Harry Potter and the Duplaticus Curse
Chapter 26 The Return
A.N. I do NOT like this new system very much, it's confusing at first. Anyway, I'm sorry that I left James in that situation, but I had to. SORRY!!!!! SORRY!!! SORRY!!!!! Anyway, will James survive, go live with Harry, and save Harry from life with the Dursley's? You'll just have to read and find out!!!! I hope you enjoy this chapter!!!
J Malena J
Harry was slammed into the wet grass, his side aching from where the knife had punctured him. The wound was bleeding a lot. Harry rolled over onto his back and tried to get up. Pain shot up his side and he fell back to the ground. His body was aching from the Cruciatus Curse and his scar was still burning on his forehead.
All of a sudden he heard a voice. Someone was calling his name. And the voice was familiar. All of a sudden Sirius's and Remus's faces appeared over him.
"Harry," Sirius croaked, "Are you all right? What happened?" Harry just blinked and started to sit up, but Lupin interrupted.
"Oh god, Sirius look!" Lupin was pointing at Harry's wound. "We have to get him to Madame Pomfrey as soon as possible."
"I'll go get Dumbledore," Sirius said. "You stay here with Harry."
"Wait! If you go you'll be arrested, I'll go."
"No, you stay with Harry, I'll go in my Animagus form-"
"Can someone just go!" Harry exclaimed. "Lupin, you go!"
"All right!" Lupin started to sprint up to the school. Sirius turned back to Harry.
"Who did this to you?" Sirius asked urgently.
"Need you ask?" Harry said, raising his head.
"Harry, do you always joke when you're in pain?"
"No I-" Suddenly the pain in Harry's side doubled. He gave a cry of pain.
"What's wrong now?"
"I don't know…" All of a sudden everything started to blur. Harry's laid his head back on the ground.
"Harry! Harry! Are you all right?"
That was the last thing Harry remembered…
Lupin ran into the Great Hall. People were staring at him, although a few waved.
Lupin skidded up to the teacher's table where Dumbledore was sitting.
"Albus," Lupin panted, "It's Harry-"
"Good, you got my message to come here," Dumbledore said solemnly. "Now what's this about Harry?"
"He's here! He's outside with-" Lupin dropped his voice almost to a whisper so other's couldn't' hear. "Outside with Sirius. He's bleeding badly."
Dumbledore stood up suddenly.
"Minerva, get Madame Pomfey. Professor Flitwick, keep the students here, don't let anyone out of this room. Remus, lead the way."
Remus ran out of the room, with Professor Dumbledore close behind.
Sirius was still trying to revive Harry, but Harry wouldn't wake. He tried to stop Harry's bleeding with some fabric, it had stopped a little.
Sirius saw Professor Dumbledore and Remus sprinting in their direction. When they reached him Dumbledore squatted down beside Harry and took his pulse.
"His heart is beating and he's breathing," Dumbledore muttered to himself. Dumbledore took out his wand and conjured up a stretcher.
"Sirius, help me lift Harry onto the stretcher," Dumbledore said urgently. "We need to get him to the hospital wing as soon as possible." The two of them put Harry onto the stretcher. Then Dumbledore and Lupin ran up to the school, with a giant black dog jogging beside.
"That wasn't smart," Voldemort repeated, staring at James with those pitiless eyes.
"I knew he couldn't be trusted!" One of the other Death Eater's burst out. "I knew it! I knew he would always care for his s-"
Voldemort hit the Death Eater with Avada Kedavra. He was too mad to care.
"Do you know what," Voldemort whispered, "I should've listened to him. When I first revealed you to be a Death Eater to the others I got a lot of complaints. I knew that you were going to betray be one of these days, even though you did have that curse on you."
James stared back at Voldemort. He clenched his hands and continued to stare. He wasn't going to let Voldemort see him scared.
