The next morning, Harry awoke to find the boys' dormitories deserted.
He walked downstairs and into the Gryffindor common room. Ron and Hermione
were in deep conversation with the Marauders and Lily. When Harry entered
the common room, Ron smiled and waved him over.
"Hey guys, what's going on?" Harry asked.
"Dumbledore's ordered us to stay in our common rooms today, we're only allowed out for breakfast and dinner" James told him. Harry looked at him in surprise.
"Really?" Everyone else nodded.
"Harry?" Harry looked over to see Lily with tears streaming down her face "Is it true that you had a vision of the Dark Lord? Is that why you were lying on the floor in pain in Divination yesterday?" she questioned him. Harry looked around to see everyone's eyes on him.
Slowly, but surely, he nodded and said "Yes"
The Marauders and Lily gasped. Harry looked at them apprehensively.
"Y-You don't think I-"
"No, we don't!" Sirius said, almost immediately.
"Dumbledore called me into his office earlier this morning and told me that he had to put a protection charm on me, although I've no idea why, he wouldn't tell me" James said, looking curious.
Remus looked at him questioningly.
"When was this? You've been with us since you woke up" he said.
James shifted around guiltily.
"It was before any of you guys were awake; I crept back in and got in bed before you guys woke up"
"Oh"
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While everyone was in the Great Hall eating breakfast, Professor McGonagall hurried over to Dumbledore and whispered something to him. He nodded and his expression immediately turned stern. He stood up and everyone went quiet.
"Everyone, Lord Voldemort and some of his Death Eaters are heading this way, from reliable sources, they are in the Forbidden Forest and coming closer" There was immediate panic. Everyone started screaming and even some started crying. Dumbledore silenced them all again "Prefects, lead your houses back to the common rooms and make sure that no one leaves the common rooms, Harry Poor and James Potter, come with me"
While everyone was exiting the Great Hall, Voldemort and his Death Eaters arrived. Voldemort kicked the double doors open and the Death Eaters started to run amok. There was absolute chaos. Students were screaming and teachers were attempting to fight. But everyone silenced when Voldemort blasted a spell from his wand. Everyone turned to look at him, with sheer terror on their faces.
"Where is Harry Potter?" he questioned everyone. Immediately, whispers broke out. Harry turned to look at Ron and Hermione and looked at them sadly, then made to walk forward.
"Harry don't!" Hermione cried, she had tears streaming down her face and she grabbed hold of his arm. Harry pried out of her grip and walked forward.
"Here I am" Harry yelled. Everyone cleared their way to look at the boy.
"H-Harry? You!" The Marauders were looking at him in disbelief along with Lily.
"I'm sorry James, but I lied, I lied to all of you" Voldemort narrowed his eyes and smirked.
"How very touching, now where is James Potter?" he hissed. James stepped forward and looked at Voldemort with certain dislike. Voldemort's smirk grew wider.
"Now, who should I kill first? The father or the son?" he asked, looking around.
"W-What?" James asked, looking thoroughly confused. He looked to Sirius, Remus, Peter and Lily, but they just looked equally confused.
"You mean to tell me, that the 'famous' Harry Potter hasn't revealed who he really is?" Voldemort said with a glint of amusement in his eye.
"Who is he?" James asked, looking at Harry curiously, along with the rest of the school.
"Well, James, let's just say, if you hadn't have tried to stop me from killing dear Harry here, you would still be alive, along with your lovely mudblood wife" Voldemort hissed.
James had paled considerably.
"Y-You mean that . . . Harry is-"
"Very good Potter, very good, now, if you'll excuse me, Accio!" Voldemort pointed at Harry and he flew into Voldemort's arms. Harry struggled, but to no avail, Voldemort was too strong. Voldemort held his wand to Harry's throat.
"Now, who would like to see a killing?" Voldemort asked. Only the Death Eaters cheered, but suddenly, there was a loud shout of . . .
"NO! LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Everyone turned to see who it was. Four adults came rushing through the crowd and finally stopped at the front. Harry's eyes widened as he recognized who they were.
"SIRIUS!" Harry yelled. The younger Sirius looked at the scene in front of him with wide eyes.
"Let him go!" Sirius cried looking angrier than Harry had ever seen him.
"No" Voldemort smirked and he began to mutter something with his wand still at Harry's throat, but he was stopped.
"Expelliarmus!" It was Snape! Voldemort's wand flew out of his hand and onto the ground.
