A/N: Listening to Rush Limbaugh is actually refreshing sometimes. He just uttered the word "shit" on the air and started fumbling as he tried to recover from it. Meanwhile, his staff are sitting there with Cheshire cat grins on their faces and he suddenly says, "I can't get these people to stop smiling at me... I feel like an adult amongst children here,...."
I feel spaced out... Is there something wrong with me? Nah... I just have too many things running around my brain so far.... Who says I don't know how to write well... I've got you people around my pinky! ::Snapette laugh::
::achem:: Just joking!
Chapter Twenty
That night, Harry watched as Madame Pomfrey took Remus out of the castle and into the Whomping Willow. Harry got dressed as James and Sirius did as well. "Do you have the invisibility cloak?" Harry asked.
"Do you use it now?" James asked with a grin. "What about the map?"
"My girlfriend's older twin brothers used it up until they gave it to me when I was in my third year.... in Filch's office."
"Really now... and the invisibility cloak?"
"Yes... I use it."
James threw the cloak around the three of them and they walked out of the dorm and down the stairs. Harry knocked on the girls' dorm door and it opened quietly. Harry opened the cloak and let Astra in underneath it.
They walked down the steps into the common room. They walked quietly through the halls and out of the castle. "Where do you think the stone is?" James asked.
"Where were we when you found us..." Harry asked.
"Over this way..." Sirius said. Harry saw a flash of someone laying on the ground. "What the hell?"
"That's Miss Snape!" Astra gasped. "She's caught in some kind of temporal flux!"
There was silence for a full minute. "What the hell did you just say?" Sirius asked.
"A temporal flux! That's the in-between place between the two time periods. She's caught somewhere in between this time period and the one we're from. Which means we can go back to the time when we just left!" Astra said excitedly.
"What is the Snapette doing back at Hogwarts at your time period." James asked as he threw off the cloak.
"She teaches Defense Against the Dark Arts at my old school. She came here because A.... she wanted the job here because no one else wanted it... and two.... she likes to pester her cousin who is the potions teacher." Astra stated as she placed her hand through the motionless transparent body of Miss Snape.
"Snape becomes a teacher? Now I've heard everything!" Sirius grunted.
"Where is he....?" Harry whispered to the wind. "Where is he waiting...."
Suddenly, there was a crack of thunder and lightning. Harry was thrown into Astra and rolled away. Harry sat up and saw the normal version Voldemort he was used to seeing since last year. Voldemort glared down at Harry with those eyes of his boring into him. Harry's scar burned again.
Astra grabbed her wand and threw Voldemort back with a repelling charm. She lifted Harry up, but he was still reeling back in pain. James helped him up. "What's wrong? Harry! What's wrong!" James said in a worried voice.
"My scar... He makes it burn! Arrgh! I can't move.... too much pain..." Harry said.
"I will have the stone now...." Voldemort said in a low voice.
"We don't have it! Go away!" Astra growled.
"I would like to, but I can't go anywhere with out it, so... if you'd be so kind as to hand over the stone to me...." Voldemort smirked at her. There was something like a pull on Astra. She moved her feet against her will until that rebellious voice inside her head made her drop.
"Harry... let me see it..." James said in a very worried tone. Harry felt his hand clamp over Harry's and pry it away from Harry's forehead. "What the hell?"
There was a sudden scream from inside the castle. "Lily.... no!" James started running for the castle, but he was run into by Lily. She slammed into him and fell on top of him.
"I saw... I saw..." she sniffled.
"Don't worry... shhhh... shh..."
Harry stood up now. He concentrated against the massive tidal waves of pain coursing through him. He walked over to Astra and helped her up. On the second hole of one of her elfin ears, there was an incredibly green stone fixed on her. Harry suppressed his smile.
A massive raven flew down and settled on Voldemort's shoulder. "I see that I was correct... Donovan isn't as hopeless as I thought of him originally. He sent his best minion to help me..." He cooed to Ravenel.
"That bird!" Sirius exclaimed.
"Ravenel... such a pretty raven at that..." Voldemort cooed again as he patted the bird on the head. "Let's see you attack... Ravenel take care of that nuisance for me!" He shouted and pointed at Sirius.
