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Chapter Five: "I see dead people"
Harry had the sensation as if he was being pulled by the most powerful magnet on the earth. It went on for what felt like hours and when it stopped, dizziness overcame him and he fell to the ground, oddly it felt as if there was no ground, it was pitch black everywhere and not a single trace of light. He got up and looked around, there was no one around, or at least he couldn't see anyone.
"Lumos," he muttered and to his relief he saw his godfather.
"Harry," said Sirius hugging him "How are you?"
"Fine, this place is freaky," he said anxiously "and how did I get here?"
"The mirror also has a transportation system so you can go wherever the other mirror is," he replied
"Does this mean I can't go back," he asked alarmed.
"No, if you couldn't go back then you couldn't have come here," he said sniggering "Now come on,"
"I'd love to but you see there's the small matter of not being able to see anything," he said
Sirius grabbed his hand and led him for a few seconds before Harry spotted a small little hut far away in the darkness
"Sirius, what's that?" he asked pointing towards the hut
"That is Salazar Slytherin's house, he prefers to live like that," said Sirius
Everything was becoming more and clearer by the second
"Sirius, what is it with this darkness thing?"
"Oh that, Isn't everything becoming clear now?"
"Yes, but still why was it dark when I came here?"
"No one really knows, when anyone comes here they can only see the darkness for a few minutes, you'll get used to it,"
"Where are mom and dad?"
"Asking Salazar Slytherin to teach you," he said shaking his head "I don't think he will accept, though,"
"Why?"
"Why?" repeated Sirius "Why, because you are prophesized to kill or be killed by his last heir, because you killed his basilisk and because you went into his chamber which I might I add really pissed him off,"
"Who told him anyway?"
"I did, of course, to make him feel the humiliation that a Gryffindor got to his chamber," he said smiling broadly
They reached the hut and went inside. It was a dirty little hut, very unlike Hagrid's big, warm hut which gave you a feeling of welcome, and there was nothing more inside than some broken furniture, a closet and there was an odd stench of dragon dung.
Harry looked around in disgust "Do all dead people live like this?"
"No," said Sirius as if Harry had said something very offending "I told you this old bat prefers to live this way,"
"Live? Isn't he dead," said Harry
Sirius opened his mouth to reply when James, Lily and a man Harry was sure was Salazar Slytherin entered the hut. Salazar wore white gloves, he was hooded and his face was pale white. (AN: just go and see the chocolate frog cards in the HP game)
"I assume you're the Potter boy?" he asked in a high cold voice that reminded Harry of Voldemort
"Yes I am," he replied
"If I was alive I would've said "no" to teaching you but since I'm dead and I see great potential in you, I agree," he said turning towards his parents
"Thank you" said Lily and James in unison
He turned back to Harry "I will also be teaching you dark magic, as you call it," he said smiling slightly
"But isn't it illegal in my world," he asked alarmed
"No only the Unforgivable curses are, in your world, most dark spells are not known to be banned. Now…" he said conjuring a few books "You are to theorize the spells in these books by the next time you come here,"
"Good Bye," he said bowing to them
"Good Bye" said James bowing
They left Slytherin's house and Harry breathed a sigh of relief
"That guy was totally weird,"
"No kidding," said James
"So whom are we meeting now?" said Harry
"A Metamorphmagus," said Lily
"Really, so I don't have to wait for Tonks to teach me?" he said excitedly
James and Lily smiled but said nothing. Harry could now almost completely see everything. There were no roads or anything just a sort of grey pavement. The sky was blue and there was not a cloud in sight
"How big is this place?" he asked curiously
"No idea," said Sirius shrugging "It just goes on forever,"
"Then how do you get around?"
"We don't walk usually, we just sort of apparate," he said and his body evaporated. He reappeared on the other side of Harry.
"Wow that's cool," said Harry "Can I do it?"
"No, only the dead can do it," said Lily sternly
Sirius took his wand out and cleared them of the stench of dragon dung
"How do you guys have wands, I'm sure you don't have an Ollivanders here?"
"We can conjure wands," said James
"Well then, can't you make a portkey, or something?"
