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 23: Final Changes And School Preparations VII
As I hugged her and she tightened her arms around me. 'My baby boy, yes this is for the best, if they're hexed, I'm protecting my baby from them starting now here. Though going on 14, still my baby, and he always will be now.' I saw her thinking and smiled as I pressed my forehead to her's and heard a gentle purring come from her. As I heard an answering mew come out of me and hid a chuckle at the smiles on the trio as I said it to her.
"Grandma, I don't know what the deal is, but ever since I started taking those classes, she's been hounding me. Am I sticking these classes out, maybe you should remove one from you schedule. Harry, I just think you should lessen your load, I've been hearing this all term." I said gently and she crossed her arms. "Arithmacy and Ancient Runes, she's hassling you because you chose 5 of the extended classes, she's doing all 6 of them, that's including Ancient Studies."
"But between these courses currently, Charity decided to sabotage the Muggle Studies class till she admits it right, but this behavior now. In our eyes is of three things, and I never gave you a time turner, you never needed one, being the best in your class in 6 classes. Sybil told me how were able to actively define that tea leave image, and with you always at Hagrid's. I guess you decided on hippogriff flight training?" she said and he nodded. "I did it." I said and she nodded.
"He belongs to you?" she said smiling and I nodded. "Yeah I tamed him right now, I'm finishing that class, but Muggle studies, I think that's a magic version. And to what we call home ec, it teaches you how to cook, sew, manage what we call budget and raise children. Since we updated the class, every wizard taking that class is enjoying learning about muggles. As for Ancient Runes and Arithmancy, I'm enjoying it alot Percy was right, the subjects are great."
"It's not the work load, I can keep up right now easily, when Uncle Remus is dealing with his phasing, dad is taking me through patronus training, but repeated practicing after. Since he broke in during Halloween, it's draining my reserves, but combining that now. With the temperature dropping below zero that night after they got too close now. If Madam Pomphrey never told you this first, I think I caught something that night." I said and she nodded gently.
"Ben said and told me the same thing, he also said your dreams flashbacked to the chamber." she said and he nodded. "First nearly losing Ginny and now I keep hearing mum, do they not realize what this is. Until Percy revealed that truth, I never realized he was still alive, but not a we, it's a me, this was always personal, if we don't do this now. Then we won't before Ron gets me out of the castle and I hear said conversation in your words." he said and she nodded then.
"I'm considering taking back her time turner, she's taking one too many classes right now, but prevention over cure is necessary right now. But your keeping in mind we don't want you leaving the castle is enough." she said and I nodded. "Angel said there is a few rotten boards in the bridge that need to be exchanged, and she checked the water temperature. It's below freezing, so no, after I just gotten over my cold, not going out." I said and she nodded then gently then.
"Indeed, you just got over said cold why make it worse with it changing into pneumonia, you need to stay warm and indoors, till we're sure." she said gently and the duo paled, never realizing I came down with a cold, and why the twins passed me the map. To keep me from making said recovery from turning into a relapse and turning into pneumonia next. "I'm not dropping anything, I chose these classes I stick it out." I said and she smiled proudly then.
"Well you can remove Divination, Astronomy and History of Magic in year 6, so your schedule is more loose right now. But these free periods are actually for study and as the work load is more intense." she said and I nodded gently. "The other thing is about Ginny, Ron is trying to find anyway he can to get me out of the castle. But I don't want to leave the safety of the walls, I want to be with Ginny right now, she needs me, I need her, besides I have to train right now."
"You never wanted me unprepared if I walk right into Peter, I need to train, I also need to boost my energy for my patronus," I said and she nodded. "I understand, the boys, Filius, Hagrid, Alexandra, Andy and I all do, we treat this like a normal year. A quiet year, as you train and enjoy time to be me, not we, don't worry, I'll handle this. Rolanda turned the come and go room into a pool, why not get the twins and Ginny and go swimming." she said and I nodded gently.
As I sighed as I said it to her. "It's just this is harder then it was two years ago, I try to pull away for some freedom. Freedom and breathing room, the more they want to hang on, first to have a steady girlfriend. I got my wish, being seen as I everything I would be if my parents were still alive, that if Percy never tells you. Well then the girls, Oliver and the twins would have, I need to focus and concentrate, I can't do that if this keeps up." he said and she nodded gently.
"This is the big one, our first win in the championships since Charlie left, just a normal year, I can focus finally on the game rather then constant adventures. We're so close, but I need to focus, I should focus on my patronus training and my team training. Then be aggravated by these fights, she's letting the cat walk loose, but he's refusing to lock the bloody cage. Cats chase mice and rats, we all know that, so why make it easier." I said and she nodded then.
"Meow!" they heard in response and I smiled as Crookshanks as an adult jumped on the bed then gently at that, and I ran my hand through his fur. "Squeak!" we heard in response and I looked under the bed. "Scabbers, did you guys come running in here, to test your master and mistress?" I asked and he squeaked a 'yes' to me and she nodded. "Nice thinking guys, you just making sure you got the right rat in here, till further notice?" I asked and they gave a yes' then.
"Are you trying to force him to lock up good Scabbers, before you and Shadow get the wrong rat, but with them cursed by bad alpha, you're not being taken care of?" she asked and he gave a mew in a 'Yes Mam' tone and I nodded as he said it gently to her then. "And was it really necessary here for me to see you chasing him around the floor I was on. And before you chased him downstairs, I know your owners better then ever, but you act like my cat, so with that."
"As I know they would hear me as I catch him and send you to your carry basket, till we get on the train." I added and he gave a gentle mew. "I guess you can consider that knowing we arrived to let you know Master and Mistress are downstairs, Kitten." he said and she hid a chuckle at that remark as he gave his response to her. "Kitten, knowing what I'm doing, is staying out of Master and Mistress's fights over me, like big kitten from Master's family said."