"I knew that because I had torn your little family apart that you would betray us, but I gave you a chance." Voldemort started to circle around James like he had Harry before they had dueled.
"But, I thought you had realized what the consequences were. Apparently not," Voldemort snarled.
"I still can't believe that you did that," Voldemort sighed. "Crucio!"
James was doubled up in pain.
"You deserve that, Potter," Voldemort said with an amused voice. "You deserve that pain, your own son deserves that pain too. Do you know what that boy did to me."
"Yeah," James said sarcastically. "He did what I should have done. He almost destroyed you, I should have tried to do that. I should have protected my family!"
Voldemort sneered at James.
"How are you going to protect your son if you're dead?"
James's face paled, he started to reach for his wand.
"Avada Kedavra," Voldemort spat. The spell hit James in the shoulder. There was a rushing sound as the life was sucked out of James. He fell to the floor. His eyes were wide and staring, his mouth was slightly open. Voldemort looked down at James's lifeless body.
"He's going to be so behind in homework when he wakes up…" Someone was whispering.
"Is that all you care about at the moment? Homework! Honestly! Our best friend was stabbed and almost killed, and all you can think about is homework!"
"Well it's not my fault if he's behind on his school work!"
Harry opened his eyes a little. Everything he could see was blurry. He could see two of the figures that were bickering. There was someone with bright red hair and someone with bushy brown hair. Ron and Hermione.
"You're going to wake him if you don't shut it!"
"ME! You're the one who's yelling!" Harry sat up halfway and watched the two. They didn't notice him.
"What's going on!" Said another voice, "What are you two fighting about?"
"Hermione concerned about how much homework I have now, and Ron's upset that she's going on about homework." Harry said.
They all turned to look at Harry. Harry smiled pleasantly.
"Harry!" Sirius exclaimed, "It's so good to see that you're up!" Sirius grabbed a chair and pulled it up beside Harry's bed.
"Why aren't you in your Animagus form?" Harry asked.
"Well, I'm only allowed to be myself in here, Professor Dumbledore explained everything to Madame Pomfrey. She's still a little skiddish though."
Harry smiled again.
"How long was I out?" Harry asked.
"Not long," Hermione said, sitting down in another chair. "Only about a day or so."
"Well, I've been unconscious for longer."
Hermione, Ron and Sirius looked at him for a moment.
"You okay?" Sirius asked cautiously. "I mean, after all that and being stabbed."
Harry shrugged.
"I never told you how I got stabbed did I? I fainted before I got to tell y-"
"It's all right," Sirius sighed. "While you were under Professor Dumbledore put a spell on you so you could tell us what happened."
Sirius stared at the floor for a moment.
"Oh," Harry said, looking down too. "So you know then." Sirius nodded.
"He refuses to tell us what happened," Hermione said. "He just says that you were stabbed by the Knife Throwing curse, and that's it. Can you tell us what happened Harry?"
Harry thought for a moment. He remembered his father's face, scowling at him. How rude he had been to his father. And yet, why did James save his life…
Harry blinked and shook his head.
"Maybe later," He whispered.
Sirius, still looking down mumbled, "Do you think he's still alive?"
Harry shrugged again. "Maybe, he could've survived. I don't think that Voldemort is overly pleased with him right now.
Sirius nodded, straightened up and said, "I'm going to go tell Professor Dumbledore you're awake."
He walked out of the Hospital wing and down the hall.
"We were ever so worried about you Harry," Hermione said, moving closer to the hospital bed.
"Are you sure you're all right," Ron asked.
"No," Harry said. "But I will be."
Harry, Ron, and Hermione smiled at each other.
500 miles away, Lucius Malfoy and Peter Pettigrew were dumping a body into the ocean.
A.N. I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY I KILLED JAMES!!!!!!! Maybe I'll right a 'What if' story, "What If" James had escaped Voldie and he and Harry lived with each other. Hmmm….
J MalenaJ
P.S. I'M SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!