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"…" Speaking.

'…' Thinking.


"Schalk Maclare Acruest matuare, MATUARE!" screamed Remus. BANG! An orb appeared, floating just above their head. As they watched, it slowly grew until a face appeared.

"G…good L…lord," stuttered Arthur, "It worked."

Remus grinned, "Sure it worked, didn't ya trust me?"

"R…Remus is that you?" The person who owned the face spoke, sounding very lost and confused.

"Yes Sirius it's me" answered Remus happily.

"Where am I? questioned Sirius, "What happened? How can I get out of here? Where's Harry? Oh God, he's alive isn't he?" Sirius' eyes were wide and pleading.

"You fell through the veil, Arthur and I are working on finding a way to get you out."

"A…and Harry?"

Silence. Remus refused to look his best friend in the eye

"Remus WHERE IS HARRY?" Sirius lost all patience, "WHERE IS MY GODSON?"

"Um…we're not sure." admitted Remus and he proceeded to tell Sirius everything that had happened since that fateful day in the department of mysteries.


"Stupid fool, getting himself trapped in the veil," Severus muttered to himself. "Stupid bloody fool." Severus knew a way to free Sirius from the clutches of the veil. He knew more than anybody alive, for his father had studied it most of his life. When Severus was a young boy, he used to sneak into his fathers study and read his notes and research. A good thing too, though maybe not from Severus' point of view, he would gladly see Sirius rot for eternity in whatever dimension the veil had chosen to send him to.

For the veil is one of the Wizardings Worlds greatest mysteries. There are few witches or wizards who know the true origins or purpose or the Veil. Even we, who have spent many years studying the Veil, are still not privy to all of its secrets.

When first discovered in AD 693 the Veil was believed to be a means of communicating with the spirit world. This was a reasonable explanation as many witches and wizards claimed that when they stood close to the Veil they heard whispering voices.In AD 1205 it was common knowledge that the Veil was the passage to the spirit world and if a person were to enter then they would join the spirits, never to return. In AD 1206, William Fudge." William Fudge claimed that he had entered the Veil. He disappeared from his village for three weeks, giving no explanation as to where he was going. When he returned William was full of stories about where he had been, stories that, even to the villagers, seemed outrageous.

William claimed that he had stepped through the Veil he came out into a world that was very similar to our world yet also very different.

That was what his fathers notes had said, he used to spend hours repeated things to himself, anything to take his mind away from the pain, the memory of his childhood. Every time his father beat him he would shut off his mind, disgusted with himself for being a coward, for not standing up to his bullying father.

He pushed the memories out of his mind and carried on gathering the equipment he would need, he had come to a decision. As much as he despised Sirius, he couldn't leave him there because, even though he would never admit it, he admired Sirius and the way he always put his friends before himself, he admired the loyalty and compassion he showed towards the people he cared about.

Although Severus didn't know it yet, Sirius admired his courage, yes courage, for it took a strong man to say 'NO' to Voldemort, it took an even stronger man to admit he was wrong and betray the Dark Lord.

Severus made a decision, he stood up, grabbed his bag and went off in search of Remus.


"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE HE IS?" screamed Sirius in anger, he knew it wasn't Moony's fault, but he was so angry, angry with himself for falling into the veil, angry with Peter for making him miss the 12 years of his Godsons life, and angry at Dumbledore for not keeping Harry safe.

"I think he found the book," murmured Remus so softly Arthur and Sirius only just managed to hear him.

"What book?" questioned Arthur looking confused.

"Oh Fuck," muttered Sirius.

"What book?" Arthur repeated, he hated not knowing something.

"When we were in our fifth year at Hogwarts we, that is James, Sirius, Peter and I, found a book, it was called 'Through Time and Space'. It had spells in it, they weren't ordinary spells either. If you glanced at them they merely looked like random words that had been shoved together." Remus stopped suddenly, he didn't want to finish, nobody had heard this before, except for the marauders as they were there.

He didn't want anyone to know, it was too hard to say, even though it had happened over 17 years ago.

"It's okay Remus, I'll tell him," said Sirius, who knew how hard it was for Remus to talk about this.

"It all started in our fifth year at Hogwarts, we were on the Hogwarts Express. Just as the train started moving something fell onto Remus' head…


Flashback

The train lurched forward leaving the platform.

"Oof," cried Remus "That hurt."

"What?" asked a 15 year old Sirius Black, his face free and innocent, without the haunted look he gained during his stay in Azkaban.

"A book fell on my head." answered Remus looking disgruntled.

"Hahahahaha" The three marauders burst out laughing, "T…trust R…R…Remus to get hit by o…one of his p…p…precious books," gasped James between laughs.

This remark earned him a whack round the head from Remus.

"Shuttup ya moron, that's strange," he murmured reading through the book that had hit him.

Noticing his serious tone, the other three boys stopped laughing and looked at him questionally.

"What?" enquired Peter.

"This book, it appears to be a spell book, but the spells don't make sense," Remus answered, frowning at the book.

"What do you mean?" asked James.

"Well take this spell for example, all it says is Time. Lost. Change. Want. Desire. There was a sudden lurch and the four marauders were thrown off their seats.

"Woah what was that?" asked a rather shocked looking James.

End Flashback


"Well what happened?" Asked Arthur Weasley.

