Everyone was now staring at Harry. Ginny burst in the door a second later.
"Harry! I lost you." She trailed off as she noticed all the others in the
room. "This cant be good, can it?"
"Well you're quick." Harry mumbled from in his hands.
"Really?" Ginny asked, feigning interest. "You're not funny. No time for sarcasm here!" Ginny said pointing her hand to the roof in a business like manner. "You still haven't told me why you're disappearing."
"Ginny!" Harry said angrily. "It isn't that hard to work out! My mother- and I'm not saying any more because of whom is in the room." Harry said, looking at the marauders and McGonagall.
Ginny clapped a hand to her mouth with a giggle. "Oh god."
"This is no laughing Matter Virginia Weasley!" Harry said, momentarily forgetting that most in the room didn't know she was Ginny Weasley. "Do you know what will happen if I am wiped out of existence apart from a mere shadow of me?"
"Yes." Ginny said, hanging her head. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, but I mean, how ironic. you're basically an invincible Auror at the age of sixteen and your own mother is unknowingly wiping you out of existence."
"Its OK Ginny." Harry said, regretting his burst of anger. He stood up and almost sunk through the floor before thinking 'solid' and hugging Ginny.
"Atleast we don't have to worry about you sweating anymore." Ginny said, lightening the mood. Harry flushed with embarrassment while Sirius burst out laughing, Dumbledore chuckled lightly, McGonagall had a look of horror etched into her features, and the Marauders looked amused, yet concerned at the same time.
"Haha Gin. Can I help you boys?" Harry asked the marauders.
"Err. I doubt-." Sirius started but James butted in.
"Do any of you know where Remus is?"
"No. Why?"
"We haven't seen him since before lunch, and it isn't like him to miss classes. He was on his way to see what was wrong with Harry in the Hospital wing."
"Oh dear, Albus." McGonagall said. "He didn't make it to the hospital wing. Maybe that was him, and not just a mouse that had made that noise?" She looked worried.
***
Remus stared around himself. He'd figured long ago that it wasn't the forbidden forest. He was tied to one of the fifty-foot high trees with iron shackles that glowed an alien green. No one had showed themselves since he'd come and he was getting worried he'd be just left to die.
He was asleep again within minutes. it was so boring!
"Ouch!" Remus sat up straight, well as straight as he could with the shackles tied to him. The sky was pitch black, from what he could see through the trees and he figured it must have been nighttime. He heard a slithering sound circling the tree and he could just make out a thick rope looking creature? Was it a SNAKE?
Remus started shaking. A small mouse scurried up to him. He could tell it was a mouse, actually a rat, because of its silver paw and the silhouette against the leaves. A light seemed to emnant from his silver paw and Remus started to shake more. Silver could kill werewolves! It would burn through him.
The rat touched it's paw to Remus bare leg, which he just noticed was bare, as was the rest of him apart from a pair of boxers.
The young werewolf screamed in pain.
***
James, Sirius and Peter were worried as hell. Remus was nowhere to be found and not even Dumbledore could find him. It was already 12 o'clock, noon, a day since everyone of the teachers had started to search the grounds. Lady teachers stayed though.
"He'll turn up." Peter said, obviously trying to lighten the solemn mood that had descended on Gryffindor Tower.
"But what if he doesn't! huh? Tell me that!" Sirius said angrily, standing up and knocking over the plush armchair in the process, glaring at Peter.
"Shhh, Sirius. Sit down." James said. Just then the door opened. In came Professor Ginny. Harry hadn't been seen since yesterday in the office at Dumbledore's. But James and the others knew he was looking, and they'd been forbidden to say anything about his current state. Ginny looked frantic and helpless.
What little noise there was in the Common Room died down in that instant. Ginny cleared her throat, it looked like she was trying not to cry. She licked her lips, no doubt trying to stall the moment she'd have to say whatever she'd have to say.
"We have news on Remus." She said loudly, and her voice cracked.
