A/N: Yay! I'm updating! Yup I got HBP read. I've read it like three tmes now actually.I loved it honestly. It was shocking but loved it! Okay enough of me, on with my story!
Disclaimer: See chapter 6?
Chapter Seven: Nightmares and Ruined Shopping Trips
Dream
He was back at the Department of Mysteries; alone this time. That should have been the first clue that Harry was dreaming, but he was frantic. He needed to find Sirius. Voldemort had him. Harry all but flew down the now familiar corridor and in to the spinning room. The flaming 'X's, made by Hermione before were still there.
"Please be alright!" Harry whispered to himself before running though the first X-ed door he saw. It was the sparkly room. The one with time as its theme. 'Not here.'
Running back out, Harry didn't give the door time to close and spin before ripping the other one off its hinges.
The five Order members were there, fighting the Death Eaters. Sirius was just starting to duel Bellatrix Lestrange. He didn't have much time.
"SIRIUS STOP! SHE'S GONNA KILL YOU!" Harry screamed at the top of his lungs. Sirius stopped to look at Harry when the curse hit him. He crashed through the archway.
Everyone else disappeared as Harry jumped down the benches to the dais that held the arch.
"SIRIUS! PLEASE COME BACK!" Harry yelled at the curtain that danced mockingly in front of him, keeping Sirius out of view.
Remus stepped out of the shadows, his face pale. "He's gone Harry. Gone. You took him from me."
Remus's face shifted into Bellatrix's mocking face. "Awww, is wittle babwie Potter sad? Does he miss whiz Sirwis?"
Lestrange's black hair turned silvery blond and her face became more pointed until Harry was gazing at Lucius Malfoy.
"This all could have been avoided if you had just died Potter."
Harry shook his head. "No. Voldemort would still be here."
Lucius laughed. "Potter, he is here. Thanks to you."
Harry still shook his head, but doubts began forming in his mind. Lucius laughed again before stepping back into the shadows.
The sound of footsteps reached Harry's sensitive ears and he turned towards the veil. 'Sirius. It has to be Sirius!' Harry thought, shaking with a mixture of fear that it might not be Sirius and hope that it would be.
The veil had stopped blowing in its supernatural wind, blocking the person from Harry's view. Harry let out a shaky breath before whispering, "Sirius?"
A dead, graying hand ripped the curtain back in response and Harry came face to face with the dead Cedric Diggory.
Harry stepped back quickly as Cedric walked out of the veil. The smile on the dead boy's face was not welcoming.
"Disappointed Harry? I thought you'd be happy to see your old friend. Got anything to say for yourself?"
"No! This can't be real. You're dead." Harry whispered. Cedric looked every bit the vengeful ghost he was.
"Yeah, I am. No thanks to you. Tell me, what else do you have on your check list after killing me, stealing my girlfriend and breaking her heart? Or killing your innocent godfather!"
Harry shook his head. Cedric accused him of all these horrific actions in a voice Harry had never heard the kind-hearted Hufflepuff use. Cedric continued.
"What would your parents think, Harry? They'd be so disappointed in you. After all, you killed them too."
Anger sparked in Harry's blood and he glared at the boy before him.
"NO! Voldemort killed my parents! You're not Cedric. The Cedric I knew would NEVER say these things!"
Fake-Cedric smirked evilly. "The Cedric you knew? You didn't know me! Just like you don't know your parents. Let's have a little chat with them; see who they believe killed them!"
Cedric walked over and stood to the right of Harry, facing the veil. Harry stepped away from him, cautious as he heard two more pairs of foot steps coming from behind the veil.
Lily and James Potter stepped out form behind the veil, skin tinged gray with looks of hate on their faces.
"Murderer!" James Potter spat at his son as he and his wife made a semi-circle around Harry, who could do nothing but face the veil. "I died for you! Your mother died for you! And this is how you repay us? By getting one of our best friends sent to Azkaban? If it weren't for you, Peter would have never changed sides! Cedric Diggory would still be alive! Sirius would still be alive!"
That nasty voice in Harry's head kept getting louder with every accusation said, drowning out his thoughts. He did kill them. It was his fault.
Lily Potter looked every bit like Harry imagined his Elemental Veela mother to look like but the decaying skin and hateful expression was something he never pictured on her.
