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The Mirror of Etamluos
"Luosruoy Fo Flahreht oehtnah treht ono it celferon wohsi"
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Chapter Ten: Threat from Voldemort
Harry didn't touch the letter at first fearing it was a portkey, and stopped Severus and Remus from opening it. Harry called down the table, "Headmaster please come over here."
Albus walked over to Harry, took one look at the letter and said, "All four of you follow me. Minerva please ensure everyone that is currently here in the hall stays here."
Albus muttered a "Wingardium Leviosa" at the letter, letting it float in front of him towards his office with Harry, Severus, Remus and Sirius following him. Once inside the office Albus ran a scan on it for Dark Magic, Portkeys and Magic of any sort. Finally he looked at Harry and nodded, "You can open it or I can, it's up to you Harry."
Harry took a deep breath and took the envelope from Albus, with slightly shaky hands. He was half expecting some sort of poison to spill out when he opened it but instead it was just a letter. A letter with a very large threat against Harry. Harry's eyes went wide as he read the letter and he mentally called out to Severus, 'Read this over my shoulder Sev, it concerns you as well.'
"Harry James Dumbledore-Evans-Potter-Snape,
Did I get all of your last names correct there? Yes I believe I did, you married one of my own Harry. Your husband is one of my Death Eaters, and I plan on treating you the way I would any spouse of one of my servants. You are to accompany your husband when he is summoned one week from now and you will complete your bonding to your husband with a gift from me, a Dark Mark of your very own. You will comply or both you and your husband will die. The choice is yours, and you wouldn't want to be responsible for the death of your own husband, would you?
-Lord Voldemort"
Harry was pale and shaking by the end of the letter, which he was holding in a death grip, his knuckles white. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes and then Severus's voice came through loud and clear in his head. 'You will NOT have one of those on your arms Harry, forget it. He'd kill us both anyways when we got there, he's just trying to make you feel guilty and give you a reason to blame yourself for something he wants anyways.'
Harry calmed down, but not much and when he opened his eyes he stood slowly, handed the letter to Albus and sat down in Severus's lap, wrapping his arms around his husband and holding on with all his strength. Severus merely wrapped his arms around Harry and ran a hand through his hair trying to calm him a bit even though he himself was shaking with rage at the very thought of Harry bearing the Dark Mark.
Albus finally looked up from the letter and said, "Well, I think Voldemort has reached a new level of insanity today if he thought I would allow my great-grandson to bear a Dark Mark against his will. Minerva will take one look at this and want to send him a howler. Severus, I must ask that you do not leave the castle under any circumstances, and that you're always careful when you're in the castle. Minerva and I will both help with your Head of House duties, you're under too much stress as it is. Harry if you wish to owl back, feel free to tell the man that I think he's insane, and that he will not be successful in killing either of you so long as there's a breathe of life left on the light side of this war. I would however prefer that you do not write back. Sirius I'm going to ask that you stay with Severus at all times from now on, except when he's within his own chambers with Harry. Then you can floo back to your own rooms with Remus. Severus I know you think I'm over reacting but that thing will do anything to get his hands on Harry, and you and I both know that Harry would come after you without thinking about it."
Severus just nodded knowing it would be of no use to object. Harry shifted slightly in Severus's arms and buried his head in Severus's chest. Sirius looked revolted at the idea of spending so much time with Severus, but nodded anyways. Remus just looked miserable but held Sirius's hand within his own. Albus sighed and then said, "Harry, Severus, if you'd both like to take the day off you're more than welcome to. I can take over your classes for the day if you want Severus."
Harry shook his head, "I'm not letting that idiot get the better of me like that. I'm going to classes."
Severus sighed and mumbled, "Gryffindors."
Albus smiled and said, "Severus?"
Severus just shook his head, "I'm not going to let you take over my classes, knowing you I'd come back to a pink and purple classroom and students that are actually looking forward to classes."
Harry coughed discretely trying to cover up a laugh and Albus grinned and said, "I was thinking green rooms myself, but pink and purple would be different as well."
Within ten minutes Harry was headed to Herbology while Severus and Sirius made their way towards the Dungeons and Remus made his way up to his own classroom. Ron and Hermione who had seen the letter incident that morning immediately questioned Harry. Harry explained quietly before class started, and then paired up with Neville to start class.
