Chapter Three
Ginny woke to her bedroom door being slammed shut and Jinx scrabbling to get under her blue blanket. Hermione was not to be seen but Molly was. She was perched on Hermione's bed, Ramses's card in her hand.
"Your father is at work and Charlie is not here. It is just you and I, Ginny. You're going to tell me about this young man you're seeing and you're going to tell me now." Molly was eerily calm.
"Why do you care so much?"
"Because I am your mother. It is my job to care."
"You didn't care when I was dating Dean or Sean or Harry. Why do you care now?"
"Because I didn't know you would sneak around with young men you barely know. Harry loves you and you laugh in his face. He is willing to over look your defaults-"
"DEFAULT! DEFAULT! Is that what you call it? Mother, I have premature ovarian failure. I have come to blows with it, why can't you?"
Molly just looked at her daughter, shook her head and got up from her seat.
Ginny remained in her room for the rest of the day and well into the night. Finally her aching belly won over pride and she head down to the kitchen. No one was in the kitchen. Ginny made a ham sandwich and started to climb the stairs to her room. She stepped onto the landing and turned around. Something was moving around her. Ginny was about to open her door when a hand snaked out from the shadows over her mouth while its mate encircled her waist.
"If you're good and don't scream or bite, I'll let you go."
"And what if I want to be bad? I know you like it when I scream and even more, when I bite." Ginny spun in her capture's arms. "Rameses, what are you doing here? If you get caught my parents will flip out royally."
"Don't worry. Everyone is very deeply asleep. Silas made sure of that with a light but effective sleeping potion."
"Do I want to know how he did it?"
"Not really. Listen Dominik, Silas, and the girls are out in the yard waiting. Go outside and wait on the hood of my car."
"So what is the plan before I go?"
"Kidnap Harry Potter and - that's about as far as we got."
"Good job but Potter is going to be 150 pounds of dead weight. I don't know about you but I am not going to carry him."
Rameses pulled out a small vial and a coil of ropes. "No one will be carrying anyone? Head out now." Ginny nodded and smiled. Harry was in for a rude awakening.
Dominik was as handsome as ever sitting on the hood of his black American mustang. His inky ebony hair was pulled back and shined in the middle month moon. Elodie was at his side while Emily sat next to Silas on his forest green racer. The twins' red hair was covered with large over hanging cloaks but their ice blue eyes shined out from under the shadow of the hood. Ginny saw Ramses's blue Honda Civic.
A bell went off in the distance and Dominik went into action. He got off his car and took out his wand. Silas followed his lead as the girls got into the driver's seat of each car.
She caught Elodie's eye as she climbed in the driver's seat, the girl pointed up to Harry's room window and then, to Nicky. He was handing Silas a broom. They mounted up and flew to his window. With a wave of Nicky's wand the window opened and they flew in. A few seconds later, there was a loud crash and the guys plus one came back through the window.
Rameses got into the car right as Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and her brother, Ron, came running out the back door, wands in hand and half naked. Ginny was out of the drive way before they got within hexing ranger but still it was a close call.
Rameses lend over and kissed her before picking up the two-way radio between them. "Hey, Silas, your father is going to be so disappointed. What kind of Potion Master's son can't brew a 2nd grade sleeping potion?"
"Shut up. I didn't want to poison 'em, so I didn't add that much to the gravy. And just one question, what kind of werewolf can't get into a dark room and not knock over a lamp?"
"I was born one and only one of my parents is a werewolf, thank you very much."
"You still didn't answer my question."
"Like it really mattered, he was awake when I entered the room."
"Ginny's gone!" Molly yelled as she ran into the kitchen. Most of the Order was in the kitchen to hear the news. Albus Dumbledore was sitting it the table looking as calm as ever. "I told you it was a mistake to let her go to that summer camp. That's where she met him and his people." Molly yelled at her husband.
Arthur was about to say something back when Hermione entered the room through backdoor carrying a cell phone that was ringing very loudly.
