Harry Potter and The Journey to the
Past
Chapter V
The thought about Victoria kept disturbing Harry's mind. It
was very unusual for Voldemort to take a Ravenclaw as his slave.
As a Slytherin heir, Voldemort of course preferred to use a
Slytherin like he usually did to recruit wizards and witches to
become Death Eaters. Maybe Victoria was just in the wrong place
at the wrong time. There was no proof that she met Voldemort.
During the breakfast, Harry kept staring at Ravenclaw table.
Victoria sat there, right next to another girl. The girl was very
much alike Victoria. Their faces were identically the same. The
differences were just their hair and their 'look'. Victoria had
black sleek hair and 'looked' cold and silent. Meanwhile, the
girl next to her had gold wavy hair and 'looked' more warm and
interesting.
" James, is that her twin? " asked Harry to James.
" The one next to Victoria. Is she her twin? "
James took a glance and nodded. " Yeah.. that's Ferrisa
Lloyd. They are very alike and in the same time very different,
aren't they? "
" I understand what you mean. "
Lily came and sat next to them. " Hi, James. "
" Where've you been? Were you overslept? Dear Lily, I know
the bed is very comfortable, but that doesn't mean you can just
sleep and forget to wake up. " James talked in a very
serious tone.
" Overslept your head!! I was in the library and I found an
interesting potion. "
" Oh yeah.. how interesting is that? " said Sirius very
quickly.
" The name is Devileye Potion. Who drinks it will see people
around as monsters. "
" How to make it? " Sirius started to perform a wide
grin.
Lily took a small parchment from her pocket. " It's written
here. "
All of them grinned very widely and glanced at Snape.
For the whole week they were busy to make the potion. Some
ingredients that they didn't have were stolen from Professor
Weston, the Potion Master's office. On Monday, the next week, the
potion was ready.
" How do you think we can make him drink this? " Sirius
played a small bottle with clear purple liquid inside it.
" We cannot just sneak to the kitchen and pour it to the
pumpkin juice. That'll make the whole Slytherin drink it. It
won't be fun anymore. " said Lily.
All of them were at the lake, leaning on the ground, staring at
the sky, and discussing about the potion.
" Maybe we can ask an owl to deliver a letter to him and
pour the potion to his pumpkin juice. Or we can just send the
potion with a letter that orders him to drink the potion. "
said James.
" I prefer the first one. Whose owl should we use? We
definitely cannot use yours. Merlin is.. a little too interesting
with his colorful feather you gave him last year. I still don't
believe you did jinx and hexes experiment to your own owl, James.
And the most confusing ever is Merlin seems to like it very much,
or I'd rather say he enjoys his colors. " Sirius grinned.
" At least he is an owl. Not like your Morgana, I can't
believe you use a parrot instead of owl. "
" I like Morgana. She looks very different in a group of
owls. "
" Yeah, with her colors. "
Hedwig suddenly landed next to Harry and nimbled his finger.
" Oh, Hullo Hedwig. What do you bring for me? " asked
Harry.
Hedwig gave him the parchment tied to her claw. Harry took it and
opened it. It was from Dumbledore. He read it.
How are you, Harry?
This morning, Hagrid told me that about a week ago, a centaur
had seen Voldemort at the Forbidden Forest. Hagrid was very
irritated by this late report. I reckon that Voldemort maybe
stays quite near Hogwarts. It would be very wise for you to
be more careful. I'll tell you once there is new report.
Albus Dumbledore
Harry sighed. As he raised his head, the other boys and girl
were watching him curiously. Haven't even said something, James
already grabbed the parchment and read it. Sirius hold Harry's,
preventing him from grabbing back the parchment. Finally Harry
gave up.
James whistled. " Wow!! You sure must be very careful.
"
James returned the letter and turned to Lily. " What do you
think, Lil? "
" Huh?! " Lily raised her head. " Hey, maybe we
can use one of Harry's owls. I am sure no one had seen them.
"
" Lily! You're not even listening to what I've said, were
you? "
Sirius interrupted. " Prongs.. I think Lily have just solved
our problem here. " He grinned. " We'll use the small
one. That one can keep Snape busy and won't realize that he is
pouring the potion to his goblet. "
" That's a good idea. " James became completely forget
about Dumbledore's letter. " What do you think, Harry?
