| Firecrab
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Chapter nineteen
Harry opened his eyes, he was in a large dark room and glancing around he saw the faces of death eaters sitting around him. He looked down at his hands, white, pale and long fingered. He knew where he was and knew he had to get out now, for as long as he was here Voldemort was at Hogwarts.
“My Lord, are you ok?”
His voice the perfect pitch and calmness of Voldemort he pulled out a wand, he felt power, and hate and revenge run though his veins as he stood up and replied.
“Perfectly well Bellatrix”
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Ginny stared at his corpse like form on the bed from her chair across the room. She wouldn’t move closer from here he looked asleep, any closer and he would look...she didn’t want to think about it. She couldn’t see him like that, he couldn’t be gone, he promised her he would never leave her and now he had done it twice.
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Hermione lay on her bed looking up at the cream ceiling; she closed her eyes seeing only darkness. She opened them and sat up thinking. If Voldemort was in Harry’s head before making him burn up, what to say Harry’s in Voldemort’s head now leaving his own body cold and corpse like.
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Ron sat on the couch of the Gryffindor common room, he had told the other boys Harry was in the hospital wing and was now considering what to do next. Ginny seemed so helpless with out Harry, he had caused him to get mad, to be vulnerable. It was his fault his best friend lay in the hospital wing, his fault Harry was angry enough to have Voldemort take advantage and invade what little privacy Harry had left, his fault his little sister sat in pain fearing for the boy she loved.
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Voldemort was trapped, deep inside Harry’s body unable to do anything. Yet again another plan to defeat Potter had failed and this was his reward. He had tried to possessing him again when the boy was most angry and dangerous. Without feeling pain he was in the boy’s body but he was contained, powerless and guessing where Potter was if he was here.
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Bellatrix looked in shock, as her master leaned forward pain, his hand on his head touching the table in front. She didn’t want to move him and neither did the others around him, as they spoke in hushed voices staring at him. He was trying to access Potter again, this time it seemed he had succeeded when she saw the smile in his eyes when he raised his head looked at his hands, he stood up and then looked to her as she spoke,
“My Lord, are you well?” She looked at him almost nervously,
“Perfectly well Bellatrix” Harry looked around the room,
“Leave me” he felt so powerful, as the room began to empty around him, he turned to Bellatrix as she got up to go, “Not you” she bowed slightly and sat down again. He walked around the room wand still drawn,
“Show me your mark” she lifted up the sleeve of her long black robes so show him the black snake and skull embossed on her skin and into his retinas.
“You disgust me, Bellatrix, you are the scum that killed my godfather” he pointed Voldemort’s wand feeling that he could use it with the power of the twin cores. She went to speak but could hardly bring herself to say it, “Potter” she finally got the word out and drew her wand,
“Now, now, you don’t want to damage you precious Dark Lord’s body do you”
“I may not want to, but I also have a duty to kill you like I did my dear cousin, tell me did they ever get his body back from the veil”
“Unfortunately for you they didn’t”
“You couldn’t kill me at the ministry what makes you think you can do it now”
“I’m more powerful then you or Voldemort will ever know, I’m going to kill you, Severus and Voldemort for all that you’ve done to me. I have revenge and hatred too Bellatrix, and I can kill”
“You don’t have the guts to, you maybe in his body, but you still a scared little boy with no one here to protect you” she raised her wand higher to his heart, a purple light shot towards him and missed as he stepped aside but with a flick of his wand and flash of green light, she flew back against the wall with a sickening crunch. He walked the wand still raised and now pointed at her dead body on the floor.
Somewhere in his mind let out a cry of “what the hell have you done!” as he dropped to his knees his head in his hands. He took a deep breath, feeling remorse; he was now no better then she was he was a murderer. He closed his mind wishing and praying to be back at Hogwarts to leave this place and go back to Ginny. His eyes closed as darkness covered him, he was going back to her she would make this ok. He felt exhausted and then felt nothing and saw only darkness.
*****
She sat still looking at him, it had been four days and last time he at least looked like he would wake up. He was still cold pale and deathly looking but today she was going to move closer. She got up and sat at the chair next to his bed. Hermione and Ron had been in every morning, but there was no change and it didn’t look like there was going to be any. She had kept close by, unable to work or think drinking only water, eating little and only leaving him to go to the bathroom. She had slept last night and every night but only due to a sleeping draught.