"Should I answer it?" she asked. Dumbledore nodded. She pushed a button and -
"Silas, I'm very disappointed in you. I let you go out for the evening and you take off for close to the whole night. Do you know what time it is? It is 1:39! in the morning! Silas, are you even listening? Are you even there? Silas…Silas answer me!"
"Professor Snape?"
"Miss Granger? What are you doing with my son's cell phone?"
"Your son just kidnapped Harry."
"That's insane!"
"Then how did I get his cell phone?"
"Where am I? What do you people want?" Harry was scared; Ginny could feel it and she kind of liked it. He had no clue what was going to happen and that scared him. "Ginny, how can you do this? You're betraying your family, the people who love you." Harry was still tied up as he was thrown on to the dew-covered grass.
"Shut up, Potter. You know nothing." Dominik picked him up off the ground and began to drag him toward a clearing.
Bricked outlined what appeared to be the foundation of a small cottage. Knee high grass, large shrubs and over grown rose brush covered most of the clearing. As the group walked, Ginny could feel a stone walkway beneath her feet and every few steps she found a piece of rotted wood to trip over. Rameses held her waist, as they got closer to the foundation.
"Potter, do you know where you are?" Harry shook his head. "Your home."
"My home is with my Godfather and Remus. Either of which are here. Take me back!" Harry shouted.
"Rameses, I think we need duck tape. Listen, Potter, I know that this is hard to understand but this is your home. This is Godic Hollow." Harry seemed taken back for a moment and Nicky continued, "This is where your parents died to save you.
"You see Potter, we're not here to hurt you or kill you or anything mean like that. In fact, we're here to give you a gift. You have given everything you have for people you don't know and never asked for anything but to be left alone. I need you to answer one simple question. I want you to answer it with your heart and soul not your mind. Don't think about it, just answer and don't answer for anyone but yourself. Got it?"
Harry nodded, looking even more pail then possible.
"What is your great desire in all the -?"
"To know my parents." Harry answered before Dominik could even finish the question. "I would like to have my parents back but I know that it not possible."
"Mr. Potter, you have been listening to Dumbledork to much. Anything is possible if you believe in yourself and the magic that you hold inside yourself." Dominik pulled out a picket knife and cut the ropes that held Harry's wrists together. "I want to you know that this does not make me your friend and for a matter of fact after this is over, if you so much as look at me the wrong way, I'll kill you." Harry nodded and looked away. "Good, you're learning."
Emily and Elodie had placed themselves at each end of the clearing; their faces no longer covered, and were now chanting out loud. A white light began to form in their hands and then, began to encompass that clearing. Ginny and Rameses were pulled into the dome made by the light. Dominik, Silas and Harry were standing in the centre of the clearing in front of the cottage's foundation.
Ginny watched as time reversed its self. She watched as the rose blossoms molded back in it their branches, then to their stems and final the stem re-entered the ground. The same when for most of the plants around the grounds. Now, that the ground was clear of all the overgrown plants, Ginny could clearly see the pieces of wall and wood that had once made the cottage.
Slowly the broads and two by fours began to move as well. Five to ten minutes later a house had began to take shape. Larger broads began to cover the framework. Finally, Godic Hollow was completed, from the porch to the teemed grass; everything was the same as it was on the night that the Potters died, nearly 17 years before hand.
James and Lily were even sitting on the front steps with baby Harry, in his Halloween costume.
"Now, Potter this is going to be the hardest part. You have to watch your parents died. But don't worry, everything will work out in the end." Ginny heard Dominik say. Harry nodded and began to watch his once happy family.
Baby Harry began to cry as a breeze swept through the clearing. Lily holds him against her breast, turned to her husband. "It has been a long night, I think that someone it tired." She entered the house and James closed the door behind them.
Inside the cottage, Lily took Baby Harry up stairs and James sat down at the kitchen table to read his paper. Lily entered the room five minutes later with an emptied bottle and dirty nappy. James smiled lovingly at her as she passed to the sink to wash her hands but she did not smile back.
"You want to talk about it?" James's serious tone caused Ginny to wonder what "it" was.
"How many times do we have to go through this? It's in the past."
"You just can't give something like that up and forget about it, Lily. I'm not going to leave you. I love you."
