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Chapter 18 – What a true knight really means
The rest of the holidays passed on rather quickly. Lily and James got on much better than usual and Harry and Dumbledore tried their hardest to avoid each other but they tried to keep everything on the friendly notes. Ron, Ginny, Mione and Draco never left Harry's side, and Lily and Alice spent a rather large amount of their time just talking to them about everything; not daring to speak of the future. Remus and Sirius had also hunted up Harry and asked for forgiveness and after listening too the two of them giving their hearts out Harry couldn't help but to forgive them.
James had also hunted Harry up, the two of them had spent a whole evening setting things straight, and now the two at least got along. It wasn't much but it was a start. Sooner or later however, the holidays were over and it was time to go back to Hogwarts. The teens hadn't heard or seen a thing of Angel since that night, they had no idea what the plan was, and they would just have to wait until they got back to school to find out.On the first night, there the first thing Harry and his mates did was hurrying to the room to meet with their winged friend.
'Angel" Harry cried and did his best to hug her "Hey Harry, it's nice to see you, how are you?" Angel asked hugging him back"I'm ok considering. I actually feel a lot better then I should I suppose," Harry said brightly
'Right" Angel said not understanding a thing "So how's it going with the telepath thing?"
"Er, we didn't have that much time to work that well on it to tell the truth" Draco said carefully "You what?" Angel said angry "This isn't some sort of game you know. You have to work to get to the goal... "James and Lily know that Harry is their son from the future and Harry and Dumbledore had a fight and now they are barely on speaking terms. He also found out that his godmother is none other then Alice Green or Alice Longbottom" Ron interrupted "Ohh" Angle first said but then said "How on earth did they find out and when?""The same night we did the ceremony. Sirius, James and Remus came to Harry's room to talk to him but he wasn't there... Mione began to say.
It took a little over an hour too explain everything to Angel
"So you and James are getting along better?" Angel asked
"Yeah, not as well as we did when we first came, but we are doing ok"
"Ok, that is fantastic to hear Harry"
"So when will we be leaving? What's the plan?" Ron asked "Well at first you were supposed to leave at Christmas but I hadn't exactly planned that James would er, fight with Harry so it delayed us for a bit but since you are doing better now it won't be to long before we leave. I just have to teach you how all the Knight stuff works, you know the rules and regulations but that shouldn't take to long so I guess we will be leaving in a month or so. Easter at the latest" Angel said in thought "So soon?" Harry asked in alarm"Yes so soon. We have been here to long Harry; it is time we deal with reality. I know you are just getting to know your parents but I hope you understand that it is time to go"
"I understand" Harry sighed "So what do we tell Dumbledore?" Ron asked "I suppose it wouldn't harm to tell him but considering on what you have been telling me I would wait with telling him until we leave"Harry just nodded deep in thought
"What's wrong Harry?"
"Hmm" Harry said looking up "Oh, nothing much, I was just thinking. If we leave so soon I will probably still be in the wheelchair when we leave" "I don't know Harry, you'll just have to talk with Poppy. Maybe you can at least use crutches," Angel said reassuringly "Yeah, maybe" Harry said moodily "Anyhow, I don't think that there is anything else I have got to tell you to night so why don't you go and find your friends and spent some time with them eh?" Angel said trying too cheer things up a bit---------------------------------- "Wonder where Harry is" James said distractedly "Why do you care?" Peter said sneering James glared at Peter and then realised that he didn't have a clue that Harry was his son
"Sorry I forgot that you weren't there. Come on, let's find somewhere more quiet and we'll tell you" James said and the rest marauders followed him up do their room
"So what's the deal?" "Well in the break we found out some stuff about Harry and his friends. You see granddad made me go and apologize to Harry after I kind of accused him of killing his mom... "He probably did" Peter said disgustedly "No he didn't, you see when we went to find him he wasn't there but we found his pensive and saw some stuff and then Harry found us and called granddad and then he told us what Harry has really been hiding all this time. Harry isn't evil and he never was, he came here from the future and he is Lily and mines son," James said proudly, THUMP was heard when Peter fainted and at that same moment Harry, Ron, Draco, Mione and Ginny came in "What happened?" Harry asked not caring in the slightest"Peter fainted when we told him that you were from the future and that you were my son" James said concerned
"You told him?" Harry almost yelled "Of course I did. He is your uncle Pete so why couldn't I tell him?" "Er, sorry, I was just a little shocked that's all" Harry said "Finite Intecame" Harry muttered pointing his wand at Peter who woke up instantly.James, Remus and Sirius just stared in shock at Harry
"What's your problem?" Harry asked,
"When did you learn that?" Remus asked,
"I learnt it last year, why?" Harry said not getting why it was such a big deal
"That's only thought to the seventh years," James said "Really? Ohh, I didn't know" Harry said off handily James just gaped a little more before Peter's voice interrupted him,"Y-you have a son with Lily?"
"Yep" James said proudly "I knew I would win her over eventually. No one can resist the Potter charm" "But I thought that his mom was dead" Peter said indicating Harry like he wasn't there"Be a bit more respectful Peter, you're talking about my son's mom and my future wife"
Peter just looked down
The days passed away fast and soon it was half way through January.
The school had been very surprised when James didn't glare at Harry anymore but instead he glared at the ones that glared at Harry. Harry and his mates, James and his mates and Lily and Alice had been spending a lot of time together recently and Sirius tried about everything to get Harry to talk about how famous he was going to be. In the meanwhile Harry had went to Poppy, his sessions had been going quite well, and he could now walk for a half an hour on crutches before collapsing. Angel's lessons were also going well. Harry never would have thought that there were so many formalities and rules and stuff they had too follow. It still sounded almost all the same. The only thing more important than following Harry's rules was protecting his life. Almost all the rules sounded something like that. The teens also learnt about the history of the knights and powers. For a start they could speak to each other through their minds and then the knights themselves had the power to sense Harry. They had covered most of the rules by now it wasn't that hard. Most of them sounded the same. Now they were learning about their powers
"No, you have to really concentrate" Angel yelled for the millionth time at Ron that evening.
