Chapter 5
I'm gonna do the start of this chapter from Harry's and those in the great hall POV leading up to the point the last chapter ended on.(The screaming).
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Last Time-
"What is your position in the war? I doubt you are one that supports your father's beliefs" he asked.
"You are right my father's beliefs are not ones that I agree with. However neither is the light. I have no part in this war." she told him voice indifferent, revealing nothing on her feelings.
Dumbledore simply nodded "Seeing as most of my questions were answered as you informed Poppy of your story, how about we head to the Great Hall for breakfast?" he asked her cheerfully with that twinkle in his eyes.
"Sure!" she replied standing up and looking over to Severus who had finally awoken and was laughing. She walked up to him and pecked him on the lips before getting the kids who had not even noticed what was happening in the room as they talked among themselves.
As they approached the doors of the Great Hall they heard shouting and screams. As they opened the doors Dumbledore was absolutely shocked at what he saw.
Chapter 5
"lalalala" speech
'lalalala' thoughts
%lalalala% parseltongue
(Great Hall)
When Harry woke up everyone had already left for breakfast without waking or waiting for him, so he was in a pretty rubbish mood, and he had a feeling it wasn't going to get any better as the day went on.
He rushed out of the common room, through the portrait hole and down the steps as he ran to the Great Hall for breakfast.
When he arrived at the closed doors of the Great Hall, he stopped and took a deep breath as he prepared for the confrontation he knew was about to happen. Pushing open the door as quietly, he sneaked in without anyone noticing.
He looked at the Gryffindor table for Ron and Hermione who were both sitting next to each other and whispering to Dean and Seamus.
'Probably talking about me again' Harry thought as he sat down away from them and started eating some cereal. He was in the middle of eating when Ron, Ginny, and Hermione along with Dean and Seamus got up from where they were and came to sit by him. Dean sat on his right, Seamus on his left and Ron and Hermione across from him.
They just sat and watched him as he ignored them and continued to eat trying to pretend there was something interesting happening in the bowl of cereal. They sat there in silence for a while until the silence was broken by an impatient Ron.
"Are you friends Malfoy?" Ron asked glaring daggers at Harry.
"How do you know the greasy gits wife?" Dean asked at this everyone at the Gryffindor table was looking at Harry waiting for him to answer.
"Yeah!" several people from the Gryffindor table asked.
Harry didn't answer and instead just kept his head down trying to forget that they were there with their accusing stares and high expectations.
"Harry. We just want to know how you've met Professor Snape's wife that's all." Hermione said 'softly'.
When Harry looked up and just stared blankly up at them repeating that it was none of their business, they started to get frustrated and angry at him after a few minutes of them asking questions and Harry ignoring them and Harry knew it, so he wasn't exactly surprised when Ginny was the next person to try and convince him. However what was shocking was the way she reacted after not getting a reaction from Harry as she pushed out her chest and batting her eyelashes in way she must have thought was seductively. She had slapped him...Hard. Even the entire hall was now silent as they gaped at the fact that Ginny Weasley had just slapped Harry Potter, "The-Boy-Who-Lived", the "Chosen One".
Harry who was fighting with all the control he had to stop himself from hexing them, was watching them with a look that could only be irritation. He turned away from them and caught the eyes of an amused Draco, who was watching the interrogation with an amused twinkle in the silvery/grey eyes.
He rolled his eyes then glared at Draco. Hermione looked to see what, or better yet who, had distracted Harry from there questioning, she saw Malfoy and scowled at him before turning back to Harry.
"From the looks you and Malfoy are sharing I'm guessing there's more than what you're telling us Harry." Hermione said to him.
"I bet he's going dark seeing as he's friends with You-Know-Who's daughter." someone said.
"Are you cheating on me with her Harry? How could you?" Ginny asked as she started sobbing dramatically.
Harry rolled his eyes again and started to stand so he could leave, only to have Hermione step in front of him with a look that was eerily similar to Mrs Weasley's as she proceeded to yell at him, dropping the concerned friend act.
"HARRY JAMES POTTER YOU WILL TELL ME WHAT I WANT TO KNOW NOW!" she shouted "I THOUGHT WE WERE YOU FRIENDS AND INSTEAD YOU KEEP SECRETS FROM US AND TALK TO DEATH EATERS, I THOUGHT YOU TRUSTED US"
"SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP HERMIONE !" Harry shouted back at her as he got tired of their questions.
