Harry Potter and the Scars of Time
By: Krystal Lily Potter
Chapter Eleven: Sorting the Secrets
Rating: AA (which means, around here, 14 and up)
Couples: HP/HG, KB/RW/LL, NL/GW/DM, GW/DM/EM
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.
Sequel to Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
NOTE: You might have noticed that I changed the couples around once again despite what I said before…well I decided to make it more twisted and interesting!
NOTE TWO: Also just so you know, I wrote the sorting hat song when I was writing Half Blood Prince. Is that relevant to anything? (shrugs) might be.
NOTE THREE: THIS CHAPTER IS BORING AS HELL. It's that reason why I didn't have much fun writing it meaning I took longer to write it meaning I hated it but what must be done must be done. I needed to introduce all the schools, the sorting song and the Headmasters/mistresses of all the different schools soooooo…you can skip this chapter if you want…I swear the most interesting thing is the quote and the first line…
"I shall tell you of William Wallace. Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes."
-Robert the Bruce, Braveheart
Kaylee's mouth fell open and she said, "Holy bloody fucking hell!"
There was a few people around her that chuckled and they heard a loud, booming laugh then someone said, "Ya know tha was the 'irst thing yer father said when e 'irst saw 'Ogwarts."
"Hi Hagrid," Harry said with a smile to their half giant friend, "Where do the students from other schools go?"
"With ya. 'he carriages were charmed ta pull more of yas," he explained then he yelled out, "Ogwart's irst years over 'ere."
They left their giant friend and scrambled over to the carriages. They were much bigger this year and instead of seating the usual six about 16 people could probably fit in one. In fact it seemed that the doors would not close until at least every seat was taken. They all decided just to double up so they could fit more people in. So Hermione sat on Harry, Luna sat on Ron, Ginny sat on Neville, Lavender came in then sat on Dean, who had came in after her. Then Parvati sat on her boyfriend, Seamus (surprisingly they had been doing out since last year) and Kaylee apparently found one of her friends from Salem because she was sitting on him and laughing.
Harry noticed for a minute that Ron shot a glare at the boy's direction before turning back to his conversation with Luna. He could just see the triangle that was appearing. Luna liked Ron, he knew that, Ron seemed to enjoy the company of both Luna and Kaylee and Kaylee, well she flirted with him but she didn't really seem that interested in going out with him. Harry came to the conclusion that Kaylee was more of the…player type, just like her father had been, she was just a tad bit more sensible then Sirius had been.
Once the carriage was full it started moving. Harry noticed that there was a few different colours of robes in the place. It made him interesting to see different looking people and hear them talk in different ways.
"Hello," one girl said happily to him and Hermione, "I just wanted to say you two look adorable together."
Hermione's face flushed happily and she said, "Thank you. My name's Hermione Granger and you are?"
"I'm Beth Anderson," she said happily, "I came from the school in Canada. And you are?" She was questioning Harry now.
"Harry Potter," he replied with a smile and noticed how her mouth started to fall a little bit but she caught it, smiled and nodded at him. He was thankful she was about to refrain from gaping at his forehead, unlike some of the other people who let their mouths drop open and their eyes stare at his forehead without a second thought when they heard his name.
He talked to a few people from other schools and liked how he could see all the differences. Hermione seemed thrilled that a few other people seemed interested in the way house elves were treated and when she told them about S.P.E.W many honestly seemed very interested in that. Ron suggested that they were very tired but he thanked Merlin that Hermione hadn't heard him.
Finally the carriage stopped and the large group of people climbed out and the Hogwarts students started leading the foreign students up the front stairs and towards the Great Hall.
As Harry entered the castle's walls he finally felt like he was home again. So many things had happened that summer that he hasn't really thought about this place and it only hit him now how much he had missed it.
While in his own little world thinking he accidentally crashed into someone.
"Sorry," He said to the woman and helped her up. She was shorter then him with raven black hair and dark brown eyes. Although she was smaller then him in height and width you could tell she was probably 20 years older then him.
