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Author's Notes: New Chapter finished. Hey, what do you do if you've got writers block on one of your stories and thousand ideas for one or more new ones in your head? I started to write those ideas down and have loads of pages for two new stories but very little good material for this one.
Book three (or in my case, the storyline and plot of the second original book) is coming along quite nicely. I hope to finish this soon so that I can concentrate on the other stories and book three.
The last three chapters were coming more or less in the same week. I didn't write anything on this for weeks and then wham a whole lot of new ideas. Really crazy if you ask me
2004-05-08
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If I forgot someone, please bear with me ... it wasn't intentional. I didn't have much time to write on this story as I had a lot going on in RL.
Chapter 14 - Revision, Pranks and Quidditch or Patronus and Spoiled Fun
The Headmaster would eventually find out some day what that had been about. But for now he had different problems to deal with. Sirius Black had been seen near Hogsmeade and once again the security level was increased in order to protect the students.
When Black had broken into Hogwarts some of his teachers, especially Snape had suspected Remus Lupin of helping Black. But Lupin had an alibi. He had been with the Headmaster the whole day. Albus was one of the few who trusted him.
He also knew something that hardly anyone knew. Everyone thought that Sirius Black was just insane after eleven years in Azkaban. His attack on the Gryffindor tower seemed to prove that point. But that could have been a mistake.
Black might have assumed that the Potters were Gryffindor's just like their parents. It has never really made it's way into the press that they were sorted into Slytherin. Shortly before Black escaped the Minister of Magic had made his yearly visit to the Wizard Prison.
The minister had told him on christmas how calm and, well, normal Black had seemed at that time. He had even asked the minister if he could have the newspaper which had shocked Fudge to no end. Only two days later Black had somehow escaped and vanished without a trace.
And there had been no sign of him until Halloween. What additionally worried him was the lack of interest the twins showed in this matter. They either knew more than they let on or they didn't take the situation seriously. He desperately hoped it was the former.
The days and weeks flew by and soon every teacher had started revision of the years topics. Transfiguration had already started long ago so they'd somewhat less work there. But all the other subject were now stuffed with information and they got more homework than ever.
Most teachers thought that reviewing the years material now would benefit the students so they could catch up if they'd missed something. Well everyone except Professor Snape that is. He was his nasty usual bastard self and gave them a new assignments every lesson.
He thought that they'd have to be able to review his lessons by themselves. The children's weeks were filled with classes, homework and revision. They already knew the type of potion they were making on March 3rd because they'd made a healing potion before but this one was more advanced.
"The potion we'll make today can be found on page two hundred-fifty-eight in your textbooks but I have my doubts that many of you will be able to brew it successfully. Although there maybe a few exceptions," he snarled and glanced over at the twins, Ginny and Draco because they were normally the only ones to finish a potion successful in the given time.
"I will pair you up and you will not chose the partner yourself. Weasley - Longbottom, Finnegan - Zabini, Thomas - Goyle, Brown - Crabbe, Patil - Parkinson, Miss Potter - Malfoy, Mister Potter - Miss Weasley ... Well, what are you waiting for? Get to work!" he yelled.
That did have the desired effect on his students. As always the Gryffindor's were fuming but then they hadn't lost any housepoints within the first five minutes which was an improvement. Even Snape's attitude towards Carya and Harry had changed but only a little.
Although he was still a bastard and never took points because they were Slytherin's he had come to accept their ability when it came to potions brewing since Carya's detention. While they were working in silence, Carya kept throwing glances at Draco.
'I wonder what's bothering him so much. I know that his father forbid him to associate with us but he seems pretty upset about something the last few weeks.' Carya thought but got back to work.
Snape was thinking too. He was thinking about this class. When he'd gotten the list with the students names the first time he'd thought it would be absolutely horrible, well it was, but there were a few rays of light.
And surprisingly they were two Potters and a Weasley together with Draco Malfoy. He had known that Draco was good at potions. Lucius had often told him. But that the Potter twins would be that adept to his subject he hadn't expected.
