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Chapter 7Explanations, Pranks and a Meeting in Time!
"I do" "I do" came the chorus from Harry and Tonks. Where as a mumbled "Ido Iwantsome!" came from Remus who had Tonks's coat over his head.
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOThe next day Allanah was sitting on her bed stroking her Basilica thinking of a name when a knock came from the door. She looked up and called "Come in it's open!"
The door opened and Harry walked in saying "Hi!"
"Heya! What are you doing?" asked Allanah
"Nothing much! There's not really much to do now the Weasleys are gone!"
"Well you could help me think of names for my new pets?"
"Yeh sure! What did you have in mind?" He asked looking at them.
"Well I'm not really sure. That's kind of the problem."
"Well how about Hades for your owl after the Greek god of the underworld?" suggested Harry.
"Yeh! I love it 'Hades'. Thanks Harry! I think I'll call my snake Cleopatra after the Egyptian Queen. You know the one who killed herself with a deadly asp?"
"Perfect so it's Hades and Cleo?"
"Yup!" said Allanah then hissed the name to Cleo to see if she liked it. She hissed in delight and Harry asked Allanah "Hey I've been wondering. Are you related to Tom?"
"What? Eeww… no! Thank God! Why did you think that?"
"Well you're a parsletongue and you call him Tommy!" he asked
"Hmm…well you're a parsletongue and you call him Tom?" she said in response.
Allanah looked at him seriously for a minute and then said "Harry lots of the ancient family's had one ability or the other. Griffindor and Slytherin both could talk to snakes and reptiles, Olivander's were all excellent at making wands, the Huffelpuff's had an affinity with nature. Ravenclaw's were deadly as poison. The list goes on."
"Oh! Cool, I guess."
"So? What's your favourite lesson and what's your best?"
Chuckling Harry said that" My favourite is defence against the dark arts and my best is debatable."
"Oh. And why is that?" she asked
"Well to be honest? I know everything we learn anyway. I don't know how I just know for example that Hogwarts is sentient or that each founder had a secret chamber, or how you can get past the wards."
"Huh…interesting. Yeh. I get that too. Like when your walking somewhere and you know that around the corner is a fork in the road even though you've never been there before, or when you see someone shoot a curse at you, you know the counter even though you've never even heard of the curse."
"Yeh! It's weird huh? But helpful too. I don't know how may times it's save my life."
"Me too! Freaky."
"Like when I heard you were a banshee, I knew you were o.k. Not like the Ministry are saying your like."
"What are they saying we're like?" she asked
"Oh the usual prejudice stuff. You're all dangerous and should be avoided. That kind of stuff they say about everything none wizard…hey where are you going?" he asked getting up and following her down the stairs.
He stopped at Remus and Sirius who were in the hall.
"What's up with her?" asked Sirius
"She's really mad at the ministry for being so prejudice against her kind" He said watching as she disappeared into the library.
They all looked at each other and followed quickly. When they walked in it was to find her throwing all the books that said none wizards were lesser across the room!
Ducking a book that flew past his head Sirius yelled, "Hey what do you think your doing to my bloody library?"
She stopped and looked at him. "Oh for gods sake it's all rubbish anyways!" she yelled back.
"It's not bloody rubbish! Are you crazy?" he yelled pulling a book she was about to throw out of her hand.
"Probably…now give that back!" She answered trying to get the book back.
"No! They're my books! Stop throwing them around." He ordered holding the book out of her reach.
"This is your last warning give…back…the…book!" she shouted at him.
"No! Who do you think your…Aaargh!" Sirius never got to finish because Harry and Remus both shot water at himself and Allanah who was looking as shocked as he was.
Allanah and Sirius both looked at each other and them to Remus and Harry who gulped. "Oh…you want water? You think it's funny to soak two very angry people do you?" Asked Allanah
"Well…It was…but this means war!" Said Sirius grinning
Harry and Remus looked at each other and then pulled out their wands but Allanah and Sirius where too quick and they where each neck deep in a tank of ice cold water.
"You really have to learn Harry! First with the pushing me out of the cart at Gringotts and now with the water. I will always get the last laugh!" laughed Allanah as she looked at him in the tank.
Her and Sirius high fived and conjured a camera to take pictures. It took them 20 minutes before they would undo the spell. It wasn't until Dumbledore came in and told them to that they reversed it.
"Hello Albus. What can we do for you?" Asked Remus once he'd dried himself off with a drying charm.
"Well I have come here to relay some most unfortunate news!" Albus said without his usual smile.
"News about Voldemort?" Asked Harry.
