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Turning Back Time
Chapter 13
"Bad luck, mate..." Sirius said slightly chuckling as he patted Ron in the back to comfort him.
"Yeah," said James coming beside Sirius " We heard about what happened yesterday... that damned Snivilious..."
" I just don't want to talk about it..." Ron said, more to himself than the others.
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"Harry!" called Lily panting as she trailed behind Harry.
Harry turned his head around to see a blood redhead with brilliant green eyes looking back at him. Then he noticed Lupin coming behind Lily. Harry wanted to roll his eyes. He still hadn't managed for his mother and father to "hook up" like they were supposed to. But Harry never saw James so it was quite difficult. It was strange because James would kill for Lily, harry new that... So why on earth was he letting this happen? Even if she was with one odd his best friends... It couldn't be a trick to get Lily to admire James... No! Lupin wouldn't buy into that... but...
" We need your help." panted the young Lupin in front of him.
Harry simply nodded, with a slight glimpse of confusion plastered on his face.
" What for?"
"Well," began Lily, slightly meekly " You seem to know a lot..."
"You seem clever." said lupin, with a kind smile. Harry didn't get that often. He was always "amazing" and "brave" and those ind of things, ut it was only Hermione that was ever really called "clever".
"W-why, though?" said Harry, dumbly.
" Well you seem to know a lot about important things... I don't why, you just do..." lily said, with a dream like or airy sound in her voice as she spoke.
" And the thing help for is really important..." said Remus sadly, as he looked down at a deranged Lily, looking down at her feet.
" What's this important thing?" Harry looked up at Remus suspiciously.
" We-" began Remus.
" Are going to save Arrabella..." said Lily, her fist clenched " Even if it costs me my life...!"
Harry didn't say anything for a few moments. He just stood silent. Arrabella... he had heard that name before... but where? He remembered when she left, but didn't take much notice of her...
" We don't know anything about the ministry... What the buildings are like... where they would keep secret things." Then Harry's eyes widened " secret things..."
The department of Mysteries. " Mysteries; secrets..." similar meanings... That's where prophecies are kept and... the veil. Where Sirius fell into darkness, leaving the world behind. Where Voldemort pretended that he held Sirius.
" We don't know where they would hold Arrabella..." Lily said quietly.
"I do." Remus and Lily looked at Harry, wide- eyed in excitement. " We should leave immediately. The ministry is on the prowl at night, not day. If we leave early, we have a high chance of getting her back." Lily smiled brightly and a tear rolled down her face smoothly, a tear that had the hope filled inside it that she would be able to see her best friend again, after all...
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Remus, Lily and Harry had gathered a couple of broom sticks to go on their journey to retreat Arrabella.
" Ready?" asked Harry to Remus and Lily. Reus nodded, but Lily looked a little unsure. She didn't like to fly.
" Then let's go. " Remus said kindly " Lily you can ride with me." he said warmly, realizing the redhead holding a broomstick with shaky hands " Thank god..." Remus just chuckled at Lily's response.
"Ahhh!" shrieked Lily as they catapulted up into the air.
" What you so scared about?" Remus asked with a bright smile. Lily just looked at him annoyed.
" I don't like to fly... that's-" Lily stopped speaking as she felt the wind blow through her hair. She paused.
" I guess it's not that bad..." Lily admitted, shrugging her shoulders. Remus just laughed.
" Harry!" Lily called over to Harry across from her. Harry turned his head up to look over at Lily.
"Yes?"
" You still haven't told us where you thing Arrabella is!" she said loudly enough so Harry could hear her.
" Well..." began Harry " There's this large room called the department of Mysteries and you see, Siriu-" then Harry stopped. If he told them the truth about Sirius dying and falling behind the veil, they'd consider him nuts and drop him completely. Remus and Lily looked at Harry, curiously waiting for an answer.
" I did some serious research on the ministry and in that room they keep people hostage and I... I just have a feeling she's there..." Harry said truthfully.
Lily and Remus just looked at Harry, a bit of worry in their eyes.
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" It's a full moon tonight." Remus said darkly, sadness escaping his eyes.
" You more calm than usual..." observed Lily trying to make things sound a bit better.
" That's what I though too... I don't know what's going on..." Lily looked worried and clung on to Remus tighter.
Harry looked over at Remus and Lily. They really did love each other. Compared to the way Harry saw his mother treat his father in Snape's memory and comparing to how she felt about Remus... Maybe it was better for the sake of Remus and Lily to be together, but for Harry it would change his whole life, who new what would happen if things stayed like this, but Harry didn't really want to find out...