***12 hours ealier***
Harry could tell he'd been getting closer to wherever the Death Eaters were, scars had started to sting all over his body. His eyes were watery with pain, but he floated strongly. His senses had lead him to the edge of a large forrest. He could tell he wasn't even in England anymore. it was different somehow. He really should have told the others he'd be away from Hogwarts grounds.
A scream rang out and Harry winced and started towards it, walking through trees and everything as they got in the way.
About an hour and a few screams later Harry found himself facing a small clearing. He'd made himself invisible and hadn't been noticed by any of the figures walking around a fire in the dark.
They were Death Eaters, of that Harry was certain. And they were Death Eaters from the future, the most recognizable two being Wormtail and Lucius Malfoy (was he dead?).
On a metal stake that was heating up quickly a smaller person was tied. Their face wasn't to him so Harry couldn't see exactly who it was. He was about to go around and see when Wormtail talked.
"Tell me, dear Moony, what you know of your teacher, Harry?" He snarled.
"Shut up, Pettigrew, don't waste your voice, as if I'd tell you anything." A familiar voice spat, a little shakily, at Wormtail. Harry had to admit, he was just as brave now as he was before. Harry had to do something, but what?
***
Remus could feel the metal bar he was attatched to start to warm up dangerously, this was not good, not good at all.
"My dear friend," Peter Pettigrew, Remus' ex-best friend, said silkily "why don't you do 'Wormy' a favour?" Peter spat the word Wormy as though it was poison. "Tell me now! Or I'll be forced to hurt you even more!" He demanded. Now thoroughly angered that Remus wouldn't say a word. He stayed quiet.
Peter growled low in his throat. He was a lot different to the Wormtail Remus knew. This one was an easily angered asshole, he didn't have any patience, and was a Death Eater. Peter stepped right up to the edge of the hot fire and grabbed at Remus arm, just above his elbow, and tightened his silver grip on it painfully. That mixed with the burning of his skin connected with the silver was enough to make Remus cry out and want it to just end.
When Peter let go and went to call a council with the other Death Eaters just out of earshot of Remus, he heard a small noise, no a voice, in his ear.
"Just do what they say."
It was Harry! But where was he? And how did he get close enough when Remus was surrounded by fire?
"I'm going to do a charm, no, don't say anything! A charm that will make the pole your tied to not warm up, only to you and I though. It is Harry, you're right. I'm also going to work on a way to get these bloody Death Eaters out of our hair." Harry said and then there was silence. A few seconds later Remus heard a small charm being muttered and felt the metal instantly cool down, just as the Death Eaters came back.
***
After about two hours of talking and crucio's later, though Harry took the pain instead of Remus, even though Remus was the one that cried out, Harry had a plan. It was quite simple really. He'd cast silencing charms over the Death Eaters so they couldn't say any spells. He'd get Remus out of there, and direct him to the portkey waiting for Hogwarts outside the forest, then he'd finish off the Death Eaters and capture them and take them home with him, then they'd all be back to normal. no more little adventures in the past. even if he did get to see his parents.
"Silencio!" Harry whispered loudly, all the Death Eaters stopped talking as Harry waved his hands over them. Peter mouthed the words 'Potter's here!' angrily, facing his Death Eaters, as Remus looked around, wondering what was going on.
***
The silence was unnerving to Remus. He stared around wildly as the Death Eaters started searching behind tree's and what not looking for Harry.
"I'll untie you, run north in a straight line to the edge of the forest, go east about 200 metres and a portkey will be waiting, it's an old ice cream contained I was able to get, but, do NOT try and cut across the forest straight to the bucket. Ok?"
Remus nodded and he felt his shackles loosen and he fell into the fire. Amazingly, it didn't burn him.
A Death Eater noticed him as he ran flat out north, luckily he had a good sense of direction being a werewolf and enhanced running and hearing abilities, otherwise he would have been easy to catch with a hole burned deeply into his leg, one on his arm and another on his foot.
Remus figured that Harry must have made himself seen because the Death Eater, 'Lucius Malfoy', was called back for a bigger target.
The young, sore, werewolf ran as fast as he could for about two hours. He'd gotten lost twice! After a while he had to slow down and he was laboring along as he saw the edge of the tree's not to far away.
