Garo Dark Hollow
ESKK: Well here we are chapter 5 let's get this chapter started.
(Start Headmasters Office Hogwarts Dumbledore)
Dumbledore swore to himself as he stepped through the floo into his office at Hogwarts. He had received word of Harry Potter being with Sirius from the Weasley's meaning he was in a place Dumbledore was no longer allowed entry. Apparently Harry, Hermione, and Sirius had joined the Weasley's for dinner where things had grown heated. Needless to, say while Dumbledore was disappointed Ronald and Ginevra would potion Harry and Hermione the plan had merits. Assuming Harry somehow survived the final confrontation with Voldemort their world will be in somewhat of a political storm.
Severus plan to potion Harry into loyalty had been rejected due to the moral dilemma of it. There was no telling how it will affect Harry and by extension the war against Voldemort. Thankfully there was some good news and that was Harry and Hermione agreeing to attend Bill and Fleur's upcoming wedding at the Burrow. He could use this chance to approach the two and subtly convince them to rejoin their world and combat Voldemort.
This was not the first time a Potter and his muggleborn love interest had dined to leave this world on Dumbledore's watch. James and Lily had also sought to run when they realized their child the young infant Harry Potter was being a target at the time. They had opted to be selfish and try to save their child instead of thinking of how the Potters leaving would affect the war at the time. It took a great deal of work but with Remus help Dumbledore managed to convince them to stay and fight. Alas by the end of it the Potters death orphaning Harry was a shame but it was all for the greater good at the time.
First thing was to try and convince Harry and Hermione to forgive Ronald and Ginevra for their transgression. Claiming it was simply a bout of childish desire would hopefully prove to be a good way to get them to consider forgiveness of the Weasley pair. It may seem wrong to some, but it was for the greater good of their world under threat by Voldemort. Regrettably Harry and Ginny pairing off was for the best because once the war was over the then freed and soon to be redeemed former Death Eaters would not listen to a muggleborn like Hermione. The girl was bright and brilliant thus Dumbledore knew that with time she will understand it was for the best.
Hermione had a great deal of knowledge to gain but she was simply born in the wrong time with her progressive mindset. Much like Lily was when she was a student both failed to realize changes of that magnitude needed time to make happen and the speed, they intended would not grant their desired results. Dumbledore, with this in mind had to many times subtly try to influence things to stop Lily Evans mission when Lily had gone a bit to far for his taste. She would not have liked it if she learned what he did, but Dumbledore knew she would understand in time.
As Dumbledore sat down at his desk, there was a knock at his door. "Enter." Dumbledore called as he pinched a lemon drop from its container. From the door Dumbledore saw McGonagall enter the office just as Albus plopped the lemon drop into his mouth. "Good afternoon Albus." Minerva said as the tone she had showed she was not happy to be here nor happy about the information she had.
Ever since Harry had left their world Minerva of course blamed herself for failing the students in those past 5 years after they had to endure danger after danger to the school. Their number of first years have been decreasing with each passing year as Muggleborns seem to be made aware of the world they were about to enter somehow opting parents to seek magical education for their children elsewhere. Minerva had suspected it to be Harry and Hermione somehow and with the recent environment she applauded them for such actions to protect these students from their bigoted world.
"Good afternoon Minerva, how are preparations for the new school year going?" Albus greeted
"Not as well as I'd hoped, I find myself saddened and at a loss as our batch of First Years have grown smaller once more." Minerva said as she suspects if this trend continues the only students entering Hogwarts would be nothing but purebloods resulting with the shortest Sorting's ever. She was not dumb she knew the Muggleborn outnumber the purebloods 100 to 1 and at the moment made up most of their society. But due to bigots and pureblood mindsets the Muggleborn have been oppressed to prevent them from realizing this.
"Well I'm sure they need time to be convinced that our school is." Dumbledore began but this time Minerva having enough of this cut him off.
"Albus their afraid." Minerva said suddenly catching Dumbledore off guard by this statement alone. "Before Mr. Potter left these children have been placed into danger by proxy or crossfire and we have failed to protect them." Minerva said as she looked to the headmaster.
"Minerva I assure you the danger." Albus began but Minerva cut him off with that.
"Was Real and parents were not very fond of it." Minerva said but she was far from done with this. "They have lost faith in Hogwarts not only have the students been placed in constant danger but more so we have allowed bullying, bigotry, and Merlin knows what else to run rampant under our watch." Minerva said with the smallest of hope that Dumbledore will see what she was saying. "Unless we do something that will put their faith back in us…" Minerva paused as it was truly hard for her to say what came next. "I fear Hogwarts may not have the student body to constitute its continued operations." Minerva said as she knew if there were only a handful of students to teach it ruined the point of running a school like this.
"Minerva worry now all efforts are being made to stifle the problems you claim we simply." Dumbledore began with his normal tripe of forgiveness and redemption but Minerva would not have it from the man.
