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THE BOY WITH THE PIERCING BLUE EYES

Chapter 27 – New Power (part 2)

"That was a great match yesterday!"

"Ron, you play like a Weasley should at last!" George said.

"What do you think about tea in my room this afternoon?" Rowena offered.

Severus and his son nodded, Lamerin a bit too eagerly. Remus and the two prefects didn't object either. Ginny, considering herself invited also joined them. Only Harry didn't say anything.

"Harry, you're coming too, right?" Hermione asked.

"I… don't think so." The boy murmured.

"Don't do this!" Fred said. "We are going back tomorrow. This is like a small goodbye-party."

"Of course there will be one in the common room too…" George winked. When his brother elbowed him, he stopped.

Harry however just stood there and watched the woman with strict eyes. She was looking at him too.

"Harry… is there something wrong?" She asked.

"I'm just… sick and don't want anyone to catch it from me." He pointed at his throat.

"Oh, that's not a problem. I have a very delicious herb tea and…"

"No thank you." Harry hissed. He couldn't help disliking the woman since the symbols appeared on the lake.

He must have been very rude, because Remus looked at him questioningly.

"Is everything alright?" He asked.

"Yes." Harry said quietly.

"Are you not feeling well?" Rowena stepped closer. "Let me feel your forehead!" She reached out.

However, Harry took a step back. The woman stopped and looked at him surprised, but tried touching him again. That's when Harry brushed off her hand.

"Don't!"

Silence fell on the group. Severus looked at the boy, knowing there was something wrong. Rowena paled.

"Don't… touch my scar." Harry said quietly just to get out of this awkward situation.

"Does it hurt again?" Ron asked

"N-no just… since summer it's been… sensitive… I don't like it being touched…"

"Oh…" Rowena, still pale as a sheet, nodded. "I didn't know that. I'm sorry…"

Harry stepped aside.

"Have fun." He said then turned around and began walking towards the common room.

Remus was about to say something to make Harry stay, but when he saw his three ghost friends looking at Rowena with disgust he stopped and looked at them questioningly. Sirius didn't say a word just went after Harry.

After reaching his room, Harry slammed the door shut and kicked the leg of his bed.

"I'm not using that charm to let you go into the lion's cave for tea." He whispered angrily.

He lay down on his bed and pulled out the books from the library.

"I must have missed something. Didn't look at the drawings properly."

He picked up the first book he found and looked at the drawings in it, comparing them with the sketch he made. He wanted to find it in the book of protective charms, he really wanted to. So he could forget this bad feeling he had and stop accusing the woman. But he found nothing in the books he read before falling asleep…

He saw white, blurry things and felt like floating. A pleasant feeling at his groin, filling him with warmth. His limbs trembled and he smiled.

"Marie…" He whispered, inviting the girl.

The feeling in his lower abdomen stopped and a chuckle could be heard from the distance. A girl's laughing from far away. It became clearer and clearer until he could recognize his beloved's voice.

"Marie." Harry opened his eyes.

But no matter how hard he tried he couldn't see anything but the clouds. Under the clouds he could see a green field from time to time. Harry looked around the seemingly uninhabited place. He'd never experienced something like this. Silence and peace. Almost too good. Something was not right about him either. He looked at himself and found white, feather light clothes on him, probably made of the clouds. He felt bigger and older and a lot taller. His feet were so far away…

When looking back at the field again he felt a yank. He was falling very fast. He thought about dying and dirtying the beautiful scenery with his blood and intestines. But the falling stopped before he could reach the ground. His heart was beating fast.

"Where… am I?"

But before he could say anything else, he felt wind again. Now he was floating again so fast that everything became a blur.

"Stop!" He shouted.

It sounded like a command and the floating slowed down. He saw a field and white buildings.

"Where am I?" He asked again.

The place felt familiar, the buildings too. But still, everything was so unfamiliar: the plants and the grass so green, the trees all the same, the leaves all very healthy. Nothing stood out. Everything was too perfect. No dead trees or plants… The unnatural perfection made him shiver. Sounds could be heard: girls playing, laughing happily.

Dozens of girls were playing on the lawn, some young, some a little older than him. All of them wore black and white uniforms like the ones young nuns wear. The teachers, all nuns, were walking among them. Some of the girls were having fun by the swings, while others were playing tag. Their movement, no matter how real it seemed, looked like slow motion. Harry started to feel uncomfortable.

