AN: Hi everyone and thanks for all the reviews! I just wanted to enforce
the fact after many comments about this, that in the last few chapters,
Harry had no idea that his parents were alive and that until the car landed
in the clearing Sirius had forgotten as well. Anyway, don't own Harry and
Co so don't sue! Any flames will be used to light my fireplace so enjoy
and review to let me know what you think! Sassy
Chapter 19
It was nearing midnight before Harry managed to calm down enough to sleep. Since arriving in wherever it is they were, he had yet to have any dreams at all. However as he slowly drifted off to sleep, the one thing he could not seem to rid his mind of was the fact that Ron and Hermione had disappeared for several days and had apparently not told anyone where they had gone or what they had done.
This single thought flew around faster and faster until it was more a blur in his mind rather than a thought, as he drifted off too sleep.
Dream...
"Wormtail!" Voldemort called out angrily, wondering where the rat had disappeared too without permission.
"Yes master?" Peter said as he suddenly appeared and fell to kiss the hem of his master's robes.
"Give me your arm." Voldemort said as he grabbed at Peter's arm and summoned all of his followers.
"It is time for my most faithful to meet those that have recently saw the light and joined the winning side of this war." Voldemort announced as his followers began to arrive.
Harry frowned as he suddenly felt himself being pulled into Voldemort's secret chamber along with his follower's. Although he was sure that Voldemort was not aware of his presence, he stepped behind one of the pillars that where scattered around the room. Watching in silence as one by one they all arrived.
Harry tried to identify many of the followers as they arrived but with the dim lighting it was hard to see where most of them stood in the shadows of the room. However, he could not help but notice that Voldemort's followers had grown in size as the chamber began to magically expand as more and more people entered.
It took longer than Harry would have liked for them all to arrive and Harry felt himself begin to pull away. However just as he would have left, Voldemort began to speak.
"I have brought you all here because we have a traitor within our ranks." Voldemort hissed as he addressed the crowd.
"Wormtail! Bring forth the prisoner!" Voldemort hissed as an evil sinister look settled on his skeleton like face. Watching as a man in torn and filthy robes was dragged into the chamber.
Harry swallowed hard as he recognized his potions professor, more by the way he held himself, than from the bloody pulp his face had become. Harry's mind was spinning with all sorts of emotions as he felt someone place a hand on his shoulder and turned to see Salazar Slytherin standing at his side.
"I never meant for things to go this far." Salazar whispered as he forced him self to watch as Severus' torture began.
"Then do something about it." Harry said as he fought him self from running toward his professor.
"What would you like me to do? You're the only one that can see or hear me." Salazar stated.
"Then I suggest you get the hell out of here and get someone that can help." Harry growled angrily as he stepped from behind the pillar and jumped in front of Severus just as Voldemort cast the killing curse.
The moment he dove toward his professor, he could feel a pulling much like a port key and grabbed Severus' hand. He honestly had no idea what was about to happen, and never in a million years would he be able to figure out what he did, but one moment he was grabbing Severus' hand and the next they landed in a tangled heap on his bed.
"Harry?" Severus whispered as he recognized that Voldemort was no longer torturing him and that the person that had saved him was the boy who lived.
End dream...
Harry woke up gasping for breath, just in time to hear Severus whisper his name before passing out. Harry quickly scrambled out of the bed, and ran to the door.
"Sirius! Mom! Dad! Help!" Harry screamed desperately as he ran back to the bed to see how his potions professor was doing.
"Don't you dare die on me now." Harry whispered frantically as he tried to find a pulse.
"What's wrong?" Sirius gasped as he struggled to regain his breath. Running down three different corridors to get to his godson, who had screamed like he was dieing.
"Harry what is he doing here?" Sirius asked as he hurried to the edge of the bed.
"Will he be alright?" Harry asked ignoring his godfather's question, knowing that how Snape got here was not as important as making sure he survived.
"Run into the bathroom and get me the first aid kit." Sirius said as he began to check Snape over.
Harry returned from the bathroom several moments later to find Sirius and his parents all standing next to the bed muttering various healing spells. This continued on for several more hours before Sirius turned away, knowing they had done everything they could do, it was now up to Severus if he wanted to live or die.
"Will he be okay?" Harry asked as he followed Sirius from the room and downstairs to the kitchen.
"I don't know, but we did everything we could." Sirius said as he slumped tiredly into a chair and gratefully accepted the cup of tea Harry sat in front of him a few moments later.
"What happened?" James asked as he entered the kitchen followed by Ginny who had been woken up when Harry had screamed for help.
"And how the hell did Snape get in my house?" James demanded angrily, not at all happy with the fact that not only was Snape in his house, but he had had to help save the slimy gits life as well. Leaving his wife to sit with the man didn't sit well with him either, James added silently to himself as he sat down across from Sirius at the table.
