The Return Of The Marauders Part I: Harry Potter And The Sorceror's Stone
Warnings: From here on and forward, Harry's title for Sirius changes, as he becomes his father, as the years they spent together now change things now. As he and Harry start acting like father and son, as year 5 changes things further as he's now acting like a real father here. To him as he and Harry developed a bond that would take his place with James as the years go by now.
Disclaimers: Harry Potter doesn't belong to me, the story belongs to me, everything else belongs to J.K. Rowling and Warner brothers.
Chapter 21: Final Changes And School Preparations V
"How many were you giving him?" I asked and he thought it over and then paled. "We gave him handful every couple of weeks." Fred said and we nodded. "Those handfuls over a period of time start building up and turn toxic, if it was a real rat, if he was eating these every 26 weeks. That's once every two weeks, times 12 months, it comes to 26 weeks, and now that. And not needing trip to the vet, he's not a real rat, he's an animagus!" Ben said in shock then and Molly nodded.
"Well that works, but the map blew his cover!" Arthur said in relief and I nodded. "Thanks for getting the map twins, Lee, you just exonerated me." Sirius said and they nodded. "Well said prisoner on the loose is Peter, you're already here, along with me and we keep it. A few things correct, the rest is exchanged, but keep the fighting under control. They're trying to destroy your trio, why make it easier for them, you left the opening." Remus said and they nodded then.
"And there's the reason it finally fell into the right hands now, once Harry showed us Peter's name on that map, his cover is blown as we realize Sirius was framed?" Minerva said gently at the remark. "But again guys, at times like that year, I need private time with the trio, they understand, to them and your father, I'm all that's left." I said and she nodded gently. "Who started it this time?" I said and they gave a squeak and meow in response and Oliver nodded.
"He started it." I said and Ron nodded. "No he did." he said in response then. "Look guys, I don't care who started it, you guys are not babies anymore, but keep it up. And it's time out for you, so you're in your habitat for the night, and you get to bed, young man!" Percy said sternly and they gave a sighing squeak and mew as Crookshanks moved to his basket and laid down. "Yeah, this is going to be a long year if this keeps up." Mione said and I nodded with a chuckle then.
As everyone our age to his started laughing at that. "Tell me about it, but I'm just waiting for you to take the pillow to each other, but you guys and Ginny are my responsibility. But guys, I get you're irritated, but you don't have to annoy each other to the point you beat the stuffings. Now, out of each other with the pillows, but I get smacked, whoever did it is in big trouble." he said in response gently and Ginny looked down as she and Colin started laughing at that remark.
" Not funny Ginny, give me that." I said and the cat jumped on the couch in response as Colin was shaking in laughter as I got smacked in the head, before the pillow went flying across the room and landed on Shadow. "Meow?" he asked and we froze. "Mew" "Meow" " Mew" "Meow" "Mroow!" as I fell into the chair as I tried to pull myself together. "Alright you guys that's enough of that already, baby pull yourself together right now!" Percy called out, hiding his laughter then.
"Issues in our family, big brother." Ginny said and he nodded smiling as the girls started laughing and I looked down. "Yes, but at times I wish we had this being college, rather then just 5th grade to senior in high school right now. At least then I got help from our missing family member controlling you guys, but again, whoever tossed that pillow. I get smacked whoever did it is in big trouble, so settle down, almost lights out guys." he said and we nodded as I heard it.
"Agreed and break it up in here right now, we're not doing this tonight guys, time for bed now, boys your basket, now. And you, young lady, go lay down in your basket, you in your roost by the window Hedwig. Kids, at night, cage and basket these guys, before a fight breaks out." Remus said and we nodded as everyone started laughing. "Interspecies friendships, you're asking for trouble here, if the smaller picks a fight with the bigger." I said and the cast nodded.
"If that's the dress rehearsal, just imagine the pandemonium in the dormitory once you got Ginny here next right now, as you're dealing with not just the 5 of us, but Luna and Colin." I said and Oliver started laughing and he nodded smiling. "Brother, you keep this up, and you're getting it again, now enough of that already." Percy said smiling and I nodded, knowing he meant after the last time he let me have it as an 11 year old, as he rubbed the back of my head.
"What caused the need for that?" Peter asked me and I sighed. "My body was spent, since the mirror I started seeing the green flash far more clearly now finally. And with it, heard him laughing as he murdered my mother, before 4 months later and the situation with the dragon. In seeing him standing over that unicorn and now I saw him as a zombie, only instead of flesh. He's a blood drinking one." I said and he nodded sternly as he exchanged looks with her then.
"Great that's all we need right now, with your body this spent, you look like Heydon stuck in bed right now, but you fully healthy, him, slowly getting used to being able to walk. But no more dreams, no nervous feelings, your symptoms are close to a nervous breakdown. And we know you need a severe amount of rest, so giving your body time to recover." Spreckley said to that and Peter nodded in agreement to his opinion as Gemma crossed her arms sternly then.
"You're, though bordering 14 mentally, you're to us, still a near 12 year old, showing your 10 year old cub side, so the parent and big brother in us goes crazy when it comes to you." Peter said gently and I nodded as Daniel looked down smiling at the remark and they chuckled as I sighed. "Minerva, Sirius, Remus I have to know, was mum pregnant again before the attack?" I asked and Sirius looked down. "Riddle so help me god, this is war." I said sternly to the reveal.
"Dad?" I said and a message wrote out. "The boys and Minerva were telling you the truth baby, not only was I pregnant, but I finally talked your father. Into making peace with Severus, get the guys to the table and bury the hatchet, before you found Peter. But the trio just finished what I set out to do between your uncles, you are the last. And of our family, find the right one, bring us back, our family." Dora read out and I nodded.
"I will mum, I will, you will be avenged, all three of you and the hundreds of lives he took with you, I promise that, but 13 trapped in my near 11 year old body." I said and turned to looked at Dumbledore who went pale then. "You slaughtered my entire family because of a bloody prophecy?" I said with a growl. "Again I will never listen to a word you say ever again, why should I believe you, everything you ever told me was a lie." I said and he swallowed hard then.