"NO ALBUS!" Minerva snapped much to Dumbledore's surprise. "What you fail to realize about forgiveness and redemption is that it must be tempered with consequences." Minerva nearly snarled as she glared at Albus. "If you simply forgive these actions without punishing them than it failed the purpose of second chances." Minerva said as she was far from done with her rant. "More so then that in the last war and even in this way your more concerned about redeeming the Death Eaters that giving them second, third, or even fourth chances has only served to give them more time to cause chaos and harm innocent lives." Minerva said as she finally got to the end of her rant. "When will YOU learn that you can't keep trying to redeem everyone especially those who do not want it." Minerva finished and thus sighed before turning and taking her leave. Dumbledore sat there shocked that Minerva snapped at him like that clearly because he had not seen it coming in the slightest.
As Minerva took her leave she opened the door and found Snape waiting outside the door. Seeing he was here for business Minerva stepped aside and then stormed off no longer wanting to deal with Albus at this current moment. When Severus entered Dumbledore began to regain himself and thus welcomed his spy to his office. "Ah good afternoon Severus how are you." Dumbledore greeted when Severus walked in.
"I am fine Headmaster, though the Dark Lord has been silent for a bit." Severus said as he suspected Voldemort was up to something right now.
"Good, good, let us hope it will be long enough for us to pacify young Harry." Dumbledore said as he intended to get Harry back into the fold so he may fulfill the destiny fate has in store for him.
Snape resisted snorting a laugh; Potter had grown a big head since he had ran like a coward, he didn't think it would be quick or easy to quell that rebellious streak. The only way to do it in his opinion was through the potion he'd devised. But Dumbledore was still reluctant to go that course, but Severus was sure he would come around eventually.
(Scene Break Grimmauld Wedding Day)
As Harry turned to look at himself in the mirror, he began to have mixed feelings. Today was the day of the big, Weasley wedding; Fleur and Bills' to be exact. The whole family was invited, along with a few close friends. Despite the incident two nights ago the group was still invited to the event and thus Harry and Hermione opted to exploit it to get that sample from the youngest of Weasley's, Ginny.
As Harry looked himself in the mirror he was currently dressed in his Madou Robes. This outfit was suited for all manner of events from casual, battle, and even weddings. Harry often wondered why the Makai Order had these and never patent it into the Wizarding World and make a fortune off it. After all outfits that do not suffer from wear and tear, seem to stay clean 90% of the time, and could take a hit would be valuable. But then remembered that they were designed to combat Horrors and may have a few kinks that would alert the Horrors. After all Horrors were used to seeing Makai Knight's in these outfits so they may mistake a random human for one of they were caught wearing the Madou Robes.
"Hey, Harry." The voice of Hermione sounded opting Harry to look to his partner/girlfriend. Harry still had trouble believing they were together like this. But then again Harry suspected they were together for a good long while and never even realized it. Partially due to Ginny's revealed Potion scheme and partially because Harry never realized the difference between sibling love and romantic love back then.
For the first time in the last five minutes, Harry actually focused-in on what Hermione was wearing. She had on red dress robes underneath her cloak, and her hair was smoothed back into a bun. She looked the way she had their fourth year, at the Yule Ball. Everyone had had to take a double-take to see if it was, in fact, her.
"Harry? Earth to Harry!" Hermione called, waving her hand in Harry's face.
Harry, now realizing he had been staring at her, quickly looked away and felt his cheeks grow hot with embarrassment. "Sorry it's just you seem to clean up nice." Harry said as Hermione then smiled playfully to her boyfriend.
"Well sorry we can't all have a robe perfect for every occasion." Hermione said gesturing to the Madou Robes Harry wore. "But you should at least wear a tie for the occasion, it is a wedding." Hermione said as she gave Harry a small look over.
"It's this formal enough?" Harry asked as he gestured to himself just as Hermione stood in front of him. "Besides we do have a Horror to cut down as well." Harry added and thus Hermione side and put her hands on his shoulders.
"Yes but we can't spend our entire lives hunting Horrors." Hermione said which Harry had to admit she had a point. "Besides we also need to set aside time for ourselves as well." She went on and then smiled to Harry. "I can picture us preparing for an evening out on the town, all dressed up and relaxed not worry about Horrors for the evening." Hermione said as she flattened out his madou Robes around the shoulder area. "Before we go I help you put on a mundane dress tie after seeing you struggle with it for a bit before departing on a night out in London." Hermione said and thus Harry smiled to what she was implying.
"Trust me when this assignment is over… I'll take you all over town if you desire." Harry said putting his hands on Hermione's wrists causing the two to smile at each other over this.
"I will hold you up on that then." Hermione said and thus kissed him on the nose with a small peck before parting. "Anyways, ready to go?" Hermione asked as she made her way over to the door. "Sirius and Mrs. Black are probably sitting anxiously at the kitchen table, wondering what's taking us so long with Sirius making lewd comments of our activities." Hermione said and thus Harry rolled his eyes before he then followed Hermione out the door.
(Scene Break at the Burrow)
Harry and Hermione arrived with Sirius and his brood via Apparation. They arrived in time to see the tent being set up for the wedding. As all of this was going on everyone began to make their way over to the Burrow where Molly was no doubt cooking a feast.
