~Chapter Four~
By Lilly Potter
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Dumbledore stood up so quickly that the chair he had been sitting in toppled to the ground. "He's attacking Hogsmead?" he questioned. Professor McGonagall nodded, "And there have been reports that he's headed towards Hogwarts!"
"We have to get the students to their common rooms immediately!" Dumbledore said with a note of urgency in his voice. He did a quick spell on his voice so that it would carry through out the whole school. "Students. You will all return to your respective houses and wait for your house heads to come. All teachers, report to the staff room now."
Dumbledore took the spell off his voice and looked at Professor McGonagall, "We should get down to the staff room. Have we heard from Fudge?" McGonagall shook her head, "No! The students are in danger and he won't even send one single hit wizard to try and protect them!"
Dumbledore smiled at his livid friend, "Calm down, Minerva. I'll contact Fudge. You go down to the staff room and explain the situation to the other teachers." Minerva nodded, "Give Fudge a piece of my mind, won't you Albus?" Dumbledore looked at her with twinkling eyes, "Of course Minerva. Now get to the staff room." McGonagall smiled at the Headmaster and stepped into the fireplace that had suddenly flared yellow. Dumbledore's eyes lost their twinkle as he contacted Fudge, completely forgetting that he still had not found Harry.
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Lily was frantically searching the common room for Harry. Even James looked a little worried, Sirius was pacing the room as Remus stared into the blazing fire. "Where his he?" Lily asked , her voice sick with worry. "He should be in here!"
"Lil! calm down, he's probably in the dorm." Sirius said, putting a comforting arm around her as he glared at James, who had quickly lost the worried look he had on his face only moments ago. James now was frowning at the common room. He turned to Lily, still frowning. "You like him! Don't you?" Lily looked at James in horror, "No! How can you say that! I love you, not Harry." James looked into her eyes, pain spilling from the blue depths of his expressive eyes. "I don't believe you," and he stood up and headed up to the boys' dorm.
The remaining friends stared after James as he stormed up the stairs. They were silent for a few seconds, until Lily burst into tears, crying into Sirius' robes. A few minutes passed until Lily looked up at Remus, who was sitting beside her. "James ha-hates me, doesn't h-he," and Lily buried her head in Sirius' arms again, crying, the sobs wracking her body.
Sirius looked over Lily, into Remus' eyes. "James will pay for this, but first we really should find Harry." Remus nodded, "You stay here with Lily and Peter and I shall go look for Harry." Sirius nodded, "I'll search the Marauders Map as well," Remus nodded and he and Peter went to search the grounds, totally ignoring the order that Dumbledore had given them to stay in their common rooms.
Remus paused at the entrance of the school and turned to face Peter, "You search the grounds and I'll look around Hogsmeade and we'll meet back here in an hour. Got that?" Peter nodded his head hesitantly, "Sure, Moony. Should I look in the forbidden forest?" Remus shook his head, "No, we'll wait until we've searched every where else. If we still can't find him then we'll all go searching in the forest." Peter nodded again and headed out the door. Remus paused again, then headed towards Hogsmead.
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*25 years in the future*
Dumbledore stared at the letter that had Sirius' familiar scrawl across the front. The usual twinkle had left his eyes and was replaced by a steely cold expression that made Fudge shrink in his seat. "I did not know that it was customary to open another persons mail, Minister." Fudge, still looking frightened, sat up straight and looked Dumbledore in the eye. "It is when one is suspected of harboring a wanted criminal." Dumbledore shook his head, "We have much larger problems right now. Harry Potter has disappeared." Fudge looked at Dumbledore, "What do mean by he's disappeared? Surly you must have had him on a tracking charm?" Dumbledore rubbed his head wearily, "I did. He's disappeared off all five of them! He simply vanished into thin a..." He was cut off by a low growl. Both men searched for the origin of the sound. Finally their eyes came to rest on a large black dog sitting in the corner nearest the door, it's hackles rising, a deep growl coming from it's throat.
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Sirius snuck into Hogwarts in his Animagus form, keeping to the shadows. He reached the stone Gargoyle in time to see Professor McGonagall come storming from the headmaster's office. Sirius strained his ears, trying to make out the words that the deputy headmistress was mumbling.