"But currently this fight over me and Scabbers 2, is actually making a better distraction, though with bad Scabbers on the loose, good doesn't realize his double is a bad cat. Trying to kidnap kitten and why I keep mistaking him for bad Scabbers now at the moment. That the fighting between master and mistress is wearing thin on big kittens right now. Finally deciding on the forward approach, every time they get caught up in a fight Kitten grabs Master's sister kitten."
"And for alone time, while Professor Wolf and big kitten are watching from tall recliner at egg shaped field in broom flight." he explained and she nodded gently. "With Ginny here in addition to the guys, he's gone big brother now, but he's changed so quickly from the him Ron thought. Into acting like Charlie, before he left for Romania." I said and she smiled gently. "And there's the key fact, the him that once was, is no more, you and he, I see you with him right now."
"Like he's Cedric, another big brother right now, but his just revealing the truth to us, I never seen a faster transformation now. That Percy took on being the responsible big brother seriously and since he revealed to us he knew what Dumbledore intended. But in one year, he's gone from slightly haughty to very kind and courageous, 3 years and he gets both badges at once." she said smiling tenderly and Percy smiled at the compliment then as they went over it then.
"So the quartet all knew you're having a hard time getting around on your own, is that why Seamus, Neville and Dean. Let alone Draco never leave you, and the quintet with them, the girls?" she asked and I nodded. "Since learning he's possibly been putting compulsion charms and drugging us with compulsion potions, you know every wizarding lord and lady in the school. We decided to have our own house elves cook us every meal to protect us right now truth."
"But they see the duo as dangerous, to themselves and to them, but most of all to me, so as a result, since learning Peter escaped. That we, our entire class, minus the Slytherins. We closed ranks on the duo ever since the term started, knowing he's desperate here. But to me, a quiet year, as I made alterations with the minister watching what happened in class that day. That he realized screw leaving the castle, there was no inquiry, so that leaves going to see Hagrid now."
"And after hours out now, to his trying to get me out of the castle, anyway he can, so he can jump in there to save my behind again. Like with the bloody car in the last round here now, while at the same time shove his control back on me. But no, not budging here, I'm not falling for it and instead following orders given to me by you and dad. But now he's beyond desperate here to have another adventure get thrown in there, but I'm refusing here to take the bait."
"And just to have a quiet year and he's lost his mind out of desperation here, he's dangerous, but so long as they're in rehab, they're dangerous, to themselves, to each other and to me. But how do I know one of said imperios was to kill his own sister, that's why Ginny in truth. Is spending Christmas break with me, dad and the Tonks's, it's for her protection now. But she has never been, 'just his sister' more like 'he's her brother' in my eyes." I said and she nodded then.
"Dad got me a Firebolt, but though my Nimbus's gone, it's alright, that can be replaced, but this just underlined that fact. Uncle Remus just explained to me in why these things have such an effect on me, it's both encounters with 'him' at once. Plus seeing Uncle Severus holding mum, after Riddle killed her, my training is doing fine in boosting it, but 3 go's a class. My reserves are draining, so like Papa Wolf, I need to rest, before the second semester starts at the moment."
"In truth now, is every time I get near those things, I keep hearing mum's scream as Riddle kills her, and the sole cause has been with Ron all this time. Percy is ready, if you don't deal with this, to owl their parents himself, as he's reached his wits end. Even Jeff is ready to call this in at the moment, emotionally wracked up, I need time, and space." I told her then and she nodded. "Indeed, before you learn this by accident, your mother was pregnant again at the time now."
"Second trimester, you saw me from time to time, as her side of the bedroom was being created, you knew this in colors. That blue meant you, a boy and then realized it, pink meant girl and her things were pink, plus the tiny tea set, that was for her." she said and I nodded sternly. "So not only did he sell us out, he just aborted my unborn sister by the buzzard killing my mother?" I said and she nodded. "Indeed and language." she said and I nodded gently.
"It got worse, but the first close call, with Peter on the loose, after Marge insulted my parents, I decided I was heading for London and to get to dad's house, saw the Grim. In physical form and he looks like a rabid dog, and barely missing getting hit by the knight bus. The second was during the game, his form appeared in the clouds, looking up what it was. I realized what it could mean is he's close to returning, though I destroyed 5, as for Peter himself right now."
"Don't worry, now that I know, until I'm ready to handle dealing with him, on my own terms, I'm staying inside the castle. But this is none of their business, it's a me, not a we, just like Bella and Barty's situation with Neville, that's also a me, rather then a we. We both need breathing room and peace and quiet for a few weeks, but the 5 to 8 years. They're saying this to you through me, they all had enough of the arguing over Crookshanks, her trying to badger me."
"And on my grades or dad's more dangerous form, me wanting to spend some time alone with Ginny, or trying to get me out of the Castle. The referendum was issued, to get their parents here, before the end of the semester, so a month off of each other. Said won't kill us, but the twins in total honesty are preparing to create the joke shop, but just their intellect in potions. That's going to make a killing, before we have a constant case of 'who is the prankster here'."
"Troublemaker maybe, but dad and the trio, both versions, creating that map was good for something here, in the case of Pettigrew, so a security detail catch. So that if he's inside the castle, then my entire current house in the youngest cubs is elsewhere. So to me, so he gets into the castle, just be in another area of it." I said and she nodded with a chuckle at that. "Yes indeed, but don't worry I'll handle this, what else exactly." she asked and I sighed gently then.
"Asking point blank, why is he being so rude to her over my spending time with her, the exchange turns into this now: 'Why are you two so mean to her?, she can try my Firebolt if she wants to, she's a really good flyer. 'You can't be so nice to her, we'll never get rid of her if you keep being nice to her.' 'Get rid of her? I don't want to get rid of her, she's a friend of mine. Why are you the only one allowed to be my friend? Why is it that we saved Hermione from a Troll.'."