"Oh it's alright," she said with a smile, "I recognise you, Harry Potter right?"
"Yes," he said with a polite smile.
"I'm your new Defence teacher. I must be off plenty to do though," she said before strolling off. Her words might have been kind but her eyes were cold and distant.
Harry stared at her retreating form for a minute before thinking, 'I've seen her somewhere before, I know I have.'
The students from other schools were looking around in shock then some people started screaming as water balloons crashed over their head, soaking them.
"PEEVES!" Harry yelled, catching everyone's attention.
"Leave everyone alone or else the Baron will be hearing of this," Hermione threatened as she waved her wand at him.
The poltergeist blew a rude sounding raspberry her way then went through one of the ways.
"Watch out for Peeves," she said to the people that were listening to her as she walked into the Great Hall and froze at the door. Harry looked over her shoulder and his mouth fell open before he pushed her in so they weren't blocking the road.
"Bloody hell," Ron said as he looked around with wide eyes then he said, "I've never seen a room that looked like this one."
It seemed that the Great Hall had stretched wider then it looked on the outside, just like the train.
There were 19 tables for the students, each with flags hovering over them to show where they were supposed to sit. Harry noticed that in the middle of the hall sat the four Hogwarts house tables and that they were the only ones that seemed to split people up, there were two other schools that had more then one table but Harry noticed right away that in both cases one was for the girls and one was for the boys.
People entered the hall and it amazed all the Hogwarts students to see so many different colours of robes when it wasn't a ball. There was the traditional black of Hogwarts plus there were different colours of red and blue, purples, greens, even bright yellow and pink.
The teacher's table was huge, spanning from one end of the giant hall to the other in order to fit everyone.
As everyone settled down in the Great Hall Dumbledore stood up and shot silver sparks at the door then he sat down again, ignoring the whispers from all the other schools. All the Hogwarts students could guess that he had just sent a signal to Professor McGonagall to bring in the Hogwarts first years.
Sure enough a moment later the stern looking Transfiguration mistress walked into the room, followed by a nervous group of first years. Harry felt sorry for them because they were in front of a bigger crowd then normal.
Dumbledore stood up again as McGonagall brought out the three legged stool and placed the sorting hat on it and said to everyone, "In a few moments I will introduce you all but I wish for everyone to wait patiently as the Hogwarts first years are sorted. Thank you." With that he sat down and the brim of the sorting hat opened wide.
I'm the Hogwarts sorting hat,
And I'm always ready to step up to the bat,
I'll put you where you need to go,
To keep history going in the right flow.
You might go in Gryffindor,
Where many heroes have risen before.
Maybe you'll be in Ravenclaw,
Where intelligence is sharp like a saw.
Perhaps you'll be in Hufflepuff,
Where people learn to help enough.
Or maybe you'll be in Slytherin,
Where not everyone deserves judging.
Take heed to my warning for this is the final one,
The war is not coming, it has already begun.
A leader has risen from Gryffindor's fold,
He should be trusted more then the old.
The prophecy shines with much attention,
We all have to fight for our protection.
Stand together all as one,
Or else the end will surely come.
Follow your heart that's all I ask,
Don't be fooled, look past the masks.
I am the sorting hat, now I've had my say,
Good luck to you all with surviving another day.
Whispering seemed to explode from the Hogwarts tables, who knew that this warning was the most direct one the hat ever gave them.
"The leader from Gryffindor, who do you think that is?" Pansy Parkinson said loudly.
"Are you really that stupid that you have to ask that question?" Draco Malfoy growled at her. It was the first time Harry had seen him since last year. He looked pretty much the same except he didn't have his hair slicked back like he used to and there was a feel about him that wasn't as harsh as before.
Pansy flushed deeply and turned away from him. Ebony Moon on the other hand burst out in laughter. She had never liked Pansy before so seeing her humiliated was like winning the lottery to her.
"So we have to trust Potter rather then Dumbledore?" somebody from Ravenclaw attempted to whisper but Harry could still hear him.
