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Lana was sat on the end of her mothers bed, staring into the fire, thinking about what Sirius had meant.
Her breath caught in her throat and a hand gripped Lanas throat, tight. Her eyes flashed around, trying to look for whatever it was that had grabbed her. She couldnt see anything tho, and started grabbing at it, trying to pull it off as it was choking her. She screamed as the hand flung her across the room, at the wall opposite the fire.
Grabbing her wand, she said "Revealay", but since she didnt know where to aim it, the thing was invisible and the spell had no effect except the jet of bright blue light smashed a mirror when it hit it.
She hit the wall with a dull thud and groaned and she slid down the wall. Shed almost reached the floor when the hand grabbed her again and started choking her, pushing her higher up the wall.
Dropping her wand, Lana tried to kick or punch or pull the thing off of her, but it didnt work and she was starting to see stars in front of her eyes. Her arms and legs were flailing, and Lana managed to grasp whatever it was and she loosened hits grip by throwing both of her knees against it.
Falling to the floor, she was gasping for breath, she saw Lupin rush in.
"Lana? You okay?" he asked, looking around.
"Fine, just being choked to death - stay back!" she said as he began to walk further into the bedroom.
Suddenly, Lana was flung across the room, and the hand grabbed at her throat again. Cursing, she kicked out at it again but it didnt make a difference. Instead, of strangling her, it lifted her up.
Lupin was unsure of what to do. Erica had been an Unspeakable, true, so God knows what she had in here, but he doubted she would have something in here that would purposefully attack her daughter. He was confused. Hed never seen anything like this before. Mainly because its invisible, he reminded himself. The bloody thing was attacking Lana and there was nothing he could do.
Lana let out a piercing scream that chilled Lupin to the bone. Looking over at her, he saw that the thing was now scratching at her, and seeing Lana hovering, flinging her arms and legs at something that was ripping her to shreds also chilled him to the bone.
A morbid fascination crept over Lupin as he saw that the blood was being pulled from her, by something invisible, from certain parts of her body. Her legs, her arms, and two cuts on her chest. 6 lanes of blood, being pulled out. They joined together about a foot in front of Lana, and then, just as they got to the fireplace, they spread out again. The blood rushed through the top of the fireplace, highlighting certain parts of it. He looked at the fireplace, then back to Lana who had stopped screaming and was now lying on the floor.
"Lana?" said Lupin, striding across the room towards her. She sat up, and looked at the fireplace. "Moony look! Words!"
"Huh?" he said, looking at Lana.
Scrambling to the fireplace, Lana stared at the blood words in fascination. "Words. When I was a kid I thought it was a pattern, but look - " she pointed to where the blood had filled in parts of it, revealing some foreign language.
Turning to look at Lupin, who was looking less than impressed. "Youve just been almost strangled and sliced at, and all you care about is this bloody language? You could have DIED."
"Oh lighten up Moony" she said, waving a hand at him.
But he just frowned at her even more. "You dont have a scratch on you." he commented.
Lana looked down at her chest and legs and arms. "Hm. So I dont." she commented flippantly, turning back the writing.
"How can you just act like this?" Lupin asked, getting angry. "You almost DIED. And you dont care. Thats always been your problem."
"What has? You know what, we can talk about this later." She carried on looking at the writing.
Lupin sighed. "What does it say?"
"I dont know. Its some kind of weird language." Lana said. "kuun kehran kelmean -" Was as far as Lana got before Lupin grabbed her and put his hand over her mouth, and one around her waist. "mmmfmfmsj"
"Are you insane? Did all that time on another place scramble your brain?"said Lupin harshly.
"msjnommmmmf" Lana said.
"Do you promise not to read outloud again?" he asked and she nodded. He removed his hand from her mouth.
"That hurt." she said quietly.
"Sorry, I didnt realise Id been so rough."
"No. Not that." she told him quietly. She moved away from him and picked up her wand. "Accio parchment." she muttered, and some parchment zoomed into the room.
Lupin knew that hed hurt her by mentioning the other plane. He hadnt known this could hurt her, because she never spoke about what happened while she was on that plane. He only knew that something great and something terrible had happened to her. And that she had learnt about her powers. Her *other* powers, is what she had said. What they were, he didnt know. He had only heard about them from Sirius, James and Lily. Lupin wasnt there, he was in full wolf mode by then.
Lana sat on the bed, and a black line was coming from her wand as she copied the words down. Red blood against the white of the fireplace.
"kuun kehran kelmean alta tuli tunne. kuin varjo kuin uni menneiden aikojen kuin kuollut, vainaa seuruassa elavien." Lana handed the piece of parchment to Lupin and he read it.
