This is the sequal to "Harry Potter, Could it be him?" So if you read that
and got up to the abrupt ending, read this too. If you haven't read it yet,
I advise you to before going on with this story, it will help, believe me,
because otherwise you wont know things like why Harry is where he is and so
on. AllieSkittllez
~The Way Life Is~
Elena Potter, 'daughter' of Harry Potter and Celestina Potter, was currently in quite a nasty argument with the aforementioned father.
"Look dad, I'm fourteen now, you can't stop me from going to visit them, even if they don't like you, they are still my friends!" Elena said angrily.
"Elena," Celestina said quietly, trying to get their daughter to show some respect, "we will go back there one day, just you and me, and if dad wants to come he can come to, but just not now. It'd be, what? 5 months since they last saw you?"
"Five months? What are you talking about? It's been nine bloody years!" Elena said in a bewildered and angry voice.
"I don't want to ever hear you speaking to your mother or I, or anyone for that matter, in that way ever again? Do you hear me? And there is a time difference between our worlds. It isn't noticeable though, unless you actually travel to that time. And anyway, you'd be almost Ginny's age by now. She'd be a year older. Understand?"
"I do!" Elena said exasperatedly, her blonde hair flowing over her red face, "but really, I want to see how Hermione, Ginny, Ron and the others are."
"I wouldn't even think you'd remember them!" Harry said, lighting a torch that was hanging on the wall of there area of Dominus Arx, the sun was just going down as they had been speaking.
"Ofcourse I remember them! How could I not? They were always saying you were an evil, insane, lunatic." Elena said cheekily, with a laugh. Harry mock glared at her. Then he pounced after setting down the torch in it's place on the wall.
"Aaaaargh!" Elena screamed, surprised and happy that her father and mother were no longer angry. "I'm getting to old for this!" She added between bursts of laughter as Harry tickled her.
****
"Hermione, what are you doing?" Ron asked his girlfriend one day in the library. It was around five months since the battle had been fought at Hogwarts with all them wicked Harry's running around.
"If I've told you once I've told you a million times, Ronald Weasley! I'm looking up Ea Terra and universe travel." Hermione said hotly as she shoved a large book back into the slot it came out of. They were in the library and Ron had been watching Hermione go though book after book. Nothing was there! Couldn't she see that? "Would you mind giving me a hand instead of sitting on your butt?"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Ron sighed, he stood up from the desk he'd been perched on and started looking at book titles. Usually they would have asked Dumbledore what was going on, but unfortunately, he'd been missing from since about a week after the battle, and no one had seen him since, and they needed him back, Dark activity was already starting to spread again.
It had come as such a shock when they'd all found out about the evil Harry's, and Hermione and Ewwyn had been trying to find a way to get Elena back. With Dumbledore gone Remus Lupin had been made Headmaster, and he and Sirius Black taught Defense together, but the Ranger's had all left once the threat was gone. Hermione and Ewwyn had been in touch though, so had Helena.
"Oh well," Ron said after a while of searching, "just think, Elena must be happy if she hasn't come back yet."
"Yeah, whatever." Hermione said distractedly.
Ron hurrumphed as they plunged into silence again.
****
A year later, after the argument with Elena.
"High Lord Potter! High Lord Potter!"
Harry turned around and looked at the small boy who was racing after him frantically. "Lord Mollahan wants you, now, he said it's urgent!" The boy skidded to a stop.
"Thank you-" Harry stopped. What was his name?
"James, James Kelly." James introduced himself and shook Harry's hand, he seemed absolutely delighted at that. "Now, you better go! He's in the meetings room now with the other Lords."
Harry waited until James was out of sight before running through a long forgotten corridor, and he came out in the meeting room. It was quite like the entrance to Dominus Arx, it was totally marble, with a high ceiling that had designs of past days etched into it, the natural flow of light in here came from nothing in particular, but shined brighter than any torch would.
Harry hurriedly took his seat and looked around the round, white marble, table. "What is it? What's wrong?" He asked the white haired man across from him.
