Awakened: Chapter 2

A few minutes later the nurse walked back into the room.

"Well, I've just informed your parents that you are now awake. They should be here any minute. I'll send them here when they arrive." With that she walked out again.

Harry lay back into the pillow and stared at the ceiling. His mind was in a whirlwind. The last thing he remembered was the fight with Voldemort and receiving his OWL results, which for some reason were still in his hand. As he tried to wrap his mind around what was happening there was a knock at the door. He looked up and saw Professor Dumbledore standing in the doorway. Harry smiled with relief. Finally, someone to explain things.

"May I come in Harry?"

"Of course Sir. Are you going to tell me what's going on?"

"I will, to the best of my ability try to explain although I will not be able to give you the reasons for the simple reason that I don't know myself."

"That's ok. I'll stick to what rather than why for the time being."

"Well, first of all let me ask you some questions. Who are you?"

"Harry Potter."

"Good, now who am I?"

"You're Albus Dumbledore. Head Teacher at Hogwarts."

"What year are you in at Hogwarts?"

"I've just finished the fifth year. Going into the 6th year after the summer."

"Good, well everything seems to be right. Now, Harry. I need to explain a few things that will be different to what you know. When you were born Voldemort was very powerful, that much you know. But here, he disappeared the day after you were born and no-one knows why. He returned a year ago and has resumed his domination of the wizarding world. Killing muggles and any wizards who stand against him. When you were one, your parents and yourself were driving up to Scotland to visit me, don't ask me why your father decided to purchase a car, and you were involved in a head on collision with a tanker of some kind. All of you escaped with relatively few injuries but you were thrown into a coma. You have been in that coma for 15 years, until 10 minutes ago when you woke up. Now I don't know how but you have been living in a magic based waking dream. It has let you live a life in order to give you experience. You have encountered Voldemort have you not?"

"Yes. Almost every year since I've been at Hogwarts. He tried to steal the Philosophers stone but I stopped him, he opened the Chamber of Secrets but I killed his basilisk, he came back to power in my fourth year and killed Cedric Diggory at the final of the triwizard tournament, and he came to the ministry of magic a few weeks ago to steal the prophecy. The Order tried to stop him and his Death Eaters, many of the aurors died."

"Do not feel sad Harry, none of the events happened in real life. It was all to prepare you. When was the last time that you meet Voldemort?"

Harry told him what had happened in the moments before he woke up.

"Ah, I though as much. This dream has been top prepare you to confront Voldemort. There is no-one powerful enough to defeat him but you."

Harry blanched at the thought of facing the dark Lord again. Dumbledore put his hand on Harry's shoulder.

"You have defeated him once Harry. You can do it again, this time with the order by your side. But, now I must ask you to keep these things to yourself. Your family believes that I cast a spell over you to educate you about our world. They do not know about your encounters with Voldemort. It will take many people a long time to adjust themselves to the fact that you are our saviour."

Harry sighed; he'd thought that it would all be over now. But, he thought, at least he wasn't the boy who lived any more. He reached up to his forehead, there was no lightning scar.

"I will talk to you later about the life you led. We must enrol you into Hogwarts. I assume you were sorted into Gryffindor?"

He grinned.

"Yeah. Sir, how close was my dream to the real world? Are the same people here?"

"I believe that everyone you came across whilst in your coma is here and alive in our world."

Harry looked up, unable to believe it.

"So, Sirius?"

"Your Godfather is alive and well. I believe he is coming to see you with your parents and sister. I will leave now, but remember what I said Harry. They will need time to adjust to you being awake. Let us take things one step at a time."

"Yes sir. Oh, do you want these? It was what I was holding along with my wand when I woke up."

Dumbledore took the exam results and looked at them.

"Yes, these will make things easier when it comes to September. What do you want do when you leave Hogwarts?"

"I thought about becoming an Auror."

Dumbledore smiled faintly and swept out of the room.

Harry lay back down. A million thought were rushing through his head. His parents were alive. Sirius was alive! He had a sister. He wasn't to live with the Dursleys. He couldn't believe that in just a short time, his life had been so totally changed. After a few minutes the nurse appeared at his door.

