A/N : Hello sooooo sorry about the lack of updates lately but as I said before, I am really snowed under with work. Also I am in the middle of my exams and to get a stab at a C grade I need to do at least a couple of hours revision a day! So needless to say my updates will be a tad irregular for a couple of weeks till they are over. Once there over though I will have loads of time to write, so I'll make up for it then! Anyway I'll shut up now! Enjoy!
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 Fourteen
PedestalHarry awoke to a horrible feeling. He opened his eyes, and then regretted it when the world started to spin.
"Oh Gawd," Harry mumbled closing his eyes again.
It appeared that temperance was not a word known to Harry. A fact Harry now decided was not a good one, 'how did I allow myself to be manipulated by that wolf?' He wondered.
Harry made another attempt to open his eyes and found once he managed to focus that he was lying at the base of a tree. Judging from the scratches and bruises starting to appear on his arms, it looked like he fell from the tree. Harry realised that he probably couldn't keep up his Animagus form as he flew and transformed mid-flight, hitting the branches on the way down.
Harry hoped his conversation with Remus had been a drunken hallucination, but as he searched his pockets and found the issue of the daily prophet with Fudge on the front waving, he knew it was all true.
A sudden lurch in his stomach told Harry he needed to do something about his hangover. 'There's no way I'm going back to see Albus,' he thought remembering their previous encounter. He glanced down at the paper in his hands then made his decision. He only hoped he had the destination right in this world.
Remus felt a sharp pain in his side, which brought him to his senses. His eyes snapped open. He was lying on his back in a graveyard, with Tonk's looking overhead. Her hair was bright orange and curly. She was scowling down at Remus.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" She said angrily.
Remus' poor mind could not seem to comprehend the situation., "Huh?"
"Going out and getting bladdered was NOT your mission. You were under strict orders to find Harry, instead I find you unconscious in a graveyard!"
"Oh hell," Remus said remembering last night in a sudden flash.
"Oh hell indeed. You're just lucky it's me who found you not Molly, she'd be furious if she found out."
Remus sat up and started to regret it when he felt ill. "So you're not gonna tell her." Remus said with relief.
Tonks sat down next to Remus on the grass. "Nah, I'm not that cruel, you look pretty bad and it's fairly obvious why you're here," She said starting to look a bit sorry for him.
"Oh is it?" Remus said hoping Tonks hadn't figured out what happened last night with Harry.
"Yeah, it's clear you miss Sirius and I presume you came to see your old friends and think things through," She said calmly putting a hand on his shoulder.
"Oh yes, was it that obvious?" Remus lied though didn't quite know why.
"But I wish you would not get yourself blind-drunk first," Tonks said frowning but Remus could see the pity in her eyes. It was the same look everyone gave him since Sirius died, and he loathed it.
"Yes, looking back it was not the best idea. Look thanks loads for not telling Molly, but can you not tell anyone else either. It's just it's a tad embarrassing. I promise not to let it happen again." Remus said feeling bad at not being honest, yet knowing that if he told her about Harry Dumbledore would send the order out to hunt Harry down and that would just make him worse.
"Well, okay then, but don't make me regret it." Tonks said smiling at Remus, then helping him to his feet.
Remus swayed a bit before recovering and assuring Tonks he was fine. Just as Tonks was about to Apparate Remus put an arm out to stop her.
"Wait, how did you find me?" He asked curious.
"A tracking spell of course." Tonks said like it was really obvious.
"But how did you get some of my hair, for the spell to work?"
She laughed, "Are you kidding? Your old office at Hogwarts was covered in fur when you left!"
"Dumbledore kept it that long?"
"Yeah, I think he's a bit of a hoarder!" she said fiddling with her curly orange hair.
Remus laughed, "Hang on, does he have some of Harry's hair?"
She frowned, "No unfortunately, he never seems to malt! That means we can't do a tracking spell on him too."
"That's annoying," Remus said in a mock-disappointed voice.
"Tell me about it."
"Anyway, I guess I'll see you soon, good luck with finding Harry."
"Yeah, you too, bye," Tonks Dispparated away.
The world swayed slightly which brought Remus to his senses he glanced back at the graves of his two friends before Apparating to his home.