"Of course we can, but we've never needed to," said Lily
"Ok then give it a go,"
Sirius conjured a kettle and James muttered "Portus," it glowed blue for a moment then became normal
"I don't think this will work," said Lily urgently
"Relax Lily, it will work, I assure you," said James "Alright Harry, touch this portkey and it will take you to the place at once,"
Harry turned a confused look towards his father "Aren't you supposed to set the portkey to a certain time?"
James grinned stupidly "Time has no meaning here, Harry, there is no time, there is no night and there is no day.
"Weird," muttered Harry under his breath as he took the portkey from the ground. Harry felt the similar sensation of a hook being jerked behind his navel, when it finally stopped, he got up and surveyed his surroundings. He gasped, as he watched, mystified. There, in front of him, was a castle grander and twice the size of Hogwarts, the roofs of the many turrets and towers were painted yellow and black, he was in the grounds and he could see the stretch of green that was supposedly a garden with the statue of a woman in the middle, she was a little fat and had her hair in a tight bun.
Someone nudged him from the back and he turned to see his parents and Sirius looking at him trying to hide their laughter.
"Who lives here?" he asked quietly
"Helga Hufflepuff," said Lily "She's the metamorphmagus, and she's going to train you,"
They walked in the front doors that had two statues of badgers, one painted black and the other canary yellow, with yellow gemstones for eyes, on either side of the entrance. They entered the castle, when they got to the great hall, there was the same woman sitting on the head chair looking extremely bored, she looked delighted to see them and invited them to sit.
"And what might I do for you Lily, James and Sirius…" she asked cheerfully "…and who is this new boy?"
"This is my son, Harry Potter," introduced Lily
"Aahhh yes, I have heard a great deal about you…" said Helga surveying Harry "…and I'm sure you have not died, yet,"
"Not yet he has not, you already know about his Metamorphmagus abilities, we were hoping if you would be so kind to teach him," said James
"Of course, I would be more than happy to assist him, but how did he get here if he isn't dead," asked Helga
So Sirius told Helga about the mirror and she was very astonished "Might I see this Two-way mirror?" she asked politely
"Certainly," said Sirius pulling it out of his pocket and handing it over to her.
"Hmm," she said looking at the mirror "Unless I'm mistaken this is a medieval aged mirror that was made by dwarves and your mother was a Niggelus," she said looking up at Sirius
"Er-right," was Sirius's only reply
"Alright then," she said handing Sirius the mirror back "Now Harry, I'm going to ask you not to try this when you're alone for now,"
She then screwed her face up in concentration and became a pretty little girl with pigtails. Harry and the others clapped "That's great, I can't wait to try it," said Harry excitedly. Helga then transformed back to her original form and looked sternly at Harry
"Don't even think about it, if you try to transform your body at once the pain will kill you. You will do it slowly, as my muggle mother once told me, "Haste makes waste"
"Now, I'm going to ask you to make your hair go flat. It will take a lot of concentration, don't do it immediately do it slowly,"
So Harry closed his eyes and slowly thought of making his hair lie flat. He felt a little pain in his head but it didn't hurt much.
"One by one, that's right, good, you're doing great. Ok. You can open your eyes now," she said
Harry opened his eyes and everyone was smiling at him, Sirius gave him the mirror and he gasped in surprise. His hair was flat as it never had been before.
"Do my eyes deceive me, are they really flat?" said Harry curiously touching his hair
"Now Harry, try to make them like they were before you changed them," said Helga
Harry tried again and succeeded in doing so.
"Ok, I think that's enough for today," she smiled at Harry "Your body has to adjust to the changes slowly, and don't even try to change your appearance without my presence or else I will not be responsible for the consequences," They all bowed to Helga and left the castle
"So where to now," asked Harry enthusiastically. He liked this place so much that he could not even worry if he would be able to go back.
James smiled and said "Now we're going to Rowena Ravenclaw, want to come?"
"Sure" replied Harry
(AN: Should I stop here?*readers start throwing dung bombs at slim shady LP* OK, OK but you guys have had to wait so much, so I'll keep going)
James made another portkey, when he got where he wanted to go, he got up. There was a small castle there. When his parents came in their similar em, which was short for evaporation method, they walked towards the castle, when they got to the doors, they opened magically.
They walked inside and climbed the stairs and soon came upon a narrow corridor. They soon came on a plain black door
"Here we are," said Sirius and opened the door, inside were glittering lights everywhere. Harry walked in uncertainly; a woman with red hair confronted them.
