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 22: Final Changes And School Preparations VI
"God not again right now, first the situation with the mirror and now you really over do it, like we said though a wizard in theory, still a cub here. But you over did it again, didn't you, young man, your muscles are so exhausted. That you just collapsed, we told you not to over do it now." Ben said as Jeff picked me up and got me into a sitting position as they carried me to the hospital wing, as I removed my training sweat-shirt as I sat there in a tank top in the warmth.
Then of the bathroom on the medical table they had in there. 'Yeah one of the good things about implementing muggle ways, we got an easier time this way. Not all magic, but muggle ways now, as this could be considered the sauna.' I thought gently then to this. "I'm fine Grandma, I mean if I wasn't, then write to my father and tell him to come back." I said gently to her then and they exchanged bemused looks, hearing the exchange of the movie coming on then.
"Because I do not believe you are well right now." Poppy said gently to me, as she checked me over and sighed. "You weren't attacked by another dementor, your training session went over board up there again, if you're drenched in sweat, it's also snowing outside." she said and I nodded. "Well let's just say that this brings a whole new meaning to airborne snowball fights." I said and Jeff hid a chuckle and Ben nodded with a bemused smile as she answered that gently.
"Guys, go, head for the dorms, I'll send for you after we do this." I said and the 7 nodded. "He's right, once done, in here and in bed, we'll send for you, but the only way in now. Said is by Toppy coming to get you, but the family elf and of every pureblood family in school. Is working the kitchen now, so call Toppy to you, and he'll bring you in through the shields." Ben said and they nodded. "We have 45 minutes, before they check here, Doctor." Percy said and we nodded.
"What time is it exactly?" I asked and she said it. "It's 5:30, almost time for dinner right now, so dinner and then early bed time after this, so with you in here, it's easy. But a fast shower, dinner and then bedtime now, if you want something to read that's fine right now. But you're, after we get you in bed, you're to stay in bed for the night right now, now I mean it. I want you to stay off your legs tonight, after I check your legs." Ben said and I nodded to the orders as she did it.
"The symptoms match muscle fatigue with over use of this one, you look like you did after Remus sent Hedwig ahead to contact us. But between both together, you're draining your reserves a little too quickly here right now." she said as she read out the symptoms. "Your pulse is much too quick, and there's a definite sign of fever in your eyes, Ben, bring that ice." she said and I sighed at that remark, knowing my legs were beyond exhausted, but at the same time.
Knowing I hated temperatures this cold after the last dunk then as she answered that response gently then, before Minerva said it for her gently. "Muscle exhaustion, or in this case, could be the symptoms of orthostatic hypotension, but the guys and the trio caught just in time. Before I blacked out on you, again." I said and she nodded. " At least this time you're on the ground floor here, and not up there." she said in response as she squeezed my hand and I smiled gently.
"Well you never lost enough iron to have that happen either." Kristine said sternly and then said it. "Low iron levels causes anemia, if you're a woman with puberty here, but for a man, exhaustion or extreme muscle fatigue causes this." she said and they both nodded to the news. "I take it you're also muggle born, Kris?" I asked and she nodded to me. "Yes I am, in fact, the three of us all are, but we're the oldest in young adults." she said and I nodded gently to her.
"Wait a second, have you been eating, since he broke in, not just junk food, but a balanced diet?" Jeff asked me and I nodded. "Yeah I have, but just to get some peace from those two, they been hounding me on everything: my grades, Ginny, the village. I'm been running my frustration out on the track." I told him honestly then. "Austin's second option to control anger: take it out in physical activity, not losing your temper entirely." Jeff said and Minerva nodded.
"And from the bruises on your knuckles, you're using the punching bag while you're at it right now, let me guess, you're going at it so much in the gym here right now. That everything you been taking double helpings for, you're burning it off so fast, you're losing weight. No matter how much you eat right now?" Poppy said sternly and I nodded and the duo paled at that. "Yeah alright that's enough of that already, cub." Ben said sternly to that news and she nodded then.
"If I was anyone I'm Chris, in dealing with my emotional state, trying to deal with it, but at least said story never put him in the system for 4 years. But in total truth here right now, he entered stage 2 grief, it's he's driving himself into the ground. To bury the pain right now, that's what I'm feeling right now, they don't realize. That the more they're hounding me, the more I need to be in the gym, remember my other taste aside from track?" I asked and he closed his eyes.
"You're a green belt." he said and I nodded. "The martial arts class you're taking right now in school, you're throwing yourself into your training on that. And that explains your knuckles, you're taking the anger and pain out and it being thrown into the punching bag." Minerva said and I nodded. "Better that then being expelled for a brawl on campus, but all that anger, frustration, is burning off calories, no matter how much I eat." I said and they nodded sternly.
"Like I said this is ending right now, I get you're furious at them for never leaving you be, but working yourself into a stay in here is going too far, son." he said to me gently and I nodded. "I have two choices, just to get you to take a break so you can rest for a few months, two choices. So 1) we send them home and they do out of school attendance, or 2) we have Kingsley always there, at your side and you do private tutors now." Minerva said and I nodded in agreement.
"Agreed, it's choice 2) I have other friends to hang around with, but they start this again directly after we get back, I'm calling it, our security code, Lion, Badger, Eagle, Serpent. Enforced separation, and private tutors and we move them to the isolation floor of the tower." I said and Minerva nodded in agreement. "Choice 2), we do that then, but I'm sending them home tomorrow, and you're on bedrest till Monday." she said and I nodded as they both paled at that.
"Freeze." I said sternly and they looked at the duo. "You don't mean that, just to get us off your back, you're deciding enforced separation!" Ron said shaking and I nodded sternly. "Wouldn't you be right now, you're dealing with that catch, you short tempered here right now. My saying everything you are to me, and you lash out, to get me to leave you be right now. You hate the headmaster for keeping you in the dark, the entire faculty know what's wrong here right now."
