AN: well this one will be longer than the last few chapters I'm starting to get the flow of this writing and editing thing. obviously I've still missed some grammar errors in the past few chapters. like I said last AN in the next five or so chapters there Will be time jumps and I don't plan on writing five or so years worth of story while we wait for Voldy to fire up his war machine. That being said there will be plenty for Harry to do between now and then. As for the marauders coming into the story that will be a while yet, if I remember correctly they don't attend Hogwarts until 71' so right now they are ten years old, 1970 was the only plausible way Harry could go back in time and pair with a Black sister and stay true to cannon, Andromeda in this story is seventeen and Harry is twenty-four.
AN2: If your wondering what Andromeda looks like, I guess the best actress I've seen to describe her would be a 17 year old 'Pheobe Tonkin'
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Durham County, England, 6/25/1970, 10:00
Harry awoke to the sound of vomiting coming from the bathroom down the hall, the last few days he had been trying trying to get his guest back on her feet. The bone had fused correctly but there was some serious inflammation in the muscles and required him to apply a topical salve to her inner thigh (he couldn't give her a potion like he did for her ribs because the higher dosage would be a danger to the baby) and between her back and her leg she was killing him with pent up sexual tension. He felt pervy for even thinking such things, but he had not had intimate relations for the better part of five years (which was another reason to hate unspeakables). He still felt bad for thinking these things but he couldn't deny she was gorgeous she had flowing dark brown curly hair, heavy lidded bedroom eyes, tight athletic build with a modest C-cup and long shapely legs that combined with tanned skin almost Mediterranean in appearance was steadily driving him insane.
Shaking himself he decided to get up and take a cold shower, luckily his room was the only one with an ensuite so he didn't have to waddle down the hallway and risk his guest catching sight of his morning erection.
Twenty minutes later he walked in to the kitchen to find Andy (as she insisted he call her) sipping coffee while reading the Daily Prophet, he caught the headline something about a muggleborn attacked in Diagon Alley. He wished her a "good morning" and she returned the greeting absent-mindedly as she was clearly engrosed in whatever she was reading. Walking to the cabinet and retrieving a mug to fill with coffee, he turned to head back to the table. Upon turning around he got an eye full of her attire (or lack thereof) she was barefoot wearing only a short sleeveless nightgown jiggling her leg up and down making her night gown ride up her thighs. Realizing he was staring he mentally shook himself out of his stupor. Turning back around to the icebox he deciding to make them breakfast instead of risking making an ass out himself staring at her.
Smirking in her mind when caught Harry staring at her 'at least he finds me attractive' she thought to herself before reading more about the DMLE finding one Ted Tonks brutally attacked by "Dark Witches or Wizards Unknown" she felt conflicted by this. On one hand she did still care for him he was her first love, but on the other hand he left her virtually Knutless and it hurt her very badly to catch him with another woman "still I'm just glad I found out what he was like before I had a child with him" her musings were interrupted by a plate of bacon, eggs and toast being placed in front of her and then a full glass of orange Juice.
Harry plated up breakfast for him and Andy and levitate the plates cutlery and juice to the table. Taking a seat across from he asked "What's in the paper this morning?" "My ex husband was attacked very badly, the paper says he's very lucky to be alive. Anyway I was also looking for apartments I don't want to be a burden on you longer than I have to" she stated Harry just shrugged before taking a gulp of juice to wash his eggs down then replied "don't worry about that your pleasant enough company, How is your leg by the way any soreness?" she shook her head "not really soreness but it's kind of stiff, do you have anymore of that salve?" she asked hopefully Harry internally sighed but kept a straight face when replying "yes half a jar I'll apply it after we finish" she smiled at him in thanks, truth be told her leg wasn't all that stiff but she enjoyed him touching her 'Dannn pregnancy hormones' she thought to herself.
