Harry Potter and the Scars of Time
By: Krystal Lily Potter
Chapter Fifteen: What Feeds Our Fears
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. There are mentions of suicide, murder, rape, and sex (I don't go into details with that). There will also be fighting, cursing (and I don't mean spells) and gory stuff. For now the rating stays AA/PG-13 but later, towards the end, it might go up to R.

Heed this warning if you don't like death: there will be A LOT more deaths of characters you recognise from JKRs books and some original ones. 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

"Oh, God! Help me, please! My racing days are over! I'm blind! I'm blind! Tell the truth. Will I ever be able to play the violin again?"

-Donkey, Shrek 2 (haha, Donkey's awesome!)

Nobody in Gryffindor had given a second thought as to why Harry Potter hadn't tried out for the Quidditch team. They all just assumed that he was the captain and that he would automatically be selected to be seeker again. When the list went up in the common room though everyone was in shock at what they saw.

Ronald Weasley – Keeper/Captain
Tessa Berry – Chaser
Halle Morgan – Chaser
Bradley Mason - Chaser
Scott Levison – Beater
Shayn Norton – Beater
Ginerva Weasley – Seeker

When Ginny saw her name beside seeker her mouth fell open and she had muttered something about a mistake before running upstairs.

The second she got into her dormitory (which was littered with pink and gold) she touched the red brick on her wall and said, "Hermione, Harry, both of you come here now!"

Hermione's stone didn't flash and Ginny tried talking through the brick again but it didn't work. Her eyes flashed angrily when she realized that Hermione probably couldn't hear her.

She touched the gold brick angrily and said, "Harry Potter come here this instant!" Finally there was a flash. She assumed that they were both in Harry's room.

After a few minutes the door opened again and Harry walked in followed by Hermione. They had to come through her door because it led to the girl's dormitories while Harry's led to the boys.

"Is there a problem Gin?" Hermione asked.

Ginny pointed a finger at Harry and said, "Why is my name beside Seeker, not yours?"

"I-I can't Ginny," he said, trying to think of the right words to say, "This doesn't have anything to do with the ban; I know that was lifted last year. But I just…I decided not to continue playing Quidditch. There are so many more important things I could be doing in that time."

Ginny looked at him and said, "I'm not a good a Seeker as you though."

"I know," he said with a grin, receiving a glare from the red head, "But you're the best we've got for now."

She nodded then said, "Well I suppose…I should get back…you know, classes starting soon."

"Oh goodness, classes are starting soon," Hermione said with shock, then grabbed Harry's hand, muttered the password then dragged him through the door.

Ginny sighed and walked back downstairs.

It was the last period of the day and Marie Nickleson was preparing for her seventh years. They were, she admitted to Minerva McGonagall, her favourite group to teach because they understood what they were doing and they all seemed quite egger to learn what she had to teach them.

She pushed her raven black hair out of her eyes and looked at the empty desks in front of her. She opened her desk and took out a mirror and looked at herself. She gasped and quickly grabbed a vial of glowing lime green liquid. Her sharp ears picked up the sound of people coming towards her classroom so she chugged back the potion and shoved the vial back in her desk and grabbed a book to cover her face with as Harry, Hermione and Ron walked into the room. They were always the first ones there.

She continued to pretend to read and slip her mirror so no one else could see it, with a grateful sigh that the potion had worked quickly. Sometimes it didn't sometimes it did.

Putting the book back in her desk as the rest of the class filed in a smile appeared on her face and she said, "Good morning. OW CRAP!" Nickleson had slammed her hand onto the desk and a few people giggled.

"Well," she said, "Today I was supposed to study prophecies with you. I didn't want to though because it has nothing to do with this class. Professor Dumbledore asked me to but I thought why bother, Professor Trelawney is supposed to be doing that, it's not my subject. Instead I want to teach you how to block your mind from people invading it because personally I hate when that happens."

'Praise to that,' Harry thought.

"Now this type of magic is called Occumancy," she explained, "It pretty much sets up a wall blocking anyone from getting into our minds. I happen to be fairly good at it but I wouldn't even be described as a Master of it. Your potions professor as well as your Headmaster are Masters of this particular art."