"And our friendship got stronger, but I save Ginny from 'him' and I'm not allowed to talk to her?' 'No, It's not like that. It's just Ginny is annoying. If you are nice to her she'll follow us around and think she can hang out with us. She's too young to be friends with us. What happens if we run into another adventure – are we supposed to let her come? My mum would kill me. No, she's annoying, she's too young, and she talks too much about stupid things, not to mention.'."
"Now, the fact that she has that stupid crush on you, if you keep talking to her she's going to think that you like her.' 'Ron, be nice!, Harry, he does have a point. If Ginny thinks she's your friend, she won't make friends with people her own age. She needs to make up for last year and make friends with her roommates. She is rather young – she's almost two years younger than me.' Before I slammed them with the wham line right now, it's not too young or said crush."
"Maybe I'm too young, I'm only a year older than her. She didn't do anything wrong other than trust the wrong person – that can happen to anyone. I don't know why you two are so mean to her, Ginny is my imprint and she can hang out with me any time she wants. She's gotten over her crush and we're soulmates now, why is that such a problem. Should I do the same with the twins, Percy and the quartet, and they both paled?" I said and she nodded sternly at the news.
"Wait a minute, just Ginny, why not the twins and Percy as well here too unless…., Albus, yes alright thank you for alerting me to that. After we all said no repeatedly, he's saying this to you through the duo." she said and I nodded in fury. "What's the control curse again, because that's illegal?" I asked her and she crossed her arms. "The imperio, they been imperiused and had compulsion charms put on them, so a good separation for a month is in order right now, Harry."
"Your father said he's taking you to Headland for Christmas this year." she said and I nodded smiling. "Yeah he is right now, but the headmaster says that's not a good idea, before Kingsley said it's not up to him, and the look on his face was furious." I said then and she nodded. "Looks like he was hoping you over heard our conversation, and decided to go in half cocked. But no, you're thinking straight, I'll handle this." she said and he nodded as she patted my shoulder.
"Hey Cub, how bad is it?" Remus asked and I sighed. "Muscle fatigue, the muscles in my calves and thighs are swollen, so I can't walk around too easily." I said and he nodded gently. "What's going on, Minerva?" Rolanda asked and she crossed her arms. "Seems our headmaster crossed the line between desperation and completely homicidal here. He's imperiused the duo to kill Ginevra, just to get Harry to do what he wants." she said and they nodded in shock to the news.
"We're getting Ginny out of the dorms tonight and the duo go home tomorrow, we're taking away their wands and the same is said for Patterson's gang." she said and they nodded. "In fact, I'm glad Oliver saw this before they did, otherwise…." I said and Severus crossed his arms. "We get it, the pro ministry caught this, before the anti/pro Dumbledore order did now. As they turn this into us who chose your family now immediately, have nothing left right now, body spent."
"But 9 days just taking it easy, before school lets out for the Christmas holidays, we're getting them off campus, tomorrow." he said and Minerva nodded sternly in agreement then. "Good thing Oliver called it out and you got caught by our side rather then the headmaster. And with his state of mind, because the old fool is constantly arguing with Alastor, Rufus and Kingsley. Over this, even with the one in you gone, he won't leave it alone." Ted said and I nodded then.
"Well here's a question, you think Ron was compulsed or imperioed to kill Ginny, as even that won't negate my status?" I asked and Andy nodded sternly to me. "We do, and with them compulsed, they're dangerous, so she's sleeping in the infirmary tonight." Remus said sternly and Poppy nodded in stern agreement then. "The map is right here, Uncle Remus." I said and opened it. "I solemnly am doing my duty." I said and it activated on that as we saw the duo.
"It's looking like a case of 'if I can't have him'…." I said and Ted crossed his arms. "Then no one can, you think he's gotten so jealous, he's close to committing murder of his own sister. And that's the catalyst for the compulsion charm?" He asked me and I nodded. "We call that sororicide." Jeff said sternly and they nodded. "That's a family member, there's four different ones, but the headmaster, he is close to killing someone to push his plans ahead here now."
"But clearly the old fool has completely lost his mind, if he's getting this desperate, but no to only you treating me for everything, no to not having dad raise me. No to spending both breaks here, no to spending all summer at the Dursleys, no matter what it is, it's no. And that's just him, but Ron's desperation to not have things change, hold onto me, our bond of friends. Is the reason, I reached my limit, while for Hermione, it's once again always about what they want."
"But never thinking about my emotional state, ever since, but…., but the twins saw me break a few times, Halloween, at times I hate this holiday, others. It's traditions, that's why this year I decided to be with dad and Uncle Remus, in mourning, but they don't get that. We're born and raised muggleborn, what else could it be, he's stuck on that remark 'brothers over women'." I said and he, Cunningham, Addams, Ben and Jeff nodded sternly at the remark to my opinion.
"Do they not get this whatsoever: things were fine till dinner time, then comes the first attack, Riddle let in the troll, year 2), Riddle opened up the chamber and released the snake. This year, just as I can enjoy a peaceful Halloween evening, for once, Peter breaks in. And we spend the night in the great hall, the aggravated look on your face, you hate this holiday. And as much as I do, it cost you mum, the duo dad, me, my entire family!" I said and Severus nodded to me then.
"Do the rest of your class, minus the Slytherins, ever see this, seeing you don't mind being indoors right now, or that you're dreading the holiday arrival. Knowing there's going to be trouble every time, year 1) the troll, 2) the chamber was opened, this year. He breaks in next while Halloween held some excitement for everyone else, to you. It's the anniversary of your family's murder?" Severus said and Ron paled, realizing he never once considered that remark.
"In Phoebe's words, now I have a reason to hate Halloween, the worst thing that could ever happen to someone is on that holiday, but while these brats are all partying. And because Riddle is dead, what about the other side of the spectrum, 70 families have been ripped apart. And the said savior is an orphan and an only child, who lost his only family, and was kidnapped. By a power hungry monster." I said and they nodded. "We understand." Poppy said and he nodded.
