Chapter Seven
When they got back to the mansion Tom realized just how much he was going to miss his son, when he went away for schooling because they would not get to communicate often. He had not spent more than a few hours, to use for sleep and using the loo, from Harry since he had remembered him. He was also worried the Albus Dumbledore would figure that Harry was the child of the "Dark Lord" and try and use him.
Plus Harry has an unusual thirst for knowledge. Also he had already shown a large amount of power for a boy his age. Dumbledore was always looking for a new pawn. Well the problem of Albus could be solved with teaching Harry how to shield his thoughts even from Albus. And Harry would also have to learn to control his powers, especially around Dumbledore.
Slowly he walked do his son's room , maybe he should give Harry a large supply of floo powder and buy Harry a private dorm so they could communicate via fire. As he rounded the corner to his son's room he heard a strange hissing sounding talk, the language of the snakes! For the first time since Diagon Alley Tom was surprised, Harry was a Parselmouth!
{Ssssoo...} Hissed Harry, { are you coming to Hogwartsss with me Adrania?}
{Yesss...} Hissed Adrania, {Why wouldn't I?}
After a few seconds of listening he knew why Harry had chosen the small fire snake, it was because they understood each other. That also explains why they are almost inseparable. But then Tom thought of the enormous responsibility this ability would pile onto Harry. If the snake was going, which tom was pretty sure of, then Harry would not be able to talk to it around others, private dorms were a must now because Parselmouths were feared and thought of as evil wizards.
After thinking for a few seconds he decided to play a trick on Harry.
{Adrania...} he hissed {Adrania...} he hissed again trying to keep a straight face.
{Harry??} hissed Adrania {did you hear that??}
{Yesss...} Harry said thoughtfully {another was calling.}
Tom decided to walk in just then.
{Ssssoo... Harry} Tom hissed still trying not to laugh, {when were you going to tell me you were a Parsssselmouth?}
For a second Harry looked rather surprised but before he had the chance to answer his father a glazed look appeared in his eyes.
"Harry?" called Tom but it was clear that Harry could not hear him.
Trance Begin
"Harry..." a soft voice called, "Harry dear it's time to remember..."
Pictures of a blonde woman who had brilliant emerald green eyes being sorted into Griffindore. Followed by a dark haired boy with clear blue eyes being sorted into Slytherin. Next there were scenes of bickering, then of dating, then of a marriage in secret. The first full memory was that of the lady laying on the bed, she had just given birth. You could tell that she was dying because her aura was weak, and fading fast. But somehow she still had the strength to look over her new born child and notice his eyes glowed an intense emerald green. She started to pull on her last bits of magic as she cast two powerful spells. She gasped "Goodbye Harry!" as she died and almost instantly the child disappeared. The next memory that it stopped on was of a young man, his father, walking into the bedroom and finding the lady, his mother, dead. If the man had not been so lost in his grief he would have felt that the air was not exactly right, something was off. After the man buried his wife he did not care anymore, he then did some really bad things, and he ended up being named the Dark Lord. Suddenly things sped up, almost as if many years had passed. The man had only aged about four years, due to the fact that in the dimension he had spent most of his time in time past much more slowly, but in fact thirty-seven years had past. In the next memory a man was cowing in front of Tom called Wormtail aka Peter Pettigrew. The man was telling Tom of how the family tom had been tracking had made a mistake, they made Wormtail their secret keeper.
"Master..." simpered the thing called a man, "they finally switched to me, they are at Godrics Hollow!"
Later that day Voldemort (Tom) and some loyal Death Eaters attacked Godrics Hollow. He quickly killed James, He then sent away the others saying he could deal with the woman, then when he got tired of Lily's incessant begging to spare her son's life he killed her. When he went to kill the child, something strange happened, the child's eyes glowed a bright emerald green. He started to cast the killing curse, and a image flashed before his eyes, Felicia, and she was smiling. He barely had a second to move before the curse was reflected.
