Harry Potter the Clockwork Mage

Harrison James Potter = Harry James Potter

James Charlus Potter = Vernon Dursley until Harry left for Hogwarts

Lily Marie Potter nee' Evens = Petunia Dursley until Harry left for Hogwarts

Steven Brand = Sirius Orion Black

Simon Tiberius Prince = Severus Tobias Snape

Narcissa Prince nee' Black = Narcissa Malfoy nee' Black

Drake Centauries Prince = Draco Scorpios Malfoy

Xenophilius Goodelove = Xenophilius Lovegood

Clair Goodelove = Celeste Lovegood nee' Olivander

Luna Goodelove = Luna Lovegood

Isabella Regina Brand= Bellatrix Black

Hermione Jane Brand = Hermione Jane Granger

Richard Lawrence = Remus John Lupin

Patricia Lawrence = Petunia Evens

Douglas Lawrence = Dudley Dursley

I do not own Harry Potter, JK Rowling does and anyone she has sold the rights to. I am not any of those. I just write because I love the Potterverse. This is an AU story and many characters will be OC.

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Chapter 14

The month of September passed slowly but was a rewarding one. Douglas and Drake with the help of the map found more hidden passages than expected as well as two that lead to the Hogsmeade station, it would need repairs and re-warding, but it would be worth it.

Neville and Dora with the help of the house elves lead them to the 'come-an-go-room' or the 'Room of Requirement'. It took all of them to find the diadem of Ravenclaw. It was sent via the Dobby express so as to add to the rest of the other Horcruxes that would be used to send Voldemort to his final death.

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Harry and the others were meeting in the ROR just before Halloween. The room was a combination of all three common rooms, the large overstuffed chairs, the couches and the carpets and tapestries were all done in the four colors of Hogwarts.

Harry smiled, "Well now we know that we only have to capture Quirrell and then get the diary and then put them all back together and then judge Tom based on the complete man not the insane fragment of one." Harry made himself more comfortable in the loveseat he was sharing with Hermione.

Hermione nodded, "I hope we find that Tom really was set on the path by Dumbledore," Hermione out of all of them had a need for the right thing to be done not an act of vengeance but justice. Hermione leaned back against Harry and relaxed.

Drake handed out butter beers and sat down in one Gryffindor colored chairs, "I just hope we can get Quirrell soon, the man is a waste of time, and he might have been a decent teacher before he was taken over by Voldemort, but now he is just useless."

Luna snuggled in to Neville as the two sat on a small loveseat, "I see that we might be able to do so on Halloween, but also we might need to protect others from him as well that day," Luna's talent of reading others and also being able to understand the small glimpses of the future or rather possible future, before them. This was new ability that she developed not long after being sorted. "I see that someone might be either hurt or even killed if Quirrell sees it helping him get the stone."

Douglas looked at the other and sipped at the butter bear, "We might have to have one or two of us miss the feast and monitor the map and use the communicators to both monitor the school, Quirrell and the students." Douglas was always the one to look at the whole picture and try to plan to make the others were safe.

Neville smiled at the others. "I agree that we might need to do that, also we can reach out to Flitwick, Brand and Prince so they can be ready if something happens." Neville knew that Uncle Simon, Aunt Isabella and Filius would help and also cover them from falling under the notice of Dumbledore.

Dora laughed at Neville, "I agree with Neville, we get them to help and the chance to get the stone and also maybe stop Quirrell/Voldemort." Dora shifted a bit and looked and sounded exactly like her aunt, "Now Dumbledore, the safety of our students come first."

The others laughed and started planning on how they would get the stone and then send it onto Nicolas Flamel its creator.

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Halloween came as expected, Harry acted as if the day was too hard for him to deal with did not go to the feast, what he did do was to patrol the school, using his invisibility cloak, charmed shoes and runic amulet to help make him untraceable.

Neville was the one that chose to monitor the map as we would be one of the few that would not be missed at the feast except the other Hufflepuff students.

The others were using the communication devices while at the feast. Soon Quirrell came running into the great hall and shouted, "Troll, Troll … in the dungeons … figured you would want to know!" Then with a dramatic fall he seemed to faint.

Dumbledore stood, "All prefects take your students to their common rooms and wait until the troll is dealt with."

Professor Prince stood, "Headmaster, the Slytherin Common room is in the Dungeons, would it not be safer to have all students to remain here until the troll is taken cared for?"

Dumbledore fought back a retort, "Yes, Yes, all students remain here, Professor Snape, Flitwick, McGonagall please follow me, all other Professor's remain here."

Hermione was looking around and noticed that Ronald Wesley wasn't in the great hall, "Luna? Ron isn't here?"

Luna looked around and then closed her eyes, "Ron is in danger, call Harry and Neville?"

Hermione moved a bit to hide the fact she was contacting Neville and Harry, "Heads up you two, Ron Wesley isn't here, he won't know about the troll."

