A/N: Sorry for the big delay but can
you believe it I spent too much time reading fics that I forgot to write mine.
All this (at lest 70% of it was written in the last few minutes/hours) here you
go.
Severus
Snape was outside the small door to the Ministry Room as Dumbledore had
requested when the door suddenly swung open violently and a tall skinny boy
dressed in
Harry
didn't seem to notice him as he swept at an amazing pace towards him. Severus
knew he didn't have enough time to get out of his way so he braced him self for
the collision.
BANG!
He
excepted Harry to fall back on his back but impressively the boy only took a
mere step back to re-balance himself. With one swift motion he looked up and
stared deep into Severus' eyes. He was getting rather uncomfortable under his
stare, which seemed to be reading his mind clear, when he looked back down.
By
the time the boy looked back up his 'on top of things' look was replaced by one
that was of confusion. The boy muttered some words which Snape couldn't catch and
with a faint POP! The boy was gone!
Snape
couldn't suppress a gasp, but he wasn't the only one. All five aurors had
gasped along with him. Even the ever so inexpressive Alostor Moody gasped at
this. What were they to do?
*~*~*
Harry's eyes snapped open.
He
felt extremely sick. His head felt a ton heavy and his body ached all over. He
felt shaky and his vision was rather fuzzy. He was just about to find a place
to sit down when he realized where in the world he was. He was rather certain
he was not where he was a few moments ago. Or maybe a few hours ago. He must
have passed out.
'I hate these magical transportation
methods' he said to him self.
Harry cautiously looked around.
"No, Not again…" he said to himself.
He was once again in the empty dark
space he was earlier in the day.
But
there was something different this time. It wasn't emitting utter depression or
loneliness. It was neither triggering any other emotions. The space was utterly
emotionless. But in the mean time he was happy about it. It was exactly what he
wanted. No one to disturb him, no one for whom he had to live up to, no one to
snigger at his slight display of those chain bound emotions within him. No one
to remind he had to figure out how he got here. Without further hesitate tears
started to stream down Harry's cheeks and he let his wobbly knees fall to the
ground, which seemed to be soft as mattress, and cried himself to a black-out.
He wanted this. He needed this and finally he had it. To get it all out.
Finally he was sleeping in peace away from the chaos in the world. With no
worries about how he was going to get back or how he got there or what was laid
ahead of him, he just rested like all those other normal children do every
single day.
*~*~*
But
for Severus Snape and the rest, chaos seemed like a world from paradise. No
Sir! They had passed chaos a good port key away. Their state of mind was not in
any muggle or wizard dictionary. No they were giving new meaning to any word
even related to 'chaos'. They were in pandemonium. In turmoil. They were in
anarchy.
Harry
Potter had suddenly disappeared before there eyes and appaperation and port
keys were out of the question. Even the ever so calm Dumbledore seemed utterly
shocked about the disappearance. Add to that a room full of curious ministry
workers, students, parents, guardians and the staff. They were lost. They had
no idea what had happened.
If
Dumbledore was panicking then the chances of the whole thing being a false
alarm was only comparable to Voldemort starting using cheering charms in duel
instead of the Killing Curse. No! They were into some big trouble. The chances
are the Dark Lord must be torturing the poor boy at the very moment. How could
they let this happen? How could he have let this happen? Again he had let down
Harry.
*~*~*
After
several hours of blissful sleep Harry Potter gradually woke up. He for once was
happy, carefree and irresponsible. Just like a child should be. But slowly
reality was flooding in. His responsibilities, his troubles, his life.
*~*~*
Severus
Snape felt as if the whole world was upon his shoulders. They'd just lost their
key to the enemy. Lost it in a way they had no idea how. Depression was
spreading faster than secrets and gossip traveled throughout Hogwarts which was
something. They'd just lost the meaning to the whole struggled against the
enemy, lost their inspiration, lost hope. And he was the one to blame. Just
like he was to blame for the Potter's death. Severus Snape for the first time
in his life felt a emotion like no other. Utter Helplessness. It was slowly
eating him out from the inside and he had no say in it. They were doomed.