Sirius turned into a massive black dog and chomped at Ravenel. Ravenel grew bigger and more mythical looking as he fought with his massive talons. Sirius yelped in pain as one of the talons grabbed his hind leg.
Harry took out his wand and smiled at Astra. "We need to use our own specialties for this..."
"Got it, captain!"
Voldemort pulled out his wand and hit them with a curse. "Crucio!" Both Astra and Harry let off their own spells before the curse could touch them. Harry and Voldemort's wands connected like the last time in his fourth year, but Astra's wand intersected with the beams.
"No! Not again!"
There was a massive explosion and Harry and Astra were thrown back. "That was fun! Let's do that again!" she giggled.
"I don't think we have long to wait!" Harry gulped. He grabbed his wand and ran at Voldemort.
"Harry! Harry, you numbskull!" Astra gasped as she ran after him.
Harry and Astra were hit with another curse. James had his wand out and pointed it at Voldemort. "No... not now! It isn't supposed to happen yet!" Harry gulped.
Voldemort was hit on his backside by Ravenel. He hit the ground as a bloodied Sirius stood up wearily, but triumphantly, gazing at his accomplishment. Ravenel didn't move. His throat was torn out.
"Get this big bird off of me!"
"Can you tell me how to get... how to get to Sesame Street!" Astra sang gleefully. Harry smacked her on her head.
"Stop that!"
Voldemort growled and a brilliant light coursed around him. Ravenel disintegrated and Voldemort jumped to his feet. "Damned kids!"
James ran over to Harry and smiled. "Don't worry son... we'll all be alright..."
"Harry...!" Lily gasped as she ran over and hugged Harry so tightly he could barely breath. "Don't you worry... I already know... don't you worry about a thing... just remember everything you have experienced here!"
"So touching... It makes me nauseous!" Voldemort growled at them. He gained back that cruel smile. "Time to make my real destination now!" He pointed his wand at Astra and something bright hit her. She was lifted off of the ground, her head was thrown back and her body was rigid. Mist swirled around her like it did around the stone.
"No! You aren't leaving yet!" Harry grabbed a hold of Astra and she lifted him off the ground as well.
The wind whipped Harry's hair as he held onto Astra's legs tightly. Her uniform skirt whipped at his face and he suddenly got a glimpse of her underwear. He blushed, but still hung on.
"Harry! Harry!" He heard his mother and father screaming his name as if from far away. There was nothing around him, but swirling mist. It was like being stuck inside a crystal ball.
He climbed up Astra and held onto her around her waist. He saw her look down at him and smile. "Here... let me help you..."
She loosened his hands and he found himself floating along side her. She held his hand and made them both fly forward. Around him, he saw images flashing. It was like he was watching multiple television screens at the same time.
On one picture, he saw Sirius, James, Lily and Remus hit with a beam of light. On another picture, he saw a pale man with glasses and freckles getting married to an elf in the woods somewhere. "There's our father and mother over there!" he pointed to the picture. Astra smiled.
"And there... there is my mom giving birth to me...." she pointed to a picture of the elf screaming silently as the pale man held a quivering little baby girl that was very pretty.
"My mom and dad getting married...." Harry said as he pointed to a picture of a wedding. The red haired woman with laughing green eyes kissed the man with a mess of black hair.
"This is bizarre... I've never done this kind of thing before..." Astra whispered.
"You can say that again..."
They passed through another set of images. Sirius and Remus were trying to calm a crying Harry as James and Lily laughed hysterically in the background. Remus kept offering a lollypop, but Sirius looked like he was ready to faint any moment. Harry laughed at this sight as did Astra.
"I see him up there!" Astra pointed to a shadowy figure headed into an image of a cottage. "Oh my God...." she whispered.
They headed into the image and Harry hit the ground. Astra growled and ran to Voldemort. "No you don't! You ain't gonna get him now!"
She wrestled him on the ground vehemently as she spat furious curse words Harry hadn't even known were real. He recognized where they had landed. Any moment now, Harry would see his father for the last time.
Astra hit Voldemort across his jaw and he stopped moving. She wiped her brow. "Damnable evil idiot!" she growled. She dragged him to an area of woods where Harry had hidden.
