Just as always- I don't own any of the characters in this story. Just the story line itself.
Chapter 4- A Mother's Spell
Beautiful music drifted into Harry's ears as he slowly looked around. There was a light tinged fog that seemed to drift all around them. Delicate music could be heard coming from what seemed to be all directions. Harry saw that Dumbledore, Mrs. Weasley, Remus, and Moody were all now standing and searching too. Harry was having small tremors of anxiety. This setting was bringing back bad memories of the end of fourth year when he came to in the graveyard. This area, however ominous it seemed, gave off feelings of love and comfort. The fear inside Harry slowly began to dissipate as he walked over towards everyone else.
"Professor Dumbledore, where are we?"
"I'm not sure Harry. It seems as if we have been transported into a memory, a lot like what happens when you enter a pensive. Your mother was always a very good student; I am not surprised that your mother was able to create something like this. I'll have to study the box when we get back out. Very imaginative."
Molly was just standing there, not sure what to make of the situation, the warm feelings surrounding her felt very much like the warm hugs she gives her own children. She felt like she was in her house, the warm feelings of love surrounding her as if it was home.
Moody was trying very hard to find an exit, his eye swarming in every direction to try and find any sort of way out. Remus on the other hand was standing very quiet off to the side, not saying anything, a look of knowledge sub-planted on his face.
'What is going on here,' Harry was asking himself. 'Why did I recognize that voice coming out of the music box and why did it bring us here. I don't see anything. I truly hope nothing is happening while we are trapped in here.'
Remus was watching Harry, he alone knowing what possibly was happening. Harry's eyes were starting to flash more and more with power as he became flustered and frustrated at his own line of thinking.
"Harry, come here a second."
Harry slowly walked over towards Remus, agitated at what was going on being completely out of his hands. Molly, Moody, and Dumbledore also gathered around as Remus attempted to explain to Harry what was going on.
"Harry, your mother designed this music box herself. It was supposed to be a way for her to keep and cherish memories. She could record feelings and thoughts in here also. Think of this as a very imaginative diary. To find out why we are here, I think you should just ask it. Speak aloud your question and see if there is an answer for why we are here."
'Well, nothing else to do really is there Harry,' he thought to himself.
Everyone else just stood there patiently waiting for Harry to go ahead. This was his question to ask and none of them felt like they should impose on what seemed to be a very private moment for Harry.
"Just speak aloud Harry, and you should be given an answer"
"Ok Moony. Um...well...why was I brought here and told to listen and remember?" Harry asked aloud.
A soft glow started to emanate in front of Harry, slowly taking on the shape of a human form. Remus was quaking behind Harry, he knew what was about to appear in front of Harry and he hoped Harry would be able to handle it. Putting his hand onto Harry's shoulder, Remus wanted Harry to know that he was there for whatever was about to happen.
Albus, Molly, and Moody all stood in a half crescent, ready to do what they could for whatever was about to happen.
Harry stood there, watching the form come forward from the mist. 'Oh God! No, it can't be. Now after all this time, after sixteen years of never having heard her or seen her. I just lost Sirius; please tell me this is happening.'
But no matter what Harry may have wished for, it was indeed happening. Out of the mist came a woman. Hair the color of fiery passion and eyes green as sparkling emeralds she stood there staring at him. She looked just like she had in the Mirror of Erised during first year. There in front of Harry stood Lily Potter, the mother Harry had never really known, having been dead for 15 years.
Remus hand quaked on Harry's shoulder as he held on not only to give Harry support but to keep himself from losing it just as much. Dumbledore stood there, shock evident on his face, but that twinkle in his eye glittering madly in its own way. Molly was in almost as much shock as Harry.
Molly had known who Harry's parents were, having seen pictures of them in Harry's photo albums but she was in know way prepared to see Lily come walking towards them. She was as beautiful as the pictures had shown, and in her eyes, Molly could see the love she had for her son, the same as Molly had for her own children, the same she held for Harry also as a part of her family.