'Who the hell does she think she is? Where did she get off ordering me to tell her my business?' he thought as his anger grew and his magic started crackling in the air.
"HOW DARE YOU SHOUT AT HER HARRY SHE WAS ONLY TRYING TO HELP" Ginny shouted not seeming to notice the crackles of magic radiating off his skin as he loses his temper. "AND HOW DARE YOU CHEAT ON ME, WE WERE SUPPOSED TO GET MARRIED AND HAVE CHILDREN AND LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER" she continued shouting.
"You know what, Ginny, I am just sick of it! I am sick of having everyone tell me what I can and can't do! I AM SICK AND TIRED OF YOU GINNY, always hanging onto me all the time and telling everyone we're getting married! We will never ever get married okay! I'm gonna say this one last time I. DON'T. FANCY. YOU. so just leave me alone! All of you!" Harry said yelling at some parts.
By now, everyone had dropped their façade of not listening and watched in open curiosity, stunned. Harry heard some startled gasps at what he'd said, but he was too angry to care.
Ginny went to open her mouth again when Harry interrupted her.
"No! Don't talk to me! How dare you say that! How dare you! Why don't you all get the fact that it's my business through your thick heads." His voice had been hard and firm.
"But your friends with Malfoy!" someone shouted out.
"SO! Even if I was friends with Malfoy what's it to all of you?" he said looking around at all of them 'It's not like I tell them who they could be friends with' he thought.
"If all of you can't mind your own business then I'll make you regret ever meeting me." His tone of voice proved that he was deadly serious no doubt about it. Everyone who had an ounce of common sense knew not to test him, but of course no-one ever said Ron Weasley had any common sense now did they.
"...avoiding my question about Malfoy. " everyone heard Ron mutter through the silence of the room.
"Don't," he said shortly. "Just don't." His face had gone blank again.
The whole hall was silent, staring at him as the windows started to rattle faintly. Harry Potter was giving off his own unmistakable aura of power again, as magic continued to radiate off him in waves. Then without any warning, all the glass in the hall smashed as windows exploded sending shards of glass everywhere. There were shrieks as liquid and glass spilt everywhere,there were curses and screams of fright as everyone tried to get out of the path of the glass shards. There was the booming sound of thunder and the flash of lightning as the enchanted ceiling darkened and the sky changed from a sunny morning and instead became covered in dark clouds as it began to rain.
Harry looked at Ron with an expressionless face before raising his wand.
"Flipendo" he casted with a flick of his wand and Ron was knocked backwards.
"Levicorpus" he said as Dean is levitated in the air and hung upside down at this Harry laughed bitterly.
"Harry!" Ginny exclaimed.
"Harry, stop!" Hermione shrieked. "You're scaring me!" she told him as she took a step back.
%Shut Up!% Harry shouted not realising that he had spoken parseltongue until Ginny and Hermione paled and jumped away from him in fear.
While all this was happening the windows and glass would repair themselves then shatter again right after over and over again, glass continuously raining down on the panic students who were screaming and trying to protect themselves from the jagged shards of glass.
"You...you're evil!" Ginny shouted at Harry as she stared at Harry in horror "Just like You-Know-Who!".
A black mist appeared out of nowhere into the middle of the Great Hall. pulsating with darkness and death, radiating with a black aura that left everyone in the room feeling as cold and as though their souls were being drained as they stood and watched skeletal figures in black cloaks and staffs appear out of the dark mist guarded by groups of Inferi's. They looked around with empty eyes that were like bottomless pits that would suck you in the longer you looked into them. The skeletal creatures Bowed to Harry as they noticed him among the now quiet and disoriented children, who had stopped at the reapers appearance. Ignoring the still constant shatter of glass the reapers stood and spoke to Harry (a/n In English).
"Master. You have summoned us, what is your wish?" asked one of the reapers.
Whispers went around as everyone processed the fact that it had called Harry it's master. They all continued to stare in silence at Harry in awe and fear. The silence did not last long as it was broken by the screams of people as the Inferi's attacked them, clawing and biting.
%Harry%! someone called through the chaos and he turned towards the doors to see Athanasia, Snape, Dumbledore, Dominic and Calamity.
Dumbledore with a look of pure unhidden shock and horror on his face as he watched his students get attacked by the undead corpses of the Inferi's while Harry just stood there unharmed with a group of reapers bowed at his feet.
