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Chapter: 121121 double fights
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Filius' POV
The moment they all have been waiting for finally arrived.
After all the duals that has been going around the school, finally, the top 50 duelists, the players with the most points, are about to have the second tournament, where the top four would get the founders' cards.
For almost a month he used duels as a way for the students who didn't listen in class to avoid points loss and detention, and he had to admit, this game is an excellent way to see which of the students did their homework and which just copied from their friends.
Another thing he did was perfecting his deck. While some players only bought strong cards they needed, and others just traded for cool cards, he understood the real need for cards most didn't.
While having a deck full of strong cards is great, the things you really need to become the champion is good combos, you need a way so no matter which cards you have on hand, you can control the field, just like real dueling, or chess.
It was why, even though he didn't have the strongest monster cards, he was still number two in the game, the only one with more points then him was one of his third year students- Susan Bones, but her professor binns was a cheat.
"Hello to our 50 strongest duelists and the spectators, and welcome to our second dueling tournament" one of the Weasley twins said.
"Today, we will make sure who is the cards king!" The other one said
"We had our brightest minds sit together"
"You mean you and me."
"Of course, don't bother me... we had our brightest minds sit together and think about one question- how to make sure it is really the best of the best that win."
"So, like always, when we have a question, we went to ask the one person who was always there for us- mr. Filch."
The laughter was so loud the twins had to stop talking for a few seconds.
"And he came with the greatest proposal, to treat our game as if it was a war."
"So here are the rules."
"Each duelist will get a partner randomly assigned, they would then have to form a tag team where each person's turn is only once every four turns, and only by putting 500 life points worth of energy can they use their partner's cards on the field... and in the end of the game, when there are only two teams left, there would be an all out game."
As Filius heard the rules he couldn't help but being impressed yet also stressed.
While this way of game does create the random feeling of war, where luck can change everything between winning and losing, and you have to think of your teammate as much as yourself, it can cost him the game.
"Now, it is time to choose our teams, the first one is... the 13 team is Professor Flitwick and Susan Bones." Okay, the game is on!
A few hours later
On our two final teams are: team 5- Draco Malfoy and Oliver wood who managed to beat their opponents with the use of the trap card dunderhead's potion which create random affects based on a roll, and team 13- Professor Flitwick and Susan Bones who combined the use of the ghosts monsters miss Bones is known for and the charm cards the Professor use to create a deadly combo.
Now, the free for all battle begins."
Seeing his opponents, Filius knew he has at least one advantage over them, while they have used most of their magical energy it the duels before, either to activate the duels, or to use their partner's cards, he still has held of his energy, which means that while they can't use special abilities like card strengthening, he can, and should finish the duel as quick as possible, if only so that they can't recharge.
Looking at his cards, he knows what to do.
"As your Professor, I will begin. I use the spell card - speed dueling which let me regular summon two monsters this turn instead of one, I summon the librarian of Hogwarts - madam Pince, and mrs Norris, and wherever mrs Norris goes, Argus goes right behind her- i special summon Argus Filch from the deck in attack mode, I put one hidden card and finish my turn."
Then the students each had a turn, where mr. Malfoy learned that madam Pince can stop one magic spell from activating once a turn, and where the students used their turns destroy each other's life points and his monsters, Oliver even managed to take Susan out of the duel by using a field card holy zone that forbid ghost creatures.
"When you destroy a faculty card when Filch is on the field your attacking monster gets detention, and works for me for three turns- come to me acromantula!"
When it was finally his turn he sacrificed his monsters and the giant spider he took from Mr Malfoy before summoning his strongest monster- Filius Flitwick.
He strengthened his attack power to 3500 by feeding it magic before activating the trap card bombarda and taking all of his students out of the game.
"And we have our winner, Professor Flitwick became the first cards king! Now, which card will our professor take?"
"I'm nothing is not a proud Ravenclaw
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Chapter: 122122 Frankenstein progress part 1
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Harry's POV
As the months passed, while the school continued with the card duels, Harry kept his schedule on track.
In his studies of DADA material he finished seventh year, he would have gone beyond it but he couldn't find any book about advance material, no dark arts, no old auror's guides, no spells which needed some sacrifice nor even any mention about souls in any book.
And while he completely understood why there can't be any books about sacrifice nor any book about dark arts, as the ministry forbid it long ago, not having any book about souls? Soul related magic couldn't be all bad, no, it was in the hands of one Albus Dumbledore, the only reason why.
Another thing that improved was his transfigurations, he was now in seventh year's transfigurations both in control and in practice.
The second half of the sixth year material was about transfiguring unimportant body parts of human body, transfiguring his feet to either stone or metal, and then to animal parts like making claws and in the end to plants.
The seventh year is about about transfiguring important body parts, lungs, heart, head etc...
The problem was that changing your body parts was dangerous, as getting metal poisoning by transfiguring your feet and the blood in it to metal was a terrible way to die and while he managed to get around that by using dead bodies he 'borrowed' from closed caskets, it did make him feel guilty.
Yet that brings him to the third thing he improved on.
As he already stole bodies, he decided to use them for good, for science.
Which meant he started once again learning medicine, leaving behind Quantum mechanics and engineering for now, and started doing surgeries on the corpses he acquired while on history and divination he read about it, managing to reach fifth year out of seven on his way to become a full fledge doctor, which helped speed along his transfiguration.
Another thing him getting bodies helped in was rituals.
As per the agreement he had with the Greengrass family, he got every ritual book the family managed to get their hands on, and after scanning the books into Gai and having it read it to him while he went through his physical and magical workouts to keep in shape, Harry got theoretical understanding about rituals.
Rituals, in their essence, are a combination of runes and heavy magic.
As the books explain it, there are two kinds of magic, light and heavy.
Light magic is the regular magic, magical people do each day, it is the charms and transfigurations they teach us in school.
Heavy magic is the one they call dark, a mistake that came from the people who only used light magic- not light as in brightness, but light as in non-heavy.
Heavy magic is magic that take a lot of magic or need something to be sacrificed to succeed. It is potions, dark arts and rituals.
While light magic takes only your magic to work and once you don't have enough it stops, heavy magic takes any payment as possible, magic, ingridiants, emotions, and even parts of your soul.
It can be considered as beginner's and advanced magic.
Beginner's magic is based on taking the material that is in it's original state and use it, like using coal to make fire.
Advanced magic is like processing coal into diamonds. It loses most of it's properties, yet gain unique hardness, but to do so you need pressure, the extra ingridiants, emotions or other stuff are that needed pressure.
Which creates the problem with most of the heavy magic- it needs tons of preparations, and specific ingredients.
In fact, there is only one heavy magic that don't need preparation and it's because it, is a preparation- the killing curse.
A curse of which the true purpose of is to break the caster's soul and the killing is only a side affect of the discharge, which is why only one person is known to use it regularly in fights, the one who doesn't care about his soul fragility, and the tears it cause to cast this curse even without the other preparation needed for a full horcrux, which is why a fake Horcrux was created in either Harry or Marcus.
So, after realizing what rituals are, and having no book about 'the dark arts', Harry decided that for him to study rituals he needed to see the effects they have on the human body, and started to use the bodies who were already transfigure and untransfigured, which were opened and closed with surgery cuts all over them, for basic rituals.
He started by using a ritual that controls the level of melanin in a person's eyes, therefore granting the dead bodies different eye colors, he then moved to hair color and skin color before moving to more advanced stuff.
