Chapter 09 New Friendships
Harry's life turned a little better after that food fight. He had became a headache for every Professor, students and ghost. The only people that didn't get pranked were his brother, sister and the other players.
No one knew when to expect one of his pranks till the moment that it was played. But they never could blame him, since he always covered every chance to be found responsible of it.
Needless to say, his parents, granfather and Godparents found the whole situstion differently each other. Sirius and James were proud to see that he followed the tradition of the pranksters. Minerva and Lily were exasperated with him and his actions. The Head of Gryffindor was regretting the moment that she told him that he could play pranks again after the Prefect's Badge was given. She missed those 2 quiet weeks. And considering the fact that Harry never gave her reasons to do it, she couldn't take off the Badge like it had been done with Malfoy. Albus found everything amusing and very comical seeing the imagination of his grandson to do them.
The BIGGEST prank that he played was the redecoration of EVERY classroom. He transformed Minerva's classroom in something that looked like Trewlaney's. Minerva almost suffered a heart attack when she saw this. Sirius' classroom looked like a kitchen with stoves instead of cauldrons. The place where his mother taught Care of Magical Creature looked like a farm with chickens and cows running there too. And this went on with every classroom of every subject.
The best one, or the worst depending on how you saw it, was Dumbledore's Office: The first thing that he changed was the Gargoyle. And the password to it too.
When the Headmaster, Harry's parents and godparents went to his Office to discuss the new decoration he found, instead of the usual Gargoyle, a clown. Then they discovered that also the password had been changed and none of them knew it and they had to guess it. Every time that they said a wrong one, the clown laughed and said "you have another try."
The 5 adults lost their patience after 25 minutes before they got the right one, "Canary Creams." The Twins of this Universe had created them recently and weren't very known.
"I don't want to think what we'll find there." Said Minerva worriedly to the others going up the stairs.
When the 5 adults entered, they found themselves in a circus scenary. There was a net and a trapecium over thei heads. There were bells, clown masks and another things of a circus. It had the colors, decoration and everything found in the circus.
James and Sirius were trying to not bursting out in laughter with the decoration, it was really funny. Dumbledore shook his head in amusement and hid the twinkle in his eyes the best he could. Minerva and Lily, by the contrary, looked like they wanted to kill the teen.
In the desk there was a note that Albus took and read aloud to the others:
"The New reign of terror has begun and I'm your new monster.
Wings, the New Marauder."
"He's very creative with his pranks, I must say." Chuckled Albus watching his pet for first time. Fawkes had the make up of a clown. Sirius and James burst out in laughter watching that image, while Albus restored the bird to his usual color.
"Do you like the new decoration?" Asked Harry from the door with a mischievious smile watching his creation with atention.
"It's very... interesting." Said Sirius with an evil grin.
"Oh Professor McGonagall, what do you think of your classroom? I remembered from my Universe that you really dislike Professor Trelwaney before I did the new decoration there." Said the teen to his Godmother with an evil smile.
"It was interesting. Shocking also, though." Said Minreva thinking in the look of it. Harry grinned and bowed his head to her in a reverence.
"May I ask why the nick of "Wings", beloved new monster?" Asked in a mocking tone his mother, although she looked him with a murderous glare.
"Easy, dear Mother, my Hawk." Said Harry with a reverence to his mother before he stood to leave the Office.
"How long will the classrooms will stay like this?" Asked James with curiousity before he left.
"Tomorrow for breakfast everything should return to the normalcy. If not, only Merlin knows it." Said Harry shrugging his shoulders leaving the office.
"Let's hope that it works like he said." Said Albus to the other who nodded in agreement to this plea.
To everyone's like, over all the Professor's, everything went back to normalcy for breakfast. Harry began to sell pictures of every classroom with their looks. They were sold very quickly and evryone wanted copies of them. Dumbledore's Office and McGonagall's Classroom were the favourites of all of them.
"Nice work!" Laughed Fred watching the pictures along the 2 young Potters and the rest of Gryffindor's team.
"It's my master piece and my presentation's card as the new Marauder, my dear Fred." Said Harry with a bow towards the Beater.
"Are you a Marauder?!" Asked the Twins, Mary and Paul at the same time with a mix of shock and surprise.
"The first in the new generation of them." Said Harry smiling like a cat in front of a canary.
"What's your form?" Asked Mary in a whisper to her brother. She knew very well that the old ones were Animagus. After all, his father and his 2 best friends were it.
"I'll tell you later." Said Harry with a big grin before he stood and went with his yearmates to History of Magic for their first class of the day.
Harry got a week of detention and Gryffindor lost 50 points for his work. Althoutgh the loss passed unnoticed since Harry earned 50 in the classes of that and the next day.
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During the second week of the term, Gryffindor had tryouts for the Quidditch Team of the House. The twins and the girls would graduate at the end of the year, and Harry didn't know for sure if he would be the next year or if he would finish the year at the School.
For this matter, Sirius, James and Lily were working in finding a way to send him back. None of them liked the idea of loosing him, but they knew that this wasn't his Universe and at one or another moment, he would have to return to his own.
Harry still had doubts about his return there. He felt this universe like his home. Here he was happy and the idea of leaving didn't suit him very well. But he still missed Ron and Hermione and he wanted to share his happiness with them. But for that he would have to return there or they should have to live there. One idea was not very confortable for him and the other sounded almost unlikely to happen. He decided to let the events happen and face them when the moment arrived.
In the tryouts, Paul made the Reserve Team as Chaser along a friend of Mary, Michaela Polkin, and Dean Thomas. The Reserve Beaters were Seamus Finnigan and Ginny Weasley. His Reserve as Seeker was, much to his great surprise and shock, Neville Longbottom. He never thought that Neville had abbilities for Quidditch in his Universe, but here he had great ones, although he was far of Harry's level for Seeker. They didn't found any good student to be Reserve for Mary as Keeper and they decided to have tryouts the next year to see if a good one was found.
A week after the tryouts, Harry was alone in the lockers having a shower. He usually took it in the Prefect's Bathroom, but that day he decided to do it there. After a while, he sat in a bench and watched in silent the scars of his wrists. That day was the second month aniversary of his failed suicide attempt. Besides his parents, godparents and grandfather, anyone else knew it. He wore the gloves that Minerva had given to him for his birthday the whole time, taking them off just to take a shower or to sleep.
"Hey Harry! I was looking for...!" Said Alicia entering the room suddenly and stopping dead in her tracks when she saw the scars.
"What's up, Alicia?" Asked Harry putting in his gloves again.
"What happened to you?" Asked the Chaser with a little of fear on her voice pointing his wrists.
"I tried to kill myself 2 months ago. Today is the aniversary of it. Want to celebrate it?" Asked Harry with a sarcastic laugh not looking to his teammate.
"It's not a matter of laugh, Harry." Said Alicia seriously, sitting next to him.
"I know, sorry." Apologized Harry leaning against the wall with his eyes closed.
"Want to talk about it?" Asked the Head Girl after a few moments of akward silnce between both of them.
"Perhaps another day. Not now." Said Harry standing and going to the exit with Alicia.
"If you want or need someone to speak to, come to see me. You'll find me in the dorms for the Head Students a floor above the common dorms." Said the Chaser leading the way back to the Castle.
"I'll do it, Alicia, thanks." Said Harry nodding before he added seriously: "Don't tell it to the other or to my cousins. They don't know it yet."
"No problem." Said the girl before they went on walking in silence.
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A week after that chat, Harry decided to take the offer and went to highest level were the dorms for the Head Boy and Girl were placed. He took a deep breath and knocked the door that allowed any student to enter the place.
"Come in!" Shouted Alicia from inside. Harry did it and found his teammate sat in an sofa with her head in one side and her feet in the other end of it. She was reading a book of charns. The place looked like a common room. There was, besides the sofa, a few armchairs, tables, bookshelves, a fireplace and 3 doors. One lavelled "Head Boy", other with the words "Head Girl", and the last one said "Bathroom." The place was bigger than the Tower's Common Room.
"Is still on feet the offer of the last week?" Asked Harry to Alicia with seriousness looking to the Chaser.
"Of course, sit down." Said Alicia motioning Harry to take seat in an armchair while she sat normally in the sofa and put aside the book.
"Nice place." Said Harry looking everything carefully.
"Six years of hard work pays off at some moment, my dear friend." Laughed Alicia.
"You want to know why I did it, right?" Asked Harry seriously.
"It would be a good beggining."
"To understand my reasons you must know my life story first." Said Harry and began to tell her his story a little modified. He couldn't say nothing about Voldemort's downfall and he surviving to the Kedavra. It would result in too many unwanted questions.