"Ah, Severus Snape, the traitor!" Voldemort hissed angrily. The younger Snape looked like he was about to faint at what he was hearing. "Voldemort, unhand Harry!" Lupin shouted. Voldemort merely glared at him.
"Lupin, you think you can order *me* around?!" he spat.
The younger Remus' jaw dropped open.
Suddenly, there was a loud hissing noise coming from Voldemort's mouth and everyone started screaming as a huge snake came slithering into view. Harry took this opportunity and bit Voldemort's hand. Voldemort cried out in pain and let go of Harry.
"Foolish boy! You will pay!" Voldemort shouted angrily. Harry glared at him; he wasn't going to let Voldemort get a hold of either him or James, not as long as he was alive.
"Harry, get behind me!" Sirius commanded. Harry turned to look at him.
"But-"
"DO IT!" He shouted. There was something that sounded so commanding in his voice, something that Harry had never heard before, that he obeyed immediately, not wanting to anger Sirius more.
"Aw, isn't that cute! My cousin's trying to protect Potter!" A woman stepped in, looking gleeful. It was Bellatrix.
"As far as I'm concerned, you and I are not related!" Sirius spat.
"Of course, although, I expect you to be a bit on edge Sirius, I mean, you must be still running from the Dementors, am I correct?" Sirius' face paled considerably. Bellatrix smirked.
"I thought so, spending twelve years in Azkaban, being on the run for two years, although most of us lot knew that you were innocent, but of course I must admit, what Pettigrew did was sheer brilliance! Framing you and making everyone think that *you* betrayed the Potters', when it was Pettigrew all along" Bellatrix said and started laughing.
Sirius' face darkened and he looked angrily at Bellatrix.
"Shut up, you old hag"
Bellatrix stopped laughing and she narrowed her eyes.
"Never call me that! Crucio!" she whispered. Sirius was immediately hit with pain. He screamed, while everyone looked at him in horror.
"Professor Lupin, what are you doing?!" Hermione cried. Lupin strode forward, wand poised and looking angrily at Bellatrix. He muttered something and she went flying into the back of the wall.
Voldemort seized his chance and started talking in Parseltongue to Nagini.
"Kill the boys!" Voldemort hissed. Nagini nodded and made her way towards James first. Harry flung himself in front of him and started talking back to Nagini.
"Don't do it! He's getting you to do his dirty work, is that what you want? To just do his dirty work?" Harry questioned the snake. The snake seemed to not know how to reply. Everyone stared at the scene before them; Voldemort and Harry talking to the snake in a different language.
"Attack him! Don't listen to him!" Voldemort hissed angrily. Nagini looked at her former master and nodded. She made her way to bite Harry, but not before Arthur Weasley stepped in.
"Stupefy!" he yelled. Nagini stopped in her tracks and froze. She was paralyzed.
"Nice one Arthur" Lupin said and smiled. Arthur smiled back.
"Thanks"
"DAD! LOOK OUT!" Ron's voice shouted, sounding panicky. Arthur turned around, but only to be hit by the Cruciatus curse. It was Lucius Malfoy.
"Avada Kedavra!" A voice yelled out. It was aimed right at James, but he was knocked out of the way by Harry. Harry missed the killing curse by inches.
Everyone gasped. Immediately pandemonium broke out. A huge fight between the Death Eaters and Voldemort against Sirius, Remus, Severus, Arthur, Harry and James broke out.
Sirius and Lupin were fighting five Death Eaters at once. Arthur was fighting Lucius Malfoy; Severus was trying to take on two Death Eaters at once, while Harry and James were trying their best to fight Voldemort. Everyone else was screaming and shouting, while hexes and unforgivable curses were being sent all over the place.
"Hermione, look out!" Lupin cried, quickly pushing Hermione out of the way and just missing the killing curse. Hermione slowly managed to steady her breathing back to normal.
It soon came down to just Harry and Voldemort. Most of the Death Eaters had been beaten and Arthur was looking particularly proud of himself at actually beating up Malfoy.
"Potter, this one's just between you and me" Voldemort whispered dangerously.
"No!" Sirius yelled, but Lupin held him back.
"Harry knows what he's doing" He whispered. James was badly injured as he was sitting with the other Marauders and Lily.
Voldemort and Harry were circling each other, until Voldemort made the first move.
"Avada Kedavra!" he shouted. Harry quickly dodged it and shouted "Expelliarmus!"
Everyone watched in fear as Harry and Voldemort dueled. Especially James and Sirius (the older one).
