Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
By: Krystal Lily Potter
Chapter Five: The Truth that Can Kill
Rating: PG-13
Couples: Lots of different ones...check out last chapter for a summary of it...
Summary: As Harry and his friends enter their sixth year at Hogwarts they don't enter the cheerful world they left behind. They enter a world covered in a thick blanket of fear. It only hits Harry now how important he truly is when people start seeing him as the light that allows them to see under this blanket. Along with his friends he must battle the horrors of the past, present and possible future to begin the end of a war, hopefully before it even starts. What happens when one of his friends disappear from under the protection of Dumbledore himself? It's up to the last two to find a way to fight this war, on their own...
Warning: OK I decided to change my warning? Why? Because I'm gonna start putting a lot of dark themes (Sorry, no sex scenes) in this story. Also there will be swearing...just a warning for those who don't like it. Once again if you think I should up the rating just tell me!
Author's Note
Yeah I ain't got nothing to say right now...I'll think of something by the end of the fic. Enjoy!
Oh wait, nevermind, I do have something to say...sorry everyone! (lol) There's gonna be a very angry Harry in this chapter...a VERY angry one. Poor Harry...gets the shock of his life on his B-day.
Also I know at first this will seem like one of those 'Harry discovers he has a twin sister and meets up with her' or something like that. Well I can guarantee that is NOT what happens. I already did that a couple of times and my main fic for that kind of thing is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone AU. NOT this one. Promise! This one follows in line with the other books!
READ ON YOUNG GRASSHOPPER! (Yup, I know I'm weird)
A young man with messy raven black hair and mischievous hazel eyes sat reading the newspaper in the living room of his good sized house. Actually it only looked as if he was reading it. If you looked closely enough at him you could see that his eyes weren't moving across the page and he hadn't turned the page in the past 10 minutes.
Suddenly a young, beautiful woman with long dark red hair and vivid emerald green eyes walked in the room with a baby in her arms.
"James William Potter," she snapped. "What are you doing pretending to read? I told you to do the dishes!"
James Potter smiled at his angry wife then said, "Can't we just use magic?"
"No," she growled.
"No," the little year-old boy repeated after her.
She smiled down at the boy and said, "You want daddy to do his work, right Harry?"
"Harry! Don't say that's true!" James gasped with mock horror.
Harry giggled.
"Who do you agree with...that man or your loving mama?" Lily asked the baby sweetly.
"Mama," baby Harry said happily.
James sighed and said, "Everyone's against me."
Lily giggled slightly, as did Harry, as he walked into the kitchen.
"Harry sweet heart, you are the good child in this family," Lily said with a giggle, looking over at the play pen beside the chair James had been in. Her face turned into a slight frown.
As much as she hated to admit it, Lily preferred one of her children over the other. She had a soft spot for Harry, but for her...
Suddenly a feeling of ice creped into her veins. She looked at the door quickly and said, "James!"
"What's wrong?" he asked her, running into the living room. The clock stuck 11:30pm when there was an explosion at the door was shattered into small pieces.
Lily screamed and covered Harry with her body. James gasped and there was a cry from the living room.
He was here!
The Potters stared in terror as none other then Voldemort himself marched into the house with his wand held high. His blood red eyes looked around the room and fell on the play pen and said, "Wormtail."
Lily was slowly backing away, towards the stairs.
James looked on the floor and saw a rat run into the living room and to the play pen then his old friend Peter Pettigrew appeared out of nowhere. He reached into the pen and pulled out a baby girl that looked older then Harry.
"PUT HER DOWN!" James yelled.
"Give us the boy Potter," Voldemort hissed.
"NO!" Lily screamed.
"Kill her," Voldemort said and Peter pulled out a knife and stabbed it into the baby's chest.
Suddenly everything went blurry and only a few sentences could be heard.
"I trusted you Peter!"
"Lily take Harry and run!"
"NO! Kill me instead!"
"NOT HARRY! PLEASE NOT HARRY!"
"AVADA KEDAVRA!"
There was a flash of green light.
"NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"HARRY! WAKE UP!"
Harry's eyes snapped open and he sat up straight. He realized he was lying in his bed, covered in sweat and breathing hard. Beside him was a worried looking Hermione, she had obviously just ran in from her room.
"Hermione," he said, out of breath. He then looked at the end of the bed to see Mark, Nicola, Remus and Tonks all standing around him with worried looks on their faces. "What happened?"
"You were having a nightmare, everyone in the house could hear you," Hermione said with a soft voice.
"What was it about?" Nicola asked curiously.
"I saw my parents, the night they died," he said with a sigh. Harry then got a suspicious look on his face and he said, "Remus, did I by any chance have a sister?"
Remus' face went pale and he said, "What makes you ask that?"
"My dream," Harry said. "I saw Wormtail kill a baby girl...she looked older then I did."
Remus sighed and said, "We'll talk about this in the morning when we're fully awake Harry."
"No, I want to know now," Harry growled.
"Later, Harry," Remus said and walked out of the room. Harry shot Tonks a curious look but she just shrugged and walked out of the room.
Hermione sat beside him then said, "Want us to stay in here with you." She motioned to Mark and Nicola too.
Harry smiled at his friends and said, "Yeah, thanks guys."
They all smiled and climbed up to the top of the bed and the four of them all pretty much cuddled up to each other.
Tonks walked into Harry's room the next morning and saw the most adorable sight her now electric yellow eyes had ever seen.
She quickly summoned a camera and took a picture of Harry with his right arm wrapped around Hermione's shoulder. Her head was on his chest too. Then on his left side Nicola was curled up next to him and Mark was curled up next to her.
Chuckling slightly she hid the camera and said, "Wakie! Wakie!"
Harry groaned slightly and rolled over so both his arms were around Hermione. She noticed this and woke up.
Blushing slightly she shoved him and he woke up finally. He groaned and sat up.
Tonks had laughed at entire time, waking up Mark and Nicola.
After wiping the tears in her eyes away Tonks said, "Time to wake up. You certainly don't want to sleep the day away today. After all it isn't everyday you turn 16."
Harry's eyes widened when he realized she was referring to him.
Hermione smirked and said, "Happy 16th birthday Harry." She leaned over and gave him a peck on the cheek before getting up and walking out of the room.
Nicola and Mark both muttered something about cooties and walked out of the room after Hermione.
Tonks laughed again and said, "Great moves with the ladies Harry."
"Shut up," Harry said and threw one of his pillows at her.
She continued laughing and ran out of the room.
Harry suddenly remembered his dream and stared at his hands with confusion. He had to talk to Remus about his dream. He decided to get up and get ready for the day so he could corner the werewolf and get some answers.
"Remus," Harry said, knocking on the older man's door. "Remus I want to talk to you. NOW!"
He heard a sigh coming from inside the room then Remus Lupin opened the door. He looked tired and weary.
Harry opened his mouth to say something but Remus cut him off, "I know Harry, you want to talk about your dream. Well come in."
Harry walked into Remus' room and looked around. It was neat and there were many pictures on the walls.
"Have a seat," Remus said and gestured to a chair. Harry did so and Remus sat on the bed.
"Remus, did I have a sister?" Harry repeated the question he asked last night.
Remus sighed again and said, "Yes you did Harry. Her name was Gemma Aileen Evans."
"Evans? Why not Potter? Why didn't mom like her that much? What happened to her?"
"Woah, slow down there. She was an Evans because James Potter wasn't her father," Remus said darkly. "She looked just like her dad too, which is why Lily didn't like her that much. You see Lily didn't mean to have Gemma. Gemma's father was a man named Parker Beaumont, a known Death Eater."
"A known Death Eater? Well why did my mom go with him? Wasn't she with my dad at the time?"
"That's the thing Harry...she was. No, no, Lily would never cheat on James. You see this bastard of a person...well...he raped her. That's why she couldn't really look at Gemma without wincing. James helped her and tried to take care of the child as if it was his own. But he just couldn't really do it. She was taken care of good though, mind you. That night, when your parents died, Gemma was killed by being stabbed through the heart."