"They abused me phisical and phicologically. Beatings, starvings, I slept in a cupboard for ten years, and the list just goes on." Said Harry about his family to Alicia who was listening him intently.
"Do you mind if I smoke?" Said Alicia when Harry made a stop in his tale, taking a pack of cigarretes. Harry shook his and the Head Girl turned on a cigarrete and motioned him to continue with his story.
"A few days before my eleventh birthday began to arrive letters from nowhere. It was my acceptance to the School. They denied me the right to read them. Someone from the School came and gave me the letter and told me that I was a wizard. I began the School, began to play Quidditch, made friends for first time.
"Since then my life changed. I went to the School during the term and returned there for the summer. In the summer after my first year, they locked my things and everything went to the hell because a House Elf made a charm on a dinner of my Uncle and I was almost Expelled.
"In the next summer, a sister of my Uncle came and I blew her up because she insulted my parents. I wasn't expelled because my Godfather had scaped from prison and everyone thought that he was after me. At the end of the year, I found out that he was inocent, but it couldn't be proved so I had to go back with my relatives. The good thing with this, was that I threatened them with my Godfather so they were scared of the chance of him going to kill them.
"That summer my best friend invited me to go to his house. When they went there, the brothers of him played a prank and I was blamed.
"When the last term was ending, there was a visit to a little city like Hogsmeade. I fell of a little place and broke my ankle. A friend went to help me and he was killed by a mad wizard. He fell dead next to me." Said Harry closing his eyes while a tear rode on his eyes.
"Sorry." Said Alicia watching him intently while he whipped off the tear.
"With that I fell in deppression. To make the things worse, some people thought that I had killed him. The wizard was never found so everyone made theories about it: I killed him by his girlfriend, a girl that I had a crush with, that we were a couple and I did it by jealousy and I don't know how many other things." Said the boy with a groan.
"Only bullshits." Summed up the Head Girl.
"Exacty that." Agreed Harry before he took a cigarrete and turned it on to try it.
"I didn't know that you smoked." Said Alicia surprised.
"I don't, this is my first one." Said Harry showing it with a smile.
"Continue." Said Alicia with a chukle watchging him coughing a little by the cigarrete..
"I went to my home and everything went to a worse hell. They received a letter with the story and since them, I stopped being a freak to become a killer. My Uncle's company was having money problems and I was guilty of it. The abuses became 10 times worse.
"In the middle of July, my Godfather and a friend were killed and like he was an escaped criminal, it was known in every paper, tv, etc. If I was depressed, tired of the abuses and the nightmares with his death, that was the last thing that I needed to fall completely.
"My family took the chance with his death and they destroyed everything that conected me to the wizarding worl: my broom, my books, they killed my owl. In few words, they destroyed everything that they found on their way.
"I saved few things: my wand, an album with pictures of my parents, an invisibility cloak that was of my father and a knife that my Godfather gave to me for Christmas. One night I wrote letters to my friends and a letter to everyone explaining the reason and did it.
"I woke up a few days later in my School's Hospital Wing and I was told that I had more family." Said Harry turning off the cigarrete in an ashtray that was in a table.
"The Professors Potters." Said Alicia doing the same with hers.
"Yes. I came here and you know the rest of the story." Said Harry closing his eyes.
"Do they know it?" Asked Alicia curious.
"My Aunt and Uncle? Yes, they found it out the first day. I went to take a shower and she entered in the room suddenly and watched the scars. It wasn't difficult for her to add 2 plus 2." Said Harry with a sad smile.
"Why did you live with those relatives if that happened? I mean, why not the Professors?" Asked Alicia thinking in his whole story.
"It's a good question, but I don't have any idea." Said Harry shrugging his shoulders.
"Did you tell anyone besides the Professors, the people that found and healed you there and me? I don't know, friends, people that you knew." Asked Alicia, not noticing that someone opened the door and entered in the room.
"I didn't have any chance. I haven't seen my best friends since the end of the last term." Said Harry with another sad smile.
"You should knock the door before you enter here, Headmaster." Said Alicia seriously seeing Dumbledore standing near the 2 students.
"I did but I didn't have answer so I decided to check what was happening." Said Albus with a smile to the Head Girl and his grandson.
"May I ask the reason of this unexpected visit?" Asked Alicia with a little sigh while Harry went to the bathroom to wash his faces of his tears.
"I was looking for Mr. Potter. He played another prank." Said Dumbledore with a chuckle.
"When?" Asked Alicia confused.
"A few minutes ago in the Great Hall." Said Minerva entering in the room not looking very happy.
"You must be wrong. He has been talking with me for..." Started Alicia checking her watch "...almost 1 hour."
"Are you sure?" Asked Lily entering with James. They ddn't look very convinced with Alicia's words.
"What is this? A convention of Professors and students? I wasn't informed that now they are held in my Common Room." Said Alicia sarcastically watching the 4 adults taking seat next to the places where she and Harry were talking before.
"When they think that I'm involved in something, they appear all together, Alicia." Said Harry with a sigh sitting in the place where he was before the adults' arrival.
"If you excuse us, we were having a private chat between both of us. And the last time I checked you weren't invited to it." Said Alicia to the teachers pointing to the door. Her tone was polite, but serious sending them the clear message to leave them alone as soon as possible.
"We want to ask him for the prank, Miss Spinnet. When we get the answer, we'll leave." Said Dumbledore with a smile towards the Gryffindors.
"What prank?" Asked Harry completely confused, not knowing what they were talking about.
"Harry, you know what prank we are talking about." Said Lily very seriously with a stern glare to his son.
"I swear that I don't know what you are talking about. I've been here with Alicia for a while and I haven't left since then." Said Harry pointing to his teammate. Alicia nodded with seriousness to his words.
"They are telling the truth." Said James to Lily seriously. She nodded in agreement. Dumbledore and Minerva saw the same and nodded too.
"Like I said before, we would apreciate if you let us continue our chat in private." Said Alicia with an angry and serious tone of voice to the adults pointing with her finger to the door.
"I have some papers to grade for tomorrow." Said James leaving the place not wanting to raise the teens' anger.
"I have to send a few letters." Excused himself the Headmaster going to the exit with James.
"Must prepair some classes." Said Minerva leaving too.
"What's your excuse, Professor?" Said Harry pointing his wand to his mother motioning her to follow the others.
"What were you talking about?" Asked Lily seriously to both students.
"My suicide attempt." Said Harry not looking her.
"Anything else or we can continue with our chat, Professor?" Asked Alicia not happy with Lily's presence in that moment.
"I'll see both of you tomorrow." Said Lily leaving the place sensing that they needed privacy.
"I'll lock that door before someone else decides to visit me without invitation." Groaned Alicia before she went to the door and locked it with her wand.
"Do you want to know something funny?" Asked Harry with a smile.
"I'm all ears." Said Alicia taking the position that was in the sofa before Harry came to see her.
"In my old School I never played a prank. I broke more rules that you can count, but never a prank. When I came here, it was as if I changed completely. I suffered a turn of 360 degrees. And I like it. I need freedom and here is the only place that I found it." Explained Harry before his stomach made a loud noise that was heard by both students that laughed softly with that.
"Kimet!" Shouted Alicia suddenly towards her room.
"Yes, Miss Spinnet?" Asked a House Elf appearing next to them suddenly. He was wearing pants and a shirt that read: "I'm free and I'm happy with it."
"Can you get some food from the kitchens for both of us?" Asked the Head Girl poiting to her and Harry, before her stomach made a noise louder than Harry's. The House Elf nodded and Dissapeared with a pop.
"Let me guess, another good thing of 6 years of hard work?" Asked Harry laughing.
"One of the best ones. The other one is this place." Laughed Alicia before Kimet appeared again and put the trays in the table and dissapeared again.
"So here you changed from being just another rule breaker to someone who is worse than your Uncle, Professor Black, Remus Lupin, the Twins ans Peeves together? That's what I call a big change, Harry!" Said Alicia when both of them had finished the dinner.
"Here I am free. In my home everyone watched as a saviour, Alicia. My parents had been great heros and everyone expected from me to be like them. I couldn't do any kind of mistake. In few words, if you were the one who did it, maybe it would pass unnoticed. With me, it would be magnified 10 times!" Groaned Harry deeply.
"All of them expected from you something and you couldn't fail them. If you failed you would be something rare and not just a teen, right?" Asked Alicia thinking in his last words, while she turned on another cigarrete.
"You summed it up better than anyone." Sighed Harry closing his eyes.
"Too much presure for someone." Said Alicia with a sad look.
