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Chapter 4: Remus Trouble
"Harry! It is Wednesday! Get up we need to get to your lessons!" yelled Sirius up the stairs. Harry, who was sleeping jumped out of his bed at the call and dressed quickly in his muggle fighting clothes. Not that any of his clothes were wizards clothes, he had no use for them. Sirius and he always wore muggle clothes so that in the event that someone see them at their house they would simply assume them regular people who lived in a cabin way out in the woods.
"Coming Sirius!" Harry yelled back down the stairs to his waiting godfather. "Could you get me some pancakes or something to eat quickly?" he added as an afterthought.
"Sure, but hurry up! You don't want to be late!" Harry ran down the stairs and grabbed the plate of pancakes that Sirius had conjured, and inhaled two of them. Sirius looked at him incredulously as Harry said that he was ready to go.
"How do you eat that fast? I'm sure that it is not good for you."
"Don't worry about it. Lets go."
"Alright, lets go."
With that the two of them *pop*ed to the barn that they usually apparated to.
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"REMUS! We have apparation activity!" yelled the auror watching the apparation tracker. Remus Lupin ran over to the indicator.
"Can you see who it is?"
After pressing a few buttons and muttering a few words the reply came, "No, it seems that they have concealed their magical signal. It must be them, rarely do people conceal their magical signal, and it is illegal without permission. But it does make since that they would."
"Yes it does. Okay," Remus turned and looked at the group that had surrounded them, "Hit Wizards to the barn! Aurors stand by in the town! We don't want this to get out of hand. Magical reversal squad be ready to wipe some memories! Lets move people!"
With those instructions the hit wizards moved to their target, with Remus with them. The aurors waited in the town as instructed and were ready to help join the fight against the most wanted criminal in the world.
The five hit wizards and Remus snuck up to where the barn was and drew their wands. "Stun only, I want this one alive for the kiss," was the order from Remus. The wizards nodded their heads in understanding and spread out surrounding the barn.
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"Okay Harry, you got all your stuff?"
Harry nodded.
"Alright, lets head out."
*snap*
"Sirius, there is someone out there," whispered Harry. Both Sirius and Harry drew their wands, ready to defend themselves if need be and slowly walked towards the entrance of the barn. Sirius raised his hand signaling Harry to stop, which he did.
"Listen," he said very quietly and Harry did.
"I want this one alive for the kiss -"
Sirius panicked. "Harry, we have to get out of here. I don't know how, but they found us! It is wizards Harry. Apparate now! I will come too."
"Appario," they said at the same time, and nothing happened.
"Oh crap," a wave of fear passed over Sirius and Harry's faces. "They set up an apparation barrier. We are gonna have to fight to the woods Harry, we have to move fast!"
With that he and Harry snuck out the door of the barn, Sirius in his dog form, Harry dressed as a muggle boy walking his dog. The only thing was, neither expected Remus to be there, and when Sirius saw Remus and Remus saw Sirius, Sirius knew that Remus recognized him even before Remus shouted at his team, "There they are!"
"Sirius transformed back and told Harry to transform and fly away. "Leave Harry, I can get away!"
"No I won't leave you!"
"Run then! RUN!"
"Only if you come!" With that the two of them began to run for the forest, spells following them. Sirius noted with relief that there were no all too familiar green lights shooting past.
'Probably don't want to risk hitting Harry,' he thought dismally. He didn't think much more though because a well-aimed stunner by one of the hit wizards hit him.
Harry saw his godfather fall and stopped dead in his tracks. He turned around, eyes blazing with fury. He looked straight at Remus, and when Remus looked back he felt fear. He would never admit it, but in that moment he felt pure terror. Those eyes were unlike any he had ever seen, it was almost as, Remus did a double take, they were. Harry's usually jovial green eyes were flaming. His eyes became stormy and green flames licked his pupils, his irises were actually moving as if they were flames. Then Remus saw Harry raise a wand.
'What the? He's far to young.'
"Stupefy," the wizards heard him say, and one of their number dropped to the stunner. Before the rest could properly react, two more of their numbers were down to stunners.
'Such power, and desire, it seems that Sirius has corrupted Harry. I'm sorry Harry, this is for your own good.' With that he and the other two standing hit wizards raised their wands and in unison shouted, "Stupefy!" The bright white stunners shot out towards Harry, and the most amazing thing happened. Remus' jaw dropped. Harry leaned backwards, lowering his knees at the same time, dodging the first two stunners, the third however hit him, and Harry dropped.