"You survived that night. Why couldn't you save us? You're supposed to be the 'One with the Power to Vanquish the Dark Lord'! And then to turn around and bring him back! After everything your father and I did to stop him? You are no son of mine!"
Harry was crying but they didn't notice. "Please! It was an accident! No one was supposed to die! No one!"
While trying to convince himself and the dead around him, Harry didn't hear the next step of footsteps.
"Harry." came a voice from behind him. Harry knew that voice! Sirius! The relief that spread though Harry at Sirius' voice died and turned to fear as he turned around and came face to face with his dead godfather.
"Sirius?" Harry asked quietly, heart breaking over the fact that he had lost Sirius again. "No! No, you can't be dead. Please, I'm so sorry!"
Sirius glared at him before grabbing his arms and pulling him closer.
"Well you should be." he whispered back, his ice cold hands squeezing Harry's arms. "I lost fifteen years of my life to you. A worthless freak that kills everyone around him. You're a plague Harry Potter. One I should have washed my hands of a long time ago. And now you've killed me too."
Sirius pushed Harry away from him. He stumbled into James who pushed him back into the middle of their circle. Harry fell to his knees and covered his ears with his hands. "No," he whispered to himself, trying to drown out the voices of the people he'd killed. "I'm sorry. I was trying to save you. All of you. I tried. I did! I really did!"
A high, cold laughter echoed in the room. Harry looked up to see his nightmares all gone.
"Help us Harry!" came his mother's voice. "Help us!" Harry looked across the room to see his mum, dad, Sirius and Cedric all chained to the wall, looking alive.
"Harry please!" his mother screamed again before a pale, spidery hand holding a wand came out form the shadows.
"Avada Kedrava."
A flash of green light and Lily Potter was dead again. Laughing, Voldemort stepped out from the shadows, a sword with Slytherin green emeralds on its hilt. Quickly he beheaded James Potter before turning back to Harry.
"You fell for my trap again Potter. Now I get the pleasure of killing them all over again."
Harry surged forward to stop him but the floor that he was kneeling on suddenly turned into liquid, trapping him.
"Leave them alone!" Harry screamed as the liquid grabbed his arms, preventing him from getting his wand.
Voldemort chuckled as he ran his pale hand down Cedric's cheek to rest on his neck.
"Kill the spare!" he whispered before snapping his neck.
"NO! STOP IT!" Harry screamed as the goo pulled him down and Voldemort walked slowly over to Sirius.
Sirius began struggling with his chains as Voldemort got closer. Pointing his wand at the escaped convict Voldemort whispered "Imperio."
Sirius stopped struggling and a blank look fell over his face.
Harry was now up to his chest in the goo and sinking quickly. Voldemort looked over at his enemy and mock-sighed.
"You're going to miss your loving godfather, aren't you Harry?" he asked before turning to Sirius and saying, "Say 'Good Bye Harry'."
Sirius looked over at his struggling godson and repeated. "Good Bye Harry." before Voldemort plunged the sword through his chest and the goo swallowed Harry completely.
End of Dream
Harry sat up gasping. He was in an unfamiliar room; the ceiling was dark with storm clouds, lightning illumining the room every so often.
Jumping out of bed, Harry ran towards the door. Sirius. He had to find his godfather. Harry ran down the hallway to Sirius' room only to find the door open and empty, having either not been slept in or already made.
With no windows this deep down in the dungeons, Harry had no way of knowing exactly what time it was, his old wristwatch having been previously broken in his fourth year during the Triwizard Tournament. With that thought reminding him of Cedric and that of his dream and Sirius, Harry took off out into the Slytherin Common Room.
It was empty, but the wizarding clock above the main fireplace read 'You'll never make breakfast'. Just as Harry was dashing up the stairs to exit the Common Room, the Portrait swung open and Harry collided with the one person he was looking for.
"Harry!" exclaimed Sirius, smiling at his godson. "You that happy to see me?"
Harry was too relieved to see Sirius still among the living to answer, and that's when Sirius took in the look on Harry's face. He was pale and shaking.
"Hey," Sirius said in a soothing voice. "What's wrong?"