His biggest problem were the inability to know how it might affect a person's psych, and the lack of resources, as each ritual needed references, so if he wanted green eyes he needed a person's green eyes in a ritual. but it helped him know in knowing one thing, some materials can be exchanged with knowledge. By putting runes that explain the melanin level needed, the need for green eyes was lost, instead he needed more magic, for which he had to be thankful for the card duels that made sure he has more then enough.
His repeat use of rituals made his runes expertise grow.
while he still can't curve them good enough, only doing so in class, otherwise he used Gai to do it for him, he started understanding the relationship between the faith rune has power and the fact it does.
Runes never were, nor ever would be magically connected, it was always about intent and knowledge.
By thinking, no, by knowing runes are magical they become magical to you, just like how by believing saying a spell make it work, make it work.
The knowledge something is true make it so with magic.
Yet that raised the question, was following science in doing magic is the right way? Could it be that all his warm confirming to the rules of science just made his magic smaller, weaker then it could be?
To answer this question Harry broke one of his rules, he created a new personality in his mind, one that doesn't know science
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Chapter: 123123 personalities and belief progress part 2
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Harry's POV
Creating a second personality is one of the most terrifying things a person can do to themselves, as not only whoever did it went insane, but there is always the risk the new personality would take control, as it would gain its own emotions and won't want to die, which, in case it succeed would mean the original personality death.
Harry new very well about that as the first time he created another personality the only reason he managed to 'destroy' the second personality is because it was young and they merged, which led to him acquiring a normal's persons level of EQ.
This time, Harry was unwilling to even consider let the second personality to grow, preferring to destroy it and creating new ones once a month if it must, thinking he would find out his worries about science wrong and that magic is a not yet understood science that follows the rules of the universe, and as merging a personality with someone whose entire disposition is that magic is miracle would destroy his entire personality, he wouldn't let this personality in.
On the other hand, if he finds out it is real, that he was mistaken until now, he might have to consider splitting his needed memories, his core ones, and planting them in a new personality with its disposition toward magic is belief before destroying the original personality, himself.
He truly hoped he didn't have to, but he won't be able to live with himself with the idea that his magic is limited because of small mindedness.
From now on he would live every day twice, one as Harry, when he would continue his studies, and once as DJ, his new personality, when he would stay in the chamber of secrets and study magic without any knowledge about science or magic itself, not including magical energy control.
As he used his Occlumency to program DJ's mind, he won't be aware of Harry, nor about the out side world, the only thing that would be on his mind are his tasks, which Harry would put every day in his mind, and the way to do them- trough the power of belief.
One month later
Harry's POV
Controlling a desperate conscience is extremely troublesome, for the last month Harry had to prevent eight accidents where the second personality would develop more then it wanted it to, five of them were because of the two soul shreds he had in his mind that seemed, while weak, able to influence pure minds.
The other three were because of one thing Harry hadn't considered before starting the experiment, the need to create.
Throughout history, and whether it's magical didn't matter, the reason ideas were made was because of need, they were cold- created fire, hungry- created food, bored- created games, every creation was driven by need, and by having no need, Harry made sure DJ had no idea what to create, so it could only play with the magic It has, which led to the second personality's first discovery, lumos is in fact pure magic.
While not the biggest revelation, and something a lot of people speculated about, being able to see the inner mind of someone with no knowledge with the exception about how to control its magic bring pure magic to the surface was fascinating, especially, as it brought out another revelation - magical energy goes through both the circulatory system and the nervous system.
When you have to control your magic, control your intent, and think about the knowledge needed to create magic, you can't focus about the path in which the magic goes in your body, especially with its speed and that he didn't know where to begin, and while he still don't, since he had his focus freed, he managed to understand how it comes to your hands.
Anyway, once Harry understood he can't expect the personality to have ideas of its own he started putting concepts in its mind, and the results were interesting.
While physical things like the creation of fire and water, transfigurations and charms worked, they demanded more energy, making the speculation that magic can be used without knowledge yet it need more power correct, it is only when it came to the magic that demanded and needed belief like runes that something changed, runes, or the paintings he created as runes, worked perfectly, able to perform whatever DJ wanted them to do, and not only that, but with less energy then Harry could do with proved runes, confirming the thought that belief does have impact on the performance of magic, making Harry even more confused than before he started the experiment.
Is it belief or knowledge that magic use to work? Is it science or miracles?
As Harry hasn't managed to find the answer he destroyed the second personality, promising himself to keep thinking of solutions to his problems.
Meanwhile he did the experiment, his other studies progressed.
His medicine was nearing the sixth year material, in transfiguration he finally managed to change a part of body without destroying it and his rituals were progressing to more and more advance stuff, yet there were four things he was the most proud of.
1) his control- as he learned how magic moves inside the body, Harry has taken on himself to make sure he can use magic from every part of his body as good as he can do it from the hands, right now he can already use his right leg to cast as good and started working on his left.
2) blacksmithing- after Halloween when he started working on true blacksmithing he finally understood the difference between goblins' artifacts and regular artifacts, while regular artifacts need you to actively put your magic in it, the goblins' artifacts do it passively, meaning that by holding the artifact your magic is automatically being drown in and activates the magical properties of the artifact, making it possible to use it while using your own magic at the same time.
Right now he can only put small meaning into the metal and only to one the side of a bracelet.
3) potions- after six months of erratic hours, Harry managed to help professor Snape to create the Felix Felicis, and while he hasn't done much, only stirring it when needed, and once adding a sprig of Lavender when needed, the exposure to the making of this potion made Harry's understanding of potions raise to a level where he felt he can create a fifth year potion with only knowing its name and affects, without stirring it ones.
4) brooms- after the second tournament, when the need of creating new cards and duel disks was put onto Gai, who can use the magic stored in the magical energy container to create them, Harry, Luna and the twins moved on to a new project- creating their own brooms.
With a few stolen school brooms, Harry's firebolt, and the book called 'basic enchant your own broom' Harry bought with his father, they started their creations (He might have cried a little when he opened it for the first time and saw his father's notes of cool ideas and stuff that can be better by using technology.) by the time the end of the year test was near they had a basic prototype of the broom they wanted to create.
Harry felt it was an extremely productive year, with the only true down side was that he had to see the Potters everyday
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Chapter: 124124 the making of a map 2.0
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Harry's POV
Time kept flying by, as it usually does whenever you have fan, and even with all the experiments Harry did, he had fun alright.
And now even the end of the year exams have ended, and with tonight being a full moon, he knew it's the night when the Marauder's confrontation, and he wanted a front sit.
The one problem he had is that Lupin didn't have the map, nor was he willing to give something that can be used against him to anyone, which was why, after conversing with the twins and getting their notes in the map he created his own, before burning the map, leaving only the Whomping Willow and the Shrieking Shack.
The map in fact isn't that hard to create, but understanding of its reason of operation is a harder thing to do.
Based on his understanding it works on the basis of energy radiation, like most energies, magical leaves traces, and magical people leave traces that are specific to them, and by connecting a specific name to a radiation you can follow them, it was what the ministry of magic does, but they connect the trace to a wand, and the wand to a person, which is why you can do wandless magic without getting caught during the summer.
The reason the map can trace people around even without the wands and show the names of the people is because of the Hogwarts' magical quill.
The quill, which can detect every magical child's birth in Britain and know their names and location, and while he has no idea how it works, by using a simple spell, it is possible to use its detection ability to create the map.
The only reason no one has created a map for all around Britain is because the quill can't show as much precision on the country's scale, sure it can only show where people spend most of their time and do magic, not where they are currently, but for the castle? No problem.
