The First Step on the Road Back.
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I did not want to come back."
"What!" Said everyone in shock.
"Harry my boy, what do you mean you did not want to come back?" Asked Dumbledore surprised.
"Just that Headmaster I did not want to come back here I wanted to stay there with my family."
At this point Severus Snape the potions professor of Hogwarts walked into the infirmary .
"Is it true Headmaster that the brat is dead?"
"Do I look dead to you Snivellus?" Said Harry coldly.
"You insufferable."
"Shut up Snape!" Said Hermione angrily. "Are you that pathetic of a human being that the reported death of a young man is cause for celebration? You disgust me you poor excuse for a man, leave here before I curse you."
"Miss Granger I would suggest that you keep a civil tongue in your head otherwise I might be inclined to"
"Inclined to what Snivellus?" Said Harry with malice. "What exactly would you do to Hermione for treating you that way you have treated everyone not in your House?"
Suddenly Harry went limp in Hermione's arms, almost as if he was a puppet that had the strings on it cut.
'Severus I think that perhaps for now it is best that you leave for now." Said the Headmaster calmly, as Poppy ran to Harry to see what happened to him.
"Miss Granger you need to let go of Harry now so I can finish healing him" Said Madam Pomphery.
"No! I am not going to leave him not now not after what has happened to him today. Harry needs me right now and I will NOT abandon him not now!" She said with such steel in her voice that everyone took a step back in fear.
Hermione wrapped herself around Harry whispering calmly to him. "I will never leave you, you are as important to me as my family. No matter what I will always be here for you." "I could never leave you my Love." She thought to herself.
"How disgusting the."
"SEVERUS!" Thundered Dumbledore. "THAT IS ENOUGH! LEAVE NOW! " Snape turned away with a look of disgust on his face and walked out of the infirmary.
Fawkes flashed into the room trilling a song that calmed everyone down.
"Poppy see what you can do to fix the damage that has been done to his body I must see about contacting someone to help heal his soul."
Harry lay in the bed curled up on his side with Hermione draped over him like a blanket. "Miss Granger I can not heal Harry if you stay wrapped around him like that, your own vitals would interrupt my scans."
"Miss Granger I need you to." Poppy started to say before she was interrupted.
"I said I will not leave him!"
The Headmaster looked at the two teens on the bed for a moment before saying. "Poppy leave them be for now." Said Dumbledore. "Most of his injuries now seem to be superficial tissue damage."
"Headmaster are sure that is wise?"
"Yes Poppy she is the best thing for him right now I think. If you need me I will be in my office." And with that the Headmaster turned away his brightly colored robes billowing out behind him as he strode through the double doors of the infirmary and headed to his office.
Dumbledore walked to the gargoyle guarding the stairs to his office, and with a negligent wave of his hand the gargoyle leapt aside allowing the Headmaster to ride the stairs to his office. Once in his office he mentally called Fawkes to him. "Fawkes I am going to write a missive to a specialist mind healer once I am done will you please take it to him?" Fawkes nodded his head once as if to say yes before flying over to his perch. Dumbledore sat down at his desk and began to write.
To Mr. Emris Evetts
My name is Ablus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, I am the Headmaster of Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. I am writing to you today to ask for you assistance in helping one of my students. This student of mine has sadly been through some rough times recently and it seems as if he has given up on life. For reasons I can not give out right now should this student actually achieve his desire to die again then it will mean the end of Thousands of lives if not more. I know of your reputation in helping those that seem to be beyond help. The name of the student that desperately needs your help is Harry J Potter. It is only the first day of the Summer break and Mr. Potter is already back here at school because his Guardian beat him. If you are able to help please come to the Hogwarts as soon as you can. I can not stress enough how important it is that Mr. Potter regains his will to live, for if he does not then all hope is lost. I await your reply.
Sincerely
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards, Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot Order of Merlin First Class.
Dumbledore rolled up the parchment and sealed it with a drop of wax. "Fawkes please take this to Mr. Evetts. You should be able to find him in North America." The majestic bird grabbed the letter in his beak and flamed out of the office.
Washington D.C. United States of America. Department of Magic: Mental Studies Division.
