A/N A bit of a plea to say, please review! I love this story so much but no one is reviewing it! PLEASE!
The Worst Christmas
Harry woke up on Christmas Eve in his bed in his dormitory. All the boys were there for the Christmas holidays, which was very odd for Harry and Ron. Most people's parents had said it would be safer to stay at Hogwarts, and they weren't wrong. Since Sirius's death, there had been many more Death Eater attacks on random people in the wizarding world, and the muggle world as well. So because of the many people staying for the holidays, the castle was much busier than usual as there were more people wanting to go in and out of the grounds to go and do Christmas shopping.
Harry slowly walked down the stairs into the busy common room to see Ron and Hermione sitting on their sofa, already dressed and snuggling up to each other. Harry had not yet gotten used to them being together. After six year of them acting like they hated each other, this was a big change.
"Morning," Harry yawned at them as he sat on his chair. "Where's Ginny?"
"She told us to tell you she's doing essays and stuff, but I know you won't believe that so… She's out getting you a Christmas present," Ron answered.
"Ron!" Hermione shouted at him.
"How long has she been gone?" Harry asked. The longer she had been out, the better the present was in his opinion!
"About an hour," Ron replied.
"Oh! That's good!" Harry said excitedly.
At that moment, Ginny came climbing through the portrait hole with one of her friends. She saw Harry and whispered something to her friend while handing her a bag, which seemed to be quite heavy, and the girl nearly dropped it. As Ginny came towards them, the other girl scurried off upstairs with what Harry assumed was his Christmas present.
"How long have you been up?" Ginny asked as she sat on Harry's lap, "I've been in the library doing essays," She said proudly.
"With huge white bags and your outdoor clothes on?" Harry raised an eyebrow.
Ginny sighed and ruffled his hair, "Fine," She said, "Maybe I wasn't. But I'm not telling you what it is!" She added as Harry opened his mouth to ask.
"Well that's not…"
"Potter!"
Harry turned and saw Professor McGonagall running towards him.
Ginny moved aside and Harry stood up, a worried look on his face. Again, everyone looked at him as soon as his name was said loudly.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
"Come with me," She said, "Now. Quickly!"
Harry turned to Ron, Hermione and Ginny as he was dragged away with McGonagall. All three of them stood up and followed, all terrified as to what might have happened.
"Not you, Miss Weasley, you two can come," She said, motioning to Ron and Hermione.
"Why not me?" Ginny asked moodily.
"Stay there!" Harry shouted at her aggressively as they left the common room. He didn't know what was going on but he didn't want Ginny caught up in it.
When they finally reached McGonagall's office she strode in quickly and the three of them ran to keep up with her.
"It's your parents Harry," She said.
If Ron wasn't stood behind him Harry would have fallen over and broken his neck. "What's happened?" He asked frantically.
"They're in trouble," She answered, wandering around looking for something.
"I guessed!" Harry shouted at her.
"Professor, what exactly has happened?" Hermione asked calmly.
"They're fighting him, and death eaters," She explained quickly. "Lupin is there, and Moody, Tonks."
"Then what's the problem?" Harry asked, feeling that his parents fought Death Eaters almost every day, what was new?
"Harry!" McGonagall shouted, stopping and staring him in the face, "They are fighting You-know-who today! He wants to kill them, he WILL kill them!" She started looking around again as Harry turned to Ron and Hermione, who were both looking terrified.
"Why is my dad not fighting?" Ron asked. "Fred, George, anyone?"
"They're all off somewhere else, fighting different death eaters. Ah!" She shouted, making the three jump.
She pulled out four broomsticks and handed one to each person then walked towards the window.
"Miss Granger, do as we do ok?" McGonagall said.
Hermione shook at the sight of a broomstick in her hand, but nodded all the same.
"Follow me!" McGonagall shouted as she jumped out the window.
The three followed her and within minutes (waiting for Hermione to get used to it) they were flying at full pelt through the freezing air.
"Right," McGonagall said when they finally landed half an hour later in front of an old, black building, "When we go in, you may not like what you see, but deal with it. Anyone wearing a mask, stun them. And Harry," She turned to him, "How many more Horcruxes have you to find?"
"None, I just need to kill the snake," Harry replied.
"If you see it anywhere, kill it then tell your father, ok?"