Harry swallowed as tears began forming in his eyes. "You're alive?" he asked in a whisper, his voice trembling.
Sirius pulled Harry into a hug as the boy began to cry. "Of course I'm alive. I couldn't be standing here dead now could I?"
Harry shook his head, hugging his godfather back tightly, which concerned Sirius even more. Harry wasn't the kind that liked displays of affection.
Smoothing Harry's now tri-colored hair, Sirius wanted to know what caused the normally kind hearted boy to cry.
"What made you ask such a question?"
Harry had finally calmed down, his crying now a small sniffle every few minutes. His face wasn't red or blotchy from crying, his Veela nature taking care of that.
"I'm sorry." He finally said, his voice still shaking. "I had... dream. You fell...my fault! And you came back... but he killed you!"
Everything clicked and Sirius wrapped his arm around the boy's shoulder again before kissing his forehead.
"Hey, don't cry. It was just a nightmare. I promise you, I'll live forever or die trying!" Sirius said trying to lighten the mood.
Harry chuckled weakly and had stopped crying all together now. He blushed.
"Sorry about that. I was just worried."
Sirius smiled. "You know you can come to me about anything. Even nightmares. I'll even listen to your dreams. Any kind of dreams you want to talk about."
Harry blushed at Sirius' joke and playfully shoved the man. Sirius was about to grab Harry in a headlock when Remus rounded the corner.
"There you two are! We've only got about an hour before we're supposed to go to Hogsmeade."
Harry quickly began walking back down the steps to the Common Room. He still had to shower, change and get something to eat. Sirius and Remus followed Harry back to their rooms. "You go shower and change Harry." said Remus moving towards the kitchen. "I'll make you something to eat. How about bacon and eggs?"
Harry nodded. Sirius sighed as Remus took out two frying pans.
"Why do you cook when Hogwarts has more House Elves than the Forbidden Forest has trees?"
Remus answered Sirius without looking up from his work.
"Because not only is it relaxing, but what would you do if there weren't any house elves around?"
Sirius smiled. "Why, get you to cook for me Moony."
Remus sighed. "Why do I bother?"
"Aw, Remus. You cut me deep!"
Snort. "You'll survive."
Sirius mock pouted. "You'd miss me if I was gone."
"No I wouldn't."
Sirius sniffed, his nose up in the air.
"Well fine! Harry and I will just go shopping by ourselves!"
Remus raised an eyebrow at the black-haired wizard. "Who says Harry would want to go shopping with you?"
Sirius gave Remus a superior smirk. "Because he has nightmares that one day I'll be gone."
Remus stopped. "He does?"
Sirius sighed, looking sad. "Yeah. He had one last night. Nearly trampled me running out of the Common Room this morning. I just got him calmed down before you showed up."
"All that talk last night about the past and his parents must have brought up some pretty scary memories."
Sirius was pensive. "It was the first time I ever saw him cry."
Remus set Harry's food down on the table, his back to Sirius.
"He cares about you a lot. I had to hold him back from running right in after you when you fell..."
Sirius looked over at the werewolf. All he really wanted to do was go over and hold him and tell him he'd never be alone again, but Sirius hadn't had the right to do that in over fifteen years.
Slowly Sirius walked over and put his hand on his crush's shoulder. "Remus..." He began but was cut off by Harry announcing his presence.
"I have no clothes! It's all too small!" Harry stormed out wrapped in a long dark blue robe. Both men turned towards their dead best friend's son blushing.
Harry raised an eyebrow at them.
"Am I interrupting something?"
Remus cleared his throat. "Don't the clothes from last night still fit?"
It was an obvious change of topic.
Harry shook his head. "I doubt it would fit a first year now! Sirius, are you shrinking my clothes?"
The man gave Harry an insulted look. "No!" he denied swiftly. "I'll have you know that you've grown about eight inches over night!"
Harry's eyes widened. Before, thanks to the Dursleys, Harry was a small five foot two inches. If Sirius was right, Harry would be about five foot ten.
Remus nodded.
"You've grown into the body you would have had had you had been fed properly and taken care of." He growled out the end.
Harry grunted. He had no other choice according to Dumbledore. After the trip to Hogsmeade all bets were off. Harry was getting his answers one way or another.
