A:N/ Thank you all for the reviews. I really appreciate them they only make me want to write more.
Harry potter is not mine this is a story from a fan.
(BCS 2 C21) C51 Fear and misery
Albus Dumbledore walked into the Infirmary. He didn't look to anyone and walk straight over to Harry.
Harry looked sideways at his grandmother and saw how she walked over to intercept him. She had a frown on her face that told him she didn't want him there. But he didn't know why that was.
Albus wanted to walk past Minerva but immediately found Poppy Pomfrey standing in his way. Albus sighed and gave Poppy a look that clearly said. "Poppy I'm your Boss so step aside". But to his amazement it didn't work like it had always done before.
"What are you doing here Albus? I didn't ask you to come now did I?" Was the question Poppy asked him with a little venom in her voice.
Albus looked at Poppy with Surprise clearly written all over his face. "Poppy! I'm here to see how one of my students is doing and if we are honest, Harry is a special person for us all. So I was wondering".
All the things Albus wanted to say didn't matter to Poppy, She just looked at him and didn't look away for a second and just hummed "HHMMMHHHHH".
This was something Albus couldn't tolerate, he didn't like it at all. Normally he had every string in his hand and only had to pull the string he wanted. But as of last year he was losing his grip on the people around him.
"Albus can you explain to me, why it is that you are here now informing of the well being of Lord Potter and not three weeks ago, when Lord Potter had almost died" as Poppy said this she kept looking straight at Albus.
Albus tried to look away but somehow he couldn't do it.
Poppy on the other hand did everything to hold his gaze.
"Poppy I only just heard that Harry has been in St. Holisto all this time" Albus told her in a sad way, hoping that it would be a good answer.
"ALBUS, Lord Potter had to be here at Hogwarts, that was last Monday a week ago when the school restarted, so if you had looked at the class attendants records you would have known it on the first Monday" Poppy snapped at Albus.
"So the way I look at it you could have been here on Monday or Tuesday. But still you dare to tell me that it's only now that you here about Lord Potter". Slowly she shook her head. "Sorry Albus I don't believe you for one tickling curse".
Poppy looked over her shoulder and let her gaze go from Harry to Minerva. When her eyes gazed into those of Minerva she knew enough.
Poppy snapped her head back to Albus. "NO Albus. I'm convinced you knew about my Nephew all along. I'm sorry to say but No. You cannot come in here or be with my patient. I'm almost convinced that you had a part in all of this, if that is so than I will come after you. And now get out of my infirmary" Poppy said while she was pointing her finger at the door.
Albus knew he shouldn't puss his luck with poppy when she had made up her mind. He did the only thing he could do and left the Infirmary with his head hanging down.
Daphne and Bella together with their other friends left a couple of minutes after Albus and left Harry so he could get the rest he needed".
*#*
The next morning Harry was allowed to go to breakfast with his friends. The same friends that had been by his bed side from first light.
While Harry was helped by Bella to his place at the Gryffindor table, Daphne was filling his plate with food. They had both decided to take good care of him for as long as he needed it.
Harry who just didn't know how to deal with all the attention just let it wash all over him and was hoping that it wouldn't take too long.
It was not long after Harry sat down on the Gryffindor table that Draco was standing behind him. "Potter" he sneered. "I'm really sorry that you're still a life. You see me and my father".
"My Father and I you nitwit" Hermione corrected him. As she, Neville and Susan sat down by their friends.
Draco gave her a dirty look and again turned his attention to Harry. "You see my father and I had a bet. I have unfortunately won the bet, you see he said that you would die and I said you wouldn't".
None of the friends however had seen Ron slip in behind them.
Harry, Bella and their other friends only had eyes for Draco. They were all waiting for something to happen. But they also knew that they couldn't say anything about it or they would get punished. It was the story Bella and Daphne had told Harry the evening before.
They had told him about the week they had when he was still in St. Holisto, especially how Snape and Dumbledork had treated them.
With the warning still in his mind Harry turned his back at Draco and shrugged his shoulders.
Ron saw how Harry turned around again and quickly walked away from them all.
Daphne who saw him walking away from the corner of her eye knew that Ron had done something but by looking around she couldn't see what it had been.
Harry who hadn't seen Ron walking away was just happy to be among his friends again. Just sitting among them was the thing he had missed the most. While he was listening to them talking he stretched out his right had and took his goblet full of pumping juice and lifted it to his mouth.