Once they got to the door Harry proceeded to knock and thus the group waited for someone to open it. Eventually Arthur opened the door and thus saw the group had arrived. "Ah welcome come in." Arthur said welcoming the group into his home again. "Ron's in the kitchen I hope you can at least stay around him for a brief moment considering…" Arthur began and thus Harry cut him off.
"We'll manage just going to be warry of anything he offers us." Harry said assuring the Patriarch of the Weasley family that they can handle Ron after the incident that occurred two nights ago.
In turn Susan opted to stick close to her aunt while Hermione went with Harry to the kitchen to talk with Molly. When they finally reached the kitchen, Ron almost barreled into them opting Harry to shield Hermione behind him. "What in the world took you so long!" he demanded immediately, as he looked to the two acting as though he had not confessed to helping Ginny potion them two nights prior. "We're going to be so late. Mum's gonna-" Ron began just before his mother, still irate with him, made her presence known.
"What am I going to do, Ronald Weasley?" Mrs. Weasley asked as she rounded the corner into the kitchen. Now while she smiled at Harry and Hermione (and by extension Zaruba though unknowingly) she glared at Ron no doubt still in trouble with his family at the moment.
"I, uh…I…" Ron froze in mid-sentence, thinking of the right thing to say. "Ummm…you're going to be glad to see us all ready to go!" He explained with a big grin, slowly inching towards the door.
"Yes, I'm glad you're all; ready very surprised, actually, since it seems you all are early." Mrs. Weasley said as she looked to the pair before her. "We understand but since the wedding will be held here and the previous night's events, I reckoned being early would help ease any bad blood." Harry offered as while he had a mission an act of good will also helped everyone involved with it.
"Oh how thoughtful." Molly gushed and thus went back to her previous task at the stove. "Now why not you and Hermione head outside, relax, and when we're ready I'll call, alright?" Molly finished by turning from the stove to look at them all, once again. But then she glared directly at Ron as no doubt he was still in deep trouble with his own family. "As for you Ronald, go finish de-gnoming the yard before any more guests show up." Molly snapped as she no doubt had made her stance on what Ronald did clear after the pair Harry and Hermione left two nights ago.
"Yes, thanks Mrs. Weasley. We'll be out back!" Hermione called, grabbing Harry by the hand before dragging him back outside.
(Meanwhile up in Ginny's room)
Ginny stood in the shadow by her window glaring at the world outside. As she sat there she glared at the sun in contempt from her safe spot knowing full well she could not enact her desires until sunset. It was instinctive the sun, the light, was the enemy and she, an apex predator, was of the darkest of nightmares. As the Horror formally Ginny waited she licked her lips in anticipation for the feast approaching with each passing hour.
Ginny then glared at the yard and then snarled a bit when she saw Hermione roaming about with her Harry. She glared down at the pair in contempt as she can smell them for what they both truly were now. The Makai Order the bane to all Horrors since its conception. Time and time again they scurry about impeding what was only nature to a Horror always hunting them down. What's worse is that in this day and age one cannot enact another Witch Hunt simply because of the weapons mankind has available to them.
In the past such a method was useful to the Horrors but not when mankind can easily wipe itself out with a push of a button. With this knowledge the Horrors knew that if mankind goes extinct so too does their primary food source and with it the Horrors would have to resort to cannibalism. As much as few of their kind refuses to admit it they needed humans to survive as a species so Horrors may have a continued food source in this world. Despite this Ginny smirked a sinister smirk as she then directed her attention to the sun knowing full well this will be a blood bath wedding when the moon rose. All she had to do was wait for her time to strike and if need be, deal with the Makai Priestess and take what was rightfully hers from the priestess.
(Scene Break later that evening)
The pair were in the wedding hall as Harry and Hermione went to find their seats. Nearby Sirius and his family had gotten their own seats so to be close in case anything happens tonight. As they sat in the pews Hermione glanced over to Harry as she had to admit he's matured a great deal in the two years they have joined the Order. The Makai were right up Harry's venue of saving people, he is seen but never known. Recognized only as DeJa'Vu and dismissed all the same and Hermione oddly was proud to be play a part.
Still often, times Hermione wondered what life would have been like if she and Harry had stayed in the magical World. But after many times thinking that she had learned it would not be for the best of them. The Wizarding World was good at first glance but after digging deeper you'll find that as a muggleborn the system was designed to make you fail. Hermione had long since cleared her mind and saw that being a muggleborn in Britain was a sure-fire way to make you fail everything.
Hogwarts did not offer any basic educations such as math or science and without some of those key mundane subjects you would be unable to find work in the muggle world if a muggleborn should choose to return to that world. With the fact you cannot perform magic in the muggle world and cannot find work there many muggleborn had to return to the magical world to find stable work. It's made worse since magic had a tendency, to separate you from those you love since they could never understand the world, you're a part of nor can they even visit the world you joined.
With, this in mind Hermione, had helped the Order find every muggleborn they could to either help them or set them up to succeed. The Order had connections all over the world so even retired vets can find work once their time as Knights or Alchemists comes to a peaceful end. Considering the type of, work they did Hermione was glad that the benefits were so good to the orders members. But as she glanced over to Harry Hermione saw something had been bothering the boy.
