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A/N: Harry potter is not mine this is a story from a fan.
(BSC 2 C17) C47 Christmas in Potter castle 2. The pain and misery is repeating itself.
Everyone was still sitting around the table. Amelia who sat at one end of that table was sulking and Susan was trying to keep her calm.
David who was sitting at the other end of that table kept staring at Harry, Something inside him wanted to ask something from Harry, but he just didn't know if he could ask it. With another look at Harry he took the plunge and went for it. "Harry do you think it's possible for me to hear how it sounds like when you talk to a snake".
Harry looked at him and thought about it for a moment. He did not know why David wanted it. He just couldn't figure out if David wanted to hear it out of curiosity or if he wanted to be sure he was not another dark Lord in the making.
"Do it Harry, its only curiosity" Isabella told him from his side.
Harry again looked at him and nodded. He wanted to say that he didn't have a snake, when his grandmother conjured one for him.
"Serpensortia" she said and a snake appeared Just in front of David.
Just in front of the feet of David lay a little snake that was looking around himself in wonder and a little fear.
Harry was now standing behind the snake and started to talk to it. ~Howsss isss yousss ~
~Yousss isss speasskerss allsss goosss Wellss massterss~
~Willsss yousss gosss sssissttss oosss sshhiss lapsss offss thasss massnnss~.
The snake started to crawl slowly onto the lap of David.
David had heard Harry Hissing at the Snake but could not understand a word he was saying. But it sounded creepy to him and his instinct told him to run and to run like hell.
The snake slowly crawled from the back side of his leg to the front and up to his lap.
David kept looking at the snake and his face started to turn into one of fright.
The snake had crawled onto the lap of David and crawled in to a ball.
David remained as still as he could, he was frightened by the snake and didn't want to show it.
All the others were watching him and started to laugh. It was also at that moment that Minerva vanished the snake from his lap and was just in time before the next guest arrived.
The flames in the fire place turned green and Tonks appeared skidding across the floor. She grumbled that she hated floo travelling and that she didn't understand why they did it anyway. "Hi dear brother of my" Tonks said while she got back upon her feet and spotted Harry.
Just one step behind Tonks, Andromeda appeared in the fireplace and stepped out of it with grace.
Now that everybody was in the castle, the holiday festivities could finally begin. The only one who wasn't there was Hermione but she would be arriving later that evening.
Tonks however had other plans. During her Auror training she had learned something new and wanted to show it to everybody. So before anyone could react they were taken along to the dueling chamber that was in the basements of the castle.
David who as an ex Auror went through a lot, volunteered to duel with her. He told the others he could stay in shape that way .
All the others went to stand at one side of the room to watch the duel. Minerva conjured an invisible wall where they could stand behind to watch the duel in safety.
Harry and Bella who thought that dueling was the best stood and waited in excitement at what was to come, because they had only heard of a duel but never saw one for real.
"Okay David you are playing a death eater and I will be the boy who lived". Tonks told David with a smile. While she was changing herself into the spitting image of Harry,
Harry looked at her and his eyes became bigger and bigger. His mouth was hanging open in wonder and astonishment, while the others were laughing.
"Aahh, why do I always have to play the death eater? I want to be the boy who lived" David said with puppy dog eyes and his bottom lip sticking out a little bit.
I don't know David, don't you think that the classes are more my style and I can do the". Tonks was have way through her sentence when she was interrupted by David.
"Stupefy".
Tonks was just in time to jump to the side and away from the incoming curse.
"You have to remember Tonks that a Death eater never plays fair. They will always attack when you are not looking" David told her quietly.
Tonks nodded and said to herself. "Damn that was the first rule mad eye taught us, he is going to kill me if he ever hears about this".
"Stupefy" David send another curse at Tonks while she was talking to herself. And immediately send a Reducto after that one.
Tonks jumped away from the first one and threw up a protection shield to protect herself from the second one. From out of her pocket she took a hand full of dice and threw them on the floor between her and David.
David saw what she did and immediately knew what she was going to do. He himself had the same lessons when he was in the auror academy, so he was on his guard.
Tonks send a Bombarda at David, which he dodged easily.
Harry and Bella were looking at the duel and could see that it could go either way. Tonks was not as good as David but she was young and much faster than David was and that could make the difference if the duel would go on for awhile.