"She tell you what she was having?" I asked and Minerva sighed. "You were going to have a baby sister, baby." she said and I put my hand over my heart. "How old was I at the time of the attack?" I asked and he sighed. "You were 18 months." Remus said and I nodded. "Then my sister is no older then the girls and Colin, if she was still alive?" I asked and they nodded. "Like I said this is not a we situation, it's a me, that's my family 'he' murdered you two, the rat now."
"The old buzzard murdered my entire family, he killed my real baby brother or sister, who would be the trio's age group." I said and Ron and Hermione swallowed hard. "Until you understand what it means to avenge your family from death, or worse then dead. Do not say you understand because you don't this is a me, not a we, but preventing his return. Again and again, the first round he sees me as a near 12 year old now." I said and the trio nodded sternly to that.
"Like your listening to the bloody radio, I'm looking at my map, my eyes on Ginny and our friends in the D.C., but you think I'm not making sure they're okay. Just watching the map, praying I never see Ginny's name disappear off it, or Neville and Luna, the guys, Pavarti and Lavender. Ernie, Hannah and Susan, Terry, Jack, Cho, or Minerva, Severus, Pomona, Filius, Horace, Rolanda, Poppy, Madam Pince, you think I'm not listening to the radio now in truth."
"Praying I never hear Hagrid's name, or the twins, your parents, Percy, Bill and Charlie, Remus and Dora, Kingsley, Emmaline, Dedalus, Jeff, Ben, Justin, Colin, Dean, Ted. But you think I don't understand how this feels?" I said and he started shaking in fear, realizing he crossed the line at his jealousy. "You don't know how this feels to have your friends and family endanger because of you, so shut up, get over yourself Ron, deal with it!" I said in finality and he swallowed hard.
"Alright that's enough, can we get back on the matter at hand please, baby." Maggie said and I took a deep breath and closed my eyes as Remus squeezed my shoulder gently at that. "Lord if I thought being fully mortal was bad in dealing with children, try being a witch and professor. And one of my surrogate cubs are emotionally wracked up and fragile because of said truth. That the traitor had been with the so called best friend all this time, so what's the side effect now here."
"The spasms in your scar?" Maggie asked and I nodded. "Part of the connection, he was getting anxious to get it, passed the first obstacle here. And with, because if he never took the bait, now Minerva, you, was having the mirror move out of the castle. And before I passed out, out of exhaustion, you and Poppy knew there was going to be a side effect. But between suspects, not realizing I got what I needed to save the stone, my strength quit after this battle, reason being."
"I hadn't slept in 6 months, because of this, so to you after seeing why I was over doing it, it resulted in this." I said as I flashed up said scene, as they saw me with sweat soaked hair then and she, Poppy and Severus were checking me over. And with me in the hospital wing bathroom, as Poppy and her male nurse got me out of my clothes. "If that was the bathroom that I had him in there's the fireplace right behind him, us in your place, checking pulse and temperature."
"As Arthur brings the ice in for a cool down, before I checked his legs and realized over activity is making his muscles tighten." she said and Peter crossed his arms. "Between when she finally got through to him to that night, that's 3 weeks to a month of this right now. I'm not surprised Heydon's legs were that swollen, but that cool down was enough to help here. But even that's not enough to keep these two apart, because we forgot about the secret exit in her quarters."
"One door was locked, the other was the secret passage, she uses that to get out, and it lead to his quarters, he changes clothes. And they do a jail break, and then the next day we got his father coming home." he said and she nodded in agreement. "Well we know Daniel's so exhausted from either one, no point in her going Lennox on us right now. As Danny recovers from this, his muscles are starting to recover from being over worked, but collapsing here."
"In the hallway, is enough to tell us he's not up to this at all." Spreckley said and she nodded as she watched. "Just got worse for these two, but despite you, as your characters, saying this was a bad idea, before Severus decided to discourage us from going in. The headmaster deliberately allowed Hagrid to drop a clue, knowing what happens if that does happen." I said and she and Alan crossed their arms. "Us knowing you're not up to this." Alan said sternly and I nodded.
"Just hearing what was flashing in my thoughts, and you're a skilled legilimin as well, mind reader, you realized it here now. I was so exhausted that said burning in my scar, meant you had to deflect now. Before this resulted in killing me next, I got lucky with the bloody troll, but this was a fully adult wizard I'm going up against." I said and she sternly to me. "It's said spy all over again, we know that we had a spy in the ranks, but we didn't know who exactly now."
"Only this time, you're not a baby anymore, but a young preteen now." she said and I nodded. "Great that is exactly what we don't need, our student, thoroughly exhausted, going into a death trap and said's possibly not thinking on all cylinders here!" Whoopi said and they, and the quintet, nodded in agreement. "The traps were set to each class specifically, me, Dave, Alan, Miriam and Warwick, two for me, and that was Richard now." Maggie said gently then to that.
"Quirrell was a fake, I decided as my first test, was to plant a troll in there, knowing you already knocked the first one unconscious. But you know my paw-print on a test the second you see it here right now, if I been working here for 3 years." Dave said and Daniel nodded gently. "How could I not, you make learning beyond interesting, you're my favorite teacher. And next to the quartet, Dave, you're also my papa wolf." Daniel said smiling and he looked down smiling then.
"Richard, before he turned into Michael now, to be exact, but his lust for power is highly dangerous and I don't doubt he kept the damn stone as well here. But you know this, I'm humble, I'm not interested in power, but I got lucky every time. The duo are never around for the conclusion as you see the damage done to my body from these encounters. As a preteen to near 18 years old, so in your eyes, the 12 of you…" I said and the faculty/cast nodded gently.
"That the troll was a lucky shot, this is far more dangerous." she said and I nodded. "And with it, now knowing the truth, in who you are to me, in both your cases, it's now, to you…." I said and Alan nodded gently. "We had to protect you now, but the troll was different, this was the wizard that killed your parents, possessing the body of the true traitor. But first Peter and now Quirrell, though you look like my ex child-hood rival, never mind that, it's my job to protect you kids."