Herbology went by quickly and Harry was once again amazed by the amount of knowledge Neville had when it came to Herbology. Class was uneventful, but Draco came up with an apologetic face before starting in on Harry. Draco smirked and said, "So Potter, I hear you'll be joining our ranks now. Father said that the Lord himself will be doing your initiation."
Harry just grunted, while Ron started turning funny shades of red and hissed at Draco, "The day Harry joins the likes of you and that idiot you call 'Master' is the day I kiss a Dementor."
Harry smiled at his friends support and just kept walking towards their next class, Defense Against the Dark Arts. Harry smiled at Remus when they made it to the room and took a seat between Seamus and Hermione. Ron sat on the other side of Hermione, holding her hand under the table. Hermione was telling Harry all about Ron making their relationship an official couple the night before.
On the other side of Seamus was Dean, who was discretely looking at Seamus while talking to Neville about something he didn't understand in Herbology. Eventually everyone had made their way into their seats and Remus said, "Today We'll be studying the Patronus Charm. I realize that it's in effect a charm, but it's one of very few defenses against a Dementor that we have. Now for today we'll just be practicing the charm, nothing big. And then I'll Demonstrate on a Dementor that is inside the next classroom. Now the last time I taught here, I taught Harry how to do this charm and I was wondering Harry, if you would demonstrate for the class?"
Harry smiled and nodded, joining Remus at the front of the classroom before debating what happy memory to choose. He hid a grin at the happy thought he chose, his marriage and bonding ceremony with Severus, and raised his wand yelling out, "EXPECTO PATRONUM!"
Out of Harry's wand came a sliver shot that turned into a Stag, a very large and perfect replication of Prongs. Harry smiled at it as it looked around slightly confused. Remus next to him whispered, "Prongs."
The Stag turned and faced Remus and Harry, seemed to grin at them and moved closer to them. Harry smiled at the Stag and whispered so only Remus heard, "Hi Dad."
Remus knew that Harry would be able to cast a stronger Patronus, but the beauty and power of the one in front of him was close to one that would have driven away at least a hundred Dementors. Remus grinned and patted Harry on the shoulder before saying, "Well, it seems you've been practicing sine I last saw you perform that charm Harry! Twenty points to Gryffindor, and thank you very much Harry."
Harry smiled watching the Stag as it continued to walk around the room. Harry went back to his seat and noticed that Ron and Hermione were both watching him with something that looked very much like worry. The rest of the class watching both him and his Patronus in awe of it. Remus smiled and said, "Well, Harry's is better then mine I'm sorry to say. The most I can get out are a few silver streams of air, can't get it to take shape. Don't be surprised if you only get smoke or nothing at first, it's an extremely difficult charm to master. It took Harry the better part of that year to get the spell at all, and it seems two years to master it. Now everyone think of the happiest moment in your life, and cast the charm yourselves."
No one else in the class got anywhere close to what Harry's was still doing. Harry watched, thoroughly amused that Prongs was still walking around the room. Harry helped Seamus and Dean with theirs, still checking to see if Prongs was in the room or not. Half an hour later Prongs started to dim, and Remus decided it was time to show the class how it worked against a Dementor.
Remus spoke calmly glancing at Harry as he did, "Some people have extreme reactions to Dementors, I ask you if you think yourself unable or uncomfortable with being in the room to please stay here. The rest of you follow me please. I have a large supply of chocolate and hot chocolate waiting for you should you decide to come with me. The house elves made the hot chocolate, and I had one of them run over to the infirmary for the chocolate supply. Those coming with, follow me."
Remus lead the group down the hall to an unused classroom and lead them all inside to where the Dementor was caged up against one side, that went crazy when the class came in. Instantly everyone felt a chill in the room. Harry felt a chill go up his spine and his head start to hurt a bit but kept up with the class regardless.
They hadn't been in the classroom two minutes when Harry started to hear his father telling his mother to run for it, Harry started to sway a bit, and then came his Mum. She was begging, pleading for Harry's life, and then everything in Harry's head went black. The classroom watched horrified as Harry fainted, and before anyone could reach him, hit the back of his head on a desk that he was a bit to close to.
Remus said, "Everyone get out! I'll follow with Harry, grab yourself some chocolate on the way."
Everyone followed his directions and Remus pointed his wand at Harry and said, "Mobilcorpus".