"Well we found ourselves in another reality, one that was ruled by darkness. We later found out that the Dumbledore in that reality hadn't vanquished the dark wizard Grindlewald. So he had taken over years ago turning Hogwarts into a school for the Dark Arts. There were no good Wizards there," Remus shuddered as Sirius said these word.

"It was horrible, everywhere we went we were attacked by friends, relatives, even ourselves," Remus said quietly.

Arthur looked shocked, "How did you get back?" He felt all he was doing today was asking questions.

"We eventually met someone who believed our story, he said we were not the first Wizards to arrive there from a different reality. He told us that although our story differed slightly from the other man who had been there, he knew how to get us home. Apparently the other man, who was called William Fudge had travelled there through the veil." Realisation dawned in Sirius' eyes, "Wait a minute know I know where I am, well not where I am exactly, but the sort of place I'm in…"

Remus cut in "That's it, Sirius take your head out the orb and look around you, what do you see?" he asked excitedly.

"Um… wait I'm in a cell, hang on something's going on in the hallway," Sirius squinted through the barred window in the door of his cell, he could make out the figure of a young witch being dragged through the hallway, screaming.

'Uh oh' he thought 'this was way too much like Azkaban.' He started panicking.

"Remus, get me out, I don't want to stay here, I've spent too much of my life in prison," he was hyperventilating.

"Sirius? SIRIUS, get a grip mate or we'll never find Harry."

Mr Weasleys words calmed Sirius down a bit.

"Sirius?" Sirius looked around trying to figure out where that voice was coming from and who it belonged to. Recognition flicked through his eyes.

"Hermione?"

"What is going on?" asked Arthur.

"Hang on," said Remus, "I'll try and make the orb bigger."

The orb grew so that Lupin and Mr Weasly could now see the whole of Sirius' cell.

BANG

The noise made Sirius jump in fright, a brick had fallen out of the wall on his left.

Hermione's head appeared in the small gap, she gasped, "It is you!" she looked positively delighted.

"Oi move out the way, I wanna see to him," Fred's head came into view. "Bloody hell, 'mione you were telling the truth."

"Fred?" Mr Wesley stared at his 'sons' battle worn face.

"Hang on," said Remus, "Vanishco!"

The wall vanished.

Fred and Hermione sat there frozen, then, "Dad? How are you…? What are you…? Hermione explain," he demanded.

"Yes, Hermione please fill us in on what happened, where's Harry and Ron?" Sirius looked desperately at her, worried at what he might hear.

So once again Hermione recounted her tale.

Once she had finished everyone sat there, thinking.


The door to the Room of Requirement swung open, all heads, in both realitys, swung towards the door. Severus Snape was standing there, looking…well not surprised exactly, more kind of …happy?

"Remus I know how to bring Sirius back," he paused to see how Remus took the news.

"NO!" hollered Sirius, "Harry is trapped here somewhere along with Ron, I can't leave until we find them."

"I knew you would say something like that," spat Snape, "but as noble your intentions are, staying there would screw up the cosmic balance and could result in destroying the reality in which your Godson reside." Snape finished, looking shocked. This was the first time he had spoke to Sirius without one of them insulting the other.

"What do you mean?" asked Sirius looking worried.

"I mean that if there is more than one version of a person in a reality then that reality could face serious consequences," at their blank faces he elaborated. "Right, I'm only gonna say this one, so I would appreciate it if you would all listen." Honestly he felt like he was teach a class full of dunderheads. "Okay, if there are two Sirius' in the same reality for more than 5 months there will be serious consequences. Both Sirius' would feel as though they are being torn in two and if one of them doesn't leave that reality they'll both be dead within a week." Severus looked around at all the shocked faces, included the ones in the orb.

"Um…" stated Sirius, "that means I have about 2 days to get out of here then, but I would willingly give my life to save Harry's."

"Yes, but would you willingly let another innocent person die just to save your Godson?" Severus asked a troubled looking Sirius, "besides, from what I've seen of your Godson I believe he can look after himself.

Those that knew Snape looked at him as though he had just sprouted a second head.

"What?" asked Severus irritably, "just because I despise the boy doesn't mean I don't realise and admire the resourcefulness he has shown throughout the time I have known him."

Sirius sat there dumbfounded. Finally he managed to say, "Thank you Sni…Severus for showing so much faith in my Godson."

Now it was Snape's turn to stare at Sirius. Sirius stared back and a sort of understanding passed between them.

Hermione broke the silence by bursting into laughter, soon she was gasping in pain as her laughing fit had caused her to move her injured leg.

"Hermione are you okay?" Remus asked, the concern obvious in his voice.

"Yeah, I'll be fine, I was just thinking of how Harry would react to hearing Professor Snape compliment him," at these words Remus burst into laughter.

"Shh, "whispered Sirius someone's coming, "Severus I trust you, please get me out of here," with that the orb vanished leaving the three adults in the dark.

"Lumos," they muttered in unison, the room lit up. "So, Severus how do we rescue Sirius?" questioned Lupin.

"I have the equipment here, we just need to go to the department of mysteries and find the room containing the veil," answered Severus.

The three men walked over to the fireplace and after Arthur had ignited it, they stepped one by one into the fire sprinkling their floo powder and stating clearly "The Department of Mysteries" The room darkened once again, leaving a man with half mooned spectacles to be left alone with his thoughts.


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