"How did you learn it?" Lavender asked.

"My father taught it to me, his potions teacher had tried to teach it to him but it didn't really work but in the end it was for the better because he had unleashed a natural ability to do so."

"Is it true that people who have the natural ability to block others from their minds can also read minds without anyone knowing?" Hermione asked.

"I wouldn't know," Nickleson said, "As much as I'm like my father I didn't get that ability and he never mentioned anything about it. That is the rumour though."

"Professor, is it possible that you could have a strong link to someone's mind? Like unnaturally strong?" Harry asked her.

"What kind of strong?" she asked him curiously.

"Like being able to feel their strong emotions or when you're asleep being able to see through their eyes," he asked.

"Yes it's possible," she said after a moment of thought, "Why?"

"I read about it in a book," he replied.

She stared at him for a minute before nodding. She continued on describing how to block people from entering their minds. At the end of class she simply told them that for homework they had to practice clearing their minds.

"Mr. Potter," Nickleson said as she started to leave, "Come here for a minute."

He walked over to her and said, "Yes Professor?"

"Would you be available for a training session tonight? Umbridge (she spat that name with loathing, worse then when she had said Evelyn) will start catching on soon so I don't want us to have a regular pattern, plus I can't send you messages, she'll read them," Marie explained.

"Yeah sure Professor, want me to come here?" he asked.

"Of course, I'll just say I'm giving you a detention," she replied briskly.

A weak smile appeared over his face and he said, "Thanks Professor."

As he left the room her smile faded and she said, "Poor boy, doesn't know what's coming…"

After spending some time with Hermione (who insisted on doing homework since this was NEWTs year) Harry had to leave for his class with Professor Nickleson. He had yet to tell anyone about this. In fact he had noticed that the more the year went on the more secrets he seemed to hold away from his friends.

As he walked down the stone corridors slowly, taking his time reaching the classroom. He remembered that last year walking though the hallways in a group, let along on your own, was something only the bravest of the brave did. This year on the other hand he had already walked into plenty of people. As he reached the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom he heard voices inside the door.

He leaned against the door and couldn't hear so he grabbed one of Fred and George's Extendable Ears (he always kept one on him in case of emergencies) and listened.

"I don't care if Dumbledore told you what you are allowed to do," Umbridge's voice whipped through the air, "I say you're not allowed to teach them practically this year and I am here as a representative of the Minister of Magic!"

"I don't care if you're here representing Voldemort," Nickleson shot back just as coldly, "I will teach as I see fit."

There was a pause then Umbridge said, "How old are you?"

"Pardon?"

"How old are you?"

"Not very old," the woman replied.

Hearing that Harry remembered how, when he first bumped into Nickleson, she had looked about 20 years older then him but over the past part of the year she seemed to get, younger. As she continued to teach her steps got more of a bounce to them, her speech wasn't as formal, and there was always a glitter of excitement in her eyes. He and Hermione had talked about that once and Hermione had said that Nickleson was probably only in her 20s or something like that, she just looked extremely tired the first night of the term.

"Well you are a little pathetic child and you should listen to me!" Umbridge screamed.

"To hell with you old lady!" Nickleson yelled back.

Harry quickly put the Extendable Ear back into his pocket and knocked on the door quickly. He knew when to interrupt when it came to Umbridge and now was a good time.

"Come in," Nickleson said as Umbridge said, "Go away."

Harry opened the classroom and he said, "Professor, I'm here for my detention."

"I told you not to come in Potter," Umbridge said.

"But this is Professor Nickleson's class," Harry insisted innocently, "I thought I would listen to her wishes."

Umbridge pale considerably in the face but he noticed the rest of her looked calm. He could hear the title wave of shouting that was about to befall him when the door opened. It seemed that luck favored them tonight because Professor McGonagall walked into the room. Her eyes scanned the room and she said, "Delores, I need to talk to you for a moment."

"But-I-fine Minerva," she replied with a dejected voice and walked out of the room.