"In which case, I'd rather a muggle Halloween: trick or treating, pumpkin carving, parties, kid friendly Halloween movies, that's my way now, Halloween magically means trouble." I said and they nodded in understanding. "We understand that completely, they never understood that, that's why you wanted me to keep you from leaving. It's because so you can be with them, the boys, and properly mourn their loss now." Minerva said gently and I nodded as Severus nodded.
"Or me, as I told you everything on your mother, knowing the truth of your mother was pregnant when she died now, I saw both of you at this age, you're mine to protect." Severus said and I nodded to him. "What did mom look like at 12 years old exactly?" I asked him, and he gave me a picture of her and I saw a small resemblance to Ginny. "She tell you names?" I asked and they nodded. "They decided Rosalie." Remus said and I nodded as I tried to say it then.
"Rosie, my Rosie." I said and Severus nodded gently. "If Rosie was still alive, I'd be treating her like royalty, not like a pest, but in Binx's words, you'll never know how precious she is. Or Ginny is, till you lose them, but does he even care about that thought right now?" I asked and Minerva crossed her arms and Ron went white at my remark then. Now realizing I loved my deceased baby sister so much, I wanted her back. "You cold blooded brat!" Jeff growled and I nodded.
"My sister: my world, Ginny: my everything and together the girls make up my entire life, my Rosie, my sister, don't worry baby, I will avenge you, I promise." I said, staring at the image of my mother, as I added a little of dad's features and Remus and Severus nodded. 'Oh god what have they done to him this semester, their callous behavior has him on the edge. Now, of an emotional breakdown!' Poppy thought sternly, as he said put his hand on my shoulder gently.
"Freeze!" Harris said and the duo swallowed hard. "You ever consider that at all young man, he hates Halloween magically, it's the day his family was murdered?" Arthur said and he started shaking in fear. "This one laid a similar catch, but for her the catch was Christmas, the actress laid her character story, she hates Christmas, like I hate Halloween. Because that holiday cost us a family member or the entire family, don't give me that line or treat me like a leper, Ron."
"Just like I said that Hogsmead is not worth my time, or spending hours at Diagon Alley, I grew up a muggle, I like being a muggle born. Halloween was a happy holiday for me as a muggle, but being a wizard, it cost me my family. My parents died that night, I'm orphan, do you get that, while you enjoy a magical Halloween, all I hear is my mother's screams!" I snapped and he started shaking, realizing he never once ever thought of me, only about himself as I went on.
"But you want my life so badly, try it on for size." I said as I tapped my forehead with my wand and pulled out that night in memories and thrust it at his mind and he closed his eyes, before gripping his head. "Make it stop, make it stop!" he said, shaking, as he fell into the bench then and collapsed. "Get the point now you brat, he never had a normal life, he hates magical Halloween, but loves being a muggleborn, get used to it." Percy said sternly and he swallowed.
"But say you hate Thanksgiving, Valentines Day or Easter in this world, nobody cares, but say you hate Halloween, you get treated like a leper in this world." I said and he flinched at that, realizing I hated the holiday, but loved the others. "Until now I had no one to give presents to, no one to talk to, because I was treated like a freak, but you love being a wizard. Enjoying Halloween, not me, it cost me my family, to me Samhain is evil." I said and he swallowed hard.
"After Ginny and I get married and have our children, we're making it a cardinal rule never to celebrate this holiday magically, ever again, but we do the others. That hold significant value to our kind, maybe you should consider that, before hounding me. But Halloween the magical way is forbidden in my household, the muggle way is the way to go, trick or treating. Halloween movies and the like, pumpkin carving, my way's Muggle." I said and he swallowed hard shaking.
"Don't start with me you two, especially you, Hermione, you want to be a full witch, enjoy the holiday just like everyone else in being magical. But me, I was happy with a muggle Halloween, but I like being a muggleborn, Halloween was fun, when you never have to worry. About real monsters and demons, watching monster movies and kid based Halloween movies. Halloween songs, pumpkin carving, apple cider, trick or treating, I'm a muggle raised wizard here now."
"Halloween being normal, so my family is doing Halloween in a muggle way, that means trick or treating, pumpkin carving in a muggle way, watching movies for kids, Halloween movies. That's our tradition now, Muggle Halloween in my home, so even try to say it, just get out. Get out of my house, they are not your children, they're mine, so out." I said and he swallowed hard as she started shaking then. "Same here, I agree with Harry." Ginny said, gripping my arm gently.
"Fair enough, we're not hindering your choice in raising your unborn cubs after the magical cost you your entire family, you want a muggle Halloween, we're fine with that." Minerva said and the rest of the pro ministry adults nodded in agreement. "I didn't care she refused, I wanted her to refuse, at least it gave me time to be with the trio, as we mourned the death of my family. We hated Halloween, because it cost us what we love, my family." I said and he started shaking.
"Never saw that, did you, he's in mourning, we never told him the date, but he figured it out anyway, Halloween night his family was murdered. Severus and Daniel lost his mother, Sirius and Remus his father, he's an orphan and only child now here. And to repeat Hermione, you have the emotional range of teaspoon." Rolanda said sternly and he swallowed hard at the criticism then and the cast crossed their arms sternly as they exchanged stern looks then.
"Accio Halloweentown!" I shouted out and the movie came in through the window then. "That mother hated the holiday, because it meant her children's powers go active. She had until midnight for her oldest and then her powers were gone, she grew up muggle. And then it's safe as she's like everyone else, and she was doing the same for her youngest children. Well so am I, only in reverse, I'm living in a muggle community, raising my family the muggle Halloween way."
"Gin?" I asked and she smiled. "Trick or treating, pumpkin carving, kid friendly Halloween movies and the like now, we do muggle Halloweens now, not magical, Muggle. But when your spouse is more muggleborn then magical, makes sense, wouldn't you say, you big pest." she said sternly and he went white at the insult. "Ouch, that smarts." Fred said smiling sternly and the trio nodded sternly in agreement as Maggie looked at the duo sternly at the remark then.
