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Author's note: This particular chapter is mostly telling the tale of why Voldemort is after Harry. OotP itself will never happen the way J.K. Rowling wrote it, but I borrowed the prophecy.
Reviews:
Layce74: I can _try_, but I can't vouch for the results... I've absolutely _no_experience with babies, just some of my mum's stories to go on. And those are about extremes. My mum babysat (from dawn till dusk) a number of kids when I was little, and they were all completely different. The first kid was a real angel, the second a right pain in the tailbone, and the third somewhere in between. My brother was more of a pain than an angel... I'm told I was an angel as a baby, but a monster as a ten-year- old. (I became a teenager at age ten.)
Chapter Two
Christina Atola, Chris to her friends, stepped through the Guardian of Forever holding the sleeping baby. She turned to face the Guardian. "Thank you, Guardian. I'd like to visit the planet Mobius. Specifically, the dimension where Robotnik was defeated two years ago. Codename Voitto*."
The portal formed again, this time showing an aerial view of a garden city. The image moved down until the portal was a few centimetres above the ground.
Chris stepped through the portal. On the other side, she made her way through the city, until she came to the very centre, where a palace stood. The guards, seeing Chris's uniform**, escorted her to the throne room. When she was announced, Chris stepped forward. Harry shifted in her arms, but slept on.
"Good evening, Ma'am, I've come to ask for a favour. This child was just orphaned, and it's too dangerous for him to stay on his homeworld, so I thought maybe I could find him a good foster home here. I was hoping you could help me?"
"It's a bit late today. Stay the night, and we'll discuss it in the morning." Chris nodded, and the queen led her to one of the guest rooms. Harry stirred in her arms and asked, "Mummy?" It broke her heart to have to break the news to the child.
"No, not mummy. She's gone, Harry."
By the look in his eyes, Chris knew he didn't understand. He mumbled something and went back to sleep. Another tear escaped her eye. She looked up to see the queen watching her.
"I'll explain later. Not in front of Harry." She opened the door to the guest room and went in, setting Harry in one of the beds. She pulled the blnket over him and left the room, closing the door. Once outside, she addressed the queen.
"I suppose you want the explanation now?"
"Not here. Let's go to a more private place." She led Chris to a room further down the corridor, where she waved Chris to a seat. Chris sighed and began.
"First of all, you need to know about the world Harry came from. Unlike my Earth, it's a world where magic is fairly common. Magic-users live in separate comunities from non-magic folk, usually referred to as Muggles. At eleven years old, any magically inclined child is invited to boarding school where they learn the basics of magic.
"Harry's father, James Potter, made three good friends when he entered Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Those three friends of his were practically his brothers. Later, James, Sirius and Peter discovered that Remus was a werewolf. Wizarding folk aren't the most tolerant of people, and so they fear and hate anyone who's different from the rest. Including werewolves.
"Werewolves are dangerous to people, but only during the full moon. At other times, they're completely harmless.
"Remus was terrified that his friend would leave him, but they stood by him, unlike so many others. In their fifth year at Hogwarts, the three non-werewolf friends became Animagi in order to help Remus. They learned to become animals. James a stag, Sirius a dog, and Peter a rat. In animal form, Remus wasn't dangerous to them, and they kept him company during full moon nights.
"In seventh year, James fell in love with Harry's mother, a Muggleborn girl who'd achieved Head Girl status at the same time as James became Head Boy. Soon after graduation, Lily and James got married. A year later, they had Harry. When he was born, a Seer made a prophecy about someone defeating an evil man by the name of Lord Voldemort.
/The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches...
born to those who have thrice defied him,
born as the seventh month dies...
...and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal,
but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not...
... and either must die at the hand of the other
for neither can live while the other survives...
the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord
will be born as the seventh month dies./
"But two boys were born on the thirty-first of July. Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom. There was no way for Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts and the one to hear the prophecy as it was spoken, to tell who the chosen one was. It wasn't until today that Voldemort chose.
"The Potters were hidden by a Fidelius Charm. The secret of their location was hidden inside a single person. As long as the Secret Keeper kept his mouth shut, Voldemort would never find the Potters, not even if he had his nose pressed againg their living-room window.
"Originally, the Secret Keeper was supposed to be Sirius Black, but Sirius begged off at the last moment. He reckoned it would be safer to use Peter, no-one would think they'd use _him_.
