Chapter 8

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There once was a man from New York who dreamed he was being sued. He woke with a fright in the middle of the night to find that his dream had come true.

A/N: Thanks to all the readers who reviewed and did all the other things. I really appreciate it.

Here's Chapter 8 ENJOY!

Hermione ran into the Hospital wing full speed followed by Neville. "Harry!"

"Ms. Granger please be quiet." Hissed an irate Madam Pomfrey said.

"Where is he?" Hermione asked her.

"He is being questioned by the Auror's and they don't want anyone interrupting them so please stay quiet."

"When will they be done?"

The medi-witch sighed loudly. "I do not know Ms. Granger." Seeing Hermione's worried face she added in, "He fine I took very good care of him." It was over an hour before the Auror's were done.

They walked out of the hospital wing with Umbridge who was laughing like a maniac in handcuffs and a pissed off Fudge followed them shortly after. The two of them heard him mumble something about incompetent fools and deranged little boys.

Neville and Hermione rushed into the hospital wing and they saw Harry speaking with Dumbledore. They walked over and when Dumbledore saw them he smiled at them and then at Harry before turning and leaving.

Neville drew the curtains around the bed. "What did you do to Umbridge Harry?" Neville asked him.

"Well what happened was..." Before he could go any, further the doors of the Hospital wing burst open and everyone from the Weasley clan walked in followed lastly by Ron and surprisingly Luna.

"Harry dear are you alright!" Mrs. Weasley shouted from halfway across the room.

"I'm perfectly fine Mrs. Weasley. Madam Pomfrey fixed me right up." Harry told her.

"If I ever get my hands on that wretched woman she'll be sorry." Mrs. Weasley ranted. Harry smiled at her as she kept bad mouthing the minister and Umbridge. "So tell us Harry," Mr. Weasley said through his wife's ranting.

"What happened between you and Umbridge." Mrs. Weasley instantly became quiet and everyone leaned in to hear the story.

"I was serving detention with her when she started throwing spells at me. I dodged the first few but one connected and I fell. She then started shouting about me needing to die and cast the Cruciatus on me twice. I managed to stun her and then I blacked out." Mrs. Weasley was sobbing and she grabbed Harry and gave him a bone-crushing hug.

Ron and Luna were watching from a distance. Ron had a look of hate and disgust on his face while Luna was looking dreamily at the ceiling. The group with the exception of Ron and Luna spoke of many things and soon it was time for them to leave.

Luna came over and looked at Harry. "I'm sorry for not bringing you a get well present but I need someone's help to pick the flowers." She said looking at Neville.

Said person was not paying attention, so Harry decided to step in. "Of course Neville would like to help you pick me some flowers. Isn't that right Neville?" Harry asked him.

"Yeah sure why not." Neville replied and Luna smiled brightly before grabbing his hand and pulling him away. After they left Hermione sat down on the edge of Harry's bed.

"Did she really cast the Cruciatus on you Harry?"

"Of course not Hermione. I had Dobby stun her and while he trashed her office I made a fake memory and implanted it in her mind." Hermione stared at him before slapping him.

"Ow that hurts Hermione." Harry said rubbing the sore spot. Hermione sighed and placed her hand over his.

"Don't make me worry like that again." She told him. He nodded and she leaned in and kissed him. For several seconds they stayed like this and then they broke apart. She rested her head against his. "I love you Harry."

"I love you too Hermione." As his words tumbled past his lips, they heard a small gasp and their heads snapped to were the sound was coming from, and they caught a glimpse of long red hair.

"Harry?" Hermione asked uncertainly.

"Don't worry about it we'll deal with that problem together." They spent another few minutes alone before Neville and Luna came back. She gave Harry a bunch of singing tulips and then left with Neville in tow. Madam Pomfrey kicked Hermione out an hour later telling her that Harry needed his rest. She nodded and kissed him good night before leaving.

Ginny Weasley had finally gotten free of her family and was now making her way back to the hospital wing. She had wanted to spend some alone time with Harry but couldn't because everyone was crowding him. So she decided to wait until everyone left before going back to talk to him.

Ever since she had heard of the legend of the-boy-who-lived she fell in love. When she first met him and saw exactly how he was, modes, selfless and generous she was positive that he was the one for her, and then when he saved her in the chamber, she vowed to her self that they would be together no matter what.

And as she made her way to the hospital wing she steeled her resolve of telling him how she felt about him.

She opened the door quietly so to not alert anyone of her presence. She was halfway in when she heard the voices of Hermione and Harry talking. She stopped as she spotted them sitting together, Hermione's head resting against Harry's.

Then she heard something that broke her heart into little bite size pieces. Hermione told Harry she loved him. What she heard next crushed those bite size pieces of her broken heart even more. He said it back to her without hesitation and fear. She let out a small gasp of hurt and turned around to leave.

The tears came and she could not hold them back so she let them fall. She was thankful that it was late so no one saw her like this. As she neared the Gryffindor common room she crashed into something hard. Looking up she saw it was Ron and moved past him but he grabbed her arm and spun her around. "What happened Ginny?" She shook she head.

"Who hurt you tell me." He demanded. She shook her head again and this time tried to pull away but Ron's grip was tight. "We're not moving from here until you tell me what happened!" He said to her.

She started crying even louder and this made what she said to Ron even harder to hear. "I saw Harry and Hermione in the hospital wing together." She paused and took a deep breath. "And she told him that she loved him." Ron's grip slackened.

"What did he say to her." Ron asked after a minute of silence.

"He told her he loved her." Ginny said to her brother. They were both quiet for quite a ling time and then Ron just turned around and left. Now alone Ginny went into the girls dorm and threw her self onto her bed and started crying once again.