"Harry." Hermione began as she looked to the current inheritor of the title of Garo.
Hearing Hermione call to him Harry looked over to see what she needed. "Yes?" He asked wondering what was bothering her at, the moment.
When she got his attention Hermione continued with her concern. "Are you ok you seem quite distant at the moment?" Hermione asked as she looked to Harry with concern for him.
"I'm fine just thinking." Harry said as he had a lot on his mind.
"About?" Hermione asked looking to Harry with concern and curiosity now.
"We haven't seen Dumbledore since we got here, and it has me worried he's up to something." Harry said as he had long since been disillusioned by the old man and his lack of guidance when Harry had needed it. "More so if Riddle doesn't know I'm back he's bound to learn it soon enough and if he does know or when he knows it will only be a matter of time before he sends Death Eaters after me." Harry said knowing that as a member of the Makai he was forbidden from harming humans simply because the tools they use do not respond so human blood well and thus exercising care was a must.
"Harry, I wont lie but its only a matter of time all we can do is keep our guard up and be ready for it when it happens." Hermione said knowing full well that there was no If on this matter only when was evident.
As she turned to face Harry once again, the organ began to play the familiar wedding tune. Everyone turned around in their seats to see, one by one, the groomsmen and bridesmaids walk out hand in hand. The couples started with Charlie, who was accompanied by Gabrielle, Fleur's sister. Then, out came Percy, who led a cousin of Fleur's up to the front. Fred and George were the next two groomsmen to come out and Fred happened to be holding hands with Ginny. Harry and Hermione couldn't help but laugh because both, of them looked as though they would rather jump of a cliff then hold each other's hands.
Finally, Ron was the last one to come out, since he was the youngest. When he entered the room, his face became ghostly white as he tried his best to smile. Watching the event Zaruba had detected it and thus he began to let his partner know if what he sensed. "Harry be cautious." Zaruba spoke as Harry looked to the Madou Ring partner of Garo. "I sense a Horror in attendance of the wedding." Zaruba said as the pair was wide eyed to his words.
"Where?" Harry asked looking to Zaruba clearly worried now.
"Among those at the Alter itself." Zaruba confirmed and thus Harry looked and was wide eye at what this implied here.
"Someone up there has become a Horror." Hermione gasped as she looked to the Weasley family knowing one of them had become a Horror somehow.
"What do we do?" Harry asked and thus Zaruba had an idea on their task.
"For now, we wait Hermione will need to have damage control set up prior, but we will need to act with tact." Zaruba explained as they knew if they did not act carefully then the Horror can turn this against the duo hunting it down.
After a few moments, Bill walked in along with Mr. Weasley, who accompanied him to the Alter. Then everyone let out a soft gasp as Fleur and her parents walked through the door. Fleur was dressed in a virgin white, diamond encrusted, strapless wedding gown. As she came further into the chapel, the guests could see that her train was being held up by four house elves. In the past Hermione would have been appalled by such an act but had long since accepted that the House Elf and Wizard relationship was symbiotic in nature. The House Elves feed off the magic of their owners and in exchange they offer services to the house that they were in service to.
Once Fleur had gotten to the Alter, the Priest stepped forward and began the ritual. Bill was the first to recite his vows, and then, tears streaming down her face, Fleur read hers. Finally, the moment had come to unite the two as husband and wife.
"Do you, Bill Weasley, take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife?" the Priest asked.
"I do."
"And do you, Fleur Delacour, take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband?"
"I do."
"Then by the power that state has granted me, you are now pronounced husband and wife," the Priest said, "You may kiss the bride."
The Chapel filled with cheers as soon as Bills lips connected with Fleur's. Hats were thrown in every direction and confetti popped out of several wands, covering the newly wedded couple as they walked out the door. After they had left, things grew quiet as one by one, people began to leave.
Getting to their feet, Harry and Hermione made their way over to where Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were standing. As soon as Mrs. Weasley, whose face was covered in tears, saw them, she pulled each of them into a long hug before she was then, smiling, while she wiped away her tears.
"I'm so happy! Our boy is married at last! Now I can't wait till the rest are married and living happily." Molly gushed as no doubt she was hoping for this though after the incident two nights ago she now feared Ron and Ginny may not be so fortunate in the regard of marriage. "Now did you two enjoy the ceremony?" Molly asked as she looked to the duo gushing over the event as any mother of the groom would.
"Yes, it was quite magical if you would excuse the pun." Harry said as he smiled to Molly as he saw Ron was nowhere to be seen. "Anyway, we'll meet you at the reception ok." Harry said and thus he and Hermione began to depart to meet up with Sirius and his family to Apparate to the wedding reception.
(Scene Break that evening at the Wedding Reception)
Harry and Hermione were at the reception as they saw people celebrating and having a general good time. As this happened, they saw Ron and Ginny were nowhere to be seen as Harry suspected one of them to be the Horror. Hermione had memory charms and the like prepared should the Horror try something that would turn the people against Harry.