" Harry," said Lily calmly " Has anyone told you that you lo a bit like Remus here?" asked Lily with a smiled, motioning to the young man sitting in front of her.
" No, actually they say I look like-" Harry was about to bow his cover again. How long would it take for him to get used to this new image? " Uhh...They say I look like Harry..." he twitched his eye slightly as the stupid answer came out from his mouth. Remus and Lily just chuckled in response to his foolish reasoning.
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" Ginny!" Luna called excitedly, running down the hallway with a book in her hand.
" I... I... found some information that will help us get back!" Luna exclaimed.
"In order to break the curse and go back in time, you must bring at least one person back from the future by their own will. Then you must brew a potion, the potion is called " curse of love" , you must take a sip from the potion, with you hands connected to the being from the future. The potion will take 8 months to brew. The potion will not work unless you do one thing. You must break a curse, that was still wished upon a person before you went back in time. The curse however, must be broken by true love." Luna read once again.
" The plan is set for preparation, correct?" Ginny asked.
" Yeah... yeah, I know." Luna said quickly " But I read in this other book that if we do break that curse, and only the break the curse then the people from this time and we, will forget everything that's happened. Like it was a dream."
" Really?" Ginny asked in disbelief
" Yeah..."
"How did-"
" I asked James if he knew anything about it. He had studied it in classes last year and then I looked it up in this book." Luna explained, holding up the large bound book. Ginny looked at the book and flipped to the page " Wow... you're right..."
She said in amazement. Ginny kept on reading down the page.
" We have a problem.." she whispered grimly.
"What is it?" Luna asked with worried eyes.
" Only one person can go back to original time if one curse is broken by true love. That means For all three of us to go back to where we were before that mean we're going- going..." Ginny said with a morta fully terrified look in her eyes, her voice shaking.
" We're going to have to break three curses by true love." Luna said, her voice quivering.
"H-How are we going to do this?" Ginny asked terrified " We only a matter of days left!"
" If it makes it easier," Neville said, joining the conversation " You could try and use the time portkey Harry brought.
Luna nodded. " Yeah we'll definitely need that..."
"What? Why?" Ginny asked frantically.
" The only reason the person from the future had to come was so we could use the device they brought to get back to our time. But unless we drink the potion and break the curses, the time portkey won't accept us..."
Ginny nodded " This sure is complicated..." They didn't say a thing.
"..."
" I think..." began Luna dreamily " ...I have a plan..."
Ginny and Neville whirled their heads around and began listening to Luna.
" Listen closely... We're going to..."
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The department of Mysteries was deserted. There was no one guarding it. No traps. No shelves with round orbs lines up. Just a huge dark empty hall with a small Girl tucked in the corner, her knees up to her chest. Her shoulders moving up and down... up and down... weeping...in pain...
" Harry..." Remus said, his voice slightly quivering as he made his way through the large hall.
" Are you sure...?" Lily said cautiously, not noticing the girl tucked in the corner. Harry had noticed. She was sitting underneath the veil. As if she was attempting to fall down into it... leave the world forever. Harry couldn't hear the voices. Of his mother and his father like he did with his last visit here. It was probably due to the fact that they hadn't died yet... how stupid could he get?
Lily stood still in the middle of the ground cement surfaced large dark room. Her eyes widened as tears began to fill them and slide down her cheeks, to shocked to blink for a second. The girl across from her, weeping, nothing bit skin in bones, scars and bruises surfaced over her arms, legs, back, everywhere. She had messy gold hair that was done up in a high ponytail. There was no mistaking it. It was Arrabella.
Remus looked at the girl sadly and back at Lily. Lily had tried to move one foot in front of the other. It was difficult, but she did it none the less. It took a long time, but she successfully made her way towards the tattered up girl.
Lily cautiously moved her hand up to the girl's shoulder. Her hand quivered so much, that she could barely move it where she wanted to. Lily tapped the girl's shoulder lightly and she looked up.
Her face was pale. Her eyes had black rings around them as if she hadn't slept for months. Even her eye colour had changed. It wasn't a right brown now, but light yellow. And they were bloodshot. From tears continually falling down her eyes. But, when she saw Lily. She genuinely- smiled.
"L-L-Lils?" her voice was quiet and shaky, but when she spoke she had a sound of hope escape from her lips. Lily just nodded, a look of sadness still in her eyes, not coping with seeing such a precious person to her in such a horrid state.