Remus sighed, and began to walk forwards. Then he noticed Harry's eyes snap open and the boy jump to his feet. Again he looked into those eyes, and began to visibly tremble. His eyes were red, dark red with scarlet and orange flames licking them. Harry's wand lay some distance away but that didn't seem to stop the boy.
Harry raised his hand and a magic shield was erected over Sirius. Remus was horrified, 'such power.' Then Harry looked straight at him, his eyes burning with fury, and the impossible happened. A fireball formed in Harry's hand and Harry threw it at Remus, then two more appeared and those were thrown at the other hit wizards.
Remus and one hit wizard dodged, the other was not so lucky and was severely burned and was forced to back out of the fight. "Stun him!" yelled Remus terrified. "Stupefy!" came the familiar spell, this time Harry didn't bother dodging, and he simply raised his hand and swept the two spells away. Remus' knees almost gave away as he quivered in fright.
Harry brought his hands forward in a sweeping motion and tornado force winds swept before him. The hit wizard and Remus were blown back into the barn and knocked out part of the woods. Remus was only dimly aware of a figure approaching him. "Harry," he managed to choke out, "it's me Remus."
Before he went unconscious he heard Harry's reply, "I'm sorry Remus, but you won't take Sirius, he is innocent, it was Pettigrew."
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"Run then! Run!" Harry took off and he dimly heard Sirius running after him. The spells shooting by them scared Harry, and he wanted to get out of there as soon as possible. He had never been attacked before, at least not that he could remember. Just then he heard a groan and a thump. 'Sirius!' he thought and turned to look. He saw Sirius lying on the ground stunned. 'No!'
Harry looked up at the men who dare stun Sirius, the man most like his father. He saw five wizards in black robes, and what had to be the commander of their group in red. He looked closer at the man in red robes. "No," he whispered to himself. He would recognize that man anywhere, Sirius always talked about him, Remus Lupin. One of Sirius' best friends, and one of his father's, and now here he was. He had stunned Sirius and was ready to take Harry. For the moment Harry hated that man, and he didn't bother hiding it. He looked straight into the eyes of Remus and he saw the man shake slightly, as if uncomfortable under the gaze.
'Good, be scared,' thought Harry, and then he raised his wand. "Stupefy!" he yelled, "Stupefy, Stupefy!" He dropped three of the wizards; he wanted to give Remus time to be scared. By this time the wizards and Remus realized that Harry wasn't about to go down without a fight and each shot a stunner at him. Harry bent backwards and dodged the first two, but his consciousness faded as he was hit by the third. Then the most amazing thing happened, Harry saw in his unconsciousness his parents.
'Harry, you must get up. You cannot let them take Sirius,' came the words from his mother's mouth. She smiled at him.
'You have the power in you Harry, you are very powerful. You must help Sirius, they will get the dementors to kiss him. Wake up Harry. You must wake,' came the encouraging words from his father who also smiled at him.
Harry didn't want to wake; he wanted to stay with his parents. But he could sense the urgency in their voices and so he searched for the power to resist the stunner, and he found it. He whispered goodbye as his parents became farther away, and before he regained consciousness he saw them both mouth, 'We love you Harry.'
Harry's eyes snapped open. He had found power inside himself, power he had not know about before, and he got up. He looked at the three wizards and with his new power conjured fireballs and threw them at the wizards. Remus and one of the hit wizards dodged, the other was not so quick and went down in flames. Harry found himself beset upon by the other two and he blocked the stunning spells with his hand, surprising even himself. He chose this moment to look at Remus and saw the pure terror in his eyes and his legs shaking.
'It is time to end this and get Sirius and me away.' Harry raised his hands and at his command winds blew out blowing the hit wizard and Remus into the side of the barn at high speeds. The hit wizard, as Harry noted, was knocked unconscious immediately, but not Remus. Harry walked over to him and heard Remus announcing who he was trying to make Harry see that he was a friend.
"I'm sorry Remus, but you won't take Sirius, he is innocent, it was Pettigrew."
With that Remus fell into unconsciousness. Harry walked back to Sirius, "Enervate." Sirius jumped up and grabbed his wand looking for the attackers, and saw only Harry standing by him, all attackers on the ground.
