Disclaimer: I hate writing this part. However, I don't own anything.
A/N- I'm feeling bad about all this... Only one thing to do: VICIOUS PLOT UPHEAVAL!
Chapter Twelve- Please
It was not even dark yet, but the clouds made it seem later than it was. She sat on the highest tower with her journal in her lap. There had been more writing since she had said good bye.
Are you there?
When will we meet again?
I'm sorry if I scared you.
I hope you don't get sick from the cold.
When
And that was all. Ginny dipped her quill in the ink and wrote, I'm right here waiting for you.
No response. She sighed and closed the red journal. After capping her ink and putting everything in her bag, she flew back to her dorm room.
It seemed only the first and second year students were leftin the castle so she decided to go sit by the lake to read. Everyone else would be at Hogsmeade for another hour or two.
The lake was calm today and the grounds were absolutely silent. There wasn't even any wind blowing. For some reason, Ginny felt nervous. Brushing off the feeling, she sat down under a tree and began to read.
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Ginny looked up at the horizon. The noise seemed to come from Hogsmeade far in the distance.
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
It was a noise like thunder except thunder was a rolling, cracking, and shockingly loud noise whereas this noise sounded more like a low booming from deep within the earth.
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
The sky was quickly turning dark in Hogsmeade's direction. Ginny began to hear shouts and screams on the road. She stood up slowly, squinting her eyes to see.
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Suddenly very loud screams erupted from Hogwart's main entrance. Ginny dropped her book and spun around to see Snape and McGonagal standing, wands raised and out of breath, amongst a small group of bloody, dirty students. Two kids promptly fell to the ground moaning while the rest stood there crying or gaping in horror down the road. There were about four girls and five or six boys, though she couldn't recognize any of them. Snape and McGonagal knelt down next to the fallen kids hastily.
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Ginny ran up to the group but before she could say anything, Dumbledore stormed out of the castle. "Severus, Minerva," he said hurriedly, "go back to Hogsmeade and destroy all the other emergency portkeys. Get back as many students as you can. Go now!"
Hagrid ran up just as the other two professors grabbed hold of the portkey and vanished, determined looks of their faces. "The gates!" Dumbledore nearly shrieked, waving his arms wildly towards Hogsmeade. He and Hagrid rushed down the road. Ginny followed anxiously, noticing more professors coming out of the castle and casting furiously with their wands.
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
When they reached the gate Ginny saw there was thick grey fog rolling up the road to Hogwarts. Dumbledore immediately started throwing spells at it with his wand as Hagrid and Ginny stood by helplessly.
"Hagrid?" Ginny asked meekly.
Hagrid looked down at Ginny, noticing her for the first time. "Death Eaters," was all he said.
Ginny shuddered, looking back at the dense fog. "Harry? Ron? Hermione?" she whispered though neither of the men could hear her over the noise. She had left Harry there in the rain and as far as she knew, he hadn't returned but rather, stayed with Hermione and Ron.
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Ginny drew her wand as well. Figures appeared in the fog and emerged- students. Hagrid ran forward and grabbed up a few of the kids who were stumbling from their injuries, bringing them past the fence. He set them downon the ground gently and ran back for more. Ginny looked over the injured students, grimacing at their open sores and gashes. She began to lay healing charms and pain relieving charms on them, but she knew she could do very little when it came down to saving lives.
By the time a good fifty students had made it past the gate- none of them Harry, Hermione, or Ron- Ginny couldn't take it any longer. She made a mad dash for the fog, dodging Hagrid's sweeping arm, and set off to find her friends. Ginny had taken careful note of the spell Dumbledore had been using to disperse some of the oncoming fog and started to use it herself. The fog blew apart in front of her as she jogged along, creating a path.
As she neared Hogsmeade, the fog seemed to only get denser. Her mouth was dry with fear and from saying the spell so many times. She heard muffled shouts and screams around her. Flashing of light glimmered dreamily through the grey. It was as though she were underwater- everything muffled, blurry, and hazy.
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
The ground shook below her and the noise roared so loudly in her ears that they rang once it was cut off. "Harry!" she yelled, panicking. "Ron! Hermione!" The fog grew darker and colder around her. Something brushed against her arm and she turned to it then backed away slowly.
Suddenly she broke out of the fog into harsh light and freezing air. She blinked her eyes to focus them. The ground was littered with bodies- some dead, some incapacitated. Snape, McGonagal, and a few other professors were dueling with death eaters who were attacking students. Harry was floating in the air on his back and Hermione was screaming/sobbing as she tried to push her way past a line of death eaters to the one who was suspending Harry in the air with his wand. "No!" Hermione screamed as the death eaters surrounded her. "Harry!"
Ginny looked up further and nearly shrieked in fear. Over a hundred dementors were floating in a circular motion above Harry's body, like vultures. Harry's mouth was wide open and his wand nowhere to be seen. Ginny heard an inhuman wail as Ron charged across the clearing in the fog towards Hermione, pointing two wands at the swarm of death eaters who had now pushed Hermione to the ground. Upon seeing her brother, Ginny snapped out of it and ran after him.