"I guess," the person he was talking to said.
"What about the prophecy it mentioned?" a Hufflepuff asked.
At this phrase Harry's eyes went down to the golden plate in front of him. He took in a deep breath then thought, "I'll have to tell them about the prophecy sooner or later."
Professor McGonagall had pulled out her scroll of names and was about to start reading them off when the hat's brim opened once again and it said, "A time of war is upon us and it's time for everyone here, not only the Hogwarts students, to start making decisions about everything, including their futures. You will all be led into war at one point of time or another and to survive you need to not only be ready but you need the right leader. Everyone will be able to guess who I'm talking about when I said follow the leader from Gryffindor, he'll lead you straight. Straight into what, nobody knows! Hopefully to freedom and semi-peace. And to the leader, you know who you have been for the last seven years, follow your heart, it'll never lead you astray. Now commence the sorting."
Whispers broke out and almost everyone from Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin turned and stared at Harry, who sunk down in his chair a little bit.
McGonagall cleared her throat then said, "Albert, Jo."
"Ravenclaw."
"Banks, Kara."
"Hufflepuff."
"Benny, Bertha."
"Slytherin."
Everyone from the other schools stared at the sorting with interest while half the Hogwarts students listened with anticipation and the other half whispered among each other. Harry felt like he was going to go to sleep but Hermione kept nudging him. Although he did manage to clap loudly along with the rest of the Gryffindors when Caans, Tim became the first new Gryffindor.
Ron groaned and said, "Bloody hell how many are there? Each year they seem to multiply."
"Ronald," Hermione hissed. "Shut up and just listen to it."
Ron shot a glare at her and said, "Why don't you shut up Ms. Perfect."
Hermione shot the glare right back at him and was about to say something when Harry hissed, "Shhhhh."
Hermione couldn't help but smile at her boyfriend and took his hand into her own and squeezed it tightly.
"Sloan, Shayn."
"Slytherin."
"Thompson, Scarlet."
"Gryffindor."
As Zabini, Howard was sorted into Slytherin (the house Blaise, his older brother was in) Dumbledore stood up and said, "I am sure you are all hungry and cannot wait to sink your teeth into our great feast, for majority of you for the first time but I do believe introductions are in order but first I have a few things to mention to my own students before I speak to everyone. Another sorting has come and gone and we have welcomed many new young ones into our fold. To me every one of my students is a secret and they must be sorted to start to find that secret, whether it be courage, intelligence, kindness, ambition or any other attribute."
A few people from the other schools whispered and giggled but no one from Hogwarts said anything yet, respecting their Headmaster. But really, who referred to people as secrets?
'That actually does make sense,' Harry thought. He had to hand it to Dumbledore (even though he didn't enjoy his company) he had an excellent way of twisting worlds into very interesting phrases.
"Our new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher this year is Professor Nickleson, good luck this year and may you last longer then our other Professors with that particular subject have," Dumbledore said and all the Hogwarts students clapped loudly for her.
"As you can imagine our school has been rearranged this year to suit the needs of our new visitors so we have rearranged the classroom areas. Tomorrow a tour will be given to all students at different points of time according to their school and the way they are divided. I believe this way we have everything laid out will be much easier for our students to remember compared to other years."
Dumbledore looked around then said, "All of you take note that all teachers from every school will be able to give detentions but only Hogwarts professors and Prefects are allowed to take or give points from the Hogwarts students. There will also be meetings between the prefects and head students of all schools to discus certain luxuries for this year. Now I will ask each Headmaster to introduce their schools. When your school is introduced please stand up. Also if you are wondering how you will all understand each other there has been a charm placed on everyone so that they hear what the person is saying in their own native tongue."
He held out his hands warmly and said, "At Hogwarts we have all our students separated into four houses. When I call your house students please stand up so everyone can no who you are…"
Each of the houses had to stand up when Dumbledore said their names, it was nothing difficult at all. Then it went on to another school, and Ron said, "Finally, we're getting somewhere."
