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The ministry was oddly dark and quiet for this time of night. The six of us ran across the marbled floors to the lifts. “We must get down to the department of mysteries. I know he’s there; I know it! I saw it! Voldemort has Sirius! He needs help.” Harry was very distraught at the thought that Sirius needed help.
“Harry! HARRY STOP!! What if it’s a trap?” Hermione tried her best to get Harry to stop, but he kept on and on until we reached level 9.
A cool voice came through the lift. “Stopping level 9 department of mysteries.”
All of us got out of the lift. “Harry are you sure that Sirius is here?” Ron looked around the hallways. “It’s awfully quiet down here. I don’t even see any unspeakables.”
“Yes, for the last bleeding time HE’S HERE I KNOW IT! He’s gotta be behind one of these doors. Come on and HELP ME!” Harry starts yanking on any door he can get a hold of. Finally, one opens.
The room harry opened is empty. It’s just more doors leading to more hallways. “This way, this it I know it! I saw this in my dream.” Harry ran in and started pulling on those doors. None of them opened until the rest of us came into the room with him.
The door behind us slammed shut. “Harry it’s pretty silent down here. Are you positive Sirius is behind a door here?” Hermione tried to point out that there was only them here.
“YES, FOR THE LAST f*ckING TIME! I can feel him Hermione. He’s through one of these doors. Try them all!” Harry ordered us to start opening doors. None but one opened and we hadn’t even touched it yet. “This way, he’s between a shelf at the end. I can feel it in my bones He’s through this door.” Harry darted through the open door without any precautions.
The rest of us slowly followed Harry. Something didn’t feel right. The place shouldn’t be this empty, especially at this time of night. There wasn’t a guard or anything. Harry ran in between the aisles looking at the ends. “Where is he? He’s supposed to be here.”
Pops were heard all around us. Turning around we saw death eaters descending on us. “Harry, I told you it was a trap. Sirius isn’t here. He was never here. Voldemort planted the idea in your head.” Hermione tried again to reason with Harry, but he wasn’t having it.
“Shut up shut up SHUT UP! YOU’RE LYING! HE’S HERE, I KNOW IT! HE’S HERE!!” Harry had finally flown off his broom handle. “YOU KNOW NOTHING YOU’RE JUST A MUDBLOODED BITCH YOU’VE NEVER CARED ABOUT ANYONE BUT YOU’RE SELF!”
Hermione was floored. How could one of her best friends talk to her that way? “You know Harry I’m sorry I’ve tried and tried and tried to keep you alive. I hope you make it through tonight. Look around! This is a trap Harry and you’ve led us right into it.”
“If I were you POTTER, I’d listen to the know-it-all mudblood. She’s right you know. You fell for the dark lord’s trap, hook line and sinker. Now he wants something from row 205, you’d best scuttle along and get it for him.” Lucius Malfoy pointed his wand at Harry. “Imperio now potter go down to row 205 about halfway and grab the orb that’s sitting there you’re your name on it.”
“Harry! Don’t do it! Fight the curse, Harry!! Don’t hand him that orb!” Luna slid up next to Harry. “You must drop the orb, Harry. Let the mist go into the ether, drop it! DROP IT NOW HARRY!’
Harry dropped the orb he was holding. The white mist rose up in the shape of a woman. “For nether can live while the other survives.”
More pops were heard around the room, the order had arrived. Help had come. “Pup, why. Why did you come and bring your friends?” Sirius was here and he was looking at Harry.
“But padfoot HE HAD YOU he had you tied up!?” Harry was shaking his head. “I saw it, I know he had you tied up just there.” Harry turned and pointed towards the darker end of one of the rows. “He was torturing you. I heard your screams. I heard them!”
“Harry you’ve been played. I was at home eating dinner when I got the call that you lot had taken off on a rescue mission.” Sirius looked at harry and shook his head. “All you had to do was send me a fire message or an owl.”
Harry looked around and shook his head. He started walking towards Sirius.
“Come on let’s get you lot out of here and back to school.” Sirius grabbed Harry and gave him a hug. “I’ll see you to the fireplaces, come on.”
Leaving the room was a mistake. Spells were flying everywhere; we were backed into a corner. We were backed into a dark room with an archway that was speaking to us. “NO DON’T! Don’t go near that arch! It’s not a good thing. Can’t you hear the whispers!” Luna was wise beyond her years.