After they were sure the two were gone both of them let out a sigh. Nickleson's brown eyes looked at him with appreciation as she said, "Thank you Mr. Potter. Madam Umbridge can be…quite the…well…"

"Bitch?" he suggested.

"Couldn't have worded it better," she agreed, "Well I suppose we should get on with your 'detention' shall we?"

"Yeah, but shouldn't we, you know, go to some place where Umbridge will have less of a chance of walking in on us?"

"My office," she suggested quickly, "Because I have charms on this classroom that alerts me when someone enters it so we'll know if she shows up, then I can just make you scrub the floor or something."

"How about you make me cut myself or something?" Harry suggested with a roll of his eyes.

She chuckled and said, "I'm not that cruel Mr. Potter."

"Can you call me Harry please?" he suggested.

A wide smile appeared on Nickleson's face as he said, "As long as you call me Marie when we're not in class."

"Deal," he agreed.

"Now what curse do you want to practice today?" she asked him.

"I've already finished Imperio, which one do you think it would be easier to do?" he asked.

"I think you should try to master Crucio before going on to Avada Kedavra, it's sort of like moving up power scales too if you think about it," she said.

"What do you want me to practice that curse on?" he questioned, "I don't really want to hurt a human."

"You don't have to Harry, I want you to test it on spiders first, and once I'm sure you can control it you're going to hit me with it," she explained, "That's how my father told me."

"You really love your dad don't you?" he asked her.

"Yes I do," she said, "Most children have a strong bond with their mothers but mine is more towards my father. My brothers and sister all had a very strong connection to my mother though."

He smiled at her and said, "Well shouldn't we get started?"

"Yes, yes we shall," she replied with a smile.

After two hours the alarms in Nickleson's office went off. She and Harry looked at each other quickly then she banished all the spiders back into their jar and that flew onto the shelf. A bucket of water and a cloth appeared and Harry stuffed away his wand and dived onto the floor and started scrubbing. She sat on her chair and started reading a book.

The door open and Umbridge walked in. Her beady eyes looked around the room and she said, "I forgot to ask, what is his punishment for?"

"Disrupting the class," Nickleson replied not missing a beat.

"Ahh yes he did that with me a lot too," Umbridge said, "The best way is a more serious punishment."

"I believe I know what I'm doing," she shot back.

"Well-" Umbridge started but Nickleson beat her to the punch line.

"You know I checked that little list of yours the Headmaster gave you. It said on it you were not to meddle with other teachers punishments," she said quickly and to the point.

Umbridge stared at her before walking out of the room. Harry heard her actually croak as she left. He waited until he heard the door to the Defence room close and he burst out laughing.

As Professor Nickleson stared at him she noticed a chain hanging from around his neck. She stared at it curiously as his laughing caused it to fall out of his collar and into view. It was a shield with the letters ULD on it with a wand and a lightning bolt crossing behind the letters. She knew exactly what it was somehow, although she didn't really know how.

"Harry, come here for a second," she said slowly.

He stood up and said, "Yes Prof—Marie?"

"What's that pendent for?" she questioned.

Harry stared at his ULD pendent for a moment before saying, "It was a group I started in fifth year. Back then it was called the DA. We started it when Umbridge came. I changed the name after my respect for Dumbledore shifted. I want to start it again but I have no place to teach everyone, Umbridge will know where to look."

Nickleson for a thoughtful look on her face then she said, "If you trust me, I know a place where she will never find you."

"You do?" he asked hopefully. He had no doubt about this teacher's loyalty because he knew she really disliked Umbridge.

"You trust me?" she questioned again.

"Yes," he said after a minute.

"Well let's go then," Nickleson said briskly and stood up, leading him out of the room. They walked through the stone corridors. Harry kept looking over his shoulder because he expected to see the frog (wait, he had decided he couldn't call her frog because that was an insult to them)…thing (he was insulting things now) to be right behind them. He decided he'd rather have Vulcan's shadow wolves following him around now rather then her.

When they finally stopped walking Harry knew where they were right away. She pushed open the doors and it only confirmed his thoughts.

