A/N I am so sorry for the long wait! For the past few weeks, I've been having my finals and have been studying nonstop. This is actually a very long chapter, so I hope you like it. Also, there are some parts of this chapter where small dialogue parts are taken directly from the book or from the movie. Just a heads up! Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Doctor Who, just the plot to this story.


Chapter 14: Reunions and Forests

~ HARRY ~

Harry woke with a start. He had been having the same nightmare every night since coming to Grimmauld Place with Amy: Hermione, Ron, the Weasley's, Amy, Sirius, Lupin, Tonks, and all his friends and mentors were murdered by Voldemort and he had to face him alone. Every night he would have this nightmare, and every night Amy would come in to comfort him after the fact.

Harry was staying in his and Ron's room from this past summer, and Amy was just down the hall in her own room. It was two months already that they had been there, but of course, they wouldn't be left alone at a time like this. They had twenty-four-hour protection from Lupin, Sirius, and Tonks. They each took different shifts of the day, making sure that there was at least one person watching over the two teenagers.

Amy barged into his room, wand out. "Harry, are you alright? What happened?" But when she saw the look on his face, she slowly lowered her wand. "Again?" He nodded his head, and her worried face fell into her usual face which meant 'I'm sorry.' "I just wanted to make sure you were okay. You've been screaming nonstop for the past two minutes. You should really put a silencio in your room before going to sleep."

"Yes, but then how would you know when I need you?" This made her laugh.

Amy's laugh was very rare nowadays. She hadn't laughed since the time they were back at Hogwarts. Harry figured Amy missed Fred, and she missed his jokes. A few weeks ago, Amy told him that since Fred was the last person to make her laugh before leaving Hogwarts, she didn't want to laugh again until the next time she saw him; but now she had. Harry had a bad feeling about this. If Amy was breaking her internal promise to herself, she must've been losing hope of seeing Fred again.

"Amy, you'll see him again."

She had been staring off into nothingness. "What? What're you talking about?"

"You laughed. I thought you promised yourself that —"

"That I would only laugh when I see Fred again? Yeah, well, I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. I already told him not to come looking for me; that we'd probably be on the run by the time he reads my message."

"But, Amy, we're not on the run. We're here, I thought you told him that?"

"I did, Harry. But what if," Amy sat down on Ron's bed, "what if he decides not to read the message? What if he doesn't want to see me? And," Amy choked back a sob and finished her sentence, "What is he thinks I'm dead? Then he won't even bother coming. I wrote in there for him not to come find me."

"And when has Fred Weasley ever obeyed the rules? Even if they were written by his own girlfriend? He's coming, Amy. I know he'll come for you. He loves you."

"Harry, there's something I haven't told you. There were two days since we've been here that I went away with Remus —"

"I know. Because you watch over him during the full moons —"

"No, Harry. Well, yes, actually. But not exactly. Last summer, on the 10th of August, as you know, I went to Hogwarts to get Sorted early. But that night was also a full moon. That's why Remus and I came home later than expected," she took a deep breath. Harry did not know what to expect.

"On that night, Remus went to the Shrieking Shack so that he wasn't a threat to anyone else there. But he got out. So I took one of the brooms from the Quidditch Pitch and flew into the Forbidden Forest. I levitated him and was almost at the Shack when he gave me this," she moved the hair out of her face to reveal claw marks above and next to her left eye. "I don't just go with Remus to watch over him during the full moons. I transform with him."

Harry didn't know what to say, but suddenly a question popped into his head. "All those times you weren't there during dinner at school...? You were at the Shrieking Shack? With Remus?"

She nodded. "Every time. I keep a list of all the full moons so I know when I need to go —"

"through the Whomping Willow?"

"Yes."

"Who else? Who else knows? I mean, why tell me? And now off all times?"

"You're my friend, Harry. You deserve to know the truth. As for who else knows, Remus, obviously, Tonks, Sirius, Dumbledore, McGonagall, Fred, and Madame Pomfrey. Then again, Fred probably told George by now."

"Pomfrey? Dumbledore? McGonagall?"

"They were there the day it happened, Dumbledore and McGonagall. As soon as Remus brought me back to the castle, the Professors immediately owled Pomfrey."

"How many, um… how many times have you transformed?"

"Nine. One every month, so far. The next one is the 3rd of March. You should get some sleep, Harry. Just in case, you know. You never know what might happen tomorrow."

With one last hug, Amy made her way back to her own room. But, as she left, a small piece of paper fell out of her pocket. Written on it, was a list of the full moons that she had told Harry about:

10 August, 9 September, 8 October, 7 November, 7 December, 5 January, 4 February, 5 March, 4 April, 3 May, 1 June, 1 July, 30 July.

