A/N : I know I know its been far too long since I updated last. I'm so sorry! I've just had no time to update lately, I'm completely over worked! I'm desperately trying to make it up though. I have a holiday now so I will try to get a good couple of chapters written.

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

Summary: Post OotP Harry receives a 'what if' stone for his birthday and gets thrown into an alternate reality where Sirius was the potter's secret keeper imagine a world with an alive Lily, James and Sirius, and a rather confused Harry. (As usual this will not be slash…I don't write it.)

What if

Chapter nine

Perfectly crafted armour

To say that 'the order' Headquarters came alive once more with Harry's influence would be an understatement.

It seemed that the news of the 'switched Harry's' had spread all over England. The order HQ was barely ever empty. Harry had to endure re-telling his story many times before he became so fed up of saying it he wrote it out on self-coping parchment and thrust a copy into any newcomer's arms, and refused to answer any questions until they had read the lot.

Despite this Harry was in an extremely good mood. He had resolved himself to thinking 'I might as well enjoy being here while I can.' A week after his arrival however, he was brought out of his elated mood with a crash.

"James, where's Harry? Should we wait for him?" Lily asked at dinner.

"Oh, he's still out on the Quidditch pitch, he can't seem to get enough." James said, He, Lily, Sirius, Remus, Albus and Snape we all sitting around the large table in the banqueting hall. "He'll be in once he's finished."

Lily smiled, thinking how amazing their son was; even if he was from a parallel universe he was still theirs. The differences between the two were incredible. It was like their aggressive, bitter, son had, had a personality transplant.

"Hey Moony, pass me the salt, could ya?" James said.

"Sure Prongs."

"Can you please not bring your immature nick-names to the dinner table," Snape said distastefully, he was only here to discuss the upcoming Order meeting.

"Or, how about we think of a nice one for you ?" James said slowly "What do you think Padfoot? Moony?

Remus smiled "why not?"

"An excellent suggestion Prongs, he did not seem to appreciate goldy locks, though." Sirius said turning to grin at Severus.

"I really don't-" Snape was cut off

"Nonsense Snape we'll find a good one, you never know we might consider letting you join the maundering ranks if you agree to wash more often!" Sirius said laughing.

"Ok enough!" Dumbledore said

Snape smiled at the headmaster, "at last a voice of reason"

"Now what we'll do is each write down a nick-name, and Lily can randomly pick one." Dumbledore said, Lilly started to giggle.

"Thanks a lot, Minister!" Snape sighed "Fine, but I don't want something childish, like Padfoot-"

"Hey! I happen to think it's a very…" Sirius stopped mid-sentence as the door banged open and in stepped a rather irate Harry clutching his Nimbus 3003 in one hand and a a screwed up piece of parchment in the other.

"Harry are you alright?" Lilly said standing.

Harry walked straight up to Dumbledore and said, "what the hell is this?" he threw the crumbled piece of parchment down on the table.

Dumbledore picked it up and read:

Harry,

        My husband and me do not care what lie you have made up to try and fool the world into believing your innocence of the murders committed three years ago. But we are certainly not in the slightest bit convinced. You are responsible for the deaths of George and Ron, and it is time you admitted it. There are many others who agree with us, you have pulled many unforgivable stunts in the past, but this tops them all. You have no one else to blame for the deaths of 21 students and 2 teachers. It is blatantly obvious that you are trying to escape going to Azkaban by claiming you are someone else. I have never been more convinced that you are a 'shadow', and you purposely caused the outbreak of Feverius, I don't know how you did it but you will be found out. Harry you will pay for your crimes.

Molly Weasley

The minister of magic looked rather pale once he finished reading it he passed it around to the others.

After a moment Harry spoke. "I was good friends with the Weasley's in my world…God, I can't believe I killed Ron and George…"

"You didn't kill them." James automatically said. "It wasn't your fault, you know that, it's just the other Harry could never understand that…I guess neither could Molly. Losing two children at once was too much for her, she needed someone to blame."

"Please don't let it eat away at you, Harry. We had to sit here and watch it slowly kill our Harry, I don't think any of us could bare to see it happen again." Lily said looking sad her bright green eyes were shining.

Harry didn't seem to take the words in, "21 students died, and 2 teachers, you made it seem like only a few were killed. No wonder I went crazy, god...and I'm living in his body. How do you know I'm not still infecting people?"