Harry nodded and they stepped inside the building to be greeted with the sounds of shouts and an occasional scream. Harry felt Hermione grab on to his arm. It then occurred to him that neither Ron nor Hermione had ever seen Voldemort; they were both in for a very large shock.
"I'm scared Harry," Hermione whispered.
"Stick with me, both of you," Harry said to them.
"We won't ever leave you mate," Ron replied.
Then they reached the door to the room all the noise was coming from. McGonagall opened it and Hermione screamed.
"Hermione!" Harry shouted at her.
"Ah, my old friend," Voldemort looked across and said with a smile on his face. "Shall I say it now, James?"
Harry looked where Voldemort was looking, and his father was jerking and screaming on the floor.
"Stop!" Harry screamed, running at him, "Stop it!"
Voldemort did as asked and laughed at him. "You're so very brave Harry. Pity really; all the bravery is going to waste."
"Where's my mum?" Harry demanded.
"She'll be over there, the one on the floor, dead," He replied with a wide smile.
"No…" Harry ran over to her, through all the curses that were flying around. "Mum, no…" The floor vanished from beneath his feet and he fell to her side, dropping his wand.
"Poor Harry," Voldemort laughed, "Your mother is dead and your father… Avada…"
Harry ran up to him and pushed him aside, which he wished he hadn't done the second after. Voldemort was on the floor, glaring at Harry like he had just killed his right hand man.
"How dare you?" He said, lifting his wand. "You first then, Avada Kadavra!"
Harry jumped aside and fell on the floor as Hermione screamed from the other side of the room after stunning Bellatrix Lastrange.
"I'm going to kill you Harry!" Voldemort shouted, getting off the floor.
"Not if I kill you first!" Harry shouted back.
Almost all the Death Eaters had now been stunned, McGonagall and Tonks were crying over Lily, Lupin was trying to comfort them. Moody was protecting Ron and Hermione from Macnair, which left Harry and Voldemort, facing each other in the middle of it all, with his dad lying on the floor, clearly trying to tell Harry to run away.
"You should have gone home after I killed Black, Harry, now you'll never be able to see your parents and tell them you 'love' them," Voldemort smiled.
"You? You killed my Sirius?" Harry was gob smacked, not knowing what to say.
"Yes, but before I did give him a lot of pain," Voldemort smiled at the memory, "A bit like this…"
He lifted his right hand with no effort at all and pointed it towards Harry. A searing pain went through his entire body, his head felt like it was going to explode he fell to the ground screaming.
"Harry!" Hermione, Ron and James shouted together.
James was slowly getting to his feet, his wand raised behind Voldemort's back.
"Argh!" Harry continued screaming, begging for the pain to stop as he clutched his scar.
Then all of a sudden the pain stopped. He looked dup to see Voldemort whip round and say "I'm glad you could see this Harry," without looking at him. Harry looked from him to his dad and back again. No…
"Dad move!" He shouted.
"I love you Harry," James replied breathlessly and Voldemort said them, those two words that could end a life in a millisecond.
He watched as his father flew across the room, only to hit the wall and fall to the floor. He looked at his lifeless body on the carpet, not moving, not breathing, next to his mothers. Voldemort laughed as Harry heard pop's all around him. Then an arm grabbed onto his and they were back next to the Hogwarts gates, but he could still see his parents lying dead on the snow. Someone had brought them back as well.
"Harry," Hermione whispered, crying.
"Mate, I…" Ron trailed off in slow tears.
Everyone stood staring at Harry, not knowing what to do. It was snowing and the sky was dark grey. His tears wouldn't come, why wouldn't they come? He had cried about everyone else, so why not about his own parents?
A hand on his shoulder made him jump. He turned and saw Lupin crying.
"I'll go and get someone from Hogsmede," The gruff voice of Moody said. There was a 'pop' and he was gone.
"We need to go inside now Harry," McGonagall said quietly.
"I'm not leaving," He replied simply.
"We won't leave them alone, Lupin will stay with them," Tonks spoke for the first time.
"If you don't care so much then I'll stay and you lot can go in!" Harry shouted suddenly.
"Don't get aggressive with us Mr Potter!" McGonagall shouted back.
"Leave him alone!" Ron burst out, surprising all of them, "His parents are dead! Leave him alone with them for one minute!"
