I know i said it i probably wouldn't write this any time soon but here it is anyway. As far as i'm concerned this story will be my lowest priority though so my advice is hope for but don't be to disappointed if it's not updated for a while.
I hope you like it. the Traditional Harry goes back to the marauder era with my own twist
The Irritancy and the Insanity
It was mid September in the year 2014. Harry's eldest son, James Sirius Potter, was at Hogwarts for his First Year it had been two weeks and Harry already missed him. However according to his letters, James was settling in well and had already received 3 detentions alongside his cousin Fredrick George Weasley. Both boys were living up to there namesakes and would really enjoy Hogwarts, though Professor McGonagall might now be considering retirement.
Harry now though was escorting 4 children, two Potter and two Weasley, through Diagon Alley. During his school years Harry, Ron and Hermione had been inseparable. It really warmed their hearts, and Ginny's, that their children were continuing the legacy of the now legendary friendship that brought down Tom Riddle aka Lord Voldemort. Albus and Rose, at 8-years-old, were virtually inseparable and had been ever since birth, Harry saw much of himself in Albus and much of Hermione in Rose, though the fear of Spiders and the Weasley Appetite were defiantly Ron's. Hugo and Lily, at 6-years-old, were likewise inseparable, as the two youngest grandchildren of Molly and Arthur Weasley they had bonded to each other as they didn't yet know any Witches or Wizards their own age. The Four of them were very close, Rose and Hugo were also close to James but not as much as they were Lily and Albus. James, Fred, and Lucy were all the same age, all going to Hogwarts and were beginning to form their own 'Golden Trio'.
It was now two weeks since the Potter-Weasley collective had saw there offspring off Platform 9¾ and Harry was taking his children and his favourite niece and nephew (but don't tell the others) to Alton Towers for a day (but don't tell your older brother/cousin or we'll never hear the end of it). But before he could take the children there he had to get some Muggle Money. So Harry found himself escorting the four of them down Diagon Alley to Gringotts. All four charges were extremely excited and agreed it was worth getting up and going out just as the sun rose to spend a day at Alton Towers.
It wasn't even 7am yet so most of the shops were still shut and the normally bustling street was still pretty quiet with only a few people here and there. As they approached the bank Harry came across an all too familiar sight. In the Department of magical Law Enforcement virtually anyone who was around 3 years or more has at some point in their career had an encounter with Mundungus Fletcher. As head of the Auror department Harry and his staff had infrequently had to deal with the irritancy of getting Fletcher to admit he has sold a cursed teapot or other device to someone he shouldn't have. Though it look like today the Fletcher problem was going to be inflicted on the Magical Law Enforcement Squad, as Harry saw Fletcher being chased towards him and the children by two DMLE officers. Hoping to ease the undeniable suffering his DMLE cousins were sure to endure Harry ended the chase by firing a silent body-bind.
Fletcher fell to the ground and an object flew out of his hand, Albus barely had time to turn around and say "Awesome Dad!" before the item, a red glowing orb, smashed at their feet. Harry and the four children suddenly found themselves engulfed in the red light as it expanded and ensnared them.
"Director Potter!" they heard one of the officers call before they suddenly found themselves in a familiar setting. They were in Hogsmeade outside the Three Broomsticks, but somehow it was now late in the evening, Harry could tell because the sun was hovering lightly above the western mountains that lay behind Hogwarts Castle.
Harry knew something was wrong, not just because he suddenly relocated 650 miles North and 14 hours later, but the Castle look as perfect as it did 23 years ago when Harry first entered her magical doors. The Castle in 2014 still had an exhausted look that it had gained from the extensive damage during the Great Battle in 1998.
Harry looked at the children. They were all staring around even more confused than he was, none of them had been to Hogsmeade yet and didn't recognise the area.
"Dad where are we?" asked Lily
"Uncle Harry is that Hogwarts?" asked Hugo
"Uncle Harry I think something is wrong." Said Rose
"Dad do you think that that orb was…" whatever Albus thought the orb was Harry didn't find out right then and there because his son was cut off by a manic laughter followed by shrieks and screams.
Harry and the Children turned and what they saw made Harry's insides turn to ice. He drew out his wand and prepared to protect the ones he loved against the monster that had shown herself in Hogsmeade.
Bellatrix Lestrange and two hooded Death Eaters had suddenly apparated into the village and began firing spells at people and buildings.
A woman carrying a crying 18-month-old girl ran towards the pub as one of the hooded Death Eaters fired a killing curse towards her. Harry, living off years of experience in fighting life and death situations however notice the Death Eater begin the incantation and conjured an iron cannonball between the mother and the Death Eater. Said Death Eater was caught off guard by the unexpected act of resistance, so Harry used that moment to silently fire a Stunner.
Although weakened by the wordlessness of the spell Harry's silent Stupefy was so fuelled by his rage that the Death Eater was sent backwards at high speed into a brick wall that left telltale signs of having been impacted by an airborne Dark Wizard.