*~*~*
Harry
felt slightly drowsy but most of his body felt utterly refreshed. Some thing
that he had longed for quite sometime. But his body was not all that had
refreshed but something he couldn't point a finger at but it was a relatively
strange change.
He
looked around. He was still in the dark space he had been before he fell
asleep. But how did he get here in the first place. The space no longer was
that painful place he was in earlier but was replaced by a place of warmth but
emptiness, entirely dark but seemed to be emitting a strange invisible light he
could only feel, the place seemed to be one created of elements of extreme
opposites but for amazingly the combination seemed to be suited quite well. It
was a place Harry had needed and had got there in just the nick of time but it
wasn't exactly the kind of place one wanted to spend the rest of their lives
trapped in. No, it was time he got back to reality, but before that he had to
find out how he got here.
All
he remembered was him muttering a strange spell which seemed to have trigger
something that brought him here. But what was it? Maybe a repeating the spell
will do the trick. It usually does. At least the 'blazoulous' charm works that
way.
'Huh?'
Harry suddenly thought. 'Where had that come from? He had no idea what the
'blazoulous' charm was to think he knew its effect. Maybe he read it somewhere
in the library going over stuff. He had done so a lot last year. May be some of
Hermione was rubbing off on him. But what about the spell he was thinking about?'
'Insenticato'
It
was the voice. The voice had said the spell earlier and it had said it again.
He quickly crossed his fingers and hoped for the best. Noting to give the voice
some thought he repeated the spell backwards.
"Otacit
Nesni"
POP!
*~*~*
Ronald
Weasley hadn't seen his friend all day. He had mysteriously disappeared and
when he informed Professor McGonagall about she assured him the he was in safe
hands. But he and Hermione had searched all over Hogwarts, By the lake,
Hagrid's Cabin, the Quidditch pitch and Ron himself had checked the dungeons to
make sure Snape, especially due to his complete character change, hadn't
kidnapped Harry. But no. Harry was completely missing. But the only relief he
had was the knowledge that if anyone was being protected, it was Harry Potter.
His Best Friend. For Merlin's Wand he has half a dozen body guards around him.
But the thought of Harry being attacked by several dozen Death Eaters only a
fraction of a time away sent shudders down his spine. Suddenly there was a
crash from the Common Room snapping him out of his train of thought. Who has
Mad Eye Moody attacked this time? But there was a tiny bit of hope. His body
guards were told by Dumbledore to follow Harry everywhere so there was a big
chance that Harry had finally entered the
*~*~*
Harry
had just appeared in the most comfortable room in the world for him. The
Gryffindor Common Room. He had miraculously managed to land on his feet, but
unfortunately he had landed near a vase which fell to the ground after being
struck by his arm. The vase had crashed but the noise was not what Harry had
been expecting. He was sure someone had done a sound amplification charm for
the crashing sent a loud booming sound, much like Hagrid's voice when one
insulted Professor Dumbledore, which Harry as sure must've woken up the entire castle.
But just as Harry bent down to repair the shattered vase on the floor he heard
footsteps or loud thumping noises coming down from the boy's dormitory stairs.
Harry's snapped his head up to find Ron leaning against the doorway to the
stairs staring or should you call it 'glaring' at him. He opened his mouth but
before and audible voices came out the portrait swiftly opened and in rushed
several dozen distraughted looking people including Professors Dumbledore,
McGonagall, Flitwik, Trelawney, Sprout, Snape, Dippet, Sinistra, Vector,
Brubbly-Plank, Binns, Lupin followed by Mad Eye Moody, Sirius, Mr. Weasley,
Percy, Bill, Charlie, Mr. Fudge, Viktor, Fleur, the young lady he was
introduced to as Arabella and her companion Mudungus and finally came through
the four un-introduced aurors along with a panting Dobby. A big crowd they
made. Actually the previously empty common room now looked like fish in a can.