"You cuss like a sailor when you get angry... did you know that?" Harry smirked at her, but they had no time to smile anymore. A dark figure walked up to the cottage. An older James Potter ran out, brandishing his wand.
Another figure came up behind Voldemort with a large raven on his shoulder. He looked a bit younger than that of James. His blood red hair gave him away, though. "Donovan...." she gasped.
"James! James! Get back inside! Get back!" came another voice. Harry recognized Kevin Knight running over to the scene.
"Kevin! You idiot! Get back now! This is my fight!" James growled, but it was too late. Harry watched as one move from the cloaked figure made Donovan take out his wand and obliterate the life from Kevin. He fell onto the ground with that frightened face.
Voldemort hit James just before James could finish his incantation. He too fell onto the ground like a log. Voldemort walked into the cottage and disappeared. Harry could hear the screams and pleading from his mother.
"Damn it... I had told myself that I shouldn't go to that damned cottage!" Voldemort growled next to Astra. He grabbed a hold of her leg and summoned the mist again. Harry grabbed a hold of Astra's hand and they lifted off of the ground. Voldemort disappeared as he let go of her and drifted into the mist.
"He's getting away!" she screamed.
"There'll be another time! Just get us back to our own time!" Harry shouted above the wind.
Astra pushed them forward and Harry saw himself as a first year, entering the great hall for the first time. Harry also saw Astra entering what looked to be a large Victorian Mansion. "Firestrom! That's when I first started going there!"
Harry saw her full circle of friends now. He saw her walking with her sister, Nevaeh, who had much longer hair and wore a black headband, Kennedy eating candy, blissfully unaware of everything, and Harry also saw a tall black hair boy with dark blue eyes jumping at everything.
"That was Leon... the conspiracy theorist...." Astra grunted. She closed her eyes in concentration.
"I see the picture of our battle with Voldemort up ahead! There's Miss Snape in the mist!" Harry pointed to the cloudy figure of Miss Snape still caught. They flew into the cloudy figure and rolled onto hard ground. Harry faintly heard someone shouting and lifting him up. Then, he was aware of blood trickling down his nose and over his cheek.... then,.... he lost consciousness.
I feel spaced out... Is there something wrong with me? Nah... I just have too many things running around my brain so far.... Who says I don't know how to write well... I've got you people around my pinky! ::Snapette laugh::
::achem:: Just joking!
Chapter Twenty
That night, Harry watched as Madame Pomfrey took Remus out of the castle and into the Whomping Willow. Harry got dressed as James and Sirius did as well. "Do you have the invisibility cloak?" Harry asked.
"Do you use it now?" James asked with a grin. "What about the map?"
"My girlfriend's older twin brothers used it up until they gave it to me when I was in my third year.... in Filch's office."
"Really now... and the invisibility cloak?"
"Yes... I use it."
James threw the cloak around the three of them and they walked out of the dorm and down the stairs. Harry knocked on the girls' dorm door and it opened quietly. Harry opened the cloak and let Astra in underneath it.
They walked down the steps into the common room. They walked quietly through the halls and out of the castle. "Where do you think the stone is?" James asked.
"Where were we when you found us..." Harry asked.
"Over this way..." Sirius said. Harry saw a flash of someone laying on the ground. "What the hell?"
"That's Miss Snape!" Astra gasped. "She's caught in some kind of temporal flux!"
There was silence for a full minute. "What the hell did you just say?" Sirius asked.
"A temporal flux! That's the in-between place between the two time periods. She's caught somewhere in between this time period and the one we're from. Which means we can go back to the time when we just left!" Astra said excitedly.
"What is the Snapette doing back at Hogwarts at your time period." James asked as he threw off the cloak.
"She teaches Defense Against the Dark Arts at my old school. She came here because A.... she wanted the job here because no one else wanted it... and two.... she likes to pester her cousin who is the potions teacher." Astra stated as she placed her hand through the motionless transparent body of Miss Snape.
"Snape becomes a teacher? Now I've heard everything!" Sirius grunted.
"Where is he....?" Harry whispered to the wind. "Where is he waiting...."