Neville quickly looked at the map all of the other students were either in their common rooms or the great hall except him, Harry and walking toward the great hall Ron." Neville also saw the troll was headed toward Ron, "Harry, Ron and the troll are going to run into each other, Ron is near the boy's bathroom on the second floor, and the troll will be there soon, you intercept the troll. Dora I need you to sneak out and head toward the third floor I'll meet you there."

Dora nodded, "I'll head out now, stay safe you two." Dora using her metamorphic ability to hide herself as she was quickly out of the great hall and was soon headed toward the third floor. Soon Dora and Neville were outside the door in the forbidden corridor on the third floor. "So we know how to get past Fluffy, you think we try now or wait till this weekend?"

Dora smiled at Neville, "I say we wait; besides if Quirrell tries we can help stop him here and maybe take him down."

"I would think you two learned to at least hide better you two," The deep voice of Severus Snape sounded from behind them, "I mean you don't want to be seen do you?" With that Severus cast a number of spells that hide the two Puffs from anything except very powerful detection charms. "I will wait near the door you two must watch and do nothing, remember Voldemort is a powerful and cruel Wizard, he would not hesitate to kill either of you."

Dora and Neville felt sick for a moment and then taking a deep breath, they then stayed quiet and watched and waited.

Soon Quirrell was seen heading toward the door, using an unlocking charm he opened the door and was soon jumping back as a large three-headed dog was barking and growling as it tried to get out the too small doorway to attack the man that had attempted to enter a room Hagrid had asked him to watch. Without warning or a sound, an overpowered spell struck Quirrell not once but multiple times rendering the man unconscious. Snape appeared and quickly cast spells that hid the action from the school wards. "Dobby, I need you!"

With a pop the small house-elf appeared and nodded, "I am here Mr. Simon, you have need of me?" Dobby was dressed in a proper uniform, as a proper English Butler."

Simon smiled at the small being standing before him, "Yes Dobby, please take this man to Gringotts, he must be kept asleep as the spirit within cannot escape as the magic I used also rendered it unable to act for now."

Dobby took hold of the man and with a near silent pop he and Quirrell disappeared.

Simon smiled and using a quick charm opened the door after looking at the two hidden Puff's, "Go you two I'll go get the stone as I can do so safely as the Headmaster asked me to help set the traps up." Simon Prince as a Professor was able to quickly obtain the stone without triggering the alarms the headmaster had set to inform him the stone was taken. Simon smiled, "Lolly! I need you?"

Lolly the Longbottom house-elf appeared, "You need me Mr. Simon?"

Simon looked at the elf, "Yes little one, I need you to take me as close as you can to the second floor boys bathroom, and then take this," handing the stone to the small elf, "to James and Lily, tell them as soon as they can they need to make sure the Flamel's have the stone, the sooner the better, so they can hide themselves from the Headmaster."

Lolly reached up and took hold of Simon's hand and with a pop they were as near the bathroom as she could take them, then holding the stone another pop and the stone was once again safe from the two Dark Lords.

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Harry quickly made his way toward the bathroom and hoped he's be able to safe Ronald, he didn't like the red haired boy, but he wasn't going to allow him to be killed. Drake was trying to help the boy and well that was enough to convince the others that maybe, just maybe the boy was worth the time and effort to save him.

Harry quickly headed toward the bathroom when Simon appeared nearby, "Uncle Simon, I'll stay under the cloak you take out the troll and I'll try to protect Wesley," the disembodied voice coming from near the tall man that was suddenly in the corridor.

Simon smiled; once again he was happy that the Headmasters plans had been rendered useless, "Be careful Harry, together we should be able to save the foolish boy." Ronald Wesley was never going to be a potioneer but with his son was able to finally start to get the boy to be less of a danger when working on potions.

The two moved quickly and head a scream and a body of a red haired boy landed in front of the duo. Simon quickly cast a borderline dark curse that quickly killed the troll and watched as a potion was quickly forced down the throat of the badly injured boy.

"I hear others, I need to go." The voice of Harry Potter was full on concern for the boy but he knew he couldn't be anywhere near this, "I hope he makes it." With that Harry went in the opposite direction of the voices heading toward the bathroom.

Soon Dumbledore, Flitwick and McGonagall appeared, "Oh my," came the voice of McGonagall, "we need to get the boy to St. Murgo's if we don't he might die."

Dumbledore didn't care if the boy lived or died, as the boy being sorted into Slytherin was no use to him now, plus sending him there would revile that a Troll had someway passed thru the wards, no he did not want to but he had no choice but to send the boy and send him now. "Professor Flitwick, will you please go with Mr. Wesley to St. Murgo's?"

The small man nodded, "I will, Headmaster."

The headmaster quickly created an emergency Portkey and handing it to the small man and when Flitwick had a hand on the badly damaged boy they disappeared in a flash of light.

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I finally was able to get my muse to help me figure this out; I hope it meets everyone's need for the next few weeks.

Please Read and Review, I try to ignore flames but strange as it seems I do find some … not all … to eventually help. They help but not nearly as much as constructive criticism of my work.

So now I have to decide if I let Ron live or die.

11/10/2016

1912 EST

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