A Trip to the Past
Disclaimer: I only own my characters and my plot. J.K. Rowling owns everything else. From what Petunia Dursley said in the first book I don't think that back in MWPP time they had the same underage magic rule. Page 66 in Sorcerer's Stone if you want to look it up. Please forgive my mistakes
Chapter 7~~~~~~
I woke up on the last day of school feeling so heartbroken. My trunk was packed after some magical enlarging to fit everything in it. I had been the top in all my classes and all my friends except Peter falling in the top ten. I didn't know how the Marauders did it either. It was a question left rather unasked.
James had said the rest of the Marauders would probably come and visit during the summer, Lily couldn't she was going to visit her Aunt Amelia in Austria next week for the entire summer. I was quite jealous really because I had only heard about wizards in Germany and surrounding areas. It would be a wonderful learning experience for Lily I expected and made her promise to right down everything and send it to me.
I got ready before the others as usual and dressed in baggy jeans and a black tee shirt that came down to my knees. I brushed my curls and shoved my brush and last of my things into the trunk. I pulled on my robe and grabbed my trunk and left downstairs. My entire area in my room was in this trunk and I was amazed at it really.
After March the Marauders had become worse in pranking and it was amazing how we had won the house cup. Of course I always got points for answering the questions with extra information when I did answer and the rest of the Gryffindors making up for the Marauders. James had become more conceited but tolerable around me, Sirius had become an even worse rebel but we still went out, Remus had been frantic during exams and Peter had been put in the hospital wing from studying so hard. Lily had remained calm and cool like me with great marks and now had a more defined air of law to her. She was still extremely popular and the other girls just avoided me now and for that I was grateful.
Sirius didn't want to go back home and James had wrote to Mum and Dad about him staying most of the summer. They said yes in a heartbeat, once I also wrote with fake drops of tears on the parchment. Today we were going to ask his parents at the station. I knew they probably wanted him gone as long as possible.
The Marauders came down with their trunks in seemingly unhappy spirits. We left our trunks in the front hall as directed and ate in subdued in spirits. After coming back across the lake with our trunks and boarding and finding an empty compartment with the Marauders, Lily joined her other friends and I let her go because she hated the Marauders with a very big passion.
The scenery past by us as we went past small muggle towns and the forest. We pulled off our robes and put them in our trunks and waited to be back in London. I knew James would be quite grumpy till his best friend was with him in the summer. In Hogwarts he was seldom seen without Sirius unless of course I had dragged them apart to be lectured separately or when they were assigned different detentions. That was just about it really.
Once we were got to the station the wizard guard let us through in twos or threes. James, Sirius, and Remus went through first. Peter, Lily and I went after them. I gave Lily a hug as she left with her muggle parents. I spotted Dad's unruly hair and left to follow it which I eventually did. James and Sirius stood next to Dad and Mum. Mum talking nicely to Sirius.
Sirius stood there looking around for his own parents and he dragged me and James off to meet them. Sirius's mum looked at us critically and sneered. Her dark eyes glinted viscously and her mess of dark hair looked windblown from the train. His Dad and brother looked like Sirius except a lot meaner looking. Their eyes were not kind like his or did they look like loving people.
"Who are these people, boy?" his mother asked cruelly. Like she wanted us to be of impure stock and wanted to taunt Sirius for it.
"Mum this is James and Tempest Potter. My best friend and girlfriend. James, Tempest these are my parents and my younger brother Regulus."
"Finally found some worthy friends Sirius. At least you didn't befriend any mudbloods or blood traitors" his brother hissed at us three.
Dad and Mum came over to us and looked at the Blacks with the purest loathing as did the Blacks to them. Mum liked Sirius but not his family, I could tell. We were firm believers in not judging people by blood but by character. Dad looked at us kids and pushed us back a bit.
"Mr. Black and Mrs. Black so nice to see you again. We were wondering if Sirius here could join us in are holidays this summer starting next week and we will take him to the Platform next school year."
All of them looked as if their birthdays had come early. Sirius' parents nodded to each other and smiled cynically. Sirius held me closer and looked wearily at his parents.
