Hello, everyone.
This part is not a new chapter, but it is something important that I think may clear up some confusion. If you have not read the chapters previous to this, DO NOT READ THIS! Okay?
This "Time-Line" outlines all the events and the times (roughly) the occurred within the 24 hours. Yes, all the things that have happened in this story took place within that short a time. A number of events in the time-line may have not happened directly in the story, though they did occur. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email and ask.
AT THE END OF THIS TIME-LINE, look for an alternate sequence of events for part of "Reunions: The Road To Truly Awakening". Many of you have expressed an interest in it (as you have for this time line), so I felt that I should just put it up for the heck of it.
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WARNING!!!! IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE CHAPTERS PREVIOUS TO THIS, EVERYTHING IS ABOUT TO BE SPOILED FOR YOU!!!! THIS IS A VERY, VERY DETAILED TIME-LINE!!!
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Charmed Curses Time Line
(Muggle Time )Thursday, Halloween, 1981 (The Past)
11:10 p.m.:
~ Lily and James are waiting for word from Peter in their house in Godric's Hollow.
12:05 a.m.:
~ Voldemort attacks (destroying James' wand in the process) and uses a 'Time-Turner'-like device on James. James is sent about fourteen years into the future.
(Muggle Time) Thursday, Halloween, 1995 (The Present)
11:00 p.m.:
~ James appears in the future in front of his long destroyed house/cottage in Godric's Hollow, falls unconscious.
~ At Hogwarts, Harry gets a weird feeling and nearly faints during the Halloween Feast.
12: 17 a.m.:
~ James regains consciousness, and in a state of catatonia, attempts to disapparate to Diagon Alley in search of his son and wife. Apparates into a store(Ollivander's Wand Shop), and, exhausted, falls asleep.
~ Mr. Weasley is working overtime because of the "Wizard Halloween Celebration"/or "Mishaps", and Percy comes to check on him. Percy informs him about some missing Dementors form Azkaban.
~ It is the night of a full moon, and Lupin becomes a werewolf...
12: 20 a.m.:
~ Harry lies awake in his dorm, pondering the odd feeling he had earlier...
6: 43 a.m.:
~ Ollivander finds James while he is about to open his shop and wakes him. Ollivander gives James a new, replacement wand, similar to his old (Old: mahogany, 11", pliable (excellent for transfiguration) New: mahogany, 10", pliable, phoenix tail tore.).
~ Ollivander allows James to clean up while he goes and does something "important" (To write a letter for Dumbledore).
6: 56 a.m.:
~ James wanders off form Ollivander's to find Lily and Harry.
~ Ollivander, after returning to find James missing, runs off to the owl office to send his letter to Dumbledore about what he'd seen.
7: 38 a.m.:
~ Dumbledore receives Ollivander's owl as he's leaving his office.
~ Dumbledore soon writes two owls, one for Remus and Sirius (Sirius is staying with Remus), and another for Mr. Weasley.
~ McGonagall sends these owl immediately.
~ Dumbledore asks Hagrid to take a few Blast-Ended Skrewt eggs, use an aging potion on them, and bring them to the dungeons.
8: 33 a.m.:
~ Harry dreams of Voldemort and Wormtail, who are planning to hunt someone down using Dementors. Lucius comes to bring the Dark Lord news.
~ Ron wakes Harry from a nightmare about Voldemort (Harry doesn't remember it when he wakes).
8: 45 a.m.:
~ Within a hidden room behind the teachers' table in the Great Hall, Dumbledore gives Snape a request to find James before the Death Eaters or anyone else does.
~ Dumbledore announces that the dungeons have been infested with Blast-Ended Skrewts.
~ Potions and Care of Magical Creatures are canceled for the day.
8: 53 a.m.:
~ At the Burrow while heading off to work, Mr. Weasley receives Dumbledore's owl.
~ Charlie communicates through the fireplace, insisting that they have an emergency with Dementors in the London Underground, everyone in the Ministry is needed.
~ Mr. Weasly asks Charlie to acquire a Portkey to Hogwarts.
~ About this time a huge rainstorm has hit London.
~ Snape has by now left Hogwarts on broomstick, and will Apparate once he reaches the edge of the Hogwarts enchantments.
9:34 a.m.:
~ In a small Wizarding town a few miles outside of London, Lupin wakes Sirius.
~ By this time Charlie was gotten the Portkey and has placed it just outside the passage leading to the London Bridge.
~ Charlie sends out an anonymous owl to search for Snape, for whenever he should arrive in the London Underground.
9:55 a.m.:
~ Dumbledore's owl arrives at Lupin's house.