"Marie?" He whispered and looked around.

It made him uneasy that his own moves were in slow motion too. It only happened in his worst nightmares. He hated those dreams. They made him feel useless and vulnerable. He always lost something because he couldn't make it there in time, or someone died because he couldn't protect himself…

"Marie!" He shouted, seeing the girl walking near the pillars.

The girl looked more feminine and older than he remembered. She was taller, her legs were longer, and the girly charm disappeared from her face, making her more sensual looking. However, her lips were still the same red, her eyes still shined. The wind billowed her beautiful long hair.

Harry felt happiness flow through his vein and ran to the girl with his arms held out. Then one of the nuns appeared and said something to her, though Harry couldn't hear what they were talking about. The woman pointed at her hair and Marie pulled out a white ribbon from her pocket. She put it in her mouth while trying to gather her hair to tie it back. The teacher chuckled and stepped behind her to help. However, she looked over her shoulder and into Harry's eyes with an intense gaze. An alarmingly evil grin appeared on her face and Harry could feel that something was wrong.

"Marie!" He shouted and tried to hurry and reach the girl. The distance however didn't decrease any faster.

The teacher helped tying her hair. The girl thanked her with a nod but froze when the woman's fingers brushed her neck a few times.

"No!" Harry shouted.

The woman enjoyed Harry's inability to do anything and acted at the last moment. When Harry was really close to them, she took of her hood, grabbed the girl's head and with a swift movement broke her neck.

"No!" Harry shouted while Marry fell to the ground. She was dead.

He kneeled down next to her and held the girl close to him. He tried calling and lightly shaking her, resulting in her head wobbling back and forth. He started crying when he met the gaze of the girl's empty eyes.

He hated being close to the corpse, but couldn't let go of her. He looked up at the killer with begging eyes and saw the woman looking at the cut on her hand. He became paler than a ghost when he saw that it was Rowena…

"No!" He shouted and felt hands holding him down. "No!"

He cried and tried to get out of the hands pushing him back.

"Harry, calm down!" Ron's scared voice could be heard.

He pushed everyone away and finally opened his eyes. All he could see were black figures. Harry backed away from them as far as he could. He shivered when the cold railing of the hospital wing's bed touched his back. Hugging his legs he looked at the others like a mad man.

"Harry, it's okay, no one's going to hurt you!" Remus reached toward him but the boy swatted his hand away, like it was burning him. Ginny, Hermione and Madame Pomfrey were frozen at the foot of the bed, and Rowena looked pale too. Professor McGonagall was looking at him trying to catch her breath.

"Potter… for Merlin's sake…" She whispered.

Dumbledore was standing next to her with Snape and Lamerin.

"Harry, please calm down, you're in the Hospital Wing. No matter what dangers you were facing, you're safe now."

The boy didn't say anything just watched Professor Dareling.

"Harry… when we left the tea party and wanted to give you some cookie…" Ron started quietly. "When we reached the room you were running around in the room…"

"You ran into the wall and… probably hit your head, because you lost consciousness… And we went to call the teachers…" Hermione finished.

Harry's eyes started to shine angrily, and with the tears in them he looked quite terrifying.

"No…" He whispered, hiding his face with an arm. "No…"

"What happened, Harry?" Remus asked. He swallowed hard and looked at Snape, trying to figure out if it was an attack from Voldemort or not. Severus shook his head but couldn't help feeling uneasy.

"No… no…" Harry repeated over and over again while crying.

"What happened?" Rowena asked.

Her voice triggered an unexpected reaction. The boy looked up and started shouting.

"She killed her!" He looked at the woman's right palm, and when he saw the bandages there, he shouted even louder. "She killed her!"

"What…?" Everyone was puzzled.

"She killed Marie! I saw it! She killed Marie! I was there! I saw her breaking her neck! She killed her! She broke her neck!"

"Harry, for Merlin's sake, what are you talking about?" Snape said.

"She's a damned traitor!" Harry shouted at them.

The mediwitch stepped back and looked around to see if there was anyone in the Hospital Wing beside them and closed the doors.

