Stolen Innocence
"Wake up, Harry," a voice whispered in Harry's ear. Harry slowly opened his eyes and squinted up at the blurry person in front of him. "Here's your glasses," cold metal touched his face and Harry jerked away.
"Sir?" He croaked. "Why are you waking me up?" The man laughed deeply, even though it sounded weak.
"Because you don't want to throw off your sleeping schedule," Howie said cheerfully, "and it's time for lunch."
"Already? But I just ate breakfast!" Harry whined. He wasn't feeling hungry at all.
"Yes, already. Now up. Up. Up." Howie voice had a weary smile to it.
"Why are you so cheerful? It's right after a transformation." Harry said, wincing when Howie's smile faded.
"Yes, but I learned long ago that thinking back on the pain doesn't help. Pain is there to teach you, after you've learned the lesson, you don't need to think about it." Howie said slowly. "I don't mind, but you will have to learn a small thing called tact." Harry cocked his head.
"I know about tact." Harry replied. He was offended that Howie had said something like that.
"Of course you do, you have as much tact as James." Howie laughed.
"Donot compare me to him!" Harry spat.
"I wasn't talking about your father; I was talking about my best friend." Howie explained.
"Well, I'm sure he was no different then my own father."
"Why are you yelling?" Remus hissed slowly when he appeared in the doorway.
"It's nothing, don't worry about it." Howie said hurriedly.
"Really?" Remus growled.
"Yes really, you can l-"
"Harry! Regardless of your feelings for him, you still need to treat him with politeness." Howie interrupted shortly.
"Why? He doesn't treat me the same!" Harry gasped, his face flaming red from embarrassment. He had never been reprimanded in front of people before. He was rarely with his family in front of people."
"Because it's the right thing to do." Howie sighed. Harry rose an eyebrow.
"That never mattered to anyone before, why should it matter if I do it?" Harry asked, causing Howie to growl.
"What I was coming in here to say is that James, Sirius, and a few heads of the ministry will be here to discuss the new terms that You-Know-Who has set." Remus interjected. "Orion is going to be there and we would like you to be there as well."
"I will be there." Howie said, all of the stress in his voice that had left when he and Harry were arguing had returned.
"Have fun." Harry muttered.
"It's not until after dinner." Remus said sharply. "We aren't going to do anything, though, until we find Dumbledore."
"You would all belost without that old bastard. None of you can do anything by yourselves and all of you have an inferiority complex. All of you think that light will always win as long as you have Dumbledore and Iria, but if either of them left, we are all doomed. It's pathetic. Noone person is all important. Sure, some people are more powerful, but even a mountain can be worn down by many small rocks. You're all pathetic." Harry hissed in disgust, surprised at himself for saying anything. "Uh, I mean, um - " Harry stuttered as the two werewolves blinked slowly. This was the longest speech they had ever heard from him with a semi-optimistic background.
Harry wanted to leave the room, but the way was blocked by the two adults. He looked around the room quickly. The only door he had access to was the closet.
"Harry?" Howie choked.
"Just forget it." Harry's voice had thinned to almost not being heard.
"You have no idea justwhat is going on." Remus snarled. The werewolf was still strong so soon after a full moon. "It is theidea of what Iria and Dumbledore represent along with their power. You are too ignorant to know what is happening."
"Only part is the idea, not much." Harry whispered even fainter then before. He had spoken to people about his opinions, but he had never really opened up to what he really thought before. He was confused that he was worried about how they would react.
The two werewolves spun to face the door when it was pushed open and Blaise walked in. She turned her head to the side in confusion when she saw the two adults. "I'm not interrupting anything, am I?" She asked almost timidly.
"No, we're done." Harry breathed in relief as he saw his way out.
"Yes, you are, come back later." Remus said coldly to the female slytherin. Harry glared at the man.
"You arenot my fatheror my guardian as I'm sure you're thankful for." Harry spat. "I don't enjoy speaking to people that have open cases and closed minds." Harry walked swiftly from the room and met up with Blaise. The pair walked outside to sit on the porch.
"Open cases and closed minds?" Blaise teased.
"Like a court case. If a judge has a case in front of him, but is unwilling to actually look at any of the evidence because his mind is already closed with a decision." Harry scowled. "I don't know, I just said it."
"Very Gryffindor of you." Blaise laughed. "And what about your closed mind? I had to pry it open, stuff the information in, and pull the information and my hand out before it took my are off when it slammed shut."