"When you are pushed as much as I was, you break at some moment. Maybe if the things of the last term and this summer didn't happen, maybe we wouldn't be talking about a suicide attempt. I couldn't take it anymore. They put a too heavy weight on my shoulders and they forgot the detail that I was only 15. Do you understand now why I did it?" Asked Harry with a few tears in his eyes, not looking to Alicia.
"Only a fool or a blind wouldn't do it." Said Alicia hugging him tightly letting him cry as a child.
Harry allowed to leave all the feelings of loss and loneliness that he had inside him and cried like a baby. It took him almost 15 minutes before he controled his tears once more.
"Thanks." Said the teen whipping off the tears of his eyes.
"You are welcome." Said Alicia with a little smile.
"I needed to talk with someone more than I wanted to admitted to myself." Said Harry leaning back in the armchair with his eyes closed.
"I know what you feel. My sister tried to do it too a few years ago and I was the one who supported her." Said Alicia with a sad look.
"Sorry. It must have been hard for you." Said Harry with a sad look.
"Yeah, it was." Said Alicia closing her eyes. After a few moments of silence she asked: "Have you thought in suiciding again since then?"
"No. I realized that it doesn't work and you loose all kind of freedom. Everyone watches you like expecting that you could try it again. Depression or sadness is something that you don't have right to feel anymore. If you do it, all the people will fear in another suicide and they'll watch you more intently than ever." Answered Harry turning on a cigarrete.
"Will you tell it to the others? I mean your cousins, the twins, whoever you want." Said Alicia a blow of her cigarrete.
"Don't know yet. Maybe in a time but for now I don't think so. I would apreciate if this chat stays here and doesn't exit from this place." Pleaded Harry with a sad look.
"Don't worry, no one will know this from my mouth." Said Alicia very seriously.
"I'll return downstairs. I have to finish some work for Binns." Groaned Harry before he turned off the cigarrete and stood and went to the door.
"Alohomora!" Shouted Alicia from her place in the sofa pointing her wand to the door and opening it.
"See you tomorrow." Laughed Harry before he left.
"Come to see me when you wish. My doors are always open for you." Said Alicia before he closed the door.
"I will." Said the teen closing the door and going to the Common Room where he found his siblings and the twins, besides the rest of the team.
"Where have you been?" Asked Mary when he sat down next to her and took the book of History to make his essay.
"Yeah, Dumbledore, McGonagall, your Aunt and Uncle were looking for you." Added Katie that was making a Charms' Essay in a table near them.
"I needed to talk with Alicia." Said the Prefect simply going on with his Schoolwork.
"Are you flirting with my girlfriend now?" Asked George in a teasing tone going near the group.
"We needed to discuss a few things, just that." Said Harry shrugging his shoulders before he returned his atention to his work.
"Did you play the prank of the dinner?" Asked Paul to his brother when he had finished the essay.
"No, that wasn't me this time." Answered Harry seriously.
"Are you kidding?!" Asked the whole group in disbelief.
"If I play a prank, I tell it. I didn't do it this time." Said Harry standing from his chair with a yawn. He took his books and things and said before he went to the stairs: "I'll see to all of you tomorrow. Goodnight."
"Goodnight." Said the rest before they followed his example and went to their dorms to sleep.
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"Can I speak with you alone, Miss Spinnet?" Asked Lily to Alicia the next day when the class of Care of Magical Creatures had finished.
Alicia nodded and leaded the Professor to her private Common Room. No one would disturb them there. She suspected the reason of this chat: the one that she and Harry had had the previous night there.
"I'm hungry. Want something to eat?" Asked Alicia to the Professor, after locking the door of the entrance. After the convention of the last night, she decided to do it every time that someone went to talk with her there.
"Sure." Nodded Lily before the Head Girl called the House Elf and asked some food for both of them.
"I guess that you want to speak about the chat that I had with Harry, right?" Asked Alicia to Lily when they finished the meal and turning on a cigarrete.
"Yes. That's the reason of this." Said the teacher with a serious tone of voice.
"He told me a little of his past, the reasons of it before you and the other teachers decided to pay me an unexpected visit." Said Alicia with sarcasm in her voice.
"That's why you locked the door when we entered, right?" Asked Lily with a chuckle.
"Yeah, don't want any more of those ones." Snorted the Chaser before he continued with her story: "He spoke about his change of mind. He told me that he wasn't a pranskter before and look what he is now. He's worse than your husband and his friends, your son and the twins. No ofence." Said Alicia with an apology about the DADA's Professor and the student.
"Believe me, none of them gave me so many headaches as he has done in the last 2 months." Laughed Lily, not being offended at least with her words towards her husband and son.
"That's something hard to believe." Laughed Alicia, before she turned serious again and continued: "He feels free here, Professor and you complaining about almost everything that he does, like the teddies and the pictures, doesn't help. You know that I'm talking by own experience after my sister's suicide attempt. I know what I'm talking about." Said the Chaser with a serious and sad tone of voice.
"I've realized that mistake too. The matter is that I did it much later that I should have done it." Said the Professor with a sad look and tone of voice.
"Want a good piece of advice? Let him be free and happy. He trusts you, but if you criticize everything that he does and complain about it too, he won't see you as a relative better than his others. Maybe you don't abuse him like they did, but doing it affects him and he'll free like you try to stop his happiness and he'll stop trusting you and he'll begin to fear you. Take the advice and everything will go ok. It worked with my sister." Smiled Alicia turning off the cigarrete in the ashtray.
"Thanks, I think that it's the only way to live through his stay here and not dying of heart attack after every new prank that he plays." Laughed Lily along Alicia, before both of them went out towards the classes that would start soon for both of them.
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Harry and Alicia talked a few more times after that night. Both of them shared feelings about te suicide: Harry from his own experience and Alicia from her sister's.
"It took her a lot of time to tell it to her friends. She was ashamed of it. You can tell it when you feel ready for it. The gloves do their work, but someone will discover it at some moment like I did." Said Alicia when both of them were talking about telling it to Mary and Paul and also the others and the best moment to do it.
"It's not only this Alicia. I feel like that I've been lving a lie and everyone is involved." Said Harry misteriously.
"What do you mean?" Asked Alicia confused and interested in his words.
"Call the others. It's time to reveal a few things to all of you." Said Harry seriously, before Alicia sent Kimet to call the twins, the other Chasers and his brother and sister.
When everyone was sat, Harry took off the gloves and showed the scars to them. Mary and Paul looked shocked when both of them realized what it meant. The twins were as shocked and surprised as them. Katie and Angelina felt like that too. None of them suspected that.
"Why?" Asked Mary when she recovered herself of the shock.
"Everything that I told you this summer, Mary." Said Harry before he turned to the others: "I owe to all of you a story. First of all I am not from here."
"You said that you come from another country." Said Katie confused.
"I come from another Universe." Said Harry waiting for their reaction to his words.
"ARE YOU SERIOUS??!!" Asked the 5 players shocked with his words and not believing them completely.
"I've never been more serious than now." Said Harry with a very serious look.
"How did you finish coming here?" Asked Fred not completely recovered of the shock.
"First of all you must know my story. It began in the night of Halloween of 1981. In my Universe, the ones who died were James and Lily Potter and I lived. This scar," said Harry showing the one that he had in the forehead, "is the result of an Avada Kedavra that bounced in me and hit Voldemort. With that I became The-Boy-Who-Lived." Said Harry with a groan.
"You became like a God." Said Alicia assimilating this new information with the one that Harry had told her in their chats.
"Exactly that. Everyone expected from me to be one." Said Harry with a sad look.
Then he took a deep breath and began to tell them his life with the Dursleys, Hagrid's rescue in his eleventh birthday and his arrival to Hogwarts. The 7 teen were listening him intently and trying to not miss a single word.
"I was sorted in Gryffindor and met all of you in the Team under the Captaincy of the most obsessive person with Quidditch that I have ever met." Said Harry laughing thinking in Oliver Wood.
"How is Oliver there?" Asked Katie with a smile.
"Crazy, insane, obsessive, sadistic and the only person who can be awake the first saturday of a term and wake the others to train at dawn. That's Oliver Wood." Said the Seeker with a chuckle.
"He woke us at dawn to train the first Saturday of the term??" Asked the twins and the Chasers shocked with his words.
"Actually he was the only one who was awake. The rest of us were sleeping while he discussed the new tactics of the season." Said Harry with a big smile sending everyone in a fit of laughter.
"Not very different from our Oliver!" Laughed Fred the others nodded to this.
"He was crazy, but he is the best damn Keeper that I have ever seen playing!" Said Harry very serious.
