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Abandoned 14
Harry's eyes fluttered open. Ginny was sitting next to his bed reading Witch Weekly. She was wearing pale blue robes that matched her eyes. Harry lay sleepily watching her as she read.
When Ginny went to turn a page she looked at him and saw (with a look of surprise) that he was awake again. "Harry!"
"Hi Gin."
"How are you feeling?" She asked nervously
"I'm Ok" he responded. Truth be told that although he was feeling a bit better, he ached all over and wasn't sure that he would actually be able to sit unaided, but he wasn't going to tell her that. She looked worried enough as it was.
"Good. You've been unconscious for ages. We didn't know if you would ever- but you have and that's good so-" She rambled along these lines for a while before tailing off.
"You've been worried."
"Yes!"
Ginny flung her arms around Harry and kissed him gently. He kissed back.
"I see somebody's feeling better."
Ginny stood up quickly and reddened. Sirius was standing there looking thrilled that Harry was awake again. He walked over to Harry's bedside and took another of the chairs. Harry couldn't help but notice there were an awful lot of them (probably swiped from a nearby classroom).
Sirius followed Harry's gaze and said "You've made a lot of people who care about you very anxious."
Harry looked at the chairs again. Inside he smiled. He never thought that this many people would care enough to keep a vigil by his bed. It must have driven Madame Pomfrey round the bend. Suddenly he was struck by a horrible thought.
"Sirius, transform! What if someone sees you?!"
"It's OK. I'm free. Wormtail is now under the great care of the ministry of magic." He smiled happily at the look on Harry's face.
"You mean, you're not a wanted man anymore?"
"yep!"
Harry, Sirius and Ginny chatted happily about nothing in particular until Madame Pomfrey came and made them leave Harry to get some more sleep. Harry didn't want Sirius to leave but Madame Pomfrey ordered him out, as he was a 'bad influence'.
Harry had only been asleep for a short while when the nightmares began. as he tossed fitfully in his bed visions of his torture flashed before his eyes
//Lestrange was stirring a goblet full of a strange blue potion, standing menacingly in front of Harry. They had been together for well over two hours now. Lestrange had delighted in pouring an array of potions down Harry's throat and standing back to see the very painful effects. "This one is very special Harry. The Dark Lord invented it himself. Think of it as a liquid form of the Cruciatus curse."
He bent down next to Harry and restrained him so that he was unable to escape. He then forced Harry's mouth open and poured the burning mixture into it. He then forced Harry to swallow and again stood back.
Harry began to scream. The screams became louder and louder//
Harry was awoken by the intensity of his screams. His eyes snapped open, wide and afraid. He looked around. Hogwarts. Hospital wing. Safe.
Footsteps were pounding in his direction. Madame Pomfrey was at his side within seconds. Harry was shaking like a leaf. She made comforting sounds as she re-covered him with blanket and reached for a calming potion.
She lifted Harry with one arm into a slight sitting position and guided the goblet slowly towards him with the free hand. Harry stared at it as though transfixed. With a gasp of horror he pushed it out of her hands.
Pale blue stained the blanket as she stood back "It was a calming potion Potter, to help you relax."
"I don't need it."
The hospital wing doors crashed open and Lupin and Hagrid brandishing their wands (or in Hagrid's case, umberella).
"What's wrong? There were screams."
"It was Harry, he had a nightmare." Madame Pomfrey said calmly "I tried to give him a calming potion but-"
Lupin eyed the pale, trembling boy on the bed and approached slowly. He muttered quietly to Pomfrey "get the potion. I'll see that he takes it."
She bustled off and the two men approached him.
They sat down on harry's left hand side "Hi harry." They said
"Harry, you're shaking." Harry looked at them, a neutral expression on his face. "Madame Pomfrey wants you to drink a potion to help you to relax. What do you think?." Madame Pomfrey handed Remus the re-filled goblet. Harry looked at it fearfully "Harry, neither me or Hagrid would ever do anything to hurt you. If you don't want to take, it that's OK. But please, trust me."
Harry looked into Remus's eyes, and into his emotions. He sensed deceit in neither. "I'll take it." He whispered.
Remus lifted him into a sitting position and handed Harry the goblet. He then helped Harry to drink the potion. Harry immediately felt himself relax immediately as he was flooded with warmth.
