'So... we have time travellers in the school to change the past now do we... lets face them tomorrow... and maybe expose them and their plans' the person thought as he went to sleep.
A/N: Those were not his exact thoughts but... you fill find out.
They day had flown very quickly. Ron and Harmony were immediately included into the group after they had told them another sob story about how someone had used spells on their parents and how they were killed and all that convinced everyone except one person.
They had Transfiguration, Astronomy (theory) and Potions that day and the trio were bored by the time they had come back since it was the second time they were learning these after all. The clock struck 12 again and the trio made way to the ROR and settled down, oblivious of the person following them inside and sitting down.
"Shall we start going through the inheritances or letters first?" Harmony asked. "Let Teddy choose first?" Harry said in reply. He set the two separately in front of the baby and asked him to touch one. Teddy randomly touched the inheritances. "Than we shall start with that." Ron said.
"Good. Now which one though after reading each others?" Harry asked. "Well... Lets go in alphabetical order then starting from James. Griphook said that they self updated once the test was taken so it would be up to date." Harmony said.
As they read out each other's inheritance, the unknown person's eyes widened. 'That is a lot for the future!' he thought, already having a bad feeling about this. He had heard his name there and was sure this would also affect him.
"First up is James, for which I am reading out only the name, parent's name, children and spouses along with spell or potions. Applicable to every one of them. Agreed?" Harry asked and the other two readily agreed. "Good"
Name: James Charlus Potter
Father: Charlus Fleamont Potter
Mother: Dorea Astoria Potter (nee Black)
Creature: None (Dom)
Mate(s): Severus Tobias Snape-Potter (half Water Phoenix, Sub) Lily Marie Evans ( illegal)
Children: Harmony Lilian Snape-Potter; Harry James Potter
Potions and Charms:
Hate potion and charm (Keyed to Severus Snape and the Slytherins after third year)
Love potion (Keyed to Lily Evans from sixth year)
Compulsion charms
Obliviates
Memory charms
Loyalty charms (Keyed to Dumbledore)
"Certainly going to kill that guy" the trio muttered, voicing out the thoughts of the unknown person. "Next up is Lily Evans." Ron said.
Name: Lily Marie Evans (Black) (illegal potter)
Father: Henry Evans
Mother: Marie Evans
Creature: None (Sub)
Mate(s): Regulus Arcturus Black (Half griffin, Dom) James Charlus Potter ( illegal)
Children: Ronald Sirius Black (Half griffin, Dom); Harry James Potter
Potions and Charms:
Hate potion and charms (Keyed to Severus Snape and Slytherins from sixth year) (James Potter, Sirius Black till sixth year)
Love potion (Keyed to James Potter after sixth year)
Loyalty charms (Keyed to Albus Dumbledore)
Compulsion charms
Memory charms
Obliviates
"Tell me why I should not kill him again?" Ron asked. "This is getting better and better. What will be Remus' state is it is like this for these people?" asked Harry. "Only one way to find out so wait for his turn" Hermione said. "Next up is Regulus" Ron said.
Name: Regulus Arcturus Black
Father: Orion Leo Black
Mother: Walburga Gemini Black
Creature: Half griffin (Dom)
Mate(s): Lily Marie Evans (Sub)
Children: Ronald Sirius Black
Potions and Charms:
Hate potion and charm (Keyed to Sirius Black and the Gryffindors most of the time)
Compulsion charms
Obliviates
Memory charms
Imperious curse and charm (By Albus Dumbledore)
"Not going to comment till the end. Next it Remus" Harry said, voice full of emotions.
Name: Remus John Lupin
Father: John Hermes Lupin
Mother: Danny Lupin
Creature: Bitten Werewolf (Dom)
Mate(s): Sirius Orion Black (Dom,Sub); Nymphadora Tonks (Sub)
Children: Teddy Remus Lupin (N/A)
Potions and Charms:
Hate potion and charm (Keyed to Severus Snape and the Slytherins after third year, werewolves)
Compulsion charms
Obliviates
Memory charms
Loyalty charms (Keyed to Dumbledore)
Wolfbane potion (By Albus Dumbledore, slightly poisonous)
Blocks on his werewolf (By Albus Dumbledore, partly broken)
"Remind me to destroy those potions Harmony." Harry said in shock. "I think Werewolves are better off accepting their wolf side rather than ignoring it." she said.
"And his wolf was blocked! No wonder he had pain during the transformation and all the more reason why he had to depend on that poison he was given." Ron spat out.
"Onto Sirius then. I promise that we will have our revenge Ron" Harry said.
