My stomach was in knots as Snape, Reia and I approached Hogwarts. As expected, Umbridge was waiting for me at the entrance into the castle.
"Follow me Ms. Black." She smirked.
Snape moved with me.
"Just Ms. Black, Severus." Umbridge corrected.
"That's not going to…" Snape started to say.
"I said just Ms. Black." Umbridge repeated.
I glanced back at Snape and smirked.
"I'll meet up with you later." I said.
I started walking with Umbridge. I couldn't look back at Snape. His face broke my heart. Like I was walking to my doom or something. Well, I guess I could be.
I followed her to her classroom.
"We'll be doing this in my office." Umbridge informed me.
I walked up the stairs with her. She opened her door, but stopped in the door way.
"Albus, what are you doing here?" Umbridge asked.
"You didn't think I was going to allow you too do this test on one of my staff members without me supervising?" Dumbledore said politely.
"There is no need for you too be here Dumbledore." Umbridge replied.
"Of course there is Dolores." Dumbledore said.
Umbridge finally stepped into her office, allowing me to enter as well. I was thankful for Dumbledore being there.
"Fine then. Let's get this going." Umbridge said flustered as she pulled out a tiny vile of Veritaserum.
She forcefully pushed on my shoulder, getting me to sit down in the chair across from her desk.
"Stick out your tongue." Umbridge ordered.
I looked at Dumbledore. He sat there smiling at me with a twinkle in his eyes. Does is honestly have that much confidence in me too pass this?
I slowly opened my mouth and stuck out my tongue. I closed my eyes and felt three cool drops of liquid hit my tongue.
"Now, tell me… Where is Sirius Black?"
#5 Grimmauld place…
Don't tell her. Fight it.
You know where he is, just tell her.
Sirius…
"I don't know." I mumbled.
"What was that" Umbridge snapped.
"I don't know where he is." I repeated a bit louder.
"Well then Dolores, it looks like you have your answer." Dumbledore said cheerfully as he stood up.
Umbridge slammed her hand on her desk.
"Tell me where he is!" Umbridge screeched at me.
I stood up and followed Dumbledore.
"Dolores enough. She doesn't know where he is. Now if I hear that you're still harassing Ms. Black, I will have to step in." Dumbledore said as he pushed me out the door.
"This is impossible!" Umbridge hollered at us as we walked down the stairs.
Dumbledore and I ignored her as we walked out of her classroom.
"Nice work Ms. Black. Looks like Severus' lessons were successful." Dumbledore said to me when we were well out of earshot of Umbridge's office.
"I almost blurted it out." I admitted.
"Yes, well it will take more training to get it perfect." Dumbledore replied.
"Professor, do you think she will actually leave me alone now?" I asked him as we stopped in front of the gargoyle guarding his office.
"No, but I think it will become less frequent. Never let your guard down Kate." Dumbledore replied.
I nodded
"Well then, you must still have to un-pack and get settled. If you have any more problems with Professor Umbridge, come see me." Dumbledore said as he looked at me with his twinkling eyes.
"Yes Professor." I replied.
I swear I saw a little bit of pity in his eyes before he turned away and walked up the spiral stairs to his office.
Umbridge didn't dare bothering me about Sirius afterwards. It's been weeks since she's even spoken too me. Life was finally looking up, and then this happened.
I was working the night shift patrolling the hallways. I shuffled my feet lazily down the empty corridor and yawned. I hated being on hallway duties. I suddenly felt the corridor shake. I grabbed onto the wall to steady myself.
"What the hell, an earthquake?" I asked myself.
Again, the corridor shook.
"Is someone trying to bring down the castle?" I said as I stumbled down the corridor towards the source of the vibration.
I saw a crowd facing an empty wall.
"Stupid kids what are you doing?" I yelled down the hallway.
Professor Umbridge stepped in front of the crowd and pointed her wand at the wall.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
She didn't even acknowledge that I said anything. She muttered a spell and suddenly the wall exploded open.
I ducked my head as rubble fell around me.
"Are you insane!" I hollered at Umbridge.
Umbridge again ignored me and stepped threw the hole in the wall. I followed her and saw a crowd of kids standing in this room. In front of the crowd was Harry.
"Bring them all in for questioning. Except Harry." Umbridge smirked.
"What's going on?" I asked.
Umbridge finally noticed my presence.
"This was happening on your watch Ms. Black. And look here…" She said as she grabbed a piece of paper from one of the mirrors in the room. "Dumbledore's Army. Get Cornelius here at once Mr. Filch."
Filch nodded and left the room.
"Harry, what's going on?" I asked him.
Umbridge cut in before Harry had a chance to explain.
"I'm taking him to the headmaster at once." Umbridge said as she grabbed his shirt around the scruff of his neck and started pushing him out of the hole in the wall.