"Your insensitive behavior is the reason, he needs distance, separation, you're being so emotionally abusive he's had it with you." Maggie said with a growl, putting a hand over her heart, and I knew my reaction got to her then as Dumbledore swallowed hard at that. "Some reaction huh young man, he loves his sister even though she's gone, he wants her back. The Potter siblings, one looking like Jim, the other like Lilly, at this age now, that's worth it now."
"To Rosie, I'm Uncle Sev', mummy's best friend, but do you understand now you two, in why is he's so emotionally fragile, well it's because his sister was dead. But I agree with him, if Ginny was my sister, I'd be treating her like royalty then a pest right now. He wants Rosie back and so much, he's staring mesmerized at that picture of Lilly, like he's looking at his sister!" Severus snapped and they started shaking at the utter callousness, that Dumbledore inflicted them with.
"You're a cold blooded little brat, you know that, with your bigger picture, you little monster, grow up!" Billy growled at him and he swallowed hard at that, realizing he ticked off the entire dorm and the adult members of the school population, over my emotional fragility. "And to say this now, from Elliot's brother's opinion, dang it, why can't you just grow up here. Think about how other people feel for a change right now, he's emotionally very fragile and to be honest."
"The trio decided to skip that weekend to head for the village, because they're scared out of their minds at what your cold blooded cruelty. And to the bigger picture is doing to him right now, you and your bigger picture, grow up!" Sarah said and they swallowed hard. "That's including me as well you two, I could have you arrested for emotional blackmail." Fudge said sternly and they started shaking in fear then, realizing they forgot he was at the village that day.
"At this rate, you're close to being arrested right now, for emotional blackmail, he's emotionally very fragile and your teachers, the minister and I all know this. She told him that to prevent what happened in the last round from happening twice. He's safely on campus, I know he's safe and Remus and Severus are keeping an eye on him. And while Filius, Minerva, Cornelius and I talk about this now." Rosemerta said sternly to this and Ron swallowed hard then at the remark.
"Were it not for the bloody rat, we have Rosie, as the next redhead we get in the dorms, but the Potters in the dormitory, he's acting like we do. Looking after Ginny, we're happy she's so happy, Harry destroyed 6 of the 8 anchors, we won, before the war even began. But do you care, no, all you care about is not losing Harry, to the Potters, but look at this for once. Harry is, emotionally, an 18 year old trapped in 13 year old body, like Harry, she started to hate the holiday as well."
"They hate Halloween, every year something bad happens here, why, it's because that night they lost their parents, if we made it in time to save her, that's Rosie!" George snapped sternly and he started shaking in fear, realizing he pissed off every student Katie's age and older. "If Rosie was still alive, she had Ginny, Luna and Colin, but he's being big brother, she's. In, acting like a sister, a best friend, he hates his title, she understands that, makes him feel normal."
"If you just yanked yourself out of this stupid little pity party, you'd see that Harry is emotionally fragile, beyond emotionally fragile. But no, you're now the pariahs in the dormitory, because of the old buzzard!" Angelina said and he swallowed hard, as we went on. "It's just I'm relieved you got them out of the castle this Halloween, at least we could talk now. I can go over this with you, only you, Uncle Remus and dad understand, Uncle Sev'." I said and he nodded to me then.
"You finally allowed yourself to feel the pain at the loss of your parents, but being with Remus, Sirius and me, was reason enough now." Severus said as he ran his hand through the hair at the back of my head and I nodded. "I can't stop hearing that scream, the night he killed mum, or seeing you sitting there in front of me, emotionally fragile. But they don't want to get that, they refuse to, and till a fight keeps breaking out." I said and she and Severus nodded sternly then.
"I just want my parents and sister back, what's your next thought if you had the chance to see my sister?" I asked and I knew he felt a lump in his throat tighten. "I feel like I'm seeing your mother at 11 years old last year, I want your mother back, I miss her so much." he said and I nodded. "That's the resentment right there, Ginny could be mum reincarnated, you're protecting us, but to Dumbledore, she's expendable for the greater good." I said and he nodded sternly.
"Only you, the five of you and dad understand this, but the bad traits, are gone, leaving only the good side of my symbol, remember what's that portion of the month to next?" I said and they nodded. "Born in the month of a lion and you're sorted into the house of lions now, well that's irony right now at the moment, but the bad traits to your trio took total control here. With them under the imperius curse and compulsed right now." Minerva said and he said it firmly then.
"It's okay, we'll handle this right now, let's see this right now." he said and I opened the map fully as they saw every portion of the grounds then. "The 8 are waiting to be paged right now, while everyone is hovering around in the dormitory. They're waiting for the bomb to be dropped, so they can actually get some peace and quiet in the dorms. There's the cat, Shadow, Norris and Crystal are scoring the halls, checking every mouse hole." Remus said, pointing everything out.
"Mew." Crookshanks said in response, while laying on the bed. "Yeah you're in here, while Crystal is on duty with Shadow and Norris." Severus said with a chuckle and he meowed with a smile in the tone. "Squeak." we heard in response and as we saw Scabbers's imprint sitting under the bed. "I'm glad you created this to track our pets and familiars, Uncle Sev'." I said and he chuckled as he gave a second squeak and she chuckled as she answered that response then.
"Yes you're under the bed, Crookshanks's laying next to black furred master to guard him, so we used this to test Master and Mistress, if they wonder why you're both in here. They're safe, but they throw off why you both came in here to see Vet Mina, and proceed to other Master, they been spelled by bad alpha in school." Minerva said and they gave a squeak and mew in response "You just spending the night in here, before leaving tomorrow, as we have a surprise trip here."
"And to Hosgmeade after school tomorrow, but you're going home a week early this year?" I asked and he meowed a yes to me, as I stroked my hand through his head fur as he laid at my side with a smile in his eyes then gently. "A good thing to right now, but with you just revealing what you been doing that helps now, I can tell that to Dan and Emma later. But Ginny, your grades, the cat and trying to get you out of the school." Severus said and he meowed to him.