" T-t-this i-isn't a d-dream, is it?" Arrabella asked sadly with hope in her voice once more.
"No Arrabella," began Lily, tears falling from her eyes once more " It's for real." Then Lily embraced Arrabella as she smiled.
" I'm not going to let you go this time... I promise..." Lily whispered to Arrabella.
" Thank you, Lily. You saved me."
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"H-how's Sirius?" Arrabella asked Lily as they rode their way back to the castle.
"Ever since you left, he's a been a wreck..." said Remus, recalling his friend behavior over the last few months.
"He really cares about you." Lily said. Then Arrabella looked different than before. She had a look of excitement in her eyes and a bright, bright smile.
"You mean it?" she asked dreamily, her cheeks flushed pink.
"U-huh!" Lily said nodding excitedly. Arrabella smiled.
" You don't know what would have happened to me if you didn't save me..." Arrabella said with a bit of fright in her voice.
" Arrabella..." Remus said worriedly " Why were they going to do to you?"
"They were..." Arrabella began, her eyes wide " Since I was useless as a witch, they were going to..." she paused and Lily, Remus and Harry looked at Arrabella cautiously.
"..."
"Kill me."
Remus and Harry had a look of shock and disgust on their faces where Lily gasped loudly and cover her mouth with her hand.
" They were going to give me this spell or potion or something" she said disgusted " That made me age quickly, grow old quickly."
Lily looked confused at Arrabella " But... why?" she asked with fear in her voice as well.
" Until I grew old enough that I would die. It would be done quickly and t wouldn't be painful." Lily's eyes widened.
"They did say there was a slight chance that the curse could fail midway..."
" Meaning..." Remus said to Arrabella sadness in his eyes.
"Meaning that at the age that the spell had stopped working I would continue life on." she paused "But I would forget everything that happened to me in my life before then. I would have a fake past, and some information could down to me by others. Either way, I could never have back to the my life was before."
Then she smiled and looked at each of them " But thanks to you, now I can!" They all smiled back at Arrabella and said nothing for a few moments.
" It's Arrabella Figg, right?" harry asked Arrabella. She just nodded.
This must be the same Miss Figg that looked over me when I was younger... she escaped the curse and that's why she was elderly at that time... We just another thing in time, but we saved her... things are better now, aren't they? Harry thought intensely and continued riding his broom towards Hogwarts...
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"Luna!Look! You were right, they did bring Arrabella back! Just like you said!" Ginny said extatically, hanging over the window in the Gryffindor common room, looking at Lily, Remus, Harry and Arrabella coming towards the school on their brooms, the sun setting behind them. Luna just smiled warmly as she saw her thoughts were right.
" Do you two have a plan or something like that?" Hermione said with a bit of disgust in her voice. She hadn't been herself recently; ever since "that incident".
" Yes. We do actually!" Ginny exclaimed proudly.
" Do you think you could get the potion?" asked Luna turning around " We're going to do it tonight. We're going to leave." she had a sad look in her eyes.
" What's all the commotion about?" James asked coming in behind Luna. " Wait. Is that-"
Then Sirius pushed his way through to the window " Arrabella?" he asked, his voice sounding hopeful.
Before anyone could say anything more, Sirius had ran out of the common room and down the stairs to the grounds of the castle where Arrabella was as fast as is feet cold take him. the others followed quickly. Snape and Bellatrix were leaning on a wall in a deserted wall (or what used to be deserted wall)the group of Gryffindors came running down the hall. When Severous noticed Hermione glance at him, he ran after her. Bellatrix just rolled her eyes and grudgingly followed him.
"Listen. There's something I want to talk to you about." Snape said, coming up to Ron.
"What do you want?" Ron replied with disgust in his voice.
"It's about... Hermione."
"And...?"
" I'm sorry. It's my fault the way she acted towards you yesterday."
"No it isn't. I don't blame you. She just-"
"No. It's my fault entirely."
"And why so?"
" I... I gave Hermione a love potion so she would notice me."
Ron said nothing. He just looked at Snape oddly. It made sense, really. Hermione had not been acting like herself at all, like she was under a spell.
"But why her...?" Ron said confused.
" I thought that I was in love with her because she reminded me of something I couldn't have."
Ron looked at Snape strangely, but continued to listen.
" But when I spoke to her yesterday, she made me realize something."
"What?"
" When I talked about you, insulted you she got really mad and went on about how much you cared for her and that was the most important thing in the world..."
Ron looked at Snape, his mouth slightly dropped and smiled warmly.