After deciding he would give this back to her in the morning, Harry closed his eyes, drifting off to sleep.


Harry walked through the hall and down the stairs. It was now morning, and all Harry could think about was Amy and the information that she had revealed to him the night prior. How did she not tell Ginny? Or even Hermione and Ron? His thoughts were interrupted by a certain red-head apparating in front of him.

POP!

"Amy! How many times have I told you! That freaks me out!"

"Sorry, Harry." She laughed again. She must really not believe Fred is coming.

"By the way," he said, pulling out the piece of paper from the previous night, "you dropped this on your way out last night."

"Thanks, Harry." Amy was still giggling from her entrance as she took the paper, a large smile spread across her face.

They entered the dining room and took their seats near Sirius and Lupin while Tonks emerged from the kitchen with plates filled with food levitating in front, behind, and next to her.

"As I've been telling you all, I'm not a good cook like Molly. So I apologize if breakfast tastes a bit off," Tonks said as she took her seat right next to Lupin and instantly struck up a conversation with him. Harry saw Sirius watching Lupin and Tonks out of the corner of his eye, with a smirk on his face.

Sirius turned back towards Amy and Harry and began to speak, "Your friends back at Hogwarts will be taking their OWLs today, just in case you were wondering. I know you miss them all. I'm sorry you have to cooped up in here."

"It's fine Sirius," reassured Amy, "it's for good reason."

"Actually, I was wondering about that. Why does Amy need to be here? I thought Voldemort sent Pettigrew after me. Isn't it safe for Amy to go back."

"Not exactly, Harry. Pettigrew was after you; initially. But then Voldemort learned about Amy: the teenage Order member. He figured 'why not retrieve them both at the same time?' It's a good thing you were using the Map at that time Amy. That reminds me, actually. How did you get ahold of that Map, Amy? The Marauders Map?"

"I got it from Harry. Apparently, it was given to him in his third year."

"Yeah, Fred and George gave it to me so I could sneak into Hogsmeade." Lupin gave Harry a disapproving look for that.

"Fred and George?" Sirius questioned, "How did they find it?"

"Filch's office. In their first year," Amy answered. "They used it for the pranks around school."

"You hear that, Remus! I told you that Map would do some good sometime in the future!" Sirius laughed along with Remus. "I would hardly call pranks 'doing some good,' Sirius."

"I think it's great!" Laughed Tonks.

They finished breakfast and just sat at the table talking. Until they were interrupted by banging on the front door.

"Remus, I thought the Order members were told not to come here in case this place was compromised?" Tonks hid Amy her her back as Sirius did the same with Harry. "Well then, I believe this place has just been compromised, Tonks. Tonks, go with the kids, help them pack. We're leaving. Now."

Tonks grabbed Amy and Harry by the hands and tried to drag them up the stairs. But they weren't moving.

"We're not going anywhere, Remus," Amy took her stand, "We're staying here to help." Reluctantly, Remus allowed them to stay in the room while he and Sirius went to the front door.

Harry, Amy, and Tonks stood in silence for no more than thirty seconds before hearing Sirius yell "Finally, you're here!" from the hallway. The three of them began to listen at the door leading into the hallway.

"I was wondering when you two would get here! I figured you'd come looking for her. But from what I've heard, she told you not to come."

"I couldn't leave her out there alone. I didn't know if you all had gotten separated," said the voice of a man from the hallway. Amy seemed to recognize the voice immediately because as soon as he had finished speaking, she ran out into the and Harry followed after her.

Harry stopped dead in his tracks. Amy was now in the arms of Fred Weasley. George, who was standing next to his brother, walked over to Harry.

"How've you been, mate? We know all about what happened. We read about it in Amy's diary."

"You read Amy's diary?"

"She kind of left it for Fred, with little hints and messages for him."

"Oh, okay. Not great, I guess. I mean, I have been hiding out here for the past two months."

"Ron, Hermione, and Ginny all miss you. And all of Dumbledore's Army, too. All the Slytherins have been having parties about you being gone, but Umbridge has been acting extra bitchy. I guess since she can't take her anger out on you, she's taking it out on the entire school."

Amy finally released Fred and hugged George. When she released him, she began whacking Fred with her bag. "I — thought — I — told — you — to — not — look — for — me!" she said with every hit.

"Dammit, Amy! I thought you would be happy to see me," Fred whined while rubbing his newly formed bruises.

"I am happy to see you guys! But what if something happened and this place was filled with Death Eaters —"

"Then we would've fought through them until it led us to you," George gave her a weak smile.

