HP the Gryffindor Heir and the Labyrinth
By Rina Bollyqueen 420 **************************************************************************** ***** A/N Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I came down with a bad case of the flu. Rayz, have you heard the saying patience is a virtue? If you had that, then you would have found out that when you next checked this story, the next chapter would have what you want in it, instead of flaming me! Now shall we get on? **************************************************************************** ***********************
DA and Discoveries
The Room of Requirement was filled with noisy students, who were anxious to find out why the meeting had been called, so early on in the weekend. Luna, Sapna and Colin were trying to calm them down before Hermione and Ron arrived back from their meeting with Dumbledore. Unfortunately for them, no one was listening. Colin and Luna sat down in defeat. Sapna had other ideas. She grabbed the nearest stool, stood on it and surveyed the room. For a minute, she had the craziest notion to break into a Bollywood style song and dance routine to grab everyone's attention. But she changed her mind when she saw her crush, Rahul Khannah, a 6th year Slytherin, standing in a corner with some of his friends. So she went for the easier option of getting everyone's attention. She pointed her wand at her throat and gulped.
"SONORUS!" she shouted. Students looked at her for a minute and turned away when she didn't speak. 'I should have brought Zari with me. I'm crap at speeches!' Taking a deep breath she clapped her hands to get attention.
"Okay people! Listen Up!" she started. "Harry Potter had a vision last night about Voldemort!" Most people in the room shuddered. Sapna and Luna rolled there eyes. "Now we have news from Dumbledore that Voldemort is planning to attack the school by the end of this week!" There were immediately shouts of questions coming from the students.
"How?" "When?" "What about the wards?"
"QUIET!" Sapna shouted. "That's what we don't know. But Ron and Hermione are at Dumbledore's office this very minute getting the answers to those very questions. But for now, the school needs us. So I suggest, that until Ron and Hermione come back with some news, we practice all the spells the Harry, Ron and Hermione have taught us whilst we can." With that she jumped off the stool and went over to Colin and Luna.
"Nice speech Saps," said Colin.
"Yeah. I couldn't have done it myself," said Luna. Sapna blushed.
"Come on, it was nothing really. I should have brought Zari with me. She would know what to do in this situation."
"Shouldn't we start practicing?" asked Luna. Sapna turned and smiled at her friend.
"No actually," she replied with a straight face. "We should go bhangra dancing around all the trees in the forbidden forest and sing songs of eternal love, until a Shah Rukh Khan look-alike and a Tom Cruise look-alike jump out from behind the trees and start dancing with us. Then when our parents don't agree with the marriages, we all run away and build a little house on a hill and breed cows and chickens for the rest of our existence." Luna blinked.
"What?" Sapna rolled her eyes.
"Never mind Luna. En Guard!" she shouted. She quickly pointed her wand at Luna and shouted, "Petreficus Totallus!" Luna froze and fell on her back. Sapna walked up to her and crouched down. "I said 'En Guard', didn't I? I'm going to find Colin." She got up and surveyed the room. Damn! Colin was practicing with Neville. She let out a sigh.
"Hey Sapno Ki Rani*1, why are you so upset? No one to dance the bhangra with?" came a deep seductive voice. Sapna turned around to see Rahul, standing behind her.
"Why? You interested Mundeya*2? Cuz once you dance with me," she said, pointing her wand at him. "You won't remember how to dance with anyone else."
"That a fact?" he asked, quirking his eyebrow.
"You wish," she smirked and fired a curse at him. Rahul easily deflected it and shot one back.
"Bring it on girl!" he said as they continued their battle.
(*1 pronounced Sup-no Kee Raa-ni translation Queen of Dreams. *2 pronounced moon-de-yah translation Boy)
Harry and Ginny landed in the middle of the hallway, where they had first started and began to walk back to the common room.
"I really feel bad about Princess Liliannah," said Ginny, breaking the silence.
"I know what you mean," replied Harry. "You know, whilst I was staying at the castle, in some strange way...... it felt like home." Ginny patted his shoulder.
"It'll be okay Harry. I still can't believe that Voldemort has managed to affect other worlds." Harry stopped and looked at her.
"You're the last person I expected to say that name," he said.
"I've been saying it for years," replied Ginny. "After all, fear of the name, gives you fear of the thing itself. Right?" she smiled.
"Right," smiled Harry. Suddenly, they heard footsteps and voices coming from inside a classroom.
"Don't worry 'Mione everything is gonna be fine," came Ron's voice.
"I still can't believe that I was right! I mean even if Harry does come back, how on earth are we gonna tell him," sobbed Hermione. 'Tell me what?' thought Harry.
"We'll figure out how to tell Harry when the time comes 'Mione. In the meantime, we've got to get to the DA meeting."
