Till now: Harry had convinced his mother, Sirius and Lupin to come with him to his time to help save his son.
Previously: in the year 2001, Hermione caught Ron's hand and whispered urgently."I've got something to tell you...I'm pregnant."
A/N: This chapter happens simultaneously as Harry does the convincing in the year 1981. So there are no time travellers in this chapter yet. Also, everyone is convinced that the child in harm is James. That is because Albus is not yet born and hence remains unknown.
YEAR 2001 :
Ron sat on his couch with a grumpy face. Harry had left earlier that morning, if you could call going back into the past leaving. Ron however had not gone to see him off. It had been around twenty-four hours but his bad mood continued.
After having returned from the Ministry, Ron had refused blank to allow Hermione to travel into the future. It was now not only a question of Hermione, but also of his first child. Ron had always conceived in his head a scenario where both he and Hermione would be the happiest people to become parents. But stubborn as she was, Hermione wanted to head into the future to save James, whom she had come to consider as a son.
Before he had even woken up, Hermione had set off to the ministry to see Harry off. The trail of thoughts led him to remember his and Harry's incomplete mission from over the previous days. That needed to become their highest priority now.
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Harry and Ron walked through the darkest cell. The prisoners who had inhabited the surrounding cells were all now dead or dangerously crippled. Rumours had now spread about a curse in the deepest cell.
The entrance door easily opened with a push of the hand. There was only a single glow inside the room. A red light, much similar to a laser beam. The security personnel of Nurmengard, who had escorted them till the door, refused to enter because of the rumoured curse. Ron swore loudly at the guards as they proceeded deeper into the room.
They had travelled not more than ten meters that a sinister shriek shot into the air. Ron and Harry covered their ears with their hand, but the sound was so shrill that it could still be heard. A barrier, more like a wall, began to rise upward. The sound stopped suddenly when the wall had finished growing. It was a bricked wall with a single wooden plank.
"Lumos," they said in unison.
They held up their wands to read the sign on the plank.
'This is the residence of Gellert Grindewald.
If this board has resurfaced, then my rise to power has started again.
THE GREATER GOOD'
The two men exchanged glances. Together, they touched the wall and it began to revolve. A narrow passage allowed them to advance to the other side of the room.
They progressed towards the red beam. They were Two feet near the light when it disappeared. The light had originated from absolutely nothing. Though the light had vanished, they had entered a region where there was natural light. At the centre of this circularly lit region was a bench. And on the bench was blood. Ron gasped in terror.
Harry's eyes however were caught by something silver on the ground. It was a bracelet.
Harry lifted it up, only to see a pendant hanging from it. Frowning they saw the initials B.B on one side of the pendant. Ron turned it around only to find another initial- H.B.
"Great," Harry sighed," Another set of initials to cipher."
"And that to another evil wizard again!" said Ron loudly, "Just when I was thinking life was as normal as it could be."
Suddenly a phoenix came flying into the cell and perched itself on Harry's shoulder. It was his pet bird, Magie. She had a note with her.
"It's a note from Ginny!" Harry said ripping the letter apart.
Together, the two men scanned the note. Instantly Harry pocketed the bracelet and they left the prison.
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Ron came back to reality uneasily. Who were HB and BB?
There was no living person acquainted to Grindewald. Yet, someone had helped him. And now, together they were going to harm his godson. And that thought brought back his thinking to Hermione.
He closed his eyes.
And suddenly, a brilliant plan struck him
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Luna hadn't slept in over fifty hours. Yet, she had no desire to sleep. She was tirelessly working to develop a machine to see ahead in time. It would eventually show them whom the prophecy was made about.
At the fifty first hour, Ginny and Hermione returned to join Luna just as she accomplished the task of completing the machine.
"Shall we see it together then?" she asked her two friends.
The orb was placed on the plate. Immediately a shadowy scene emerged before them.
A young boy, with green eyes, looking like a replica of a younger Harry stood before them. He looked scared. But contrary to his feelings, he said in a loud voice, "I Albus Severus Potter has come to challenge the most deadly wizard of all time, Grindewald. BEWARE! "
And just as suddenly as the scene had emerged before them, it disappeared.
Hermione and Luna turned around just in time to catch a fainted Ginny.
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