A different Path
by: lilacsympathy
After the triwizard tounrnament harry hadn't been able to sleep ….He kept seeing Cedric die again and again. The lifeless unseeing eyes haunted his very being …every time he dreamt he heard "kill the spare" "its your fault that I am dead" " I hate you" they all continued to aaccuse him. The guilt ate away him; his only reprieve was when his uncle had worked him so hard that he was to exhausted to think or even to dream.
The treatment of his relatives had only gotten worse and Harry was absolutely terrifiedof his uncle ; he was afraid everytime his aunt would step out of the house, afraid of what he would do to him. He desparately wished that he had some to speak with, Ron Hermoine, Sirius even Professor Lupin. He had never felt so alone. Ron and Hermoine hadn't written him all summer long and he tried many times to send them a letter but he alwas got the letter returned unopened. Until one day he got a letter from Ron saying:
harry everything boring bye ron
Ron had never sent him a letter so curt and to the point. and he began to worry to himlself
I hope everything is alright ,that's not like ron at all…I wonder whats wrong with him , I hope he is safe.
All of a sudden he was jerked out of reprieve when he heard his aunt yell up the stairs
" Me and dudders are going out I want this house spotless boy do you understand me"
Harry shouted back "yes aunt petunia"
When harry was outside in the back yard uncle vernon came outside and said " BOY! Get in here now" harry was quaking with fear"boy" he said what is the meaning of this " harry began to stutter" I-I -i'm sorry I didnt see it I'm sorry" harry didn't see the blow that knockesd him off his feet his head spacked against the kitchen floor blood began seeping out of the backof his head right before the blissfull darkness knocked him out the last thing he remembered was his uncle kicking him in the stommach repeatrely
Grimauld Place…
Sirius had been antsy. He was worried ..he hadnt received a letter from harry all summer and it was beginning to worry him greatly he could feel something was wrong and he could feel it in his gut he was severley axouis. He had asked ron to to forward any letters from harry to him he couldn't believe when harry hadnt sent anything according to ron little did he know that ron had rejected every letter from Harry that summer… he could feel he asked albus to send some one to check on harry he coudlnt shake the feeling that something was wrong.. but albus said ' I 'm sorry my boy… but im sure harry is aboslutely fine with his relatives there is nothing to worry about" but Sirius wasn't conviced he had to know to see for himself that harry was ok . So he contoacted remus the only other marauder left and his long time love.
"Remus I know im asking a lot from you so soon after the full moon but io cant seem to shake this feeling that harry is in danger it killing me Remmy" and remus answered tiredly
" I ll go tonight padfoot promise ok and if anything is wrong at all I bring harry straight here.
"Thanks"
Later that night…
Remus snuck up to the front door and opened with a charm and he silenced the alarm before it had the chance to go off… and he made his way wuitely up the stairs and began to sniff for harry the gentle smeel of vanilla and rain but hen he found it dread filled his stomach. Blood..harry's blood oh no he thought to him self when he got to the door with the 7 bolt locks he as qukily as he could unlocked each and eveyone of themhis hand reached for the door handle and when he tunred the knob nothing could haveperpared him for the sight that he saw.
Harry, his cub bloody and beaten cuts and bruises coverd his tiny trembling frame and hedwig looking worriedly a harry trying to nudge him awake. He wanted to do nothing but kill the Durselyes for letting thid hsppen the werewolf roared inside of hime to break free and le him taste the blood of the Durleys to kill them without mercy, with no remorse. His reverie was broken when when he heard his little cub whimper in pain on the bare thread cotton matress. He quickly went over and shook harry as gently as he could to wake him and he whispered cub.. wake up baby.. I need you to tell me whe re your things are so we can get you out of here… harry opened his beautifule emarlead green eyes and smiled painfully and he said
"I hope someone would come and take me away. thank you."
before his eyes began water and he began to cough violently "
hush baby its ok… where are your things?" he whispered gently
"the cubard under the stairs and under the lose floor board"
and accioed them to him ignoring the braking noises they made on there way up the stairs he could care less he needed to get his cub out as quickly as possible. He shrunk them down put them in his pocket and he blasted open the window and said to hedwig got to grimmaul place girl and placed where it was in here head so she could get through the fidelious charm on the house…. He picked harry up a gently as he could and just as his uncle busted open the door Remus apparted straight in to the kitchen of grimauld place he screamed.