It was packed. There was an untied sigh of relief when they saw Harry but could
do nothing but bend over and pant. It seemed they had run all the way across
the castle. But the ever enthusiastic Dobby still seemed to have some air in
him to greet him.
"Dobby's pleased to meet Harry
Potter" he said but couldn't say any more as he too started panting furiously.
Even
Dumbledore was panting furiously. And he looked extraordinarily old to Harry.
'He needs his rest' he thought. But before long there were more thumping noses
and in came to the common room from the stairways to the dormitories Weasley's
Fred, George and Ginny with Hermione. They most likely were roused by the
commotion in the common room and most likely he was in for some good load of
explaining. But he had one problem. He had no explanations.
While
awaiting the inevitable round of questioning decided to repair the vase he had
broken by accident. He bent down pulled out him wand and repaired the vase by
muttering a repairing charm. But the vase still seemed empty. So he muttered,
"Orchideous"
Conjuring
a bouquet of flowers which he placed in the vase and got up and placed the vase
on top the table it had previously been on top of. But now instead of just
sitting there the vase was almost proudly displaying its orchids. By now most
of the people had recovered from their panting and most of them were staring at
him as if he was crazy. Even professor McGonagall. She opened her mouth but
professor Dumbledore beat her to it.
"Care to explain your whereabouts
for the past few hours Harry?" he asked in a stern voice that was unusual for
Harry from Dumbledore. It was always Professor McGonagall who had this tone of
voice, but now Dumbledore seemed to have taken it up. He hoped temporarily.
"Uh… I'm not quite sure Professor?"
replied Harry quite uncertainly.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOUR NOT QUITE
SURE POTTER?! YOU"VE GOT TO HAVE BEEN SOMEWHERE!" yelled Professor McGonagall
her face turning red.
It
was hard for one to keep his calm composure in times as such but he knew he had
to, and most strangely, he knew how to. He made sure his voice was quite, that
his eyes were normal and that his hands weren't shaking. Then his reply shocked
both him and everyone else. Not only because of the contents but because how
in-control it sounded…. So much like someone he knew…. Like Professor Dumbledore.
"Frankly Professor, I think you are
exactly right. I think I wasn't somewhere but either nowhere or everywhere. I
do not know what caused me to be, but what I do know is that the ride is very
energy consuming. Energy that I need to obtain in a good night's sleep, if you
don't mind of course"
His
voice was so calm but yet the ending gave the impression that he wanted no
further arguments. No one could muster a reply. Not even Professor Dumbledore.
They unconsciously moved aside creating a path to towards the stairways to the
dormitories. He made no hesitation in swiftly walking up.
*~*~*
The
common room was strangely still and motionless no matter how much it was packed
with people. They seemed to have forgotten that a something strange had just
happened. Something that left even Professor Dumbledore's jaw hanging open.
Things were surely changing, pretty fast too.
*~*~*
Harry
headed straight to the Fifth year Boy's Dormitory extremely calmly. On the way
there he knew one thing for certain. Not only had his surroundings changed but
he himself has changed. He had to find more about the mysterious voice, he had
to talk to someone regarding the resistance, probably professor Dumbledore and
see what he's in for there and then he had to go to the Ministry Area. He had
to. Most probably he'll have to skip breakfast. But strangely he had expected
everything to be in utter chaos with every thing, but strangely he himself had
surprised him by working everything out. At least till classes began. He
quietly changed into his pajamas which seem to be the exact size, for once. He
hadn't worn his pajamas at the Dursley's since he was all by himself and his
robes seemed to fit okay. He must have grown. In less than a Month?
'One more thing to be sorted out but
that's tomorrow. Now I need sleep' he said to himself.
No
matter he had slept at where he had been earlier the ride back had been
extremely exhaustive. He had been drained out completely.