"Mr Potter, your parents are here."

Harry's head shot up and he looked over and saw the figures of James and Lily Potter in the doorway. They were identical to the figures that he had seen 4 years ago in the mirror of Erised. Albeit a few years older. Lily was the first to move, as she ran the short distance and throw herself on her son, hugging him fiercely. Harry hugged her back with every fibre of his being. He couldn't believe that this was happening. James walked over to join them and ruffled his son's hair.

"I can't believe you're awake." Lily whispered.

"I can't believe you're alive." Harry whispered back.

Lily slowly let go of her son.

"What do you remember about your life?" James asked

Harry took a deep breath and began to tell them about the life he knew. Missing out almost every reference to Voldemort. He almost broke down when he told them about Sirius' death. Although he had to change the events that led up to it.

"Well, that's one event that I can assure you is not the same here." James said walking out. He stuck head out of the door and beckoned. Walking back in he was followed be Sirius Black.

"Sirius!" Harry cried. He launched himself from the bed into his Godfathers arms. He buried his head in Sirius' chest as the man wrapped his arms around his godson. He looked over at Lily and James with tears in his eyes.

"He knows me?"

"Apparently you were in the dream that Dumbledore cast. You were the closest thing he had to a father figure. He dreamt that he lived with Lily's sister's family. Ironically, Lily and I died in a car crash. But there was one point that the dream was inaccurate. Megan."

As Sirius extracted himself from Harry's grip and put him back on the bed James left the room once again. A few moments later he returned followed by a girl of about 14. She had the same unruly black hair as Harry and James and she also had her mother's eyes. Seeing Harry sitting up in his bed she flew across the floor and threw herself on him. Harry held her as she cried in his shoulder and looked in confusion at his parents.

"Harry, this is your sister. Megan."

"I have, a sister?" Harry asked incredulously.

"No, I do this to everyone who wakes up from a coma." said a muffled voice. Megan looked up at her brother as he laughed.

"Megan, why don't you tell your brother about school while we go see the people about getting him released." James said.

"Welcome to the real world kiddo." He said smiling down at Harry. Lily placed a kiss on her son's head and the three of them left Harry and Megan alone.

Harry looked down at his sister.

"Did they tell you what I've been dreaming?"

"Yeah." Megan proceeded to tell him about her life at school.

"Well, my best friend, Ginny she's in Gryffindor too; she's got about 5 brothers."

"6 actually."

"Oh yeah, I always forget Percy."

Harry laughed,

"Do you play quidditch?" he asked her.

"Of course, I'm a chaser. But Gryffindor aren't doing too well. We're got Ginny's brother Ron as seeker and he's terrible. But we're going to have a new Captain when we come back so the team might change a bit. Did you play?"

"Yeah a bit. So what teachers do you have?"

"I expect you know them all. Snape, McGonangall, Binns, Flitwick, Trelawny, Hagrid, Sprout, oh and Remus for DADA."

"Remus is still a teacher?"

"Yeah, he's been teaching it ever since I've been there. So who do you remember from your dream?"

"Well, there's Ron and Hermione. Ginny as well, and Fred and George. Seamus and Dean and Neville. Oh and Malfoy."

At the mention of Draco's name Megan smiled and went pink. Harry looked at her in shock.

"Please don't tell me what I think that smile means."

Megan looked confused.

"I guess your dream was a bit different to real life. Draco lives at Hogwarts with Snape ever since his father went over to Voldemort. He flatly refused to join him, even after his father put him under the Cruciatus curse. Maybe if you got to know him, you'd like him, I do."

Harry snorted.

"Well, maybe Dumbledore made him like that in your dream. Maybe he didn't want everything to be easy for you."

"I guess." Before he could say any more, Lily appeared at the door holding some clothes an a huge grin

"They're letting you go today."

Megan squealed with delight and hugged Harry again. He grinned and reached for the clothes.

"Come on Meg. You'll have plenty of time to hug him when we get home."

Harry grinned at the word 'home'. It held a whole new meaning now,