It took him two days of going around the castle at night invisible, taking photos anywhere, with the exception of the professors and headmaster's offices, before giving them to Gai for it to create the Marauder's Map 2.0 on it, digitized, then it took another night to get to the quill and use a combination of the Protean charm and the point me charm between the map and the quill and use on the map the Homenum Revelio charm in runes to make the map to show the people.
Harry could have made the map just like the original one, only with better map, yet, he decided to take it a step farther, by keeping the map inside Gai, and making an earring connected to Gai by another Protean charm, he created an alarm system in Hogwarts to which he is connected without the need to look, and as the connection is going both ways he can not only ask Gai to search for specific person, but as long as he has an idea for Gai to do, he can say it immediately, not to mention that as the charm has no distance problems, as long as you feed it enough magic, it meant he has Gai with him anywhere he want.
Of course when he explain the twins why he has an earring they wanted one each so they all can talk during the summer vacation, and then Luna wanted one also, which was why Harry now had two earrings, and why the twins were terrified to go home, as they remembered about their mother.
Anyway, it took him a week of preparation to be ready for this, and now he goes to face the one he avoided the entire year- Remus Lupin.
Remus' POV
Remus had a pretty good year.
He had his two friends and their son near him all the time, he managed to keep the job for the entire year without anyone realizing he's a werewolf, and even had wolfsbane delivered to him.
The only thing he didn't manage to get a chance to do is have a meaningful conversation with the one person he wanted the most- Harry.
Harry was such a unique boy, he was quite in class, never raising his hand to answer the questions asked, yet answers correctly whenever called upon, he has no friends in school except for one a year below him, and while he seems to be the number one in the theoretical part of every class, his classmates doesn't seem to really notice him.
He hoped Harry would want extra lessons, as his practicals left much to be desired, yet the boy didn't, he waited for him do something he could give him detention for, yet with the exception of one event at Christmas, as far as Remus can tell at least, the boy was like the perfect student.
In the end, Remus gave up and waited for the boy to approach him, and it seems the wait was finally over, even if he is a bit sad it took till the end of the year.
"Hello mr Peverel, what can I do for you?" He wanted to call him Harry, yet he knew from Christmas he can't force this.
"Hey Professor Lupin, can I ask you a question?"
"If it's about your grade than..."
"Not at all, it's about something else." Harry interrupted him
"Sure, but only if I can ask you one myself." It was his opening with Harry and he won't lose it
"Very well, I found a few weeks ago a piece of what seemed to be a magical map belonging to one wormtail, after asking professor Snape about it he said it was a nickname your friend had, who is he? I want to return it to him."
Remus felt shock, the map he and James were searching for the entire year as a way to catch Black was found by Harry?
"Can I see it? If I'm not mistaken it is one I did with my three friends."
The boy looked conflicted before taking a piece of paper out of his pants, making Remus heart sink.
The piece, small enough to show only the grounds or the last floor of the castle, won't be nearly enough of help catching Black.
Yet, with nostalgia, Remus took his wand out, put it on the paper, and said the words "I solemnly swear I'm up to no good." If it was the full map you would have been able to see the names of the four friends on it, yet this piece only showed Wormtail, and even the W was chipped.
Seeing the name disappear and the map activates, Remus took one look to understand which place was seen, the place he used to spend every month in as a werewolf - the Shrieking Shack, yet what terrified him was finding out that three people were inside, Sirius Black, Ron Weasley and Peter Pettigrew.
All thoughts left his mind.
He no longer thought of Harry, and what question to ask him.
No longer thought about what job should he search for next year.
He ever forgot about this being a full moon.
Only one thing was on his mind- Sirius, Peter.
The names were swirling in side his mine as he knew there must be an explanation for why Peter is still alive, and if he is, why did Sirius went to jail for?
Saying a quick goodbye, Remus ran as fast as he could out side, hoping he would get an answer before something irreversible would happen, barley remembering to cast patronus with a massage for James, it is time for a Marauder reunion.
Harry's POV
Watching Lupin running for the Shrieking Shack, Harry almost felt guilty as he casted a confudus charm on the man as he ran together with him, only with a notice me not charm casted on him.
"You found the map, no one gave it to you, nor did anyone met you at your office.
Yes, he almost felt guilty
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Chapter: 125125 the four Marauders
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James' POV
James has a headache.
No, he wasn't sick, and he didn't have an hangover.
The reason he has a headache is this letter from Gringotts.
Getting a letter from Gringottsis never good, they aren't like muggle bankers, as Lily loves telling him.
Gringotts don't care for their clients, they don't give monthly information on the state of your gold, nor do they give financial advice.
They keep your gold, and that's it.
The only reason they would ever send you a letter, is if your gold has lessen or grown considerably.
And his didn't grow.
The letter, which he read more then a few times, went like that:
'Dear mr. Potter,
Your gold has decreased pass the minimum requirement for our deep end vaults, there for has been moved to one of our upper vaults.
Your new vault is 1268.
Pleasure to do business with you.
Gringotts'
He couldn't wrap his head around it, how could this happen?
The Potter family was always wealthy, and even if the past two wars had drained the wealth considerably, the defeat of Voldemort by Marcus hand gave it all back, and more.
People all around the country sent them gifts, dying people with no descendants gave them their wealth, they grew in wealth to the point they were as rich as the Malfoy were!
And yes, they might have threw around their money, getting the best of everything, but they deserved it!
Not to mention that with his job as an auror, he should have covered most of their expenses, and Lily's current job also pays nicely, making it even less reasonable for them to be in this situation.
Something is wrong, something isn't right, he needs to go to Gringotts as soon as possible.
Just as he was about to get out from his and Lily's room, planning to get out of Hogwarts before appariting, Remus' patronus came to him.
"James, I found a part of the map," Remus' voice came out of the wolf. "Sirius is in the Shrieking Shack with Marcus' friend, and Wormtail, I don't know how, but he is alive, come quickly!"
The patronus disappeared, leaving the room alone with only James in a shocked state for a second, before he started to run as quick as possible, forgetting about his money for the time being.
Harry's POV
As he requested, Gai kept him updated on all of the player's movements.
It told him about the entry of Marcus and his friends under the Whomping Willow to save Ron, it told him about Dumbledore not leaving his office, about Professor Snape going near Lupin's office, and about James Potter sprinting toward their location.
Reaching to the Shrieking Shack together with Lupin, he could hear Sirius say "You've got to listen to me," Harry could almost smell the urgency in his voice now. "You'll regret it if you don't... You don't understand..."
"I understand a lot better than you think," Harry recognized this voice as Marcus, whose voice shook more than ever. "You never saw my father on July 23, the day his parents took you home, never saw his face full of tears as he thinks of his brother in all but blood, who betrayed him.
You never saw him on November 3, when he cry and drink himself to sleep as he keeps telling me stories about Wormtail, my godfather, who you killed.
You haven't seen my mother, every Halloween, trying as hard as she can to understand how I survived, you haven't heard her talking about friends, how uncomfortable she feels around people who aren't family, and all of this is because you betrayed them."
Harry almost laughed, it seemed this day is full of information, not only about their suffering, something that made him extremely happy, but also the fact that no one knows how they managed to survive the killing curse, as it was something that worried him, as it couldn't be like the original, where the reason for survival is the sacrifice of Lily, and made him add another project to his list.
Although Harry stopped to listen, Lupin didn't, yet the screaming of Marcus managed to prevent the souls of his run from being heard, which is why when the door was opened so quickly and an Expelliarmus was shouted, it managed to scare everybody, except Harry who seconds before had Gai telling him Lupin was about to enter.
Deciding it was the best time to enter, Harry summoned a stick, and went inside, managing to listen to the conversation.