*~*~*
Arthur
Weasley was once again stunned by Harry. He had known the boy well. But he has
changed dramatically. That was certain after what happened in the wee hours in
the morning. No one had left the common room. They were too stunned. Harry
Potter had literally turned into someone that they could only relate to one
person. Albus Dumbledore. The Boy had so much command, natural power in those
few sentences that he lost all doubts he had about him succeed as Minister of
Magic, which he couldn't discuss with nearly anybody. At that moment he and
every person present in the room understood why Harry was such a threat to
You-Know-Who. The boy had so much leadership in him that a natural commanding
power surrounded him. You-Know-Who had created armies upon armies of dark
masses and had literally waged war against the entire wizarding world and
hadn't even managed to even make Dumbledore loose his even once, not to mention
leave him jaw hanging open with just a few sentences spoken out. But deep down
him had a feeling that the ministry was not the boy's only responsibility. He
felt sorry for the boy but his trust was so high in the boy was so high that he
couldn't bring himself to think nothing other than the boy taking down all
obstacles to the goal placed in front of him. For once he truly understood the
Boy-Who-Lived and knew the reason You-Know-Who wanted the boy dead. He had good
reason, because the boy was maturing fast and with each second that passes by
he was being beginning to be an ever growing threat to him. This made all the
more reason they protect him. Yes! He would personally do everything in his
power to protect and aid the boy. And he knew that nearly everyone in the room
shared his common thought.
*~*~*
As
usual Harry was early to wake. He had a dreamless sleep last night and seemed
to have regained nearly all of his energy. He unconsciously headed for the
bathroom and got ready into his black school robes almost out of instinct and
then headed down to the common room. Nobody seemed to be there, but the common
room seemed as if people had occupied it till early morning. They must've
stayed up all night. What a spoiled brat I've been. I didn't assure them I was
all right. He started towards the portrait to go fro breakfast when he realized
that he had to go to the ministry. The temporary Minister of Magic had to be
there. It was officially his first day of office. But then he remembered
something. He had promised Dumbledore that he'd make sure that he leave nowhere
without his protection. But he didn't have the heart to wake them up since it
wasn't their fault that he was being threatened by Voldemort. It was his own
fault. But neither could he wait for them to wake up be late for the Ministry
or go above Dumbledore's word either. No after last night's fiasco. Then he
remembered something. Dobby. Dobby was appointed by Dumbledore as a sort of
secretary to him. And last time he checked House Elves were extremely loyal and
very powerful magically. He had more than one personal experiences to prove so.
And most importantly they were early to rise. He quickly cast a silencing charm
on his feet and paused a moment to admire how much magic he had started using
recently.
He
walked up to the fifth year dormitory and thought how he could convey his
message without irrupting suspicion if someone like Ron found it. Then as it
usually did recently the answer came. He smiled to himself thinking how much
riddles had come in handy last year and for a fact he knew Hermione was
particularly good at riddles but even she would have trouble figuring this out,
but no such hassle for his intended person, Mad Eye Moody. He quickly wrote it
down on a parchment now also with a silencing charm placed on it and paused to
admire his handiwork.
'Moody,
I'm at the
Harry.'
He
then placed the note next to the sleeping form of Moody thinking how Moody
seemed to have lost his Constant Vigilance! While sleeping. He now had to find
Dobby as an escort. He didn't think it was necessary but he needed a
explanation when Dumbledore questioned him. He knew Dobby won't be in the
Kitchen but where then he nearly smacked him then and there. The Marauder's
Map. He reached and opened his trunk only to remember Professor Dumbeldore
hadn't given it back He had an idea but didn't know how much Dobby will be fond
of it. He took out his invisibility cloak and went out of the portrait into the
corridors and pulled out his wand and muttered,
"Accio
Dobby"
Hoping
and wishing with all his might that Dobby be all right and in no time dobby
came from the corridor ahead thankfully not in the way he had expected, like a
zooming house elf bullet, but seemed to be sliding on the floor as if it had
grease all over. And to his surprise Dobby seemed to be enjoying it quite much.