"My son," Lily murmured. "You've grown so much"
Harry couldn't take it. It was too much, the tears were welling up into his eyes as he stared at his mother who for so many years he had wished to see. "Mom...Mom is that you..," Harry choked out as he stumbled forward, tears washing down his cheeks.
Lily ran forward, grabbing her son and holding him, comforting him as he wept.
"Harry, Harry, its ok, I'm here. I'm here for you."
Harry could do nothing but cry as he looked up into his mother's eyes and saw the same emotions he was filling reflected in her eyes. No words were needed at this moment. A mother held her son, comforting him in the grief he felt that had been building up for weeks and letting her love flow into him.
Molly cried also, holding onto Remus as he stared in shock at what was coming to be in front of him. Albus, not one to cry often, had tears sparkling in his beard as he witnessed the return of a mother to her son.
"How is this possible, you died. I've seen it in my nightmares. Every time I am near a dementor I hear your screams and his insane cackle. The green flashes....how is this possible?"
"Harry, before everything you remember happened, I transferred a complete copy of all my memories and thoughts into this music box. It is in essence a complete copy of me, just without physical form."
Dumbledore broke in. "Like Tom's diary second year Harry, only in visual form. This is to say, your mother's thoughts and soul, your mother just without a physical form outside of the box."
"Harry, I can tell by looking at you that something has happened. What is it?" Lily continued to study Harry, and she also saw the power that was manifested in her son.
"Sirius....he died...I'm sorry mother..it was..it was all my fault. I went to the department of ministries and it was just a trap. He came to save me and fell through the veil. It's been killing me inside. It's all my fault. I got Sirius killed, Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Luna, and Ginny almost killed."
At this a gasp came form Molly as she realized again how much of the blame Harry was truly laying on himself.
"It was all my fault mother and now, due to this, something has happened. I don't know what it is. This power Dumbledore has shown me to have just broke free and I don't know where it came from."
"Harry, first off, ...look at me... me and your father were not able to totally know what was going to happen with Voldemort. What makes you think anyone assumes you should be able to. I have a feeling you know just as well as I what that prophecy said but that does not mean you aren't supposed to be able to make a mistake or be fooled. Much more intelligent and wise people have been tricked by what there hearts told them to do. You aren't the first nor shall you be the last. Now, as to what has happened to you, I believe I know. But first, will you introduce me to everyone."
Lily stated this last part with a smile lighting up her face. It put a warm emotion into Harry to know that he was finally meeting his mother again
Before Harry could say anything Dumbledore stepped forward a bit. "We would all like to know what has happened to Harry, this power that he has come into but first hello again Lily. I'm sure I don't look too much different." Another twinkle in his eye evident of Dumbledore's good mood.
"Mom," Harry's voice still full of tears, "The only person I don't think you know here is Mrs. Weasley. This is my best friend Ron's mom. She's watched over me during the summer when I haven't been with the Dursleys."
Mrs. Weasley wasn't sure what to do. Here was the Harry's mother, a woman she had never met whose child she was trying to help grow up right. What could she say, she could only hope that Lily was not upset at her for having helped Harry as he has grown up. The fear was evident in Molly's eyes.
"Mrs. Weasley, I can see the fear in your eyes. Please, do not be afraid. I know that by just hearing the way Harry spoke that you have taken care of him when he needed it. Thank you... I am glad he had someone to be there for him since I could not."
Lily had tears of her own at this moment and Molly moved forward and the two women held each other, both feeling the way only a mother could feel for a child they loved. Molly and Lily were able to understand each other through their love for Harry.
Remus and Moody said hello after the two women separated Remus much more in shock than Moody who was seeming to take everything in stride.
Dumbledore decided to take control a little here. "You said you knew what might have happened to Harry?"
Harry just stood there looking at his mother, still in awe of the women who was his mother being in front of him.
"Yes Albus, it was from the same spell that protected Harry when I died. The same spell that saved him from dying when Voldemort cast the killing curse on him. My spell that created this box recorded everything around it so everything that happened that night was recorded in this box until it came to Petunia the next day who already had Harry in her possession. I know that Voldemort failed to kill Harry and what it did to him."