######Harry's Point of View#####
The child was giggling as a bright green light shot at him, he reached out only to have the light shoot away, back at the man. The boy giggled as the man nearly had to do a back flip to avoid the pretty light. The man scowled at the giggling child.
###Back to Normal Point of View###
'Strange,' thought Voldemort, 'the child is not only alive but is also amused by me...'
Voldemort apperated when he heard a voice, downstairs, cry "James!" Harry was curious so he walked out of the room towards the voice. When he saw the man he called out "P'foot!" The man looked like he was going to cry as he swept the child up into his arms. After a few minutes the man asked Harry "Where's your Mum? Where is Lily?" At first the child was slightly perplexed, but that passed as he painted to the bedroom from which he had just came. Bringing Harry with him Sirius started to cry again.
The child who had rather sneakily escapes Sirius's grip was now at the window. The child saw a giant of a man and called out "Ha'rid!" Padfoot gathered Harry's things and went out side. Hagrid tried to take Harry away from Sirius and Sirius got upset. The man and P'foot argued a little, not noticing the man in the shadows. The man Took Harry from Sirius, his godfather, almost making him cry. Harry didn't like Dumbledore one bit. That night the savior of the wizarding world was dropped of on the steps of his remaining [family] with his things and a note. Soon Dumbledore and the lady cat disappeared into the night. Tom stood in the shadows, apparently in deep thought because the child startled him when he demanded to be picked up. The man gently picked the child up and summoned his things and the note, then with a whisper they to disappeared into the night.
End Trance
When Harry woke up he was surprised to find that he was in bed. Before his mother told him to remember he had been having an interesting chat with Adrania, when his father came in... and he could talk to the snake to! Harry grinned at the thought, after all Adrania had told him not many humans could speak even understand snakes, so he kept the secret from dad kind of ashamed... but not anymore!
Speaking of that snake, where did she go? Quietly searching the room with his eyes, he was again surprised to see that has father had fallen asleep. Examining his father he decided the man needed sleep. He looked tired and as if he had been crying. Carefully climbing out of bed, he picked up a comforter and draped it over his father, tucking it in slightly before going to find his pet, Adrania.
Tom awoke as the bedroom door closed with a soft click. Groggily he looked around and realized he must have fallen asleep, but he did not remember getting the blanket. He frowned.
'Strange,' he thought "where did this come from?" he said out loud.
Looking around the room he noticed that Harry's bed was empty. And he was no where in sight! Silently cursing him self he got up. He couldn't have been asleep long. He rushed into the main hall and started to search every room.
'Damn!' he thought' why did this house have to be so big?'
His panics were calmed when he entered the study and before the fire sat his son, messy black hair, talking to his snake.
"Harry!" he exclaimed, "you are not well, i mean you wouldn't respond to any one! Why are you out of bed?"
"Dad," Harry began, " I was not sick, and Adrania was not there, so i covered you up because YOU looked sick, and I went to find her!"
"You worried me!" Tom sighed "What happened?"
"Mom was telling me what i had to remember" Harry explained to his father, talking slowly, as if he was talking to a child.
"Oh..." Tom said
Tom started wondering what Felicia had told Harry. Harry got up and hugged his father as he felt apprehension take over the man.
"Don't worry about the bad things that you did. That was before. You didn't know what you were doing." Harry said mysteriously. "Oh... and mom said not to worry about what almost happened that night, you didn't know about me." Harry added before turning to his snake again.
Tom was surprised to say the least, after all he had killed the two people who had truly thought Harry was their son and on top of it all had tried to kill Harry. And what did Harry mean when he had said you didn't know what you were doing, did Felicia tell him something else, something Tom did not know about?
"Harry," Tom began attentively, "Are you sure your ok with this?"
"Of course" Harry said with a grin, "it really wasn't you, you know that right?"
All Tom could do was to wonder just what the young boy was talking about.