"Every morning she places a curse on the school to weaken Hogwarts' defense! She goes to the lake every morning! She dances on the water to curse everyone! The only thing that stopped her was the lake freezing over, because she didn't know how to ice-skate. That's why it was so important to learn it! So she can curse the school over and over again. I saw the sign!" She pointed at the woman. Everyone looked at her, who paled and started to say something, but Harry didn't let her. "Every morning the pink eye appears! Everything happened because of that! Ginny getting beaten! My accident at fencing! The attack of the Dementors! Voldemort's whore! And now… she killed… killed Marie too! I saw it!"

There was silence after that and they all looked at the beautiful woman with terrified eyes.

"She broke her neck…" Harry repeated, pulling at his hair like a mad man.

"I didn't… I could never… Headmaster, you know it's not true! I would never…!"

Dumbledore raised his hand to stop her.

"She broke her neck… she's dead…"

"Harry…"

"She's dead… she's no more… broke her neck…"

"Harry, you should know that I trust Professor Dareling, just like Severus and Hagrid…"

"Then now you're mistaken! This woman is a liar and a killer!" Harry stood up on the bed.

"Potter, calm down!"

"And now she'll die!" The boy shouted and picked up Remus' wand from the nightstand.

"Harry!" They shouted, trying to stop him.

They boy's eyes glowed and the green light reached the scar on his forehead. The air vibrated around him as the foreign curse left his mouth.

"Dilapido Confectum!"

From his wand first came a wild wind then a red light.

"Protego!" Rowena shouted, but the shield was broken by the fire hurricane. "Protego!"

"Protego!" More and more people used the charm to stop the curse.

It was all in vain. Fawkes arrived at the scene to help. In a moment the bird burst into flames and disappeared as the curse hit it.

Rowena survived thanks to Severus, who grabbed her waist and pulled her out of the way.

The charm hit the wall, knocking it down and everything that got in its way. The beds were scattered all around the room, while smoke and burnt smell filled the air.

Harry dropped his wand and fell back on the bed crying. His friends and teachers just stood there, watching him.

"I killed the phoenix…" He whispered. "I killed the phoenix…"

"…he will have power the Dark Lord knows not…" Dumbledore said, watching Harry. "A power that…"

"Oh, Harry!" Hermione said quietly.

"I killed the phoenix…"

Severus helped Rowena up then looked at his son to see if he was alright. The woman, not caring about the state her clothes were in, made her way toward Harry. She sat down shaking and stroked Harry's hair.

"No…no…" He whined.

But Rowena didn't let go. She hugged the boy, who hid his face in her chest. The woman kept her arms around the shaken boy.

"Cry as much as you need." She said. Her voice was tired but there was no trace of anger in it.

She looked up at the others with teary eyes.

"Harry was almost right." She started. "I went out… every morning to the lake, to put a spell on the school… Although it was not a harmful curse but a protective charm. I've learnt the Aegidis charm back in Durmstang…. it requires quite a big amount of power, but the effect is very good: it protects everyone it casted on. It's okay, it's okay." She turned back to Harry.

"Her neck was broken…"

"Shhh… It'll be alright… Unfortunately I can't ice-skate so I couldn't strengthen the spell after Severus froze the lake… If you can remember that was when the incidents happened… And I don't think I could have done anything against the dementors…" She smiled bitterly.

"Her hand was cut… I saw it…" Harry whispered, trying to grasp anything that could make the vision real.

"That…" Ginny started. "…happened when we were washing up… One of the cups fell… It cut the professor's hand…"

"Oh my God!" Harry cried.

Rowena closed her eyes and sighed, looking at the boy lovingly.

"You're a very exceptional student… better and more talented than everyone I know…"

Harry looked up at her.

"You'll be forced to do it… you'll do it." He whispered his eyes red from crying.

The professor held his head with both hands.

"If… I'm forced to hurt you… or those you love, you can destroy me…" She said softly. "I'd rather die than have others suffer because of me…" She kissed the lightning scar on his forehead.

Sorry it took so long to upload this chapter. I kinda lost interest in it because this chapter isn't really to my liking. Too much description about the dream. That's why it took me so much time to translate it. The first half of it was ready more than a month ago.

Hopefully I'll be able to upload throughout the year. I travel for one and a half hour twice a week and I intend to do some translating on the bus, so the next chapter might not be so far away.

See you next time

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Hermina