HP the Gryffindor Heir and the Labyrinth
By Rina Bollyqueen 420
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A/N Sorry that I haven't updated in over a week, but college and work are becoming really demanding. Also a quick note to say that in this chapter, whenever you see a $* sign, whatever's being said, it's in parseltongue.
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Jareth's Decision and a Shock for Sapna
"Jareth love, stop pacing," said Sarah. "You're making me dizzy." They were back in the Underground, not sure what step to take next. They knew that Harry was Lily and James's son, but they weren't entirely sure on what to do about it. On one hand they wanted to bring him to the Underground and teach him the ways of running the Labyrinth. However, they remembered that when Harry was there with them, he had seemed adamant on going back. Even though he was only 17, he had face Voldemort several times and escaped. Jareth frowned, as he sat on throne beside Sarah.
"Sarah, we can't bring him here yet,"
"Why not?" she asked. "He's the rightful Heir of the Labyrinth. I know that Jason can do a good job running it but he has to run his father's kingdom as well."
"Well I had a talk with Harry yesterday."
"About what?"
"Albus's choice in DADA teachers. Three out of six of them were very loyal to this Voldemort. He's had several attempts on his life by Voldemort, both directly and indirectly."
"That's exactly why he should come here!" Sarah exclaimed.
"Love, I was kind of thinking that we should go there." Sarah looked at him in surprise. "Well he is the 'Savior of the Wizarding World' and it's only by his hand that this Voldemort fellow can be defeated. His Fae powers have not been awakened yet, I'll need to perform the ceremony for that as well. Plus if he doesn't want to come down here, we should go up there and see if we can help in this upcoming battle. Jason is old enough to look after the Labyrinth for a while. After all he is the only one that knows it as well as me." Sarah got up and sat in Jareth's lap.
"You're right," she sighed. "How do you think he'll take the news that we're his grandparents?" Jareth smirked.
"Something tells me that he already knows, love." Sarah frowned in puzzlement.
"How would he know?"
"Do you remember that when we were in Albus's office when he told us about Liliannah and James?" She winced and held him closer.
"How could I forget? That was the most shocking moment of my life." Jareth tilted her chin up so that she was looking up at him.
"Well I noticed that when Albus told us the date that Liliannah and James were murdered, Harry's young friend ...... what was her name? Oh yes, Hermione. Well she got this shocked look in her eyes. I could tell she wanted to blurt it out her suspicions. Did you see the way she dragged that Weasley boy out of the office?" Sarah nodded.
"Yes, I thought she was just uncomfortable being there whilst I was bawling my eyes out," she said. "It's not fair," she mumbled.
"What's not fair, love?" Jareth smirked.
"That you notice these things and I don't. It's just not fair." Jareth laughed. "What are you laughing about?"
"Every time you say that, you remind me of this beautiful and stubborn girl that ran the Labyrinth and broke my heart when she completed it." Sarah hit Jareth in the chest.
"I've told you a billion times that I thought you were saying those things to stall me. I never realized that you meant them." Jareth kissed her on the forehead.
"But you know that now," don't you?"
"Yes I do."
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Harry and Ron reached the boys dorm in the Gryffindor tower and hid the mirror.
"Hey Harry," said Ron. "Did you notice anything as we port-keyed out of the Dursley's?"
"Yeah, my Aunt busted us," he commented. Ron shrugged.
"Well I don't know why, but I thought I saw wacky blond hair out of the corner of my eye just as we left,"
"Must have been your imagination mate." Suddenly, the door to their dorm burst open and Collin rushed in.
"Oh Harry, Ron, you're back. That's good. Have you seen Sapna, by any chance?" Ron frowned. He was still suspicious about the Asian girl that regularly talked to snakes and was actually related to one!
"The weird girl that talks to snakes?" Collin rolled his eyes.
"Yes and Sapna is not 'weird'." Ron scoffed, 'Yeah right', under his breath. "We've not seen her since the mail came this morning."
"Yeah, didn't she rush out of the hall, once she read her letter?" asked Harry. Collin nodded.
"When Ginny asked her where she was going, she shouted, 'I'm going to drink poison and jump off the Astronomy tower'." Collin shook his head with a slight smile on his face. "She can be slightly over dramatic."
"I'd wondered who said that," said Ron. "I heard her at breakfast. Jumping off the Astronomy Tower after drinking poison? What could be so bad that would make her want to do that?" Collin shrugged.
"I dunno. That's why we're worried. We've looked everywhere and we can't find her!" Harry went to his trunk and pulled out the Marauders Map.
"I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good," he said, tapping it with his wand. Immediately, lines began forming on the piece of parchment and Collin looked at it in amazement. "What's her full name?" asked Harry.