Sirius decided to end the angry silence.
"Come on and eat your breakfast Harry. We've got Slytherins to meet in twenty minutes." Harry looked at him confused.
"Dumbledore thought it would be safer if the whole group went to Hogsmeade when we asked him about a trip this morning."
Harry huffed in annoyance. "What exactly is he trying to do? Force me to me make nice with the Slytherins? We're not going to just forget all our differences and be great friends or anything!"
"It's actually a great idea." said Remus thinking out loud. "What better way to promote inter-house relations than to get Harry Potter to be friends with a bunch of Slytherins?"
Harry swallowed a mouth full of egg and sighed. "I hate being the lab rat in his scientific study."
Sirius patted Harry's arm in mock-sympathy.
"You know, it could be worse."
Harry gave his godfather a doubtful look. "And how exactly could it be worse?"
Sirius smiled. "Well they could all secretly be out to get you."
Harry groaned. "They could all secretly be out to get me anyway!"
Remus smacked the convict on the back of the head.
"Don't make him paranoid."
"I'm doomed." Harry moaned, his head resting on his arms.
Sirius finally conjured up some nice looking jeans and a dark green t-shirt for Harry to wear, while Remus let him borrow one of his robes. He and Harry were pretty close together, height wise.
The three Gryffindors met the group of Slytherins at the Main Entrance. Snape had his usual sneer on his face when he saw them.
"We'll break up into groups of no less than three apiece. We'll leave the Gryffindors" he said the word like it was something on the bottom of his shoe, "to do their shopping on their own."
"Thank Merlin." said Harry and Sirius at the same time. Snape glared.
The walk to Hogsmeade was refreshing for Harry. He hadn't been outside in the sun for the last week and it felt great. The storm that had appeared on Harry's ceiling had just passed, leaving the sky clear.
Remus leaned close to whisper in Harry's ear when he saw the contented smile on the boy's face.
"Elemental Veela love it outside. Your mother loved the winter time when it snowed."
Harry grinned. It was nice to have something in common with his mother for once, when he had almost every physical aspect of his father.
Harry was so happy he didn't really mind that his eyes would often travel over to one particular group of Slytherins. The group consisted of Blaise Zabini, Pansy Parkinson, Theodore Knott and of course Draco Malfoy.
As if feeling Harry's eyes on them the whole group looked up at him. Harry blushed at being caught staring but gave a small smile back when Pansy waved at him. Knott smiled back, while Blaise nodded his head gracefully. Draco was the last one to turn his head away. Looking into those silvery eyes, Harry felt that feeling again. Like his first time flying on a broomstick, his first spell, getting his wand.
Both boys blinked and began blushing at their actions. Draco was brought back into his group with a question from Pansy.
Sirius and Remus, having seen the whole thing smiled. Maybe this wouldn't be as hard as they thought. Sirius decided to have a bit of fun at Harry's expense.
"Is that a sunburn on your face or are you blushing?"
Shrinking back at his godson's glare, Sirius turned into Padfoot and tried to hide behind Remus.
Harry suddenly smiled sweetly.
"Keep it up doggy and I just might find a reason to get you neutered."
Padfoot yipped, causing the Slytherins to look back at the two laughing Gryffindors.
Harry Potter was a mystery. And Draco Malfoy hated mysteries. Pansy on the other hand loved them and was quickly becoming obsessed with what had happened to Harry Potter.
"I can't wait to go to the book shop here! They have everything. I'm going to get anything I can find on magical inheritances. I got a list from The Book and I'm going to look for every book available on it. I'll probably order the rest, but of course I'll have to check out the library!"
Theo sighed. "We'll never hear the end of this until you figure it out, will we?"
Blaise shook his head. "She's like a Thestral with a bone when it comes to things like this. That's what made her a good spy."
Draco rolled his eyes at the comparison Blaise made, but was quite honestly a bit curious himself. His father and godfather had no clue either as to what had plagued the Gryffindor Golden Boy and Dumbledore wouldn't tell them.
"I suppose we'll just have to help her then. It was obvious that Potter didn't even know himself what was going on, so it couldn't have been a normal coming of age since he only turned sixteen and not seventeen. But then again, when has anything normal happened to him?" Draco asked.