"you can stay here as long as you need to, I got the room so it's no hassle really. I wouldn't mind if you helped getting this place looking a little better. I got most of the furniture but it still looks pretty spartan" he told her after a few moments. Andi was at first shocked that he would help her even more but that quickly turned to happiness and she beamed at him "I would love that Thank you!" she said excitedly as she sprung from her chair and engulfed him in a tight hug before taking her seat again blushing slightly.
Harry was shocked by her reaction but smiled at her his cheeks slightly flushed too.
An hour later after cleaning up and getting ready to get the day going . Harry was approached by Andy as he was getting ready to head out to the out buildings to investigate what was inside them having never had a chance to explore them yet. "Harry would you mind escorting me to Diagon Alley? I need clothes and a refill on my potions" she asked hesitantly. Realizing why she was in need an escort and knowing she only had the clothes she was wearing he nodded. sighing internally about the mysteries of the outbuildings he replied to her " yes i could probably do with some potion refills to, are you ready to leave go?" She nodded the affirmative and the two headed out to the ward line in order to head out to get her shopping done.
Evans Farmhouae, Duhamel County, England, 6/25/1970, 17:37
With a groan Harry collapsed into his chair why wasn't he warned! Primary school, Hogwarts, Auror Training, or what ever you called the training program he underwent for the unspeakables. Never in all that training did he ever hear the words "be afraid of the Witch who suggests you take her shopping!" But now he knew, now he was wise to the deceptively innocent request and would never go in so blindly again! Store after store fabrics, colors, cut, hem lines. She seemed keen on his opinion on almost everything she tried on even shoes and answering great apparently wasn't a sufficient answer. The only upside was when she needed under garments and his opinion wasn't required so he could sneak away for an icecream. The woman in question came back from her room after dropping her purshases off and sat on the couch across from him kicked off her shoes and tucked her legs underneath her.
"Thank you for today, I hope I it wasn't to much trouble?" she asked demurley Harry chuckled but replied "It was an expierience, I've never done that much shopping in my life" she looked at him quizzically "how do you usually get your clothes shopping done then?" "I have very basic taste I know what I want, I try it on it fits I leave" was his easy reply. "Well I'm very grateful for you helping me, I am glad to not have to wash the same clothes every night before bed" she laughed.
"Well on a more serious note tomorrow I have to leave to take care of something I've been putting of for a while" he told her as he pushed himself out of his chair to go make them a late dinner. "where are you going, can I tag along?" she asked hopping up to follow him in the kitchen "I don't thinks so, what I'm doing will be extremely dangerous" he answered ignoring her first question. "All the more reason to take me along, please I promise I won't get in the way" Harry sighed he didn't have much experience with women, and how to say no. Sighing in defeat he said "fine but we are capturing and slaying a XXXXX creature, this is beyond dangerous so you will do what I say I don't want to have worry about you getting eaten or something!" her eyes widened at that but she nodded and gave her agreement " okay I agree, what kind of creature are we after anyway? she actually sounded exited thought Harry warily but answered her anyway "A Basilisk, hidden under a school in Scottland Hogwarts I believe it's called" she did pale at the information and was silent long enough for Harry to get their food and drinks on the table. He watched her as if on auto pilot take her seat and begin eating before she finally burst out "there is a Basilisk at Hogwarts where?" "Ever hear of the Chamber of Secrets?" he asked non-chalantly. Secretly Harry was enjoying her reactions his own payback for the hell she put him through today. His last bomb she'll didn't disappoint,as she processed his question her eyes bulged and she spewed. the soda she was drinking across the table and glared at him "you had better not be fucking with me Evans, Are we really going into Hogwarts to slay Slytherin's Basilisk?" she demanded his simple "Yep" didn't seem to placate het Ire because she exclaimed "That's Insane if a Basilisk is the Chambers guardian it would be close to a thousand years old, it must be massive" his smirk only grew and in a taunting drawl he replied " If you're scared and don't want to go I completely understand" "I'm coming you might just be making this all up" she bit out "Suit yourself but we have a long day tomorrow so we best get some shutte eye" she nodded in agreement before taking her plate to the sink and headed to her room " Goodnight Andromeda" he said to her "I've told you to call me Andy, Goodnight though" she returned as she disappeared down the hallway. Harry was nervous about tomorrow, he knew his plan was solid but that didn't prevent him worrying, 'Still at least I won't be alone down there' he made it to his room stripping to his boxers and climbing into bed before crashing into a deep sleep, It had been a long day
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Second Floor Girls Bathroom, H.S.o.W.a.W, Scottland, 6/26/1970, 08:30
Getting into Hogwarts had been almost laughingly easy, waiting until "Honeydukes" had opened the two of them had snuck down to the basement and entered the trap door that opened into a tunnel. Andy was amazed that the tunnel even existed and she was quite inquisitive about how he knew about it, asking him questions the whole way down the tunnel which he expertly avoided answering. The only hiccup was Harry fitting through the entrance he about popped his shoulder out of joint crawling out of the one eyed witch (he would definitely take an alternate route out of the school) after that it was a trip down one floor to moaning Myrtle's bathroom under the Invisibilty cloak.
