chapter 19

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" luna quick get the others were going to war " Azula shouts running around still in pain after apparating from the ministry. The underground worked fast and in a couple of quick minutes the entire underground was suited and armed there were old at least 90-year-olds or kids no older than 12 they are mainly mudbloods which Azula, Ginny, Fred and George rescued before they were caught or moments from death the 3 heroes saved as many lives as they could. Fully equipped for battle they apparated on to the Hogwarts grounds which was being used as a death eater base as well as a school run by Dolores Jane Umbridge. McGonagall' stepped out on the grounds "We have already placed protection around the castle," Professor McGonagall was saying, "but it is unlikely to hold for very long unless we reinforce it. I must ask you, therefore, to move quickly and calmly "But her final words were drowned as a different voice echoed throughout the Hall. It was high, cold, and clear. There was no telling from where it came. It seemed to issue from the walls themselves."I know that you are preparing to fight me" There were screams amongst the youngest of the mudbloods some of whom clutched each other, looking around in terror for the source of the sound. "Your efforts are futile. You cannot fight me. I do not want to kill you. I have great respect for the teachers of Hogwarts. I do not want to spill more than I need to blood."There was silence in the courtyard now, the kind of silence that presses against the eardrums, that seems too huge to be contained by walls. "Give me lily Leigh " said Voldemort's voice, "and they shall not be harmed. Give me lily Leigh and I shall leave the school. Give me lily Leigh and you will be rewarded. You have until midnight." Every head turned, every eye in the place seemed to have found lily, to hold her forever in the glare of thousands of invisible beams lily knew the underground wouldn't give her in but the remaining pureblood and half-blood students weren't as trustworthy. Then a figure rose from the crowd and lily recognized him as blake bulletin as he raised a shaking arm and screamed, "But he's there! leigh's there. Someone grab her and we will live !" Before lily could speak, there was a massive movement The members of the underground had stepped in front of her and stood facing, not lily but the few people who had sided with blake. Then some more people stood, and almost at the same moment, the professors the good ones anyways stood all of them with their backs to lily, all of them looking toward blake instead, and lily, awestruck and overwhelmed, saw wands emerging everywhere, pulled from beneath cloaks and from undersleeves blake and his friend back downed and followed professor Flitwick out lily hurried over to luna "Where are ginny and George ?"                             "Haven't you found -?" lily began luna looking worried. but she broke off as Azula had stepped forward on the raised platform to address those who had remained behind. "We've only got half an hour until midnight, so we need to act fast. A battle plan has been agreed between the teachers of Hogwarts and the underground already in case of an attack like this. Professor Flitwick, Sprout and McGonagall are going to take groups of fighters up to the three highest towers where they'll have a good overview, excellent positions from which to work spells. Meanwhile myself and luna "she pointed toward luna Weasley-Lovegood, " and Draco and aveena will take groups into the grounds. We'll need somebody to organize defence of the entrances or the passageways into the school "Sounds like a job for me" called hazel indicating and Azula nodded her approval          ."All right, leaders up here and we'll divide up the troops!"                                                                                                                                                                       "lily," said Professor McGonagall, hurrying up to her, as underground members flooded the platform, jostling for position, receiving instructions, "Aren't you supposed to be looking for something?"                                                                                                                                                                 "What? Oh," said lily "oh yeah!"  she had almost forgotten about the keys which she overheard a death eater say it had been moved to the castle back at the ministry. the battle was being fought so she had time to look for it:  The inexplicable absence of ginny and George had momentarily driven every other thought from her mind. "Then go, lily, go!" McGonagall said rounding up a group of Ravenclaws  "Right yeah  " she sensed eyes following her as she ran out of the Great Hall again, into the entrance hall still crowded with students. Lily hurried up the marble staircase accidentally knocking some over, but at the top she hurried off along a deserted corridor. Fear and panic were clouding her thought processes. were ginny and George dead? She tried to calm herself down to concentrate on finding the jewelled key, but her thoughts buzzed frantically. Without anyone to help her she could not seem to marshal her ideas. she slowed down, coming to a halt halfway along a passage she pressed her hands over her face, and closed her eyes, trying to concentrate. Voldemort thought she'd go to the room of requirement There it was, a solid fact, the place to start. Voldemort had stationed Alecto Carrow in the room, and there could be only one explanation; Voldemort feared that lily already knew the keys to his demise beneath her fingers, lily's eyes flew open again. She leapt up from the plinth and tore back the way he had come, now in pursuit of her one last hope. The sound of hundreds of people marching toward the Room of Requirement grew louder and louder as she returned to the marble stairs. Prefects were shouting instructions, trying to keep track of the students in their own houses, there was much pushing and shouting; lily saw Zacharias Smith bowling over first years to get to the front of the queue, here and there younger students were in tears, while older ones called desperately for friends or siblings. " hey nick " lily shouted as she saw his transparent body flow upwards through the marble staircase "is there the crystal ghost?... or the sister of the person who made the underground ?....Azula mentioned or something " lily asked as he flowed by " do you mean Lucinda Ravenclaw her sister created the place you call the underground she is also rowan Ravenclaw is her mother " nick said floating through people as they ran through him carelessly " she is usually on the Ravenclaw tower balcony area ".                  " thanks bye " lily shouted before heading in that direction. once she arrived she saw a transparent ghost sitting on the stone rail thinking deeply the girl had hair long grey slick hair which was braided in a large long braid she was wearing a black dress which dragged along the floor as she floated away through the solid wall the moment she noticed lily there  "Hey — wait — come back!" lily shouted running after the ghost. The lady consented to pause, floating a few inches from the ground. Lily supposed that she was beautiful, with her hair floor-length braid and black-cloaked hood covering her dress, but she also looked haughty and proud.  "You're Helena's sister aren't you?"  She nodded but did not speak like her sister she liked to avoid people and be alone she floated away over the balcony so lily couldn't follow. Lily begged for her help so finally when she couldn't ignore lily any longer she replied   "That is correct." Her tone was not encouraging.  "Please: I need some help. I need to know anything you can tell me about the lost keys ." A cold smile curved her lips.  "I am afraid," she said, turning to leave, "that I cannot help you without hurting you." she said turning away her back to lily she went to float away "WAIT!"  She had not meant to shout, but anger and panic were threatening to overwhelm her. She glanced at her watch as she hovered in front of her: It was a quarter to midnight. "Ther is urgent," she said fiercely. "If that key's at Hogwarts, I've got to find it, fast."                                   "You are hardly the first student to covet the power holder," she said disdainfully. "Generations of students have badgered me —greedy for the power  "                                                                           "Ther isn't about trying to get power !" Lily shouted at her. "It's about Voldemort — defeating Voldemort — or aren't you interested in that?"  She could not blush, but her transparent cheeks became more opaque, and her voice was heated as she replied, "Of course I — how dare you suggest — ?" she shouted turning around to face lily angrily                                                                              "Well, help me, then!" Her composure was slipping as she got more impatient and the clock continued to tick it felt like midnight was seconds away" It — it is not a question of —" she stammered. "My sister she- the keys —" Lily waited. She drew a deep breath and threw back her head.  "Your sister's?" She looked angry with herself.                                                                               "When I lived," she said stiffly, "I was Lucina Ravenclaw."                                                                       "You're her sister? But then, you must know what happened to it!" 

