Harry Potter and the Scars of Time
By: Krystal Lily Potter
Chapter Six: Mistakes
Rating: AA (which means, around here, 14 and up)
Couples: HP/HG, RW/LL, NL/GW, DT/LB, SF/PP, DM/EM, etc…
Summary: Harry's last year at Hogwarts has finally come but that doesn't mean things will be any easier for him. After last year's horrifying events the school things that nothing worse could happen. They were all wrong. The prophecy resurfaces and is dangling in front of Harry, held up by the pain from the past, quite literally. As the world is slowly being morphed outside of the safety of Hogwarts the people inside it are finding out that they cannot hide for much longer and that time is as much their best friend now as it is their worst enemy. What is a person supposed to do when they know they have to face the most evil wizard in history and if they're killed then the rest of the world, magic and muggle is doomed?
Warning: More violence then last time. The mentions of suicide, murder, abuse, rape, and blood are much more pronounced then in the last fic

I'd like to mention that there will be A LOT more deaths of characters you recognise and some you won't. If you thought I was cruel and brutal in the prequel to this then I don't know what you're going to think of me after reading this story.

There are some chapters were songs in them but not every chapter will have them in it.

Sequel to Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

NOTE: This chapter is a lot like a recap one. You'll see what I mean…it was also designed to give you more of an insight on what the characters are really feeling now and such, in specific, it's mostly Harry but there are insights on the others as well.

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"A person who makes a mistake is laughed at and ridiculed, but in the end the person who didn't make the mistake is the one that should be laughed at."

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The news of more and more deaths continued rolling in the next day. It was enough to make Harry feel extremely sick. The toll was getting too high for most people to even want to count but someone had to do it. Luckily it was the Ministry's job to keep that information. Unfortunately Dumbledore wanted to keep track on his own so Sarah, who was extremely quick with math and facts, was the one who was chosen to count them. It made her miserable and in turn it caused both Remus and Josh to be miserable.

Joshua Lupin had decided to do something productive instead of just moping around the house because of this. He volunteered to go out and help people who survived this. Many were being held in the Great Hall of Hogwarts so Remus allowed him to go there because he knew it was perfectly safe.

Alyssa was rarely at Grimmauld place. She was an Auror and a top rate one at that so she was constantly at work. She worked too hard to get where she was so she refused to quit her job just because she hated the Ministry. Dumbledore was quite delighted by this because that meant he had a permanent spy in the Ministry, Kingsley wasn't very keen on keeping his job for much longer, his main job in the Ministry was to search for Sirius Black (who they still believed to be guilty) and he knew Sirius was dead so there was no point of him staying. In Harry's fifth year he had gave the Ministry wrong clues so they ended up going in the opposite direction of where he was.

Kaylee had taken a real shining to Harry even though she had only knowing him for around 24 hours. He was worried at first that Hermione might be come jealous of the girl but it turned out she didn't. Hermione had even said to him that she was like a little sister that adored her older brother. That was all he saw the young Black as, a little over excited sister. Kaylee had also taken a great liking to Hermione as well, which Harry was thankful for. Kaylee had never gone to Hogwarts before so anything about it fascinated her, even Hogwarts a History! This made both Harry and Ron admire her and think she was insane at the same time.

Ron was shocked from hell and back at the news of the attacks and his mother went rampant, contacting all her and Arthur's family members to see if they were ok. All of the Weasleys seemed to be more affected by this then anyone else in the house.

Sarah sat in the living room, tallying the death notices that would appear in front of her. At first they had came in almost too fast for her to keep up with but she managed to organise herself. Now very few were coming in and she was glad. But one notice was one too many.

She pulled her caramel hair into a short ponytail and put her head into her hands. She knew her son was at Hogwarts, Remus had gone to one of the attacked sites in London, Alyssa was at work and everyone else was just around.

