Chapter Two: Six Years Later and the Kidnapping
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Poltergeist
Still here I see, well that's good because to me if you continue to read a book that means you really are interested in this story. Or you're probably forced to read this. But if you're reading this for school then you're lucky. Because we had to read like 1930s books and they were really long and boring, but anyway, moving on. Now if you say that the next two chapters are similar to the thriller movie Poltergeist.
You're right but just bear with me for a sec, ok? I tried not to make it so you notice the similarities but as I wright this I'm still learning as an author but it will probably change by the time I'm actually done with this and I've changed parts of the story ever since I started the plot for the story in 10th grade. So hopefully I can FOOL you enough (he, he those who get the joke has watched Soul Eater.) But over all if you had trouble watching the movie then you'll have trouble reading these next couple of chapters, hopefully.
So as the years passed by the war evolved and soon everybody was watching their backs and tightening security in every single wizarding building. Despite the ongoing war James was a very happy baby, just like Hermione said. By the time James was a year old, Ginny gave birth to another boy they named Albus Severus. If you had read the last book of Harry Potter then you'll already know that, the two became best friends immediately, you couldn't see one without the other. By the time James was three and Al was two, Ginny and Harry had their first baby girl they named Lily Luna, not much to James's and Al's delight.
But overall Harry had gotten the family he always wanted. As six years past James turned six, Al was five and Lily was two. James's red hair had now turned to brown that matched his eyes, and the funny prankster personality of Fred and George started to come out of James himself. Before Harry could even blink James was pulling pranks left and right that mostly got him into trouble and Al and Lily hurt. It drove Ginny crazy but Harry could care less if James pull the hugest prank that could even out shine Fred and George, as long as he was happy Harry was happy. Al's personality was quite different from James, Al was much more like Harry in personality and looks, Al had the same untidy jet black hair and the almond green eyes that belonged to Harry's Mother.
But the only difference was no glasses, if he had them Voldemort would've mistaken the two easily. But Al was a different kid, even as a baby he had different interests than James did, when Al was three years old he was reading chapter books that were too high for any other children his age to read. But Harry and his family felt it was good for him, some of the Weaslys think that he will go to the Ministry. But Harry feels that Al will do something with art, when Al had turned two, he began to draw everything he saw, and now he's better at drawing than James is, even Harry himself, but Harry would always be proud of him no matter what he did. Lily, still being two, was a little bit difficult to understand what she will be.
But she loved being in the outdoors and somehow, some way she always got dirty, and her long red hair always got in the way, so she constantly would push it out of her face with her dirty hands which made her face a mess. Since she got dirty so much she had to take baths every day. Even when Ginny had to force her into the bathtub. But despite the chaos in the Potter house and the ongoing war Harry was thankful every day for his small family (If you can take a hint from the Weaslys) and he wouldn't change one single thing about it. As we begin this chapter Harry was down stairs late at night, he had just finished paper work for the Aurors and their plan of action for the following week.
Harry walked up the staircase of Grimmuald Place #12 very sleepy. But before going to bed, he opened a bedroom door on the first floor and peaks in to check if his oldest son James was asleep, Harry saw him in his bed with his eyes closed and breathing very slightly. Harry smiled and shut the door very quietly and went up the stairs, he next checked on his daughter Lily, slowly he opened the door and saw her sucking on her pacifier asleep as well. He closed the door without making a sound he then check on Al. When Harry cracked opened the door he did not find Al asleep like his brother and sister, but found him reading a book by a flashlight.
Harry smirked and opened the door and said in a low voice "Caught ya." Al flinched in fright then sighed when he shined the light in Harry's face. "Bloody Hell Daddy, don't scare me like that." Al said quite loudly Harry shushed him with a smile and said "Quite, the others are sleeping." But Al did not have a smile on his face apparently he did not like to be scared. "Maybe next time you shouldn't make me jump out of my skin." He said with a quiet voice now but very angrily. Harry's smile turned to a very stern look as he entered the room.
