Previously:

"P.S. I had a feeling you'd explore and find this room. So, I'm giving you permission to look into the pensieve. You should be able to see the highlights of my years in Hogwarts."

Because of Megan's curiosity, she decided to take advantage of the situation and plunged into the pensieve.

Chapter 19: The Pensieve Part II

A/N: Again, sorry for the length. Just trying to get the good parts that Harry would not normally tell.

Megan awaited the next memory. This time, she was outside, and not alone.

"There you are." Colin Lupin said to her. "I've been worried sick."

"Colin? What are you doing here?"

"Looking for you. Where the bloody hell are we?"

"In Harry's pensieve." She told him.

Colin rolled his eyes. "I meant what memory?"

"Don't know. Just got out of the Chamber of Secrets." She told him. "Very interesting story how Harry killed the basilisk."

The two kids looked around. It was night. A large group was coming out of a secret passage under the Whomping Willow. One was unconscious, and another looked scared out of his wits.

"Where are the others?" Megan asked Colin.

"Zonkos." He told her. "I was the only one to notice that you were missing. I figured you were here. And Dobby told me where to find you."

Megan smiled. She was starting to develop a crush on Colin, but she didn't want ANYONE to know. Especially Colin. Little did she know, Colin felt the same way.

They continued to watch the group.

"One wrong move, Peter." Remus' voice said threateningly.

"That's my Dad." Colin whispered.

A cloud shifted bathing the group in moonlight.

The unconscious greasy haired teacher Megan knew as Severus Snape collided with Remus, a 13 year old injured Ron, and a short, plump man with colorless hair whom Megan guess to be Peter Pettigrew who had stopped abruptly. Megan saw Vega's father freeze and fling out an arm to make Harry and Hermione stop.

They saw Remus' silhouette go ridged and limbs shaking. Megan and Colin looked at the moon and saw that it was full.

Megan gasped and looked at Colin in horror. Colin was watching his father with the same expression of terror. This was before the cure.

"Oh, my…" they managed to hear Hermione gasp. "He didn't take his potion tonight! He's not safe!"

"Run. Run Now." Sirius told them.

Harry tried, but Ron was chained to Pettigrew and Remus. Sirius grabbed Remus and threw him back.

"Leave it to me…" Sirius told the kids. "RUN!"

Then, there was a terrible snarling noise. Rumus' head and body were growing. His shoulder hunched over as hair sprouted visibly on his face and hands. His hands were also curling into clawed paws.

Colin starred in horror as his father reared and snapped his long jaws. Vega's father transformed into a large, grim-like black dog.

"That's the dog that was chasing Pluto in Disneyland." Megan realized.

"Sorry Megan." Colin said sarcastically. "I didn't see because I was too busy watching my father transform painfully into a werewolf."

They continued to watch as the dog and the werewolf fought. Just then, Hermione screamed.

Peter Pettigrew had Lupin's wand and stunned Ron and Hermione's cat.

"Expelliarmus!" Harry yelled pointing his wand at the traitor. "Stay where you are."

It was too late. Pettigrew transformed into a rat and scurried away.

There was a howl and then a growl. Harry, Megan, and Colin turned to see the werewolf running towards the forest.

"Sirius!" Harry cried out "He's gone. Pettigrew transformed!"

Sirius looked horrible. There were gashes on his back and muzzle. But when Harry told him this, he got up to go find the traitor.

Meanwhile, Harry and Hermione ran over to Ron.

"What did he do to him?" Hermione whispered to Harry. Ron was definitely alive, but didn't seem to recognize them.

"I don't know…" Harry told her. "We'd better get them up to the castle and tell someone." He added referring to Snape as well as Ron. "Come…"

Then, everyone heard a dog that was in pain.

"Sirius." Harry muttered before starting off in a run. Hermione, Megan, and Colin followed.

On the lakeshore, they saw that Sirius had turned back into a human. He looked so vunerable crouched on all fours and his hands over his head.

"Nooo," he moaned. "Nooo…please…"

"Thank goodness Vega isn't here." Megan said to herself.

"Look!" Colin said pointing to the sky.

At least 100 Dementors were gliding towards them.

"Hermione!" Harry shouted "Thank of something happy! Expecto Patronum!"

Sirius gave a shudder, rolled over, and lay motionless on the ground extremely pale.