"But first these two and now Lockhart, enough already, I'm choosing Tommy for your sparring partner in defense training." he said and she nodded in agreement. "I don't believe this, if she knew and never said anything, or he did, there's going to be hell to pay right now." Julie said sternly and Hermione swallowed hard at that remark, realizing she was in big trouble. "They didn't, in truth, but a single person did, and they were with me, leading into us blowing it."
"Said being the whistle, before we reversed time back to this upcoming semester, Julie, but that's actually what happened here, before we booked that night." I said as I injected that memory, as they saw me getting my game plan, before my legs gave out. As I tried to get myself off the floor, but no go. "Staying awake this long, your body finally decided enough was enough and is keeping you on the floor right now." she said with a sigh to that response gently.
"Oh god not now, lord please not tonight, I can't let him get to that stone, lord please, just tonight, and then a break. Just give me 6 more hours then I'll take a break right now, please only 6 more hours, then I'll rest." we heard and she shook her head. "I heard that before and I know that's what Billy was thinking after he collapsed in the shaft. But our bodies can only handle so much, before they decide enough already." Frakes said gently to that.
"Not tired, cub not tired, no need a nap, not tired, not tired." we heard and she sighed as Severus sighed. "Yeah cub, you're nearing 12 and even at this age we need to take the decision out of your hands, before you over do it. And you just did now, but after this situation, it's bed time for you and no argument." Remus said bemused gently and Minerva nodded in agreement. "If this was the game, he's trying to hide said injury from us till he gets caught and relieved."
"Only now cub is dealing with a life an death and is asleep on his feet here right now." Rolanda said and they nodded. "With a cub that's the easy part, but a fully adult witch or wizard, we hate being treated like cubs again." he said and Poppy looked at him, bemused. "At times you leave us no choice, but him, he's a going on 12 year old, so exhausted, cub needs to rest, young man. But this is too much, one of our youngest decided to handle this and is not even up to it here."
"But after this, cub is getting that nap and whether he wants one or not here." she said as Ben said it gently, before we heard a sighing growl come out of me and they looked at me. And she answered that response gently "Now what's that supposed to mean exactly?" Maggie asked and Minerva hid a smile. "That was lion cub for 'I don't want a nap right now, not tired, I don't need a nap.', we're lions, so the leader of my, currently, youngest class was just de-aged 8 years."
"With that response, that instead of head of house, I got to go grandma here with him, while for Poppy, the great aunt now, to get our cub leader to sleep here. But entering the school you had a choice between 4 animals, Harry's entire family went lion. So with him mentally no older then said cartoon lion, I got to take charge here right now. So my cubs, in the boys, don't start growing their manes in till they're 15, Harry has another 4 years." she said and they nodded.
"They're 11, going on 12 here, that that meant, 'I'm alright really, I don't need a nap, come on please grandma, no nap.'. But sorry cub, you're asleep on your feet, bedtime for you right now, you're not changing my mind." she said and we heard a second in response, and she and Poppy nodded gently, knowing my inner lion just lowered his head then to her remark. "Now that's not necessary, you little fluffball." Gary said gently as Whoopi started laughing at that response.
"Do we need to put you under as well, to get to you sleep?" she asked him through me and I felt him push himself into the inner wall of my mental cage at that. "Then lay down, before you get put in a time out." she said and we heard a growling whine to that remark. "I know I over did one too many times, but this time my inner cub doesn't want to sleep. We're 5th graders, so at times we hate being treated like we're still 6 to 8 years old." I said and she and Poppy nodded.
"Issues in babysitting duty here, after an injury like this, it's making it clear, I just got him over one injury and a certain someone barely triggers another. Before the bludger chase from Hades right now in truth, but I know what you're trying to say, you little fluffball. But during the school year, we're responsible for you, but at times, like year three now, cub. You need to leave the adults to handle things, well this is one of those moments, where after the emergency now."
"That you, you little fluffball, need to sleep this off, so that's enough of that." Poppy said and we heard a third. "Cub, don't make me sedate you to get you to get some sleep, you're only 11 and your body can't take this abuse repeatedly." Ben said and Minerva nodded in agreement. "I can't believe I never forced you to take a nap, before you attempted this, 6 hours in rest. That's plenty as you're fully focused baby, but that's enough of that." she said, before they heard it.
"Harry, you okay in there, come on, come on open the door, little brother!" we heard and Chris straightened, realizing it was him. "You got to be kidding me, you mean I just realized this, before realizing I was about to break a medical rule here. Said meaning mum's going to kill me for, knowing you're not up to this, but I let you do it anyway!" he said in shock and I nodded gently. "It wasn't just you actually." I said then and Sean lowered his head as he realized it then.
"He told the entire Gryffindor 5th to 7th years, though Percy, after it hit him first and though we know we lost the house Quidditch championship. That it was then we realized that didn't matter anymore, preventing Riddle from coming back did." Sarah said to translate that and their parents nodded in shock. "Mum's going to kill you for that, you out of your mind, Jeez Harry, really right now!" George said, now realizing their anger resulted in my risking suicide for this.
"You guys were furious enough already we got caught, the 5 of you, but everyone older then 5th year knew the dangers, they knew now, points didn't matter. Preventing his return this young did right now, as I gained further skill and strength as I got older." I said and Fred covered his eyes. "Now we done it." the 2nd and 4th years all said together with a sigh, as they all looked at the Slytherin Death Eaters and they swallowed hard and as Minerva looked at Dumbledore then.
"But you want forgiveness, get religion headmaster, you left me in a home that left no room for forgiveness, I became who I am because of this. But I guess you never knew the truth, Percy and I had you fooled from the second I decided to go in that night." I said and he went white in shock. "Percy knew and never said anything?!" Molly said and I nodded. "You want that collapse now, or during the game?" I said and they nodded. "Point taken." Minerva said with a sigh then.
"Muscle exhaustion on the ground floor is safer to having it happen in the middle of the game, yeah he knew, but he was covering for me, along with the rest of this conversation. That you're about to hear, but we played you, headmaster, so completely, we knew what you were up to. But he told me key details on animagi, I told him the truth, about safety hazards now in truth. Said being he's surrounded by adult witches and wizards." I said and Molly covered her eyes then.
