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Chapter 25: The second war begins
Harry and his friends walked silently to the great hall where the feast was about to begin, thinking about the last few months on his way.
Classes were just as boring as ever, although Snape seemed to keep his distance and the DADA teacher seemed nice enough, but Harry was still wary. The man was hiding something, there was just this something about him that he couldn't place.
On the other hand Quidditch was going terrific, and they had won their first match, which had been three weeks ago.
The Gryffindors also seemed to be accepting Draco.
Order meetings were still being held every Friday, but nothing new had happened. Voldemort hadn't been spotted, and Snape had little idea on what was going on other than that Voldemort seemed to be spending a lot of time in his library and he had been sending a lot of death eaters on secret missions, and others to recruit more allies.
Snape had also said that Voldemort himself seemed to have changed somehow. For some weird reasons no one could fathom Tom was actually treating the death eaters better than normal. But if they over stepped their boundaries or failed something huge they were still cursed or killed. Potter seemed to be the only sore subject though.
So with no news of Tommy, Harry had also started his training with the DA much more. And he spent every Wednesday night perfecting his plans, since he had long ago been ready for his transformation. So while he waited for the others to be ready he occupied himself with planning the DA.
Speaking of the DA, it was also going along great. The members who had decided not to join or continue, couldn't talk about it, and the current members were doing well, never missing the morning run or one single meeting.
So far Harry was still just finishing the Patronus and going over the school spells and curses, however he wanted to start them on dueling but thought that his dueling room would fit it much better. The problem was, he wasn't sure if they were allowed to know about the room. He would have to talk to Angel about it.
Training with the elves and Angel had taken a new level, and although he still wasn't on any physical training except running and weight training he was learning a lot about magic and ways to use it.
Angel had started by training their special powers first when they were all together or sometimes just taught them useful spells and ways of dueling.
However when Harry had private lessons with her, he learnt about theory behind magic, although his friends were sometimes allowed to join that, but he also learned wand less magic, and he was progressing fine in that, though he still had a long way to go. He was also learning old rituals, and old magic. Angel had given Harry about ten books and told him to study them well.
They were all his books of course, from his library in his rooms but he still did everything she said.
One of the books had been about the rules and power, Lords, and knights, and mages and such held. One had been about teaching him proper manners and such, while another had been about the laws, both modern and not quite so modern. The rest of the books had been on shields, counter curses, jinx and charms, or defensive magic.
There was one tome though that Harry hadn't looked at yet. Even if he was learning that there was no good and evil magic, only the choices people make with it, and he was learning how to perform "the dark art" He still was unnerved by the book. It was a large coal black book, with barely noticeable script on the cover as it was also black. It looked to be thousands years old at least and it radiated dark magic.
Angel had also been acting a bit out of character, avoiding Harry when he wasn't in lessons and such.
The elves also had completely different ways with their magic and ways, as well. And Harry had a small problem understanding that while wizards like himself all had a magical core, and drew their magic from it to be able to perform magic, elves didn't have one. Or well they did, but it was different somehow, they couldn't draw magic from theirs, instead they drew magic from the air around them.
Although it didn't require a wand, only a lot of concentration, it wasn't as powerful as your own magic in your own core. Of course the more powerful elf you are the more magic you can channel through you, but there were few who could win a magical duel with a real duelist.
Their specialty was however their combat and figure. They had the gift to walk without sound, or be so light on their feet that they could walk on snow, and some even on water or fire. Only two elves had been recorded to have been able to walk on air.
Elves also moved in amazing speed, and had their special, sword, dagger, archery and hand-to-hand combat methods, totally different from all human ways.
Their inner magic however gave them the gift to see auras. As well as their sharp eyes most had some sort of mind gift.
So in short the last two months for Harry had been super busy. He'd even been so busy that the Halloween feast was the first dinner he had eaten relaxed in entire time there.
He slowly looked around, for the first time that year looking at his surroundings. The hall seemed fuller then normal and Harry looked at
Hermione in confusion,
"Mione, are there more people this year?"
Hermione rolled her eyes before answering, "Yes Harry. There were half the normal count of first years this year. Honestly, it's been two months since school started. Have you even gotten one proper good night sleep?"
Harry grinned sheepishly. He had hardly been getting any sleep, that was true, but he was hoping that Angel would allow him to have his Wednesdays off even after tonight which he could use to catch up on some proper sleep.
Dinner went away quickly and soon the five some were standing in McGonagalls office.
"Hello children" Minerva greeted cheerily,
"Hello Minerva" They all chorused. She had insisted they called her that after some time of training but Snape was as much of a git in training as always.
"Sit down" Snape snapped and Minerva pursed her lips together in disapproval,
"Now children" She said soothingly, just go through what we practiced. We'll meditate for thirty minutes, before Harry starts with his first form, then Ron, then Hermione, then Harry again, before Ginny and Draco start and then ending on Harry. Although Harry, since all of your animals are magical, you might be magically drained, so do be careful"
They all meditated and then Harry stepped into the warded area in the office sitting down and starting concentrate. After few minutes he felt a small tingling start. It increased slowly and then there was a flash.
He looked around, confused. Where was he? Who were the strangers looking at him like that? What was going on?