"Sorry. I really am, Nay, I just - Didnt realise. Talk to me."
"I am talking to you. I think we should get out of here. Fuck knows what other things Erica had in here." Lana said sharply, grabbing her jacket and pulling it on, and the helmet in her left hand, wand in her right.
"No. I mean. Talk to me." Lupin said slowly, looking into Lanas eyes.
It clicked. But she wasnt going to tell him. "Theres nothing to talk about." she said shortly, looking away.
Lupin put his hand under Lanas chin and made her look up at him. "I wish I could break that wall down." he said softly.
"What wall?" she said defiantly, knowing full well what he meant.
"The one around you." Lupin moved his hand. "Why is it there?"
"Why do you think?" she said, the hardness in her voice that had been developing over the past few weeks there. "Everyone I love gets hurt or killed. Love is weakness. Were fighting a damn war. We dont have time for weakness."
And with that, she jammed her wand into her pocket, her helmet on, took the parchment from Lupin and shoved it into her pocket and walked out of the room.
**********THE LEAKY CAULDRON**********
Harry walked into the Leaky Cauldron, excited at what he had found. From the peeps hed had at it while he was walking back, it looked like it had a lot of photos and newspaper cuttings in it.
He barely registered the Weasleys, who had now all arrived at the Leaky Cauldron, when he walked past them. Much to Ginnys dismay, he just waved and carried on walking.
Ron walked out of the toilets and bumped into Harry.
"Need new glasses Harry?" joked Ron, who had grown 2 inches in the past 3 weeks. He was dressed in dark denim jeans and trainers, with a white t- shirt on.
"What?" Harry said, coming out of his thoughts. He blinked and looked at Ron. "Sorry mate, Im just a little distracted."
"How are you Ron? Im fine Harry, you? Yeah Im okay. Thanks for asking Harry." said Ron, grinning at his best friend.
Harry grinned and pulled Ron into a rough, one armed hug. "Youre welcome."
The smile faded from Rons face as he studied Harry. Taller, thinner, he had a shadowed look about his usually brilliantly bright green eyes. He looked...Tired. "Are you okay?" he asked seriously.
"Honestly? Honestly no." said Harry quietly, avoiding Rons eyes. Although, Rons presence had cheered him up greatly.
"Still thinking about Sirius?" Ron asked gently, absent-mindley scratching one of the scars that the brains had left on his arms.
"Yeah."
"Harry, I - Im sorry. I should have done more. I dont - "Ron asked, leaning against the wall.
Harry put a hand up to tell Ron to stop talking. "I dont wanna talk about it. You were almost killed. I put everyone who I love in danger, all because of a stupid dream. And Sirius paid the price of "me loving to play the hero"." Harry echoed Hermiones words, and theyd been ringing true ever since that day.
"Harry, dont blame yourself. You cant." Ron didnt know what to say. This was more Hermione or Ginnys area, not his. Desperate for a change of subject, Ron said. "Wheres that wacky Lana?" he asked.
"Shes not wacky." Harry said, on the defensive straight away. Then he frowned. "You know her?"
Ron had landed himself at the recieving end of Harrys temper again. No point in lying, he thought. "She spent a day or so at the Burrow. Apparently she went psycho and they had to get her out of the way of the Muggles. Or so Fred says."
"Lanas not a psycho at all." But upon thinking for a moment, Harry said "Shes a bit - wild, but...She has her reasons."
"Irresponsible is the word your looking for." came a voice that Harry wasnt nearly as pleased to hear. Snape appeared from around the corner.
Harry wasnt in school now, and Snapes treatment of Sirius when he was alive and Snapes remarks to Lana about Sirius had pissed him off, and he wasnt going to take anymore of Snapes crap.
"Shouldnt you be wearing body armour? Lana might decide to punch you again." Harry said, eyes boring into Snape and an amused smile played on Harrys lips.
Ron burst out laughing and then stopped when Snape glared at him.
Face reddening, Snape said ,"I see the famous Harry Potters got his faithful sidekick Weasley back with him then." He swept off, walking down the corridor.
Harry had to fight the urge to throw his newly-found book at the back of Snapes head.
"Im not taking any of his crap when we get back to school. Screw the House Cup, he can knock as many points off as he wants." Harry said, angrily.
Ginny sat watching Harry and Ron from a distance. She really wanted Harry to notice her this year, despite telling Hermione that she had given up on him. She was also worried as to how Harry was coping with Sirius' death, and the newly arrived Lana. Deciding she was going to go and talk to him, she stood up.
