Diligo Interficio
Torch and Hunter-We do not own Harry Potter, 'cos we're not hard enough :( We don't own Potter Puppet pals either.
Chapter 2
"Aah it's a beautiful morning! Oh it's a beautiful day! I've got something, some sooooomething! Everything's going my way!" A 36 year old Sirius sang as he washed himself in the shower.
"Sirius!" Remus called. "Shut the hell up!"
"Oi! What you doing in here?" Sirius called as he got out of his shower, wrapped a towel round his waist, and opened the bathroom door into the room where Remus was waiting.
"God! Put some dam clothes on!" Then he sniffed, confused. "And why does it smell like wet dog?"
"Yeah well," Sirius grumbled. "You don't smell so great yourself you know."
"Yeah, but I have a wife, you don't!" Remus said, sticking his toungue out in an unRemus-ish way.
"Dam werewolf," Sirius muttered. "Well get out then, or I'll strip in front of you!"
At this, Remus left in a haste, before coming back his hand covering his eyes.
"Oh yeah, Lily said she wanted you to join her for a walk during third period, she has something she wants to tell you, and thats her only free one." And with that said, Remus left and Sirius got on with dressing himself.
"So how are things going with Prawnface then?" Sirius asked.
"I can't believe you still call him that," Lily laughed.
"Fine then, Jamsie-Poo," Sirius giggled. Lily stared at him with a look of utter disturbance.
"Did you just giggle?" She asked, one eyebrow raised.
Sirius blushed. "What! Have you never heard a fully-grown man giggle before? I'm actually surprised James hasn't!"
"James would never do something as, weird and ...creepy as that!" Lily cried.
Sirius gave her a look.
"OK, maybe he would. But anyway, he's coming back here for a few days!" she said happily. Her husband had been away for a few weeks on official Auror business."
There was a sudden flash of blinding white light.
"Way to make an entrance Prawnface," Sirius said to the guy with messy black hair and glasses that had just appeared before them.
"Sirius - i'm scared." Lily said.
"What!" Sirius asked, turning around to face Lily. "Why?"
"You can't apparate on Hogwarts grounds."
The two turned to face the boy, as the light began to dim, and noticed there was a redhead, clutching to him. As the light disappeared, the two fell to the ground.
Sirius was the first to react, magicking some stretchers on which he placed the two bodies. He followed the floating bodies to the Hospital Wing. Lily didn't speak the whole way there.
"Lily she looks a lot like you!" Sirius said, pointing to the unconcious red-headed girl, now lying in one of the hospital beds, conveniently placed beside her male companion. "Why's James with her?"
"That's not James you fool, look," she said pointing at the scar on the boy's forehead. "Besides, he's much too young."
"Well who the hell is it then?" Sirius said, annoyed.
"Harry?" the red head said, stirring and sitting up.
Madam Pomfrey rushed over to her bed, bringing her wand as she went. The girl had tried to get out of her covers, but Madam Pomfrey pushed her back in, waving her wand to heal any cuts and bruises she had. Other than a nasty gash on her arm, the red-head appeared to be alright, and was fighting tooth and nail to get to the bedside of the boy.
"Wait - did you say Harry?" Lily asked the girl, tears coming to her eyes as she thought of her son, who had been brutally killed by the Dark Lord Voldemort, so many years ago.
The girl stopped in her struggle to free her self from the medi-witch, and stared at Lily, shocked at the sight of her.
"W-w-who are you?" She stuttered, staring into the green, almond-shaped eyes she knew so well.
"Lily," Lily answered. "Lily Potter."
The girl gasped and took a quick glance at the boy beside her before settling her eyes back on Lily.
"Who are you?" Lily asked in return.
"Ginny Weasley." She murmered, sounding slightly afraid. That was when she noticed there was someone else in the room. Ginny turned to face the man and yelped.
"Sirius?" She half-whispered.
"How do you know my name?!" Sirius cried.
"I-I-I don't kn-" Ginny stuttered before being cut off as Dumbledore gracefully swept into the room, alive and well.
Ginny gazed, speechless at Dumbledore who now stood in-between her's and Harry's bed.
"Professor?" Lily said, to which Dumbledore nodded at, showing her she had his attention. "Me and Sirius were just walking around the lake and all of a sudden there was a bright light. When it disappeared, these two were stood there before they collapsed on the floor!"