"In your case, said is you entered stage two and are constantly being hounded like this is thinning your patience?" I asked and they both paled at my remark. " But he is, through you, just what do I have to do, to get you off my case right now, but grades. Ginny, the village, it's the same fight no matter how many times we go over this, I am so darn sick of this. I'm taking all that anger out into my training, until my knuckles are close to being covered in blood."
"I finally, in my unsuppressed anger, do the boards, or just the glass, and I break my wrist, you realize how serious in their eyes that is here?" I asked and he started shaking in fear then. "I mean really, yeah it's been years, but so what, I'm feeling what he did after Cade died. Before losing Dally, after losing his parents, he saw the body covered in blood, I can't just get over it. Just like that, 5 stages of grief, I'm currently entering anger, you want to be the target for it."
"That anger right now, but do you realize what you're really saying to me here, by all these fights, now that I know the truth, my hatred at Peter for turning us in. I hate him, as bitterly as the narrator hated the Socs, for killing my entire family, for turning us in." I said to her and she swallowed hard. "But Dumbledore's remark of keeping to the bigger picture is the same as saying 'you're trapped in vacuum, you're going to have to cut it out, you don't stop living.'."
"And just because you lose someone, you don't quit!" I snapped and she started shaking in fear at that remark. "You just said that to me with all this rubbish you're fighting with me about, I'm in mourning blast it, just leave me alone, do you get that. Do you, I'm in mourning, I suffered a trauma, 6 months prior, just give me some bloody space already!" I snarled and she swallowed hard, realizing, it had nothing to do with grades, or the cat, it was my family and Ginny then.
"Think about it for one bloody second, Ron, how long would it take the twins to get over losing whoever was killed in the fight, hmm how long, because the core of my family. Said was still alive, but one by one I lost the adults mattering to me-most, Kingsley is the only one left. Dad, the professor, Remus, Dora, Ted, who's left of the adult order, who I love, my parents are dead. Dad is dead, Remus, Professor Moody, Andy is heart broken the war killed her husband here."
"Her daughter, son-in-law, your mother it cost her whoever in the family it killed, Dora, before she was killed it killed her mentor, the Browns, Lavender, the Creeveys Colin and his brother. And that's just this war, but what about the last, it killed Susan's family, mine, Molly's version of Fred and George, Neville's parents are in the hospital. This was never in truth what you think it's about, never, it always was about….?" I asked, and she went white, realizing it finally at that.
"Yeah, yeah now it penetrates, it's not about the cat, his grades or leaving the castle, but about his family and Ginny." we heard get shouted out and they turned around to see a group of 17 21 years, and with them two men. "Hey Kenan, good to see you, nice to meet you in person." I said and Hermione went as pale as a ghost as he crossed his arms. "That's the primary cast of The Mighty Ducks trilogy, old and new coach." I said and they all nodded as the leader nodded.
"He's the star of a skit based on another teenage show on Nickelodeon, his counterpart was the other side of their show name, but back to back Disney movies. But he did the the next 2 Mighty Ducks and a story about a group of kids going to weight loss camp. His counterpart is the head keeper of the rings and the 15 are their friends and team mates. The trio are Brandon's brother, and a brother/sister duo, family name of the Duncans, in truth here."
"The others play Charlie Conway." I started to say and the leader smiled. "Orion, my name is Charlie Orion now, as my character, joint custody, Jeff is my father as my character. But the duo had a real problem with Jeff and left after said grudge match, the rest of us decided together. We were sticking together and flying as one, but Warriors are dead and the Ducks took flight, we defeated the older brothers to our version of Slytherin." he said and they nodded gently him.
"Like I said, the Warriors die, and the Ducks fly." Kenan said and they nodded. "But my name is Josh Jackson, this is Elden Henson, Shaun Weiss, Brandon Adams, Matt Doherty, Vincent Larusso, Garette Ratliff Henson, Marguerite Moreau, Colombe Jacobsen, Aaron Lohr, Ty O'Neal, Mike Vitar, and Justin Wong, Jussue Smollett, Danny Tamberelli, and Jane Plank. And you know Kenan, otherwise known as Dexter Reed, Of the skit Good Burger." he said and they nodded.
"Cast characters, our names are Charlie Orion, Fulton Reed, Greg Goldberg, Jesse Hall and Terry Hall, Les' Averman, Adam Banks, Guy Germaine, Connie Monroe. Julie 'the Cat' Gaffney, Dean Portman, Dwayne Robertson, Luis Mendoza, Kenny Wu. And Tammy and Tommy Duncan and you met Russ Tyler now already, these are our Coaches Gordon Bombay. And my father, Coach Ted Orion, we're the Eden Hall and Minneapolis Mighty Ducks." Josh said and we nodded smiling.
"Wait, Harry showed us your picture when you did the second season of your tv show." Minerva said and he nodded, smiling. "If you mean my rant after he read the diary here, yeah I figured, I understand his feelings, because I feel that to, but to repeat that. You know, I am so sick and tired of listening to his and Katie's boring little mini dramas. I am going to start tearing out my fingernails for relief, get over yourself man, deal with it." he said sternly and I nodded to that.
"I said that the way you phrased it, he's stuck in his little pity party, he's not paying attention to why the hades I even got my fame, who wants to be famous. And for surviving the curse that killed so many others?" I said and he nodded in understanding then. "Yeah I agree with you on that, who wants to be famous for surviving the most destructive curse in your world. When it killed so many others, you want what everybody has: a loving family." he said and Ron paled.
"Let me take a wild guess, after she did that on the movie, you made it so Heidi decided to not tell you, she was pregnant and you found each other at said practical joke?" Maggie asked and they nodded. "You did, the rewrite shot into me, and Jeff arrived on the scene, just as those two took off, and calling out to the duo to freeze up, and recognizing his tone as the coach. Matt and I charged to the car to check on them right now, before we kept running into each other here."
"And the mutiny triggered this, first assistant coach here, I have both parents now, I have a mentor, in training, I'm a conformed cub, or duckling now, so two families. Him, Heidi and me, or us, his wife, my stepmother and my half sister now, as my character. But Maggie created a little experiment to see what getting the duo off the team does for me now. And point made, I'm next to Vince the team's star player, I'm a model son, baby's big brother, the best of the 10."