Harry's body followed him out of the room, where he gave more instructions, "Miss Granger please go inform the Headmaster that he will need to meet us in the infirmary. Mr. Weasley, please run to the Dungeons and inform Professor Snape that he is also needed in the infirmary, but please refrain from telling him what actually happened so that the man doesn't panic. Everyone else, class dismissed, keep practicing your charms."
With that Remus literally started running to the infirmary, which luckily wasn't very far at all, with Harry's body floating right beside him the entire way. Once inside Madam Pomfrey took one look at him and Harry, pointed at the nearest bed and said, "Put him on the bed there. Then get the hell out of my way, what happened Remus?"
He explained the classroom and the fainting including Harry hitting his head on the edge of the table. She sighed and said, "Poor boy gets all the trouble around here. He was already having a bad day at that too."
She couldn't get any farther because Severus was there and immediately ground out, "What in Merlin's name happened to my husband?"
Remus explained once again to him while Poppy was making the initial vital sign checks, and only when he finished did he notice that Sirius was at Severus's heel, whining. Ron and Hermione came in panting for breath; with them was Albus who immediately rushed over to Severus to give his silent support.
Poppy scrunched her eyebrows in concentration and confusion and said, "Will everyone please wait outside? I need to conduct a few tests."
Severus blinked, but didn't move when everyone else started to leave the room. Poppy looked up and said, "Please Severus, I know he's your husband and you're worried but let me do my job, go wait outside. I'll be out to talk to you in a moment, I promise."
Severus sighed and walked out to join the others. Hermione and Ron were sitting clutching hands, Hermione crying softly on Ron's shoulder. Albus and Sirius were pacing in opposite directions, and Remus was just sitting, staring at the ceiling. Severus sat down next to Remus and put his head in his hands, trying to ignore the light flickering of the Diamond on his binding ring, showing just how faint Harry's heartbeat was at the moment. He was vaguely aware that the Opal on the binding ring was flashing as well trying to show just how badly Harry needed a Medi-Witch.
The group waited five minutes, and Albus gave up pacing to sit down. Sirius continued pacing, but resumed it in dog form like he should have been. Hermione had stopped crying but was now frantically wringing her hands with worry. Severus was still sitting with his head in his hands, and finally the infirmary door opened. Poppy looked at Severus and said, "Severus I need to speak with you privately."
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The Mirror of Etamluos
"Luosruoy Fo Flahreht oehtnah treht ono it celferon wohsi"
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Chapter Ten: Threat from Voldemort
Harry didn't touch the letter at first fearing it was a portkey, and stopped Severus and Remus from opening it. Harry called down the table, "Headmaster please come over here."
Albus walked over to Harry, took one look at the letter and said, "All four of you follow me. Minerva please ensure everyone that is currently here in the hall stays here."
Albus muttered a "Wingardium Leviosa" at the letter, letting it float in front of him towards his office with Harry, Severus, Remus and Sirius following him. Once inside the office Albus ran a scan on it for Dark Magic, Portkeys and Magic of any sort. Finally he looked at Harry and nodded, "You can open it or I can, it's up to you Harry."
Harry took a deep breath and took the envelope from Albus, with slightly shaky hands. He was half expecting some sort of poison to spill out when he opened it but instead it was just a letter. A letter with a very large threat against Harry. Harry's eyes went wide as he read the letter and he mentally called out to Severus, 'Read this over my shoulder Sev, it concerns you as well.'
"Harry James Dumbledore-Evans-Potter-Snape,
Did I get all of your last names correct there? Yes I believe I did, you married one of my own Harry. Your husband is one of my Death Eaters, and I plan on treating you the way I would any spouse of one of my servants. You are to accompany your husband when he is summoned one week from now and you will complete your bonding to your husband with a gift from me, a Dark Mark of your very own. You will comply or both you and your husband will die. The choice is yours, and you wouldn't want to be responsible for the death of your own husband, would you?
-Lord Voldemort"
Harry was pale and shaking by the end of the letter, which he was holding in a death grip, his knuckles white. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes and then Severus's voice came through loud and clear in his head. 'You will NOT have one of those on your arms Harry, forget it. He'd kill us both anyways when we got there, he's just trying to make you feel guilty and give you a reason to blame yourself for something he wants anyways.'
Harry calmed down, but not much and when he opened his eyes he stood slowly, handed the letter to Albus and sat down in Severus's lap, wrapping his arms around his husband and holding on with all his strength. Severus merely wrapped his arms around Harry and ran a hand through his hair trying to calm him a bit even though he himself was shaking with rage at the very thought of Harry bearing the Dark Mark.
