Harry Potter and the Parallel Universe

Chapter One – The beginning

Harry lay on his bed, while staring at his ceiling. Watching his life go by. 'What life' thought Harry as he traced the white swirls on his ceiling with his eyes. His thoughts had been made up of mainly Sirius. Who could blame him though, having his only father figure snatched out of his hands. Yet again, he thought angrily. What right did Voldemort have to take him?

Harry's hands clenched beside him as he struggled to hold back the tears that threatened to overwhelm him. He rolled over on the bed so he was now staring at the wall. The plain peach colour of the walls calmed him down slightly, until he fell into an unsettled slumber.

Meanwhile somewhere in Lincolnshire, Hermione was just feeding the remainder of her bird feed to Hedwig, so that she would be prepared for the long flight to Surrey. Hedwig held a thick padded envelope, from Hermione in his grasp. As she swallowed the last of her meal, her long white wings spread magnificently open ready for the long flight, while her claws pushed off from the window ledge of Hermione's bedroom.

Hermione stared at the bird decreasing in size and turned her back so that she was facing her bed. She moved over to it and fell onto her quilt, that her grandmother had made for her, as a special present for receiving such high marks throughout her school life at Hogwarts. She punched her pillow angry at the thought of not being able to do anything, or outsmart Voldemort, even though she was supposed to be the smartest witch of her time, she couldn't help Harry, and that's what hurt her the most.

She turned around so that she was lying on her back. She let out a strangled breath, and closed her eyes. After a few minutes she sat up and picked up her book about a muggle version of magic. She thought she might be able to get some ideas from muggles. If it was up to her she was consider muggles to be more intelligent than wizards, granted wizards had more power, but she didn't believe the two were the same thing.

She opened to page 34 and took in a deep breath, and started to read until her book fell against her chest and sleep took her to somewhere else.

When Harry awoke he noticed that Hedwig was sitting on her perch with her head tucked under her wing. An envelope was in her clutch. Harry stretched out and gently prised it out from Hedwig. He blinked rapidly in hope to get rid of some of the sleeplessness from his eyes; he then opened the envelope and pulled out a piece of parchment.

Harry

Its me-Hermione- how are you? I'm okay at the moment, have you heard from Ron? I got a really weird phone call from him; he obviously hasn't used a phone before, as he almost blew my eardrum out. He said that pig is ill at the moment and that we shouldn't expect any letters, not yet anyway.

While he was screaming at me he said that we were able to come down to his, you are going, aren't you. Well to be honest I don't think you have much choice, apparently he seemed quite adamant that if you didn't want to come then he would drag you all the way home. And that includes me to. You need people who care about you around, and there is not much chance of getting the love you deceive from the people you live with.

How is your homework going at the moment? I've done all of mine, and I'm just been doing some extra work to prepare me for this year.

See you soon

Love always

Hermione

Harry slowly folded the letter and placed it inside his fully packed trunk. He had already received his letter from Ron via Hedwig, and packed to be prepared. Ron hadn't mentioned any date, probably due to security reasons, and thought it would be best to be ready. As he sat down on his bed a squeaking sound came that he knew didn't belong and sounded further away. He grabbed his wand and invisibility cloak.

His door was open slightly, and he was able to sneak through the gap. He pressed his back to the wall, walking flat on his feet, knowing that walking on tiptoes would increase pressure, making the chance of making a sound larger. Walking by the wall he knew would have more structure and less likely to make a sound. His spatial sense had increased rapidly and he was seeing weaknesses, and strengths everywhere he looked. Using them to his best advantage. He could already see a group of wizards at the bottom of his stairs.

He walked as light as a feather until he was standing in the circle of wizards, he took in who was there, Remus, Tonks, Dung, and a few others who Harry hadn't met before. He smiled his first smile in a while as a prank filled his mind. It seemed that two of the aurors slowly started to walk up the stairs after putting a spell on their footsteps so they could walk as hard as they wanted but would not be heard.

Harry slowly tipped his wand under his cloak and positioned so that it was facing Remus, then he threw his cloak off so that Remus was meet with a wand in his face.

'Now if I was allowed to perform magic I could have disarmed you, and stunned you all.' Harry said as he lowered his wand.

'Now do you want to explain why you are all here?'

'Do I not get a hello?' Remus said as he smiled at Harry. His eyes were alert and bright, but his skin was pale, and sickly. Harry's mind went back to when the last full moon was, and realised that it had been only a few days ago.