"And we won our first victory against our rivals, as we enter the second movie, it was a Saturday, I'm at my part time job at Joss's hockey store doing the skate sharpening. And we won 3 years in a run now, checking on Emilio after they blew his knee out and the out of state. In trips hit, as we get the sextet added to us and with them, Kathy as dad was was running our training and we're beyond good, as we won the tournament, and got into the academy now."
"And now dad's our head coach, and we're graduating next school year, it's our last season together and we're all getting antsy." Josh said smiling and she nodded. "Yeah papa bear, don't want to leave papa, still cub, he's our mentor, don't want to let go." Maggie said smiling and Nordling looked down, smiling at that. "I get it dad, I get it, we're your babies and we always will be, your ducklings, still and always." Josh said smiling and he chuckled at that remark then.
"Yeah Josh is my son, been together, since they were 14 real life, 10 in the movies, they're in their senior year in high school now." Nordling said and she nodded. "And like I said, if you're pretending to be a pureblood, you're just digging yourself a very deep hole here. Because this is like college, you can choose to return to your real, or be dragged further. And into a dangerous world, as our world is now the epitome of utopia now." Kenan said and she swallowed hard then.
"As such right now, you're basically quoting, paraphrased here, as what I said to Chris, and frankly with him this emotionally wracked up, just leave him alone already." we heard and Emilio nodded sternly to this as 6 more men arrived and the leader crossed his arms. "That's the cast of said book, that's Patrick Swayze he plays Darry, Rob Lowe is Soda, Chris is the narrator. Matt Dillon is Dally Winston, Tom Cruise is Steve Randle and Ralph Macchio is Johnny Cade now."
"Chris understands this, but the rant at the end of the book, the movie, before they got everything on the table is me now, the cast understands better then anything." I said and the 7 nodded in agreement as a red headed woman nodded. "And Diane Lane as Cherry Valance." she said to complete my explanation to the faculty and they nodded. "Yeah we understand perfectly and I was scared out of my mind, he would never come out of it." Emilio said sternly to this.
"And me with you, Emilio." Patrick said sternly and she swallowed hard. "Cedric, if we never changed the books now, our future, is playing Johnny, I'm the narrator." I said and Molly covered her heart at that. "And instead of just 6 months, since the parents and baby sister are gone, it's 13 years, followed by another back to back loss now. Yeah we get it, you're so emotionally wracked up, you need time." Arthur said and Swayze nodded to confirm that theory then sternly.
"The smaller picture is my family, I will fight till everyone trying to get to me by targeting my family is dead, worse then dead, or in jail." I said and the 8 nodded. "That we understand baby, believe me we do, but that is, their attitude, both cold blooded and callous. I know Chris saw the body covered in blood, would you be able to get over it that fast, if you saw it. Whoever it is, covered in blood we know these cause injuries of the type a pocket knife causes right now."
"Could you take the carnage, and without coming out of it unscathed?" she asked and the duo went pale at the consideration. "You are being both cold blooded and callous, what just because I was recovered physically, though my strength is still coming back. You expect to move on from what caused it in the first place?" Chris said for me and she started shaking in fear. "And why should I, I saw Cedric be killed in front of me, just like Pony saw the aftermath of Sheldon's."
"Do you honestly expect him, or me, to get over this just like that, like it never happened?" he said sternly and she paled. "No you're traumatized for life right now young lady, it takes years to get over this, and even then you're never completely healed. Because this is why the family and those closest to you get so overly protective, they know you're emotionally fragile. So with that in mind you two, this is why he's so irked with you." Matt said sternly and she swallowed hard.
"And your personality matches me perfectly little buddy, I understand perfectly, my character was in a vacuum for weeks, in denial. Till Rob talked some sense into me and then I found Ralph's letter, but that turned me into a soldier. Young lady, he has every right to be irked at you right now, when he's ready to come you he will, but until then. Just leave him alone and let him mourn in peace here." Chris said sternly and Hermione swallowed hard as he went further then.
"Who left the radio playing exactly!" Penny said and I turned at that. "Great someone inputted the sound tracks to our more famous movies into the tape deck here right now. That's the theme song to Harrison's other well known acting role, he's what Daniel really is. A mixture of him and John, that's Daniel altogether." I said and they nodded. "Anyway here is this pretty much is what I felt after the trial, I was in mourning, before we got everything on the table."
"But to phrase this, his thinking the way I quoted my character, I just thought if I played it like Cedric is not dead, it wouldn't hurt as much. I miss my parents and Cedric and Rose so much. I want them back, these wars cost me 2 friends, and prior my parents right now in truth. And you expect me to pretend this never happened, I can't do that, leave me alone here. Just leave me alone already, when I'm ready, I'll come to you." Chris said and she went as pale as ghost then.
"Your character just turned 14, I'm about to turned 14, in 7 months, after this, I'm still just a child here." I said and Swayze left his hand on my back and squeezed my shoulder. "These wars never stop, they never stop, and how long before it kills someone on both sides. The loss changes you forever, take Frasier's death for instance, what that would do to the trio. After Daniel came back?" I said and they nodded and Ron started shaking, realizing he never knew.
"But the kid is right, you have the emotional range of a teaspoon here, but you know why he's looking at the map, or listening to these radios, to make sure. That he never hears Ginny's name or Fred, or George, the trio, Fleur, Molly, Arthur, Kingsley, the Lupins. Neville, Luna, the D.A. the faculty, you think he doesn't understand how this feels, no, you don't know how it feels. Your parents and brothers and sister are alive, you have a family." Nordling said and he swallowed.
"So shut up, just shut up for once in your life here, you know I am so sick and tired of hearing about your and her's boring little mini dramas. I'm going to start tearing out my hair to get some relief, get over yourself Ron, deal with it. I changed, I grew up, I have a chance to revitalize my family, I'm taking it with open arms. And doing it by the end of the tournament, is the best hope we have, so trust me, for once!" Josh said sternly and he started shaking in fear.