A slightly heavyset blonde haired male in his early 30's was sitting at his desk going over the latest after action reports of several members of one of the wet works squads that are in operation around the world, when a bright flare of fire materialized in front of him. The fire gave way to a sight he never thought he would see, for standing on the desk was a bird the size of a swan but with plumage made of red and bright gold feathers. The bird had in it's beak a rolled up piece of parchment paper.
Staring at the Phoenix in shock for a few seconds he then asked. "Um Hi there what are you doing here?" The man asked the bird. In response the bird dropped the rolled up parchment on the desk in front of him.
"Is this for me?" The bird just pushed the paper closer to him in response.
"Well then let's see what you have for me"
The man unsealed the scroll and read the letter. After reading the letter he quickly scrawled out a response. After folding his response up and giving it to the bird both the man and the bird suddenly vanished from his office, only to re appear in different offices.
"Mike we have a problem." Said the man as he appeared.
"Emris what's the issue my friend?" Said the other occupant of the other office. This other man was also in his early 30's slightly heavy set with dark brown almost black hair.
"I am being asked to head to Scotland to help a student of a magic school there."
"Who is this student?"
"Harry J Potter"
"Potter the one the reportedly stopped their worst dark lord in the early 80's?"
"The names match not sure if it is the same person though."
"Well this actually works as the Brit Magic Government has asked for our help in dealing with a resurgence in the activity of a group of terrorists that crawled back into the woodwork once their dark lord was stopped."
"Really? That's strange what squads are you taking?"
"All of Omega One, for now including you. We are going as scouting party first, then if the situation calls for it I will call in other squads."
"Great when do we leave?"
"In two days, it will give us time to assemble our gear and to gather information on these terrorists."
"How hot of an op are you expecting?"
"Full lethality on all missions is authorized while we are there, we are there to eliminate the terrorists not take them into custody."
"Fair enough, what time do we leave?"
"0600 our time." And with that the man that was called Mike moved his left hand in the air as though he was wiping condensation off of a car window. As he did this he called out "Diane." When he did this the air shimmered for a moment before a pretty young woman in her late 20's with shoulder length brown hair appeared where the shimmering was.
"Diane here Sir."
"Diane contact Alan, Mark, Lee, Marie and Lynn and tell them to be ready to depart for England at 0600 our time for an extended op in England. We leave on Friday."
"Yes Sir. Mission parameters?"
"No quarter anyone who is part of the group we are being asked to deal with is to be terminated. No prisoners are to be taken."
"Understood Sir. Diane out."
Fawkes flamed back into the Headmasters office. "Fawkes my old friend that was quick do you have his response. Said Dumbledore expectantly. Fawkes dropped the folded note on the desk and flew back to his perch. "Thank you my friend for your help." Dumbledore unfolded the letter praying that his request for help would be answered by the one man that could be of any help. Dumbledore read the letter and for the first time since the alarms went off in his office he smiled.
Dulles International Airport 0530 hours Sunday.
A skinny young woman in her early 20's with dirty blonde hair down to the middle of her back wearing a skin tight black body suit, was standing next to six other people wearing military fatigues and carrying multiple duffle bags. "Mike has the mundane government been notified that we would be operating in their country?" The woman asked.
"Yes Marie they have, hell they were the ones that contacted us to begin with." Answered Mike.
"So who do we contact once we get there?" Asked another slightly heavy set male with glasses and auburn hair in his late 20's.
"Lee our contact is one Madam Amelia Bones, she is supposed to be the one in charge of their Department of Magical Law Enforcement."
"So why are we heading across the pond to help out the Brits?" Asked a tall and slender man in his late 20's with close cropped dirty blonde hair and a 5 O'clock shadow.
"Because they are our Allies and they asked for help that's why Mark."
"Ok."
"Lynn you will be assigned to Emris as both an assistant and a guard at the school he is being asked to go to." Mike said to a young lady of about 16 with long black hair down to the top of her bum.
"Ok people saddle up we fly in 15." With that the six people boarded a military transport plane that suddenly appeared on the tarmac.