"Then next time don't get caught by me past your bedtime reading." Harry said and snatched the book away from him. "No, Daddy please don't lose my page." Al begged very whiney and despite the attitude that Al previously gave him, Harry chuckled and look at the front cover. "Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia." It read, Harry looked at his son with a "really" look on his face "Why are you giving me that look Daddy?" Al asked "You really like this book don't ya." Harry said
"Sherlock Holmes is the best detective, he can notice things other people can't and he-he can even do all that without using magic." Al said as he jumped up in his bed. "Well then the next time I go to the store in London, I should get the second one since you're almost done with this one." Harry said as he playfully grabbed Al and slammed him into his bed making them laugh. "But for right now, it's bed time." Harry said as Al groaned and took his book back. "Can I stay up a little longer Daddy?" Al asked
Harry bent down and looked him in the eye then said "You already have." Al groaned once more and pulled back the covers then slipped inside, Harry tucked him in. "Good night Daddy." He said as has Harry kissed him on his forehead "Good night buddy." Harry responded then shut off his light and closed the door. Harry then walked up the last staircase and quietly went into his own room, there he found Ginny under the covers asleep; he got ready for bed without making a sound and slipped into bed. Ginny stirred a little in her sleep but she did not wake up, but she did however turned over to her side and snuggled into Harry's chest.
Harry smiled and kissed her on the head as he wrapped his arms around her. But all too soon Harry's smile was turned upside down. He began to think about the war, James and his brother and sister were all still too young too fully understand what was going on, but how much longer can they really be ok? As long as they never understood what was happening outside their home they would never understand how serious it was. Harry sighed and rested his cheek on Ginny's head as he thought to himself. "When will we get an actual peaceful life?"
Then drifted off to sleep. Harry's dream was an unpleasant one, probably not as much as when Voldemort attacked his dreams. But this was certainly not one of his best ones, Harry was alone on the streets, Ginny had abandon him and taken the children with her, none of his friends including Ron and Hermione were not talking to him and worse of all, his own children hated him. "Why couldn't you kill her?" James asked "Because she was too strong, and her followers are everywhere it's hard to track where she really was." Harry said as he looked at James, he was much older and taller now but something wasn't quite right about him but Harry just couldn't figure it out.
"Excuses, Excuses, you're just saying that because you want to cover up the truth that you are just weak." Lily said she too was much older and taller; but not as tall as James but like him she had something odd about her "It's not my fault, at least I tried please understand what I'm trying to say to you." Harry begged "Oh we understand alright understand that you're a complete failure." James said "Yes I know I didn't succeed but I am not a failure if I was a failure then I wouldn't even try to destroy Viviana, Al you gotta back me up on this." Harry said, he wasn't sure when he got there but he really didn't care.
Al stood in front of his father in silence for a minute or so then said "You didn't give me a life I wanted." He said Harry stood there stunned "Because you didn't defeat Viviana, I'm now terrified to even step out of my own house, so thanks to you I'm gonna die alone." He said Harry looked at him with tears in his eyes "Al, don't ever say that, you know I'm always here for you." Harry told him "You always favored Al than me or Lily." James said "No, that's not true, I love all three of you equally." Harry said
"Then how come you always played with him more than me or James?" Lily asked "It just looks that way, if you would've come and asked me if you could play with both of us I would've let you." Harry said "All I'm hearing are lies over and over again." James said and then walked away from him along with His siblings "Wait, where are you going?" Harry asked as they became smaller, "Away from you." Al said
"But, I'm your father, you need me." Harry said "Yeah we do need a father but just not you. You are and forevermore not our father." Lily said then vanished with James and Al. Harry then arose quickly from his bed and started to hyperventilate. Then with shaking legs he pulled back the cover and went to the bathroom. He turned on the sink and doused himself with cold water. He felt stupid to have a dream like that, but he couldn't help himself.
That is what he's most afraid of now, losing everything and everyone he loved again and he isn't sure that there would be another. But Harry knew that even if Viviana did control the wizarding world, he knew his family and friends well enough that they would never abandon him. Ron even told it to his face that he would support him even if they lost. But knowing Ron, Harry knew he was just saying that to make up for lost time when he told Harry he did know how it felt to be scared for family members. Harry shook his head then dry his face off with a nearby towel.
"Clank," went something outside loudly; Harry jerked his head towards the door. Slowly, Harry walked up to the door. Wondering if it was a burglar he pressed his ear to the door, bit then he remember only wizards could actually get inside Grimmuald Place. Listening closely he waited for at least two minutes until he heard someone running down the hall. Knowing the sound of a child running barefooted, Harry sighed and opened the door.