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When they got back to the mansion Tom realized just how much he was going to miss his son, when he went away for schooling because they would not get to communicate often. He had not spent more than a few hours, to use for sleep and using the loo, from Harry since he had remembered him. He was also worried the Albus Dumbledore would figure that Harry was the child of the "Dark Lord" and try and use him.
Plus Harry has an unusual thirst for knowledge. Also he had already shown a large amount of power for a boy his age. Dumbledore was always looking for a new pawn. Well the problem of Albus could be solved with teaching Harry how to shield his thoughts even from Albus. And Harry would also have to learn to control his powers, especially around Dumbledore.
Slowly he walked do his son's room , maybe he should give Harry a large supply of floo powder and buy Harry a private dorm so they could communicate via fire. As he rounded the corner to his son's room he heard a strange hissing sounding talk, the language of the snakes! For the first time since Diagon Alley Tom was surprised, Harry was a Parselmouth!
{Ssssoo...} Hissed Harry, { are you coming to Hogwartsss with me Adrania?}
{Yesss...} Hissed Adrania, {Why wouldn't I?}
After a few seconds of listening he knew why Harry had chosen the small fire snake, it was because they understood each other. That also explains why they are almost inseparable. But then Tom thought of the enormous responsibility this ability would pile onto Harry. If the snake was going, which tom was pretty sure of, then Harry would not be able to talk to it around others, private dorms were a must now because Parselmouths were feared and thought of as evil wizards.
After thinking for a few seconds he decided to play a trick on Harry.
{Adrania...} he hissed {Adrania...} he hissed again trying to keep a straight face.
{Harry??} hissed Adrania {did you hear that??}
{Yesss...} Harry said thoughtfully {another was calling.}
Tom decided to walk in just then.
{Ssssoo... Harry} Tom hissed still trying not to laugh, {when were you going to tell me you were a Parsssselmouth?}
For a second Harry looked rather surprised but before he had the chance to answer his father a glazed look appeared in his eyes.
"Harry?" called Tom but it was clear that Harry could not hear him.
Trance Begin
"Harry..." a soft voice called, "Harry dear it's time to remember..."
Pictures of a blonde woman who had brilliant emerald green eyes being sorted into Griffindore. Followed by a dark haired boy with clear blue eyes being sorted into Slytherin. Next there were scenes of bickering, then of dating, then of a marriage in secret. The first full memory was that of the lady laying on the bed, she had just given birth. You could tell that she was dying because her aura was weak, and fading fast. But somehow she still had the strength to look over her new born child and notice his eyes glowed an intense emerald green. She started to pull on her last bits of magic as she cast two powerful spells. She gasped "Goodbye Harry!" as she died and almost instantly the child disappeared. The next memory that it stopped on was of a young man, his father, walking into the bedroom and finding the lady, his mother, dead. If the man had not been so lost in his grief he would have felt that the air was not exactly right, something was off. After the man buried his wife he did not care anymore, he then did some really bad things, and he ended up being named the Dark Lord. Suddenly things sped up, almost as if many years had passed. The man had only aged about four years, due to the fact that in the dimension he had spent most of his time in time past much more slowly, but in fact thirty-seven years had past. In the next memory a man was cowing in front of Tom called Wormtail aka Peter Pettigrew. The man was telling Tom of how the family tom had been tracking had made a mistake, they made Wormtail their secret keeper.
"Master..." simpered the thing called a man, "they finally switched to me, they are at Godrics Hollow!"
Later that day Voldemort (Tom) and some loyal Death Eaters attacked Godrics Hollow. He quickly killed James, He then sent away the others saying he could deal with the woman, then when he got tired of Lily's incessant begging to spare her son's life he killed her. When he went to kill the child, something strange happened, the child's eyes glowed a bright emerald green. He started to cast the killing curse, and a image flashed before his eyes, Felicia, and she was smiling. He barely had a second to move before the curse was reflected.