"Hello, I am Provessor Vander Krum, Headmaster ov Drumstrang and theves are my stuvents," he said.
Hermione leaned forwards a bit then said, "That's Victor's father."
Harry felt a wave of jealousy flow through his body at the mention of Victor and she felt it because she shot him a grin and said, "Jealous?"
"Who me? Never," he replied, trying to sound serious but she just rolled her eyes at him then looked over as the Durmstrang students stood up. They were in blood red robes. He also mentioned that they were from Bulgaria.
Madam Maxime was still the Headmistress of Beauxbaton, something Hagrid seemed delighted about from his place at the table. The students were, like Harry remembered them, dressed in pale blue robes. It appeared no one thought keeping secrets of their locations would do much good anymore, because she told them that her school was in France.
The next person to introduce themselves was a thing man with slightly slanted eyes, tanned skin and pure white hair. He introduced himself with a bow and said, "My name is Sensei Hiroshi from the Doragon Manako school in Japan and these are my students. We spilt our students up into male and female groups to make sure they stay in line the way they're supposed to." The boys had dark orange robes on and the girls had pale orange ones on.
"Doragon Manako?" Harry asked Hermione who shrugged, saying she didn't know any Japanese.
"I am Professor Rodriguez from Subida Esperanza in Mexico," an old looking woman said. She looked like an old grandmother with a good tan and she had a few wisps of black to her silver hair, "Like Doragon Manako we divide our students into gender based groups." They had to be the brightest people there, the boys with bright yellow robes and the girls with hot pink ones.
A young, beautiful woman with straight black hair and the same kind of eye makeup the ancient Egyptians used to wear stood up and said, "I am Professor Nefani of Pharaohs Valley school in Egypt. We do not spilt everyone because of our belief of peace between all types of blood." Her students, like herself, were all dressed in white robes.
An old bald, black man stood up and stared at everyone before smiling widely at them. Harry was amazed at the height and the well kept look the man had when it was obvious he was at least 60. "Hello," the man said kindly, "I am Professor Theron of the Goudster School in South Africa. My students are all as one with no divisions." He matched his students with his gold coloured robes.
A man with dirty blond hair and a huge smile on his face said, "Good day mates. My name's Professor Irwan and I'm Headmaster of Sunspot in Australia. My students aren't split into groups, although Hogwarts has the most interesting division I've ever seen." His students had robes on with a blend of dark teal and aqua.
Hermione burst into a fit of giggles as she said, "He sounds like the Crocodile Hunter." Harry really didn't want to know what she was going on about, he didn't know it was only a show she was talking about.
A young, stunning woman with long twisted bright blond hair stood up and said, "I'm Professor Hera, Headmistress of Athena's educational school. As you can imagine it would make more sense for my name to be Professor Athena but I suppose it wasn't possible to get someone with that name so they went to the next best thing." She didn't bother talking about her school, it was obvious there was no division by looking at the students in their rich purple robes.
A very tiny man with very wide eyes and insane look to him said, "I am Professor Tiberius of the school Romulus Augustus named after the founder of Rome and the first and greatest emperor. Or it could have been named only after the last emperor as well I suppose." He stared laughed and sat down. His students had regal looking forest green robes on.
"Oh lord I hope he's nothing like the real Tiberius," Hermione said with a disturbed look on her face and said, "Little minnow."
Harry snorted into his hands and Neville coughed to hide his laugh. There are some things that should never happen and Tiberius with his 'little minnow' was one of them.
The next person to stand up was a plain looking woman with straight brown hair and pale skin. "Hello," she said with an accent that just screamed 'Canadian', "I'm Headmistress Ms. Martin, no relation to the Prime Minister of Canada. I am the head of Maple Merlin's school in Canada as I bet most of you can tell eh?" She motioned to her students who were decked in their national colours: red and white.
Finally the last man stood up and he said, "I am Mr. Bush of Salem Institute. I, like Ms. Martin, have no relation to the President of the United States although I do like his view of things (Headmistress Martin actually snorted at him) and those are my students in the blue and white."