He looked into a mirror and was startled to see his dog sized pink form. He was muscular, he could tell. But he was alarmed. He felt this urge to trust the humans looking at him but he wasn't used to trusting so much so he ignored his gut feeling.
Then it was like he just snapped. And he looked up and grinned mentally.
The children and the two professors watched in awe as Harry started glowing before there was a pink flash and then there was a small elephant. It couldn't have been bigger then most average sized dogs, and he was pink. Very cute too.
He had a black hairs standing out of his head, and his tail also had black bushy hair in the end.
They watched the elephant walk around looking in every corner and eyeing them alarmed. Then there was something clicked, and his previously black eyes turned vibrant green with only small black, barley barely noticeable ring around his eyes.
He seemed to be trying to grin, although his teeth, which were standing out like on normal elephants only seemed to be falling out.
In another pink flash Harry Potter stood, panting and sweat on his forehead. He grinned though and stepped out.
Nervously Ron stepped forward. After about ten minutes, he started glowing as well and after about few more moments there was a blue flash and then a small bluish green bird crashed to the ground. He had a orange beak, and his black, green eyes looked at the group with calculating eyes, yet he seemed to be a bit lost. He looked at his wings and trilled.
His lower body was royal blue but became lighter as it moved above, until it was sort of a mingle of blue and green. His wings were blue below but mixed above. His tail was a ruffle of blue and green feathers.
After he walked around for ten minutes or so he seemed to snap and turn back into Ron. Fifteen minutes later he was Ron again, and Hermione walked nervously in the warded area. It took her about ten minutes before she started to glow but when she did it wasn't long until her flash came. And instead of the nervous girl a horse was instead.
The others seemed a bit surprised. Hermione had never wanted to explain her form other then saying it was a simple horse.
Although there was nothing magical about it, it looked absolutely stunning. Her muscular tall body shining in black. It stood tall and proud, with eyes that shone with intelligence. Her face though was pure white, with golden strands in it. Her eyes were dark brown and she tried to jump at the people in the room but the wards held her in place.
After twenty minutes she seemed to come back to her and her eyes turned back to the same honey brown eyes. The horse concentrated and again she turned into Hermione smiling widely although she looked as she was about to faint,
Harry stepped back in the warded room now trying to change into the unicorn, as he was going to wait with the lion until last since according to the books and all they had learnt it was his most powerful animal.
He closed his eyes and started concentrated. He must have been meditating for an half an hour until something finally seemed to be happening. He started glowing, even more so then first time and after five minutes of that there was a black flash.
And there in all it's might was standing the utmost beautiful thing a person could see although at the same time it seemed so sad. It seemed to radiant from an aura of sadness and purity.
The children, elves and professors watched fascinated as the silver eyes o the unicorn watched them curiously, although it seemed to stiffen at their looks.
Harry's unicorn form was very beautiful, He, like Mione's horse was pure black. It was slightly smaller then Hermione's large horse but still it stood tall and head held up high, as if he was a god like creature.
What even made him more to look at was the silver hair and face he had, that seemed to shine and glimmer. Then if course there were the large wings that stood out from his back that also
seemed to glow silver, just like the eyes. It was as if the wings were made of silver water, by the way they looked like.
It only took Harry ten minutes to snap out of his unicorns thoughts and it's eyes slowly turned from silver to his normal vibrant green eyes, although if you looked closely you could still see the black ring around them from his earlier transformation, and now there was a bit on a silver tint in them as well. He changed back and almost fell over from exhaustion.
The others helped him over to a chair before Draco took his stance and took a deep breath.
It didn't take long until he started glowing as well, only three four minutes, and quickly there was a brown flash and a stealthy looking
squirrel was standing in front of the others.
It's fur looked soft and comfy, and was light brown but had dark brown spots in between. He also had dark brown eyes. He squealed, showing perfectly white teeth.
He did it again before his eyes turned gray and it wasn't long until he turned back.
"Congratulations Draco" Snape said, without his usual sneer,
"Thanks un- I mean professor Snape"
"Yeah, congrats mate. You were the fasted of the lot of us" Harry said as the others nodded, but Ginny huffed and said that she still had a go so they shouldn't be to sure about that.
It took Ginny about seven minutes before she changed into a red baby dragon.
She was scarlet red, and her scales a bit darker. She had cute yellow eyes, and her noise flared a small puffs of smoke were seen.
She also had small horns, both slightly yellowish, and her claws sharp and silver.
Ten minutes later the proud Weaslett had turned back and it was time for Harry's last one. He still looked weary and McGonagall looked a bit worried,
"You can do this later Harry. Maybe it would be for the better. I know you seem to be getting a bit more powerful but this requires a lot of energy"
Harry almost snorted. He was gaining a lot of power and that fast. Ever since his birthday he had felt it. He felt it every day, and he knew he was getting even more powerful but thankfully Angel and the elves were teaching him how to control it. The voices in his head also seemed to help him when he was getting out of control.
"I can do it professor" Harry said firmly.
It took him much longer this time which concerned the others.
But finally after about forty minutes he started glowing, and finally the others had to look away. There was a pure white flash and the glowing stopped.
Harry had been joking when he said his lion form seemed to large. It was huge.