"What on earth is Fudge doing here?" Sirius paused, the Minister of Magic was here. Sirius transformed into human shape and quickly went up to the gargoyle, trying to remember the password that Dumbledore had given him in his last letter, "Drooble's Best Blowing Gum," he whispered and the statue moved aside and let him through.
Sirius transformed back into a dog and stealthily moved up the stairs and nudged the door open, moving quickly to the corner of the room. Sirius was just in time to see the twinkle leave Dumbledore's eyes, Sirius caught the tail end of what Dumbledore was saying to Fudge. "-customary to open another persons mail, Minister." Sirius, with a sinking heart, noticed the piece of paper that the minister had in his hand. It was the letter he had sent to Dumbledore last week, asking about how Harry was doing and also giving him a report about his activities.
Sirius was jolted from his thoughts by the urgency of Dumbledore's voice. "We have much larger problems right now. Harry Potter has disappeared." Sirius was in shock. Harry? Missing? he had just gotten a letter from him a week ago. Sirius' mind could not process the information. The only thought that Sirius had was that he had failed James. He started to whimper afraid for Harry and then let out a low growl. Harry had been taken by Voldemort, Sirius was sure of that. And he was going to make someone pay.
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Harry walked slowly towards the womping willow. He picked up a stick and pressed the knot that would stop the thrashing branches. Harry walked down the tunnel, thinking about Cedric and Peter Pettigrew. Not the Peter that was here, Harry had noticed that this Peter was actually quite nice, but the Wormtail of his own time was evil. Harry often pondered what could have made Peter turn to the dark side. Was it power? Greed? Or was it just because he was to weak to stand up against Voldemort? Whatever the reason, Harry hated him. Well as much as Harry can hate people. He had discovered early on that he really couldn't truly hate people. He didn't even hate Voldemort.
Harry had just reached the Shrieking Shake, when a blinding pain shot through his scar. Harry fell to the ground, letting out a small yelp of pain. Faintly, through the pain in his head, Harry could make out foot steps, pounding along the tunnel, running towards him.
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Lily was still crying into Sirius' arms as a thought struck her. Lily sat up quickly, surprising Sirius into falling onto the floor. "What? Huh?" he said, sitting up, rubbing a spot on his head where it had connected with the corner of the chair. Lily looked at him with blazing eyes, "Harry's the reason that James hates me! Where is he, I want to punch his face his!" Sirius backed up at the menace in her voice. "Woah! Lil, calm down. Remus and Peter are looking for Harry right now, why don't we wait until they get back?" Lily shook her head, "NO! I am going to go and find him and give him a piece of my mind!" and with that said, Lily stormed out of the common room, ignoring the Fat Lady's lecture about breaking rules.
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Sirius watched Lily stalk out of the room. Sirius put his head in his hands in a defeated position, "Oh man, James is going to kill me!" he moaned quietly. He sat there for a few minutes trying to think of what to do. He was snapped back to reality by the voice of Professor McGonagall talking to them. "Students, I'm afraid that their is an attack going on at Hogsmeade." A collective gasp came from all the students. "You are all confined to you common rooms or dorms until further notice. Anyone caught outside their common rooms will be expelled."
McGonagall left the room leaving the students of Gryffindor tower whispering and some of the first years were crying silently amongst themselves. Sirius pulled out the Marauders Map and looked for the rest of his friends. They were quite easy to find considering that everyone was either in their common rooms or in that staff room. James was in the dorm. Lily was headed towards the lake. Peter was wondering around the fifth floor, and Remus wasn't even on the map. A feeling of dread started to creep it's way into the pit of his stomach. If Remus wasn't on the map that meant he was in the forest or heading towards Hogsmead. And Sirius was willing to bet that Remus wasn't in the forest.
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Remus was walking along the passage way in the womping willow, heading to Hogsmeade. Remus knew it was a long shot, but he had a feeling that Harry was in Hogsmead. He had been walking for about five minutes thinking about James and trying to figure out why James. Mr. Nice Guy, was suddenly acting like a jerk. Remus was dragged from his thoughts by the sound of someone falling, and cry of pain.