"Yes and you're getting as sick of the fighting as the entire dorm is." Minerva said and he gave a 'yes' mew to her gently and she nodded. "This keeps up, and once we have…." I started to say and just as I was saying it, Crouch arrived at that. "To complete that sentence kiddo, is this keeps up and they do it at breakfast, make it loud enough we all knew Albus destroyed you. Your trio, himself with their help, the Golden trio is no more." Amos said as he was behind him.
As I saw Dumbledore in his office, pacing with a furious manner to his movements. "Yeah he's furious right now, nothing he does is working right now, there they are, the come and go room. The pitch, to the rec library, you had 10 hang outs on campus, and they're searching them all, but only the faculty and staff, next to the twins know the secret passages next to 7. But Hogwarts created a few new ones for your security, only one last place to check, the infirmary."
"Ben just gave me the reports cub, but 9 days resting period, without these two around won't hurt, but we're locking down starting tonight now, Toppy?" Severus called out and he appeared immediately. "Toppy, you are responsible for Master Potter's nutrition, with him resting for the next 72 hours, he, that's the headmaster. He is possibly trying to poison Master Potter with loyalty and compulsion potions, you are his bodyguard, understood." he said and Toppy nodded.
"Guys, it's time, I need 9 days of peace and quiet, you thought it's best to split us up after you caught us next to Norris now, but wasn't my last hospitalization. In truth, prior to this, bad enough already, my body is so spent, I need a week to rest and recover. Peace and quiet, I need quiet, without them after me, badgering me all the time, and no offense, Professor." I said and Pomona hid a chuckle. "None take honey, it's fine." she said and Minerva nodded gently to that.
"Nice work with the pun there Harry, but you made your point, since you decided more me, less we time now, with you making friends outside of your class. Although hanging around with the Weasley family now, your scores top your parents in everything." Filius said smiling and I nodded gently as the trio also smiled then. "Well said experiment is complete now, but really now, even with the bloody horcrux gone, will he ever stop?" I asked and they and Hagrid sighed.
"And like she would have said, if she was still herself, Sirius is worried about you, as are Alastor and me, so 'isten to us already." Hagrid said and she nodded in agreement. "Well your situation was halted, before it even became a problem, so that's out, the only thing I got to worry about. With you guys covering the security, is my grades and preparations for the championships, but really, we destroyed 6 already, will 'he' ever stop here." I said and they sighed as he said it then.
"No, but so long as they're possibly compulsed, they're dangerous: to you and to themselves, so separation is definitely in order, Minerva, we have to take their wands away now. Separation is definitely in order." Severus said and she nodded. "As if last year wasn't enough, but this, come on enough already here, I just want a quiet year, but will they listen, no. Till I have to, in their eyes, tattle and you do the rest, with being my favorite teachers." I said and they nodded then.
"Like I would have said, after everything we've done for you now after 3 years of being your teachers, us raising you, how could they betray us like this right now." he said and I nodded in agreement. "Yeah 3 years ministry cub, he's dangerous, but evil Dumbledore, and these two are sheep, compulsed or not, so long as they listen to him. Then I will never take them back, but his desperation is he's a threat, to me and the pro order." I said and they both nodded sternly then.
"Agreed, at this stage they are a threat, to us and the pro ministry order, but everyone in the order our version now had the truth, after you unsealed that will. And he's lost his mind completely, no matter what he says the answer is always no. Who would have thought that passing you the map could unravel everything he has done, and you and Percy planning it out. While having Remus take the D.A. position, who'd have thunk." Severus said smiling in relief.
"Let me see your legs son." Ted said and I carefully pushed my trousers legs up and he carefully pressed down. "Yeah that's what I thought, if I was John, he knows immediately what this is, over exercise causes this type of muscle flare up, takes a few days to recover. But treatment is Rest, Ice therapy to help reduce inflammation, Heat therapy to help increase blood flow. And to your muscles OTC, that's over the counter pain medicine, like ibuprofen, that's the orange pills."
"But 5 days bed rest and no track for a month." Ben said and I nodded to the orders gently. "Like Jeff said, if this was 102 years ago, just what have you kids been up to when separated from us exactly, but your saying you're running around the school. In taking the secret passages to get by unseen now from those two, repeated exercise is the cause of this. I'm relieved you were surrounded by your team though." Rolanda said, getting a good look then at my legs.
"He said over use of the track, 196 laps, on the track, 214 more taking his passages." Minerva said to her and she nodded. "And this was why we thought Quidditch was the better way to go, because this particular sport, in being an athlete. It has your muscles so overly worked, here's the result, but you been a runner for 5 years, before you started here at school. So why change that right now in truth." she said and I nodded as he answered that gently at the news then.
"Yeah, that makes two of us, but this says overly exercising, this is what Colin's legs looked like after said ice bath, all this is-is just muscle weakness and swelling. This isn't blood clotting, he's overly worked those muscles, that they're swollen and he needs to be in bed, Poppy. So 3 days rest, today was ice therapy, tomorrow is heat and the pool is like being in a hot tub now. So that tomorrow, and then ice again on Saturday should help here." he said and Poppy nodded to him.
"The crash, if we never checked on this, would have me worried, if that was the case, but that was 3 weeks ago, and it's been close to a month, since said cold. But this time we got a case of muscle exhaustion, but someone is getting severely desperate." Ben said sternly to that opinion. "So ice, heat, ice, it's just muscle weakness, not bad circulation, like she thought, Craven had been stuck in bed for years, but not the same thing, he's just been over doing it, so with that."
"Thank you for the advice, I'll do that then Ted." she said and he nodded. "It's the calves and thighs that get overly worked right now, when this happens it's best to just let them rest. So walking from the Hospital wing to our tower is not an option here, because it's a 20 minute. In walks now, and what if you collapse twice, hmm, so that's out." Jeff said and Ted nodded. "No kidding right now, in this case, after the movie tomorrow night, we're inputting a new passage."
