A/N: Once, a long time ago, I implied that there might be a sequel to my story Harry Potter and the Attack of the Sues. It's been a while, but I've decided to finally take myself up on that offer. Please let me know if this is a bad idea.
A few notes: Youprobably don't need to read the original to understand this story. There will be quite a bit of summary in the beginning. Plus, it's not that difficult of a plot to pick up on. This story is not written with cruel intentions. I myself have written a Mary-Sue or two in my time, which you can find on my profile (more than likely). This story is just supposed to be fun. I've tried to include a melodramatic mood to help assure everyone that this is just a silly story and shouldn't be taken seriously in the least. This was originally adapted from a story by crazyroninchic. Her story was called Never Leave FanFiction Lying Around and it was fantastic. It inspired me to write the original.
With all of that out of the way, please try to enjoy the story. :)
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. I barely have creative influence in this concept.
Harry Potter and the Revenge of the Sues
Harry Potter opened his eyes after a long restful sleep, blinking them in an attempt to adjust to the light of the room. His wife, Ginny, slept on peacefully beside him and Harry could barely remember a time when they had been in the middle of a war between good and evil. It had only been two years ago. He smiled and carefully got out of bed with a mind to go and make a good breakfast for the two of them, knowing that their one-year anniversary was that day. His life was good.
Harry Potter never knew that before facing down the now deceased Lord Voldemort in his last year at Hogwarts he had been engaged in a battle and tortured in it. He did not recall a time when he had cried and his sanity had been stripped from him entirely. His wife did not remember, his best mate Ronald did not remember, and even his arch nemesis Draco Malfoy did not remember this time. This is because their memories had been wiped clean of the entire incident and false ones were present in their place. All of them were under the impression that they had spent two wonderful days in Hogsmeade in which they passed their time blissfully and innocently.
What actually occurred had been too terrible to imagine.
While wandering through the Forbidden Section of Hogwarts' Library their 6th year, Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, and Hermione Granger discovered a book hidden there. It was authored by someone by the name of PrettySprinklesSparklesRainbow and contained a main character called Acacya. Ignorant of its contents, the students took the book back to their Common Room and read it aloud with peers. They quickly learned that Acacya was a dreaded creature known as a Mary-Sue created by a FanFiction authoress and that she had her claws hooked into Harry Potter himself. They tried to escape the torturous in-depth descriptions of sex scenes, lavish concerts held at the school, melodramatic and incorrectly spelled plotlines, and glaringly incorrect information. But the Common Room had sealed itself, forcing all students to remain inside of it. The students, eventually joined by a teacher Remus Lupin, had no choice but to continue to read the story in hopes that this would break the spell.
Eventually, the culprit behind the book was revealed to be Bellatrix Lestrange, a Death Eater employed by the Dark Lord Voldemort. The book had been planted in an attempt to force Harry into causing his own death. And this plan nearly succeeded. All of the students, especially Harry, had been left mentally scarred and too afraid to enter dark rooms or corridors by themselves because of the frightening story. Acacya had truly ruined them. This was why the Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, chose to have their memory wiped of the horrible book.
However, some of the Professors at the school quickly learned that the book had not been destroyed when Remus Lupin set it on fire. The book had a powerful magic surrounding it and the character of Acacya never died. Therefore, after rescuing the Professors who had been trapped in the same Common Room as the students by the book (Professor Snape and Professor McGonagall, respectfully), trained professionals took the book to be sealed and left in a secret area within the Ministry of Magic. This way, none could open it and release the Mary-Sue ever again.
Again, Harry Potter had no memory or notion of any of this. He managed to live his life with at least one extra fear out of it. Along the way, he managed to destroy Lord Voldemort and find love as well with Ginerva Weasley. And this is where we find him now.
As Harry Potter, approaching his 20th year, descended into his kitchen to prepare a wizard breakfast an owl flew in from the open window to greet him. This would mark the end of his peace.
"Hello," Harry greeted the bird cheerfully. He walked over to check the letter hanging from the bird's leg. Once he saw it was from the Ministry of Magic, he untied it quickly and with great curiosity. "Thanks very much." The owl hooted agreeably at him and then flew away as quickly as it had flown in.