Harry and Hermione kept the chanting up. A thin wisp of sliver smoke escaped from Harry's wand, but that wasn't enough. Hermione collapsed.

A Dementor went gliding towards Harry, and made to sweep the Patronus aside. Then, it raised both of its hands and lowered his hood.

Colin paled. He had read that the Dementor only lowers its hood when it is about the perform the kiss.

Harry's Patronus flickered at died.

Suddenly,

"EXPECTO PATRONUM!" a voice from the other side of the lake screamed.

Everyone looked and there was someone on the other side of the lake. They couldn't quite make it out because of the bright patronus that was emitted from the wand. The Dementors left Harry, Hermione, and Sirius. Harry, Colin, and Megan looked closer at the Patronus and saw that it was a stag.

Then, the memory faded.

0000

When it came back up, they were still outside. This time, at Hagrid's hut. And also accompanied by someone else. They paled when they noticed the identity at the new visitor.

"Hi guys." Vega Black said standing by Megan's side.

"How much did you see?" Megan asked her.

"Just got here." She told her. "Look. There's Harry and Hermione. They look younger."

The other two students turned to see Harry and Hermione sneaking around Hagrid's hut.

"What are they doing?" Colin asked.

All of a sudden, "It's us. We're wearing the Invisibility Cloak. Let us in and we can take it off."

It was Harry's voice.

"Yeh shouldn've come." They heard Hagrid whisper and shut the door quickly.

"This is the weirdest thing we've every done," the Harry in the pumpkin patch said.

"How could Harry be there," Megan asked pointing to the visible Harry, "And there?" she added pointing to the hut.

"Let's move along a bit," Hermione whispered. "We need to get nearer to Buckbeak."

The three present day students saw them move towards the hippogriff. Hagrid had recently covered those in class.

"Now?" Harry whispered.

"No!" Hermione whispered back "If we steal him now, those Committee people will think Hagrid set him free! We've got to wait until they've seen he's tied outside!"

"That's going to give us about 60 seconds." Harry told her.

Just then, they heard a crash of breaking china.

"That's Hagrid breaking the milk jug." Hermione whispered. "I'm going to find Scabbers in a moment…"

A few minutes later, they heard Hermione's shriek.

"Hermione." Harry thought of something. "What if we…we just run in there and grab Pettigrew…"

"No!" Hermione told him. "Don't you understand? We're breaking one of the most important wizarding laws! Nobody's supposed to change time, nobody! You heard Dumbledore, if we're seen…"

"We'd only be seen by ourselves and Hagrid!"

"Harry, what do you think you'd do if you saw yourself bursting into Hagrid's house?" Hermione asked.

"I'd…I'd think I'd gone mad." Harry admitted. "or I'd think there was some Dark Magic going on…"

"Exactly! You wouldn't understand, you might even attack yourself! Don't you see? Professor McGonagall told me what awful things have happened when wizards have meddled with time…Loads of them ended up killing their past or future selves by mistake."

"Okay." Harry said to her. "It was just an idea, I just thought…"

Hermione shushed him and pointed towards the castle. Dumbledore and three other men were coming down.

"Time travel." Colin said understanding what was happening. "Harry and Hermione traveled back in time. That's what this memory is."

"We're about to come out!" Hermione breathed.

The past Harry, Ron, and Hermione walked out with Hagrid.

"It's okay, Beaky, it's okay…" Hagrid said to the hippogriff. "Go on. Get goin'" he told the 13 year olds.

"Beaky?" Megan, Colin, and Vega gaped.

"I don't know if that's better or worse than calling a 20-foot, 3-headed dog, "Fluffy"." Megan said

"Hagrid, we can't…"

"We'll tell them what really happened…"

"They can't kill him…"

"Go!" Hagrid told them. "It's bad enough without you lot in trouble an' all."

Hermione from the past threw the Invisibility Cloak over the past Harry and Ron.

"Go quick." Hagrid bade them. "Don' listen…"

The execution party had arrived at the front door. Hagrid headed back into the cabin and opened the door.

"Where's the beast?" the executioner asked.

"Out…Outside." They heard Hagrid croak.

They then saw the executioner look out the window.

"We…er…have to read you the official notice of execution, Hagrid. I'll make it quick. And then you and Macnair need to sign it. Macnair, you're supposed to listen too, that's procedure…" another man said.