Hermione had brought the prophet to her one day announcing the death of Bellatrix Lestrange, but no one seemed to now how she had died apart from the fact it was by an unforgivable cast so strongly they assumed it was Voldemort’s doing. Voldemort it seemed was quiet for the time being, so Harry should be safe if Voldemort had killed so why wasn’t he waking up.
She glanced at his body and reached out to hold his hand. It was freezing. She got up and lay next to him touching his cheek with her finger tips, he was pale but where she had touched his face and had started to become pink. She placed a hand on his cheek feeling the cold draining away and warmth spreading as colour returned to his face. She smiled and sat up looking down at him; she leaned in and kissed him. His lips were icy, but they quickly became warm and soon he was kissing back. She moved away in shock as his eyes opened, and a smile formed.
“You’re awake!” she nearly stepped forward as if to throw herself on him and hug him, but stopped herself
“Do you usually kiss unconscious people?”He smiled,
She sat down on the edge of the bed looking forlorn, as he sat up,
“What’s wrong Gin?”
She moved forward fast and began to punch and hit him as hard as she could “WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHATS WRONG! YOU COULD HAVE DIED I THOUGHT YOU’D LEFT ME FOREVER AND YOU WAKE UP SMILING ASKING ME WHATS WRONG!”
He pulled her firmly towards him, holding her tightly so she couldn’t move to lash out again.
“It’s never my choice to leave you, he tried to possess me but I ended up in his body”
“POSSESSED, YOU MEAN I’VE BEEN SITTING HERE WITH HIM IN YOUR BODY!”
“Yes but by the fact your not dead means he couldn’t do anything, and I think it was you that stopped him and you that brought me back”
She took a deep breath and he loosened his grip looking down at her red face.
“What did you do in his body Harry?”
He let go, lied down again and turned away.
“Harry, please tell me what you did”
“You will hate me, I hate me”
“What did you do?”
“I…I …” Harry’s tears began to fall as she lay down next to him; he rolled over and looked into her eyes as she placed a hand on his cheek and stared back,
“I killed her” he closed his eyes he couldn’t look at her how could she love a murderer.
“You…killed…Bellatrix”
“I don’t know what happened, I was there in his body, I felt so...so different and I spoke to her, told her who I was, she tried to hex me and I pointed his wand and she hit the wall and she was…”
“Its ok Harry” she moved closer and pulled him into a hug holding him close. He could feel her heartbeat against his own, her tears falling just as his did.
“I killed someone Gin, how can you still want me im a murderer”
“It wasn’t you, and if it was it was revenge. You wanted justice for Sirius, it’s understandable and she attacked first. You stopped an evil person from killing others the only way she could be stopped, and you show remorse and horror for what you did. Your not a bad person, there’s not an evil bone in your body and I know that everything you do is to protect others including me.”
“I…I …”
“Don’t, its ok, you don’t have to say anything” she kissed his fore head and held on to him, they stayed lying like this for ten minutes before she spoke.
“You’ve been gone four days this time, its nine O’clock on a Sunday morning and madam Pomfrey will be here soon, you’d better go to the toilet before she starts poking and prodding you” he nodded and pulled himself up walking away,
“Harry” he turned to face her,
“It will be ok” she smiled weakly and he smiled slightly back, making his way to the toilets. When the door closed behind him she got up and ran to the great hall, tears still falling she went straight to Ron and Hermione sitting at the table. Hermione saw her and stood up holding her in a hug as Ron remained seated.
“He’s awake” she whispered to her as Hermione looked around the hall faces staring.
“Come on lets go and see him” she wrapped an arm around Ginny and Ron got up and walked with them back to the hospital wing.
Madam Pomfrey was sitting with Harry taking his temperature and feeling his pulse.
“You should stay here tonight under observation”
“Im fine, you said all normal, I want to go back to the dorm”
“You still look quiet pale”
“I have a good reason to be” he looked a the floor and saw them come through the door as Madam Pomfrey left to tell McGonagall, he smiled at the two girls and glanced at Ron,
“You feeling ok then Harry” Said Ron,
“As good as I can be considering”
Hermione was still holding Ginny staring at Harry, “What went on this time?”
He looked at Ginny who nodded, “I...I…” She let go of Hermione and sat next to him holding his hand.
“I was in his body, and I did something” he stared at the floor
“You killed her” said Hermione staring at his hair.
Ron spoke looking at Ginny, “Who?”
“Bellatrix Lestrange” Said Harry. He got up and walked away, none of them trying to stop him. He found himself at the lake and sat under the large oak tree, his head in his hands, his mind filled with thoughts.
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