"So, can we stay here?" Fred asked, facing the adults, "We kind of just dropped out of Hogwarts and do not want to face our mum at the moment due to what she might say to us."

"First using the Map, now dropping out of Hogwarts! Remus! They are this generation's Marauders!" Sirius put his arms around the twins, looking proud. "How do you know about the Marauders, Sirius?"

"Oh, wait 'til you hear the story! Remus come help!" Sirius began walking away with Fred and George, Lupin trailing along behind them.

After a long story about Sirius Black (Padfoot), Remus Lupin (Moony), Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail), and James Potter (Prongs) being the Marauders, there was another knock at the front door. Lupin went to the door and came back with Professor McGonagall.

"Professor, what are you doing here?" Harry stood up.

"I hope it's not to expel us —"

"— because we already dropped out —"

"— and we're not going back —"

"— not ever!"

"Enough, Weasley's! I'm not here for you, but I might as well congratulate you on how much you disrupted the fifth years' OWLs. Umbridge has been on quite a rant since you left." Harry saw a slight smirk across his professors face. "I'm actually here for Potter and Pond. I'm here to take you back to Hogwarts."

"Minerva, I thought —"

"Yes, Remus, so did I. But I received a secret message from Albus this afternoon ordering me to bring them back. No explanation, just orders," she turned towards Amy and Harry, "So go get your things ready. We're leaving in five minutes. Meet me outside." She exited 12 Grimmauld Place leaving everyone else baffled. Harry and Amy, along with the help of Fred and George, packed their belongings and left after saying goodbye to everyone.

They apparated right outside the Hogwarts grounds and walked into the castle. McGonagall left them as soon as they entered, but not before handing them a letter. They opened it and saw that on the parchment, there were only two words written. They read...

Umbridge's office.

They looked at each other, Harry put the note in his pocket and they headed towards their destination. But before they made it up the first staircase, Harry began to have a vision.

There he was. My godfather. Kneeling down on the ground with his hands tied behind his back.

"I need that prophecy." Came a cool voice from behind. Voldemort. I know it's him.

"You'll have to kill me," retorted Sirius.

"I will," Voldemort spoke again, "but first you will fetch it for me."

Sirius said nothing. "Crucio!" I could see Sirius was in pain. "Crucio!" Again.

The vision changed. I was walking through that room… row 94… row 95… row 96… row 97. I stopped and stared. That's where it was. That's what Voldemort wanted.

"Harry! Harry!" He was shaken awake by a frantic Amy. "Harry, what happened?"

"Sirius."

He ran up the staircase, now understanding what the words on the note meant. "Harry where are you going?"

"Umbridge's office! We need to use the Floo network. Sirius is in trouble. Voldemort is holding him in the Department of Mysteries. He's torturing him, Amy." He continued to run.

"Harry, wait," Amy grabbed him by the sleeve, "what if Voldemort meant for you to see that? And he wants to lure you there?"

"So? Sirius is the only family I have left. We need to get to the Department of Mysteries, through the fireplace in Umbridge's office. Come on!" Now he grabbed her by the hand, dragging her up the stairs.

When they reached the office, they saw Ginny, Neville, and Luna at the different corners. They seemed to be guarding something. Amy and Harry did not want to waste time stopping to ask and went directly into the office. Standing by the fireplace were no other than Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.

"Harry! Amy!" They received giant hugs from their friends. "Ron, Hermione, what are you doing here?"

"Trying to contact you," replied Hermione, "Fred and George told us you were at Grimmauld Place."

"Is that why Ginny, Neville, and Luna are outside? Keeping watch?" asked Amy.

"Yeah," Ron said.

"This can wait. I need to get to the Department of Mysteries. Sirius is in trouble."

"Harry, what do you mean 'I'? You're not going alone!" Amy sounded hurt.

"I can't risk you guys getting hurt —"

"Harry, when are you going to get it into your head?" yelled Hermione, "We're in this together!"

"THAT! YOU! ARE!"

The four teenagers turned to see Umbridge standing in the doorway with Ginny, Neville, and Luna behind her being held by members of the Inquisitorial Squad. Soon enough, Ron, Hermione, and Amy were being held as well while Harry was being interrogated by Umbridge. She had that evil smile plastered across her face.

"You were going to Dumbledore weren't you?"

"No."

Slap. "Liar!"

Suddenly, another voice came from the doorway. "You sent for me?"

"Ah! Professor Snape! Yes, I have some more interrogating to do and I need the rest of your Veritaserum!"