Breakfast briefly took a backseat in Harry's thoughts as he examined the letter. It was rather thin, so it couldn't have too much in it, but Harry decided that it wouldn't lessen the importance of it. He worked as an Auror for the Ministry but was not due in for work that day. He'd made sure that he took it off due to the anniversary he was supposed to celebrate with Ginny, who also worked for the Ministry.
Without much thought, assuming it might be a new work schedule, Harry tore open the wax seal and scanned the letter quickly. He noticed that it was dreadfully vague but also noticed a sense of urgency.
The letter simply read, "Mr. and Mrs. Potter, I must write you to inform you that your presence will be needed next Thursday for an important meeting. There is a sudden development that has just been brought to the Ministry's attention, a development in nature that I must once more stress the importance of your presence. Please report to the Ministry's Library next Thursday for more information. Signed, Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour."
Harry's eyebrows rose. He hadn't known the new Minister to have such a panic or urgency in his tone. Not even when Lord Voldemort's power had been rising to dangerous levels. He wondered what could possibly be so 'important' as to have the Minister worked into a near frenzy.
Thoughtlessly, Harry set the letter down on the counter for Ginny to read for herself later. At that moment he needed to start scrambling some eggs and flipping some pancakes.
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Later that morning, as Harry was setting the table and calling for Ginny to come have some breakfast, there came a familiar crackling from the fireplace.
"Harry?" a male's voice called into the house. Harry immediately recognized the sound of Ron, his best mate and Ginny's brother. Harry jogged over to the fireplace and was greeted by Ron's head.
"Hullo, Ron," Harry greeted warmly. "What brings you by this morning? Ginny and I were about to have some breakfast."
"Sorry," Ron apologized sheepishly. Harry could tell that Ron was blushing and not just because he was flushed from the heat of the fireplace. "I just wanted to ask if you got a letter from the Ministry today."
Harry nodded, not entirely surprised that Ron received one as well. "I did. We're supposed to report to the Ministry on Thursday. The letter was bloody vague."
"Yeah," Ron agreed. "I was just wondering. You see—"
"Is that the voice of my charming brother?" Ginny asked as she stomped tiredly down the stairs. "Doesn't he know that today is just for you and me, Harry?"
Ron blushed violently again. "Hi, Ginny, it's good to see you as well." Ginny waved a hand in the general direction of the fireplace and continued on to the table. "Anyway, I was just wondering because I kind of got a funny feeling about that letter. That's all."
"A funny feeling?" Harry asked and then realized that he had as well. The letter had made him uneasy and he wasn't exactly sure why it had. He'd immediately brushed it off and had set straight to making breakfast.
"Well, I'll let you go," Ron promised and started to step out of the fireplace. Then, suddenly his head was back into sharp focus. "And Hermione says hello to the both of you. She's been pestering me since I stopped in to tell you that." Hermione and Ron were not married yet, but had been living together for quite some time. Harry and Ginny often joked that the two already argued and made-up like a couple that had been married for at least 20 years.
"Hi, Hermione," both Harry and Ginny chorused at once before Ron disappeared.
"What was that about?" Ginny asked as Harry came to sit next to her at the table. "Something about a letter?"
"The Ministry sent us one today," Harry explained and he retrieved it to show her. "We're supposed to report to a Library on Thursday."
"I didn't know the Ministry had a Library," Ginny mused as she skimmed over the letter. It didn't take her long because the message had been so brief. "That's strange."
"I assumed," Harry shrugged. "I always thought they had somewhere to keep documents and records and everything. I've never seen one, though. The letter must have something to do with work."
"You're probably right," Ginny agreed easily and let the letter drop to the tabletop. "No use worrying about this when we could be eating. Thanks, by the way." Harry chuckled when Ginny leaned over the table to give him a quick kiss and the two dug into the breakfast he had made. However, Ginny had not been set at ease by Harry's explanation. For reasons she could not explain, Ginny felt a sense of dread concerning next Thursday.