"They understand, because they're actors, they throw everything they got into making it convincing, but Josh and Emilio, Jeff are me in my entirety, you two. Get used to it here, while Chris is me in dealing with the tournament and the aftermath, I'm a muggleborn. This is why I love his movies, they teach a vital lesson, a coming of age story, quidditch in the muggle world. It's called ice hockey." I said and Ron looked at the duo shaking, at that realizing I had it then.
"And what if one of us twins, your brothers, was killed in the battle here at the school, now what, we're always seen as one. Fred and George, George and Fred, nobody sees us separated but we share an apartment, a bedroom. We did and do everything together, being a twin is the same as having a soulmate, the loss is like you lose half of yourself. And you're never the same again." Fred said and he went white at his remark, not realizing that at all and I nodded sternly.
"That's what being a team, a pack, a gang really is, you lose a member of the gang, and you're never the same again, especially if that person is your best friend. I was nearly killed by the Varsity after they blew the ice at the lake, while I was saving my sister. And trust me, this left that fear inside the team, Emilio and Jeff for years, them, the men. Said that were playing our grandfather and great uncle mentors and our parents, they lived in fear something in truth."
"Could take me away from them, and they clung tighter, not wanting to lose me, the grudge match result in taking the elbow to my still healing lung. And a brawl broke out as a result, but this ticked them all off so much, they were going to kill the Varsity. But me, me, me, why is always it about me, why does it keep coming back to me, I'm always here. Even when I'm not, but me this, me that, Adam this, Adam that, me, me, me, Adam, Adam, Adam, our bonds."
"Said are so strong, why do the team rally around us exactly?" Josh said and he swallowed hard then. "You need to ask, we just had the life scared out of us." Kenan said sternly and the 12 nodded in stern agreement to that. "The rumble was a result of this, I proclaimed that this fight was in tribute to Ralph and we're getting them the heck out of our territory. And for good, but as a result the fight finally triggered a case of broken ribs, it was a collapsed lung and concussion."
"That your doctor's double, made clear, he needed to be hospitalized, while after losing Ralph, I lost two brothers prior and then I lose him next, I reached my limit now. So tell me, are you going to take this, if he takes said same injuries right now, before he reached his limit?" Matt asked and Ron swallowed hard and Hermione went white then. "That's the smaller picture, give him, me, some time please, just back off and let us mourn." Chris said sternly and he nodded.
"My smaller picture is revenge, killing the traitor that killed my family, he slaughtered 13 muggles, and framed my adoptive father for murder. My other legal guardians are currently worse then dead right now, what if it was you Ron, rather then me. Would you appreciate me telling you to get over their deaths and move on?" I asked and he swallowed. "What about you Hermione, he killed your parents, he is the reason they're dead?" I asked and she paled at that.
"The adults closest to me understand that, I'm stuck in the smaller picture, my smaller picture is not just my parents and baby sister, my best friend, my sister. But Ginny as well, the fight barely killed us both, as such why should I pull myself out of this, knowing the truth. The truth that now that the traitor escaped, I have dad here now and now I'm dealing with it. The it, that you're slowly, by the constant arguing making me lose weight, I'm losing focus here right now."
"You get the point here, his not leaving it alone through you is having me so frustrated, I'm losing weight here. But rather then possible, the quintet all go straight to worst case scenario now." I said and they swallowed hard at that, as Severus nodded sternly at that. "That in our eyes, to get you to leave him alone now, it's getting you off campus for 3 weeks now. And up to a month, because at this rate, he's going to get sick here, no matter how much he eats now."
"Or was that the plan at this rate, make him so weak he's easier to compulse, to get 'his' planning back on track?" Minerva said and they started shaking in fear. "Yeah I agree with her right now, because year 3, we got those things on the loose, I should be able to enjoy a year off. But then you guys are not leaving me alone, it's like he's trying to say, no breaks, back to work, back to work." I said sternly and she nodded in agreement to my opinion as they went white.
"All we want, for once, is a quiet year, no adventures, total peace and quiet and I get it in year 3 finally, as no more adventures." Minerva said and they paled. "Does everything go back to his determination to change things back?" Hermione said shaking in fear, realizing I had it with them. "You need to ask, I don't trust the headmaster, after he's been holding an innocent man hostage and the traitor go free." I said and she went pale, realizing my mind was made up.
"And Draco was right, the school has turned into a slum, since the prophecy was created, Harry decided to call in the increasingly falling standards, at Hogwarts school." Narcissa said to her and she swallowed. "And now we're evaluating what needs to be changed and fixed, the headmaster is a cult leader, neglecting education to substandard education." Amos said and she started to say it and froze as she realized her next remark had them know she was compulsed.
"Daph', give me a little help here." I said and she nodded gently. "All I had done was do exactly what Professor Dumbledore had told me would be best for Harry's well-being. How could Harry be cross with me for that?" she said and I decided to be her inner voice. "Perhaps." I said gently, playing the little niggling voice of doubt in the back of her mind. "Professor Dumbledore didn't know what was best for Harry." I said and Hermione paled at that as Daphne played her.
"But he's Professor Dumbledore, 'the' Professor Dumbledore. He can't be wrong." she said and I said it firmly. "Why not?" I asked and she said it again. "Because he's Dumbledore." she said and I saw her shaking, realizing my knowledge far exceeded her's. "Was he not wrong to give Ron a prefect's badge?" I asked and Hermione looked down, as I knew here that this was something that Hermione really had to struggle with, not understanding why Ron got it now.
"He's giving Ron a chance." she said and I, as said voice, crossed my arms. "Why? He's clearly unsuited to the role, his grades are lacking and his attitude is all wrong. As prefects, we're in school babysitters taking care of our youngest, he just does not have it. Percy had the right attitude, the right personality, could it be that for once the oldest could be right. And you're wrong as Ron just does not have the right attitude to be a prefect." I said and she swallowed.