Harry, Hermione, Ron, Kaylee, Nicola and Ginny all sat together in the living room talking quietly when Molly Weasley entered the room. She was about to talk to say something to the teenagers but froze. She and Sarah met each other's eyes and a heavy silence seemed to appear in the room. Harry noticed that whenever the two were in the room everything just seemed to get really uncomfortable.

"Molly," she said with a nod as she looked back at her papers.

"Sarah," she replied simply then turned to the younger ones and said, "I want you all to come upstairs and help me clean out the room on the third floor it—"

Kaylee snorted, causing Molly to look at her with extreme insult in her eyes. Sarah looked up at the young girl and rolled her eyes lightly.

"Peg your pardon Mrs. Weasley," Kaylee said. "But you might be able to make YOUR children clean this house the hard way but technically you can't make me do anything."

There was a heavy air and everyone who knew Mrs. Weasley held their breath. Nobody talked back to Molly Weasley.

"I beg your pardon?" she said angrily.

"I just don't feel like cleaning today, people aren't in the best moods and that's not a great way to help. Just wave your wand and it'll be all sparkly," Kaylee insisted.

Harry caught a lot of her personality in the past twenty four hours. Her moods changed really fast and when she was angry or didn't want to do something it was best just to let her go on her own and not annoy her. He could just see Mrs. Weasley about to explode at the young woman so he decided to save both of them from the doom that was about to befall them by saying, "I'm starved."

"I'll go make lunch then," Molly said right away and left the room.

He distinctly saw Sarah make a face at Molly, which surprised him a little. He expected her to be the mature one out of the Marauders wives. He summarized that his mother actually had that place.

There were some things that were just better not known, like why Sarah Lupin and Molly Weasley seemed to have a silent but not dangerous loathing of each other.

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Harry laid on his bed, staring at the ceiling of his room dully. He felt terribly ill but he knew he wasn't sick physically but he didn't know what was making him feel so down.

He had noticed lately that when he was with other people he seemed to be a lot happier and when he was on his own he seemed to get depressed. From what he knew about Tom Riddle it was the exact opposite from what he would have gone through so he was glad for that.

Thinking of the name 'Tom Riddle' made him think of Voldemort (for obvious reasons) and in turn it made him think about all the battles he had been in. Sitting up on his bed he looked at the words 'Half Blood' that were scarred over from last year. The 'Prince' in the carving had been removed in a ritual last year that had brought the Half Blood Prince, Vulcan Potter, back from the dead, but he was quickly defeated by Harry getting some of Voldemort's black blood on a dagger, throwing it to Hermione and her stabbing Vulcan. His ritual made him extremely strong but if you knew his weakness it was easy to defeat him, all they needed was the blood from either one MORE half-blood or make sure he got less blood then he needed. He traced the scar and sighed to himself, his cousin had died in that battle along with many others.

He then moved to a scar on his shoulder, it had been from when Sirius had pushed him to the ground in the Department of Mysteries to avoid the killing curse. At the time he hadn't realized how much it had hurt but thinking back on it the weight of Sirius's big frame (he had been getting meat on his bones again, finally) and the collision with the floor. The scar it left behind was just a plain straight cut, he didn't know why that particular one had stayed…there had been a couple more interesting ones he had gotten that night. Maybe it was designed to be a reminder that Sirius had given his life to save Harry that day, and he would continue to protect Harry, even in death. Sirius leading him out of his coma last year had proved that.

The next scar he moved to was on the opposite arm of the last two. It was thin and straight and it ran horizontally on his arm. He had gotten that when Peter Pettigrew had slashed his arm for the ritual to bring Voldemort back to life during the Tri-wizard tournament. Now that he thought about it he had more then one scar from that year. On his leg was the scar he had gotten from when that huge spider had bitten him. Oh yes, that had been loads of fun. That year he had seen Cedric die. That was three years in a row someone had died in front of him.