So far Ron and Ginny had been rather sparce only seen by a few people at this Reception. All was well and good at least until Harry was met with a familiar figure from Hogwarts. "Ah Harry my boy." Came the voice of Albus Dumbledore as Harry kept his composure around the old manipulative goat. "It has been some time." Dumbledore said as Harry then looked over to Dumbledore fully aware of the crimes the old man had performed against Harry since that fateful Halloween.
"Not long enough it seems." Harry said making sure his former headmaster knew he wanted nothing to do with Dumbledore. "Considering what Remus tried to do under your orders I have a hard time believing you wanted to simply talk." Harry added and thus Dumbledore saw he was off to a bad start with Harry.
"Harry, I assure you it was for your own good." Dumbledore tried to reason but Harry refused to listen to the old man before him.
"So, attempting kidnapping was for my own good?" Harry said as he made it clear he and Dumbledore were not of any association nor have they been for two years. Of course, the headmaster tried to explain but Harry cut him off. "Remus was a good man once but since he apparently owed you so much, he's now in Auror custody." Harry snarled a bit as he glared at Dumbledore with nothing but pure contempt.
"Harry it was simply a misinterpretation of what happened." Dumbledore tried but Harry was far from done with Dumbledore here.
"So, he tried to convince me to go with him I said no so he then tried to force me under your orders with a pen shaped portkey you had given him." Harry continued as Dumbledore saw Harry had him. "I'll tell you what I told him I'm not returning, nor do I plan to stay I have my own job here and none of it involved you." Harry growled as he glared at Dumbledore in pure contempt on this. "If you had acted 18 years ago when the war was still high, we wouldn't have been dealing with it today." Harry lectured as he glared at Dumbledore for this. "I made myself clear in my letter to the Prophet over two years ago, the Dark Lord is your problem now, not mine nor will he EVER be my problem." Harry said and thus Dumbledore knew he only had one option left to use now.
"Now if you don't mind sir, I'd like to enjoy Bill and Fleur's wedding." Harry said and thus began to walk away from Dumbledore.
As Dumbledore saw what was happening, he knew if Harry left again then they were all doomed. Dumbledore realized just how desperate the situation was if Harry had left again and thus, he knew that there was only one thing he could do now.
"Harry you cannot do this. You must work with me to fulfil your destiny; to fulfil the prophecy." Dumbledore suddenly said as Harry stopped and was wide eyed to what Dumbledore said.
"What Prophesy?" Harry asked as he didn't buy it seeing as he did not subscribe that Prophesies were a thing.
Realizing he had Harry Dumbledore had to reveal a bit more. "The prophesy that states that you must be the one to defeat Lord Voldemort." Dumbledore said and thus Harry raised his brow.
"I've never heard of such a prophecy." Harry scoffed clearly not believing a word Dumbledore said. "Just another of your lies, I expect." Harry said ready to scoff off the old man.
"No, Harry its real and I can prove it I heard it and I know where you can find it as well." Dumbledore said and thus Harry glared at his former headmaster on his words.
"Regardless, if it exists or not, I will repeat myself Riddle is not my problem." Harry said as he in turn began to walk off and leave Dumbledore behind again. But as Harry was about to storm off, he soon heard a whispering sound approaching. It sounded like a Patronus as it came ever so closer. Harry then looked outside as Hermione also heard it as well as they approached the edge.
Soon from the darkness of the night sky a ball of light came in crashing the wedding as everyone gasped in shock to it. As everyone gathered around the ball Zaruba sensed it came with Ill tidings.
"The ministry has fallen." The message began as everyone heard the Patronus message. "The Minister of Magic is dead... they are coming. They are coming." The message said as soon after that, fires burst out as Harry instinctively sprang into action. Spell fire was going off as Harry drew the Garoken and used it to deflect what he could from the Death Eaters. Opting to stay on the defensive Harry knew well enough that he could not risk harming the Death Eaters no matter how much they deserve to die here.
The attacks kept coming as Harry kept it up as best, he could at least until another magic was used. With her Madou Brush drawn Hermione had already sprung into action and began producing barriers to help protect the people. Once the shields were up, Hermione in turn began to fire of stunning spells on any Death Eaters that appeared. This was all about focus as while she had the intent, intent meant nothing without having proper self-control for it. Thus, with each spell Hermione fired off she saw how the Death Eaters were taken down a peg with each hit she made upon them.
The battle went on as Hermione acted and made sure any no combatants were moved to safety. Eventually the Death Eaters were moving in and thus Harry knew they would be overrun within moments if they did not do something. AS this went on Harry moved people to safety of apparition points in the hopes of saving as many as he could. All the while Harry used the Garoken to deflect what spells he could as all his senses were on high alert. With the next group of people moved to safety Harry saw a Death Eater and proceeded to bash the pommel of the Garoken into the Death Eaters gullet before performing a spin kick to his throat knocking him out with that blow.
The battle went on for a bit as Harry then saw something was wrong. "Why aren't people leaving?!" Harry asked as he looked around while regrouping with Hermione.
"I don't know… but I feel Zaruba does." Hermione said and thus Zaruba did in fact know.
