The Dragon Tamer
Summary: Charlie has a secret; his family doesn't know, his friends don't know, only he knows...he and the beautiful Rai Higurashi...who was now dead. His secret? He had a daughter...her name, keeping his beautiful Rai's last name, Kagome Higurashi. He has raised her with all the love and care that a Dragon Tamer can, now...it's time she goes and lives her own life, but, can he let her go...or will his need to protect her keep him from letting her go?
Anime/Book/Movie: InuYasha/Harry Potter
Pairing: (Slight Harry/Kagome) – Draco/Kagome
Genre: Romance/Adventure
Rated: M for Mature Content
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Harry held Ginny's hand in his, unaware that Tom had picked up his wand; he called out to his best mate's sister, but to no avail.
"Harry Potter, a pleasant surprise seeing you here."
"Tom, what have you done, Ginny...she's cold as ice!"
"She's still alive, but only just,"
"..." Harry looked back, "Give me my wand," He said, eyeing the thin piece of wood held in the others hands.
"You won't be needing it,"
"I'm sure that you think so, but I still don't feel comfortable with it," He looked back at Ginny, "I need to get her out of here; she'll die if I don't...and what of the Basilisk!"
"It won't come until called, and I'm afraid I can't let you take her, you see, as poor Ginny grows weaker, I grow stronger."
"..." He knew where this was going, Draco had explained it well enough, but still, hearing it from the memory of Tom Riddle was a necessity.
"Yes Harry, it was Ginny Weasley who opened the chamber of secrets,"
"No...she couldn't, she wouldn't..."
"It was Ginny who set that Basilisk on the Mudblood's and Filch's cat. It was Ginny who wrote the threatening messages on the walls."
"Why?"
"Because I told her to, I find that I can be very persuasive." He gave a bored look, "Not that she knew what she was doing, she was in sort of...shall we say a trance, of sorts. Still the power of the diary began to scare her, and she tried to dispose of it in the girls' bathroom, where who should find me next, but you, the very person I was most anxious to meet."
"Why did you want to meet me?"
"I had to speak with you, meet you if I could, gain your trust, and so I showed you my capture of that brainless oaf Hagrid."
"HAGRID'S MY FRIEND! And you framed him...didn't you..."
"It was my word against his. Only Dumbledore seemed to think he was innocent,"
"I bet Dumbledore saw right through you,"
"He certainly kept an annoyingly close eye on me! I knew it would be unsafe for me if I were to open the Chamber again while at school, so I decided to leave behind a Diary, reserving my sixteen year old self in its pages so that one day...I would be able to lead another, to finish...Salazar Slytherin's, noble work!"
"Well you haven't finished it this time!"
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Draco watched silently as the two talked, he heard Tom go into a monologue about how Harry had survived as an infant and defeat 'the greatest wizard of all time'. His words, not Draco's; he watched the memory move Harry's bangs to the side to reveal his scar.
"Why do you care how I escaped, Voldemort was after your time!"
Draco felt shivers climb his spine at the name of the Dark Wizard. He wondered why Harry was stalling, he had already told him who the memory was, why did he need to hear it again? Was it to satisfy his curiosity, did he not trust him, or was it that he needed to hear it from Tom?
"Voldemort...is my past, present and future!" He wrote in the air, Tom Marvolo Riddle, and waved the wand he was using, rearranging the letters to make a new name.
I AM
LORD
VOLDEMORT
Draco closed his eyes, he never wanted to be this close to the monster that his father had willingly served, and even still, continued to serve.
Draco ran back and made his way to the wall, hoping that maybe he could help clear the stones that separated him and Harry from the others.
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Ron looked up as a red bird came flying down beside Kagome, a brown hat clutched in it's claws as it looked at Kagome's tears and the Professor lying unconscious on her lap.
"Harry told me about that bird, he saw it last year..."
"It's a phoenix..."
It bent it's head foreword and allowed a few tears to fall on the opened wound on Snape's forehead, Kagome watched the injury heal, before the bird flew off through the small hole that Ron had managed to make in the wall of rocks.
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McGonagall was walking down the hall when Peeves passed by laughing.
"Peeves, what is it that has you so happy?" She wasn't really in the mood for his cheery troublemaking.
"Peeves was doing nothing wrong, nothing, nothing; playing games with Ickly firsties was during the day. But birdies in the girls potty room, that's what Peeves sees down the way!"
McGonagall frowned and made her way down the hall Peeves had come from, only the abandoned girls lavatory was down this corridor, so she knew where to go, but...she never expected to find so many birds flapping about to find their way out of the castle. "Oh my goodness, Merlin...what is going on..."
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Kagome looked into the hole and her eyes widened, taking Snape's head, she removed her cloak and pulled it down so that his head lay on the soft fabric. She checked the size of the whole and made her way through it while her Uncle walked down the corridor to see if anyone was coming. She saw Draco running towards her as she stood up straight, and smiled.
"I'm tired of waiting, I need to do something more than sit here whining."
"You can't be serious, I'm not letting you go down there! Tom just released the Basilisk on Harry! A mangy bird brought him a brown hat, and that's it!"