"What's the difference to exposure during breakfast that morning, to doing it at your house, Molly?" I asked her and Arthur nodded sternly. "Percy did the right thing, you and he did the right thing, by waiting till after the twins gave it to us. Before you did it with Remus and Severus, let alone Minerva in range as they're ready to arrest him. Nice thinking boys, you did exactly as we wanted to arrest a desperate man." Sirius said and Ron went pale at his opinion.
"Do it at the house he could take me hostage or worse, however do it here, he's being arrested before he can try it, I get the point and that was a very brave thing you did, Percy." she said and he nodded to her and Ron swallowed hard then. "Well this prevents said collapse on my new broom right now, so the old buzzard just did us all a favor by the obstacle course. As you know I'm exhausted, this means bed rest, I can try again next year." I said and the duo nodded then.
"Knowing you're close to collapsing out of exhaustion, Chris and I, our characters, let you do this anyway?!" Sean said in shock and I nodded. "It was better this happened now, then in the middle of the game, but this is one, maybe two floors down, but up there?" I said and they and Maggie nodded. "We get it, but prevention over cure of a real collapse off the damn thing, you're so exhausted that if said game was during another rain storm, it's the dementors all over again."
"But if that's not quick thinking and nothing is, sure we lost the cup in the other one, but we won the house cup, and for the first time, since Charlie left for college. But years…., wait a second, with Charlie staying for another year, he's training Harry to take his place. That we get it again this year, that Harry has the first two games, Charlie does the third and bingo." Sean said to Maggie and Minerva smiled as Oliver and Percy nodded to her gently at that remark then.
"Without that back up, that's why we lost two years in a row, we just fix that problem for the first two years here right now Professor. With Harry dealing in stopping his return, with this one he's driving himself into the ground to prevent it, that Hagrid spilling the beans. This couldn't have come at a better time, as he gets the rest he needs finally at the moment. Yes this was reckless, but at the same time, we just prevented whoever's attempt to sabotage us now."
"The trio are in discussion with Robbie, Hagrid, and whoever took Tom's place gets caught outdoors, and the trio were running an errand with the duo. As Harry gets proof, the old charlatan is killing unicorns to keep himself alive, but just this once." he said and they nodded. "Point taken and you're right, we'll let that go, but don't do that again." Chris said and I nodded. "Harry, come on, open the door." he said again gently, before he quickly said it sternly then.
"Alohomora!" he snapped as he unlocked the door and he came charging in. "Merlin, Harry, what's wrong, mate!" he said, charging over to me. "The perpetrator is about to break into that corridor, he's after what caused the bank. To nearly get robbed, we're going to get it tonight." I said and he gripped my shoulder. "With you like this right now, no forget it Harry, it's too dangerous, you're not up to this." he said gently and I said it.
"I don't, 'he' comes back." I said and he nodded. "I can't believe I'm letting you do this, but just this once, but I need to see your leg muscles." he said and I moved my robes and he nodded sternly. "Muscle exhaustion, god baby, again just this once, but this means 2 to 3 weeks recovery, but they start getting reckless. I'm not taking it well, just be careful little brother, okay." he said and I nodded as he helped me up and she nodded then.
"I'm about to face off against him for the first time, since my parents were murdered, but what one year causes huh, my family is you guys, your family and Hermione now." I said and he nodded gently. "Like she said, your house becomes your family, none more so then us and Hermione, I get it mate. I understand right now, but if you and my sister are meant to be, then you're my brother-in-law, but that's between us now."
"So Ginny tells you this, I'm dating Penny Clearwater, she's the Ravenclaw prefect." he said and I nodded. "My brothers all think just because I'm a prefect, I'm perfect, but in truth, I just work harder then they do here. But I have reason to believe your father's counterpart is still alive, what stories were told. They could be reversed right now, they are, and the traitor is still alive." he said and I nodded sternly at the news then.
"That why you decided to get Scabbers off of you and gave him to Ron, you keep seeing whoever's name off the whatever it is?" I asked and he nodded. "Yeah it is, but my career path is working for my father's counterpart department at the ministry. His name is Barty Crouch, that's my future sector in the ministry in truth. I have no idea who these nicknames belong to in truth now, but if they mean your father's animal."
"And his friends with him, but Mooney, he could be a werewolf for all I know, he is, then this means his friends are all animagi." he said and Remus smiled. "The headmaster choosing this Mooney after two fakes, yeah that works now. I get to know my parents best friends, the twins give me this whatever it is, and the truth comes out. I can leave the Dursleys and move in with Black, if he was framed." I said and he nodded then.
"Then this mean the headmaster knew this and never said anything, we got an illegal animagus disguised as my former rat. Said that was hiding with me, your family in-laws now." he said and Minerva crossed her arms. "If that's what it means and you telling me in advance, before whatever happens next, he's lost his credibility with me. But if he knows what's going on behind closed doors, and the trio come to get me here."
"Well then he's screwed, but let me guess, you're trying to expose the headmaster for the megalomaniac he really is." I asked and Percy nodded gently. "Yeah I am, but once everyone sees the bloody rat as an escaped, supposed dead death eater. And we get a Defense that knows him on sight the second they see him, the truth comes out. But the story was Pettigrew was murdered by your godfather, all that was found now."
"Was a finger, before I got a better look at Scabbers and saw a missing toe, to answer the other question that's what 'his' followers call themselves. So the story could be in reverse, it is right now, and the headmaster knows right now. And deliberately never said anything right now in truth, but we plan this out so carefully here. And we got him, as we get your godfather out of jail, turn the rat in, if he and Pettigrew are one."
"One and the same, another catch of another death eater eater, masquerading as a member of the faculty and his reputation is forever destroyed. You and me, we're ministry cubs, but my father is too blinded by hero worship to see this now. As is mum and Ron is too far gone not to see this right now, his rat is an escaped death eater. And one that's been hiding with my family for 10 years." he said and I nodded then.
"The twins love you like a brother like I do, for your protection, that's what the whatever is for later, to protect you now." he said and I nodded. "If she worships adult authority, why is she not listening to our head of house right now. Or is this that they're trying to keep me from thinking for myself right now in truth. But that remark for the greater good, I heard that on a cub version of the story of Exodus here now."