"I'm trying" Ron growled annoyed. Angel was trying to teach them how to sense Harry and so far, it wasn't working very well.
It was of course much harder to sense a person when the building was so well warded so Angel had had to take down the wards on the room for the night.
""No your not, you are letting me distract you. You have to go into a meditating state and find him in your mind. Use your necklace and sense him with in you. And don't listen to everyone around you" Angel said
"Ok" Ron huffed and closed his eyes and sat in an Indian position on the floor trying to think of nothing. After about ten minutes, Ron managed to go into a light meditating state. Next, he tried to concentrate on Harry. All his thoughts were on Harry and slowly he led his thoughts leak to the crystal, which seemed to tell him where Harry was. After few moments Ron smiled slightly and said tiredly
"He's in his room asleep at the moment"
"Good Ron, you did wonderfully but now I think that you should go to sleep too, sensing a person takes a lot of energy" Ron just mumbled something and fell a sleep right there on the sofa.
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When the morning of the 28th January came Angel announced that they would be staying a bit longer. About a week or two, until all of the four teens could sense Harry properly. At the moment they could always sense if he was in the same room or not and if they concentrated they could sense if he was within the next 20 meters away. And that was just when the room wasn't warded. Angel had been trying to teach them how to adjust to Hogwards wards and they were doing fine in that. It was the only thing they had yet to learn but as soon as they had learnt too do it properly they would be leaving. Or so they thought. None of them knew what was about to happen that same night
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"Ha ha ha ha ha" Harry said dryly "But you may if that is not to much of an effort for you"
"No probs" James said and handed the mints to Harry but before Harry could take them the whole castle shook and there was a loud sound coming from outside. The professor's hurriedly ran out and Dumbledore had to send out sparks to calm the student down before saying
"I want you to remain here until told otherwise. You are not allowed to leave the Hall under no circumstances. I trust that the older students will look out for the younger ones" And with that said Dumbledore hurried out of the room as well
The head boy and girl, the prefects and some of the older students started to organize the younger students and calm them down. After about five minutes, there was another crass and the whole floor shook. Harry looked at Hermione, who looked back worried
"No Harry. This isn't your battle. Leave it too the professors, they can handle them selves"As soon as she said that, the Hall shook again and another crash was heard
"I can't take this. I need too go and help" The head boy said
"Me too" the head girl and the prefects and most of the students above fifth year said"Wait" the head girl yelled when they were about to leave the Hall. "What about the younger students? We can't leave them here unprotected"
There was a murmur of agreement and the head boy spoke up.
"All right, those who are highest in the dueling club in sixth and seventh year can go out if they want. The prefects and I will stay. No one under fifth year can leave" He ordered. Not many listened to that since almost everyone from sixth, seventh, fifth and fourth year went and even some of the third years. Most of the prefects and the head boy stayed however to support the little ones
"I can't take this" Harry said and made his way towards the door
"Harry wait, you can't" Ron yelled after him
"I can and I will. I give you permission to stay here and protect the innocents if you wish to do so"Harry said and then he left outside
Ron looked at his friends and said, "He knows that we can't do that"
And then he along with the other knights ran out after him closely followed by Sirius, Remus, James, Peter, Alice, Lily and Frank who had made up with Alice the night before. It didn't take the teens long to catch up with Harry and the knights took their place around Harry like it was a natural thing, the teens however didn't notice because they were watching around them in horror. All around death eaters were fighting the professors and some of the students. There had to be at least a thousand of the death eaters and soon the students were backing out slowly. The seventh and sixth years had formed a human wall around the smaller students and were trying their hardest to protect them from the death eaters. In front of the students, the professors were trying to prevent any death eaters to harm the students. There were bombs blowing and everything was in chaos. Soon the teens started fighting too. The bad side was winning and it was winning fast.
Just as Harry was about to stun his third death eater, smoke filled the air and once it cleared an evil voice, that Harry knew all to well said, "Death Eaters, lower your wands. As much as it tempts me to allow you to continue this wonderful work we are here for another purpose"
The death eaters lowered their wands and gathered around their master, Lord Voldemort who standing there in all his might.
The professors all took their wands out and pointed them at Voldemort, still shielding the students
"Now, that's not fair. None of us has a wand," Voldemort mocked in a baby voice
"What do you want?" Dumbledore asked stepping forward
"Believe it or not, but I am not here to talk to you, but you may make my job a lot easer and just tell me where this new kid is"
"Who?" Dumbledore asked
"Don't play dumb with me Dumbledore. You know whom I speak of. I believe that he calls himself Jameson. Where is he?""That is none of your business"
"Oh but my dear enemy it is"
"He is just a child, whatever business you have with him you can sort out with me""Actually I can't. I've been quite interested in him for a while now. A parselmouth, what a luck I thought, then Nagini told me about her wonderful plan. It didn't seem to be working that all to well but I found out the most interesting thing about the young boy just a few days ago and I just could not wait any longer. Now I wish too speak with him. So where is the brat?"
"I don't know and even if I did I wouldn't tell you. Now leave this place"
"Don't be so boring Dumbledore. Now who of you children are Mr. Jameson or know where to find the lad?" Voldemort hissed.
No one said a word
"If no one answers me I'll hex her" Voldemort said pointing his wand at the COMC professor "Now where is Jameson?"
"Why do you want to know?" A voice said from the crowd and then before anyone could say anything Harry pushed out of the crowed and was now standing beside Dumbledore
"Mr. Jameson I presume?"