As Remus found the ice cream container, it took him about another half hour as he'd gotten quite a bit off track, he heard a scream of raw anger and agony. It was too late to stop now, as he felt a tug behind his navel and he was pulled away through the blackness of a portkey.
***FUTURE! YAY!***
"Calm down Hermione." Ron said, he was now the calm one, finally believing Dumbledore's story about Harry and Ginny and Sirius, but Hermione was quite frantic indeed.
"He's missing out on far too much school! How's he ever going to get a job if he cant graduate because he hasn't the knowledge?" Hermione asked, chewing her fingernails, very un-Hermione-like.
"He's already the Head Auror at the Ministry! And, I'd bet he's just as smart as you, possibly more." Of course he was, for the past while Harry had done nothing but study, that was until he'd finished off Voldemort.
"I'm not saying he's dumb! But what if he doesn't want to continue being an Auror? Fudge the bloody idiot is getting rather suspicious. Why wouldn't Dumbledore just tell him where Harry and Ginny were?"
"Hermione, you swore." Ron said, amazed and grinning. Hermione scowled at him.
"Something's not right. Nothing adds up. And no matter what it is, I'm going to find it out!" Hermione said and grabbed her knapsack(That's what they call 'em in Britain, right?) and started towards the portrait hole. "Come on, Transfiguration, then the library."
Ron rolled his eyes. As if the library would have any information on where Harry was. "Ofcourse you will, you're too smart not to find out." Ron assured his girlfriend, though he wasn't sure the library was the right way to go about it.
***Back in the Gryffindor Common Room with Ginny and the Marauders***
"As I was saying, I have news on Remus." Ginny said again. "He's fine. He's in the hospital wing asleep, getting better and more medication, he needs his rest. He's been through quite an ordeal, and I ask you to all go easy on him, the search has been called off." Ginny stopped, tears sprung to her eyes and James knew that something wasn't being said.
"And?" He asked. "What else is it?"
"And-." A small sob escaped her just as Professor Reid entered. Ginny ran out, murmuring something to Professor Reid as she passed. He looked a little startled. He looked close to despair himself, and it was obvious he'd been crying. Something was definitely up.
"And, something's happened to Harry."
James, who'd been previously relieved, felt the bottom of his stomach drop out, not seriously ofcourse.
The whole common room was deadly silent apart from small sobs. Most people who'd been chattering about what could have happened to Remus looked to Professor Reid apprehensively. Some girls had covered their mouths with their hands, jaws hanging open. Lily was sobbing openly, watching Professor Reid with dread, but also seemingly needing to know what was going on.
"As you know, Remus has been missing, well Harry found him. In a large forest in the Alps. He'd been taken by Death Eaters and tortured for information on Harry. Remus told us that Harry had taken all the pain and drawn it into himself from Remus, which weakened him greatly as it was about two hours worth of crucio. amongst other things. Harry wasn't able to portkey back with Remus, but Remus said he'd heard Harry cry out from miles away through all the mountains and forests. It isn't known if he's dead or alive. Professor Dumbledore is waiting for me, I must go, but classes have started again. You may all go."
Professor Reid rushed out of the room, looking extremely despaired. He'd been talking fairly calmly throughout his little speech though.
James looked to Sirius, then looked to Peter, who seemed. smug? No, it was worry, definitely, worry was taking him over.
"We have to do something. You saw what was wrong with him before." James whispered frantically. "He can't possibly fight every one of the Death Eaters alone."
"I don't think we should." Peter said, quickly. "I mean, it would be dangerous, and I bet Dumbledore's got out a search party. There'd be nothing we can do about them either. They'd kill us, surely."
"He's right." Sirius said, unintentionally falling into a trap the one time in his life he tried to be serious and live up to his name. "Think about it, this isn't just some defense lesson, it's real life, real death, reality."
James sighed, defeated, they were right.
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Theres another chapter out. I'm sorry I've been taking a while, I really am. But yeah, I've just been busy. Oh, and this chapter is dedicated to 'Frootloop' I think that was who, well they know who they are, for reviewing heaps and heaps. Thanks. AllieSkittllez
"Well you're quick." Harry mumbled from in his hands.
