Chapter 2: Start Of Term

A.N.: Well, here is the second chapter to the first installment of my series. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own HP or PJ, I do however own the OC's in this story.

Hogwarts, Scotland

Harry's P.O.V.

We were all packed into the Great Hall, waiting for the Sorting to begin. Before that could happen though Dumbledore stood up, something peculiar as he always made announcements after the Sorting.

"Good evening young witches and wizards, I wanted to make a quick announcement before the Sorting begins. This year we will be welcoming a new witch to our grounds, she is going to be entering with the fifth years, yes I know, you're all curious to know why she's just joining now. But I am not supposed to divulge that information, so ask her if you are really that thirsty for knowledge. She will also be taking part in the Sorting this year, to be placed in a house. So without further ado, let the Sorting begin!" Dumbledore finished, while the rest of us were skeptical of who could possibly be the new student.

I took a look at the teachers table, where all the professors were seated. I looked to see who was sitting in the Defense Against The Dark Arts position, where, to my great chagrin, was seated a short plump women, the same one from my hearing last year, where I had used my wand around muggles. I already knew that one of my favorite classes, would be one of my least favorite this year.

"Great, look at our new Defense Against The Dark Arts teacher guys, just bloody great." I told Hermione and Ron, who were seated at my sides.

They also glanced over to the teachers table. Ron gasped.

"That's Dolores Umbridge, she works for the Ministry, my dad tells me that she's a horrid woman, a horrid woman indeed." Ron was barely able to finish as the doors to the Great Hall opened, revealing all the first years that would be coming in this year. Professor McGonagall led them in. Then the Sorting Hat began to sing, when it finished all the First Years looked at it in surprise, as the rest of the students clapped away.

"Wayne Austin!" Professor McGonagall yelled out, then a guy with black short cropped hair walked up to the Hat, put it on his head as the Hat judged him.

"SLYTHERIN!" The Hat shouted. The boy went and sat next to Malfoy, who shook his hand and then glared over at me. I just smirked back at him as the next student, a guy named Andrew Bane came to our table.

The line continued until there was only one girl left, this was the new fifth year that would be introduced to us. She had fluffy hair that was dyed dark red, she also had a deep tan, giving her a caramel color skin tone. She wasn't short at all, probably five foot six inches, and she was petite as well. I noticed she had glowing hazel eyes as she stood a couple feet away from us. She was a very pretty girl, gorgeous in fact.

"Maria Massaro!" Professor McGonagall shouted. She received a couple catcalls as she walked briskly to the Hat. She took a seat on the stool as she put the hat on her head.

"Slytherin." Malfoy called, I glared at him.

"Hufflepuff!" One of the Hufflepuff's yelled out, bringing back the memories of what happened last year.

"Ravenclaw!" Sean Dike yelled out.

"Gryffindor!" Fred and George Weasley yelled out, I grinned at them.

"Ah, a very rare occasion indeed. A brand new fifth year I see, peculiar of Dumbledore to allow something like this." The Hat told Maria inside her head.

"Um, why can I hear you?" She thought nervously assuming that the Hat could hear her.

"Did you not listen to the song? If not, well, it's not important. We need to get back to business. You seem to have the attributes for any of the four houses, you have the bravery of a Gryffindor, the cunning of a Slytherin, the loyalty of a Hufflepuff, and the brains of a Ravenclaw. However, your potential will definitely be most likely to be unlocked in…"

"GRYFFINDOR!" The Hat yelled out, resulting in massive cheers from the Gryffindor table, even some of the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students cheered.

Maria then came over and sat next to Hermione, who shook her hand and gave her a smile. She just smiled back.

"Now that all that is over with, I can get to the announcements. Remember students, the Forest is forbidden to enter, that's for all you first years. Mr. Filch has a flyer on his office door showing all the items that are forbidden from use." Dumbledore said as he looked at Fred and George, who just grinned back at him.

"Also, considering the tragic events that happened last year, we have placed more protections around the school as a safety measure against-."

"Nonsense, you-know-who isn't back, there really was no need to do all that silliness. We all know that Harry Potter is a liar, and Cedric Diggory is just saying all that so he can finally get some, ah, recognition." Umbridge interrupted Dumbledore, and to say I was offended would be an understatement.