"You have used up all of the Veritaserum, I'm afraid, on Ms. Chang. So unless you would like to poison these children I am of no help to you." Walking out of the room, Snape was stopped by Amy calling across the room, struggling from Pansy Parkinson's grip.

"He's got Padfoot! He's got Padfoot at the place where it's hidden!"

"Padfoot? What is Padfoot? Where what is hidden? What is he talking about, Snape?"

Slowly turning towards the students, Harry could see that Snape knew what Amy meant. He knew exactly what she meant. "No idea." He lied and walked out of the room. Hopefully, he would alert Tonks and Lupin at Grimmauld Place.

"Ah, I see. Since this is a ministry issue, I see no other alternative besides the Cruciatus curse to loosen Ms. Pond's tongue."

"That's illegal!" Hermione yelled.

Umbridge ignored her and turned towards Amy. "What the Minister doesn't know, won't hurt." About to cast the curse at Amy, Hermione yelled once again, "Tell her, Harry!"

Umbridge whipped around. "Tell me what?!"

"If you or Amy won't tell her where it is, I will."

"What? Where what is, Ms. Granger?"

"Dumbledore's secret weapon," Harry spoke up.

"Come with me! The three of you! Mr. Crabbe, Ms. Parkinson, you may release Ms. Granger and Ms. Pond. Keep a close eye on the rest of them while I'm gone."

With her wand to their backs, Hermione, Harry, and Amy were ushered out of Umbridge's office. Hermione led the way. Harry sure hoped she had an actual plan.


Hermione led them deeper and deeper into the Forbidden Forest. Whenever Umbridge would ask her "How much longer?" Hermione's response would be "Almost there." The direction they were going, Harry only remembered going to once. Hagrid had taken him, Ron, and Hermione with him to meet his half-brother, Grawp. Grawp was more of a giant than Hagrid was, Grawp was about twenty feet tall.

They reached the spot. Laying there on the ground was a rope tied to the tree, but nothing was tied to the other end; Grawp had escaped. "Hermione," Amy whispered, "what're you doing?" "Improvising."

"Where is it? This 'secret weapon'?" No one answered her. "There isn't one, is there? You were trying to trick me. I really hate children." As she was about to cast a spell, there was the sound of a herd running behind her: the Centaurs.

The Centaurs seemed to frighten Umbridge because as soon as she laid eyes on them she began to hide behind Amy and Hermione while pushing Harry forward. "There's no need for you here, Centaurs! You don't belong here!" The Centaurs drew their bows. Umbridge told them to lower their weapons, but they did not listen. As she began to speak, the lead Centaur shot an arrow in their direction, but it was deflected by Umbridge. "How dare you! Filthy half-breed! Incarcerous!" The lead Centaur was then choked to death by a thick rope. "No!" Hermione went over and tried to help him, but it was too late.

"I WILL HAVE ORDER!" But her order did not last too long since she was then lifted up into the air by Grawp who had just appeared. The Centaurs began attacking the giant, and as soon as an arrow reached his arm, he dropped Umbridge into the group of Centaurs. "No! Potter! Do something! Tell them I mean no harm!"

"Sorry, professor. I must not tell lies."

The Centaurs ran off into the forest, dragging Umbridge along with them.

Harry and Amy began running back towards Hogwarts, but Hermione was still there. "Thank you, Grawp," she said. "Hermione," urged Harry, "Sirius." This must have triggered her memory. As soon as she heard Harry's voice she began running back to Hogwarts with them.

Before they could reach the grounds, they heard a voice from within the forest. "Harry!" It yelled again "Harry, are you in here."

"Oh my Merlin," gasped Amy. "That was Fred." Emerging from the forest were Fred and George. "What're you guys doing here?" Harry asked, still in a bit of a rush.

"We got the message from Snape —"

"— we were the only ones at Grimmauld Place —"

"— to receive the message."

"But what about Remus and Tonks?"

"As soon as you both left, Lupin went back home and Tonks went to the Burrow."

"Well, we can use all the help we can. Come on."

Again, the, now five of them, began running towards the castle. When they reached the bridge, they did not expect to find Ron, Neville, Luna, and Ginny waiting for them.

"How did you guys escape?"

"Puking pastilles," Ginny laughed, "wasn't pretty."

"Told them I was hungry, wanted some candy," Ron said, "Of course they told me to bugger off and ate the lot themselves."

"That was clever, Ron," Hermione sounded impressed.

"It's been known to happen." Harry could swear he saw Ron blush a little.

"We have to get to the Ministry," said Harry.

"Well we can't just barge in through the front door," said Fred.

"How're we supposed to get there, then?" asked Amy?

Luna finally spoke up. "We fly, of course!"