Harry suddenly pulled off his pale green t-shirt and stared at all the scars on his body, an odd smile passed over his face. He was probably the only person in his grade with this many battle wounds. The huge slash across his chest had been from when the whomping willow had slammed him and Hermione away from it. He knew that she had a scar on her stomach, her cheek and a couple other places from that day. Along with the one on his chest he had one on his cheek, his shoulder and his arm, where he had fallen on a particularly sharp rock after fainting that night. Not to mention running through the forest with a werewolf chasing him and Hermione through the forest had left them with a large amount of scratches from the trees, tripping and all that fun stuff.

He rested his hand over the large circular scar underneath the slash Wormtail had given him in fourth year. This scar had been created when the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets had bit him. That had hurt like a mother fucker (for lack of a better phrase) and the poison; it had felt like millions of fire ants eating away at him from the inside out. This one, aside from the width of the scar that said 'Half Blood' was probably his largest scar.

Tracing the one on his hand from first year he was glad that's all he got from those stupid flying keys. It could have been worse if he hadn't had known how to fly so fast and good. Smirking to himself he touched another scar on his chest from that year, it was where he had gotten squeezed by the Devil's Snare. He had seen that Ron had a couple scars on his chest from that day plus when he sacrificed himself in the chess game but he knew Hermione had only gotten hurt by one of the keys skimming her on the cheek in the exact same spot where she would get hit by the Whomping Willow two years later.

Finally he got to his famous scar, the scar that started the series of unfortunate events in his life. That one he knew he would be stuck with forever and he also knew that unlike the other ones, which had, or eventually would, change to a whitish colour his scar would remain very visible on his forehead. Chuckling to himself he thought, 'After my body's wasted away in my grave the stupid scar will probably STILL be there in my coffin.' This was the scar that symbolized all he had lost and all he would lose in the future. It represented his destiny and the jagged, sharp twists and turns he would have to take on the way down the line, just like the shape of a lightning bolt…a line with many sharp turns.

He felt something bubble inside it, a wave of sick happiness. He knew that emotion, Voldemort was happy about something, which couldn't be good for him or anyone else on their side. Unlike the other times he felt this though he didn't feel like he was about to throw up. Instead he felt his shoulders starting to shake and a small chuckle escaped his mouth. Eventually it amplified into a scary, insane laughter.

There was a rustling sound in front of his door then Kaylee pushed it open and said, "Are you alright Harry?" Kaylee looked at him for a minute then looked at the wall just behind him, she wasn't a blind little girl; she could see that Harry was a highly attractive young man, especially when he wasn't wearing a shirt. She thought with an amused smirk, 'Now Kaylee, that's incest that is, thinking about your brother like that.' She knew she would never be attracted to Harry like Hermione was though, and 99 percent of her said that was a good thing and that she would never want to even attempt to take Hermione's place.

Harry stared at her a minute before laughing hysterically again, causing the hair on the back of her neck to stick up on end and for her to back up a few steps. He wiped the tears of laughter from his eyes and he said, "Voldemort's happy, he's going to kill us all! On his way here I bet!"

Kaylee gave him a disturbed look and slowly backed out of the room, leaving her laughing 'brother' and went to go find his girlfriend. She got to Hermiones' room and pounded on the door said, "Hermione, I need your help."

Hermione opened up the door. Her dark brown hair was tied back in a braid and Kaylee saw that Ginny and Nicola were in the room behind her. "We were looking for you," Hermione said. "For our little girl's night."

"That's nice," she said. "But I need your help, Harry's scaring me."

"Oh just tell him to stop it and slap him," Ginny called out and all three girls laughed.

"No it's not like him sneeking up behind me and yelling 'boo' scared, it's him laughing insanely saying that Voldemort is going to kill everyone scary," she said, shutting the three girls up right away.

Hermione bit her lip then said, "You stay here with Ginny and Nikky, I'll go talk to him." She walked past the black haired girl and up the steps to Harry's room.

Kaylee looked at everyone and said, "So what are you doing?"

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"Harry?" Hermione questioned ask she looked into his room. He was shaking with laughter still but not as much as when Kaylee found him.

"Hey Hermione, you know none of us are going to lie? Voldemort's planning on killing everything and the Order is too stupid to realize it," he said cheerfully.