Remus laid Harry back down and the three of them regarded each other in silence for a while.
"How long am I going to be here?" Harry asked
"That all depends on how quickly you recover."
"I suppose."
"Yeh look a lot better than yeh did when yeh came in." Hagrid said fondly.
"So do you two." Harry smiled slightly. They both looked almost uninjured.
"That was some nightmare you were having Harry." Remus said
"we thought there was an attack.." Hagrid added.
"Sorry"
"Harry, it's OK. We saw what you went through. More than them anyway." Remus gestured vaguely over his shoulder.
"I do have one question though."
"What?"
"When Voldemort held that knife to your throat. What exactly did he want you to 'stop'."
"I am not totally sure. There was so much fear in that place. I only wanted him to understand what he was doing to people. More than anything."
Maybe you acted like a mirror" Remus said thoughtfully. At Harry's blank expression he added "all the fear you were receiving from everyone in that building, maybe you were able to reflect it into him."
"no wonder he was shakin' and everythin'" Hagrid exclaimed.
The memory of what Voldemort had done to him next overwhelmed Harry. He ran his fingers over the new scar that ran across his throat, and turned away from his two visitors.
"Harry?" Hagrid said
"Can we talk about something else please."
"of course. I'm sorry." Remus said.
Obviously thinking quickly he said "Do you know where you and Sirius will stay until school starts up again in September?"
Harry looked at Remus in confusion.
"nobody's told you?"
"Told me what?"
"The new wards around the castle are not complete yet. Everyone feels that it is not safe for the students to be here until next year."
"What about lessons and exams?"
"Each year group will be assigned into separate groups depending on where they live. Teachers and others, like parents will take the classes and the students will travel each day to the place where their lessons or exams will be."
"Sounds complicated."
"I agree, but randomly allocating people to classes and different places, means that it will be more difficult to locate the people he wants to get than if you all stayed here in this badly protected castle."
"Oh." Harry was not sure how well this was going to work but trusted that it was probably safer.
"Why didn't Sirius say anything?"
"Dunno. I think he's coming to see you this evening anyway. He'll probably tell you then."
Harry smiled. Although he only lived with Sirius for two days before.. the capture..it was great. At the Weasleys they treated him as they did the rest of the family, but he couldn't shake the feeling of being a guest. When it had been just him and Sirius it had felt, right, somehow.
Remus and Hagrid looked thrilled to have got a 'real' smile out of Harry, gave him a quick hug and left.
Madame Pomfrey approached slightly cautiously, as though afraid that Harry would get scared again. "Feeling calmer now Mr Potter?"
"Yeah. Sorry about-"
"It's quite understandable."
"It's just - the nightmare was about a potion I was given." Harry said quietly, feeling the need to explain himself.
Madame Pomfrey nodded kindly and swapped the now blue - potion stained blanket for a clean one. "Miss Granger left you some books to read." She placed a tottering pile of books onto Harry's bedside table, from which Harry selected one about the most haunted houses around the world.
That evening Sirius visited Harry. "Got that sleep that Pomfrey was so desperate for you to get?"
"A bit."
"Good. Anyway, there's something I need to talk to you about."
"Remus told me already about school being closed."
"Oh. Right." Sirius looked a little bit worried that Harry would be angry at his not mentioning it before. When Harry gave him an encouraging nod, he continued "This afternoon I went to the ministry. They officially cleared my name. That meant that I could do something I should've done 14 years ago."
"What?"
Sirius placed a sheet of parchment into Harry's hands. It was a form certifying Sirius Black as the legal guardian of one Harry James Potter. "Only if it 's ok with you. We can rip it up, or feed it to that last screwt, or-"
"Is this real?" Harry said stunned.
"Of course it is" Sirius chuckled
"so we're like, um you know."
"a family." Sirius finished
Harry tried desparately to hold back tears as he said "it's ok with me."
Sirius seemed to be having the same difficulty as Harry as he took the parchment back and put it in an official looking folder.
"The Ministry are giving me my house back." He said sniffing "When you're well enough we'll move in."
Sirius stayed with Harry discussing how the house could be decorated until they both fell asleep in the dimmed lights of the hospital wing.
A/N Next chapter up soon!
