Chapter eleven: Ravenclaws Wand
They next few weeks seemed to fly by for Harry, he had composed several ideas for what to say for entry of the room of requirement. He had came up with endless possibilities and he didn't know where to start. Hermione was for the first time no use to Harry, nor was anybody else as he was speaking a language once used by Godric Gryffindor which for no reason Harry seemed to know.
He spent many hours standing outside of the room attempting in vain to try and get in. After many attempts he simply gave up.
and now the start of the winter was arriving, the students gathered more inside the school as it was to bitter to stand around speaking to a brick wall. Harry had been labelled mad many a time, but this would top it, if anyone found out.
Hermione had joined him in his office on the Sunday morning, she looked annoyed.
"Harry haven't you figured it out yet?" she said impatiently.
"No...nothing works." he said trying to remember anything that might possibly help him.
"Well...this may sound...a bit...silly -" she began.
"What..." Harry interrupted eager for ideas.
"Well...you could try...telling the wall who you are...and to open up!" she said nervously.
"Hermione...that...might...just work" he stood up and kissed her. He went into his trunk and pulled out his invisibility cloak.
"See you in a bit" he darted out of the room. Hermione waited a minute and pulled out an object looking vaguely familiar, she adjusted it and put it back in the cloak.
Twenty minutes later Harry was preparing to start. He waited until it cleared of people then he began his move.
"I Harry Potter order you to reveal the Horcruxe." he spoke aloud in his mind. Nothing happened.
"Try speaking Gryffindors language." a little voice said in his mind. So he tried that instead.
"hartabenfaged granhascientta yunmuttruscurse deaghighjube" he said walking past the wall three times with his eyes. He opened them and standing in front of him was a huge golden door with red marking around it.
"Maybe Gryffindor made this place" Harry said aloud.
"Yes maybe he did...you took your time though didn't you" came a cool voice he instantly recognised as Ginny.
"Oh no...don't think for one second that you are coming." Harry said noticing Neville and Luna standing behind her with Ron and Hermione.
"Don't you dare think for a second your stopping us" she said pulling out his wand."Don't make me curse you Harry...were coming thats that." she said.
"Ginny you wouldn't attack me...and it's too dangerous." Ginny huffed. "I wouldn't - Furnunculus!" she shouted. Harry just stood there it bounced right off him.
"Come on Gin, i thought you were better than that." and with that he walked into the room, hoping they took the hint.
The sight his saw made his eyes swirl in there sockets, it was an enormous chamber...larger than the great hall...and was filled with another giant maze...the same height as a the tri wizard tournament maze...Harry did not wish to think what was in there.
"Wow it's massive...what do you think is in there." came a voice from behind him.
"I don't know - Hey, get out now...i nearly died in the last maze and voldermorts made this one...it will be harder."
"We don't care we are coming whether you like it or not." There was only one thing for it. Harry dashed inside the maze and stopped at the entrance. He turned around and pointed his wand at the Hedges...which closed inwards blocking off the path.
Harry sighed and continued down the path.
"HARRY POTTER!" somebody screeched. "REDUCTO!" she shouted. the hedge was blasted to pieces, revealing an annoyed Hermione her hair crackling like electricity. Standing there with her wand pointing at him.
"We are coming with you!" she said taking a step forward.
"Do what you like" Harry said turned on his heel and strode further into the maze. Hermione nodded and the others followed.
"Wait up Harry!" they shouted running after him.
"Duck!" he shouted, a Dragon flew straight at them flashing it's claws, on his first swoop he was unlucky and missed. On his next swoop he was blasted by a Green light which stopped him in his tracks. He was dropping out of the sky and was about to land on the others. He stopped the Dragon and vanished it. Shook his head and continued.
The others looked very nervous after that but never the less they continued and followed him. Then they felt it the icy chill once again, the rattling noise the feeling of unhappiness. Dementors.
"Is this the best you have Tom, eh, this is to easy." He vanished the Dementors with hardly any effort, and proceeded. A flash of Green light shot towards him. He deflected it away. "For god's sake, this is too easy." he said continuing forgetting the people that were following him.