"Of course you can have him all summer. We will send him to Potter Manor next Sunday at noon with all his things he shall need. Good day to you all" Mrs. Black called as she dragged Sirius away who was between a smile and a frown.
Dad and Mum took us home to Potter Manor which was located in woods away from muggles. Every security measure was put on the house and grounds and it was on a nice large area of land. Twenty acres if I remembered correctly. We had a pond in the back of the house and a clearing for James to practice Quidditch in the forest. I loved Potter Manor and its grounds for they were a lovely place. The Manor had four floors, like 4 guest rooms, a giant kitchen, study, living room, and den. Then there was the guest cottage if you didn't want to stay in the house. I stayed out there a lot because it was peaceful and Mum never tried to keep me out of there anyway.
That week passed quite easily, I helped Mum cook dinner and clean because she refused to have house-elves. When I wasn't doing that I was doing my homework which I finished after only a few nights of work because I always got interrupted by someone or something. Like Mum yelling at James for making something explode or Mum giving me cooking lessons or Dad going in out of the house at all hours because of Voldemort.
The day Sirius came was the day I knew our house would some how be blown up by the end of the summer. He looked extremely happy when he came through the floo. Mum was fussing over him and I had to laugh at her. She was like that with me and James; I knew Sirius would become part of our family somehow.
Sirius had the room next to James which was connected by a bathroom. I knew the rest would come later in the summer. Remus after the two full moons this summer and Peter after he finished traveling with his family. I knew this third floor hallway would become Marauder Land and I only had to pass through this war zone when I was going to the top floor. It was my bedroom up here. It used to be the attic but before Voldemort started gaining power Dad and I worked on it and made it my lovely space.
My bedroom had dark blue walls with silver as my second color. The wood work was silver and so were the loops I drew on the ceiling. I had a wood floor with a dark blue circle rug in the middle of the floor. My bed was a four poster bed with blue and silver hangings. I had one wall of nothing but bookshelves with my personal collection of books. In a corner I had my large desk with a flying cabinet next to it. I had a telescope pointing out my window and pictures on my walls. I had gotten some more frames and hung up some of my cooler pictures up. I had candles hangers for light at night and a gigantic closet. I had put all my school things in this walk in closet and had shelves of items I bothered with only during certain seasons. My broom a Comet which I never bothered with unless I had too and my school trunk were in my closet. I had odd objects hung on my walls and other things of amusement in here. My record player and records was on my night stand and I played that and my muggle radio every chance I got.
I went to say hello to my boyfriend then go find myself a book in Dad's study. We I went to go in his room I heard a loud explosion from it and Mum was sighing downstairs. I went in to see Sirius with undergarments on his head and all around the room. I couldn't help but let out a small laugh. He looked at me and grinned as James came in to see what the noise was from. He raced right out of there laughing and up the attic stairs to get my camera. I had hung it up right in front of the door on the opposite wall for when James wanted to use it. He raced back down into Sirius' room and started snapping photographs of Sirius then left laughing like a maniac.
"Well I see you're busy um unpacking so I'll just go. See you later Sirius."
"Right you are sweet storm. See you."
I walked out and couldn't help but grin as I left Sirius kicked his trunk then started to hop around his foot throbbing in pain. I went to James' room and got my camera from his grasp and went back to my room. My room had always smelled of lavender because that was my signature scent and it had just always stayed in the room no matter how long I was gone. I turned on the radio on rock, pulled a book out from my bookcase to practice some spells out of this book, and read it on the floor. I had chosen to understand the theory of the spell before completing it because it was a lot easier.
Mum came up to ask if I wanted cooking lessons and I did. We cooked barbequed chicken, mash potatoes, and green beans. Over all it was a good cooking lesson. Dad wasn't home for dinner but still at work but Mum saved him some food. James and Sirius loved our food and begged us to give them more. It was quite funny actually. We eventually gave in to their begging and whining.