Although it was clear that Carya had more talent in this than her twin. And Ginny Weasley was different from her brothers too. The only other Weasley Snape remembered who could brew a decent potion had been William, better known as Bill Weasley.
The Weasley twins weren't bad either but didn't bother to pay attention in his class. An explosion brought him back to reality. Longbottom had melted the third cauldron after christmas already and god knows how many cauldrons had been destroyed since last September.
"What did you do now Longbottom? Do you ever pay attention? I cannot recall that any ingredients of this potion would react in an explosion! And you Weasley, why didn't you stop him? That will be 15 points from Gryffindor each.
And now clean this up, quickly mind you!" he shouted rather irritated.
"But sir, I didn't ..." began Ron. He should have known better.
"Sit down Weasley! That'll be another ten points from you," the Professor snapped and glared at Ron.
Neville started cleaning his table while Ron was still glaring at his Professor. The Slytherin's of course snickered at this display and smirked at Ron who was getting angrier with every passing second.
'You'll all pay for this. I'll get you back!' Ron thought angrily.
He would've to ask his twin brothers to help him with his retaliation. He also forgot that whatever he did to the Slytherin's, their comeback would not be pleasant either. It never was.
The Gryffindor Common Room - Afternoon March 3rd
"Fred, George, can I talk to you for a few minutes? It's really important," Ron said.
"Sure, dear brother what ..." began George.
"...can we do for you," continued Fred.
This always gave Ron goosebumps. Not only did his brothers look the same, they always finished each others sentences. It wasn't as strange as the Potters who seemed to communicate without even speaking but still kind of creepy. Like they were the same person.
"I need help with a prank," he told them and their eyes lit up a bit.
They smiles widened when Ron mentioned the Slytherin's as his supposed victims.
"I want to get revenge on the Potters, our 'sister' and Malfoy. And I don't care if were caught either," Ron said.
"Oh, our Ronnykins is all grown up now," said one twin.
"Yeah he's following our carefully crafted footsteps," the other added and Ron just rolled his eyes.
"So, do you have something I could use?" the youngest Weasley boy asked.
"We have something, it will be fun, I promise and Potter will be pissed ..." George remarked grinning like a mad-man.
End The Gryffindor Common Room
The rest of the week passed quietly and nothing happened. The Hogsmeade visit on Sunday was allowed at short notice and the older students were almost all gone. The first and second years meanwhile enjoyed the first signs of warmer weather and were all outside.
Some were flying on the quidditch pitch and others just went for a walk. Monday morning was not that peacefully. Many Slytherin's came to breakfast in a horrible mood. Someone had cut off their warm water and they had to shower cold.
But breakfast would be worse. Luckily Harry, Ginny and Carya had already eaten something. They'd spent the night in 'their' rooms and gotten a late night snack at five the morning. Therefore they only drank something.
Draco got his normal breakfast and when he bit into his piece of bread there was a strange sound and some green fog. On Draco's place sat a bright red duck. He was furious when he changed back after two minutes.
The other Slytherin's didn't have more luck either. They turned into various red-coloured animals depending on what they'd eaten. The twins and Ginny only had some orange juice. Suddenly Ginny started gaping at them.
"What's wrong Ginny? Do I have something in the face?" Harry asked confused and when he looked over to Hermione she looked shocked too and gestured towards her head.
"Your ... your hair Harry, and yours too Carya ..." Ginny stuttered.
Carya conjured a small mirror and looked into it. She as well as her brother had red hair it wasn't a bright red but rather looked like dark red blood. They instantly knew who had done this although they didn't think it was because of the prank they'd pulled on the Weasleys after christmas.
Carya smirked inwardly and decided to spoil their fun. She stood up and yelled something towards the Weasley boys at the Gryffindor table.
