Disclaimer: Harry does not belong to me, but rather belongs to JK Rowling.

A/N: This is the sequel to Harry Potter and the War of the Wizarding World. I suggest that you read that first or else you won't have any idea what's going on in this story. Not that I'm saying you can't read this, but in all honestly, I truly believe you will be thoroughly confused...

Summary: This is a story about Harry's summer before and during his seventh year at Hogwarts. Just after Harry turns 17, Privet Drive is attacked and Harry is forced to protect the family who had never showed him love. Shortly before the start of school, a close friend of the trio disappears and Harry is thrown into turmoil. School begins and the friend returns, but only as the shell of a person. Harry has much more on his plate this year with N.E.W.T.S and the battle against Voldemort coming ever closer.

Warning: There are scenes of torture, mention of rape, and implied sex within this story. The rating may be raised because of this.

Title: Harry Potter and the Battle of the Worlds

Ch. 8

The Darkest of Memories

When Harry opened his eyes after his feet had touched ground, he found himself in a hotel room. He looked around for a moment and wondered why they were there, he couldn't find Tally. He looked over at Dumbledore and found him staring at the bed in the corner of the room. When he turned to see what he was looking at, he noticed a lump beneath the covers. They each moved closer to the bed and Harry found that he was looking at Tally's sleeping form. It must be the night of her kidnapping, August 30th.

Harry watched her for a few minutes while nothing happened. She looked at peace and healthy then, happy even as a smile played on her lips. She mumbled in her sleep, causing everyone to jump a little, and rolled over. There was a scrapping sound and Harry turned to see a rat run across the floor to the center of the room. The rat transformed into that of a small, round man with watery blue eyes. Harry's hatred of him only intensified as he watched him move about the room, fully knowing what he was about to do.

Wormtail made his way over to the desk that sat beneath the lone window in the room. On the desk he picked up a book and whispered the same spell Tally had used the night that Voldemort had attacked Privet Drive. He then set the book back down and looked around the room at Tally. She was still sound asleep. He made his way closer to the bed as quietly as he could. His breath weezing as he went. Suddenly, Tally's owl, Rufus, hooted as he soared through the window and dived at Wormtail, scratching at his face. Wormtail cried out, waking Tally.

She fumbled for a moment, clearly groggy and confused, but when she spotted Wormtail, her hands darted out for her wand. In her haste, she ended up knocking it from her bedside table and onto the floor. She cried out in frustration and dove from the bed, tangling herself in the covers. Wormtail, noticing her struggle, dived onto her, knocking the wind from her. He picked her up roughly by the hair with his metal hand while his other clamped down on her mouth, silencing her in mid-scream.

Tally's eyes were wide with fear as she struggled against Wormtail. Wormtail laughed quietly as she struggled and pulled her toward the desk. Tally kicked out, throwing all of her weight into Wormtail, so that she was no longer standing, but had her legs up in the air directly in front of her. This caused an imbalance and they were both thrown backwards into the desk.

"Tally?" came a muffled voice from the room beside her. Wormtail had removed his hand from her mouth in order to catch himself on the desk. Tally took this opportunity to scream out.

"JOSH! JOSH!" Her voice was full of such raw emotion that Harry closed his eyes to it. "HELP ME! THEIR HERE, THEIR HERE!" There was a large bang from the room beside her as her brother was struggling to get to her. In his haste, he seemed to have knocked something over. Tally continued to scream for her brother and for help. Wormtail was struggling to reach the book that had slid away from them when the desk was knocked. There was pounding on the room door and her brother's voice could be heard.

"TALLY? TALLY, OPEN THIS DOOR! ALOHOMORA!" The door swung inward and there stood Josh, fear and worry etched on his face. His eyes widened when he saw his sister in the arms of the enemy. Harry looked back to Tally, pure panic on her face, and saw that Wormtail had reached the book. Josh had sent a stunner spell toward him, but it was too late, Tally was gone and so was Wormtail.

The walls around them blackened and then returned to full color. However, they were no longer in the hotel room, instead they found themselves in a forest. The trees where large and thick. The night air was chilly and a breeze rippled through the leaves. Tally stood in the arms of Wormtail. He threw her down into a mud puddle. He quickly bound her hands and picked her up from the ground. He pushed her forward roughly.