Harry smiled back and wrapped his arms around the older man's shoulders. He clung to him, as he realised that this was the last living marauder left, his last connection to Sirius and his father. He pulled away, and turned to everyone else in the room, the clock in the hallway chimed 6 o'clock in the morning and Harry was interrupted from greeting the people he hadn't met before, by aunt Petunia walking down the stairs, and letting a little scream out of her thin lipped mouth.

'So much for our undercover of getting Harry out here with nobody noticing.' Tonks replied while changing her hair from strawberry ringlets to green plaits.

This made Petunia squeak a little bit more, she obviously hadn't gotten used to Tonks and her ability to change her appearance in an instance. Her pale face disappeared as Petunia turned and ran up the stairs to the safety of her bedroom with her husband.

Harry turned around so that he was properly facing all the aurors who had come to take him away. His mind went back to last year, and that they had flew to Sirius' house; he cringed slightly at the thought of freezing again. But then he realised that he didn't have his broom anymore. Umbridge still had it locked in Hogwarts.

He looked up at Remus in hope that the ban had been lifted.

Remus shook his head slightly when he saw Harry look up at him.

'Sorry Harry, the ban is still there.'

'So how are we going to get out of here? And where are we going?'

'Well we're going to the Weasley's, and we're going to get there by car.'

'Yes and I'm driving, and I'm sorry to break up the reunion, but we need to leave.' Said one of the aurors Harry hadn't met before, he spoke with a slight accent, that Harry thought was from Germany. The man reached into his trouser pocket and pulled out an envelope, with Harry's aunt and uncle's names written on the front. He placed it on the small wooden table in the hallway. Harry was quite impressed that all the aurors had made an effort to where muggle clothes, Tonks looked very feminine in a flowery skirt and sheepskin shoes, some of the others looked a lot toned down, in jeans and sweaters.

When they walked out the door, Harry noticed that the two other aurors had already gotten Harry's trunk and owl, and where starting to put them in the boot of a large estate car.

Harry counted the amount of seats and realised that with eight seats they would all get a seat.

'Okay Harry' said Tonks, 'you get in first you're in the middle seat in the middle row.' Harry sat down and leaned his head against the backrest. Once everyone had gotten into the car, and everyone had put on their seat belts. The German put the car into first gear and pulled out of the curb.

'So, am I going to get to meet everyone?' Whispered Harry to Tonks, who was sitting on his left next to him.

'Oh right, I forgot. Okay introductions people. Now the auror driving the car is called Hansel, but he likes to be known as Hans, he's from Germany, if you didn't know, and one of Dumbledore'svery close friends. That's partly why he's driving, obviously you didn't think we would just transport you in a normal car, did you? Anyway Hans specializes with defensive transport. Its got loads of counter curses and protections on it, but you have to now how to activate them. he's lightening quick, and he usually transports us round now. Okay i'm going of the introduction sorry, the man sitting next to him is called Clyde. You know me, Dung and Remus. And at the back with Dung is Rupert, and Conrad.'

Everyone said hello back to Harry, when Harry greeted them. Harry looked around and it was then that he noticed that almost everyone in the car was male with the exception of Tonks.

Harry turned to her and looked at her and wondered how she remained so feminine with so many male partners.

He voiced his question, and everyone chuckled. 'Well to be honest I have a lot of girl friends, you wouldn't catch me with half of these people outside of my shift. But I know what you mean. We could do with a lot more female aurors. Heck we could just do with a lot more aurors, female or not. Have you not noticed that we are now having to recruit from foreign countries, Hans is from Germany and Conrad is from Greece.'

'Wow, what sort of things do you do in your original countries, is it similar to what you've been doing here?' Harry asked both foreigners.

'Well yes it is pretty similar to what's going on here. I have to say that our ministry is a lot more organised than here.' Conrad said.

'Why what's gone wrong, it wasn't that bad when I last heard about it, sure they totally neglected to tell everyone that Voldemort was at large again, but that a year ago.'

'Well recently the death eaters have started to control their forces on eliminating the ministry, and only a few days ago Fudge was discovered to be murdered. Obviously it hasn't been in the news, not yet anyway, they are still getting over the fact that you know who is at large again, as you put it. Only a few aurors know about it actually, and you now.' Said Remus.

'Oh great.' Harry said as his eyes drooped as his eyes followed the repetitive lines on the road.