"Sirius! Sirius! come quickly"
Sirius came rushing down the stairs and unfortunately it had been in the middle of an order meeting and everyone came rushing to see what the problem was. Everyone gasped as they saw ,there bruised and bloody, the savoir of the wizarding world. The one that's the most startled was Severus Snape as soon as the shock had worn of enough to let his brain function and said,
"Lupin put him on the couch and I will admisiter the potions and I can sense that his vitals are getting low and we need to put him in stasis before Poppy gets here ,one of you he said,to the order ,please go to hogwarts and collect poppy pomfrey we will obliviate her if we hve to… well. what are you waiting for GO!"
Everyone went into a flurry of acctivity , Remus set harry down on the couch and Severus got to work immediately running against the clock to get harry into stasis before it was to late. He prayed to the gods that he was going to make, not just for his own sake but for everyone else. Sirius was beyond distraught. He had no idea what to do. His pup, his baby, was in so much pain and there was nothing he could do aboutl it. He wanted to cry so despartely ,but he had to be strong for Harry. and Harry opened his eyes and looked around breifly. he saw siris and he whispered horsely "Siri"
"I'm here baby I'm right here
and he whispered " I missed you… "
I missed you too baby and all I want to to do is rest. no talking. Just rest for me, please.
He nodded tiredly and closed his just poppy came trohough the floo and she healed him to the best of her ability and after she was taken back to hogwarts and obliviated.
Harry awakens…
When harry awoke he found himself in a warm and comfortable bed a relized that it all hadn't been a dream and Remus had really come to save him and brought him to where Sirius was. When he looked around the room he was in he relized that the potions professor of Hogwarts Witchcraft and Wizardry had fallen alseep at his bed side. He had expected Remus or Siruis even but never expectred Severus Snape to be watching over him ….Severus after years of being a spy had awoken the moment he felt harry stir but wanted to wait to see what he would do but when he heard Harry trying to move around he pretened to wake up and said " you know you shouldn't be out of bed" startled harry felll back on to the bed with a cry because some of the wounds hadnt been able to be healed. Severus rushed to his side and offered him a pain relieveing potion. And harry swallowed it gratefully and felt it take affect almost immediately … but Sirius and Remus had bounded up the stairs at Harry's cry of pain they swung the door open and sighed in relief when they found him to be all right …Sevrus quickly excused himself saying that he had potions to attened to. Sirius sat down and asked
"How are you feeling pup"
Harry smiled and said "I'm feelin alright a little sore and tired but other than that better than I ve felt in a long time" he gave a wan smile and asked where are we.
Sirius replied "we are in the Black house hold of grimauld place where I grew up ."
He nodded and looked to to Remus and said
" thanks for saving me professor lupin"
and Remus replied "Remus please I'm not your professor anymore"
and he ruffled harrys already messy hair then sirius look thoguhtful "
why didn't you writer at all this summer pup?"