"High Lord." He bowed in the Lords fashion, facing Harry with one palm to his chest and the other outstretched. Harry did the same. "We have news that might bother you." He started gravely. "I don't know whether or not you care, but it was once your world, I figured you might like to. you know, sort something out. Evil has once again consumed the world, I believe that one of yourselves may have something to do with it, the one from your world originally, but there is another power there, stronger than even Voldemort."
"And who is the other power?" Harry asked, praying that it wasn't who he though it was.
"The other power? Your Grandfather."
"Who is.?"
"He is-"
There was a knock at the door which stopped him from saying anything. "Come in!" Harry called. The large doors opened and in skipped Elena, his fifteen- year-old adopted daughter.
"Daddy?" She asked, eyes shining. "Is it true? Are we going to Earth?" (sounds like some out of space book. Hehehe)
"Who told you that?"
"James told me."
Harry rolled his eyes. James would tell Elena almost anything if it had to do with the Lords. It appeared that they all already knew what Harry's answer would be to going.
"Yes, its true, I guess." Harry sighed. "Now go and pack some things, not to many, before I change my mind."
Harry sighed and rubbed his eyes as his daughter left. This wasn't good. Not good at all. They probably still all thought him a murdering, evil Dark Lord. Elena would get there and be just as old as Ginny, now, and he'd be 26, ten years older than he should have been.
He was so preoccupied as he left the close that he didn't even realize he hadn't found out who that new Dark Lord was.
***
The whole of the Great Hall stared at Professor Lupin, Headmaster of Hogwarts, in shock. It was a very hard thing to believe. Harry and Dumbledore were working together against the side of the light? As if!
"I don't believe you!" A Seventh year Ravenclaw yelled angrily.
"Oh don't you?" Sirius asked angrily, standing up. "Well then, you'll probably be one of the first in a grave, just like when old Voldie Moldy was around." Sirius looked around the Hall, anger blazing in his eyes. He then looked passed the students to the back doors where he saw something that almost made him faint in shock. Someone actually. No. someone's.
Standing at the door were three people. Two people had black hair, another long blonde. A girl there looked to be about fifteen, while the other two were 25-26. It was an older Harry Potter, Elena, and that must have been Celest? Was that her name? No. Celestina. Sirius did faint in shock, and everyone looked behind. Some people squealed while others just stared horrified.
"What do you want, Harry Potter?" Remus asked in a deadly voice.
"See why I didn't want to come back, Elena?" Harry looked down at the younger girl. "They all think I'm an evil raving maniac." He looked back up at Lupin. "I was actually sent here by my World to come and protect you from a me that was apparently insane enough to escape my. 'prison' that I made for him and someone else, whom, I must admit, I forgot to ask."
"Everyone, please go to your Common Rooms." Lupin said and he stalked towards Harry, grabbed him roughly by the arm, and walked him, Celestina and Elena up to his office. Snape and the other Professor's followed, McGonagall was levitating Sirius.
Once everyone was inside and looking at the three who were seated right across from Lupin, Celestina and Elena shifted nervously, Harry just sat with one eyebrow raised, and an ironic smile on his face. He happened to be chained to his chair in iron shackles. Sirius was once again awake and kicking.
"I don't believe you people." He said in the silence. Anger was creeping into his usually soft voice. "I come here and you all treat me as a Dark Lord. I came to protect you, and to let my daughter see her own home world. What have you done so far? Bruised my arm, made everyone believe once again that I'm evil, attatched me to a chair with iron shackles, what does a bloke have to do to get any peace in this god damned world. Obviously ridding you of three Dark Lords already wasn't enough. Moldywart, Harry and Harry? Or don't you remember that? I basically sent myself, twice, into the eternal abyss of boredom, worse than hell I might add, and you treat me like a criminal myself."
Celestina was obviously getting very worried. Harry was rarely angry, and when he was, he was definitely not someone to tamper with.
"High Lord Potter, please-" She was cut off.