"Why are you doing this?" Tally asked, though she had no tears in her eyes, Harry could hear the fear in her voice.

"My Master sent me to get you, I follow his orders. No questions asked." They continued to walk. Every-so-often Tally would trip on a branch and fall hard to the ground. Wormtail would always pick her up with his metal hand by her hair, causing her even more pain. After only a few minutes of walking, Tally was bleeding from cutting herself on branches and her feet where badly cut since she wasn't wearing any shoes on the forest floor. Suddenly there was another hooded Death Eater walking toward them.

"Finally, what took you so long?" Harry was sure that he had heard that voice before, but he couldn't put a face with it.

"She woke up in the middle of it and put up a struggle. She may look weak, but she's got a lot of power within her."

"Is that so?" The other said with amusement. The hooded Death Eater walked up to Tally. She stood her ground without falter. The Death Eater raised his hand to her face and stroked her cheek. Harry saw her shiver slightly. "Tell me, Tally, have you ever had a real man?" Tally made a disgruntled sound and tried to back away only she backed right into Wormtail, who undid the ropes that were around her wrists. The Death Eater raised his hands to his hood and began to lower it. Both Tally and Adams cried out at the man that stood before them. Though he was much thinner than the pictures Harry had seen of him, but cleaner then in his vision last year, it was clearly the man who had destroyed Tally's life when she was only six years old.

"YOU!" Tally yelled, making him laugh.

"I certainly wouldn't mind being your first."He said in a sicly-sweetvoice.Tally did the unthinkable and slapped him hard across the face.

"YOU MURDERER! I should have had you kissed for what you did to my parents!" She screamed. David smiled savagely back at her and punched her hard in her stomach. Tally grunted and fell to the floor, she didn't get back up.

Again the world around them dissolved and suddenly Harry found himself in a new room. This room looked like a dirty ancient looking dungeon. The walls looked like a mixture of stone and dirt. The ground was of a clay substance. There were spots of dried blood occationally. Harry shivered at the horrors that had happened within this room. Tally wasn't hard to find as she was now chained to the wall. Her arms where high above her head and the chains around her wrists cut into her and blood leaked down her arms. Her toes just barely scraping the floor. Her face had large bruises forming and her clothes were ripped and bloody. It was evident that she had already gone through torture, but Harry was unsure of how much. She opened her eyes and lifted her head as the door of her cell opened.

"You again, I see." She said calmly as Wormtail made his way over to her, carrying her food. She turned away from him when he offered it to her.

"I assure it that it's not poisoned, Master has many plans for you." Tally only glared at him in response. "Starving yourself isn't going to make this any easier for you."

"I know who you are." Her statement seemed to startle him. "You're Peter Pettigrew, Wormtail to most."

"Nice to see that I have a reputation." Wormatil chuckled, but Tally looked disgusted.

"How could you do it? How could you betray them the way you did?" For the first time, Harry saw tears in her eyes.

"You know nothing of my betrayal." Wormtail said angrily.

"I know that they trusted you, they all trusted you and you turned your back on them and sold them to the devil himself. YOU KILLED YOUR FRIENDS!" Tally screamed out in hate, tears flowing freely down her face.

"I know what I did, but you don't understand and I don't have to explain myself to you." Wormtail spat out to her.

"They would have died for you." She told him quietly, "If they were given a choice of their life for yours, they would have given theirs."

"Maybe so, but that is what made them weak." He said before closing the door behind him. Tally stared after him at the closed door. She whispered softly but it a hatefilled voice,to herself,

"Someday, Wormtail, someday Harry will have his revenge and I will have mine." The room dissolved only to be replaced with a large room that reminded Harry of the Wizengamot. The room was large and circular, however, there were no seats. In the center of the room was a stage of sorts, and in the center sat Voldemort. It almost looked like he sat on a thrown. Surrounding him were hundreds of Death Eaters, each hooded and hidden. Harry heard cries of a struggle and turned to see Tally being pulled to the center of the crowd by a couple of Death Eaters. She looked far worse than the last memory they had just left. Her clothes hung loosely on her body, ripped and filthy of dirt, sweat, and blood. Her hair hung limply around her brusied face. Harry was assuming she was already on her third or fourth day of kidnapping, but it was harder to tell because of her tortures.