He then peered his head out and looked around to see which of his sons was out of his bed, but yet see didn't see any of them, not even Lily. Clueless he walked out and walked down stairs towards their rooms and checked on Lily but she was still in her crib sleeping soundly. Confused, Harry walked down stairs towards the second floor but what stopped him was small droplets of something red, which looked like blood, he followed the trail that lead him to Al's bedroom door. On the handle however was, a red hand print like someone was bleeding. His heart started beating faster as he reached out and was about to grab the handle but then a small hand pulled on his shirt.
Harry yelped in shocked and turned around to see James standing behind him, he held his chest and sighed in relief "James, don't scare me like that." He said as he knelt down to his height "What are you doing Daddy?" James asked him "I was in the bathroom splashing water on my face, were you running?" Harry asked "Yeah." James responded "Did you have a cut and go into Al's bedroom?" Harry asked once again
"No, why?" James asked him this time. Harry looked back at Al's doorknob but there was nothing there. He blinked twice to make sure he wasn't imagining as James said "What's wrong Daddy?" Harry turned back at James and smiled at him "Nothing, I just thought I saw something." Harry said as he looked at him "Now why are you out of bed?" Harry asked a third time
"I'm scared of the storm." James told him "What storm?" Harry said confusingly, that was soon answered when a great loud boom of thunder erupted from outside James gasped and held on to Harry's waist, he smiled and patted his back. "James there's nothing to be afraid of, you're safe in this house." Harry said "But Uncle George said…" James started "You're Uncle is a joker and likes to tease other people. He did that all the time with your Mum." Harry said as he picked him up and carried him down stairs to his room.
"Really!" James exclaimed "Yeah, but the next time he tries to scared you, you come and tell me and we can send you to his place in the middle of the night." Harry said and placed James in his bed "That seems scary." James said as he was being tucked in by his father "It could teach him a lesson, and it could stop him from scaring you and you won't have to come in to your Mum and I's bed." Harry said "What's wrong with me sleeping with you and Mum?" James asked
"The bed is only made for two people James. When we add you it makes it three and crowded." Harry explained "But don't you love me?" James asked for a minute Harry stopped breathing as he remembered his dream. "Of course I do, I love you more than anything in the world." Harry said as his son looked resentful is probably a good word. "Do you know why?" Harry asked him, James shook his head "Because you made me a Dad." Harry answered making James smile as Harry kissed his forehead
"What was your Daddy like?" James asked "Well I really don't know, even though a bunch of old friends of his told me a lot of things about him but in truth I really never knew him myself." Harry said "Why? Did something happen?" James asked curiously he looked at him as he though "Now how do I say this so I can avoid the total truth?" Harry pretended to think about it as he sighed "Well they die, him and my mum, when I was around your sister's age, at that age I could hardly even talk." Harry said as James laughed and rolled on his bed.
"Do you ever miss them?" James asked again "Only when I think about you kids, and the day you were born. Because they're missing out on my big moments." Harry said James smiled once more as Harry rubbed his hair "Alright it's bedtime." Harry told him "Ok." James said and got into bed but then lighting struck making James gasp. "Daddy!" He said Harry turned around and saw him clutching his covers. "James, I told you it's just a storm." Harry said
"No it's not that." James explained Harry looked at him with extreme confusion. "What wrong?" Harry asked "I think there's something out my window." He said Harry gave him a look also trying to give him a warning. "James you're not trying to get yourself to sleep in our bed, are you?" Harry questioned him "No I'm not, really Daddy there's something out there." James said Then CRACK went another bolt of lightning showing the shadow of what looked like a tree. James screamed and hugged his father once more. "Oh James relax, it's just a tree." Harry said "But I've never seen that there before." He said
"Well have you looked out of it?" Harry asked him "No." James responded "Well then how do you know it was there before?" Harry asked him, for once his son was silent. "But what about the storm?" James asked "Well why don't you try counting?" Harry said "Counting?" James said "Yeah, you start from 1) one thousand and you count higher every time you don't hear the thunder and when you go higher you know that the thunder is moving away." Harry explained
"Oh, but why don't they just start with one?" James asked "I don't know I've never asked." Harry said as the door opened showing Al very upset. "You're screaming woke me up James." He said "It's not my fault that you're a deep sleeper." James said "If I can hear you're screaming how that makes me a deep sleeper?" Al argued "You probably could sleep through a tornado." James argued back "At least I can ride a broom." Al said but James had no comeback, but he did blow a raspberry at his younger brother.