"
" Huh? Oh yes.. of course.. you can use him. " Harry
turned to Hedwig. " Uhm.. Hedwig, are there any
possibilities you can call Pigwidgeon to come here? "
Hedwig gave him a
oh-no-you-can-not-send-me-to-get-near-that-owl-thanks-anyway
look.
" Oh come on. "
Slightly, she turned her head and with a jump she flew back to
the Owlery.
Harry sighed. " Well, that means we have to go to the
Owlery. "
Harry and Sirius crawled inside the Owlery to look for Pig.
That owl was easy to find, just follow the sound of the hooting
owl in the quiet Owlery. There, you'll find Pigwidgeon, hooting
continuously, disturbing his surrounding ( more than a dozen pair
of yellowish eyes stared at him ).
" Pig, I have a job for you. " said Harry, showing a
small fold of parchment to him. " Deliver this letter to
Snape. WAIT!! Not now Pig!! " Harry quickly grabbed him
right before he had jumped.
Sirius gave a bottle to Harry who quickly tied it to Pig's claw.
" Listen, deliver this letter to Snape at breakfast
tomorrow, and then pour this potion to his goblet. Do you
understand? "
Pig hooted continuously.
" OK, he got the point. Let's go. "
The next morning, they quickly went to the Great Hall. Right
when they stepped to enter the Great Hall, they heard a familiar
voice. Snape was standing at the door.
" Good morning, Mr. Potter, Mrs. Potter, and all of their
bodyguards. "
James grinned. " This is for security. Who knows what'll
happen when I'm near you. "
Lily kicked James's leg and stared at Snape sharply. " I
still have my own name, Severus Snape!! It's Lily Evans!! And I
don't have any d@mn relations to him!! "
She glanced at Harry from the corner of her eyes and her cheeks
slightly blushed rather pink for a moment.
They sat at their table and started to eat slowly and quietly,
waiting for the owl post. And when the time came, they put their
foods and focused their attention to Snape.
Pig landed in front of Snape and dropped the small parchment.
Then he started to hoot continuously. The marauders nearly
laughed when they saw Snape's face. He was curious and confuse.
He took the parchment and unfolded it. The next second his nose
was wrinkling. Meanwhile, Pig jumped to his goblet and slowly but
sure poured the whole bottle of the potion to the goblet.
Lily couldn't hide her laugh, starting to giggle. " The
whole bottle!! A drop or two will be enough, but the whole
bottle!! "
Snape read and read the letter all over again with his eyebrows
wrinkled. Of course, because there is only one sentence written
on the parchment.
- wATCH oUT fOR tHE dEVIL -
Pig hooted and flew. If only Snape saw him flying to
Gryffindor table, he would be alarmed about what happened. ( Un
)fortunately he didn't. Pig landed on Harry's shoulder and
started to hoot continuously. Harry quickly grabbed him down
under the table and gave him some cornflakes to keep him silent.
Snape took his goblet and drank, his eyes were fixed to the
letter. He put the goblet and raised his head. His jaw dropped as
he saw around. In his eyes, he was sitting among lots of
horrible, ugly, and slimy monsters. He jumped back. The Slytherin
stared at him confusedly. For Snape their confuse looks were
hungry looks. The looks as if they are ready to tear him apart
and ate him.
He took out his wand and started to shoot jinxes and hexes to
every direction making the Slytherin ran here and there.
The Marauders were laughing on the floor to see Snape in action.
Professor McGonagall stunned a moment and walked toward Snape.
" Severus Snape!! " She said madly.
Snape turned around and screamed at once. " Oh no!! This is
the most horrible, disquisting, and the ugliest monster I've ever
seen. "
Professor McGonagall's face turned red in anger.
Snape stepped back and raised his wand. " Stupe.. "
Professor McGonagall acted faster. " Expelliarmus.
" His wand flew and landed in her hand.
Snape, still frightened, tried to run. Professor McGonagall once
again raised her wand. " Petrificus Totalus. "
This one made Snape fall and couldn't move his body. Only his
eyes still turning around.