"What did that spell do that could have caused this huge influx of power to come to Harry 15 years later."
Lily smirked at Dumbledore, seeming to think that he should already know this answer. "That's simple Albus, the spell not only protected him, but absorbed the power of the curse also and hid it within Harry for later. A storage vessel so to say. Every Curse that has successfully been cast upon Harry in the last 15 years has added the equivalent amount of power to the vessel. It was not supposed to open up till he was of age and able to fully control the influx after having been fully grown. The pain and anguish he felt form Sirius's death has prematurely opened the vessel and now Harry has permanently increased the level of his power to that of what has been added to it. His magical power and ability will not use this up and decrease back but shall stay this way as a permanent level. I did this so that if Harry was in turn to be taken from my care he would be protected and able to see to himself later in life. I had no idea that it would make him so much more powerful though."
Moody and Remus could do nothing but just stand there. They could not fathom what had just been told to them. Molly stood with her hand over mouth, covering the gasp that she was trying to issue. Dumbledore stood there for second then did the last thing expected, he laughed. A happy ecstatic laugh that seemed to carry all around.
'What is so funny Professor," Harry asked Dumbledore?
Looking at Harry and Lily Dumbledore spoke. "Harry, you were already one of the most powerful adolescent wizards I had ever seen come though Hogwarts. You were able to fight off Voldemort more times than anyone except me already, you killed a fully grown ancient Basilisk in your send year, and you were able to cast a full corporeal Patronus in your third year. The power you already displayed was way above average for anyone your age. And now, this influx of power that was designed to help protect you has pushed you beyond more than twice my own magical power. I was laughing because I find it ironic that Voldemort all this time has been trying to kill you but every time he cursed you or hexed you he was in fact only making you stronger. His own anger and malevolence shall be that which in the end is his downfall."
At this Dumbledore laughed again as Remus, Moody, and Molly stared in awe at Harry.
"Does this mean that I will be able to help fight back now Professor?"
"Yes it does Harry, but first I believe we should go back to # 12 and let everyone that needs to know about the full prophecy hear it and then explain to a small group what has fully happened. I'm sure this will be quite a surprise to them."
"Ok professor, but I want Ron, Hermione, and Ginny there. Also, I want to be there when you tell the order. I want to see Snape's face when he hears this."
"Professor Snape Harry, but yes you can be there as well as everyone mentioned. Now I believe it is safe to say that Harry will be able to come in here whenever he wants to Lily?"
"Yes, he can open the box and step in here when ever he wants. I can't tell you how long I have waited to meet my son, there is no way I could stay away form him now even if I am only my mind without a body."
"Mom, is it alright if I bring some of my friends to meet you next time I come in here?"
"Yes Harry that would be fine. I want to meet all of your friends. And that special someone I know you think about of. And don't look at me like that, I know there is someone you are thinking of, I could see it in your eyes. I am your mother."
Molly looked at him. "What special someone is she talking about Harry?" Molly asked grinning.
"No one," stammered Harry quite flustered at this point, "but yes mom I will bring that person when they know who they are." The way he answered let Lily know that he meant he hadn't even told the girl yet.
"Of course Harry, I just want to meet the girl that has infatuated you. Bring her along too."
"Ok mom," he said grinning.
"Come along Harry," Dumbledore said. "We got to get you packed then off to # 12 we go. You can come back in here later tonight or tomorrow with anyone you want to come along. I wouldn't dare try to keep you out of here, I'm not that loony," he chuckled.
Harry ran over to his Mom and hugged her.
"I'll be back shortly mom, as soon as I can. I love you."
"I love you too Harry. Be safe, I missed you."
"Missed you too mom"
And on that note, Harry, Mrs. Weasley, Dumbledore, Remus, and Moody waved goodbye and they disappeared back out into Harry's room to finish his packing and get ready to go to # 12 Grimwauld place.