There was a rushing feeling and a blur of colour before Harry appeared in a dingy dark ally. He walked up to the back gate, which opened with a simple unlocking charm. The gate was not Harry's worry it was the back door. If Remus was anything like his Remus then he would have the same identification charm it as his Remus had.
Harry walked up the paved path, past the small back garden, which was riddled with weeds and looked like the grass had not been cut for years. As he walked up to the back door a gnome ran cross the path and nearly tripped him up. Harry took his wand out and blew the gnome up. This vented some of the anger directed towards the wolf at tricking him into telling him stuff about his past.
He reached the backdoor and luckily the door clicked open the moment he touched it. Harry found his anger building at this man as he walked through the sparsely furnished house. Why the hell did he trust the man who made him a werewolf in the first place? Remus probably told Dumbledore the moment Harry left, which meant Harry would now have to go on the run. Harry swept silently along the hall seething. He stopped and listened, he heard a faint popping noise in the room on his left. 'Gotcha,' he thought.
Harry walked into the room, which turned out to be the kitchen.
"Morning Moony," Harry said a hard tone in his voice, he had his wand out and was pointing it directly at Remus' heart.
Remus jumped, obviously surprised. "Harry, what are you doing here?"
"I'm here to make you unable to leek what I said to Albus," Harry said honestly, keeping his wand trained on Remus.
Remus shocked Harry by smiling. "Ah it's a shame you didn't hang around last night. This morning I lied to Tonks for you. She thinks I am a depressed alcoholic but you're secrets are still safe. What's more they don't even know I've so much as seen you since the incident at Hogwarts."
Harry lowered his wand, "how do you expect me to believe that?"
"Harry, Harry you really need to get over this anti-trust thing you have going on," Remus said mockingly disapproving.
"Well I was taught never to trust a wolf," he snorted. "That I suppose is why you should never trust me."
Remus raised an eyebrow, "What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means good old Snape needs to make two sets of Wolfsbane this month." Harry watched in amusement as his words sunk in.
Remus opened his mouth a few times before finally managing to say something. "Who did it to you?"
"Actually funny you mention that," Harry said sitting down at the table opposite Remus. "The very same Werewolf is sitting right across from me." Harry enjoyed watching him visibly pale.
"It's quite a funny story really, when you've had time to heal. I can see you're keen to know what happened so I'll give you all the gory details…" Harry went on to explain in detail to Remus the incident in the other world when he escaped and bit Harry then turned on Sirius before he was subdued. By the end of the story Remus had to rush to the bathroom.
"Why dear wolf, you've gone a peculiar shade of green." Harry said in a mocking tone, when he returned.
Remus just shot him a dirty look. "That never happened," Remus said in a gravely voice.
"I'm sorry to disappoint you, but it did bloody happen. Perhaps not in this universe, but I've had to live the consequences of your foolish actions in my world."
"Hang on…will you even be a werewolf in this universe? If you're in our Harry's body and his in yours then surely he'll transform not you."
Harry sighed, "for a wolf of many years you don't know much do you? It's more of a mental thing."
"Yes, but not entirely, the body is bit not the mind. My prediction is you will take on the mind of a wolf and some of the physical attributes to go with it, but not all. Anyway that's just my opinion."
Harry lost his temper "I don't want your opinion! You're the reason I have to go through hell every month. " Harry said harshly, a glass on the worktop behind Remus suddenly exploded.
"I'm not the Remus from your world. I am sorry for whatever my counterpart did, but that does not make me responsible." Remus waved his wand at the shattered glass on the worktop behind him and the cup reformed again "You need to work on your temper."
"I will work on my temper if you get me a restoring potion," Harry said.
"Deal, why do you want one anyway?" Remus said getting up and fishing around in a cupboard.
"I've got a killer hangover," Harry admitted.
Remus gave a hoarse laugh, "Yeah, come to mention it I've got a bit of a headache, I think I'll join you." He brought out two vials of bright blue liquid. "I usually have a load of these around the place, for the day after the full moon." Remus said after gulping the potion down.
"Yeah Mum usually makes me and Sirius have one the day after."
"How is your mother?"
"Dead remember," Harry said angrily.
Remus sighed, "I meant in your world."
"She's well, overworked and ignorant, but well."
"And your father?" Remus felt he needed to know.
"Tired of me, bit of an idiot but otherwise ok" Harry said tiredly.
"And what about Sirius?"