"Snapes a git Harry, he always has been." said Ron. "Do you know when Hermiones supposed to be getting here?"
"Hermione?" Harry asked, suprised. "No, I dont. I didnt know all you guys were going to be here."
"So youre not going to throw a paddy this year then?" Ron asked, smirking.
"WHAT! I DID NOT THROW A PADDY!" Harry said, outraged. Then, realising that Ron was mocking him, laughed. "No. Lana told me a lot of things. Some that she shouldnt, and Ive only been away for 2 weeks, and with the Dursleys being afraid of Lupin and everyone..."
"Hey Harry." Ginny said brightly, standing inbetween Ron and Harry. Ginny was dressed in a pair of dark brown cord trousers and a white jumper. Her bright red hair had been neatly straightened and cut to just below her shoulders. She had grown an inch or so, but was still a little bit smaller than Harry. Just right to look into his green eyes, she thought, glad that nobody could read her mind. Now aged 15, Ginny had grown into herself. Her face was still a little chubby, but she had cheekbones that angled her face, and she was skinny. Ginny wanted a body like Hermiones, small and curvy.
Harry stared.
"Hello? Earth to Harry!" Ron said, nudging his best friend.
Ginny felt her face reddening under Harrys gaze.
"Sorry....Just thinking," Harry said quickly, "Hey Ginny." he said, smiling at her.
"What you got there?" she asked, indicating the journal.
"Oh, you mean this?" Harry said.
Ginny nodded.
Why am I talking like an idiot? Harry thought. Reminds me of when I used to act like this around Cho...
"No, she means the other book." Ron said sarcastically. He realised hed spent too much time around Fred and George.
"I think its a journal. Lana gave me a key to a Gringotts vault, its full of her, Sirius and my parents old stuff. Mostly my parents." he said quietly.
"Oh Harry." Ginny said quietly, wanting to hug him. "How are you, you know, with Sirius and - "
"Well Im sick of people asking me about that for one." snapped Harry, then regretting it.
Ginny was a little taken aback. "Sorry for caring." she snapped back, and turned on her heels, marching back to sit with Bill and Charlie.
"Nice one mate." Ron said, wondering if Ginny was okay.
"Ill see you later" Harry said, walking past Ron and going to his room.
Lana was sat on the end of her mothers bed, staring into the fire, thinking about what Sirius had meant.
Her breath caught in her throat and a hand gripped Lanas throat, tight. Her eyes flashed around, trying to look for whatever it was that had grabbed her. She couldnt see anything tho, and started grabbing at it, trying to pull it off as it was choking her. She screamed as the hand flung her across the room, at the wall opposite the fire.
Grabbing her wand, she said "Revealay", but since she didnt know where to aim it, the thing was invisible and the spell had no effect except the jet of bright blue light smashed a mirror when it hit it.
She hit the wall with a dull thud and groaned and she slid down the wall. Shed almost reached the floor when the hand grabbed her again and started choking her, pushing her higher up the wall.
Dropping her wand, Lana tried to kick or punch or pull the thing off of her, but it didnt work and she was starting to see stars in front of her eyes. Her arms and legs were flailing, and Lana managed to grasp whatever it was and she loosened hits grip by throwing both of her knees against it.
Falling to the floor, she was gasping for breath, she saw Lupin rush in.
"Lana? You okay?" he asked, looking around.
"Fine, just being choked to death - stay back!" she said as he began to walk further into the bedroom.
Suddenly, Lana was flung across the room, and the hand grabbed at her throat again. Cursing, she kicked out at it again but it didnt make a difference. Instead, of strangling her, it lifted her up.
Lupin was unsure of what to do. Erica had been an Unspeakable, true, so God knows what she had in here, but he doubted she would have something in here that would purposefully attack her daughter. He was confused. Hed never seen anything like this before. Mainly because its invisible, he reminded himself. The bloody thing was attacking Lana and there was nothing he could do.
Lana let out a piercing scream that chilled Lupin to the bone. Looking over at her, he saw that the thing was now scratching at her, and seeing Lana hovering, flinging her arms and legs at something that was ripping her to shreds also chilled him to the bone.
A morbid fascination crept over Lupin as he saw that the blood was being pulled from her, by something invisible, from certain parts of her body. Her legs, her arms, and two cuts on her chest. 6 lanes of blood, being pulled out. They joined together about a foot in front of Lana, and then, just as they got to the fireplace, they spread out again. The blood rushed through the top of the fireplace, highlighting certain parts of it. He looked at the fireplace, then back to Lana who had stopped screaming and was now lying on the floor.