"Harry?" Sirius asked, his eyes showed fear and concern for his godson. "Are you okay?"
"Yes Sirius, I'm fine."
"Okay, what happened?"
"We'll talk later, lets get back home." With that the two ran off to the woods and apparated.
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"We have apparation activity," said the man watching the tracker. "It was them! They got away! How?" He looked around at the others who all stared at him unbelieving. "Go check on the hit wizards and Remus! What happened to them?"
The aurors ran to the barn and were shocked at what they saw. Three hit wizards stunned from spells, one hit wizard and Remus knocked out from impact with a wall, and one hit wizard severely burned. This last one was portkeyed to the ministry where he could receive medical treatment, and the rest were revived.
"What happened?" the lead auror asked Remus and the hit wizards.
"I'm not really sure," came the tentative reply of one of the hit wizards. "We stunned Black right off."
"If you stunned Black then how in the world were you all dealt with? Others?"
"No," came the answer from Remus, "It was Harry." All those who weren't there gasped in surprise, and some looked at him disbelievingly.
"Come now man," began the commander, "you can't be serious. He is only, what, nine?"
"I assure you Hilton, it was Harry Potter that did this. I - We underestimate him."
"That can be clearly seen. Did you even try to defend yourselves against the boy?"
"Yes," came the reply from all five.
"So. . . ?"
"Hilton," began Remus, "when Harry was a boy, he had Lily's eyes, bright emerald green. He still has those eyes, however, when Sirius fell he turned to look at us." Remus quivered at the memory. "Those eyes, usually filled with love were contorted with hate. I could see flames licking his pupils. I was filled with a terror above all terrors. I tried to fight back but he was much too powerful. He was stunned but simply awoke again." There was the sucking in of breaths from the listeners. "Then he raised his hand and without a wand started throwing fireballs at us. He hit Emerson. Then Wilson and I threw stunning spells and he wiped them away with his hand. I'm not really sure, but I believe after that he called a tornado and blew us into the barn. I wasn't knocked unconscious right away; he came over to me. I tried to tell him I was a friend. He told me - he told me - I can't remember. Must have lost that memory in my unconsciousness." Remus' face contorted in his attempt to remember what Harry had told him, but he couldn't drag the memory out.
"Well in any case," Hilton began, "we now know that Harry Potter is as dangerous, or more dangerous than Sirius Black, and should be treated with as a criminal. If he is spotted, stunners are to be used right away."
"Hilton, I don't think -"
"Remus! He knocked out five of our people and severely injured one! He is now a criminal! Just like his 'father!'"
Remus jumped up and yelled at Hilton, "Sirius is NOT Harry's father!"
"Calm down man!" came the yelled response. Remus settled himself, "Do you want me to relieve you from this case?" Remus shook his head. "Then you will refrain those kind of outbursts in the future. Do you understand?" Remus nodded. "Good."
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Sirius and Harry walked into the German Potter estate, and Sirius was itching to know what happened after he was hit by the stunning spell. Harry however, looked exhausted and headed into the study and fell asleep upon the couch. Sirius looked at his godson, somehow, this boy of nine had managed to fight off five hit wizards, some of the best wizards of the ministry, and Remus, who Sirius knew was a talented dueler. Then his thoughts turned to what the ministry wizards would do when they found that Harry and he had escaped. 'Will they come looking for us? Is it safe to stay here? How long before we can again go out into the world? Probably will have that city guarded for years to come. I wonder if they would notice if we moved?' All these thoughts and more were echoing throughout Sirius' head. He didn't want to move. This house was one of the only reminders of James he had. But then he remembered that only the master of the house could let people find this house, and Harry had wiped the list of invited, besides Sirius, long ago. They would be completely safe at the house. But they would not very well be able to leave it, not often at least.
Sirius almost wished that Harry would turn eleven so that he could send Harry to Hogwarts. He really wanted Harry to have that experience, and he felt that it would be best for Harry now because it would be boring for Harry to live in the house 24/7, with no more marital arts lessons. 'Perhaps I could host some lessons for him, assist him with magic,' thought Sirius. 'Well, I hope he doesn't get to fed up with this house and me. I believe staying here is the only option that we have at the moment, though I wish we had more.