Harry wasted know time in continuing the battle, even as the Death eater flew through the air… "Expulso, Expulso!" the second of the blasting curses struck the other masked Death Eaters shoulder causing it to explode.
However Bellatrix was alerted to Harry's presence as soon as he conjured the iron cannonball and cast a shield charm.
"Hahahahaha! Oh I do love it when someone fights back… Oh looks like somebody brought their little brats to a Death party… Avada Kedavra!" she aimed at Rose.
All four of the Children were in severe shock at having witnessed their Father/Uncle Harry fight and kill one Death Eater and possibly another in the space of less than 10 seconds.
Rose was in such shock that she didn't even notice that the remaining and more fanatical Death Eater had sent the killing curse towards her.
Harry reacted as soon as he Bellatrix eyed his niece. He silently summoned the cannonball he conjured earlier and blocked a second killing curse.
"EVERYONE INTO THE PUB, NOW!" yelled Harry
But as he was yelling he silently cast a gemino on the cannon ball and it multiplied into ten cannonballs. Focusing his anger into his magic Harry flung them all at the future murderer of his Godfather with a Banishing Charm.
Thinking on her feet Bellatrix couldn't come up with anything that would block or divert all of the projectiles coming her way so at the last second she apparated 2 meters in front of herself dodging Harry's assault. She fired a cutting curse she learnt through curse exchanges with Antonin Dolohov, but Harry had faced that curse before. In an endeavour to atone for Hermione's long stay in the Hospital Wing Harry had learnt the theory behind the counter curse shortly afterwards and successfully used it against a Death Eater wannabe. To Bellatrix's shock Harry cancelled out the charm 3 meters from his person.
Harry sensed that his children and the woman with the toddler were still watching the Duel "ALBUS, GET EVERYONE INSIDE. DO YOU WANT TO DIE!"
Albus came to his senses, as did Rose. They looked at each other nodded in a moment of understanding that would have made their Uncle George and Late Uncle Fred either really proud or really jealous.
While Rose grabbed Lily and Hugo by the arms and dragged them into the Three Broomsticks, Albus took the Woman, still carrying the little girl, by her coat and dragged her in after his cousins.
"Hahahahaha! You really think those walls will protect your brats? Once you're taken care of, I'll slowly torture them to death. Oh how I love to hear children scream! I might even keep you around to watch."
Harry smirked at the madwoman "You really think you stand a chance against me giggles." He fired a stunner at her.
Bellatrix's face contorted with fury "Giggles?"
"Well I assume that's your name?" said Harry feigning ignorance "After all only inbred mutants support Voldemort. So tell me are your parents just brother and sister or is your dad also your brother?"
Bellatrix screamed with rage and the duel continued.
Albus Dumbledore was sitting in the staffroom with Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick discussing the search for a new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher with only five weeks to go before term started. When an alarm went off.
The two heads of house looked to the Headmaster.
"Hogsmeade is under attack!" he said "I need to floo directly to the Hogshead!"
The other two professors followed the Headmaster through the fireplace without question.
When the three of them arrive they noticed a significant amount of commotion down the road, clearly they had arrived at the wrong pub.
For people there age they managed to reach the Three Broomsticks surprisingly quickly.
"…So tell me are your parents just brother and sister or is your dad also your brother?"
Bellatrix was beside herself with fury: first some random wizard decides to stand up to her, which she wouldn't mind too much, but, for some reason, he was incredibly talented in a duel. Then the stupid bloody wizard started successfully protecting random people she and her companions were trying to kill. But none of that mattered now because not only was he failing to succumb to her taunts he was successfully taunting her by dishonouring her heritage. He would pay.
"Avada Kedavra!" she screamed at him
Harry new she would try that again, thinking it would finish him. But if history and time had proved one thing, it was Harry Potter was very good at surviving a killing curse.
He rolled over and dodged but as he was rolling he used the spell he always used against that curse "Expelliarmus!"
Caught off guard Bellatrix found her wand fly like a boomerang into the air. Harry landed on is feet and caught the wand with his practised hands.
But Bellatrix wasn't finished, she was not the Dark Lords best servant for nothing.
Swiftly she pulled a knife out of her belt and with well practised expertise threw it at the boy-who-dared-not-fear-her.
But Harry was well a wear of the strengths of carrying a throwing knife around with you were, he also knew that for a wand-carrier Bellatrix had an unusual fascination with knifes, but more importantly he knew the best way to counter this sort of attack.
The knife didn't get half-way to Harry when "Depulso!" with Bellatrix's own wand, he cast a banishing charm on the tip of the knife blade.
The place he banished the tip to.
Bellatrix's throat.
Bellatrix had only time to form a look of astonishment before the knife penetrated the skin around her neck.
With the force of Harry's banishing charm, Bellatrix fell back. Dead.
If you do Read please review. I'd particularly like to know what you thought of the Duelling.