I went into the den with Sirius and James and we talked about stuff until Voldemort was mentioned. He went dead white and I knew James had accidentally said the wrong thing. I sat next to him and took his hand in mine; he didn't notice and had a far away look in his baby blues. James went to get Mum who was upstairs waiting up for Dad and I shook my head saying not to just yet at him with my eyes and movements. He understood and sat next to his best friend.
"Hey Sirius snap out of it, you are freaking us out" James said in a little voice and shook him gently.
"James go get Mum, now. We need her help."
James ran up to the kitchen were Mum was and got her. I heard her chair fall and two sets of footsteps came rushing down to the den. She gasped when she saw Sirius' eyes and lightly said some words I didn't know and his eyelids started to flutter like mad. Sirius regained his composure and looked ashamed of himself.
"Sirius don't look ashamed. You went into a trance and were reliving some things I your life." She bent down and hugged Sirius then James and I. She left with a warning that we were supposed to come and get her if anything went wrong.
"Hey man what did you see?" James asked with his nosey curiosity. I almost wished to slap his glasses off so he couldn't see me murder him right then and there.
"Can I tell you guys somewhere your Mum can't hear it?"
"Sure, up to my room. It's the attic and she only comes up there when she has too."
"Thanks Tempest. Let's go past Marauder Land to the chick world."
I lightly punched him in the arm and him and James chased me all the way up to my room. When we got up there Sirius looked around, then sat on the round carpet with me and James.
"Nice room Tempest. Okay are you sure you guys want to hear this?" We both nodded our heads and he began what he had gone into a trance and saw.
"Last week when we got back from Hogwarts I overheard my parents talking about me and it freaked me out about what they said."
Flashback in Sirius' POV~~~~
"Dear what are we going to do with Sirius? He is turning out to be a blood traitor. The Potters are pure-bloods but they don't act as if they are. They accept every magical people and creatures, too bad they are accepted in the wizarding world" my father said sighing.
"I know he is turning out to be as impure as a mudblood and what about his pranking all the Slytherins. It is bad enough he became a Gryffindor but must he become disgraceful enough to prank those wonderful children silly."
"Yes at least Regulus is going to be either Ravenclaw or Slytherin. Most likely Slytherin because acts just like me as a boy. He is going to be the wonderful son we always wanted unlike that muggle loving, supporter of a Dumbledore son of ours."
"Dear I don't even know how he was put in this family. He acts as if he will never follow the purest wizard of all time, Voldemort. He will follow Dumbledore and die when the Dark Lord wins. He will be no longer a son of ours after that."
"Yes darling, now let's retire to bed." I slipped back into my room and thought hardly about what I had just heard from my parents.
~~~~~~~~ Back into Tempest Potter POV~~~~~
I was horrified at what I had heard from Sirius about his family. No wonder he didn't want to go back there. I wanted him there as much as possible. I was afraid for him and I could see concern going through James' eyes even though he tried to hide it.
"Don't even fear for me now. I don't have to see them for another year and let's go to sleep. We'll talk in the morning. Or James' and I will begin planning our pranking genius and you Tempest wish to have nothing to do with it unless we need your help."
"Let's go plan hell for Snape and Malfoy" James shouted.
"Hold on man. Night Tempest if you need us we will be located in Marauder Land under the piles of mess" Sirius said good-naturedly but I saw him and James were going to talk some more about his memories. He and I kissed good night while James sat on the floor and chuckled at us. Then he and Sirius left my room and I went back to my books.
I had made Mum buy me books over books that dad didn't have to study with since I was about eight. I had read most of the books in Dad's study that interested me and had a faint idea to do the spell even if I couldn't complete it right now. I worked on some hard Transfiguration till two and then fell asleep on my bed without dressing in my summer pajamas.
I woke well after breakfast but it was weird not hearing some noise going on in the house. I walked to James' and Sirius' rooms they were gone. I checked Mum and Dad's room and they were gone too. When I walked into the kitchen a note lay on the table in Mum's handwriting.
