"What the hell was that…" Harry said looking around the room.
"I have no idea… w – where are we?" Hermione asked slowly standing up and brushing the dust and dirt from the floor off her clothes.
"It looks like, like your room, Harry." Ron said taking in all the features and mentally comparing them to the room he knew. "But what the bloody hell happened?"
Harry shook his head. "I don't know I really don't have an explanation for this… I was kinda hoping you would." He confessed touching the shelves and bookcase that looked exactly like the ones in his room only they weren't.
"Come on, maybe we're just in a different part of the house," she said hopefully.
"I don't think so; I've seen the entire house. But let's hope this is a part I haven't seen." Harry said and the three Gryffindors all walked to the door and slowly opened it, the creaking of it echoing throughout the entire hallway. They stepped out and shut it behind them slowly, the house looked dead. Like no one had been living in it for years. But this was defiantly the Black house, and it was Harry's room, there were pictures on the walls, same ones in the other house. Everything was exactly the same.
"This is not a different house." Ron said as they took a few steps down the hallway.
"Um… what do we do?" Hermione asked.
"Okay lets just walk around there has to be an explanation." Harry said and they walked to the stairs and when they steps on each step a loud creaking sound was heard, it was like the steps would break any second. As they wandered into the main room they saw someone go by, he was tall, black hair. That's all they saw. "Sirius!?" Harry said walking faster, it had to be Sirius, that's the only person it could have been.
The figure came back and they saw it was defiantly not Sirius but he was indeed a member of the Black family. "Who the hell are you?" he asked in a harsh voice. "What are you doing in my home?"
"You're home?" Harry asked. "This is Sirius's home, he lives here."
"I don't know any Sirius, now get out of my house!" he yelled at them.
"No! Not until you tell us who you are and what you're doing in Sirius's house." Harry demanded.
"I don't know any Sirius," he said.
"Okay, fine, you don't know Sirius." Hermione said stepping forward and stopping Harry from saying anything. "But can you please tell us your name and what happened here?"
"What happened here? Nothing, it's always been like this and this is how it will remain. I'm the only one here now. My whole family is dead." He responded in a sad tone. "Mother and Father died years ago, I was told I had an older brother but he died at birth."
"Sirius?" Harry mouthed to Ron and he shrugged. Hermione stepped forward a little more not noticing then.
"Okay, so what's your name?"
"Why should I tell you?" he asked.
"You don't have any reason, I'd just like to know who you are so maybe we can find out what happened to our friends." She said. "Please, a name?"
"Regulus." He answered. "Now that you have my name just go, get out of my house and leave me be." He said almost pleadingly. Blacks didn't plea, let along death eaters.
"A – Alright…" She said and turned back around to the boys. "Um, let's go." She said to them and before they could respond she pushed them toward the door.
"'Mione what are you doing?" Harry whispered to her. "We can't leave."
"We have to, we can't stay." She argued.
"Why not?" Ron asked.
"Why do you think?" She whispered between clenched teeth as she led them out the door which was promptly shut behind them making Hermione jump slightly. They looked ahead the road looked different, the pavement was broken and crumbling, there was garbage all over the streets and a few buildings look like they were burned down. There was absolutely no one to be seen anywhere and even the houses that Harry knew people lived in were empty. "Okay first thing I say is try and find someone we know."
"Like who?" Ron asked. "Sirius isn't here!"
"There are more people in this world other then Sirius, Ronald!" She said. "We could try and find Prof – I mean Remus." She said reminding herself that they had constantly been told not to call Remus Professor any longer.
"How would we find him?" Ron asked.
"He's a werewolf, Ron."
Harry nodded understanding. "That means he would be registered." He said. "All we have to do is go to the ministry and look him up."
"Exactly, now come on." She stuck her wand out in the road expecting the night bus but nothing happened. "Um, alright then, we can try and apparate." She suggested.
"Oh Hermione wants to breaks the rules." Ron said laughing; legally they could not apparate yet because they were not of age yet.
"Shut up, Ron, let's just go for it." She said and grabbed a hold of both boys. "On the count of three we go there"
"Why can't we just flew." Harry said not really wanting to do this.
"Do you see a fireplace?" She asked and receiving no answer she nodded and began counting. "One… Two… Three." There was a crack and the three students disappeared and seconds later reappeared where the ministry should be. When they walked inside they were shocked to find that it no longer existed. It was defiantly once there but it was run down and destroyed, walls were missing, windows were shattered and the once beautiful water fountain in the center was crumbling and pieces were broken off. It looked horrible.
"Oh my God…" Hermione breathed. "What happened?"
"I don't know." Harry said. "But we won't get any answers here." He said and tuned his back on the destroyed water fountain.
"But Harry!" Hermione called after him.
"We won't get any answers here," he repeated. "This place won't help us."
"Then where are we gonna go?" Ron asked.
"Anywhere but here," Harry said and leaned against a wall trying to think up somewhere where they could go. After a few minutes he spoke up, "what about a library? We could look things up on a computer." He said.
"I don't know Harry…" Hermione said shaking her head. "Wizards aren't big on the muggle technology."
"It's our only chance." He said and she nodded.
"Okay I know this good library near my house, it's always open and has some good computers." She said and took hold of the boys once again. "Let's try this." She sighed and in another crack they disappeared only to reappear behind a brick wall.
She walked a head and peeked around a corner the boys followed her and she was relieved to see that it was still in one piece. She opened the doors and was relieved to find that no one was in sight aside from the librarian, it was the same old woman who always was there but when she looked up and saw Hermione walk in she didn't give it a second thought and looked back down without the slightest change in her expression. Usually she was a sweet woman, always said hello, she knew Hermione well but she seemed bitter now.
Hermione walked over to a computer in the back where the librarian could no longer see then and booted the computer up. "I pray to Merlin this works…" She said in a low voice.
"It better," Harry said. "If this doesn't work I don't know what more we could do."
"Couldn't we just go home, see our families?" Ron said.
"I don't think so Ron, something is obviously wrong here, we may not even exist and therefore our families wouldn't want to help some crazy kids and if we do we risk being killed by our other selves. I think it would be best we leave doing that to our last resort." She said and looked at the monitor. "Here we go," she said as the computer booted up all the way. After a few clicks and typing in werewolf registry in the computer she gasped as she got a link to the ministry's main page. "It worked." She practically shrieked.
"Yes!" Harry yelled earning them a yell from the librarian. "She's just as bad as Madam Prince." He muttered.
Ron watched Hermione click around; he was completely confused, not knowing anything about muggle technology unlike Harry and Hermione.
"Okay, this is a list of all the registered werewolves." Hermione said as she clicked on a page. "They look like they're in alphabetical order, so… Lupin, Lupin, Lupin…" She muttered as she scrolled down. "Ah-ha! Here we go," she said and clicked on the name Lupin, Remus John. "Oh my God…" She whispered in shock as she read Remus's profile.
AN: Cliffie! Woo! I am proud of myself this was made through non stop writing, it really was I was not gonna quit until I was done and I was very happy when i finished. And people things will get explained later on, I have everything planned out, no need to get confused or yell at me. Fufu.a.k.a.speechless, Freeman Allen Fisher and HedwigandHermes7 thank you very much for the reviews and I will try and update faster next time.