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Is this heaven?
Harry Potter, a 40-year old Auror paced in his office thinking about anything that makes sense. Since Lucius Malfoy, a 67-year-old death eater, broke out of Azkaban, everything is going down. Not only the whole wizarding world lives in fear, but his son, Draco Malfoy, another 40-year-old man, doesn't even show up to the ministry of magic anymore. Out of fear, his father may come and force him back into his former death eater being.
Everyone is looking for him, even at Hogwarts they put up the Dementors again, just as it has been when Harry's godfather, Sirius Black, broke out of Azkaban. But at that time, the Dementors weren't even necessary because Sirius was innocent. But sadly, that fact was only published when he got killed by his cousin, Bellatrix Lestrange, in 1996. But this is a whole different situation. Compared to Sirius, Lucius Malfoy actually is guilty, there is more than enough proof for that.
Nobody found Lucius, even the muggles are looking for him. And that is what makes Harry uncomfortable. Sirius couldn't be found either. But he was an unregistered animagus, Lucius wasn't. And for the record, Malfoy spent the last 22 years in Azkaban. Every other person would've gone mad by now. But not Lucius Malfoy.
So, as Harry paced and paced, he just couldn't put a finger on what had happened. They must have missed something. Something major, that would maybe tell them where Lucius may be right now. Even Harry lives in fright. He and his family can't get any sleep. His children, nieces and nephews even wrote to him saying that they were scared. And Harry was scared, too. He hated to admit it but this was the fact.
BANG!
Harry whirled around and pointed his wand to the door just to have a really strong Expelliarmus aimed straight at him, which he could block just in time to see who broke into his office. Harry gasped when he saw the familiar face of Lucius Malfoy. They duelled for a couple of minutes and Harry started to really run out of breath. It's always close to being hit when he blocks the jinxes, hexes and curses. Lucius smiled evilly and said, 'Well, well. Is the great Harry Potter out of breath? I guess, then you won't mind if I do this, will you, Potter?' And with that he shot a Cruciatus Curse right at a very surprised Harry, who instantly fell onto the floor. He definitely could've fought the curse but he was out of breath and to weak to even try and fight it. Harry twisted and turned. He screamed in agony. He just wanted it to end. He could hear faint noises of footsteps coming towards his office. He didn't care, he just wanted to die. 60 years of an age isn't that young, to be honest. He could hear many gasps and many disarming charms that were all dodged by the experienced death eater. The pain stopped but still...he could just watch the battle between his friends and Lucius.
But that escalated quickly and the next spoken curse was directed at Harry himself. This was the end, Harry thought. He is defintitely going to die. So he just closed his eyes and prepared for the curse to hit him.
'Avada Kedavra!', Lucius shouted at the top of his lungs and everyone in the room seemed way to shocked to realize what is happening right now. They just watched in horror how the green killing curse hit their best friend or boss or whatever Harry had been to them. Now he would really be dead. Now there was no mother to sacrifice herself for him, now there was no blood protection that always saved his life, now there was no horcrux that had to be destroyed first. Harry Potter is dead. And this time he won't come back.
Harry found himself standing in a place he remembered all too well. He has been here already. When he was 17 and went into the forbidden forest to let himself get killed by Voldemort he landed here too, but he got sent back. But that was only thanks to the horcrux that had been in his scar. Now he still has the scar, with the difference that nothing bad will happen, concerning Voldemort. But now that he was standing there again, hit by a killing curse without any type of protection, this had to be it. But just at the moment, when Harry took a deep breath, two people showed up. They were Lily and James Potter. Harry's parents. Both of them smiled sadly at their son and Harry was confused. Why wasn't Dumbledore showing up, like he had done so many years ago? Not that he wasn't happy to see his parents, but last time it was Dumbledore, right?
'Harry, my son! We are so proud of you!', Lily spoke up with a sad smile on her lips. Harry, however, found himself unable to speak. He just watched his mother with all the love he felt for her, but wasn't able to show it to her. After a couple of seconds, when he finally found his voice again, he asked probably the most stupid question on earth. But when you think about it, this wasn't earth, was it?
'Is this heaven?', Harry asked and grew even more confused when his father, James, suddenly started laughing.