“She’s right Harry, you can’t go near that veil.” Sirius tried to pull us away from it, only to stop when a high-pitched laugh cut through the darkness.
“Run Harry! You mustn’t stay here, no matter what happens, you have to take your friends and leave. We’ll hold her off. Bella is no match for you all. You’re only help is to get back to school and stay there. I’ll send you a letter when I’ve dispatched her.” Sirius grabbed us all and pushed us towards the exit.
“BELLA! Come out and fight like a witch! You won’t make it out of this chamber tonight if I have anything to say about it.” Sirius spun around looking for Bellatrix.
“Cousin cousin. cousin you know better than that. You know you can’t best me.” Bellatrix pointed her wand right at Sirius’s heart. “You marked your death by coming here tonight.” She shot a spell towards Sirius who in turn blocked it.
Spells flew back and forth lighting up the death chamber. One finally found its mark and knocked Sirius right through the Veil. The look on his face as he fell backwards through it was a surprise. The green light had landed right on Sirius’s chest, and he flew back wards through the archway.
“NOOOOOOOOO SIRIUS!!!!” Harry screamed and rushed towards Bellatrix who was cackling madly.
“I KILLED SIRIUS BLACK! I KILLED SIRIUS BLACK!” She was cackling and dancing around the room mad as a hatter.
Hermione yanked Harry’s arm and eventually got him to turn and run out of the room. “We must go Harry. Sirius would want us to leave. He’d want us to get out and go after her later. We must go let the adults take care of things!”
Harry spun and pointed his wand in Hermione’s face. “It’s your fault. He’d still be alive if it wasn’t for you. You were the one standing next to him. She was aiming for you and Sirius took the spell. You’re nothing to me anymore, you’re nothing but a worthless mudblooded bitch. SIRIUS WAS KILLED BECAUSE OF YOU!!” Harry’s voice was soft at first but then he was roaring in Hermione’s face.
“Don’t worry Hermione. Harry doesn’t mean it. He’ll calm down later.” Luna took Hermione by the arm. “We’ll get out of here and let Dumbledore know and he can fix it.”
“Dumbledore can’t fix this one Luna. Sirius fell through the death veil. He’s never coming back, and it's all that mudbloods fault. She’s supposed to be the smart one and she couldn’t even stop him from falling backwards though the veil.” As always Ron had pipped up and took Harry’s side.
Hermione was softly crying, no one knew but she and Sirius had secretly been dating before this mess of a night. She wasn’t about to tell anyone that though. Wiping her tears she shoved to the front and left through the closet fireplace back to Hogwarts. She was going to pack her things and move out of Gryffindors common room. She had nowhere to go, but that was ok.
The rest of the group followed Hermione through the fireplace and once back at Hogwarts Harry took off on his own. Hermione didn’t care where he went as long as he left her alone. “Why are you crying? You don’t deserve to cry. Sirius was nothing to you, but he was my GODFATHER! MINE!! You don’t deserve anything. I don’t want to see your face again.” Harry had turned on Hermione.
“I’ll just be going then Harry. I’m sorry about your godfather, but it wasn’t my fault. You can’t survive the killing curse Harry, you know that!” Hermione looked at Harry with tear filled eyes. “You won’t see me again Harry.”
“If you can’t survive the killing curse, then how did I do it? Sirius had finally gotten free; I was going to live with him and have a real home, but you went and f*cked that all up didn’t you. You should’ve never gone to the ministry with us. You’re just a waste of a witch.” Harry stalked off and up the stairs. “Don’t even think about showing up to Grimmauld place for the funeral. You won’t be welcomed!”
Ron brushed past Hermione. “Yeah bitch, what Harry said. I always knew you were worthless.”
“If I’m so worthless Ron then why have I been the one to do your homework for you through the years. I won’t do it again. You can count on that. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be going since I’m apparently not wanted here.” Hermione spun on her heels and walked off.
“Ronnekins she’s got a point. You and Harry always had Hermione to do your homework for you.” Fred and George turned around from their comfy chairs by the fire. “Think on that while you do upstairs.”
“I don’t care about that bitch. She’s not that smart. I can do my own homework now.” Ron stalked off after Harry.
The twins just looked at each other and turned back to the fire. They knew that Ron and Harry were making a huge mistake. One day they would learn, one day they would get their comeuppance.