And when he saw Harry he nearly greeted him from the top of his lungs but Harry
quickly dashed forwards and covered his mouth and whispered in his ear
"I want you to be quiet Dobby and we
must get to the Ministry Compound"
Dobby
nodded and gave him a typical house elf five start smile and tugged on his
robes. Once he bent down he whispered to him,
"Good Morning Harry Potter. Dobby
will lead Harry Potter to the Ministry sir"
Harry
nodded back and gave him a broad grin and brought out his invisibility cloak
and covered both him and Dobby with it and headed down the corridor making
little or no noise.
In
no time they were at the knight and Dobby stepped forward and stepped on the
knights foot creating the doorway to the ministry sector with the walls that
emitted the blue light. Both he and Dobby stepped in to the doorway and Harry
proceeded to take his invisibility cloak off and bent it and tucked it in his
robes and headed towards the blue door and reached for the handle. He then
turned to Dobby and smiled as he said
"Ready to play Minister of Magic
Dobby?" and turned the door knob opening the door.
As
the door opened Harry head chatter and noise from the other side but even
before the door fully opened the room went into a dead silence. Thankfully he
was use to this. He slowly stepped into the room followed by Dobby. The
Partition was back and he was face to face with the reception of the Ministry.
There was a lady with a nervous smile on her face behind the reception desk and
in front of the reception desk stood four strongly built tall men wearing black
cloaks who took a step back and in unison each stamped their right foot as if a
salute. Harry didn't know what else to do but nod at them all. They were most
probably aurors to guard the Ministry. The Ministry that was his responsibility
now.
He
started to make his way around the reception area towards the corridors on
either side of the large partitioned area in the center of the magnificent
room. Everything was still and silent as ever. He strolled pass several
partitions along the corridor while the occupants of the partitions did the
same greeting like the aurors and he returned each greeting with a nod.
After
several seconds Harry reached the office at the very back of the Ministry Room
and he swiftly turned the knob and opened the door and stepped in. he was
followed by Dobby who was clearly blushing red even through his green skin. He
had no idea how he got used to the attention he was getting everywhere but he
guessed one can get use to it especially when for two months a year he barely
gets any attention what so ever, by his so called only living relatives.
The
room seemed the same except that another pile of letters lay on a large wooden
box that had 'IN' written on its side. AS usual he proceeded to do the exact
same thing he did yesterday, sorted the mail and right after sorting the last
letter there was a knock on the door and it opened in stepped Percy Weasley.
Harry
nearly jumped out of the seat he was sitting and would've rolled over laughing
for the look on Percy's face if not he remembered he had to keep his composure.
Percy slowly came in to the office after closing the door behind him and stood
in front of Harry's desk his face red as a tomato. In his hand he had a
extremely thick volume possibly several thousand pages long.
"Uh… Minister…I'm here to… Produce
the Cauldron Thickness Report."
Percy
seemed to be turning even redder now but Harry was having a equally difficult
time not rolling all over laughing out and in a desperate effort he pulled out
his wand under the table and muttered a calming charm to himself. It seemed to
work and he lost his extreme desire to laugh out. He knew how much effort Percy
had put into that report so he decided to do the best he could.
"Sit down Percy" He said offering
him a chair in front of his desk.
"Thank You" Muttered Percy and he
quickly sat down.
"Now care to explain the necessity
of the implementation of this report and give me a summary regarding it?" said
with a smile across his face.
Percy
stared at him for a second and then smiled back and started to explain the
report. He instantly knew that he'd done the wrong thing by asking Percy to
explain he report but was glad to see that Percy was feeling appreciated for
the work he put in to the simplest things. He knew what it felt like since
Hermione was someone like that. And every time Ron would comment rudely about
Hermione's working fever he would make her feel alright by doing the exact
thing he was now doing for Percy. Appreciating them for what they are. And he
felt Happy for it. After Two hours of continuous Cauldron lectures Percy had
finished his so called summary of his report. Harry was thankful hat he was
obviously no the one that had to read the report. He suddenly thought how much
the wizarding world was obsessed about documenting everything. Hogwarts had
thousands of rules noted down, half of which were utter rubbish and Quidditch
seem to have also thousands of ways to commit a foul not even hundred were
known by even the greatest of referees.