He started to walk away, closely followed by Hermione and Tonks. Lupin looked from Ron to McGonagall and back, then followed in closer pursuit.
"But…" McGonagall said. But then she looked at the two dead people on the snow and walked away with the others, leaving Harry alone with his parents.
He looked at the two of them, still no tears in his eyes.
"You must be freezing," He said, looking at his mum who lay sprawled on the snow, looking like all her joints were broken. He walked slowly up to her and moved her body so that it was straight and looked comfortable. He then saw his dad, in the same, uncomfortable position. He did the same to him, so that he was lying next to Lily. Shivering, Harry removed his robe and laid it on top of them.
"I won't let you down," Harry whispered as he heard people running up the road. "I love you, both of you. Forever."
Harry entered the common room after being in McGonagall's office for about two hours. It was dark in there, just like the rest of the castle, the rest of the world. It was four o'clock and Ron, Hermione and Ginny sat waiting for him on the sofa's.
As soon as he came through the portrait door, Ginny ran over to him as quickly as she could. "Harry!" She said, hugging him tightly.
Harry shrugged her off and went to sat down, leaving her by the door awfully confused.
He sat down and neither Ron nor Hermione said anything to him. All three of them just sat and started into the fire. Ginny edged towards them all, slowly sitting down next to Harry on the floor.
"How are you Harry?" She asked.
"Ginny!" Ron shouted at her.
"What?" She asked, clearly confused.
Harry didn't move his head to look at her, he just said, "How do you think I am Ginny?"
"Oh, I'm sorry Harry…" She said quietly to the floor.
"What happened in Professor McGonagall's office?" Hermione asked.
"Not much," Harry answered, looking at her, "They wanted to know what happened from a son's point of view."
"What?" Ron shouted.
"That's ridiculous!" Hermione said at the same time.
Harry nodded, "I know, I didn't tell them until about half an hour ago."
"Oh Harry," Hermione stood up and walked over to him, then rubbed his arm in comfort.
Ginny looked on in confusion.
"What are you going to do now?" Ron asked.
"Well, I'll stay here, but I'm not doing lessons," Harry said after giving it a lot of thought, "I'm going to try and figure out everything that's happened. I'm going to find the snake and kill it, and then I'm going to kill Voldemort."
"What about exams?" Ginny asked quietly.
"I'm not doing them," He answered simply.
"But you have to," She said back, "Or you'll never get a career after school!"
"Ginny!" Hermione and Ron shouted in unison.
"What? Why do you keep shouting at me?" She shouted back.
"Because you don't know anything!" Harry yelled at her, standing up suddenly. "I will probably die Ginny! Hasn't that occurred to you?"
"You won't die," She said timidly.
"He's killed Sirius, Dumbledore, and my parents for Merlin sake! He will kill me! Maybe not using the killing curse but he'll torture me to insanity before I say it to him. Then he'll die and I'll be a loony for the rest of my days!"
"Is that how you've planned your future then? You just want to be insane?" Ginny shouted.
"No I want to kill him!" Harry shouted loudly, screaming at the top of his voice. Everyone was staring but he had other things to worry about. "I'm going to kill him," He said, a lot more quietly than the first time.
He gulped down tears as Ginny cried in front of him. Then something hit him very hard in his chest as he realised he had to end this farce of a relationship he had going.
"I can't be with you anymore," He said suddenly.
"What? Harry," Hermione stood up and looked at him, but Ron pulled her back down.
Ginny looked at him in a state of shock.
"Why?" She whispered.
"It's too dangerous you being with me; you want to come everywhere and do everything we do, and I'm not going to let you," He explained quickly.
Ginny shook her head and tears came flooding from nowhere as she ran off up the stairs to her dormitories.
"Why, Harry?" Hermione asked after she'd gone.
"Because I'm going to kill him. Nothing else but that, and she can do better than me," He answered, sitting back down.
"But what if she can't? What if it's only you?" She asked sadly.
"What if?" Harry repeated, "Only one thing is certain Hermione. I'm going to kill him, as soon as possible. I'll kill him."
A/N Oh my! My chapters are getting so long I'm sorry! I'll try and cut them down! But I hoped you liked this one. Harry's going a bit mental isn't he? Don't worry, there's worse to come. Hehe…
