A/N : Hey everyone! I know it's been ages since I've updated, but I've been on holiday (In Switzerland!) It was great apart from at the end when I tripped and broke my leg!!! Seriously! It was awful, I had to fly home early. So needless to say it has been difficult to write. I've just been trying desperately to rest it before I have to go back to college. So to sum up sorry for not updating before, believe me I wanted to! I'm back at college next week so hopefully work won't be to heavy so I can resume normal posting.
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 Sixteen
Hidden Identity
"Do you realise how highly illegal this is?" Remus said under his breath to Harry, who was striding ahead confidently along the road.
"I mean if we get caught, then Albus will never trust me again and I'll be out of the order. Merlin I'll loose my friends too."
"We won't get caught." Harry growled, turning around to narrow his brown eyes in anger.
Remus continued annoyed that he had got roped into it, "but why couldn't just I go and ask for some extra Wolfsbane for you? Why do you have to come and pretend to be someone else?"
"Because," Harry said patronisingly as if to a child, "If they see me with you then they will know they can trust me and I can then use this to my advantage. If I ever want to get back to my world then I need to stay close to those idiots, and if I looked like the real me then they would never tell me anything."
Remus sighed, "Ok, fine but still you shouldn't be doing magic out of school, to change the way you look so drastically is quite advanced transfiguration. I'm sure Fudge would love any excuse to get you expelled."
Harry had chestnut coloured shoulder length hair, and matching brown eyes. The rest of him was not drastically changed, he had higher cheekbones and he was taller. He was wearing all black, with a big black swirly cloak.
"I can do magic out of school due to the wards on me." Harry said uninterested.
"Ah, well that explains a lot," Remus said thoughtfully. "It's down here by the way." Remus pointed down another identical suburban road with dreary terrace housing.
"This place is great," Harry said his voice dripping with sarcasm. "I don't know why Sirius has never taken me here before."
"Don't" Remus said in a slightly strangled voice.
"Don't what?" Harry snapped.
"Don't talk about him, like-like he's alive," Remus mumbled.
Harry didn't have the heart to say something nasty in return. All he said was, "oh,"
"I had to send an owl on express delivery to get Dumbledore's consent for me to bring a guest." Remus said changing the subject.
"Oh did you? Well it's for the best, I need that potion."
"Yeah well you've already missed a few days of Wolfsbane so it won't work fully."
Harry was getting frustrated with the constant questioning, Remus was more quiet in his universe, "I know, but a few days are better than none. I'll be less of a threat than if I didn't take any."
"I'm surprised you are so concerned about the safety of others." Remus said suspiciously.
"I'm not really, it's just that I don't want to attract any attention at the moment since I'm still on the run from 'the Order' and probably the Malfoy's, oh and that Voldemort bloke everyone keeps talking about. So running around brutally murdering loads of people in the form of an angry Werewolf is not exactly top of my to-do list."
"Though I suppose it might be fun." Harry added as a dark afterthought.
Remus looked disgusted, "you don't think that way do you?"
Harry shrugged. "Are we there yet" Harry said as they reached another identical street.
"Erm, nearly" Remus said distractedly
"I'm not entirely sure this isn't going top backfire, after all the trouble you caused at the castle, if Albus knew I hid you from him. He'd never trust me again." Remus once again tried to dissuade Harry.
"Quit moaning, there are some things more important than trust," Harry snapped.
"Like?"
"Your life."
Remus frowned, "you keep making all these threats, but I'm not convinced you could go through with them."
"Oh yeah," Harry said raising one eyebrow. "Do you want to take the risk?"
Remus thought for a second. "Fine, read this, we're nearly there."
Harry read it, "Now what."
"Burn it."
Harry laughed "That's a tad melodramatic, typical Albus." He then squinted angrily at the parchment and it burst into flames, Harry continued to hold it till it had burnt to nothing in his hand.
Remus watched the flame consume the letter from Dumbledore, "Didn't that hurt?"
"Not really" Harry said calmly brushing the black from his hands.
Remus turned to look at the terrace houses in front of him. In between the two houses 11 and 13, squeezed number 12 Grimmauld Place pushing the two houses apart.