Name: Sirius Orion Black
Father: Orion Leo Black
Mother: Walburga Gemini Black
Creature: None (Dom, Sub)
Mate(s): Remus John Lupin (Dom); Nymphadora Tonks (Sub)
Children: None
Potions and Charms:
Hate potion and charm (Keyed to Severus Snape and the Slytherins, Regulus at times since third year)
Compulsion charms
Memory charms
Obliviates
Imperious curse and charm (By Albus Dumbledore)
Loyalty charms (Keyed to Dumbledore)
"The last one of the day, Severus Snape" Harmony said. The unknown person was barely able to contain his anger at what happened to them.
Name: Severus Tobias Snape (Potter)
Father: Tobias Snape
Mother: Eline Dorea Snape (nee Prince)
Creature: Half Water Phoenix (Sub)
Mate(s): James Charlus Potter (Dom)
Children: Harmony Lilian Snape-Potter
Potions and Charms:
Hate potion and charm (Keyed to James Potter and the Gryffindors since third year)
Compulsion charms
Obliviates
Memory charms
Imperious curse and charm (By Albus Dumbledore)
"Consider Him as Dead to Us" Harry said, tears flowing down his eyes while his face showed massive fury. Ron and Harmony were no better. The unknown Person however...
"I AM GOING TO KILL DUMBLEDORE, BRING HIM BACK TO LIFE, KILL HIM AGAIN, BRING HIM BACK, TORTURE HIM AND SEND HIM TO AZKABAN! HE DESERVES A WORSE FATE THAN THAT HORRID PRISON!" he shouted in all the anger he could muster.
"Whoever is hiding there, please come out" the trio said together, deathly calm with their wands out. "Alright you caught me here" the person said and removed his cloak to them only to reveal...
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"What are you doing here Sirius?" Harmony asked in confusion. "Well...you wont believe me if I said what I was doing here." he replied. "Ok then... where did you get the cloak from? James?" Harry asked.
"Actually not. I found it in your trunk when you left it open accidentally today. Had my suspicions when you sneaked out with the Marauders' map yesterday and followed you..." Sirius was not allowed to finish the sentence as three wands were pointed at his throat.
"How do you know about the map? Who are you really?" the trio growled out in unison. "Hey! I am really Sirius and not joking about it! The veil... it transported me here about two years back." Sirius said, frightened by the glares aimed at him.
"Prove it. Ok... We will ask you three questions. If you answer correctly, we will believe you." Harry said with a blank expression. "Accepted" said Sirius, knowing very well what his godson would do.
"Who were all the Marauders? Other than the four of you?" Ron asked. "Regulus, Severus, Lily, Alice, Frank and Sally. They were obliviated until you talked about it." Sirius said.
"Second question. How long were you in Azkaban? What were the charges and how did you escape?" Harmony asked. "I was in Azkaban for 12 years charged for the betrayal of James and Lily and the murder of 13 muggles and Peter Pettigrew. Escape 1 by animagus and 2 on a hippogriff named Buckbeak." he replied.
"Show us Padfoot" Harry asked nearly convinced. Sirius immediately transformed into the black grim he was and nudged the three of them and transformed back. "Good to have you back Snuffles" Harry said, tears freely flowing now.
"Good to see you too Harry. I still can't imagine that Dumbledore did all that! And Regulus is alive?" Sirius asked, voice filled with emotion. "He is Padfoot. Want to talk with him? We were going to talk with him tomorrow afternoon anyways." Harmony asked.
"Of course I want to! I am very angry with him for pretending to be dead" Sirius said. "I guess dad is more angry at you for falling through the veil Siri. Be carefull when you speak with him tomorrow." Ron said.
"I will dear nephew, I will. What is the deal about the letters though?" Sirius asked. Harry produced three letters immediately after the question was asked. The ones from Peter, Regulus and Severus. When Harry opened them, he was shocked to see the wordings had changed.
"It... this was not what was written when I read it the first time" he stuttered out. "I guess since you know the truth now... the glamour has worn off or something Harry" Harmony said. "Alright then. First up is Peter's letter. Before you go mad at him... he is innocent." Harry said.
Dear Harry,
This letter is the one I wrote after Padfoot's death. I swear on my magic that whatever I state in this letter is true. I know that Moony won't probably want to talk to me but still I sent him a letter but never got a reply. So I write this to you also. I know that you think that I am a death eater and all, anyone reading this letter for that matter
But it actually started out when Dumbledore asked me to spy on The Dark Lord and asked me to swear on my magic to not tell my friends. When I refused to do so, he used the imperious curse on me and made me swear it.
Since then, whenever I opened my mouth to tell it to them, I would get tongue tied due to this reason. I even tried to tell it that day in the Shrieking Shack but the vow didn't let me and changed them to words I didn't mean to say. Every letter I wrote to my friends about this was capsized by Dumbledore and hence they never knew. Only Dumbledore and I knew that I was a spy.