"Sapna Trishna Wasai," he replied. Harry started looking for her.
"She's in the girl's dorm," he said, once he'd found her on the map.
"That's impossible! Ginny's been in there, just in case she turns up. I tell you she's not there."
"Let's go see then shall we? This map is never wrong." Together they went off to the girl's dormitory.
Ginny Weasley was sitting on her bed and frowning at Sapna's trunk as she read over her Muggle Studies homework. Zarina seemed to be bored because she was hissing so much that Ginny had ended up putting a silencing spell on the trunk. She was worried about Sapna. Whatever had been in that letter, had not been good. No one had passed away in her family, for if they had, it would have been a black owl to deliver the message. So why did Sapna say, in no uncertain terms, that she was going to kill herself?
Suddenly the door of the dorm opened and the three boys came in.
"According to the map, she should be over there," said Harry pointing towards Sapna's bed.
"Well, she's not here Harry," said Ginny, getting up off the bed. "I've not seen her since breakfast." Harry frowned.
"Well the Map is never wrong," Harry stated. "Have you put any spells on this area Ginny?"
"Yes a silencing charm because Zari was hissing quite a bit. Why, do you want me to take it off?" Harry nodded.
"Maybe, her snake knows where she is." Ginny nodded and took off the silencing charm. Immediately Harry heard two voices. One was comforting the other.
$*Don't worry Sapna, I'm sure that if you talk to your parents, they'll change their minds.*$ Harry stared at the trunk. How could Sapna fit in there?
$*Yeah right Zarina. You know what my Dad's like. He's given his word and his word is final. My life is ruined! I hate him so much and dad wants me to ..... Ugh, I can't even bring myself to say it! How could my own dad do this to me! He bloody well knows I hate him, so why would he do this to me?*$
"Harry what's wrong?" asked Ginny.
"Your friend is in the trunk talking to her snake," he replied. Ginny hit her hand on her head.
"Of course!" she exclaimed turning to Collin. "How could we be so stupid? Her animagus form is a snake!"
"Oh yeah," said Collin. "The last time she went AWOL on us was last year when Rahul transferred here on Halloween."
Ginny went over to the trunk and opened it. Both of the snakes looked up in surprise.
"Come on Sapna," she said picking up the black and silver cobra. "Change back and tell us what's wrong." Sapna the snake shook her head. "It can't be that bad, can it?" Sapna nodded and hissed something viciously and Ginny frowned. "Harry what did she say?" Harry looked slightly amused as he related what Sapna had said.
"She said, 'It's so bad that I'm going to drink poison, sing a Hindi song about pain and suffering, and then jump off the Astronomy Tower whilst casting the Avada Kedavra curse on myself'." Ginny rolled her eyes.
"Stop being so over dramatic and tell us what's wrong." Sapna slid off Ginny's arm over to her own bed and changed back. Ginny sighed. Sapna was wearing a black Indian trouser suit, black mascara was running down her cheeks, which showed that she'd been crying. She fell back onto her bed.
"Please, Avada me now. Anything would be better than what's lying in store for me." Harry and Ron shifted nervously as Collin and Ginny went and sat on the bed beside her.
"Hey, don't say that Saps," said Collin. "Nothing can be that bad, surely." Sapna said nothing. She reached under her pillow and handed him the letter that she'd received that morning.
"Read it. See what it says. Tell the whole world that I'd die rather than do what my dad's asking me to do in that letter." Collin gave the letter to Ginny and she read it out loud.
"My Dearest Daughter. I know that what I'm about to say in this letter will upset you greatly, but please do not take any drastic actions to avoid this. I know you very well and I know what you're capable of. Your great grandma has been taken ill. No magic or muggle medicines can cure her. All they can do is prolong her life for a maximum of three years. Her last wish is that you be married soon after you finish your education. We compared your birth chart to all the boys that we thought suitable for you. However they did not match. So we took the last chart, and compared it to yours and miraculously, they matched. The chart that matched yours was the one we hoped would not, due to your um ..... differences. I am sorry to tell you that once you finish your education at Hogwarts, you will be married to Rahul. I know that you will not be happy with this, but I have given my word to his parents and I ask of you to do this for the sake of your great grandma. Your Father."
Ginny looked over at Collin as they both hid their smiles.
"Kill me now! I won't marry him! I will never marry him! So what if he looks like Shah Rukh Khan! So what if he can dance like Michael Jackson and can fight like Akshay Kumar. So what if his blasted chart matches mine! I hate him!" Sapna screamed as Ginny and Collin comforted her.
"We'll just ..... err ..... go now," said Ron.
"Yeah," nodded Harry in agreement as the backed slowly towards the door. "We'll just go." Then ran back to their dorm as soon as the got out of the door, laughing at poor Sapna's predicament.