She shot him a slightly disturbed look but didn't run like Kaylee had, instead she walked towards him and sat down facing him. Her eyes held sheer worry and that was enough to snap Harry out of his insane moment.

He continued laughing but it wasn't insane anymore, it was like he was laughing at himself. He leaned forwards and rested his forehead on her shoulder bone and said, "What's going on with me?" He had finally stopped.

"I don't know," she said and leaned her head on his shoulder. They sat like that until Harry moved his head and kissed her on the check.

Hermione burst out in laughter and said, "Harry! Stop it!" She was very ticklish in her sides, stomach, the center of her back and on her neck and he knew it.

He started laughing then swung her around so they were lying side by side on the bed. She swatted him with a laugh at his silly smirk. With a grin she said, "Now that's mood swings."

"I do not have mood swings," he said although the smile on his face was still there.

"Sure," he said and started tickling her. She burst out in laughter and tried to get him off her but it didn't work. Soon she had tears in her eyes from laughing and her sides hurt a little. Harry finally stopped and they just stared at each other.

"I know you're not going to like this but," she said slowly. "I think you should tell Dumbledore what just happened. I know you just felt Voldemort's emotions. You always act odd after you feel that, have a dream or something else."

Harry's green eyes flashed and he sat up and said, "Hermione, no. I thought you of all people would understand."

She too sat up and said sternly, "Understand what? That you're too stubborn to talk to the person who protects you the most?"

"TO HELL HE DOES!" Harry yelled suddenly, startling her greatly. "Listen to me Hermione, Dumbledore does NOTHING but lock me up and keep all the information away from me to attempt to 'help me'. It's not going to help in the end."

"You're not in the heat of battle right now like everyone else is so that's helping," she shot back.

"Look things aren't black and white like you'd think!" he said angrily. He felt anger bubbling in his stomach but he knew it wasn't Voldemort this time, it was him. "You're still missing most of the spectrum. There are some things you can't know, especially just from reading books." The second he realized what he had said he wanted to take it back. He didn't mean to say it and he had never wanted to say it, to her face or behind her back.

She stared at him and said, "Oh right, I wouldn't know because my soul is as old and dusty or whatever as the books I leave? Just like Trelawney said, right?"

"What? No, I didn't say that," he said. "I'm saying you don't always know what's best Hermione! You're not always right like you think you are!" He internally smacked himself again. Why couldn't he just get himself to shut up? He didn't want to say these things to Hermione, she didn't deserve it. Another problem was, he had yet to find out something she was wrong about. He also knew she didn't think she was always right and that being a 'know-it-all' was a touchy subject for her. It was one of the reasons so many people teased her.

She stood up and said, "Fine, if that's the way you want to be. Harry James Potter I thought there was more to you then just that scar, that's why I stuck with you instead of Ron in fourth year. I was wrong. You think the whole world revolves around you and you know all the answers to this war. You don't and neither do I. You can't fight this on your own."

"To hell I can't," he said.

"Nothing but a scar," was all she said. Tears were starting to build up in her eyes and she turned around, running out the door.

Harry slammed his fist into the wall angrily. He couldn't believe he had just done that. Out of no where he just started making her mad. "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! HOW CAN I BE SO STUPID!" He grabbed his shirt again and threw it over his head then grabbed his sweater and put it on as well. He walked downstairs angrily, only to be intercepted by an angry Ron.

"What did you do Harry?" he asked. "Why was Hermione crying? She kicked Gin, Nikky and Kaylee out of her room."

"None of your business," he muttered and attempted to get by the red head but he blocked him again.

"None of my business? You just did something that caused our best friend, your girlfriend, to cry! She might be closer to you Harry but she's still my friend too! So it is my business," he said.

Harry glared at him and said, "No Ron, it isn't any of your business." He pushed past him and went downstairs, feeling Ron's heated glare on the back of his head all the way down.

"What's going on?" Tonks questioned as he entered the kitchen.