"Now now Professor Umbridge, Harry and Cedric must have seen something in that maze. They are not liars, of that I'm sure." Dumbledore retaliated, Umbridge then just sat down with an annoyed look on her face. "Anyways, as I was saying, Hogwarts has been reinforced with more spells and charms that are sure to keep Voldemort away, we will also be receiving new protection, physical help if you may, sometime soon. All that corresponds with what you may have seen before you came in, the structures that are being built. The rest, I am not allowed to speak of yet." Everyone greeted the news with silence, some that didn't believe that Voldemort was back yet, others that definitely did believe in the terrifying news.

Then, it hit me.

(FLASHBACK) We appeared in a dark graveyard, a tombstone right in front of us 'Sergi Reus', it read, and under it '1977-1997'. That was weird, that's the same year my parents died. I looked over at Cedric who was looking around the tombstone in front of us at whatever was ahead of it. His eyes widened.

"Oh no." He said with a look of terror in his eyes.

"What's – Bloody Hell!" I yelled out as I realized what was on the other side. A ring of Death Eaters, at least twenty of them, stood around Pettigrew and someone I would much rather never again see in my life. Next to them stood a seemingly powerful hooded figure. Even though I was scared at first, the feeling of anger quickly swept over my body. That is because the killer of my parents was alive, Voldemort was very much alive. How I knew it was him? Well, the sneer on his face, the way the Death Eaters were around him, some even seemed to worship him, it was an obvious giveaway. Then he looked over at us, he obviously knew we were standing there, as he looked at us with a smile, an eerie smile, but a smile that had victory written all over it.

"Cedric, if he calls us over stay here." I told him.

"No, I'm not leaving you alone." He told me stubbornly.

" He only thinks that there is one of us here. He thinks it's just me. You can apparate yes?" I asked him, he nodded.

"Yeah, but I'm too tired right now, I don't think I can make it without causing us damage." He said sadly.

"It's okay, I guess I'll go and distract him while you replenish enough energy to apparate. Then I'll give you a signal and we'll run towards each other so you can apparate us away. Got it?" I asked him. He nodded grimly.

I looked back around the tombstone to see Voldemort still looking in our direction, he sneered when he caught me looking, a sneer that made Snape's look like a six year old girl smiling.

"Harry, Harry, Harry. You should have known better than to have participated in that competition even though you knew that you hadn't put your name in it. You should have known it was danger from the beginning, how hard headed you are. You may come out now you know." He said teasingly. I wanted nothing more than to go over there and wipe that smirk off his face with my own fist. I decided to not cause any trouble and just walked out with a snarl on my face, instantly glaring at Voldemort. I noticed the numbers stacked up against me and knew that it would be very hard to get out of there alive. I just hoped that our plan would work.

"Well, if it isn't quite a surprise to see you here? I didn't expect it at all." Voldemort said with an evil grin. That's when it hit me, and everything came to me.

"You did this! You set this whole thing up! You put my name in the Goblet knowing I, or thinking, that I would win! You made the cup and Portkey, and that's why I'm here! You're responsible for all the blame I took because of being in this bloody tournament!" The anger completely filled me, to the point where there was small sparks of electricity surrounding me, some sparks hit some of the Death Eaters, cutting through their robes and leaving slashes on their body. This surprised even me, I didn't know I could summon such raw energy, and Voldemort looked very surprised too, even a bit scared as he noticed the bloody gashes that were left on his servants' bodies. Then he regained his composure.

"Yes Harry, I was the one behind all that, or not so much me, but my loyal servants." He remarked with another sneer on his face. I growled at him.

"You see Pettigrew here made a very brave sacrifice." He then explained everything that had transpired and led up to his rebirth.

"What do you think?" He asked me with a very cocky, and repulsive, smile on his face.

"I think that you are a bloody creep. EXPELLIARMUS!" I shouted, a blue light shot out of my wand, just as a green one shot out of Voldemort's. It seemed the two spells were gonna dissipate, when a bolt of electricity shot out of my body and hit him, knocking him unconscious.

