This is my next chapter. I know that it has taken me a while to update, but I have been really busy on vacation. In this chapter it starts at Harry's second week at Hogwarts and he only has two friends and he is pretty much a big outcast in the Slytherin house.

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The Other Potter:

Harry woke up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat. He saw the last bits of the dream he had woke up from. He tried to remember what had been dreaming of before he woke up. He saw a vague image of a dark shadow floating around the Hogwarts grounds. He also saw a vague image of himself wandering the grounds very close to the castle and staying far away from the forest where the shadow was.

He tried to remember the details, but it was like holding a polished ball of granite. It just kept slipping away from him.

He wanted to remember but he just couldn't. He said quietly to himself, "What was that dream about?"

He didn't know what to do about the dream, so he just decided to go back to sleep.

The instant he laid down he slept. He quickly returned to the dream that had caused him to wake up. He was walking along the Hogwarts grounds right in the middle of the other Harry and the black shadow.

He walked up to the other Harry and said, "What is that thing over by the Forbidden Forest, and who are you?"

"I'm Harry Potter from the past. I guess I have a lot of explaining to do." he said when he saw the confused look on Harry's face.

"Well, you know a lot about Voldemort already, so that helps me. I am Harry from a past life. I got killed and then you came along." and he continued to tell all about the first Harry's life and then stopped at a part during his seventh year in the magical world. He said, "Well, I gave up my life to save my best friends, their families and the other people that died trying to save me from Voldemort. I walked into the forest and he killed me with the killing curse. But instead of me going to heaven, I found myself back in my eleven year old body right before I got onto the train. That is the last thing you remember right?"



"Yeah it is."

"That dark shadow over there is the piece of Voldemort that locked onto you when he tried to kill you as a baby. When the curse backfired, a little piece of himself locked onto you. Less of himself left your house that day than he knew. Oh, and I know that you and Ron Weasley aren't friends anymore. Give him a break. He was a little narrow-minded when he was younger. Just give him a chance in the later years."

"It's not my fault that we're not friends! I tried to be friends with him, but he doesn't want to be friends with anyone in Slytherin. And I have one question. Who was it that spoke during my sorting. Was it you, or Voldemort. But how could it have been you if you were a Gryffindor and you wanted me to be one too. I guess that means that it was Voldemort, and it explains why that voice was so familiar. "

"Yeah, now I have memories from my old life, but I can't access them all yet. Voldemort took me over and stole many of them. I had to surrender to him. You can't remember them, but I can show you them, and then they are yours. You also know some of both mine and Voldemort's spells. Use them wisely. Now, I suggest you begin to learn occlumency. It helped me a good bit. You arrange your contents of your mind into categories such as school and non-school then things like friends and classes. This will be the best time for us to communicate, so as you get better at controlling your mind and making it disciplined and organized, we can take on Voldemort and kick him out or your mind and then we can get back all of my memories and then I can share all of them with you. Now, I'm strong, but I have to go for now. Work on your occlumency and I will see you later." As he turned away to go back through the oak doors into the entrance hall, he turned around and said, "And congrats on making a few friends early in the school year. Make some more and you will be good."

He left the grounds and entered the castle at a brisk pace. Harry walked away at a brisk pace as well. He didn't know where he was going in his mind, but his feet seemed to know exactly where to go. His feet were taking him towards the lake. He entered the lake and expected to feel cold and very wet, but he felt warm, dry and comfortable, as though he was asleep in a very warm bed.

Harry woke up and saw the canopy of his four poster bed. It was Sunday morning and there were no classes. He decided that the first thing that he was going to do that day after breakfast was talk to Ron. He got dressed and met Blaise and Daphne at the exit of the common room. They walked up to the Great Hall for breakfast. They ate a delicious and hearty breakfast of sausages, eggs, and slices of toast. They walked out of the Great Hall and walked right into a small group of male Gryffindors. Harry recognized them to be, Seamus Finnegan, Dean Thomas, Neville Longbottom, and none other than Ron Weasley. They walked out to the grounds and sat 

down underneath a beech tree with long branches waving in the wind. They chatted on and so Harry said to his friends, "Go back to the common room without me. I'll meet you both there."

"Are you sure Harry? We could wait if you want us to." His two friends said in unison.

"It's fine. I just have someone that I need to talk to. I'll meet you both there as soon as I can."

So Harry continued onto the grounds and Blaise and Daphne headed towards the dungeons and they're common room.

Harry walked right up to the Gryffindors underneath the Beech tree and said to Ron, "Can we talk. It's very important."

Ron replied shortly, "You can have one walk around the lake and that's all the time you get." And turning to his fellow Gryffindors he said, "If you hear a scream, get a teacher to come and help me. So Harry and Ron started off around the lake.

After their fifth walk around the lake and Harry had told Ron every detail about his dream with the other Potter, Ron said, "So, we were best friends, and you died to save me and Hermione and my family and hundreds of others from getting hurt. And when Voldemort tried to kill you in the forest, you were sent back to platform nine and ¾ as an 11 year-old. The part of You-Know-Who that is in you effected your sorting and caused you to be in Slytherin. I knew you were all right! I guess we can be friends since you want to so badly and you risked a lot coming to speak with a Gryffindor."

"I don't care about the rivalries. I just need some good loyal friends. I want to be friends with Hermione too. Where is she?"

"I'm right here."

Both boys turned around to see Hermione walking towards them. She said in a voice that was almost a whisper, "Do you really want to be friends, both of you?" After they had both said, "yes." She said, "Good, cause I want to be friends too."

Seeing as to how Hermione was now his friend, Harry told the long story over again in paraphrased form. Hermione gasped. With a start, Harry realized that he was supposed to meet Daphne and Blaise in the common room. "Shit!" He bid the two goodbyes and set off running around the lake and into the castle. He hadn't stopped running until he reached the entrance to the common room. He said the password and walked into the common room. He began to immediately search for his two friends and saw them sitting on one of the couches near the roaring fire.



He ran over and apologized for being so late. They looked at him with curios expressions on their faces. Daphne said, "Harry! Where were you? We were getting worried!"

Blaise laughed and said, "Don't listen to her. She was getting worried, but I knew that you could take care of yourself. But seriously, where were you?"

"I was making two new friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger."

"But why them? They are lions."

It's a very long story and I don't feel like explaining it again right now. I'll tell you later. Now what should we do, cause I don't want to hang around the common room all day."

The trio agreed on going to sit on the grounds and just watch people and talk and be lazy all day.

So Harry had finally realized what the voice meant. He also knew all about his life and what had happened to him. He had two new and very unexpected friends. And life at Hogwarts had finally turned around for him.

So that's the end of the third chapter. It's really short only about 2,000 words. Sorry it took so long to come out, but I had been busy. So read and please review!