew he had changed for sure. I felt scared and clouded and just like the world was going to end. He lifted his hands and I actually lost my breath as I watched him say something dark, something dangerous. The door just blew open and then he turned to me and told him to not come looking for him. That he wouldn't want to be found, and that he wouldn't want us to see him, when we did find him, that he'd be different. Then he turned and walked through the door and I could breath again."
"Luna are you sure he said that?" Dumbledore asked.
"YES, god," Luna said. " You think I'm that stupid, that I just make up stuff for fun or something?"
"Luna," Hermione began.
"Just forget it," Luna said. " He'll be back soon."
"How," Hermione asked
"I just have a feeling," Luna said." Why do you care so much?"
"I'm one of his best friends," Hermione said. " I love him and care for him."
"Been ignoring him a bit," Luna said getting up. " May I leave?"
Dumbledore nodded and Luna left his office soon followed by Draco. Luna ignored him as she walked down the corridor and turned and walked down her corridor to her house. Draco stood there watching her before he to went on to his own house. Clara remained Talking to Dumbledore as Ron, Hermione, and Ginny walked back to their common room together where they all sat around the fire. None of them dared to speak as the clock ticked on. It was Ginny who decided the silence was too much.
"I'm sure he's fine," Ginny said. " It's Harry."
"But he's never been out of our sight," Hermione said.
"He'll be fine," Ron said. " If not, we'll just go after him ourselves."
"Ron," Hermione began.
"No, I'm serious," Ron, said. " I haven't been a good friend at all, and now he needs us and were are we, sitting here like dumb ass's."
"We can't," Ginny said. " Can we?"
"Who could stop us," Ron said. " No one, I gave myself to him stepping onto that platform. I know that I could never just let Voldemort get him and take him away from us. That's were he'll be next time we see him and will have to pull him back to us."
"What if he doesn't come?" Hermione asked.
"We won't take no for an answer," Ginny said. " We'll make him see who he really is and that he belongs with us and only us."
"Dumbledore," Hermione said.
"I don't care about Dumbledore," Ron stated. " He won't stop me, I'll leave at night under the castle, I'm giving Harry a week or two and that's it. Whether I'm fighting against him or with him, I'll will not stop till Voldemort is dead."
"I'm with you," Ginny said.
"Me too," Hermione said smiling." I'll protect you both with all I have."
"We'll do the same for you Hermione," Ginny said.
"So it's decided," Ron said." Two weeks we go after Harry."
"I'll talk to Luna, Clara, and Draco," Ginny said. " Then I guess we'll leave."
Then they all sat silently staring at the fire wondering what had happened to Harry. Whether Harry was really going to be dark now or if he was just lying in that room with the glowing door that glowed no more.
As soon as that door shut all the light disappeared. Harry felt a rise of panic going through his body and then the lights appeared. Not around the room but they were shooting towards him and full speed. Harry had never felt so much pain in his life before now. Each light in the room shot into his body and back out, flying around the room and then right back in and out of Harry. Harry soon that he could barely keep awake with all these lights going in and out of him. Then he found that the floor had gone and he was just lying in mid air as the lights continued to go through his body. Then he heard a faint voice coming from inside his head.
"It's time Potter"
Then all around him the lights vanished leaving him in the dark air. Till they came flying back at him and entered him this time not to come back out. Harry screamed as he felt his scar start to burn and his body began to feel as though it was being cut into millions of pieces. Once all the lights had gone into Harry's body he passed out and landing onto a grass covered ground in the middle of a forest as the sun turned into the moon and the stars came out. Harry Potter Was no Longer The Harry Potter They All Once Knew