Heir Of Gryffindor

Chapter Fifteen

"Remember to just breathe and clear your mind. Let go of everything and channel everything towards what's around you. Feel the breeze, the fish swimming in the lake, the rustle of the leaves, everything, and then grasp onto one part of what you feel, and will your energy into it."

I nodded at Elizabeth and closed my eyes. Slowly I drowned out the voices of the students on campus. I drowned out their worried whispers about exams and assignments due, I drowned out their smothered laughs and unreasonable gossip, and listened to what was around me. The breeze ruffled my hair and I smiled softly. I followed the breeze as it whistled through the grass, rustled the leaves, and sent pieces of pollen through the air. The babbling of the lake caught my attention. All the creatures in it seemed to be more alive than normal. Elizabeth told me to pinpoint one element of what I felt, but each thing hit me strongly. I felt everything and it felt amazing. I let out a small breath, and willed my energy into the breeze and the lake. I didn't focus on what I specifically wanted, but they reacted to my energy. The wind picked up furiously and the trees began to shake. The ground rumbled and lightning lit up the sky. The lake and creatures in it began to move in sync to the thunder that rolled over head. Rain came falling down like a river and hit everywhere but me. I opened my eyes and smiled widely at Elizabeth and James who just looked at me in awe. I let everything settle down and sat back on the grass, amazed at what I accomplished.

"Harley that was literally the most amazing thing I've ever seen anyone do. I've tried controlling more than one thing, but I never mastered it. Here you are three weeks in and surpassing your teacher."

I laughed and hugged her tight. James rolled his eyes at us, and I stuck my tongue out at him. He flicked me off, and I fake gasped making him chuckle. In the small amount of time I had known him, he'd grown to be a brother to me, and one of my best friends. It was so easy to talk to him about everything, because he understood. He knew my crazy fear of the things I saw, my overwhelming need to protect everyone, and the consuming guilt that filled me for leaving Bian, Seamus, Neville, Dean, Fred, George, Luna, and everyone else back at Hogwarts.

The three of us walked back into the school, and Madame Maxime called Elizabeth to her office.

James and I continued walking to our temporary rooms in silence. A few students pointed at me and whispered, but I'd learned to tune them out. We finally got to the top floor, and sunk into the couches right by the door. A Quidditch match was on the telly, but we paid no attention to it.

"James... Are you ever going to tell Eliza that you love her?"

He looked at me startled and tried to laugh it off, but I just continued to stare at him. He sighed and let his head fall into his hands.

"I didn't think it was that obvious."

I chuckled quietly and he looked back up at me.

"I've loved her since I met her Harley, and the thing is I've been too worried about losing her... I thought if I told her that I loved her, she'd freak out, and I'd lose her as a friend. I'd rather love her and have her as a friend, than love her and not have her in my life. I knew I loved her the minute we met. Her first words to me were, 'you're weird, I'm amazing, I think we'd make an amazing duo.'"

We paused for a second to laugh, and I grabbed onto his hand.

"James, you are literally the biggest idiot in the world. I didn't even know you two knew each other, but the minute your eyes met at the train station, it literally took my breath away for a second. I've never seen that look shared between two people before. Not even Arthur and Molly share a love quite like you and Eliza. It was the most beautiful thing I've seen. You two are also the most stubborn idiots in the world if you never knew that you both were in love with one another."

He blushed sheepishly and I threw one of the pillows at him. He just rolled his eyes at me, and I laughed before walking back to my bedroom. Andromeda meowed happily when she saw me, and I picked her up in my arms, and cuddled her close to my body. She purred in delight, and I sighed in content. I began to clear my mind but I kept picturing my friends, every single one of them, dying before my eyes. I let a few tears drop, but quickly wiped them away. I went to get off my bed, when a sharp pain went through my body.

Cold air chilled my bones, and I looked around. I was in the middle of Hogsmeade. People passed right through me, and I grimaced as they did. A familiar head of white hair passed me, and I tried to yell out his name, but no matter how loud I yelled, he didn't turn around. I began to follow him through the alleyways, and into a weird antique looking shop. He stopped in front of a wardrobe, he quickly looked around, and stepped inside, and I followed right behind him. We ended up inside Hogwarts and I looked around amazed. Draco sank to the ground and began to cry. My heart broke into a million pieces, but I couldn't do anything to help him. He lifted his head up, and all I saw was his pain. It literally filled every part of his face.

"Why me? Why is it my job to make up for my fuck up of a father? Why is it my fault that he didn't please the jack ass psycho that controls his and my god damn life? Why is it when I finally fall in love, finally have one piece of happiness in my life, I have to hurt her by murdering the one man that has helped her most during her years at Hogwarts? Just tell me why the hell it's fair that I have to deal with this? Why I had to be born a Malfoy!? It's my life. I should be able to make my own god damn choices."

I began crying more, and Snape walked into the room. He rested his hand on Draco's shoulder, and Draco continued to cry.

"I know you don't want to do this, which is why I'l-"

He was cut off by Draco jumping up.

"You don't understand! I have to do this. It has to be me, because if I don't Voldemort will not stop until he personally kills Harley and every person she cares about because he knows it will hurt me to see her hurt, and the minute he kills her, I will not be able to live, and before you say that it's ridiculous, you don't understand. Making her happy is my life goal. I know I'm only seventeen, and still considered a child by most people, but I haven't been a child since the day my father forced me to get the dark mark. I love her with every ounce of my being Severus, and I will do anything I can to make sure she is safe. If she ends up hating me, I will not mind as long as she is alive. That's all the matters. I'd rather love her and have her alive, than be the reason she is dead."

I clutched onto my bed, and let the tears fall down my face. I ran out of my bedroom, and straight into Elizabeth. She looked at my expression, and hugged me tightly while I cried into her chest.

"Liz he's going to die for me. He has to kill someone so I will not die. I- I can't lose him Elizabeth... I love him... And if he dies, I die too."