"Always the smart one aren't you Tom?" "Don't call me that," Voldemort hissed but then he said sweetly "So you are the one and only Mr. Jameson? I must say that I wondered about that, why choose that name?""Don't know what you are talking about Tom"
"You don't Harry? Did you choose it after your father or your middle name perhaps?"Harry paled but answered anyway "Is that what you wanted with me? To ask why my maiden name is Jameson but not anything else? I must say that you are starting to loose your touch Mr. Riddle"
"Ohh, I believe not. I know who you are"
"And?" Harry said trying to sound bravely but failing"Don't worry so much. I'm not going to tell anyone. I was just hoping that we could come to an agreement"
"HARRY" A new voice, shrieked Harry looked back at Mione who was trying to pass the professors who were holding her.
"Go and fetch Angel. This could mean trouble" Harry mind sent her before turning back to Voldemort "And what kind of an agreement would that be?"
"You and I could be great together. I of course knew that you are on the light side. Nagini told me that you had turned down my offer to join me. No hard feelings on that, but I hadn't given up. Then I received this interesting news. My spy's can be extremely useful sometimes, anyway after I heard that I am sure that you are on the light. I mean raised by people like that. But I'm sure I can make you change your mind somehow"
"No you can't so leave"
"Oh, but Harry I don't want to. Just think about it. We could be so great. We could rule the world. It would just be you and me, you would have a new family"
"Who, you? Thanks but no thanks. I have no desire to be raised by an evil bastard"
"You are so naïve. There is no good and evil, there is-
"Only power and those too weak to seek it. Yeah, yeah I've heard it all before Voldemort and I will give you the same answer I've given you every other time you have asked me that same questions. I will never ever join you" "So we have met? Interesting. How old were you?" "The first time I was eleven I believe. But it doesn't matter. I bow to no one Tom Riddle and even if I did, I would never ever bow to you after everything you have done to me. Now leave" "Think about what I've said Harry. I am the most powerful person alive, I am the heir of Slytherin himself, and no one turns me down. If you decline you will die like the rest of them," Voldemort said "Are you sure you are the only heir Voldemort?" Harry hissed in parselmouth so no one understood him"What do you mean? You know something?" Voldemort hissed back
"All I know is that you should research about your family before you go and give out facts about it" The next thing Harry knew there was a blinding light and a hiss
"I'll see again soon enough and be ready", then Harry just felt intense pain, and he vaguely heard someone yell his name "HARRY" He opened his eyes and his green eyes met the light ones of Angel
"Where did he go?" Harry asked as Angel and Mione helped Harry rise"I sent him and the death eaters away. Are you ok?"
"I'm fine. But I don't know if I will be. I've a lot of explaining to do" Harry said glancing at his friends,
"I was hoping it wouldn't come to this. But I suppose it doesn't matter that much. We will be leaving in two weeks or so anyway" Angel muttered as she helped Harry back in the wheelchair
--------------------- Back in the headmaster's office when everyone were seated Dumbledore spoke up "Who is the lady Harry? I don't believe we have met before.""You haven't. This is Angel; she is the lady that brought me here in the first place. She's also the one I always snuck out to see every night. She has been hiding in one of the secrets rooms here" Harry sighed
"Very well. It is nice to meet you Angel, but Harry you have a lot of explaining to do""I know. So what do you want to know?"
"Everything. Have you really met you-know who before and survived? Why would he want to recruit an eleven-year-old boy-
"Don't start with that James. What I'm about to tell you won't make sense unless I tell you everything. So listen carefully for I'll only say this once""Alright, if that makes you more comfortable then we will do as you ask"
"Thank you. Now what I will have to say will take a while. A long while so if you have anything important to do then leave and do it for you won't be able to do it tonight if you stay. And another thing don't ask questions and don't interrupt. It may be tempting and it will be hard but everything will be explained properly but I want to do it in my order. So anyone that asks a question when I'm speaking will leave. Is that understood?" Harry said sternly
"Yes" Everyone said and no one left the room
"Good. I suppose that I should start with the day it all started. The day that my parents died and I became famous-
"You're famous?" Sirius exclaimed,"Yes I am"
"I knew it. I'm too right? I'm the model and you are the famous assistant?""No. I'm more famous then that. But if you interrupt or ask a question again you won't find out why" Harry snapped but he couldn't hide his smile. Sirius was Sirius and he would always be Sirius.