By Rina Bollyqueen 420
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A/N Sorry that I haven't updated in over a week, but college and work are becoming really demanding. Also a quick note to say that in this chapter, whenever you see a $* sign, whatever's being said, it's in parseltongue.
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Jareth's Decision and a Shock for Sapna
"Jareth love, stop pacing," said Sarah. "You're making me dizzy." They were back in the Underground, not sure what step to take next. They knew that Harry was Lily and James's son, but they weren't entirely sure on what to do about it. On one hand they wanted to bring him to the Underground and teach him the ways of running the Labyrinth. However, they remembered that when Harry was there with them, he had seemed adamant on going back. Even though he was only 17, he had face Voldemort several times and escaped. Jareth frowned, as he sat on throne beside Sarah.
"Sarah, we can't bring him here yet,"
"Why not?" she asked. "He's the rightful Heir of the Labyrinth. I know that Jason can do a good job running it but he has to run his father's kingdom as well."
"Well I had a talk with Harry yesterday."
"About what?"
"Albus's choice in DADA teachers. Three out of six of them were very loyal to this Voldemort. He's had several attempts on his life by Voldemort, both directly and indirectly."
"That's exactly why he should come here!" Sarah exclaimed.
"Love, I was kind of thinking that we should go there." Sarah looked at him in surprise. "Well he is the 'Savior of the Wizarding World' and it's only by his hand that this Voldemort fellow can be defeated. His Fae powers have not been awakened yet, I'll need to perform the ceremony for that as well. Plus if he doesn't want to come down here, we should go up there and see if we can help in this upcoming battle. Jason is old enough to look after the Labyrinth for a while. After all he is the only one that knows it as well as me." Sarah got up and sat in Jareth's lap.
"You're right," she sighed. "How do you think he'll take the news that we're his grandparents?" Jareth smirked.
"Something tells me that he already knows, love." Sarah frowned in puzzlement.
"How would he know?"
"Do you remember that when we were in Albus's office when he told us about Liliannah and James?" She winced and held him closer.
"How could I forget? That was the most shocking moment of my life." Jareth tilted her chin up so that she was looking up at him.
"Well I noticed that when Albus told us the date that Liliannah and James were murdered, Harry's young friend ...... what was her name? Oh yes, Hermione. Well she got this shocked look in her eyes. I could tell she wanted to blurt it out her suspicions. Did you see the way she dragged that Weasley boy out of the office?" Sarah nodded.
"Yes, I thought she was just uncomfortable being there whilst I was bawling my eyes out," she said. "It's not fair," she mumbled.
"What's not fair, love?" Jareth smirked.
"That you notice these things and I don't. It's just not fair." Jareth laughed. "What are you laughing about?"
"Every time you say that, you remind me of this beautiful and stubborn girl that ran the Labyrinth and broke my heart when she completed it." Sarah hit Jareth in the chest.
"I've told you a billion times that I thought you were saying those things to stall me. I never realized that you meant them." Jareth kissed her on the forehead.
"But you know that now," don't you?"
"Yes I do."
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Harry and Ron reached the boys dorm in the Gryffindor tower and hid the mirror.
"Hey Harry," said Ron. "Did you notice anything as we port-keyed out of the Dursley's?"
"Yeah, my Aunt busted us," he commented. Ron shrugged.
"Well I don't know why, but I thought I saw wacky blond hair out of the corner of my eye just as we left,"
"Must have been your imagination mate." Suddenly, the door to their dorm burst open and Collin rushed in.
"Oh Harry, Ron, you're back. That's good. Have you seen Sapna, by any chance?" Ron frowned. He was still suspicious about the Asian girl that regularly talked to snakes and was actually related to one!
"The weird girl that talks to snakes?" Collin rolled his eyes.
"Yes and Sapna is not 'weird'." Ron scoffed, 'Yeah right', under his breath. "We've not seen her since the mail came this morning."
"Yeah, didn't she rush out of the hall, once she read her letter?" asked Harry. Collin nodded.
"When Ginny asked her where she was going, she shouted, 'I'm going to drink poison and jump off the Astronomy tower'." Collin shook his head with a slight smile on his face. "She can be slightly over dramatic."
"I'd wondered who said that," said Ron. "I heard her at breakfast. Jumping off the Astronomy Tower after drinking poison? What could be so bad that would make her want to do that?" Collin shrugged.
"I dunno. That's why we're worried. We've looked everywhere and we can't find her!" Harry went to his trunk and pulled out the Marauders Map.
"I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good," he said, tapping it with his wand. Immediately, lines began forming on the piece of parchment and Collin looked at it in amazement. "What's her full name?" asked Harry.
"Sapna Trishna Wasai," he replied. Harry started looking for her.