he look confused when sirius asked that and
replied "I've wrtitten tons of letters this summer but they all came back unopened no ones said anything to me all summer" he looked down at his knees and said "I thought everyone had forgotten" me with a small embaressed blush appearing on his cheeks and sirius replied
"oh cub I could never forget about you.you mean the world to me I would never ever forget you lovely…"
"thanks sirus I think needed to hear that"
and he smiled Sirius asked him "are you hungry?" Harry never had the chance to reply because his stomach growled sirius gave loud barking laugh and said I guess that's ayet hmm harry blsuhed again an nodded. "
alright I bring you something hold on tight alright"
and harry nodded gently after sirius left he was left with remus and harry asked him…
"err when you brought me hear you ummm called me cub I was wondering wh if you don't mind you don't hve to reply if you don't want to"
he said babling
"shh" remus whispered "it's all right since sirius is your godfather and he is my mate and you don't have your parents anymore the wolf in me see you as its cub and would do anything to protect you"
harry smiled warmly at him and wrapped his arms around remus neck and whispered in his ears thanks
Sirius came up the strai a few minutes later with a plate of steming egss and bacon and a hot cup of team that was laced with a mild sleeping potion and handed it to harry when he walked into the room harry looked up and smiled at him… when sirius set the tray down he bent down and kissed harry on the crown of his head and said
"I want you to eat as much as you can"
harry just nodded even though he really wasn't that hungry and wanted to please sirius even if it meant that he was juat alittle uncomfortable..Remus relized this and then told harry don't force your self the pronglet we cant have you getting sick now can we…
Riddle Manor…
Lord Voldemort was holding a session with one of his most prized death eater Lucius malfoy he had been in love with the blonde for as long as he could remember but at time they clashed because they both were brought up to have very domineering personalities when there was a quite pop alerting them that there was a house elf that had enter the room. The house elf sad
"masters Severus Snape is here to see you". House elves that were at the manner had been taught to speak properply as to not embaress the host because the more well amnerde the house elves were made it relized how refine the masters of the house were.
"of course,show him in"
Andthen the door to the study in riddle manor was opened and revealed the gentle looking severus snae whoi looked as if he had seen a ghost and had never seen one before
"What is wrong severus" voldemort asked
"I have seen things today more lord that I never would have thought possible if I had not seen it with my own eyes"
"And what would that be severus"
" Harry potter has been abused my lord … he was brought to the order headquaters bloody and beaten and starved he was absolutley terrified I couldpractically smeel it on him cuts wre all over his body incuding bruises broken bone fromn what the werewolf told me they had him shoved into the small cubard underneath the stairs barley small enough for a little child lett alone potter as tiny as he already is anywa.. he also said the wolf had never reacted that way before but when he say the state that his cub was in and he aned nothing more than to commit murder and feel absolutley no remorse for it."
Both of the other occupants in the room were sitting in absolutely in shock that said saivor of the wizarding world had been placed In an abusive house hold and had no one to even turn to at all.. to think this was even imagineable was totally out of there range of cmception they could do little more than sit there before Voldemort finaly broke of the shock and said
"what shall we do sevrus"
"I do not know my lord because dumbledore id clasiming that he will have to go back even though he knows of the abuse saying that he is protected there at the house of his aunt and uncles"
"We could accidently kill them" suggested lucius
"Yes I would love to do that myself but I do believe that harry would end up blaming himself"
"Yes that probaly is true but we can we do to help"
"If I may my lord if I could convince harry that you will not hurt him maybe we could stage a raid on privet drive andkidnap him and accidently then kill the muggles"
"A malicous smile appeared of his face and said brilliant my friend absolutely brilliant"
Grimauld Place…
Severus knew that he would have to talk to them Sirus and Remus to convince them to let the dark lord take care fo harry .
When severus apparatd back to grimauld place he walkedback up the stairs to harry's room figuring that black and lupin would still be in the room with harry.and when he made it to the top of the stairs his assuptions were correct. They were both their watching over harry and talking quielt to one another he almost felt a little jelaus of the two knowing that there were both madly in love with one another.
"Black, Lupin come we must talk"
They both looked at wach other and nodded wondering if it was about harry or not
"I have a plan…"
Well I hope every one enjoyed tha first chapter. I want reviews pretty pretty please with sugar on top … and if any one would like to be my beta I would lov eyou to bits and pieces send me an email Lilacsympathy