Albus finally looked up from the letter and said, "Well, I think Voldemort has reached a new level of insanity today if he thought I would allow my great-grandson to bear a Dark Mark against his will. Minerva will take one look at this and want to send him a howler. Severus, I must ask that you do not leave the castle under any circumstances, and that you're always careful when you're in the castle. Minerva and I will both help with your Head of House duties, you're under too much stress as it is. Harry if you wish to owl back, feel free to tell the man that I think he's insane, and that he will not be successful in killing either of you so long as there's a breathe of life left on the light side of this war. I would however prefer that you do not write back. Sirius I'm going to ask that you stay with Severus at all times from now on, except when he's within his own chambers with Harry. Then you can floo back to your own rooms with Remus. Severus I know you think I'm over reacting but that thing will do anything to get his hands on Harry, and you and I both know that Harry would come after you without thinking about it."
Severus just nodded knowing it would be of no use to object. Harry shifted slightly in Severus's arms and buried his head in Severus's chest. Sirius looked revolted at the idea of spending so much time with Severus, but nodded anyways. Remus just looked miserable but held Sirius's hand within his own. Albus sighed and then said, "Harry, Severus, if you'd both like to take the day off you're more than welcome to. I can take over your classes for the day if you want Severus."
Harry shook his head, "I'm not letting that idiot get the better of me like that. I'm going to classes."
Severus sighed and mumbled, "Gryffindors."
Albus smiled and said, "Severus?"
Severus just shook his head, "I'm not going to let you take over my classes, knowing you I'd come back to a pink and purple classroom and students that are actually looking forward to classes."
Harry coughed discretely trying to cover up a laugh and Albus grinned and said, "I was thinking green rooms myself, but pink and purple would be different as well."
Within ten minutes Harry was headed to Herbology while Severus and Sirius made their way towards the Dungeons and Remus made his way up to his own classroom. Ron and Hermione who had seen the letter incident that morning immediately questioned Harry. Harry explained quietly before class started, and then paired up with Neville to start class.
Herbology went by quickly and Harry was once again amazed by the amount of knowledge Neville had when it came to Herbology. Class was uneventful, but Draco came up with an apologetic face before starting in on Harry. Draco smirked and said, "So Potter, I hear you'll be joining our ranks now. Father said that the Lord himself will be doing your initiation."
Harry just grunted, while Ron started turning funny shades of red and hissed at Draco, "The day Harry joins the likes of you and that idiot you call 'Master' is the day I kiss a Dementor."
Harry smiled at his friends support and just kept walking towards their next class, Defense Against the Dark Arts. Harry smiled at Remus when they made it to the room and took a seat between Seamus and Hermione. Ron sat on the other side of Hermione, holding her hand under the table. Hermione was telling Harry all about Ron making their relationship an official couple the night before.
On the other side of Seamus was Dean, who was discretely looking at Seamus while talking to Neville about something he didn't understand in Herbology. Eventually everyone had made their way into their seats and Remus said, "Today We'll be studying the Patronus Charm. I realize that it's in effect a charm, but it's one of very few defenses against a Dementor that we have. Now for today we'll just be practicing the charm, nothing big. And then I'll Demonstrate on a Dementor that is inside the next classroom. Now the last time I taught here, I taught Harry how to do this charm and I was wondering Harry, if you would demonstrate for the class?"
Harry smiled and nodded, joining Remus at the front of the classroom before debating what happy memory to choose. He hid a grin at the happy thought he chose, his marriage and bonding ceremony with Severus, and raised his wand yelling out, "EXPECTO PATRONUM!"
Out of Harry's wand came a sliver shot that turned into a Stag, a very large and perfect replication of Prongs. Harry smiled at it as it looked around slightly confused. Remus next to him whispered, "Prongs."
The Stag turned and faced Remus and Harry, seemed to grin at them and moved closer to them. Harry smiled at the Stag and whispered so only Remus heard, "Hi Dad."
Remus knew that Harry would be able to cast a stronger Patronus, but the beauty and power of the one in front of him was close to one that would have driven away at least a hundred Dementors. Remus grinned and patted Harry on the shoulder before saying, "Well, it seems you've been practicing sine I last saw you perform that charm Harry! Twenty points to Gryffindor, and thank you very much Harry."