Remus looked back at Harry, if he was surprised he didn't show it.
"What are you waiting for?" Was all Harry would say.
In truth Remus was not terribly keen to be here, it held memories of Sirius and though Remus had been here since his death, he still resented Harry for making him come here when it was not strictly necessary. Though Albus would have expected him to come to the meeting.
They walked together to the door, Remus turned back to Harry and said. "Now remember your story, you are my friend Jake Smith you twenty years old and are also a werewolf. We are going to go to the meeting then ask for a word with Severus just after so you can ask him to make you some Wolfsbane. You must be extremely polite to Severus otherwise you've got no chance."
"Polite! How do you expect me to do that?" Harry snapped.
Remus thought for a moment, "Just act the opposite way you normally do."
"Whatever" Harry drawled while ringing the bell.
Suddenly there was the sound of Mrs Black screaming, as they waited for the door to open. "You shouldn't have rang the bell," Remus said.
Harry turned to Remus with a grin he said, "I didn't know Snape had such a high pitched scream."
Remus smiled and said, "That's Mrs Black."
The door then suddenly opened, Molly Weasley stood there and to Harry's shock she grinned and gave Remus a big hug, and pulled them both in.
Harry was used to only one thing from Mrs Weasley, and that was hatred. He had been solely responsible for the deaths of two of her children. Yet here she was grinning stupidly at them both in the dreary crowded hallway. She then aimed her wand at the ugly Mrs Black who was still screaming at the top of her lungs and muttered a spell, which made the curtain close over her again.
"…And you must be Remus' friend!" Molly looked excitedly at Harry. Harry however was still staring in shock at the curtains where.
Harry turned his attention to Molly. "Er- yes, that's me." Harry said stupidly.
"Welcome to the order of the Phoenix, My name is Molly Weasley!" Molly held out her hand expectantly.
Harry shook it nervously "Oh, nice to meet you Molly, mine is Har-Jake Smith." Harry had to quickly correct himself. Behind Molly, Remus glared at Harry.
"So, er who are all these people?" Harry said quickly trying to draw attention away from his slip up.
Molly turned around, "Oh they're mostly just Order members. There's my husband over there." Harry spotted Mr Weasley heading into a room on the left. "His name is Arthur."
"Oh right."
The corridor started to get more crowded as lots of wizards emptied out of the room on the right and entered the room on the left, which Harry saw Arthur enter.
"Lets go in the meeting room, its getting far too crowded in here." Molly said loudly over the noise of the people. It wasn't too soon either; minutes after they left Mrs Black started screaming again.
They walked through the door and down a narrow flight of steps before going through another door into a basement kitchen which doubled as a meeting room, it was rather gloomy and had a huge wooden table with lots of chairs around it.
Harry immediately spotted Dumbledore chatting to a witch he didn't know. He hoped dearly Albus would not see through his disguise.
Harry felt a strange sensation being in a room full of people he used to know, but don't know him. The weirdest part was the way they didn't look quite the way he remembered. Some were a bit taller, a bit thinner, a different shade of hair colour. It was like an amateur artist had painted them all, they were all based on the same people, except there was just something missing.
Soon everyone started to sit down and Harry sat between Remus and a woman he already knew from his world. Her name was Catherine McKenna. She worked in his dads division as an Aurora. He always remembered what an awful nasally voice she had.
"So are you new? I don't remember seeing you before." She said in her horrible voice, some things don't change. Though her hair was longer and a duller blonde.
"Yes, I'm Jake," she shook his hand.
"Cathy," Harry smiled, Catherine hated being called Cathy in his world.
Remus nudged him and motioned across the room.
"He's over there." Harry saw he was motioning to Snape who was sat next to a tall plain looking man Harry had never met in either world.
Just then the room lapsed into silence as Dumbledore stood up.
"Good day fellow order members, I have a few announcements, but first lets introduce our new members. Miss Mary Goldworth, a young witch with short black hair grinned and waved at everyone. I believe She is a medi-witch from Manchester," Mary nodded.
Also I believe there is a Mr Jake Smith around here somewhere, Harry raised his hand like he was in class, he felt himself flush pink. "Remus tells me you are a squib from east Sussex." Squib! Harry thought angrily glaring at Remus, "Are you employed?" Dumbledore asks in a kind voice his eyes twinkling annoyingly.