"Can't you and I just stay here for a while?"
"Sure." Harry and Ginny looked at each other curiously. Then they opened the classroom door to see Ron and Hermione in a gentle kiss.
"EWW! RON!" screamed Ginny, making the couple spring apart. "Yuk!" Harry on the other hand kept as calm as anyone could in this situation.
"Ron, even though I am very glad that you and Hermione have seen some sense and got together, I would just like to say, please do not let me walk in on this situation ever again." Suddenly Harry and Ginny found themselves in bear hugs.
"Can't," choked Harry.
"Breath," finished Ginny. Ron and Hermione let go of them and asked them how they got back, as they still had another hour and a half until the thirteen hours were up. Harry explained that whenever there is news of the death of an important member of the Royal Family, any one who is running the Labyrinth at the time and the one they are wanting to win back, are allowed to go free.
"Wow," said Hermione.
"Apparently," said Ginny. "It's only ever happened once before."
"Right," said Ron. He turned to Hermione and said, "You wanna tell him or should I?"
"Tell me what?" asked Harry.
Hermione immediately launched into an explanation on everything that had happened just hours ago. She told him of her suspicions and how she and Ron had researched, just to put her mind at ease. And then she told him.
"Then when I read the chapter about your mother, my suspicions were confirmed. Lily Evens mother was former Head Girl of 1960, Sarah Williams. There have only been three muggle-born girls in the entire history of Hogwarts with that name that have been in Gryffindor. One graduated in 1745, another in 1895 and the other, in 1960. Do you understand what I'm telling you Harry?"
"I'm hearing you fine," said Harry. "But it's kind of hard understanding it."
"Well Harry. You are Princess Liliannah's son. There is no doubt about it."
"Well there's only one absolute way to find out," said Harry.
"What's that?" asked Ron.
"Well Jason told me about this Mirror that King Jareth and Queen Sarah gave to their daughter on her wedding day. It's unbreakable, until the last of her heirs has died. If there is such an expensive and unbreakable mirror, and if you're saying that Princess Liliannah is my mum, it'll be at the Dursley's."
"What are you going to do Harry?" asked Ginny.
"I'm going to get it and try to talk to Jareth and Sarah through it."
"Harry you can't!" exclaimed Hermione.
"I'll go for it tomorrow. But right now, Ginny and I need some rest. We've had a long day.'
"Now that's an understatement," laughed Ginny.
By Rina Bollyqueen 420 **************************************************************************** ***** A/N Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I came down with a bad case of the flu. Rayz, have you heard the saying patience is a virtue? If you had that, then you would have found out that when you next checked this story, the next chapter would have what you want in it, instead of flaming me! Now shall we get on? **************************************************************************** ***********************
DA and Discoveries
The Room of Requirement was filled with noisy students, who were anxious to find out why the meeting had been called, so early on in the weekend. Luna, Sapna and Colin were trying to calm them down before Hermione and Ron arrived back from their meeting with Dumbledore. Unfortunately for them, no one was listening. Colin and Luna sat down in defeat. Sapna had other ideas. She grabbed the nearest stool, stood on it and surveyed the room. For a minute, she had the craziest notion to break into a Bollywood style song and dance routine to grab everyone's attention. But she changed her mind when she saw her crush, Rahul Khannah, a 6th year Slytherin, standing in a corner with some of his friends. So she went for the easier option of getting everyone's attention. She pointed her wand at her throat and gulped.
"SONORUS!" she shouted. Students looked at her for a minute and turned away when she didn't speak. 'I should have brought Zari with me. I'm crap at speeches!' Taking a deep breath she clapped her hands to get attention.
"Okay people! Listen Up!" she started. "Harry Potter had a vision last night about Voldemort!" Most people in the room shuddered. Sapna and Luna rolled there eyes. "Now we have news from Dumbledore that Voldemort is planning to attack the school by the end of this week!" There were immediately shouts of questions coming from the students.
"How?" "When?" "What about the wards?"
"QUIET!" Sapna shouted. "That's what we don't know. But Ron and Hermione are at Dumbledore's office this very minute getting the answers to those very questions. But for now, the school needs us. So I suggest, that until Ron and Hermione come back with some news, we practice all the spells the Harry, Ron and Hermione have taught us whilst we can." With that she jumped off the stool and went over to Colin and Luna.
"Nice speech Saps," said Colin.
"Yeah. I couldn't have done it myself," said Luna. Sapna blushed.
"Come on, it was nothing really. I should have brought Zari with me. She would know what to do in this situation."
"Shouldn't we start practicing?" asked Luna. Sapna turned and smiled at her friend.