"Hey, Weasley! Thanks for the colour-potion! I've always wanted to know how my mother really looked like. Only missing thing is the eye-colour!" she shouted and then grinned.
The Potter girl took out her wand and pointed at herself. She murmured an incantation and suddenly had emerald green eyes. She looked much like Lily Evans-Potter now. And everyone laughed at this.
The teachers noticed the similarity between mother and daughter now that Carya's hair and eye colour almost matched Lily's. The three Gryffindor Weasley's were disappointed. They had so hoped that she would be angry but she had just turned the tables.
Now she got all attention and no one looked at them. Worse of all she openly smirked into their direction. Severus Snape felt odd. It was strange to see a slightly different version of Lily Evans in Slytherin robes at Hogwarts.
"She looks a lot like her mother, don't you think Severus?" came the Headmasters remark from his right side but he didn't answer.
The colouring potion the Weasley twins had used on the Slytherin's food would last a few hours at best. Carya decided to go to classes this way without disguising herself or looking for an antidote like many others.
But then again, the dark blood-red hair looked good on her and didn't disagree with her looks as it did with Draco. The potion wore off sometime during Defence in the afternoon and by the time dinner came around the Potter twins looked as always.
They decided to wait until after their Quidditch match against Gryffindor on Saturday. If they lost they would retaliate and if they won they would let the 'Gryffindorks' get away with this for once. The weekend came quite quickly and the game started.
The weather was cold and it was raining much. The teams could hardly see anything. After fifty minutes the wind started to get stronger and they still hadn't spotted the snitch. All fourteen players were soaking wet by now and it was difficult to stay on the brooms.
Suddenly everyone went quiet, even the wind had nearly stopped blowing. Harry had a vague idea what was happening because of the sense of foreboding he had. It was the Dementors about thirty of them were coming towards the pitch.
Harry took out his wand and yelled the Patronus Charm. Carya did the same from her place on the stands.
Harry's POV
'Oh shit, not now!' I thought and pulled my wand out of a pocket.
My parents death was replaying itself in my mind but I had no time to pay attention to that if I wanted to survive.
"Expecto Patronum!" I yelled and suddenly a brilliant white figure burst from my wand.
A huge white stag and a very large grim-like dog chased the Dementors away.
'It is unbelievable. My first corporeal Patronus and it looks like dad and Sirius' animagus forms. I can't believe it but I don't have time to dwell on that. I have to get to the ground safely.
Thank Slytherin that Madam Hooch has stopped the game,' I thought and flew over to the Gryffindor Seeker as fast as I could.
A minute later I had safely landed on the ground and saw a green and black blur running towards me. That was my twin. I bet she was worried sick about me.
End Harry's POV
Carya's POV
'Oh no, why now? I can't let this happen,' I thought worriedly and tried to tune my mothers pleas for mercy out. Images flashed before my eyes and I knew I had to act fast.
"Expecto Patronum!" I yelled and vaguely heard that Harry had just done the same.
From the tip of my wand came the expected image of our mother but this time it was different. She was accompanied by over a dozen large snakes.
'I wonder where those came from all of a sudden,' I thought for a second and rushed down towards the pitch where Harry was just landing. I had been worried sick that he'd fall off his broom again.
End Carya's POV
A brilliant white stag and a large dog were coming from Harry's direction and a beautiful woman accompanied by many snakes chased the Dementors away from the stands. Harry landed safely on the ground because Madam Hooch had stopped the game.
The teachers were stunned. It was unusual for students to succeed at this charm, let alone for twelve and a half year olds. They saw that a student who didn't belong to the team was running onto the pitch.
It was Harry Potter's twin and once she'd been assured that Harry was alright she rather reluctantly left his side and returned to her seat on the Slytherin stands. Ten minutes later the game was resumed.
Harry caught the snitch after tricking the Weasley twins into hitting their own brother with a bludger. He was grinning at the Gryffindor's. This was his personal victory. He had not only beaten them again, he had produced a correct corporeal Patronus for the first time in his young life.
