Chapter Eleven; Sectumsempra!

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Rain started pouring down from out of the sky in front of the orphanage. It was dark, and it appeared to be in the middle of the night even though morning barely just started. Albus Dumbledore entered the building as one of the ladies (a nurse) showed him inside. "Right this way Mr. Dumbledore." She said as she showed him upstairs. Dumbledore thanked her before stopping outside the doorway of a small dark haired boy looked up at him.

"Tom, Mr. Dumbledore would like to speak to you for a moment." The woman said before she turned around and walked away as Dumbledore walked inside and sat down a crossed from him.

"Good morning Tom." He said but the boy just remained silent and continued staring at him. "I have brought you some good news from the ministry of magic." He continued.

"What do you mean magic?" the young boy questioned him.

"You're a wizard Tom. And I've come to give you your invitation letter to Hogwarts." Dumbledore explained while he handed him his letter but Tom continued staring at him as if he suddenly had had six heads. "Don't you believe me?" he questioned him as Tom refused to take the letter and just simply glanced down at it. When he remained silent Dumbledore continued on. "You can make things happen can't you? You can do things that the other little boys can't." he said.

"I can make things move without touching them." Tom began. "I can do bad things that people are mean to me, I can make them hurt if I want." He told him.

"Hogwarts is a school of magic Tom, not blasphemy." Dumbledore told him with a shake of his head as a few moments of silence passed between them.

"I can talk to snakes too." Tom told him. "Is that bad?" he questioned when suddenly Harry, Ron, and Hermione pulled their heads out of the pensive as Harry was suddenly reminded of the serpent in the Garden of Eden once again and instantly realized that he wasn't the only one.

"That kid's the devil!" Ron exclaimed out of horror and disbelief. "Didn't Dumbledore know that he was basically the wizard version of Satan!?" he cried but before Snape could answer him suddenly Dumbledore appeared behind them.

"No. I didn't. If I had, I probably would have changed my actions on the spot. You see Mr. Weasley, I too am a very big believer in a higher power." He began.

"Really? I didn't know." Harry said.

"That's alright Harry. You see, we all get lost on the path of righteousness sometimes, and we forget about what is right and what we want to do with our lives. Your friend Ronald Weasley was very much correct, I believe that if the devil would have ever been a child he would have acted exactly like that. However, I was pretty sure that once he came to Hogwarts that I would have been able to change him.

That Hogwarts would ignore the temptation that he was constantly receiving. However I was wrong. Our powers are a gift, and none can ever fully match the one who gave His life so we could have ours. That's why if we take advantage of it and use it improperly, we'll end up paying for it in the end. At least that's the way I see it. But my point is, that even if you get lost along the way, somebody will always be standing there to turn on the light. Isn't that what I always say?" he questioned them as Harry silently nodded.

"Good, in that case I think that that will be enough for today. You three don't want to be late for your next class." He told them. Harry nodded before he turned to follow Ron and Hermione out of the room even though questions still lingered on his mind. How did Dumbledore know that he had been questioning his faith while he had been away? Why had he even been away in the first place? What exactly had been wrong with him? He looked as if he had been in perfect health.

Later on that afternoon at lunch, Ginny went to join their table and sat down next to Harry. "I can't take it anymore!" she exclaimed. "Ron! Do something about you're secret admirer, she's driving me insane!" she cried before turning to look over her shoulder while Harry, Ron, and Hermione followed her looking back at the table behind them. The same brown haired brown eyed girl was smiling and waving at them and blowing kisses over in Ron's direction before she went back to smiling and waving.

Harry laughed before they all turned to look back over at him. "Well Ron, it looks like Lavender Brown really has a thing for you." He told him but Ron just simply shook his head and rolled his eyes.

"When will she get it through her thick skull that I'm not interested in her!? I'm in love with Hermione!" he cried before realizing what he had just admitted to. Harry and Ginny dropped their jaws down wide open in shock, however nobody was more shocked than Hermione was. She just simply widened her eyes and stared at him. "Uh,.. I mean_" he began as Ginny grinned slyly and sucked in her cheeks.

"Uh oh, busted." She teased before turning to look over at her boyfriend. "Uh Harry? I need to use the girl's lavatory, do you want to walk me there?" she asked him as Harry nodded in agreement since he had to go to the bathroom too and he figured it would be better if he left his friends alone to discuss the status of their relationship.

"What did you just say?" Hermione asked as Ron took a deep breath and sighed heavily.

"I said I love you. There, you might as well know. I've liked you ever since I could remember and I started falling in love with you last year." He told her.

"Then why didn't you just tell me?" she asked him.

"Because I was afraid that you wouldn't feel the same way and I would make a total fool out of myself." He explained. "So have I?" he questioned her while starting to blush beet red. Hermione grinned at him and started to giggle.

"Oh Ronald,.." she began while breathing a deep and heavy sigh and shaking her head at the same time. "You can be really thick sometimes. Do you know that?" she asked him before she quickly pecked a kiss on his lips. They just simply turned towards each other and looked at each other for a few moments before they closed their eyes and continued to kiss each other with a look of great disappointment on Lavender's face.

Meanwhile as soon as Harry had finished using the toilet, he heard the sound of what appeared to be someone crying outside of his stall. He flushed the toilet and opened the door to see Malfoy standing in front of one of the sinks by one of the urinals sobbing down inside of it. Now Harry had seen everything. That's when he knew for certain that Ron was right. "You cursed Katie didn't you." He realized when suddenly he turned to look back at him and let out a rather horrified gasp.

"I know it was you Malfoy, admit it. You gave her the necklace." He said when suddenly Malfoy raised his wand and started casting nonverbal spells at Harry. Although Harry was much quicker than him and hid behind a wall while withdrawing his own wand and shouting out the first spell that had entered his mind. "Sectumsempra!" he exclaimed with a waving slicing motion of his wand while he directed it at Malfoy.

Harry had no idea where the idea had come to him from, or what its effect was going to be until he saw Malfoy collapse over onto the ground bleeding all over the place continuing to sob. Harry widened his eyes with horror. For he knew that if Malfoy had lost too much blood he would surely die, and he had never wanted that. He was just trying to defend himself. That's when suddenly out of nowhere his father entered the bathroom. Harry's worst fears had come true.

He was afraid that he was going to yell at him, punish him, and even threaten an eternal life of tournament. However his father just simply looked at him with a sad and somber expression look on his face before he bent down next to Malfoy's body. That's the last thing that Harry had seen. For it was at that moment that he had ran out of the bathroom and back down to the great hall.