Abandoned 14
Harry's eyes fluttered open. Ginny was sitting next to his bed reading Witch Weekly. She was wearing pale blue robes that matched her eyes. Harry lay sleepily watching her as she read.
When Ginny went to turn a page she looked at him and saw (with a look of surprise) that he was awake again. "Harry!"
"Hi Gin."
"How are you feeling?" She asked nervously
"I'm Ok" he responded. Truth be told that although he was feeling a bit better, he ached all over and wasn't sure that he would actually be able to sit unaided, but he wasn't going to tell her that. She looked worried enough as it was.
"Good. You've been unconscious for ages. We didn't know if you would ever- but you have and that's good so-" She rambled along these lines for a while before tailing off.
"You've been worried."
"Yes!"
Ginny flung her arms around Harry and kissed him gently. He kissed back.
"I see somebody's feeling better."
Ginny stood up quickly and reddened. Sirius was standing there looking thrilled that Harry was awake again. He walked over to Harry's bedside and took another of the chairs. Harry couldn't help but notice there were an awful lot of them (probably swiped from a nearby classroom).
Sirius followed Harry's gaze and said "You've made a lot of people who care about you very anxious."
Harry looked at the chairs again. Inside he smiled. He never thought that this many people would care enough to keep a vigil by his bed. It must have driven Madame Pomfrey round the bend. Suddenly he was struck by a horrible thought.
"Sirius, transform! What if someone sees you?!"
"It's OK. I'm free. Wormtail is now under the great care of the ministry of magic." He smiled happily at the look on Harry's face.
"You mean, you're not a wanted man anymore?"
"yep!"
Harry, Sirius and Ginny chatted happily about nothing in particular until Madame Pomfrey came and made them leave Harry to get some more sleep. Harry didn't want Sirius to leave but Madame Pomfrey ordered him out, as he was a 'bad influence'.
Harry had only been asleep for a short while when the nightmares began. as he tossed fitfully in his bed visions of his torture flashed before his eyes
//Lestrange was stirring a goblet full of a strange blue potion, standing menacingly in front of Harry. They had been together for well over two hours now. Lestrange had delighted in pouring an array of potions down Harry's throat and standing back to see the very painful effects. "This one is very special Harry. The Dark Lord invented it himself. Think of it as a liquid form of the Cruciatus curse."
He bent down next to Harry and restrained him so that he was unable to escape. He then forced Harry's mouth open and poured the burning mixture into it. He then forced Harry to swallow and again stood back.
Harry began to scream. The screams became louder and louder//
Harry was awoken by the intensity of his screams. His eyes snapped open, wide and afraid. He looked around. Hogwarts. Hospital wing. Safe.
Footsteps were pounding in his direction. Madame Pomfrey was at his side within seconds. Harry was shaking like a leaf. She made comforting sounds as she re-covered him with blanket and reached for a calming potion.
She lifted Harry with one arm into a slight sitting position and guided the goblet slowly towards him with the free hand. Harry stared at it as though transfixed. With a gasp of horror he pushed it out of her hands.
Pale blue stained the blanket as she stood back "It was a calming potion Potter, to help you relax."
"I don't need it."
The hospital wing doors crashed open and Lupin and Hagrid brandishing their wands (or in Hagrid's case, umberella).
"What's wrong? There were screams."
"It was Harry, he had a nightmare." Madame Pomfrey said calmly "I tried to give him a calming potion but-"
Lupin eyed the pale, trembling boy on the bed and approached slowly. He muttered quietly to Pomfrey "get the potion. I'll see that he takes it."
She bustled off and the two men approached him.
They sat down on harry's left hand side "Hi harry." They said
"Harry, you're shaking." Harry looked at them, a neutral expression on his face. "Madame Pomfrey wants you to drink a potion to help you to relax. What do you think?." Madame Pomfrey handed Remus the re-filled goblet. Harry looked at it fearfully "Harry, neither me or Hagrid would ever do anything to hurt you. If you don't want to take, it that's OK. But please, trust me."
Harry looked into Remus's eyes, and into his emotions. He sensed deceit in neither. "I'll take it." He whispered.
Remus lifted him into a sitting position and handed Harry the goblet. He then helped Harry to drink the potion. Harry immediately felt himself relax immediately as he was flooded with warmth.