"The mirrors of Erised and Raef?" he questioned.

"This room isn't what it seems to be Harry," she replied with a wink then walked over to the Mirror of Raef. She said, "Mirror of Raef, mirror of fear, open up for I need to be here."

There was a pale light around the mirror then a golden doorknob appeared. She pulled it open and walked in. Harry followed her and gasped at the sight before him. There was a large room, it had to be about the size of the great hall, with other rooms spanning off it.

"What is this place?" he asked.

"The Chamber of Secrets wasn't the only thing hidden in the school," she explained, "This room has no particular name but Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff built this after Salazar left the school. They used it to train the best of the best to fight in war. I believe it should be used for that again."

"How did you know about this?" Harry asked after a moment, "You didn't go to this school and you weren't here before this year."

"Hogwarts: A History is a wonderful book," Nickleson said with a coy smile, "Maybe you should take time to read the book rather then relying on Ms. Grangers knowledge on the subject."

He smiled weakly at the mention of his girlfriend and replied, "And give her the satisfaction of winning? I think not. She already has control over me in any other way, I don't want what I read to be like her too."

Marie chuckled and said, "That made no sense you know."

Harry shrugged and continued to walk around the room, reading the signs on the door. "Physical Combat, Magical Combat, Peace, Fear, Death, Life, Creation…what is all this?"

"Rooms where you can train yourself to do what it says on the door," she explained seriously, "This is where I planned on taking you to learn the killing curse. The Death Room gives you fake people to practice it on but it works the same way.

"Fear," he said for a moment before pushing the door open and walking in.

"Harry NO!" Nickleson yelled but the door slammed behind him.

He looked around quickly but soon realized that he couldn't see anything. Grabbing his wand quickly he said, "Lumos." Nothing happened. "Lumos." Nothing happened again. He tried a few other simple spells he had learned but nothing seemed to work.

A wave of panic fell over him when he heard his mother's screams echo through his mind. He cluched his head tightly, feeling the Dementors swarming around him.

"No please…" he muttered, "go away."

The door flew open and the light caused everything to disappear. Nickleson ran in, using magic to keep the door open. She dragged him out of the room and as she lifted the spell off the door it slammed shut.

"Next time, don't run in the room without asking what it does first," she said with a sigh.

"What happened?" he asked, still shaking.

"That room is designed to create your worst fear for you to face head on," she explained. "I think it is the worst yet the best room here."

"I heard my mum screaming and I felt Dementors," he said numbly.

"Then what you fear is fear itself," she replied.

"Remus Lupin told me that in my third year," Harry said.

"It's true you know. That's a very wise thing to fear Harry. You're afraid of being afraid. Quite complicated. No wonder your fear has a hard time being fed."

"What?" he asked with confusion.

"You've never heard the phrase 'what feeds our fears' before? Well let me explain, this is something my dad told me, but our fears need to be fed. For instance if you were to fear spiders then your mind can play images of that over and over in the most gruesome ways possible, making it hard to face. But when you're afraid of fear itself then it has no real images to bring up. The closets an image can get to fear is a Dementor and ever a Patronus can save us from those. In simple terms it means that you cannot be mentally affected like many other people can."

"Great, first I can talk to snakes, then I see dreams of the past, present and future, then I predict a few things, then I get this natural ability to throw people from my mind, I can see through Voldemort's eyes, I feel his emotions, I can survive the killing curse, I can hear people's thoughts now it's hard to mess me up ever more. A long list there," he yelled.

"You're temper adds a nice flavour to all that," she said simply, "Harry go to bed, I've got a headache just from thinking about everything you just said."

She sighed and reached into her robs, taking out a vile of the same glowing lime liquid she drank before class that day.

Harry watched her drink it curiously then she said, "It's a potion for my arm. I have to take it one day a week but on the day I have to take it every hour on the hour. I broke my arm in a nasty way in summer and this helps it heal. I didn't want any of you to see it because seeing something like this can make one thing a person is weak. I didn't want that."

"Oh," he said, satisfied with the answer, "I don't think you're weak."