~ Sirius and Lupin soon head off to Ollivander's.
10:00 a.m.:
~ Snape arrives somewhere in the area near Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley. He receive an owl from an anonymous sender, telling him... (Well, you read it, didn't you?)
~A "pointer" charm tells him to search in the dark passages of the Underground.
10:12 a.m.:
~ Lupin and Sirius arrive at Ollivander's, having Apperated (Sirius shows himself as a dog at first).
~ Ollivander faints from terror after being threatened directly my human Sirius for not telling the truth about James' whereabouts..
~ Sirius uses James's scent and they follow it into the passages of the Underground...
~ Harry, Ron and Hermione are investigating this "Skrewt" business
~ They are attacked by three Skrewts, but manage to take care of them (Without killing them.).
~ Hagrid lets some information slip, and Dumbledore tells Harry about his father.
10: 28 a.m.:
~ James is found by Lucius in the passageways after he experiences an odd and highly disturbing daydream.
10:36 a.m.:
~ Snape arrives and attacks Lucius by surprise.
~ Snape and James fight. James catches Snape my surprise...
~ Mr. Weasley is assembled in a team to hunt down the Dementors in the northern area of the Underground. Charlie is in a team searching the southern areas.
10:44 a.m.:
~ Three Dementors arrive, both James and Snape go down.
~ Sirius (as a dog) attacks the Dementors holding James, but he is injured when they gang up on him.
~ Lupin arrives a moment after Sirius and wards the Dementors off with a (wolf-like ("Lupinus")) Patronus.
~ Harry attempts to leave Hogwarts to help look for his father but is stopped.
10:56 a.m.:
~ Lupin, Sirius and Snape are now at odds, James is unconscious due to very resent events. They finally go off in search of the Portkey prepared by "a friend".
~ Mr. Weasley's team intercepts a group of Dementors....
11:37 a.m.:
~ About this time the Skrewts have gone out of control, one has killed another. Hagrid is forced to restrain them.
11:58 a.m.:
~ Sirius, Lupin and Snape are attacked (Unknowingly by Charlie's Ministry team.). A battle ensues. Lupin's ankle is injured by a curse.
12:04 a.m.:
~ James awakes during this battle, and goes into a fit rage. The Passage begins to collapse on top of them, crushing their attackers and coming very close to crushing them as well.
12: 20 a.m.:
~ They manage to drag James to the Portkey.
~ Sirius is hit for behind as they are leaving with the Portkey, but is saved at the last moment by his worst enemy...
~ They instantly appear at Hogwarts just outside the Great Hall, and the castle begins to collapse.
~ Sirius and Snape knock James out with a few "Stupefy" curses, which finally take some sort of effect on him.
~ Lupin stumbles into the great hall, where Harry and the rest of Hogwarts is having lunch. He asks for Dumbledore, then collapses.
~ School is canceled for the day, and Hagrid quickly removes the Skrewts for the dungeons, returning this to there original "egg" forms using unknown methods.
12:47 p.m.:
~ Lupin wakes in the infirmary, where James is asleep and Snape is being cared for. Sirius is there, guarding.
1:05 p.m.:
~ Sirius goes to talk to Harry.
~ Lupin tells Dumbledore about everything that happened in the Underground with James...
2:13 p.m.:
~ Mr. Weasley is back at the Ministry. They have chased off the Dementors, all 13 of them.
~ Percy tells Mr. Weasly that Charlie's team had gone into the passages of the Underground and was attacked...
2:23 p.m.:
~ James wakes and talks to Lupin. He finds out that Harry is alive.
2:32 p.m.:
~ Sirius returns form his conversation with Harry and talks to James about this situation.
2:40 p.m.:
~ They get the idea of letting James use a Pensive. Sirius and Lupin leave for Dumbledore's office, and Lupin breaks down in front of him.
3:06 p.m.:
~ Sirius, Lupin and Dumbledore return with the Pensive and use it on James.
3:20 p.m.:
~ They leave James alone to rest (finally). Pomfrey locks the infirmary behind her. She does return periodically during the day to check on both him and Snape.
5:34 p.m.:
~ Harry talks with Ron and Hermione in the Gryffindor Common Room.
~ Harry wants to see his dad, but sees no way of getting to the infirmary again without getting caught (There are too many people up and around.).
11:55 a.m.:
~ Harry wakes from another nightmare about Voldemort, this time through a very... different, point of view.
~ He rushes right away to see his dad.
12:12 a.m.:
~ Harry arrives at the infirmary, using the Sirius' gift to get through the lock.