It was pure white, like the unicorns in the forest, but it had golden wings that seemed to be on fire. His sharp and dangerous claws were also gold, and the end of his tail was gold as well. And even if his wings were amazing his eyes were just… unearthly.
They were piercing gold, and glowed with power and suspicion. They send shivers down their spines when the animal glowed softly, and they watched in awe as they felt the powerful aura of protection fill the room.
The lion growled again, this time louder and then he launched at the people, but the wards flashed and threw him back, where he growled angrily and tried again. The wards flashed again and this time the lion roared an angry and confused roar.
McGonagall as well as Snape and the elves looked worried,
"The wards are breaking, I'm not sure how he will react if we try and strengthen them" She explained to the children,
"Surely Harry would never hurt us" Ginny said in disbelief,
"He is not himself, he is still in the mind of the lion. If he believes that he is protecting his charge or what ever it is that he is supposed
to be protecting none of us are safe"
"But he isn't protecting anything? He's only trying to protect us right?"
"I think he doesn't even know. Which makes him confused and I think he is pointing it on us since we are the only ones here" Snape
said rather calmly in spite of the situation.
The door opened and Dumbledore and Remus walked in and looked around.
Spotting the lion making another crash at the wards, which flashed off and on three times.
They were falling and when they did, poor them.
The lion however seemed distracted by the new arrivals and didn't attack the wards again right away.
The elves seeing this held their hands out and instantly a golden light flew out of their hands and strengthen the wards, but only by a
notch.
This seemed to anger the beast as he made himself ready for another launch.
Dumbledore crossed the room fast as the wards flashed again,
"What is going on?"
"It's Harry, the animal is taking control sir. Everything went fine with the first two, but he was still tired so I suspect he doesn't have the strength to pull his mind together"
"I see"
The lion charged again this time with a mighty roar and then flew at the wards with all its might and the wards Flashed before crashing.
"Shit" Ron said
The lion swiftly walked over to them, sniffing everything in it's way and begun circling them.
"Why isn't he killing us?" Draco asked,
"He is planning first"
The lion suddenly stopped in front of Snape who looked very uncomfortable and a bit lost, as what to do.
The lion made it's way to attack but when Ginny saw she stepped forward, "Don't even try it Potter"
The lion grumbled, and pushed her away, before charging at Snape again. Ginny again took place in front of it.
"Over my dead body" She hissed, and the others took stance around her.
The lion seemed to be about to just charge her and jumped but then he halted in mid jump and then fell to ground in a heap,
His lion seemed to shrink and then Harry lay there and seemed to be exhausted before finally dragging himself off the ground, where he plastered a sheepish grin on his face,
"Sorry about that. I think I was more tired then I thought. So how bout we head to bed, we have an early start tomorrow"
"Harry. I think you should just sleep in tomorrow" Ron said slowly. It was clear that he was exhausted, you could see it in his now, green eyes with black ring and gold and silver tints.
"No, and it's not open for discussion. Now I'm rather tired and am going to bed. Thank you for stopping me by the way" He said sharply before starting to walk away only to be griped by Ron and Draco when he almost lost his balance.
"Perhaps we should escort you then" Ginny said amused
As they were about to leave Angel all of the sudden appeared before them holding a panting Tonks shocking the adults,
"You can't apparate within the walls of Hogwarts" Snape yelled,
"I didn't apparate" Angel said although unlike usually she wasn't wearing a smile but a grim face.
"What happened?" Harry asked right away, getting the words out of him,
Angel looked at him a bit concerned but before she could comment on his looks Tonks spoke, still breathing hard as she had run all the way from Hogsmade to Hogswarts,
"Attack" She gasped, "Pope…. Dead…. School…. Fire….. headmaster…. Death eaters….. you know who" She managed to say
"Calm down Tonks" McGonagall said very worried about the words, and explain it to us properly.
Tonks took few breaths and spoke, "There was an attack"
"Where?" Harry asked now a lot less tired
"Rome" Tonks said…. "Well sort of"
"How do you know about it?" Ron asked,
"The alarms went off"
"But why do you have wards somewhere in Rome?" Ron asked again, not understanding that these weren't the right questions,
"Because, every ministry has alarms for every school"
"You said something about pope? And fire, I don't understand" Harry said,
"The Vatican has been attacked, and the pope was murdered by you-know-who himself. The school was also attacked. From what I understand then almost the whole Vatican with almost everything and everyone in it was blown up. The headmaster of the school was also blown up, as well as half of the school and staff. Aurours from England, France and Italy are battling the death eaters, but you know-who left the area after…. She trailed off looking at Harry worried,
"What?" McGonagall asked,
"After he wrote his message" She said softly,
"What did it say?" Harry asked,
"It was for you, I'm afraid, it said: This was a special gift for you Potter, and it's only the beginning. You're next Potter, you can't hide forever. Be prepared and something else I didn't see"
"I see" Harry said stonily, "Go ahead and call the order or everyone you can get then woman. Me and the guys will wait in the headmasters office in the meantime"
When the adults looked at him surprised he explained, "I am aware that I would only be wasting valuable time trying to come along. And besides, I am neither ready nor fit to fight anyone. Especially now"
The teens, Angel and the elves walked quietly to the headmasters office while the others went to the battle field.
