Eye of the Snake

The spell was heading right towards Harry, and couldn't do anything about it. It was the killing curse- he couldn't block it! He had before, though, but how?

"Protego!" Harry yelled, and indeed, the spell was blocked. How did he do it?

It was impossible to block the killing curse, yet this was the third time he did it. Of course, there was the time Voldemort attacked him as a baby, but also when Voldemort cast the spell on him two weeks ago, and he survived.

"DIE, POTTER!" Voldemort yelled. He began casting spell after spell at Harry, but Harry ran, and Voldemort hit miscellaneous kids in the hall instead.

Colin Creevy popped up in front of him. "Harry, can I have your autograph for my mum?" he asked.

"Get out of the way you little..."

"Avada Kadavra!" Voldemort yelled. The spell was heading right at Harry again.

"Pleeeeeeeeease?" Colin asked, on his knees.

"Harry!" yelled Lupin from across the hall.

The spell had hit him. Lupin was dead.

"No!" Harry cried. He ran to the dead body. This man was like a father to Harry, the only one left. Why had he treated Lupin so badly yesterday? If Harry had the chance- right now- he'd cast the portal spell and go back in time to save Lupin, but Harry's head wasn't thinking good that day.

Voldemort laughed his evil laugh as all of Harry's crew comforted him. "I knew that you were weak, Potter! Now that you have proved it, I can finally defeat you!"

"How could you?" Hermione cried. "You're a monster! All you know is death! But we all know you're just a little preschooler inside, showing off to everyone else. You know what? No one likes you! No one thinks anything of you- except fear!"

"You're clever," said Voldemort, observing her like Snape. "That will pay off someday- in the AFTERLIFE!"

Voldemort grabbed Hermione by the neck and levitated up to the ceiling. He hung her cloak on a chandelier chain. "Try being witty here!"

He set the cord holding the chandelier on fire, so it would fall when it reached a point, along with Hermione.

"HERMIONE!" Harry yelled. He started to the chandelier, but was held back by Crabbe.

"Potty man no get girl!" he said. Goyle joined in.

"Potty man no get girl!"

The whole Slytherin house started chanting, "Potty man no get girl!" and holding Harry back. Draco came up to him.

"Not even you can stop the Dark Lord now, Potter!" he said.

"Hermione!" Harry yelled. Realizing there was only one way out of this, he punched Crabbe in the nose. Bedlam ensued. Everyone got into a brawl with the Slytherins. Ron socked Warrington. Neville cursed Goyle. Colin stabbed someone with his quill. Cho Chang bit Malfoy. Even a Hufflepuff named Brick Tamland set off a hand grenade.

Harry jumped onto Voldemort and took him to the ground, putting his wand right up to the Dark Lord's chest. This reminded him of three years ago, when he had the wand to Sirius's chest. Harry hesitated.

"Face it, Potter," Voldemort spat. "you're too weak!" Voldemort threw Harry up to the ceiling.

"Come, my children!" Voldemort cried out. Most of the Slytherins and some Ravenclaws came forward. One was Michael Corner, Cho's boyfriend. "Michael! No!" she cried. She continued sobbing until all of Voldemort's supporters disappeared with Voldemort.

Meanwhile, back on the ceiling, Harry was holding on for dear life. He reached out a hand for Hermione, but she couldn't reach it. The rope broke, and Harry grabbed onto it. It was very heavy.

Hermione was still dangling about ten feet off the ground, but some second year girls named Jenna and Katelyn pulled her down. Harry dropped the chandelier and sighed in relief.

Harry dropped down and the Gryffindor boys caught him. Harry immediately went to Lupin's dead body. "Reamus," Harry sobbed. This was the last of James's true friends.

Suddenly, Lupin snarled. He turned into a werewolf and ran off. The strange thing was, the dog left behind the human body. "He only killed the human," Harry muttered.

"Harry, what do we do?" asked Ron.

Harry stood and confronted everyone.

"People, I don't know if anyone realized, but that was Voldemort, and he is evil. Some of you were too stupid to know it last year, and look where it got you! ARE YOU HAPPY?!?!"

"Harry..." Hermione warned.

Harry took a breath and continued, "Some of might not know what this means, but the rest do. Will the people that were members of the DA come with me?"

Dumbledore looked with interest.

1/13/05