"I guess I can't argue with that thought, as giving Ron the position of prefect over Harry or even Neville just doesn't seem right in my mind. But doubting those in authority goes against my very nature, I'm sure that Professor Dumbledore must have had his reasons. And for making Ron a prefect, reasons that I will never understand, just like he must have had his reasons. For asking me to not communicate with Harry over the summer and keeping Hedwig locked up all summer."
"No, Professor Dumbledore has his reasons, and soon everything will come together and they would all understand, and Harry will be my friend again." she said and we ended it at that remark then. "And Percy does have the right attitude, like the teachers, not just the family, but everyone in the dorm, their grade, up to the 8th years are in school babysitters. For once could it be that Percy is right and the headmaster is wrong?" I asked and she swallowed hard at that.
"So that's it, to you he can do no wrong, the headmaster is always right, why, because he's the headmaster, give me a bloody break here. Doubting my father's commitment to me, his being trustworthy, coercion, it has the headmaster's signature all over it. Trying to get me away from Ginny, it's him again, he doesn't want anything screwing up his plans. Talking me into leaving campus him again, trying to revoke my status to take control of me." I said and they paled then.
"Harry's working over time and his shoving his frustration into over exercising, he wants him weak enough and too exhausted to fight back and resist. Grades, he wants him to remain ignorant, everything you guys are irritating him about, all has the same source: Dumbledore. But just what do I have to do to actually get you to leave him alone, you been at odds all semester and I reached my limit, hmm, what exactly right now, because we had enough."
"So getting him away from Ginny: his falling in love puts a giant crimp in his plans, 2) his grades right now: that means he's trying to keep him ignorant. So you can crash in the middle of this, during that search, 3) Sirius: he wants you to hate Harry for leaving your families. You any idea what this is like, your families are endanger, because of you, 4) misinformation. You don't have all the facts, you keep hitting roadblocks in the search?" Minerva asked and she swallowed hard.
"But I hate Dumbledore more then I do Riddle, at least Riddle was willing to give exception, to my mother, but she refused and he killed her and my sister. To fit his idea of the greater good, he was willingly to sacrifice me, me a child, because there is one inside me." I said and she swallowed at that, shaking. "What happens if I remove it next year exactly, hmm what, answer is that he has to sacrifice a few things to change his planning." I said and she went white then.
"Don't say he has his reasons, because those reasons will not holdup in the court of the law, so what's the problem, pretending to be a pureblood?" I asked her sternly and she went ghost white at that. "Your children will be half bloods, mine are 3/4's pure, but I guess I never meant a thing to you, you're following a very familiar story-line here." I said and she went white then. "Which…., which one?" she said and I dropped the book on the table and Dean took a look.
"Saving A Friendship: A Power Rangers Story…, this is the rewrite to No Business, Like Snow Business, Professor read chapter 4, after the team did a status check on said letter." he said and Minerva took the book and read through it and nodded. "They won in one case, but in the end their enemy defeated them, because they, the yellow and black. Now, would not, as you say, but out of their relationship." Slughorn said then, reading it over her shoulder sternly then.
"We win, yes, but in the end we lose, because the leader of the Ninja team, and his girlfriend, they broke all ties with their duo's counterparts, the so called original black and yellow. Because they broke her heart, and she gets turned, a back to back turning, first the leader, her brother. The blue Ninja and then comes her other twin, the Cherry red red ranger, their original team leader, all because certain people never respect their need of privacy, I see what you mean."
"Nice work you two, you as well, Albus, you did the exact thing these young actors are trying to stop, and in the end, our version of their enemy wins anyway." she said and I nodded and Hermione started shaking even more violently in fear. "But this is the broomstick all over again, ironic don't you think, everything I tried to do in fun, you ruin. As the source goes back to my father, only now in truth, everything you guys are irritating me with here right now, in truth."
"They all have the same source, with you refusing to follow orders, till Percy, through me, has to report you directly to our head of house on this, and with her, Severus. Or did you forget that on purpose, why Severus, why is it always Severus that has to keep dealing with us?" I asked and she swallowed hard and he went white at that. "Well like her, I am your favorite teacher, at first we had a love/hate relationship and now I act 'en loco parentis' for your mother, cub, but really."
"You decided with you a cub auror, to follow orders for once, as Remus, Jeremy, Alex and I are checking on you guys and you're following orders. But really, you just got over said cold from exposure during the game, you need to be where we can see you. With you this exhausted, the 7th and 8th years know this, along with the girls and the twins. So to us made simple, you never break orders that year, and invited Ginny to join you and the team, in everything you do."
"But I guess that would be a problem for the highly Elite right now, why mix with mere peasants you two, when the teams are the epitome of cool in this school. He's following orders, staying where we, as the faculty left in charge, can see him. What with Hagrid, Filius and Minerva at the village here, and he just used your remark of me, Minerva, Sirius, Alastor and Hagrid. In being worried about him, and you're telling him to listen to us?" he asked and she swallowed hard.
"But why just Ginny, why not the twins and Percy, why not them as well, why just Ginny, and for the record, before you start bashing someone and because they didn't whatever. You did the very same thing, why not look up on the most dangerous of the animals in our world. Harry's right on all counts that could happen to anyone and you've no room to talk." Severus said and she swallowed hard, realizing she had nothing at that, I was in love, nothing would change back.
"Thank you, that's just the point, she said you guys and Grandma are worried about me, so listen to you already, and I'm doing that and now they're complaining. Make up your mind would you please right now, you want to follow the rules do as they tell me. Or do you want me to get in trouble here, so he has a reason to revoke my status here. I'm not breaking orders, 'you' guys are trying to protect me, so listen to you already." I said and she swallowed hard at that.
"And there's my baby, you been following orders all semester, Percy and Billy are swapping turns in being on watch with Remus in the stands right now, watching your practice. But by this point now, we know your training went overboard right now, if you finally collapsed on us. You're still following orders, being where we, as the faculty, can see you, your father is here. And at times away in London, to report into Barty and Cornelius." Minerva said and I nodded gently to her.