"Really?" Ginny asked, feigning interest. "You're not funny. No time for sarcasm here!" Ginny said pointing her hand to the roof in a business like manner. "You still haven't told me why you're disappearing."
"Ginny!" Harry said angrily. "It isn't that hard to work out! My mother- and I'm not saying any more because of whom is in the room." Harry said, looking at the marauders and McGonagall.
Ginny clapped a hand to her mouth with a giggle. "Oh god."
"This is no laughing Matter Virginia Weasley!" Harry said, momentarily forgetting that most in the room didn't know she was Ginny Weasley. "Do you know what will happen if I am wiped out of existence apart from a mere shadow of me?"
"Yes." Ginny said, hanging her head. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, but I mean, how ironic. you're basically an invincible Auror at the age of sixteen and your own mother is unknowingly wiping you out of existence."
"Its OK Ginny." Harry said, regretting his burst of anger. He stood up and almost sunk through the floor before thinking 'solid' and hugging Ginny.
"Atleast we don't have to worry about you sweating anymore." Ginny said, lightening the mood. Harry flushed with embarrassment while Sirius burst out laughing, Dumbledore chuckled lightly, McGonagall had a look of horror etched into her features, and the Marauders looked amused, yet concerned at the same time.
"Haha Gin. Can I help you boys?" Harry asked the marauders.
"Err. I doubt-." Sirius started but James butted in.
"Do any of you know where Remus is?"
"No. Why?"
"We haven't seen him since before lunch, and it isn't like him to miss classes. He was on his way to see what was wrong with Harry in the Hospital wing."
"Oh dear, Albus." McGonagall said. "He didn't make it to the hospital wing. Maybe that was him, and not just a mouse that had made that noise?" She looked worried.
***
Remus stared around himself. He'd figured long ago that it wasn't the forbidden forest. He was tied to one of the fifty-foot high trees with iron shackles that glowed an alien green. No one had showed themselves since he'd come and he was getting worried he'd be just left to die.
He was asleep again within minutes. it was so boring!
"Ouch!" Remus sat up straight, well as straight as he could with the shackles tied to him. The sky was pitch black, from what he could see through the trees and he figured it must have been nighttime. He heard a slithering sound circling the tree and he could just make out a thick rope looking creature? Was it a SNAKE?
Remus started shaking. A small mouse scurried up to him. He could tell it was a mouse, actually a rat, because of its silver paw and the silhouette against the leaves. A light seemed to emnant from his silver paw and Remus started to shake more. Silver could kill werewolves! It would burn through him.
The rat touched it's paw to Remus bare leg, which he just noticed was bare, as was the rest of him apart from a pair of boxers.
The young werewolf screamed in pain.
***
James, Sirius and Peter were worried as hell. Remus was nowhere to be found and not even Dumbledore could find him. It was already 12 o'clock, noon, a day since everyone of the teachers had started to search the grounds. Lady teachers stayed though.
"He'll turn up." Peter said, obviously trying to lighten the solemn mood that had descended on Gryffindor Tower.
"But what if he doesn't! huh? Tell me that!" Sirius said angrily, standing up and knocking over the plush armchair in the process, glaring at Peter.
"Shhh, Sirius. Sit down." James said. Just then the door opened. In came Professor Ginny. Harry hadn't been seen since yesterday in the office at Dumbledore's. But James and the others knew he was looking, and they'd been forbidden to say anything about his current state. Ginny looked frantic and helpless.
What little noise there was in the Common Room died down in that instant. Ginny cleared her throat, it looked like she was trying not to cry. She licked her lips, no doubt trying to stall the moment she'd have to say whatever she'd have to say.
"We have news on Remus." She said loudly, and her voice cracked.
***12 hours ealier***
Harry could tell he'd been getting closer to wherever the Death Eaters were, scars had started to sting all over his body. His eyes were watery with pain, but he floated strongly. His senses had lead him to the edge of a large forrest. He could tell he wasn't even in England anymore. it was different somehow. He really should have told the others he'd be away from Hogwarts grounds.