"Harry wait up!" Hermione shouted.
"WHY, you are in to much danger, there are Death Eaters in here, and i have to keep all of you alive...it's not helping." he said speaking the truth. It pained him to say it. Another Green light shot over his shoulder. Harry created a shied wall in front of them the spell bounced back off and reflected at it's sender.
"Don't you see...i can't lose any of you" he said trying to make them understand.
"You won't, just leave us and we will help you."
"Fine...do what you want...if you won't listen...then i can't stop you." He looked at them and then took the next right in the maze.
"Point me" he whispered. His wand began to move on his outstretched hand and pointed to the left of him.
"Hmmm....REDUCTO! the hedge blew apart, it was total devastation yet, in the middle of the stone courtyard stood a stand and rested on it was Ravenclaws wand, Harry wondered how on earth Voldermort had found it. Yet there it was sitting there waiting to be taken.
"This is where you help me, whatever i say you do...if i say run..you run, if i say leave me and save yourselves..you do it...do you understand" he suddenly remembered having near enough the same conversation with Dumbledore before they went to the cave.
Harry started his approach to the wand when the floor began to rumble and then gave way. They threw themselves backwards and managed to reach the path behind the hedge.
"How do we get to it?" Ron said
"I have an idea" Hermione spoke up. "Carpe retractum" a orange light shot out of her wand forming a whip, as it made it's way to the wand it hit an invisible wall.
"Like last time but a bit different the only way for me to retrieve this is to fly and pick it up with my hand...then i presume the ceiling will collapse." Harry said deep in thought.
"It's time for you to go." He said.
"Why Potter...scared your friends are going to get hurt?" it was a Death Eater and he was not alone.
"What do you want...don't try and stop me...i presume you've seen my death count." Harry said coolly.
"Yes, i have Potter, am i to believe you are beginning to enjoy using it." he said.
"and what makes you think that you are any different than the rest of them." Harry said his eyes fixed on the other Death Eaters who were spreading out.
"Because i am the Half-Blood Prince." he said revealing his identity.
"Snape you should not have come here to day...i have allot of rage against you...you wouldn't live...coward."
"I am not a coward!" Snape screamed shooting a spell at Harry who deflected it away to a Death Eater who fell to the floor and did not get back up.
"You are the coward who won't fight without his friends behind him" Harry turned around and pointed his wand at them. He dissaparated them to Godrics Hollow.
"Well then looks like where alone. oops, not just yet, didn't see him." A man was slowly backing away trying to escape, the man vaguely reminded him of someone. It was wormtail.
"Avada Kedavara" Snape shouted pointing at Harry.
"Is that the best you have got" Harry said mockingly returning his own spell which just missed Snape.
"If i don't kill you Voldermort will Potter...you can't win" Snape said, the pair of them circling the room.
"Voldermort has no power over me...just like you." Harry replied, sending another shot which hit the floor in front of Snapes feet.
"Potter why do you hesitate to kill me...i killed Dumbledore." Snape said.
"No you didn't...Dumbledore tricked you...by you killing him...you unleashed me...Dumbledore knew that...he sacrificed himself for me...and the only way i can repay him is to kill you." Harry said concentrating on Snape.
"Do it then...if you can" Snape said confident that Harry would not do it.
Harry smiled he had a better idea. "CRUCIO!" all the years Snape had taught him and teached and punished him, the anger was flowing through his mind and out his wand. Snapes screams and cries filled the chamber.
"Like i said..you unleashed me" Harry said trying not to enjoy what he had done.
"Kill me!" Snape pleaded the spell had driven him to insanity.
"With Pleasure...Avada Kedavra" he mumbled. a flash of green light shot out of his wand and hit him squarely on the chest. Snape was dead.
Harry remembered why he was here and conjured his broom. He climbed on and shot out towards the wand. He felt a cooling feeling as he passed through the shield.
His reached out for the wand and scooped it up, he then darted out of the shield and began to fly away. As he predicted the ceiling began crumbling. Large pieces.
Using his Quiditch skills he managed to dodge most of them and used spells to blast some away. Eventually he reached the door. "Alohomora" the door swung open and he flew out.