Time Gone Bye Part 8
By Imaginaryfriend101
Long time since I last updated and for that I plead that you forgive me from the heart of my bottom, but I've been writing other stuff for a while and I'm starting a new (hopefully longterm) story at the mo which will be an AU where someone else raises Harry instead of the Dursley's. And that's all your getting for now so ;p
Someone brought up the question of why Ravenclaw (AGAIN! sigh) theres no real reason for Ravenclaw it doesn't effect the overall plot of the fic at all, It just I've seen too much of Gryffidor!Harry and Slytherin!Harry that I wanted to try writing something else. Plus no one knows what Ravenclaw is like so it gives me a lot of freedom to write, and allows Harry to make friends with others outside his house in both Gryffindor and Slytherin.
And how comes Ravenclaw when he's never shown any Ravenclaw qualities. Well the end of Fifth year brought some big changes for Harry, Sirius and a lot of other stuff, but imagine for a minute that your Harry at the ministry watching Voldermort and Dumbledore Duel, performing feats of magic that you cannot imagine doing. Then imagine not six hours later being told that you're the only one who can defeat one of them... wouldn't you want to learn more? Or is it just me?
I hope that answers your questions once and for all sorry if it a bit too much of a rant but I've had these question for a while and I thought I had strained out my reasoning or lack thereof
As always "Speech" and ((Thoughts))
Anyhow on with the story
Journal entry
Well just finished my first Quidditch match for Ravenclaw and We WON, just. We were against Hufflepuff and it was a great date for flying but our team only had two remaining players and everyone could tell, the Chasers teamwork was terrible and its only due to Isabelle as Keeper that we managed to keep the scores close enough for me to catch the snitch in time. In the end it was Ravenclaw 170 to Hufflepuff 160 so now I'm the hero of Ravenclaw.
It feels strange to be playing Qudditch for Ravenclaw, I keep looking around for the familiar Red and Gold uniform of Gryffidor, but no it's the Blue and Bronze uniform I'm wearing now and I've got to remember it. That reminds me our next match is a Month after Christmas Break against Gryffidor, it'll be a hard match if there game against Slytherin is any indication, they totally creamed those snakes and there seeker Charlie is unbelievable, I'm honoured that people used to compare me to him after seeing him fly.
Change of topic time, classes are okay as usual, except for Potions. I'm having to spend an hour on it per night just to keep up at an A level, I'm really missing the whole having a partner to help you thing that Snape made sure I didn't get, I really shouldn't of shouted at him during my first lesson.
My extra lesson are going good as well, in Healing we're doing pretty small stuff at the moment, The Diagnostic spell, how to heal bruises and small cuts and a few potions. But it's Wizards of the world, which is really interesting, We're learning how different cultures learnt to understand magic, where each branch of magic came from and how it was developed. It's like History of magic but without the boredom.
Well that's most of the Normal news now for the not-so-normal news, Tonight is the night of the Weird Sisters gig and we're going to do it. Me, Morganna, Tonks, Alan, Bill are going to sneak out and go to it. I already checked out the passageway behind the Mirror on the third floor and luckily it hasn't caved in yet, even more luckily it opens in the alley up behind the three broomsticks so we don't have to sneak back into Honeydukes to get back.
I just hoping that we don't get caught
Xander...Dammit I'm so used to signing my name like that, oh well
Harry Potter
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Xander crept down the hallway, with Alan by his side towards the Mirror on the Third floor that hid the secret passage they planned to use to escape Hogwarts for one night of forbidden fun. They slipped pass the last corner and came face to face with an irate Head Girl and a eager Tonks
"Where on earth have you two been" Morganna began "And they say that it's witch's who take longer than Wizards" she hurrmphed
"Sorry Morganna, but we had to wait until no one was watching the common room entrance to sneak out" Xander tried to placate his Girlfriend? And seeing it wasn't working he changed the subject "Where's Bill"
She gave him a look that told him she had noticed, she wasn't a Slytherin for nothing, as she replied "He had to attend a meeting with McGonagall for the Head duties"
"Oh" Xander replied "Hows long he going to be"
"He should be here –"
"Thank god you haven't left yet" a out breath Bill Weasley said as he ran round the corner and skidded to a stop his hair flapping behind him... wait a second
"What you done to your hair" Alan was the one to ask, instead of the normal short cut that the Head boy usually wore his hair hung down to his shoulders, the same cut that Xander recognised from the future.