"Now as I was saying, it all started at that fateful day many years ago, or well some years to come. Anyway, Lily and James or mom and dad had gone in hiding just as I turned one but on Halloween that same year Voldemort found you. Dad told mom to take me and run and he would stall Tom but before mom managed to escape Tom killed my dad and then he turned to mom. She didn't have to die. He just told her to step aside so he could kill me but mom wouldn't budge so he killed her too. And then he turned his wand at me and he tried to kill me but he couldn't. The curse he used bounced and hit him. He disappeared and I became the boy-who-lived-
"Disappeared?" Dumbledore said confused Harry glared at the headmaster for asking a question but answered
"Some say he died, others say he is just biding his time, waiting for the right moment but most of us say that he is still out there too weak to carry on. But what everyone seemed so sure of was that the dark lord was no threat any longer. And now I was their new hero. I did not only survive as an infant but I vanished the dark lord"
"But I don't understand. I thought you said he had asked you to join him. And we saw him alive in your pensive. That was you-know-who wasn't it?" James asked confused
"Will you let him finish? He is doing you a favor here so you should respect his wishes" Draco barked
"Uhh sorry" James mumbled
"It's ok, just don't do it again. Anyway, after that Dumbledore placed me with my relatives. And don't ask anything. He placed me with your sister Lily, my aunt Petunia and her husband uncle Vernon. And I was raised there with Dudley the Dursley's son. I never knew that I was a wizard or that I was being worshiped at that very moment. I never knew of any Voldemort or death eaters or anything-"I'm so very extremely pissed at you right now Dumbledore. You put an infant, my child with those obnoxious scum-
"I'm sure they aren't that bad Lily. Cam down, Harry is my family I would never do anything to harm him, I love him. I'm sure it's just some teenage problems. You know how it is-"TEENAGE PROBLEMS" Harry flipped "The hell it's not. They hated me; they were disgusted by the sight of me-
"Now, now Harry. Hate is such a strong word" Dumbledore said calmly"So you wouldn't say that locking an infant in a cupboard under the stairs isn't hate? Because that is what they did to me. My room from when I can remember me to eleven was under the stairs in that tiny cupboard. They used me as a slave. I cleaned the house, the clothes, did the yard work, cleaned the cars. I painted the fence and everything. Then when I was five or six or so I was woken up at six so that I could start cooking Dudley's breakfast. And all I got was left over, and I'm not just meaning food then. The only clothes I got were Dudley's old ones, my classes were sticky taped because Dudley kept breaking them, my birthday and Christmas presents were old socks of Vernon. The only thing they ever said to me if they weren't yelling was that I was a useless crap that was lucky to get to live under their roof. The called me the freak, or just the boy or Potter. And the reason they didn't give me anything wasn't because they were poor. Because they are rather rich, they just spend everything on Dudley. That fat pig has everything. So don't you tell me that I just have teenage problems. I had to live with that for eleven years. Then I got my first ever letter. I was so happy, but I never got to read it. My uncle took it. But the letters kept coming. Finally, Vernon ran away with us. On my eleventh birthday I spent in a shack on a rock in the ocean. Then Hagrid came and he told me everything about the wizarding world. He was so mad when he found out that I hadn't been told. Anyway, then he took me to diagon Alley and gave me Hedwig my owl and then I went to Hogwarts and met fame. Everywhere I went someone was looking at me. It was so unreal and so annoying. Anyway, I met Ron on the train and we became best friends... .... So you see it hadn't been Snape but Quirell and then the stone was destroyed"
"What about that Nicholas dude? Is he just supposed to die?" Sirius asked
"Well I asked Dumbledore at the same thing and he just said that death was just another adventure for people with the right mind or something like that. Anyway, him and I talked some and I asked him why Voldemort had wanted to kill me but Dumbledore said I wasn't ready to hear. So, when the school year ended I went back to the Dursley's for the summer. I didn't exactly tell them that I couldn't do magic so they were scared witless at me and left me alone but then Dobby the house elf came and he said that I couldn't go back to Hogwarts, but I said that I would because Hogwarts was the only place I could call home so Dobby did some magic and I got my first warning about under age use of magic. My uncle flipped and locked me up in my room. Put bars around the window and everything and he wasn't letting me go back to Hogwarts but then Ron and the twins saved me in a flying Ford Angelica. Anyway, I then had the best summer ever at the burrow but soon it was time for school again.
Have you ever heard of the chamber of secrets?" Harry asked and when he had received some quizzical looks and nods from everyone, he continued, "Ah yeah, so anyway it turns out that the chamber had been opened. It was actually a lot more complicated then that because...
... And then I fight the basilisk and kill it but not before one of it's fangs goes in my arm. I thought I was dying but then thankfully Fawkes saved me by crying on the wound and then I took the fang and put a hole in the diary and then Tom Riddle's memory was no more. Ginny wasn't punished and Ron and me got 200 points each and an honor reward or something like that. Now the summer after that was... interesting I suppose. Aunt Marge came to visit"
"Eww" Lily said,
"You know her?" Ron asked surprised
"Of course she does doofus, she is Vernon's sister and therefore she also lives near her" Mione exclaimed smacking Ron back of his head
"Who is this Marge?" Sirius said confused "She is my uncle's sister. Not technically my aunt but I've been forced to call her that, she and I don't exactly get along very well and well she came and was supposed to stay for a week. I made a deal with my uncle. You see Marge doesn't know of the magic, so my uncle had told her that I went to saint Brutus which is a school for young criminals, so I said that I would keep my mouth shut about that if he would sign my Hogsmede permission slip and in return I would act polite and normal and all that crap. Well everything was going fine until her last night. She was talking badly about mom and dad and I got a little mad and er... blew her up and then I ran away. I also found out that one of the most secured and dangerous prisoners of Azkaban had escaped from Azkaban with the only thought to kill me. Therefore, the dementors were brought to Hogwarts for safekeeping..."Let me get this straight. You went in the forbidden forest, saved a dragon and saved the philosopher stone at eleven, you flew a car, fought monster spiders, killed an Basilik and Tom Riddle's memory at twelve and at thirteen you ran away from home, helped your innocent yet convict god-father Sirius Black escape from his death by going back in time and save him with Buckbean Hagrid's hippogriff?"
"Er, yeah" Harry said blushing. "But it sounds... not right when you say it like that"
"Right, so now I know why you are not with your god-father but what about Alice?"
"That you will find out about in my next year. You see in the summer after my third Ron invited me to the world cup but then the muggles in the area got attacked after the match and the dark mark was seen for the first time in thirteen years. I also had a vision earlier that same summer. None of us knew what all of this meant- "
Excuse me for interrupting you Harry but I don't quite understand this whole vision thing. How does it work?" Professor Mcgonagall asked
"When Voldemort threw that curse at me and it bounced it somehow transported a part of him into me"
"So then you see visions?" "Yeah" "But why do you just get them sometimes?""Well when he is feeling a strong emotion I either see or feel it. It depends on how strong it is. That's why I often feel when he uses the unforgivable curses"
No one said anything each deep in their own thoughts so Harry continued not bearing the silence any longer
"However back at Hogwarts the tri wizarding tournament was being held. The age limit was seventeen but someone slipped my name in the cup and I was chosen as the fourth member""Wait I thought that there were only one from each school," Dumbledore said
"There is but the cup was tricked. Everyone thought I had put my name in there for my self and Rita Skeeter this horrible prophet writer wasn't making it easier by writing all those stories...