Theo chuckled. "Probably never. Something normal coming along just might scare him. But he's looking pretty fine this morning."
"What!" said Draco, taken aback.
Blaise also looked shocked but nodded his head in agreement. "Theo's right, as much as I hate to admit it, but either Potter did some serious growing over the last month or we've all been blind for the last six years."
Pansy leaned closer to the three boys, but addressed Draco.
"Even you have to admit it, Drake. Especially with the way your ideas swing. I thought Malfoys could enjoy true beauty no matter what it was."
Draco glared at his only true 'girl' friend and was about to retort when she interrupted him.
"And he's even looking over at us right this very second."
All four Slytherins turned to see the god that was Harry Potter staring at them, his emerald eyes brighter than the grass they walked on.
Theo looked away first and shivered.
"Damn it's not normal to look like that."
Blaise made an agreeing noise. "Maybe it isn't normal."
Draco drowned out his friend's discussion of what was wrong with Harry Potter for just looking at Harry Potter. 'Okay so he's hot. His personality leaves much to be desired. Sev's right about him being a spoiled celebrity brat no matter what Pansy says.' Draco thought about what his father had said last night too though. 'But dad's no fool. Why would he say those things if he didn't mean it?' Potter blinked and Draco could look around again. 'Oh Merlin I was just staring at him all that time!' to Draco's horror he began to blush but was saved from too much embarrassment by Pansy asking him a question.
Using his mask, Draco gave Pansy a total non-answer to which she gave him her patented freaky-eyed glare.
Pansy huffed. "I hate it when you do that! I ask for your opinion and I end up getting more confused then I was in the beginning!"
Blaise nudged Pansy playfully. "Well it isn't that hard to confuse you anyway."
Pansy looked like she was about to give the black haired Slytherin a tongue-lashing when a frightened yip from the 'Gryffindor area' as Draco's mind had dubbed it, made them all whip around.
A huge black dog was now cowering behind their ex- DADA professor, while both him and Potter we laughing.
Pansy's eyes widened. "Did you know Black was an animagus?" she asked her friends, back in spy mode.
Draco shook his head. "Apparently he became one illegally."
"Think Harry's one?" she asked back, now that the commotion was nothing too serious. 'Serious! HA!' Draco laughed at his thoughts, before answering Pansy.
"Merlin, I hope not. And stop talking about him already. His head will soon be so swollen he'll have a hard time getting through the Front Hall."
Pansy rolled her eyes, but was silent because they had reached Hogsmeade.
Everyone split up, agreeing to meet at the Three Broomsticks for Dinner.
Harry sighed as him, Remus and amazingly Snuffles walked into Madam Maulkin's Dress Robes for All Occasions: Hogsmeade Branch. He could do without shoping really, if it weren't for the fact that he had no clothes that fit. The woman behind the counter baulked at Sirius, but was quickly assured that 'Snuffles' was magically charmed to sit and wait patiently. That and the fact that Harry kept accidentally persuading people to do what he wanted got the poor doggy in. One man on the street had started yelling loudly about how Harry's eyes were unmatched by emeralds and that his hair put silk to shame, but Remus quickly silenced him and sent him on his way.
At the moment, Harry, Snuffles and Remus were starring at all the clothes with a lost look. Neither really knew where to start, Harry and Remus not being big on fashion and Sirius being a dog couldn't just say 'This color looks good on you, Harry!'
Finally, Harry appealed to the manager who just snapped her fingers and quickly had two bubbly, blonds helping Harry pick out his clothes.
All three men discovered more about the world of fashion in one hour than three years of reading magazines could ever teach them. Harry apparently looked best in darker colors, pastels making him look too young and girly and white making him look monochromatic.
There were a lot of dark greens ("Too match your beautiful eyes!" squealed one of the blonds excitedly, flirting with Harry.) blues, grays, blacks and to Harry's surprise reds. Harry got casual clothes, formal, semi-formal, practice or workout clothes, undershirts, pjs and to Harry's horror and extreme embarrassment, underwear.
Finally after two and a half hours of trying on clothes, Remus shrunk all the bags and the group left to explore until dinner. Harry wore a pair of casual black jeans with a dark red t-shirt and midnight black robes out of the shop.