"CRUCIO!" Voldemort bellowed. Like what had happened in the previous year, their wands seemed to have connected once again. Their spells both turned gold and they began to rise off the floor. Everyone watched in awe at what was happening. Even Sirius, Lupin and Severus were gobsmacked. One-by-one, different people appeared until it came to Harry's parents.
"Son, I believe in you, your mother and I will hold them off, long enough for you to get away" James told his son. Harry nodded, then disconnected the spells, while Harry landed on the floor, he made to run, but he was held back by a firm hand on his shoulder. Harry looked up and his jaw dropped. It was Dumbledore from his time!
"Harry, I don't think you need to run anymore" Dumbledore said quietly, his eyes never leaving Voldemort.
Dumbledore strode forward, took out his wand and muttered something. As soon as this was done, all the Death Eaters ran off, while Voldemort glared at Dumbledore.
"We will be back and soon! Both the Potters' will die at my mercy!" Voldemort yelled and with that, he stormed off.
Everyone was silent as what they had seen sunk in. Then a boy spoke up.
"That was amazing!" and with that, everyone started cheering. Harry couldn't help, but smile, he had just helped save Hogwarts!
James walked over to him and put a hand on his shoulder.
"That was pretty brave of you Harry" he said, smiling. Harry felt his cheeks go hot, but nodded. He suddenly realized that he had tears in his eyes. James pulled him into a hug and everyone went 'aahh'
When James let go of him, Harry ran over to Sirius and hugged him too, then he found himself crying and he broke down, sobbing. Arthur, Lupin, Ron and Hermione all had tears in their eyes as they watched the scene before them. Sirius was patting him on the back and trying to comfort him, but Harry's sobs seemed to get louder.
Sirius couldn't take much more of it and broke down in tears too and Snape found himself chuckling.
"Look at you all, you're all crying" Dumbledore gave Snape a stern look before turning back to Lupin, Sirius, Harry, Ron, Hermione Arthur and Snape.
"We will be traveling back to our time shortly, but first, if I am correct, there is supposed to be a Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Slytherin in an hour?" Dumbledore's eyes twinkled "If I am correct, Harry's playing in it?"
Harry looked up with a tear-stained face and nodded.
"Well, then you'd better get ready" Dumbledore told him "Don't worry, Voldemort and that lot probably won't be anywhere near here in an hour"
Harry smiled and walked over to James and together, they both walked off to the changing rooms.
"Hey guys, what's going on?" Harry asked.
"Dumbledore's ordered us to stay in our common rooms today, we're only allowed out for breakfast and dinner" James told him. Harry looked at him in surprise.
"Really?" Everyone else nodded.
"Harry?" Harry looked over to see Lily with tears streaming down her face "Is it true that you had a vision of the Dark Lord? Is that why you were lying on the floor in pain in Divination yesterday?" she questioned him. Harry looked around to see everyone's eyes on him.
Slowly, but surely, he nodded and said "Yes"
The Marauders and Lily gasped. Harry looked at them apprehensively.
"Y-You don't think I-"
"No, we don't!" Sirius said, almost immediately.
"Dumbledore called me into his office earlier this morning and told me that he had to put a protection charm on me, although I've no idea why, he wouldn't tell me" James said, looking curious.
Remus looked at him questioningly.
"When was this? You've been with us since you woke up" he said.
James shifted around guiltily.
"It was before any of you guys were awake; I crept back in and got in bed before you guys woke up"
"Oh"
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While everyone was in the Great Hall eating breakfast, Professor McGonagall hurried over to Dumbledore and whispered something to him. He nodded and his expression immediately turned stern. He stood up and everyone went quiet.
"Everyone, Lord Voldemort and some of his Death Eaters are heading this way, from reliable sources, they are in the Forbidden Forest and coming closer" There was immediate panic. Everyone started screaming and even some started crying. Dumbledore silenced them all again "Prefects, lead your houses back to the common rooms and make sure that no one leaves the common rooms, Harry Poor and James Potter, come with me"
While everyone was exiting the Great Hall, Voldemort and his Death Eaters arrived. Voldemort kicked the double doors open and the Death Eaters started to run amok. There was absolute chaos. Students were screaming and teachers were attempting to fight. But everyone silenced when Voldemort blasted a spell from his wand. Everyone turned to look at him, with sheer terror on their faces.
"Where is Harry Potter?" he questioned everyone. Immediately, whispers broke out. Harry turned to look at Ron and Hermione and looked at them sadly, then made to walk forward.