"It's the Horror Harry." Zaruba spoke getting Harry, and by extension Hermione's, attention on him. "It's about to start feeding." Zaruba said and in turn chaos truly began to hit.
From nearby a loud scream was heard and from the looks of it the cause was not something for the faint of heart. Looking to the source all eyes were wide in shock as Ginny stood there with her teeth biting into a stray Death Eater who was shriveling up from Ginny's action. On Ginny's back were crimson tendrils that skewered into other Death Eaters and few innocent people now. All her recent victims were shriveling up and soon turned to dust where they flew into Ginny's waiting maw.
Her mouth was now stained crimson red with blood as she seemed to let out a sensual, yet content sigh escape her lips. "G-Ginny?!" Ron gasped at what he saw.
"Surprised?" Ginny asked as she looked to her brother. "Sorry but now that my buffet was here, I couldn't hold back anymore." Ginny said smiling a sadistic smile to her brother.
"Hold back?" Molly asked and thus Ginny glared at her.
"Oh, I almost forgot I need to deal with the obstacles between me and Harry." Ginny said and thus she charged in and with the crimson tendrils ready charged at her prey. But alas Ginny would not have it as soon she hit a magical barrier face first which blocked her movement for a moment. That moment was all that was needed as Hermione stood stalwart before the Weasley family. Once the barrier fell Harry had jumped in and with the Garoken slashed at Ginny forcing her to jump back. She landed on a table on all fours snarling at the duo standing before her.
"Ginny what when?!" Molly asked but Hermione then sighed to this.
"I'm so sorry." Hermione said and in turn with a glowing index finger tapped each of the Weasley's on their foreheads. Hermione had casted a spell which had caused their eyes to dull from it showing it was one of the Makai's spells to hide the existence of Horrors.
"You bitch you always get in the way!" Ginny snarled as she glared at Hermione in contempt as Death Eaters moved about.
"Ginny I'm sorry but." Harry began as he then pointed the Garoken at Ginny. "I will cut away your Inga on this night." Harry said as Ginny was shocked by what Harry said.
"Harry, you don't believe that do you?!" Ginny asked as she looked to Harry in shock as her eyes showed her desire to be with Harry as his future wife. "Why would you want that mudblood and not me!?" Ginny demanded as she clearly wanted Harry and no other. "I had to become this so we can be together!" Ginny yelled and thus Harry had nothing but pity for Ginny.
"You have no idea what you've done to yourself Ginny." Harry said as he looked to Ginny with nothing but pity for the girl. "You've damned yourself to eternal suffering all because you wanted something that did not return your feelings." Harry said as he looked to Ginny with pity. "Truly you've become a pitiful creature." Harry said regretful he could not save Ginny from what she had now become.
"No, it's not true it's all that horrid mudbloods fault!" Ginny yelled and thus Harry clenched his fist over Ginny calling Hermione such a word.
"She has a name Ginny or have you forgotten that with your humanity!" Harry yelled as he glared at Ginny for calling Hermione that word. "You've lost your mind if you think that calling her that will impress me!" Harry yelled as he glared at Ginny while Hermione stood behind Harry ready to provide aid. "You've become as delusional as Dumbledore if you think that there will be anything between us other then a wall." Harry said as he made it clear he did NOT love Ginny not at all.
Deep in denial the Horror that Ginny had become refused to see truth. "Don't deny it, Harry, I know you want me, all boys want me. But you're the only boy I will let have me, I can be Lady Potter in public and your little whore in private. You hang around with that thing, so I know what turns you on, the books that I stole from mum told me how to pleasure men like you, Harry." Ginny said as Harry glared at her. She began to make her way towards Harry being as sensual in her movements as she could.
"Men like me?" Harry asked not liking the implications of such words.
"Men who have a taste for muggle girls, I can be your little whore Harry, behind closed doors I can be whatever you want me to be." Ginny offered as she looked to Harry. "When Ron and Granger get married, I can take some of her hair and put it in a bottle of Polyjuice potion so you can live out your fantasy of having your way with her. I don't mind, as long as you remember I'm your Lady Potter." Ginny said and thus Harry then sighed to this.
When she got close enough Harry acted and slashed at her side causing her to cry out in pain from it. "Now who's delusional, Horror." Harry said with a cold tone as he had entered the mindset of Makai Knight a hunter of Horrors, one who protects.
Ginny looked to Harry in shock but before she could move wires shot forth and grabbed at Ginny and thus the Horror was thrown around like a rag doll. When Ginny landed and got back up, she saw that the source of those wires was in fact Hermione who currently held a wire gun in one of her hands.
Ginny then roared as her mouth split open in response to her rage. Charging at Hermione Ginny had every intention to consume the Makai Priestess. But instead, Harry jumped in and stopped Ginny before forcing her to back off again. "Ginny, I don't like you that way; I will never be the person you want me to be." Harry called out and thus Ginny roared and attacked only for Harry to block each of her attacks. Once he had her parried Harry continued to speak to her. "I am not the Harry Potter from those books your parents read to you." Harry began as he then pushed Ginny back and thus the two began to trade blows once more.