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Harry slept through the next day and Sirius began to become worried. 'What if they hit him? What if he was internally injured? What if he is sick?' Sirius read up on many things from the library that could possibly cause him to sleep like this and concluded after observing that Harry did not seem to have any symptoms of injury or sickness that he was plain exhausted. 'It must have taken a hell of a lot out of him, whatever he did in that fight. Took out six people. I hope that he is not a criminal now. Probably think that I brainwashed the poor kid. I hate being thought of as evil! Why did you have to do it Peter? Why -?' Sirius left all of these questions unanswered however because at that moment Harry stirred and Sirius immediately jumped to his side.
"Harry? Harry are you okay?"
"Ummm."
"Is that a yes?" Sirius asked smiling.
"Uh-huh."
"Good. You scared me kiddo. You've been sleeping for a day and a half now." Harry sat up.
"A day and a half? Are you joking?" Sirius shook his head, and smiled as Harry's face formed wonderment.
"You were dead tired Harry. What did you do that made you so tired?"
"Oh, well let me tell you about what happened after you were stunned -"
It was an hour later before Harry finished telling the story and had answered all of Sirius' questions. Well, almost all of Sirius' questions, they were interrupted by Harry's stomach. Sirius jumped as Harry's stomach grumbled its need for food.
"Oh," was all Sirius could say. He conjured up some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with pumpkin juice at Harry's request and the two ate a quick lunch before Sirius asked the rest of his questions.
"So, you saw your parents?"
"Yes."
"What did you think of them?"
Harry stared out into space, "They were - they were wonderful Sirius. They were very polite in what they told me to do. And mom was beautiful and dad was handsome, and they said that they loved me Sirius. I didn't want to go, but I had to help you. After that I accessed energy that I couldn't before and I think that is what wore me out. I used to much energy at one time."
"Ah, that would be a good guess. Well I'm glad you did there, but don't access that energy again unless you really need to. It doesn't do to have you out cold for two days." Sirius smiled at his godson who smiled back.
A couple hours later found Harry playing his guitar as he normally did, and Sirius listening to him, and singing along.
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Chapter 4: Remus Trouble
"Harry! It is Wednesday! Get up we need to get to your lessons!" yelled Sirius up the stairs. Harry, who was sleeping jumped out of his bed at the call and dressed quickly in his muggle fighting clothes. Not that any of his clothes were wizards clothes, he had no use for them. Sirius and he always wore muggle clothes so that in the event that someone see them at their house they would simply assume them regular people who lived in a cabin way out in the woods.
"Coming Sirius!" Harry yelled back down the stairs to his waiting godfather. "Could you get me some pancakes or something to eat quickly?" he added as an afterthought.
"Sure, but hurry up! You don't want to be late!" Harry ran down the stairs and grabbed the plate of pancakes that Sirius had conjured, and inhaled two of them. Sirius looked at him incredulously as Harry said that he was ready to go.
"How do you eat that fast? I'm sure that it is not good for you."
"Don't worry about it. Lets go."
"Alright, lets go."
With that the two of them *pop*ed to the barn that they usually apparated to.
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"REMUS! We have apparation activity!" yelled the auror watching the apparation tracker. Remus Lupin ran over to the indicator.
"Can you see who it is?"
After pressing a few buttons and muttering a few words the reply came, "No, it seems that they have concealed their magical signal. It must be them, rarely do people conceal their magical signal, and it is illegal without permission. But it does make since that they would."
"Yes it does. Okay," Remus turned and looked at the group that had surrounded them, "Hit Wizards to the barn! Aurors stand by in the town! We don't want this to get out of hand. Magical reversal squad be ready to wipe some memories! Lets move people!"
With those instructions the hit wizards moved to their target, with Remus with them. The aurors waited in the town as instructed and were ready to help join the fight against the most wanted criminal in the world.
The five hit wizards and Remus snuck up to where the barn was and drew their wands. "Stun only, I want this one alive for the kiss," was the order from Remus. The wizards nodded their heads in understanding and spread out surrounding the barn.
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"Okay Harry, you got all your stuff?"
Harry nodded.
"Alright, lets head out."
*snap*
"Sirius, there is someone out there," whispered Harry. Both Sirius and Harry drew their wands, ready to defend themselves if need be and slowly walked towards the entrance of the barn. Sirius raised his hand signaling Harry to stop, which he did.