"And by the father of said pharaoh, but is the headmaster grooming every student to go against the ministry?" I said and he nodded sternly in agreement. "That's my guess, but looks like everything he's been doing is to fit his interpretation. To this prophecy where you're concerned, so just cut him off at the knees, the first step to that now. Is to wait for the twins to give you the whatever it is, you show this to the duo in truth."
"Them, the minister, Madam Rosemerta and Hagrid, after sneaking out, and we got him." he said sternly and I smiled firmly and the duo both paled at that, realizing I already planned this out so far in advance then as the minister crossed his arms. And at our exchange, realizing Percy already opened my eyes to the truth from an early age. "Well if the duo are his, at least I got you and the twins brother, you I trust, along with the twins now."
"But just 18 months, I get the whatever it is and their goose is cooked, but you had to work so hard for everything in your life. I understand that, but seems they think the headmaster will solve all their problems. But in my world, and who is that man, I know his actor counterpart, quite well, but that explains these. He's the best of the bunch, in captains, that's British Navy for full bird Colonel and a great teacher."
"I knew something never seemed right, they put too much face in Dumbledore, my training of doing the right thing, duty to the truth. It came from him, I was trained by him, since I was 7." I said and he nodded in agreement to my opinion as he looked at the posters as the ministry nodded sternly. "Yeah I figured, you'd drag along our tv show posters, if you have chosen us to play on the movie series." Patrick said gently, as he saw their tv show.
"That's Professor Addams, my favorite teacher, he does Arithmancy, who is his double and why is he dressed in this colored uniform, who are they?" he asked and I smiled and Patrick smiled at the devotion I had to him then and Dumbledore paled, realizing I never needed him at all. "His name is Sir Patrick Stewart, character name of Captain Jean Luc Picard, that's his senior staff crew, this is 370 years into the future, we explore the universe."
"The Show is called Star Trek: The Next Generation, he's the best of the best and the boy looking like he's 18 years old. He is the son of the ship's chief medical healer, but this is why you hear us muggleborns comparing notes. And on tv shows we like, we grew up to love his version, we love science fiction of any type in my world." I said and he nodded smiling at the reveal, as he realized I wasn't blinded by hero worship then.
"Yeah I would have dragged along my posters and instead you do it for me, you love that show as much as I do." Dean said smiling and I nodded. "Yeah that and football, but I'm a track star, brother, we understand each other." I said and he grinned at that remark. "One of the best I've seen, but if this was a normal middle school, you'd have gotten that scholarship. And 10x's over by now, getting into Olympics is no big thing for you now." he said and Minerva chuckled at that.
"International competition, there's a wide range of sports here, one is track, that's my cup of team, once I graduated and left for college, I was going to try out." I said and she nodded. "And instead Dumbledore just prevented you from leaving the country at all by sending those letters. Well I see he denied you of your hopes and dreams now, of making a name for yourself in your sport of choice, until we turned the clock back." she said and Dumbledore went pale at that.
"Indeed someone is in very big trouble here right now, well this is all for the best now, once the war is over you can follow your dreams again. Alright so that's the truth that Percy told us now, he knew and decided to it then, until they gave him the map now. That we had to wait for the truth to come out, and that truth comes out when the twins pass the map. And to Harry, your reputation has been shot, Headmaster." Crouch said sternly and Dumbledore went pale at that.
"Thanks for the warning, but does he really think, if Scabbers and this traitor are the same person, he's going to let your parents run that check. And stand by for the cops to arrive to arrest him, come on, right now, he's dreaming." I said and he nodded gently. "I know, my brother needs to grow up, you're enough like me, you didn't get to where you were by slacking off, but my advice is just play to your strengths in year 3 now."
"Your broom, you're a greater flyer, so use that for one of the obstacles tonight, if said involves flying, you're the youngest seeker in a century. Just prove why that is right now, one thing at a time, just work through each one carefully. So are we going to see you this summer?" he asked and then smiled and as he got me in the stomach. "Yeah, yeah you are, you are, Percy, stop, stop, I give up." I said laughing as he went back and forth.
As he stopped, before pulling me into a hug and I buried my head into his shoulder. "Though borderline 12, I still see you as 10, we know the feeling, we get severely territorial. But no big brother or sister, and instead we make up for that, things are fine till year 4. For now we just enjoy being cubs right now, but you 5th grader, me high school right now. But you guys got me and Charlie looking after you." Percy said and I smiled as Oliver rubbed my back smiling then.
As he ran his hand through my hair. "Well if that doesn't say adopted big brother and nothing does." Kathy said and Maggie and Whoopi nodded. "That's how I thought of him, my brother's best friend, and my brother-in-law, we been together so long. I decided to be the perfect big brother, before he met Charlie and Bill next." Percy said and she nodded. "Agreed, we can't believe we let you do this, but just this once, after that, you're denned for a month, baby."
"Next year's going to be a long year, but these first two years are preventing his return, year three is being treated as a quiet year and as is year 5. While year 4, you're switching schools right now, but no cheating, you and Cedric are swapping ideas. But we're separating you three, if they're still listening to only the headmaster, you're a ministry Cub. Along with your fellow ministry cubs." Gates said, bemused and Julie and Maggie nodded agreement to that opinion.
"Find it strange, while you treat your brother like rubbish, he sees me and sees me as the perfect little brother. The quintet get all the attention, your sister does as well, you're over looked, but you notice that their planning is the reason. Now that they got those spots, Percy was giving me ways to handle things, I took his ideas, before 3rd year. I look at this more carefully, and then I decided to turn the truth into the quintet…" I said and they froze up then.
"Wait, if this is how he was with me, acting like a pompous jerk, but with you the adopted big brother-in-law, then…" Ron started to say and then he paled at that. "You knew about Penny already?" Fred said and I nodded. "I did and this went all over their class, I was willing to risk death and expulsion, I never told Ron, because he was likely going to see this. As I risked one upping him, to get us out of the hole here." I said and the twins nodded as they looked at him.