"Enough." Harry said sternly "You two are gonna wake your Mum and sister, Albus go to bed." Harry ordered "Yes Daddy, night." He said "Good night." Harry said still with a stern tone in his voice "That calls for you two young man." Harry said "Why am I in trouble?" James asked Harry gave him a look "Really, you blew a raspberry at your brother." Harry said "Get some sleep alright." Harry said He walked out of James's bedroom as lighting flashed "1) One thousand, 2) one thousand….." Harry heard James say but then closed the door and muffled his voice, he then went back upstairs to his room but only to find Ginny wake.
Harry gave her a smile as he walked up to the bed. "Did the boys wake you up?" Harry asked her "No, someone's screaming did." Ginny said "James." Harry said quickly "What was he screaming for?" Ginny questioned him "He was scared of the storm." Harry said "Did he try to come and sleep with us?" Ginny asked a third time. "I think he did, right after he mistaken a tree for a monster." Harry responded he thought Ginny would've have some annoyed expression on her face but instead he saw her very confused.
"What tree are you talking about?" Ginny asked making Harry confused as she was. James was in his bed still counting, but still every scared. As another thunder rumbled James had to start over. "1) one thousand, 2) one thousand….." But James had to stop for another crack of thunder sounded off making James's breathing run faster, "1) one thousand." James started but another thunder clapped loudly with James screaming and hiding under his covers. Harry is talking to Ginny trying to explain to her about the tree that was in front of James's window. "Ginny I saw the shadow of the tree when a bolt of lightning flashed." Harry said
"Harry, there is no tree." Ginny said "Of course there is I saw it with my own eyes." Harry said "Harry, when I cleaned the windows this morning I saw no tree in front of his window." Ginny explained, Harry was shocked at what he just heard, James slowly lifted his covers over his eyes and saw a black mass with huge teeth. James screamed loudly making Harry bolt out of his bed and into James's room, the monster had James by the waist and almost swallowed half of him. "Stupefy!" Harry yelled aiming his wand at the monster. It groaned and released James and he landed on the hard floor.
But still in shock, he laid there and did not move an inch. But the monster, angry that his meal was taken and determined to finish it glided along the floor and grabbed James again and this time upside down. He screamed again this time waking Al up, he groaned and got up from his bed and into the hallway. "James, shut up with your screaming, I can't sleep at all!" Al shouted but then a door creaked opened as a white light and something else came out of it, Al stood there stunned and frighten.
"Daddy?" he asked but it was too quiet for Harry to hear, he was so busy with James that he didn't think of anything else. Harry then charged at the monster with nothing but his own two bare hands, he poked the monster in the eye making it groan again and release James once again. Al stood there in shock looking at what he thought was his father. "Daddy, why are you so pale?" He asked, Harry now has a hold of James and his trying to pull him away from the wreckage but then the monster grabbed James's ankle and pulling him towards it.
"Daddy, it's got me!" James screamed Harry tried stupefying it again but it would not budge "Daddy, don't let it get me!" James said "I won't I'll never let it." Harry said and thought of the only thing he could think of. "Expecto Patronum!" He shouted and with that the familiar silver stag came out of Harry's wand and send back the monster and it scurried away. Harry hugged James, who was trembling in shock, he rubbed his back while trying to calm him down. "I'm sorry James, this would've never happened if I listened to you." Harry said
But James said nothing. "Stay here while you're Mum and I go and check on your brother and sister." Harry said but James walked upstairs passed Harry as he went up to Al who was still in the hallway but in some sort of shock himself. "Al, what are you doing here? Did James wake you up with his screaming, you better not start it wasn't his fault." Harry said "Daddy, how are you here but yet over there?" Al asked him Harry looked at him clueless. "What are you talking about Al? There's nobody there." Harry told him
"Daddy, I see you, you're hang-hanging over there." Al stuttered at that point Harry knew something was up and became frighten. "Albus, I want you to go to my room for now while I go check on your sister ok." He said and took off but instead of following his Father's orders Al stood there as the white light came back and shined on Al, he gasped as he was sucked in and disappeared. Harry is walking to Lily's room where he found Ginny holding Lily, who was in tears, and Ginny was trying to calm her down. "Is James ok?" She asked Harry
"Yeah he's find, shaken up but he'll survive." Harry said "What do you think attacked James?" Ginny asked Harry thought to himself for a minute and then it hit him "I'm starting to think that it was a Lethifold." Harry said "A Lethifold?" Ginny questioned as she bounced Lily "Yeah they're known as the living shroud. They can swallow a single human in one gulp." Harry explain, Ginny shivered "I hate to think what would've happened if we didn't think about it." Ginny said Harry nodded then became silent.