"Where is he, Sirius?" The silence was prominent
"But then..." Lupin muttered, "why hasn't he shown himself before now? Unless... unless he was the one... unless you switched... memory charms... without telling me?"
By the time Lupin understood Harry arrived to the Shrieking Shack, feeling sorry he has no popcorn as he watch the story rolling.
"Uncle Moony," Marcus interrupted loudly, "what's going on?"
As the two friends watched each other intensely for a second before Lupin lowered his wand, Harry felt like they are about to kiss, yet instead, Lupin just pulled Sirius up in to a hug, making Granger scream.
"I DON'T BELIEVE IT! You... you..."
"Hermione..."
"...you and him!"
"Hermione, calm down..."
Hermione shrieked. "I've been covering up for you..."
"Hermione, listen to me, please'" Lupin shouted. "I can explain..."
"HOW COULD YOU? My father and mother cared for you! I cared for you! Why would you do it? Why betray us? Is it just because you are a werewolf?"
The hurt look on Lupin's face was entertaining enough to watch, as the racist comment seemed to stab him in the heart.
The knowledge of Lupin's disease seemed to take everyone by surprise with the exception of Hermione and Sirius, making Neville back away and Ron trying to, only to whimper of pain. Lupin made toward him, looking concerned, yet before he had a chance, James Potter jumped through the open door with his wand up.
"Get away from him Moony, or I will hurt you."
"Dad!"
"James, you don't understand, he is innocent."
"Don't tell me he is innocent! He betrayed us to Voldemort, he killed Wormtail!"
"No, he didn't, Wormtail is alive, haven't you heard the patronus?"
"I...I might have blanked out midway... but he still betrayed us to Voldemort! He was our secret keeper!"
"No i wasn't!" For the first time since Lupin came in Sirius talked. "We switched, you said it was the best prank ever, someone must have memory charmed you!"
"But..." not having any way to refute, Potter senior said "Wormtail, where is he?" The two friends pointed at the same person- Ron Weasley
"Take out the rat." Sirius said coldly.
"What?" said Ron. "What's Scabbers got to do with it?"
"Everything," said Lupin. "Could we see him, please?"
Ron hesitated, looked toward James Potter who nodded, then put a hand inside his robes. Scabbers emerged, thrashing desperately; Ron had to seize his long bald tail to stop him escaping.
"Shit, shit shit shit, the missing bloody toe!" James started to curse as he noticed the rat's looks.
"What?" Ron said again, holding Scabbers close to him, looking scared, now from auror too. "What's my rat got to do with anything?"
"That's not a rat," croaked Sirius Black suddenly.
"What d'you mean -- of course he's a rat --"
"No, he's not," said Lupin quietly. "He's a wizard."
"An Animagus," said Black, "by the name of Peter Pettigrew."
Harry had to admit, for two people who hasn't met in a long time they can complete each other's sentences almost as good as the twins.
"You're both mental." Ron yelled
"Ridiculous!" said Hermione faintly.
"Peter Pettigrew's dead!" said Marcus. "He killed him twelve years ago!" He pointed at Black, whose face twitched convulsively.
"I meant to," he growled, his yellow teeth bared, "but little Peter got the better of me... not this time, though!"
And Crookshanks was thrown to the floor as Sirius lunged at Scabbers; Ron yelled with pain as Sirius's weight fell on his broken leg.
"Sirius, NO!" Lupin yelled, launching himself forwards and dragging Sirius away from Ron again, "WAIT! You can't do it just like that... they need to understand... we've got to explain... James need answers!"
The last one calmed Sirius down "All right, then," he said, without taking his eyes off the rat.
"Make him appear, show the proof they need. But make it quick, Remus. I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for..."
"I will do it quickly."
A flash of blue-white light erupted from his wands; for a moment, the rat was frozen in midair, his small gray form twisting madly -- Ron yelled, the rat fell and hit the floor. There was another blinding flash of light and then, as Harry has seen once already, the rat has changed shape into a man, Peter, the one person in this place who would do what he think is right and not what's easy, even if it means betraying his friends.
He looked around at them all, his breathing fast and shallow, Harry saw his eyes dart to the door and back again, searching for an escape as he knew he has a job to do.
"Well, hello, Peter," said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. "Long time, no see.
"S -- Sirius... R -- Remus...James" Even Pettigrew's voice was squeaky, as he kept maintaining his act, if Harry hadn't questioned him already, he would believe the man. Again, his eyes darted toward the door. "My friends... my old friends..."
Sirius's wand arm rose, but Lupin seized him around the wrist, gave him a warning took, then turned again to Pettigrew, his voice light and casual.
"We've been having a little chat, Peter, about what happened the night you 'died'. Would you mind explaining us how you didn't?"
"Remus," gasped Pettigrew, and Harry could see beads of sweat breaking out over his pasty face, making him impressed, how good of an actor can one be? "you don't believe him, do you...? He tried to kill me, James..."
"So we've heard," said James coldly. "I'd like to clear up one or two little matters with you, Peter, if you'll be so..."
"He's come to try and kill me again!" Pettigrew squeaked suddenly, pointing at Sirius and seeing James indifferent eyes, making his decision to whom to talk to easier. "He tried to kill Lily and James, tried to kill the twins, tried to kill me, and now he's going to try again... You've got to help me, Remus..."
"No one's going to try and kill you until we've sorted a few things out," said Lupin.
"Sorted things out?" squealed Pettigrew, looking wildly about him once more, eyes taking in the boarded windows and, again' the only door. "I knew he'd come after me! I knew he'd be back for me! I've been waiting for this for twelve years!" Harry felt like Peter wasn't really trying to convince anyone, only to buy time, something he didn't really need to do as according to Gai, Professor Snape has arrived.
"You knew Sirius was going to break out of Azkaban?" said Lupin, his brow furrowed. "When nobody has ever done it before?"
"He's got dark powers the rest of us can only dream of!" Pettigrew shouted shrilly. "How else did he get out of there? I suppose He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named taught him a few tricks!"
Before anyone could say something else three Expelliarmuses were shot from an empty spot, where Professor Snape appeared from a second later.
The potions Professor was was slightly breathless, but his face was full of suppressed triumph. "You're wondering, perhaps, how I knew you were here?" he said, his eyes glittering. "I've just been to your office, Lupin. You forgot to take your potion tonight, so I took a gobletful along. And very lucky I did... lucky for me, I mean. Lying on your desk was a certain map. One glance at it told me all I needed to know. I saw you running along this passageway and out of sight."
"Severus..." Lupin began, but Snape overrode him.
"I've told the headmaster again and again that you two are helping your old friend Black into the castle, Lupin and Potter, and here's the proof. Not even I dreamed you would have the nerve to use this old place as your hideout."
"Snape, you're making a mistake," said James urgently. "You haven't heard everything, Sirius is not here to kill Harry..."
"Oh, I heard enough, he is here to kill Pettigrew, who, according to black, is the true betrayer, don't worry, I will get everything straight, justice would be served," The look of hope on all of the Marauders' fave was hilarious, especially as Harry could almost taste how Professor Snape was going to continue his sentence. "Pettigrew would go to Azkaban, and Black would get his kiss."
What little color there was in Sirius' face left it.
"But... but I didn't do anything!"
"Didn't you? At the very least you tried to turn me into a werewolf, not to mention kill me."
The fire of hate the man had for this person felt as great as the hate Harry felt for the Potters.
"I call upon your life debt," James said, "leave this place for tonight."
It felt as if someone just cursed the man, not as if he was actually cursed to do as asked, there was no magic in this debt, yet Harry could see that the honor of the potion Professor demanded he would listen.