Suddenly, there was a crack of thunder and lightning. Harry was thrown into Astra and rolled away. Harry sat up and saw the normal version Voldemort he was used to seeing since last year. Voldemort glared down at Harry with those eyes of his boring into him. Harry's scar burned again.
Astra grabbed her wand and threw Voldemort back with a repelling charm. She lifted Harry up, but he was still reeling back in pain. James helped him up. "What's wrong? Harry! What's wrong!" James said in a worried voice.
"My scar... He makes it burn! Arrgh! I can't move.... too much pain..." Harry said.
"I will have the stone now...." Voldemort said in a low voice.
"We don't have it! Go away!" Astra growled.
"I would like to, but I can't go anywhere with out it, so... if you'd be so kind as to hand over the stone to me...." Voldemort smirked at her. There was something like a pull on Astra. She moved her feet against her will until that rebellious voice inside her head made her drop.
"Harry... let me see it..." James said in a very worried tone. Harry felt his hand clamp over Harry's and pry it away from Harry's forehead. "What the hell?"
There was a sudden scream from inside the castle. "Lily.... no!" James started running for the castle, but he was run into by Lily. She slammed into him and fell on top of him.
"I saw... I saw..." she sniffled.
"Don't worry... shhhh... shh..."
Harry stood up now. He concentrated against the massive tidal waves of pain coursing through him. He walked over to Astra and helped her up. On the second hole of one of her elfin ears, there was an incredibly green stone fixed on her. Harry suppressed his smile.
A massive raven flew down and settled on Voldemort's shoulder. "I see that I was correct... Donovan isn't as hopeless as I thought of him originally. He sent his best minion to help me..." He cooed to Ravenel.
"That bird!" Sirius exclaimed.
"Ravenel... such a pretty raven at that..." Voldemort cooed again as he patted the bird on the head. "Let's see you attack... Ravenel take care of that nuisance for me!" He shouted and pointed at Sirius.
Sirius turned into a massive black dog and chomped at Ravenel. Ravenel grew bigger and more mythical looking as he fought with his massive talons. Sirius yelped in pain as one of the talons grabbed his hind leg.
Harry took out his wand and smiled at Astra. "We need to use our own specialties for this..."
"Got it, captain!"
Voldemort pulled out his wand and hit them with a curse. "Crucio!" Both Astra and Harry let off their own spells before the curse could touch them. Harry and Voldemort's wands connected like the last time in his fourth year, but Astra's wand intersected with the beams.
"No! Not again!"
There was a massive explosion and Harry and Astra were thrown back. "That was fun! Let's do that again!" she giggled.
"I don't think we have long to wait!" Harry gulped. He grabbed his wand and ran at Voldemort.
"Harry! Harry, you numbskull!" Astra gasped as she ran after him.
Harry and Astra were hit with another curse. James had his wand out and pointed it at Voldemort. "No... not now! It isn't supposed to happen yet!" Harry gulped.
Voldemort was hit on his backside by Ravenel. He hit the ground as a bloodied Sirius stood up wearily, but triumphantly, gazing at his accomplishment. Ravenel didn't move. His throat was torn out.
"Get this big bird off of me!"
"Can you tell me how to get... how to get to Sesame Street!" Astra sang gleefully. Harry smacked her on her head.
"Stop that!"
Voldemort growled and a brilliant light coursed around him. Ravenel disintegrated and Voldemort jumped to his feet. "Damned kids!"
James ran over to Harry and smiled. "Don't worry son... we'll all be alright..."
"Harry...!" Lily gasped as she ran over and hugged Harry so tightly he could barely breath. "Don't you worry... I already know... don't you worry about a thing... just remember everything you have experienced here!"
"So touching... It makes me nauseous!" Voldemort growled at them. He gained back that cruel smile. "Time to make my real destination now!" He pointed his wand at Astra and something bright hit her. She was lifted off of the ground, her head was thrown back and her body was rigid. Mist swirled around her like it did around the stone.
"No! You aren't leaving yet!" Harry grabbed a hold of Astra and she lifted him off the ground as well.