"You don't have to call me High Lord, I'm nothing but an evil criminal here, call me what they do." Harry spat. He snapped the iron shackles with ease and started for the door. "Celestina, you know how to get back home, do so once Elena has met up with her old 'friends'. Bye 'Lena, bye Cellie."
Harry just put his hand on the door when it was flung open and hit him in the nose. Standing there was Hermione, Ron and Ginny Weasley. He had barely noticed that Sirius had grabbed him and was holding onto him until he spoke.
"Harry," he said softly, "they don't mean what they say."
Hermione, Ron and Ginny looked at Harry in surprise as he answered bitterly.
"Oh yes they do. They mean every word of it. Now please, Padfoot, let me go or I'll be forced to hurt you."
"Well, you'll have to hurt me then." Sirius said, tightening his grip and pulling the twenty-six-year-old into a hug.
Harry glared over Sirius' shoulder at Remus who had a small smile on his face.
"Welcome back, Harry." He said softly and came and joined in the hug.
Harry gave in an hugged them both back. "Doesn't mean I'm going to stay though, no one else will trust me if you two didn't straight away." Harry pushed them off him and walked passed Hermione, Ron and Ginny who were still staring at him, he accidently knocked Hermione out of the way, and walked out the door. Ron seethed in anger. He ran after Harry.
"Apologize, you bastard." He spat at Harry who cringed inwardly, but stayed neutral on the outside.
"I still haven't received an apology off anyone else, why should I start apologizing to you now?" He asked, turning to face Ron, eyes glowing and eerie red colour.
Ron stepped away a little. Everyone was now watching, Lupin trying to calm the two down. Elena dodged past him and walked up to Ron.
"Ronald Weasley, you take that back before I do something you wont like." She snarled at him and slapped his cheek.
"Sheesh! What was that for? You're sticking up for the man who kidnapped you and helped killed your parents."
"You've got it wrong, you know." Elena said, narrowing her eyes into a glare. "His other selves did it, not him. He asked me before he took me with him, and I agreed to go, I'm glad I did, too. You don't know what it's like to be in his shoes so shut your mouth before I shut it for you."
"Elena, what have I told you about talking to people like that?" Harry asked, amused and angry at the same time. Angry at Ron, and amused at his daughter.
"Sorry, dad." Elena bent her head and walked back to Celestina.
"That's alright. Now, Ron, I know you think I'm an evil git, but don't push it. I'm sorry Hermione." He looked at Hermione then back to Ron. "Now, if you don't mind, I'll just be off."
And Harry walked out. Elena glared at Ron as she and Celestina ran after Harry.
The people outside the office could still hear "Dad! Wait up!" when they walked into the office again.
"Ron, Hermione, Ginny, what are you doing here?" Lupin asked sternly.
"We wanted to see if it really was Elena." Hermione answered. "We'll just go."
"Yes, go back to the Common Room and say nothing of them OK?" He said. The three nodded and left.
"Can I please go after him while you contact the Rangers?" Sirius asked, giving Remus puppy dog eyes.
"Alright." Remus sighed and rubbed his eyes after dismissing everyone. He trusted Harry, and he hoped the others would too.
***
Sirius bolted through the corridors as Hogwarts in his animagus form, as it was quicker, and caught up with the small family at the entrance.
"Please stay, Harry. We'll all believe you."
"Ron didn't." Harry said, he was looking out a window and Elena and Celestina each had a hand on his shoulder.
"But Ron's just a hot tempered little git." Sirius said. Harry laughed lightly which made Sirius smile. "And I think he's still a little angry that you broke Ginny's heart."
Harry's head snapped up. He groaned. "She really liked me, didn't she?" He asked as Celestina shifted nervously. Sirius nodded. "Maybe Cells could talk to her?" He gave his wife pleading eyes. "That might make her happier, tell her that any other guy would like her, and so on?"
Celestina rolled her eyes. "Alright." Sirius noticed that the three of them didn't have English accents, like they should. It was an accent unto itself, like they naturally spoke a different language, well, Harry did. He spoke the language of the Rangers.
Celestina walked off.