"If you're just going to mock me, feel free to go in." Harry offered. He felt tired. The new people: Junior, Howie, and Orion, they made him crazy when he was around them. He was horrible with them there and even worse when they were gone, in the eyes of everyone in his world.
"Harry?" Blaise asked. Her voice had become thoughtful and she stared into the sky.
"Hmm?" Harry answered. He didn't hear anything and turned to look at her. "Well? What?" His voice held a hint of annoyance to it and he scowled when he saw that she didn't react.
"Are-" Blaise stopped and looked nervously at the ground. "Are you all right?" She asked slowly.
"Why wouldn't I be?" Harry demanded.
"Because I think you might be feeling better." Blaise replied softly, still not looking at him.
"I didn't feel bad, but now, I feel worse if I had to choose." Harry almost spat. "These new people, they're messing everything up, and now everyone is acting differently." Harry growled.
"They are?" Blaise asked. "They might have changed a little, but not a whole lot."
"Lily? What are you doing here so early? And where is James?" Remus' yelp sounded all the way outside. The pair on the back porch turned to the house and listened hard. No other noise escaped from Remus and if Lily replied, it wasn't loud enough to be heard outside.
"Harry." A cry from the yard alerted the teens to the presence of Junior. Harry tilted his head to the side to show he was listening. "Your mum's in there so I was wondering if I could sit out here with you two."
"What? Why?" Blaise asked. Junior turned red from embarrassment.
"Sorry!" He began to back away.
"Just sit down. She meant, why would you want to sit out here?" Harry translated from Blaisan to English.
"I don't like the way she looks at me. She's nothing like what I imagined her to be." Junior muttered.
"Apparently she was different in your world." Harry explained. "That would be why you imagined her to be different."
"Don't worry too much." Blaise said gently. "I imagine you get used to it eventually."
"While we are imagining, let's imagine a way out of here and then make imagination a reality." Harry almost chirped.
"Why would we do that?" Junior asked.
"Because if we leave, we can do more to find a way for you to get back to your own time, world, whatever you want to call it." Harry said. "I don't think we are going to find much help here."
"Yeah, now that Voldemort has made his move, it just became a whole lot more dangerous for you and the two adults." Blaise came into the conversation with the air of someone that had just come to an important revelation.
"I think we were brought here to help defeat Voldemort, I mean." Junior presented his side of the argument hesitantly.
"I think you were sent here to get one of you out of the way." Harry stated morbidly.
"Or maybe they were sent here to get help." Blaise shouted triumphantly. Both of the Harrys looked at her as though her head had become that of a garden gnome.
"Wouldn't they have discussed that with them or at the very least give them a way back?" Harry asked.
"Hey! I'm just trying to think of something. I was starting to feel left out." Blaise defended herself with her arms raised in front of her. Harry smirked.
"Andthat was thebest you could come up with?" He put his hand to his forehead, palm out, and his other hand over his heart. "Oh, woah to Slytherin if that was the best they could offer. The Gryffindor, I could excuse, but you, Blaise." Harry grabbed one of Blaise's hands in both of his hands. "I don't think we can see each other anymore. My reputation would be cursed if I was seen with you." He murmured the last part and bowed his head as though he were in grief.
"Harry James Potter!" Blaise screeched. She slapped his head and stood quickly. Junior watched the pair with wide eyes and Harry grinned at his alternate self.
"Yes?" Harry asked in a drawling voice.
"You are absolutely impossible!" Blaise yelled.
"Absolutely? Not completely or totally?" Harry carried on.
"Ape!" Blaise huffed.
"Hey now, you wouldn't want to insult the apes would you? Anyway, now that Hogwarts has been taken over, the forces of light will be gathering for one final and glorious battle in which their 'girl-who-lived' shall smite the horrid You-Know-Who and justice will prevail." Harry had stood up and finished in a dramatic voice.
"How do you figure a final battle is coming?" Junior asked with his head cocked to the side.
"Well, for one, there is no way people are going to let Voldemort get away with taking over Hogwarts, so a large battle atleast going to happen. The main reason that it is also going to be the final battle is that I willmake it a final battle." Harry's eyes narrowed as he spoke.
"Why?" Blaise asked.
"Because if I don't, the lunatics of the light are going to end up killing my sister." Harry snapped. "Those fools are so far blinded by what they want to see to notice that she isn't as good as they want her be."