Tonks send a tickle jinx at David.
David looked at the first jinx bud didn't remember it. He stepped out of the way and looked at it as it made impact with the wall.
Tonks saw that her plan had worked and that David was looking at the tickle jinks she threw at him with suspicion. She immediately turned back to the dice she had thrown on the floor. With an elegant wave of her wand she turned the dice into little birds, which started to fly around her body.
Again with another wave she started to send the birds at David one after the other.
David, who had no trouble at all to keep the birds away from him, just flicked his wand at each bird and it disappeared. But by doing so he didn't see that Tonks was waiting for an opportunity for herself.
This was it this was the moment Tonks had waited for. She looked at David and started to run in a circle around him. He didn't follow her so she fired of stunners one after the other.
David stiffened at the spot and fell backwards to the ground completely paralyzed.
Tonks immediately walked towards him, looked at him and placed one feet on his chest while she raised her arms high up in the air and shouted. "The boy who lived killed another death eater. Fear me and quiver at my feet" and ended it with an evil laugh.
When David was released from the stunner they all walked back to the side chamber where the portrait from Lily and James was hanging and took a seat.
Bella and Daphne jumped on Tonks and told her they wanted to learn the bird spell. Harry was standing a little back but was just as excited as the other two.
"I don't think you three can do it just yet. This is a spell far beyond newt level en it requires a lot of concentration, which is far beyond that of second years" David told them.
"So you think they are not capable of a newt spell" Minerva challenged David with a little smirk.
"No I do not, I myself was an excellent student and I could barely do it in sixth year. So I don't think they can do it. I would even like to bet on it" David challenged back.
Minerva looked at him with the smirk still on her face. "Okay I will explain the spell, after that they each have thirty minutes to do it. The loser will have to do the dishes after breakfast by HAND".
"I'm in" Isabella said. I know they can do it".
Minerva turned to Amelia and Augusta and looked at them. They both shook their heads and in unison they said. "We are with David on this one".
"Now it's very simple. You have all learned how to turn an animal into a goblet. This is basically the same thing. You have to visualize the bird, say the spell, and let your magic flow" Minerva explained. And watch as they all started to do the spell.
David, Amelia and Augusta were watching with interest in the hope they didn't have to do the dishes the next morning.
It was barely ten minutes later that Bella was the first to turn her dice in to a little parakeet.
The little parakeet floo to the shoulder of Arabella who just watch the bird as it flew towards her.
It was only five minutes later that the dice from Daphne turned in to a similar Parakeet as Bella had.
Harry on the other hand was concentrating extra hard but his dice had yet to turn.
The next one who got the dice to turn into a bird was Susan who was directly followed by Neville.
David and Amelia seemed to become happier with every minute that passed by. The chance that they had to do the dishes the next morning were becoming less and less. How different was that feeling when Bella and Daphne turned their dice into birds.
There were only five minutes left for Harry to turn his dice into a bird, but his chances were becoming slim.
Whit only two minutes left Isabella and Minerva began to smile.
David looked at Minerva and his wife in wonder. He knew that his wife could feel the feelings of Harry, feelings she was paying extra attention to at the moment. So the smile she and Minerva had on their faces were telling him that Harry was about to pull it off.
The little dice in front of Harry started to shake a little. Slowly it grew bigger. Little feathers in the colors white and brown started to appear on the dice. Slowly from one side of the dice there appeared a beak. Then there were yellow eyes whit a black pupil that looked around himself. One minute later there sat an eagle right in front of David ready to strike if there was any sign of danger.
David just looked at Harry. He had just done the impossible. The rule on transfiguration was simple. You can only transfigure something into something of the same size. Only the great witches and wizards could do what Harry had just done. "How did you do that" David asked.
Harry shrugged his shoulders and said. "I don't know it's just the most beautiful bird I know that's why I chose this one".
David just shook his head in amazement.
Minerva lowered herself next to her grandson and said in a voice that could be heard by everyone. "Harry when you are done with preparing the breakfast tomorrow morning as you promised" while she gave a small predatory smile at David. "Be sure that you make them extra dirty, we do not want to make it too easy for them now do we".
*#*
After Hermione had arrived later that evening as she had promised, it became very late before they all went to their beds.
