Info: Sequel to "Shadows swallow."
Spoilers then.
Characters: a bit 'all
Rating: NC-17
Strange days
It was an awakening to say the least neurotic.
The tower was filled with shrieks and groans, his Hedwige and other pet food and whip annoyed meow. Harry began to think that the apocalypse was coming.
Then, when he put both feet off the bed, she realized that it did not properly greet someone.
Peeves the poltergeist was bouncing on the belly of Hermione, who vainly attempted to persuade him to pull away. Not so much for the evil that caused, but for the cries of Hedwige that threatened to split the eardrums throughout Hogwarts.
"Pix, stop it. "
" No, until you have greeted me properly. After the Weasley twins, but there you go! "
" You'll have dozens of other students to harass, Pix! "Hermione was finally able to scrollarselo off, while Ginny opened the door of their room.
"Let's get out of here, I is breaking the ... ah, you are the guilty? "
" Poltergeist Grub! "Ron said, behind her sister.
"How dare you? "Pix jumped on the head of Ginny and spernacchiò face, furious.
"Come on, dress ... sooner or later will the desire to torture. "Ginny
woke up at all, but maybe not because of raspberry Pix. "Colin, Moon, we have to bring your bags in our dorm. "
True, the three had last year at Hogwarts. This year would have been all three leader.
still asleep, Harry reached for his pants which had been kept out of the bag ... and not found them.
"PIX! "At breakfast
found the Great Hall ready for the arrival of evening students, and especially for the banquet. This brought back all its chaos, which was able to fit perfectly Pix: Flitwick who controlled the tapestries of the Houses and their location, the ghosts that hovered singing, magpies seemed to set the record universal
long face ... Everything in the rule, in short, only this time Harry was not there.
He had never imagined that he would feel so bad. Hermione and Ron will be with me to the Master, was also called the night before, when she felt the first signs of melancholy. And fortunately they were really there would be ... but now that gap was still a gigantic monster to deal with.
He made his last strength and attacked the plate of bacon and pancakes the walls of Hogwarts.
Soon after, he saw come one after another, all the professors of the Master, with the exception of the teacher spells. He exchanged
look grim with Ron, the appearance of Jacques, and felt the chill when he saw his approach to them, having delivered her luggage to a house-elf. "I expect to be punctual arrival to begin, gentlemen. Do not miss too much talk, to greet your school. "
When he disappeared, Hermione shook convulsively the handle of the cup of tea. "This time I was about to hit me, I'm serious. "Padma
shook his head. "It 's also very smart. For centuries, it is well known: it helps create a positive climate of much learning, but also teaching. "
" What do you want it understand, that ... "
" Hermione! Did I ever heard that! "
" What, you were not there when he delighted us with his view on Umbridge, the fifth year? "Harry reminded her too well, and so the others present. Colin chuckled, Neville looked around a bit 'more reassured. Even
Ginny and Hermione smiled, but very forcefully.
remains on a 'sincere enthusiasm when they saw enter Lupin followed by Mr. Weasley and Granger. All five sat at table with them, for a breakfast in the Great Hall of Hogwarts was difficult to refuse.
Fortunately, they brought news really good about Bill and the health of Malfoy. It also reported the date of the hearing to be held Sept. 10.
"We could be here? "Ron asked, hopefully.
"We the family, of course. And probably you guys ... The problem is Rebecca. Maybe for you it would be better able to distract, is already thinking about this thing too, "said Molly Weasley.
"I'm not sure that Bill has done well to tell you everything. "
" The esteem, you know, and he believed it was right to tell you the truth, the first to discover the way to Diagon Alley. "
" Yes, but ... Dad, ten years old! "
"Well, now we think of the solution" urged Molly.