"Even though she was put under a spell to be in love with me, she still cared for you more. She helped me realize what- what someone else thought of me. How Bellatrix thinks of me. And that- that's what true love really is..."
Ron looked at Snape, one eyebrow raised. He didn't know who this "Bellatrix" was, but to hear that Hermione really did love him, frankly, he didn't care in the least about "Bellatrix"...
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Sirius, James, Luna, Ginny, Hermione, Ron, Neville, Severous and Bellatrix had made their way to the Hogwarts grounds.
Harry, Lily, Remus and mostly Arrabella waved excitedly at everyone. Tears had begun to fill Arrabella's eyes, she was so happy. But her eyes were fixed on Sirius. Sirius was so happy to see her, but he tried not to show in too much he just waved and smiled at her.
" You seriously need to tell her, Sirius." Ginny said, coming in behind him.
"Why? Why should you boss me-"
"If you don't tell her that you love her I swear, with my own fists-" Ginny stopped talking and gasped at she heard screaming.
" LILY!" came Remus' voice, trying to reach for the red- headed girl.
Arrabella and Lily were in the clutches of two adults. One a woman and one a man. They wore pins on their robes that had a large "M" engraved in the pin. There was no mistaking it. They were from the Ministry...
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The man that held Arrabella in his grip, with a knife up to her throat laughed.
" What do we have here? I though you were already taken care of yo useless piece of trash-"
" Let them go." Luna said solemnly, coming up to the man holding Arrabella and the woman holding Lily.
The man was tall and had long silver hair. He had small triangular spectacles and cold, blue eyes. He had a smirk on his face.
" I think this girl has some courage..." he began slyly " Coming up to the minister a magic and pointing a wand right at him." Luna's eyes widened. This was the minister of magic? " Why do you do such a foolish thing?"
"B-because... I have to protect m-my friends." The minister began laughing. He turned to the lady beside him and sneered.
"Let the mudblood go already." Lily glared at the man as she was thrown onto the hard ground. She got up quickly with the help of Remus and ran at full speed at the minister in anger. He smirked and flicked his wand at her, causing Lily to fly back onto her back again.
" Leave the squib with us and no one die, deal?" the woman asked coldly who had beach blonde hair that was done up in the loose bun at the top of her head.
" Never!" Lily said, tears swelling down her face " I-I'll get Arrabella back even if it cost my life!"
The Minister rolled his eyes and snapped his fingers. around him, about a dozen wizards appeared around him. All members of the Ministry, and by their rough looks, they seemed to be aurors.
" Finish them all off, except that one." he pointed his finger directly at Luna. "She's an interesting one. She has something precious... I want to see her... suffer..."
Luna looked at the minister darkly. How could he tell something like that just by looking at her?
"Wait a moment, will you?" the minister ordered, as the wizards around him were about to attack " I want to do one thing."
The knife around Arrabella's neck came closer to her skin, a thin but deep cut appearing on her neck.
"Why do useless things in this world exist? What purpose do you have in this world? You're a magical being but you can't do magic...Do you know why you can't?" Arrabella just shook her head, indicating a "no". " It's because in this world you are completely alone and unwanted. From the moment you were born that was decided. You didn't have anyone and when you think you've finally made friend, they're really fake. Because no one could love an outcast that is useless, that's why you can't do magic! Because you have no love or happiness only pretend-"
" ARRABELLA! DON'T LISTEN TO WHAT THAT BASTARD SAIS! IT ISN'T TRUE!"
" But there is a way even you might be able to do magic... If you find that person..."
" What? How?" Arrabella asked desperately, blood trickling down her neck.
" Well, to tell you the truth, I don't really feel like telling you how."
Arrabella's eyes saddened and she looked into the sky Has everything up until now... my friends... has it all been useless... has it all been fake? His wand was presses against her cut and a liquid swelled into her wound. Then her eyes closed tight, leaving her to only see darkness...
" Heh... I really wanted to see her die without any pain... alas..."
"Let me go!" cried Lily as she restrained from Remus holding her back from Arrabella. " I need to save her... I need..."
" Lily. If you go then you'll die. Don't..." Remus said worriedly.
" NO!"
" It's too late." the Minister said darkly, looking down at Lily. " She's probably dead by now. Only one tenth of a chance she can survive that spell..."
Lily glared up at the man standing over her and fell onto her knees. " I'm sorry... Arrabella..."
" Now! Go!" The minister said, his voice sounding blood- thirsty. The aurors nodded and began to attack.