While he pulled the goblet closer he turned his head and looked over to his grandmother and his brand new aunt Pomfrey. He put the goblet to his lips and wanted to take a sip
"I´m sorry Harry, I really am and I can't allow this to happen" sounded the voice of Ginny in his ear. The next thing he felt was something hitting his hand that slapped the goblet from it and onto the table.
The complete content of the goblet spread itself over the table.
Hermione who was very fast immediately summand the pumpkin juice back in to the goblet and looked, just like the others how Ginny ran from the great hall.
Harry wanted to grab the goblet again but Susan was holding him back. She took the goblet from his hand and sniffed at it. "We all have to go to the Infirmary. Neville go get aunt Mini and aunt Poppy, I think they want to know this".
Neville ran to the head table and within a minute he was followed by aunt Poppy and aunt Mini.
In the infirmary Susan handed the goblet to Poppy and asked her to sniff it.
"Miss Bones, How did you know that someone had done something to this goblet" Poppy asked her.
Harry looked questioningly at Poppy.
"I'm very Sorry Harry, But someone has placed a Love potion into this Goblet, and if I'm not mistaken It is keyed to one Ginerva Molly Weasley".
Harry still didn't know what really happened and put his attention to Susan.
Susan first looked at Harry and then she looked at her other friends. "I'm not really sure it was all so strange. First Draco came to where we were sitting. He was talking about a bet he had with his father.
Hermione put him on his number and I think Harry had enough of him and turned around. It was then that some of us saw Ronald walking away.
So generally we all know that we had to watch out for anything. But as they were walking away we still didn't know what they had done.
It was on the moment that Harry took the goblet that Ginny walked up to Harry. I could clearly hear her say Sorry before she slammed the Goblet from his hand.
I don't know what it is but I thing she didn't do it. I think Draco and Ron had done it and she was preventing them from it. My only question would be how they got a hold of her hair or something alike" Susan explained.
Flashback. (BSC 2 C17) C47
With a look of disgust at the sorting hat he left the office and started his way back to his own office. In one of the hallways he came across Draco Malfoy and Ronald Weasley.
Both of them were smiling broadly at him as they dragged a struggling Ginny behind them.
End Flashback
All the friends were nodding at what Susan had said. They all knew how Ginny was behaving all year. From the start of it she had trouble speaking to Harry and when she spoke it was Sorry and then she would run. But it was always a sorry for something they didn't understand.
They also remembered the start of the year when Harry was hit in the back from a curse Ron had thrown at Bella. Just because he thought that she was responsible for Ginny being put into another house. Something he was basically right about.
"I WANT TO KILL, MAIM AND TORTURE".
Again the voice sounded through the castle. Harry immediately said that he wanted to go there.
Poppy held him back and told him that he had to wait. She could see in his eyes that he was determent to go to the spot where he heard the voice but she knew she had to hold him for awhile longer.
It was not long after that that she let Harry go. It was again proving at how close the friends were because they were only one step behind him struggling to get in step with him.
Poppy and Minerva were following the group of friends closely as they ran through the corridors.
In one of the corridors on the fourth floor they saw a bunch of students standing to gather.
Harry who was now standing behind his friends remained in that spot and didn't want to go the front.
It was not long after that that Susan was elected to be the one to go and look what all the mumbling was about.
Harry looked to his side strait to Bella and asked her without a sound if she could see something.
Bella shook her head and without a sound told him he had to wait for Susan to come back.
From within the group of students they could see someone making their way back to them.
Still al little out of breath Susan made her way over to her friends and tried to say something, while she was breathing hard.
Hermione told her that she first had to calm down so she could tell them slowly.
Susan nodded and calmed herself down enough to answer them. "It's Sr. Nicholas. The ghost I don't know how but he too has been petrified and is now floating around aimlessly".
The friends looked at each other in bewilderment.
Even the ghost weren't save anymore, not even from a basilisk.
From out the group of students Draco made his way to the front. "Well Look at this, if it isn't Potter the heir of Slytherin. Potter is back in the castle and there has been another attack. You all wouldn't believe me and now you can all see that I was right". Draco turned his attention to Harry. "Now it will all be different Potter, now they all know that you are the one who is doing it".
Harry first looked at his friends and saw compassion. They all looked worried. They knew that Harry hadn't done it, Not only because he was their friend and because they would believe him no matter what.