A scream rang out and Harry winced and started towards it, walking through trees and everything as they got in the way.
About an hour and a few screams later Harry found himself facing a small clearing. He'd made himself invisible and hadn't been noticed by any of the figures walking around a fire in the dark.
They were Death Eaters, of that Harry was certain. And they were Death Eaters from the future, the most recognizable two being Wormtail and Lucius Malfoy (was he dead?).
On a metal stake that was heating up quickly a smaller person was tied. Their face wasn't to him so Harry couldn't see exactly who it was. He was about to go around and see when Wormtail talked.
"Tell me, dear Moony, what you know of your teacher, Harry?" He snarled.
"Shut up, Pettigrew, don't waste your voice, as if I'd tell you anything." A familiar voice spat, a little shakily, at Wormtail. Harry had to admit, he was just as brave now as he was before. Harry had to do something, but what?
***
Remus could feel the metal bar he was attatched to start to warm up dangerously, this was not good, not good at all.
"My dear friend," Peter Pettigrew, Remus' ex-best friend, said silkily "why don't you do 'Wormy' a favour?" Peter spat the word Wormy as though it was poison. "Tell me now! Or I'll be forced to hurt you even more!" He demanded. Now thoroughly angered that Remus wouldn't say a word. He stayed quiet.
Peter growled low in his throat. He was a lot different to the Wormtail Remus knew. This one was an easily angered asshole, he didn't have any patience, and was a Death Eater. Peter stepped right up to the edge of the hot fire and grabbed at Remus arm, just above his elbow, and tightened his silver grip on it painfully. That mixed with the burning of his skin connected with the silver was enough to make Remus cry out and want it to just end.
When Peter let go and went to call a council with the other Death Eaters just out of earshot of Remus, he heard a small noise, no a voice, in his ear.
"Just do what they say."
It was Harry! But where was he? And how did he get close enough when Remus was surrounded by fire?
"I'm going to do a charm, no, don't say anything! A charm that will make the pole your tied to not warm up, only to you and I though. It is Harry, you're right. I'm also going to work on a way to get these bloody Death Eaters out of our hair." Harry said and then there was silence. A few seconds later Remus heard a small charm being muttered and felt the metal instantly cool down, just as the Death Eaters came back.
***
After about two hours of talking and crucio's later, though Harry took the pain instead of Remus, even though Remus was the one that cried out, Harry had a plan. It was quite simple really. He'd cast silencing charms over the Death Eaters so they couldn't say any spells. He'd get Remus out of there, and direct him to the portkey waiting for Hogwarts outside the forest, then he'd finish off the Death Eaters and capture them and take them home with him, then they'd all be back to normal. no more little adventures in the past. even if he did get to see his parents.
"Silencio!" Harry whispered loudly, all the Death Eaters stopped talking as Harry waved his hands over them. Peter mouthed the words 'Potter's here!' angrily, facing his Death Eaters, as Remus looked around, wondering what was going on.
***
The silence was unnerving to Remus. He stared around wildly as the Death Eaters started searching behind tree's and what not looking for Harry.
"I'll untie you, run north in a straight line to the edge of the forest, go east about 200 metres and a portkey will be waiting, it's an old ice cream contained I was able to get, but, do NOT try and cut across the forest straight to the bucket. Ok?"
Remus nodded and he felt his shackles loosen and he fell into the fire. Amazingly, it didn't burn him.
A Death Eater noticed him as he ran flat out north, luckily he had a good sense of direction being a werewolf and enhanced running and hearing abilities, otherwise he would have been easy to catch with a hole burned deeply into his leg, one on his arm and another on his foot.
Remus figured that Harry must have made himself seen because the Death Eater, 'Lucius Malfoy', was called back for a bigger target.
The young, sore, werewolf ran as fast as he could for about two hours. He'd gotten lost twice! After a while he had to slow down and he was laboring along as he saw the edge of the tree's not to far away.