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Chapter 4- A Mother's Spell
Beautiful music drifted into Harry's ears as he slowly looked around. There was a light tinged fog that seemed to drift all around them. Delicate music could be heard coming from what seemed to be all directions. Harry saw that Dumbledore, Mrs. Weasley, Remus, and Moody were all now standing and searching too. Harry was having small tremors of anxiety. This setting was bringing back bad memories of the end of fourth year when he came to in the graveyard. This area, however ominous it seemed, gave off feelings of love and comfort. The fear inside Harry slowly began to dissipate as he walked over towards everyone else.
"Professor Dumbledore, where are we?"
"I'm not sure Harry. It seems as if we have been transported into a memory, a lot like what happens when you enter a pensive. Your mother was always a very good student; I am not surprised that your mother was able to create something like this. I'll have to study the box when we get back out. Very imaginative."
Molly was just standing there, not sure what to make of the situation, the warm feelings surrounding her felt very much like the warm hugs she gives her own children. She felt like she was in her house, the warm feelings of love surrounding her as if it was home.
Moody was trying very hard to find an exit, his eye swarming in every direction to try and find any sort of way out. Remus on the other hand was standing very quiet off to the side, not saying anything, a look of knowledge sub-planted on his face.
'What is going on here,' Harry was asking himself. 'Why did I recognize that voice coming out of the music box and why did it bring us here. I don't see anything. I truly hope nothing is happening while we are trapped in here.'
Remus was watching Harry, he alone knowing what possibly was happening. Harry's eyes were starting to flash more and more with power as he became flustered and frustrated at his own line of thinking.
"Harry, come here a second."
Harry slowly walked over towards Remus, agitated at what was going on being completely out of his hands. Molly, Moody, and Dumbledore also gathered around as Remus attempted to explain to Harry what was going on.
"Harry, your mother designed this music box herself. It was supposed to be a way for her to keep and cherish memories. She could record feelings and thoughts in here also. Think of this as a very imaginative diary. To find out why we are here, I think you should just ask it. Speak aloud your question and see if there is an answer for why we are here."
'Well, nothing else to do really is there Harry,' he thought to himself.
Everyone else just stood there patiently waiting for Harry to go ahead. This was his question to ask and none of them felt like they should impose on what seemed to be a very private moment for Harry.
"Just speak aloud Harry, and you should be given an answer"
"Ok Moony. Um...well...why was I brought here and told to listen and remember?" Harry asked aloud.
A soft glow started to emanate in front of Harry, slowly taking on the shape of a human form. Remus was quaking behind Harry, he knew what was about to appear in front of Harry and he hoped Harry would be able to handle it. Putting his hand onto Harry's shoulder, Remus wanted Harry to know that he was there for whatever was about to happen.
Albus, Molly, and Moody all stood in a half crescent, ready to do what they could for whatever was about to happen.
Harry stood there, watching the form come forward from the mist. 'Oh God! No, it can't be. Now after all this time, after sixteen years of never having heard her or seen her. I just lost Sirius; please tell me this is happening.'
But no matter what Harry may have wished for, it was indeed happening. Out of the mist came a woman. Hair the color of fiery passion and eyes green as sparkling emeralds she stood there staring at him. She looked just like she had in the Mirror of Erised during first year. There in front of Harry stood Lily Potter, the mother Harry had never really known, having been dead for 15 years.
Remus hand quaked on Harry's shoulder as he held on not only to give Harry support but to keep himself from losing it just as much. Dumbledore stood there, shock evident on his face, but that twinkle in his eye glittering madly in its own way. Molly was in almost as much shock as Harry.
Molly had known who Harry's parents were, having seen pictures of them in Harry's photo albums but she was in know way prepared to see Lily come walking towards them. She was as beautiful as the pictures had shown, and in her eyes, Molly could see the love she had for her son, the same as Molly had for her own children, the same she held for Harry also as a part of her family.