"Where did you come from?" The wise Headmaster asked Ginny. She glanced at Harry before answering hesitantly.
"We were in the grounds, after the battle, with Harry and ... him" she said, although she knew they had no way to understand her.
"Please elaborate," Dumbledore requested. "Who is...him?"
"Voldemort," Ginny whispered after a seconds silence.
Lily and Sirius gasped while Dumbledore nodded, surveying the girl silently.
"Go on..." He murmured.
"Harry was fighting him, he was already really hurt. And then they both shouted their spells at the same time." Ginny paused.
"What spells did they shout?" Dumbledore asked.
"Well, Voldemort did the Avad-... the killing curse, and Harry said this new spell we'd found."
"And what spell was that?"
"Diligo Interficio."
"Ah," Dumbledore sighed. "The spell of love, without it, the world would have fallen apart, many years ago. A wizard created it to help two tribal wizard gangs to stop their conflict and create peace. You don't need a wand to cast this spell, you just need the magic in your heart. However, a wand would largen the power in this spell, especially if the wand and the wizard have a special bond."
The four sat in silence, simply taking in these words. It was a few minutes before Ginny got out of her bed and went to sit in the chair beside the bed of the boy called Harry. No one spoke for the next ten minutes, then the bell for fourth period went and Lily rose out of her seat and walked towards the door. As she reached it, James and Remus appeared.
"Hi Lils!" James cried as he bounced towards his wife, picking her up and twirling her around in his arms.
"James I-"
"Guess what!" James said happily, like an excited four year old who just got told christmas had come early. "I got a promotion!"
"James that's great but-"
"And that means I'm gunna be guarding Hogwarts from You-Know-Who! So we'll get to see each other everyday!"
"No James," Remus said, "You're going to be guarding Hogwarts."
"Whatever, I'm gunna...going to be here with you from now on! Isn't that great!"
"Yeah!" Lily said smiling. "But I really need to be going, I have a Charms class to teach. Love you." Lily gave James a kiss and then left.
"I have to go too guys, Defense is waiting for me!" Remus walked out the door.
"So James," Sirius began after the short silence in which James stared dreamily after Lily.
"Huh?" James replied switching his gaze to Sirius, who began to walk back towards a bed containing a boy with a red-headed girl next to it.
"Who are they?" James asked Professor Dumbledore as they reached the to teenagers.
"The girls Ginny and apparently the boy is named Harry," Dumbledore said, then he proceeded to explain who had found them and how they had supposedly arrived. By the end James was looking confused.
"So did they time travel or…" James said.
"At the moment we are unaware of how they came to be here, we can only guess." Dumbledore replied, taking off his cresnt-shaped spactacles and cleaning them with his robe.
"When will he wake up Professor?" A voice said from by the bed. Ginny was facing the three, her hand placed on the boys and her eyes shining with unshed tears.
"Well, I believe we need answers so we will have to wake him now," Dumbledore said, taking out his wand and moving to the side of Harry not taken by Ginny. "After that he will be able to take the rest he needs but I am afraid it cannot wait."
He pointed his wand in Harry's face.
"Ennervate."
Harry eyes fluttered open as he took in the blurred sight. He was silent for a moment, seemingly trying to remember what had happened…
"ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
It appeared he had remembered.
"Wha! Where?!?Huh!" He jumped out of the bed, frantically searching for something in his robe pockets.
"Harry?" Ginny muttered. He stopped in his tracks, staring in the direction Ginny's voice had come from. Ginny reached out and placed his glasses on his face.
"Ginny?" Harry murmered. "What happened, where is he?"
"We're at Hogwarts, but…"
"What?" He asked. "Where's my wand?"
Ginny silently passed him it and he turned towards the rest of the rooms occupants.
"ARGH!!!" He yelled again, sticking his wand out towards Dumbledore, James and Sirius. They too took their wands out and pointed it at Harry. "Is this some kind of sick joke?!"
"Look can we have a minute alone please!" Ginny snapped.
"Who do you think you are!" Sirius growled. "You come here, all knocked out, we take care of you and then you try to kick us out!"
"Sirius," Albus said, placing a hand on his shoulder. "Come." And they all walked out of the Hospital Wing, leaving the two troubled teens to their woes.