(Note: Yes, I know that Martin wasn't Prime Minister in 1997 and Bush wasn't President but just bear with me. I know at the time they were Jean Chretien and Bill Clinton.)
"Now," Dumbledore said with an amused sparkle in his eyes, "Since I can hear Mr. Weasley's stomach growling from here in my seat I suggest it's time to eat, the rest of my speech will be made after dinner."
"Hallelujah!" Ron yelled right out, receiving laughter from the rest of the tables, even the Slytherin table who had to agree with him at the time.
Everyone was having a great time with each other, talking and some people were getting up and going around the room, talking to other people from other schools. He noticed that some students seemed to be a little…stiffer then others were. The Japanese students sat at their own tables but they talked to the people close to them. The girl's would not start conversations with the boys either but if the boys stared a conversation with them they would talk.
"Well this year is certainly going to be interesting," Hermione said.
"We can all agree on that," Harry said as they continued to eat.
Once dinner was done Dumbledore stood up again and said, "Students from all the magical schools in the world, there are time approaching us that will be hard but there will be good times as well, keep that in mind. To all the students joining us this year welcome but there are some rules of Hogwarts you must follow when being here. The Forbidden forest is forbidden as all our students know (his eyes flickered at Harry, Ron and Hermione) and the lake, although not as dangerous as you might think, is not the best place to go swimming in ("Who the bloody hell went swimming in the lake?" Ron asked. "Fred and George in the summer," Harry replied, remembering the story the twins had told him.). The curfew is 9 o'clock for the first to fourth years and for the fifth to sixth years it's 11 o'clock. No students are allowed to wander off to Hogsmead unless it's a Hogsmead weekend. The Hogwarts caretaker, Mr. Flich, has asked me to tell you and remind many of you that there are many items banned from the hallways. The list is in his office. Finally when you wake up tomorrow you will find your time for your tour around Hogwarts on your beside tables. Foreign students follow your Headmasters or your Headmistresses to your room and Hogwarts students, goodnight."
The other schools stayed in their seats while the Hogwarts students got up and started walking out of the hall.
Harry caught sight of Kaylee, who waved at him and he nodded back.
"Mr. Potter, Ms. Granger," Professor McGonagall called over to them.
They stopped and stared at her and Hermione said, "Yes Professor?"
"You two have a choice this year," she explained. "To either stay in your normal dormitories or stay in the Headboy and girl dormitories. If you wish to go to those ones there are doors linking you to your original dormitories, the Prefect's meeting room, all the common rooms and the corridor outside Professor Dumbledore's office. If you wish to stay in your dormitories then that is fine as well."
"I want to go to the Headgirl's dormitory," Hermione said at once with a large smile on his face.
"I knew you would. Mr. Potter?"
"Yeah I'll go to the Headboy dormitory," he said then added, "It's connected to my old dormitory so it'll be fun."
"Excellent, follow me," Professor McGonagall said and led the two away. Ron had saw her calling them earlier and simply went upstairs with the other three boys.
They walked up the man flights of stairs to a random floor in the castle.
"Well we won't have to climb as many stairs," Harry said.
Professor McGonagall cracked a little smile then she said, "This room is located in the very center of the castle for convenience."
"I suppose that makes sense," Hermione said as they approached a portrait.
"Password?" the man on the front portrait asked and Harry's eyes nearly popped out of his head.
"Sirius?" he asked with shock. Sure enough it looked like a 20-year-old version of Sirius Black.
"Not only him," someone else said and a young blond pushed her way into the frame and said, "But me (Alyssa), Sarah, Remus, Lily and James. But they're all out exploring the castle."
He looked quickly over at Professor McGonagall who smiled and said, "Professor Dumbledore had this put up for you Mr. Potter."
Harry's face broke into a smile then he said, "Do you know who we are?"
"Of course we do," Sirius said, "Your Harry Potter, Jamsie-poos son. Last time I saw you though you were only a little fellow. We don't have the memories our older selves did or do but we do know about you. You'd be Hermione Granger right? Harry's girlfriend?"