As Remus found the ice cream container, it took him about another half hour as he'd gotten quite a bit off track, he heard a scream of raw anger and agony. It was too late to stop now, as he felt a tug behind his navel and he was pulled away through the blackness of a portkey.
***FUTURE! YAY!***
"Calm down Hermione." Ron said, he was now the calm one, finally believing Dumbledore's story about Harry and Ginny and Sirius, but Hermione was quite frantic indeed.
"He's missing out on far too much school! How's he ever going to get a job if he cant graduate because he hasn't the knowledge?" Hermione asked, chewing her fingernails, very un-Hermione-like.
"He's already the Head Auror at the Ministry! And, I'd bet he's just as smart as you, possibly more." Of course he was, for the past while Harry had done nothing but study, that was until he'd finished off Voldemort.
"I'm not saying he's dumb! But what if he doesn't want to continue being an Auror? Fudge the bloody idiot is getting rather suspicious. Why wouldn't Dumbledore just tell him where Harry and Ginny were?"
"Hermione, you swore." Ron said, amazed and grinning. Hermione scowled at him.
"Something's not right. Nothing adds up. And no matter what it is, I'm going to find it out!" Hermione said and grabbed her knapsack(That's what they call 'em in Britain, right?) and started towards the portrait hole. "Come on, Transfiguration, then the library."
Ron rolled his eyes. As if the library would have any information on where Harry was. "Ofcourse you will, you're too smart not to find out." Ron assured his girlfriend, though he wasn't sure the library was the right way to go about it.
***Back in the Gryffindor Common Room with Ginny and the Marauders***
"As I was saying, I have news on Remus." Ginny said again. "He's fine. He's in the hospital wing asleep, getting better and more medication, he needs his rest. He's been through quite an ordeal, and I ask you to all go easy on him, the search has been called off." Ginny stopped, tears sprung to her eyes and James knew that something wasn't being said.
"And?" He asked. "What else is it?"
"And-." A small sob escaped her just as Professor Reid entered. Ginny ran out, murmuring something to Professor Reid as she passed. He looked a little startled. He looked close to despair himself, and it was obvious he'd been crying. Something was definitely up.
"And, something's happened to Harry."
James, who'd been previously relieved, felt the bottom of his stomach drop out, not seriously ofcourse.
The whole common room was deadly silent apart from small sobs. Most people who'd been chattering about what could have happened to Remus looked to Professor Reid apprehensively. Some girls had covered their mouths with their hands, jaws hanging open. Lily was sobbing openly, watching Professor Reid with dread, but also seemingly needing to know what was going on.
"As you know, Remus has been missing, well Harry found him. In a large forest in the Alps. He'd been taken by Death Eaters and tortured for information on Harry. Remus told us that Harry had taken all the pain and drawn it into himself from Remus, which weakened him greatly as it was about two hours worth of crucio. amongst other things. Harry wasn't able to portkey back with Remus, but Remus said he'd heard Harry cry out from miles away through all the mountains and forests. It isn't known if he's dead or alive. Professor Dumbledore is waiting for me, I must go, but classes have started again. You may all go."
Professor Reid rushed out of the room, looking extremely despaired. He'd been talking fairly calmly throughout his little speech though.
James looked to Sirius, then looked to Peter, who seemed. smug? No, it was worry, definitely, worry was taking him over.
"We have to do something. You saw what was wrong with him before." James whispered frantically. "He can't possibly fight every one of the Death Eaters alone."
"I don't think we should." Peter said, quickly. "I mean, it would be dangerous, and I bet Dumbledore's got out a search party. There'd be nothing we can do about them either. They'd kill us, surely."
"He's right." Sirius said, unintentionally falling into a trap the one time in his life he tried to be serious and live up to his name. "Think about it, this isn't just some defense lesson, it's real life, real death, reality."
James sighed, defeated, they were right.
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Theres another chapter out. I'm sorry I've been taking a while, I really am. But yeah, I've just been busy. Oh, and this chapter is dedicated to 'Frootloop' I think that was who, well they know who they are, for reviewing heaps and heaps. Thanks. AllieSkittllez