"Harry, are you all right?" Ginny asked as she took in his pale face and shaking hands. Leading him to a chair and pushing him gently into it before taking over the task of making tea for James, him and her self before sitting down at his side.
"Harry, tell me what happened." Sirius said gently, as he sent James a worried look.
"I don't know." Harry groaned as he rubbed absently at his scar.
"One minute I was sleeping and the next I was in a chamber with Voldemort." Harry said as he lifted the warm cup to his lips.
"Voldemort called all of his death eater's. There are more of them." He said as he looked at his godfather.
"There were easily a thousand or more there." He added in a whisper, horrified that there was that many people that were followers of Voldemort.
"He was showing them all what happened to traitors." Harry said in a voice so soft they had to strain to hear.
"I couldn't just stand by and watch him die." Harry said as he wiped angrily at the tears that had begin to fall.
"Voldemort was about to finish him off with the killing curse when I left my hiding place. I grabbed his hand and the next thing I know, we ended up here." Harry explained as he felt Ginny take his hand and squeeze it gently.
"Ginny why don't you take Harry upstairs to one of the other bedrooms." Sirius sighed as he rose to his feet and helped Harry stand.
"I'm fine." Harry said stubbornly as he tried to stand up on his own, only have his knees began shaking.
"I can tell." Sirius said as he laughed softly.
"Go to bed. We will talk more about this in the morning." He added as Ginny slipped her arm around Harry's waist and led him out of the room.
Sirius raked a hand through his hair as he stared unseeingly out the small window over the kitchen sink. So many things running through his mind that he found it hard to concentrate on any single thought. Catching a glimpse of the look on James's face, he knew it was time to have a chat with his friend.
"We need to talk and I need a drink." Sirius said as he left the kitchen and went into the library where he knew the strong stuff was kept. He needed all the courage he could get if he was going to tell James some of the secrets he had been carrying with him for his entire life, as there was a lot more to the prophecy than anyone knew.
"Harry are you sure your alright?" Ginny asked worriedly as she opened the door to one of the many guest rooms and led him inside.
"I will be fine." Harry sighed as he ignored the bed and instead slumped into one of the two chairs that were in the room.
"I think I might have found a way out of this place." Harry said as Ginny sat down in the other chair.
"Really?" Ginny asked her voice full of hope. She missed her family terribly and seeing that Harry now had his parents back, it had only increased her own feelings of loneliness.
"I think that we should be able to get back the same way we came, I wont know for sure though, until we can find the car and check out any damage that might have occurred." Harry explained smiling at the light that had returned to her eyes.
"That's wonderful." Ginny exclaimed as she threw her arms around Harry.
"What else are you not telling me?" Ginny suddenly asked as she saw the way Harry only half heartedly returned her hug and refused to look her in the eye.
"I saw something else in the chamber tonight." Harry admitted. Needing to share the memory, yet not sure that anyone else might believe him if he told them everything else he had seen.
"Tell me Harry." Ginny said as she settled in his lap.
"I can't be positive Gin, because the lights were really dim, and almost everyone had there face covered, but I just know that two of his new followers are Gryffindor's." Harry sighed as he slipped his arms around her waist, needing to feel the closeness that they now shared.
"Any idea who they might be?" Ginny asked carefully avoiding his eyes. She had her own suspicions and until she had proof that was solid, she didn't want anyone else to know.
"Not really, like I said, it was really dim and their faces were covered. It was more a feeling than anything else. The only reason I mentioned it was because I want you to be really careful. Promise?" Harry asked.
"If it will make you feel better, then yes, I promise." Ginny said as she hugged him tightly, wishing she could voice her own concerns as easily as he did.
"Harry, Severus is awake and is asking for you." Lilly said from where she stood standing in the open doorway of the room. Frowning at the fact that Ginny was sitting in her son's lap with their arms wrapped around one another.
For the briefest moment, Harry froze. He knew that for some unknown reason his parents had an obvious dislike for Ginny, but could not figure out why. At first he thought it was because they didn't know her very well, but now he knew the reason ran much more deep than that, he just couldn't seem to figure out what it was.
"I will be there in a minute." He sighed as he tightened his arms around Ginny, not allowing her to move when she would have climbed hastily out of his lap. But instead slowly lowered his lips to hers, knowing it would really tick his mother off to see them kissing.
The moment their lips met, Harry felt as if he had found the one thing he had been searching for all his life and despite every intention of only a brief kiss, his thought process went straight out the window as Ginny moaned softly before pulling away.
Ginny knew the moment their lips touched she could have died right then and there and never regretted anything in her life. She knew he kissed her just to tick off Lilly, but she also knew that what was happening ran much deeper than either of them realized at that moment. It was the sound of Lilly clearing her throat rather loudly that gave Ginny the strength to tear herself away from Harry.