"Just a minute, I think I should be the one who takes him, I am after all the staff member on hallway duty." I said as I chased after them.
"Come if you wish, but I am not letting you escort him yourself." Umbridge said as we headed towards Dumbledore's office.
The Minister of Magic, Kingsley and another man met us in the hallway in front of the gargoyle in front of Dumbledore's office.
"Jelly beans" Umbridge said in almost a shouting voice.
I followed Umbridge up too Dumbledore's office. He was standing there waiting for us.
"I caught them in a hidden room and found this!" Umbridge said as she handed the Minster of magic the piece of paper.
"Dumbledore's Army?" The Minster of magic said.
"Yes, I asked Harry to start this group." Dumbledore admitted.
"No, he had nothing too do with it." Harry argued.
"Impossible, it says Dumbledore's army on there, not Potter's" Dumbledore defending.
"Albus Dumbledore, you are here by sentenced to Azkaban for conspiracy against the ministry." Fudge said.
"No." I gasped.
"Arrest him" Fudge ordered.
"Not so fast Minister, you think I'm going to… what's the word… come quietly?" Dumbledore replied.
Dumbledore stepped back and this phoenix swooped down and in a big blazing ball of fire. Dumbledore was gone.
I was assigned to walk Harry back to his dorms after he was questioned many times about where Dumbledore might have gone and what he was doing in the room of requirement.
"So what were you doing in the room Harry?" I asked once we were well out of earshot from Umbridge and the Minister.
"I was teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts. Umbridge's class is a joke. How are we supposed to learn how to protect ourselves from Voldemort?" Harry replied
I shuddered at the name.
"So what does Dumbledore have to do with it?" I asked.
"Nothing." Harry replied
We walked in silence until we reached the entrance to the Gryffindor common room
"Things are going to get a lot worse now with Dumbledore gone." I commented.
"Yeah." Harry replied.
"Just don't let Umbridge win okay Harry?" I said as I glanced over at him.
Harry nodded.
"I won't" he replied.
Umbridge was elected the new headmaster of Hogwarts. Rules were made every couple of hours and strictly enforced. One of the first things she did was pull me out of Snape's class and put me with her. She explained that now she was headmistress she needed some extra help with her class.
"Ms. Black, there is a detention for the students who were using the room of requirement. I need you too sit in on that detention with me." Umbridge smirked.
"Yes Professor." I mumbled.
She could fire me at anytime. I decided to do what I was asked so I could at least be near Snape and Reia.
"Good, be there right after classes." Umbridge chuckled lightly.
I hate you…
I was at the detention as told. Rows of students looked up from there parchment paper, rubbing the backs of their hands.
"Problem?" Umbridge asked one of the students looking up at her.
The student said nothing, just looks back down at his hand and then his parchment paper. I yawned and felt drowsy. I could fall asleep in my chair right now if I could.
Just then Snape burst threw the great hall's doors walking at a fast pace. He approached Umbridge without even glancing over at me.
"I need to have a quick word with Ms. Black." Snape informed Umbridge.
"I'm sure it can wait until after this detention is over." Umbridge smirked.
"It cannot wait; I need to speak with her now. It will only take a couple of minutes." Snape argued.
"And I told you, it can wait until after this detention is done." Umbridge said as she stood up.
Snape grabbed my hand and pulled me up from my chair.
"Severus, I said…" Umbridge started to say.
"Listen, you maybe the "headmistress", but I am one of the professors here and when I say I need to speak with one of the other professors, I will do it." Snape snapped.
Umbridge didn't say anything as Snape dragged me out of the great hall.
"What's going on?" I asked concerned.
Snape pulled on the chain around his neck to reveal the green glow of my dream. I grabbed my chain and pulled it out from my robes, it was a matching green glow.
"How didn't you notice?" Snape asked as we snuck into a broom closet.
"I've just been so tired lately, that it must have been hard to tell the difference." I yawned as I sat on an over-turned mop bucket.
I leaned my head against the wall. Snape lightly touched my cheek as I fell into a deep sleep.
I felt intense heat wash over my face as I opened my eyes into my dream. Lakes of fire and lava surrounded a tiny rock I was placed on in the middle.
Still beats being with Professor Umbridge…
I smirked to myself. I wiped my brow with my sleeve. It was extremely hot in here. I caught a glimpse of something red that darted in the corner of my eye. I looked around, but saw nothing.
I fanned myself with my hand as I looked around suspiciously.
Oh my god it's freaking hot in here.
Again, I caught something red from the corner of my eye. Something was here with me. I stood up and raised my wand. I kept looking around; trying to see what was here with me. I felt something hot on the back of my neck. I slapped the back of my neck and quickly turned around. Nothing.
My palms were beginning to sweat from the heat. I smelt… something burning. I looked down at my cloak and saw that it was on fire.
"What the hell!" I exclaimed as I stomped on it too put it out.