It was therefore, that Harry and Bella woke up early, while their bodies were moaning in protest. Both Harry and Bella walked into the kitchen and were giving deathly looks at Astoria and Tonks who were just smiling back at them.
Just a have hour earlier Astoria who was helped by a very happy Tonks had woken them up by jumping up and down on their beds, for the breakfast they had to prepare, which they had to do fast because, the faster they did it the faster they could get to their presents.
While Harry and Bella were working the others started to walk into the kitchen they too had been woken up by Astoria while she again was helped by Tonks.
David told everyone that this had been the best breakfast he had ever had and started to walk towards the door only to be stopped by Isabella when she coughed. David turned around slowly.
"Where do you think you are going mister? You still have some work to do" and Isabella pointed at the mountain of dishes standing on the kitchen counter, while she herself left the kitchen with a smile on her face.
It was an hour later that David Amelia en Augusta sat down for their tea, while Astoria was handing out the gifts.
"Uuhh Harry" Astoria said in a very nice way.
Harry who did not know much about girls knew that this could go very wrong if he didn't answer the next thing Astoria said in a good way.
"Harry, I know that you like Bella and Daphne very, very much".
Harry pulled one eyebrow up but kept his mouth shut.
Daphne and Bella who were sitting next to him were blushing when Astoria said that.
"Harry, I also know that you are calling my mother mom".
Again Harry nodded but looked at Isabella.
Isabella looked at him and just shrugged her shoulders.
"Well if my mom is your mom, than that will make me your sister".
Slowly Harry nodded again and was fearful of what was to come. He did not know if it would be a good thing for him.
"So if Daphne and Bella are your girlfriends. And as I'm your sister which is family".
Harry wanted to say something but Astoria had already stepped to warts him. She placed both of her arms around his neck and went to sit on his lap. She looked deep into his eyes "So Harry, if I'm your sister then that means that we are family, which is more than a girlfriend and I know that you are very rich".
Harry started to feel sick because he didn't know what Astoria was planning to do and the sweat was slowly starting to pore from his body out of fear.
"So on my next birthday my birthday present has to be very and I say very big or I will tell mommy you don't love me anymore". And she gave him a quick peck on the cheek.
Everyone started to laugh. Even James and Lily couldn't hold it to gather in their painting.
The only one who was not laughing was Tonks. She was thinking and she was thinking hard. "AHHE, wait a minute, Harry, you are my brother too, so my birthday present also have to just as big" Tonks all of a sudden shouted.
Isabella took Harry into another hug and whispered in his ear. "I think you now have a little sister in your own little family".
Harry looked at Isabella. "Yes mom I think I do. But I'm afraid that it's going to cost me".
Isabella just smiled and just hugged him tighter.
After the tea and a lot of pleading from Astoria it was finally time to unwrap their gifts.
After a couple of hours there were only a couple of gifts left. Harry had given everyone a necklace and for the man he had bought a nice ring. "I know it's not much but it's also a Port key, You only have to say Potter Castle while you're touching it and you will end up here. I finely have a family and I want to protect them in every way I can".
It was after those words he was engulfed into a hug by all the woman from his own and extended family.
The only gifts left were the ones Harry had received, when he opened his fourth gift it happened. Inside the box there was a miniature broomstick. He took it slowly out of the box and felt a hook behind his navel and was whisked away.
Harry fell flat on the ground. "Where am I" he asked in a whisper. Slowly he started to look around. It was very dark but high on top of the walls there were little windows. It was dark but he could see that he was in some sort of a warehouse.
Suddenly it all went darker. From out of know where someone pulled a bag over his head and slammed him to the ground. He couldn't see anything anymore but he could hear voices. Three of them were male and one was a female voice.
Harry could not hear what they were saying bud it sounded like they were laughing at him. Then there was a sharp pain in his side and he screamed out in pain. He knew that he was just kicked into the ribs. And he remembered how his Uncle had done the same thing just before he went to the school for his first year.
There was a sharp pain in his feet as if someone stomped on it which clearly broke one of the bones in his feet.
Harry felt fists hitting him and feet kicking him. Slowly the pain got the better of him and he started to lose consciousness. Then a fist landed on his head for the seventh or eighth time. Blood dripped from his nose down his chin. Another kick and he again felt something brake. He coughed and tasted his own blood. Again a snap and he knew that one of his ribs snapped.