"Listen," he said very quietly and Harry did.
"I want this one alive for the kiss -"
Sirius panicked. "Harry, we have to get out of here. I don't know how, but they found us! It is wizards Harry. Apparate now! I will come too."
"Appario," they said at the same time, and nothing happened.
"Oh crap," a wave of fear passed over Sirius and Harry's faces. "They set up an apparation barrier. We are gonna have to fight to the woods Harry, we have to move fast!"
With that he and Harry snuck out the door of the barn, Sirius in his dog form, Harry dressed as a muggle boy walking his dog. The only thing was, neither expected Remus to be there, and when Sirius saw Remus and Remus saw Sirius, Sirius knew that Remus recognized him even before Remus shouted at his team, "There they are!"
"Sirius transformed back and told Harry to transform and fly away. "Leave Harry, I can get away!"
"No I won't leave you!"
"Run then! RUN!"
"Only if you come!" With that the two of them began to run for the forest, spells following them. Sirius noted with relief that there were no all too familiar green lights shooting past.
'Probably don't want to risk hitting Harry,' he thought dismally. He didn't think much more though because a well-aimed stunner by one of the hit wizards hit him.
Harry saw his godfather fall and stopped dead in his tracks. He turned around, eyes blazing with fury. He looked straight at Remus, and when Remus looked back he felt fear. He would never admit it, but in that moment he felt pure terror. Those eyes were unlike any he had ever seen, it was almost as, Remus did a double take, they were. Harry's usually jovial green eyes were flaming. His eyes became stormy and green flames licked his pupils, his irises were actually moving as if they were flames. Then Remus saw Harry raise a wand.
'What the? He's far to young.'
"Stupefy," the wizards heard him say, and one of their number dropped to the stunner. Before the rest could properly react, two more of their numbers were down to stunners.
'Such power, and desire, it seems that Sirius has corrupted Harry. I'm sorry Harry, this is for your own good.' With that he and the other two standing hit wizards raised their wands and in unison shouted, "Stupefy!" The bright white stunners shot out towards Harry, and the most amazing thing happened. Remus' jaw dropped. Harry leaned backwards, lowering his knees at the same time, dodging the first two stunners, the third however hit him, and Harry dropped.
Remus sighed, and began to walk forwards. Then he noticed Harry's eyes snap open and the boy jump to his feet. Again he looked into those eyes, and began to visibly tremble. His eyes were red, dark red with scarlet and orange flames licking them. Harry's wand lay some distance away but that didn't seem to stop the boy.
Harry raised his hand and a magic shield was erected over Sirius. Remus was horrified, 'such power.' Then Harry looked straight at him, his eyes burning with fury, and the impossible happened. A fireball formed in Harry's hand and Harry threw it at Remus, then two more appeared and those were thrown at the other hit wizards.
Remus and one hit wizard dodged, the other was not so lucky and was severely burned and was forced to back out of the fight. "Stun him!" yelled Remus terrified. "Stupefy!" came the familiar spell, this time Harry didn't bother dodging, and he simply raised his hand and swept the two spells away. Remus' knees almost gave away as he quivered in fright.
Harry brought his hands forward in a sweeping motion and tornado force winds swept before him. The hit wizard and Remus were blown back into the barn and knocked out part of the woods. Remus was only dimly aware of a figure approaching him. "Harry," he managed to choke out, "it's me Remus."
Before he went unconscious he heard Harry's reply, "I'm sorry Remus, but you won't take Sirius, he is innocent, it was Pettigrew."
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"Run then! Run!" Harry took off and he dimly heard Sirius running after him. The spells shooting by them scared Harry, and he wanted to get out of there as soon as possible. He had never been attacked before, at least not that he could remember. Just then he heard a groan and a thump. 'Sirius!' he thought and turned to look. He saw Sirius lying on the ground stunned. 'No!'
Harry looked up at the men who dare stun Sirius, the man most like his father. He saw five wizards in black robes, and what had to be the commander of their group in red. He looked closer at the man in red robes. "No," he whispered to himself. He would recognize that man anywhere, Sirius always talked about him, Remus Lupin. One of Sirius' best friends, and one of his father's, and now here he was. He had stunned Sirius and was ready to take Harry. For the moment Harry hated that man, and he didn't bother hiding it. He looked straight into the eyes of Remus and he saw the man shake slightly, as if uncomfortable under the gaze.