Harry felt anger bubble in his stomach once again and he knew he was about to regret what he was going to say next, Tonks was just an innocent bystander that had been nothing but nice to Harry. "It's none of your business! Go back to practicing not tripping!"

Her eyes widened but she didn't say anything. Tonks knew something was wrong and she could see in his green eyes that he regretted what he had said BEFORE he had said it so she wasn't mad, just shocked.

Harry turned and ran out of the kitchen, only to run smack dap into Remus.

Her growled angrily and said, "For cripes sake! What is it with people running into me?!" He knew he was the one running into people though, not the other way around.

"Harry wha—"

"Doesn't ask me what's wrong Remus," he said and shoved past him. He managed to hold his tongue at the older man. Nobody deserved what he had said but he couldn't hold back the anger that was erupting in him. He stormed past a confused Molly and even got an odd look from Dumbledore.

He felt his pocket to make sure the item he needed was there. His wand and keys were both present. He stormed out of the house and over to his car. Opening the door he got in and slammed it shut roughly. He heard Moody shout something inside and bet it was about him running, or rather driving off. He started the car and backed out of the driveway and through the barrier.

He drove off just as Remus burst out the door with a terrified look on his face.

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Harry had no clue where he was going or what he was doing, all he knew what he had to get away from everything.

Something deep in his mind told him to turn back right at that minute; that he was being incredibly stupid. He agreed with that voice more then anything yet he didn't listen to it. An odd feeling passed over him and something passed over his eyes.

A loud bang, some screams, glass and metal flying everywhere and then fire.

Shaking his head roughly he had a feeling that this was one of his rare visions of the future. Usually he only got visions of the present.

Suddenly he heard a loud shout from behind him and looked in the rear-view mirror. A look of terror passed through him as he realized the way the other car swerved, the driver and everyone else in it was drunk.

The car went side by side with Harry, on the wrong side of the road, and some how it spun around quickly. Another car, going the other way, crashed into it then it crashed into another car. Harry felt his heart give a loud thump as the car that had the drunken people in it crashed into him and sent him odd the side of the road. His car slammed into a tree roughly.

There was many loud bangs, many screams, glass a metal flying everywhere and he could see fire coming from one of the cars over to his left caught fire before he blacked out.

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Harry hadn't returned home that night.

Hermione felt terrible about what she had said to him. He had seen it in his eyes like Tonks had that every time he said something mean to her he regretted it, but he couldn't stop. She knew she should have never even thought of suggested that he tell Dumbledore that Voldemort was in a good mood.

That was one of the times she had been stupid and hadn't listened to what her inner voice was telling her to do.

Everyone in the house was on edge. Molly Weasley had gone off the deep end and when she found out Remus and Tonks were the reason Harry knew how to drive. She had taking out all her anger and worry on them. Sarah wasn't happy about her husband or her friend being growled at so she told Molly off. The two of them got in a huge fight.

Alyssa had been shocked when she found out. She had taken the day off work to wait with them. No alarms had gone off so there had been no Death Eater attacks, so that was a good thing.

Suddenly there was a ringing sound. Everyone looked over at Remus with confusion as he pulled out a cellphone.

"Where the bloody hell did you get that?" Ron asked with amazement.

"The phone itself was something Harry bought for me, we sort of," his eyes glanced at Dumbledore. "Tweaked it a bit and got it running on magic. It's quite brilliant actually." He then flipped open the phone and said, "Hello? Harry? Where are you? Oh blood hell…what happened?"

He bit his lip then said, "Yeah, some one will be there soon." He hung up.

"Is Harry ok?" Hermione asked worriedly.

"He sounds fine but…well something happened. Alyssa, you know where St. Michael's is right?"

"The muggle hospital? Yeah, that's where Lily gave birth to Harry," Alyssa said with a slight smile at the memory. "But why?"

"Because you're the only one of us with a car and someone has to use muggle transport to go get Harry," he said.

"He's in a hospital? Why? Why doesn't he just drive his car back?" Hermione asked. She knew very well where St. Michael's was, having gone there herself when she broke her leg as a young child.