"Yep, but at the moment she has no room to talk here, after I investigated the bloody diary, she did the very same thing and her arrogance and insufferable attitude. Said turned her into a cat, if she'd been smart she'd had checked the animals of our world. And then after realizing how the bloody thing is getting around, come straight to you and me to let us know. Instead of informing the first person, that encounters to look around walls." I said then and they nodded sternly then.
"Ginny's only 11, that could have happened to anyone, not her fault, it was never her fault." I said and the faculty nodded in agreement. "But my wife suffered a trauma, one she is still getting over and one I am very ticked off at here." I said and they nodded. "Shove it in his face after we do this, she felt very dirty, so why is that, the bloody bastard had a smirk on his face. From what you told me after you reported to me next, baby." Poppy said and they went white.
"And 19 year old trapped in 13 year old body, all the stress is causing me to lose weight, but the Ravenclaw game is not till March right now. You have 3 months to get the weight back on me, as I slow things down, allow my body to heal from this." I said and she and Ben nodded in gently agreement as the trio crossed their arms. "Agreed, but as I said, I had enough of this, between that wretched girl and the dangers of those things being on campus have caused here now."
"Heaven knows what'll happen if this keeps up, you could be clotting, she, in my direct opinion, or the headmaster, possibly jinxed your broom. I won't stand for it, not anymore, I won't stand for any of it now." Maggie said and Spreckley and Peter nodded in agreement. "I always did matter more to you, you're my favorite teacher in addition to adoptive grandma." I said and she smiled fondly and the duo swallowed hard. "Yes, but keep it up." she said smiling and I nodded.
"Getting in his head, I know he never deals in said scenario directly, but has 2nd to 3rd party persons doing everything for him here." I said and Minerva nodded in agreement to that. "Only now we're getting his drones out of the castle, so we have to force him to try here. But you destroyed 6 in 2.5 years, we had a severe victory so why is he so desperate here. You have no reason to sacrifice yourself, your idea with Remus is the best way to handle this right now."
"We eliminate the flesh of the servant piece to that potion, you kill him and be done with it right now, that's the game plan, so what is the problem. Or is this made up in his mind, that you have to die and everyone turns to him, your so called mentor. Nice try I don't think so, if that's he's trying to change things back to what he feels it should be right now. And when he does now, it's game over, because he crossed a line and enough to put him behind bars at this rate now."
"But your parents, if they were alive still, and your father trusts me to do what's best for you and your sister now, and that is precisely what I intend to do right now. I'm only allowing this once in you in the tournament, just this once, but you're barely out of middle school. And get drafted, but the stress could have what's going on getting 5x's worse if you don't release it." she said and I nodded as the quartet exchanged knowing looks as she said it as she looked at them.
"I think we all know what's happening here, this time it's not just Peterson on the loose, the irritation at Dumbledore not leaving him alone through the duo is causing this. But this keeps up he's going to get sick and he just got over a cold, Poppy, you better double everything. Normal and his favorite snacks, he needs to rest and eat his favorite foods here, but enough is enough. We got to get the duo out of the castle and the Patterson gang with them, and I mean now."
"Damn it, it's like being trapped behind enemy lines right now, he's over working himself to stay alive, with the headmaster determined to do things his way right now. Look at him, he looks like he lost 10lbs, but 19 year old teenager trapped in the body of a 13 year old here. We're ending this right now, emotionally fragile and having nightmares of the encounter here. The one in the chamber, keep this up, he's going to get sick at this rate." Kristine said and she nodded sternly.
"We're getting them and the Patterson gang out of the castle, and getting the weight back on you, Toppy, Dobby!" she shouted out and they appeared with a crack then. "Boys, I want you to put in a higher diet of carbs, protein and calcium for Master Potter, he's getting weaker. Because he's losing weight out of over exertion and needs a higher diet on what Healer Healey decides. But everything in a balanced diet, doubled for Master Potter, in every meal till school lets out."
"After dinner every night now, I'm putting in for him, make his favorite desserts far richer and with a higher content of fat and sugar now, double his favorite foods." she said and they nodded to the orders and left at that that remark to get to work then on my dietary program. And the duo went white, realizing Dumbledore's irritating me through them was having me lose weight. And the faculty didn't get them out of the school now, I was going to get sick at this rate then.
"Try to stay awake baby, so you can have dinner, and then early bed tonight." Kristine said and I nodded as Minerva stroked her hand through my hair. "Perce' realized my muscles are getting swollen, but something else is wrong, it feels like I tore something in my ankle. Though that's true, the old man wanted me so weak and exhausted so he could compulse me." I said and she nodded, as she swung her wand at the door, and locked it and they paled at that response.
"Just the legs, my upper body is fine, though a dunk in the pool would help, water supports your weight, you know what comes with recovering from paraplegia after a spinal injury. Well in this case, over use of my stag is working the mental legs too hard, but first ice then heat therapy. As you turn the pool into a heated one to loosen the muscles, this cools down muscle cramps. As any normal athlete does this with over use of the muscles." I said and they nodded gently then.
"And technically you are one, but after that game, best in not over doing it, as for your friends, I'm getting worried here and with that in mind right now." Poppy said gently in response at that remark as Minerva answered my remark. "Despite what the duo may think, and you think in overdoing it in practice, you're still under my care. Your father trusts me to do what is best for you, and that's exactly what I will do." she said and I nodded as I quickly said it to her at that.
"All three sides of your persona came to the fore with this one after the tree now, my legal guardian in training, minor medical nurse and, of course, head of the house now, in our dorms." I said and she smiled gently at that. "Yes and despite what they may think, you're fine, or they're compulsed to think you are now. And you acting as a more mature version to Craven, your father trusts me to do what is best for you, and that is exactly what I intend to do."
"Right now." she said gently to me then, with a look of maternal love and Ron paled, realizing the me that I become in falling in love with Ginny had taken total hold now. As I now sounded like a 16 year old version of her previous character's charge. "The ice therapy would lessen the pain of the cramping, but heat actually opens up circulation right now in the legs. Before I came to you, but first heat then ice as you get me in bed." I said and they nodded as I said it gently.