'Good, be scared,' thought Harry, and then he raised his wand. "Stupefy!" he yelled, "Stupefy, Stupefy!" He dropped three of the wizards; he wanted to give Remus time to be scared. By this time the wizards and Remus realized that Harry wasn't about to go down without a fight and each shot a stunner at him. Harry bent backwards and dodged the first two, but his consciousness faded as he was hit by the third. Then the most amazing thing happened, Harry saw in his unconsciousness his parents.
'Harry, you must get up. You cannot let them take Sirius,' came the words from his mother's mouth. She smiled at him.
'You have the power in you Harry, you are very powerful. You must help Sirius, they will get the dementors to kiss him. Wake up Harry. You must wake,' came the encouraging words from his father who also smiled at him.
Harry didn't want to wake; he wanted to stay with his parents. But he could sense the urgency in their voices and so he searched for the power to resist the stunner, and he found it. He whispered goodbye as his parents became farther away, and before he regained consciousness he saw them both mouth, 'We love you Harry.'
Harry's eyes snapped open. He had found power inside himself, power he had not know about before, and he got up. He looked at the three wizards and with his new power conjured fireballs and threw them at the wizards. Remus and one of the hit wizards dodged, the other was not so quick and went down in flames. Harry found himself beset upon by the other two and he blocked the stunning spells with his hand, surprising even himself. He chose this moment to look at Remus and saw the pure terror in his eyes and his legs shaking.
'It is time to end this and get Sirius and me away.' Harry raised his hands and at his command winds blew out blowing the hit wizard and Remus into the side of the barn at high speeds. The hit wizard, as Harry noted, was knocked unconscious immediately, but not Remus. Harry walked over to him and heard Remus announcing who he was trying to make Harry see that he was a friend.
"I'm sorry Remus, but you won't take Sirius, he is innocent, it was Pettigrew."
With that Remus fell into unconsciousness. Harry walked back to Sirius, "Enervate." Sirius jumped up and grabbed his wand looking for the attackers, and saw only Harry standing by him, all attackers on the ground.
"Harry?" Sirius asked, his eyes showed fear and concern for his godson. "Are you okay?"
"Yes Sirius, I'm fine."
"Okay, what happened?"
"We'll talk later, lets get back home." With that the two ran off to the woods and apparated.
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"We have apparation activity," said the man watching the tracker. "It was them! They got away! How?" He looked around at the others who all stared at him unbelieving. "Go check on the hit wizards and Remus! What happened to them?"
The aurors ran to the barn and were shocked at what they saw. Three hit wizards stunned from spells, one hit wizard and Remus knocked out from impact with a wall, and one hit wizard severely burned. This last one was portkeyed to the ministry where he could receive medical treatment, and the rest were revived.
"What happened?" the lead auror asked Remus and the hit wizards.
"I'm not really sure," came the tentative reply of one of the hit wizards. "We stunned Black right off."
"If you stunned Black then how in the world were you all dealt with? Others?"
"No," came the answer from Remus, "It was Harry." All those who weren't there gasped in surprise, and some looked at him disbelievingly.
"Come now man," began the commander, "you can't be serious. He is only, what, nine?"
"I assure you Hilton, it was Harry Potter that did this. I - We underestimate him."
"That can be clearly seen. Did you even try to defend yourselves against the boy?"
"Yes," came the reply from all five.
"So. . . ?"
"Hilton," began Remus, "when Harry was a boy, he had Lily's eyes, bright emerald green. He still has those eyes, however, when Sirius fell he turned to look at us." Remus quivered at the memory. "Those eyes, usually filled with love were contorted with hate. I could see flames licking his pupils. I was filled with a terror above all terrors. I tried to fight back but he was much too powerful. He was stunned but simply awoke again." There was the sucking in of breaths from the listeners. "Then he raised his hand and without a wand started throwing fireballs at us. He hit Emerson. Then Wilson and I threw stunning spells and he wiped them away with his hand. I'm not really sure, but I believe after that he called a tornado and blew us into the barn. I wasn't knocked unconscious right away; he came over to me. I tried to tell him I was a friend. He told me - he told me - I can't remember. Must have lost that memory in my unconsciousness." Remus' face contorted in his attempt to remember what Harry had told him, but he couldn't drag the memory out.