"Where's Al?" Ginny asked while breaking the silence "I told him to go in our room for now." Harry said but upon entering the room they did not find him. "I thought you said he was in here?" Ginny asked as she sat Lily on their bed "I told him to come in here but I don't know why he isn't." Harry said and bolted out of the room and went into the hallway where he was standing but could not find him. "Albus!" He shouted as he ran downstairs into his room. He looked under his bed, in his closet but could not find him.
Harry ran back upstairs and met Ginny in the hall. "He's not in his room." Harry told her, "He's not in the attic room either." Ginny said "I'm going to check the kitchen." Harry said "I'll check the restrooms." She said as Harry ran down the stairs he looked into the cupboards under the table but still no Al. Ginny opened the door to the second floor restroom. "Albus?" She said as she turned on the light. James was now in his parent's bedroom still in shock and covered head to toe in slim. Lily, who saw her oldest brother enter the room, carefully slid down her parent's bed and walked up to him.
"JJ" She said in her two year old language, but still recovering from the following event, James didn't hear her, but somehow she understood why he didn't respond, she took a towel and wiped the slim off his face and gave him a kiss on the cheek, James gave her a smile and said "Thanks Lily." She giggled and pushed her hair out of her face then said "Where Bubba?" James just shook his head "I don't know," he told her. Harry ran up the stairs into the attic but could not find Al.
Harry ran back down the stairs as James turned on the radio. Harry looked inside his room and saw James there. "Oh, it's you, Ok, I want you… oh Lily that's one of my good towels." Harry said as he saw Lily wiping the slim off of James. He groaned and sighed "Ok, just stay there, watch your sister, and do not move you understand me?" Harry asked firmly, James only nodded his head slowly. Harry nodded back and ran to the cellar, he opened the door and slowly made his way down. James looked around the room wondering what to do as the static from the radio played on.
Then a voice came through the radio saying "Daddy?" James eyes went wide as the voice continued "Daddy, where are you?" even more shocked and terrified then he was before James started breathing faster and faster. "D-Dad." James quietly started "D-Dad, D-Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!" James screamed, Harry jerked his head towards his room where his oldest son was. "James!" He yelled as he climbed up the cellar stairs. He then held his breath all the way up to his room when he finally said "James, what's the matter?" Harry asked "Daddy?" Harry heard Al's voice come to his ears. He sighed in relief as a smile came on his face.
"Albus, thank god, where are you bud?" Harry asked "Daddy! Daddy!" James screamed now crying "James, bud calm down. Where's your brother?" Harry asked him, he tried to talk but he was too upset to even speak, Harry shushed him to calm him down. "James, take deep breath and try to use your words." Harry said James told what his father said and all that came out was. "Al, Al is, Al is." James said but then started crying again.
"Al is what James?" Harry asked him. "Daddy?" Al voice asked Harry and James slowly turned their heads towards the radio. "Daddy? Daddy is that you? I can hear you but I can't see you. Where are you?" He asked Harry's breath became slower and slower. Ginny then came rushing into the room. "I can't find him anywhere." She said she looked over at James and saw him crying. "Hey, buddy you're alright, it's ok." She told him "Daddy!" Al said Ginny gasped at the sound of his voice. "Albus, where are you?" Ginny asked
"Daddy, I'm scared, where's Mummy?" He asked she turned over to Harry who was in a state of his own shock. "Ginny, Al is talking…" He started but Al finished saying "Daddy, is Mummy with you, I heard you say her name." He said through the radio, now knowing where his voice was coming from "Bubba!" Lily said to the radio, Ginny slowly dropped James down and gasped while saying. "Oh my god." Harry slowly lifted his hand and reached out and touched the radio with his dirty hands. With his breath slow and his mind out he said "Albus."
So I hope this is similar to Poltergeist but not too similar. And I hope that it wasn't too scary but suspenseful enough that you want to find out what happens next but all I can tell you is if you like the book so far I'll try to make so you like the entire book, but if you don't then well stop reading it if you don't like it, and if you do well you suck even more.
So as we conclude another chapter in this book we are still left with clues more than answers, and that is how I want them. Do not ask for previews because I will not give you any. So continue on or not and find out what happens next, if you don't you'll miss out, and don't worry if you get a paper cut you'll be fine, that is if you treat it right away. Now onto the third chapter.