"That's a phoenix, the hat was the sorting hat, surely it must have some meaning, and some strength behind it, worry not for the things brought, but what they can bring. I'm positive it will be worth more than a million galleons can buy. Come~!" She ran towards the direction he came and found an opening, staring down where Tom Riddle stood beside Ginny, and Harry was on a large statue, the head of Salazar Slytherin, fighting a large Basilisk. They were there in time to witness Harry plunge the sword up into its head through the mouth, the fang no longer in his arm, but his hand as he let it fall to the ground beside Ginny. Kagome watched the next part unfold almost like something out of a Horror story.
Harry was getting weak because of the poison, and Ginny wasn't waking up, she couldn't hear the soft spoken words from Harry, but she did hear Tom.
"Funny, the damage a silly little book can do, especially in the hands of a silly little girl."
Harry took the book and laid it open on the wet floor, grabbing the fang, he raised it to stab the book. Tom yelled out in desperation as the fang pierced the book, then again, and finally, Harry closed the book, holes appearing in Tom, light shining everywhere, cried of pain echoing off the cold stone walls in the chamber of secrets, Harry pierced the closed book and Tom was gone.
Kagome ran down as light exploded from Tom in every which way, making her way to Ginny as she woke up in a fright. "Aunt Ginny! Harry!"
"Kagome, Harry...I'm so sorry, it was me...I didn't mean to, Riddle made me...ah, Harry...you're hurt!"
"I'm fine, listen, Ron is waiting at the end of the tunnel, he can get you two out, where is Draco?"
"I'm here, and we aren't going anywhere without you!"
Kagome turned as footsteps sounded behind them; McGonagall was running fearfully towards them, running, heavily breathing, her eyes wide with worry. "You students, have a lot of explaining to do!"
Kagome blushed, "We found the Chamber...Professor..."
Harry smiled weakly as the Phoenix flew down to him and landed right beside him. "You were amazing Fawkes, I just wasn't quick enough..."
Fawkes tilted its head once more and Kagome smiled as tears once again fell from its eyes and onto the injury Harry sported.
"You won't be dying anytime today, Harry,"
"I forgot, Phoenix tears have healing powers."
"We need to get out of here," Draco said, "I feel sick, and don't think I should be down here any longer than necessary."
Kagome laughed, "Your dad would bludgeon you to death if he ever found out that you had helped Harry Potter." Taking Draco's hand in hers, she couldn't help laugh, "I'm still happy you three are all okay though."
McGonagall smiled, but that was short lived, "You will each hurry towards the exit, we will leave now."
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Honey smiled and yawned, "I think it's time for sleep, Ginger. What's say you?"
Ginger yawned, "Yeah, I'm exhausted," She turned and left her brother to continue staring out the window, his eyes reflecting a beautiful Phoenix as it carried, not one, not two, not even three people from the Chamber, but eight.
Honey closed his eyes and left the portal to the Ravenclaw Tower, "So many interesting things...have taken place tonight..."
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Snape and McGonagall stood off to the side as Harry, Ron, Kagome and Draco stood in front of the Headmaster Dumbledore.
"You all realize of course, that in the past few hours, you have broken a least a dozen school rules,"
"Yes sir,"
"And I have sufficient evidence to have you both expelled!"
"...yes sir,"
"Therefore, it is only fitting, that you each receive special awards, for services to the school."
The four of them looked up in surprise as smiles formed on their faces.
Dumbledore nodded, "Now, if you don't mind, Mr. Weasley, I have an hour to deliver these release papers, I believe we want our Gamekeeper back. Snape, you had something you needed to discuss with Mr. Malfoy and Miss. Higurashi, you three are dismissed. Professor McGonagall, if you would be so kind as to tell the houses, that the new rules that were put into action during these attacks were dropped, and that they may go about their daily routines as normal."
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Kagome smiled as she entered Snape's office, "What was it you needed, Professor?"
He turned and brought Kagome in for a hug, so sudden was the action, she had no time to say anything. "Foolish girl! What of your father, did you think of how he might react if something were to happen to you? And you!" He pointed at Draco, "Your mother would have ringed my neck had you been killed or hurt or..." Snape fell to his knees before both his godchild and the little girl who wore him out on a daily basis and stole his heart; for all that he had left of it. "You have no idea how worried they would have been, had they known...and they didn't, which is worse. Had you died, I would have had to tell them, I wouldn't have been able to tell them; that would mean having to face the fact myself."
Kagome let her tears fall again for the second time that day, "I'm sorry, but I don't think that this will be the last time I do this kind of Foolish thing. So..." She took his hands in hers and smiled tearfully at him, "Please hang in there with me, and keep me and Draco safe, watch over us while we are in this school, and I promise you, we will continue to live, for Daddy, for Narcissa, and...for you..."
Snape nodded and ushered the two off, before finally sitting down, putting a hand over his eyes, and to any who looked on, all that they would have seen, was a single tear fall past his hand as he thought of the fearful chance that he could have lost the precious little girl that over the last few months he'd come to care for, and the Godchild he'd always loved...not only them...Harry Potter...
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Me: Chapter 22 is done, so up next is 23, how does it feel to know that we are ALMOST DONE! Review guys, let me know what you think and in return, I will keep writing!