"Fine, I would clean this debt to you!" He tossed the captured wands toward their owners and with a swirl of his robes the Professor left, not before taking a glance toward where Harry was and smirking.
"Let's continue, would you mind mind tell us, Peter, why have you made all of us think you are dead? Even if he was taught tricks, why would he come after you? Why won't he go after James? Lily? Marcus? Why you? Why would an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat?"
"Innocent, but scared!" squealed Pettigrew. "If Voldemort's supporters were after me, it was because I put one of their best men in Azkaban... the spy, Sirius Black!"
"How dare you," Sirius growled, sounding suddenly like the bearsized dog he had been. "I, a spy for Voldemort? When did I ever sneak around people who were stronger and more powerful than myself? But you, Peter... I'll never understand why I didn't see you were the spy from the start. You always liked big friends who'd look after you, didn't you? It used to be us... me, Remus and James."
Peter wiped his face again; he was almost panting for breath.
"Me, a spy... must be out of your mind... never... even James can tell you were the secret keeper!"
" I supposed to be, Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it," Sirius hissed, so venomously that the rat animagus took a step backward. "I thought it was the perfect plan... a bluff... Voldemort would be sure to come after me, would never dream they'd use a weak, talentless thing like you... It must have been the finest moment of your miserable life, telling Voldemort you could hand him the Potters."
"Mr. Potter, Professor Lupin?" said Granger timidly. "Can - can I say something?"
"Certainly, Hermione," said Lupin courteously.
"Well... Scabbers... I mean, this- this man, he's been sleeping in Marcus' dormitory for three years. If he's working for You-Know-Who, how come he never tried to hurt Harry before now?"
"There!" said Pettigrew shrilly, pointing at Ron with his maimed hand. "Thank you! You see, Remus? I have never hurt a hair of marcus' head! Why should I?"
"I'll tell you why," said Sirius. "Because you never did anything for anyone unless you could see what was in it for you. Voldemort's been in hiding for fifteen years, they say he's half dead. You weren't about to commit murder right under Albus Dumbledore's nose, for a wreck of a wizard who'd lost all of his power, were you? You'd want to be quite sure he was the biggest bully in the playground before you went back to him, wouldn't you? Why else did you find a wizard family to take you in? Keeping an ear out for news, weren't YOU, Peter? Just in case your old protector regained strength, and it was safe to rejoin him..."
As the conversation continued, Sirius telling all of them if the escape, Harry made his way to the exit as he finally understood why he couldn't shake the feeling that Pettigrew was making sure to keep this conversation as long as possible, planning his escape.
He was waiting for Lupin's transformation, planning to escape just as he did in the books, and Harry needed to prepare to it.
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Sneaking back outside was a lot harder then sneaking in, as not only was James Potter standing near the door, but it was also closed, as to prevent Peter from escaping.
Luckily, Harry had two cheats.
Silencing everything near him as long as it wasn't near the eight people, Harry took out his invisibility cloak, and made sure it is covering everything it could before saying one word- "Dobby." No matter what you say, Harry would have told you Dobby is the best house elf he could ever ask for.
It wasn't just the way he screamed everything or how he was always happy to do whatever he was asked to do, no that was like every elf.
It was the fact that he liked to learn new things.
You see, most house elves Harry met (in the kitchen) were a lot like pure bloods, not in the way of looking down on people with 'lesser' blood, though if you hear them talk about free elves you would feel the disdain, but in the way of traditions. 'It always was like that - it will always be like that.' Harry didn't know how many times he heard an elf say something like that whenever he tried to understand their traditions or magic, usually magic.
Dobby though, Dobby was like a sponge full of excitement, eager to learn new things, someone who was pretty close in character to Harry, and as, with the exception of his 6 meals a day (sometimes even more) and cleaning the apartment every few days, Dobby didn't have much to do.
So Harry asked the little guy to learn, rest and have fun, something the boy did by buying books, or more specifically, comic books.
The elf became enchanted with superheroes, villains, and more then all, ninjas.
All of this reflected on the elf, if in the books the elf was obsessed with socks, wearing them all over his body in every color and a big smile on his head, now he was only wearing black, and even his head is covered in a cloth, and, while he won't tell anyone, he kind of promised the elf a sword and shurikens.
The only thing that stayed the same, is his loud personality, the elf just didn't understand the need for quiet, which is why Harry made sure to always put silencing charm when he summons Dobby.
pop*
"Harry summoned Dobby, how can Dobby help?"
"Hey Dobby, I need you to bring me the KW case from the apartment, and then take me out of here."
Waiting or a few seconds, Harry continued to watch as the four friends continued their conversation/argument.
"How could you, Peter? I thought of you as brother, I made you a godfather of my son!"
"He was too strong, he forced me! You have never felt his power!" The tears seemed to be so genuine that Harry couldn't help but wonder whether the rat animagus was talking about Voldemort or Dumbledore.
Dobby returned with another *pop*
"I found it Harry, your KW case, where do you want to go to?"
"Just outside." Harry said as he put the invisibility cloak around them while making sure the notice me not charm is on.
Taking Harry's hand, Dobby *popped* to near the Shrieking Shack, before *popping* away.
"Take off your invisibility before I stun you."
A wand was touching his back, with the voice of his potions' Professor near his ear.
Cursing under his breath for not preparing for the possibility of the Professor being outside, ready to catch everyone, Harry slowly took his invisibility cloak off.
"So mr. Peverel, would you mind telling me what you're doing here after curfew?"
Deciding it wasn't the best time to joke around, Harry swallowed the comment 'I won't say any thing without my lawyer', instead he said his previously prepared excuse. "well, when you see your Professor create a patronus saying a fugitive and a dead person are at the same place you can only do one thing- follow him without his notice and find out more, but, Professor, how did you find me?"
Harry knew the Professor knew he was inside the shack as he had the piece of the map near him, and even without it, the notice me not and invisibility charm he had on himself isn't something hard to notice if you pay attention, but how did he manage to notice him with the cloak?
"The noise you did reveal your location, which bring me to the second question - where did you learn apparition, and more importantly, how can you do it in Hogwarts?"
Swearing in his heart to never again use apparition to a not secure location, Harry decided to change the subject as quick as possible.
"A trade secret, but never mind that, we have to escape! Professor Lupin is a werewolf who and he hadn't drink his daily dose of wolfsbane."
Professor Snape became as white as death, cursing under his breath about stupid old goats and idiotic werewolves, before starting to run away, dragging Harry with him.
As they neared the castle they managed to hear an howl.
"Go straight to your room, and don't you dare come out." The Professor said before running in the direction of the headmaster's office.
Harry didn't go to his room, he went to the one person he could trust to give him everything he needs, even alibi, the one who needed him to do what he's about to do even more then he did.
He went to Daphne.
Daphne's POV
Harry coming for a favor isn't something that happen everyday.
In fact, it has never happened before, even after they came to their agreement in Christmas for their family to help him as much as he needed, which is weird, when someone gives you unlimited wishes, who on his right mind not agree to it?
But that was Harry, never doing as expected.
And of course, when he finally ask for something, it would be a simple request, that any friends would do for each other.
"Will you duel me? I need my mind to calm dawn for a few hours."
Thus began the five games between Harry and Daphne, in which she won all of them, and it wasn't because she was good, but, as far as she can tell, it was the first games he has ever played.
It was like, while he knew the rules, and had better understanding of cards then she had, yet his combinations were non-existence, full of holes, and overall, bloody sucked.
Seeing the person who always seemed all knowing in that situation made her smile and laugh so much her jaw hurt.