"My son," Lily murmured. "You've grown so much"
Harry couldn't take it. It was too much, the tears were welling up into his eyes as he stared at his mother who for so many years he had wished to see. "Mom...Mom is that you..," Harry choked out as he stumbled forward, tears washing down his cheeks.
Lily ran forward, grabbing her son and holding him, comforting him as he wept.
"Harry, Harry, its ok, I'm here. I'm here for you."
Harry could do nothing but cry as he looked up into his mother's eyes and saw the same emotions he was filling reflected in her eyes. No words were needed at this moment. A mother held her son, comforting him in the grief he felt that had been building up for weeks and letting her love flow into him.
Molly cried also, holding onto Remus as he stared in shock at what was coming to be in front of him. Albus, not one to cry often, had tears sparkling in his beard as he witnessed the return of a mother to her son.
"How is this possible, you died. I've seen it in my nightmares. Every time I am near a dementor I hear your screams and his insane cackle. The green flashes....how is this possible?"
"Harry, before everything you remember happened, I transferred a complete copy of all my memories and thoughts into this music box. It is in essence a complete copy of me, just without physical form."
Dumbledore broke in. "Like Tom's diary second year Harry, only in visual form. This is to say, your mother's thoughts and soul, your mother just without a physical form outside of the box."
"Harry, I can tell by looking at you that something has happened. What is it?" Lily continued to study Harry, and she also saw the power that was manifested in her son.
"Sirius....he died...I'm sorry mother..it was..it was all my fault. I went to the department of ministries and it was just a trap. He came to save me and fell through the veil. It's been killing me inside. It's all my fault. I got Sirius killed, Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Luna, and Ginny almost killed."
At this a gasp came form Molly as she realized again how much of the blame Harry was truly laying on himself.
"It was all my fault mother and now, due to this, something has happened. I don't know what it is. This power Dumbledore has shown me to have just broke free and I don't know where it came from."
"Harry, first off, ...look at me... me and your father were not able to totally know what was going to happen with Voldemort. What makes you think anyone assumes you should be able to. I have a feeling you know just as well as I what that prophecy said but that does not mean you aren't supposed to be able to make a mistake or be fooled. Much more intelligent and wise people have been tricked by what there hearts told them to do. You aren't the first nor shall you be the last. Now, as to what has happened to you, I believe I know. But first, will you introduce me to everyone."
Lily stated this last part with a smile lighting up her face. It put a warm emotion into Harry to know that he was finally meeting his mother again
Before Harry could say anything Dumbledore stepped forward a bit. "We would all like to know what has happened to Harry, this power that he has come into but first hello again Lily. I'm sure I don't look too much different." Another twinkle in his eye evident of Dumbledore's good mood.
"Mom," Harry's voice still full of tears, "The only person I don't think you know here is Mrs. Weasley. This is my best friend Ron's mom. She's watched over me during the summer when I haven't been with the Dursleys."
Mrs. Weasley wasn't sure what to do. Here was the Harry's mother, a woman she had never met whose child she was trying to help grow up right. What could she say, she could only hope that Lily was not upset at her for having helped Harry as he has grown up. The fear was evident in Molly's eyes.
"Mrs. Weasley, I can see the fear in your eyes. Please, do not be afraid. I know that by just hearing the way Harry spoke that you have taken care of him when he needed it. Thank you... I am glad he had someone to be there for him since I could not."
Lily had tears of her own at this moment and Molly moved forward and the two women held each other, both feeling the way only a mother could feel for a child they loved. Molly and Lily were able to understand each other through their love for Harry.
Remus and Moody said hello after the two women separated Remus much more in shock than Moody who was seeming to take everything in stride.
Dumbledore decided to take control a little here. "You said you knew what might have happened to Harry?"
Harry just stood there looking at his mother, still in awe of the women who was his mother being in front of him.
"Yes Albus, it was from the same spell that protected Harry when I died. The same spell that saved him from dying when Voldemort cast the killing curse on him. My spell that created this box recorded everything around it so everything that happened that night was recorded in this box until it came to Petunia the next day who already had Harry in her possession. I know that Voldemort failed to kill Harry and what it did to him."