"Oh well" he said nervously "I thought that I'll do something different for the occasion so no one will recognise me" Bill said "What do you think?"
"It looks...Good" Morganna said slowly as she took it in
"Yah, House colours" Tonks cried happily as she changed her shoulder length hair to yellow with black streaks in it "Now it's just you two"
Xander shook his head at her enthusiasm as he opened the mirror and led the way, listening her try to persuade Morganna and Alan to change their hair colour. It was a testament to Tonks stubbornness that by the time they emerged from the tunnel Morganna's had silver hair and Alan's had Black hair that shone blue in the light.
They quickly made it to the nightclub and pass the Hexers (Wizard Bouncers) with just a few knowing looks, they probably guessed they were students, and found a table.
"So what does everyone want" Tonks asked collecting everyone's order and making her way over to the bar, only she hadn't asked Xander what he wanted, ((In fact I don't think she's spoken to me all night)) he thought to himself. He turned to his left to face Alan, Morganna and Bill was on his other side, and asked "Have I upset Tonks or something?"
Alan gave an amused chuckle "It might have something to do with your victory over Hufflepuff last week" he said over the noise of the bar "Tonks is a real big Quidditch fan" he elaborated.
Xander just gave a small grumble and got up "I'm going to get myself a drink" he shouted to Morganna before he made his way over to the bar and managed to fight his way through the horde infront of it to stand next to Tonks, who he saw had just finished ordering her last drink of a butterbeer in a glass for herself. Making it only four drinks on the tray that she took back to their table.
((Man, petty or what)) he thought to himself as he waited to be served, he didn't have to wait long "Whattda want?"
"Just a Butterbeer"
The bartender waved his wand and a bottle flew onto the counter in front of him and the top popped off "Anything else?"
((What the Hell it's been a while)) he thought as he ordered a drink that the Twins had got him after Sirius "Yeah a shot of Dragon's Firewhisky"
"Kid you Old enough for that" The bartender asked dubiously
"Yes" Xander said with a hint of finality as he glared at him daring him to refuse, the bartender just shrugged and served him a shot.
Xander raised the shot into the air ((What was it Moody always used to say... ah yes))
"To fallen friends, May their memories always burn brightly" he said as he downed it. He felt it slowly make its way down his throat burning lightly and spreading all around his body, when it got to his stomach it started to build up in intensity until he couldn't hold it down any longer. He threw his head back as the feeling burst forth up his throat and out his mouth in a loud belch of blue flames that shot up leaving a large scorch mark on the ceiling.
"Sorry" Xander said sheepishly to the bartender "Don't worry about it, happens all the time" he said and with a wave of his wand the scorch mark disappeared. Xander too a sip of his butterbeer to get rid of the burnt taste in his mouth when someone approached him.
"Hey Kid" the guy said as came to stand next to Xander "Where did ya learn that speech, it's the Auror's unofficial Toast"
"A Friend" was Xander's short reply to the large black man who had his hair hanging in dreadlocks to his shoulders, in fact he looked like an older version of Lee Jordon
"So I'm also guessing that you're an Auror as well" he said tapping his nose conspiringly "We don't teach it to anyone who isn't one of us at one time or another"
Xander tried to hide his shock, not at this guy being an Auror they came in all shapes. No what shocked his most was the fact that Moody had taught it to Harry when he was an almost sixteen year old kid with vague hope of achieving a dream. ((Course Harry was the bloody boy who lived, gotta made allowances for him)) he thought bitterly "I'm in training to be one" he said finally.
"Cool I just finished training last year, I'm Michamandus by the way but everyone calls me Mike" he said holding out his hand to shake
Xander looked at it for a second before taking the offered hand "Jackson, Alexander Jackson" he said in the classic bond style "But most call me Xander, and I only just started on the basics"
"Really, who do you have for Stealth, I had Connley and he was a right..."
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It was some time later when Xander managed to get away from Mike and back to his table to be met with a less than warm welcome.
"Where have you been?" Morganna immediately asked turning away from talking to Bill
"Sorry, this guy just started talking to me at the bar and I couldn't get away" Xander apologised
"Couldn't get away or didn't want to" she said frostily
"Couldn't" He reaffirmed as he looked round for something to change the subject, Alan looked nervous about being in the middle of this and Bill was paying no mind to the table instead looking at the other female patrons now that he wasn't talking to Morganna and that left...
