This appears to have stormed up some interesting points from multiple people. To be fair, is anything as controversial as Abortion in America...or anywhere else. Well, I guess perhaps homosexuality...but to be fair I don't know enough on Homosexuals to really make an argument.
You know, I think that in life there is a constant war between Science and Religion, Liberal vs Conservative. Are those two topics naught but a front of this eternal war?
The Earth's shape, evolution, abortion, homosexuality...this war has raged as long as people have been willing to go against the establishment.
And now, we have all sorts of controversies; religions call for peace while so many wars have been fought over religion, and still are. While science just makes wars more deadly. Of course, neither side is perfect; while science creates drugs that are used to rape, do I even have to bring up the priest scandals?
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CyberArcRotarr I respect the point, and for the sake of keeping things civil I won't argue
Fallen-Ryu That is probably true
azphxbrd Its a simple truth, that one boy from a very influencial family can do so much. And could Sirius get rid of them...?
Naruhina; Problem with that idea...Harry's not Bisexual
Vexit; My bad...though that could be symbolic about how Ron is now who Draco once was, I guess.
Leaf; Witnesses
Cole; He's sort of a cameo character...there a few people that sort of appear in multiple stories; aside for Taisune I often slip in the Cabbage Merchant from Avatar or Gato from Naruto in. The Cabbage merchant has cameoed in Mysterious Power, Last Vampiress, Moon Heir and Restored Legacy, while Gato has appeared in Divided Olympus, this story and Justice League vs Hero League. Though I did slip an Umbridge into Moon heir. Of course, as they appear frequently, they are used for certain purposes; eg the Cabbage Merchant's cart gets destroyed (He is usually given bad characteristics, such as being a Naruto hater, being one of the shady salesmen from the Half Blodo Prince and tried to flirt with the major antagonist of Moon Heir) and Gato usually has some connection to the sex trade and suffers a horrible fate (The other two Gato's I've done got melted like candle wax and tossed into the ocean)
Cathy; Okay, bad economy or not people die in those things. I do admit I didn't know about the baby thing, I only knew the 7 month thing because a relative was prematurely born, and to be fair, so does an appendix.
Um, anyone have an idea for a new Hagrid pet?
Now, hoping no Alexander Andersons are after me, I do believe we have a date with Math teachers...I mean dementors, close enough
Hogwarts express
Ice began to cake the windows, a cold that only grew on the pain that existed in the hearts of everyone in this train card.
Some were trapped by worry for their sister(Astoria), others by fear for her well being(Tracy) fear that he may loose control of his condition (Remus), and others by what had haunted them in the future (The time traveler females)
Harry of course, had more than just the future to haunt him by Dementor.
'Step aside...'
Harry frowned, since when could Dementors cause ice to form...did the time change do that (A/N, I just like the effect from the movie), but he would not hear the stupid thing again
"EXPECTO PATRONUM!"
Perhaps, that was a bad call...but too late as the glowing deer formed before him, its glow illuminating the area as the Dementor's grip on the area ceased.
In fact, the dementors seemed to go away from the train due to that...and a second patronus sent out by Remus
Avoiding what had happened the last time
Flashback
"Quiet!" said a hoarse voice suddenly.
Professor Lupin appeared to have woken up at last.
Harry could hear movements in his corner. None of them spoke.
There was a soft, crackling noise, and a shivering light filled the compartment. Professor Lupin appeared to be holding a handful of flames.
They illuminated his tired, gray face, but his eyes looked alert and wary.
"Stay where you are." he said in the same hoarse voice, and he got slowly to his feet with his handful of fire held out in front of him.
But the door slid slowly open before Lupin could reach it.
Standing in the doorway, illuminated by the shivering flames in Lupin's hand, was a cloaked figure that towered to the ceiling. Its face was completely hidden beneath its hood.
Harry's eyes darted downward, and what he saw made his stomach contract. There was a hand protruding from the cloak and it was glistening, grayish, slimy-looking, and scabbed, like something dead that had decayed in water.
But it was visible only for a split second. As though the creature beneath the cloak sensed Harry's gaze, the hand was suddenly withdrawn into the folds of its black cloak.
And then the thing beneath the hood, whatever it was, drew a long, slow, rattling breath, as though it were trying to suck something more than air from its surroundings.