"What did that spell do that could have caused this huge influx of power to come to Harry 15 years later."
Lily smirked at Dumbledore, seeming to think that he should already know this answer. "That's simple Albus, the spell not only protected him, but absorbed the power of the curse also and hid it within Harry for later. A storage vessel so to say. Every Curse that has successfully been cast upon Harry in the last 15 years has added the equivalent amount of power to the vessel. It was not supposed to open up till he was of age and able to fully control the influx after having been fully grown. The pain and anguish he felt form Sirius's death has prematurely opened the vessel and now Harry has permanently increased the level of his power to that of what has been added to it. His magical power and ability will not use this up and decrease back but shall stay this way as a permanent level. I did this so that if Harry was in turn to be taken from my care he would be protected and able to see to himself later in life. I had no idea that it would make him so much more powerful though."
Moody and Remus could do nothing but just stand there. They could not fathom what had just been told to them. Molly stood with her hand over mouth, covering the gasp that she was trying to issue. Dumbledore stood there for second then did the last thing expected, he laughed. A happy ecstatic laugh that seemed to carry all around.
'What is so funny Professor," Harry asked Dumbledore?
Looking at Harry and Lily Dumbledore spoke. "Harry, you were already one of the most powerful adolescent wizards I had ever seen come though Hogwarts. You were able to fight off Voldemort more times than anyone except me already, you killed a fully grown ancient Basilisk in your send year, and you were able to cast a full corporeal Patronus in your third year. The power you already displayed was way above average for anyone your age. And now, this influx of power that was designed to help protect you has pushed you beyond more than twice my own magical power. I was laughing because I find it ironic that Voldemort all this time has been trying to kill you but every time he cursed you or hexed you he was in fact only making you stronger. His own anger and malevolence shall be that which in the end is his downfall."
At this Dumbledore laughed again as Remus, Moody, and Molly stared in awe at Harry.
"Does this mean that I will be able to help fight back now Professor?"
"Yes it does Harry, but first I believe we should go back to # 12 and let everyone that needs to know about the full prophecy hear it and then explain to a small group what has fully happened. I'm sure this will be quite a surprise to them."
"Ok professor, but I want Ron, Hermione, and Ginny there. Also, I want to be there when you tell the order. I want to see Snape's face when he hears this."
"Professor Snape Harry, but yes you can be there as well as everyone mentioned. Now I believe it is safe to say that Harry will be able to come in here whenever he wants to Lily?"
"Yes, he can open the box and step in here when ever he wants. I can't tell you how long I have waited to meet my son, there is no way I could stay away form him now even if I am only my mind without a body."
"Mom, is it alright if I bring some of my friends to meet you next time I come in here?"
"Yes Harry that would be fine. I want to meet all of your friends. And that special someone I know you think about of. And don't look at me like that, I know there is someone you are thinking of, I could see it in your eyes. I am your mother."
Molly looked at him. "What special someone is she talking about Harry?" Molly asked grinning.
"No one," stammered Harry quite flustered at this point, "but yes mom I will bring that person when they know who they are." The way he answered let Lily know that he meant he hadn't even told the girl yet.
"Of course Harry, I just want to meet the girl that has infatuated you. Bring her along too."
"Ok mom," he said grinning.
"Come along Harry," Dumbledore said. "We got to get you packed then off to # 12 we go. You can come back in here later tonight or tomorrow with anyone you want to come along. I wouldn't dare try to keep you out of here, I'm not that loony," he chuckled.
Harry ran over to his Mom and hugged her.
"I'll be back shortly mom, as soon as I can. I love you."
"I love you too Harry. Be safe, I missed you."
"Missed you too mom"
And on that note, Harry, Mrs. Weasley, Dumbledore, Remus, and Moody waved goodbye and they disappeared back out into Harry's room to finish his packing and get ready to go to # 12 Grimwauld place.
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