Then the trouble came when I had to balance between both duties with the Order and the Dark Lord, just like Snape during the recent war. I was made the secret keeper, which was a brilliant strategy had it not been for the fact that I was a spy for the Order. Moldy asked me to reveal the location and when I refused due to the loyalty to my friends, he tortured me and put the imperious curse on me to get the location.
That fateful Halloween night, when I came to see whether you were safe and tell Sirius the truth about this, someone (I think Dumbledore) imperioused me again, making me kill those muggles and escape after cutting my finger, leading to the imprisonment of Sirius. I am to this date feel very guilty for that. Guilty that I couldn't fight the curse off, guilty for charging my friend, guilty for taking away your childhood... everything I did and will do to you.
During your third year, after Sirius escaped, I knew he was coming after me. I tried to search for him and explain everything, but the guilt and the murderous intention of Padfoot scared me and I tried to hide. Eventually, you all caught me and I tried to escape and succeed as I knew that once I was caught, I can never tell anyone the truth. Either Dumbledore or the prison will kill me before the truth is out.
Then when I was escaping, Dumbledore caught me and imperioused me permanently to serve Moldy. Whenever I could break the curse for a minute or two or even when I was left alone, I sat down to write the letters to you and Moony. And you know what I did when I was under the imperious - helping the rise of Moldy, killing that boy and all.
Even though I was under the imperious, I could break it for a short period of time as I still cared about my friends and you but didn't have the strength to break a strong permanent curse completely. Know that I loved you Harry.
It was hard...keeping the secrets and all but I could sense some weird things from our third year like... someone was controlling us. I could feel many memories alter in all of us but could do nothing about it.
I could vaguely remember a few things... James naming his daughter as my goddaughter, the mate relationship between Remus and Sirius along with the ones between James and Severus and also Regulus and Lily.
Then one day, I saw their children getting kidnapped by Dumbledore, he even wiped Padfoot and Moony's child out of existence. I remember it all because I was a witness but petrified by Dumbledore. You could see that no one remembers him and he is not mentioned in the inheritances.
It was a curse... to see everyone suffer. Dumbledore let me remember all of this and tortured me with all of this. Obliviated all the relations and created false ones... most of them realised only when they neared their deaths.
Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail)
P. S: I fortunately could muggle mail one of our friends in the States so she will be your witness and can also provide evidence in this case. Her name is Sally and convey my love to her.
To say that the people in the room were beyond pissed would be a great understatement. "Moony and I had a son and he was taken away?" Sirius asked with tears in his eyes. "Peter also found him for you Sirius. I skipped one line of the letter. It said:
I plead you to try and change this fate and deliver justice to both the dead and alive. One last request from you. Find Harmony Snape-Potter and Ronald Black and try to make Moony remember about Harry James Lupin-Black... otherwise known as Harry James Potter.
Which means..." Harry trailed off. "That you are my son?" Sirius asked and Harry nodded. "Which also means... you are Teddy's older brother. Wait a minute then... read out your inheritance now again Harry?" Ron asked, a doubt forming in his mind. Harry took out his inheritance again.
Name: Harry James Lupin-Black
Adopted name: Harry James Potter (Blood adoption)
Father's name: Remus John Lupin (deceased), James Charlus Potter (Blood adoption)
Mother's name: Sirius Orion Black (Alive), Lily Marie Potter (Blood adoption)
Creature: Half Werewolf (Will not turn, Dom)
Mate(s): Unknown for now.
Date of birth: July 31 1980
"It is official now then. I think Dumbledore made them marry a little after my birth, kidnapping us after that, changed his name and gave him to the Potters saying that he was an orphan related to them. That is the rough guess." Harmony said.
"And that guess is right. I have photographic memory but since I didn't want to grab attention... I played to be average. Now that Peter said it... I remember that day when Albus kidnaped us and when he said wiped out of existence... it meant people forgetting and not me dying." Harry said.
"Do you have glamours on you though?" Sirius asked. "No. The blood adoption changed the appearance. Time to bed guys. Its almost one in the morning. We will discuss later. Do you have a ring for Siri 'Mione?" Harry asked and Harmony passed on a ring to Sirius.
"Telepathic connection, Minnie gave for easier communications. Let this all sink in for now. Discuss more later today. Good Night!" Ron said and they quickly hurried to their dorms, thanking their stars that that day was a week end.
A/N: That is chapter 16 for you guys. Whoever guessed it was James... sorry that your guess was wrong. Anyways... mystery person is Sirius. Think about it guys... he fell through the veil and who knows what it does? I know that James is a pretty likely option but... Hope you liked it though. All comments and criticism accepted and appreciated. And the book will be completed tomorrow guys! Another two chapters to go!
Thank you all for reading!
Rasnak signing off :) ;)
Published on 10 August 2018