It didn't take much to extinguish the fire. I looked up from my now smoking cloak and a big tall fire monster stood in front of me, completely engulfed in flames.
"What in the world!" I said,
It let out a whiny cry and it grabbed my wrist. I cried out in pain as its fiery hand burned my flesh. I pointed my wand at him.
"Stupefy!" I yelled.
It let go of my wrist and quickly vanished. I held my wrist with my other hand as it still smouldered and blistered. I was suddenly thrown to the ground as the flaming monster tackled me. I struggled under the monster as his fiery body engulfed me with flames. I suddenly felt a cool, wet splash of cold water cover my whole body. The fiery monster cried out as it leapt off of me. It fell too it's knees and as his body slowly started to diminish. I slowly sat up as it died in front of me. His body fiery body extinguished.
"Thank you." I smirked; know Snape yet again saved my life.
My smirked faded quickly as I noticed more red fiery monsters immerging from the fiery lake.
"There's more…" I said.
There eyes looked upon there fellow creature. Hateful red eyes glared at me. One jumped at me.
"Aguamenti!" I hollered as a jet of water erupted from my wand.
The creature fell in front of me, crying out in pain as it crumpled up into a ball to die. More came at me. One jumped on my back. I grabbed it and threw it over my head as it landed on its back on top of the one I just killed.
"Aguamenti!" I cried out again as I pointed my wand at it.
I felt my hands burn from touching the creature. I felt another dump of cold water splash over me. I felt weak. Tired. My dream was finally ending.
Flashes of red came flying at me as my vision blurred.
I felt another splash of water as I opened my eyes and I was back in the broom closet with Snape.
"Kate, are you alright?" Snape asked.
I saw steam come off of my entire body. I felt like my whole body was smoldering and buring. I held out my burnt hands to showed Snape my injuries. Instantly Snape lifted me up and kicked the broom closet door open. I felt different areas of my body in pain where the creatures burnt me. He held me in his arms as we walked down the hallway.
"Professor Snape, what on earth do you think…. What happened to Ms. Black?" She asked.
Snape ignored her and kept walking.
"Severus!" Umbridge yelled.
He kept walking, picking up his pace as we headed into the dungeons. I tried hard not to cry out in pain, I didn't want him to worry more than he already was. His door opened without him even touching it and closed behind us as we walking to his empty classroom. He waved his hand and the contents on his desk flew off onto the floor. He gently placed me down on top of his desk. The cool polished wood felt good against my burning skin.
"I'll be right back." Snape informed me.
I slowly nodded my head. He left my side to gather stuff from his potions cabinet. I held back my tears and fidgeted on the desk. It felt like I had a couple of layers of skin ripped off of me. Snape quickly returned back to me. He carefully lifted a portion of my robes and started cutting them off of me. I was almost completely naked as Snape took off my robes. He mixed two bottles of potions together and shook the bottle. He slowly dripped some into his hands.
"This is going to cool your burns." Snape informed me.
He gently rubbed the potion onto my left hand. It instantly felt cool and refreshing. He poured more of the potion onto his hand and gently rubbed my other hand with it.
He used the whole potion on me. My body felt cold and numb. Snape opened up a small container.
"Now, this is going to hurt, but it will prevent scars." Snape said.
I slowly nodded.
He ran his finger threw the container and a small amount of gel was on his finger. He gently dabbed my wrist with the gel.
It felt like he poured salt into my wound. I cried out in pain as my skin absorbed the gel.
"I'm sorry, I know it hurts…" Snape whispered as he ran his finger threw the gel again.
He applied some to my hand. I shut my eyes tightly and suppressed the pain. He did my other hand next. I couldn't withhold my scream this time. I pounded my feet on the desk as I hollered in pain.
"Kate, I'm sorry…" Snape apologized. It sounded like he was holding back his tears.
He applied the gel onto different parts of my body. I grasped the edges of the desk and bit down hard on my bottom lip to stop myself from screaming in pain.
"I'm almost done, please just hang on." Snape said as he gently dabbed a place on my stomach.
I threw my head back and slammed my fists against the desk.
"Please… stop…" I managed to whisper.
"Kate, just a few more spots." Snape pleaded with me.
He applied some to my thigh. I felt warm tears fall from my eyes. I sobbed and cried out in pain as he applied some to my other thigh.
"Just one more." Snape promised as he tired hard to suppress his own tears.
I screamed loudly as he applied the last one to the back of my leg where my cloak that was on fire touched my skin. As soon as he applied it, he picked me up in his arms and held me tightly. I wrapped my fingers into his hair on the back of his head as I buried my head into his shoulder.
"It's done now." Snape said.
I felt his grip tighten around me as my tears hit his shoulder.
Authors Note: YAY! Just watched the last part to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2, Got some great ideas coming up ;) I hope you all are enjoying the story just as much as I am :D