"That's the thing, apparently there was a drunk driver on the road last night and Harry, that car and two others all crashed," Remus said worriedly. "Harry's fine though. The car with the drunk people in it exploded though, and they all died. The others are in critical condition. You know Harry would be if his magic wasn't protecting him."

"Magic protecting him?" Ginny asked.

"It's something all wizards and witches have," Moody said in his gruff voice. "That's why the Dursleys excuse of Lily and James dying in a car accident was insane. The magic inside of a witch or wizard protects them from those types of things."

"I'll go get Harry then," Alyssa said. "Since I'm the only other one with a car. We'll be back soon." She stood up and walked out the door of Grimmauld place, used a growing charm on what looked like a little dinky car but it grew to be a big, nice looking vehicle that Vernon Dursley would have been envious of.

She hopped in it, started it and started driving towards St. Michael's.

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Harry had woken up in the hospital with confusion. At first he thought he was in the Hogwart's hospital wing but soon he realized it was simply a Muggle place.

"Oh good, you're away," someone said. He looked over and saw a doctor with a clipboard in her hand. She grabbed his arm and moved it back and forth, then did the same with his other arm. She continued performing these tests on him until he asked why she was doing that. "Just to make sure there's no pain anywhere and that you have feeling in you. You were a lucky one, not much damage, just a bump to the head which healed oddly quickly."

He grinned lightly and said, "So I don't have to be in here much longer?"

"Goodness no," the doctor said. "I see nothing wrong with you at all." She shined a light into his eyes and asked him to follow it as she moved it. Nodding to herself she put the clipboard down and said, "I just need someone to come and sign these papers when they pick you up. You're license says that you were born on July 31st, 1980, so that would make you 16 right now. A minor. You need a signature to leave."

Her eyes looked at his license, which was still in her hand and frowned lightly and said, "Harry Potter…why does that name sound so familiar?"

He got up from his bed and saw that they had changed him into a clean shirt and pants instead of a hospital gown. He was thankful for that but he didn't know why a muggle doctor would know him. "Not sure ma'am."

"Well," she said. "Follow me, I'll let you use the phone. You do have someone to call, right?"

He thought for a minute then remembered the cell phone he had given Remus and nodded his head. He followed her down the hall and dialled the named.

"Hi Remus…I'm in a hospital…er…('St. Michael's' the doctor mouthed) St. Michael's. I need someone to come pick me up and sign some papers to get me out. Why am I here? There was a drunk driver on the road. I'm pretty sure two other's got in the car accident with us and I think it was the drunk people's car that caught fire…yes I'm fine. Someone will be here soon? Thanks Remus. OK. Bye." He hung up then looked at the doctor.

"Remus?" she muttered. "I heard that name before too."

"From the Roman legend of Remus and Romulus? The founders of Rome?" he suggested.

"No, I met someone named Remus before," she said with a thoughtful look. "He was here visiting one of my patients."

Harry shrugged and followed her to the waiting room. Where he waited for someone to come and get it. About a half an hour later the sliding glass doors opened and Alyssa Black, who looked perfectly like a muggle, walked in. Harry smiled and stood up.

"There you are," she said. "Don't you ever run away again young man or you'll be sorry! Honestly I thought Hermione was going to murder something from worry when you didn't show up last night."

He looked at the floor then looked up as the doctor came over and said, "Hello, I'm Dr.---"

"Dr. Macintyre!" Alyssa said suddenly.

Macintyre looked at her for a minute then said, "I remember you. You were here with one of my patients years ago. Nearly 20 years ago now. I have a photographic memory, that's how I remember your face." Her eyes then flickered over to Harry and said, "Of course, Potter! You're mother was here when she gave birth to you. That man Remus came in with her husband to see you after you were born."

"She was the doctor that helped your mother along Harry," Alyssa explained then said, "Now there are some papers I believe?"

"Oh yes," Macintyre turned and Alyssa pulled out her wand and muttered, "Obliverate."