"James, I made a mistaken and I fixed it. We all agreed that it would be better this way. I know that you are not going to leave and I love you too. I just need a little time to my self. I have to live with the decisions I have made and right now, I'm not feeling all the great about them."
Severus Snape along with his wife, Aurora, arrived at the burrow minutes after he had hung up on Hermione Granger.
"Professor, what is going on? Why is your son kidnapping Harry?" said Molly. She had rushed Snape as soon as he entered the lower level kitchen.
"Shouldn't you be concerned about your daughter?" Anna asked. She had sat in the corner, her arms crossed, listening to everyone's opinion about what had happen and no one seemed to care what happen to Ginny.
"Ginny has made her bed, now she has to sleep in it." Molly turned on her heels, "It was her choice to run off with this boy."
"So you're just going to give up on her-" Anna got up from her seat, her voice rising with every step she took.
"Don't you dare tell me how to care for my children-" Molly's voice matched her without missing a pitch.
"Maybe if you actually care she wouldn't have run off." Anna's statement cleared the air and silenced the room.
"I'm sure that Ginny is safe with my son and his friends, Miss..." Snape said, quietly. The ringing in his ears had yet to stop from the women's voices.
"Blayre. Anna Blayre."
"You're don't know to Elodie and Emily Blair, do you?" Snape seem befuddled yet interested.
"They are my sisters. Do you know them?"
"My son is Silas Snape."
Anna's mouth formed an "O" shape and then, she began to giggle. Everyone looked at her as if she had suddenly lost her mind. Her giggle quickly became a chuckle. "I cannot believe this. Elodie and Emily are in on this?"
"If my son is a part then yes, Emily is probably part of it too."
"And if Emily is in on it, then Elodie is in on it."
"And if Elodie is involved, then Dominik is involved."
"And if Dominik is engaged, then Ramses is engaged."
"But how does Ginny fit in?" Anna had heard from the twins that Ramses had taken a new girlfriend but no one had told her the girl's name.
"Ginny has been dating a young man named Ramses." Molly said suddenly break in. She pulled the card Hermione had given her the night before and handed it to Professor Snape. "It came with the package you delivered."
"I picked the package up from on the stoop. But before anything else happens, I think that we should contact Dominik and Ramese's parents as well as the twins'. Where is Black?"
"I sent him out to look for clues as to where the group my be going." Dumbledore answered soberly from the table.
"Good he doesn't need to be here when Mary comes." Snape took out a cell phone and handed it to Aurora. She dialed the number as he wanted and then, gave it back to him.
It was three rings before anyone picked up and it was not the person Snape wanted because he had to ask for Mary. "Hello?"
"Mary, it's Snape. You need to get over to the Burrow right now. Dominik's up to something and he's kidnapped Potter."
"I need to get dressed and then, I'm on my way." Before Snape hung up everyone heard her say, "Damn him and damn his father."
A dark shadow moved across the clearing at an amazing speed. Ginny watched unable to move, she could see why the Potters never escaped the house. There was no warning. The front door opened without a sound. Ginny looked away, knowing what would happen next. Then something caught her eye.
In the corner of the clearing another figure moved about. Not half as graceful as the Dark Lord but just as quickly. A rat running from a tomcat. Ginny knew the person at once as he schemed into the light, shining out from the family room bay window, Wormtail. Ginny had to turn around to continue watching him. He stepped in fill view of the front view. The green light of the killing curse flashed over his face.
He seemed shocked then, angered but what he show. He swore up and down. He reached into his clock's pocket and pulled out a tiny glass sphere. Wormtail seemed to know what he was doing because with a few spoken words the sphere opened. Ginny could not see what he took out of the sphere but within a moment as to a second green light flashed...downstairs. Peter placed the object he had removed back into the sphere and closed it. He then placed it into his pocket and removed another sphere.
Peter made his way into the house and up the stairs. Ginny followed his movements by the shadow he cast upon the walls. A flash of green light from the corner upstairs bedroom and then, the Dark Lord flew from the house in a cloud of black. Everyone watched as a second green light flashed from the bedroom.