Once they had a parry again Harry went on. "I am in love with Hermione. Hermione is my future if she'll let me be hers." Harry went on as he then pushed Ginny back and spun around her where he then blocked one of the Horrors tendrils keeping her at bay. "We're never going to be together, Ginny I will not, nor will I ever marry you!" Harry yelled before slicing the tendril off Ginny causing her great pain in response. "And I will NEVER marry one who gave up their humanity and became a Horror." Harry said as he glared at Ginny showing he would never be with a Horror. "And you've deluded yourself with these fantasies to the point you were easy pickings for the Horrors and the person suffering for it is you." Harry went on and thus Ginny was about at her limit with Harry denying her.
"Stop lying to yourself Harry, you want me you know you want me that damn tart is manipulating you!" Ginny yelled only for Harry to charge in and slice off another Tendril causing Ginny to scream in pain from it. "Harry, stop this she's using you!" Ginny yelled as Harry saw Ginny was so deep in her denial, she would not accept anything that would challenge her view of things.
"Harry, stop she has had enough." Dumbledore tried to reason but Harry then held the Garoken to stop Dumbledore's movement. Dumbledore was of course horrified over what he was seeing as Ginny had already killed several Death Eaters and from what he saw fed off them. But he still saw the girl who needed guidance and he knew there had to be some cure for her the ailment she was currently suffering from right now.
"Sorry Dumbledore but Ginny is no longer a human being." Harry said as he looked ready to cut her down… at least until Hermione put a hand on her shoulder to stop the Golden Knight.
"No Harry." Hermione began as she looked to Ginny with clear sadness for the girl. Dumbledore was then filled with hope that Hermione would convince Harry to see reason here. "I'll put her out of her misery." Hermione said making it sound like a mercy killing for the young girl.
"Ms. Granger don't!" Dumbledore began only to find himself stopped as his body was suddenly wrapped in wires preventing him from getting in their way.
As Hermione approached Ginny was making these gurgled sounds as just then her body began to undergo a transformation. Bending and snapping out of place each of Ginny's limbs twisted in inhumane ways as her skin tore and her bones snapped from within. Soon the body burst forth as in Ginny's place was a massive lion like creature with a scale covered back legs, a snake headed tail, and crimson reptilian eyes. Her massive main had the same crimson tendrils as the jaw was split and moved as if it was naturally born in such a way which nothing in nature should be. Ginny or in this case the Horror roared out glaring at the enemy who it saw as the cause of her suffering.
In turn Hermione began to approach the Horror as she unloaded the empty roll of string and pulled out a brand new one. "Ginny, I'm so sorry." Hermione apologized as she in turn began to load the roll into the wire shooter that she wielded. Truly Hermione felt nothing but sorrow and pity for Ginny who never received the proper help after her ordeal during her first year at Hogwarts. The girl was in agony and thus it fell to Hermione to put dear young Ginny out of her misery.
Reaching out with her free hand once she reloaded the wire gun Hermione sent out a ball of light similar in shape to the Golden Snitch. It flew about and thus began to go after the Death Eaters that were currently still in the area. Once that was done Hermione went on to carry out the next part of this battle against the Horror here. Once this was done Hermione sent forth a second ball and thus it went for the massive Horror that Ginny had become and thus drew her attention. Once this was done Hermione attacked with her Madou Brush and thus with a savage roar of rage proceeded to chase after Hermione.
Dumbledore was left there shocked and horrified over what had happened. Harry of course glared at Dumbledore who he felt was the source of all the troubles he had endured. Rolling his eyes Harry began to take his leave after ensuring Dumbledore can get out on his own by cutting one of the wires with the Garoken. Once he left all that was left was to wait for the arrival of the Aurors as Sirius and Amelia had no doubt sent word out to them.
(Meanwhile with Hermione and Ginny)
Hermione was seen in a more wooded area as she guided the Horror away from any people who could be caught as its next meal. The moon held high in the sky as Hermione continued to guide the Horror away from any humans currently nearby.
Once Hermione got far enough, she waited for the Horror and thus didn't have to wait long. The Horror burst in and went for the attack swinging its large claw at the Witch turned Priestess. Hermione saw it from the corner of her eye and thus jumped out of the way where she then swung her Wires about for the next task of this battle. When Hermione had eventually landed, she glared on over to the Horror that was formally Ginny and saw that the Horror was now wrapped up at every point by the wires Hermione wielded in battle.
Holding the wire gun in her hand the Priestess was ready for the next part of this endless sad and tragic symphony of human suffering. With a swift movement of her arm Hermione yanked the wire gun and tightened the wires grip on the Horror. Of course, the wires grip was tight enough that it caused a piece of the Horror to be torn off in a blood, soaked mess.
Surrounding Hermione more strings were seen straight and tight as they appeared to be much like strings of a harp or another classical string instrument. Glistening in the moon light the strings shined as despite the scene had an odd sense of beauty to them. In turn Hermione began to act strumming each string in movements suggesting years of practice with a classical string instrument. With the strumming of these strings another part of the Horror was torn off as Hermione's method was a beautiful yet agonizing one to many.