"Alyssa!" Harry said in shock.

"We don't want the information that you were here to leak out," she warned and destroyed all the papers and send magic out, so that it would mess up all their systems so they would lose the cameras with Harry's image on it. "Lets go. Hurry."

Harry looked back one last time to see the doctor getting up again but followed her quickly outside. She led him to a car and pushed him in the passenger door then climbed in the driver's seat and turned on the car. She then quickly drove away from the hospital.

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The drive back to Grimmauld place was, at first, uncomfortable. Harry felt Alyssa's bright blue eyes glaring at him from time to time.

"Look I'm sorry," he said. "I was just so angry. I couldn't stand to be in there anymore. I knew I would have really blew up at somebody."

"The one you owe an apology to isn't me, it's not Remus, Tonks or Ron either, its Hermione you need to say sorry to. Poor girl was in tears all last night," Alyssa said.

"I know already, I'm just…stressing too much," he said. "It would have been worse if I would have stayed."

She nodded and said, "Maybe it was best you left when you did, just don't do it again. By the way, where's your car?"

"Before I passed out it was totalled so I don't really care," he insisted. "It doesn't really matter to me anymore. Besides, I can get some money out of my vault. Sirius left me a lot." It suddenly hit him that Sirius had left nothing for either Alyssa or Kaylee, because he didn't know they were alive.

"I feel bad," he said suddenly.

"Hermione will accept your apology," Alyssa said automatically.

"Not that," he said with a laugh. "I meant I feel sorry for Kaylee because I got to know Sirius and she didn't. She is so much like he was."

"I know Harry," she replied sadly. "I want you to understand one thing, you might not have known each other for very long but she still looks up to you."

He smiled sadly and said, "I'll be a better friend, big brother and a better boyfriend. Or at least I'll try to be."

"That's all anybody asks from you Harry, is to try," Alyssa said. "Or at least the people that love you."

He looked up at her and smiled, then turned back and stared out the front window as they drew closer to Grimmauld place again.

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Author's Babbling

Yes I know I've lost most of the canon base of my fic but there's a good reason for that. As I've pointed out to a few reviewers is the fact that yes Harry does have a lot of family now but you've might have noticed a pattern I've got going on. I introduce new characters and then I kill them. Yeah I'm a nice person eh?

There's one thing I will say and it'll probably be the most direct thing you will hear from me in this whole fic. I've said it before but I want you to take this a hundred percent serious. A lot of people ARE going to die. People from JKR's stories will die; people I've introduced will die. It also depends on how I end this too, because if no one's noticed I am the type that would kill Harry and let Voldemort take over the world. You never know, I might do that. I know how this story's going to end. I am making some minor changes to the ending though right now because I had something BIG planned but…well I think I'll change it…

There's something I just noticed with my first note there. It mentions canon based, and I'm not really sure I can even say that about this fic because sorta does follow the plot line of the first five books but most of it is built off of Prince, which was sorta canon based but more or anything my messed up mine so what would that make this?? (is really confused now) er…none of you have to try to answer that, it'll probably just make either you or me more confused.

Anyways…

Drake Smythe – Well if you thought Harry's life was hard in Prince then you haven't seen anything. Remember, I've brought a hell of a lot more characters in for me to kill.

Shawn Pickett – Yeah, just so you know Josh, Alyssa and Sarah won't be mentioned that much because they're not at Hogwarts. I promised Remus would be important and Kaylee will be around because she's a year younger then Harry.

Holimontski – Thank you. Yes I like making confusing chapters. I'm a fast typer but I make so many mistakes it drives me insane when I read through what I wrote afterwards and fine so many typos. Hope ya get better soon!

x0ixheartxyouxi0x – LOL! That's ok about having a short attention span, I myself have both a selective attention span and selective hearing so it's all good. As for typos…just don't try counting them in my fic (LOL)

Skittles-07 – Nobody's Home…yeah I love that song too, it's one of my favourites!