Dominic and Calamity faces hardened from their childlike expressions and instead took on the features of something indescribable. They walked into the Great Hall and into the chaos taking place and held out their hands which began to glow. Calamity whose hand were glowing a chartreuse green colour, began to chant softly in a voice that was both silvery and toneless. Her words travelled through the sounds of the entire Hall and Dumbledore could only stare at her wide-eyed as he notices that not only is he unable to understand what she's saying but also from the fact that a green shield had formed over the halls occupants shielding everyone away from the splinters of glass which were falling.
Dumbledore looked over at Dominic and at his hands that were emitting a rich palatinate blue glow as he also chanted and repaired all of the broken glass. Dumbledore could only watch in fascination as the windows and all the glass in the hall repaired itself for the last time.
Dumbledore just stared in astonishment and shock at what these two six year old's could do 'Remarkable. How do the have so much power, how can they...' he was pulled from his thoughts as he heard hissing coming from his left, so he looked over to see Athanasia and Harry conversing in Parseltongue. 'Of course they would all be powerful, Tom's blood runs through their veins after all. But its just extraordinary that they can harness it while so young.' Dumbledore thought as he watched Athanasia.
%Harry! are you insane?% Athanasia asked as she looked around %You can't just summon reapers whenever you like. They're supposed to be working in the underworld and collecting souls, by having the royal reapers in the world of the living you just stopped billions of people around the world from dying. It's like chaining down Thanatos. The balance of life and death is off and that's not a good thing. Plus they're guarded by Inferi's who love attacking the living, now you see that's why they only deal with collecting the souls of the dead.%
%It was an accident, but fine I'll send them back% Harry said turning away from her to send the reapers back to the underworld, only to be stopped.
%No. No-one can know about you, I'll send them back. Just be careful with your emotions next time% Athanasia said before stepping towards the reapers and Inferi's who all stopped and bowed to her.
"Lady Death is an honour to be in your presence." all the reapers said in unison.
"Yeah good to know, however you have to return to the underworld no time for chit chat" she said dismissively as her clothes changed and she was suddenly wearing a short black tube top, a black Ruched skirt with a side split, Black high heel pumps and a black hooded cloak, in her hand she carried a large scythe.
She pointed the scythe to the reapers and said "It's time you all went back."
"Ego reverti vos ad inferos" she recited. The scythe began to glow crimson before the black mist reappeared in the middle of the Great Hall. Once all the reapers and Inferi's were gone her scythe disappeared and her clothes returned to normal.
"Mother." a small toneless voice called and everyone were brought out of their pained daze as they turned to look at Dominic and Calamity who were still stopping the remainder of the glass to fall on the students "Can you help us please, I have yet to learn any vanishing charms and Calamity is occupied with holding the shield." Dominic said calmly and it's then that everyone noticed just what the two kids were doing and how they were doing it.
"Of course" Athanasia said simply before vanishing the remainder of the glass with a flick of the wrist.
"What was that magic you three used? Was it dark magic?" McGonagall asked.
"Shouldn't you be worrying about healing the injuries of your students Professor?" Athanasia replied coolly.
"I...of course" McGonagall stuttered before scrambling off to help Madam Pomfrey who had already started healing students.
"Why were the staff unable to intervene" Snape asked as he came to stand by Athanasia.
"Harry's magic is very powerful. So powerful he could immobilize the Gross motor skills of practically anyone or anything" she answered.
"Harry my dear boy, you did this?" Dumbledore asked in disbelief.
"Yes. Sorry Professor" Harry said smiling sheepishly at him.
"Oh" was all he said as he seemed to get lost in thought for a moment before snapping out of it. "Now Mrs. Snape I would like to know what that power the children used were and how you were able to dismiss those reapers. I'm positive I heard them address you as Lady Death." he asked out of both curiosity and fear.
"I can't explain about the children. Those are simply their powers, that's how they were born." she said "But I can tell you what I am that allowed me to dismiss the reapers and Inferi's"
Athanasia looked him straight in the eyes before replying coldly
"They did address me as Lady Death because that's just what I am. I am Death."
A/N- Ok there you have it an explanation for the screaming as best as I could. Updates will take a while but I will not give up when so many people are enjoying this so don't worry, Just forgive me for any late updates.
'Ego reverti vos ad inferos' should hopefully translate to 'I return you to the Underworld'. I used an online translator.