"Elena, Hermione and Ron are in the Common Room." Sirius said. He gave the once small girl a hug. "I need to talk to your dad." He added in her ear. She smiled cheekily at him and ran off at a brisk pace.
~The Way Life Is~
Elena Potter, 'daughter' of Harry Potter and Celestina Potter, was currently in quite a nasty argument with the aforementioned father.
"Look dad, I'm fourteen now, you can't stop me from going to visit them, even if they don't like you, they are still my friends!" Elena said angrily.
"Elena," Celestina said quietly, trying to get their daughter to show some respect, "we will go back there one day, just you and me, and if dad wants to come he can come to, but just not now. It'd be, what? 5 months since they last saw you?"
"Five months? What are you talking about? It's been nine bloody years!" Elena said in a bewildered and angry voice.
"I don't want to ever hear you speaking to your mother or I, or anyone for that matter, in that way ever again? Do you hear me? And there is a time difference between our worlds. It isn't noticeable though, unless you actually travel to that time. And anyway, you'd be almost Ginny's age by now. She'd be a year older. Understand?"
"I do!" Elena said exasperatedly, her blonde hair flowing over her red face, "but really, I want to see how Hermione, Ginny, Ron and the others are."
"I wouldn't even think you'd remember them!" Harry said, lighting a torch that was hanging on the wall of there area of Dominus Arx, the sun was just going down as they had been speaking.
"Ofcourse I remember them! How could I not? They were always saying you were an evil, insane, lunatic." Elena said cheekily, with a laugh. Harry mock glared at her. Then he pounced after setting down the torch in it's place on the wall.
"Aaaaargh!" Elena screamed, surprised and happy that her father and mother were no longer angry. "I'm getting to old for this!" She added between bursts of laughter as Harry tickled her.
****
"Hermione, what are you doing?" Ron asked his girlfriend one day in the library. It was around five months since the battle had been fought at Hogwarts with all them wicked Harry's running around.
"If I've told you once I've told you a million times, Ronald Weasley! I'm looking up Ea Terra and universe travel." Hermione said hotly as she shoved a large book back into the slot it came out of. They were in the library and Ron had been watching Hermione go though book after book. Nothing was there! Couldn't she see that? "Would you mind giving me a hand instead of sitting on your butt?"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Ron sighed, he stood up from the desk he'd been perched on and started looking at book titles. Usually they would have asked Dumbledore what was going on, but unfortunately, he'd been missing from since about a week after the battle, and no one had seen him since, and they needed him back, Dark activity was already starting to spread again.
It had come as such a shock when they'd all found out about the evil Harry's, and Hermione and Ewwyn had been trying to find a way to get Elena back. With Dumbledore gone Remus Lupin had been made Headmaster, and he and Sirius Black taught Defense together, but the Ranger's had all left once the threat was gone. Hermione and Ewwyn had been in touch though, so had Helena.
"Oh well," Ron said after a while of searching, "just think, Elena must be happy if she hasn't come back yet."
"Yeah, whatever." Hermione said distractedly.
Ron hurrumphed as they plunged into silence again.
****
A year later, after the argument with Elena.
"High Lord Potter! High Lord Potter!"
Harry turned around and looked at the small boy who was racing after him frantically. "Lord Mollahan wants you, now, he said it's urgent!" The boy skidded to a stop.
"Thank you-" Harry stopped. What was his name?
"James, James Kelly." James introduced himself and shook Harry's hand, he seemed absolutely delighted at that. "Now, you better go! He's in the meetings room now with the other Lords."
Harry waited until James was out of sight before running through a long forgotten corridor, and he came out in the meeting room. It was quite like the entrance to Dominus Arx, it was totally marble, with a high ceiling that had designs of past days etched into it, the natural flow of light in here came from nothing in particular, but shined brighter than any torch would.
Harry hurriedly took his seat and looked around the round, white marble, table. "What is it? What's wrong?" He asked the white haired man across from him.