They didn't have to wait very long until the others showed up and the battle was finished, only two hours or so.
The door opened and the headmaster, Snape, McGonagall, Tonks, Kinglsey, Moody and Remus walked in all looking grim.
Most of them halted when they saw the worried teens looking back at them but McGonagall recovered first,
"What are you doing here? Harry, you are in no-
"Just tell us what happened?" Harry interrupted tiredly
"Bu- Snape was about to interrupt but the headmaster nodded and seated himself, looking older then ever before.
"It is best that you hear the fact from me rather then from someone else"
"The Vatican has been reduced to nothing I am afraid"
Ron and Ginny remained little unaffected by this news, but while Hermione seemed to be heartbroken by it. Harry also seemed a bit heartbroken and Draco seemed a bit scared.
"What is this Vatican? I think I've heard of it before but I can't place it"
"It's where the pope lives. You know who that is don't you Ronald?"
The two red head nodded,
"The Vatican, resembles a lot for both the muggle world and the magical world. This is a huge loss for us all"
"Why the wizarding world?" Hermione asked
"Because there are many magical artifacts hidden there. As well as the pope has sometimes been magical himself" Draco said, "The school that is hidden there is also very known, much like Hogwarts. Some of the Wizarding legends have been from there. The story how it was built is also very known among the purebloods"
"That is true" Dumbledore said, "Many of the most dangerous artifacts are hidden there, as well as the most powerful. They have all been destroyed now"
"I wouldn't be too sure of it sir" Draco said, "I've often heard my father talk about the things that are hidden there. He always said he wanted to take what ever was there, so it might be that the attack was mostly to take the items"
"It might be. But then there is the fact that the school-
"What school?" Ginny interrupted
"Hogwarts has always been in the top three schools over the world, alongside with the Egypt school founded by Isis, and the Vatican school. It is hidden beneath the Vatican it self. Only few are able to enter it. Unlike Hogwarts who has about thousand students in the least this school has about four hundred. I'm afraid that more than half of the students and the staff was killed. Including the headmaster who would have been a great asset in the war. Like I said before the pope was also killed"
"How many dead?"
"Nine hundred forty seven dead muggles, Harry and two hundred injured. 200 hundred wizards were killed and three hundred were injured"
"The death eaters?"
"Five hundred dead or captured, but over thousand got away"
"So many?"
"Yes. Voldemort has obviously been recruiting" Dumbledore said,
"The message"? Harry asked exhausted and looking much older then he was, which saddened the other people in the room.
Dumbledore seemed to hesitate, but surprisingly Ron spoke up.
"This was a special gift for you Potter, and it's only the beginning. You're next Potter, you can't hide forever. Be prepared for next time I shan't be so merciful. Surrender and lives shall be spared" Was written in blood, of innocent children across the ruins of the Vatican
with the mangled body of the pope and headmaster beneath it"
Everyone watched Ron shocked. His voice had been a bit deeper and his eyes seemed unfocused.
He snapped out of it and seemed a bit scared
Then it dawned on Harry. He looked at Angel, "That's his special talent isn't it? He's a seer"
Angel nodded and the others gasped.
Then Harry sobered up and said softly, "It is true then"?
"I'm sorry Harry" Dumbledore said sadly,
"Say it to the hundreds of dead muggles and wizards" Harry snapped
"Harry" Dumbledore said softly, "I'm sorry to have to bring this up but this is unavoidable. I've trusted you for Order information, I've allowed you to sit in meetings with the core of the Order even. I've run by you ideas and I've done as much as I can to respect your ideas. I know you have been lying to me Harry, and it's time you trust me. At least for this"
"I haven't been lying to you sir" Harry said
"You know who the second heir of Slytherin is. I can tell on how you react when we talk about it in meetings. I must know and reproach this person. We cannot afford another enemy Harry"
"It's not that I don't trust you for who it is. But I'm not allowed to inform you on it" He looked at Angel and spoke, "Perhaps he is right Angel, perhaps it is for the best that he knows. It would make things for him so much easier"
Slowly Angel nodded
"I am" Harry whispered,
"Yes Harry, so who is it?" Dumbledore asked
"I- I mean the second heir of Slytherin is…. Well me"
There was silence and then more silence.
"That is not funny Potter. How can you possibly be him? You're… you're Albus Dumbledore's grandchild for Merlins sake, the savior and the hero of the bloody world. Not you-know-who's cousin"
"Well I am, so you'll just have to bloody well deal with the fact that I'm bloody related to a freaking scum bag who is planning to destroy the world"
"How?" someone asked faintly
"My grandmother, you know the one who got raped by the elf, anyway her mother the one who had child with the king, was disowned by her family when she got pregnant after the King. She gave my grandmother up for adoption, as she couldn't take care of her on her own. So she met this man when she traveled, Tom Riddle senior, they had a child she died at childbirth. My great grandmother, Voldemort's mother was the last heir of Slytherin"
"But-But, you're Harry bleeding Potter, the boy who bloody won't die"
"And I'm fucking Slytherins great great great great great grandchild as well. Deal with it" Harry thundered before he stormed out, but was stopped by Hermione,
"Harry, they're just in shock"
"They still shouldn't be such idiots. You think Harry likes the fact that the murderer of his parents, the man who torments his life is his cousin. This changes nothing, he still is Harry, and if you can't see that then sc-
"We of course know that" Minerva said before Ginny could finish, "It was just a bit of a shock. Harry dear, you'll always just be Harry, not you-know-who's cousin or the boy-who-lived, but just simple, albeit powerful Harry"
Harry smiled softly, "Thank you Minerva. I needed that"
"Harry, I need to talk to you before you go to bed" Angel said pale before she vanished.