How often he was kicked he didn't know he lost his consciousness and knew no more. When he opened his eyes the only thing he saw was white.
*#*
Let's go back a little bit.
Dobby, somewhere in Hogwarts castle.
Dobby was walking the halls in search of a way to help Bella and Harry. From out one of the classrooms down the hall he heard two men speaking. He didn't know who they were but he could clearly hear them saying the name of Harry Potter.
"We have left Harry potter in the middle of the warehouse. Albus can go to him and be the hero he wants to be. I can tell you this; the beating Harry received today is one he will not forget in a long time, we have even sliced him open a bit on a couple of occasions. so don't let him be alarmed when he sees a little bit of blood on the floor.
Dobby who had heard everything, reached out whit his magic to find Harry and disapparated on the spot. He appeared only a meter away from Harry. Dobby looked at the lying form of Harry in front of him. He could feel that Harry was still alive but it was just that. Everywhere Dobby looked he could see blood and even some bones sticking out. "Master Harry, Master Harry". Dobby squealed.
Harry didn't answer him he was only breathing heavily.
Dobby stepped to warts Harry and with one of his small hand he gently grabbed the arm of Harry. Dobby had to think about what he wanted to do; he knew he couldn't bring Harry to Hogwarts so he did the next best thing. With a pop he reappeared in a white hallway. He left Harry there on the ground and disapparated to his next target.
*#*
Minerva McGonagall looked at how her grandson was unwrapping his gift.
Minerva had a little smile on her face when she looked at her grandson. It was now little more than a year that she knew she had a grandson and loved every minute of it. She could feel the bond she and Harry shared a bond her only daughter had put on their blood. A little sad she looked at the painting of Lily an again back at her grandson. While she was playing with the necklace she got from him.
It was then that she saw him unwrapping a gift she hadn't seen the night before. Her mind began to work when she saw him lifting a miniature broomstick out of the box. She wanted to jump op but it was too late, Harry disappeared in front of her eyes.
Everyone was shocked, Bella and Daphne even screamed a bit when Harry disappeared.
Minerva immediately went to the box where the miniature broomstick was in. She looked at the box but could not find a name tag or something that told her from whom it could be.
While Minerva was looking at the box she could feel the fear in Harry rising to a level she only remembered from that one day in the kitchen in Greengrass manor. Suddenly she felt a sharp pain into her side and she had to grasp the table to support herself.
The next thing she felt was a pain in her feet and she went down to one knee. Minerva had fear in her eyes when she looked around the table. "Harry is getting beaten up, I can feel it" she screamed at no one in particular.
After another sharp pain in her lag Minerva fell to the ground.
Isabella and Amelia were standing next to her but didn't know what they could do.
Minerva grabbed her arm, her leg, her side. She could feel the pain from Harry but didn't know how that could be. With her left hand she rubbed her chin. She could feel some moisture but there was nothing there. Somehow her mouth was filling itself with blood, but when she spat on the ground there was no blood. The tears started to flow from her eyes as she looked at Arabella. "Find Harry please find Harry".
The pain increased while Minerva kept screaming out in pain. "STOP IT, PLEASE STOP IT, LEAVE MY HARRY ALONE". Minerva shouted and the pain from Harry disappeared just before she fainted.
As Minerva lay motionless on the ground, there was a lot of friction that went around between the grownups that took almost fifteen minutes before Arabella put a stop to it. Arabella called Mini and Maxi. "Mini please bring Minerva to ST Mungo. Maxi go and get Poppy and bring her also to ST Mungo, after that you two have to come back here.
Dobby appeared from out of know where and stood next to Bella.
Arabella could see that Dobby said something to Bella en Bella said something back before Dobby grabbed her and Daphne's hands to again disappear from sight.
*#*
What Bella and Daphne saw?
Bella was sitting next to Daphne and was just like the others looking at how Harry was unwrapping his gifts. From out one of the boxes Harry took something small before he disappeared.
Just like Daphne she screamed a little, and looked on as Minerva inspected the box. As she was looking at hoe Minerva turned the box around to all of a sudden grab the table to immediately bend over the same table in pain.
She could see Minerva grabbing her side and then her feet.
Daphne and Bella knew that this was the result of the mercy spell Lily had done to tie their blood together.