"But surely they wouldn't send someone to send someone to fight Voldemort before that person was ready." Junior's eyes were wide in either disbelief or shock.
"You better believe they would. They believe what theywant to believe. They are too blind to see what is right in front of them. I see it year after bloody year." Blaise informed.
"But wouldn'tshe feel nervous about fighting Voldemort when she's not ready?" Junior asked.
"No, everyone's telling her she's ready." Harry shrugged. "Oh, I found this wicked spell in an old runes book. I'm thinking that it might be good to use against Voldemort."
"Well?" Blaise demanded.
"Well what?" Harry asked.
"What does it do?" Blaise snarled, moving her face so it was right in front of Harry's. Harry bobbed his head forward and gave her a short kiss on the nose. Blaise immediately pushed Harry over. "Harry!" She shrieked when Harry started laughing.
"What does the spell do?" Junior asked.
"It makes the soul connect directly to the body.So if the body dies, the soul dies immediately. This way, the soul doesn't stay alive through any other means and isn't able to remain living when the body dies." At Junior and Blaise's confused looks, he sighed. "When a being containing magic dies, their soul can stay alive for a short amount of time, it all depends on how strong the magic in a person is.
"Where do you think ghosts come from? When a soul has left a body because the body is dead, a witch or wizard can make the soul into a ghost. If part of the soul does not reside in the body for whatever reason, the soul cannot move on until the other hosts of the soul parts 'die'. This is the main reason why bonded couples die so close together most of the time. To have part of a soul die puts a large amount of strain on whatever else is holding parts of the soul." Harry explained.
Junior and Blaise still looked confused. "Why would someone separate their soul outside of bonding?" Junior asked.
"Outside of bonding, which is very pure magic mind you, all other attempts of separating a soul is dark magic." Harry said. "I think power, immortality, and those types of things play large rolls in someone wanting to separate their soul."
"So what spell is this that you found? Why wouldn't someone use it if it's out there?" Blaise asked.
AN: Sorry for taking so long. My uncle just died on my mom's side and two great uncles have cancer, one isn't going to make, maybe not even to next year. And I am very backloged from school and everything else. But on the lighter side, I finally got the update out for this and I will likely get the next chappie or two from AIMtBL out. I will try for by the end of this month, but don't hold me to it, I will be out by the end of March, though. Things are somewhat hectic because I am graduating this year. I always thought that this was supposed to be the easiest part of school, that everyone else takes care of it for you.
Thank you to all that reviewed.
Lone Angel
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lilsteves - if you like this kind of story, I have read a few others like it, maybe two. I forget what they are called, but they were from the visitor's perspective. So they are out there.
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KingofthePhoenixes - Yes this is a Harry/Blaise, I am not sure why I made it a H/B, I had never really thought of it before, but yes, it is infact H/B.
Lemo
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Blood Red Potter - Dumbledore is still MIA, but he won't be for long, I think.
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ApocSM - gracias
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Miss-taken - I am sorry that it is confusing
Lils
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Eira6
Britton Chic - I don't know what Harry will do, but I don't think he will close himself off more. I haven't written that far, so I don't know how the story will go.
Gryffindors
shadow - children many times want to believe that their parents care about them, whatever the opposite and they don't want to break away from what they know. I am sorry that you find it confusing, but many times, a child's mind is confusing and can run circles around people.
EmotionlessNightmare
meisme
The Sleeping Creature
snowlight144 - one harry is indpendent because he was almost forced to become independent, the other harry is really dumb, because that is how I picture the J.K.Rowling Harry to be.
MidNite Phoenix
anneth10
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bunk64 - they are used to treating him like shit, and while they know what is true and what is not, denial is a very powerful thing
lotrox
casadarn - you can hate whoever you want to hate, though I look at Iria as someone that is breed from the way everyone treats her
phlotretc - thank you, I shall take a look at it.
MasterLupin117 - it probably would, but then, my harry doesn't look at parents as being very good
Yzliose - thank you
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evantide - that's good to hear
A-Man
snickers - constructive critisism is always welcome. I changed the new Harry to Junior so that there wasn't a mix up, James was just a thought, and you can be plural as well as singular, many people just use you all or y'all and where I'm from, we just use you without the all.
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The Silver Serpent - I'm not sure if I should take that as good or bad
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The Magic Bringer - It seems many people want to see them in pain.