"So this was once again, about the petty rivalry, I knew you were the ring leader, but you decided to not bother for a few weeks. And till you realized that Hagrid gave the key to get passed Fluffy, you turn that into me and then drop the bomb. We had a spy in the ranks, and I know our time table in spies just ended, Harold?" Minerva asked and I nodded. "Yes Mam, but the look on your face said not again, you knew something, what?" I asked and she sighed then.
"I knew there was a traitor in the ranks that sold you out when you were baby, we just never knew who, and that fact of not telling us they switched. Was a mistake we're not repeating now, but this was serious." she said and I nodded. "Well in truth that's the difference, all I want is a family, my family back, what matters more, his wanting to be seen as better then the guys. Or me wanting my family back?" I asked and they nodded as Molly answered that question then.
"Your family, my brothers and the hundreds that were murdered, but we're not destitute, not yet back then, before you fixed that problem, but Ron nearly got his father fired. And that happened the entire family would know what poor really means, we always had clothes on our backs. And food on the table, but what happens if Arthur lost his job exactly." She asked and Ron paled, realizing he never thought of that. "Point made, bro, mum." Percy said sternly then to that.
"You were like the narrator's family, you're not destitute, not anymore, they wanted more, but in Meg's words, I dislike all this money talk, it's not proper, or dignified." I said and she nodded. "I'm a mixture of the oldest sister's you know that, but I know you felt guilty, after everything Arthur and I did for you, you can't believe you nearly cost him his job. But we understand that baby, not your fault, it was his idea." she said and I nodded as he patted my back gently then.
"Toppy." I said and he appeared then. "Go to the bank and transfer the last 75,000,000 galleons into Percy's trust fund, that's his own amount now." I said and he nodded and popped out and Percy nodded gently. "We got money now, so why do you want to be seen as better then the rest of us, as you got a position most boys your age would kill for. The best friend of the chosen one, or the adopted sister of said." Charlie asked and he swallowed hard at his opinion then.
"Tell me the truth, Ron, did the headmaster put you up to this, before he realized Hermione could be useful as well the following two years. Before Harry starting showing an interest in Ginny, because that's enough to kill your case. And in why Percy got the rat off him, you carry the rat, Harry keeps it quiet, we give the map to Harry. And the truth comes out, you're not his friends, you're working for a megalomaniac, keeping him humble, till he sacrifices him now."
"And at the right time, and that conversation says it all, you just been sold out to Misters Crouch, Scrimgeour, Madam Bones and the minister?" Fred asked and they paled, realizing it, as George crossed his arms. "Well seems to me our sister's new husband, just made sure you idiots get the axe, for going against our family. And the ministry, as we chose in advance, but despite said conversation, nothing changes, and that reveal says it all." he added and Percy nodded.
As Dan grabbed Hermione and turned her around and she looked at him, shaking in fear then, realizing she was screwed. "Rufus, Amelia, Minerva, you don't have to worry here, she's having her wand taken away from her, she only gets it back for class, just that. And keep these two separated Minerva, Harry is Heydon, I am not allowing these two monsters to kill Harry." Emma growled and Minerva nodded sternly and Hermione started shaking, realizing it then finally.
"What have you turned into exactly, young lady!" Dan snapped sternly and she swallowed hard at his reaction then. "No I don't want to hear it, do we matter to you or not!" Emma said sternly and she started shaking, realizing how furious her parents were at this betrayal as I turned away from her. "How can I trust you with my secrets now exactly, knowing you're both spies for the headmaster, I guess I never was your friend." I said, feeling my heart start breaking at that.
As Daphne hugged me and I buried my head into her neck and Hermione swallowed hard, realizing she destroyed me emotionally then at the remark. "Like I said, you sold out to get a place in their world, you make me so sick, young lady." Emma said sternly and she swallowed hard. "You finally struck rock bottom, what's left to do…." I said sternly and Fred nodded. "No where left to go, but up, you got to rebuild your life now." Dora said and she looked down then.
"It's the same for Ronald, take his wand away when not in Charms and Transfiguration, he too, is to be separated from Harold, Ginny, and the twins, starting now, in year 2. After this mission comes to an end now, but them on opposite sides of the room during class. I don't care, just make sure that they can't communicate, and Madam Aggie, I want several. Of your department executives here at the school, not a moment's." Arthur said and they both nodded sternly then.
"Looks like I won't have to make sure he dies, because your decisions cost you everything right now, you're a traitor to your own family, doesn't matter. Now, if you take off in the middle of the search, our family friendship means nothing to you, whatsoever. So that's it huh, that's the way it's going to be, you got a choice, disregard the headmaster or it's over. I mean it Hermione, me or him, because I'll kill him myself if I have to." I said and she swallowed hard at my remark.
"And now I really know who my friends are, those friends are not you." I said sighing, as the quartet and the rest of our class in Gryffindor moved behind me, along with the girls. Ernie, Justin, Terry, Roger, and the duo swallowed hard, realizing they were outcasts now. "Traitor!" Draco snapped and they swallowed hard, realizing I was standing with the others now. "Like I said, you never know when a Lion is going to turn on you to save their own necks now here."
"What he do, blackmail you with the fact your family is holding a death eater/animagus, the one that killed those muggles and my parents, Ron?" I asked and he went white and the faculty nodded. "Why you…., never mind, the more you did for him, the more dirt he had on you, well you got a choice, turn on him and just maybe we can try again. Or 2) we end our friendship now and go our separate ways, though I stay connected to your families." I said and he swallowed.
"Hermione, what did he fill your head with, that the purebloods like him and the supremacists will never accept you, so long as you're a muggleborn. That the only way you can make a name for yourself is by being friends with me, then once I'm dead. You can come out of that shadow now, and begin anew?" I said and she went pale and our parents nodded. "Well there is one option, obliviate!" I shouted out and their eyes cleared as they shook their heads then quickly.
"On 3!" Crouch said sternly and the ministry and faculty all nodded. "One, 2, 3!" he snapped and they shouted it out together. "Obliviate!" they said and their eyes flashed white and I nodded as they shook their heads to clear them. "I think that did it, all of you together, just erased everything he put into her head right now, Ron with her." Dan said and Molly nodded. "It did Danny, we just destroyed his control of her." Aggie said and Dumbledore started shaking then.