"How does she do that?" Severus claimed. "She has to have some sort of inhuman blood in her. I mean no one is so sexy and cunning a- Snape stopped talking as he realized what he had said. He blushed, then paled, then turned purple and then blushed again as the others couldn't keep their laughter in. "I –I m-mean, urgh I'm going to bed. Good night" Then he stormed away
After the snickers had died Remus asked to speak to Harry for the moment, so they along with, Ginny, Hermione, Ron, Draco and Tonks left the other adults.
As it was almost morning, four Am precisely they didn't run into anyone except one. The head boy, a snobby little fellow from Hufflepuff.
He glared at Harry as he saw him, "Potter, what on earth do you think you're doing at this hour. This is a disgrace. I don't care who you are you will not get away with this, you will serve a months worth of detention with… He seemed to think a bit before smirking slightly, "McGonagall and Snape" It was a known fact that McGonagall was very strict to those who were caught out of bed at night, "And you will each loose hundred
"That will not be required Mr. Burnaby was it?" Remus said tiredly
"Professor Lupin" The boy said surprised and a bit unnerved, "Whatever it is that you are doing here sir then I'm afraid that as you are
not a professor anymore you do not have the permission to stalk the halls with students"
"Mr. Burnaby" Remus said annoyed now, "I have permission form the headmaster to talk to my charge and his friends not that it is any of your business"
"I'll need to see that sir"
"I do not have anything to show you"
"Then I'm afraid that there is nothing you can do. As I said Hundred points each, hundred and fifty from Potter as you obviously dragged them along, What are you doing here anyway Lupin?"
Remus growled, "You just ruined the chances for Gryffindor to win the house cup for no reason you idiot. I am escorting them to their rooms, as they were in a meeting with the headmaster himself because a recent attack where Harry was involved and his friends insisted to come along. I'm sure you'll read about it in the papers tomorrow boy, after all they seem especially fond of mass murders and destruction of important things, especially if it involves Voldemort himself, now if you would excuse me boy" He said before dragging the teens away.
"Harry where are we going"
"To my rooms" Harry said still in shock at his outburst
"Your rooms?" Remuis questioned, but didn't receive an answer as Harry stopped in front of a statue.
"Cinderella story" Harry said, and the girls giggled,
"It's not funny, and besides it's a lot better then the other one was" He snapped,
"Isn't Cinderella a muggle fairy tail?" Tonks asked, still not knowing why she was here
"Yes, but who would think of it as my password? Besides the last one was the-boy-who-lived"
"Wouldn't everyone know it?" She asked but then gasped as she saw the room she was in.
"Who? Wow, who owns these rooms? I mean who uses them? Wait, why do you know about them"
Harry looked a bit uncomfortable, but answered anyway, "Well, um I and the guys use them and Angel told us about them. The elves stay here as well. You know so they can train me and stuff"
"So they are here?" Tonks asked excited as she was dying to meet one of them
"They're probably asleep, so don't have much noise. I really don't want to deal with a bitchy Sufi right now. Anyway, Angel what did you want to talk about?" He asked as Angel watched Tonks warily,
"Well, erm, I don't know if you have noticed or not but I've kind of been avoiding you lately"
Harry snorted, "How can you not notice Angel. You barley barely look at me anymore. And training is almost hell. You're not as fun, more withdrawn. I mean if there is a problem between us then just tell me so I can do something about it because this is just getting ridiculous"
"You haven't done anything Harry. It's just something I've been avoiding to do. Well, as you know I've been getting a bit… personal, for lack of better word, with you and that is not very good in this job. And because of that I've been avoiding to do this. You see by all rights I should have given this to you on your birthday, but I just couldn't do it. I justified it by saying your powers were too much out of control. You needed to learn how to control it first. Anyway I can't do that anymore"
She walked up to Harry and went on one knee. She opened her arm and Harry gasped slowly.
The others couldn't see anything but a soft, yet powerful glow around the two.
"This will actually help you control your powers. You only needed basic knowledge of it before you could use it. And it hides your aura, and your signature. I know you can do it anyway but this is much more affective" She said softly before she placed it on his neck.
Harry touched it carefully as it would break soon, and just watched it.
It was a small golden key. Just a normal golden key. Very simple actually, though probably a bit smaller then normal keys and somehow Harry doubted that normal keys were so breathtaking.
"If you push on the top, it will transform into you-know-what, but in this form it will just work as a normal key. It goes to every building of it's owner. So now I guess it belongs to you"
"Thank you" Harry whispered before hugging her tightly.
