Harry Potter And The Fortunate Queen

Harry was carried to the Hospital wing on a flying stretcher, Professor Dumbledore was looking very angry; Hermione and Ron were looking very scared, Ginny was looking pale, Chris was tensed, confused, worried.

As they entered the Hospital wing, Professor Dumbledore explained the situation to Madam Pomfrey and left. Madam Pomfrey started to treat Harry, everyone was praising Chris, because she noticed Harry at the right moment, and stopped Harry from hitting the ground, but Chris was distracted. 'The voice, Who was that? What did he mean by they don't know who I'm? Who AM I?' This thoughts were floating in her mind. Finally Wood's voice brought back her, "That was a epic match. I've no hope when I saw Harry falling but then I saw the score. It was amazing." He hugged Angelina, Ginny and then Chris. "We won.. we won because of you three. We won because our Brilliant Chasers."

Madam Pomfrey glared at him and he apologized.

Chris remembered Ginny, she told Madam Pomfrey about the Dementors effect on her and Madam Pomfrey took her, ignoring her objections.

After that Professor Flitwik came in with a bag, Chris looked inside it and found splintered wood and twig.

"Potter's broom." He said and Hermione made a horrified sob. Apparently the Whomping Willow, a killing tree in Hogwarts smashed it.

Few minutes later Colin and Luna came in and went to check Ginny.

All waited for Harry to wake up, luckily as he didn't had any physical injuries, he woke up after few minutes.

"Harry!" said Fred, who looked extremely white underneath the mud. "How're you feeling?"

Everyone came close to his bed to see him.

"What happened?" he said, sitting up so suddenly all gasped.

"The Dementors attacked you and you fainted." Chris said with a expressionless face.

"Chris saw you on time and catched you, then Fred helped her and stopped you from hitting the ground." George said. "For a moment I thought you're dead."

Hermione made a small, squeaky noise. Her eyes were extremely bloodshot.

"But the match," said Harry. "What happened? Are we having a replay?"

"No need to be worried Harry." Wood said patting on his shoulder. "You didn't caught the Snitch but we won."

"We won?" Harry asked surprised.

"Yes. Because of our great Chasers." Fred said looking at Angelina, who rolled her eyes on him.

Harry smiled a little looking at Chris. Chris noticed Harry's smile was forced, it was like he wants to thank her for taking the burden of 'lose' from him but the pain inside him was too much for a smile.

After ten minutes or so, Madam Pomfrey came over to tell the team to leave him in peace. She asked Ginny to stay for a while. Chris said that she'll be back soon to check on them and left the Hospital wing. Luna and Colin tried to follow her but she said that she wanted to be alone. Colin took Ginny and her's Firebolt and left with Luna.

Chris walked and walked until she was at the Astronomy tower, the highest tower in Hogwarts castle. She didn't knew what she have to do to get her answers but she wanted to try. She closed her eyes and whispered, "I want to talk." Soon she felt cold and opened her eyes. A cloaked figure was floating in front of her.

"Who are you?" Chris asked looking at it.

"I've no name." The Dementors answered and Chris realized something.

"Your voice... You're the one who told them to back off?" Chris asked surprised.

"Almost all of us have same voices but you're right. You heard my voice but I was not the reason they left the boy, it was you my Queen."

"My Queen? Why're you calling me that? What do you mean by it was me?" Chris raised her eyebrows.

"You're the Queen, we're destined to obey. We can't harm you."

Chris realized she wasn't feeling depressed like others felt around Dementors. "You mean you can control the environment around you. You make people sad intentionally."

"Yes."

"Fascinating... but why are you destined to obey me?"

"That I can not tell. We can't see, we feel. I can feel the aura of your soul and say that you're the Queen, we should obey. I am the oldest among all of them, that is why I recognise you the moment I came close to your aura."

"The aura of my soul? .... this is getting complicated.... is the animals obey me because of the same reason?"

"I can not tell. I never tried to feel presence of any creatures other than human. It easier to feel the humans because of their complexity of emotions."

"Hmm... wait. Why you all came into the field and attacked Harry... again?"

"We felt Sirius Black's presence there, so we went but we didn't intented to harm that boy. I even told that to the Headmaster Dumbledore."

"You didn't intended then why did you did that?"

"I asked the same questions to the others, they only answered that somehow they were attracted to him. There was not something normal in that boy like other humans. My Dementors felt the urge to suck the soul like he didn't needed it."

"What? Why will he not need his soul? Are you sure there was something different with him?"

"Yes."

"And Sirius Black was at the field?"

"Yes."

"But how no one noticed him?"

"I think he used the same trick like before when he escaped from our prison."