"Erm-" Harry felt everyone's eyes on him. "Well I work for…" Harry thought desperately around in his mind back to those Muggle studies lessons he'd had, but he was having a mental block he couldn't think of any Muggle jobs.
"The times!" Harry said suddenly remembering the Muggle newspaper.
"You're a reporter! Splendid, you can keep us informed about Muggle affairs."
"Yes, I guess I can." Harry mumbled wishing he had said his first thought which was a dustbin man.
"Excellent, well then if the two newcomers would like to sign the agreement in front of themselves and make it official, then we can get along with the meeting." Dumbledore waved his wand and a piece of parchment appeared in front of them both. It was a magical binding agreement. As Harry signed Jake Smith he found himself desperately hoping it would work.
The two pieces of parchment rose into the air and a golden padlock appeared around them before they disappeared in a big golden explosion, glitter rained down from where they were in the air.
Dumbledore naturally carried on matter-of-factly. "Good, well then I will move onto the first piece of news. Harry potter may be nearer than we first suspected, Riphook informed me that there had been some money removed from his parent's Gringotts vault. Except no one saw him enter the building, or leave." Confused muttering broke out around the room.
Dumbledore calmly held out a hand and the room lapsed into silence. "There is no need to worry about this, Bill I believe you and a team of goblins are investigating the matter."
At the name Bill Harry's ears pricked up. He craned his neck and sure enough just behind him was another small table, which was not here as he walked in, on it were Bill, Charlie, Fred and George. His stomach did an odd turn when he saw George. He had a sudden flash back.
(Hogwarts three years ago, alternate universe)
The Hospital wing was all a blur to Harry. People were rushing about everywhere. There were people crying and screaming.
Harry was sat on a hospital bed surrounded by a large bubble. He had Feverius, so he was contagious so he could not leave the bubble, and no one could enter. Looking around Harry could see the blurred outlines of other bubbles. Contained within them were the people he'd infected. They would probably all die before tomorrow. Harry hoped he would die with them, but it seemed because he had had the disease for at least a week, that death was an honour he had been denied.
Harry had never felt worse; a deep and suffocating guilt was enveloping him. He felt sick to the core, his friends, the people he loved were all going to die, because of him.
On his right was George Weasley, his family crowded around the bubble, all pale solemn faces. It didn't seem right to see Fred without a wicked grin on his face, about to pull a prank on an unsuspecting victim with his twin. His twin would not be pulling any more tricks. He had been struggling these last few hours, Harry knew he didn't have long. Harry closed his eyes tightly feeling them stinging. He tried desperately to push these thoughts away, but they just wouldn't go. Also there was Ron, he was across from him. He probably wouldn't make the night. 'Stop' he thought desperately he couldn't think about that.
He wouldn't think about that.
Not for a few seconds at least.
A/N : Reviews!
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Crydwyn : Good, I like taking people by surprise!
CharlieTheOtakuNymph : well the evil one has some serious problems as you can see by this chapter. So he deserves a little compassion.
Kaydon : sure
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Oklina : Really, I'm not sure I've read any stories where he goes to Azkaban…No wait! Yes I have. Perhaps a strange obsession to have don't you think?
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gilthas : Horray! Gilthas! I haven't heard from you in ages! I miss HRI. Update soon would you. Sorry about my random reviewing, I've been really busy this summer. Wow in your last review you pretty much argued my point that the minestry is so corrupted, even with Albus as Minister. That Harry stands no chance. If there is a majority vote then there is nothing Albus can do…but he may not have a big enough sentence to go to Azkaban. You'll find out fairly soon.
On the subject of Americans, well done in the Olympics! You did really well. England didn't do as well as you. But we still achieved more than usual. Mostly thanks to Kelly Holmes. Thanks Kelly! England bows to your feet! Anyway, UPDATE SOON! I need more HRI!!!!!
Abluebird : Yes Dementors will probably push him over the edge…if he goes to Azkaban.
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A/N : Hope you enjoyed that, next week we're back to poor cannon Harry who's just been arrested! Anyway please review!