"I agree with that." Nodded in agreement all of them.
"How are we there?" Asked Angelina interested.
"With the 3 of you, my relationship is just of team and housemate. We don't have a great friendship." Said Harry to the girls, before he turned to the twins: "With both of you, the matter is completely different."
"What do you mean?" Asked the twins at the same time curious.
"Your brother Ron, in my Universe is like the brother that I never had. Your mother adopted me as an honorary Weasley and for the last 4 years I received the classic Weasley Sweater for Christmas. Every year a different one. I remember that Ron always got a dark red one, color that he hated." Said Harry with a smile looking to the twins that were shocked with his words.
"Yeah, you are right, he hated that color." Said Fred with a smile thinking in his little brother.
"So you are part of the family?" Asked George laughing.
"Yep, I spent 2 summers in your house. The one previous to my Second Year and the one before my Fourth." Said Harry with a smile thinking in those times.
"Cool!" Said Fred with a big grin.
"Besides, I am the inversor of the company that you created there." Said Harry with an evil grin.
"Dd they create it there? Here they just thought in it, but they don't have money!" Said Alicia shocked.
"They had the same problem there till they got a benefactor. I am the benefactor, I must say." Said the teen with another evil smile.
"What else?" Asked Katie wanting to know more things of his Universe.
"We won the Quidditch Cup in my Third Year, the House in my First, Second and Third Year. The teachers are almost the same with a few exception. Hagrid teaches Care of Magical Creatures, someone that you haven't met is in Potions and the DADA's position is cursed. In my 4 Years I had someone that sold his soul to Voldemort, a fraud, a werewolf and a Death Eater impersonating an Auror. In few words, the strangest mix of teachers that you can imagine." Said Harry not happy with his teachers in that position.
"Wait a minute. The Professors Potter are your parents?" Asked Alicia thinking in the whole new information that she had received.
"Yes, and they are my brother and sister." Nodded Harry pointing to Paul and Mary.
"And Professor Black is his Godfather." Added Paul with a evil smile.
"Nice relatives, buddy!" Laughed Fred sending everyone in a fit of laughter.
"Interesting group we have here." Said an amused voice from behind them.
"Stupefy!" Shouted Harry who had been caught by surprise in direction of the voice.
"Congratulations, Harry. You just stunned the Headmaster!" Laughed George looking who was the one that had received the spell.
"Shut up, George!" Graned Harry saying the counter curse to his Grandfather.
"Remind me to never take him by surprise again." Chuckled Albus to the teens who nodded in amusement.
"Headmaster, if you haven't noticed, that door was locked the last time I checked it. Can you explain me why you decided to ignore that fact and pay me another unexpected and unscheduled visit?" Asked Alicia getting tired of those visits.
"Who did it?" Asked Minerva entering in the room before Dumbledore could answer the question.
"Petrificus Totalus!" Shouted Harry, being taken surprise again.
"Harry 2, Professors 0!" Said Fred sending everyone in a fit of uncontrolable laughter while the Prefect said another counter curse, this time to his Godmother.
"Next time, I'll do it!" Said Alicia more unhappy than ever with these visits.
"Do what?" asked Lily entreing in the room with James.
"Impedimenta! Locomotor Mortis!" Shouted the Head Girl completely exasperated in that moment pointing her wand towards the 2 Professors.
In that moment all of the teens burst out in laughter, while Albus chuckled in amusement with everything. Minerva watched them with a stern look while Alicia said the counter curses to the adults.
"Why everyone lately has decided to forget that this place is private and they visit it as if it was the Great Hall?" Asked Alicia to the 4 Professors not happy and with sarcasm in her voice.
"The pranksters are here, so we go where they are." Said Minerva shooting an angry look to Paul, Harry and the Twins.
"What are you talking about?" Asked the 4 students confused with their Head of House's words.
"Who did the prank?" Asked Lily loosing her patience.
"What prank?" Asked Harry completely confused, while the other looked as confused as him.
"We have been here for a while!" Said Fred while the others nodded to his words.
"They didn't do it." Said James looking their experession and seeing that they were telling the truth this time. The others nodded.
"GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE I DECIDE TO CONTINUE WITH THE CURSES AND HEXES!!" Shouted Alicia to the adults threatening them with her wand, pointing to the door.
"I have things to do, excuse me." Said Albus looking fearfully the Head Girl's expression going to the door.
"I have to speak with Sirius." Excused himself James feeling like Albus following him to the exit.
"I must speak with Professor Sprout." Said Minerva leaving too.
"LEAVE!" Shouted Alicia to Lily pointing to the door.
"Can I speak with you Harry?" Asked Lily to her son, ignoring Alicia.
"Can't it wait?" Asked the teen confused with the call.
"It will be a minute." Promised Lily.
"Ok." Said Harry following his mother to the exit.
"Is everything in order?" Asked Lily noticing the he wasn't wearing the gloves.
"Yes, we were talking about everything that happened in my Universe and my attempt." Said Harry closing his eyes before he added: "I told them the whole truth."
"Are you ok?" Asked Lily watching her son carefully.
"Yeah, I'm fine. It's juat that I needed to release some pressure and holding this, was... hard for me." Admitted Harry with a sad look.
"How are they taking it?" Asked Lily with a little concern in her voice.
"Fine till now. We haven't finished our chat yet." Said Harry with anger.
"We'll talk tomorrow. Get fun." Said the teacher leaving the place while the teen rretuned inside and took his seat once more.
"We are getting some rivals in the pranks!" Said Harry to his brother and the twins.
"Yeah, we have to find out who did them!" Agreed Paul while Fred and George nodded to this.
"The pranks are always done when none of you is in the Hall. Someone plays them when they know that you won't be there." Said Alicia thinking in everything that had happened with the new pranksters and her friends.
"Who has the Map in this Universe?" Asked Harry to Mary and Paul.
"Dad and Sirius." Said Paul confused with the question.
"The old Marauders." Said Mary understanding everything.
"They check the map and when they see that we are not there, the play the prank. Dad is always with the adults so no one will suspect from him." Said Harry thinking in everything.
"If anyone asks why you weren't seen, the excuse will be the invisibility charms. After all, you did it once in the past." Said Katie reaching to the same conclusion than her teammates.
"Then we'll do something about it!" Said Harry misteriously catching the atention of everyone who began to listen his plan carefully.
****
"How did they take everything?" Asked Lily to her son the next morning before the breakfast.
"Fine. We agreed to go on like always and not carinmg very much the fact the place where I came from. I appreciate it. I don't need to go through things like the ones that I lived there." Said Harry with a smile of relief.
After the chat about the plan of the revenge, the teens continued the chat that they were having before the interruptance of the adults. Harry asked them to treat him like another student and not one from other Universe. All of them told him that it wasn't difficult to fo and their relations of friendship would go on like always and without any change for that fact. Harry was more than happy with it.
"Go to the table." Said the Professor before both of them went to their seats.
"Is everything ready?" Asked Harry in a whisper to the twins.
"Everything will start in 5 minutes." Said Fred with an evil grin while the others nodded.
"Let's sit and wait then." Said Harry beggining to eat.
Like Fred had said everything began to happen 5 minutes later. Suddenly in the High Table there was apop and Sirius and James turned in a monkey the first and a cockatoo the other. Both of them had a fur in pink and violet color.
Everyone burst out in laughter with that. Some of the teachers looked confused, while other really amused with that.
But it wasn't all that the group had planned against them, it was only the beggining of everything. When they returned to their human form, they had pink hair, black robes, many earring in the ears and a lot of make up. When they tried to talk, they beagn to sing the School's song in a woman's voice. This happened everytime that they opened the mouth.
Both men left the Hall among the laughter of all the students and the evil grin of the group of Gryffindors. Said grins didn't pass unnoticed by the teachers, especially McGonagall and Lily.
"Detention for all of you tomorrow's night!" Shouted Minerva towards the group.
"10 points of Gryffindor for each of you!" Added Lily who shot them a stern and murderer look.
"YES, PROFESSORS MADAMES!" Shouted all of them with a militar salute towards their Head of House and their other Professor.
"Well, this time they admitted it. And, the responsibles of the other pranks received their punishment." Chuckled Albus watching all the students leaving the Great Hall and going towards their classes.
"ALBUS!" Scolded both woman not happy with the Headmaster's words.
"Excuse me, I have things to do." Said Albus with a smile before he stood and left the Hall.
"I don't know who is worse: my husband and his friend, Harry and the group or Albus." Said Lily with a groan before she went to the exit to go to her first class of the day.
"They are one worse than the other in their own way, Lily." Sighed Minerva doing the same that her.