Remus laid Harry back down and the three of them regarded each other in silence for a while.
"How long am I going to be here?" Harry asked
"That all depends on how quickly you recover."
"I suppose."
"Yeh look a lot better than yeh did when yeh came in." Hagrid said fondly.
"So do you two." Harry smiled slightly. They both looked almost uninjured.
"That was some nightmare you were having Harry." Remus said
"we thought there was an attack.." Hagrid added.
"Sorry"
"Harry, it's OK. We saw what you went through. More than them anyway." Remus gestured vaguely over his shoulder.
"I do have one question though."
"What?"
"When Voldemort held that knife to your throat. What exactly did he want you to 'stop'."
"I am not totally sure. There was so much fear in that place. I only wanted him to understand what he was doing to people. More than anything."
Maybe you acted like a mirror" Remus said thoughtfully. At Harry's blank expression he added "all the fear you were receiving from everyone in that building, maybe you were able to reflect it into him."
"no wonder he was shakin' and everythin'" Hagrid exclaimed.
The memory of what Voldemort had done to him next overwhelmed Harry. He ran his fingers over the new scar that ran across his throat, and turned away from his two visitors.
"Harry?" Hagrid said
"Can we talk about something else please."
"of course. I'm sorry." Remus said.
Obviously thinking quickly he said "Do you know where you and Sirius will stay until school starts up again in September?"
Harry looked at Remus in confusion.
"nobody's told you?"
"Told me what?"
"The new wards around the castle are not complete yet. Everyone feels that it is not safe for the students to be here until next year."
"What about lessons and exams?"
"Each year group will be assigned into separate groups depending on where they live. Teachers and others, like parents will take the classes and the students will travel each day to the place where their lessons or exams will be."
"Sounds complicated."
"I agree, but randomly allocating people to classes and different places, means that it will be more difficult to locate the people he wants to get than if you all stayed here in this badly protected castle."
"Oh." Harry was not sure how well this was going to work but trusted that it was probably safer.
"Why didn't Sirius say anything?"
"Dunno. I think he's coming to see you this evening anyway. He'll probably tell you then."
Harry smiled. Although he only lived with Sirius for two days before.. the capture..it was great. At the Weasleys they treated him as they did the rest of the family, but he couldn't shake the feeling of being a guest. When it had been just him and Sirius it had felt, right, somehow.
Remus and Hagrid looked thrilled to have got a 'real' smile out of Harry, gave him a quick hug and left.
Madame Pomfrey approached slightly cautiously, as though afraid that Harry would get scared again. "Feeling calmer now Mr Potter?"
"Yeah. Sorry about-"
"It's quite understandable."
"It's just - the nightmare was about a potion I was given." Harry said quietly, feeling the need to explain himself.
Madame Pomfrey nodded kindly and swapped the now blue - potion stained blanket for a clean one. "Miss Granger left you some books to read." She placed a tottering pile of books onto Harry's bedside table, from which Harry selected one about the most haunted houses around the world.
That evening Sirius visited Harry. "Got that sleep that Pomfrey was so desperate for you to get?"
"A bit."
"Good. Anyway, there's something I need to talk to you about."
"Remus told me already about school being closed."
"Oh. Right." Sirius looked a little bit worried that Harry would be angry at his not mentioning it before. When Harry gave him an encouraging nod, he continued "This afternoon I went to the ministry. They officially cleared my name. That meant that I could do something I should've done 14 years ago."
"What?"
Sirius placed a sheet of parchment into Harry's hands. It was a form certifying Sirius Black as the legal guardian of one Harry James Potter. "Only if it 's ok with you. We can rip it up, or feed it to that last screwt, or-"
"Is this real?" Harry said stunned.
"Of course it is" Sirius chuckled
"so we're like, um you know."
"a family." Sirius finished
Harry tried desparately to hold back tears as he said "it's ok with me."
Sirius seemed to be having the same difficulty as Harry as he took the parchment back and put it in an official looking folder.
"The Ministry are giving me my house back." He said sniffing "When you're well enough we'll move in."
Sirius stayed with Harry discussing how the house could be decorated until they both fell asleep in the dimmed lights of the hospital wing.
A/N Next chapter up soon!