Harry winced at the thought and said, "I'm...I'm sorry I asked Remus."
"It's alright Harry," Remus replied. "You of all people deserve to know about their past, and about their family."
Harry nodded silently, staring at the floor with shock.
"Hey now, you can broad on this later," Remus said, trying to raise the mood. "Today's your 16th birthday! It's a time to celebrate!"
Harry just sighed and got up to walk out of the room. Remus followed him then said, "Why don't you take Hermione out for a spin in your car? I won't tell anyone your gone."
Harry's eyes lit up and he said, "Really?"
"Yeah, if she wants to go," Remus replied.
"Thanks old man!" Harry called out and ran towards Hermione's room.
"Old man?" Remus muttered.
"Hermione?" Harry said and knocked on her door.
"Just a minute!" she yelled back. There was some sounds of movement in her room then a bang and a crash. "Shit!" then the door opened. Hermione smiled sheepishly at Harry and said, "I tried to get to the door."
By this time Harry was laughing. "I wish I could have seen that."
"Oh shut up," she said and punched him in the arm.
Harry composed himself then said, "Want to go for a drive? Remus said we could." "Alright," Hermione said excitedly and followed Harry to his room where he grabbed the dinky car (LMAO) and then downstairs. "Remus," Harry called out. "Come here for a minute."
Remus walked out of the kitchen and towards the two. He looked at the car, then at them, and back to the car. He then broke down laughing and said, "I guess having it the right size helps, right?"
They both nodded and followed him outside. He quickly made the car go back to it's normal size.
"Now be back by supper at the latest," Remus warned. "Past then and I won't be covering for you."
They both nodded then Hermione asked Harry, "Do we have any money?"
"Yeah, I've got plenty, don't worry," Harry said.
"Oh," Hermione replied with a frown.
"What's wrong?" Harry asked.
"It's just," she said. "It's your birthday, I should be paying."
"Don't worry about it...you can pay for my potions stuff when we go to Diagon Alley," Harry said with a laugh as he hopped in the drivers seat.
Hermione also laughed and said, "Fair enough." She jumped in the passenger seat.
"Remember, wear your seatbelts," Remus said and they buckled up. Harry got out his keys and started up the car, and then they were gone.
Remus sighed and said, "Keep him busy Hermione."
"So where do you want to go?" Harry asked her.
"Well, I was wondering if we could stop by my old neighborhood," Hermione asked. "I think it's only an hour away from here."
"Sure," Harry said. "Just tell me where to go."
She smiled warmly at him and turned on the radio to hear old country music. Harry caught her eye for a second then they both burst out laughing and Hermione turned on normal music.
They drove in silence for a few minutes until Hermione realized Harry didn't have a smile on his face anymore. He had more of a painful frown on his face.
"Are you alright Harry? Turn left here." "I'm fine," Harry said and stopped, made sure no one was coming then turned left.
They continued driving in silence, Hermione's voice sending out directions once and awhile was the only thing heard, aside from the music.
Finally she couldn't take it anymore and she said, "Harry, can we pull over somewhere?"
"Sure," he said to her, slightly surprised. They traveled a little further before pulling into a parking lot beside a park. "Are you alright?"
"I am, but your not," she argued. "And don't say you're ok because I know you aren't."
Harry sighed and turned the car of totally. His face was twisted in pain and he looked really sad. "Did you know at one point of time I had an older sister?"
"No," Hermione said, surprised. "What happened to her?"
"She was killed by Peter Pettigrew the night my parents died; I saw it in my dream. He stabbed her through the heart Hermione! On top of that I find out we had different fathers and the only reason my mom had her was because she was raped."
Hermione was pale now and she said, "Oh my...I never knew...I'm so sorry for bringing it up."
Harry smiled weakly and said, "Its ok. Sure I'm a little sad to find out another family member of mine died, but I'm more depressed about the fact that no one, not even Sirius, found it their place to tell me!" He now had a look of rage on his face and he slammed his hand against the top of the steering wheel.