"No actually," she replied with a straight face. "We should go bhangra dancing around all the trees in the forbidden forest and sing songs of eternal love, until a Shah Rukh Khan look-alike and a Tom Cruise look-alike jump out from behind the trees and start dancing with us. Then when our parents don't agree with the marriages, we all run away and build a little house on a hill and breed cows and chickens for the rest of our existence." Luna blinked.
"What?" Sapna rolled her eyes.
"Never mind Luna. En Guard!" she shouted. She quickly pointed her wand at Luna and shouted, "Petreficus Totallus!" Luna froze and fell on her back. Sapna walked up to her and crouched down. "I said 'En Guard', didn't I? I'm going to find Colin." She got up and surveyed the room. Damn! Colin was practicing with Neville. She let out a sigh.
"Hey Sapno Ki Rani*1, why are you so upset? No one to dance the bhangra with?" came a deep seductive voice. Sapna turned around to see Rahul, standing behind her.
"Why? You interested Mundeya*2? Cuz once you dance with me," she said, pointing her wand at him. "You won't remember how to dance with anyone else."
"That a fact?" he asked, quirking his eyebrow.
"You wish," she smirked and fired a curse at him. Rahul easily deflected it and shot one back.
"Bring it on girl!" he said as they continued their battle.
(*1 pronounced Sup-no Kee Raa-ni translation Queen of Dreams. *2 pronounced moon-de-yah translation Boy)
Harry and Ginny landed in the middle of the hallway, where they had first started and began to walk back to the common room.
"I really feel bad about Princess Liliannah," said Ginny, breaking the silence.
"I know what you mean," replied Harry. "You know, whilst I was staying at the castle, in some strange way...... it felt like home." Ginny patted his shoulder.
"It'll be okay Harry. I still can't believe that Voldemort has managed to affect other worlds." Harry stopped and looked at her.
"You're the last person I expected to say that name," he said.
"I've been saying it for years," replied Ginny. "After all, fear of the name, gives you fear of the thing itself. Right?" she smiled.
"Right," smiled Harry. Suddenly, they heard footsteps and voices coming from inside a classroom.
"Don't worry 'Mione everything is gonna be fine," came Ron's voice.
"I still can't believe that I was right! I mean even if Harry does come back, how on earth are we gonna tell him," sobbed Hermione. 'Tell me what?' thought Harry.
"We'll figure out how to tell Harry when the time comes 'Mione. In the meantime, we've got to get to the DA meeting."
"Can't you and I just stay here for a while?"
"Sure." Harry and Ginny looked at each other curiously. Then they opened the classroom door to see Ron and Hermione in a gentle kiss.
"EWW! RON!" screamed Ginny, making the couple spring apart. "Yuk!" Harry on the other hand kept as calm as anyone could in this situation.
"Ron, even though I am very glad that you and Hermione have seen some sense and got together, I would just like to say, please do not let me walk in on this situation ever again." Suddenly Harry and Ginny found themselves in bear hugs.
"Can't," choked Harry.
"Breath," finished Ginny. Ron and Hermione let go of them and asked them how they got back, as they still had another hour and a half until the thirteen hours were up. Harry explained that whenever there is news of the death of an important member of the Royal Family, any one who is running the Labyrinth at the time and the one they are wanting to win back, are allowed to go free.
"Wow," said Hermione.
"Apparently," said Ginny. "It's only ever happened once before."
"Right," said Ron. He turned to Hermione and said, "You wanna tell him or should I?"
"Tell me what?" asked Harry.
Hermione immediately launched into an explanation on everything that had happened just hours ago. She told him of her suspicions and how she and Ron had researched, just to put her mind at ease. And then she told him.
"Then when I read the chapter about your mother, my suspicions were confirmed. Lily Evens mother was former Head Girl of 1960, Sarah Williams. There have only been three muggle-born girls in the entire history of Hogwarts with that name that have been in Gryffindor. One graduated in 1745, another in 1895 and the other, in 1960. Do you understand what I'm telling you Harry?"
"I'm hearing you fine," said Harry. "But it's kind of hard understanding it."
"Well Harry. You are Princess Liliannah's son. There is no doubt about it."
"Well there's only one absolute way to find out," said Harry.
"What's that?" asked Ron.
"Well Jason told me about this Mirror that King Jareth and Queen Sarah gave to their daughter on her wedding day. It's unbreakable, until the last of her heirs has died. If there is such an expensive and unbreakable mirror, and if you're saying that Princess Liliannah is my mum, it'll be at the Dursley's."
"What are you going to do Harry?" asked Ginny.
"I'm going to get it and try to talk to Jareth and Sarah through it."
"Harry you can't!" exclaimed Hermione.
"I'll go for it tomorrow. But right now, Ginny and I need some rest. We've had a long day.'
"Now that's an understatement," laughed Ginny.