0200 hours Heathrow Airport London England
Six people dressed in U.S. Military garb each carrying two duffle bags disembarked from a military cargo plane, and walked to a service tunnel. Upon reaching the tunnel they each vanished one by one only for four to reappear in an alley in downtown London, while the other two appeared in what looks like a Victorian era village. The two that showed up in the village started to walk past a pub with a hand painted sign on it proclaiming it to be The Three Broomsticks. Stopping in the oldest of the two walked in to ask for directions to Hogwarts. After flirting with the busty proprietor for a few minutes, Emris walked out of the pub with Lynn following him. After walking for twenty minutes or so the arrived at a pair of massive wrought iron gates. Lynn withdrew a wand and placing it against her forehead she concentrated for a few second before flicking it in the direction of the castle. A bright flash of light shot towards the castle.
"Well if this Dumbledore is there he should get the message soon." Lynn said to Emris.
"Good."
"Any idea what happened that they are calling YOU, the man who is perhaps the worlds foremost adolescent Psychologist in to help this kid?"
"Too much death and loss for someone that young from what the letter I received said."
"Wonderful don't they believe in counseling when a traumatic event occurs?" Lynn said with derision.
"I have no idea Lynn."
Suddenly the massive gates swung inward allowing them to pass into the courtyard of the castle. Walking up the path to the school they were greeted by the doors to the school opening and in the doorway stood three people. A tall slender woman with black hair that was just starting to go grey in a few places wearing solid black robes with a small tartan sash going across her chest from her left shoulder to her right hip. A hooked nosed man wearing dull black robes and slicked back black hair. And standing in between them was a tall old man wearing robes that were a bright blue with sparkly silver embroidery. "Welcome to Hogwarts." Said the tall old man. "I am Headmaster Dumbledore. And with me is two of my faculty. To my right is Deputy Headmistress Minerva McGonagal, and to my left is my Potions Master Severus Snape." Dumbledore held out his and Emris reached out to shake it.
"Hello Headmaster I am Emris Evetts and this is my assistant and guard Lynn." Lynn just nodded her head in acknowledgement. "Why don't you show us to our patient so I can begin to help him?"
"Are you sure you wouldn't like to go to your quarters first?" Asked Snape.
"No I am here to help a child out now take me to my patient." Said Emris with authority. "Very well." Snape said.
"Why we are catering to this child I have no idea." Said Snape derision coloring his voice.
As soon as Snape said this Lynn exploded into action. Pulling a police issue ASP baton she swung the baton at the knees of Snape shattering his left knee. As Snape was falling Lynn grabbed the back of his head and slammed it into the stone floor knocking him out. Lynn waved her hand over Snape casting a weak enervate spell over him. Lynn spoke with a voice so cold that it would freeze water in place. "IF I EVER hear you refer to ANY child in such a derogatory tone again I will kill you where you stand." And with that Lynn slammed his head back into the ground knocking him out again. Minerva and Albus were stunned what this young girl did to a fully trained wizard.
"Was that necessary?" Said Dumbledore drawing his wand.
"Yes it was necessary old man, someone like that should not be teaching. The little fuck should NOT be placed into a position of authority over children." Said Lynn coldly, while pulling her own wand and a .357 Magnum revolver out of a disillusioned holster on her back.
"LYNN STAND DOWN!" Barked Emris sharply. Reluctantly Lynn put away her wand and her gun.
"Headmaster please lead us to Mr. Potter, Lynn bring the potions teacher along." Emris said in a commanding voice. Lynn held her right out to the comatose form of Snape and with a thought caused it to levitate and follow behind her. The party made their way to the infirmary, where as soon as they entered Lynn all but threw the unconscious form of Snape onto one of the beds. Dumbledore led them to a small private section of the infirmary where they spied a young man with messy black hair and bright green eyes, and a young lady about the same age with bushy brown hair. The girl was holding onto the boy, whispering softly to him.
"Hello Miss my name is Emris Evetts, and I am here to try and help out Mr. Potter."
"Hello do you think you can help him, I have never seen him like this with all that he has been through I never thought I would see him like this."
"I will do my best to make sure he gets through this."
"Is there anything I can do to help?"
Emris looked at her for a moment as if he was studying her. "You have fallen in love with him haven't you?" He asked her.
"Yes I have all that we have been through together, I tried to deny it but I have fallen in love with Harry."