"can stay with us that day," she offered the father of Hermione. "Do not you, Gwen? "
She nodded, satisfied. "Sure, you say well the twins to take it here, do not worry. "
" Thank you, is a much welcome what we do. "
" It will be a pleasure, but what about Malfoy? "
Arthur finished his tea. "Yes, it seems to get better ... It 's also less reluctant to talk about what happened ... for what little he remembers. Not yet clear which elements of the story he finds more hostile .... It has a very large block, because of that curse. But in ten days, things should improve ... "
Harry saw that the words of Ron's father not at all correspond equally serene expressions.
"Dad," Ginny said suddenly, "and if I run into Malfoy and Hermione? "
The general reaction was judged to be a no, categorical and unequivocal. Seamus a look at the red with cold, not even remotely alluded to desist. Harry tried
Hermione's gaze, and realized with concern that the girl was seriously thinking about it.
Ron shook his head, like his mother and father of Hermione. "No, nonsense. "
" Ron, is not absurd, and you know it. "
" Hermione ... "Harry tried to say, but she rose from the bench, determined more than ever.
"It 's time to end it, Harry. You can not continue to make an eternal enemy Draco. "
Harry would have liked to finish his comment, which was more on the side of Hermione, but he was talking about Lupin. At least got to sit again the young.
"Kids, do not begin to discuss among yourselves. Not days like these. Hermione, your idea is not to be discarded, no ... Arthur, let me say ... But this is not the time. "
" We should expect that Bill will be blamed for the disgrace Draco and hope that you find the courage to unlock the hearing and testify as well, all of a sudden?! I'm sorry, but the stakes are a bit 'too high. "
" Hermione, if you look around, none of us want to ignore your opinion. But it is clear that the two of you, you and Ginny, you're not the most peaceful people, they can unlock Draco without remembering things too painful. "
" Professor, I'm sorry but his reasoning is absurd. "Ginny insisted. "I would aid only to Bill. Draco also has the right to regain his life, although it must pay the penalty for being in the ranks of Voldemort. Even if he should remain behind bars, has the right to be left alone from that demon. And we, maybe ... we have only to gain. "Seamus looked like to challenge him to contradict.
He cleared his voice, but said nothing.
"The think I like them too, professor. "Decided to tell Harry. "But there should be a way to ensure that Hermione and Ginny do not suffer even more. "
" Harry, we knew it would end like this. When we received the letter via owl, when we heard that Malfoy had committed suicide ... we quickly realized that ... "
" That was not true. "Harry finished for her. "It 's been that woman, the demon. And this makes it even more crazy and cruel. "
Arthur Weasley nodded. "Bill thought to have Draco forced to witness the death of his father, in one way or another. He has nightmares constantly, he says, and does not want to fall asleep ... "
" But the men who oversee them have enabled you to talk so much? "Neville had a spark of optimism," If so, are not so hostile. "
" We'll see about the process. E 'severity in the classroom, we have to worry about. "
Harry had the distinct impression that the father of Ron hiding something. For his part, he prepared a lengthy discussion with Hermione. Certainly the days to come would not be boring.
The night before had asked the professor to be able to stop Glowen Muggle hospital where they were admitted to the Dursleys. The permit was granted, and Jacques had probably directed to this little dig her that morning.
"Stay calm, Harry" said Hermione, seeing him look at the professor who rose from the table, with his usual arrogance.
He could not really bear.
Two knocks at the door.
"Permission? "Nothing
.
Visitors ventured to open anyway.
"I asked to be the one to bring something to eat. "
No one answered.
Tonks stepped forward with a tray in the twilight of the room. A room that was completely open, he decided.
She put the tray on the table at the foot of the bed and began to open the curtains.
"Leave them closed. "
Tonks knew that, at times, Ylena get to see the shadows, but nothing more. Now, he hated them too. "Ylena, in this dark march. "
" I'm training for Azkaban. "
" Ylena ... "The young Auror stared for a moment what had been his classmate at the Master. How could he do to shake it? He chose to groped the paper of joy. "You know very well that Azkaban no longer exists, as a prison. Remember? It was one of the things we hoped for most. "
The other had no response. On its face, the smile was more a grimace of cynical resignation. Blinking on the injured corneas, absently wiped a few tears now and then. And when his hands touched the patch on the face, retreated automatically. The last hours before they managed to put her to sleep had been a repetition of these gestures.