Which was probably why he kicked her out of the room.
Smiling as she went back to the common room, she couldn't help but wonder- 'what did he need distraction from?'
Harry's POV
He could have asked Daphne to just give him alibi and get ready for his self imposed mission, but he truly didn't want this past hour and a half to be used to complement what he's about to do.
He can say it is for Astoria, that it is her only chance, that he won't have another chance, that the man deserves it.
It would all be lies
Sure, Astoria would benefit from this action, but he doesn't really care for her, this action wasn't her only chance, he can keep researching the self transfiguration methods. Even if he doesn't, there are others, more deserving ones- Greyback for example.
No, Harry can lie to the whole world, but not to himself, doing so would land him in the same position as Dumbledore.
Harry is doing it for one reason, and one reason only- he does it because this is war.
Not the war of light vs Dark, nor the war of pure bloods vs muggleborns.
This is a war of vengeance, where only one side can survive, and Harry would make sure it is his side, no matter what.
This is the true reason why he is about to kill Remus Lupin
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As Harry held his KW case in one hand and turned the time turner's hourglass with the other, he kept reminding himself why he does it.
Lupin was innocent, that was something he knew from his classes, as while he doesn't talk about it much, whenever the man talks about the way a man should behave, talks about right and wrong, about morals, the man has a passion in his eyes you can't fake.
A man like that can't know about cold blooded killing and be fine with it.
Remus Lupin was innocent, and the only reason he's about to disappear from this world is his loyalty and chooses of friends.
As he stopped turning the time turner he appeared in his room at the time he walked out of the Shrieking Shack, about the time when Professor Snape caught him.
Putting the invisibility cloak on him, Harry silenced his legs and walked out of his room, making sure no one notice him.
Getting out of the castle and into the forbidden forest was extremely easy, making Harry wander why none of the headmasters since the start of school has never put any ward to stop anyone from coming in.
The howl he heard before he came back in time told him he needed to move northwest, and five minutes to his run he saw them.
Lupin was at the back, holding Pettigrew as a prisoner with a manacles on him, and two of the Gryffindor students close to him- Granger and Neville as they talked to Lupin about something, looking like they were trying to ignore the fight the other people were in.
Up front the other two Gryffindor students were, Ronald Weasley being floated as he seemed to be crying about his leg and Marcus who was listening to the fight the two Marauders were having.
"But why? I understand you being angry with him going to Slytherin and kicking him out of the house, not saying it was the right thing to do, but I understand. But leaving him as a baby? How could you do it?"
"I didn't have a choice, ok? Both Lily and the headmaster told me it's the right thing to do, that letting him grow in the shadow of his famous twin would cause hate to grow in him, that we need to focus on Marcus as he need to be ready for when Voldemort returns!"
"So you threw away your unwanted son like garbage?"
"No, we left him with Lily's sister, and he was never unwanted, I wanted him!"
"So why does you listen to them? Where was the man who pranked anyone who he felt deserved it? Where was the man who heard about Snivellus walking to his death and Rasheed to save him?"
"HE DIED!" James screamed at the fugitive "He died when he found out his best friend, his brother in all but blood, betrayed him."
"It wasn't me." Sirius whispered.
"I know that now," James said as he rubbed his head in pain "but my memories still say it's you, and even now I need to remind myself it wasn't. Think about my side of the story, waking up in my ruined house, running upstairs, crying to Merlin that my family is alive as I know in my heart they are dead. Finding out they are alive, the relive I felt, only for the sinking realization it means you were tortured, and probably dead yourself.
Three days of looking for you non stop in the Death Eaters' houses, interrogating them thhe best I can only to find out you killed Wormtail. Realizing you betrayed us, I was a mess, drank for weeks, by the time I came out of it, my first born was gone, Marcus barely knew who I am, the story the world was told about what happened that night was changed for the death of Lily's parents, my wife changed, and you were found guilty.
My life were destroyed the day Voldemort came but the one who destroyed them wasn't him, it was you."
"ME? You blame me?"
"No, I blamed you, now I blame Wormtail."
Hearing James story was extremely interesting to Harry, and if the reason for Harry's revenge was their abandonment of him, he would have forgiven him, but his hate was about the death of his parents, and he didn't care if James or Lily killed them, they would all pay!
Steeling his emotions, Harry opened his case, taking out his already built rifle from the expended space, as could see the moment he was waiting for arrived.
A cloud shifted. There were suddenly dim shadows on the ground. Their party was bathed in moonlight.
Harry could see Lupin's body getting rigid. Then his limbs began to shake.
"Oh, shit" Harry heard James say. "He didn't take his potion tonight! He's not safe!"
"Run," Sirius yelled. "Run. Now."
There was a terrible snarling noise. Lupin's head was lengthening. So was his body. His shoulders were hunching. Hair was sprouting visibly on his face and hands, which were curling into clawed paws.
While the students were running away, Marcus taking control over the floating spell Ronald was in, Sirius and James disappeared from their side. transforming, in place of them there was an enormous, bearlike dog bounded forward together with a delicate, yet strong stag. As the werewolf wrenched itself free of the manacle binding it, to Pettigrew, the dog seized it about the neck and pulled it backward. And the stag was with him, ramming his horns at the beast's body.
While everybody were busy, Pettigrew managed to peak up Lupin's dropped wand and free himself before transforming into a rat and disappearing.
While the werewolf was strong, it couldn't deal with the two animagus together, it was hurt, and running away.
Aiming at the werewolf, Harry waited till it was gone from regular sight before shooting five times, hitting him twice on the back and once on the leg.
The thing about werewolves in their beast form is that they have immunity for most magics, so unless he used the killing curse or a similar spell, taking down a werewolf with magic is pure stupidity, therefore making it a terrifying beast in the eyes of the magical people. On the other hand, as could be seen by the fight between the three shapeshifting wizards, physical attacks works just fine, making it like a Lion with rabies for anyone without magic, scary, but not a nightmare.
The rifle wasn't a regular one, but a Tranquillizer, each of its bullets filled with muggle sedatives, so the resistance to magic won't stop it from working.
As he took the werewolf out, the group of six were running in the other direction, moving toward the castle.
Opening his case again, he levitated a huge cage, before levitating the ground on which the werewolf was lying on and put it, with the werewolf in the cage.
Feeling the cold that showed the Dementors are close, Harry quickly summoned his patronus, before walking to the Shrieking Shack, the cage moving with him, as he was going to wait for the morning to do the last boot of his plan, when Remus Lupin would be no more.
James' POV
It was all wrong, both his heart and mind was fighting each other, one blaming Sirius and the other blaming Peter, respectively.
And, as he so Padfoot lying there, crying for help as the Dementors came closer, James tried to summon a happy memory, yet couldn't, all his thoughts were full of guilt and sadness, he felt he was about to die, about to let Sirius die, Marcus die.
'No' summoning his determination for his son to live he managed to throw away all his negetive thoughts as he focused on his happiest memory, one that he hasn't used in years, not since they left Harry- the day his children were born.
"EXPECTO PATRONUM" he roared, the stag patronus leaving his wandas it attacked the Dementors, taking more and more magic as he repelled the soul sticking demons.
As the last one left, James saw a blurry figure with a long beard.
"Headmaster" was his final words before everything went black
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Waiting for the night to pass was the most nerve wracking thing Harry has ever done, as with a werewolf in cage near you, who would dare to sleep?
Which is why, the moment Lupin changed to his original form, even as he cried of the pain, Harry already asked Dobby to take them to the chamber of secrets.
As they arrived, Harry once again took a look at the chamber.