"Lily, James and Sirius, what a surprise to see you all here," she then turned to Harry "You must be James and Lily's son, I have heard so much about you, and how might I assist you?"
"Harry here is a little low on Potions and ventriloquism," said James "In fact I don't think he knows any ventriloquism at all,"
The word "ventriloquism" rung a bell in Harry's mind then he remembered all those muggles with puppets on their sides. The muggles were ventriloquists who could throw their voice.
"Of course I will," she said now turning to Harry "I will teach you next time you come here, Harry,"
"Goodbye," said Harry bowing to her.
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Harry took the portkey and by the time he got to his destination, his parents were already there. He got up and looked around, expecting to see another magnificent castle but what he saw, shocked him
"Hogwarts?" he asked mouth opened "Here?"
"Yes my sentiments were exactly like yours when I saw it too," said Sirius patting him on his back
"But how…" he asked desperately
"Godric Gryffindor missed Hogwarts so much he made his own," said Lily
"Does it have the lake and all?"
"No, we don't have water here," said James walking towards the castle
"You don't, but don't you get thirsty," he asked
"We never get hungry or thirsty here, nor do we ever get tired and we don't need to go to the bathroom," said Lily
"Will I get hungry here?"
"No you won't, I think," said Sirius
They opened the front doors and walked in. They went into the all too familiar great hall. Godric Gryffindor was tall, had long blonde hair and a face like a lion. He was playing chess with another wizard. Harry knew this person all too well.
He was the King of Enchanters.
"Checkmate, Merlin, beat you again," said Godric in a deep calm voice. When he caught sight of Harry and the others he smiled
"James, Lily, Sirius and ahhh…" said Godric Gryffindor he got up and walked towards Harry and shook his hand
"Harry Potter, I presume, Godric Gryffindor at your service and this is Merlin," he said gesturing at the wizard who had just got up and shook Harry's hand.
Merlin had a long white beard, he wore blue robes and a long pointed hat with the moon and stars on it.
"Well what might we do for you?" asked Merlin calmly
"We want you to train Harry in dueling and other things," said Sirius winking at Merlin and Godric
"What other things?"
But before anyone could say anything, Godric cried "Impedimenta!" Harry, in a flash, took out his wand and muttered "Protego"
The spell was inches away, when the shield was conjured just in time, it bounced off Harry and went for Merlin who with a wave of his hand melted the spell in front of his very eyes.
"What the…"
Godric caught him unawares and disarmed him. Harry lunged for his wand but missed within inches
"Well, that was good for the first try," Godric remarked
"Hey, you didn't tell me that you were going to attack me,"
"A Death Eater doesn't tap you on the shoulder and duels with you," said Godric Gryffindor shaking his head ""There is no honor among thieves""
"How did you melt that spell, sir?" asked Harry
"That is for me to know and for you to find out," he simply replied
"Did you guys take N.E.W.Ts in muggle quotes or something?"
They all laughed and when the laughter subsided Godric spoke
"Let's go play some quidditch,"
"There wasn't quidditch in your time, was there?" asked Harry heading outside towards the quidditch pitch
"No but all the wizards who come here, have told me about it and I think it's a great game,"
When they got to the pitch Sirius used his em saying that he was going to get some more quidditch players
After a few minutes, Sirius returned with Bowman Wright, Helga Hufflepuff, Edgar Bones, Bertha Jorkins, Rowena Ravenclaw, Broderick Bode, a boy around the age of seventeen and Harry gasped.
Cedric Diggory.
Almost all of them were as much surprised to see Harry as he was to see Cedric. Sirius explained to them about the mirror. Edgar Bones and the boy reached him first "Hello Harry, my name is Edgar Bones as you might already know and this is my son, Julius Bones," They shook hands and headed for the changing rooms. Cedric walked towards him and said softly "Harry, I want you to know that I don't even slightly blame you for my death. That blame lies alone with Voldemort,"
"Thanks," Harry muttered thinking of telling him about Cho but he decided against it.