Tempest,
When you wake up I hope you find this note without freaking out first. James and Sirius are in the clearing in the forest practicing Quidditch. I have gone to visit some old friends for the day. Your dad is at work as usual. I will be home around four and hold down the fort. We didn't want to wake you dear because when I went to go do so you looked so tired I let you sleep. Have a good day and no murdering your brother or boyfriend.
Mum
Of course Mum always added that line in so I didn't get as far as to murdering my poor deluded brother. I had free reign now because they would be off playing Quidditch till Mum sent me to get them for dinner or when they got hungry for lunch. I went back to my room and decided a nice cold shower in my bathroom was what I needed.
I had a bathroom connected to my room decorated in roses and white. It smelled of lavender just like my room though. James didn't even where I had my own bathroom; I had a painting which was like the Fat Lady in school. I had my own password that I never bothered to change because only my parents and I knew of the bathrooms location.
I stepped in the shower and washed away every trouble I had been told of yesterday. When I got dressed it was in a pair of jean cutoffs and a white tang top with flip flops. I braided my hair after straightening it and left to find something to do outside. I decided to explore some of our property. I had been told to always have my wand in their and never to go in the woods off the trail at night. I ended up seeing some magical creatures; they ran skittishly from me though. I couldn't blame them though. I was scary to them even if I didn't fear them.
I headed back around three so that I could be back before Mum; I was home before I knew it because I had memorized the way I had come. James and Sirius weren't back either. I cleaned up and waited in Dad's study for a sound of anyone. I ended up immersed in a book about Animagi that I didn't realize Mum coming into the study and looking at me wither fierce hawk like eyes.
"Tempest Nicolette Potter come downstairs and get your cooking lesson" she said with no human emotion and that freaked me out then she smiled brightly and we both laughed at each other.
"Coming Mum, I just have to steal this book from Dad."
"Alright, just bring it with you to the kitchen."
We cooked dinner and I had to go get James and Sirius for it. When I got to the clearing they were horribly sweaty and muddy from the wet ground. They stopped flying immediately without a word. We trooped back to the house and I heard Dad's voice outside. He seemed really nervous.
"Claudia are you sure they are out there and won't hear this."
"Yes Henry I am. I sent Tempest to get the boys from practicing Quidditch."
"Yes okay I see well Mistress of Magic went barging into the Department of Magical Law Enforcement today and we that she went off about how we weren't catching many of Voldemort's supporters then gave them the permission to use the unforgivables on Death Eaters. Mad-Eye wasn't happy when he found out that she is allowing the people who catch the dark wizards to sink as low as they are and use their evil."
"You heard this all the way in the Department of Mysteries?"
"Yes and I can't speak any more about my department. You know that dear."
"I know but did you find any thing about that type of trance that Sirius went into yesterday."
"Yes it is a rare thing but is called a flash-back spell. It isn't cast with words spoken outside but inside the persons head."
"What have those horrid people done to such a nice boy?" Sirius grinned at this comment.
"I don't know but I know Hogwarts won't be standing by the time they are done in school."
"I agree but they are all so brilliant."
I chose this moment to walk through the door with James and Sirius at my heels. Mum almost burst when she saw their mud and made them clean up be for they got any dinner. Dad and I laughed as she dragged them both off their ears to scrub them and make them look like normal human beings.
This was the first time I had heard Dad laugh in a while and I took a look at him and understood why. His hair was unruly as ever. His usually dancing brown eyes were bloodshot and tired. He looked defeated about Voldemort and his lack of sleep. My Dad wouldn't complain though, he would work himself to the bone even if my family didn't need the money. We were rich as it was and dad didn't need the stress. He was also an unspeakable and worked in the Department of Mysteries. We only knew he was called there at all hours of the day and night even on his days off if they needed him.
When Mum came back with the boys they were a nice pink tinged. They were in actual clean clothes and were rubbing their skin and ears profusely. Dad laughed again at their silliness and Mum was elated from it.
"Henry you laughed finally. Now boys sit down." She shouted the last bit at the boys because they were trying to sneak away from Mum.