"James Potter's friend, Peter Pettigrew, was actually a follower of Voldemort. He went straight to his master and told him the location of the Potters. Voldemort attacked and killed Harry's family, and failed to kill Harry himself. The Killing Curse backfired, and hit Voldemort instead. But instead of dying as he should have, Voldemort just turned into a spirit. In thirteen years, he'll regain his body, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
"Unfortunately, everyone still thinks Sirius was the Secret Keeper. By this time tomorrow, Sirius will have cornered Peter, intending to kill him for betraying the Potters. However, Pettigrew will turn the tables. In a streetful of Muggles, he'll yell for all to hear that Sirius betrayed the Potters, cut off his finger, blow up the street and transform into a rat. The wizarding policemen, Aurors, will find Sirius standing in the same street, laughing at the irony of the sitution, since there's nothing else he can do.
"Sirius will be taken to Azkaban, the wizard prison, without a trial. He'll be accused with the murder of twelve Muggles and Pettigrew, and spend the next twelve years there, until Pettigrew resurfaces on the page of a newspaper - in rat form, of course." Chris took a breath, then said,
"I could go on for all eternity, but there isn't really any point in going any further yet." By now, it was getting late, around midnight.
Saying godnight to the queen, Chris headed for the guest bedroom and pulled her uniform off, climbing into bed and falling asleep moments later.
~*~
Albus Dumbledore was dreaming. He saw what must have been Harry Potter, growing up with his Muggle relatives. The boy was treated as rubbish, whle his cousin was spoiled to death. Harry got very little to eat, and Dudley got away with hitting him constantly, sometimes right under his parents' noses. He slept in the cupboard under the stairs, and did almost all of the manual labour around the house.
After seeing Harry beat up for the thousandth time, Dumbledore came to the conclusion that the time-guardian had been right. Harry was better off _anywhere_ but there.
*Voitto is the Finnish word for Victory.
**The time-guardian uniform is a dark forest-green jacket and pair of pants with black boots. On the chest of the jacket, there is a large circle of dark blue, and a lighter blue circle inside the bigger one. It's supposed to represent cause and effect. Think of a pebble falling into a lake. The rings it forms are the cirles in the symbol.
Please review! I'll be more motivated to write the next chapter if I have a review or two...
Author's note: This particular chapter is mostly telling the tale of why Voldemort is after Harry. OotP itself will never happen the way J.K. Rowling wrote it, but I borrowed the prophecy.
Reviews:
Layce74: I can _try_, but I can't vouch for the results... I've absolutely _no_experience with babies, just some of my mum's stories to go on. And those are about extremes. My mum babysat (from dawn till dusk) a number of kids when I was little, and they were all completely different. The first kid was a real angel, the second a right pain in the tailbone, and the third somewhere in between. My brother was more of a pain than an angel... I'm told I was an angel as a baby, but a monster as a ten-year- old. (I became a teenager at age ten.)
Chapter Two
Christina Atola, Chris to her friends, stepped through the Guardian of Forever holding the sleeping baby. She turned to face the Guardian. "Thank you, Guardian. I'd like to visit the planet Mobius. Specifically, the dimension where Robotnik was defeated two years ago. Codename Voitto*."
The portal formed again, this time showing an aerial view of a garden city. The image moved down until the portal was a few centimetres above the ground.
Chris stepped through the portal. On the other side, she made her way through the city, until she came to the very centre, where a palace stood. The guards, seeing Chris's uniform**, escorted her to the throne room. When she was announced, Chris stepped forward. Harry shifted in her arms, but slept on.
"Good evening, Ma'am, I've come to ask for a favour. This child was just orphaned, and it's too dangerous for him to stay on his homeworld, so I thought maybe I could find him a good foster home here. I was hoping you could help me?"
"It's a bit late today. Stay the night, and we'll discuss it in the morning." Chris nodded, and the queen led her to one of the guest rooms. Harry stirred in her arms and asked, "Mummy?" It broke her heart to have to break the news to the child.
"No, not mummy. She's gone, Harry."
By the look in his eyes, Chris knew he didn't understand. He mumbled something and went back to sleep. Another tear escaped her eye. She looked up to see the queen watching her.
"I'll explain later. Not in front of Harry." She opened the door to the guest room and went in, setting Harry in one of the beds. She pulled the blnket over him and left the room, closing the door. Once outside, she addressed the queen.
"I suppose you want the explanation now?"
