Disclaimer: I have yet to buy Harry Potter and make him mine....
By the way: Harry is in his 6th year! Just thought i'd tell ya'll!
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Ch. 3: The Key Members Fight
"Ladies and gentlemen, in light of some new occurrences, lessons are primarily canceled for now, please do not leave the Hall," the deputy Headmistress stated.
"What the bloody hell is going on?" Ron asked as the amount of excited chatter filled the Great Hall after MaGonagall had told them to stay in the Great Hall.
"Whatever it is, it doesn't look good at all," said Hermoine pointing out of the window towards the grounds to see Sirius and Remus dashing across the lawns looking terribly panicked. Both had their wands out and it looked like that they hadn't had any time to get dressed because they were both dressed very hurriedly. Sirius was wearing his jeans but still had his sleeping shirt on, Remus the same except he had his robes on.
"I hope everything's ok," Harry sighed, a terrible feeling of second lose struck him again. What if whatever was happening out on the grounds was dangerous beyond belief? What if it killed his parents? He didn't want to loose them again, and Sirius! The thought of loosing him once before had, as Lily had stated, destroyed him…he couldn't risk it happening again.
Apparently Hermoine noticed the distant look on her friends face, "you ok Harry?"
He looked at her, smiling grimly, "yeah," he said and returned his gaze out of the window. The fog was setting on the grounds yet again so nothing could be seen.
Outside, Lily, James, Remus and Sirius were dashing towards the forbidden forest, trying their best not to slither on the slippery grass. Through the dense fog they could see tall, black, shadowy figures hovering above the ground, agonizingly slow floating towards the castle.
"What's going on?" asked Sirius breathlessly as they reached the spot Dumbeldore was, "and how did you get here so fast?"
"I have my ways Sirius, and my worst fears have come true, the Dementors have joined Voldermort," the wise old wizard said grimly, "right now we have to worry about repelling them from reaching the school," the twinkle in his wise eyes was no more and he looked absolutely terrifying to the younger wizards.
"Ok, let's see, thirty or so Dementors and six Patronus's," James said counting himself, Sirius, his wife, Remus, Dumbeldore, Prof. Magonagall.
"We have to try James," said Lily, "our son's in there."
This seemed to give him the positive attitude that he was lacking, "let's kick their asses," he smiled.
All six of the order members got out their wands and pointed them at the emerging creatures. They all began racking their brain for a happy and powerful memory, once they had found one amidst all the terrible ones the Dementors were bringing to their minds, they cried out, "EXPECTO PATRONUM!!!" in discord.
It was a magnificently terrifying and yet beautiful site, for the Patronus's conjured were all powerful and all were taking different forms. Lily's had come out a ferocious lioness and had take on about five of the Dementors, Dumbeldore's was a large Pheonix, James's a stag just like his sons, Sirius a bear sized dog and was helping out James's stag take on about ten of the Dementors. Prof. Magonagall had produced a huge cat and Remus had conjured a large wolf. With each other's help, the powerful petronus's were driving off the Dementors.
"STOP!" yelled Dumbeldore as the fowl creatures drifted away, everyone lowered their wands and the animals disappeared, they all were exhausted and fell on the ground, except Dumbeldore and Lily was barely able to breath, she had the largest Patronus and it had taken all her energy to keep it fighting.
"Isn't there a way to kill those things? I mean wipe them off the planet," Sirius asked giving up on his attempts to try and sit up.
"I wish there was," Dumbeldore said grimly, "but as long as mankind keeps torturing each other, causing horrible moments in life, there will be Dementors. They will be banished once all mankind is happy with no bad memories."
"Which is never," Lily said bitterly, "the most intelligent of animals can't even think how to stop causing bad memories…Dementors will never go away."
There was silence as they considered the faults of humans, "idiots," Sirius murmured.
"Hey! One of my worst memories was the time you hit me…remember? I wouldn't call anyone an idiot Padfoot, you've caused bad memories just like the rest of us," James said taking the helping hand Lily had offered him.
"Yeah, well,.." Sirius said also standing up then helping Remus get up.
"Let's get back into the castle, we all need some chocolate about now," Remus smiled.
The walk back to the castle was filled with discussions about the Patronuses, and how the Order would have to deal with the Dementors. The argued in calm voices though sometimes they would rise. The six Order members had all the right in the world to be angry at each other, what they had just been put through was too much.
"Headmaster, are lessons to be resumed?" Magonagall asked as they reached the entrance hall.
"Yes, I imagine they will have to go their second class, first classes are canceled for today," Dumbeldore informed her.
"That means I have 6th year Slytherins and Gryffindors," said Lily as though she was talking to herself, she sighed at the prospect of having to go up all those staircases to her classroom on the fifth floor. She was still pretty weak after the confrontation, though the chocolate Remus had suggested had helped a bit.
"I'll come up with you," James offered.
"Ok," Lily smiled as she held on to his arm.