Remus started to run down the tunnel. It took about three minuets to get to the Shrieking Shake where he found Harry curled up on the ground, clutching his forehead in pain. "Harry!" he shouted and he rushed up to him. "What's the matter Harry? Are you OK?" Harry only moaned in response. Remus was looking at him, trying to figure out what was the matter with him when Harry stopped rolling on the ground and slowly sat up, still clutching his head.
"Oww! That hurt." Remus looked at Harry in bewilderment, "How? Are you OK Harry? You looked like you were in a lot of pain. How can the pain just stop?" Harry smiled faintly, "I was. And the pain always just stops."
Remus continued to stare at Harry in bewilderment. They were interrupted when the sound of a huge explosion reached their ears, Harry's head whipped around and he quickly ran to a window. Harry wasn't prepared for the sight that met his eyes. At least twenty Death Eaters were attacking Hogsmeade. Remus came up behind Harry and stared with open-mouthed astonishment. "What's going on, Harry?" he asked, his voice wavering slightly. Harry's face had taken on a look of disgust, "Death Eaters, servants of Voldemort." He spat out the name as if it tasted bad. The two boys watched the scene unfolding in front of them for a few seconds longer. Then Harry shook his head as if to clear it and headed towards the door. "Where are you going?" Remus hissed as Harry reached for the door handle. Harry turned and faced Remus, "I'm going to help," and he turned and walked out the door. Remus hesitated a moment then muttered, "I'm a fool to be doing this, but what the hell!" and he walked out the door towards Hogsmeade.
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James was sitting on his bed in the fifth year dorm thinking about Harry and Lily and how his life was ending when some people came bursting in. James looked up and saw Gus and Eric, the other two boy who shared the room. "Hey James, what're you up to?" Gus asked as he flopped onto his bed and pulled out a pack of Chocolate frogs from his trunk. James shrugged, "Nothing much. Thanks," he said to Gus as he offered the chocolate frogs to the other boy. "Have you seen Remus or Peter?" asked Eric. "I didn't see them in the common room and I hoped they were up here." James looked at both boys. They seemed a little upset and more than a little nervous, "Why?" The two boys exchanged uneasy glances, "Weren't you there for the announcement?" James shook his head. "Hogsmeade is being attacked and anyone not in the common rooms or dorms will be expelled." James turned white, "I have to find them."
James ran down the stairs and noticed that Sirius was in the corner, scanning a piece of parchment. James walked up to him, "Have you found them?" He hissed. Sirius looked up, startled. "Peter's on the fifth floor, Lily is heading back here and I can't find Harry of Remus." All the color that James had gained during the run downstairs quickly drained from his face, making him almost the same shade as a ghost. "What do you mean you can't find Remus?" he asked in a deathly whisper. Sirius motioned toward the Marauders Map, "I've been searching it for the past fifteen minutes and I can't find either of them." James made a face, "Harry can drop off the face of the earth for all I care, but Remus is my friend and I care if he gets hurt!" Sirius looked mournfully at the Map, "So do I James, so do I."
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After Lily had been waking for about ten minutes and had had a chance to calm down, she realized that it was really stupid to try and find Harry. Lily still blamed Harry for the trouble with James, but Hogwarts was BIG, so she decided to wait in the common room until Harry came back. When Lily climbed in through the portrait hole she was quickly ambushed by James who enveloped her in a gigantic hug and was kissing her forehead and nose asking her if she was OK. Laughing, Lily pushed James away from her, "Yes silly, I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be?" James exchanged a glance with Sirius who had just came up behind them, "We can't find Remus."
"Or Harry," Sirius piped in, causing Lily to give him a look of annoyance and James to make a face of dislike. Sirius let out an exasperated sigh. "Come on! You can't stay mad at him forever!" Lily stuck her tongue out at Sirius as James commented, "Yes we can!" Sirius snorted as he sat back down and continued to scan the map for Harry and Remus. Lily walked over to the fire, and sat down heavily on one of the armchairs. James came over quietly and sat at her feet, "Do you forgive me for being such an ass?" he asked as he looked up at her, resting his head on her knees. Lily smiled at him and began to brush the stray hairs from his face, answering him in a quiet, loving voice, "Only if you forgive me." James smiled up at her, and she brought her head down and kissed him softly on the lips.