After
the whole explanation Percy sat there beaming all around the room as if he was
just hit with the cheering charm. Harry was happy for him.
"So Percy to whom do I need to hand
this Report to be implemented?" Harry asked still smiling at an overwhelmed
Percy.
"You're…Your… going to implement
it?" he stammered
"Why in the world Percy would you
have gone for so much trouble if it was not important. Of course it'll be
implemented. Neville melts his Cauldron far too often. We surely do need better
cauldrons" said Harry.
"Uh…Theoretically the Minister of
Magic should implement it but he usually hands it to the Head of the Department
of International Affairs"
"Then who would that be?"
"Uh… Me"
Harry sat there confused for a while
he had to hand Percy's report back to Percy.
"Then go ahead Percy, implement it"
Percy
muttered more than one thank you and nearly went for his feet but either seeing
Harry terrified or about to jump out of his chair made him think other wise. As
Percy turned around a thought struck Harry.
"Uh… Percy can I ask you a favor"
Percy instantly turned around in
lightning speed with a broad grin on his face.
"Anything Minister"
"Uh… Percy? I actually don't know
anything about the ministry. I would truly appreciate if you give me a guide to
the ministry that I can read in my free time, if I have any. I truly can't
start all over but your services will be extremely appreciated."
Percy's face suddenly turned to a
one of pride and immense joy.
"I'll make sure you get it as soon
as possible" he said and rushed out of the office.
Knowing
Percy he was rather sure that eh had left to start work on the guide. As Harry
looked up at the clock on the wall his heart nearly skipped a beat. It was Ten!
Ten in the Morning. He had missed breakfast but something caught Harry's nose.
It was the smell of Pumpkin Juice, Toast, Scrambled eggs, bacon… a complete
breakfast eh was spelling and it seemed to be coming from right behind him. And
he turned around to find Dobby standing there with a tray full of food. Dobby
gave Harry a toothy grin.
"Dobby thinks Harry Potter like
breakfast. Dobby Bring Harry Potter breakfast. He was very kind to Weasley" he
said and placed the tray on his table and disappeared. Harry ate his breakfast
there.
At
the end of his breakfast he thought he had spent enough time at the ministry
and turned around and told Dobby to follow him. He opened the door and stepped
out and once again silence prevailed over the busy ministry. The process happened
all over and finally Harry was out of the Ministry after final nods at the four
Aurors at the entrance. As he exited the room he once again took out his
invisibility cloak and cover both him and Dobby and departed the Ministry
sector. Once they were in the corridor next to the knight Harry decided where
he wanted to go. He needn't go to the great hall since he had already had his
breakfast, but now he wanted to talk to someone regarding the resistance.
Preferably Dumbledore or even Sirius. He seemed to be on top of things. So he
turned around and said the password to the Gargoyle and went up to Professor
Dumbledore's office and knocked on the thick oak wood door and
"Come
in" said Dumbeldore and he stepped in to find professor Lupin and Sirius along
with Dumbeldore and he was just about to say he was just at the Ministry but
stopped himself in mid sentence remembering that he was still under the
invisibility cloak and that Sirius and Professor Lupin didn't know about him
leading the resistance. He took off the cloak revealing him and Dobby and then
looked up to see Dumbledore wearing a grim expression.
"What's wrong Professor?!"
A/N: Okay Jona I need to read your
next chap. Quick. And Fawkes thanks for the flame. Hi everyone and I need Heir.
More chaps and Harry's Mum Lily? Where are you? I am dying for a chap. And all
of you who like my fic do e-mail me personally to dilshan_k@hotmail.com and I shall love
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