"Release her." Voldemort's cold voice rang out. The Death Eaters immediately dropped her and backed away. Tally looked up from her position on the floor and looked Voldemort directly in the eyes. She showed him no fear. "Welcome to my home, Ms. Adams. I'm sure my faithful followers have given you a warm welcoming..." His blood red eyes were slits as he smiled coldly when his followers laughed. Tally said nothing. "I have a few questions to ask you and as long as you are cooperative, you need not get hurt."

"I have nothing to say." Tally spit out at him. Her words seemed almost painful for her to say.

"I'll be the judge of that." Voldemort stood and made his way down to her. Tally still sat on her knees, but as he drew closer, she stood to face him. "Tell me, Tally, what does the prophecy reveal?"

"What prophecy?"

"Do not act stupid with me. I know that Dumbledore has told people, it's only obvious that he would have had to tell Potter."

"I don't know-"

"Crucio" Her screams echoed off the high ceilings and walls, she fell backwards down the stairs and landed at the feet of a couple of Death Eaters. Voldemort released her, "TELL ME! I know of your's and Potter's relationship. You must know something."

"What relationship?" Voldemort laughed.

"The two of you are constantly together, seen everywhere. You are in...love-" he said that word with such disgust that he seemed to spit it out, "with one another." Tally started laughing as she finally got back onto her feet. Her lip and nose were both bleeding and she was holding her ribs awkwardly.

"I have a crush on him, yes, but other than that we share no relationship."

"DO NOT LIE!" Voldemort cried. "You are skilled at Legimens as your friend Jacobs has told me, so I cannot read your mind, but I can still tell when a person is lying." Tally snorted.

"Harry has no time for girls, he too busy figuring out a way to destroy you."

"Crucio!" This beating that Tally was taking lasted for a long time. So long that she weakened and seemed to snap. Her body took a toll as well and Harry was horrified by how much her heart was to be affected as well. She began to speak incoherently when questioned by Voldemort. He became so enraged that he had cursed her until she had lost all consciousness. Once that happened, the room faded away and was replaced once again with the dungeon. Tally was again chained to the wall, though she looked far worse than ever. The way she looked, Harry could tell it was most likely the same day that she had escaped.

Her body was bruised, bleeding, and broken. Her mind had already cracked. Harry could only imagine what else she was about to show us. The door of the cell opened and David Jacobs stepped through. He marched directly up to Tally and said the spell that would wake her. When she opened her eyes, she struggled to focus.

"Wha-where-?"

"Don't worry, dear, Uncle David's here." Tally's eyes focused on Jacobs, realization of who he was showed on her face and she began to struggle against the chains that bound her to the walls. "Ah ah ah, no need for that."

"Stay away! Get away!" Her feet were frantically pushing against the way as if it helped keep him at a distance. Jacobs laughed at her helplessness. The was an angry growl to the the right of Harry and he looked to see Adams pale with his fist clenched so tightly that his nails cut into his palm and drew blood. Dumbledore seemed to sense his anger, and placed and arm on his shoulder. Harry understood his anger.

"So much like your mother." Jacobs said in a loving voice. His hand caressing her cheek again. "Yet, so much like your father." His voice became dark once more and he punched her hard in the face. She didnt' even flinch. It was then that Harry realized that she had become accustomed to the pain that it was nothing to her anymore. To his surprise she spit blood at him, hitting him smack in the eye. His rage screamed through him as his fist connected with her body over and over again. Harry and the professors could only stand there and watch, unable to believe that she had survived so much torture. "I meant what I said back there in the forest, do you remember?" Tally said nothing. She was obviously trying to stay conscious. "You are so much like her, so much..." His hands left her face and ran the length of her body. Harry went rigid when his hands stopped at a few intimate places. Tally's eyes went wide with horror when she finally comprehended what Jacobs wanted from her. She began to struggle again, which only made him laugh, "Good, I like it when they fight." Tally let out a scream and the room dissolved once more.

