Licorice Sticks and Aniseed Balls
Summary: Due to an attack on Harry in wizarding London, a spell sends Harry somewhere unexpected. JamesxHarry. Took over the story after the author abandoned it.
Harry, Ron and Hermione where walking down the middle of the main road in Diagon alley. Harry and Ron had agreed to go with Hermione to grabbed supplies that they would need in order to find a way to beat Voldemort once and for all. They had been shopping for what felt like hours and where getting tired. Ron looked at Harry with exasperation as they enter the potion ingredients store, "How much longer do you think we are going to be? I don't know how much more I can take before I drop." Ron exclaims. Harry nods at the comment, thinking the same thing and so decides to go and ask her. Hermione, who had been looking at some potion ingredients, looked up and saw Harry walking up to her.
"How much longer do you think this will take, because it feels like we've been shopping for hours." Harry groaned.
She looked at him with exasperation, "I just need to grab a few more ingredients and then we should be done."
Ron decided at that moment to join then and exclaimed, "Can we grab some snacks, like chocolate balls, or licorice sticks maybe even some jellybeans hmmm?"
Hermione looked at Ron annoyed, "Ron we're here to grab important items, not to satisfy your sweet tooth. We are on a very important mission and can't afford to get sloppy. In case you have forgetting that Voldemort and his death eaters are after Harry"
"Then why are we here picking out ingredients? What could we possibly need them for?" Ron asks.
"Oh I don't know Ron maybe to have potions so that in case we are injured or end up sick, we have them on hand." Hermione said though gritted teeth before picking up flubberworm mucus before continuing, "There we are officially done here. I just need to put this with the other items." She reached out and grabbed the rut sake Harry passed to her. She had already put an enlargement spell on it, so that they could carry everything in it.
Ron gave an excited cry and started to walk towards the door. As they are walking down the street, Harry thought he saw someone watching them as they went by them. He looked around, however couldn't spot them. He turns back to his friends and head out to set up camp.
What the three friends didn't know was that as they passed the passerby's, one of them had placed a silent and untraceable tracking spell on Harry. When the three of them had apparated away, the stranger turned out to be a death eater, and had gone off to report to the dark lord.
Harry and Hermione had just finished demonstrating to Ron how to set up a tent. When they were finished, they turned around and looked to see how Ron was doing. They laughed at what they saw; Ron hadn't got his tent up but had managed to get tangled into it. Shaking their heads, Hermione and Harry ran over to give him a hand. "How did you manage to get yourself tangled?" Harry laughed.
"I have no idea, but quit laughing and help me." Ron said. Once Ron was free from his tent, he began to grumble about evil tents and how he was starting to hate camping. As they trio were about to pitch Ron's tent, Harry heard something in the bushes. He turned to see what it was and dread filled him as he saw one of the last people he wanted to deal with. Coming out of the bush was non-other than Bellatrix Lastrange. Ron and Hermione noticed and were searching the area to see if more death eaters would appear. They had not seen the two death eaters behind them, until they felt a wand being jabbed into their backs. Two more death eaters apparated to the site, and Bellatrix came up to Harry.
"If you don't want anything to happen to them, you will come with me to the dark lord now potty." Bellatrix taunted. The death eaters that had Ron and Hermione started to walk into a nearby forest. With nothing else that could be done Harry follows after. After walking for fifteen minutes, they come to a clearing, and no more than five followers and the dark lord himself were waiting. Voldemort turned around and sneered at Harry and his friends. "Let them go." Harry snarled. The dark lord only smiled and stated, "I don't think so, Potter. They are here to make sure that you don't run away, before I get the chance to have fun with you."
Harry growled, and reached for his wand. He froze however when he found a wand digging into his back painfully. "Bellatrix, there's no need, let Potter grab his wand." the dark lord ordered. Harry glanced over to Ron and Hermione who he found where now not only being held at wand-point but also petrified. "Now, we duel," Voldemort stated. They both barely bow to each other, never letting their eyes leave the other. The spells then started to fly, Harry having trouble blocking and dodging the unforgivable curses. Unfortunately, Harry was not able to avoid all the spells and was hit by it.
"Rescindo Percussio," Voldemort yelled. A jet of bright red light hit Harry straight in the chest, sending him backwards and into a tree by its force. The dark lord leant down over Harry as he woozily got to his feet. "What irony," he states, "That the boy-who-lived was the cause of his own downfall." The death eaters started disappearing away at the signal from their master. Harry, Ron, and Hermione were left alone with Voldemort. Before he also left, the dark lord met Harry's eyes and called out, "Enjoy your life, Potter. What you have left of it."
Harry was on his feet, using the trunk of the tree as support, then slowly limped over and got rid of the body-bind on his friends. "Why is it that every year there's always some kind of trouble," Ron shouts. Harry meets both Hermione's and Ron's eyes and can't help but crack a small smile. Ron grumbles some more as they left and set up wards around their camp site.
A/N: Rescindo Percussio translated is Reversed time. Me and my sister have read this story before and found that the author had not done anything more, so we took over. Made our changes to the story, and hope you enjoy it. We are placing this story on this site and on ,
Rosebud1991 and Lilyflower5189