"Harry don't!" Hermione cried, she had tears streaming down her face and she grabbed hold of his arm. Harry pried out of her grip and walked forward.
"Here I am" Harry yelled. Everyone cleared their way to look at the boy.
"H-Harry? You!" The Marauders were looking at him in disbelief along with Lily.
"I'm sorry James, but I lied, I lied to all of you" Voldemort narrowed his eyes and smirked.
"How very touching, now where is James Potter?" he hissed. James stepped forward and looked at Voldemort with certain dislike. Voldemort's smirk grew wider.
"Now, who should I kill first? The father or the son?" he asked, looking around.
"W-What?" James asked, looking thoroughly confused. He looked to Sirius, Remus, Peter and Lily, but they just looked equally confused.
"You mean to tell me, that the 'famous' Harry Potter hasn't revealed who he really is?" Voldemort said with a glint of amusement in his eye.
"Who is he?" James asked, looking at Harry curiously, along with the rest of the school.
"Well, James, let's just say, if you hadn't have tried to stop me from killing dear Harry here, you would still be alive, along with your lovely mudblood wife" Voldemort hissed.
James had paled considerably.
"Y-You mean that . . . Harry is-"
"Very good Potter, very good, now, if you'll excuse me, Accio!" Voldemort pointed at Harry and he flew into Voldemort's arms. Harry struggled, but to no avail, Voldemort was too strong. Voldemort held his wand to Harry's throat.
"Now, who would like to see a killing?" Voldemort asked. Only the Death Eaters cheered, but suddenly, there was a loud shout of . . .
"NO! LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Everyone turned to see who it was. Four adults came rushing through the crowd and finally stopped at the front. Harry's eyes widened as he recognized who they were.
"SIRIUS!" Harry yelled. The younger Sirius looked at the scene in front of him with wide eyes.
"Let him go!" Sirius cried looking angrier than Harry had ever seen him.
"No" Voldemort smirked and he began to mutter something with his wand still at Harry's throat, but he was stopped.
"Expelliarmus!" It was Snape! Voldemort's wand flew out of his hand and onto the ground.
"Ah, Severus Snape, the traitor!" Voldemort hissed angrily. The younger Snape looked like he was about to faint at what he was hearing. "Voldemort, unhand Harry!" Lupin shouted. Voldemort merely glared at him.
"Lupin, you think you can order *me* around?!" he spat.
The younger Remus' jaw dropped open.
Suddenly, there was a loud hissing noise coming from Voldemort's mouth and everyone started screaming as a huge snake came slithering into view. Harry took this opportunity and bit Voldemort's hand. Voldemort cried out in pain and let go of Harry.
"Foolish boy! You will pay!" Voldemort shouted angrily. Harry glared at him; he wasn't going to let Voldemort get a hold of either him or James, not as long as he was alive.
"Harry, get behind me!" Sirius commanded. Harry turned to look at him.
"But-"
"DO IT!" He shouted. There was something that sounded so commanding in his voice, something that Harry had never heard before, that he obeyed immediately, not wanting to anger Sirius more.
"Aw, isn't that cute! My cousin's trying to protect Potter!" A woman stepped in, looking gleeful. It was Bellatrix.
"As far as I'm concerned, you and I are not related!" Sirius spat.
"Of course, although, I expect you to be a bit on edge Sirius, I mean, you must be still running from the Dementors, am I correct?" Sirius' face paled considerably. Bellatrix smirked.
"I thought so, spending twelve years in Azkaban, being on the run for two years, although most of us lot knew that you were innocent, but of course I must admit, what Pettigrew did was sheer brilliance! Framing you and making everyone think that *you* betrayed the Potters', when it was Pettigrew all along" Bellatrix said and started laughing.
Sirius' face darkened and he looked angrily at Bellatrix.
"Shut up, you old hag"
Bellatrix stopped laughing and she narrowed her eyes.
"Never call me that! Crucio!" she whispered. Sirius was immediately hit with pain. He screamed, while everyone looked at him in horror.
"Professor Lupin, what are you doing?!" Hermione cried. Lupin strode forward, wand poised and looking angrily at Bellatrix. He muttered something and she went flying into the back of the wall.
Voldemort seized his chance and started talking in Parseltongue to Nagini.
"Kill the boys!" Voldemort hissed. Nagini nodded and made her way towards James first. Harry flung himself in front of him and started talking back to Nagini.
"Don't do it! He's getting you to do his dirty work, is that what you want? To just do his dirty work?" Harry questioned the snake. The snake seemed to not know how to reply. Everyone stared at the scene before them; Voldemort and Harry talking to the snake in a different language.