When it reappeared, it was apparant that something evil had occurred. The torches within the cell flickered dangerously and a strong current of magic flowed through the air. Jacobs lay unconscious across the room where he had slammed into the wall. Tally, no longer chained as they had been ripped from the wall in a fury, crouched on the floor, pulling her shorts back up. There were large bruises on her upper thighs and blood. Harry let out a strangled cry and McGonagall cried out in horror. Tally was muttering to herself through her sobs.

When she stood, Harry felt the electrical currents that were running through her and into the surrounding air. Her eyes seemed vibrant with fury. Harry saw her rage, saddness, and her sense of loss when he stared into them. Harry knew that this is what he must have looked like the night that the Slytherins' attacked his friends and the evening when he had destroyed Mrs. Black's portrait. Adams fell to his knees and sobbed into his hands,

"No, Merlin, no..." McGonagall sank down beside him to comfort him. It was apparant that Tally left out the actual rape in order to spare them from it. Harry looked at Dumbledore, but his eyes lay on Tally, there was a deep saddness there. Snape was pale and he had a look of utmost horror upon his face. Tally's muttering became frantic,

"Never happened, wasn't quick enough to stop it. Didn't touch me. So tainted." She ran up to Jacobs and kicked him hard then grabbed his wand and ran through the door that had burst open when she neared it.. They ran with her. She ran slowly as she was in great pain after all she had suffered. Harry knew she must have broken ribs and she was probably hurting after what had just occurred. But she ran with all the strength and energy had in her.

The hall wasn't any better than the cell, but she quickly found the stairs and started to climb them. She was still muttering, but everything else about her was eerily silent. Halfway up the stairs, Tally stopped and began to slap her hands all over her body. "Get them off, get them off. Contaminated, never clean. Get them off" There was a noise from below. Tally became still and tilted her head as she listened, her eyes wide with fear. Harry somehow knew that it was Jacobs waking. Suddenly Tally was moving again. She reached the landing and stopped. She looked both ways into the hallway, clearly trying to find the best way out. They were inside what looked to be a large mansion. Though they had been inside a horrid dungeon for most of the memories, it was clear that the rest of the house had been recently cleaned spotless. There was a door closing in the distance and Tally headed away from it.

A Death Eater crossed her path. He was so stunned to see her that she was quickly able to stun him and kept moving. She spotted a window and peaked out. Something out there seemed to convince her of where to go and soon they had made their way out the back door.

"Oh no you don't you little Bitch!" Jacobs screamed out from behind her and ran, knocking her from the porch and into the mud below. He quickly grabbed his wand that she had dropped and pointed it at her,

"Crucio" His spell shot out at her, but instead of hitting her it rebounded off of an invisible shield.

"You is not to be hurting my Misses, you is not!" They all looked down to see Tally's house-elf, Angel standing in front of her with her arms out wide.

"Not you again, stupid little..." He didn't get to finished because Angel had sent him flying back into the house. Because they had made so much noise, other Death Eaters had come to investigate.

"Angel." Tally said softly. Her eyes were confused and was watching her house-elf from the ground. Angel helped Tally to her feet.

"You is to run now. Run away Misses." Angel handed her back her wand that she had brought with her and began pushing her to the trees. "The apparation field is not far. You is to run there and apparate to Hogwarts, you is."

"Angel" Tally said again with desperation. Death Eaters came pouring out of the mansion, which looked unused and ancient from the outside, that Tally had just exited.. Voldemort was among them. He shouted out orders and curses began to fly.

"Get the girl and kill the elf!"

"You is to run!" Angel shouted and pushed Tally with all her strength she could muster toward the trees. Tally turned and started to run, but she didn't go far as she stopped to look back at Angel. Angel had charged the Death Eaters, holding them back at all cost.

"ANGEL!" Tally's eyes were full of tears as she watched her house-elf head to her death. Angel looked back at her.

"Run Miss, I is to be protecting you always, I is!" The curses were drawing closer to Tally and so she ran.