"You better go." She whispered as she rose to her feet and hurried from the room. She had a lot of thinking to do and knowing Lilly was waiting, thought it better she get away from Harry before the woman lost all patients and hexed them both.
Chapter 19
It was nearing midnight before Harry managed to calm down enough to sleep. Since arriving in wherever it is they were, he had yet to have any dreams at all. However as he slowly drifted off to sleep, the one thing he could not seem to rid his mind of was the fact that Ron and Hermione had disappeared for several days and had apparently not told anyone where they had gone or what they had done.
This single thought flew around faster and faster until it was more a blur in his mind rather than a thought, as he drifted off too sleep.
Dream...
"Wormtail!" Voldemort called out angrily, wondering where the rat had disappeared too without permission.
"Yes master?" Peter said as he suddenly appeared and fell to kiss the hem of his master's robes.
"Give me your arm." Voldemort said as he grabbed at Peter's arm and summoned all of his followers.
"It is time for my most faithful to meet those that have recently saw the light and joined the winning side of this war." Voldemort announced as his followers began to arrive.
Harry frowned as he suddenly felt himself being pulled into Voldemort's secret chamber along with his follower's. Although he was sure that Voldemort was not aware of his presence, he stepped behind one of the pillars that where scattered around the room. Watching in silence as one by one they all arrived.
Harry tried to identify many of the followers as they arrived but with the dim lighting it was hard to see where most of them stood in the shadows of the room. However, he could not help but notice that Voldemort's followers had grown in size as the chamber began to magically expand as more and more people entered.
It took longer than Harry would have liked for them all to arrive and Harry felt himself begin to pull away. However just as he would have left, Voldemort began to speak.
"I have brought you all here because we have a traitor within our ranks." Voldemort hissed as he addressed the crowd.
"Wormtail! Bring forth the prisoner!" Voldemort hissed as an evil sinister look settled on his skeleton like face. Watching as a man in torn and filthy robes was dragged into the chamber.
Harry swallowed hard as he recognized his potions professor, more by the way he held himself, than from the bloody pulp his face had become. Harry's mind was spinning with all sorts of emotions as he felt someone place a hand on his shoulder and turned to see Salazar Slytherin standing at his side.
"I never meant for things to go this far." Salazar whispered as he forced him self to watch as Severus' torture began.
"Then do something about it." Harry said as he fought him self from running toward his professor.
"What would you like me to do? You're the only one that can see or hear me." Salazar stated.
"Then I suggest you get the hell out of here and get someone that can help." Harry growled angrily as he stepped from behind the pillar and jumped in front of Severus just as Voldemort cast the killing curse.
The moment he dove toward his professor, he could feel a pulling much like a port key and grabbed Severus' hand. He honestly had no idea what was about to happen, and never in a million years would he be able to figure out what he did, but one moment he was grabbing Severus' hand and the next they landed in a tangled heap on his bed.
"Harry?" Severus whispered as he recognized that Voldemort was no longer torturing him and that the person that had saved him was the boy who lived.
End dream...
Harry woke up gasping for breath, just in time to hear Severus whisper his name before passing out. Harry quickly scrambled out of the bed, and ran to the door.
"Sirius! Mom! Dad! Help!" Harry screamed desperately as he ran back to the bed to see how his potions professor was doing.
"Don't you dare die on me now." Harry whispered frantically as he tried to find a pulse.
"What's wrong?" Sirius gasped as he struggled to regain his breath. Running down three different corridors to get to his godson, who had screamed like he was dieing.
"Harry what is he doing here?" Sirius asked as he hurried to the edge of the bed.
"Will he be alright?" Harry asked ignoring his godfather's question, knowing that how Snape got here was not as important as making sure he survived.
"Run into the bathroom and get me the first aid kit." Sirius said as he began to check Snape over.
Harry returned from the bathroom several moments later to find Sirius and his parents all standing next to the bed muttering various healing spells. This continued on for several more hours before Sirius turned away, knowing they had done everything they could do, it was now up to Severus if he wanted to live or die.
"Will he be okay?" Harry asked as he followed Sirius from the room and downstairs to the kitchen.
"I don't know, but we did everything we could." Sirius said as he slumped tiredly into a chair and gratefully accepted the cup of tea Harry sat in front of him a few moments later.
"What happened?" James asked as he entered the kitchen followed by Ginny who had been woken up when Harry had screamed for help.
"And how the hell did Snape get in my house?" James demanded angrily, not at all happy with the fact that not only was Snape in his house, but he had had to help save the slimy gits life as well. Leaving his wife to sit with the man didn't sit well with him either, James added silently to himself as he sat down across from Sirius at the table.
"Harry, are you all right?" Ginny asked as she took in his pale face and shaking hands. Leading him to a chair and pushing him gently into it before taking over the task of making tea for James, him and her self before sitting down at his side.
