Okay First I'd like to give a big thanks to BlueBabyXoXo, only Black lover, london265, Scarlett Angelica Potter, aMazing for reviewing this story and sticking with it from chapter one. Chapter 18, I own nothing but Grace Potter in this chapter and thanks to those who've reviewed, alerted, and like this story!
The darkness didn't last long I'm afraid. I woke up just in time to hear shouts of Avada Kedavra and Expelliumus. My eyes bolted open just as Harry and Voldemort begun to float in the air. I knew what was happening, I had found it in the early months after hearing about Lily and James to try and find a way to bring them back.
Just as I knew figures started floating out of Voldemort's wand over to Harry, One was Cedric Diggory, then an old women who's name I couldn't remember, an old man that must have been the muggle Sirius had written about and Harry had dreamed about, and lastly my brother's wife and my brother themselves.
I saw Harry nod and look to his left at his father, at my brother, at James. Then he nodded at Lily and looked back at Voldemort. There was a shout of let go that came from the ghost Lily, then Harry was pulling his wand back. The spell ended and the ghost things wrapped around Voldemort and his death eaters.
I summoned the cup as Harry landed on his knees beside me. My arm wrapped around his shoulders as the spinning begun. He was crying, in the haze his mind hadn't registered that Cedric wasn't there and that I was still alive. The world kept spinning faster until suddenly we dropped hard against the ground back at Hogwarts.
No music was playing and everyone seemed to be holding in their breaths which they let out the moment they saw us.
"Harry," Hermione yelled as Albus, Snape, Fudge, McGonagall, Cedric, and Johnny ran over to us.
"Aunt Grace what happened, why are you covered in blood?" Johnny asked as I got to my feet with Harry still clinging to my waist.
"Not now Johnny," I whispered as I turned to Albus "Did you get Alastar, he's not really Mad-eye Albus."
Dumbledore put his hand up to silence me then said "The real Alastar is in the hospital wing, I believe we should all head back to the castle."
"Voldemort's back, I saw it." I said as I Harry seemed to finally snap back to the real world.
"Pettregrew helped him sir, he was there and helped Voldemort return." Harry said as Fudge looked at me in disbelief.
"He's not back," Fudge growled
"I already told them, Fudge doesn't believe me either." Cedric whispered as he grabbed Harry's arm "Perhaps we should get Harry to the infirmary, he looks bout ready to pass out."
"After I have a word with him," Dumbledore said before I could even open my mouth "Minerva, please make sure everyone gets back to the castle and Severus will you please take Grace to the hospital wing, she might need your attention as well."
"Because Pettregrew used Sectumsempra on me," I asked as Snape grabbed my arm.
"Let's not make this difficult," Snape said in his usual annoying voice as he half pulled me to the castle.
"You know Severus; people might like you better if you didn't try to control them." I said in a cheery voice which earned me a death glare from the Potion Professor.
The rest of the walk was silent and the next hour was torture. In between Poppy ordering me around I had Snape demanding that I tell him what few brain cells I had had told me to go into the maze in the first place.
It did get better though when Harry and Dumbledore showed up at the hospital wing. By then Molly, her oldest Bill, Ron, Hermione, and Johnny were already there and waiting anxiously for Harry to come.
The moment the doors opened Molly hurried over to pull Harry into a hug. Then she back up and turned to face Dumbledore, actually everyone seemed to turn to the headmaster. That's when I noticed the big black dog at Harry's side.
My heart skipped a beat and I shouted "Sirius," Everyone turned to look at me and most watched in amazement as the dog turned into Sirius Black.
"Sirius Black," Molly shrieked as Sirius shoved past the small crowd and over to my bed.
"Are you alright, are you in pain? What happened, Harry said that Wormtail hurt you and that Voldemort used the…" Sirius stopped; he couldn't bring himself to say the killing curse.
My hand found his cheek and I whispered "I'm fine now love, now that we're together again."
"How are the twins?" Sirius whispered as Harry and Johnny walked over to stand beside the bed.
"A year old, the same age Harry was when…" My voice drifted off as I remembered James's sprit ghost thing from the graveyard.
Sirius pulled me into a hug as Dumbledore started talking again. "Harry needs rest, peace, and quiet."
I nodded in approval as Sirius kissed my forehead before turning back in Snuffles and going over to lie in his godson's bed.
Johnny looked at me as he sat down on the bed beside me and whispered "Did Pettregrew really curse you?"
I nodded as Dumbledore left and Poppy assigned the others beds to sleep in before rushing off to her office.
As everyone dosed off I slipped out of bed and out of the room. I found myself walking the route the marauders, Lily, and I had walked so many times in their seventh year, down the stair case, outside and to the lake. I closed my eyes and thought of all those summer days where we were just kids and didn't have any responsibilities.
I would soon find out that closing my eyes in the dark is not the brightest idea in the world. I was near the lake, I could smell the water, when I tripped over something hard and landed on something warm.
I shot onto my feet with my wand in my hands "Lumos," a blood curling scream filled the air from my own lungs when I caught sight of the body of three people I never thought I would see again.
Okay here's chapter 18, review review!