The wind whipped Harry's hair as he held onto Astra's legs tightly. Her uniform skirt whipped at his face and he suddenly got a glimpse of her underwear. He blushed, but still hung on.
"Harry! Harry!" He heard his mother and father screaming his name as if from far away. There was nothing around him, but swirling mist. It was like being stuck inside a crystal ball.
He climbed up Astra and held onto her around her waist. He saw her look down at him and smile. "Here... let me help you..."
She loosened his hands and he found himself floating along side her. She held his hand and made them both fly forward. Around him, he saw images flashing. It was like he was watching multiple television screens at the same time.
On one picture, he saw Sirius, James, Lily and Remus hit with a beam of light. On another picture, he saw a pale man with glasses and freckles getting married to an elf in the woods somewhere. "There's our father and mother over there!" he pointed to the picture. Astra smiled.
"And there... there is my mom giving birth to me...." she pointed to a picture of the elf screaming silently as the pale man held a quivering little baby girl that was very pretty.
"My mom and dad getting married...." Harry said as he pointed to a picture of a wedding. The red haired woman with laughing green eyes kissed the man with a mess of black hair.
"This is bizarre... I've never done this kind of thing before..." Astra whispered.
"You can say that again..."
They passed through another set of images. Sirius and Remus were trying to calm a crying Harry as James and Lily laughed hysterically in the background. Remus kept offering a lollypop, but Sirius looked like he was ready to faint any moment. Harry laughed at this sight as did Astra.
"I see him up there!" Astra pointed to a shadowy figure headed into an image of a cottage. "Oh my God...." she whispered.
They headed into the image and Harry hit the ground. Astra growled and ran to Voldemort. "No you don't! You ain't gonna get him now!"
She wrestled him on the ground vehemently as she spat furious curse words Harry hadn't even known were real. He recognized where they had landed. Any moment now, Harry would see his father for the last time.
Astra hit Voldemort across his jaw and he stopped moving. She wiped her brow. "Damnable evil idiot!" she growled. She dragged him to an area of woods where Harry had hidden.
"You cuss like a sailor when you get angry... did you know that?" Harry smirked at her, but they had no time to smile anymore. A dark figure walked up to the cottage. An older James Potter ran out, brandishing his wand.
Another figure came up behind Voldemort with a large raven on his shoulder. He looked a bit younger than that of James. His blood red hair gave him away, though. "Donovan...." she gasped.
"James! James! Get back inside! Get back!" came another voice. Harry recognized Kevin Knight running over to the scene.
"Kevin! You idiot! Get back now! This is my fight!" James growled, but it was too late. Harry watched as one move from the cloaked figure made Donovan take out his wand and obliterate the life from Kevin. He fell onto the ground with that frightened face.
Voldemort hit James just before James could finish his incantation. He too fell onto the ground like a log. Voldemort walked into the cottage and disappeared. Harry could hear the screams and pleading from his mother.
"Damn it... I had told myself that I shouldn't go to that damned cottage!" Voldemort growled next to Astra. He grabbed a hold of her leg and summoned the mist again. Harry grabbed a hold of Astra's hand and they lifted off of the ground. Voldemort disappeared as he let go of her and drifted into the mist.
"He's getting away!" she screamed.
"There'll be another time! Just get us back to our own time!" Harry shouted above the wind.
Astra pushed them forward and Harry saw himself as a first year, entering the great hall for the first time. Harry also saw Astra entering what looked to be a large Victorian Mansion. "Firestrom! That's when I first started going there!"
Harry saw her full circle of friends now. He saw her walking with her sister, Nevaeh, who had much longer hair and wore a black headband, Kennedy eating candy, blissfully unaware of everything, and Harry also saw a tall black hair boy with dark blue eyes jumping at everything.
"That was Leon... the conspiracy theorist...." Astra grunted. She closed her eyes in concentration.
"I see the picture of our battle with Voldemort up ahead! There's Miss Snape in the mist!" Harry pointed to the cloudy figure of Miss Snape still caught. They flew into the cloudy figure and rolled onto hard ground. Harry faintly heard someone shouting and lifting him up. Then, he was aware of blood trickling down his nose and over his cheek.... then,.... he lost consciousness.