QueenWeasel – Thank you. I'm glad Kaylee and Harry are friends too

Loup3402 – I just like the song, that's all

HPChic – Thank you!

CastusAlbusCor – There will be some description later on, with flash backs and stuff. You'll see

Gurlsboy – lol thanks, at least the deaths weren't graphic this time…they will be in the future though

Japanese-jew – There are a lot of school and yes I promise there will be explanations as to why Hogwarts was protected so well, how many there are, how large Voldemort's army is and well…to your last question…my lips are sealed.

Colorguardbaby23 – lol thanks, but don't hold your breath between every chapter! Might take a day for me to write, might take me two weeks.

WIZ1 – Its not that Dumbledore doesn't accept exchange students, it's the fact that HOGWARTS doesn't. Yes I am talking about the building itself. It'll be explained more later on, I'd just though I'd mention that so it would confuse you (lol)

Destined Enchantress – Yes I'm interested in your story but I've barely got time to write anymore, let alone read. I hate that too unless the fic specifically is based around the other characters. For instance I might have a fic (this is an example remember) where it's all Kaylee because she's reflecting on her life and about what she knows about Sirius. That kind of thing usually gives insight to the canon character's lives from our perspectives too.

Happy Potter – No, Alyssa is not the new Defence teacher. I said she wasn't going to be a main character, more like someone for me to toy with to break Harry later on even more! (wow aren't I a nice person??)

Shaz124 – Exactly, there is a REALLY good reason I put them in and you will see why soon, promise. And no, none of them will overshadow the main characters.

Tamar Blackflame – You see where this is going? Why don't you enlighten me on what you think is going to happen. I guess your right, everyone spells wrong

John Relkin – lol thanks. You know you're crazy right?

Alexis Potter – With Harry joining the order…well…its really confusing and all but trust me on this…Harry will NOT be joining the order, at least not in this fic

Lady Nicole Potter – umm…yeah, you're insane. Actually the book my friends and I are making is called 'Book of Profoundness' by Eitak, Eelyank & Java Talksalot Whoreington (LOL, don't ask). Just so you know, Harry and Kaylee are not going to go out…that sign in my mind is just ew. You'll see why later on…

Warlock – Trust me we will be seeing some of the fight later on

Carn – Hell no, I'm going to be straight out, Kaylee is a bitch and Josh is a little softy. Here's a hint to Kaylee's personality, not only is she named after me but she has SOME of my personality but that's as far as it goes. All my original characters have a little bit of me in them

Dranit – Thank you

Atrus Valentein – LOL! Monkeys?! Squirrels and fat penguins are like SOO much better. I don't think I'll do that with my fics but it is a good idea. LMAO do I really deserve that name???

Zircronium – The song is "Nobody's Home" by Avril Lavinge and what Nikky remembers about the attack…she doesn't remember anything but she's been told what happened.

Ryan – What's wrong with decorating a Christmas tree? I did that with my mom two days ago! It was fun! Poor you though, still grounded.

Idiot with reason – … Out of all the reviewers here you're the most insane. I live in a colder area then you I bet! When I came in the house after school my face was red and my jeans were stuck to my legs because it was that cold! Anyways to your question, Kaylee Black doesn't have an animagus form of a black dog for no reason

Semebo – OK I'll admit it, Peter DID bring someone back to life but you'll have to put me through hell and back 10 times before I tell anybody who it is! Yes I am continuing the ULD at Hogwarts

Scarey-kid – ohhhh, Shakespeare and I have something in common! I'm attempting to kill everyone off (or at least a lot of people) because I'm going to make Harry's life a living hell before it gets better…if it does.

Aqua Mage –I was never planning on making Harry an animagus honestly but with the events happening in this story it would be pretty cool if Harry could turn into a stag. He won't though. Another reason why I couldn't make him a stag if I wanted him to be an animagus is because in HBP I said his form would be a panther or something like that.

Thank you to you all, you're all awesome! I'm glad I got a snow day so I could finish this chapter! (and the homework I forgot to do…heehee)

Krystal Lily Potter