Harry's life turned a little better after that food fight. He had became a headache for every Professor, students and ghost. The only people that didn't get pranked were his brother, sister and the other players.
No one knew when to expect one of his pranks till the moment that it was played. But they never could blame him, since he always covered every chance to be found responsible of it.
Needless to say, his parents, granfather and Godparents found the whole situstion differently each other. Sirius and James were proud to see that he followed the tradition of the pranksters. Minerva and Lily were exasperated with him and his actions. The Head of Gryffindor was regretting the moment that she told him that he could play pranks again after the Prefect's Badge was given. She missed those 2 quiet weeks. And considering the fact that Harry never gave her reasons to do it, she couldn't take off the Badge like it had been done with Malfoy. Albus found everything amusing and very comical seeing the imagination of his grandson to do them.
The BIGGEST prank that he played was the redecoration of EVERY classroom. He transformed Minerva's classroom in something that looked like Trewlaney's. Minerva almost suffered a heart attack when she saw this. Sirius' classroom looked like a kitchen with stoves instead of cauldrons. The place where his mother taught Care of Magical Creature looked like a farm with chickens and cows running there too. And this went on with every classroom of every subject.
The best one, or the worst depending on how you saw it, was Dumbledore's Office: The first thing that he changed was the Gargoyle. And the password to it too.
When the Headmaster, Harry's parents and godparents went to his Office to discuss the new decoration he found, instead of the usual Gargoyle, a clown. Then they discovered that also the password had been changed and none of them knew it and they had to guess it. Every time that they said a wrong one, the clown laughed and said "you have another try."
The 5 adults lost their patience after 25 minutes before they got the right one, "Canary Creams." The Twins of this Universe had created them recently and weren't very known.
"I don't want to think what we'll find there." Said Minerva worriedly to the others going up the stairs.
When the 5 adults entered, they found themselves in a circus scenary. There was a net and a trapecium over thei heads. There were bells, clown masks and another things of a circus. It had the colors, decoration and everything found in the circus.
James and Sirius were trying to not bursting out in laughter with the decoration, it was really funny. Dumbledore shook his head in amusement and hid the twinkle in his eyes the best he could. Minerva and Lily, by the contrary, looked like they wanted to kill the teen.
In the desk there was a note that Albus took and read aloud to the others:
"The New reign of terror has begun and I'm your new monster.
Wings, the New Marauder."
"He's very creative with his pranks, I must say." Chuckled Albus watching his pet for first time. Fawkes had the make up of a clown. Sirius and James burst out in laughter watching that image, while Albus restored the bird to his usual color.
"Do you like the new decoration?" Asked Harry from the door with a mischievious smile watching his creation with atention.
"It's very... interesting." Said Sirius with an evil grin.
"Oh Professor McGonagall, what do you think of your classroom? I remembered from my Universe that you really dislike Professor Trelwaney before I did the new decoration there." Said the teen to his Godmother with an evil smile.
"It was interesting. Shocking also, though." Said Minreva thinking in the look of it. Harry grinned and bowed his head to her in a reverence.
"May I ask why the nick of "Wings", beloved new monster?" Asked in a mocking tone his mother, although she looked him with a murderous glare.
"Easy, dear Mother, my Hawk." Said Harry with a reverence to his mother before he stood to leave the Office.
"How long will the classrooms will stay like this?" Asked James with curiousity before he left.
"Tomorrow for breakfast everything should return to the normalcy. If not, only Merlin knows it." Said Harry shrugging his shoulders leaving the office.
"Let's hope that it works like he said." Said Albus to the other who nodded in agreement to this plea.
To everyone's like, over all the Professor's, everything went back to normalcy for breakfast. Harry began to sell pictures of every classroom with their looks. They were sold very quickly and evryone wanted copies of them. Dumbledore's Office and McGonagall's Classroom were the favourites of all of them.
"Nice work!" Laughed Fred watching the pictures along the 2 young Potters and the rest of Gryffindor's team.
"It's my master piece and my presentation's card as the new Marauder, my dear Fred." Said Harry with a bow towards the Beater.
"Are you a Marauder?!" Asked the Twins, Mary and Paul at the same time with a mix of shock and surprise.
"The first in the new generation of them." Said Harry smiling like a cat in front of a canary.
"What's your form?" Asked Mary in a whisper to her brother. She knew very well that the old ones were Animagus. After all, his father and his 2 best friends were it.
"I'll tell you later." Said Harry with a big grin before he stood and went with his yearmates to History of Magic for their first class of the day.
Harry got a week of detention and Gryffindor lost 50 points for his work. Althoutgh the loss passed unnoticed since Harry earned 50 in the classes of that and the next day.
****
During the second week of the term, Gryffindor had tryouts for the Quidditch Team of the House. The twins and the girls would graduate at the end of the year, and Harry didn't know for sure if he would be the next year or if he would finish the year at the School.
For this matter, Sirius, James and Lily were working in finding a way to send him back. None of them liked the idea of loosing him, but they knew that this wasn't his Universe and at one or another moment, he would have to return to his own.
Harry still had doubts about his return there. He felt this universe like his home. Here he was happy and the idea of leaving didn't suit him very well. But he still missed Ron and Hermione and he wanted to share his happiness with them. But for that he would have to return there or they should have to live there. One idea was not very confortable for him and the other sounded almost unlikely to happen. He decided to let the events happen and face them when the moment arrived.
In the tryouts, Paul made the Reserve Team as Chaser along a friend of Mary, Michaela Polkin, and Dean Thomas. The Reserve Beaters were Seamus Finnigan and Ginny Weasley. His Reserve as Seeker was, much to his great surprise and shock, Neville Longbottom. He never thought that Neville had abbilities for Quidditch in his Universe, but here he had great ones, although he was far of Harry's level for Seeker. They didn't found any good student to be Reserve for Mary as Keeper and they decided to have tryouts the next year to see if a good one was found.
A week after the tryouts, Harry was alone in the lockers having a shower. He usually took it in the Prefect's Bathroom, but that day he decided to do it there. After a while, he sat in a bench and watched in silent the scars of his wrists. That day was the second month aniversary of his failed suicide attempt. Besides his parents, godparents and grandfather, anyone else knew it. He wore the gloves that Minerva had given to him for his birthday the whole time, taking them off just to take a shower or to sleep.
"Hey Harry! I was looking for...!" Said Alicia entering the room suddenly and stopping dead in her tracks when she saw the scars.
"What's up, Alicia?" Asked Harry putting in his gloves again.
"What happened to you?" Asked the Chaser with a little of fear on her voice pointing his wrists.
"I tried to kill myself 2 months ago. Today is the aniversary of it. Want to celebrate it?" Asked Harry with a sarcastic laugh not looking to his teammate.
"It's not a matter of laugh, Harry." Said Alicia seriously, sitting next to him.
"I know, sorry." Apologized Harry leaning against the wall with his eyes closed.
"Want to talk about it?" Asked the Head Girl after a few moments of akward silnce between both of them.
"Perhaps another day. Not now." Said Harry standing and going to the exit with Alicia.
"If you want or need someone to speak to, come to see me. You'll find me in the dorms for the Head Students a floor above the common dorms." Said the Chaser leading the way back to the Castle.
"I'll do it, Alicia, thanks." Said Harry nodding before he added seriously: "Don't tell it to the other or to my cousins. They don't know it yet."
"No problem." Said the girl before they went on walking in silence.
****
A week after that chat, Harry decided to take the offer and went to highest level were the dorms for the Head Boy and Girl were placed. He took a deep breath and knocked the door that allowed any student to enter the place.
"Come in!" Shouted Alicia from inside. Harry did it and found his teammate sat in an sofa with her head in one side and her feet in the other end of it. She was reading a book of charns. The place looked like a common room. There was, besides the sofa, a few armchairs, tables, bookshelves, a fireplace and 3 doors. One lavelled "Head Boy", other with the words "Head Girl", and the last one said "Bathroom." The place was bigger than the Tower's Common Room.
"Is still on feet the offer of the last week?" Asked Harry to Alicia with seriousness looking to the Chaser.
"Of course, sit down." Said Alicia motioning Harry to take seat in an armchair while she sat normally in the sofa and put aside the book.
"Nice place." Said Harry looking everything carefully.
"Six years of hard work pays off at some moment, my dear friend." Laughed Alicia.
"You want to know why I did it, right?" Asked Harry seriously.
"It would be a good beggining."
"To understand my reasons you must know my life story first." Said Harry and began to tell her his story a little modified. He couldn't say nothing about Voldemort's downfall and he surviving to the Kedavra. It would result in too many unwanted questions.