"Good very good you will be an immense help now."
"How?"
"Because your feelings for him will help to anchor him. He has given up for what I was told thinking that there is nothing here for him. You will need to be strong through this part as you will see some things that will disturb you."
"ANYTHING I can do to help I will sir."
"Very well let us begin then."
Emris had Lynn clear the section of the infirmary they were in, and then he set up a small containment ward within the infirmary. "What is your name young lady?" Asked Emris.
"Hermione Granger." she replied. "Is it ok if I call you Hermione?"
"Sure now how do we help Harry."
"I need for you to sit behind Harry and prop him up." Once Hermione got into position she grabbed both of Harry's hands in hers. Emris drew his wand and touched the tip of the wand to the middle of his forehead that he touched it to Hermione's then he touched it to Harry's. Emris intoned in a low voice "Sino nostrum mens iungo." And with that Hermione and Emris sunk into the mind of one Harry J Potter.
Upon entering his mind they were immediately buffeted by a sense of despair so acute that was knifing through them. The mindscape that they were viewing was nothing but a bleak and barren desert landscape filled with jagged rocks and sand with the texture of volcanic ash. "Call out to him Hermione he needs to know that you are here."
"HARRY HARRY WHERE ARE YOU?" Yelled out Hermione as loud as she could.
"Keep it up Hermione keep calling out to him."
After what seemed like forever walking and yelling out to Harry they came upon a house that looked to be in picture perfect condition. The house looked pristine. Emris walked up to the door and tried to open it but found it locked. "Hermione you try it." Hermione walked up to the door and before she could even touch the knob the door swung open. While the outside of the house looked perfect the inside was anything but. It seemed as if the place was rotting from the inside out. "Harry?" said Hermione. "Where are you?" There was no answer but they heard crying from somewhere near the stairs. Not seeing anything they walked into the house. The crying got louder as they got closer to the stairs. When they reached the stairs they saw a small coat closet that was padlocked from the outside. Hermione reached out to the lock and it fell away. She opens the door and spots Harry. But the Harry she sees is not the one she knows this Harry is deathly thin and covered in bruises and burns. This Harry looked to be about 5 or 6 years old. "Harry?" said Hermione gently "is that you?"
"No miss my name is not Harry, according to Uncle Vernon my name is Freak." When Hermione heard that she started to cry.
"No your name is not Freak your name is Harry James Potter, and we are here to help you."
"But according to Uncle Vernon no one wants me has says I am not loved and that I am waste of time for him and my Aunt Petunia."
"Harry you are very much loved by a lot of people."
"Who would love me? Uncle Vernon said that my parents got themselves killed in a car crash so they could get away from me."
"Harry that is not true!" Said Hermione as she gathered the small mental representation of Harry into a hug.
"I love you so very much it hurts me to see you like this. I know that your parents loved you very much too, your mother and father both sacrificed themselves to give you a chance at life."
"Why did they do that?"
"Because they wanted you to have the chance to grow old."
"You said that you love me, do you love me like me parents loved me or like a brother loves a sister?"
"I…I Love you like your parents loved each other." She said with a bright blush coloring her cheeks.
"Harry we need to get you out of here." Said Emris softly speaking for the first time since they found him.
Hermione gathered up Harry in her arms and pulled him out of the closet. As she did this the front door crashed open again and in stepped an immense bi-pedal walrus with a bushy mustache followed by a skinny pale skinned female form with a horses head and finally a short and fat bi-pedal pig with blonde hair waddled into the house. "WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!" Bellowed the walrus.
"That's Uncle Vernon." Whispered Harry to Hermione.
"WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TAKING THE FREAK?" The mental representation of Vernon yelled.
"Away from here." Said Hermione calmly.
"No you don't." Vernon suddenly lashed out with a flipper and attempted to strike Hermione, when a bright silver shield flared into existence between them. The flipper bounced off of the shield striking the other female shape in the face.
"You won't hurt her like you hurt me Uncle." Said Harry with some of the fire in his voice that she remembers from the ill fated mission to rescue his Godfather from the Ministry.