An intense cold swept over them all. Harry felt his own breath catch in his chest. The cold went deeper than his skin. It was inside his chest, it was inside his very heart…
Harry's eyes rolled up into his head. He couldn't see. He was drowning in cold. There was a rushing in his ears as though of water. He was being dragged downward, the roaring growing louder…
And then, from far away, he heard screaming, terrible, terrified, pleading screams.
He wanted to help whoever it was, he tried to move his arms, but couldn't… a thick white fog was swirling around him, inside him —"Harry! Harry! Are you all right?"
Someone was slapping his face.
"W-what?"
Harry opened his eyes; there were lanterns above him, and the floor was shaking — the Hogwarts Express was moving again and the lights had come back on. He seemed to have slid out of his seat onto the floor. Ron and Hermione were kneeling next to him, and above them he could see Neville and Professor Lupin watching.
Harry felt very sick; when he put up his hand to push his glasses back on, he felt cold sweat on his face. Ron and Hermione heaved him back onto his seat.
"Are you okay?" Ron asked nervously.
"Yeah," said Harry, looking quickly toward the door.
The hooded creature had vanished. "What happened? Where's that — that thing? Who screamed?"
"No one screamed," said Ron, more nervously still. Harry looked around the bright compartment. Ginny and Neville looked back at him, both very pale.
"But I heard screaming —"
A loud snap made them all jump. Professor Lupin was breaking an enormous slab of chocolate into pieces.
"Here," he said to Harry, handing him a particularly large piece. "Eat it. It'll help."
Harry took the chocolate but didn't eat it.
"What was that thing?" he asked Lupin.
"A Dementor," said Lupin, who was now giving chocolate to everyone else. "One of the Dementors of Azkaban."
End Flashback
Why did he keep having these flashbacks anyway? Was it because of the time travel? Would the past always haunt him?
Had the remants of his old time period taken refuge within him? Did he stand alone in being the last person of the old timeline? His time travel created this new reality, he created Ronfoy, he snapped the Weasley family apart worse than Percy ever could, he created Snape the Maruader, he created Bisexual, polygamist Dumbledore...was anything impossible?
More so than it did in the original timeline.
He felt Ginny, Luna and Hermione giving him a look...could they really tell he was thinking like that? Or could they just read him like a book?
"Um, how did you do that. that was a very advanced spell, the Patronus charm" Remus asked Harry, very surprised.
"It was pretty...and it made the scary feeling go away" Astoria noticed.
"That scary, was the power of a dementor, the guards of Azkaban prison. They suck happiness out of people...like vampires, but far worse. All that is left, are the worse thoughts; fears, trauma, tax payments, the like. But again, how can you perform that charm?"
Harry tried to think up a good thing to say, but Daphne beat him to it "Professor, Harry was taught it by Professor Dumbledore, because the Ministry thought about putting Dementors around Harry as protection. It was Harry's main activity this summer"
Remus was silent for the moment, and for a moment the time travelers thought he would detect the lie, but at the end he smirked.
"Well then, I have an odd feeling that your be a delightful student, Mr. Potter"
At Hogwarts
The grounds were far more inviting than the dementor infected train, as all the students fled the train for safety...ignoring the fact that the Forest of Death...Forbidden Forest was close by, said forest being home to Hagrid's many pets; such as Mr. Whiskers and Bob.
As the groups began to get on their respective forms of transportation, we find Harry, Hermione, Susan, Daphne, Hedwig and Crookshanks on one carriage, flying to Hogwarts with all seeing the Thestrals; either from the original timeline's memories or just because all animals can.
"Crookshanks...what's wrong with you..." Hermione grumbled as the cat began to act up. The group exchanged looks.
"This is sort of like how he acted when Pettigrew was around...but also how he acted if he got locked up for too long. Daphne, do you think you can read his mind?"
"Legilmency doesn't work that well on animals...Kneazles or part Kneazles in particular"
"Damn...hey why aren't you with Tracy?"
Daphne frowned "A few of the Slytherins tried to force themselves onto the carriage she and I would have taken, but Parvati, Padma and Luna took up all the room to keep them off. Their better than them, anyway"
"Just a little more likely to go on about Snorkacks" Susan chuckled.
Harry was silent, before he frowned "Hey, doesn't Hagrid get a new pet again..." Harry had a bad thought as he started that
"Will Ronfoy be in Care for Magical Creatures again..." because they did not need another Malfoy being sabotaging Hagrid's lessons.
Daphne managed to can that train of thought quickly "According to Tracy, anyway, no one took it in her year...there was a lot of people going into Divination, thought"
A few grins were held at the thought of the torture the poor Slytherins would be in.