... The next thing we knew we were in this cemetery and then someone said "Kill the spare" And then Cedric died. I was tied up to this tombstone and then the death eater I told you about earlier did some kind of ceremony and by using my blood, his hand and the bones of Tom's father he brought back Voldemort's body. Him and me dueled; our wands formed the priori incantatum and the ghosts helped me escape with Cedrics body. I landed back on Hogwarts ground, everything was in chaos, and Moody brought me back inside the castle while Dumbledore was trying to sort everything out. Then Moody tried to kill me. He had been the traitor in the school. Dumbledore, Snape and Mcgonagall just managed to save me and then it turned out Moody hadn't really been Moody but Barty Crouch son. And then we tried to tell the minister what happened but he choose not to believe us and the Dementors sucked Barty's soul out before he could testify. So, no one believed us when we said that Voldemort was back.
Then there was the summer after that. I was supposed to stay put on Privet Drive all summer but because of the Dementors attack on Dudley and me, it was not quite an option...
... And then S-s-Sirius fell. He provoked that stupid bloody cow and she hexed him. I don't know what curse it was but it doesn't really matter, because the force was so much that h-he fell through the veil" Harry said and sobbed but continued before anyone could interrupt "Bellatrix ran and I ran after her. I- I haven't told anyone this, but at the time, I was so confused. I was feeling all those feelings, madness, hurting, guilty, sadness, grieve and feeling betrayed. Sirius had left me. He was supposed to be here forever and look after me. I didn't even have the change to tell him that I loved him. So, in my anger mainly I hexed Bellatrix. I used an unforgivable curse, the crucio curse" Harry stared at the people in front of him with dead eyes "I know I probably should but I don't feel sorry. I would do it again if I could. Anyway, Voldemort arrived when I was telling Bellatrix that the prophecy was destroyed. He fired the killing curse at me. I saw it coming in sort of slow motion. I didn't move I didn't flinch. I just stood there waiting for my death but it didn't come. Dumbledore had arrived, he had charmed the fountain and one of the figures jumped in front of the curse, and other two held me down while the two greatest wizards of our time dueled. Then Voldemort possessed me and tried to get Dumbledore to kill me, but he didn't. I don't know what happened but somehow by thinking about Sirius Voldemort couldn't stay. Then the ministry workers came and they saw Voldemort just as he was leaving and then the minister was forced to believe it. Voldemort was indeed back. Next Dumbledore took me to his office via portkey. There he told me what the prophecy said. That is why I was so mad at you first. You hadn't told me sooner. But anyway, I spent the rest of the year grieving and being guilty and when the summer came, I found out that Dudley had been expelled from Smeltings. Vernon didn't really take it well and well you see the result. He was going to kill me but somehow Dumbledore found out because just as Vernon was about to shoot me for the second time he stopped him. I fell into a coma and then I came here. That's my life story" Harry ended feeling trained.
It was almost morning again. Harry hadn't left anything out except that Wormtail had been the traitor. Everything else he had told them. He was sick at the lies. Everyone else were staring at him in shock. Even Draco and Ginny. Of course, they had heard about the adventures and Harry, Ron and Mione had also talked a bit about them but it was still shocking hearing such a detailed version. Even Mione and Ron seemed a little surprised.
"I'm so sorry Harry" Lily said quietly
"What for?" "For everything. Not being there, not being able to help you through this, not being able to tuck you in at night... Lily trailed off still in shock.Yesterday she would have done anything to hear about her son's future but now she wasn't so sure she wanted to know this
"Don't be. You didn't exactly decide to kill yourself" Harry said dryly"So that is why you are mad at me? Because I didn't tell you sooner about this prophecy?"
Dumbledore asked
"No, I would probably been able to forgive you that. But you lied about being my granddad, and some other things I would rather not get into. You keep check on my bank account and didn't even tell me that I had another vault. I am not allowed to use more than a thousand galleons with out your permission. You manipulate me doing what ever you feel like making me do. And I'm not the only one either. You do it to everyone. I'm not sure you do it on purpose but you still do it and you don't have the right. I mean don't get me wrong I still like you. But I am still mad at you at the same time. It's weird, the only time I've liked and disliked someone at the same time is Ron, when he didn't believe me in our fourth year" Harry said"Well I'm sorry Harry" Dumbledore said tiredly "But it's early and you should get some sleep before tomorrow. I gave everyone the morning off, but everyone is meeting at lunch in the great Hall where an announcement will be told about the injured and the dead" Dumbledore said
The teens nodded and left. Back in the common room, the teens weren't asleep. They didn't feel like it. Instead, they sat there and watched the sun rise.
"So what happened to Neville?" Alice said for the first time that evening "He lives with his grams" Ron said"Is- is he h-happy?"
"I think so. His grams is a little hard on him, always blabbing about what a great fighter Frank was, making Neville feel sad because he isn't as good. But He loves his grams and she loves him. They visit you in every holiday. He seems happy, although I think he really misses you" Harry said sadly
"It's weird isn't it that if Alice and Frank weren't crazy you and Neville would be sort of brothers" Ginny said thinking "I wonder if he knows" Mione said thoughtfully "I doubt it. I mean the only people alive that do are well, working for Dumbledore and you can't get a straight answer from him unless it's too late" Harry said bitterly "mmmm" Soon the teen's began to doze of in the middle of the common room and they didn't wake up until the other students were running out of the room almost late for lunch "Ohh got demit. We have five minutes to get to the great Hall, we have to run" "But I'm still in the same clothes an- Ginny began"We know. We are too Gin. We will just have to live with it now let's hurry" he said starting to push Harry and the others ran after him.