"Now, what are they doing here?" She said pointing at the two adults,
"Remus wanted to talk to me, and Tonks, just came along I guess. I trust them both, and I'm sure they won't tell anyone what has just happened"
The two nodded sheepishly, before Remus shook his head and looking at Harry a bit weirdly.
"Harry, I just wanted to ask about Angel. I mean why did she, do what she did?"
"You'll have to be a bit more specific about that one Remus"
"Why did she transport you back in the hospital wing"
"I needed it. Look, Remus I understand that this is a lot confusing for you, but I'll be honest with you. I can't tell you everything you want to know. I'm sorry, it's not that I don't trust you because god knows I do. You are one of the few I do and so I hope you won't break that trust by telling anyone what little I've told you. You're the only thing I've left Remus, please don't be mad because I can't tell you everything"
"I'm not mad Harry. I'm just trying to understand. It's just so confusing that's all"
"You can ask, but not everything will be answered"
"I don't suppose that you'd tell me where you went?"
Harry smirked slightly, "I might. Tell me Remus, considering what I know, about you and everything. About my grandparents and more, considering I know how my parents fell in love, where do you assume"?
"Either their sixth or seventh year"
"But which one?"
"I don't know. It's all so confusing in my head"
"Did you know Remus that memory charms erase the memory, they can wipe everything out from the mind, but not from the heart. You cannot remember it but you should be able to feel it if you look for it"
"I do remember in sixth year, after… something, I don't remember then I felt so empty. And it never truly went away. It wasn't until you were born that some of that void was filled, though not completely"
"So what does that tell you? What made you feels so empty?"
"I don't know. I felt as if I had just lost my best friend and brother. A son maybe even. You were there weren't you?"
"We were. That year. We left when Mary was taken. We hoped it would save her, but… it was a risk that had to be taken"
"I don't understand"
"Tom found out about us and that's why she was taken. He was going to kill the rest of the family if I wouldn't join him, instead I left. Since then he wouldn't remember why he had taken her"
"I see" Remus said thinking. He was so deep in thought he didn't notice Ginny slip away and come back.
"Here" She said, and handed him a frame. Remus looked at it and his eyes widened,
There were two pictures. One was of him, Sirius, James, Peter, Ron, Ginny, Mione and Harry. They were in front of the lake laughing heartily and Remus then noticed Harry trying to pull Frank Longbottom into the picture.
"I-I, I don't remember this" He said quietly,
"Look at the other one" Harry said smiling sadly as he watched the photo.
A small gasp escaped Remus.
There in Dumbledore's beautiful front yard were he, Sirius, James, Alice, Lily, Harry, Ron, Draco, Ginny and Hermione.
Lily and James, were cuddling in the corner, as Alice was tickling Draco. Harry and Hermione were laughing at something Ginny said while he and Sirius were teasing Ron.
"This is at Christmas" Remus said, "I sort of remember this. It was my best Christmas ever. I never have been able to forget the feeling of love that I felt there. It was when James and Lily started going out. Sort of"
"It was also when you found out the truth about us" Harry said
"You told us?"
Harry shifted uncomfortably but shook his head, "I won't lie, and I guess you have the right to know, but I really don't feel comfortable talking about it. It was a hard time. But at the same time the best. I never told you. You, Sirius and James were ordered by Dumbledore to come and see me to say sorry, I wasn't there and you were going to wait. You found my pensive. And, you looked. You saw some… memories from the future that forced me to tell you all about us"
"We snuck in your pensive" Remus said shocked, "Why? And why did we have to say sorry?"
"After the dueling club was started, it was discovered that I was… erm a parzelmouth. And, well let's just say that you guys didn't take it all to well and from then on we didn't get along. So when we were forced to spend Christmas together James wasn't happy. Over dinner he… are you sure you want to know this?"
Remus not trusting his words only nodded,
"He said that I was a death eater" Remus eyes widened, but before he could say anything Harry interrupted, "Don't worry about it Moony, that's not what you were apologizing for, I'd gotten used to that comment ages ago" Then Harry realized what he had said and shut his mouth up,
"What?" Remus exclaimed, "I-Y-H- After much stammering he finally just asked, "I'm not even going to ask right now. I'm to tired and so are you. But what were we saying sorry then?"
"Well, you all knew my mom had died, and well, you said I had probably murdered her myself and some stuff" Harry said dismissively
"I-
"Don't say I'm sorry Moony, because you don't even remember it"
"Well that's not my fault is it" The werewolf snapped
"Maybe later if I know you won't do something I would let you remember. But just because I let you forget the event I didn't make you forget the feelings, and when it comes down to it, that is all that matters"
"But- Remus was interrupted when Tonks spoke up,
"Wait a minute here. You went to the past?"
Harry didn't comment,
"That's not possible. But how did you make the picture then?"
"T- Harry was interrupted as Tonks suddenly jumped, "Shit, I'm being called by the aurours, Harry, there probably be a meeting about this, this evening. See ya then. Later you all" And with that she left.
"Harry, how did You- I mean V-Voldemort find out"
"Peter told. You could actually say I'm the living proof of that Fate works in twisted ways. You know how Voldemort's hatred on he Potters started? You know why he marked me instead of Neville?"