"Hmm... What happened exactly in your prison?"

"We were giving food to him like everyday we do, when suddenly we realized there wasn't any feeling of Black, we thought he died but when we searched for his body.... there was nothing, he escaped. We informed the Ministry after that and told the Minister everything... Black was mumbling in his sleep for few days like 'he is in Hogwarts... he is in Hogwarts'. The Minister said we should guard Hogwarts then and we came."

"Hmm... interesting..."

"If you need me for anything else you can remember me anytime."

"Yeah. Thanks but it's quite difficult without a name and without able to recognize you in a crowd of Dementors."

"You can give me a name if you want."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Ok then I'll call you Dames." Chris blurted out the first name came in her mind.

"Thank you my Queen.You can summon me anytime anywhere just calling my name."

"Wait. Wait. I've more questions."

"I know you've my Queen, I sensed confusion inside you. You don't know who you are. But I am very sorry, I don't have the answers. Sorry to disappoint, but I'll warn the others to not harm that boy anymore," said the Dementor, or Dames and floated away then stopped and came back. "My Queen... Can I advise you something?"

"Yes?"

"I can feel your presence very quickly but other Dementors don't, they will not able to feel your presence like me, so can you use the charm next time? So they can understand that it's you."

"Which charm?"

"The charm of happiness, which we can not b.a.r.e as it's too much for us."

"If you are not able to b.a.r.e it then how will you understand that it's me?"

"We can sense the happiness. We'll understand. Don't worry."

Chris nodded and he left.

Chris stood there alone for few minutes, proceeding all of this in her brain.

"So according to the oldest Dementor.. sorry.. Dames... according to Dames, I'm a some kind of Queen and that's why everyone obey me." She was mumbling alone. "And Harry have something weird inside him, which attracted the Dementors... well... and now I've to learn the spell which the Dementors couldn't b.a.r.e." said Chris with a thoughtful expression then her expression changed into a smirk. "Ok... so.... I can ... talk to .... Dementors...

This. Is. Freaking awesome...."

She calmed down herself then went to the Hospital wing.

It was almost dinner time and Chris was still in her dirty muddy robes, and thinking Madam Pomfrey will not like it, she changed her plan and first went to Gryffindor tower for a shower. As soon as entered their was burst of applause for her. Every Gryffindor congratulate her for winning the match, Angelina told everyone that scoring more without the help of Snitch was Chris's idea. Wood practically lifted her from the ground in happiness. After hearing the clapps and chanting, she finally entered her bathroom and took a shower. She thought, she needed to check on Harry and Ginny but when she came downstairs, she saw Ginny was back and was looking better; and Fred, George, Angelina and Wood dragged them to the Great Hall for celebration.

After a while she made a excuse of being tired and took some desert and sneaked into the Hospital wing.

Harry was sitting alone in his bed, looking at the shattered remnants of his Nimbus Two Thousand. Chris sat beside the bed and gave him the desert.

"No thanks. I'm not hungry." Harry said and tried to smile but failed miserably.

"Deserts aren't for hunger. Deserts are for improving the mood, which you really need right now." Chris said.

Harry didn't said anything and just looked down. Chris sighed.

"I know Harry, a broom can be a nearest thing to someone's heart. I love my Firebolt too. Ginny look after hers like it's a kid." Chris said.

Harry was silent. Chris put the desert away.

"Fine you don't wanna talk. Don't talk. I get it."

There was silence for a long time. Almost fifteen minutes, Chris guessed.

"Ok. Bye then." She said as she got up.

"I saw the grim... again." Harry's voice was a little more than whisper but Chris heard him.

"The grim? Professor Trelawney's grim." Chris sounded as normal as possible and sat down again.

"Yes. It's a big black dog. I saw it before when I left the Durselys' house. Then... today... at the stand."

"So you think today's accident happened because of the grim?" Chris knew that's not the reason but she didn't wanted to lecture him. "What happened before? When you saw the black dog?"

"I had nearly been run over by the Knight Bus."

"Oh! The wizarding bus?"

"Yes." Harry sighed. "I don't know Chris, it's because of that dog or not but...."

"You're scared...?"

"No..." he almost shouted then said, "Yes. I guess I'm. I felt horrible when those Dementors attacked me today..."

Chris holded Harry's hand. "Tell me."

Harry took a deep breath, "Remember I told you all last time, I heard someone screaming!.... I heard them again... but this time it was clear....

When the Dementors approached me, I heard the last moments of my mother's life, her attempts to protect me, from Lord Voldemort, and Voldemort's laughter before he murdered her …"

Harry was shaking badly, Chris hugged him tightly, after few minutes he calmed down in her embrace and hugged her back. And whispered only one word, "Thanks." Chris just smiled.