The next morning Harry asked Madam Pomfrey if he was allowed to leave. She examined him once more and then proclaimed him healthy so he made his way down to breakfast. When he entered the Great Hall all the talking immediately died down and everyone began staring at him.

Harry spotter Neville and sat down next to him. As he did the talking started again. "What was that all about Neville?" Neville just handed him the Daily Prophet.

Ministry official Dolores Jane Umbridge gets sent to Azkaban!

By Rita Skeeter

Yesterday the Ministry appointed Defense against the Dark Arts teacher Dolores Umbridge was arrested for use of the Dark Arts on a student. And the student was none other than the-boy-who-lived other wise known as Harry Potter. The Dark spell that Umbridge used against the minor was the Unforgivable curse known as the Cruciatus curse. This curse causes the victim unimaginable pain and can also cause a person to fall into insanity if kept under it too long. Harry Potter said to the Aurors that he was put under the curse twice and managed to escape by stunning her. So far, nothing serious has happened to Mr. Potter and he has only suffered minor injuries which were healed with the help of Madam Pomfrey the medi-witch of Hogwarts and I am glad, however, this reporter is wondering what kind of people the Minister is hiring to train your children.

(more on Dolores Umbridge page 2)

(more on the unforgivables page 3)

Then Harry saw another headline directly under the first which read:

Voldemort really is back!

By Art Kahn

Yesterday pending the arrest of Dolores Umbridge the Auror's met with Harry Potter to discuss what happened the night before. And as he showed them the memory he also showed them a memory of his fourth year when he was put into the Triwizard tournament. Aurors said he showed them a memory of him fighting a man in a grave yard during the last task and then another memory were he confirmed who the people were to his classmates even giving a magical oath that proved the memories were true. So what does this mean? Well I'll tell you what it means. It means that You-no-who is back and alive and Harry Potter and Dumbledore were telling the truth all along.

When I asked the minister what he had to say to this, he simply said that he would schedule a meeting with the wizarding community to discuss the problems of Voldemort. Let us all hope that he is not back and alive.

(more on Voldemort page 5)

Harry looked up from the paper smiling and saw that everyone was once again staring at him. Hermione chose that moment to enter and sat down next to Harry and she read the paper. When she was done, she threw her hands around his neck and pulled him into a kiss that got the attention of everyone in the Great Hall and that included Draco Malfoy, and Ginny and Ron Weasley.

Later that night the three of them met in the Room of Requirement and Harry told them exactly what happened in Umbridges office and they made plans to get a new Defense teacher by the time the next week had started.

The next day Harry received a letter that stated the Goblins had found the Goblet that resided in Bellatrix's vault and was in the process of obtaining the rest.

Saturday approached and Harry woke up bright and early. He got dressed and placed a silencing charm on his bed before calling out to Dobby, who appeared in the blink of an eye. "You know what to do Dobby." Harry told the elf and he threw his invisibility cloak over him self and left his dorm. He saw Hermione and Neville waiting for him, he threw the cloak over the three of them, and they made their way to the one eyed witch. They then apparated to 12 Grimmauld place.

Harry stepped out from under the cloak and walked in carefully and he heard Sirius talking in the kitchen. He saw his godfather drinking some tea so Harry strolled in casually grabbed a cup and poured one for him self and sat across from Sirius.

Said person was mind boggled. He wasn't sure if Harry was really in front of him drinking tea so he closed his eyes and when he opened them again Harry was still there. "I'm going to assume that you are the real Harry." Sirius said.

The two of them stared at each other before they started laughing. "How did you get here?" Sirius said through his laughter.

"That is a very long story and I don't have much time so Sirius lets get down to business. He nodded and Harry motioned for the other two to show them selves.

"Hermione? Neville?" Sirius asked. They nodded and sat besides Harry. "What are the three of you doing here?"

The three friends nodded to each other and began their tale of trying to help find a competent DADA teacher. "So let me get this straight you want me to suggest to Dumbledore at the next Order meeting to make her the new DADA teacher." They nodded. "Why?"

"She works at the ministry so Fudge would have no problem sending her and she knows a lot about the Dark Arts, which is something we are going to need in order to train.

Sirius nodded and got up off his chair. "Harry what you did was very dangerous and I want you to promise that you will never do that again. Messing with someone's memories is illegal and if you get caught they will send you to Azkaban. If you don't agree then I won't help."

Harry promised Sirius and the three of them returned to school another part of their plan already in effect.

Ron was walking down the corridors of Hogwarts thinking about what his sister had told him a few days ago. The thought that Harry had kissed Hermione was revolting to him and it made him want to kill Harry and Hermione.

He had been thinking of ways to get them to break up but all his ideas were too far fetched to work so he settled on one he knew he could do and now all he needed to do was convince Ginny to help him.

Voldemorts Lair.

Lord Voldemort screamed in rage, threw the newspaper to the ground, pulled out his wand, and started to curse any Death Eater in sight. "Bring me Lucius!" He roared. Moments later the man stumbled into the room. "What is the meaning of this?" He spat. "Fudge wasn't supposed to know that I was back. What happened?" Voldemort screamed.

"It was Potters fault my lord he showed the aurors the memory of your resurrection and they believed him there was nothing that I could do." Malfoy fell to the floor screaming and twitching as he was hit with the Cruciatus.

"When is Fudge staging the meeting?" He asked Lucius.

"The 31 of October, my lord."

"Good now get out of my sight." Voldemort snarled. Malfoy ran from the room leaving Voldemort with his thoughts. "It's time to put fear in the heart of the citizens of the magical community once again Voldemort said out loud.

A/N: Well I wrote this chapter very early in the morning so I didn't get any sleep. I will probably update again on Saturday so look out for chapter nine.

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