"High Lord." He bowed in the Lords fashion, facing Harry with one palm to his chest and the other outstretched. Harry did the same. "We have news that might bother you." He started gravely. "I don't know whether or not you care, but it was once your world, I figured you might like to. you know, sort something out. Evil has once again consumed the world, I believe that one of yourselves may have something to do with it, the one from your world originally, but there is another power there, stronger than even Voldemort."
"And who is the other power?" Harry asked, praying that it wasn't who he though it was.
"The other power? Your Grandfather."
"Who is.?"
"He is-"
There was a knock at the door which stopped him from saying anything. "Come in!" Harry called. The large doors opened and in skipped Elena, his fifteen- year-old adopted daughter.
"Daddy?" She asked, eyes shining. "Is it true? Are we going to Earth?" (sounds like some out of space book. Hehehe)
"Who told you that?"
"James told me."
Harry rolled his eyes. James would tell Elena almost anything if it had to do with the Lords. It appeared that they all already knew what Harry's answer would be to going.
"Yes, its true, I guess." Harry sighed. "Now go and pack some things, not to many, before I change my mind."
Harry sighed and rubbed his eyes as his daughter left. This wasn't good. Not good at all. They probably still all thought him a murdering, evil Dark Lord. Elena would get there and be just as old as Ginny, now, and he'd be 26, ten years older than he should have been.
He was so preoccupied as he left the close that he didn't even realize he hadn't found out who that new Dark Lord was.
***
The whole of the Great Hall stared at Professor Lupin, Headmaster of Hogwarts, in shock. It was a very hard thing to believe. Harry and Dumbledore were working together against the side of the light? As if!
"I don't believe you!" A Seventh year Ravenclaw yelled angrily.
"Oh don't you?" Sirius asked angrily, standing up. "Well then, you'll probably be one of the first in a grave, just like when old Voldie Moldy was around." Sirius looked around the Hall, anger blazing in his eyes. He then looked passed the students to the back doors where he saw something that almost made him faint in shock. Someone actually. No. someone's.
Standing at the door were three people. Two people had black hair, another long blonde. A girl there looked to be about fifteen, while the other two were 25-26. It was an older Harry Potter, Elena, and that must have been Celest? Was that her name? No. Celestina. Sirius did faint in shock, and everyone looked behind. Some people squealed while others just stared horrified.
"What do you want, Harry Potter?" Remus asked in a deadly voice.
"See why I didn't want to come back, Elena?" Harry looked down at the younger girl. "They all think I'm an evil raving maniac." He looked back up at Lupin. "I was actually sent here by my World to come and protect you from a me that was apparently insane enough to escape my. 'prison' that I made for him and someone else, whom, I must admit, I forgot to ask."
"Everyone, please go to your Common Rooms." Lupin said and he stalked towards Harry, grabbed him roughly by the arm, and walked him, Celestina and Elena up to his office. Snape and the other Professor's followed, McGonagall was levitating Sirius.
Once everyone was inside and looking at the three who were seated right across from Lupin, Celestina and Elena shifted nervously, Harry just sat with one eyebrow raised, and an ironic smile on his face. He happened to be chained to his chair in iron shackles. Sirius was once again awake and kicking.
"I don't believe you people." He said in the silence. Anger was creeping into his usually soft voice. "I come here and you all treat me as a Dark Lord. I came to protect you, and to let my daughter see her own home world. What have you done so far? Bruised my arm, made everyone believe once again that I'm evil, attatched me to a chair with iron shackles, what does a bloke have to do to get any peace in this god damned world. Obviously ridding you of three Dark Lords already wasn't enough. Moldywart, Harry and Harry? Or don't you remember that? I basically sent myself, twice, into the eternal abyss of boredom, worse than hell I might add, and you treat me like a criminal myself."
Celestina was obviously getting very worried. Harry was rarely angry, and when he was, he was definitely not someone to tamper with.
"High Lord Potter, please-" She was cut off.
"You don't have to call me High Lord, I'm nothing but an evil criminal here, call me what they do." Harry spat. He snapped the iron shackles with ease and started for the door. "Celestina, you know how to get back home, do so once Elena has met up with her old 'friends'. Bye 'Lena, bye Cellie."