"Where's Tonks" the moment the words were out of his mouth he knew it was the wrong thing to say, Morganna scowled and shot him a look of venom as she gestured towards the dance floor where he found Tonks dancing very closely with a Blonde guy who looked to be in his early twenties "Some guy asked her to dance" she said as if it didn't matter but Xander could tell she wanted to dance.
He tore his eyes away from the couple on the dance floor that dancing very closely ((Didn't think Tonks would be like that after just meeting the guy)) he thought ((But I don't really know her at all, plus she can make her own decisions)) before turning back to the matter at hand.
"Erm... Do you want to... whose is that drink?" Xander suddenly asked breaking his train of thought
"I'll love – what, who cares who's drink that is, are you going to ask me to dance or not"
"Yes I will ask you to dance but just answer the question first... please" he added as an afterthought
Morganna breathed a sigh "It's Tonks, now can we dance"
"It cant be Tonks" he replied
"Why not" Alan decided to venture into the conversation
"Tonks ordered a butterbeer, I saw her buy it, and I haven't seen her at the bar since"
"So" Morganna huffed
"So..." Xander mimicked "Butterbeers are a pale yellow, Tonks drink is now a shimmering pink"
Alan who was the closet picked up the drink and took a sniff "It smell like... lilacs"
"Lilacs? Give it here" Morganna demanded, instantly forgetting her previous ire. As soon as it was in her hands she turned it to and fro getting a look at it, after taking a sniff she looked up "If this is what I think it is, and I'll have to try some to find out, then I want to apologise beforehand year
"I thought so" she said "It tastes of Apricot with a hint of ginger"
"What does that mean?" Alan asked
"Someone's added a vigor potion to Tonks drink" Morganna replied "A Lust potion"
"Shit" Xander muttered as he looked at the dancefloor and how Tonks was swapping saliva with the guy as his hands explored making Xander shake in rage, "Morganna, Bill can you get Tonks away from that guy while-"
"There a problem with that" Alan said pointing to Bills empty seat, he had wandered off.
"Shit" Xander muttered again "Okay change of plan"
"Xander, me and Bill can't be found here, our Head boy and girl badges will be confiscated" Morganna added
"Fine, Morganna find Bill and go back through the tunnel, you know the way don't you" Morganna nodded "Good, Alan, go to the Bar and either tell the bartender or a guy called mike, I'll go help Tonks, okay"
They nodded and went there separate ways.
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Xander slipped through the couples on the dance floor until he reached his target. "Tonks, can I talk to you for a second" he yelled over the music. He had to shout it twice more and tap her on the shoulder before she turned round with a slightly glazed look in her eyes. It seemed to take a second or two for her to recognise him "Xander!" she cried in joy as she jumped at him and flung her arms round her shoulders "It's good to see you" she whispered as tried she kissed him but he leaned back.
((Well I guess that proves that she's a little out of it)) he thought as she stopped leaning forwards and started to move away herself ((Thank Merlin, I don't want to kiss her like this, she'll kill me later))
He noticed that she kept backing away so he looked behind her and noticed the blonde guy pulling her back by her arm with an annoyed expression on his face. The guy noticing Xander looking at him practically spat "Back off kid, Me and the Lady were having some Fun"
Xander took a deep breath to keep calm, he hated being called kid or boy, too many bad memories of Vernon and Bellatrix, and reached out an arm to grab onto Tonks other arm. "Look Mister" Xander said sarcastically "I don't think my friend is well, I'm just going to make sure she gets home okay"
"But why?" The guy asked "She looks fine to me" he said as he gave her the once over
"I really think I should take her home now" Xander said tightening his grip on her arm
"I think I can see her home okay" he said with a wink
Xander had had enough of his insinuating comments, he gave a yank and pulled Tonks behind him as his left hand came up holding his wand "I Really think she should leave now and with me"
To Xander's frustration the Guy just laughed drawing the notice of the crowd "Kid put that away before you hurt yourself and leave me to my date"
"I don't think I would be the one to get hurt, but I think I should get Tonks home, she acting a little out of it" he said and as if to prove his point Tonks hands snaked around his waist as her head rested on his shoulder, "I think someone's spelled her drink" he finished making the crowd of onlookers gasp and the guys eyes to flash in panic and then anger.