"While the key bestows power," she said with an obvious effort to pull herself together, "I doubt that it would greatly increase your chances of defeating the wizard who calls herself Lord —" "Haven't I just told you, I'm not interested in taking over the world I want to save it!" Lily said fiercely. "There's no time to explain — but if you care about Hogwarts, if you want to see Voldemort finished, you've got to tell me anything you know about the key!" She remained quite still, floating in midair, staring down at her, and a sense of hopelessness engulfed Lily. She had shaken her head and made to turn away when she spoke in a low voice. "I stole the key from my sister." "You — you did what?" "I stole the key because I was jealous," repeated Lucina Ravenclaw in a whimper. "I sought to make myself better, more important than my sister. I ran away with it." Lily did not know how she had managed to gain her confidence, and did not ask; she simply listened, hard, as she went on:
"My sister, they say, never admitted that the key was gone, but pretended that she had it still. She concealed her loss, my dreadful betrayal, even from my mother " Lily waited. She drew a deep breath and threw back her head. "I became greedy and wanted more power I couldn't be stopped so my dad sent a man to stab me I didn't make it easy but he didn't either he stabbed me " lily sat there listening "end Voldemort the key is hidden with the diadem now go"
Lily left her floating there, looking utterly bewildered. As she rounded the corner back into the entrance hall, she checked her watch. It was five minutes until midnight Lily turned a corner, but he had taken only a few steps down the new corridor when   


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