"To get him back up here." he said and Poppy nodded gently then. "You know if you were a sports coach, you know the symptoms in the second you see this. And while Ben could be seen as the said team medic." I said and he chuckled and nodded. "That's a big if, but growing up a muggle born comes in handy here, that I studied biology here. Just to know this immediately, but that's enough of this already, you're bedded for three days." he said and I nodded gently.
"Not just the duo, get the Patterson gang out of the school as well, they're also being sent home a week early and take away their wands. As this is like, in the muggle world, being arrested for breaking rehab, until they're thinking straight. Only in class, if you have to, in truth, it's forcibly magical valium here if there's a reaction." I said and she nodded sternly. "That's everyone in his control out of the castle, you're safe now, her with you." Severus said and I nodded to him then.
"Nice thinking, there could be a gang attack on you if we let the Patterson gang stay, we also lock our doors at night, and added security, since his desperation got worse." Ben said and I nodded gently. "These guys are all 15 years old." I said and they nodded. "What he tell them to do now exactly?!" Poppy asked sternly and I crossed my arms. "The full body bind, and bring me to him, as well as the muffliato, to keep it quiet." I said and they nodded as he swallowed hard.
"Forcibly placing the compulsion charms on you, just so you do what he wants you to, hmm, well someone clearly lost their minds here finally. Your father is going to kill him if he ever touches you like this." Kingsley said sternly and Dumbledore started shaking at that, realizing I now counteracted his next attempts to change it back now. "Anyone ever consider he's gotten so desperate he's now a danger, to us and himself?" I asked and they nodded to my opinion then.
"Did they forget something here, with you reading minds I can just call for help." I said and Severus nodded sternly. "Yeah and we get the drop on them and then arrest them, but during the night of a full moon, are you kidding me, he's gone Naughton right now on us." he said and the 9 all paled at that remark. "Doing this in the hallway when he's prowling the castle is complete suicide, but just tick him off completely, why don't you." Jeff said and Remus nodded.
"Well I'm taking your advice, I been following orders, but to quote Colin now, if I was so sick, you'd have sent for dad last week, a head cold or cold period is no big deal now. Just being a muggleborn, so plenty of fluids and bed rest, the muscle aches and pains. Easily fixed, heat and cold therapy, we just did ice, we do heat tomorrow and another ice on Saturday. So if I was sick, you'd have sent a red letter to get back up here right now." I said and they nodded gently then.
"Indeed, but after saying you can tell him yourself, you'll do no such thing, he needs to hear this from me, baby." Minerva said and I nodded. "Issues in this family, you got to wonder who the reckless member of this trio is here, but with them compulsed. It's they're getting more reckless by the minute here, but cub auror, but can I be given a year off without the dangers. Of my job interfering with my private life?" I asked and she chuckled and nodded in agreement gently.
"What, what's so funny exactly?" She added, looking at Jeff and he smiled. "Said video game turned movie here, over the police station scene, it's total pandemonium in that station." he said and I looked down at that as I tried to keep from laughing at that. "Bob Hoskins is from England, he's the star of the movie, his other classic was Roger Rabbit. Before he did Hook next, he plays the starring character on this one." I said and she nodded with a bemused smile.
"By that I mean he's playing the prime character, his name, as his character, is Mario, called the Mario Brothers, family name of Mario, so Mario Mario, Luigi Mario. They're contractors and plumbers, this was a parody off the video game, Luigi's girlfriend Daisy. We can watch this next term, and you'll understand." I said and she nodded gently to that. "Remember as dad's animal is the size of a horse, he can't fit through mouse holes, but Peter can." I said and she nodded.
"And like I said after you told me he's coming in through the mouse holes, they're covered and plugged and the cats are all roaming the castle just waiting for him to come in. But if arguing about Scabbers junior was part of the compulsions, not going to happen here. As you're not listening here, as for coming in through Honeydukes, in truth that won't work either. The passageways are sealed now here." Severus said and I nodded in agreement then to that news.
"Well next week is a slow week, but a fast review, you're not missing anything, before the week ends before Sunday when you leave for break. Peter thinks you're in London this Christmas, when you're really down in Cornwall, how can he find you. But that hotel is so big, you'd get lost if you don't know your way around it." Remus said and she nodded in agreement. "Just 3 years is all I ask, next year is designed to test my skill in the most dangerous way possible here."
"But this year, years 5 and 6, I am taking time away from the dangerous situations, because the twins leave in 4 years, along with Alicia and Angel. Before just me and Katie left, but if they're going to stab me in the back to save their skins. Well then I follow the rules and to hades with the adventures, my mission is complete." I said and she nodded gently. "Grandma, I destroyed 5 already, only the snake left, after the fight in book 4, as he recreates himself a new body."
"There is no point here of keeping up anymore adventures, as he's dead now, the one in me was destroyed already, so why keep this up, I'm free of the prophecy. The one in me is dead, so why, just like the other times, no this, no that, no, no, no, no, no." I said, gently gripping her hand and she nodded softly, as she said it in relief and exasperation I said it. "Us too, Harry, as for the duo, I reached my limit after all the stunts the last 2.5 years now in truth, and with that now."
"I've had enough of this, in truth baby, after 2 close call games, the obstacle course, the snake, the car, the troll, the potion and now you collapse off your broom. If this means protecting by separating you 3 indefinitely means we can have a quiet year, then so be it. But between that wretched girl, her boyfriend and the dangers of those demons on campus..., heaven knows. In what's happened or will happen to you now, you could be clotting, instead of muscle strains."
"But her imperiused she probably, in truth now, tanked your pumpkin juice now, I won't stand for it, not anymore, I won't stand for any of it!" she said as she came to a decision, as she looked at the next three stories. "I can't keep this up anymore, Grandma, really now in truth, if this means forced separation then do it, by all means get them to leave me alone. Having a chance to be normal now, I don't want to give that up, falling in love, start a family, have a life."