She nodded at him and blushed dark red as Sirius said, "I don't want to hear anything bad going on, understand me?"
Her eyes narrowed and she said, "We have to come up with a password."
"Reminds me of Lily she does," Sirius noted then said, "Well what'll it be then?"
They whispered to Professor McGonagall and the old woman actually gave a snort of laughter, which was very un-McGonagall like.
"Alright, if you wish," she said then said clearly to the portrait, "Ronniekins will never guess this password."
"OK, but what's the password?" Alyssa asked.
"That is the password," Hermione said with a grin.
The two burst out laughing then they let the two in.
"Bloody hell, look at this room," Harry said as Professor McGonagall left them.
"It's a mini common room," she said with a wide smile. That was very true, it wasn't as big as the Gryffindor common room, not even close, but it was enough for two people and their friends. It wasn't a specific house colour but there was a nice pattern of the house colours in the room.
Hermione then went into her room and said, "It's gorgeous!" It was a fairly large room with a queen-sized bed, a dresser, a closet (actually it looked like there were two), anything a girl could use in general and it was all in a colour scheme of pale pink and emerald green, her two favourite colours.
"Mine's awesome," Harry said as he flew through another door.
"What?" she questioned with confusion, "Did you just come out of my closet?"
"No," he said with a snort, "This is the bathroom sweetie."
She got up and walked into the room Harry came out of and said, "We have a swimming pool!"
"Same as the one in the Prefect's bathroom but we don't have any scary pictures to watch us in here," Harry said, thinking of the Mermaid in the Prefect's bathroom, "Plus this one's got a shower and stuff too." Everything was shiny white marble with a pale blue and pale yellow tint to it. It was quite nice actually.
"I want to see what you're room looks like," Hermione said and dragged him back into his room to look around. It was in the same design as her room pretty much but his colours were navy blue and silver. Two colours she had come to find out Harry was fond of. He had told her he had no real favourite colour, he'd wear ALMOST any colour that wasn't feminine. He had also mentioned gold was an ok colour but he liked silver better.
She faced him for a minute and said, "Well I suppose we should get some sleep."
He nodded and her and said, "G'night Mione." They gave each other a quick kiss then went into their separate rooms for the night.
Author's Random Babbling
(Is sleeping until someone smacks her over the head and wakes her up) wha? Oh they done reading the chapter? Congratulations those that did, I couldn't even read this one again. Next one's going to be better, PROMISE. I will never write a chapter THIS dull EVER again.
You know I could have summerized this whole chapter up into a few tiny notes but ya know I need to get my around 10 pages in on Microsoft word.
Once again promise the next one's going to be better. Actually it's going to be a little funny…
And if you didn't catch it I'm just going to write out the names of the schools, their headmaster/mistresses and their location down here, ok? By the way not all translations will be perfect for anyone that speaks that specific language. I'm English with a TINY bit of French under my belt but that's it.
Hogwarts – Professor Dumbledore – Scotland
Durmstrang – Professor Krum – Bulgaria
Beauxbaton - Madam Maxime – France (That means like beautiful wand or something)
Doragon Manako – Sensei Hiroshi – Japan (Dragon Eye)
Subida Esperanza – Professor Rodriguez – Mexico (Rising Hope)
Pharaohs Valley – Professor Nefani – Egypt
Goudster – Professor Theron – South Africa (Gold star)
Maple Merlin's – Ms. Martin – Canada
Salem – Mr. Bush – USA
Sunspot – Professor Irwan – Australia
Athena's – Professor Hera – Greece
Romulus Augustus – Professor Tiberius – Rome
And thank you a lot to my amazing reviewers:
OOLoup3402 – lol, thanks. And I've got quite the interesting little plot line with couples going on if you look at the top…
Colorguardbaby23 – OK I'll keep that in mind, I did mention Hermione digging through Harry's boxer drawer at Grimmauld place (LOL)
Goddess-Hope – It's confusing, I know, but they can be given detentions by all teachers, but the other schools won't have the whole house points and things like that. Also their original teachers are teaching them (It's gonna be packed)
Holimontski – I'm thinking along the lines of a Kaylee/Ron/Luna triangle because Harry and Hermione will be busy with headgirl/boy things, ULD plus each other and Kaylee will need comforting over Joshie and I made it obvious Luna likes Ron so…all the fun of it. Wow so I really offended you eh?