" Hey you get the mudbloods." he ordered, facing the woman with the blonde hair up in a bed.
" Kill them?" she asked cautiously.
"Please and thank you." The minister answered, a sly smirk spread on his face.
"Sirius! Go now!" Sirius glanced at Ginny " I'll cover you, ok? Just go! You're the only one who can... If you tell her she'll" Ginny looked around to find an excuse " She'll not die! GO!" Sirius nodded and ran up to Arrabella, who had been tossed onto the ground.
"So... the mud-bloods..." the cold messy blonde-haired woman said under her breath. " The red head and the bushy head... That's what he said..." she smirked and came in between Lily and Hermione. She unfolded her arms from her chest and grasped Lily and Hermione by their hair. She chuckled " I won't even need to use magic to fin ish off these brats... a knife through the heart... that's it..."
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The minister had made his way up to Luna.
" You have beautiful eyes." he said, examining her face in his grip. " determined eyes. Eyes that have a reason for living... living for someone... you have those eyes. Eyes that can only clearly see the person dearest to them. Am I right?" Luna looked down at her hands.
" I never used to have those eyes." she looked at the tall silvery man standing in front of her " I sed to have lonely eyes. No real reason to live. But now I do. I have that precious person."
The tall man smiled at Luna " Why don't you go with that person? Leave to be with them? Hmm?" Luna looked over at James fighting the Aurors. " I can't." she said firmly. " He wouldn't want that. He's protecting everyone, fighting for his friends. I have to protect my friends too. I have to be strong... I have to... protect him at all costs, even... even if it kills me..."
" Interesting... you really love him, don't you? The one with the glasses and the messy black hair... "
"Yeah. I do..." Luna admitted, her voice growing shaky.
" It's too bad I have to do this... But you're interfering... you're trying to protect someone who isn't that boy... you got in my way earlier... " Luna looked at him solemnly as he had secured a knife around her neck.
"Is this the only trick you know how to do? Slice someone p and inject some sort of spell into them?" she said coldly.
" You want something a little tougher, do we? Very well, girl..."
Luna's eye's widened. Her body couldn't move. It was in a full body bind.
" I guess this is goodbye, girl... You really do have lovely eyes, like royal blue orbs shining by the moonlight..."
She battered her eye lids ans her eyes opened and closed rapidly " James..."
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" Arrabella!" Sirius desperately shook Arrabella, trying to get her attention. " Arrabella! Please wake... please... " Sirius clenched his fist and closed his eyes tightly " I don't know if you can hear me Arrabella." Sirius looked at Arrabella sadly " But there's something you need to know. I...I can't stop thinking about you... I want you to know that whenever I think about you I get all warm and stuff like that inside... I- If what you said to me before, that you love me, I want you to know I feel the same way, If not stronger about you... and that's the truth. If y-you died, I don't think I could do magic anymore... I could never be happy again..." a tear rolled down Sirius' nose and dropped onto Arrabella's face.
" S-sirius..." Arrabella said quietly and weakly, her eyes still closed shut "could you... g-give me y-your wand for a moment?"
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" Luna?" Harry looked around at the girl with the bottle cork necklace and ruby red radish earing, that fell on the ground with her.
" LUNA!" James yelled running at full speed, pushing his way towards her.
" Luna... what...who...why..." James moped over Luna's limp body that was soaked in a pool of blood.
" Ahh... So you're the one..." came the cold voice of the minister " She seems to be dead already... Not surprising, such a deadly spell...worse than the one I did on that worthless squib..."
James said nothing, but just hung over Luna's body.
" Dead..." he said solemnly, water droplets escaping his eyes and landing on the hard ground in front of him. " Dead... You killed her?" He shot his head up a manic look on his face " You killed her... dead..." he whispered.
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James got up, his arms hanging in front of him, his head down. Luna's fresh blood dripped off from James's finger tips " I loved her... I loved her... she was the only person who understood me... you took that away... you... she's dead..." His head shot up and he charged for the minister " YOU BASTARD! HOW DARE YOU LAY YOUR FILTHY HANDS ON HER! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU WITH MY BARE HANDS!"
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What will happen? will they really be able to go back? Only if they break 3 spells by true love will Luna ginny and Hermione go back in time... Do you like whatb I did with Arrabella? Popular demand that she was too elderly yo be in marauder era... Stay tuned for the LAST chapter of turning back time! I hope you like this chapter. Longer than usual, and more action... I really liked writing this... anywho, please review and stay tuned for the finale!
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