"How many times, before that charm does permanent damage, because we have to keep erasing his mind control to break control his influence?" I asked and Poppy crossed her arms then. "If it becomes too strong, it does permanent damage, but maybe we should start doing this repeatedly, to keep the old man from destroying your relationship." she said sternly to this. "Yeah that and year 3, go with our original plan, with my body dealing with over exposure."
"I guess I'm Craven now, you're Lennox and the faculty are the house staff now." I said sternly and Dora gently massaged my shoulders, before pulling me into a hug. "What?" she said in shock and we nodded. "So long as you're under his control, you're dangerous, to us, Harry and yourselves." Penny said and she went white at that. "And to repeat Maggie now in truth, my being your head of house, if Sirius gets back in time for this after Poppy and I checked here."
"And Harry just came out of said tub for a cool down, by being in the pool right now, as Poppy is double checking his muscles, and on hand. Just in case of a close call here at the school pool now, that we're putting in, with the come and go room." Minerva said and I nodded. "We better do that conversation again, but like I said, only difference is the age, that was 10, this is 13. Luckily, we're dressed in swim trunks and suits for these issues with the bathtub now here.
"So no one is getting all self conscious with each other, with the older girls in the bathroom." I said and Kristine nodded with a chuckle. "Yes that and you're not Colin, that you're acting more grown up then he is over this about being stuck in bed. And till the swelling goes down completely, you're not him, you're acting like what you are, a young wizardling lord. But favorite patient, Jeff and I love you like a baby brother." she said and I smiled at her gently at that.
"Good thing about the influx in books, we had said same library in the dorms now in the infirmary, so giving me a selection to choose from, I'm devouring one after another here." I said and Poppy chuckled as I looked at Minerva. "Go back further, just say we're at the case of dad arranging the trip to Cornwall, and went there in person. After realizing the crash possibly broke a bone, and I just collapsed, muscle fatigue, so ice therapy." I said and she nodded to me then.
"No, not now, guys, guys!" I called out and the twins came charging in then, before they were followed by the girls, Percy and Oliver. "Harry, not again, but it's not…" Percy asked me and I shook my head. "I drained the last of my reserves Perce', need to be in bed." I told him and he nodded. "I figured, but first we need to deal with your muscles, hold still." he said gently and he carefully checked my legs as Angelina pulled me close to her and he nodded with a sigh then.
"They're swollen, and I don't doubt red, once we get the pants off." he said and Oliver nodded sternly to the news. "Stay awake bro, stay awake, we need to get you into the infirmary then you can sleep, hang in there a little longer." he said gently as she pulled me close to her. "Finally drove yourself into ground, baby brother, you need a good 10 days worth of rest without them. In truth bugging you right now." Alicia said gently and the twins nodded in agreement then.
"Jesus, Harry, not again, first the damn stone and now this, why didn't you tell me sooner that…, never mind right now. You can't tell us in the dorms without telling him in the process here now, or just at dinner, because of the Patterson gang and Smith." George said and I nodded as the girls sighed as they exchanged looks as she said it for all of them gently to me. "God the duo and Dr. Healey are not going to like this, right now." Fred added and Katie nodded in agreement.
"Harry, Harry you okay?" Katie said quickly and I shook my head. "Muscle fatigue, it finally hit me, 8 weeks over time in training, in both ways, it finally hit me now, Katie." I said and they nodded as Fred and George got me on the bench, as Oliver ran a medical diagnostic. And nodded in shock. "Merlin, your muscles are so stiff and swollen, that trying to get back to the castle, you'd collapse on us, if the pro Dumbledore see you, well not if we bring the trio to us."
"Professor, Madam Pomphrey, Ben, Jeff, you better get in here, his legs gave out on him, again!" Oliver said with his patronus and they pretended to come running in. "He over did it and he's close, we need to give him a good night's rest without them bugging the hades out of him. So infirmary tonight, get them out of the school tomorrow so we can get a break, that little remedy over did it." Fred said to her Poppy and she nodded sternly as Minerva said it for both of them.
"More then over did it, he's so exhausted he could fall asleep on his feet, so yeah he needs serious bed rest right now." Jeff said sternly and Poppy nodded. "Thank you boys, ladies, 70 points, each, for looking out for a team mate and fast thinking protecting him." Minerva said and she looked over me and said it. "Baby tell me the truth, how long has this been going on for, till you finally collapsed on your team?" Poppy asked for her and I sighed as I said it gently at that.
"Since he broke in, and you further intensified security." I said and Jeff covered his eyes as Ben said it for both of them. "The secret passages are all the ones Peter knew, the add ons are the emergency security ones, only now the headmaster is a threat in my eyes. So is his batch of crazed followers now, I've been taking the new passages I put in for my safety now. But I've been working over time to prepare for the Ravenclaw game." I said and they nodded to me.
"Trying to pretend this would be a normal year if your mother was still alive?" Minerva said and I nodded to her. "Her and baby, and least then I'm not alone, Baby and I would be living with dad, as he kept his promise to my biological father, Severus and Remus with him." I said and she nodded gently. "Peter so help me, I'll kill you for this, he's beyond emotionally fragile here." Percy said with a growl. "Easy, calm down Percival." Ben said to him and then said it gently.
"Trying to take your mind off the pain, in working over time, since Halloween, only now you finally had a chance to feel the pain, knowing Pettigrew is on the loose here?" Percy asked and I looked down. "They won't leave me alone, I reached my limit, can they not understand it's not just about my family, but nearly losing Ginny a few months ago as well. I'm still having nightmares about the chamber." I said, trying to control my voice and they nodded with a sigh.
'Yeah he's emotionally wracked up, he needs space from those two now, it's okay baby.' I heard softly then from Kristine and Jeff rubbed the back of my head, all 5 of them knowing what this was really about then as he said it gently. "It's been 6 months, since I got the news he's back on the loose, things were fine till Peter broke. But the fights over everything and I mean everything, from my classes, Ginny, breaking orders to go to the village here now."