~ He finds James asleep, and all attempts to wake him fail. He gives up, but doesn't leave. Soon, he drifts off to sleep.
1:31 a.m.:
~ James watches from another odd dream about Lily, only to find his son asleep and...
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Special thanks to:
GittaPet, for being my best friend in this (and everything else) and supporting me.
Foxfur, an anonymous reviewer, and her very lively... bother...
Giesbrecht, who, for one, has an awesome German author name (I'm German, so sue me.), and threatened to get me to write more chapters in other ways than just flying monkeys. (I believe you planned on "stringing me up by my thumbs from the nose of George Washington's bust on Mount Rushmore"... BOY that was a good one! I shall remember it forever!)
To any and all critics, for their... critical critiquing. It was constructive, believe me!
Thank you again, all.
Geuna~
Oh, and for those who were interested. I did have an alternate version to the scene in the London Underground, where James snapped. Lupin retells the event to Dumbledore, but this retelling is very, very different. Sirius hadn't left yet to talk to Harry, and Snape decided to be in on the conversation. Tell me what you think, if you read. I just liked it, but I didn't want to go overboard originally... In the emotional sense.
Geuna~
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~ Situation: Lupin is telling Dumbledore about what happened in the Underground. Sirius and Snape are present at the time, and their points of view are added as well. Sirius has not yet gone to talk to Harry, nor do they know that he is waiting as of yet.
In this instant, Lupin is against the wall, and James is there, too, still unconscious. Lupin is struggling to wake him while Sirius and Snape fight off their attackers...~
(Starts with Sirius' POV...)
They stood at the end of the passage, so very close to their goal. The Portkey was just a little bit ahead of them, they could make it if they ran. But that would mean leaving James... That couldn't, wouldn't happen...
"It doesn't matter anymore," Snape screamed to Lupin. "Just wake him! NOW!"
Lupin had tried, but his spells weren't having any effect. "I'm trying! 'Enervate' isn't working! He's not in a normal state of sleep!" No one could sleep through something like this...
"Stupefy! Dammit!" Sirius was fighting against the pain now. He was still pressing himself against the stone wall, his teeth gritted, eye squinted as he tried to see ahead. "We can't even see them! Who are we fighting!?" A well aimed curse nearly struck him in the head, but he'd seen it coming and moved out of the way, wincing as he felt it whiz past his ear and slammed into something behind him. "Bastards!"
Snape cursed. "This isn't working!"
"Shut-up!!"
"Idiot! We're loosing this! Wake him or we're as good as dead, werewolf!!"
Lupin was about to yell something to them when--
"PADFOOT!! J-James!!"
"What!? What's happened!?" Sirius looked across to the other side of the passage, struggling to see Lupin as he lay on the ground, with James...
James had awoken...
And it terrified Lupin...
Sirius didn't know what was happening, trying to understand what Lupin was talking about. "Wha--....?"
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Of course Sirius wouldn't see. Lupin was a werewolf, and no matter what form he took he could still sense things. Things that a normal human couldn't. That was one of the few things he race was blessed with during the day. And what he could sense from James... His eyes were oddly focused, though he wasn't wearing his glasses... Those dead eyes, starring out...
He wasn't James....
'Chaos...' Chaos in those dead eyes... "Oh.... Merlin....."
Sirius was shouting something, but Lupin didn't hear. More curses flew bye, threatening to hit him once again, but still, he didn't care. "James..." His continued to stare blankly forward, his eyes glistening with an unearthly light that made Lupin shiver. "James... James!" He grabbed the mans shoulders and shook him roughly, screaming, "Come back!!" He was so very far away!
James blinked.
Lupin held his breath as those dead eyes finally turned to him, focused on him...
They... They burned into his soul, but he couldn't look away.
James smiled. "Don't worry, Moony," he murmured, his voice monotone. "I'll kill them for all of you..."
No...
No, no, no, no, no.....
"James," Lupin said pleadingly, "you're still asleep, you have to be..."
James just smiled. A smile that ever reached his eyes. Not those eyes.
It was driving Lupin mad... "Wake-up!! Your friends want you back, James!!"
"Moony," Sirius screamed, "What's the matter with you!? GET UP!!"
"James!!"
"Moony!? Snap out of it, please!! Moony? Moony!!"
"James!! No--"
"You're going to die if you done move!!"
"JAAAAMES!!!"
*End Flashback*
Dumbledore frowned, interrupting quietly. "You say this "feeling" came over you. What do you mean?"