"Just run, keep running... Weave, weave, weave..." she was saying to herself as she ran. They were running with her, the spells shooting right through them and missing her by inches. Instead they crashed into the surrounding trees. Some caught on fire, others exploded, but never once did Tally stop or turn to look. She just kept running. Tally was weaving inbetween the thick trees so that the curses wouldn't ever hit her. They had been running for a good ten minutes when she stopped to breathe. "Where the HELL are these WARDS!" She cried out. There was a shout in the distance and she stepped out to look for the cause. There, standing a couple of football fields away, was Angel. Death Eaters were surrounding her and she had fallen beneath their many spells. "ANGEL!" Tally screamed.

"Avada Kedavra" The curse flew at Tally from behind her. She whirled around and to her horror found that it was on a direct path to her. She closed her eyes and, to her surprise, apparated in front of the Hogwarts gates and collapsed in relief and in saddness. She stayed like that for a moment, but then her eyes snapped open wide and she looked around in fear. She began muttering to herself and took off up the path to the castle.

The memory dissolved and Harry felt himself being lifted into space. A few seconds later his feet were back on the ground in Dumbledore's office. The professors were looking around at each other in shocked silence, unsure of what to say. Madam Pomfrey had been sitting in an armchair at the back of the office, but she stood when they had reappeared.

"Tally has been examined, I've healed her the best I could. She's alright for now. I've helped her clean up and now she's in the Great Hall having something to eat." Adams seemed to finally collapse and sank into the armchair that was closest to him. He began to sob into his hands again.

"What do we do?" Snape said breaking the silence. With that, Harry took off out the door. He heard his professors' cry out but that didn't stop him. He had to see Tally, he had to know that she was alright. It was his fault she had been taken. His fault that she had been...used. I'm sorry Tally, I'm so sorry. I'm not going to ever let anyone ever hurt you like that. I'm not going to let you have to fight in this war. Not ever again...

Harry ran into the Great Hall. It was incredibly silent in there. He looked around for a moment and spotted her sitting next to Neville at the Gryffindor table. She looked far better than she had before. Her hair was pulled back and freshly washed, she was wearing sweat pants and a long shirt. Even though she looked clean, her face still sported many large bruises and she was holding her body awkwardly, as if afraid someone was about to hit her. Harry ran quickly up to her. She turned when she heard him approaching and stood to meet him.

"You aren't ever going to fight in this war, I can't let you. Not after what I just saw...not after what happened to you." It was so sudden, had it not hurt so much, Harry would have thought that it never had happened. Tally brought her hand up quickly and slapped him with all her strength. Harry just looked at her in shock, his hand against the cheek she had bruised.

"How dare you, how dare you! You have no right to tell me that!" Her voice was shaking in anger.

"But it's my fault that this happened. If you weren't with me, then they wouldn't have-" He was interrupted as her hand made contact with his cheek again, not as hard as the first one, but enough to startle him again.

"I WASN'T TAKEN BECAUSE OF YOU! It was David, he had wanted me so he took me!" Her chest heaved with anger. "I deserve to fight in this war, Harry Potter, you of all people should understand that., especially now!" Tears fell from her eyes. "When will you learn that this war isn't about just you anymore? When will you finally see that its now about us versus them, good versus evil? I will fight in this war. I will fight beside you. How dare you ask me to sit on the sidelines and watch the people I love fight and die! How can you ask that of me?" Harry stood and watched her as she broke down. She flung herself onto him and clung to him with all her might. "Please Harry, don't make me do that, please. If you make me do that I'll crumble, I'll just die. He took everything from me, let me fight him, let me fight for those who I love the most. Please Harry, please." She broke down and sobbed. Harry held her tightly. They stayed like that for awhile.

The teachers had evidently followed Harry to the Great Hall and had witnessed their argument. Adams nodded grimly at them as he passed, McGonagall leading him towards the Head Table. Tally finally released Harry, but did not sit down. Instead she turned to where the teachers were sitting and broke out into a run. Her brother was waiting for her in front of the table. When she reached him, he lifted her into his arms and hugged her. They remained that way for a moment, Harry could see them whispering into each other's ears. When they finally released one another, Tally returned to where Harry was standing with a bottle of water in her hands. She sat back down beside Neville and returned to her food. Harry sat down next to her.