"Sigh…yes I'm afraid so. He attacked your relatives last night and burnt the house to the ground. There was noting left of their bodies. I'm terribly sorry Harry!" Albus said gravely.
Harry was shocked. He may not have liked his relatives but he didn't want them dead. Why did everyone always have to bloody die? He excused himself and left the room. He walked down the hall into his room and sank down into his bed with his head in his hands.
He stood up picked up a lamp on his bedside table and threw it at the wall smashing it into a million pieces. He just stood there looking at the pieces fall. Everything seemed to slow down. He looked around and the pieces seemed to move so slowly they looked like they were floating in mid not falling. He looked out the window and the birds out side looked like they had stopped in mid flight.
He gasped then ran out into the hall where all the portraits seemed to be frozen. He ran back to the room where Dumbledore and the others were. When he went in they seemed to be frozen in place. He walked over to Sirius and waved a hand in front of his face…nothing! He walked over to Allanah and saw tears in her eyes and the one that had fallen where suspended in the air like everything else.
He looked around and found that Dumbledore was frozen too! His mouth open as if talking.
Allanah looked so sad. He went over and looked in her eyes. As he looked in them he gasped. Her eyes looked like windows to somewhere else. Inside her eyes there was a deserted field with one lone tree that had a crow on it. As he looked at the crow it cawed and flew away leaving a very shocked Harry.
'How the hell did that happen! Eyes don't do that! Oh God, this is very bad. What's going on? Why is everything like this? I need help!' Thought a frantic Harry. He paced around the room for a minute or two and then went back over to Allanah and said, " I don't know if you can hear me? But please wake up? I can't handle this on my own! Oh bloody hell! WAKE UP!" Bye the time Harry had finished he was crying.
It was all just too much first his relatives and now this? He looked at her and said in a soft voice "Please? If you can hear me, please wake up?" Just as he was about to give up he felt something wet hit his hand. Looking down he realised it was Allanah's tear.
He looked up to see a very confused looking Allanah Who said " Harry? What the?" And then looked around to see everyone frozen she rose an eyebrow in silent question.
"Oh thank Merlin! I was so freaked out! Are you o.k?" He asked in a hurry.
She looked at Harry and saw he had been crying and went "Yeh I'm fine but how about you? Are you o.k?"
"Truthfully? No! First I find out my relatives die and then I got really mad and threw a lamp against the wall but suddenly everything seemed to stop. The pieces of glass stopped in mid air! The birds all look like their frozen and when I came in here you were all too!" He finished a bit breathless.
"O.k. well I know what's going on anyway." She said to him.
"You do? What is it? What's wrong? How do we get out? " He asked a bit relieved.
"First off nothings wrong! And secondly we can't get out until your ready too!" she explained.
"What? But why?" He asked confused.
"You see what we're in is called a time warp. Your magic created it to give you time to deal with the grief you have inside, otherwise you might have overloaded and lost control. We can't get out until you are finally free of what you've got behind your mask."
"What? But? I don't like this idea!" He complained. "How come your free of it?"
"I'm here because you called me! When you asked for my help your magic called to mine and I responded so it pretty much sucked me in as well."
"Oh…sorry!" Harry apologised.
"Harry… don't apologise! You did nothing wrong. I came to you remember?" she smiled at him making him feel a bit better. "If we're ever going to get out of here your going to have to drop that mask of yours."
"You know you're the first person to notice I have it up?" He said looking at her.
She smiled at him and told him to start from the beginning. So that's exactly what he did. He told her everything from the Dursleys to when he was eleven and the 'Philosophers stone', he told her about the 'Chamber of Secrets', his third year with Sirius, his forth with the tri-wizard competition which he had a lot of grief about, his fifth with Voldemort's return and everything he wished he could have done, about the prophesy and even about Cho Chang and the Daily prophet.
By the time he was finished Harry felt like a huge boulder had been lifted from his shoulders. He still felt the weight of the prophesy but she listened to him and comforted him when he needed it. When they were done Allanah was officially the person who knew the most about Harry Potter.
In the end Harry was so tired he collapsed in to his chair.
"Feel better?" Allanah asked
"You know I never would have thought it but…much." He replied smiling.
"Good exactly how do you feel?" she asked
"I feel like some one just took a massive boulder off my shoulders! I haven't felt this stress free since I was 11! Thank you." Just as Harry said this, the room seemed to jolt and he heard the pieces of lamp smash against the floor and Dumbledore finish speaking.
"Oh thank God! We're finally out of there!" Harry said happily as he jumped out of his seat.
"Harry? Out of where? When did you get here? I'm confused" said Sirius holding his head.
Allanah looked at Harry and they both just laughed. Leaving a very confused room of people.