"They abused me phisical and phicologically. Beatings, starvings, I slept in a cupboard for ten years, and the list just goes on." Said Harry about his family to Alicia who was listening him intently.
"Do you mind if I smoke?" Said Alicia when Harry made a stop in his tale, taking a pack of cigarretes. Harry shook his and the Head Girl turned on a cigarrete and motioned him to continue with his story.
"A few days before my eleventh birthday began to arrive letters from nowhere. It was my acceptance to the School. They denied me the right to read them. Someone from the School came and gave me the letter and told me that I was a wizard. I began the School, began to play Quidditch, made friends for first time.
"Since then my life changed. I went to the School during the term and returned there for the summer. In the summer after my first year, they locked my things and everything went to the hell because a House Elf made a charm on a dinner of my Uncle and I was almost Expelled.
"In the next summer, a sister of my Uncle came and I blew her up because she insulted my parents. I wasn't expelled because my Godfather had scaped from prison and everyone thought that he was after me. At the end of the year, I found out that he was inocent, but it couldn't be proved so I had to go back with my relatives. The good thing with this, was that I threatened them with my Godfather so they were scared of the chance of him going to kill them.
"That summer my best friend invited me to go to his house. When they went there, the brothers of him played a prank and I was blamed.
"When the last term was ending, there was a visit to a little city like Hogsmeade. I fell of a little place and broke my ankle. A friend went to help me and he was killed by a mad wizard. He fell dead next to me." Said Harry closing his eyes while a tear rode on his eyes.
"Sorry." Said Alicia watching him intently while he whipped off the tear.
"With that I fell in deppression. To make the things worse, some people thought that I had killed him. The wizard was never found so everyone made theories about it: I killed him by his girlfriend, a girl that I had a crush with, that we were a couple and I did it by jealousy and I don't know how many other things." Said the boy with a groan.
"Only bullshits." Summed up the Head Girl.
"Exacty that." Agreed Harry before he took a cigarrete and turned it on to try it.
"I didn't know that you smoked." Said Alicia surprised.
"I don't, this is my first one." Said Harry showing it with a smile.
"Continue." Said Alicia with a chukle watchging him coughing a little by the cigarrete..
"I went to my home and everything went to a worse hell. They received a letter with the story and since them, I stopped being a freak to become a killer. My Uncle's company was having money problems and I was guilty of it. The abuses became 10 times worse.
"In the middle of July, my Godfather and a friend were killed and like he was an escaped criminal, it was known in every paper, tv, etc. If I was depressed, tired of the abuses and the nightmares with his death, that was the last thing that I needed to fall completely.
"My family took the chance with his death and they destroyed everything that conected me to the wizarding worl: my broom, my books, they killed my owl. In few words, they destroyed everything that they found on their way.
"I saved few things: my wand, an album with pictures of my parents, an invisibility cloak that was of my father and a knife that my Godfather gave to me for Christmas. One night I wrote letters to my friends and a letter to everyone explaining the reason and did it.
"I woke up a few days later in my School's Hospital Wing and I was told that I had more family." Said Harry turning off the cigarrete in an ashtray that was in a table.
"The Professors Potters." Said Alicia doing the same with hers.
"Yes. I came here and you know the rest of the story." Said Harry closing his eyes.
"Do they know it?" Asked Alicia curious.
"My Aunt and Uncle? Yes, they found it out the first day. I went to take a shower and she entered in the room suddenly and watched the scars. It wasn't difficult for her to add 2 plus 2." Said Harry with a sad smile.
"Why did you live with those relatives if that happened? I mean, why not the Professors?" Asked Alicia thinking in his whole story.
"It's a good question, but I don't have any idea." Said Harry shrugging his shoulders.
"Did you tell anyone besides the Professors, the people that found and healed you there and me? I don't know, friends, people that you knew." Asked Alicia, not noticing that someone opened the door and entered in the room.
"I didn't have any chance. I haven't seen my best friends since the end of the last term." Said Harry with another sad smile.
"You should knock the door before you enter here, Headmaster." Said Alicia seriously seeing Dumbledore standing near the 2 students.
"I did but I didn't have answer so I decided to check what was happening." Said Albus with a smile to the Head Girl and his grandson.
"May I ask the reason of this unexpected visit?" Asked Alicia with a little sigh while Harry went to the bathroom to wash his faces of his tears.
"I was looking for Mr. Potter. He played another prank." Said Dumbledore with a chuckle.
"When?" Asked Alicia confused.
"A few minutes ago in the Great Hall." Said Minerva entering in the room not looking very happy.
"You must be wrong. He has been talking with me for..." Started Alicia checking her watch "...almost 1 hour."
"Are you sure?" Asked Lily entering with James. They ddn't look very convinced with Alicia's words.
"What is this? A convention of Professors and students? I wasn't informed that now they are held in my Common Room." Said Alicia sarcastically watching the 4 adults taking seat next to the places where she and Harry were talking before.
"When they think that I'm involved in something, they appear all together, Alicia." Said Harry with a sigh sitting in the place where he was before the adults' arrival.
"If you excuse us, we were having a private chat between both of us. And the last time I checked you weren't invited to it." Said Alicia to the teachers pointing to the door. Her tone was polite, but serious sending them the clear message to leave them alone as soon as possible.
"We want to ask him for the prank, Miss Spinnet. When we get the answer, we'll leave." Said Dumbledore with a smile towards the Gryffindors.
"What prank?" Asked Harry completely confused, not knowing what they were talking about.
"Harry, you know what prank we are talking about." Said Lily very seriously with a stern glare to his son.
"I swear that I don't know what you are talking about. I've been here with Alicia for a while and I haven't left since then." Said Harry pointing to his teammate. Alicia nodded with seriousness to his words.
"They are telling the truth." Said James to Lily seriously. She nodded in agreement. Dumbledore and Minerva saw the same and nodded too.
"Like I said before, we would apreciate if you let us continue our chat in private." Said Alicia with an angry and serious tone of voice to the adults pointing with her finger to the door.
"I have some papers to grade for tomorrow." Said James leaving the place not wanting to raise the teens' anger.
"I have to send a few letters." Excused himself the Headmaster going to the exit with James.
"Must prepair some classes." Said Minerva leaving too.
"What's your excuse, Professor?" Said Harry pointing his wand to his mother motioning her to follow the others.
"What were you talking about?" Asked Lily seriously to both students.
"My suicide attempt." Said Harry not looking her.
"Anything else or we can continue with our chat, Professor?" Asked Alicia not happy with Lily's presence in that moment.
"I'll see both of you tomorrow." Said Lily leaving the place sensing that they needed privacy.
"I'll lock that door before someone else decides to visit me without invitation." Groaned Alicia before she went to the door and locked it with her wand.
"Do you want to know something funny?" Asked Harry with a smile.
"I'm all ears." Said Alicia taking the position that was in the sofa before Harry came to see her.
"In my old School I never played a prank. I broke more rules that you can count, but never a prank. When I came here, it was as if I changed completely. I suffered a turn of 360 degrees. And I like it. I need freedom and here is the only place that I found it." Explained Harry before his stomach made a loud noise that was heard by both students that laughed softly with that.
"Kimet!" Shouted Alicia suddenly towards her room.
"Yes, Miss Spinnet?" Asked a House Elf appearing next to them suddenly. He was wearing pants and a shirt that read: "I'm free and I'm happy with it."
"Can you get some food from the kitchens for both of us?" Asked the Head Girl poiting to her and Harry, before her stomach made a noise louder than Harry's. The House Elf nodded and Dissapeared with a pop.
"Let me guess, another good thing of 6 years of hard work?" Asked Harry laughing.
"One of the best ones. The other one is this place." Laughed Alicia before Kimet appeared again and put the trays in the table and dissapeared again.
"So here you changed from being just another rule breaker to someone who is worse than your Uncle, Professor Black, Remus Lupin, the Twins ans Peeves together? That's what I call a big change, Harry!" Said Alicia when both of them had finished the dinner.
"Here I am free. In my home everyone watched as a saviour, Alicia. My parents had been great heros and everyone expected from me to be like them. I couldn't do any kind of mistake. In few words, if you were the one who did it, maybe it would pass unnoticed. With me, it would be magnified 10 times!" Groaned Harry deeply.
"All of them expected from you something and you couldn't fail them. If you failed you would be something rare and not just a teen, right?" Asked Alicia thinking in his last words, while she turned on another cigarrete.
"You summed it up better than anyone." Sighed Harry closing his eyes.
"Too much presure for someone." Said Alicia with a sad look.