"No"
"Because of me in the past. Because of me he started to hate the Potters. I mean of course dad was somewhere on the list to do
things, but the Potters weren't actually a priority until I came to the picture. And his hatred of the Potters drove him to me instead of Neville"
"I- Before Remus could finish they were interrupted by a voice behind them,
"What are these humans doing here now? It's morning for the love of all elves, you're not supposed to be here except in the evenings"
Said a sharp sneering voice and slowly, and very much so annoyed Remus turned around, and as he did he saw a small glimpse at Harry. He seemed to stiffen a bit, barely noticeable but yet there, but otherwise he was his tired and exhausted self.
"Last time I checked Sufi, these were my rooms, not yours, so I do not need your permission to talk to my friends or Angel. And what are you doing up anyway?"
"It's six o'clock Potter" Sufi snapped,
"And? You never get up until eight"
"I need an early start as I'm to give my report this morning"
"Oh. Well in that case I suppose you should know the newest information. There was an attack last night. The Vatican was destroyed, the pope killed, as was the school which is hidden there. Over thousand died, both worlds. About five hundred death eaters were either killed or captured"
"Very well" Sufi said, "Anything else the king might want to know?"
Harry hesitated before shaking his head and Hermione sighed.
"Actually there is. Voldemort left a message, for Harry. It went something like this: This was a special gift for you Potter, and it's only the beginning. You're next Potter, you can't hide forever. Be prepared for next time I shan't be so merciful. Surrender and lives shall be spared. It was written in blood"
Sufi nodded curtly and left the room.
"So, I don't suppose that you'd tell me why Angel has deemed it necessary to teach and train you?"
"No. But keep in mind that all will be revealed in time my friend. All in time" Harry said tiredly "But tell me more about the attack. Were there any important death eaters captured? Any big information?"
"Don't know Harry, they haven't been questioned, and if the inner circle was there then I at least didn't see them. Though, somehow I doubt that Tom would send them all by them selves. I just wish I knew what he was planning"
"So do we. But breakfast is about to start, and I want you children to get a healthy breakfast, hopefully before the school wakes up and finds out about the attack and start bothering you. After breakfast I want all of you in bed. Lessons will be off today, both with me and the elves. Don't think I haven't noticed the lack of sleep you are getting Harry. You need sleep"
"Yes, Yes, that's why I was wondering if I couldn't have Wednesday evenings off for a study period or just sleep period or something.
But I need to go to at least normal classes to day Angel. I don't want to f-
"Don't say fall behind Harry, because you and I both know you could take the NEWTS now and get and O at them all. Or are you forgetting that you are surpassing auror training here"
"No. You're right I guess. I'll be off to breakfast then" Harry said leaving with his elves before the other teens could follow.
Sad gazes followed him, before Draco turned to Angel, "I wouldn't be to hard on him Angel. I think he just really wants to go to classes because they make him feel normal. Or well as normal as he can get you know"
"Yes, I know. But he needs sleep"
"I know. Anyway I'm off to breakfast. You guys coming?"
The others nodded so the teens along with Remus left the rooms,
"Er, I think Harry will probably change the password soon, as he has to do it every few days but we'll contact you and let you know the
password in case you'll need to get in touch with Harry quickly without using the order way to do it. But only use it when it's important"
"Yes, of course. Now I think I'll need some food as well so I'm going to go with you to breakfast before heading home"
After a bit of silence Ginny asked with a smirk, "So you and Tonks then"?
Remus seemed a bit startled before grimacing, "God no" Then he blushed and started stammering, "I mean, she's a lovely girl and all. Really sweet and pretty. I think, I've never actually seen her though, but anyway, she's just not my type… she's too young for one, and she's too… Tonks" He said shrugging at his lame explanation, then his eyes snapped wide open, "Wait I don't have to tell you who I fancy and who I don't, so stay out of mine and Elisa buisn- Darn, did I actually say that?" He asked, but already knew the answer because the girls couldn't help but giggle while the boys just outright laughed,
"I think you need some sleep mate"
"No shit Sherlock"
The others stared, "Did you just swear professor Lupin?" Ron asked sweetly
"I most definitely did not" He huffed before storming ahead of them into the hall that was by now half full.
It seemed as almost all of the Slytherins were there, as well as the Rawenclaws and most of the Hufflepuffs. The Gryffindors were the only ones that seemed to be missing in majority, as ones that were used to go running in the morning were missing, along with some of the other younger students..
But straight after the laughing teens sat down beside Harry the door opened and an upset house practically ran in, but sighed with relief when they spotted them and Dean, Seamus and Neville came running to them with the house on their heels.
"Where the hell have you been?"
Before they could answer though, the Twins spoke up,
"Hey, look at this. We've lost four hundred and fifty points. We're in minus now. Shit"
Everyone started talking and yelling at the same time. Until Harry had enough and stood on the table so everyone could see him,
"Hey, shut up will you. There has been a misunderstanding considering the house points. And it involves why me and the guys that didn't sleep in the Tower tonight. We were caught on our way there actually by the head boy" He said glaring at him, "And he seemed to think we needed some discipline. Though- Harry was stopped as the students started booing and yelling until Fred yelled at them to shut the hell up so Harry could finish, "Thank you Fred, now as I was saying, we actually had permission from the headmaster to be out so late, or well early so I'm sure it will all be sorted out"
"Why did you have permission?"