"Calm down," Hermione said and grabbed his arm. "Lets head back."
"I thought you wanted to go to your old house?" Harry replied.
Hermione shrugged and said, "I don't care."
"Let's still go there," he said with a smile. "It'll keep my mind off of this."
"Alright, let's go," she replied quickly. Harry could tell she really did want to go.
Smiling a true smile at her he started the car again and they were on their way.
Hermione got a sad look on her face as they slowed down in front of a large white house with a 'sold' sign on the front yard.
"So this is your old house?" Harry asked her. "Yeah," Hermione said with a sigh. "I miss living here. At least I live by you now."
Harry nodded and continued driving slowly but jumped slightly as someone yelled out, "Well what do we have here?"
Hermione groaned and said, "Stop the car."
Harry pulled over and looked curiously as Hermione unbuckled then got out of the car. She had a straight look on her face and said, "What do you want Claire?"
A girl with long, straight, golden hair and deep brown eyes looked at Hermione as if she was a piece of dirt and said, "Wondering what the hell you're doing here, especially in a nice car like that."
Harry growled lightly. This girl reminded him a lot of his cousin, his cousin's girlfriend and of course the infamous Draco Malfoy. He got out of the car as Hermione was about to say something. He walked up beside her and said, "Is there a problem here?"
Claire got an awestruck look on her face and said, "Who are you?"
Harry faced Hermione for a second and mouthed, "Play along."
Hermione smirked, knowing what Harry was going to do.
"I'm Harry Potter," he said simply.
Claire and several of her posse stared at him with looks that reminded Harry strongly of wolves eyeing their prey.
"What is a guy like you doing with someone like Granger?" one of them asked, getting nods of agreement from the others.
Harry raised an eyebrow and said, "Are you dissing my girlfriend?"
Hermione giggled, but the other girls assumed it was because of the looks on their faces but in reality it was because that sentence was a perfect lie.
"Your girlfriend?" Claire said with shock.
"Yes, now leave her alone you whore," Harry said and put his arm around Hermione's shoulder leading her back to the car.
Once they were in it and driving again both burst out laughing.
"Did you see her face?" Hermione said between giggles.
"Yeah," Harry said with a laugh. His face went serious again and said, "Did they always treat you like that?"
"Yeah," Hermione said with a sigh. "I don't really have friends around here...I actually used to hang out with those bitches at one point of time."
"Glad you turned out to be a bookworm," Harry said with a smile, only to get a playful punch in the arm.
"Let's get something to eat then start heading back," Hermione suggested.
"Great idea, I'm starved," Harry said.
"Gotta love McDonald's," Harry said, and burped as they pulled towards Grimmauld place. "Excuse me."
Hermione burst out in giggles and continued eating her caramel sundae. She obviously had a little tot much sugar by now because she was really hyper.
They pulled into the drive way to see Remus waiting for them. He got a look of relief on his face and said, "About time. People were getting suspicious. Finish that quick Hermione."
Hermione finished her ice cream and threw the plastic dish in a nearby trash bin then Remus shrunk the car.
They followed him into the house and into the kitchen. It was pitch black. Raising an eyebrow as Remus used magic to light up the room he nearly jumped out of his own skin as there was a loud yell of, "SURPRISE!"
Hermione burst out in giggles at the look on Harry's face. There was pretty much all of the DA members (except the traitor), plus Oliver Wood, the rest of the Grangers, and many members on the Order.
"Hey mate," Seamus said.
"Happy birthday," Dean agreed.
Parvati, Lavender and Padma all pretty much attacked Harry and gave him a kiss on the cheek. By the time they left him alone his face was beet red and Hermione was doubled over in laughter.
"You knew!" Harry accused her.
Hermione smiled innocently and said, "Of course I did."
After some mingling around with people, being introduced to the older Granger children plus Mr. Granger, and some Quidditch talk with the guys they pretty much shoved Harry into a pile of presents.