######Harry's Point of View#####
The child was giggling as a bright green light shot at him, he reached out only to have the light shoot away, back at the man. The boy giggled as the man nearly had to do a back flip to avoid the pretty light. The man scowled at the giggling child.
###Back to Normal Point of View###
'Strange,' thought Voldemort, 'the child is not only alive but is also amused by me...'
Voldemort apperated when he heard a voice, downstairs, cry "James!" Harry was curious so he walked out of the room towards the voice. When he saw the man he called out "P'foot!" The man looked like he was going to cry as he swept the child up into his arms. After a few minutes the man asked Harry "Where's your Mum? Where is Lily?" At first the child was slightly perplexed, but that passed as he painted to the bedroom from which he had just came. Bringing Harry with him Sirius started to cry again.
The child who had rather sneakily escapes Sirius's grip was now at the window. The child saw a giant of a man and called out "Ha'rid!" Padfoot gathered Harry's things and went out side. Hagrid tried to take Harry away from Sirius and Sirius got upset. The man and P'foot argued a little, not noticing the man in the shadows. The man Took Harry from Sirius, his godfather, almost making him cry. Harry didn't like Dumbledore one bit. That night the savior of the wizarding world was dropped of on the steps of his remaining [family] with his things and a note. Soon Dumbledore and the lady cat disappeared into the night. Tom stood in the shadows, apparently in deep thought because the child startled him when he demanded to be picked up. The man gently picked the child up and summoned his things and the note, then with a whisper they to disappeared into the night.
End Trance
When Harry woke up he was surprised to find that he was in bed. Before his mother told him to remember he had been having an interesting chat with Adrania, when his father came in... and he could talk to the snake to! Harry grinned at the thought, after all Adrania had told him not many humans could speak even understand snakes, so he kept the secret from dad kind of ashamed... but not anymore!
Speaking of that snake, where did she go? Quietly searching the room with his eyes, he was again surprised to see that has father had fallen asleep. Examining his father he decided the man needed sleep. He looked tired and as if he had been crying. Carefully climbing out of bed, he picked up a comforter and draped it over his father, tucking it in slightly before going to find his pet, Adrania.
Tom awoke as the bedroom door closed with a soft click. Groggily he looked around and realized he must have fallen asleep, but he did not remember getting the blanket. He frowned.
'Strange,' he thought "where did this come from?" he said out loud.
Looking around the room he noticed that Harry's bed was empty. And he was no where in sight! Silently cursing him self he got up. He couldn't have been asleep long. He rushed into the main hall and started to search every room.
'Damn!' he thought' why did this house have to be so big?'
His panics were calmed when he entered the study and before the fire sat his son, messy black hair, talking to his snake.
"Harry!" he exclaimed, "you are not well, i mean you wouldn't respond to any one! Why are you out of bed?"
"Dad," Harry began, " I was not sick, and Adrania was not there, so i covered you up because YOU looked sick, and I went to find her!"
"You worried me!" Tom sighed "What happened?"
"Mom was telling me what i had to remember" Harry explained to his father, talking slowly, as if he was talking to a child.
"Oh..." Tom said
Tom started wondering what Felicia had told Harry. Harry got up and hugged his father as he felt apprehension take over the man.
"Don't worry about the bad things that you did. That was before. You didn't know what you were doing." Harry said mysteriously. "Oh... and mom said not to worry about what almost happened that night, you didn't know about me." Harry added before turning to his snake again.
Tom was surprised to say the least, after all he had killed the two people who had truly thought Harry was their son and on top of it all had tried to kill Harry. And what did Harry mean when he had said you didn't know what you were doing, did Felicia tell him something else, something Tom did not know about?
"Harry," Tom began attentively, "Are you sure your ok with this?"
"Of course" Harry said with a grin, "it really wasn't you, you know that right?"
All Tom could do was to wonder just what the young boy was talking about.
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