The Meeting
It was August 27th and Henry was about to attend the first staff meeting of the year. As it turned out both James and Lily were professors as well, James was the Transfiguration professor and Lily was the Charms professor. The meeting wasn't to start for another hour, but Henry had other plans. He had now managed to form a friendship with his father, but Lily wasn't around all that much because of his younger self wasn't old enough to go on outings yet so Lily just stayed at home. Today however James, Lily and baby Harry had moved into Hogwarts, so Henry would be seeing a lot more of Lily and Harry.
When Henry walked into the staff room, not many were there yet but he could see Lily playing with baby Harry. "Hello, may I sit here?" asked Henry. "Of course Henry" said Lily as she held Harry in her arms. Baby Harry stared at Henry, with his big emerald green eyes. Henry could feel a connection starting to form. He read in the book about the time changer that if you ever met your younger self a bond would form between them, it didn't say what type of bond or how strong it could get, it just said a very unique bond would form. Lily seemed to notice the staring contest that was going on and said " Thats odd, Harry seems to like you Henry, usually he starts screaming when a stranger is near. It took nearly a whole week for him to warm up to his own godfather" she paused for a second as if contemplating if she should do something. "Hmmmm.. would you like to hold him Henry?" she asked after a minute of thinking.
" Sure" he said.
Lily carefully handed the little baby over to him and it happened, Henry and Harry's eyes locked and unfortunately for Henry the scar from his former time line became visible and flowing with magical energy. The magic from Henry's scar shot out of him and connected with Harry's forehead, Henry could feel his powers flowing through him and a connection, a very powerful connection was being formed between him self and Harry. Harry seemed quite happy about the whole thing as a golden light began to come from him and Henry as well. But as soon as it all started it ended with magic rolling of the two. Because of the intense magic everyone in the room was knocked unconscious and when they woke up no one remembered a thing.
Through out the past few days Henry could feel the link between himself and Harry was growing stronger. Like for example when Henry closed his eyes he could see what Harry was seeing and even sense people or things around him. He had also just met Sirius and Remus, himself and Remus got along well but Sirius seemed to be a little jealous on how he was becoming such goods friends with James, Lily and especially little Harry, it made things a little tense between the two of them. The night they met was on the opening feast at Hogwarts, everything was going fine when something strange happened with little Harry.
Henry was sitting at the staff table eating his dinner and trying the ignore the whispers and the stares. Then his hidden scar suddenly began to burn, he had to use all his will power to suppress it. When the pain had gone he opened his eyes, then he had to cover his ears because of Harry's sudden very loud cry.
" Harry? Harry baby whats wrong" said Lily as she looked down at Harry worriedly. She picked him up and rocked him back and forth whispering soothing word to him, but Harry continued to cry even harder. James, Sirius and Remus came over to Harry and tried soothing him as well but nothing worked. To see what was wrong for himself Henry closed his eyes and concentrated on Harry. The moment his mind entered Harry's he immediately felt what was wrong, Harry was in pain from the magical connection both of them shared with Voldemort.
Henry got up sped his way over to Harry who was now crying hysterically in Sirius's arms. "Shh little Prongs whats the matter, calm down Eh? You are really starting to worry everyone" Said Sirius. "Sirius maybe I can try"said Henry a he lifted little Harry into his arms and closed his eyes, concentrating on Harry's link and began fight off Voldemorts evil magic. Harry's cries soon turned to sniffles and he was soon sound asleep on Henry's shoulder. When Henry opened his eyes everyone was staring at him in shock, Lily seemed to get over it first and asked " What did you do to come him down?". Henry looked at her and smiled as he said "nothing any of you didn't do, I just held him rubbed his back and let him cry for a minute, I guess whatever he was upset about he's over it now".
Well thanks to that lame explanation Sirius became VERY jealous of Henry and literally tried with all his might to catch Henry making a mistake. Henry actually didn't mind he knew Sirius would give up sooner or later and stop treating him as if he were the enemy. But unfortunately that didn't occur until something very bad happened. It was one of Henry's fifth year classes and they were just beginning their first dueling class. Henry before hand had asked Dumbledore if any of the other teachers could be spared for the demonstration, unfortunately Henry forgot about Dumbledore's tendency to partner up people who hate each other.
