Harry Potter Alternate Universe: Year Three
Harry Potter Alternate Universe: Year Three
A/N: Okay, so last chappie was better. I'll try and tone down the Luke but some parts are needed. Hopefully you'll like Becca-Sirius part.
It was the first Hogsmeade weekend today, everyone was rushing around excitedly, everyone except Hermione Granger that is. The six Gryffindor friends sat at the Gryffindor table for breakfast.
"I cant wait!" Ron exclaimed stuffing his mouth. Hermione pushed her food on her plate.
"Yeah, I cant wait to see what Zonko's has this year!" Becca said quickly eating her food.
"What are you looking forward to Hermione?" Harry asked, Hermione looked up from her plate with a frown.
"I cant go." Hermione said before looking back at her plate.
"Why not?" Ron asked before shoving more food in his mouth and Becca exchanged worried looks with Harry.
"I have to go, have a nice time." Hermione said before quickly walking out of the hall. Luke watched her leave and remembered the horrible conversation he had had with her just the day before in the library.
"Hermione, talk to me." Luke said before sliding into the seat next to her. She looked up with tears in her eyes.
"My mum, she was in a car accident. The doctors say she wont make it and dad just stays by her day and night." Hermione said, Luke took her into his arms and let her cry. "He blames me." He heard her whisper.
"How could he?" Luke asked, not moving her from his arms.
"He said he blames me for not being able to fix her. He said that if I were smart I'd be able to make her better. He said don't bother coming home anymore. Luke where am I gunna go!?" Hermione cried, Luke whispered soothing words in her ear before she moved away and wiped her eyes.
"I'll owl my dad, see if you can stay with us. I just need your permission to tell him why." Luke said, Hermione looked almost horrified. "I'll tell him not to mention it to Harry, Becca or Draco."
"Thank you." Hermione whispered, Luke simply smiled.
A brown school owl dropped a letter next to Luke before flying off in a hurry. Luke grabbed it before walking off.
"Gotta go!" Luke called back to them before making his way to the library. He slid into a seat next to Hermione.
"Hello Luke." Hermione said without lifting her gaze from her book.
"I got a reply from my dad." Luke said and smirked when Hermione quickly snapped her book shut and turned to him. "He says its cool but he suggests you to tell Harry and Becca."
"I'd rather not have their pity, plus they have enough on their minds with Tristan coming into the picture." Hermione said turning back to her book.
"Hermione, if I ask you a question, do you promise to answer it truthfully?" Luke asked, she turned back to him confused.
"Of course." Hermione said, Luke took a deep breath.
"How have you been getting to all your classes? I mean you had Muggle Studies and Divination at the same time but managed to get to both. How do you do it?" Luke asked, Hermione turned away from him and buried herself in a book.
"I just do." Hermione said simply, Luke sighed but didn't press on the issue.
Everyone hurried down to the courtyard and handed their form in to McGonagall, who was standing on the steps in front of Hogwarts door. When it was Neville's turn, he started to speak nervously to her.
"Erm, Professor McGonagall…" Neville started, she smiled down at him.
"Don't worry, Mr. Longbottom, your grandmother owled me your permission slip." She told him, Neville let out a sigh of relief before he hurried over to Ron, Becca and Harry.
"Where's Hermione?" Becca asked looking around, Luke walked over to her with his hands stuffed in his coat pockets.
"She cant come." Luke said before whispering to her. "Expect her later." Becca turned to him curiously but he just shook his head before putting an arm around Steph as she joined them.
Fred walked over to Hermione and sat next to her. She closed the book she was reading and turned to him. He handed her a sheet of parchment.
"What's this?" Hermione asked unfolding it to find it was blank. "If this is some kind of joke…"
"Its not. Its how we're getting into Hogsmeade." Fred said pulling her up. "Me and George are giving the map to Harry as a Christmas present for letting me smuggle you out of the castle with his invisibility cloak."
"This is against school rules." Hermione complained but let him lead her anyway. They stopped at a three-eyed witch statue. Fred quickly said something and it moved, revealing a tunnel. He grabbed her hand and lead her through the tunnel. Hitting the end, he lead her up through a trap door.
"This is Honeydukes cellar. The owner's pretty cool but with everyone here, we'll use the invisibility cloak to get out and over to the three broomsticks." Fred said throwing the cloak around them both, he paused at the door and turned to her. "You know, I expected more of a resistance on your part. Anything you wanna tell me Granger?" He smirked.
"Well, I'm still pretty much in shock." Hermione replied with the same smirk. He opened the door and they slipped through the crowd and out the door. Fred threw off the cloak and handed it to her.
"Have fun." Fred said with a sincere smile, Hermione smiled back gratefully before he turned to find his friends. Hermione walked into the three broomsticks and instantly found her friends around a table with a butterbeer waiting for her.
"You guys are great." Hermione said, making Harry and Ron jump. She laughed with Becca and Luke.
"When did you get here?" Ron asked as she sat down in between Becca and Luke.
"Just now obviously." Becca said with a roll of her eyes, Ron sighed. "I want to know what Tristan Potter did to get into Azkaban." Luke looked down at the table.