"Sirius, the Minister of Magic is waiting in my office for some final touches to your freedom. Would you please come to my office?" Dumbeldore said.
Seeing as how he didn't have any choice but to follow his former headmaster, Sirius, now a free man, answered, "sure," and followed Dumbeldore with his head bowed.
"Will he never grow up?" asked Remus with a laugh watching Sirius and Dumbeldore disappear.
"I hope not, Sirius wouldn't be Sirius if he was serious," Lily laughed.
"Amen," laughed James as they slowly made their way up the stairs.
"Hey, I gotta go see Snape about something, I'll see you at…lunch?" Remus asked.
"What the hell do you need to Snivellus for?" James asked frowning.
Remus looked at him with a smile, "I'm still a werewolf mate, every month Snape concocts a potion for me so I can keep my head during a full moon, that I way I don't harm anyone."
"The wolfsbane right?" James asked.
"Yeah," Remus smiled and gave his two friends a smile.
Before he could walk away, James said, "out of curiosity, when's the next full moon?"
"Tomorrow night…why?"
"So Sirius and I can keep you company," James said smiling a little sadly, he put a hand on Remus's shoulder, "just like old times."
Remus smiled back at James nodding, "just like old times," he smiled and walked away from them.
Though she tried her best to hide it, Lily was beginning to feel extremely nauseas and was going pale despite herself, something was wrong. Although James hadn't noticed this, he despite himself helped her walk to class, for she was still hanging onto his arm.
"That was interesting," James commented, "goddamn spine-less Fudge wouldn't listen to Dumbeldore, now history is gonna repeat itself!"
"No it wont," she said weakly.
He looked at her, she was turning paler, "Lily? You alright?" he asked alarmed stopping abruptly.
"I'm fine honey," she answered with a what she hoped had been a reassuring smile.
Apparently it wasn't, "those Dementors did something to you honey," he said looking into her eyes, "I'm taking you to the infirmary."
"No! James, I'll be fine, it's just a little aftershock that's all," she said reassuringly.
"I'm not sure it is, come on Lil," he said and attempted to drag her away but she wouldn't budge.
"James….I don't need to go the infirmary," she said sternly, "I just want to get to my class and teach them how to defend themselves against Voldie."
"Lil…"
"James…I'm fine," she said and slowly, with the support of the hand rail, she made her way up the stairs. She was feeling extremely out of character, why was she feeling so ill…she had faced worst situations and walked away laughing and smiling or occasionally going to St. Mungos to check on the other Aurors. But she had never wound up in St. Mungos, she was much too powerful and much too smart for that.
Seeing as how the fiery redhead had already made up her mind and had a talent for conviction, James followed her but asked promptly to help her get to her class and insisted on staying in the room.
"You'll distract the kids though," she told him.
"I'll stay in the back and I won't say anything, I promise."
"You'll especially distract Harry, James…"
"I'll be a good little boy professor, I need to stay with you, you got me worried," he said in a less then calming voice but it was still pretty soothing.
"You're so sweet," she smiled and kissed him quickly.
They were soon in the corridor, the attention of all the students whom were waiting for her to arrive turned towards her and James as they walked towards them. Harry smiled at the two, but it quickly faded when he realized how pale Lily was and how worried his father was.
"Hey! Sorry I kept you waiting, c'mon, we have a lot to learn today," Lily smiled and left James support and walked between the crowd and led them inside.
"What happened?" Harry asked his father, deliberately staying behind to talk to him.
"Nothing that you should worry yourself with right know Harry," James said putting a reassuring hand on his son's shoulder, "just focus on school right know ok?"
"Right," Harry said and went inside taking his usual seat in the middle of Hermoine and Ron. The odd thing was, that the two boys actually volunteered to sit in front of the class because Lily made the class so fun.
"Alright, now, we've been studying defense techniques against Vampires in this class right?" Lily asked putting her hair up in a Japanese manner with a pencil. "Ok, cool…"
"Are you really Potters mother?" Draco Malfoy blurted out from the back.
"I don't not know what kind of freedom your parents give you at home Malfoy, but I will not be spoke to without respect, remember what I told you the first day of school? You give me the respect I deserve and I'll give you the respect you deserve?"
"Would you kindly tell me when you get to the point?" he asked arrogantly.
"Sure, right now, 20 points from Slytherin house," she said coldly.
"Professor?" asked one of the Gryffindors raising his hand.
"Yes Mr. Finnigan."
"Can you tell us what happened last night? We've been hearing rumors all over the school, we don't know what to believe," he said with his thick unmistakable Irish accent.
"Well, Mr. Finnigan," she smiled warmly, and began to explain the fact that she was Voldermorts ultimate rival and the fact that in order to keep their son alive, James and herself had gone into hiding. She also explained to her class about Sirius and how much he had sacrificed for his friends. When the story was finished, there was not a closed mouth in the room, save Harry, Ron and Hermoine who just smiled. Sirius was free, Harry wasn't an orphan, all seemed to be right with the world for the young wizard.