They were the last to arrive in the great hall, all sweaty and gasping. The Hall was quite and just like when Cedric died there were black sheets hanging in the air and instead of the usual cheery greeting they got from the headmaster they only got a somber look. The teens carefully sat down and the headmaster stood up.
"I am glad to say that considering the situation yesterday not many were killed. But unfortunaly some were. We lost eleven people yesterday. Not just students but also professors. I raise my cup for, Diane Hallowell a brave third year Hufflepuff, Jimmy Clifford a fantastic fifth year Slytherin, Ted Hanson a true fighter, a seventh year Gryffindor, Colin Jazzperson a courageous Ravenclaw, Janet and Elin Holstein who everyone should know as the most smileful twins from Hufflepuff, Emma Wyatt a powerful seventh year from Ravenclaw and Eggert Carlson the head boy who lost his life saving his best friend. I also would like to raise my cup for the professors that were killed, the ancient runes professors, Dolly Parkinson, the muggle professor Greg Gregory and lastly Fiona Fleming the COMC professor. Each and everyone of these individuals died in a brave fight. They died serving their country, protecting those that they cared about. I would have chosen that you would not have seen the battlefield but I understand. You cannot stay protected forever. Now I would like to take a minute to honor the fallen ones and the injured,"
Every house raised their cup and stayed silent. Every table had lost a student. After the minute Dumbledore spoke up again
"Although some of you, well most of you disobeyed my direct order of staying, you all fought bravely and I am the most proud of you. I am also proud of those few that stayed for the younger kids. They are in no way any less braver then the rest, they helped just as much and choose to protect the remaining ones. I also honor you. The classes for the day will be canceled so you can grieve your friends and family." That said Dumbledore left the room
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Three days later, something really bad happened. Something really really bad happened. Harry, James and co were summoned to the headmasters office and when they got there they met a very somber Dumbledore.
" I have grave news to you all. James your mother has been kidnapped" Dumbledore said and everyone gasped and Mione said
"Mary? Who- why- how- she stammered
"It was Voldemort's doing" James didn't say anything, he just stared in the air in shock and Harry wasn't much better. But he had to tough it up for James. It affected him much more then him, and he had to be there for his friend. "How do you know it was Voldemort?" He asked "He sent a message. It is for you actually Harry" Dumbledore said looking even more somber "Me?" Harry said in shock"Yes, but I would prefer that you didn't read it. Mary will be fine. I'm sure of it"
"Let me read it" Harry said firmly"Har-
"Let me read the damn letter"
Dumbledore sighed in defeat and handed the letter to Harry.
The Letter said
"Dear Mr. Potter junior
I would so much rather just call you Harry though, you don't mind do you Harry? Anyhow, I was just going to tell you that your grandmother is visiting me for a while. I thought you would like to know. So here is how things are going to work, if you don't do as I say your grandma will never go home. I will either kill her and send the body parts back to you in pieces or I will keep her as my own. She's quit a feisty little thing isn't she? Anyway, my proposal is that either you join me, and become my apprentices or everyone you know will die, and at the same time the future will chance. I hope you have realised by now how powerful you are. And then there is the whole thing about you knowing the future and all that so you see that you are too much a threat for me to be on the light side. So that is my deal either you join me or I'll kill your grandmother, and then your grandfather, and keep killing everyone you know until there is no one left and then I'll kill you slowly and painfully... I will return to Hogwarts tomorrow and you will be leaving with me or a lot of people will die.
Best wishes Lord Voldemort"
"And you weren't going to show me this? Are you mental or something?" Harry snapped but then he looked at James who was still in shock and stopped shouting. He didn't need this at the moment.
"And what had you planned on doing tomorrow then?" Harry said softly
"He may be powerful but not that powerful" Dumbledore said also softly
"He has done it once and he will do it again. He will do it you know. He will do everything he said unless I do as he said. There is only one way to make this stop," Harry growled.
"You are not joining him?" Dumbledore asked in shock
"Of course not. We are leaving. Ron, Mione, Ginny and Draco go pack your things and make everything ready and meet me here back in an hour. I'm going to talk to Angel, could you just bring the trunk that Dumbledore loaned me here?"
"Yes Harry" Draco said and the teens swept out of the room and Harry turned to leave but as he was almost trough the door James spoke up and said shakily "Let me see that letter" "No. It was written for me not for you. You just concentrate on your mother" "No I want too see the letter. I want to know what is making you leave so suddenly, especially now when your grandmother has been kidnapped. I know you love her, and you wouldn't leave like this unless there was a reason. Why are you running?" "I'm not running. We were leaving soon anyway. So it doesn't matter" "So are you saying that you don't want to be here to support your family? I thought you said that family was the most important thing in your life""It is"
"Then show it" James said "I can't. I'm sorry. I know I've just met Mary, and that she is your mother but don't you think this kills me too. I can't even hide in the past, it doesn't matter where I go or when I go someone always manages to get hurt. I don't know what made me think that this trip would be fine" "It's not your fault Voldemort took my mother" James said angry "Y-you said V-VOLDEMORT" Lily stammered "I did?" "Yes" "Hey you too. Anyway, it wasn't your fault. I'm sure that we can figure this all out together Harry"James said
"Please don't leave, not now" Lily also begged
"Yes it was my fault. I always think I can save everyone, but this time I can't. This time I can just leave. Then he wont remember me and he will stop" "Stop what?" Harry sighed and said softly "He is going to kill your mother if I don't join him. Then he's going to kill your father, then he is going to kill you, then he's going to kill Lily, and all of my friends one after one. I can't let that happen and I can't join him either. So we leave. He and you will all forget about us and move on" "You think he's just going to let my mom go." James said Harry fell silent "I don't know", He then said truthfully."Tell me the truth Harry, what do you think?"