"Malfoy told me." They all looked over at him. "Tristan was Uncle James' younger brother and was supposedly in love with Aunt Lily. They say he went mad with rage when she chose James over him and wanted to hurt James. Uncle James was really close to his parents and they say that he killed his parents to get back at him." They were all silent, Harry clenched and unclenched his fists.
"What do you mean 'they say'?" Harry asked through clenched teeth, Luke sighed.
"Well, it wasn't proven either way. The only thing they had against him was that he was his parents secret keeper." Luke said, they drank the rest of their butterbeers in silence.
The six friends made their way into the Great Hall, laughing over something Ron was telling them. Dinner was served and they spoke with Ginny and the others about what to expect when they could go to Hogsmeade. Hermione looked down the table to Fred and mouthed a 'Thank you'. He grinned at her in response before turning back to Angelina. Neville joined them.
"Okay, so how long have you been dating?" Becca asked as she spied Luke and Steph holding hands across from her. Steph and Luke smiled to each other.
"Since last year. We met by chance and the rest is history." Luke said, Steph moved closer Luke.
"Lets go, lover-boy." Becca said as everyone got up and walked up the stairs. They stopped when they saw most of the Gryffindors with students from other houses standing in front of the Gryffindor Common room.
"Looks like Neville forgot the password again." Ron said, Becca rolled her eyes.
"Hey!" Neville said, Ron went a little red when he turned to see Neville.
"Sorry." Ron muttered, Becca pushed through the crowds with the others at her feet. They saw that the Fat Lady wasn't in the painting, which was torn to shreds.
"Headmaster coming through, make way!" Percy yelled pushing past the students with Dumbledore at his heels. Dumbledore stopped at the painting and touched the rips lightly before turning to Filch.
"Round up the ghosts and tell them to search every painting in the castle. We must find the Fat Lady." Dumbledore ordered but Filch spoke up.
"I don't think we need the ghosts. She's up there." Filch told him as he pointed to a painting a floor above. All the students rushed up there following Filch and Dumbledore.
"My dear lady," Dumbledore soothed, the Fat Lady peeked her head over the rock she was hiding behind. "Who did this to you?"
"Him, that man! Eyes were as black as coal! That Potter, that Tristan Potter." She cried out, everyone let out a gasp and Harry clenched his jaw.
"Everyone to the Great Hall!" Dumbledore said loudly before turning to Percy. "Mr. Weasley, I want you to find the other teachers and prefects-we must search the castle." Percy nodded as he hurried off.
Once everyone had settled down in their ugly purple sleeping bags, most had just dropped off. Harry had his eyes closed but he was far from sleep.
"We haven't found him." Snape told Dumbledore. "I wonder if you've given anymore thought about my concerns that I expressed to you before term start. That I though someone was helping Tristan into the castle."
"Yes, I have thought about it but there is no proof to this accusation, Severus." Dumbledore said before ushering him out of the hall. Most of the teachers followed. Harry looked over to Becca to see her crying softly, he climbed out of his sleeping bag and over to her.
"What's wrong Beccs?" Harry asked putting an arm around her shoulders.
"I'm just worried about dad. I mean what is so important that he cant take two minutes to owl me?" Becca asked wiping her eyes, Harry looked over at Luke.
"Hold on." Harry said, Becca nodded. Harry walked over to Luke and shook him awake. Luke sat up, hair still perfect as if he wasn't sleeping at all.
"What do you want?" Luke asked sleepily, Harry nodded over to Becca.
"She misses Sirius, I was wondering if you still have your mirror?" Harry asked, Luke stuck his hand in his pocket before handing Harry a small mirror.
"Tell her to keep it for tonight and give it back to me tomorrow and let me know how he's doing." Luke said before lying back down. Harry went back to Becca and sat next to her.
"Luke's mirror, just say Sirius' name and he should come up on it. Give it back to Luke tomorrow." Harry said crawling back to his sleeping bag.
"Harry?" Becca whispered, he looked back at her. "Thanks. Love you."
"You too Beccs." Harry said before going to sleep, Becca laid down in her sleeping bag and held the mirror close to her.
"Dad." She whispered, almost instantly Sirius' face came into view. Becca almost cried in happiness. "Daddy?"
"Hey Beccs. Oh, how I've missed you." Sirius said via mirror, Becca let a couple tears slid down her face. "What's wrong? Where are you?"
"We're all in the Great Hall. Tristan broke into the Gryffindor Common Room earlier and the castle's being searched. I just needed to know you were alright." Becca said wiping her eyes quickly.
"He's in Hogwarts?" Sirius asked in a panicked voice.
"I don't know, dad. Can you please just tell me you're alright? I've had this weird feeling that something's happened to you and I need to know you're alright." Becca saw Sirius' face soften.
"I'm fine Princess. I'm coming to Hogwarts but keep it quiet. How's your brother? And Harry? And how's that boyfriend treating you?" Sirius asked, Becca smiled.
"Luke's doing fine, he's got a girlfriend. Harry found out what Tristan did and isn't too happy and still completely in denial that he likes Hermione but she's no better. And Ron is a perfect gentleman. DADA is great now that Lupin's teaching it." Becca said, she saw her dad's surprised face.
"Lupin? He's there?" Sirius asked, Becca nodded.
"Yeah, and he misses you loads." Becca said, she didn't know how long she had spoken with her father or when she fell asleep but she had the best sleep all year.