She smiled and said, "Thank you Harry, now get to bed. Remember though, you can come here anytime. It's not even on the Marauder's map."

"Thanks Marie," he said and got up and walked away.

When he reached his dormitory again and his head hit his pillow one thought he had missed before ran though his mind.

"How does she know about the Marauder's map?"

Author's Note

DONE! And at 11:00 at night on a school night. Guess who's going to bed before her mom gets home? LOL!

OK I'll put you out of your misery, when I first started writing this, in the original plot line, I brought back Lily Potter, but as I mentioned things changing in the story so did that. Lily Potter will not, I repeat WILL NOT, be coming back. Neither will James Potter or Gemma Potter. Well actually lets make this simpler…none of Harry's relatives will be coming back. OK? OK! Actually what I did with that is really confusing, even to me…you'll see why in the end.

I noticed something as I was reading over the chapters I have up so far. I mentioned in chapter one that Clara Pettigrew was at Hogwarts for only her sixth and seventh year then later on I said Hogwarts won't accept exchange students. Let me clear this up incase someone else had noticed it. Hogwarts will not accept large groups of exchange students maybe only the occasional one or two (remember this is only in my mind and fic). For them to be accepted they must be native from the countries that accept Hogwarts students (England, Scotland, Ireland, those places). For instance Kaylee could be accepted into Hogwarts for her seventh year there but her friends from Salem couldn't because both her parents were from England.

In chapter two I wrote about a dream but just to remind you, if any of you look back at it after reading this that it is not a prediction because not only was my descriptions of Josh and Sarah different (I said they had red hair and later changed it) but so is the whole concept of it as you will see later on.

In chapter three I started brining in the concept of time (with the whole mentioning of Hannibal) so keep in mind the title of this story Scars of TIME. Time will have a lot to do with this eventually…

Also some people had pointed out that Pettigrew was a coward so he couldn't have brought someone from the dead, he wasn't brave enough. Remember what I mentioned in chapter one, Peter was a Gryffindor too.

Yeah when I find other things I'll point them out because I don't want to keep you here forever reading this!

Wait, two more things. I thought you'd like to know I've already picked out who's going to live and who's going to die at the end of this. At least 1:2 people will hate me by the end of this.

And I was reading something about the fourth movie. Apparently the characters of Hermione & Victor actually kiss in that, and Ron and Hermione are pretty much in love in it, the actors said so.

So that's making my thinking change. I am a full H/Hr supporter, don't get me wrong and I'd like it to turn out that way but I think in the end it's going to be R/Hr, just a feeling in my gut. I don't want it to be but I think it is.

Oh yeah, and I heard that Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint might not be playing Harry, Hermione and Ron in the movies anymore because they're too old. I think that's stupid because a lot of the time they get 25-30 year olds to play older teenagers! Someone should complain…LOL!

Well I'm done…onto reviews!

Omeg-I – lol, no sorry she's not going to be chased away be centaurs. No Harry is not the captain; I never, ever said he was, everyone just assumed it. Harry talked to Umbridge because he seemed like the best candidate to talk to the old bat.

WIZ1 – LMAO! Pink, well just reading that was the highlight of my day. Umbridge meant…well Umbridge was just being Umbridge when she thought that. And I can tell you that this time she's going to have a hell of a hard time getting the school under her control.

Holimontski – I have my reasons for brining her back. LOL! Well I swore in the story alright, so you can too. Yes my b-day is very close to Christmas but I got $130 plus a cellphone so I'm happy. Well that thing with the swearing, you working with people that meant other things when they said it, was confusing…is that like bitch, a female dog and things like that?

CastusAlbusCor – A clue…well you see Herm---nahh I better not say. Yes Harry hearing what others think does have a purpose but teehee, I'm not saying.

Danboy – Just my thoughts, to make a good story you need the good and the bad in it.

WildKatt1987 – No I don't have the chapter's already written, I just have them planned out, that's why I can twist it to the way I like it.