"Well in any case," Hilton began, "we now know that Harry Potter is as dangerous, or more dangerous than Sirius Black, and should be treated with as a criminal. If he is spotted, stunners are to be used right away."
"Hilton, I don't think -"
"Remus! He knocked out five of our people and severely injured one! He is now a criminal! Just like his 'father!'"
Remus jumped up and yelled at Hilton, "Sirius is NOT Harry's father!"
"Calm down man!" came the yelled response. Remus settled himself, "Do you want me to relieve you from this case?" Remus shook his head. "Then you will refrain those kind of outbursts in the future. Do you understand?" Remus nodded. "Good."
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Sirius and Harry walked into the German Potter estate, and Sirius was itching to know what happened after he was hit by the stunning spell. Harry however, looked exhausted and headed into the study and fell asleep upon the couch. Sirius looked at his godson, somehow, this boy of nine had managed to fight off five hit wizards, some of the best wizards of the ministry, and Remus, who Sirius knew was a talented dueler. Then his thoughts turned to what the ministry wizards would do when they found that Harry and he had escaped. 'Will they come looking for us? Is it safe to stay here? How long before we can again go out into the world? Probably will have that city guarded for years to come. I wonder if they would notice if we moved?' All these thoughts and more were echoing throughout Sirius' head. He didn't want to move. This house was one of the only reminders of James he had. But then he remembered that only the master of the house could let people find this house, and Harry had wiped the list of invited, besides Sirius, long ago. They would be completely safe at the house. But they would not very well be able to leave it, not often at least.
Sirius almost wished that Harry would turn eleven so that he could send Harry to Hogwarts. He really wanted Harry to have that experience, and he felt that it would be best for Harry now because it would be boring for Harry to live in the house 24/7, with no more marital arts lessons. 'Perhaps I could host some lessons for him, assist him with magic,' thought Sirius. 'Well, I hope he doesn't get to fed up with this house and me. I believe staying here is the only option that we have at the moment, though I wish we had more.
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Harry slept through the next day and Sirius began to become worried. 'What if they hit him? What if he was internally injured? What if he is sick?' Sirius read up on many things from the library that could possibly cause him to sleep like this and concluded after observing that Harry did not seem to have any symptoms of injury or sickness that he was plain exhausted. 'It must have taken a hell of a lot out of him, whatever he did in that fight. Took out six people. I hope that he is not a criminal now. Probably think that I brainwashed the poor kid. I hate being thought of as evil! Why did you have to do it Peter? Why -?' Sirius left all of these questions unanswered however because at that moment Harry stirred and Sirius immediately jumped to his side.
"Harry? Harry are you okay?"
"Ummm."
"Is that a yes?" Sirius asked smiling.
"Uh-huh."
"Good. You scared me kiddo. You've been sleeping for a day and a half now." Harry sat up.
"A day and a half? Are you joking?" Sirius shook his head, and smiled as Harry's face formed wonderment.
"You were dead tired Harry. What did you do that made you so tired?"
"Oh, well let me tell you about what happened after you were stunned -"
It was an hour later before Harry finished telling the story and had answered all of Sirius' questions. Well, almost all of Sirius' questions, they were interrupted by Harry's stomach. Sirius jumped as Harry's stomach grumbled its need for food.
"Oh," was all Sirius could say. He conjured up some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with pumpkin juice at Harry's request and the two ate a quick lunch before Sirius asked the rest of his questions.
"So, you saw your parents?"
"Yes."
"What did you think of them?"
Harry stared out into space, "They were - they were wonderful Sirius. They were very polite in what they told me to do. And mom was beautiful and dad was handsome, and they said that they loved me Sirius. I didn't want to go, but I had to help you. After that I accessed energy that I couldn't before and I think that is what wore me out. I used to much energy at one time."
"Ah, that would be a good guess. Well I'm glad you did there, but don't access that energy again unless you really need to. It doesn't do to have you out cold for two days." Sirius smiled at his godson who smiled back.
A couple hours later found Harry playing his guitar as he normally did, and Sirius listening to him, and singing along.
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Sparrow - He didn't think that no one would think that he raised him. He just wants Harry to go to Hogwarts. He knows that people would know that he raised Harry.
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