"STUPEFY!" she yelled at every death eater who got in her way, her mind focused on getting to Hermione and Harry. When she reached Hermione's particular mob, she started hitting them with any old hex that came to mind. Some were simple ones she used to use on her brothers and others were incredibly painful ones she'd learned from Harry's DA meetings. However, all of them had some effect and Ginny was able to force her way to Hermione, Ron charging through beside her.
Hermione's face was entirely covered with blood and her robes were ripped open, as well as some of her clothes underneath. There was a deep gash at her throat and both her hands pointed in odd directions, wrists broken. As Ron lifted her up hastily, Ginny noticed Hermione's wand on the ground underneath where she had been lying. Smart girl- she had made sure her wand was as safe as it could be. Ginny offered Ron the wand but he didn't notice. He was staring at Hermione with dread and started yelling, "She's not breathing! SHE'S NOT BREATHING!"
Ginny pushed Ron to the ground as he still clutched Hermione's limp body in his arms. She grabbed Harry's wand and shoved Hermione's in his face. He didn't notice, still gaping at Hermione in absolute terror. Ginny slapped him harshly across the face and threw Hermione's wand at him before running away.
She heard a scream of pure agony and looked up. Harry was being hit with curses from all directions, the dementors biding their time until they could suck his soul clean away. Ginny focused on the Death Eater who was levitating Harry and charged at him, the blood rushing in her ears and her heart beating madly. The man was staring up at Harry in delight and... pleasure?
Just as she was about to catapult herself into the man's side, someone stepped into her path. She ran full speed into him and fell backwards, landing on the ground with a sickening crack. She reached up and felt her nose bleeding. The man was on the ground too and she crawled over to him, blind with pain. She stradled his chest and began hitting him in the face unmercifully. When he began to struggle underneath her she hit him one final time as hard as she could and pointed her wand right in his face. He froze and her mind searched for a good curse to use on him. But she couldn't see anything and she couldn't hear anything either. Her head pounded intensely and she couldn't get her mind to focus on anything.
She sat there, her breathing strained, and forced herself to think. Another loud shriek filled her head. Harry. She started sobbing with frustration and fear. Too many things were happening all at once and her head was raging with pain. Her eyesight was filled with large red and white spots.
Ginny threw her head back and let out a primative wail.
Rain starting to pour on them in a vast deluge. She crawled off the man and dragged herself in the general direction she thought Harry's captor was. Someone grabbed hold of her ankle and started dragging her back. Arms wrapped around her, pinning her, and she fought against them wildly. Her eyesight dimmed, but cleared slightly.
Harry was screaming, screaming, screaming...
She looked up at him writhing in the air above her and tore her wand hand loose from her captor. She pointed her wand at the man levitating Harry and roared, "CRUCIO!" as loud as she could. The curse hit the man and he fell to his knees, convulsing. The man holding her squeezed her so tightly she thought her ribs would break and perhaps they did.
Harry fell to the ground with a thud and she saw a dark mob rush at him. She wanted to run and get to him first, but she could not do anything but flail her legs. "Please," she cried, "please don't let them get Harry! Please please please please..." She wept that word over and over again. The man suddenly let go of her and she leapt up, staggered a few times, and fell over. The man caught her on the way down and picked her up in his arms securely. She looked up into his eyes. They were grey.
She realized who it was and wrapped her arms around his neck tightly. "Draco," she whispered into his ear, pleading, "don't let them hurt Harry. Please Draco..."
"Harry doesn't matter anymore Ginevra," he rasped.
"Please Draco..."
"You're mine. Harry doesn't exist anymore."
"Please Draco..."
"He's going to die just like you and me."
"Please Draco..."
"He won't ever touch you again."
"Please..."
"Do you love him Ginevra?"
"Draco..."
The Death Eaters had formed a circle around Harry now and were chanting something, wands raised to the sky. Draco gently set her down and walked towards the Death Eaters. The professors were still fighting off the Death Eaters who were trying to keep them from rescuing Harry. Dozens of students were still standing as well, almost all of them part of DA.
A red head was weaving in and out of the Death Eaters and heading straight for Harry. Draco was almost to the circle as well. Ginny could only watch, no longer able to move.
Suddenly it was as if all the air had been sucked from the earth. Ginny tried to breath but there was just no air. She saw everyone reacting the same, grabbing their throats and moving their mouths wildly. The air came back in a huge wind that knocked everyone over and kept them pinned to the ground. Through the rush of wind, Ginny saw a lonely figure walking towards Harry. Whenever the man passed a Death Eater he would point his wand at it and whisper something.
When he reached Ginny, he looked down at her and smiled, eyes twinkling. He pointed his wand at her and whispered something.