They stayed in that position for several moments, until they were interrupted by the portrait hole banging open and a livid Dumbledore came stomping in, " Mr. Potter! Miss Evans! Come with me to my office right now. You can come too Mr. Black" He had started out almost yelling, but his voice became regular when he talked to Sirius. Lily noticed that Peter was standing behind Dumbledore, his face showing concern and a little bit of sympathy. The three exchanged looks before getting up and following the Headmaster out the portrait hole and down the hall towards his office.
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Peter had been wandering the fifth floor for about half an hour when he realized that he was supposed to be meeting Remus at the entrance of the school right at the moment. He quietly sneaked down the halls and corridors and almost forgot to jump over the disappearing step. He waited for about five minutes when he decided to head back to the common room and ask Sirius where Remus was.
He had almost made it back when he felt a hand come to rest on his shoulder. Peter looked up into the angry eyes of Albus Dumbledore. "H-hello, Sir. Fancy meeting y-you here." Dumbledore looked at Peter with anger burning in his eyes, but Peter noticed that their was concern and worry hiding behind all the anger and rage, "Mr. Pettigrew, may I be so bold as to ask what you are doing in the halls?" Peter looked at the headmaster, and he started to shake with fear, Dumbledore was starting to scare him and Peter just wanted to run to his dormitory and hide under his bed, but he couldn't.
"Well Sir, you see I was just... Remus said... I was looking for.... Oh Sir, Harry's missing!" Dumbledore was startled by the sudden out burst of Peter and it took a few second to try and register what he had said. "Harry is missing?" he asked Peter, and Peter noticed the note of panic and urgency in his voice. "Y-yes Sir, We haven't seen him since lunch when James... " Peter trailed off, realizing that he could get James into trouble. Dumbledore looked like he was going to explode, "JAMES?!? What did James do to Harry?" Peter was slowly edging away from Dumbledore. "He told Harry that he didn't belong in Gryffindor and that Harry was evil. That was at lunch and Harry ran outside and we haven't seen him since. So Remus, Sirius and myself have been looking for him because Professor McGonagall put up in charge of helping Harry, well she actually put James in charge, but he hates Harry now, especially since he thinks that Lily likes him." Dumbledore gave Peter a small smile, "Well then let's go and have a talk with them.
Dumbledore and Peter made their way to the Gryffindor common room, only stopping when Peter forgot to jump over the disappearing step. Dumbledore walked up to the Fat Lady, "Doxy." The fat lady smiled at Dumbledore, "Nice to see you headmaster," Dumbledore smiled at her, "Nice to see you too, Marie." The portrait hole swung open faster than usual, creating a loud bang. Dumbledore stormed in, regaining all the anger and rag he'd had when Peter told him that James had caused Harry to run away. "Mr. Potter! Miss Evans! Come with me to my office right now. You can come too Mr. Black" Peter noticed that Sirius, James and Lily exchanged apprehensive looks and slowly followed Professor Dumbledore out the portrait hole. They all walked in silence to Dumbledore's office. Dumbledore gave the password (Cauldron Cakes) and lead them up the stairs. They all sat down in seats in front of his desk. Dumbledore looked at Peter, giving him a small smile, then at Sirius giving the same smile that he had given Peter. Next he looked at Lily, giving her a disappointed glance before he shifted his gaze to James, giving him a long hard look that left James with shivers. "Well, James, would you like to tell me why you were so mean to Mr. Granger this afternoon at lunch?" James looked into Dumbledore's eyes, "He's a Parseltongue and he doesn't belong in Gryffindor." James stated matter-of-factly. "Oh, so you decided that because Harry can speak Parseltongue, then that means that he's evil?" James didn't quaver under Dumbledore's gaze, "Yes, Sir." Dumbledore sat down warily, "Do you realize, Mr. Potter, that you could possibly have killed the worlds only chance at survival?"