Macnair, the executioner, left the window.

"Wait here." Harry said. "I'll do it."

Harry went to approach Buckbeak like Hagrid taught them.

"It is the decision of the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures that the hippogriff Buckbeak, hereafter called the condemned, shall be executed on the sixth of June at sundown…" the man read.

Colin, Vega, and Megan watched Harry in anticipation as he inched towards the hippogriff and bowed. Buckbeak bowed back just before Harry fumbled to untie the condemned hippogriff

"…sentenced to execution by beheading, to be carried out by the Committee's appointed executioner, Walden Macnair…"

"Come on Buckbeak," Harry murmuer, "come on, we're going to help you. Queitly…quietly…"

"…as witnessed below. Hagrid, you sign here…"

Harry tried tugging on the rope, but that was one stubborn hippogriff.

"Well, let's get this over with." A different voice came from inside. "Hagrid, perhaps it will be better if you stay inside…"

"No," Hagrid said. "I…I wan' ter be with him…I don' wan' him ter be alone…"

"Buckbeak, move!" Harry hissed as he continued tugging. Finally, it started to walk.

"One moment, please, Macnair." Dumbledore's voice came "You need to sign too."

"Harry, hurry!" Hermione mouthed

Harry tugged some more until they had reached the trees.

"Quick! Quick!" she moaned. She then grabbed the rope and helped Harry tug.

"Stop." Harry whispered. "They might hear us…"

Just then, Hagrid's door opened wit ha bang. Everyone stood still.

There was silence…then,

"Where is it?" the voice that told Hagrid it would be better to stay. "Where is the beast?"

"It was tied here! I saw it! Just here!" Macnair exclaimed.

"How extraordinary," Dumbledore said with a hint of amusement.

"He knows." Colin whispered.

"Beaky!" Hagrid said.

Macnair swung his axe into the fence in anger as Hagrid started sobbing.

"Gone! Gone! Bless his little beak, he's gone! Musta pulled himself free! Beaky, yeh clever boy!"

Megan, Colin, and Vega rolled their eyes.

"Someone untied him." Macnair snarled. "We should search the grounds, the forest…"

"Macnair." Dumbledore said calmly. "if Buckbeak has indeed been stolen, do you really think the thief will have led him away on foot? Search the skies, if you will…Hagrid, I could do with a cup of tea. Or a large brandy."

"O'…o' course, Professor," Hagrid said. "Come in, come in…"

"Now what?" Harry asked when the coast was clear.

"We'll have to hide in here. We need to wait until they've gone back to the castle. Then we wait until it's safe to fly Buckbeak up to Sirius' window. He won't be there for another couple of hours…Oh, this is going to be difficult…"

Vega looked at her friends in confusion at the mention of her father's name.

"We're going to have to move." Harry said. "We've got to be able to see the Whomping Willow, or we won't know what's going on."

"Ok." Hermione agreed. "But we've got to keep out of sight, Harry, remember…"

The five students moved towards the Whomping Willow.

"There's Ron!" Harry said suddenly.

"Get away from him…" they heard Ron scream "Get away…Scabbers, come here…."

Then,

"Gotcha! Get off, you stinking cat…"

"There's Sirius!" Harry said gaining Vega's attention. The large black dog came out from the roots of the Willow. Then, he seized Ron after knocking Harry over.

"Isn't that the dog from Disneyland?" Vega asked.

"I've already pointed that out Veg." Megan told her.

"Wait a minute. MY DAD was the dog at Disneyland?"

"Yep." Colin told her.

"Looks even worse from here, doesn't it?" Harry said. "Ouch…look, I just got walloped by the tree….and so did you…this is weird"

The large tree was lashing out with it's branches. Colin, Megan, and Vega winced whenever Harry or Hermione was whacked by it. Suddenly, it froze.

"That was Crookshanks pressing the knot." Hermione said.

"And there we go…," Harry muttered "We're in."

The tree started to move again after the two went into the passage. Then, Dumbledore, Macnair and the other guys were making their way to the castle.

"Right after we'd gone down into the passage!" Hermione said "If only Dumbledore had come with us…"

"Macnair and Fudge would've come too." Harry told her. "I bet you anything Fudge would've told Macnair to murder Sirius on the spot…"

Vega paled as the four men left.