"Good thing I was wearing swim trunks under these sweats, I was planning on heading for the pool, to take the edge off the pain here." I said and they nodded. " And instead of heat therapy, we just ended up with ice instead, though why is the next question. After Percy caught you after the last time we had this problem." Ben said from behind her with a bemused smile. "Yeah about that, the exercise regime in my case, it got overly extensive, since he broke in at Halloween."
"Before you guys see this, I've been running all over the castle, so my muscles are more then sore, I can barely walk. I hid this from the duo, along with said cold ever since my collapse, which explains why Oliver and Fred called you in now, Grandma." I said and they nodded as Jeff helped me out of my sweat pants and they nodded in shocked disbelief at that. As Kristine had the bath ready and Ben waited to put the ice into the tub as she put a heating charm on me.
To keep my upper body from freezing up then as they saw my legs then, as she pretended to grab a muscle relaxant and injected it into my arm, as we waited for it to take hold, as he said it. "Like Severus said, mentally a paraplegic, your muscles are still recovering from over doing it, this was long in coming after 3 months. But last week's crash of your broom hitting the tree and your fall from that height now here right now, though I'm relieved you're not a baseball player."
"Or getting ice on that shoulder right now or your shoulder gets that treatment, after a dunk in the hot tub." Jeff said and I nodded as he got a better look and nodded sternly at this. "Brother what have you been up to, besides practice in both of those?" Kristine said in shock. "Running the passages, and over use of the come and go room, to prepare for the maze. That Remus's setting up, before I got the real one next year with the tournament." I said and she nodded.
"You been doing the track on the come and go room?" Minerva repeated and I nodded to her. "I been working at building up enough speed so we can get the real trophy exchanged here. The tournament is a trap, we all know that, to built up enough stamina for it, I've been using it. My original sports career, as you remember, I'm a runner when in grade school." I said and they nodded gently to me. "Yes, but with this, you over did it." Ben said gently and she nodded.
"How many laps and how often in between classes, with you barred from leaving the castle with those things here?" Kristine asked me gently and I said it. "That's 8 laps twice a week, for the last 7 weeks." I told her and Jeff covered his eyes. "You been doing 2 miles twice a week for the last 7 weeks, since the game now?" she repeated and I nodded. "That's 14 miles in 7 weeks, non stop, plus the passageways." Poppy said and I nodded and they nodded as Kristine sighed.
"That's 196 laps in 7 weeks, and that's just the track, your jumping through the secret passages adds another 214 laps." she said and Minerva nodded. "So 410 rounds in 7 weeks?" she said and Jeff nodded. "That's 7 weeks of extensive physical training, which is what a training instructor in the military did. He has them doing what they do at the academy, just with guns and knives instead of wands, Harry's P.T. went overboard." he said and they nodded to him.
And in exasperation. "Well you been running that track so much you finally pulled a muscle, looks like in both legs, instead of muscle exhaustion." Kristine said and I covered my eyes. "Yes, you're in trouble cub, you can only do this so much, before you suffer muscle exhaustion. And need to be benched for a few weeks, fortunately school lets out in ten days, and you get a 3 week break here for Christmas, before back at it." Minerva said with a bemused smile to that.
"I call this 2 months of over exertion, if I was really Mrs. Medlock, I'd consider you tore something, but that's not it, over exertion." Poppy said and Jeff nodded. "Jesus, yeah bro you over did it here, if I was Peter, as his character right now the next thought. That is shooting through me here, is what have you guys been up to when out of sight from us here right now. But with you just telling us that, it's you been over exercising to cause this, but a month long."
"In breaks, is definitely in order here right now and with that, with 10 days till school lets out, they're leaving tomorrow and with them, the Patterson gang and Smith. You and the Weasleys go home on time, but once they leave, on Monday night, you're back in the dorms again. But we're locking the entrance on the inside and since he has no idea what you set up here. But to me those two, if they're imperiused or compulsed, they're dangerous to you and themselves."
"You need to give these legs a rest, was this why Dean said you looked like you're suffering orthostatic hypotension, muscle weakness?" he asked and I nodded. "Yeah it is, but only us muggle raised understand what this means right now, at first we were borderline civil war time. And now the medical knowledge jumped forward a 135 years here, though you're now previous century, instead of the turn of the century, but late last decade." I said and they both nodded.
"Yes that, and them having us acting like we're really the mid 70's, 80's and 90's in healing technology, but even we know what's needed for this." Ben said and she and Poppy nodded. "God, look at your legs, they're all swollen and red, come on, Jeff." Poppy said and he picked me up then, as Ben put the ice in the tub. "Come on mate." Jeff said gently and I nodded as I wrapped my arm around around his shoulders as he picked me up and as he put me in the tub.
As I felt the temperature hit me then relaxed as I relaxed against the back of it then, as she set the timer and I sighed in relief. 'God that feels good, yeah I needed that, nice try you old fool, I got caught by my side instead of your's, the pro ministry win again.' I thought sternly and Dumbledore went pale and knew he heard that, as I left my arms crossed against my chest. As I laid there in the tub, letting the water temperature do it's job as I tried to stay awake then.
"Yeah I needed that alright, I wasn't sure how much longer I could hide this, and instead of possibly Riddle or the Headmaster learning this. And them realizing I'm too exhausted, physically, to resist attempted bewitching, it's the ministry, dad's order, you." I said and they nodded as she ran her hand through my hair, as I felt the cold penetrate the tightness. And swelling in my legs and the tightness started loosening and I sighed in relief at that response.
"You knew the duo are possibly compulsed and were waiting to get caught by the boys and the trio?" Minerva repeated and I nodded to her. "Compulsed and possibly imperioed, he's been ordered to kill Ginny." I said and she nodded in shocked fury at the news and Dumbledore started shaking, realizing I knew exactly what he had in mind to break me. "Get her out of the dorms tonight, we send them home tomorrow and take their wands away, as such right now."