"MY LORD!" Yelled half the Death Eaters in the vicinity, the other just gasped.

"NOW!" I yelled and sprinted towards the tombstone that Cedric was hiding behind, just as he ran towards me. When we collided into each other we disappeared with a loud pop.

"NOO!" Was the last thing I heard before landing in Hogsmeade unconscious.

I clutched at my scar as the flashback ended, groaning at the pain that it caused. Everyone's head snapped over at me.

"Harry! Are you okay mate?" Ron asked me, just as Hermione grabbed my shoulder.

"I'm fine guys, just got a searing headache, it's alright." I remarked, while Hermione hesitantly let go, Ron also was reluctant to let the subject drop. Everyone else just focused their attention back on Dumbledore.

"The announcements are finished, tuck in." Dumbledore said as food appeared on all the tables. Everything looked spectacularly delicious, from the juicy baby back ribs, to the scrumptious fried chicken. The Start of Year feast never failed us. I noticed Ron with his barbaric eating habits and couldn't hold back a chuckle, he ate like he had never seen food in his life, he probably ate four times as much as the regular human, and even that's only if he's not hungry. Don't let me get started on those times when he doesn't get enough food. It gives me nightmares all the time.

I noticed that Hermione was conversing with the new girl, they seemed to be already becoming good friends. Hermione noticed me looking and introduced me to her.

"Maria, this is one of my best friends, his name is Harry Potter; The Boy Who Lived." Maris had a face of confusion on her face.

"Why do they call you the Boy Who Lived?" She asked, Ron suddenly stopped eating.

"You don't know who he is? What he means?" He asked incredulously.

"I'm sorry, but I don't." She replied, then Hermione went on and told her my whole life story, starting from when I was born, to just last year's incident. Now Maria had on a face of astonishment.

"That's very impressive, you must be held with high regard in the Wizarding community." She remarked.

"Well, not until what happened last year. Everyone believes that Cedric and I just made the whole thing up, that we're a hoax. It pisses me the bloody hell off to know that nobody knows how much danger they are in. There's only a select few that believe me. The Ministry though, they are completely shooting me down, writing newspaper articles to make them think I'm a liar and whatnot." Ron had begun to eat again a while ago, but he stopped once again.

"A true dumbarse that Fudge is I tell you, a real big one too." Ron said as he waved a piece of fried chicken in his hand.

"Anyway, Harry doesn't exactly have the easy life. None of us do in fact, just the fact that we're his friends makes us stupid in society's eyes too." Hermione said matter of factly.

"Yeah well, we should introduce our other friend as well. That red headed living vacuum over there is Ronald Weasley, although you can just call him Ron." I said, as the two girls laughed at my comment. Ron just glared at me, I just smirked back at him. Then we both burst out laughing.

"Maria, we'd like to hear your story too. Why are you just coming to Hogwarts?" Hermione asked, always being the skeptic. Maria sighed.

"I've been trying to tell the Headmaster, and even some of the Professors, but they just won't hear it." She looked extremely sad.

"What are you talking about? What's wrong?" Ron said, all of a sudden intrigued in the conversation.

"Well, you see, uh, I don't remember anything. Like, nothing at all." Maria remarked. We were all silent in confusion, thinking. Hermione was the first to perk up.

"So you're saying that you have no memories of anything whatsoever?" She asked Maria, she just nodded.

"Well, I do sometimes get fragments of things, like, sometimes I'll be dreaming and see myself in a tank, like the ones where you put water in and there's the oxygen thing attached." Maria replied.

"Anything else?" I asked her.

"Yeah, sometimes I'll see faces, and for some reason, wings." She said.

"Wings?" Hermione asked with a thoughtful look on her face.

"Yeah, but not just any wings, I'm talking wings with an eighteen foot wingspan, things like that." She said.

"Wow, bloody hell that's weird." Ron said, with steak sauce all around his mouth.

"Uh, Ron, you have a little something-." I told him while motioning to this mouth.

"Oh, right." He replied before wiping it off as I just snickered.

"Anyways, the last thing I remember is some large building being burned down to the ground as I ran away from it, along with a whole bunch of other kids. Some were flying ahead of us, leading us. It was weird for sure." She remarked.

