Rating:
R
House:
Astronomy Tower
Characters:
Harry Potter Hermione Granger
Genres:
General Romance
Era:
Multiple Eras
Spoilers:
Philosopher's Stone Chamber of Secrets Prizoner of Azkaban Goblet of Fire Quidditch Through the Ages Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Stats:
Published: 02/07/2003
Updated: 10/19/2003
Words: 27,346
Chapters: 15
Hits: 7,619

Harry Potter and The Soul Crystal

Songbird21

Story Summary:
Ever since Harry began dreaming about the Soul Crystal he's become obsessed with it. He's also trying to deal w/his emerging feelings for Hermione, a loss in the Weasley family, an unexpected reunion & Voldemort's deepest secret...

Chapter 04

Chapter Summary:
Ever since Harry began dreaming about the Soul Crystal he's become obsessed with it. He's also trying to deal w/his emerging feelings for Hermione, a loss in the Weasley family, an unexpected reunion & Voldemort's deepest secret... (Minor lime in chap 11)
Posted:
02/19/2003
Hits:
380
Author's Note:
The only characters/things I own are Wendy Kitanya, the bubble sprites, the Soul Crystal, the flamingo seeds, the razorum spell, the twindoma spell, the Magical Artifacts Throughout History book, the Soul Beast, the argot, the bright spots, Ardian and Rachel Tigerlilly. Please do not use them in a story without asking me first.
Harry Potter and the Soul Crystal - Chapter 4

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Most of the sixth year students were standing in the field, waiting for their Care of Magical Creatures class to start. Sirius Black caught everyone's attention as he walked towards the students. He had a severe look on his face and was slowly, and deliberately, looking all around. Harry felt the hair on the back of his neck stand on end. Sirius came to a stop just in front of Hagrid's hut. He let out a breath. "Everyone get back inside. Something's wrong. The wind doesn't smell right."

The students, amid much grumbling, turned to go in. The trio walked quickly to catch up to Sirius. "What's the matter?" asked Harry.

"You smell that?" Sirius said, looking toward the sky.

Harry sniffed the air. "Yeah. It smells like sulfur."

"I think we have a swarm of bubble sprites coming our way," Sirius warned.

"Bubble sprites?" Ron laughed. "That doesn't sound dangerous," he said, laughing even harder.

"Believe me....It's very dangerous," Sirius replied. Several students suddenly pointed at the sky. A cloud of bubbles was heading toward them, descending fast. Sirius's eyes widened. "Everybody run!!" he screamed. The students looked at him with confusion until one of the girls squealed in fright as a large number of the softball-sized bubbles surrounded her, flattened themselves out and linked together form one large bubble which lifted her into the air. All at once the previously calm students became a mass of panicked bodies all fighting to get ahead of the crowd and reach the safety of the castle.

Because the trio had been with Sirius they were now the furthest away from the doors. Sirius told them to go ahead with out him. Ten more students had been trapped in bubbles. The situation was getting desperate.

The bubble holding the first victim began to glow. The glow got brighter and brighter until the girl sank to the floor of her prison and finally passed out. At that moment seven more teachers, including Dumbledore and McGonagall, rocketed by the trio on their broomsticks, dodging bubbles as they went.

Percy was watching the attack and was about to go help when Tigerlilly spoke. "You don't have their experience, Percy. Stay back," she said. Percy reluctantly leaned against the wall. Sirius, Flitwick and Madam Hooch aimed their wands at the bubble, yelled a spell, and the bubble broke apart into separate sprites in midair. The sprites that had fed were now a bright purple color and had taken on their true form which looked like someone had made little people with pixie wings out of balloons. Madam Hooch flew under the girl and caught her. She then placed her fingers on the girl's neck to check for a pulse. She sadly shook her head. The sprites had drained all her life force. The other sprites that held prisoners, seeing this attack on their kin, flew away at enormous speed. All the teachers chased after them.

The trio were almost to the castle when Draco Malfoy knocked Ron to the ground yelling "Out of my way Weasley." as he ran by. Ron was quickly overtaken by the remaining sprites. Harry and Hermione didn't notice until Ron yelled for help. He was banging on the inside wall of his captors. "RON!!!" Harry and Hermione screamed.

Percy looked up at Harry and Hermione's cries. "NO!!" he yelled. Percy tried to go to Ron but Tigerlilly had a firm grasp on his arm. "Let me go! I have to help Ron!"

Tigerlilly stood her ground. "I will not allow you to help a Death Eater," she growled.

Percy looked at Tigerlilly with fire in his eyes. "RON IS NOT A DEATH EATER!!!" he bellowed as he tore himself from her grasp. Percy called for his broom and mounted it as soon as it got to him.

"Weasley, if you help him, you're fired," said Tigerlilly warningly.

"Sod off Rachel! He's my brother!" Percy yelled. He headed for Ron's bubble at lightning speed. The bubble began to glow. Percy pushed his broom even harder, panic filling every fiber of his being. He suddenly realized he didn't know the spell to free Ron. Instead he did the only thing he could think of. With an extra burst of speed he shot into Ron's bubble like a runaway javlin. Ron, and Percy's broom, were both pushed out of the bubble. Percy was now trapped inside. Hermione caught Ron and was knocked backwards from the impact. Both of them rolled to a stop on the ground.

"Ron. Ron! Wake up!" Hermione said urgently.

Ron's eyes fluttered open. "Mione? What the bloody hell happened?" he said.

"Percy saved you," said Harry.

Ron blinked in surprise. "He did?"

Ron looked up to see Percy trying to use his wand to pop the bubble. He stared in horror as Percy's efforts became more and more strained. Finally, Percy slumped forward and fell, face down. "PERCY!!" Ron screamed. A beam of light shot from somewhere behind them and lanced the bubble.

The angry sprites turned on the teachers. "Incendio!" McGonagall yelled and a huge ball of flame engulfed the sprites, killing them instantly. Harry turned to see Dumbledore and the other teachers had returned with ten weak but very much alive students. Sirius caught Percy and quickly landed.

Dumbledore told Madam Hooch to take the rescued students to the infirmary. The trio ran to the spot where Percy lay. Sirius was trying various revival spells while everyone looked on. Ron was breathing very quickly, close to hyperventilating. Harry was holding Ron's left hand, Hermione his right. Ron had tears streaming down his face as he choked back silent sobs. Eventually Sirius resorted to trying CPR. "Come on Percy. Breath dammit!" he commanded as he did more chest compressions. Five minutes went by. Sirius didn't give up easily but even he knew when something was hopeless. Finally Sirius looked up at Ron. Regret filled every crevice of his face as he spoke. "Ron,...I...I'm so sorry. He's gone."

It was as if a flood gate had opened behind Ron's eyes. "NO! Please. Th...there's gotta be something else you can try!" he pleaded with Sirius. Sirius just shook his head sullenly. Ron flung himself down on his brother's still form. "Percy, please! Please wake up!" he cried as he shook Percy's body. "You can't leave! You just can't!" he hugged Percy tightly. "Oh God! Percy! Percy! Peeeeerrrrrrcccccyyyyyyyyy!!!!"

.........TO BE CONTINUED
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Again, apologies to all Percy fans.