"So long as they listen to him, they're dangerous, as is Patterson and his little gang, to themselves, me and everyone else, you're adults. But they can't over power you, because you're fully adult wizards and witches." I told her and she nodded sternly. "Get the faculty in here, everyone, but the headmaster, emergency meeting, the headmaster. He's lost his mind completely, and get the aurors, because Dumbledore broke the law." she said and they nodded.
"He's using the unforgivables on students, he's also trying to break a betrothal between two Ancient and Nobles houses, I'm pressing charges for attempted murder, peer pressure. Emotional abuse and that is just for starters." She said and they nodded as Dumbledore went white, realizing she was protecting me from him now, and Ginny with me. "Then you better go Medlock now on those two, I'm your version of Colin now." I said and she nodded gently then.
"Indeed, but you're my baby, no matter how big you get, still my baby." she said and I smiled then as I looked into her eyes as she ran her hand through my hair. "Some realization, huh, unlike Craven who was arguing here over being treated like an invalid. I'm acting mature, taking this without arguing now, the map is in my gear, after we're done here. We can check on the others now." I said and the trio chuckled and nodded in agreement to that remark gently then.
"Keep them out of the room though, I think they been compulsed, they're a danger to me now, Grandma, I have nothing left, I need a week of peace and quiet. So today is ice therapy, tomorrow is heat as I'm joining the team and Ginny at the pool." I told her and she nodded then. "Do we tell his father about this?" Ben asked and I shook my head. "If I'm so sick, you would have sent for my father by now." I said and they nodded in agreement gently at that.
"Good point, you just got over that cold and we been watching for a relapse." Kristine said and Ben nodded in agreement. "Yeah that and taking very small doses between mixing the two together, although now, it's after 7 weeks of extensive training. In quidditch, your body decide to take a break, in being overly worked and decided you needed ice and heat therapy." Jeff said and he and Poppy nodded in agreement. "Issues in my cubs." Minerva said and he smiled then.
"You guys also Gryffindor?" I asked and they both nodded. "They're a year younger then Barty Junior, Barty went into Hufflepuff, the duo went to me, so they're close to your parents age." She said and I nodded gently. "So that's why you said you remember this, you knew my parents, they were in the class a few ahead of you?" I said and Jeff nodded smiling to me. "Jim told me in truth, he saw me as a kid brother." he said and I smiled at the news then gently.
"You better get that towel away from the furnace though, with the open fireplace, it could catch fire." I said then and Jeff and Kristine pulled the stretcher seat away from the fireplace then, and put the rack in front of it. "To answer your question yes right now, but this was long in coming, you been working those legs so much, this was bound to happen sooner or later. And we get the sooner after you collapsed in the locker room." Poppy said and Ben nodded in agreement then.
"Just very stiff leg muscles again, like after the last round, though my cold ended 2 weeks ago, though cold potions are the same as the gel caps that you see the others taking. Although for the youngest, the class that came in after Gin', it's parental supervised. You don't, you could accidentally poison yourself by taking too many of these." I said and showed them the Day Quil and Nite Quil pills and Poppy nodded in understanding then as I explained it to her then.
"Alterations in the school schedule really paid off, but three weeks for Christmas, three for Easter, and exactly 3 months from June 1st to September 1st. That really paid off right now, but frankly it's the stress of things lately, after the exposure after the dementors crashed the game. I wound up needing to do a placebo to make sure I never got sick right now. That's what we call improvised medication, mixing muggle with magical, these." I said and she nodded gently then.
"You mixing these, the pepper up and these orange ones, to keep from suffering a relapse?" she asked and I nodded to her. "Yes mam, so far it's working, but every time I refuse to leave the castle, the fight starts here. You know I just got over a cold, all of you do, so why risk it getting turned into pneumonia?" I asked and she nodded in agreement. "Like we said, at the moment you're emotionally very fragile now, so get off your case." Jeff said, leaving a hand my shoulder.
"That's the understatement of the century, I guess he thought if I knew the truth, I would disregard direct orders and go hunting him down. You see me, Grandma and he can step in and while doing it, negate my head of house position." I said and she nodded sternly. "Well nice try, you're thinking, before you act, but knowing the truth 2.5 years in advance. That Peter sold you out, and that he got your sister killed helps, game over." Poppy said sternly for all three of them.
As I leaned my head back and ran the water through my hair, before sitting up then as I waited for the timer to go off, as the timer went off at that and they got me out of the tub. I dried off, as, instead of letting me walk, Jeff carried me as they got me into pajamas and into bed. As I gently combed my hair back as I put it on the tray as I saw your basic hospital supplies. There on the bedside table, as I decided to keep my legs straight, as they put the blanket on me then.
As Minerva answered me then. "Indeed, but at the rate this is going as his fears of losing you, is the reason he's never leaving you alone on Ginny." she said and I nodded sternly as I said it then. "We call that bros over hoes in the muggle world, Minerva, meaning brothers over said other half, after years of being a duo now. Suddenly your friend being in love, means no longer being 2 or 3 against the world, he watches him get married, have children and leaving him."
"But the harder he clings to hold on, the further away Harry pulls away, Harry is in love, he and Ginny are one forever and he doesn't want things to change." Ben said for me and she nodded. "Though what I will say is they don't know or realize how exhausted my muscles are here, I can barely get around on my own, and need to be carried till the swelling goes down tonight. In the mean time, just stuck in bed here, I shouldn't be walking up those stairs here right now."
"Better off down here, but best lock the door from the inside." I said and he, Kristine and the trio nodded. "Good point, you just got over that cold, but your body is being overly worked and with that in mind right now, tomorrow is the last day of this week. But I'm sending the duo home a week early, so you can actually get some rest now and with that in mind now." Minerva said and gave the medical orders as she sat on the bed next to me then as she said it then.
"Now you are to stay in bed, you are not to go out into the courtyard, on bedrest tonight, starting now baby." she said and I nodded. "Wherever dad is, I can tell him, I'm on bedrest for a the weekend right now, so give me the address and I'll write to him." I said and she hid a smile then, knowing I was covering for her to keep her out of trouble. "You'll do no such thing." she said as she looked me with grandmotherly love as she thought it over then to this gently.