Hi! This took longer than I thought cause I had to prepare for school (I still cannot believe it's on Tuesday!), and the evilness will be present more in further chapters. First semester I got math, geography, gym and drama so that shouldn't be too hard or too much homework and I think it shouldn't distract me from updating really. Second term, I got French, English, computers and science, which might be harder, but at least I'll be used to school by then… I'll stop pretending you care what I have at school and let you get on with reading, which I hope you do care about. ;)
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"So what happened? Where were you? What… happened?" Hermione asked once she, Harry, Ron, Ginny, Fred and George got to their room. They were staying at Grimmauld Place for the night because everyone wanted to celebrate Sirius's newly proven innocence and Harry's return. Harry soon got tired of being attacked with questions and went upstairs, saying he was going to get some sleep. Hermione, Ron, Ginny, and Fred and George accompanied him, as they knew he had no plans to sleep.
"Well, uh…" Harry sat down on a bed. "The portkey took us to this hall and I thought it was familiar, now I know I saw it before in the Ministry of Magic… Anyway as soon as we got there Malfoy put a spell on me and I think I must've been unconscious for days… Listen, this is harder to explain than I thought…" Then Harry got an idea. "Do any of you have a pensieve?"
Hermione muttered a Summoning Charm and soon the familiar container was safely in her hands. Harry smiled and thanked her, then placed a silvery thought into the liquid. Tremendously curious, the rest almost instantly jumped into his memory.
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All six of them soon found themselves in a very dark room. The Pensieve Harry was lying unconscious, spread out on a worn couch when a man, trembling head to toe, came into the room. He was carrying a tray of food that clattered as he shook.
"Who's that?" Fred asked in surprise.
"He doesn't look fit to be a Death Eater" George commented.
"Wait, that's umm Pete Patgrow or something, right?" Ginny, in turn, guessed.
"Peter Pettigrew. AKA Wormtail." Harry said with the utmost loathing. He, Hermione and Ron had been staring at the man with great hatred.
Peter walked across to the unconscious Harry; obviously oblivious of the stares the three were giving him. He had just walked up to the boy, shaking more than ever, when Harry suddenly woke up, startling him. Wormtail squeaked in a rather rat-like way, jumped, quivering, and caused the tray he was carrying to fall over. Harry, still barely aware of his surroundings, turned his attention to the tray, and then slowly looked up at Wormtail. It took him a few seconds to register who the man was and when he did, he jumped up, suddenly fully conscious and took out his wand, which he was fascinated to find was still there.
"They didn't—" Fred started.
"—Take away your wand?" George finished for him.
"No. I'm guessing they were afraid I'd take it out any time and curse them or something…" Harry said thoughtfully.
"Actually, it's impossible to take away one's wand without a legal permit, or winning in a fair duel with the person, or one having surrendered it by one's own will… It would come back to its owner anyway if attempted. I'm sure they had tried." Hermione told them. That made sense, Harry thought.
Wormtail jumped, squeaking in fright, at the sight of the wand.
"What are you doing here?" Harry questioned.
"F-f-f-f-fee-d-feed" Was all the sound Peter could get out.
"Where are we?" Harry continued as he looked around. He had hoped that the battle with Death Eaters on school grounds had been a dream of his and that he was back in his dormitory and comfortably asleep. However those dreams were crushed now.
"C-c-c-c-can-n-n-not s-say" Peter stammered. Harry sat back down, but kept is wand at ready. Peter hesitated before going to pick up the tray of food that had fallen. The shock of Harry's awakening was mostly over and he was able to form coherent sentences again. "I'll g-get more f-food" Harry nodded. He felt awfully famished.
"How long have I been unconscious in here?"
"Almost a-a week" Peter said quietly as he exited the room, leaving Harry to realize just how hungry he was right then. He got up and walked around the room, trying to calm the pain that had formed in his stomach.
"You had been unconscious for a week??" Ron asked incredulously. "Shouldn't you have died by then?" Hermione glared at him. "What? How can you expect someone who hadn't eaten or drunk anything for a week to be alive?"
"It's a spell Ron." Hermione said in exasperation, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "It knocks a person unconscious for whatever period and they don't have the need to eat or drink until they wake up…" She turned to look at what the Pensieve Harry was doing and Ron stuck his tongue out at her behind her back.
"Sirius Black." Harry said calmly, sitting back down on the couch. He was holding a mirror.
"Uh, Harry?" George asked in a tone that suggested he didn't think Harry quite sane.
"It's a magical mirror, Sirius and Remus have one of them too. You just say the name of a person who has one and theirs'll contact them… And then you could talk through them." Harry explained.
"I see…" Fred said, though he didn't sound entirely convinced.
"Sirius Black." He waited a bit again but nothing happened. "SIRIUS BLACK!" Nothing. Harry swore loudly and threw the mirror across the room, where it shattered into thousands of pieces. Having calmed down a bit, Harry swore again under his breath and went over to the pieces of glass. "Remontilora." Harry said and the pieces flew back together. It looked just about as good as new when Harry picked it up.
"Thanks for that, by the way, Hermy" Harry smiled at Hermione.
"No problem." She let the nickname slide by this once.
Just then Wormtail came back in, carrying a new tray with food and Harry quickly hid the mirror.
"Someone will be back later." Wormtail squeaked as he quickly exited the room after leaving the food with Harry. It consisted of what looked like simple Muggle fast food, containing such things as hamburgers, fries and slices of pizza. Though Harry didn't especially feel like taking food from a traitor such as Peter, his hunger won over his pride and he was soon munching happily on the provisions.