We enjoyed our dinner which was still warm and the guys enjoyed it even more. We knew not to tell my parents that we had heard them talking and excused our selves at the same time. Before we got to leave Dad made a very horrible announcement.
"Oh before I forget children I have some wonderful news. We will be visiting Aunt Charlotte, all of us. No excuses that you can't go in two days."
When we left to go to Sirius' room, James' and I were dying. Aunt Charlotte was pure evil to me and James.
"Okay, whoa who is your guys Aunt Charlotte and where does she live?" He asked with curiosity. 'Poor, poor deluded Sirius'.
"She is Mum's sister and lives in Salem, Massachusetts in America. She is pure evil" James said grimacing about the last time we visited Aunt Charlotte. He had almost been blinded by her cat -like claws.
"Okay we will prepare for Aunt Charlotte tomorrow. I expect tomorrow Mum will have us running around like crazy doing chores and packing" I said with conviction.
"Yes she always does that when we are going to leave for a trip. I wonder how long we will be gone."
"Two weeks James" Mum yelled at us through the hallway of Marauder Land. She was probably getting the dirty clothes from each person and I knew she had already collected from Sirius and James because their outfits for tomorrow were laid out nice and wrinkle free.
"Well I guess we should call it a night. Hey Tempest will you sleep in my room tonight so I don't have bad dreams" Sirius asked his bottom lip out and he made a face as if he was going to cry.
"Of course Sirius, but first I must go get ready for bed."
I washed my face and brushed my teeth. I put on my favorite Pajamas which was plum colored and had been made of silk. I went back to Sirius' room. He was in a baggy tee shirt and long pajama bottoms. I crawled into his bed and he followed. Sirius wrapped his arm around my waist and we fell asleep.
I woke up but didn't move when I saw Mum and Dad standing in our doorway looking at us. They were both smiling at us and I heard them talking about something really weird.
"Aren't they adorable together, Henry?"
"Yes but I still don't like my little girl growing up so fast."
"I know but it is part of their foretold future. You work in the Department of Mysteries and know perfectly well about the prophesy" she said with a tone of complete annoyance.
"I know dear, and I don't think we should wake them with your tone. Come on to bed. Tomorrow we have to get ready to see that monster sister of yours."
"Henry, Charlotte is just misunderstood."
I heard dad mutter something around yeah right and I like being up at this hour. They left me to complete darkness and thoughts whirling in my head. 'What prophesy? Why does it concern me? Why was I never told?' I thought with no answers, I drifted off to a deep sleep with no dreams.
I woke up to the smell of peppermint. I had buried my head in Sirius' chest and had woken up there. I stayed like that till James woke up Sirius by yelling in his ear. This caused Sirius to chase James and me to leave the room.
I went up and got my shower as usual. I dressed in flared jeans, red shirt, and my hair let lose to its unruly ringlets. I came downstairs to Dad munching on a donut, Sirius and James panting, and Mum running around like a headless chicken trying to finish everything at once.
After breakfast and a fight over the last piece of bacon which Mum threw out the window in retaliation, I was folding clean clothes and separating them by person. Mum had the washing machine washing the rest of the clothes from Sirius and James right then and had me manually folding clothes to keep me busy. James was assigned to find the entire luggage, Dad the job of finishing last minute papers and getting old from each account, and Sirius to help clean up the house with Mum. It was a funny thing to see Sirius doing work not involving pranks or bloody Quidditch.
At lunch no one had any energy left. The house was spotless, everything was done except packing. This was a task left to do after our stomachs were full. When we packed later you always had the things you couldn't pack till you used them in the morning and I bloody hated that. Dad and Mum refused to tell us how we were going to get to Aunt Charlotte's but our brooms were located in the bottom of Mum's trunk so that wasn't it, neither was apparating or floo powder. I hoped it wasn't a portkey but at least it wasn't flying on brooms.
I slept again in Sirius' room to hold the hope that we weren't going to Aunt Charlotte's tomorrow. My wishes never come true do they?
A/N: Next time it will be to Aunt Charlotte's house we go and the rest of summer vacation.