Carya, Ginny and Hermione had stormed the pitch the second Madam Hooch declared the game to be over. Harry was hugged by all three of them and had to yelp for air before they let him go. Their Patroni were the reason that the Headmaster wanted to talk to them after the match.
The old wizard approached the cheering Slytherin's when they left the pitch towards the castle.
"Mister Potter, Miss Potter, could I talk to you for a few minutes?" he asked and the twins first looked at each other but then nodded.
They followed him to his office where Professor Snape joined the group.
"That was a very good spell you two did out there. Not many people are able to cast such a powerful charm at your age," the Headmaster said and Snape watched as the twins expression turned unreadable.
"Well, I couldn't let something happen like the time they appeared during practise, could I, Professor Dumbledore?" Harry said without answering the hidden question and his sister just stared ahead.
"It must have been really hard practise to learn the charm that well, hasn't it?" the old wizard continued.
"A bit, but boggarts are really good substitutes to practise on," the girl said and confused both Professors.
"Boggarts? What do you mean by that?" Snape asked curious.
"Our boggart ... is a Dementor," Harry told them matter of factly.
"Your worst fear is a Dementor? I would've thought ..." the Potions Master began but trailed of.
"... that Voldemort was scaring the shit out of us? Nope, we truly respect his powers but he really looks bloody ridiculous," Carya said snorting and Harry shot her a grin when he suddenly remembered her idea for the boggart form of the Dark Lord.
"How can you say that Carya?" Dumbledore wanted to know.
"Well, as you already know he is visiting us quite often in our nightmares. Cold, high-pitched voice, snakelike face, almost glowing red eyes, deathly pale skin. You see? That's how we know," she replied offhandedly.
Harry just nodded but the teachers knew they were anything but calm inside. Both men were quite shocked by this. It was one thing to know that they remembered the night their parents died but that they knew how exactly the Dark Lord looked like, that was something unexpected.
Even most of his followers couldn't stand to look at him without extreme fear let alone talk about it.
"At first we thought the boggart would turn into him but ... well that, ... we would have had been able to take care of easily, professor," Harry added with a wry grin.
When Dumbledore requested that they told how Harry told him what Carya had had in mind that day. In the end both wizards were quite amused and shocked by the thought and both children had lost their tenseness.
"I guess dear old Voldie would be quite pissed if he knew what we just said, eh?" Carya asked smirking slightly.
At this the two adults made a choking sound. Severus really thought that he'd only imagined her saying that but she had said it. Even Albus stared at her wide-eyed.
"What did you just say?" Albus wanted to know.
"You're wondering about the nickname, right? Well, since he has already tried to kill us twice we thought it entitled us to call him on a real name basis ...," Carya started.
"... but all of our friends are flinching and stuttering when we mention his real name, thus the nickname. Makes people less frightened because it sounds pretty funny," Harry added.
That got them two pairs of raised eyebrows and the kids were released from their 'questioning'. A few minutes later the two wizards realised that the real question were still left unanswered. They had wanted to know if someone taught them and why their Patroni had those particular forms.
'That was very Slytherin of those two. They distracted us with their statements and led to a different topic. I guess when they are older they could rival Albus with that,' Snape thought while shaking his head and walking down towards his rooms.
The Headmaster was still sitting in his office and thought about what the two Potter children had just told him. He wondered how they came to their conclusions about the Dark Lord. He also thought that they wouldn't want to confront him willingly if they could avoid it.
But he still didn't know why their Patroni looked the way they did. He was actually proud that they had managed to totally avoid a topic they were uncomfortable with or didn't want anyone to know. He had to admit that not many people could distract his thoughts like that successfully.
Down in the Slytherin Common Room a party was taking place. If nothing out of the ordinary happened they would win the Quidditch Cup again this year. Harry, Carya and Ginny weren't among them.