Suddenly, the scene faded and the six found themselves in the same room, only later on.
"Hey! What happened?" Ginny spoke.
"Well, nothing was really going on after that so I skipped it." Harry said. "I think this is the next day but it's hard to tell."
They were still in the same room, with Harry walking around it, apparently trying to find a way out, when voices came from beyond the walls. They seemed distant and were near impossible to understand. Harry leaned in close to the wall and tried to hear something but with no avail.
"What does this tell you?" Fred asked in a voice of one giving another a lecture.
"ALWAYS carry around WWW supplies!" Both the twins chorused while the others rolled their eyes.
"Extendable Ears, just 5 Sickles a pair!" George continued in an announcer tone.
"Exaudio" Harry said meanwhile and the voices became more coherent.
"—No. We can't do that right under their noses." Someone said.
"They wouldn't know—"
"Of course they'd know. They always know. The trial is tomorrow, correct?" The first person continued. "We'll see then. End of discussion."
"Wait. Are they talking about Sirius's trial?" Ron questioned.
"No idea."
"Sirius Black." Harry sighed. Nothing. Then his face lit up. "Remus Lupin." He waited a bit. "Remus J. Lupin!" Suddenly, Remus's face appeared in the mirror.
"Harry?" He asked in a worried tone. "Harry! Where are you?"
"Shh!" Harry whispered. "I have no idea. I think I'm in the Department of Mysteries."
"What?" Remus asked, bewildered.
"I know but…"
"Ok, listen, Harry, we'll try to track your exact location. Contact me if anything important happens." Then Remus disappeared.
"Wait!" But he was already gone and Harry put down the mirror in exasperation.
Some time must have passed because the six visitors to Harry's memory were once again transferred to another time. Now, they kept quiet, sensing that the most important part of this journey was coming up.
"Ow." Someone swore lightly just outside the door, preceding which, there was a pop and a light banging sound, followed by a terrified squeak.
"Y-you can't go there." The frightened voice they now knew belonged to Wormtail said.
"Master's orders, Wormtail." A familiar, cold voice replied.
"But Lucius…" Peter squeaked.
"No buts, Wormtail! I am taking him, now!" Lucius Malfoy burst into the room. His cold eyes flickered in a rather un-Malfoyish way, showing something that looked suspiciously like happiness and relief for a second.
"Lucius—" Peter tried again.
"You can come along if you'd like. I don't have time for this." Lucius pushed Harry, who seemed quite willing to get out of the gloomy room, forward. Peter hesitated a bit, and then followed.
"That's Tonks, right?" Ginny asked. Harry nodded. "She's good."
"Chocolate, Peter?" Harry asked, seeing that Wormtail seemed tremendously unnerved. Peter looked at him suspiciously, but accepted the piece of chocolate. As soon as he had finished eating, he suddenly got a glazed look in his eyes.
"I put the book there." He said in a monotone voice.
"What?" Harry seemed confused.
"The book. About how to rescue Sirius. I put it there. I made sure you found it. It did the rest by itself." As if snapping out of a trance, Peter stopped talking suddenly. He looked around wildly, as if wondering whether he had said that out loud or not. Harry looked shocked but Lucius seemed indifferent as he kept walking.
"That's an interesting piece of information. We shall discuss it later. Until then, Wormtail, would you please keep such things to yourself." He said coolly.
"Wait. Did you—" George started.
"He did!" Fred exclaimed.
"Truth Treats!!" They both yelled while Harry grinned. Then they danced around him, chanting. "GO US! GO US! GO US!" to the others' laughter.
"Hmm we should add some more of the Eruptio charm… he's supposed to yell out his biggest secrets every once in a while." Fred added thoughtfully.
Finally, the three reached a large door that was all too familiar to Harry. As they went in, Wormtail tried to back out but Lucius dragged him inside.
"… a reason you're interrupting…" Fudge's voice was fading away as Ginny, Ron, Harry, Hermione, Fred and George found themselves being pulled away from the memory. They soon found themselves back in the number 12 Grimmauld Place bedroom, with Sirius, Remus, Tonks, Moody, Kiara, Allen and Dumbledore facing them.
"Pensieves are not to be messed with." Dumbledore said, though he was grinning.
"Well then, tell us what happened will you?" Sirius inquired, causing the six to launch into an explanation of everything they had just seen.
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I tried to make it a different format (the memory versus real life) but FFN only showed a few of the lines in the proper format so you had to figure which was which out on your own. Sorry about that. This chapter was to make up for my lack of details on Harry's imprisonment last chapter. Can't say I lack on details now that I've spent five pages on it lol. Harry was unconscious for most of the time he spent there though but I'm giving as much details as possible. Hope you like. And yes, I did think that I should have made Tonks trip as Malfoy but when I was writing I forgot and I only remembered in the morning after I posted the story already. Now, for reviews, Lil Lupin, hey! Thanks a lot. Erynwen, thanks and oh no that was definitely not the end. I've given up on trying to figure out when this will end and how but I can't see it happening any time soon. shining-star20 thank you so much! I hate Fudge too! Burning, thank you! K-Black, no problem. Thanks. Acacia Jules, aww I so know how you feel. Right now, I take comfort in thinking that in the later books, she either has to bring him back or make up such an amazing reason for his, ahem, disappearance. Which makes me totally unable to wait for the next two books. Trella thanks! two2feet, yes, everything is over *shifty eyes * right… here, this chapter is full of details for ya. Thanks for making me a fave! Smiley, aww thank you so much! I've always liked Sirius and Harry's family-like moments. CoolMarauder17, thank you! :). Hope everyone liked this chapter!