Three of them had already made that mistake and didn't want another disagreement with an angry Bella and Daphne. The other reason was that Harry had been with them all morning.
However the looks of all the other students was a completely different story. It was clearly visible that they were all believing the things Draco was telling them.
On the moment Harry felt a hand pressing down on his shoulder and instantly knew that it was the hand from his grandmother.
Harry looked up at her and saw her motioning her head that he had to follow her. He nodded and with heavy feet he walked on behind her and was again followed by all his friends.
From all sides he heard Mumbling. Some were calling his name and whispering about dark wizard and evil doings. One of the loudest voices was that of Ronald Weasley and Draco Malfoy. And it was all directed to him.
Harry himself knew that he had done nothing. His only problem was how to explain it to the others and even the headmaster.
His thoughts didn't help him; it only made him more empty and desperate inside.
Bella and Daphne hurried to his side to give him comfort. They weren't sure if it would help him but they had to do something and then there was the fact they didn't know what else to do.
*#*
The week that followed turned out to be just like the last day before the holiday. Everyone thought that he was the heir and would turn out to be the next dark Lord. The only difference was the now even the professors were thinking he did it.
The only one who believed him were his friends, his grandmother and new aunt Poppy. Without them he wasn't sure he would make it.
At dinner time eight days after the petrification of nearly headless Nick, Lucius Malfoy strode into the great hall like he was the next minister of magic. He was waiving his hand up in the air holding a piece of paper, striding like a peacock all the way to Albus Dumbledore.
Lucius handed Albus the paper and smiled at the group of friends like he knew something they didn't.
Albus was sitting bend over reading the piece of paper very closely.
Bella who was sitting at the Gryffindor table with all her friends was looking closely at what Albus was doing. Something inside told her that something was wrong, very wrong. She could just feel it.
With a look at Daphne she immediately knew that she was feeling the same thing.
Harry gave them a look that told them he was thinking it to. That look alone set off more alarm bells then they would ever know.
Daphne stood up from her seat when she saw the look in Harry's eyes and walked around the table.
With only a few steps to go the doors to the great hall opened again.
Daphne didn't know why but the next thing she saw was her father standing inside the doorway. She immediately walked faster and without a word she sat down on the lap of Harry, and pulled Bella to their side.
It was strange when you looked at the three of them but it also seemed to be the way it was supposed to be.
Daphne held Harry close and Bella stood in front of them like she was the boss of the house.
David was looking very angry as he walked to warts the head table. He didn't even look at the friends when he walked pass them.
Another door at the side of the great hall was opened and Amelia together walked inside and was followed by two Aurors. Her expression was even more furious than the one David was wearing.
Harry stood and pulled Daphne and Bella behind him. He pulled out his wand and stood defensively in front of them.
Why he did it, would be a riddle to him but everything inside him screamed that he had to do it.
Two wands appeared next to him and he saw that Bella and Daphne would be standing beside him if he needed them.
Amelia walked straight at Albus to then pass him to go straight to Minerva.
Amelia bend forward and whispered something in her ear.
The eyes of Minerva became big end glided over to Harry.
With a small shook of her head she told Harry to stay where he was. She then stood and walked over to Amelia.
One of the aurors pulled her hands roughly behind her back and slammed a pair of magic restraining cuffs on her wrists and pushed her for warts.
Amelia saw what the Auror did and told him to go away before Harry had time to come to her. The last thing she wanted to see was seeing Harry attacking one of her aurors. Now it was her who guided Minerva out of the great hall and past the friends.
When they were next to the friends the held still, Minerva looked at her cub and said. "I'm sorry my lord but I can't complete my duties at this point in time. I hope that you can forgive me".
Minerva held her tongue and looked at her cub.
Daphne stood next to Harry and whispered in his ear. "She has to say it Harry she is the head of the house while you are still a minor. So go with it and just listen".
Harry nodded and waited for his grandmother to finish what she was saying.
"My Lord I know that a mother and a squib will always be there for you".
Harry wanted to say something but was held back by Daphne.
"Not now Harry, you have to let Amelia take her. If you do something now it will only backfire on you" Daphne whispered again.
Harry nodded and looked at how his grandmother was taken away.
David who was now standing behind the friends put his hand on the shoulder of his daughter. "Lord Potter" he said. "You better listen to my daughter and your other friends. In one way or another Lucius has convinced the board of governors that your grandmother is the one who is petrifying the students".