Lupin shook his head slowly, bringing a palm to his forehead. He was shaking, but he couldn't help it now. "I'm not sure, Albus... I could feel something, smell something... It was like a Dementor... and it wasn't... I'm sorry, that didn't make any sense..." Dumbledore just nodded his head, indicating for Lupin to continue anyway. "But it was still affecting my mind. Yes, I know that now. All my fears, doubts and sadness were magnified so that..." Pause.... "I... I don't know... It took control, and I didn't know what I was doing anymore."
"Perhaps there was a Dementor still in the area," Sirius offered suggestively. "I've... known them to cause such feelings of madness."
"This didn't happen right away, though," Lupin insisted. "Or... No, I wasn't living my worst fear, really. But it was a fear. I feared that I would... lose James... again..." He sighed. "I was a terrible fear, but I wasn't being consumed for clouded by it..."
Dumbledore leaned forward at this point, his hand clasped tightly in front of his in his lap. "Then how do you mean, Remus?"
"It was more like I was trying to act against it... I could feel myself being driven to destroy the source my fear, to try and fix things, or make it better... I felt it when I was close to James, when he was awake. And as I stayed near him the feeling only became stronger..."
Sirius nodded, fingering his bruised shoulder unconsciously. "I can't say I saw any of this. I was too busy fighting the attackers."
"As was I," Snape said quietly, starring off into space. "Potter seemed quiet mad already when I met him earlier--"
"He is NOT mad," Sirius screamed, moving to stand stalk over to Snape before Dumbledore gave him a stern look.
Albus Dumbledore didn't need to raise a hand to signal for Sirius to halt. Not a man with eyes like his. This eyes showed was true power that man really had... "There will be no fighting at this time," Dumbledore said firmly. "You will be civil, or I will have to take drastic measures." There was an odd twinkle in his eye when he said this. Then he turned back to Lupin and said, "Please, continue."
Lupin nodded. "When he said he would protect me I didn't know what he meant, but the way he looked at me..." He shivered, frantically rubbing at his arms as goosebumps raised on his skin. "I-It was like he was another person... I didn't know him. He would really kill. He would, I just know it. And then..."
* Continue Flashback*
"You're going to die if you done move!!"
"JAAAAMES!!!"
James didn't react, and Lupin couldn't hear Sirius and Snape both yelling at him now to help, to defend himself, to do something, anything, to help their situation. But Lupin couldn't hear them. He only understood the horrible images and thoughts that formed in his head.
Dark thoughts...
Then something hit him, snapping him back to reality. He felt dizzy, ill, like he was going to fall over. Lupin felt his back hit the wall as he was forced to lay back, his eyes swinging in and out of focus. T-That had hurt, terribly...
Whispered words....
"Silly, Moony, do you think I would leave you all...?" Low giggling, vicious snickering. "I can never let any of you die.
"I'll kill them first..."
For a moment everything seemed to pause. The fight halted, nobody breathed, it grew colder and a nearly tangible tremor passed through the air.
And the world began to tremble......
And you know where it goes from there...
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There you have it. So, what do you think? This is an insight on the fact that perhaps James' insanity isn't something in his head alone. Perhaps it's something almost... tangible, that can affect those in contact with him... Maybe.
REVEIW if you so desire, but it would very much be appreciated.
Thank you,
Geuna~
Oh, just because I love this part, I reedited it and made it a little better! Quick read!
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"......."
"You have no need to fear for James."
Lupin looked up, confused. "What?"
Dumbledore walked over to James' bedside, looking over the man carefully. "I feel... something odd from him. But I don't know what it is, yet..." He saw the odd look Lupin was giving him and he smiled back, winking a little. "All because I'm an old man doesn't mean I can't sense things."
"True...." Lupin tried to ignore his own doubts, but they kept voicing themselves over and over in his head, louder and more insistent every time. "I want to help him, but I don't know how... He's seems very ill in the mind..."
"He's catatonic," Snape said simply. "It is obvious to me. The way he kept raving like that, I think he's lost his mind."
"We don't know that!"
"That Cruciatus Curse can drive men mad, you know that--"
"I am a werewolf," Lupin roared, "I could feel it! I could smell it! Something that other humans can't, that you can't! Don't tell me what you think, Severus, because I know! James is not insane!"
It took Lupin a moment to realize exactly what he'd screamed, his face heating as he felt both Dumbledore and Snape starring at him in shock.
"I... I'm sorry..."
"You can sense something," Dumbledore said thoughtfully, seemingly unaffected by Lupin's outburst (While Snape was still starring it him.). "Can you explain?"
Lupin gulped, looking for the right words. "There is something there, and it's NOT James... That wasn't him... in the passage..."
But if it wasn't James...
Who or what was it...?