"He's probably still in a bit of pain," Harry said uneasily.
"Why?" Remus felt a pang of worry, but repressed it reminding himself that Sirius was dead here.
"I threw him off a Quidditch stick with a spell," Harry said calmly
"Merlin Harry, what the hell did you do that for? You could have killed him! Do you even care?" Remus said shocked.
Harry's short temper flared up again. "Look Lupin, I've never met your Harry, but he seems like a really good person, don't mistake me for him. I'm not and never will be him. I'm not kind and friendly, I'm not nice and I'm not happy and I will stab you in the back if given half the chance. I only do good things when I have no other choice. You and everyone in this goddamned universe need to take me down from this pedestal because I am not your precious saviour," Harry started angrily.
"Whoa, calm down Harry I get the picture!" Remus said startled. "The only reason I'm trying to be friendly with you is because I care. Maybe I'm treating you like my Harry, and I'm sorry for that I will try to treat you more like your self. But from all I've heard from you, even though you may act differently to him, deep down I know you have some of him in you. You don't have to be this evil person. From what I've heard you have only done what most of us would have done in the same situation. Sure you've made one or two mistakes, but we all have, even me!"
"Listen, no matter how deep down you go into my soul you will never find anything nice. I am not repressing some hero inside. I act the way I want to act. I am not him," Harry pointed at his scar on his forehead. "The sooner you realise that the better. Now I'm going to leave and I don't want you to come after me again till you have found a way to get me home, because this place sucks even more than home." Harry's hair was sticking up wildly and his bright green eyes were blazing, to Remus he looked all of a sudden less like the calm, polite, Harry potter he had grown to know over the past few years. And more like a threatening powerful wizard, at least twice his age.
"Is that clear?" Harry asked in a commanding voice.
"Crystal," Remus was forced to say.
"Good, Now I need to go get my Wolfsbane potion off Snape."
"Do you think that's wise?" Remus said carefully not wanting to piss Harry off more than he already had. "I mean everyone in the Order and probably soon the Ministry is on the look out for you. You can't simply waltz into Hogwarts and ask to see Professor Snape."
Harry thought for a second, "I've got the perfect plan."
A/N: Horray reviews!
snowman1400() : Yeah I'm a BIG Sirius fan too…not big as in weight...as in I really like him…puts down the spade and walks away
Abluebird225() : Yes that would be freaky if the two Harry's met, it might happen, I haven't decided. In Gilthas' 3003 (and BtBT) two Harry's meet, and it's really cool. Except ones not evil and the other normal. Yeah! I highly recommend BtBT and anything by Gilthas!
gaul1 : Yeah Harry's only met a few people in this state. I'll have to experiment.
Madfoot Moony : He's already tried it and it didn't work, remember? Anyway nothing is ever that simple…well not in my stories anyway!
LadyLilyEvans : Thanks sorry for making you wait.
Limegreenlion() : He he I'm glad someone appreciated the random growling book! I like putting silly personal touches in my writing. Erm, right you do know they are fictional?
Lyra Skywalker : Scary, yeah I agree, he can be. If only.
Gilthas : Did you see that I plugged your fics in a review above? A little payback for all the times you've updated and I haven't! Yeah Dumbledore might find it annoying that he lends his Library to Harry and finds he's trashed it! Well ok he didn't trash it, but yeah. The key question is a good one and I realised when looking back on the chapter that I didn't explain. You're right, It was unlocked because Harry had it when he Flooed first…can you say Flooed? Ah well you can now. Lol yeah being attacked by monsters certainly ruins my day! I'm afraid I ate my parsnip hat, I got hungry, sorry. cough UPDATEHRI cough…sorry I have a bad cold
LimaBean0501 : Okay, lol!
Padfootlet : Yes, I can't wait till the film comes out! Harry Potter 3 out in cinemas tomorrow!!!!! Yay! Yes lots of people have commented on what would happen if the two met. I'm guessing it wouldn't be a good thing.
eruve tinwen : Hey, I think I kinda covered that in this chapter, but you will have to wait till full moon to find out exactly what happens.
HarryPassionFan : Yep pretty miserable for them both L
A/N : I think that's all the reviews, sorry if I missed any. As I said I'll update when I can so don't bother getting on at me for it! I'm really trying hard to make time to write, so please review in return!