Emris held out his hands and they flared white pushing the "family" out of the way. Emris then intoned "Laxo iunctio of mens." As soon as he finished saying the words they all had a sensation of rushing backwards till they reconnected with their own bodies. When they came back to their own bodies, Harry spoke for the first time in two days.
"Did you mean it Hermione?" He asked his voice raspy from lack of use. "Did you truly mean that you loved me like my parents loved each other?"
"Yes I do mean it Harry I really truly do mean it."
"I…I love you too." He said shyly almost fearfully of her reaction to his proclamation.
"Now that young Mr. Potter is sort of back with us I can begin the counseling necessary to try and help him move past his grief and his guilt." Said Emris speaking up again. "This will be the hardest part of this as you will need to learn to open up to people that you have no reason to trust, but hopefully over time a bond of trust will form between us."
Lynn waved her wand dispelling the containment ward, and walking into the area. "Emris are you and the kids OK?"
"Yeah we are." He said.
"Good." And with that she walked out of the area.
"I am going to leave for now to allow you both to get cleaned up and to get some decent sleep and some food into your system. After you have both rested then we begin to try to and help you Mr. Potter."
Emris walked away from the area as well. At this point Dumbledore spoke up. "Now that you are out of the woods so to speak Mr. Potter we need to get you back to the Dursleys."
As soon as he said this, Emris flashed a hand signal to Lynn. Lynn pulled her gun and put it to the back of Dumbledore's head.
"Albus if you even ATTEMPT to put Harry back with those sub-human creatures I will see to it that you spend the rest of your days in Hell Island for child abuse. Those people should be executed for the way they treated Harry." Emris stated angrily.
"Awww is the pampered prince not getting waited on hand and foot over there?" Asked Snape snidely from his hospital bed. Lynn spun around and squeezed off a shot. The round tore through the air at supersonic velocities slamming into Snape's right shoulder and out through his shoulder blade.
"The next round will be right between your eyes so I suggest that you shut the fuck up you greasy bastard." Said Lynn coldly.
"But the blood protection wards that I setup around the house." Dumbledore started to say.
"ARE USELESS you damn fool!" Said Emris violently. "As soon as my team and I get a base of Operations setup we will move Harry there, with his permission of course so that way I can continue with his therapy and he will have round the clock protection."
"If you value your potions professors' life Headmaster, you will teach him to curb his tongue." Lynn said
"Snivellus" Harry spoke up. "I am calling in the life debt that you owe my Father. I Harry James Potter hereby call in the Life Debt that has transferred to me from James Potter. Severus Snape as payment for the Life Debt you will resign from Hogwarts with ten minutes to exit the building and its grounds, never to enter the building and its grounds for the rest of your life. As I Speak So Mote It Be." The instant Harry said this both Harry and Snape glowed silver for a brief moment.
"Headmaster I need you to make a portkey to Saint Mungo's so I can finish treating Snape." Said Poppy.
Quickly grabbing a pillow from one of the beds Albus waved his wand at the pillow intoning "Portus." Poppy grabbed a hold of Snape with one hand and the portkey with the other. Once she did this the Headmaster touched his wand to the portkey and said "Activate." In a rainbow wash of color and mild cacophony of sound, Poppy and Snape vanished from the infirmary
"Harry was that necessary?" Dumbledore asked.
"Yes it was Headmaster, because that thing was the reason that my parents went into hiding, the first part of the prophecy that Voldemort heard was delivered to him by none other than Snape."
"How could you know that?" Dumbledore asked in suprise.
"Headmaster I suggest that you leave the questions for another day they need their rest, and we NEED to have a SERIOUS discussion about that man., and why you let him attack the mind of young Mr. Potter. Lynn will you please stand guard over the young ones till I return?"
"Emris my mission is to guard you not." Lynn never got to finish her statement as Emris interrupted her.
"Lynn you are also my assistant and as such I order you to stand guard over these two till I return."
Turning to the Headmaster Emris gestures saying . "Headmaster after you."
To everyone that has read my story and reviewed it so far I thank you for your time. Updates to my story will be about a week apart, depending upon my work schedule. Again I thank you all for reading my first attempt at writing fan fiction.
The Latin Phrases according to the translator site I found are for the first one Let our minds be joined.
And the other translates as Undo the joining of the minds.