Hermione of course could not look at Ginny in the eye due to what she was putting her through. Hermione had to remind herself that Ginny was a Horror now and this was preferable over living in agony as a Horror. She will mourn her in truth for Hermione had played a role in Ginny's end. The Weasley family will mourn her in deception believing she had been killed by Voldemort and his Death Eaters. It was never easy but the duty of one who protects is to also challenge suffering and conquer its darkness.
With a final strum Ginny's body as a Horror tore apart and thus only the head and upper torso remained of the Horror. When Hermione to what remained of the still living Horror Harry appeared from above while equipping the armor of Garo and dealt the finishing blow to the Horror that was once Ginny. Once the deed was done the Horror and its remains vanished into dust thanks to Garo as the Horror was sealed away into the Garoken.
Garo then reverted to Harry as both he and Hermione looked to each other with a sad look. It was clear they both regretted having to do this but there was no other choice. It was a lesson they had learned already that sometimes you can't save everyone. But it also came with the hope that it doesn't mean you can't try to save everyone.
Hermione seeing a bit of Ginny managed to survive the event walked over to the piece of flesh and used a containment unit to acquire it. They now had the sample but neither had high hopes now since Ginny had become a Horror so it may very well have been contaminated after this horrific wedding.
(Scene Break the next day Hogwarts)
Dumbledore was pasting back and forth in his office after the previous night's events. He had never suspected that Harry and Hermione had begun to take part in something so dark in his life. Last night had not gone off as he had hoped but now Dumbledore was certain Harry and Hermione had acquired something truly dark this night. As he pasted back and forth Dumbledore was trying to think of where he went wrong and of ways to separate Harry from this dark path.
By the look of things as is it would seem, that Snape's suggestion for the potion may be needed after all. At least that was what the signs were pointing to as of late. Dumbledore sighed as he sat on his desk contemplating on what to do in order to bring Harry back into the fold. But with Ginny no longer around and already this late in the game the vision of his ideal future of the magical world was further away than the old man had originally hoped.
As Dumbledore closed his eyes, he expected Fawkes to start singing to help ease his troubles. But that was the first sign that something was not right with his world. Looking over he saw that Fawkes was not on his perch as he normally was and before he could try summoning him Dumbledore felt a pain tear through his back and out his chest. Looking down he saw a sword sticking out of it and thus with struggle looked to where it came from. In turn he saw a young man in his mid, 20's stuck his head out and smiled at the dying Dumbledore.
"Well, that was easy." The man said as he then tore his sword out and thus allowed Dumbledore to fall over. He hit the desk as and began to act fast and force his body to get up but when he reached for his wand, the headmaster of Hogwarts had quickly found his wand arm snapped with said wand in his grip. This in turn forced him to drop the wand disarming Dumbledore of its power.
"Sorry I know your dying but had to make sure." The mystery figure said as he took the Elder Wand from Dumbledore and spun it in between his fingers. "As much as I would have liked to see the light of the Golden Knight snuffed out, I still need him." The mystery figure said as he began to look around the room for something. "Now where oh where did you hide it." The man asked searching the room for the target Dumbledore hid away.
"What… who are… How did?" Dumbledore struggled as he saw the man digging around his office for an unknown object.
"In that order." The man began as he continued his search. "I'm a Dark Knight, my name… well that's a surprise, and how I got here you'd be surprised how easy it is to trick Death Eaters." The man spoke and thus found something. "Ah here it is." He said and thus open the compartment to reveal a ring inside.
Dumbledore was wide eyed by this as he looked to the man in question here. "No, you must not!" He struggled but the young man scoffed to the old headmaster.
"You can't stop me or what's coming and the best part… by your desire to redeem and avoid killing you ensured my plans in the long run." The man said with a smirk at Dumbledore. "The ring is of no bother to me it's the stone inside it that is of importance." The man said and thus he pocketed the ring in question to remove the stone later seeing as he was an intruder at this school. "Now for you." The man said and thus pointed the Elder Wand at Dumbledore ready to use it.
"With you out of the way chaos will continue and when it reaches its apex my new world will be born." He said and thus got to the final bit of his Hogwarts break-in. "I believe you know this particular spell." He said and thus got ready to cast. "AVADA KEDAVRA!" The man invoked and thus the last thing the dying Dumbledore saw was a sickly green flash and then darkness was all that was left in its wake.
The man smirked as he had finished what he sought out to do this day. By morning the world will know that Albus Dumbledore was no more. This unknown man knew that fear and panic will rise, and, in the chaos, Horrors will also come forth in response to it. Once the chaos hits its apex the stage will be set for this man's endgame. Once all was said and done the old world will die and a new world shall replace the old one.
(TBC)
ESKK: Well, here we are Chapter 5 I hope you all enjoyed it and will join me next time for Chapter 6. Now Ginny is dead and with her so is Dumbledore and while I gave dear Ginny a good sendoff, I gave Dumbledore a minor one. No offense but while I don't do bashing stuff, I wasn't going to give him a benefit of a pleasing death or a peaceful one. Anyway, once again I hoped you all enjoyed this chapter so, until then I will ask you leave behind a review and as I always say here ja-ne.