Harry smiled watching the Stag as it continued to walk around the room. Harry went back to his seat and noticed that Ron and Hermione were both watching him with something that looked very much like worry. The rest of the class watching both him and his Patronus in awe of it. Remus smiled and said, "Well, Harry's is better then mine I'm sorry to say. The most I can get out are a few silver streams of air, can't get it to take shape. Don't be surprised if you only get smoke or nothing at first, it's an extremely difficult charm to master. It took Harry the better part of that year to get the spell at all, and it seems two years to master it. Now everyone think of the happiest moment in your life, and cast the charm yourselves."
No one else in the class got anywhere close to what Harry's was still doing. Harry watched, thoroughly amused that Prongs was still walking around the room. Harry helped Seamus and Dean with theirs, still checking to see if Prongs was in the room or not. Half an hour later Prongs started to dim, and Remus decided it was time to show the class how it worked against a Dementor.
Remus spoke calmly glancing at Harry as he did, "Some people have extreme reactions to Dementors, I ask you if you think yourself unable or uncomfortable with being in the room to please stay here. The rest of you follow me please. I have a large supply of chocolate and hot chocolate waiting for you should you decide to come with me. The house elves made the hot chocolate, and I had one of them run over to the infirmary for the chocolate supply. Those coming with, follow me."
Remus lead the group down the hall to an unused classroom and lead them all inside to where the Dementor was caged up against one side, that went crazy when the class came in. Instantly everyone felt a chill in the room. Harry felt a chill go up his spine and his head start to hurt a bit but kept up with the class regardless.
They hadn't been in the classroom two minutes when Harry started to hear his father telling his mother to run for it, Harry started to sway a bit, and then came his Mum. She was begging, pleading for Harry's life, and then everything in Harry's head went black. The classroom watched horrified as Harry fainted, and before anyone could reach him, hit the back of his head on a desk that he was a bit to close to.
Remus said, "Everyone get out! I'll follow with Harry, grab yourself some chocolate on the way."
Everyone followed his directions and Remus pointed his wand at Harry and said, "Mobilcorpus".
Harry's body followed him out of the room, where he gave more instructions, "Miss Granger please go inform the Headmaster that he will need to meet us in the infirmary. Mr. Weasley, please run to the Dungeons and inform Professor Snape that he is also needed in the infirmary, but please refrain from telling him what actually happened so that the man doesn't panic. Everyone else, class dismissed, keep practicing your charms."
With that Remus literally started running to the infirmary, which luckily wasn't very far at all, with Harry's body floating right beside him the entire way. Once inside Madam Pomfrey took one look at him and Harry, pointed at the nearest bed and said, "Put him on the bed there. Then get the hell out of my way, what happened Remus?"
He explained the classroom and the fainting including Harry hitting his head on the edge of the table. She sighed and said, "Poor boy gets all the trouble around here. He was already having a bad day at that too."
She couldn't get any farther because Severus was there and immediately ground out, "What in Merlin's name happened to my husband?"
Remus explained once again to him while Poppy was making the initial vital sign checks, and only when he finished did he notice that Sirius was at Severus's heel, whining. Ron and Hermione came in panting for breath; with them was Albus who immediately rushed over to Severus to give his silent support.
Poppy scrunched her eyebrows in concentration and confusion and said, "Will everyone please wait outside? I need to conduct a few tests."
Severus blinked, but didn't move when everyone else started to leave the room. Poppy looked up and said, "Please Severus, I know he's your husband and you're worried but let me do my job, go wait outside. I'll be out to talk to you in a moment, I promise."
Severus sighed and walked out to join the others. Hermione and Ron were sitting clutching hands, Hermione crying softly on Ron's shoulder. Albus and Sirius were pacing in opposite directions, and Remus was just sitting, staring at the ceiling. Severus sat down next to Remus and put his head in his hands, trying to ignore the light flickering of the Diamond on his binding ring, showing just how faint Harry's heartbeat was at the moment. He was vaguely aware that the Opal on the binding ring was flashing as well trying to show just how badly Harry needed a Medi-Witch.
The group waited five minutes, and Albus gave up pacing to sit down. Sirius continued pacing, but resumed it in dog form like he should have been. Hermione had stopped crying but was now frantically wringing her hands with worry. Severus was still sitting with his head in his hands, and finally the infirmary door opened. Poppy looked at Severus and said, "Severus I need to speak with you privately."
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