"Where do you want to start today? "He began visiting the witch, who had abandoned the colors for a shock of hair dye frighteningly common, a red mahogany.
"When they come for me? "
" To go where, sorry? "
"Tonks, do not play with me. "
" Ylena are also ready to take, for that matter. Mad-Eye is inflexible on these things. "
" I killed a man, Tonks. "The voice of the patient broke. "I killed for fun. What do I care to eat? "
" Do not try it with me ... Quell'infermiera can accept to be sent out of the room from your rudeness., But I do not have to do it. "
" It 's the truth. "
" Do not you killed him, Ylenia. Has been saved. You've stopped. "
" It 's dead, Tonks. Do not lie. "
"If you worry that I may lie to sugar the pill, you do not understand anything about me. I assure you it is not dead, and feeling better. "
" It is here at St Mungo? "
" Yes, but in the opposite wing. You're in the department ... "
" I know in which department they are. Should make more bearable the idea of attacking a man? To have tortured and injured by a glass? Ah, yes, everything is easier, now that I know of being in the department in which dissolve the spell of possession by demons. "
Tonks sat on the edge of the bed. Not touched in any way the other Auror, mindful of the reaction that this was had the day before. "Well, that's what you have been, Ylenia. It is not an attempt to justify. It 'was a demon. "
" A demon to whom I have met him with my bare legs. "
" Ylena ... You had just learned of the death of Haneke. Listen, you really need to put something in your stomach, if you want to face the coming days. You can not escape. So eat and try to keep up. "
" Do you not understand, right? Are you an Auror, but do not understand. If the man is not dead, is the cruelty of my action. Just because I'm an Auror, I can never absolve. "
" Because you're an Auror, you realized what you had done, what you were going to do ... and you've asked for help. Fanny would never come to you, if your soul is dirty at all. Unfamiliar with the Phoenicians, Ylenia. "
Ylena continued to look to towards the empty window that could not see, giving the face to the cool autumn air.
"You are able to free yourself from his possession, even before the arrival of medical wizards. "
" It's like you say ... "
Tonks smiled, even though he knew that the debate was far from exhausted.
The journey to the academy that would house the Master was in the carriage. It was necessary hang them all, and each bag, a spell of invisibility, because Thestral and carriages would have to cross a couple of muggles rather crowded neighborhoods.
The carriage where they were Harry, Hermione, Ron and Seamus broke away from the others and turned in the district that housed the hospital.
few minutes later, stood in front of the Dursleys. Harry broke his heart. They were both sitting at the table instead of the four beds in the room. Remarkably thin, wrapped in apathy by medication ... Harry felt himself dying.
"... Uncle Vernon. "
" Boy ... come on, Come on with your friends. Aunt Petunia has just gone away, you know? "
Hermione barely suppressed a sob.
"Hello," muttered his cousin Dudley at the time of other friends Hermione and Harry.
Ron was cadaverous, trapped in the memory of a visit too similar to the department St. Mungo, where they had met the parents of Neville. "Hello ..."
was unfortunately clear that neither of the two patients were able to hold a conversation. Now Ron was aware of what had brought Harry to be quiet and lonely, when last year - and especially during the preparation of MAGO had left the castle for an entire afternoon to return to bed only at night.
remained with the Dursleys a good half an hour while the doctor who took care of them spoke with Harry.
"But would not it be better to take refuge at St. Mungo? "Seamus asked suddenly, her blue eyes wet and stared at the card game of father and son, unable to break away.
"Harry had asked the teachers, but have strictly advised not. "Said Hermione.
Ron politely refused, the chair offered him a roommate who was distributing a deck of cards the other players. "I think this doctor knows for some reason the magic world. Must have a child magician, I think. He said that being transported to a world they never could have accepted things worse. "
" Yes, but perhaps there could have been better to treat them. It 'clear that these are the consequences of Cruciatus. "
" Exactly, Neville's parents ...? I do not think that we were able to do much. "At that moment
returned Harry, who wanted to stay with relatives still a bit '.