"Here comes Lupin." Harry said as another figure came running down the steps.

Colin watched with interest as his father grabbed a broken branch and pressed the knot. The tree stopped and Remus went down

"If he'd only grabbed the cloak." Harry said. "It's just lying there…"

Then, he turned to Hermione.

"If I just dashed out now and grabbed it, Snape'd never be able to get it and…"

"Harry, we mustn't be seen."

"How can you stand this? Just standing here and watching it happen? I'm going to grab the cloak!"

"Harry, no!"

Hermione grabbed the back of Harry's robes just as Hagrid appeared making his way up to the castle singing his heart out. A large bottle was swinging from his hands.

"See?" Hermione whispered. "See what would have happened? We've got to keep out of sight! No, Buckbeak!"

Buckbeak was trying to get back to Hagrid. Harry and Hermione had such a firm grip on him, he stopped and drooped his head sadly. Megan felt sorry for the creature.

Suddenly, another figure came charging to the tree. This time,

"Who the bloody hell is that?" Vega asked.

Megan looked confused, but then remembered that Vega was not there for the last memory or the memory of Harry defeating Voldemort.

"Professor Severus Snape." She told her friend. "The old Potion's Master."

Snape stopped and grabbed the cloak.

"Get your filthy hands off it." Harry and Megan said at the same time.

"Shh!" Hermione said.

Snape grabbed the same branch Remus used and pressed the knot. Then disappeared under the tree.

"So that's it. We're all down there…and now we've just got to wait until we come back up again…"

They sat down and waited.

"Harry," Hermione said. "There's something I don't understand…Why didn't the dementors get Sirius? I remember them coming, and then I think I passed out…there were so many of them…"

Harry sat down too and told him what he had seen the previous memory.

"But what was it?" she asked.

"There's only one thing it could have been, to make the dementors go. A real Patronus. A powerful one."

"But who conjured it?"

Harry didn't say anything.

"Didn't you see what they looked like?" Hermione asked. "Was it one of the teachers?"

"No. He wasn't a teacher."

"But it must have been a really powerful wizard, to drive all those dementors away…If the Patronus was shining so brightly, didn't it light him up? Couldn't you see…?"

"Yeah, I saw him. But…maybe I imagined it…I wasn't thinking straight…I passed out right afterward…"

"Who did you think it was?"

"I think…I think it was my dad."

Megan, Colin, and Vega looked at each other in confusion. Yes, James had come back from the dead, but it wasn't supposed to happen for another year or two.

"Harry, your dad's…well…dead."

"I know that."

"You think you saw his ghost?"

"I don't know…no…he looked solid…"

"But then…"

"Maybe I was seeing things," Harry said. "But…from what I could see…it looked like him…I've got the photos of him. I know it sounds crazy."

"Here we come." Hermione said after an hour.

Megan, Colin, and Vega looked and saw the start of the previous memory. Colin groaned.

"Do I HAVE to see it again?"

"Close your eyes." Megan told him.

Vega looked confused.

"This was before the cure." Megan told her pointing to the covered up moon. "It's full."

Vega's eyes widened before shooting Colin a sympathetic look.

"Harry." Hermione muttered. "We've got to stay put. We mustn't be seen. There's nothing we can do…"

"So we're just going to let Pettigrew escape all over again…"

"How do you expect to find a rat in the dark? There's nothing we can do! We came back to help Sirius; we're not supposed to be doing anything else!"

"All right!"

Then, the moon slipped from behind the cloud.

"There goes Lupin." Hermione whispered. "He's transforming…"

"Hermione! We've got to move."

"We mustn't, I keep telling you…."

"Not to interfere! Lupin's going to run into the forest, right at us!"

Hermione gasped. "Quick! Quick! Where are we going to go? Where are we going to hide? The dementors will be coming any moment…"

"Back to Hagrid's! It's empty now…come on."

The group ran as they heard the werewolf howl. Normally, Colin would have been fascinated by it, but the fact it was his father made it a whole other story.

"Shh Fang, its us." Hermione told the dog. "That was really close."

"Yeah….I think I'd better go outside again, you know. I can't see what's going on…we won't know when it's time."

Hermione looked at her friend.

"I'm not going to try and interfere." Harry told her. "But if we don't see what's going on, how're we going to know when it's time to rescue Sirius."