"Attack him! Don't listen to him!" Voldemort hissed angrily. Nagini looked at her former master and nodded. She made her way to bite Harry, but not before Arthur Weasley stepped in.
"Stupefy!" he yelled. Nagini stopped in her tracks and froze. She was paralyzed.
"Nice one Arthur" Lupin said and smiled. Arthur smiled back.
"Thanks"
"DAD! LOOK OUT!" Ron's voice shouted, sounding panicky. Arthur turned around, but only to be hit by the Cruciatus curse. It was Lucius Malfoy.
"Avada Kedavra!" A voice yelled out. It was aimed right at James, but he was knocked out of the way by Harry. Harry missed the killing curse by inches.
Everyone gasped. Immediately pandemonium broke out. A huge fight between the Death Eaters and Voldemort against Sirius, Remus, Severus, Arthur, Harry and James broke out.
Sirius and Lupin were fighting five Death Eaters at once. Arthur was fighting Lucius Malfoy; Severus was trying to take on two Death Eaters at once, while Harry and James were trying their best to fight Voldemort. Everyone else was screaming and shouting, while hexes and unforgivable curses were being sent all over the place.
"Hermione, look out!" Lupin cried, quickly pushing Hermione out of the way and just missing the killing curse. Hermione slowly managed to steady her breathing back to normal.
It soon came down to just Harry and Voldemort. Most of the Death Eaters had been beaten and Arthur was looking particularly proud of himself at actually beating up Malfoy.
"Potter, this one's just between you and me" Voldemort whispered dangerously.
"No!" Sirius yelled, but Lupin held him back.
"Harry knows what he's doing" He whispered. James was badly injured as he was sitting with the other Marauders and Lily.
Voldemort and Harry were circling each other, until Voldemort made the first move.
"Avada Kedavra!" he shouted. Harry quickly dodged it and shouted "Expelliarmus!"
Everyone watched in fear as Harry and Voldemort dueled. Especially James and Sirius (the older one).
"CRUCIO!" Voldemort bellowed. Like what had happened in the previous year, their wands seemed to have connected once again. Their spells both turned gold and they began to rise off the floor. Everyone watched in awe at what was happening. Even Sirius, Lupin and Severus were gobsmacked. One-by-one, different people appeared until it came to Harry's parents.
"Son, I believe in you, your mother and I will hold them off, long enough for you to get away" James told his son. Harry nodded, then disconnected the spells, while Harry landed on the floor, he made to run, but he was held back by a firm hand on his shoulder. Harry looked up and his jaw dropped. It was Dumbledore from his time!
"Harry, I don't think you need to run anymore" Dumbledore said quietly, his eyes never leaving Voldemort.
Dumbledore strode forward, took out his wand and muttered something. As soon as this was done, all the Death Eaters ran off, while Voldemort glared at Dumbledore.
"We will be back and soon! Both the Potters' will die at my mercy!" Voldemort yelled and with that, he stormed off.
Everyone was silent as what they had seen sunk in. Then a boy spoke up.
"That was amazing!" and with that, everyone started cheering. Harry couldn't help, but smile, he had just helped save Hogwarts!
James walked over to him and put a hand on his shoulder.
"That was pretty brave of you Harry" he said, smiling. Harry felt his cheeks go hot, but nodded. He suddenly realized that he had tears in his eyes. James pulled him into a hug and everyone went 'aahh'
When James let go of him, Harry ran over to Sirius and hugged him too, then he found himself crying and he broke down, sobbing. Arthur, Lupin, Ron and Hermione all had tears in their eyes as they watched the scene before them. Sirius was patting him on the back and trying to comfort him, but Harry's sobs seemed to get louder.
Sirius couldn't take much more of it and broke down in tears too and Snape found himself chuckling.
"Look at you all, you're all crying" Dumbledore gave Snape a stern look before turning back to Lupin, Sirius, Harry, Ron, Hermione Arthur and Snape.
"We will be traveling back to our time shortly, but first, if I am correct, there is supposed to be a Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Slytherin in an hour?" Dumbledore's eyes twinkled "If I am correct, Harry's playing in it?"
Harry looked up with a tear-stained face and nodded.
"Well, then you'd better get ready" Dumbledore told him "Don't worry, Voldemort and that lot probably won't be anywhere near here in an hour"
Harry smiled and walked over to James and together, they both walked off to the changing rooms.