"Said are wearing so thin, I'm calling separation right now, this is the same as saying, in 'his' words, never focus on the smaller picture. Our emotional pain must not be focused on, you have to focus on the bigger picture." I said and he nodded in fury. "Katie, you and I share something the quintet don't with us, where did we hear that phrasing, only in movie form after they now. Made the big screen, Patrick sounds like Jeff Nordling, who of them became the leader now."
"And of the American teenage quidditch team coach." I said and she crossed her arms as I went further. "The characters, the bigger picture, could be seen as what now in who's voice, a month after the murder?" I asked and Jeff looked down as he said it for her. "You're stuck in a vacuum and to this old fool, through them, he's saying for you snap out out of it. You don't just stop living, because you lost someone." he said in anger and Ben nodded in anger at that remark.
"How exactly, have they ever been in the field of battle, when you're close to being killed or saw a friend shot down?" I asked and he nodded. " Or worse, see your other half shot down in front of you." Percy said in response and I nodded. "Does he really expect me to keep going like nothing has happened, them to, because if they do. Then they gone totally mad right now, this is what we call a schizophrenic break from reality." I told him and he nodded sternly to that.
"I am suffering what we call post traumatic stress disorder, where you came close to being killed, had to kill in self defense, it takes years to get over this. And even then the nightmares and cold sweats never stop, that's why I blacked out, my last encounter." I said and the sextet nodded sternly. "War does dangerous things to you mentally, you're stuck permanently in a fight or flight, fight or run to get away from whoever, in truth, ever since the chamber now here."
"I keep going down there to make sure the bloody thing is really dead." I told them and they nodded. "I'm being honest here right now, but to him, he thinks what I do is easy and not enough to be changed by it now. Remember the troll, I had to knock the big lug out with his own club, but is that not a big deal, what do these two things have in common?" I asked and she nodded. "Neither the snake nor the troll knew any better." Minerva said and I nodded then.
"I had no choice, but to kill her, he told her not to listen to me, I had no choice." I said and she nodded and in understanding. "I get it baby, I get it, this is not an easy thing to live with to kill an innocent animal, because they never knew any better. Or the big lug paid the price for breaking into school full of children, but he never lost his girlfriend while doing it. We destroyed 5 and yes, that's victory, but it left you emotionally traumatized, and with that in mind here."
"Face what you did and come to terms with it, that it baby?" Poppy asked and I nodded. "Yeah this time is even worse then the last time, way worse, rather then his adult self. I keep seeing his diary self, standing over Ginny with a cold blooded smirk. But the P.T.S.D., if it's this bad now…" I said and she and Minerva nodded. "The tournament." she said and I nodded then. "Yeah the tournament I stopped him, but at what cost?" I asked and they nodded gently to me.
"The tournament is going to be even worse right now, way worse, like she said, that was meant to test me in the most barbaric way possible here. But the graveyard, it's ending this once and for all right now, but do they really expect me to get over this. And like nothing has happened, I feel Chris did after he came home and they acquitted him from Sheldon's murder. But to hades with him and his bigger picture, I did all the work here." I said and Minerva nodded sternly then.
"I mean really, what's the point, I do all the work and he's trying to make it sound like that stupid prophecy is the important thing, we can't let ourselves be distracted. And by the pain, we have to keep to the bigger picture, shut up old man, shut up for once, I've been traumatized." I said and she nodded. "Yeah that's both cold blooded and callous, just what is the matter with you Ronald, do you not see he's been beyond traumatized!" Percy said and the twins nodded.
"Shh, it's okay we understand and you're right, the smaller picture was us, your family, why should you listen to him, everything he ever filled your head with in that round is a lie." George said softly to me then and I nodded gently. "Hanging in there, but just barely, how much can you lose, before you decide to stop fighting and give up." I asked and the trio nodded. "But you never did, we're all still here, because your idea is working." Katie said and I nodded to her.
"I've been having constant nightmares about the encounters for the last 6 months, and now Peter is on the loose, knowing the truth, not only did he turn us in. Mum was pregnant again, I knew that, how can I move on, knowing the tosser killed or barely killed my entire family. I understand Molly's fears, her twins brothers, I'm resigning myself to the smaller picture here. Never losing who I love, and then I lose 10 years with dad." I said and the trio nodded sternly.
"For 2.5 years here, the one constant was us, your teachers and friends, we're your family, in addition to Sirius and Remus, Severus." Kristine said gently and I nodded sadly. "Like I said, stuck in a vacuum right now, give you some bloody time already here, but damn it to hades. Can they give you some space here right now!" Jeff said sternly as he exchanged looks with Ben and he nodded. "I'm like said doctor that treated Chris, ladies." Ben said and they both nodded.
"More like you're Hirsch and he even had it when he realized what the heck was going on, but I'm saying this from Naughton's opinion, my memory is just fine, it's my sanity. I'm beginning to worry about right now, from them not knowing when to back off." I said and he nodded. "You being my patient that goes without saying right now, but this is emotional abuse. And I'm close to having them arrested for this." he said to me gently and Poppy nodded in stern agreement.
"Issues in the side effects, being said doctor, it's said exchanges repeatedly and Remus was coming to me repeatedly on that, as I told him nothing happened here. But this is too much, he said that after 2.5 years you're the only one controlling Mooney when he goes dangerous wolf. I know what this is doing to you, but our decision to let him, Luke and the others hunt him down. We're trying to get this over with, so you can move on." he said sternly and Poppy nodded then.
"Yes indeed this crossed a line right now, but what about the tournament, you're traumatized enough already, what if that was really Cedric that got shot down." Minerva said sternly and Ben nodded as they and Poppy exchanged furious looks then. "Like I said, repeatedly, don't talk about what happened down there, you're still wracked up, mentally and emotionally. Poppy, Rick, Severus and I said you would get over that if we gave you time, but the fact they won't."
"Won't leave you alone, I reached my limit with those children now, you're as emotionally fragile as Christoper was after losing the duo in the story. I said, again and again, never to talk about it, the nightmares, you're stuck in a vacuum here. And you're trying to move on, we already destroyed 5, plus killing the one in Quirrell here right now. Only now, let me guess, in addition to the game, you're preparing for the tournament, cub?" he asked and I nodded gently then.