"Harry, tell me what happened." Sirius said gently, as he sent James a worried look.
"I don't know." Harry groaned as he rubbed absently at his scar.
"One minute I was sleeping and the next I was in a chamber with Voldemort." Harry said as he lifted the warm cup to his lips.
"Voldemort called all of his death eater's. There are more of them." He said as he looked at his godfather.
"There were easily a thousand or more there." He added in a whisper, horrified that there was that many people that were followers of Voldemort.
"He was showing them all what happened to traitors." Harry said in a voice so soft they had to strain to hear.
"I couldn't just stand by and watch him die." Harry said as he wiped angrily at the tears that had begin to fall.
"Voldemort was about to finish him off with the killing curse when I left my hiding place. I grabbed his hand and the next thing I know, we ended up here." Harry explained as he felt Ginny take his hand and squeeze it gently.
"Ginny why don't you take Harry upstairs to one of the other bedrooms." Sirius sighed as he rose to his feet and helped Harry stand.
"I'm fine." Harry said stubbornly as he tried to stand up on his own, only have his knees began shaking.
"I can tell." Sirius said as he laughed softly.
"Go to bed. We will talk more about this in the morning." He added as Ginny slipped her arm around Harry's waist and led him out of the room.
Sirius raked a hand through his hair as he stared unseeingly out the small window over the kitchen sink. So many things running through his mind that he found it hard to concentrate on any single thought. Catching a glimpse of the look on James's face, he knew it was time to have a chat with his friend.
"We need to talk and I need a drink." Sirius said as he left the kitchen and went into the library where he knew the strong stuff was kept. He needed all the courage he could get if he was going to tell James some of the secrets he had been carrying with him for his entire life, as there was a lot more to the prophecy than anyone knew.
"Harry are you sure your alright?" Ginny asked worriedly as she opened the door to one of the many guest rooms and led him inside.
"I will be fine." Harry sighed as he ignored the bed and instead slumped into one of the two chairs that were in the room.
"I think I might have found a way out of this place." Harry said as Ginny sat down in the other chair.
"Really?" Ginny asked her voice full of hope. She missed her family terribly and seeing that Harry now had his parents back, it had only increased her own feelings of loneliness.
"I think that we should be able to get back the same way we came, I wont know for sure though, until we can find the car and check out any damage that might have occurred." Harry explained smiling at the light that had returned to her eyes.
"That's wonderful." Ginny exclaimed as she threw her arms around Harry.
"What else are you not telling me?" Ginny suddenly asked as she saw the way Harry only half heartedly returned her hug and refused to look her in the eye.
"I saw something else in the chamber tonight." Harry admitted. Needing to share the memory, yet not sure that anyone else might believe him if he told them everything else he had seen.
"Tell me Harry." Ginny said as she settled in his lap.
"I can't be positive Gin, because the lights were really dim, and almost everyone had there face covered, but I just know that two of his new followers are Gryffindor's." Harry sighed as he slipped his arms around her waist, needing to feel the closeness that they now shared.
"Any idea who they might be?" Ginny asked carefully avoiding his eyes. She had her own suspicions and until she had proof that was solid, she didn't want anyone else to know.
"Not really, like I said, it was really dim and their faces were covered. It was more a feeling than anything else. The only reason I mentioned it was because I want you to be really careful. Promise?" Harry asked.
"If it will make you feel better, then yes, I promise." Ginny said as she hugged him tightly, wishing she could voice her own concerns as easily as he did.
"Harry, Severus is awake and is asking for you." Lilly said from where she stood standing in the open doorway of the room. Frowning at the fact that Ginny was sitting in her son's lap with their arms wrapped around one another.
For the briefest moment, Harry froze. He knew that for some unknown reason his parents had an obvious dislike for Ginny, but could not figure out why. At first he thought it was because they didn't know her very well, but now he knew the reason ran much more deep than that, he just couldn't seem to figure out what it was.
"I will be there in a minute." He sighed as he tightened his arms around Ginny, not allowing her to move when she would have climbed hastily out of his lap. But instead slowly lowered his lips to hers, knowing it would really tick his mother off to see them kissing.
The moment their lips met, Harry felt as if he had found the one thing he had been searching for all his life and despite every intention of only a brief kiss, his thought process went straight out the window as Ginny moaned softly before pulling away.
Ginny knew the moment their lips touched she could have died right then and there and never regretted anything in her life. She knew he kissed her just to tick off Lilly, but she also knew that what was happening ran much deeper than either of them realized at that moment. It was the sound of Lilly clearing her throat rather loudly that gave Ginny the strength to tear herself away from Harry.
"You better go." She whispered as she rose to her feet and hurried from the room. She had a lot of thinking to do and knowing Lilly was waiting, thought it better she get away from Harry before the woman lost all patients and hexed them both.