They sat in the library together with their Ravenclaw friend Hermione Granger. Harry was pleased with himself. He had finally managed the Patronus Charm and Carya was thinking about the change of her own one.
/Where the hell did those snakes come from. I thought Mum was my Patronus,/ she told Harry.
/Don't worry, Carya. I guess that can happen. Don't forget that we've only tried with boggarts so far or with stupid Gryffindorks in silly costumes,/ the boy tried to soothe her.
At dinner the four friends once again sat together at the Slytherin table. They went to bed early because they wanted to write Sirius what had happened in the morning. After a good nights sleep the children woke up early and decided to have breakfast in the kitchens.
When they were finished Carya wrote the letter while Harry and Ginny suggested what she should write. Hermione was not with them since they didn't have the new password to the Ravenclaw Common Room.
The kids sent the letter with Deimos, Carya's raven, this time since Phobos, that would be Harry's pet then, was still not back from the Dursley's.
Sirius Black POV
Something woke me up very early this morning. The sun had just risen and I thought I heard something tapping against one of the dusty windows. And I hadn't imagined it. The strange sound was from one of the twins ravens. He had a letter tied to his feet.
'Dear Snuffles,
how are you? Not getting into trouble I hope.
We hope that too!
Give me back my quill, Harry! Stop poking me, Ginny! As I said, I hope you're safe. Did you hear what happened yesterday at the Quidditch match? About thirty Dementors appeared and Harry and I cast a Patronus.
I managed it this time!
It was looking really cute ...
Harry, Ginny, I am writing, not you. Anyway, Dumbledore asked us to his office afterwards telling us how unusual it was for twelve year olds to cast that spell. We didn't answer his hidden questions though and even managed to change the topic.
The rodent is still gone but we're sure that it'll come back. Slytherin won the match by the way and Harry caught the snitch.
Everything else is back to normal. Even the Gryffindorks are back to their normal selves too. They played a prank on us but I spoiled their fun ... '
I read on and found out everything about the pranks, what the kids did in the meantime and I was updated on what was going on in the newspapers. And the twins once again made me doubt who was the adult in our relationship.
' ... stay out of sight and trouble, you are definitely far too careless. We don't want you getting yourself caught now, do we? Will you be in the usual place in case something happens?
Love,
Carya, Harry and Ginny'
'Huh? I wonder where Hermione is. Might be because it's really early today. Perhaps the little Ravenclaw is not up yet. I should write them back later. So Peter still hasn't shown up, eh? Just you wait, we'll get you sooner or later, you traitorous rat!'
End Sirius Black POV
In the afternoon the children got Sirius reply. This time Hermione was there too. They again were in their secret chambers and therefore could discuss the letters contents without fearing to be overheard by anyone.
'Hi you lot,
I'm alright and yes, Carya, I'm staying out of trouble. What else would I do? ...'
"That's him, definitely ... he couldn't stay out of trouble if his life depended on it," Carya snorted.
"Eh, Carya, are you sure you mean him and not the four of us?" Ginny asked grinning and the other three started laughing.
' ... Glad to hear that you're okay too. Dumbledore is right when he tells you it's unusual, hell, even I cannot do that spell completely right. And I have been an Auror! You still haven't told me how your Patroni look like. Do that next time okay?
Oh, and Harry, congrats for your victory! I don't like Slytherin but I love you two and your friends are the best one could wish for. Say 'Hi' to Ginny and Hermione from me, will you? Too bad that the ruddy rodent isn't in sight right now.
Don't worry though. We'll get him sooner or later. You should only worry about studying for your exams now and not start chasing rats. And don't tell me I'm turning into a 'mother-hen'. I resent that.
I'll never end up like Molly Weasley. Lovely woman but far too worried at times. No offence, Ginny.
See you soon,
Snuffles'
Ginny simply grinned and shook her had. Yes, her mother could be quite pesky when she was worried about someone. There was absolutely no doubt about that. Sirius also wasn't the type since he would rather get into trouble himself.
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Carya
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