There was an odd sort of silence that followed her outbreak. Everyone seemed to be uncertain as to what to say. Ginny, who was sitting across from Neville looked straight at Tally.

"Welcome home Tally." Tally nodded to her, but did not look up from her food. Her eyes unfocused and her hands unmoving. She seemed lost as to what to do. Neville turned and pulled Tally into a hug. She seemed startled at first, but then wrapped her arms around him. Madam Pomfery made her way over to them.

"I'm sorry, but I think Tally should come up to the Hospital Wing with me for the night." Tally nodded again and let go of Neville. She stood and surprisingly, Harry, Neville, Blaise, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny quickly followed. Madam Pomfrey looked sadly at them, "I don't think it wise for all of you to come. The girls may come, she will need you the most."

"Harry too." Tally said quietly.

"Alright, Harry too then." Madam Pomfrey took ahold of Tally and walked her out of the Great Hall. Harry, Hermione, and Ginny quickly followed. When they reached the Hospital Wing, Madam Pomfrey had the girls help Tally out of her clothes and into bed wear while she and Harry put a bed together.

"Will she ever be okay?" Harry asked quietly.

"Someday, but it'll be a long battle."

"Can she...I mean...is there any-er-permanent damage?" Pomfrey sighed warily.

"No, she is still able to bare children if that's what you mean. There was a lot of internal bleeding, but I was able to repair it." Harry nodded.

"She told you then?"

"No, I felt it. The shame, the sense of loss, the way she was protecting herself. All the signs were there." Pomfrey took Harry by the shoulders so that he was facing her, "Harry, I know you love her and she loves you, but you cannot believe that she will be back to the way she was before. She will never be like that. This will always haunt her."

"What do I do then?"

"Love her anyway. Be there for her and support her through all this. That is what she will need the most. When she is ready, she will let you know." Harry nodded again just as the girls walked out from behind the curtain. Tally immediately crawled into the newly made bed.

"Can I have more covers?" She asked. Pomfrey summoned more blankets and put them in a motherly way over her. "Thank you."

"I think you kids ought to go now."

"Let Harry stay, please." Tally pleaded. Pomfrey nodded and indicated to Harry the chair beside the bed. Harry sat down close to Tally when the girls had left the wing.

"Your brother will be here in the morning to check on you." Pomfrey told her before heading off to her office. He sat beside her bed watching her as her eyes began to fall heavily over her eyes. After she was asleep, Harry's eye lids drooped and he too, was asleep.

Harry awoke hours later to the sound of someone crying. He looked up to see that Tally had curled herself into a ball and was crying softly into her knees. Harry made his way over to her and shifted her so that he had room on her bed.

When he had settled himself in a sitting position, he lifted Tally so that she was now curled onto his lab, her face on his chest. She wrapped her arms around him and sobbed. Harry, closing his eyes, rested his head onto her and held her tightly. He felt tears of his own fall from his eyes and into her hair, but he did nothing to prevent them.

Soft footsteps could be heard making their way over to their curtained area. They stopped beside the curtains. Harry knew that Madam Pomfrey was watching them, but he didn't care. Slowly the footsteps retreated back towards the office. Tally made no indication that she had heard them at all. She clung to him as her sobs ripped through her. Harry continued to cry softly. He cried for the pain that Tally will continue to suffer, he cried for the pain all of his friends will inevitably face, he cried for himself and the life he will never have. But mainly he cried because it allowed him to feel alive again, something he hadn't been feeling for awhile.

A/N:

Okay, so I recieved the minimum 5 reviews, plus two from the first story.

Alrighty, that was that. How did you like it? You guys will have to forgive me, the next chapter hasn't been written and it'll be at least a week before it will be. Finals are going on right now. I'll try my best to get it all done.

Esrb99: Thanks! And now you know...

Indigo Feline: I know, Tally doesn't seem to be having a good day. I wanted people to understand thatwhat she went through wasn't a picnic. Anyway, she was missing for just over a week.

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