After a bit of time in the air, they touched down and entered the Castle. Reuniting with the rest of the time travelers, they all took their seats.
Tracy, however, did not look pleased as she took a seat closer to second year girls in her row than her fellow third years.
He noticed Ronfoy was looking desperate...hungry almost. A pain formed in his heart as he recalled how Ron always acted.
Did he really have to retain a trait from Ron? Other than a odd lack of calling Hermione a mud blood...though he used other words like slut, book worm and know it all...the last two Ron would have called her, he had no resemblance in behavior to the Ron he knew and loved as a brother.
He noted Remus up with the rest of the teachers, with Flitwick, Lingua, Kroot, Sinastra another new teacher...Barty Crouch?
? What the hell
The new teacher was dressed in the robes of a professional Magical, with a mustache that looked like it had been measured with a ruler. His hair, though, wasn't gray, but a sandy blond like Barty Crouch Jr., though there was a gray tinge.
Before he could comment on the new teacher and his Crouchyness, Hagrid arrived with the fresh meat...I mean first years, as the hat began to sing. (A/N, it probably is corny and bad, but I can't write songs)
Long ago when I was sewn
There lived four magicals that you might knewn
Grand Gryffindor the Brave
Cunning Slytherin the Knave
Kind Hufflepuff the Nice
And Ravenclaw the wise
One day they came together and said
Lets make a school for magic safe from dread
And so they founded the school
And admitted every genius and fool
To each they taught the ones they came to like
Gryffindor took the ones who were always ready for the fight
While Slytherin choose the cunning who planned for power
Lady Ravenclaw took those who saw books as the perfect flower
Sweet Hufflepuff took the rest
For to her they were the best
And long after they were gone I remain
To decide which house will be your domain
Where you were continue to grow and learn all your school days
While the Dementors keep Sirius Black at bay
Harry did not like the last part at all
And then, the stupid wheel thing they used in this timeline, for whatever reason they did, appeared, spun and guess whose name came first
Greengrass, Astoria
If she went to Slytherin, she'd never be able to see Daphne without Ronfoy calling her parents, if she went to Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff she'd be unable to see her sister easily and would likely be banished from her family, and if she went to Gryffindor, she would be banished but she'd be with her sister.
Talk about being a loser no matter what happened.
He noted how tense Daphne was, at what her sister's fate would be.
The hat went on top of her head...as he started to hear it...
'I take it you won't be happy with anything I choose'
Wait, how...
He looked at Daphne, who appeared to be Legilmensing the entire thing. Could he somehow be listening in?
"I want...to be with my family, but no matter where I go, I'll loose a part of it. Father and Mother will banish me if I don't go to Slytherin, but if I go there, I will never see Daphne, and her friend looks miserable there"
'Alas, the trait that inhabits the Slytherin House is a curse for those like you or Tracy, and quite frankly its a disaster waiting to happen. Professor Dumbledore can't just blast the doors open in Hogwarts as he wishes...the Castle has wards to keep that from happening. The school has survived a thousand years of hot heads with wands for a reason, you know...'
The talk inside of Tracy's head, which Daphne listened in on intently and he by however he was doing so...went on so long that he could have sworn that Ronfoy was eating his own arm...
"GRYFFINDOR!"
Astoria ran towards her sister, hugging her with tears in her eyes at the choice, as Harry just allowed the other kids to go by without really paying attention.
As soon as it was done, Dumbledore gave his dementor warning to everyone, before he came to the interesting stuff
"First of all, I would like to welcome three new teachers once again. First, lets welcome Professor Remus Lupin, an auror who has agreed to become our newest, Defense against the Dark Arts teacher"
There was polite applause, though he could tell people were put off by his patchy appearance.
"Second, I'd like to inform you all that after last term Professor Kettleburn retired, in order to spend more time with his remaining limbs. Because of that, our Gameskeeper has agreed to fill in for him, so give it up for Professor Hagrid!"
More applause
"And last, but certainly not least, we have a new class open, for students at N.E.W.T level who wish to enter the Ministry of Magic, or at least figure out how it works, because I don't" he joked as the entire room chuckled "So, give it up for Professor Orderius Crouch, brother of the esteemed Barty Crouch of the Ministry of Magic"
A polite greeting then ensued for the crouch
He made another Crouch...great. Sirius, if he was good, would kill him for that, if he wasn't...he'd kill him just to kill him.
"But, don't despair, you can eat now!"