Imran1 – I better not what??? I don't remember what I wrote to Schnuff…

Carn – Yes, Umbridge is an old bitch. LMAO thank you! Makes reading reviews much more interesting! LOL…glad you got that out though? No Harry doesn't trust Dumbledore right now and just trust me on this, I do have my reasons for writing what I do. LOL I don't like Teather Dae either.

Rayl – Umbridge…well I'm not going to say what her fate will be but every character I bring into this has a 'fate' to deal with.

Johnmenefee21 – Right or wrong about what???

Goddess-Hope – Yes she's just as nasty as before. LOL I had to make Cho sound like a bitch even though she's not at Hogwarts anymore because I don't like her. That article was written to show that the Ministry 1) doesn't know Sirius is dead and 2) doesn't believe he's innocent.

Great Merciful Goddess – That's a fair point but you see Umbridge didn't get the satisfactory of telling him 'no you can't play anymore'. No she will not be making another squad, that's one of the things Dumbledore wouldn't allow. I love the parts with McGonagall growling Umbridge too so I'm going to have fun with that…

Loup3402 – Thank you

Pumpkinpasty – You really think that bringing Umbridge back will continue to be predicable eh? Well just trust me on this, it won't be.

Semebo – LOL yes, swords. I'm actually interested in swords, well actually ancient and medieval things in general but that's not the point. Thank you!

Harry James Gryffindor Potter – Yes, just trust me with this story that's all I ask, I know what I'm doing.

Gurlsboy – lol alright then

Ryan – That's an interesting thought but so far no one has any actual proof as to who Wormtail brought back. The only person that knows is…ME!

Beth – Just a question, why do you say thanks to me? I should be saying thanks to the people who reviewed.

Jada1010 – Actually yeah that is exactly what I thought (bout Gemma Jasmine thing) I never said there was a problem with lightning tiger! LOL toad…

Ultra-violet-catastrophy – That's a good point about reviews and it's the same thing for me. Well thanks for reviewing again!

Colorguardbaby23 – I never said it had anything to do with Sirius or Voldemort…not once. That second question is an interesting one though…really interesting. And for the record I don't think you're THAT far out on a limb, but that still doesn't mean who Peter brought back is Sirius.

PruePotter – What you say is true, originally I was going to put Josh and Kaylee together but then I decided to kill him. As you can see I've got a Kaylee/Ron/Luna triangle going on but…well you'll have to see how it ends.

CoolWerido – I'd like to be an author when I'm older (shrugs). No I never read that series. Why does everyone think Sirius came back? The people at the Ministry just don't know he died. Ohhh am I ever going to have fun with Umbridge. No it was Voldie that almost hit Harry with the killing curse, don't worry I wouldn't do that to a little 11-year-old, his death DOES mean something.

Idiot with reason – Yeah I'm 16 now. LMAO! That was a great story! Of course Harry will still fly, you don't need to play Quidditch to do that. Wow that is amazing, did you remember this one? LOL

Zircronium – LMAO!! That's a great review, you're insane! No Umbridge will not die, yet, but you know a lot of people will (good and bad) so you never know…

Lady Nicole Potter – LMAO yeah I remembered you mentioning that was your name so I put it in. That's a good thing, to be paranoid by the professors. Harry won't kill Umbridge in this, I can tell you that. What do you mean what Harry has to do? Tell me! LOL! Whoo a new sign! LMAO that's a great one.

Atrus Valentein – Enter the physco. Too late, you couldn't get to bed before I thought up ways to kill people (HA). Wow I think you have mental problems…LOL

UltimateHPfreak – Actually I didn't really have a birthday party…some of my family was over but that was it. My best friend didn't even remember until Friday and mine was Tuesday…ok then (backs away)

Lady Starlight – If the ministry and papers didn't mess everything up for Harry and his friends it wouldn't be Harry Potter! Umbridge is evil; I don't like her either…

harrylovesmia – I'm a little confused, you wrote 'dont do to kaylee wat u did to make' (I copied and paste that) so exactly what do you want me doing to Kaylee? And as to who he brought back…you'll see.

SORRY IF I MISSED ANYONE!

Krystal Lily Potter