Harry just put his hand on the door when it was flung open and hit him in the nose. Standing there was Hermione, Ron and Ginny Weasley. He had barely noticed that Sirius had grabbed him and was holding onto him until he spoke.
"Harry," he said softly, "they don't mean what they say."
Hermione, Ron and Ginny looked at Harry in surprise as he answered bitterly.
"Oh yes they do. They mean every word of it. Now please, Padfoot, let me go or I'll be forced to hurt you."
"Well, you'll have to hurt me then." Sirius said, tightening his grip and pulling the twenty-six-year-old into a hug.
Harry glared over Sirius' shoulder at Remus who had a small smile on his face.
"Welcome back, Harry." He said softly and came and joined in the hug.
Harry gave in an hugged them both back. "Doesn't mean I'm going to stay though, no one else will trust me if you two didn't straight away." Harry pushed them off him and walked passed Hermione, Ron and Ginny who were still staring at him, he accidently knocked Hermione out of the way, and walked out the door. Ron seethed in anger. He ran after Harry.
"Apologize, you bastard." He spat at Harry who cringed inwardly, but stayed neutral on the outside.
"I still haven't received an apology off anyone else, why should I start apologizing to you now?" He asked, turning to face Ron, eyes glowing and eerie red colour.
Ron stepped away a little. Everyone was now watching, Lupin trying to calm the two down. Elena dodged past him and walked up to Ron.
"Ronald Weasley, you take that back before I do something you wont like." She snarled at him and slapped his cheek.
"Sheesh! What was that for? You're sticking up for the man who kidnapped you and helped killed your parents."
"You've got it wrong, you know." Elena said, narrowing her eyes into a glare. "His other selves did it, not him. He asked me before he took me with him, and I agreed to go, I'm glad I did, too. You don't know what it's like to be in his shoes so shut your mouth before I shut it for you."
"Elena, what have I told you about talking to people like that?" Harry asked, amused and angry at the same time. Angry at Ron, and amused at his daughter.
"Sorry, dad." Elena bent her head and walked back to Celestina.
"That's alright. Now, Ron, I know you think I'm an evil git, but don't push it. I'm sorry Hermione." He looked at Hermione then back to Ron. "Now, if you don't mind, I'll just be off."
And Harry walked out. Elena glared at Ron as she and Celestina ran after Harry.
The people outside the office could still hear "Dad! Wait up!" when they walked into the office again.
"Ron, Hermione, Ginny, what are you doing here?" Lupin asked sternly.
"We wanted to see if it really was Elena." Hermione answered. "We'll just go."
"Yes, go back to the Common Room and say nothing of them OK?" He said. The three nodded and left.
"Can I please go after him while you contact the Rangers?" Sirius asked, giving Remus puppy dog eyes.
"Alright." Remus sighed and rubbed his eyes after dismissing everyone. He trusted Harry, and he hoped the others would too.
***
Sirius bolted through the corridors as Hogwarts in his animagus form, as it was quicker, and caught up with the small family at the entrance.
"Please stay, Harry. We'll all believe you."
"Ron didn't." Harry said, he was looking out a window and Elena and Celestina each had a hand on his shoulder.
"But Ron's just a hot tempered little git." Sirius said. Harry laughed lightly which made Sirius smile. "And I think he's still a little angry that you broke Ginny's heart."
Harry's head snapped up. He groaned. "She really liked me, didn't she?" He asked as Celestina shifted nervously. Sirius nodded. "Maybe Cells could talk to her?" He gave his wife pleading eyes. "That might make her happier, tell her that any other guy would like her, and so on?"
Celestina rolled her eyes. "Alright." Sirius noticed that the three of them didn't have English accents, like they should. It was an accent unto itself, like they naturally spoke a different language, well, Harry did. He spoke the language of the Rangers.
Celestina walked off.
"Elena, Hermione and Ron are in the Common Room." Sirius said. He gave the once small girl a hug. "I need to talk to your dad." He added in her ear. She smiled cheekily at him and ran off at a brisk pace.