"When you are pushed as much as I was, you break at some moment. Maybe if the things of the last term and this summer didn't happen, maybe we wouldn't be talking about a suicide attempt. I couldn't take it anymore. They put a too heavy weight on my shoulders and they forgot the detail that I was only 15. Do you understand now why I did it?" Asked Harry with a few tears in his eyes, not looking to Alicia.
"Only a fool or a blind wouldn't do it." Said Alicia hugging him tightly letting him cry as a child.
Harry allowed to leave all the feelings of loss and loneliness that he had inside him and cried like a baby. It took him almost 15 minutes before he controled his tears once more.
"Thanks." Said the teen whipping off the tears of his eyes.
"You are welcome." Said Alicia with a little smile.
"I needed to talk with someone more than I wanted to admitted to myself." Said Harry leaning back in the armchair with his eyes closed.
"I know what you feel. My sister tried to do it too a few years ago and I was the one who supported her." Said Alicia with a sad look.
"Sorry. It must have been hard for you." Said Harry with a sad look.
"Yeah, it was." Said Alicia closing her eyes. After a few moments of silence she asked: "Have you thought in suiciding again since then?"
"No. I realized that it doesn't work and you loose all kind of freedom. Everyone watches you like expecting that you could try it again. Depression or sadness is something that you don't have right to feel anymore. If you do it, all the people will fear in another suicide and they'll watch you more intently than ever." Answered Harry turning on a cigarrete.
"Will you tell it to the others? I mean your cousins, the twins, whoever you want." Said Alicia a blow of her cigarrete.
"Don't know yet. Maybe in a time but for now I don't think so. I would apreciate if this chat stays here and doesn't exit from this place." Pleaded Harry with a sad look.
"Don't worry, no one will know this from my mouth." Said Alicia very seriously.
"I'll return downstairs. I have to finish some work for Binns." Groaned Harry before he turned off the cigarrete and stood and went to the door.
"Alohomora!" Shouted Alicia from her place in the sofa pointing her wand to the door and opening it.
"See you tomorrow." Laughed Harry before he left.
"Come to see me when you wish. My doors are always open for you." Said Alicia before he closed the door.
"I will." Said the teen closing the door and going to the Common Room where he found his siblings and the twins, besides the rest of the team.
"Where have you been?" Asked Mary when he sat down next to her and took the book of History to make his essay.
"Yeah, Dumbledore, McGonagall, your Aunt and Uncle were looking for you." Added Katie that was making a Charms' Essay in a table near them.
"I needed to talk with Alicia." Said the Prefect simply going on with his Schoolwork.
"Are you flirting with my girlfriend now?" Asked George in a teasing tone going near the group.
"We needed to discuss a few things, just that." Said Harry shrugging his shoulders before he returned his atention to his work.
"Did you play the prank of the dinner?" Asked Paul to his brother when he had finished the essay.
"No, that wasn't me this time." Answered Harry seriously.
"Are you kidding?!" Asked the whole group in disbelief.
"If I play a prank, I tell it. I didn't do it this time." Said Harry standing from his chair with a yawn. He took his books and things and said before he went to the stairs: "I'll see to all of you tomorrow. Goodnight."
"Goodnight." Said the rest before they followed his example and went to their dorms to sleep.
****
"Can I speak with you alone, Miss Spinnet?" Asked Lily to Alicia the next day when the class of Care of Magical Creatures had finished.
Alicia nodded and leaded the Professor to her private Common Room. No one would disturb them there. She suspected the reason of this chat: the one that she and Harry had had the previous night there.
"I'm hungry. Want something to eat?" Asked Alicia to the Professor, after locking the door of the entrance. After the convention of the last night, she decided to do it every time that someone went to talk with her there.
"Sure." Nodded Lily before the Head Girl called the House Elf and asked some food for both of them.
"I guess that you want to speak about the chat that I had with Harry, right?" Asked Alicia to Lily when they finished the meal and turning on a cigarrete.
"Yes. That's the reason of this." Said the teacher with a serious tone of voice.
"He told me a little of his past, the reasons of it before you and the other teachers decided to pay me an unexpected visit." Said Alicia with sarcasm in her voice.
"That's why you locked the door when we entered, right?" Asked Lily with a chuckle.
"Yeah, don't want any more of those ones." Snorted the Chaser before he continued with her story: "He spoke about his change of mind. He told me that he wasn't a pranskter before and look what he is now. He's worse than your husband and his friends, your son and the twins. No ofence." Said Alicia with an apology about the DADA's Professor and the student.
"Believe me, none of them gave me so many headaches as he has done in the last 2 months." Laughed Lily, not being offended at least with her words towards her husband and son.
"That's something hard to believe." Laughed Alicia, before she turned serious again and continued: "He feels free here, Professor and you complaining about almost everything that he does, like the teddies and the pictures, doesn't help. You know that I'm talking by own experience after my sister's suicide attempt. I know what I'm talking about." Said the Chaser with a serious and sad tone of voice.
"I've realized that mistake too. The matter is that I did it much later that I should have done it." Said the Professor with a sad look and tone of voice.
"Want a good piece of advice? Let him be free and happy. He trusts you, but if you criticize everything that he does and complain about it too, he won't see you as a relative better than his others. Maybe you don't abuse him like they did, but doing it affects him and he'll free like you try to stop his happiness and he'll stop trusting you and he'll begin to fear you. Take the advice and everything will go ok. It worked with my sister." Smiled Alicia turning off the cigarrete in the ashtray.
"Thanks, I think that it's the only way to live through his stay here and not dying of heart attack after every new prank that he plays." Laughed Lily along Alicia, before both of them went out towards the classes that would start soon for both of them.
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Harry and Alicia talked a few more times after that night. Both of them shared feelings about te suicide: Harry from his own experience and Alicia from her sister's.
"It took her a lot of time to tell it to her friends. She was ashamed of it. You can tell it when you feel ready for it. The gloves do their work, but someone will discover it at some moment like I did." Said Alicia when both of them were talking about telling it to Mary and Paul and also the others and the best moment to do it.
"It's not only this Alicia. I feel like that I've been lving a lie and everyone is involved." Said Harry misteriously.
"What do you mean?" Asked Alicia confused and interested in his words.
"Call the others. It's time to reveal a few things to all of you." Said Harry seriously, before Alicia sent Kimet to call the twins, the other Chasers and his brother and sister.
When everyone was sat, Harry took off the gloves and showed the scars to them. Mary and Paul looked shocked when both of them realized what it meant. The twins were as shocked and surprised as them. Katie and Angelina felt like that too. None of them suspected that.
"Why?" Asked Mary when she recovered herself of the shock.
"Everything that I told you this summer, Mary." Said Harry before he turned to the others: "I owe to all of you a story. First of all I am not from here."
"You said that you come from another country." Said Katie confused.
"I come from another Universe." Said Harry waiting for their reaction to his words.
"ARE YOU SERIOUS??!!" Asked the 5 players shocked with his words and not believing them completely.
"I've never been more serious than now." Said Harry with a very serious look.
"How did you finish coming here?" Asked Fred not completely recovered of the shock.
"First of all you must know my story. It began in the night of Halloween of 1981. In my Universe, the ones who died were James and Lily Potter and I lived. This scar," said Harry showing the one that he had in the forehead, "is the result of an Avada Kedavra that bounced in me and hit Voldemort. With that I became The-Boy-Who-Lived." Said Harry with a groan.
"You became like a God." Said Alicia assimilating this new information with the one that Harry had told her in their chats.
"Exactly that. Everyone expected from me to be one." Said Harry with a sad look.
Then he took a deep breath and began to tell them his life with the Dursleys, Hagrid's rescue in his eleventh birthday and his arrival to Hogwarts. The 7 teen were listening him intently and trying to not miss a single word.
"I was sorted in Gryffindor and met all of you in the Team under the Captaincy of the most obsessive person with Quidditch that I have ever met." Said Harry laughing thinking in Oliver Wood.
"How is Oliver there?" Asked Katie with a smile.
"Crazy, insane, obsessive, sadistic and the only person who can be awake the first saturday of a term and wake the others to train at dawn. That's Oliver Wood." Said the Seeker with a chuckle.
"He woke us at dawn to train the first Saturday of the term??" Asked the twins and the Chasers shocked with his words.
"Actually he was the only one who was awake. The rest of us were sleeping while he discussed the new tactics of the season." Said Harry with a big smile sending everyone in a fit of laughter.
"Not very different from our Oliver!" Laughed Fred the others nodded to this.
"He was crazy, but he is the best damn Keeper that I have ever seen playing!" Said Harry very serious.