"Not here. Let's go to a more private place." She led Chris to a room further down the corridor, where she waved Chris to a seat. Chris sighed and began.
"First of all, you need to know about the world Harry came from. Unlike my Earth, it's a world where magic is fairly common. Magic-users live in separate comunities from non-magic folk, usually referred to as Muggles. At eleven years old, any magically inclined child is invited to boarding school where they learn the basics of magic.
"Harry's father, James Potter, made three good friends when he entered Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Those three friends of his were practically his brothers. Later, James, Sirius and Peter discovered that Remus was a werewolf. Wizarding folk aren't the most tolerant of people, and so they fear and hate anyone who's different from the rest. Including werewolves.
"Werewolves are dangerous to people, but only during the full moon. At other times, they're completely harmless.
"Remus was terrified that his friend would leave him, but they stood by him, unlike so many others. In their fifth year at Hogwarts, the three non-werewolf friends became Animagi in order to help Remus. They learned to become animals. James a stag, Sirius a dog, and Peter a rat. In animal form, Remus wasn't dangerous to them, and they kept him company during full moon nights.
"In seventh year, James fell in love with Harry's mother, a Muggleborn girl who'd achieved Head Girl status at the same time as James became Head Boy. Soon after graduation, Lily and James got married. A year later, they had Harry. When he was born, a Seer made a prophecy about someone defeating an evil man by the name of Lord Voldemort.
/The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches...
born to those who have thrice defied him,
born as the seventh month dies...
...and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal,
but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not...
... and either must die at the hand of the other
for neither can live while the other survives...
the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord
will be born as the seventh month dies./
"But two boys were born on the thirty-first of July. Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom. There was no way for Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts and the one to hear the prophecy as it was spoken, to tell who the chosen one was. It wasn't until today that Voldemort chose.
"The Potters were hidden by a Fidelius Charm. The secret of their location was hidden inside a single person. As long as the Secret Keeper kept his mouth shut, Voldemort would never find the Potters, not even if he had his nose pressed againg their living-room window.
"Originally, the Secret Keeper was supposed to be Sirius Black, but Sirius begged off at the last moment. He reckoned it would be safer to use Peter, no-one would think they'd use _him_.
"James Potter's friend, Peter Pettigrew, was actually a follower of Voldemort. He went straight to his master and told him the location of the Potters. Voldemort attacked and killed Harry's family, and failed to kill Harry himself. The Killing Curse backfired, and hit Voldemort instead. But instead of dying as he should have, Voldemort just turned into a spirit. In thirteen years, he'll regain his body, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
"Unfortunately, everyone still thinks Sirius was the Secret Keeper. By this time tomorrow, Sirius will have cornered Peter, intending to kill him for betraying the Potters. However, Pettigrew will turn the tables. In a streetful of Muggles, he'll yell for all to hear that Sirius betrayed the Potters, cut off his finger, blow up the street and transform into a rat. The wizarding policemen, Aurors, will find Sirius standing in the same street, laughing at the irony of the sitution, since there's nothing else he can do.
"Sirius will be taken to Azkaban, the wizard prison, without a trial. He'll be accused with the murder of twelve Muggles and Pettigrew, and spend the next twelve years there, until Pettigrew resurfaces on the page of a newspaper - in rat form, of course." Chris took a breath, then said,
"I could go on for all eternity, but there isn't really any point in going any further yet." By now, it was getting late, around midnight.
Saying godnight to the queen, Chris headed for the guest bedroom and pulled her uniform off, climbing into bed and falling asleep moments later.
~*~
Albus Dumbledore was dreaming. He saw what must have been Harry Potter, growing up with his Muggle relatives. The boy was treated as rubbish, whle his cousin was spoiled to death. Harry got very little to eat, and Dudley got away with hitting him constantly, sometimes right under his parents' noses. He slept in the cupboard under the stairs, and did almost all of the manual labour around the house.
After seeing Harry beat up for the thousandth time, Dumbledore came to the conclusion that the time-guardian had been right. Harry was better off _anywhere_ but there.
*Voitto is the Finnish word for Victory.
**The time-guardian uniform is a dark forest-green jacket and pair of pants with black boots. On the chest of the jacket, there is a large circle of dark blue, and a lighter blue circle inside the bigger one. It's supposed to represent cause and effect. Think of a pebble falling into a lake. The rings it forms are the cirles in the symbol.
Please review! I'll be more motivated to write the next chapter if I have a review or two...