He was extremely impressed and highly embarrassed about all his gifts. He raised his eyebrow at an apology note in Cho Chang's and glanced at her flushing face and simply rolled his eyes.
He got many books, new and different types of quills and ink, some models of Quidditch teams, dark detecting items and a few other items here and there, including a soccer ball from Dean (football...whatever you wanna call it).
"Thanks everyone," Harry said with a wide smile.
"We have one thing left for you Harry," Remus said. Harry looked up and a frown appeared on his face as he saw Dumbledore walk in with a nice looking trunk floating behind him. He was interested in the trunk but didn't look at it before throwing Snape, who also just walked in, a dark look.
"What is it?" Susan Bones as curiously.
Harry opened the chest and gasped at what he saw. Instead of a happy look on his face though he had a look of rage on it.
"Uh oh," Hermione said and took a step away from him, her eyes were wide and had an alarmed look in them. Harry rounded to Dumbledore and growled, "Well what's your excuse for this one? You didn't think I was ready to know anything about my mother? Or you just thought it would distract me from all the things you set me up to do?"
Everyone looked confused and Dumbledore said with a sigh, "I'll be honest Harry, I forgot about it until I came across it the other day."
"You forgot about it? YOU FORGOT ABOUT IT?! HOW YOU COULD FORGET THE LAST FUCKING THING AROUND OF MY MOTHERS?! YOU REMEMBER THE INVISABILITY CLOAK AND MANY THINGS ABOUT JAMES POTTER BUT GOD FORBID IF SOMEONE WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THEIR MOTHER?!"
All eyes in the room held shock, never before had they heard anybody growl at Albus Dumbledore like that.
Harry, thinking he'd rather get it all out now continued, "Oh and what about the small detail you forgot to mention to me...oh what was it? THAT I HAD A SISTER AT ONE POINT OF TIME? REALLY WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO DECIDE WHAT I SHOULD AND SHOULDN'T KNOW ABOUT MY OWN FAMILY?!"
"Harry, I didn't think you were ready to know-" Dumbledore stopped, realizing he backed himself into a corner, one that he couldn't get himself out of.
Harry laughed coldly and said, "Didn't think I was ready to know? That's what you said last year too. But if I had known the truth last year then would SIRIUS HAVE DIED? PROBABLY NOT!"
He was breathing heavy now and turned to everyone else, "Thanks for coming and thanks for the gifts, sorry you had to see all that." With that he walked out into the hallway. Hermione noticed with alarm that Snape followed him.
"Potter," Snape said coldly. "What gives you the right to speak to Professor Dumbledore like that?"
"I have all the right Snape and don't you forget it," Harry hissed back.
"Just like your father Potter, you think that your all that," Snape growled.
"OH SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT MY FUCKING FATHER WOULD YOU?! YES I MIGHT BE THE SON OF JAMES POTTER BUT FOR GOD'S SAKE I AM NOT HIM! GET IT THROUGH YOUR GREASE COVERED HEAD! I AM HARRY JAMES POTTER NOT JAMES WILLIAM POTTER! LETS LOOK AT THIS ANOTHER WAY! MY MUM WAS NICE TO YOU, OR AT LEAST TRIED TO BE, YET YOU WERE STILL A BLOODY GIT TO HER!"
Harry could hear people pushing closely to the door.
"Potter," Snape said in a warning voice.
"I'm not done yet so shut up," Harry growled.
"You are done and don't bring your whore of a Mudblood mother in this," Snape snapped.
That was the last straw. There was a huge crack then Snape flew across the room and smashed into a mirror. Harry was highly startled when he heard Mrs. Black's picture start shrieking, he had forgotten she was there. He then saw none other then Kreacher run into the room saying, "What's wrong my mistress?"
Harry felt the rage inside boil over and there was another bang. Much to his shock the pathetic house-elf flew forwards and into the portrait of Mrs. Black, destroying the portrait and no doubt killing himself in the process.