Drake Smythe – That's what I meant by crappy, it was too dully but I prefer to use more vulgar words. LOL. Of course to get the whole story there it should have dull chapters as well as more exciting ones…
Lady Nicole Potter- Awww that was a really cute sign (I pictured it in my head). At this exact moment I'm writing this reply it's 11:20 on Christmas eve, and I live on easy coast Canada so yeah…
Zircornium – lol, no Hermione is not going to start SPGW (haha) but it's an interesting idea. I did have a good holiday (not over yet but that's not the point), yes poor Joshie…I love to make people depressed or sad (kidden!)
CastusAlbusCor – Thank you
QueenWeasel – That's a pretty long list of people to like, I'm not so sure that's a smart idea…take that as a hint.
Aqua Mage – Remus and Romulus, founders of Rome. Yeah that is where I came up with the name, I like to get background information on original characters in fics as well so I thought maybe I should practice what I preach and actually put some up…if that makes sense…
Lunatic Pandoral – LMAO! That's great! Can I use it? JK, but it's awesome anyways…
Evan – Thank you
Jada1010 – Bout Molly and Sarah, I'm just not saying anything right out, especially if it's not relevant to the story. Kaylee is not like Hermione, she's actually a lot like Sirius was (JK suggested that he and James were pretty smart) except she's not cruel like he was and has a little more sense (not much though…). And the couples…well…as you can see I've got my twists up there…and it's going to get MORE interesting.
Shawn Pickett – lol your welcome and thank you
Beth5572 – Alright then
Imran 1 – You're going to really kill me at the end of this…
Idiot with reason – Yes I am aware of that but you see the thing is all these deaths are hurting Harry so much that he's not becoming suicidal but more…homicidal. I stole your first name for the 6th year Slytherin prefect? LOL, whoops. Sorry for ruining the other stories for you then (not really but ya know) LMAO that is scary…
Benwa – really? Well this one's going to take me longer because well…I'm working on the very LAST chapter at the same time I'm writing this one…so I know how it's all going to end…
Hpfanchrissy1502 – lol I'm excited too but…LMAO it's the 16th not the 18th (Meh, I told my mom it was coming out in the year 1995 instead of 2005 so I can't really talk). I like darker fics…then again I'm not exactly the bubbly pure fluff type either…
Atrus Valentein – Keep em. I've also got my own little twisted game I'm gonna play with most of the couples in this fic (cept for H/Hr). It's going to be an interesting year that way (look at the top to see what I mean)
Carn – lol, thank you.
UltimateHPfreak – I'm sorry, I made you cry TWICE! Actually please don't compare mine to JKR's because honestly I wasn't trying to make mine what I thought hers was going to be like. I made my HBP from something I thought would be really interesting.
Ultra-violet-catastrophy – lol, you're welcome. Don't get discouraged from lack of reviews at first, when I was new to the site I barely got any (shrugs) just keep working at it and doing the best you can. When you put up another chapter I'll review again. Jan. 10th eh? Mine's Jan 11. Oh, no in HBP I didn't kill her, she got away. Ron ALMOST killed her though. How would something I wrote be making fun of you…
Silverpunk with an attitude – thank you, interesting name by the way.
Ryan – Thank you and don't worry about it, you should see the plot line I've got going couples wise…
Ilovegriffy – Griffy burn Snape's head off…interesting idea…but no, I need Snape for something else later on. The reason I titled it 'The Last Trip' was because I was referring to that fact that it was the last time they were going TO Hogwarts from Summer Vacation, you know, to give it the depressing feel…
Krystal Lily Potter