Chapter 20: Spirit Guide 1

Harry walked down the staircase into the common room when he was ambushed by Hermione, Ginny, and Ron. "Harry ahve you seen Lea?" Ginny quickly asked.

"Yeah last night, she came in with me." Harry was pushed into a chair by Ron.

"Trust me you need to sit! Harry she left after you, went to bed to talk to Snape and Dumbledore and never returned. I stayed up to ask her how it went but she never came back." Ron looked worried.

"She what?" Harry yelled. "We have to find her. We need to go find Snape and ask when the last ime he saw her was." Harry collected himself quickly.

They all went down to the Great Hall to find Snape. "Professor have you seen Lea? She didn't return after she went to talk to you and Dumbledore." Harry spat out when he ran up to Snape at the teacher's table.

"What do you mean she didn't return?" Snape looked furious, before anyone could blink he was out of his chair and halfway down the Great Hall. Harry and the others hurried quickly behind him. Once they left the Great Hall Snape headed straight for the library.

"Why are you going there?" Ginny asked.

"Cause Ms. Weasley this is the last place I sent her. I thought she would of at least waited until today since the polyjuice potion wears off at night from not drinking it every hour. They all entered the restricted section to see a brown-haired Darla sleeping on a book. "Lea wake up." Snape sat down beside her and shook her arm.

"What? Oh no I didn't fall asleep, I'm so sorry." Darla said sitting up.

"That's not all." Hermione said handing her a mirror.

"Oh no the polyjuice potion I totally forgot about that." Darla said taking the the bottle she had next to her and drinking some, instantly she turned into Lea again.

"That's better, well Lea I don't have a class right now so if you and Potter want to go practice that spell you can use my classroom." Snape said calming down, his mind kept going back to the thought that someone might of seen her though.

"Ok, Harry let's go I'll explain everything when we get there." Lea said leaving the classroom and dragging Harry behind her.

Once inside the classroom Darla explained everything, how Dumbledore canceled exams for them, how Snape and McGonagall said he could miss classes, and about the spell. "William I need you to draw that picture there while I get the ingrediants that I need. Harry the spirit guide is going to take over from the moment the spell has ended we won't be able to see you because you'll be in an alternate universe. When you come back you need to find me so we can do the second part of the spell which requires another spirit guide." Darla said going into Snape's potion store and taking some things out.

"How's that Lea?" William asked after he was finished drawling the circle.

"Great. Ok Harry you need to stand in the middle of the circle there where the points all meet together. William when I start saying the spell I need to you to walk around the circle sprinkling this." Darla threw the bag over to William. "Ok then lets get starts. Ethika open your gates! Let the lost be found, the confused be guided. Help him find love from within. I demand you Ethika to open your gates and let this lost, confused soul in. Please hear my plea Ethika open your gates." All of a sudden Harry disappeared.

"Did it work?" William asked staring at where Harry once was.

"It should of. We did everything correctly all we have to do is wait."Darla and William then went back to the library to research the spell and ingrediants needed for the next spell.

When Harry opened his eyes he was in a blue room with a table and two chairs. "Harry, it's good to see you again. I'm here to guide you, and help you learn to love yourself." Harry looked for the the source of the voice but didn't see anyone.

"Where are you? Who are you?" Harry asked confused.

"I'll revel myself when it's time. The first thing you need to do Harry is to take that parchment and quill and write down all the negitive things you can thing of for yourself." The mysterious voice sounded from everywhere.

Harry wrote all the things down he could think of and then put the quill down."Ok now that you're done I want you to crumple the paper up and throw it away. Those things are the barrier between what's holding you back from being happy being yourself. Throwing it away will help you over come that barrier, it will break it down."

"Harry I feel that you really don't need to learn much about loving you for you. The one thing that's holding you back is the fact that you can't let the feelings of living with your aunt and uncle get to you. I want you to come to grips with the fact that Voldemort killed your parents. Love is stronger than hate Harry, can you do that? All you need to do is clear your mind. Clearing your mind here is different than clearing your mind in the real world. When you clear your mind here, when you go back to the real world the feelings of hatred will fade away." Harry started to clear his mind. The mysterious voice was right he was already feeling better about himself and everything about his past.

"Ok, you've accomplished this task. I'm afraid that you already had a love for yourself. Now how to channel that love. Harry you know that feeling you have now, clearing your mind and thinking of the positive things about yourself is the only way to channel this feeling. It will be essential to you. I'm sure your sister will explain later."

"Who are you? How do you know about Darla?" Harry asked and then noticed movement out of the corner of his eye.

"I know about Darla Harry because I've been watching you closely." Lily Potter took shape and sat infront of Harry.

"You're my spirit guide?" Harry said shocked.

"Yes, I couldn't reveal myself at first because it would of been a distraction."Lily hugged Harry. Harry closed his eyes and hugged his mom back, when he opened them he was back at Hogwarts. Darla and William were sitting in two of the desks.

"Finally! What took you so long?" Darla asked getting up and standing outside the circle.

"What do you mean? I was only gone for a couple hours right?" Harry said stepping outside of the circle.

"Harry you've been gone for three days. I was afraid the spell didn't work."

"It worked, my spirit guide told me there wasn't much for me to learn. She told me how to channel it though, all I have to do is clear my mind and think about the postive things about me." Harry said sitting down next to William.

"She, your spirit guide was a she." Darla was shocked at ran to give Harry a hug.

"Yeah, it was our mum Darla. She's very pretty and looks like you. Can we do the next spell in a couple of days I really want to get to class, and make up the work I missed. I also want to see Ginny." Harry looked extremely tired.

"Ok, if that's what you want. Hermione did your work for you though, all you have to do is put your name on it." Darla said leading everyone out of the dungeons.

"Remind me to thank her. Well I guess we'll see you later William." Harry noticed that William was starting to go a different direction.

"Bye, way to work the mojo Lea." William said waving at them.

"Thanks, bye." Darla and Harry headed towards Gryffindor common room.