"You dare insinuate that I would do something like that" he said as he drew his wand
"I never said it was you" Xander said as calmly as he could tightening his grip on his wand and trying to ignore Tonks hands pressed on his body
They stood like that for a several tense seconds before a voice called out "Break it up, Break it up" Xander looked to the right and saw Mike dressed in Auror robes being tailed by Alan. The guy obviously saw the pair as well as he started to edge away from the centre in the other direction, Xander seeing what he was doing quickly cast a leg locker curse at him making him fall flat on his face.
"Xander?" Mike asked in disbelief "What happening"
Xander jumped out of Tonks arms and grabbed both of her hand together in front of her so they couldn't wander "I think my friend he's been spelled by a Vigor Potion" he said "I was just trying to get her away from the guy she was dancing with when he" Xander said with a head nod in the direction of the downed Blonde guy "Decided he didn't like that"
Mike blinked in disbelief "Vigor Potion, why didn't you say so, they keep a bottle of the antidote behind the bar just in case"
After that thing seemed to past in a blur for Xander, Tonks got the antidote and couldn't look at him without blushing, the blonde guy was arrested for questioning, Alan left making the excuse that he didn't want to lose his Prefect badge when the Teachers found out. And found out they did, when Mike and the other Auror found out they had sneaked out of Hogwarts they were both ferried back into Hogwarts and up to the familiar (At least to Xander/Harry) office of Professor Dumbledore.
"Well" Dumbledore started "Did you enjoy yourselves on your little adventure" He sounded generality interested
Both Tonks and Xander remained quiet looking at the floor as if too ashamed to even look the Headmaster in the eye, for one of them it was true.
"I have to ask how did you leave Hogwarts?" Dumbledore asked
Xander felt a probing at his Occulmancy shield and imagined he was scanning Tonks mind as well so decided to answer "I found a secret passage behind a mirror on the third floor by following the directions in an old book" Xander made up making Dumbledore focus his attention on him "You just have to twist one of the decorative swirls at the edge a quarter to the left and then a half turn to the right"
He could feel Tonks eyeing him in shock at his admission but he ignored it, he knew if he gave Dumbledore enough truths that he knew to be true he would allow several lies that he knew to be lies through.
"I see" Dumbledore said pensively "I will have to see about getting it blocked up, we cant have students running away from learning now can we" he said and both teenagers caught the criticism at their behaviour.
"Well due to Miss Tonks ordeal I think I will forgo the severe punishments that many of the Teachers think you should, therefore both your houses will lose forty points"
His punishments were met with twin mutters of "yes sir" relieved that they had gotten away with it so easily
"Good" Dumbledore "Now unfortunately I will have to inform your parents Miss Tonks"
"WHAT!" Tonks cried unashamed of her outburst when faced with the terrible fate of 'telling the parents'
"I will have to if you wish to take this thing to trial" Dumbledore countered
Tonks seemed to fight with herself for a few seconds before her face settled into one of fixed determination "I just want that bastard to go down for what he tried to do to me"
"Very well" Dumbledore answered as if he had been expecting it all along "I'm glad you're willing, what Mr. Lockhart tried to do was inexcusable"
((WHAT!?!)) "Excuse me" Xander said in a forced calm voice "But who is going to stand trial"
Dumbledore sent him a piercing look before replying "Mr Gilderoy Humphrey Lockhart"
The rest of the meeting went in a blur for Xander, he quickly excused himself and found his way to his new favourite pastime – stress relief with Mr. Punchy in the Room of Requirement.
He pound the bag with all his might left, right, left, left all the while words that someone had said to him years ago were repeating through his head.
'...A Memory Charm on them so they wouldn't remember doing'
Left right, right, left
'If there's one thing I pride myself on , It's my Memory Charms'
All the while as he swung at the bag he was muttering under his breath two words that were quickly becoming a mantra
"How Many, How Many, How Many..."
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End part 8
Ducks whatever the reader tries to throw at me, poke head back up after a lampshade goes flying over
Err... Sorry bout the wait, but things in the real world wouldn't wait no matter how much I begged. A lot of things have happened in this chapter and you'll see the consequences in the next chapter, which I'm starting right now, it should hopefully be out next week? I hope...
The two lines about Memory charms are taken out of Chamber of Secrets.
the how many is how many woman has he done this to.
Anyhow all I gotta say is thanks to everyone that review and gave me a kick up the backside to get writing this part if you didn't like it tell me why by clicking the go button below, it's not the hard...