"She's in the girl's dorm," he said, once he'd found her on the map.
"That's impossible! Ginny's been in there, just in case she turns up. I tell you she's not there."
"Let's go see then shall we? This map is never wrong." Together they went off to the girl's dormitory.
Ginny Weasley was sitting on her bed and frowning at Sapna's trunk as she read over her Muggle Studies homework. Zarina seemed to be bored because she was hissing so much that Ginny had ended up putting a silencing spell on the trunk. She was worried about Sapna. Whatever had been in that letter, had not been good. No one had passed away in her family, for if they had, it would have been a black owl to deliver the message. So why did Sapna say, in no uncertain terms, that she was going to kill herself?
Suddenly the door of the dorm opened and the three boys came in.
"According to the map, she should be over there," said Harry pointing towards Sapna's bed.
"Well, she's not here Harry," said Ginny, getting up off the bed. "I've not seen her since breakfast." Harry frowned.
"Well the Map is never wrong," Harry stated. "Have you put any spells on this area Ginny?"
"Yes a silencing charm because Zari was hissing quite a bit. Why, do you want me to take it off?" Harry nodded.
"Maybe, her snake knows where she is." Ginny nodded and took off the silencing charm. Immediately Harry heard two voices. One was comforting the other.
$*Don't worry Sapna, I'm sure that if you talk to your parents, they'll change their minds.*$ Harry stared at the trunk. How could Sapna fit in there?
$*Yeah right Zarina. You know what my Dad's like. He's given his word and his word is final. My life is ruined! I hate him so much and dad wants me to ..... Ugh, I can't even bring myself to say it! How could my own dad do this to me! He bloody well knows I hate him, so why would he do this to me?*$
"Harry what's wrong?" asked Ginny.
"Your friend is in the trunk talking to her snake," he replied. Ginny hit her hand on her head.
"Of course!" she exclaimed turning to Collin. "How could we be so stupid? Her animagus form is a snake!"
"Oh yeah," said Collin. "The last time she went AWOL on us was last year when Rahul transferred here on Halloween."
Ginny went over to the trunk and opened it. Both of the snakes looked up in surprise.
"Come on Sapna," she said picking up the black and silver cobra. "Change back and tell us what's wrong." Sapna the snake shook her head. "It can't be that bad, can it?" Sapna nodded and hissed something viciously and Ginny frowned. "Harry what did she say?" Harry looked slightly amused as he related what Sapna had said.
"She said, 'It's so bad that I'm going to drink poison, sing a Hindi song about pain and suffering, and then jump off the Astronomy Tower whilst casting the Avada Kedavra curse on myself'." Ginny rolled her eyes.
"Stop being so over dramatic and tell us what's wrong." Sapna slid off Ginny's arm over to her own bed and changed back. Ginny sighed. Sapna was wearing a black Indian trouser suit, black mascara was running down her cheeks, which showed that she'd been crying. She fell back onto her bed.
"Please, Avada me now. Anything would be better than what's lying in store for me." Harry and Ron shifted nervously as Collin and Ginny went and sat on the bed beside her.
"Hey, don't say that Saps," said Collin. "Nothing can be that bad, surely." Sapna said nothing. She reached under her pillow and handed him the letter that she'd received that morning.
"Read it. See what it says. Tell the whole world that I'd die rather than do what my dad's asking me to do in that letter." Collin gave the letter to Ginny and she read it out loud.
"My Dearest Daughter. I know that what I'm about to say in this letter will upset you greatly, but please do not take any drastic actions to avoid this. I know you very well and I know what you're capable of. Your great grandma has been taken ill. No magic or muggle medicines can cure her. All they can do is prolong her life for a maximum of three years. Her last wish is that you be married soon after you finish your education. We compared your birth chart to all the boys that we thought suitable for you. However they did not match. So we took the last chart, and compared it to yours and miraculously, they matched. The chart that matched yours was the one we hoped would not, due to your um ..... differences. I am sorry to tell you that once you finish your education at Hogwarts, you will be married to Rahul. I know that you will not be happy with this, but I have given my word to his parents and I ask of you to do this for the sake of your great grandma. Your Father."
Ginny looked over at Collin as they both hid their smiles.
"Kill me now! I won't marry him! I will never marry him! So what if he looks like Shah Rukh Khan! So what if he can dance like Michael Jackson and can fight like Akshay Kumar. So what if his blasted chart matches mine! I hate him!" Sapna screamed as Ginny and Collin comforted her.
"We'll just ..... err ..... go now," said Ron.
"Yeah," nodded Harry in agreement as the backed slowly towards the door. "We'll just go." Then ran back to their dorm as soon as the got out of the door, laughing at poor Sapna's predicament.