It was still wracked from last year, the statue crumbled, and the entry even more so, yet the giant snake was no more, with him already devoured the meat, the blood drained, and the venom sacks extracted, all that was left from that magnificent creature was the bones, which were collected in case of need.
"Harry?"
Turning back as he heard his name being called, Harry saw Lupin stoped crying and instead looked at him in shock
"Professor Lupin? You are the werewolf?" The shock needed to look genuine for what he is about to do.
"Harry? Why am I in a cage? Let me out!"
"Letting you out?! You're a werewolf! You have to be locked up! And don't call me that!"
"No, Har... mr. Peverel, only my wolf side should be locked, I'm no danger to you."
"But... you're a werewolf!"
"Yes I am, but you shouldn't judge me on what I am, but on who am I and the people who trust me."
"And who trusts you knowing you are a werewolf?"
"The headmaster is an example, auror Potter is another."
Harry almost snickered, trust Lupin to bring up two of the people Harry trusted the least.
"I-I don't know, you can't seriously expect me to trust you."
"I would be willing to take an oath."
"No-no, even I can tell there are multiple ways to sneak against an oath."
"Is there anyway you would be willing to trust me? It's not like you can expect me to stay in this cage forever, right?"
Harry made sure he looks like he was thinking for a few moments, as he knew once he does the next thing there is no going back.
"I might have a way, I recently learned there are ways to extract memories and watch them, after learning about it, I bought a device that let me do it. If I can do it to you, I might trust you."
"You have a pensive? How? It's extremely expensive" Lupin was looking surprised.
"Oh, you know about it? Yes I do, and I might tell you how when I trust you" There was one in the room of requirements Harry could use.
"Yes, I'm willing to do that, but I don't know how."
"I can do it for you, all that is needed is for you to drop any magical defenses you have around your mind and focus on your life."
Taking out all of his memories took half an hour, and as he finished Harry only said "one more thing." And super charged an obliviate, deleting everything from the man's mind.
The real Remus Lupin is dead forever.
Turning the hour clock on his neck a few times, Harry went back to the moment he left his room, for a good night sleep.
A few hours later
Waking up, Harry went for breakfast, where a surprise was waiting for Harry.
Remus Lupin, sitting on the teachers table was one Remus Lupin, who, as he saw Harry come in, smiled and nodded his head.
Terrified, Harry nodded his head right back to the person who should be in the chamber of secrets, barley able to breath.
Trying to distract himself as he ate, Harry listened to the conversations of his fellow students as Luna wasn't anywhere to be find
"... werewolf."
".. monster kick him out."
"Best teacher..."
Harry heard all kinds of things about the DADA Professor, before seeing him leave the hall, and following him.
Both walking in silence, it took reaching to his classroom for Professor Lupin to say "come in."
Coming inside, vigilante as ever, Harry really didn't expect for the Professor to fall on one knee and say "my lord."
Now, this situation was something Harry expected to happen, just not right now as he hadn't yet implemented his plan.
"How are you here?"
As the professor heard it he immediately took out a small hourglass from his pocket bringing it close to Harry and making Harry jump away as he recognized it as his time turner.
The thing about time turners are that they create paradoxes, by using them, as long as you interact with something else that used the same, you are most likely to create the need to use them, they are basically creating self-fulfilling prophecies.
Yet, if the same time turner touches a person twice at the same time, it will delete that person from existing, which is why Harry never wore his time turner unless he was about to use it, or if he felt he's about to go to somewhere dangerous and needed insurance.
Lupin, who saw Harry jump away, took back the hourglass and brought out a jar full of memories, saying "that would explain everything, my lord."
Taking the jar Harry escaped the room and ran to the ROR.
Putting the memories in a pensieve, Harry started watching the life of one Remus John Lupin.
It looked like a regular life, with the exception of him being beaten by a werewolf and one other thing, his family was religious, but it didn't believe in god or Merlin, they believed in one thing - a prophecy, and their need to serve the savior the prophecy foretold.
'On the day after the stag, the wolf, the dog and the rat would fight with loyalties conflicting, a Peverel will cage the wolf and the wolf would serve him for life."
It was something amazing as that was precisely what Harry was about to plant in the man's mind.
An interesting side affect to being reborn with only the memories of a book series and it's fanfictions, each with its own weird sat of values was the way you looked at the world.
Children are born without any knowledge, and without prejudice, making them suck in everything they see as the way to behave, yet Harry was reborn with all the information and conflicting values his past life has read on those stories, not to mention his a.d.u.l.t mind that made changing his values extremely hard.
With the original series hating death and torture but feel fine about love potions and mind alterations, a fanfiction being fine with killing but no mind altering, and stories that agree to all means, Harry's set of values was conflicting.
In the end, Harry's values, with the help of the way he lived the first four years of his life (he came to this world as a one year old), became selfish.
He was fine with killing, as long as no one he loves die.
He understood the need mind alterations, and was willing to do it even if he didn't like it, but would fight whoever is trying to do so to his mind.
As long as something didn't hurt him he couldn't care less about other people.
That's not to say he didn't have compassion, couldn't care for other people and didn't love.
It just meant his values were paradoxical.
Which was why, even though he didn't care for Lupin, he had to steel his heart for the mind wiping, and for the next stage.
Finding a religious fanatic wasn't as hard as you would think it would have been.
It took a quick trip to Israel on spring break and six hours search to find five different ones and extract the memories that made them like that.
It then took him a few days of using history class time to learn how to modify the memories so it would show everything in a first person's view, same managed to finish that project.
While he would have loved the memories of someone as Bellatrix Lestrange, Harry wasn't willing to take the chance of coming close to Azkaban if he didn't have to.
He was prepared to spend the summer making sure he has his spy in the order of the Phoenix, one that is willing to throw his life away with a single word, yet there is no need for it now, the man became fanatic about the savior the prophecy foretold, and by having a Peverel (a.k.a Harry) cage him, Lupin worshiped him on the level Harry can tell him to kill himself and he would.
Harry suddenly understood why this worked only in this instance and not any other time, by putting the changed memories inside a person in the past, you can make it theirs, but only if they don't have any other conflicting memories, otherwise the magic of the person would fight the memories instead of accepting them, and with the magical fight to go back in time, the memories has no chance of surviving, just like how nothing you take back to the past can leave your body if you don't want it to disappear.
Coming out of the memories Harry put them in a jar once more before turning his time turner once more.
It's time to plant the memories
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After fusing future Lupin's memories with his past self and completing the circle by freeing the werewolf and giving him tasks, Harry went back to the ROR as he found something interesting in the fake memories and wanted to see them in the original.
Putting the memories in the pensive, Harry tipped his hand in.
Remus Lupin's memories
'Remus, looking 5 years younger then he is right now was climbing a mountain.
Reaching the top, he looks around, seeing a magnificent palace, one that seem to be towering the sky themselves.
Looking in wonder, he seemed to miss a man coming from behind him, at least until a sword is being held on his neck.
"Stranger, what have you come to Fenghuang for?"
"I have come for for the same reason everybody come to school, knowledge."
"And what do you seek to learn?"
"Self control."
The two people continued to converse as one hand the second with a sword yet Harry already moved to the next important memory for him.
This time Remus and a different man were sitting on the floor in a simple looking house.
The man, who looked much older then the first was denying Remus to teach him.
"I don't understand" Remus said, "why? I passed your climbing test, so why won't someone guide me?" "It's not that we won't," the man said, it's that we can't give you what you want, we lost the knowledge on how to access our souls."
Stuperflied, Remus said "but, I read in a book about how the eastern magic is much deeper! How could you lose it?"