"If they're not going to respect my need for space, for privacy, separation is in order till they get the point, I want to be seen as me, rather then we for a while, I'm going solo. Starting now, I have other friends to hang around with and I have the team, and Ginny. Do the three of us always have to be seen as one, but this is like being in a band, as one by one. As each member leaves, you start to see your dream of making it big falls apart, well this is the same thing now."
"My dream, now that I got rid of 6 of the 8, is becoming an auror, Ginny, her's is to be a chaser for the Holyhead Harpies, but our dreams are about to become a reality. The head of the academy said if I make through the tournament, I'm in." I said and she smiled at the news. "But that doesn't mean that she and I are letting go, we stay together forever now in truth. But after 2.5 years, it's in truth, time I cooled things down with the duo right now, especially, in truth."
"If they're working for him, or compulsed to, Grandma, Uncle Sev'." I said and she nodded as she looked into my eyes as Severus crossed his arms. "By that you mean Medlock, Will and John, lock down and keep them away from you?" Ben said and I nodded sternly. "Exactly, but Ben, Kris, Jeff, Poppy, please, just get them off my case, I'm going solo for a while starting now. They come here, just go the trio on them, if you have to, but please." I said and they nodded.
"Minerva, remember your reaction after you saw the troll we knocked unconscious, and you freaked out, a trio of first years stopping a fully grown one." I asked and she nodded. "That was her tone after she saw his legs, only now, it's twice that right now Minerva in truth. But this is book 2) The Forgotten Room, and he's decided enough, Craven: aged 13 and in love. So point made, we're not putting up with this anymore." Ben said sternly then and Minerva nodded then.
"Agreed, I had enough, as between that wretched little girl and the dangers of those things on campus heaven knows what's going to happen to you, if this keeps up. Quiet year, the tournament, aside from the ministry here, another quiet year. So Joanne had this year as a quiet year, so all three no adventures, aside from preventing them. And from getting the prophecy, no adventures, Severus." she said and she looked at Severus, who nodded in agreement then.
"Aside from the tournament, Harry was always with us, just us, and without them always ending up in dangerous situations." he said and she nodded gently to that. "Alright that's it, no more adventures, this is the end of the adventures, we destroyed 6, you kill the snake and done. And him, but with 'him' keeping them under his control, they're a threat now, so one option. They go home a week early." she said sternly and the duo paled at that, realizing she was serious now.
"Come on, Severus." Minerva said and he nodded as they got up then, and she said it to Ben firmly as I flinched. "I heard that tone in her, Maggie, after she had that reaction before and over Colin, but just exchange the robes for a nurse's dress. And she just removed the white arm coverings and lost her temper after he said it again. But instead of pumpkin juice, it was she thought the reason for the swelling was she over turned the chair." I said and she nodded then.
"With that pathway to the conservatory and garden Colin's mother had, that doesn't surprise me, you couldn't get a wheelchair, the ones back then, down the path there. And leading out to the pitch without over turning it, but the carriages can, which explains here. That though, because we live in a time still that the mechanic carriages came on. If that's what you call the motor cars, but 100 years, we jumped to 1990 in technology, we still keep some 1901 ways."
"We're just a normal boarding school in the eyes of the muggleborns, though frankly I don't get why Hermione wants to embrace being pureblood. When every muggleborn your mother's age or in both directions enjoys being normal. Just because you start life here, doesn't mean erasing and forgetting where you come from, you were born muggle. Raised in a muggle way, this is to give you a taste of magical as you choose, stay or go back." she said and I nodded to that then.
"Such as the thestral pulled carriages, using quills and money pouches, everything else got updated 133 years, and even the castle updated herself now." I said and she nodded in agreement. "That's 1870, with it being 2003, borderline 2004, to now at the moment here, but what those 133 years in updates leads to, for us now. That us learning muggle healing, no muggleborn minds the updates, it's like home now in their eyes." she said and I nodded smiling.
"Though ever since the crash, or in this case ever since the reveal, I don't think this was just simply exhausted muscles, if we hadn't noticed this till now. And with the level of interruptions, I think this was a torn ligament, he wanted me crippled. To make it easier to compulse me now, but the team saved me." I said and she nodded. "And we're only learning this now, because of the old fool, he's been distracting you, with repeated fights, the only peace you can get."
"Is by being in practice?!" Poppy said angrily and Minerva nodded and they paled. "Not my fault, if the guys and the trio hadn't caught me first, he would have done a Hathor here on me. And compulsed me and then said I ripped a muscle." I said and Minerva pulled me into a hug and the duo started shaking in fear, realizing they were being so callous. They hadn't been paying close attention to my condition, as he wanted me crippled to make it easier to compulse me then.
As I buried my head into her shoulder, as I relaxed. 'Not my baby, you are not touching my baby, Albus you just stay away from him, touch him, I'll kill you myself.' I heard and Dumbledore paled, realizing his two greatest supporters didn't trust him near me anymore then. As I pulled back and pressed my forehead to her's then and she nodded. "The old buzzard is a callous, cold blooded, insensitive coot." she growled and Severus nodded sternly to that remark.
"Hathor or Etana, Foothold, Hathor, The Game, all having the crew, or the personnel being jacked and turned into drones. He's trying to cripple you enough to turn you into a drone, before he says you ripped a muscle and getting you to the infirmary." Jeff said and Ted and Ben nodded. "Prevented by the team catching you, and you're safe now, lets see here." she said and scanned my leg and nodded. "Yes, it's close to tearing." she said and Minerva sighed then.
In relief, we caught it, before he got what he wanted as Severus ran his hand through my hair and Dumbledore started shaking, now realizing then I caught him in the act. "I think he wanted this, to make it easier, but if not this, then attempted gang attack would suffice to him. But the fool is so desperate for his way, the old man is now so dangerous, I'm barricading myself. Now, in here." I said to her and she wrapped her arm across my legs gently as she answered me.