"I agree with that." Nodded in agreement all of them.
"How are we there?" Asked Angelina interested.
"With the 3 of you, my relationship is just of team and housemate. We don't have a great friendship." Said Harry to the girls, before he turned to the twins: "With both of you, the matter is completely different."
"What do you mean?" Asked the twins at the same time curious.
"Your brother Ron, in my Universe is like the brother that I never had. Your mother adopted me as an honorary Weasley and for the last 4 years I received the classic Weasley Sweater for Christmas. Every year a different one. I remember that Ron always got a dark red one, color that he hated." Said Harry with a smile looking to the twins that were shocked with his words.
"Yeah, you are right, he hated that color." Said Fred with a smile thinking in his little brother.
"So you are part of the family?" Asked George laughing.
"Yep, I spent 2 summers in your house. The one previous to my Second Year and the one before my Fourth." Said Harry with a smile thinking in those times.
"Cool!" Said Fred with a big grin.
"Besides, I am the inversor of the company that you created there." Said Harry with an evil grin.
"Dd they create it there? Here they just thought in it, but they don't have money!" Said Alicia shocked.
"They had the same problem there till they got a benefactor. I am the benefactor, I must say." Said the teen with another evil smile.
"What else?" Asked Katie wanting to know more things of his Universe.
"We won the Quidditch Cup in my Third Year, the House in my First, Second and Third Year. The teachers are almost the same with a few exception. Hagrid teaches Care of Magical Creatures, someone that you haven't met is in Potions and the DADA's position is cursed. In my 4 Years I had someone that sold his soul to Voldemort, a fraud, a werewolf and a Death Eater impersonating an Auror. In few words, the strangest mix of teachers that you can imagine." Said Harry not happy with his teachers in that position.
"Wait a minute. The Professors Potter are your parents?" Asked Alicia thinking in the whole new information that she had received.
"Yes, and they are my brother and sister." Nodded Harry pointing to Paul and Mary.
"And Professor Black is his Godfather." Added Paul with a evil smile.
"Nice relatives, buddy!" Laughed Fred sending everyone in a fit of laughter.
"Interesting group we have here." Said an amused voice from behind them.
"Stupefy!" Shouted Harry who had been caught by surprise in direction of the voice.
"Congratulations, Harry. You just stunned the Headmaster!" Laughed George looking who was the one that had received the spell.
"Shut up, George!" Graned Harry saying the counter curse to his Grandfather.
"Remind me to never take him by surprise again." Chuckled Albus to the teens who nodded in amusement.
"Headmaster, if you haven't noticed, that door was locked the last time I checked it. Can you explain me why you decided to ignore that fact and pay me another unexpected and unscheduled visit?" Asked Alicia getting tired of those visits.
"Who did it?" Asked Minerva entering in the room before Dumbledore could answer the question.
"Petrificus Totalus!" Shouted Harry, being taken surprise again.
"Harry 2, Professors 0!" Said Fred sending everyone in a fit of uncontrolable laughter while the Prefect said another counter curse, this time to his Godmother.
"Next time, I'll do it!" Said Alicia more unhappy than ever with these visits.
"Do what?" asked Lily entreing in the room with James.
"Impedimenta! Locomotor Mortis!" Shouted the Head Girl completely exasperated in that moment pointing her wand towards the 2 Professors.
In that moment all of the teens burst out in laughter, while Albus chuckled in amusement with everything. Minerva watched them with a stern look while Alicia said the counter curses to the adults.
"Why everyone lately has decided to forget that this place is private and they visit it as if it was the Great Hall?" Asked Alicia to the 4 Professors not happy and with sarcasm in her voice.
"The pranksters are here, so we go where they are." Said Minerva shooting an angry look to Paul, Harry and the Twins.
"What are you talking about?" Asked the 4 students confused with their Head of House's words.
"Who did the prank?" Asked Lily loosing her patience.
"What prank?" Asked Harry completely confused, while the other looked as confused as him.
"We have been here for a while!" Said Fred while the others nodded to his words.
"They didn't do it." Said James looking their experession and seeing that they were telling the truth this time. The others nodded.
"GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE I DECIDE TO CONTINUE WITH THE CURSES AND HEXES!!" Shouted Alicia to the adults threatening them with her wand, pointing to the door.
"I have things to do, excuse me." Said Albus looking fearfully the Head Girl's expression going to the door.
"I have to speak with Sirius." Excused himself James feeling like Albus following him to the exit.
"I must speak with Professor Sprout." Said Minerva leaving too.
"LEAVE!" Shouted Alicia to Lily pointing to the door.
"Can I speak with you Harry?" Asked Lily to her son, ignoring Alicia.
"Can't it wait?" Asked the teen confused with the call.
"It will be a minute." Promised Lily.
"Ok." Said Harry following his mother to the exit.
"Is everything in order?" Asked Lily noticing the he wasn't wearing the gloves.
"Yes, we were talking about everything that happened in my Universe and my attempt." Said Harry closing his eyes before he added: "I told them the whole truth."
"Are you ok?" Asked Lily watching her son carefully.
"Yeah, I'm fine. It's juat that I needed to release some pressure and holding this, was... hard for me." Admitted Harry with a sad look.
"How are they taking it?" Asked Lily with a little concern in her voice.
"Fine till now. We haven't finished our chat yet." Said Harry with anger.
"We'll talk tomorrow. Get fun." Said the teacher leaving the place while the teen rretuned inside and took his seat once more.
"We are getting some rivals in the pranks!" Said Harry to his brother and the twins.
"Yeah, we have to find out who did them!" Agreed Paul while Fred and George nodded to this.
"The pranks are always done when none of you is in the Hall. Someone plays them when they know that you won't be there." Said Alicia thinking in everything that had happened with the new pranksters and her friends.
"Who has the Map in this Universe?" Asked Harry to Mary and Paul.
"Dad and Sirius." Said Paul confused with the question.
"The old Marauders." Said Mary understanding everything.
"They check the map and when they see that we are not there, the play the prank. Dad is always with the adults so no one will suspect from him." Said Harry thinking in everything.
"If anyone asks why you weren't seen, the excuse will be the invisibility charms. After all, you did it once in the past." Said Katie reaching to the same conclusion than her teammates.
"Then we'll do something about it!" Said Harry misteriously catching the atention of everyone who began to listen his plan carefully.
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"How did they take everything?" Asked Lily to her son the next morning before the breakfast.
"Fine. We agreed to go on like always and not carinmg very much the fact the place where I came from. I appreciate it. I don't need to go through things like the ones that I lived there." Said Harry with a smile of relief.
After the chat about the plan of the revenge, the teens continued the chat that they were having before the interruptance of the adults. Harry asked them to treat him like another student and not one from other Universe. All of them told him that it wasn't difficult to fo and their relations of friendship would go on like always and without any change for that fact. Harry was more than happy with it.
"Go to the table." Said the Professor before both of them went to their seats.
"Is everything ready?" Asked Harry in a whisper to the twins.
"Everything will start in 5 minutes." Said Fred with an evil grin while the others nodded.
"Let's sit and wait then." Said Harry beggining to eat.
Like Fred had said everything began to happen 5 minutes later. Suddenly in the High Table there was apop and Sirius and James turned in a monkey the first and a cockatoo the other. Both of them had a fur in pink and violet color.
Everyone burst out in laughter with that. Some of the teachers looked confused, while other really amused with that.
But it wasn't all that the group had planned against them, it was only the beggining of everything. When they returned to their human form, they had pink hair, black robes, many earring in the ears and a lot of make up. When they tried to talk, they beagn to sing the School's song in a woman's voice. This happened everytime that they opened the mouth.
Both men left the Hall among the laughter of all the students and the evil grin of the group of Gryffindors. Said grins didn't pass unnoticed by the teachers, especially McGonagall and Lily.
"Detention for all of you tomorrow's night!" Shouted Minerva towards the group.
"10 points of Gryffindor for each of you!" Added Lily who shot them a stern and murderer look.
"YES, PROFESSORS MADAMES!" Shouted all of them with a militar salute towards their Head of House and their other Professor.
"Well, this time they admitted it. And, the responsibles of the other pranks received their punishment." Chuckled Albus watching all the students leaving the Great Hall and going towards their classes.
"ALBUS!" Scolded both woman not happy with the Headmaster's words.
"Excuse me, I have things to do." Said Albus with a smile before he stood and left the Hall.
"I don't know who is worse: my husband and his friend, Harry and the group or Albus." Said Lily with a groan before she went to the exit to go to her first class of the day.
"They are one worse than the other in their own way, Lily." Sighed Minerva doing the same that her.