McGonagall ordered some Slytherins to bring Snape and the others,
which were hit by jinx or hex to Hospital Wing. And then she
turned to Gryffindor table. " Potter, Black, Lupin, Evans!!
"
" And me. " said Harry quickly.
" All of you again!! " Said her disbelief. " OK,
Detention for all of you. " She turned back to her seat.
The marauders continued their laugh. Pig jumped up from under the
table, asking for more foods. James gave him a slice of bacon,
which was swallowed very quickly by Pig. And POP!! Pig was
covered by pink smoke and once the smoke dissappeared Pig now had
a new appearance.
Pink wings, yellow body, and a bright green circle around his
eyes. Pig saw his shadow in the goblet and hooted happily. All of
them laughed.
Dumbledore shook his head slowly. " I don't believe I can
have a long life enough to see Harry. "
The sun was nearly setting when Harry walked to the lake. He
was alone since the others were busy with their homework while he
himself had finished it the day before. The sky was cloudy and
lightnings were struking everywhere. He drowned in his own
thought and didn't notice drops of water from the sky started to
make the land wet. Once the rain grew bigger, he realized it and
tried to run back to the dungeon. However, a voice from inside
the Forbidden Forest made him stop.
" What do you want?! "
Curious, he sneaked to the forest, to the source of the voice.
" Why you use her as your servant? Why can't you use anybody
else?! "
" ... You should feel delighted as I use your dearly sister
as my slave. "
Harry immediately recognized the second voice. He couldn't forget
how icy was the voice, Voldemort's voice. His eyes caught two
shadowy figures were quarreling. The first one was a gold haired
girl with her back faced him. And the second one was Voldemort.
Harry quickly hid himself behind the bushes.
" You're under the line of the Lloyd family blood. The Lloyd
always supports Dark Art. You should be very proud that I choose
her. " said Voldemort again.
Harry was very surprised. The Lloyd? That means she is
Ferrisa, judging from her gold hair,.. And Voldemort's slave is
Victoria!!
" You know... I'll never let you use my sister. "
" Indeed. But what can you do anyway? "
" I'll do everything. "
Harry heard footsteps heading to Hogwarts, Ferrisa's gone. While
he could hear the sound of Voldemort's laugh.
In the Common Room, Lily was busy with her essay work from
Professor Binns at the corner. Lupin and James were in a serious
talk.
" James, you'd better act as fast as you could if you don't
want to lose Lil. "
" Hmm..? "
" She looks like as she likes Harry a lot. "
James nearly choked. He shouted. " WHAT?!! "
Lupin quickly shut his mouth. " Sshh.. Don't be too noisy.
"
" What do you mean? Lily? Harry? "
" Well, you see this morning I found her staring at him. And
her face was all red. "
At the corner, Lily put her quill down and sighed. What's
wrong with me anyway? Everytime I sees Harry.. my heart starts to
pound very hard. Am I.... ? Her face started to redden.
" Lil!! " Sirius tapped her at her shoulder.
" WAAAA!!!! " Lily jumped.
" Ups.. Sorry. I think I'd disturbed your romantic thought,
Princess. "
Lily's face became red again. " Wha.. What? "
" I want to ask how long the potion works? "
" The one Snape had this morning? Uhmm.. a drop or two lasts
about 2 hours... But a whole bottle.. maybe a week or less.
Except Madam Pomfrey has the antidote. "
" Really..? In that case... " Sirius began to grin.
" I really want to make a visit to our dearly friend, Snape.
"
Lily smiled. " Not a bad idea. " As she turned to James
and Lupin who were speaking so serious, she raised her nose.
" James.. and Lupin.. Do I have a problem with my eyes, or I
really see them speaking so serious? "
" You don't have that problem cause I see them too. I think
it's gonna rain very hard in Sahara Desert. "
Once Harry entered the Common Room, James and Lupin's
conversation stopped. Sirius greeted him.
" Hi, Harry. I've got new plan. " He stopped
immediately once he saw Harry's face. " What is it? You're
so strain? "
" .. Voldemort.. he was here. "
" James stood. " He again!!! "
Harry sat with the other marauders and started to tell everyone
what he'd saw.
" Victoria? I don't believe it. " said James.
" There is something fishy. Why don't Voldemort do anything
to Ferrisa? He is very mean as we all know. But why don't he
torture Ferrisa? She is clearly on his way. " said Lupin.