Ginny could hear Baby Harry's cries and it took everything in her power not to run to the child. The cries were getting louder. Peter aka Wormtail appeared on the front porch Harry in hand. His forehead was bleeding and the front of his nightshirt was soaked with blood.
Wormtail placed Harry on the ground and turned back to the house. He removed his wand from his sleeve and with a wave the cottage was in pieces again.
"Now, what is all this about my son kidnapping Harry Potter?" Mary Dane was a timeless beauty; she always had been, even before she had married.
Several, if not all, of the people with in the large kitchen jumped at the sound of her voice. No one had heard her arrive, which did not surprise Mary in the least. She simply smiled and continued to stare, waiting for an answer. That no one seemed able to give.
"Hello Mim." Anna stepped up first. Mary was a very close friend of her family's. She was in fact Anna's Godmother. The two women hugged tightly, then Mary pulled back.
"What's the matter?" her eyes seemed to be everywhere at once upon Anna's body. "You're flush, dearie. Do you need to lie down for a bit? Have you been running a fever long?" Mary every the mother began to check for any sign of infection or pain.
"I'm just a bit tired and worried about Ginny." Anna answered, redder then before.
"I sure that Ginny is fine. After all, Ramses would never let any harm come to those he loves. But you I'm not to sure about. I think that you should see a healer."
"I have, he-"
"So there is something wrong. I'm calling your mother. She always has had better luck get you to spill than I. In fact, I think I will call your mother. If the boys are involved than so are the girls."
Anna simply sighed and went back to her chair. Once Mary was on the phone to her very dear friend, Porsche, nothing would stand in her way. Anna knew she would have to call her parents, but she wanted time to get her parents ready for the surprise coming.
Within mere moments a loud "pop" in the alarmed everyone that Porsche and her husband, Nelson, had arrived. The couple made their way in to the kitchen, hand in hand. Porsche Blayre made her way immediately to her daughter's side. With the same line of questioning that Mary used she cracked Anna like a nut.
"Mom, nothing is wrong. I simply didn't want to tell you yet. But you have guessed already anyway. Yes, Charlie asked me to marry him and I said yes." Porsche wrapped her arms around Anna, tears had started to form in her eyes and she did not want everyone in the room to see her with her make-up runny.
Across the room, Charlie stood with his soon-to-be father-in-law. Nelson smiled at him and said, "When you came to me and asked for my daughter's hand in marriage, I told her to ask her in get it over with. Now, I'm telling you again, marry her and get it over with."
"Sir?" Charlie was confused.
"Elope. Elope, now, because once they start planning and things go skew, welcome to hell on earth."
Charlie laughed but the look on Nelson's face was nothing but serious.
Ginny was sure she was going to be hit pieces of the house but to her amazement, she never even heard the house explode. The twins had placed a protective shield all her and everyone else.
Once the house was gone again the dome that Elodie and Emily had create slowly melted away. Harry looked at Dominik but didn't ask the question Ginny saw written on his face, where was his parents?
Dominik was able to read his face as well and said, "Everything comes in good time."
She continued to watch as Dominik reached into his pocket and pulled out two-glass sphere just like the one Wormtail had had. Dominik took Harry's hand and placed it out in front of him, then said, "You must know Harry that Peter loved your mother and father very much. But jealous can kill any friendship. Your mother, Lily Potter was the one true friend he ever had and he wanted to protect her. But he also knew that Lily couldn't live without James, so he went to the Dark Lord and bargained for their lives.
"The Dark Lord agreed to kill only you that Halloween Night. Peter came to Godic Hollow to make sure that Voldemort kept his word. As you know he did not. Wormtail knew that he could not stop his master but he could save Lily and James.
"Peter was never a bright student and you have heard nothing but the worst of him but what you should know is that he had a gift. A gift for time. You see he could freeze and rewind time for a minute or two, but he could not change time.
"What Peter used his gift, the night your parents died. As you saw, he turned back time and froze it in a time sphere." Dominik then put one of the glass spheres in Harry's hand. "You said that you wanted your parents back. If you want them back and it is your greatest desire, then open the spheres." He dropped the other into Harry's hand.