"Well when I leave, he wont remember me and he wont remember the reason he kidnapped Mary, but knowing Tom, he probably wont say no to a slaughter. But on the other hand she is a Potter, and since he can't remember why she is there maybe he will spare her trying to find out or find a new use for her and that would give you time to go and save her. But the fact is that if I don't go he will appear here to morrow. And he will kill Mary, and the rest of you for sure. I know it is not my place to take fate in my own hands but I don't know what else to do" Harry confessed, "What do you want?There was silence for a while before Harold spoke up startling the room occupants for no one had noticed him there before
"I think everyone should have a say in it since it concerns all of us"
"Well I'm willing to risk my life to save Mrs. Potter sir" Sirius said and Remus nodded alongside him and Peter stepped then also up and nodded. Soon Lily followed but she had a say in the matter,"It's not that I don't want to save your mother James, I do. I would gladly risk my life for her; I think she is wonderful but what about Harry? If we do this and Voldemort comes after us and kills us, then Harry was never born and no one ever defeated Voldemort and thousands of innocents will die"
"I hadn't thought of that," James said truthfully
"I agree with Lily, I would risk myself for Mary but I don't want to do it unless we can figure something out so we wont change the future. But I think that this should mainly be up to the Potters" Alice said
There was silence for a while before Harold spoke up
" There are many risks in this. If Harry stays there are big odds that you will all be killed and the future will changed and even if we could figure something out for that it doesn't necessarily mean that he wont kill Mary anyway. If Harry leaves now however you will remain in the same risk as now and the future will probably stay the same, but Marry will most likely be killed. I love Mary of all my heart, she is the one for me, I absolutely adore her, and I know her. She would not want us to risk the lives of everyone for the sake of her. And like Harry says it is not ours to take fate in our own hand so I am going to vote that Harry does what ever he thinks is best. But what do you think James?" "I-I don't know really. I mean I love mom, and I don't want her to die but I don't either want her to be unhappy for the rest of her life because she is feeling quality of all the lives we have taken. I also don't think that we should decide if my mom deserves to life more then everyone else. But I can't make up my mind so I'm going with dad. Harry do what you think is best" Harry looked at his friends and had already made up his mind. He didn't want to but he had no choose"I have to go and find Angel, if you want to say good bye I'll be here in an half an hour" That said Harry left to find Angel which didn't take very long for she was just in Harry's rooms like usual
"Hey Harry? What's up? Where are the rest of you?"
"Packing" Harry, said shortly
"Huhh? Why on earth are they doing that?""Because I told them so. We are leaving Angel" Harry said.
"What? Why? I don't understand. I honestly don't. I thought we were staying for two more weeks""Change of plans. Get up we need to hurry. Pack everything you need"
"I don't need to pack anything. All my stuff will just be here when we get back but why are we leaving?" Harry sighed "Voldemort kidnapped Mary and says he's going to kill her if I don't join him. And then he'll kill the rest of them. If I leave he won't remember me" "But what about Mary? He wouldn't just let her go""I know. Hopefully someone will save her. If not then I'm very, very sorry. I love her Angel but I can't let him kill all my family. It's not their time yet"
"I understand. come on, let's go then" Back at the headmaster's office everyone were waiting. Harry went to his trunk and took everything he owned out of it. His pensive, cloak, wand, photo albums, the rest of his gifts, was pretty much the only thing. He put it in Ron's trunk and said "The rest is just stuff you have loaned me. Anyway, I just wanted to say I'm sorry for being so nasty to you. I think I love you, I just don't know what loves feels like so I can't be sure. But I like you a lot. I just have many issues with you, but the time I have spent here has been one of the best times in my life and thanks" Harry said and then he tried his best to hug Dumbledore then he turned to his friends and said bye to each and one of them until only Sirius, Harold, Lily and James were left.He dragged Sirius in one of the corners so they could have some privacy
"Sirius I know you are not the one you will be yet, but I never got the chance to say this so I want to do it know. I love you. I loved you then as a father figure and a brother and just as you and I love you now as a brother and a friend. I'm sorry that you have had such a bad life and be sure that I will revenge you""Thanks Harry. I don't know what I felt for you in the future but I'm sure I loved you as the son I never had, now I love you as my friend and a brother. I will look after your parents and try to keep them together"
"Thanks, I have something for you actually" Harry said and handed Sirius something he knew would come useful later. It was the two way mirror "Thanks Harry" Sirius said and hugged him Harry just nodded and left to talk to his mother "Lily, mom or what ever I just wanted to tell you that I have loved every single time I've spent with you these past months. Good and bad. I will never ever forget about them and I know you won't either. Your mind may but your soul will carry your feelings. I wish you would be there when I get back but you won't and I just have to deal with that, but know that I will always remember you. You are so kind, generous and wonderful person. And I know that you and James have been doing a lot better, and I hope that doesn't change. I'm sorry for the sudden leaving also. I hope you understand that I'm just doing what I think best""I understand Harry. I will never forget. Remember that diary I had for Christmas? Look for it. I will give the key to Dumbledore before we go in hiding. Don't worry he won't be able to read it. Only those allowed will. In the diary, I will write everything down. I swear. Just remember" Lily stopped and sobbed with tears in her eyes "Just remember that I love you no matter what and I'm so proud of you. I will be watching over you when you go back" Lily couldn't say anymore she was so upset
Harry looked at his father and then he looked at the floor. He didn't know what to say and thankfully James was first
"I'm sorry Harry"
"For what?" Harry asked confused
"For before, I should have understood, I'm sorry for what I did those months, I'm sorry for not being able to save you I-
"Don't go down that road. I have forgiven you for the past months and your mother has just been taken. I understand. And the other thing wasn't your fault. I respect you for what you did dad. Sometimes I wish that you had just run away like a coward because then I would have a father, but you didn't. You stood up for your family. You died saving my life and for that I will be forever greatful. You are human James, you have made mistakes and you will make more of them. Just know when to step up and admit them before it's to late. I know you love Lily, I see it. Just the way you look at her and treat her. She is a lucky woman and you will be a lucky man someday. She will probably not talk to you anymore yet anyway. And you will probably become the same spoiled child. But you will still be different; you just need the time to relish it. It is time for me to go now. I will never forget you. I will always respect you and love you. I will always be proud when people say how proud you would be. Although I will continue to hate it when people judge me because of you. But before I leave dad, I have something for you. I bought it at Christmas but I didn't know how to give it to you. It's nothing much really I just you know... And then Harry handed him a package
"Thank you Harry. I also have something for you" James said almost in tears and then he handed Harry a small ring "It is my birth ring. Mom, dad and granddad blessed it. I don't know if you know much about birth rings but they are very rare. They are given to infants and represent love. It means that you know that there will always be someone out there who loves you. Dead or alive. It means a lot to me. It has always been my favorite, I never even let Sirius touch it-
"I can't accept this dad" Harry said
"Yes you can. I have always planned on giving it to my first son and since you are my first and only I want to give it to you. But since er we die I doubt you have it"
Harry just shook his head "I want to give it to you. Wear it with pride Harry. Just know that I love you and I always will. I don't know what happens after death but I'm sure I love you there to. Have a good trip and take care. And thank the Weasley's for me, for taking such good care of you"Harry was now also with tears in his eye. He pushed himself up his chair and hugged James hard and long, and then he did the same with Sirius and Lily and Harold before he couldn't stand up anymore. He joined his friends who were standing in one of the corner.