" Now class what are the two main spells used in a duel?" asked Henry. Over half the students hands went up and Henry pointed to a Slytherin girl in the back of the class. "Expelliarmus and Stupefy sir" she said. "Correct Miss. Walker 5 points to Slytherin, Now I'm sure all of you know the Expelliarmus spell by now, so we will be studying the Stupefy curse today. So how many of you are able the cast one correctly?" asked Henry. Only about 3 hands went up and two of them seemed a little uncertain. "I had thought as much"said Henry. " Who can tell me why this spell is so difficult for teenagers?" asked Henry. Only one hand went up this time, a Griffyndor boy, "Because a teenagers magical powers are very unstable and in order to cast a proper stunning spell the magic that is casting it has to be stable or it could seriously harm the person who is being stunned" answered the boy. "Excellent! 5 points to Griffyndor" said Henry.
At that moment the door to the class room flew opened with a bang and Sirius walked into the room.
"Porter I will have you know I am not here because I want to be, I am here because Dumbledore some how black mailed me to do it" said Sirius as he placed a trunk on the floor which most likely had dueling stuff in it. "Figured as much Mr. Black" said Henry.
So the demonstration started the rules were that they could only use Protego, Expelliarmus, and Stupefy. The First one to be stunned or disarmed loses
Minute by Minute Henry got the upper hand. He said spells so fast Sirius could hardly keep up or get a spell of his own in. Then it ended Sirius was disarmed and Henry turned back to the class. " That is what you can do to win a duel with an enemy any of you might encounter with a limited number of spells now I want you to get in pairs and duel with the spells of, Protego and Expelliarmus begin" said Henry.
Mean while Sirius was so mad he picked up his wand and tried to aim it at Henry but he was shaking in rage and his aim faulted drastically but he was to red with rage to notice."Stupefy!" he yelled. The curse missed Henry entirely and smashed into his own suit case, But the sound that came next froze everyone in their places. " WAAAAAAA!"it was the sound of a baby crying hysterically.
Henry ran as fast as he could to the suit case and felt around, then his hand bummed into something, but he couldn't see anything. "An invisibility cloak!" thought Henry. He grabbed a piece of its material and pulled. Inside was Harry and he looked awful, he had bruises on his head, a bloody nose, and his lips were quickly turning blue, all the symptoms ISS (Infant Stunned Syndrome). Henry couldn't believe it, the spell Sirius had fired was very unstable, to an adult it's considered a serious injury, but to a baby it's fatal.
"Some one run as fast as you can to get madam Pomfrey now! tell her Harry Potter severely hurt by ISS " yelled Henry. Henry quickly conjured a stretcher and gently put Harry on it. He quickly went over all Harry's vitals, he was very weak but still hanging in.
Then Pomfrey came running in with her life saving potions, she quickly gave Harry a small potion to keep him alive until they reached they hospital wing. Before Henry followed Pomfrey out of the room he looked over at Sirius. He looked terrible, he was pale, shaking, and looked like he was going to pass out. Sirius turned and started to run out of the room with his head bowed in shame.
When Henry arrived at the hospital wing he saw Madam Pomfrey work as hard as she could on Harry, casting a spell in one hand and pouring a potion with the other. Just then James and Lily arrived in the room appearing out of breath. Once James was able to speck again he said " Henry what in Bloody Hell happened?" as he stared at Harry with worry. "Your not going to like it at all James" said Henry. "I already know that, now tell me what happened!" yelled James. So Henry told James what had happened and what he did after that probably saved Sirius's life. " Henry let me go! He promised he would keep Harry safe and now he has gone back on that promise, I'm going to give him whats coming to him!" yelled James as he struggled to get out of Henry's grip. "James! Calm down, Sirius didn't mean to hurt Harry, right Henry" said Lily. " No of course not, he just wanted to get back me thats all" said Henry. "Back at you for what?" asked Lily. " I think most of it is jealously, he's jealous of me and he wanted to beat me at a dual to prove that he is better then me, but instead of the spell hitting me like he intended to, he hit Harry. And plus I'm sure he didn't know his spell was unstable."said Henry. " I know that, it's just why did he put Harry in an invisibility cloak in the first place and he didn't even mention he was in the room, again why? I trusted him with my only son and he dose this" said James as he pointed to Harry. " I thought he had grown up enough since school to be Harry's godfather, it seems I was wrong" said James in a very sad voice as walked out of the hospital wing.