"I'm sure you'll see in the paper this morning" He said and sat down to finish his breakfast.
Just then the owls stormed in, and probably about hundred of them went straight to Harry.
"Bollocks" He swore as he eyed the stack of letters that were piled in front of him.
Neville however gasped, as he took his eyes off the mountain of letters to read his paper.
"Is it true Harry?" He asked
"What?"
"The attack?"
"Yes"
"And the message?"
"About me? The one that is written in blood and says that I should beware because next time it'll be worse?"
"Yes"
"Then yes it's true. And yes a lot of people died and yes that's why we didn't sleep tonight" He said as the headmaster stood up when
he saw the school starting to bother Harry,
"Students, may I have your attention please. As some of you have read by now, there was an attack this evening last night, in Rome. The Vatican, and the Vatican School have been destroyed, as well as the pope and the headmaster have been murdered. Many innocent
people died in that battle, and many lives were lost because of the evilness in this world. I raise my glass to their honor"
Everyone raised their glasses, "Now, it is true that Voldemort himself was indeed there, and he did indeed leave a message"
The students leaned forward to hear what was about to be said, "That message was directed to Harry Potter, and to see its contents just look in the paper. But I ask you not to bother Harry about it is it is not his fault that dark lords have nothing better to do then chase children
around the world. Now, classes will be held, since you all need your education. Mr. Malfoy, Mr. Weasley, Mr. Potter, Ms. Granger and Ms. Weasley are excused form classes though as they had not slept to last night and are requested in the hospital wing"
After that the teens hurriedly left the great hall to the hospital wing where they were given dreamless sleep potions and went into deep slumber.
I just want to say that I'm very, very, very, very, very, very sorry about the lateness of this chapter… But I don't have an excuse for it though…. I've just been very, very, very lazy and have been spending most of my moping around because the school has deemed it necessary to lengthen our days for the exams to make up for the strike…. Stupid school…. Anyway I'm very sorry that I haven't updated, but I assure you that it won't be that long into next chapter…. I've already started writing it….
Anyway, some of you have been commenting that Harry is working to hard on himself and stuff… but don't worry I'm planning something fun for him soon. And on a similar note, I've been thinking on starting on the pairings… I've been getting a lot of requests for Ron and Hermione so I'll probably go for that…. Unless I get as many requesting me not too…. I've also been getting a lot of requests about Ginny/Draco but I'm not so sure about that…. And I've even be getting more asking for Ginny/Harry which will defiantly not be happening… I have nothing against Ginny/Harry stories but it's just not going to be in this one…. I've already decided that even if Harry will have a serious relationship it won't happen yet, might not even happen until the sequel if I happen to do one, so for now he will just be dating few different girls and nothing of it too serious…
So if you are not happy with the Ron/Hermione ship then let me know, since I'll go by the majority… It probably won't be Draco/Ginny, but if you have other suggestions please feel free to let me know….
And I would like to give my biggest thanks to my beta who has just been wonderful for me...
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Jaina Solo Fel: There is no need to apologize for the lateness of your review... rather I should be saying that for the lateness of my chapter... anyway... I've been thinking about how I should make everyone discover the truth... true I told Remus some of it in this chapter but I don't know when I'll let the others discover the truth... probably on the next two chapter or so... but I won't tell anyone the reason Angel is training Harry and what he is anytime soon... that's much later in the story... anyway...I might make it a Ron/Hermione since there have been many requesting it and perhaps a Draco female Blaize, but I'm not going to have it a Harry/Ginny story... I have nothing against such pairing, I just don't want to write it in this story... sorry... anyway thank you very much for your review... I enjoyed very much reading it and I do hope to see your review over this chapter...
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Coro: Don't worry about that... no matter how long it might take me to update I will finish this story... I know I do work out Harry a lot but I'm planning something really good for him soon... At one point Harry will reveal that he was in the past... which will probably happen soon... and Dumbledore might remember it or he might not... you'll just have to read and find out ;) And about the pairings... I've been considering Ron/Hermione since so many have been asking for that... so that is a large possibility, I'm not so sure on the Draco/Ginny thing though but we'll see... Though Harry will have a serious relationship it won't happen yet, maybe in the sequel if there will be one, but for now he will just be in few different relationships, none of which are anything serious... anyway thank you very much for your wonderful review and I look forward to see you review gain...
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Ruth: That's alright... I've been reading through my story and I've noticed some blanks as well but I doubt I'll re write it anytime soon though as I've been planning to write the first few chapters again for few months now and still haven't gotten around to do it... I sometimes add my own things in my head in other stories so I understand where you are coming from... And yes it's true that Harry can't go on at the rate he is going on now, and since the first attack was made in this chapter things will definitely start happening, but I've plans to make sure that Harry will find some time to relax and have fun with his friends... I'll be starting to play with some pairings soon too... I'm thinking about having a Ron/Hermione since I've had so many requests about it... what do you think?... Anyway thank you very much for the review and sorry about the late update...
Talons: Hmmm... yes Harry has been going really hard on himself hasn't he? Wonder why he still hasn't cracked... ohhh but he will... but after that he will be cutting some slack for a while... anwyay thank you for your review...
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