I got snapped out of my thoughts as two hands slapped me on my shoulder.

"Well if it isn't my favorite set of carrot tops, hi guys." I told the two identical gingers behind me.

"Yeah, and here's our favorite Chosen One." Fred joked right along with me.

"What do you guys want?" I asked them.

"Oh, so we can't greet our best friend since birth?" George asked.

"We're offended." Fred said with a mock hurt look on his face."

"Guys, I've only known you since I was eleven. So shut the bloody hell up." I barked at them.

"Yeah, go away carrot tops." Ron said, Fred and George just stared at him for a good ten seconds, then walked away barking with laughter.

"Who are they?" Maria asked.

"Oh, them? Just the class clowns of the school, Fred and George Weasley. And yes, yes they are related to Ron." I answered her.

BOOM! A loud noise was heard outside of the castle. BOOM! Another one.

"What the bloody hell is that?" Ron asked with a terrified look on his face.

"I don't know, but I have a feeling we're about to find out." I answered him as I saw Dumbledore rush towards the door that was an entrance to the castle. Once he opened the door, he took one glance before immediately shutting it. He raised his wand to his throat.

"Everybody in fourth year and under report to your common rooms. Immediately!" Dumbledore shouted.

As all the fourth year's and under ran to their room, the door was brought down with a loud smash. At the door was a large man, maybe ten feet tall, he was dressed in black robes with a Death Eater mask over his face. He shot an Avada Kedavra out of his wand, it went straight at Dumbledore who summoned the Protego spell just in time. Then the two started to duel, bright lights shooting in between the two. Then, through the doors walked in a bunch of nasty mystery creatures that looked like something out of a nightmare. They were about the size of one of Aragog's children, and they were fully black, they seemed to be almost like walking shadows. They didn't take on a specific form at all, they just seemed to be transforming in between different creatures. Some took on the shape of wolves, others horses, but they all had one thing in common. They were getting ready to attack us.

When the first creature shot towards the students in the Great Hall, Professor McGonagall came in a gave it a nice stunning spell that made it melt into the ground, but then the rest of the group of creatures attacked, there had to be at least two hundred of them. All launching towards us in the Great Hall, it was obvious that everyone was in stunned silence, none of them even moved as the creatures came closer and closer to them. I had to be the first one to take action.

"Stupify!" A red light shot out of my wand and hit one of the creatures in the front line, making it melt into the floor as well. This seemed to wake the rest of the students out of their shock, and almost simultaneously, dozens of differently colored lights shot out all through the Great Hall, knocking a lot of the creatures away. There was a problem though, soon the creatures started attacking back, shooting black lights at the students from where their mouths should be, instantly knocking the students unconscious.

Maria, who didn't know any way to defend herself was one of the most vulnerable in the battle. So I ran over and stood in front of her while still firing off random spells at the creatures.

After what seemed like forever, but was really about an hour, we finished off the last of the monsters. It was sad to say that three fourths of the students were hit, but luckily, the injuries weren't fatal, they just knocked the students unconscious, and after thirty minutes, everyone was already up and gossiping about what had happened. Then we all turned out attention to the other battle, the one still ensuing between Dumbledore and the Death Eater. They seemed to be equally matched, which was strange since Dumbledore is twice as strong as even the most powerful of Death Eaters, this wasn't just any Death Eater was obvious. Then something very shocking happened.

"Stupify!" The Death Eater yelled, hitting Dumbledore head on and sending him careening through the Great Hall. The Death Eater laughed maliciously.

"You may have defeated us today, but we will be back, even bigger and stronger than today, and nothing you do will be able to defeat us." Then he jumped on a broom that he summoned out of nowhere and shot off, leaving the whole school in stunned silence.

"What the bloody hell just happened?" Ron was the first to voice his thoughts.

"Looks like war, is imminent." McGonagall stated.

A.N. That's the second chapter, it's a whole lot shorter than I'm gonna be doing the rest of the chapters, but there wasn't much to do for this chapter. That battle was really lame, I know. But I don't want to exactly reveal what these things can do yet. I'll be posting the next chapter sooner, probably by Tuesday. REVIEW!