Since their car was put back on the road, the windows Harry had already recognized the King's Cross station, a couple of monuments and a bit of the London Bridge.
Everything flashed in front with a merciless slow, maddening.
He wondered why, just as they were to begin new phases of his life, the sense of having to visit his uncle and cousin kept getting a physical need for him. It was the desire to appease your guilt? Probably. Almost certainly. It was however the only help he could give them. But while he, little by little, was building the future, they would not have had more than one.
"We've come, gentlemen," announced the driver of the coach. "Your pet and your luggage have already been brought in" on the steps
, Harry found himself in front of the house more beautiful than she had ever seen.
was a castle too, the size of which had nothing to envy to Hogwarts, but the Renaissance style atmosphere complete reversal. Once you go through the huge gray gate - which was tilted to the Muggles and rusty - they had to cross a street at least a mile long, bordered by huge oaks and maples on fire by the autumn colors, to arrive at the main entrance, which was reached by climbing a gray marble staircase.
"E '... is beautiful! "Exclaimed Harry.
"You see, boys? "Neville appeared behind them with Blaise Zabini, and they offered themselves as Cicero at once for a brief tour of the little that they have known.
The thing had to stop earlier than planned, because they began to meet other students who pointed all - Unequivocally - the refectory.
"We eat! "Seamus rubbed his hands, pleased.
"You will not think Finnigan if only to eat! 'Said the voice of Padma. "Hello, Hermione," he said soon after embraced and then move to the other, "we are in the room with a girl of English origin. You present it to the table. "He announced this while continuing to breathe.
Harry tried to quickly switch to turn it off, but seemed to be no.
the afternoon all seemed to infinity, with the myriad of information and rules to keep in mind.
Immediately after lunch, they were shown classrooms and two large halls. The classroom and the Potions Defense Against the Dark Arts proved to be particularly large, compared to those of Hogwarts. Hermione and Padma smiled to see the walls completely bare.
"What have you laughing at? "Asked Seamus.
"We were thinking that Lockhart would have all the space he wanted for his paintings. "
As expected, Ron and Harry were left open-mouthed in front of the stage, where in fact Quidditch matches if they were little. It was called stadium, I only took place there in the air battle exercises.
Harry remembered the comment that James, his father, had set as a postscript to a letter sent to her mother. It was just the case to say "Nothing here Quidditch, sob! "
on their beds in the rooms, found for each of the uniform supplied to the recruits Aurora: gray pants and gray jacket and blue for the autumn now started an avalanche of jerseys and pants for training, the duffel bag for trips to gyms and a gray coat.
All the rooms were very light, consisting of three beds each, with high ceilings and beautifully painted. Each of them was assigned a table and a desk bookcase, where they found the books now for the first year. They were told where he was the Gufiera and where they could take any medications for animals.
the evening were summoned immediately in the Central Hall, where to meet the teachers. Some very welcome, as the Dean Glowen, others ... a lot less.
Hermione argued with some anger in his eyes concerned Jacques, while the Academy Dean ended his speech: "... that effort, and that the small inconvenience to endure when you have not got used to it . Good start for all those newcomers, and good continuation of studies for future Auror subsequent year. Classes start tomorrow, after the breakfast to be on the table till eight. Goodnight everyone. "
" You hear, 'Mione? No house-elves to be freed! "Ron smiled, "No caps to be packed. "
" That part about the hardships I did not like much, however, said Seamus. "
" Do not you doing a dandy, Finnigan. "
Slowly, the central room was emptying, and a comment from the other professors also disappeared from the long table behind which they had accepted.
The group broke up at the intersection of two corridors, when they turned to Hermione and Padma
reach their comrade.
Harry Hermione looked away laughing with her friend.
"Come on, Don Juan. "Ron pulled him cheerfully," The bundles of sleep together with your wife is over. "Continued ...
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