Harry and everyone else went into the changing rooms and changed into some quidditch robes already there, the teams had been decided on the following order:
Shooting comets The Chimaeras
Seeker: Harry Potter Seeker: Cedric Diggory
Chasers: James Potter, Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff Chasers: Lily Potter, Bertha Jorkins, Rowena Ravenclaw
Beaters: Edgar Bones, Julius Bones Beaters: Merlin, Sirius Black
Keeper: Broderick Bode Keeper: Bowman Wright
Harry heard someone commentating but couldn't see anyone in the commentator box.
"Er-sir, who's commentating?" he asked
"No one, it's just a spell to liven up things and don't call me "sir", call me Godric" he said
Many dead wizards and witches had come to watch the match, and a witch was chosen to referee it.
Harry looked down at his broom. It was a Nimbus 2000, his trustworthy broomstick that had been reduced to bits by the Whomping Willow. The Quaffle was thrown and the game began
"Evans passes to Jorkins, Jorkins throws to Ravenclaw, Ravenclaw's going for the goal and she scores!" said the cool male voice
The crowds cheered loudly. "10-0 to the Chimaeras"
After a while Harry was looking for the snitch frantically trying to ignore the male's voice saying "50-40 to the Chimaeras"
He looked around; Cedric was looking at the other end of the pitch. Father and son were doing great in trying to keep the Chimaeras chasers away from the goalposts. Then Harry saw it, it was at the other end of the pitch. Harry knew Cedric was not foolish enough to follow him if he pretended to go for the snitch. So he slowly started to make his way towards the other end of the pitch eyeing the snitch. It was coming towards him. He, in full speed, headed towards its direction. Unfortunately, Cedric saw it too and both of them were racing for the snitch on a collision course. "Time to play chicken" Harry thought to himself as both of them were headed towards each other. The crowd seemed to have forgotten the rest of the game and was watching Harry and Cedric with interest. A bludger came out of nowhere and almost hit Harry who quickly stopped and saw that Sirius had thrown it. Harry had no time to chat, he increased his speed but Cedric was getting there first. Harry absentmindedly pushed his arm forward in an attempt to catch the snitch but Cedric was getting there first. Harry closed his eyes and urged his arm to go farther. An odd pain in his arm overtook him but he ignored it. He then felt something struggling in his hands. Harry opened his eyes thinking excitedly, that he had caught the snitch but what he saw made him sick to his stomach, his arm was the size of a giraffe's neck. It suddenly felt very heavy and he plummeted to the ground. Harry only managed to avoid a crash by holding his long arm with his short one. He was only one or two feet from the ground. He dropped to the ground exhausted, the snitch still in his hand
"So final scores are 80-200 to shooting comets" concluded the cool male voice
Lily, James and the others rushed to help Harry. Helga was there first.
"You have extended your arm using your Metamorphmagus abilities," said Hufflepuff sounding impressed "You will have to concentrate very slowly to get it back to its normal position,"
It wasn't easy to do it this time, the pain was unbearable. Lily, James, Sirius and the others arrived to assist. Once Harry's arm had recovered after a few minutes, the shooting comets celebrated their victory. The other team joined in the celebration, Cedric didn't seem angry, rather, he looked disappointed.
After about half an hour they all started evaporating back.
"Where to, now?" he asked his parents
"To home, Harry, its time you went back,"
"Ok, bye mom, dad and Sirius" he said hugging them and waving his hand
"Snivellius is a moron" he muttered and in a flash of light he was gone.
* * * *
Harry now felt the sensation of being thrown back with tremendous force. He was back in his room, he looked at the clock and smiled, time had not moved a second. He lay back in his bed thinking the joy this mirror had given him. A day or two before, he had often wondered what would happen if he decided to leave this world, what it would feel like to have his parents returned to him, so that he, Harry could talk to them, play quidditch with his father and know that he could re-live all the years that had been wasted, now he knew what it felt like.
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Funny chapter title, huh? Ok so this is the shortest chapter I've written, only 3396 words. I got 8 reviews but Danielle reviewed 3 times (I deleted two same and extra reviews). So I'm going to accept this for now but starting from this chapter, I'm ignoring them, they don't count and I will delete them. Ok, 7 reviews for this chapter and the next will be published. Oh and guys, please tell your friends about this chapter and tell them to review. I didn't make this chapter very original by making Harry meet the four founders and Merlin but at least I didn't make Harry their heir. Thanks to:
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