David looked at Lucius who was still standing with Albus. He didn't look away but went on. "They are somehow convinced that she is the heir of Salazar".
All the friends wanted to say something but David held up his hand. "I know that she didn't do it but somehow they are all positive and Fudge has ordered that she has to be brought to Azkaban. However Amelia will keep her in a holding cell in the ministry for as long as she can. There is nothing else that Amelia can do at this point without losing her job. So please Lord Potter watch over yourself and your friends". David turned around and walked out of the great hall.
Harry dropped down on the wooden bench, his friends all sat down around him. They didn't understand what had happened but were all devastated as they were left alone.
None of them knew what to do. The only thing the understood was that Minerva was away and they were left to the dogs so to say.
Albus and Snape could do what they wanted and there was no Minerva to help them. Draco and Ronald had a free pass to do whatever they wanted and would be backed up by Snape and Albus in whatever they concocted.
No the only thing they could hope for was that Amelia could keep Minerva away from Azkaban and that they would see her very soon. Although they all doubted that they would be able to.
Lucius was the one who had arranged it so that Minerva was the suspect or as fudge saw it the perpetrator.
Harry again looked at the head table. Lucius was still standing next to Albus and smiled nastily at them. "I thing we will have a bigger problem in Lucius then that we will have in Draco".
The friends all watched him as he kept his eyes on Lucius. As one they turned around and looked at Lucius Malfoy.
Harry was slowly becoming angry again. He understood that Lucius had arranged it all and was the one to blame. From out of nowhere he was grabbed by Bella and Daphne. Together they pulled and pushed him out of the great hall.
"Harry you can't do anything about it now. We have to wait and let Amelia handle it" Bella snapped at him.
"Listen to her Harry we can't do anything" Neville told him as he walked behind them to gather with Susan and Hermione as they were pushing Harry forwards.
Harry nodded and they made their way to the Gryffindor common room.
As they were all in the common room they were just sitting around. Bella wanted to go to Arabella and told her everything.
Daphne was thinking the same thing but instead of Arabella she wanted to go to Isabella.
Together they were now looking at Harry. The only one he could go to was his grandmother and she was the one who was taken away by Amelia.
Together the friends came to the same conclusion. Without Minerva there, Albus was going to make their life's very difficult.
The weeks after the incident did only become worse and worse. Snape had taken his insults to another level and had even spread them between all the friends.
It was during one of those lessons that Harry heard the voice again. Harry didn't say anything and just left the classroom. Everyone followed him to the place he ran to.
To his relieve there was not another petrification. On the other had another petrification would have cleared his grandmother. There was however something else that took their attention. On the wall there was another line written down. A line that would make a big part of the castle look over their shoulder.
THE SECRET CHAMBER WILL RECIEVE HIS ONE AND ONLY VICTIM, A VICTIM OF PURE BLOOD.
Snape wanted to say something to Harry but he couldn't blame him or his friends. They after all were in his classroom when it happened.
Harry and his friends walked back to their common room. The question left on their mind now was who would be the one the basilisk would take into the secret chamber or when for that matter.
They now knew that the monster was a basilisk thanks to Arabella and also how to avoid being killed by the monster, but more than that they didn't know and that was the one thing that scared them.
On one night a couple of days later Bella and Harry were waiting on Daphne and Hermione. They had been in the library all day and were looking for some answers.
Hermione did have one of her brilliant ideas and was now looking for a solution. She didn't know what it was bud needed Daphne to find it.
Neville was repairing one of the brooms and Susan was making another schedule for a Quidditch practise later that week.
It was just before curfew when the portrait of the fat lady was opened.
They all sat up strait and were waiting for Hermione and Daphne to enter.
However it wasn't Hermione or Daphne that entered the common room. No it was Professor Flitwick that entered. With a sad look he walked over to the friends.
Neville immediately became scared and started to breathe heavily.
For a moment even professor Flitwick had to take a breath. "I'm really sorry but I have to tell you all some sad news. There have been two other petrifications this evening".
Harry who immediately understood what Flitwick mend grabbed Neville and Bella by the shoulders.
"I'm very sorry" professor Flitwick went on. "But the two petrifications are Hermione and Daphne".
Harry wanted to go to the infirmary to see them both but was held back by a hand when he walked out into the hallway.
The hand that held him back was the hand from Albus Dumbledore. Who had been waiting outside the common room just in case?