"Lana?" said Lupin, striding across the room towards her. She sat up, and looked at the fireplace. "Moony look! Words!"
"Huh?" he said, looking at Lana.
Scrambling to the fireplace, Lana stared at the blood words in fascination. "Words. When I was a kid I thought it was a pattern, but look - " she pointed to where the blood had filled in parts of it, revealing some foreign language.
Turning to look at Lupin, who was looking less than impressed. "Youve just been almost strangled and sliced at, and all you care about is this bloody language? You could have DIED."
"Oh lighten up Moony" she said, waving a hand at him.
But he just frowned at her even more. "You dont have a scratch on you." he commented.
Lana looked down at her chest and legs and arms. "Hm. So I dont." she commented flippantly, turning back the writing.
"How can you just act like this?" Lupin asked, getting angry. "You almost DIED. And you dont care. Thats always been your problem."
"What has? You know what, we can talk about this later." She carried on looking at the writing.
Lupin sighed. "What does it say?"
"I dont know. Its some kind of weird language." Lana said. "kuun kehran kelmean -" Was as far as Lana got before Lupin grabbed her and put his hand over her mouth, and one around her waist. "mmmfmfmsj"
"Are you insane? Did all that time on another place scramble your brain?"said Lupin harshly.
"msjnommmmmf" Lana said.
"Do you promise not to read outloud again?" he asked and she nodded. He removed his hand from her mouth.
"That hurt." she said quietly.
"Sorry, I didnt realise Id been so rough."
"No. Not that." she told him quietly. She moved away from him and picked up her wand. "Accio parchment." she muttered, and some parchment zoomed into the room.
Lupin knew that hed hurt her by mentioning the other plane. He hadnt known this could hurt her, because she never spoke about what happened while she was on that plane. He only knew that something great and something terrible had happened to her. And that she had learnt about her powers. Her *other* powers, is what she had said. What they were, he didnt know. He had only heard about them from Sirius, James and Lily. Lupin wasnt there, he was in full wolf mode by then.
Lana sat on the bed, and a black line was coming from her wand as she copied the words down. Red blood against the white of the fireplace.
"kuun kehran kelmean alta tuli tunne. kuin varjo kuin uni menneiden aikojen kuin kuollut, vainaa seuruassa elavien." Lana handed the piece of parchment to Lupin and he read it.
"Sorry. I really am, Nay, I just - Didnt realise. Talk to me."
"I am talking to you. I think we should get out of here. Fuck knows what other things Erica had in here." Lana said sharply, grabbing her jacket and pulling it on, and the helmet in her left hand, wand in her right.
"No. I mean. Talk to me." Lupin said slowly, looking into Lanas eyes.
It clicked. But she wasnt going to tell him. "Theres nothing to talk about." she said shortly, looking away.
Lupin put his hand under Lanas chin and made her look up at him. "I wish I could break that wall down." he said softly.
"What wall?" she said defiantly, knowing full well what he meant.
"The one around you." Lupin moved his hand. "Why is it there?"
"Why do you think?" she said, the hardness in her voice that had been developing over the past few weeks there. "Everyone I love gets hurt or killed. Love is weakness. Were fighting a damn war. We dont have time for weakness."
And with that, she jammed her wand into her pocket, her helmet on, took the parchment from Lupin and shoved it into her pocket and walked out of the room.
**********THE LEAKY CAULDRON**********
Harry walked into the Leaky Cauldron, excited at what he had found. From the peeps hed had at it while he was walking back, it looked like it had a lot of photos and newspaper cuttings in it.
He barely registered the Weasleys, who had now all arrived at the Leaky Cauldron, when he walked past them. Much to Ginnys dismay, he just waved and carried on walking.
Ron walked out of the toilets and bumped into Harry.
"Need new glasses Harry?" joked Ron, who had grown 2 inches in the past 3 weeks. He was dressed in dark denim jeans and trainers, with a white t- shirt on.
"What?" Harry said, coming out of his thoughts. He blinked and looked at Ron. "Sorry mate, Im just a little distracted."
"How are you Ron? Im fine Harry, you? Yeah Im okay. Thanks for asking Harry." said Ron, grinning at his best friend.
Harry grinned and pulled Ron into a rough, one armed hug. "Youre welcome."
The smile faded from Rons face as he studied Harry. Taller, thinner, he had a shadowed look about his usually brilliantly bright green eyes. He looked...Tired. "Are you okay?" he asked seriously.
"Honestly? Honestly no." said Harry quietly, avoiding Rons eyes. Although, Rons presence had cheered him up greatly.
