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Chapter 3 The Present

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As he walked down the hall he wondered what is wrong with her; he had never seen her act like. He walked over to where Ron and Hermione were talking.

" Hey so what did Cho want?" Asked Hermione.

"Well she came on to me, and she tried to get my shirt off." Said Harry calmly explained. "What!" Yelled both Ron and Hermione.

"She told me that she needed to talk to you alone." Said Hermione.

"Well if that's her idea of talking then I never want to talk to her again." Said Harry.

"So tell us what happened." Said Ron.

"Well," Harry started

"she said that she wanted to see Sirius's room--"

" That's a red flag right there." Interrupted Hermione.

" When we got to his room she told me to go in first so I did to be nice, then I turned around and she was all over me. I was going to break away then we broke apart, then she pushed me on Sirius's bed and then tried to get my shirt off, and then I shoved her off me and told her that she was sick and walked out the door,"

Then Hermione said in a low voice that only Harry could hear,

" who dare she do that to my Harry!"

"And speak of the devil there the dog now" said Ron.

" Ron!" Whispered Hermione. Cho walked over to where they where.

" Um Harry can I talk to you for a sec.?" She asked.

" Actually I really don't want to talk to you anymore, Cho." Admitted Harry.

" Please, Hermione and Ron can stay." She said as she tried to convince Harry.

Harry gave an uncertain glance in his friend's direction, and Hermione gave a slight nod so with a heavy sigh he said "ok".

" I'm sorry about what happened upstairs, I don't know what came over me, its just... this is going to sound stupid but I thought you where Cedric." She admitted as she blushed furiously.

Harry felt his whole body freeze up.

He had watched Cedric Diggory die when he was in his fourth year, and he didn't like to talk about it.

"Why did you think that Harry was Cedric?" Said Hermione to break the silence.

"Well... the way he was being such a Gentleman and I figured..."

"sorry to interrupt but I need to talk to Harry."

Harry spun around and was face-to-face with none-other than...

Dumbledore. "Ok". Dumbledore took Harry down the hall towards Sirius's room. Hermione had written to Harry and said that kreacher had died shortly after Sirius had she sounded said, but that same day Ron had sent him a letter that was practically screaming for joy. He looked up at the wall expecting to see kreacher head gazing down at him but they where gone;

Dumbledore noticed that Harry was gazing at the wall where the house-elf's heads where normal and said,

" yes Harry, we removed those heads from the wall. Come now did you really expect us to keep those up there. In my apian they where creepy."

Harry grinned as they entered into Sirius's old bedroom.

Dumbledore sat down on the bed and pulled out a square shaped object out from under the bed; he motioned for Harry to sit down on the bed.

When Harry sat down on the bed Dumbledore gave the package to Harry and said

"this was your fathers and I thought that you might like to have it."

Harry opened the package;

it was a pensieve.

He noticed something swirling around inside of it.

" that is a memory Harry. Most of them are from your father, but one of then is from your mother. I have not looked at them all but the one from your mother, which I think that you should see first. If you want you could look at it right know, and if you feel that it is needed I will join you." said Dumbledore.

" is it that bad that I need someone to go with me?" asked Harry.

"No, it's just that it will explain a lot but it will be very emotional."

Harry didn't want to be a baby to have someone go with him into his own mother's memory.

"No thanks, but can you have Ron, and Hermione be up here waiting for me when I return." Harry asked.

"if that is what you wish."

At that Dumbledore walked out of the door.

Harry stared for a moment at the swirling smoke inside of the pensieve for a moment then he drew out his wand and selected the memory from his mother then took a deep breath and touched the surface of the pensieve and then felt his whole body jerk forward and he was pulled face first into the swirling mist.

Harry was standing in the middle of a large living room.

Harry glanced around the room to find his parents, then he saw them, and he felt his whole body warm as he saw them sitting on the couch watching a movie.

He walked over to where they where sitting and sat down beside his father, James Potter, who was playing with baby Harry.

James would throw Harry in the air then catch him, and all the while baby Harry giggled all the while.

"James will you stop that you might hurt him!" said lily.

" I'm not going to hurt him lily, besides he's got to get use to flying because he is going to be the best quidditch player in the world! And that's all folks he is also going to defeat he-who-must-not-be-named, and then he will be the greatest wizard in the world and they will have chocolate frogs with his name on it!" said James as he tossed Harry into the air. " stop daydreaming and leave defeating you-know-who up to Dumbledore, and now its time to walk Harry to sleep." said lily.

"ok, let me transform. hold him for a sec."

James handed over Harry to lily, then he transformed into a giant stag.

He looked exactly like Harry's Patronus.

Then lily lowered baby Harry into James antlers.

Then James started to walk slowly around the room as lily sang to baby Harry.

Harry remembered the song and hummed along with his mother.

By no time baby Harry was fast asleep, Harry didn't blame himself he was getting sleepily just listening to his mother sing.

Then she picked baby Harry up of his dad's antlers and walked into the nursery placed baby Harry into the crib.

Then baby Harry stirred, as his mother hummed the lullaby, his father entered the room as Harry drifted of into a deep sleep.

Then lily and James walked out of the room and sat down on the couch and started to watch the rest of the movie.

Harry wondered what was so emotional about this that Dumbledore needed to go into this memory with him, and after he pondered this there was a sound like a gunshot outside of the door, then the power went off. The sound was so loud that baby Harry woke up and started to cry.

James jumped up and ran to look outside the window to see what it was.

Then he turned around, his face was as white as a ghost, then he shouted

"Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him off!"

Then Lily ran toward the nursery to get Harry, but tripped over a stuffed animal.

She grabbed Harry from his crib and was going to run out the back door but she could not make it.

Lord Voldemort was standing in the middle of the room with his back toward Lily, who was clutching baby Harry close to her chest.

She and Harry watched in horror as they saw Voldemort pull out his wand and directed it strait at James, who was on the ground at Voldemort's feet, bleeding severely at the head. Voldemort said "tell me were Harry is or you will surely die."

James looked over at his wife, and Baby Harry in her arms, then he mouthed "I love you" and then looked back at Voldemort and said "I chose to die."

now his mom was crying, Harry tried comfort to his mother then he remember that it was a memory and he was invisibly to her.

Plus Harry was also crying.

then Voldemort said "Avada Kedaura" then there was a burst of green light from the end of Voldemort's wand that stuck James right in the chest.

Harry watched in horror as he saw his father fall to the floor.

Harry ran across the room and knelt down next to his dead father's side.

Tears where freely falling down his cheeks and landing on James's arm, but they seemed to go right trough him.

Then he heard something that made his heart stop, Voldemort had left James's side and now was walking toward lily.

"give me Harry or you will face the same fate as your husband." said Voldemort.

"never!" said lily.

Then she turned around and ran into the nursery, and shut the door behind her.

Harry ran after her and ran through the door.

she was down on the ground holding Harry tight to her chest and saying to him

" Harry, I know that you will live. I'm not afraid of death any more. I'll be with your father. Please live, Harry, please."

then she drew out her wand and pointed it at baby Harry and mumbled something, then Harry started to glow.

" I love you."

was the last thing she said, cause at that same moment the door was blasted off its hinges, then Harry was pulled out of the memory, and found him sitting on Sirius's bed crying harder than he had ever cried before.

then he realized that his was not alone in the room.

He lifted his tear stained face and saw someone standing there watching him.

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