"I'm very sorry Harry" Albus said in his most fatherly way. "But you are not allowed to walk the hallways after curfew. So please go back inside, you don't want me to give you detention or expel you, now do you".
The next thing that happened went very fast. Bella's eyes became very big after the words Albus had spoken. Her hands were cleansed into fists and about to go at Albus with all the fury she had inside her.
Susan saw that Neville was in the same state Bella was in and also how Harry was doing all he could to hold Neville back.
It was also now that she understood that she had to do it to Bella because Harry had his hands full with Neville. It took her some time but finally she got Bella up to the girl's dormitory.
In the girl's dormitory, Bella immediately called for Harry.
Just like all the other times Dora the personal house elf of Minerva popped into the boy's dormitory and popped both Harry and Neville into the girl's dormitory.
"Harry we have to do something. I am positive that the old goat was waiting for one of us just to do that. Just like I know that he will do other things to us now that aunt Mini is away" was what Bella told Harry the moment Dora popped him inside.
Harry could only nod in agreement at what Bella had said. Just like her he knew that there was nothing he could do about it if Albus would try something, especially now that Daphne and Hermione weren't there anymore.
With a little plop Isabella appeared in the middle of the girl's dormitory. She was brought there by Maxi and was just looking around the room.
Almost within a second Arabella appeared next to her at the hand of Mini.
Bella didn't notice it at first but when she saw her mother she got up and ran towards her and hugged her around the middle.
Isabella was still looking around herself but where ever she looked she couldn't see Daphne anywhere.
The feet of Harry became heavy as he walked over to Isabella, just looking sadly at her.
"Harryyy what happened, how come I can't see Daphne anywhere" she asked getting a little frustrated.
Harry let his eyes fall to the floor and mumbled something about Daphne and Professor Flitwick.
"Harry look at me" Isabella said as she pulled Harry's face upwards with her finger under his chin. "What happened Harry, please tell me what happened".
As Harry told her what Flitwick had told them he and Neville were just in time to catch her before she fell to the floor. Together they placed her on the bed of Daphne and sat down next to her.
Slowly everything started to dawn on Isabella and Arabella. And with every thought they were becoming angrier and angrier.
The worst thing was that they themselves also couldn't do anything about it or anything for the two girls for that matter. That was the important thing to them.
Isabella and Arabella stayed until late in the night. They wanted to know everything that had happened and what they could do.
It was at two in the morning that that poppy entered the girl's dormitory. "I was send here by Albus to look if the boys were sleeping in their own beds. He himself didn't dare to come himself so he asked me to do it. And I can see the boys aren't here so it's okay" Poppy said with a smile.
When poppy had entered the room she immediately saw Isabella and Arabella sitting there. When she saw Mini and Maxi she also understood how they had come to Hogwarts.
After a minute or so Poppy found out that they only knew that Daphne and Hermione were petrified. They didn't know how or when. So Poppy took it upon herself to tell them how it had happened.
She told them that Daphne was holding a mirror when they left the Library and that was how they were petrified. Poppy however didn't tell Harry and his friends that Hermione had a stack of papers in her hands when she was petrified.
She wanted to wait until she knew what was in those papers before she would tell Harry and his friends. Something inside her told her that whatever was in those papers it was something Harry shouldn't know.
She did however tell the friends that they had to come to her, first thing in the morning. In that way they could see Daphne and Hermione before Dumbledore would be in the great hall.
The thing that troubled Poppy was that the Mandragoras of Professor Sprout were far from ready they still had months to grow before they were good enough to be harvest. Then and only then would they be able to wake up the ones that were petrified.
An as poppy said it she could clearly see that it only made Harry angrier at Albus, angrier than he had ever been.
Bella was now looking at Harry. It was now that she remembered the one time that she and Daphne were in the mind of Harry. It was that day that she had seen the hole of corruption. It was also now that she remembered that if it would take over than Harry would be the next dark lord.
Isabella immediately understood what Bella was feeling and started to calm Harry down. She hugged him and whispered smoothing words into his ear.
"Mom why is all of this happening to me, why can things never go the way I want to, I don't want to loss Daphne and I will do everything for her" Harry said with a muffled voice into her shoulder.
The promise Harry just made was a priceless one for Isabella. She could feel that Harry mend every word. It was now that Harry would have it very bad when he would see Daphne lying petrified in a bed in the Infirmary.
A:N/ This was it for this week, see you in Two weeks.
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