Madam Pomfrey insisted on keeping Harry in the hospital wing for the rest of the weekend, Chris visited him few times.

Sunday evening when she was returning from Hospital wing, someone called her. She looked back and saw Cedric Diggory, the Hufflepuff team captain. Yesterday she didn't noticed him much because of the rain and the match, now Chris admitted he was really good looking, tall boy, as Angelina mentioned. He came jogging towards her.

"Hey." He said smiling.

"Hi..." replied Chris without any kind of expression.

"Umm.. Chris, right?"

"Yeah. Christina Norton. But Chris is fine."

"Cedric Diggory." He hold his hand out.

"I know, you're the Hufflepuff team captain." Chris said shaking hands.

"Yes. And you're a chaser in Gryffindor, I heard from my team. You were really great, I even saw you few times while playing."

"Thanks.. I guess."

"Yeah.. so I was going to ask.. how is Potter?"

"Oh! He is much better now. He'll be out from Hospital wing tomorrow."

"Great.... Look I really didn't understood what happened there.. if I have been saw Potter before, then I would've helped him from those Dementors."

"It's fine Cedric. No one could've helped him."

"But you did."

"What?" Chris asked surprised.

"I mean I saw you dragging him away from the Dementors."

"Yeah. I did that. Didn't know how.. it just... happened." Chris lied.

Diggory nodded. "Ok. See you then. Good night."

"See you later. Good night." Chris said and hurriedly left.

She didn't wanted to tell anyone about her talk with Dames, before she found out the whole thing going around her. 'I've to meet Professor Lupin.'

Next day after lunch they had Transfiguration. Professor McGonagall's classes were always hard work, but Chris always liked the Transfiguration class, so she didn't had much problems in that class. They had the class with Ravenclaws, so the three of them sat with Luna. They were supposed to be turning beetles into a buttons. Chris and Ginny were the first to do so in class. Luna did after few times but Colin had big problems. He gave his beetle a lot of exercise as it scuttled over the desktop avoiding his wand.

After a long a transfiguration class, Chris lied to her friends that Professor Lupin asked her to meet after class and left towards the Defence Against the Dark Arts class room, hoping that he would be still there. Chris didn't wanted to go to the staff room.

"You made that Dementor on the train back off," Chris heard Harry's voice, as she came close to the classroom door.

Chris peaked inside and saw Harry with Professor Lupin. A ray of wintry sunlight fell across the classroom, illuminating Lupin's grey hairs and the lines on his young face. It certainly looked as though he had been ill. His old robes were hanging more loosely on him and there were dark shadows beneath his eyes.

"There are – certain defences one can use," said Lupin. "But there was only one Dementor on the train. The more there are, the more difficult it becomes to resist."

"What defences?" said Harry at once. "Can you teach me?"

"I don't pretend to be an expert at fighting Dementors, Harry – quite the contrary …"

"But if the Dementors come to another Quidditch match, I need to be able to fight them..."

"I think that's the thing I need to learn." Chris whispered. But it was a little louder as Professor Lupin's voice came soon after that, "Who's there?"

Chris sighed and entered the class.

"It's me Professor. I wanted to talk to you." Chris said and saw a bit of relief on Harry's face. "But when I saw Harry with you, I was just leaving..."

"Yes? What do you wanted to talk about?" Lupin asked seriously.

"... umm... the same as Harry, Professor, to learn the defence of fighting Dementors." Chris said.

"I don't know where this is coming from Christina.. but you're just in second year." Lupin said sharply.

"I can not teach you a this much advanced magic."

Chris's face fell, "I'm sorry Professor. I just thought it's a good thing as the Dementors are roaming around us. I came here to ask you if I can at least try. Sorry." Chris looked down and tried to leave.

"Professor! Chris helped me on the field, do you know?" Harry said suddenly. Lupin and Chris both looked at Harry, he continued, "I mean the Dementors are problem to everyone. So we both can at least try to learn, can't we?"

Chris gave a small smile looking at Harry, then looked determined as much as Harry.

Lupin looked into both of their faces, hesitated, then said, "Well … all right. I'll try and help. But it'll have to wait until next term, I'm afraid. I have a lot to do before the holidays. I chose a very inconvenient time to fall ill."

Then started the Quidditch practice... again. They had match with Ravenclaw at the end of the November. Soon the day came, Harry was in great mood and maybe because of Dumbledore's anger there was no sign of Dementors near Hogwarts. So the match went pretty well, Chris scored three goals, Ginny and Angelina two each, Harry caught the Snitch and Gryffindor won the second match in a row. Wood was happy beyond imagination.