"I love you Harry, take care" Lily shouted in tears and the next thing Harry knew there was bright white light and then he was standing in the floor at the hospital wing in front of everyone that had been there when he left
. --------------------------------------- All James saw was this bright white light and then Harry was gone forever. $Wait who's Harry$ James thought &What am I doing here anyway& James thought looking around at the headmaster's office and to his surprise he wasn't alone, Sirius Peter and Remus, Lily, Alice and Frank and his dad and his granddad were also there, with confused expressions.James felt different. He couldn't explain it but he felt different. Like there was a part missing from him. He felt more mature and caring. And when he looked at Lily he felt love. Usually when he looked at Lily he felt good but now he felt love. He also felt like he was forgetting something from the last months, but he couldn't remember what. He remembered everything he did and everything but he still had that feeling...
And unknown to James he wasn't the only one feeling different. In fact everyone in the room were feeling different, especially Lily. She had no idea why the headmaster had wanted to see her with all her worst enemies. But when she looked at James she didn't feel the dislike and annoyance, she felt weird. She felt funny and warm and... she did not like James Potter, she thought. She also felt like there was a big part missing from her. She felt longing to get it back. She didn't either know why she was crying. She felt something around her neck, she looked at the necklace she was wearing. It was magnificent. It had a beautiful Lily on it was emerald green.
The thing was that she remembered getting the necklace from Christmas, but she couldn't remember who it was from. Shouldn't she remember who had given her such a beautiful present. Then she looked at her other necklace. Well it wasn't exactly a necklace. It was a key to her diary. Who had given her that diary anyway? What was happening to her. Had it been her mother? Nah...
Dumbledore however was looking just as confused. He didn't remember calling all the students here. Although he knew he had to talk to them all about the leaving of the transport students. $Hang on, who were the transport students again. There was a boy, and girl. No they were more then two. I think...
The musing of everyone in the room where interrupted when Snape burst inside the room
"Sir, I've I- He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw who were in the room. He stared at James coldly and was expecting some remark but to the surprise of him and everyone else, he received none. James just didn't feel like insulting the Slytherin now."What is going on?" He asked Dumbledore didn't know why he said it but he felt it was right
"I was just informing the students of the leaving of the transport student who has been staying here. And could James please wait" Everyone nodded and left but James and the marauders"James I don't know how to say this but your mother has been taken by Voldemort. I'm sorry. You should spent some time with your father today" Dumbledore said pointing at Harold.
James didn't feel all that surprised, which scared him. Why did he feel like he had known that his mother had been kidnapped? He shook the feeling of himself and left the room with his friends and father. It was just Dumbledore and Snape left.
"What can I do for you Mr. Snape?"
"I know we agreed on that I just told you who were working for you-know-who but I have come across with some new information. I was on a death eater meeting, the Lord was talking, and torturing some women, I think it was Mrs. Potter. Anyway, then he stopped and he didn't even seem to remember what he had been doing. He just remembered that he was going to attack Hogwarts tomorrow but then he forgot why, he also seemed to forget why he was torturing Mrs. Potter. And the thing is that none of the death eaters remember either what was happening. Anyway, I don't know why but Voldemort has come up with a new hobby. Torturing Potter's. I don't know why, and I doubt he knows why""I see" Dumbledore said gravely. He was even more confused now. What was going on?
"Is he still planning to attack Hogwarts?"
"Not tomorrow. He wants to expand the plan. I somehow get the feeling though that in the original plan he wasn't going to battle." "Alright, keep me posted on this ok. And what about Mary?" "She is alive but I don't know for how long though" "Alright, you can go now" -----BACK IN THE FUTURE------- Dumbledore just saw that bright white light and then all he knew was that the stranger had done something to take the teenagers away. No sooner than that thought ended there was another bright light and there the teenagers were again but somehow they looked different.-------------------------------------------------------------
A/N: Hi everybody, I just wanted to say that I'm really sorry about the late update, my beta was very busy with her work and she couldn't go over the chapter until now so I'm really sorry. But just because I haven't been able to post anything it doesn't mean I haven't written anything. I have the few next chapters all finished, I just have to get them beta-ed and all that so it shouldn't be that long to the next update.... Anyways, R&R...
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