Harry went to the post office to write quick thank you letter for his gifts to his friends before they decided to head towards the book shop.
"I'm planning on asking for some books to be shipped in and sent to me on Elemental Veela. If anyone asks, it's for Defense." Harry said ask the walked through the door, a bell signaling their entry.
The place wasn't as busy as it was usually seeing as it was the summer holidays and few students actually want to see books until September second.
"Look there's Draco, Pansy, Theodore and Blaise over there." pointed out Remus. "They sure have a lot of books."
That was an understatement, as Blaise and Theodore already had their arms full and Pansy was now filling up Draco's. Professor Snape was over browsing the Potions section, while Lucius Malfoy was checking out some magazines on Finance.
Harry's shoulders shagged in defeat. He'd have to be pretty swift to get a book about Elemental Veela checked out, paid for and/or ordered without one of the Slytherins breathing down his neck. Harry was actually curious as to what Pansy was so interested in.
"Remus, can you try and find out what they're looking for? It may be a good enough distraction for me to get any of the books I need."
Remus looked at Harry, hesitating. "You shouldn't hide your uniqueness from people. Some may call you a magical beast, but most will respect you. You should be proud. Your mother was, even though the danger at that time kept her from acting that way all the time."
"Yeah and one galleon says that the Slytherins are some of the few who believe that people like me aren't worthy of living or something equally twisted. They may not have been evil Death Eaters in Training but they still hold the belief that they're better than everyone. In their eyes not only would I be just a half-blood but an animal as well. Why are you pressuring me to tell the whole damn world? I don't remember you being so honest with my Dad and Sirius when it was you at school with a secret!"
Snuffles barked looking at Remus. 'Give him time Moony. He's grown up too fast for my liking but he's still an insecure boy. If we force him to do this, it'll probably backfire.'
Sensing that Harry had Sirius' backing, Remus let it slide for now. They both didn't understand that being a werewolf and being an Elemental Veela were as different as water and oil. This was what Harry was completely now, not like Remus who spent one day a month as a monster.
Just about to walk over and do a bit of spying on the spies, Remus was stopped by Harry.
"If they say anything that hurts you just tell me and I'll set their beds on fire."
Remus shot the Veela a stern look.
"You will do no such thing!"
Harry shifted his eyes around looking for eavesdroppers before glaring back at Remus.
"I meant what I said last night. To me, you're family. Anyone who hurts you hurts me. This is Harry the person talking here, not Harry the Veela. Even if I was normal, if that's possible for me, I'd still hex them all six ways past Sunday for hurting you. And you'd do the same for me. I've got no need for racism. It does nothing for society but start wars."
Remus smiled in spite of himself. Even after all that had happened Harry was still so pure of... heart, for lack of a better word. He still believed in a society that treated its people equally while living in a world where equality was a farce.
As casually as someone who had never been able to be casual in their life could, Remus went over to the book laden group.
"So what are you all looking for? It's still a month until classes start, you know."
Pansy quickly hid the book she held in her hands and turned towards Remus, looking perfectly innocent. Her three friends were trying desperately to hide their own books, but Remus quickly snatched one off of Blaise's pile.
One look at the title made his blood run cold. Elemental Veela: The Powers Unknown. Harry needed this book! Instead of panicking Remus cleared his throat and raised an eyebrow in question.
"Elemental Veela? I thought they had gone into hiding for the next ten centuries."
Pansy laughed and made a dismissive gesture with her hands.
"I honestly don't know how that one got in here. Must have accidentally gotten mixed up when I was grabbing a book about Vampires for my DADA essay."
Remus knew she was lying. What was worse, Pansy knew he knew she was lying. Damn.
Pansy sighed in defeat. "Okay I was actually-
BANG!
A blast shook the building, wood and glass covering them all. Remus had pushed all four students down to the floor and covered them.
"Is everyone alright?" He asked getting up off them. People were screaming outside the shop, blasts still shaking the ground.
Blaise rubbed his ribs with a grimace.
"Oh, I'll never breathe right again."
"DRACO!" came Lucius Malfoy's voice from the far right of the group. "Are you alright?"