" Do you think Ferrisa is his hostage? You know, so he can
fully control Victoria. " Harry answered
" That's possible. " said James.
Sirius started to get bored. " Hey, instead of staying here,
trying to predict something we can't understand, why don't we do
some fun? "
James turned to him. " Fun? "
Sirius grinned widely. " The Devileye Potion is still
working for now. How'bout a little visit to our friend? "
The others grinned and nodded.
Sirius knocked Hospital Wing's door. Madam Pomfrey opened it
and as he told them that they wanted to visit Peter, she let them
in. Actually the we-want-to-visit-peter was a fake reason. Their
real purpose was Snape who was still tied by McGonagall's spell
at the bed next to Peter. Once he saw them, Snape face turned to
pure terror.
" I don't know how much longer he'll stay like this.
Unfortunately I don't have the antidote. I wonder how much potion
he swallowed. " said Madam Pomfrey full with concern.
" What a pity. " said Sirius.
Madam Pomfrey sighed and left them. Sirius waited for some times
until her footsteps were gone and he walked toward Snape. The
others followed.
" Well, hullo Snape. Satisfied with the potion? " asked
Lily, grinning.
" How'bout another bottle next time? " James continued.
" Or you want to try another one. I'll be gladly to search
one for you. "
" And we would be glad to borrow some ingredients from
Professor Weston. " said Sirius.
Lupin bent his body. " All of them are for your
satisfaction, honourable Mr. Severus Snape. "
The potion maybe influenced Snape's thought, but he clearly could
hear what they said. And, of course he could guess who were they
and what they've done. His eyes were burning in anger.
Harry giggled to see the scene. No wonder Snape really hated his
father and his gang.
Laughing, the marauders left the Hospital Wing and went back
to their dormitory. On the way, they met Mrs. Norris. The cat
stared at them curiously.
James took out a slice of bacon from his pocket and gave it to
her. Harry grinned as he recognized the bacon.
" Come on, sweetie, gorgeous kitty. I have a nice present
for you. " said James sweetly.
The cat sniffed the bacon and ate it. PLOP!!! , Mrs. Norris was
now the most gorgeous cat in the world for James. She had the
color of the rainbow. She quickly ran to hide.
All of the marauders laughed. They walked back to Gryffindor
Tower.
The next morning, during breakfast, they received a letter from McGonagall.
Your detention will be done tomorrow night. Come to the Trophy Room at 20.00 p.m. You will be under Filch control.
Minerva McGonagall
" I thought all the trophies there are already bored with
us. " said James.
" I don't think all of them do. There are still quite a few
that we haven't polished. " answered Lupin.
" Once we graduate from here. We'll recognized every inch of
all the trophies there. " said Sirius.
" I'd rather choose to help Hagrid. " Lily continued.
" And Filch... By the way, do you think he already knew
about Mrs. Norris. " James grinned.
Harry didn't give any attention to the conversation. His
attention was fixed to the Ravenclaw Table. At the same time,
Victoria also stared at him, for the first thought but then he
realized that she was staring at James who sat next to him. Her
eyes were sharp like an eagle that already decided its prey.
Ferrisa tapped her back and then they were talking very
seriously. Harry sighed. He took his goblet and drank.
Lily sat with her eyes at Harry, examining him from his hair. Her
eyes stopped at his scar and then moved to his eyes.
Harry turned and their eyes met. She quickly turned her head,
hiding her red face.
Slowly she tried to control her breath. What's wrong with
me... That's only Harry, why my face, my breath, my heart....
Why... Am I....LOVE HIM?
Authors' note:
So what do you think about this chapter? Quite surprising, that's not all, I have more in the next one. He..he.. don't sue me OK (especially for L/J lovers) cause I have my own reason to make Lily falling in love. Oh yeah answering the question why I use Lupin instead of Remus, well somehow typing Lupin is more comfortable for me than to type Remus. Not a very good reason, huh? But that's my answer.
Disclaimer : Leaving Victoria, Ferrisa and Prof. Weston, all the characters used in this Fanfic belong to J.K Rowling, Bloomsburry and others that have the license to use the characters ( since I don't ).