"Still thinking about Sirius?" Ron asked gently, absent-mindley scratching one of the scars that the brains had left on his arms.
"Yeah."
"Harry, I - Im sorry. I should have done more. I dont - "Ron asked, leaning against the wall.
Harry put a hand up to tell Ron to stop talking. "I dont wanna talk about it. You were almost killed. I put everyone who I love in danger, all because of a stupid dream. And Sirius paid the price of "me loving to play the hero"." Harry echoed Hermiones words, and theyd been ringing true ever since that day.
"Harry, dont blame yourself. You cant." Ron didnt know what to say. This was more Hermione or Ginnys area, not his. Desperate for a change of subject, Ron said. "Wheres that wacky Lana?" he asked.
"Shes not wacky." Harry said, on the defensive straight away. Then he frowned. "You know her?"
Ron had landed himself at the recieving end of Harrys temper again. No point in lying, he thought. "She spent a day or so at the Burrow. Apparently she went psycho and they had to get her out of the way of the Muggles. Or so Fred says."
"Lanas not a psycho at all." But upon thinking for a moment, Harry said "Shes a bit - wild, but...She has her reasons."
"Irresponsible is the word your looking for." came a voice that Harry wasnt nearly as pleased to hear. Snape appeared from around the corner.
Harry wasnt in school now, and Snapes treatment of Sirius when he was alive and Snapes remarks to Lana about Sirius had pissed him off, and he wasnt going to take anymore of Snapes crap.
"Shouldnt you be wearing body armour? Lana might decide to punch you again." Harry said, eyes boring into Snape and an amused smile played on Harrys lips.
Ron burst out laughing and then stopped when Snape glared at him.
Face reddening, Snape said ,"I see the famous Harry Potters got his faithful sidekick Weasley back with him then." He swept off, walking down the corridor.
Harry had to fight the urge to throw his newly-found book at the back of Snapes head.
"Im not taking any of his crap when we get back to school. Screw the House Cup, he can knock as many points off as he wants." Harry said, angrily.
Ginny sat watching Harry and Ron from a distance. She really wanted Harry to notice her this year, despite telling Hermione that she had given up on him. She was also worried as to how Harry was coping with Sirius' death, and the newly arrived Lana. Deciding she was going to go and talk to him, she stood up.
"Snapes a git Harry, he always has been." said Ron. "Do you know when Hermiones supposed to be getting here?"
"Hermione?" Harry asked, suprised. "No, I dont. I didnt know all you guys were going to be here."
"So youre not going to throw a paddy this year then?" Ron asked, smirking.
"WHAT! I DID NOT THROW A PADDY!" Harry said, outraged. Then, realising that Ron was mocking him, laughed. "No. Lana told me a lot of things. Some that she shouldnt, and Ive only been away for 2 weeks, and with the Dursleys being afraid of Lupin and everyone..."
"Hey Harry." Ginny said brightly, standing inbetween Ron and Harry. Ginny was dressed in a pair of dark brown cord trousers and a white jumper. Her bright red hair had been neatly straightened and cut to just below her shoulders. She had grown an inch or so, but was still a little bit smaller than Harry. Just right to look into his green eyes, she thought, glad that nobody could read her mind. Now aged 15, Ginny had grown into herself. Her face was still a little chubby, but she had cheekbones that angled her face, and she was skinny. Ginny wanted a body like Hermiones, small and curvy.
Harry stared.
"Hello? Earth to Harry!" Ron said, nudging his best friend.
Ginny felt her face reddening under Harrys gaze.
"Sorry....Just thinking," Harry said quickly, "Hey Ginny." he said, smiling at her.
"What you got there?" she asked, indicating the journal.
"Oh, you mean this?" Harry said.
Ginny nodded.
Why am I talking like an idiot? Harry thought. Reminds me of when I used to act like this around Cho...
"No, she means the other book." Ron said sarcastically. He realised hed spent too much time around Fred and George.
"I think its a journal. Lana gave me a key to a Gringotts vault, its full of her, Sirius and my parents old stuff. Mostly my parents." he said quietly.
"Oh Harry." Ginny said quietly, wanting to hug him. "How are you, you know, with Sirius and - "
"Well Im sick of people asking me about that for one." snapped Harry, then regretting it.
Ginny was a little taken aback. "Sorry for caring." she snapped back, and turned on her heels, marching back to sit with Bill and Charlie.
"Nice one mate." Ron said, wondering if Ginny was okay.
"Ill see you later" Harry said, walking past Ron and going to his room.