Draco untangled himself from the group and swiftly walked over to his father who was bleeding just above his left eye. In an uncharacteristic display of emotion, Lucius hugged his son tightly before holding him out for inspection.
As the dust started to settle Snape walked over to his students, his arm twisted bizarrely.
"What's going on?" he asked, his face pale with pain. "Where are the others?"
That's when Remus' brain clicked. Harry. Sirius. Turning away from the group, Remus began to yell.
"Harry! Sirius! WHERE ARE YOU?"
To his relief, Harry came running at him from outside the shop. Most of the other Slytherins came behind him. Sirius was missing.
Harry looked frightened. "Remus! We've got to find Sirius! We went to look outside because it was so quiet when the blast came! I couldn't find him after! He could be hurt or dying!"
Remus' heart stopped. His brain told him that Sirius would want him to go on with Harry. Harry had to be safe, but his heart said that Harry could now take care of himself.
Making a decision he hoped didn't doom them all, Remus grabbed Harry's wrist and pulled him outside.
"Come on! We've got to find him before Voldemort gets here!"
Outside the sun was covered by black clouds making it seem like twilight. The first thing Remus noticed about the darkness was that it was cold. Dementors. Sirius couldn't stand Dementors. Harry was talking as he pulled Remus into an alley.
"From what I saw there were at least twenty Dementors and what looked like vampires! But it's just after sunrise! I'm guessing Death Eaters set the blasts."
Remus nodded. "They're not normal vampires Harry, so be careful. They've been given the power to walk in the sunlight. They're called Light Vampires, but are the most vicious of their kind! And they hate Elemental Veela."
Harry looked out of their alley. Witches and wizards were screaming and running away from the group but it was no use. Harry's enhanced eyesight saw that all the exits from Hogsmeade were blocked.
Harry looked at Remus. They had to get Sirius but they also had to get the others back to Hogwarts before Voldemort showed up. He'd have a ball with almost all his spies here to kill. A plan was forming in Harry's head. Now all he had to do was get Remus to go along with it.
"Remus, Sirius can't fight Dementors. At all. And we've got about twelve of Dumbledore's spies hiding in a book shop waiting to be killed like fish in a barrel."
"I know that! Your gift for stating the obvious isn't really in that much of a demand right now , Harry!" said Remus, angry for once. It was working so far.
"Then you know some of the secret passageways back to Hogwarts right? I'd say the best one is the one from Honeyduke's cellar. If you can get them all together and there in ten minutes, I can get me and Sirius there."
Remus looked at Harry like he had just grown another head.
"No way am I leaving you here to get Sirius on your own. Look what happened the last time we went to get him! He died! I'm not going to loose him again and I'm never going to loose you!"
Harry growled. They were wasting time.
"I can take care of myself. You know this! If I couldn't you wouldn't have pulled us out here to look for Sirius! I know as a werewolf you have enhanced senses, but mine are more than yours could ever hope to be! I'm relying on you to get them to safety! With you doing this I can focus on finding Sirius! I'll meet you there in ten minutes! If I'm not there, then go without me! Now go!"
Harry tried to push Remus away but the man wouldn't budge.
"NO!" he began but Harry cut him off.
"Don't make me use my magic to get you to do this. We're wasting time. Move!"
This time Remus took off back towards the book shop. By the multi-colored flashes at both ends of Hogsmeade, the Death Eaters had already arrived.
Silently, Harry jumped onto the fire escape of building he was hiding by, which was located on the second floor. He honestly didn't know how he could do this, just that he could and right now he was following what his gut said to do.
Landing on the roof, Harry looked around for Sirius on the ground but couldn't see him with the wind making it so dark. Closing his eyes, Harry decided to do something about the horrible weather. The rain that had felt like knives on his skin began to slacken to a complete stop when something pushed Harry from behind, breaking his concentration.
Opening his eyes to make sure he didn't kill himself by falling off the building, Harry saw Remus and the Slytherins battling their way towards Honeyduke's. Sirius was with them. Now Harry had to get there.
Turning, Harry came face to face with a Light Vampire. It was honestly the ugliest vampire Harry had ever seen.
Its ears were pointed like an elf's but pale white, while it's hair was tangled from the wind. Its face looked like a hospital sheet stretched over a skull and its eyes were blood red. Of course, what most concerned Harry were its three inch fangs and its elongated claws.