Both of them were watching how the face of Minerva went from fear to pain to Horror back to pain. It was the pain of Harry she was feeling.
Daphne and Bella wanted to do something, but they didn't know what to do.
"STOP IT, PLEASE STOP IT, LEAVE MY HARRY ALONE" Minerva screamed from out of know where. Just before Bella and Daphne watched as she fainted.
Bella was unable to utter a word and looked on as her mother took the lead of the situation .As there was a lot of friction going on between the adults Bella just watched and wondered what was happening to her Harry. It was that that her mother ordered Mini to take Minerva to St Mungo and Maxi to bring Poppy there too.
Dobby appeared next to her. "Mistress Bella Master Harry needs you and he needs you now" sounded the little voice of Dobby.
Bella was a little startled because she had not seen Dobby appear next to her. "What, Where, Wait I don't care take me and Daphne to him right now".
Dobby grabbed both their hands and disappeared out of Potter castle.
After only a second both Bella and Daphne appeared in a long white hallway. Right in front of their feet was a big puddle of blood and they looked at Dobby.
"I´m sorry mistress but Dobby left Master Dobby here on the floor".
Daphne again looked at the puddle of blood that lay in front of them and put her hand to her mouth.
*#*
Albus Dumbledore office one hour earlier.
"Albus it's done you can go and save Harry Potter, sounded a voice from the fireplace.
Albus looked up from his papers and just nodded at the figure in the fireplace. Slowly he came from behind his desk and walked to the floo network. With a pinch of floo powder in the fire he said. "Hogshead".
"Ahh Brother of mine do you want a drink" Abe said as Albus walked out of the fireplace in his cafe.
"No thank you I have a very important meeting I have to go to" Albus answered as he greeted his brother. As Albus stood in front of the hogshead he looked around. "To bad it such a nice day, But it's for the greater good" and disapparated to the warehouse Harry was in.
He was glad that he only had to be here for a moment as he went to the spot harry was lying. That was the only reason he had to be here. In the middle of the warehouse he could see a big puddle of blood. But where ever he looked there was no Harry. As he looked at the blood he wondered if he had gone too far with his plans. But he shrugged because it didn't matter as long as harry was alive he could be the hero.
He looked around himself to see if harry was somewhere else. There was no sign that harry had walked away or crawled to another place. After have an hour he gave up and disapparated back to the gates of Hogwarts. He looked if no one had seen him before he made his way back to the castle.
The first thing he did was to go to the Infirmary. He knew that if someone had found Harry they would take him to Poppy. In the infirmary he could see that all the beds were empty and that Poppy was still sitting behind her desk.
The next thing he did was to go to the office of Minerva. But he never heard the pop as Maxi the house elf of the Potter family took Poppy away.
While he walked to the Office of Minerva he thought to himself what could have gone wrong. Harry was supposed to be there and he was supposed to be the hero who saved him. At the office he didn't knock but just walked in. He hoped the Minerva would be there so he could tell her that something was wrong with her cub. But her office was empty with only the sorting hat lying on a cabinet that stood behind her desk.
With a look of disgust at the sorting hat he left the office and started his way back to his own office.
In one of the hallways he came across Draco Malfoy and Ronald Weasley. Both of them were smiling broadly at him as they dragged a struggling Ginny behind them.
Albus just looked at it but didn't do anything about it. As he arrived at his office he sat behind his desk and laid his head in his arms. With thoughts running through his mind he hoped that he didn't ruined his chances with Harry and that he would get another opportunity to get him back at his side.
*#*
At Potter castle they all watched as Minerva was taken away by Mini. Maxi Disappeared and Arabella turned to Bella to see how she and Daphne were taken away by Dobby.
"What is that, what's happening, where is my daughter going with that house elf" Isabella screamed.
"I think that that was the house elf the kids were talking about. And for him to take Bella and Daphne will only mean that he knows where Harry is" Arabella answered as Mini appeared in front of her. "Mini I want you and Maxi to take us all to St Mungo, after that I want you to see if you can find Harry for me and bring him to St Mungo, If you cannot bring him to us or find him come and tell me immediately".
The little house elf looked up at Arabella and nodded.
A/N: This was it for this week. I know I suck at cliff-hangers but I hope you liked this one.
Gr. Winmau, see you in two weeks.