"Harry, many tests were done, we would not just let him walk around with a fatal illness. Anyway the virus cannot survive for long after being created, the type he had could only last for 24 hours before destroying itself along with the person it inhabits. This is why it was so incredible that he could have had it firstly for so long, and secondly for it not killing him. It nearly did of course. Many parents, Alberforth told me, had wrote to him expressing that it should have killed him," Albus said.

"Unfortunately Harry was plagued with unpleasant letters and howlers like this around the time, that did not help his fragile mental state," Snape said.

"It was awful when he transformed that month, do you remember, Sirius? He was out of control," Remus said.

Sirius winced "how could I forget, that's when he caused this." Sirius brushed his hair back and on one side of his jet black hair was a long sliver streak. He caused us quite a few scars too, but werewolves heal relatively fast, unless silver's involved."

"Thanks for trying to help guys, but I think I need to be alone." Harry ignored the worried looks exchanged as he left the room. He didn't think he could bear hearing anymore of the destruction the other him had caused. Was he also capable of doing these things? Was he destined to kill 24 people like this alter Harry?

Harry found himself wondering the huge house and ended up in an odd room he had not yet discovered it was small, but was fairly empty. It had a large painting of a lion on the wall, that Harry thought must be Muggle because it was not moving. There was also a suit of armour, which looked like one of the ones from Hogwarts. On the wall beside him was a large sword, framed. On the furthest wall was a balcony over looking the small Quidditch pitch, he could imagine in summer playing Quidditch, his mother waving to him from this balcony, cheering him on.

He walked over to the balcony and watched the sunset for a few moments, he thought about how weird it was that his life could still be awful even in a world where there was no Voldemort. He realised that Voldemort was not the source of all evil, that evil exists with or without the Dark lord. It was here that Harry was interrupted from his thoughts by a clanging noise coming from the room he walked through.

He turned around and walked back into the room and was shocked to see the suit of armour had been moved. He noticed that the room felt completely different, it was cold and eerie, and the room was growing darker. All of a sudden the lion in the picture roared loudly and reared up. Harry walked slowly towards the door but the suit of armour moved in front of it, then it turned and pulled the sword off the wall, and began to walk towards Harry, who backed away until he was cornered, his only option was to jump off the balcony (which was very high up) or to stay put and be murdered by a suit of armour. Neither were particularly pleasant options, in Harry's mind.

The chinking of the armour got nearer and nearer, until the armoured arm came out of nowhere and its cold metal fingers closed around his throat, he tried to move out of the way, but he seemed paralysed. The other arm with the sword swung back Harry closed his eyes and shouted out as it came crashing down on him.

A/N Reviews…

Snowman1400 : Yeah, all dead! I could have been nice, but fate has never been nice to Harry in the past, so why would it change?

Angel-liam : It's ok, I did look for your review. Yes dark Harry is interesting isn't he? I'm looking forwards to writing more about him; he's quite difficult to write, because he's so out of character. Thanks.

chocoliciouz() : yes truth serum would verify his story, but I did that with the other Harry…hummm I can't actually think of another way at the moment though.

KatFay : yeah, poor soul he has no idea what's going on and why everyone's acting so oddly.

Drusilla() : Its weird the way everyone pity's Harry even though he's one big evil growing pain!

gaul1 : thanks

Funness : Thanks loads for saying you will update every chapter till it ends! It makes me want to write loads more! Yes it would be extremely funny is Moody turned him into a ferret. I think dark Harry would probably retaliate in an aggressive manner though. As you found out in this chapter good Harry is not faring a great deal better! I'm so unkind!

Authoress : You don't get it…oh darn! I hoped it would be clear! Damn my over complicatedness!

LazyHPfan : Thanks that's a good point life's not all good, people are not infallible. Harry's no exception. (Me neither.)

Danca : Thanks, hope you enjoyed this chapter too.

PrincessSkywalkerOrgana : I think everyone read the "You should be dead" part…if they didn't then they just did!

Silvercrystal77 : Yeah I like writing two different worlds, it stops me from getting bored with the same situations and characters. Thanks.

A/N : Ok sorry cruel place to stop but I couldn't help myself, also if I wrote more, then it wouldn't make sense. Oops I just realised because I'm writing from the evil Harry's perspective next chapter you won't find out what's going to happen for another chapter! Sorry! The more reviews the sooner you find out!