And if the two had known that those who worked outside of the Ministry received a similar letter, neither of them would have ignored their instincts in such a way.
Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, Hermione Weasley (formerly known as Granger), Ginny Potter (formally known as Weasley), Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood, Seamus Finnegan, Dean Thomas, George Weasley, and Draco Malfoy, all received a letter from the Ministry. The coincidence, if any of them had been able to recognize it, could not be ignored.
All of them thought the letter might be a trap. And if any of them could see a reason why the letter would mislead them none of them would have answered it. However, all of them did indeed answer it and intended to be there come Thursday. And the letter was a trap.
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When Thursday came around, all 10 recipients of a letter from the Minister of Magic himself arrived outside of a Library. It was in a far corner of the Ministry, obviously not used often except for researchers who only came into work Monday through Wednesday. Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione were the first ones to arrive at 10:30 in the morning. The others came in sporadically after this time until Draco Malfoy arrived at 11:45, marking the last of them.
"Does anyone know why we're here?" Seamus asked, looking at those he knew worked at the Ministry. None of them knew.
"I thought it might be some kind of witness thing," Luna offered, looking around the Library dreamily. "You know, because of what happened with Lord Voldemort." Many in the room still gave an involuntary flinch.
Draco, although he said nothing, wondered if this might be the case. Perhaps there was more debt to pay because of his actions amongst the Death Eaters. He traced the burned mark on his forearm nervously but managed to keep an air of boredom for the benefit of those around him. It wouldn't do for them to become suspicious of him again.
The group waited fifteen more minutes before getting anxious.
"Shouldn't Minister Scrimgeour be here by now?" Hermione wondered, shifting from foot to foot anxiously. Draco thought of ten ways to sarcastically retort to that but kept his mouth shut. He knew better now than to try and provoke any of these people. They were all adults and Hogwarts was far behind them. Or it should have been, at least.
Harry, in the meanwhile, was looking around the room with interest. As he was doing so, he spied a small pink book lying at the foot of one of the bookshelves closest to him. This seemed so out of place amongst the stacks of leather-bound books that he walked over to it and lifted it up. There was a note attached to the front of it, which he eagerly read.
"There's a note from Scrimgeour," he announced, turning back to the clustered group and holding up the book. "It's on this… pink thing." Why was the book so familiar? Why was something crying out within him to leave the stupid thing alone or, better yet, hide it from view so he couldn't see it? And again, why did the damn thing seem so familiar?
Hermione took the book and then read the note aloud. " 'This is the evidence that needs to be examined. I will be with you shortly but I had pressing matters to attend to. RS.' How odd. I've never known him to sign his name with just his initials. I always thought he liked to write the whole thing out."
"What is it?" George asked, sidling next to Hermione to read the title of the book. "The Return of Acacya Sunray Moonbeam by PrettySprinklesSparklesRainbow? What importance could that possibly have?"
Everyone in the room was now seriously contemplating whether or not Rufus Scrimgeour had lost his mind. Finally.
"Well, let's take a look," Harry suggested, ever the faithful worker. He had little faith in Scrimgeour himself, even now, but had a great amount of dedication to his job. "Maybe it really does have important evidence." Ron seemed to scoff under his breath but did not contradict Harry out loud.
"I don't know," Dean suddenly balked, saying what everyone had currently been thinking. "Something about that book spooks me."
George snorted, showing a bit of his old good humor. "Come now, Dean. You can't tell me that something that's bright pink and has glued plastic gems all over it actually scares you? Wanker." He would never admit that something about the book put him off as well.
Dean flushed and didn't argue the matter anymore. No one seemed to be willing to side with him. For now.
"All right," Harry began. "Let's see what Rufus Scrimgeour wants us to see."
Without much ado, he began to read the opening paragraph of the book. But what Harry found there made his blood run cold.
A/N: This was way too much fun. I love reentering Acacya's world. Please review!
And I promise not to reuse jokes. At least, I promise to not do it all the time. ;) The next couple of chapters, to those of you who may have read the previous story, might seem like the same old thing. Once I get past the summarization it will take a different turn. Promise! :)