"You expect me to believe the entrance to the fabled Chamber of Secrets is in this filthy bathroom?" Andy asked sceptically. Harry didnt answer he just walked over to the sink with the snake engraving and spoke to the little snake "§Open§" his words coming out as hissing. "Youre a Parselmouth?!" Andy gasped as the sink sunk into the wall and three foot diameter hole open going into a steep downward angle under the wall behind it. "of course how else would we get into Slytherins chamber" he asked rhetorically before dropping into the pipe with a wave at a scowling Andromeda Black.
"What a prat" she huffed, ever since she asked about this mission they were one Harry had made it his goal to shock her as much as possible. Now he's a bloody parselmouth what next? she sighed and lowered herself gingerly into the slimy bottomless pipe she hesitated a moment before finding the courage to let go of the pipe. with a deep breath she let go of the edge, she shot down the steep incline at blistering speed the pipe seemed to go on forever veering left or right she could just make out the openings of other pipes branching off of the one she was in before the pipe seemed to level off before finally ending. She shrieked when she flew out the end before she seemed to stop in midair hovering about a yard off the ground, her body spun gently to orient her feet underneath her then Harry's spell let her go and she dropped a few inches to the ground. "This can't be the Chamber of Secrets" she scoffed looking around it was nothing but a filthy cave with rat bones all over the floor.
"No its the anti chamber we have a bit if a hike before we're there" he answered. The walk through the cave was quiet well it was until she spotted a snake skin 'A thirty foot Snake Skin!'. She shrieked when she saw the pale venous green skin as big around as an oak tree and thirty feet long. "The Basilisk is that big" she asked Harry in a timid voice. He looked up from the trunk he had just opened opened while she stared at the skin and told her very seriously "No that skin is probably hundreds of years old, it will be much bigger now" he then levitated the head of the skin into the trunk and expertly guided the rest in, she watched the tail disappear before she spoke "How will we catch something that big?" and not die was left unsaid. "Simple I got a large container on loan from the goblins, I will simply place the container in front of the entrance to its nest and call the creature. The container is air tight so once it's inside I simply activate a rune that will suck all the air out of the container no direct interaction " feeling a little better now Andromeda followed Harry and the trunk he was levitating "why don't you shrink the trunk instead of levitating it?" she asked. " It has an undetectable extension charm and shrinking it would destabilize it's integrity, there is too much mass inside to shrink it down any smaller" she nodded not really understanding but not caring enough to ask anymore questions about it.
They rounded a turn and come to a large round metal door set into the cave wall it, had two silver snakes set into it with large emerald eyes "§Open§" Harry spoke to the door only to Andromeda it sounded like a bunch of rasping hissing noises. The door split between the two snakes and swung outward towards them. The room beyond was pitch black and Harry strolled it first "§Light§" he hissed out and green flame torches came to life on the walls around a giant chamber. Andromeda was taken aback by sheer size of it, at lest twice as long, and more the three times as wide as the great hall. The ceiling was so high she couldn't even make it out. Large m marble pillars ran down the middle in two rows in the shape of giant snakes with empty eye sockets forming a path to a large statue of a man with a beard flowing down to the floor, he was rather ugly almost apelike in appearance she thought. The whole room was made of marble even the statue it was simply amazing.