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"Hey, Harry! Wait up!" Harry turned around and faced a red-faced Remus, panting and bracing his arms on his legs. "Why are we going into a town that is being attacked?" Harry let out a sigh, "Because I have to help." And then Harry turned around and continued to walk down the hill. Remus followed silently until five people in black robes and masks appeared in front of them and pointed their wands at Harry and Remus. They both heard them start to utter the fatal curse when the person in the middle held up his hand, "Stop!" He pulled off his mask to reveal the smirking face of a man that strongly reminded Remus of Peter. "Harry Potter! What are you doing in this time?" Remus could hear that this man was panicking. "Wormtail! What the are you doing here?" Harry spate out, hate and loathing filling his voice. Remus was startled, did Harry just call this man Wormtail? But this isn't Peter, Peter was in the castle most likely waiting at the school entrance for him. The man called Wormtail seemed to have just noticed that Harry wasn't alone. "Who do you have with you Potter?" Why did he keep calling Harry Potter? The strange man peered at Remus, his eyes started to grow and a low whimper was coming from his throat. "Wormtail! Where's Voldemort?" Harry questioned impatiently. Wormtail tore his eyes from Remus and stared at Harry with a cold malicious look in his eyes. "Ahh... Yes! Shall we go and see Master? I'm sure he will be pleased to see you."
The group of seven walked down the street towards the town hall. A Death Eater on either side of Harry and Remus, two behind them and Wormtail walking in front. It was a little unnerving to have four wands trained on him that wouldn't hesitate to use an unforgivable. They finally came to the town hall and entered. The Death Eater standing guard gave them evil looks. They entered the main chamber and Remus saw a man sitting on a throne at the front of the immense room. He was chalk white and had blood red eyes that seemed to emit a faint red glow. He was holding a goblet that seemed to hold blood and he wore midnight robes. Everything about him screamed evil. Beside Remus, Harry fell to his knees, his hands clasped on his scar. Remus was quickly at his side as the evil man, whom Remus assumed was Voldemort, laughed. "So Harry, we meet again. But this time I have power!" Harry stood up leaning on Remus, "Voldemort! I know why you're here and I won't let you hurt them!" Voldemort laughed, "Big words, Potter. But is there any power behind them?" Harry smiled grimly, "Of course." And he pulled out his wand and screamed, "Expelliarmus!" Voldemort's wand flew into Harry's hand, but Voldemort only laughed. "You think your childish tricks will work on me? Think again, Potter." and he held out his hand and yelled "Accio!" And two wands flew towards him, Voldemort's and Harry's. "Well, Potter, it seems as if I have all the power now. I am here to kill your parents, and you can't stop me."
Then it seemed as if Voldemort noticed Remus for the first time, "Well, well, well... It seems you brought me another friend. Shall he end up the same as the last one?" Remus looked over at Harry, the replica of James, with Lily's eyes, and something dawned on Remus. Harry's eyes were filling with pain and anguish, he seemed to be seeing things of the past. Harry slowly shook his head, his eyes glittering with unshed tears. Voldemort let out a cruel, high laugh that Remus was sure he would never forget. "Well Harry, let's see what Wormtail thinks, Wormtail?" The mans eyes became cold and a smirk grew on his face, "Kill him!" And with those two words, Harry sank to the floor, the picture of pain and suffering. Voldemort gave an evil smirk as he raised his wand. "Avada Kedavra!" Remus lost all sense of time as he watched the emerald light come towards him. He closed his eyes, waiting for death to come.
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A/N: End Chapter Four ::insert mad scientist laugh here:: The end, the end, THE END!!!!!!!! I'm just a little hyper! I really try not to end with cliffhangers, but I always seem to find that the perfect place to end them is always with an evil cliffhanger. Who know, maybe the end of the story will be cliffhanger, to be continued in a sequel. Dumbledore was REALLY out of character in this part, but Harry is sooooo important to the survival of everything that it really got to Dumbledore that Harry could die because of his own father. Voldemort and Harry were a little OOC, but that's just the way they were, so don't complain. And also the whole thing with James thinking that Lily liked Harry was just a weird idea that I had. Never, EVER will they kiss! Just ewww! Don't even go there!
I didn't find a lot this time, but I did find one really great story where James comes forward to Harry's time. It doesn't belong to me!
Back to the future By Sirius