The man signed "Fenghuang has some similarity with the western schools, yet, even as You westerns like to call Hogwarts the first magical school, we in China know it's a lie.
There were many sects, or schools in China, Japan, India, and the other eastern countries way before the mere idea of wand came to the mind of your people, yet the sects fought between themselves, weakening one another, and by the time the western magical people attacked a lot of knowledge was lost.
We fought, the East with its magical fighting techniques vs the west and its diverse spells, and we began to lose.
Spells, cast with a wand, could be learned much faster then techniques that need years to study.
For every fire techniques the east made, the west had ten, for every talisman the east made, the west casted three cutting charm."
The man looked sharply into Remus.
"That not to say the techniques didn't have their own benefits. While the west had more powerful opening and peaking stage people, in the purifying stage the east was much more powerful, and the core stage equals, with your demigods and our immortals,
It reached a stalemate in the end, where each group started learning each other's knowledge.
Where our children took upon themselves wand as a quick way to become powerful enough as they were sent to war, your people learned about lay lines from us, creating the floo network, brooms, and even the moving painting.
In the end, it took 200 years to reach a peace agreement and by the time it was done all the sects merged into one- Fenghuang.
Yet not all was good about it, while having the sects merge stopped the needless wars, and combined the knowledge of all of the remaining sects, most of the older generation passed away, and the younger generation became used to wands and easy magic." The man spat easy magic like it was a curse.
"So, while we do have the knowledge in the library, we have no one proficient enough who is willing to teach you, especially, that while this magic is unique, it is in no way useful enough."
"Can I, can I read the books?" Remus desperation was clear on his face, something the older man recognized too, as could be seen on his face.
"Knowledge is free, as long as you pay enough."
Another memory was shown,
Remus sitting in the library reading a book.
'Magic has two components for it to work not including the energy itself, there were many names for them throughout history- physical and mental, yin and yang, mind and body, but in the end, after schoolers of our school came together, they changed the exact terms into knowledge and belief.
Knowledge, the physical component of magic, whether it's how to make flames, runes or wand movements, something is needed to ground our magic.
Belief- the mental component of magic, making sure the only limitations are ones you put on your self.
In most cases, more you have of one, the less you need of the other, but both are needed.'
End memories
Harry was thrilled.
Those memories showed him his future path, one in which he need to go learn a different system of magic.
Harry couldn't wait for the last days of school to be over.
It is time to travel to China
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Chapter: 130130 end of the third year
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(AN: from now in Harry thinks about Lupin as Remus)
Harry's POV
After getting out of the memories and leaving the room of requirements a few minutes before his past self arrived, Harry went to Remus to give him instructions.
"Remus, I need five things from you."
"What's it my lord?" Remus looked excited to be told what to do.
"First of all just call me Harry." The excited look on his face changed into horror.
"I can't! You are the prophesied savior, my family was preparing ourself to serve you for 350 years."
"I understand, but I need you to try, if you must, call me boss."
"Y-Yes, boss!"
"Secondly, right now we need to keep the fact you serve me quiet, so you can't tell anyone, not even your family this fact, plus, in the out side world you will call me Harry. Do you understand?"
"Yes boss."
"Thirdly, I need you to go to Fenghuang and make them agree to let me study there for the summer."
"That won't be a problem boss, anyone who learned there can have one apprentice of his go study there, it is one of the old rules they made, with the other being that outsiders can be excepted into the school if they manage to climb the mountain without the use of magic."
"Excellent. Fourthly, I am a little bit of seer, and I found out Voldemort is going to return back to life next year, and while I haven't managed to find a way to avert it, I might need you to be a spy for me at the order of the Phoenix, as I will need to know their plans."
If it was the previous Remus, he would have refuse, this Remus on the other hand...
"Yes boss!" Was excited about it.
"Lastly, I'm in the middle of study that might cure your illness, and I need to study you, in the human and wolf form, therefore, from now on, three days a month, you would come stay with me as I study."
As the werewolf once again agreed with excitement, Harry finally investigated about Sirius.
"Sirius? Well, the headmaster told me he was saved by James before the minister, who isn't listening to anyone, managed to have the Dementors give him a kiss."
"So he is free?"
"Yes, and now he is going to live in the Potter's house."
'Shit' Harry cursed in his heart, 'I hoped for him to be isolated from the Potters and have Remus convince him to distance himself from them, not to mention that by having no one living in Grimmauld Place meant that I won't have much chance at getting the locket.'
"I need you to convince Sirius to let you in Grimmauld Place, and get me from there a golden locket with a serpentine S in glittering green stone inlay on the front."
"Yes boss."
"Start worth getting me excepted into Fenghuang and then work on your other tasks."
With that said, Harry left the room.
The next few days were calm.
With no classes left Harry had enough free time before the year was over to create one last thing.
With two professional video camera he got the Greengrass to buy for him, bits of programs he took from GAI, the use of blacksmithing, and a rune based Shrinking Charm, Harry created a small, bug look-like doll that can scan its surroundings and copy everything it sees into its memory, the only thing he needed is to grant it the ability to move, luckily, with a ritual he already done before it wasn't much of a problem, the only thing he needed was the twins.
George's POV
George was exhausted, what would you expect from someone who just finished the O.W.Ls?
If someone would have ever told him that he and his twin would ever try that hard on test he would have laughed at their jokes.
Why would they ever want good grades? What would they need them for?
It wasn't like they would ever want to work at the ministry, they are going to open their own shop!
But then Luna and Harry came.
Luna, or as they started to call her- little seer, for she can always see the obvious that everyone seem to ignore, was the one who pointed out as they talked about how Percy was freaking out because of his N.E.W.T tests and how he is going to become a ministry worker, that non of the tests were needed to be a ministry worker, unless it was something specific, like auror or obliviator, even their father, the head of the department of misuse of muggle artifacts, didn't study muggle studies.
And when they started laughing about their brother needless worry and studying, she pointed out that while prank shops don't need test scores, to create some of their pranks they do need advance classes.
And with Harry mentioning how they only need to try on those tests as the N.E.W.Ts only affect you if you want to work at the ministry or have apprenticeship, not to mention Fred pointing out how funny would it be to show up in Snape's advance classes, they begun studying to the few classes they wanted to pass.
Potions- to create better prank candies, not to mention it would piss of Snape.
Runes- to create better prank items.
Charms- because they promised Professor Flitwick.
DADA- because it is interesting.
They had no need to study for transfigurations, as when they learned animagus transformation they became extremely good in them, and the other classes were unimportant to them, so they just left them alone.
In the end, with them also creating a broom with Harry, they were so exhausted they didn't have the strength for their usual end of the year pranking, so when Harry came to ask for their help they just said "go away."
Well George said it, Fred just made some noises.
In the end Harry just mumbled he would have to make do, and that he should have enough in himself for something before leaving.
But George didn't care, he was already asleep.
Harry's POV
Knowing the twins won't help him, started putting his magic in the container every three hours, letting it be filled.
It took until there was only one day left for the year when he finally had enough power to do his ritual, and even that only because the doll was small. Making sure nothing is wrong, Harry gave GAI permission to start the ritual, creating his second golem, who he called SCAMER- Such a Cute AI making Ebooks Reality.
If GAI is his assistance, SCAMER is his portable book thief.
And with him, he is gonna take all the knowledge from Fenghuang.
A day later
Luna's POV
As Luna got out of the train she once again sighed.
Harry already left school that morning, and she already missed him.
At least this year she knew they would meat during the summer, after all, they have a plan for the quidditch championship