Harry's hand on her shoulder brought her out of her musings "Let's get cracking" he grinned at her setting off for the statue she hurried to catch up with him and when she did it was to see him take a rectangular wooden object about six inches long an two inches wide from his pocket and place it on the floor, he then touched his wand to the rune on the side facing up and pushed magic through it before backing away the box seem to inflate before their eyes to more than sixty feet long and four foot wide and tall. "How will you get the snake in there?" she asked curiosly. In answer to her question he cast "wingardium leviosa" And raised the open end of the mammoth container up to rest on the statues chin. Andromeda gasped. That kind of levitation wasn't supposed to be possible by a single person, she could see the exertion he was going through sweat was beading on his forehead and seeing how powerful he was really turned her on. She heard him exhale I relief and turn to dig in the trunk he had been levitating. He pulled out a large drape, then levitate that to wrap around the statues face transfiguring it to seal the gap between the statue and the container with a cry of "Duro" he transfiguring the drape to have the qualities of stone. sighing he grabbed a pepper up potion from his robe pocket and downed it in one. "That was a lot of work" he huffed out, she started giggling "it was fun to watch, are we ready to catch the snake now?" he smiled "almost just got to activate the sensor that tells us when she enters the box" he said while placing his wand on the top right of a rune cluster on the side of the box, it instantly illuminated to a vibrant red. "When the snake enters the box that light will turn blue. When it's all the way in and the lid seals shut it will turn green then we have caught ourselves a Basilisk" he told her she nodded in understanding and jumped when he hissed "§speak to me Salazar Slytherin greatest of the Hogwarts four§" "Warn me next time prat" she snapped and gave his arm a slap for good measure. The sound of grinding stone could be heard and the container slid across the floor in tandem withe the stone jaw of the statue opening. Harry rushed over to the corner that was resting on the floor and cast an overpowered sticking charm on the box to keep the snakes weight from making it slide. Andromeda jumped when she heard a ding sound from the box and looked to see the rune turn blue. "It's in the box Harry the light turned blue" he came beside her and watched as the box started to vibrate it took an eternity it seemed for another chime to go off and the rune turned green followed by a heavy thump as the other end of the box sealed shut. Smiling Harry raised his wand and finited the sticking charm and the transfigured drape simultaneously, the box slid forward and the other crashed to the floor laying perfectly flat across the chamber floor. Sighing Harry smiled at her she felt a swooping feeling in her stomach " That's the hard part, now I just have to activate the last rune" which he did pressing his wand to a rune on the left of the cluster it also turn a vibrant red and she could her the sound of air coming out of the rune it sounded liked a stabbed tire almost an earsplitting hissing sound the box started moving frantically for a few moments before it stilled and a few minutes later the rune turned chimed again the turned green. "There all done, let's ship this off and get back home" Harry sighed out already digging a leather pouch from his trunk. Placing the port keys was simple there was indentations on top of the box for each of the twelve stones that were All linked to the stone in the middle of the box. Once in place he simply touched his wand to the center stone the massive crate vanished before their eyes. "Let's get out of here, I'm starving and I'm pretty sure it's getting late" Andromeda nodded "It's almost 3:00 we missed lunch" Harry took one more look around before he told her "I still need to return here, I'm pretty sure there are other chambers in with secrets to find. But right now I'm beat" with that they made their way out of Hogwarts for a much deserved meal and some rest.
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Evans Farm, Durham County, England, 6/27/1970, 11:00
Harry awoke to a warm weight resting on his chest glancing down he saw dark brown curls spread out flowing onto the bed off his chest with a smile he remembered last night (and early this morning) her weight felt amazing and he started rubbing his hand through her hair wondering what happens now, somehow he knew this was going to complicate things