The door to the kitchen started opened but Harry ran upstairs as fast as possible to avoid being seen. He didn't get a chance to see Fred and George gleefully take pictures of the scene nor everyone else staring in shock.
Harry ran into his room and kicked a pane of class that covered a bureau in the room, shattering it to pieces.
He sat down on his bed and put his head on his hands, he felt like crying but he couldn't. It was almost like he lacked the tears to do so.
"Harry," Hermione said as she walked in the room and sat next to him
I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
"They kept it from me Hermione. It wouldn't be that bad if I had known what happened along time ago it'd all be ok right now. But everything's being pushed onto me right now and I just can't take it. Fuck the memories just won't leave me along," Harry said.
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
"God the pain will never leave," Harry muttered and ripped off his bandage to see the words "Half Blood Prince" still carved in his arms.
"Harry, I'll help you through this," Hermione said with a whisper. "Anything to get Harry back. Not Harry Potter, the boy who lived. Just...Harry."
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
"Nobody knows Harry Potter, not the real Harry Potter anyways," Harry said weakly.
"That's bull and you know it," Hermione growled. "I've been your friend for 6 years! You used to be someone who believed they had a future. I used to look up to you because of that! Now seeing you acting like this is enough to knock the sense out of me!"
You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me
Harry stared at her for a minute and said, "I'm sorry Mia...I overreacted, it just hurts so much to know I could have had a family at one point of time. I could have had a normal childhood."
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
"I'm sorry Hermione. I never knew how much I was affecting you. I'll make sure I have enough hope left...for me and you," Harry whispered.
"Thank you," Hermione whispered and leaned her head on his shoulder.
Harry sighed and stared out the window. It was just impossible to not hurt as much as he was now. It'd be inhuman.
Sighing slightly he leaned back and said, "I'm trying so hard to move on, but everything is being shoved on me at once. I can't do it alone...I need someone else to help. Not just Mia, but someone from my family..."
I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
Author's Random Babbling
Well there's this chapter. I'm not doing that bad with updating am I? I hope the story seems ok. I know this chapter was a little rushed but I had to get it done quick.
Also like I mentioned before I know how this story's ending and I actually got a bit of the last chapter written! lol! Go me!
Anyways thanks to everyone who reviewed! Replies are below!
Thank you and please R&R!
Replies to reviews:
Shdurrani – I never said I was old, at least not meaning it. I'm only 15 o.o''' Anyways thanks for liking the chapter!
Jess the Battlemage – well look who decided to review! I know its an improvement from that crappy 6th year fic I tried to write a year ago...ha! can't believe you admitted it! Lol! Well thanks for reviewing and I'll talk to ya later!
Amity-Star – Hope this is soon enough for an update! Yeah poor Harry and Hermione and it's not gonna get any easier for the two of em! H/Hr forever eh? Lol! Thanks for reading!
Athenakitty– The captured Weasleys won't escape on their own, I can tell you that right now. I'm not saying when they figure out who's really possessing Harry. Bill might recover soon, might not. Umm...Harry got his mother's trunk...LOL! this isn't a story with a super-power Harry in it. More like an angry Harry with an attitude problem and some more power in him!
Tan - You got into this like you did the books from JK Rowling? OMG! Wow that's a compliment! Thanks! This chapter wasn't as good but the next one will be better. Thanks for reading and reviewing!
Lady Friday – Harry an Animagus? Ummm I thought about it and I'm not positive if that'll happen yet. You're new to the story? Actually I think everyone (including myself) is! Lol! The original 6th year one has absolutely nothing to do with this one anymore aside from a few things like the Weasleys disappearing so you don't have to read it. Thanks for reviewing!
Allyanna– Thanks for liking the last chapter. What is it possessing Harry? It's....nope not saying! lol! For once I actually DO know what it is and what's going to happen with it later on. Hope this post was soon enough!
Anyways thanks to everyone and I'll post more later...my fingers hurt from typing so much today...
Please review!
Krystal Lily Potter
"Dance as if no one was watching, sing as if no one were listening, and live life each day as if it was you're last."