"Well…okay, then…I'll wait here with Buckbeak…but Harry, be careful…there's a werewolf out there…and the dementors…."

Harry, Megan, Colin, and Vega went outside by the lake and watched.

They saw the dementors making their way towards Sirius.

"DAD! LOOK OUT!" Vega called.

"He can't hear you." Megan told her.

The past Harry and Hermione came running to Sirius' side.

They saw the past Harry try to produce a patronus as the other Harry looked for the caster of the corporal one.

"Come on!" he muttered. "Where are you? Dad, come on."

Nobody came. Then, Harry got a look of recognition. He seized his wand and stepped into full view.

"EXPECTO PATRONUM!" he yelled.

The bright silver light was emitted from his wand and took the shape of a silver stag. It chased the dementors away.

Then the stag went towards Harry.

"Prongs" Harry whispered as he reached out to touch it. It vanished.

Then, an angry Hermione came up.

"What did you do?" she asked angrily. "You said you were only going to keep a lookout!"

"I just save all our lives…get behind here…behind this bush…I'll explain."

Hermione listened as Harry relayed the events.

"Did anyone see you?"

"Yes, haven't you been listening? I saw me but I thought I was my dad! It's okay!"

"Harry, I can't believe it…You conjured up a Patronus that drove away all those dementors! That's very, very advanced magic…."

"I knew I could do it this time, because I'd already done it…Does that make sense?"

"No" Megan whispered. "But since when does time travel make sense?"

"I don't know…" Hermione answered. "Harry, look at Snape!"

They all turned and saw that Severus Snape had regained consciousness. He conjured stretchers and lifted the limp form of Harry, Hermione, and Sirius onto them. Another stretcher already had a redheaded boy on it.

"Right, it's nearly time." Hermione said. "we've got about 45 minutes until Dumbledore locks the door to the hospital wing. We've got to rescue Sirius and get back into the ward before anybody realizes we're missing…"

They waited

"D'you reckon he's up there yet?" Harry asked suddenly.

"Look! Who's that? Someone's coming back out of the castle" Hermione said.

They looked. It was Macnair.

"Macnair!" Harry said. "The executioner! He's going to get the dementors! This is it, Hermione…"

Like the other times they followed them, Megan, Colin, and Vega felt a strong urge to do what Harry was doing. (After all, this is his memory). The five students got on the back of Buckbeak and flew. Megan enjoyed it immensely.

"I wish Hagrid had let us do this." Megan told her friends

"Yeah." The others agreed.

"Oh, no…I don't like this…oh, I really don't like this." Hermione muttered

"Whoa." Harry said when they got to the window. "He's there."

Sirius looked up and his jaw dropped. Vega was shocked to see her father like this up close.

"Stand back." Hermione said. "Alohomora!"

The window sprang open.

"How…how…?" Sirius asked.

Vega was shocked again at seeing her father like this.

"Get on…there's not much time." Harry told his godfather. "You've got to get out of here…the dementors are coming…Macnair's gone to get them."

Sirius got on the hippogriff just behind Vega. She turned and looked at her father amazed at what he had gone through. It was nothing like he had described to her. It was worse.

"Okay, Buckbeak, up. Up to the tower…come on" Harry told the hippogriff.

They got up to the West Tower. Harry, Hermione, Colin, Megan, and a reluctant Vega slid off.

"Sirius, you'd better go, quick. They'll reach Flitwick's office any moment, they'll find out you're gone."

"What happened to the other boy? Ron?" Sirius croaked.

"He's going to be okay." Harry assured him. "He's still out of it, but Madam Pomfrey says she'll be able to make him better. Quick…go…"

"How can I ever thank…"

"GO!" both teens shouted.

"We'll see each other again." Sirius vowed. "You are…truly your father's son, Harry."

With that, Sirius and Buckbeak flew off into the night.

Suddenly,

The memory went blank.

TBC

Sparks suddenly came from the cauldron. Then a surge of white steam came out thickly from the cauldron. Suddenly, the dark outline of a tall man rose slowly from the cauldron.

"Robe me." He said.

Pettigrew obeyed. Then the man stepped from the cauldron and stared at Harry.

Colin, Megan, and Vega gasped. They had just seen the resurrection of Lord Voldemort.