'You do remember this place, Harry, don't you?', he asked and Harry nodded slightly. And then James gave that one least expected answer. 'When you came here the last time, you weren't dead. This place is for people that got saved from death by some kind of protection. Your mother and me were only able to come here to tell you what to do. Just how Dumbledore did 23 years ago.' Now Harry was really confused. If he wasn't dead, what kind of protection saved him, then? When he didn't have his mother's love, the horcrux or any blood protection to keep him save, why did he live?
As if Lily read Harry's thought, she answered him with a very difficult task.
'So, Harry, you aren't dead because of your family. James and me, Ginny and all of your brothers-in-law and Molly and Arthur, your 'friends', your children. They deverse your death just as much as you yourself. Not even a bit. But since we can't send you back just now, we have to give you a task. The task to change the past. When you wake up, you will be in the night before we died and you will have the opportunity to change everything. This is very difficult and everything could go wrong. So you have to be very careful! Do you understand, Harry?'
That wasn't just the most confusing thing I've ever heard, Harry thought and chuckled slightly at the sarcasm of his words. So he was not only supposed to go back to the world of living, but go back in time to save and hide everyone? Harry really never had to do any task that was as difficult as that one. Everyone could go wrong. After processing the said words, he nodded, but shortly after he opened his mouth and asked the question he wanted to ask for the whole time his parents were here.
'Why did you tell me and not Dumbledore?'
All three of them remained quiet for a long time and Harry's parents often opened their mouths to say something, but closed them again to think of a better way to tell their son, how Dumbledore betrayed them by locking up their will, which not only said that they wanted Harry to grow up with everyone but the Dursley's. It also said what really happened the night of Halloween in 1981. That Sirius wasn't the secret keeper and therefore got locked up as an innocent man.
After some time, James decided to speak up.
'You see, Harry. This will take a while, but you have to listen us. First of all, Dumbledore isn't the man he seems to be. I know, he made the impression that everything he did was for the so-called 'greater good'. But when we died we saw his real character. So, as you know, Dumbledore owned the Elder Wand. One of the three Deathly Hallows. But the power that the wand gave him wasn't enough. He wanted everything. He wanted to have the cloak and the stone, too. If he did, he would have been the most powerful man on earth and the Master of Death. Also he wanted to be the man to kill Voldemort. So that prophecy came at the right time for him. He decided that it would be you, the Chosen One. Also, he knew that Peter was a death eater in advance, so he was very pleased when he heard that we wanted him as a secret keeper. He wanted you dead, so that he could kill Voldemort. That's why he didn't help Sirius out of Azkaban. He knew that if he wasn't there, he wouldn't have the chance to do whatever he wanted. He decided to put you to Petunia, hoping you would get starved and abused until you die. And when you came to Hogwarts it was even worse. He paid the Weasley's and later the Granger's to befriend you and even poisoned you with potions, so that you would never stop trusting him and the Weasley's. He paid Molly and Arthur so that when you one time die, Ginny and all the other Weasley's would get your money. And just in case, Molly or Arthur ever ran over to your side and told you about everything, or if the children found out, Dumbledore spiked everyone with potions to make their loyalty go with Dumbledore and another one to make to potion never wear of unless given the antidote. Of course, there are some people you can trust, but you still have to be careful. We don't know what will happen if someone untrustworthy finds out about what we talk about right now. We can't tell you who to trust and who not to trust because this is your chance to make up for the other one's mistakes. We could tell you but you have to do it by yourself. We can only tell you one thing. Trust Sirius and Remus, everyone else will be for you to find out. Please, Harry. Be careful and do what you need to do. We love you and we are so proud of you!'
They both walked towards Harry and for a couple of seconds the family of three were embraced in a group hug full of love and tears and pride and hope. When they finally broke apart, Lily's face was full of tears, while James smiled proudly at his son, who gave both of them a watery smile in reply. Harry watched as his parents walked away with sometimes looking back. Harry was determined to make everything right and not to trust Dumbledore or anyone else until he was sure he could trust them. He would make up for everyone's mistakes, but he didn't want to sthink about what happened if he couldn't trust Ginny. The potion was only given, so that they wouldn't run over to Harry and tell about Dumbledore's real intentions, so there actually was a chance that he could trust some of the Weasley's.
Finally, he nodded to himself and wished to be alive, but back in time the night before his parents died.
I can do this, he encouraged himself before he became dizzy and everything went black.