Harry side-stepped a swipe from the claws and before the vampire could so much as hiss at him, Harry pulled down a lightning bolt from the clouds and fried the evil thing.
It dropped to the ground before turning into dust and was blown away by the wind. But not before Harry got a whiff of charred vampire.
Scrunching up his cute nose at the smell, Harry turned back to see how Remus was doing. Unfortunately, it wasn't going so well. The group was stuck, surrounded by a ring of Dementors and by the looks of it, only Remus, Snape and Malfoy Sr. could produce an actual Patronus.
Sirius was on the ground. He wasn't moving and Harry's blood boiled over. Swifter than his lightning bolt, Harry jumped to the next roof and so on until he was standing on the building right above his allies. The Dementors would not be held back for much longer.
Even in the wind Harry's 'New York taxi' whistle was heard loud and clear. The Dementors stopped their approach.
"Hey!" Harry yelled at them. "Wouldn't Voldemort be more pleased with me dead at his feet than these people?"
As soon as they hesitated, Harry quickly hopped down to land right in front of Remus.
"Miss me?" he asked. Remus looked beat.
"We can't get there. Sirius has passed out. All his years in Azkaban have made him weak to Dementors. And I doubt even your Patronus could save us now."
The Dementors looked confused, hovering around unsteadily in the whipping wind. To save time Harry whipped out his wand and quickly conjured up his Prongs Patronus.
Matt Flint was keeping Sirius comfortable in the middle of the group as they all huddled together with Harry's silvery stag making a protective circle around them.
"How'd you jump like that!" asked Pansy her eyes still wide.
Harry waved her off. "Not now. We need to get to Honeyduke's. My Patronus will only work for about another two minutes."
Snape looked green. "Potter, even if we did get rid of them Dementors, Voldemort has Light Vampires here. The best in all of Europe. They want us dead!"
Harry looked around at the group they made. 'They're all afraid, but trying to hide it. They all think that if they died today it would be with honour.' The wind was picking up with each doubtful look on Harry's year-mates faces. He saw that they were trying to be brave but they also had regrets. They regretted the way they treated him. They regretted the way they played their roles. They regretted not being able to see their families one more time. Harry looked into Draco Malfoy's sad eyes. They regretted having to die this way.
Suddenly Harry was struck with an idea. The Dementors were stupidly taking turns bouncing off Harry's Patronus trying to get in. The ones floating around waiting were doing so while fighting the wind. Wind was just moving air. Air was an element. Harry was an Elemental Veela.
A determined look spread across Harry's face. Remus looked at him.
"You've got an idea?"
Harry nodded and said over the wind. "Hold on to something."
Turning around Harry closed his eyes again, not knowing he was glowing a steady yellow color. The group gave each other confused looks as they grabbed hands and huddled together.
The wind jerked as if someone had just put on its breaks and shifted suddenly. Right in front of Harry, the dark clouds began to spiral down into a funnel. Coming together, the wind began to glow the same color as Harry and became a medium sized tornado.
The Slytherins watched in awe as the massive storm sucked up the Dementors like a muggle vacuum before coming to rest back in front of Harry.
"Now go somewhere nice and sunny." Harry said to the cloud mass as if it were a young child. "But don't ruin any towns or cities on the way."
Quickly, Harry turned and pointed his wand at Sirius, reviving him.
"Wha-? Huh?" he said groggily.
Harry helped him to his feet. He had stopped glowing.
"Come on let's get out of here!" said Harry slinging one of Sirius' arms over his shoulder and heading towards Honeyduke's with everyone else close behind.
A/N: I stopped here because I've got a probelm. I'm wondering if I should put any of the stuff from the HBP in here. I really need this question answered as it applies to what will happen in the next chapter. But I'm wondering if I didn't would that make this more odd than it already is?
For all the reviews I got last chapter here's a sneak peek at next chapter:
-Harry and Dumbledore duke it out with words
- Sirius and Remus get an ally to help thme with Harry and Draco
- A visit from the minstry and
-A trial? (maybe the in the 9th or tenth)
Thanks for the reviews! I love them!
Sparkley Tangerine