Undone
by Healer Pomfrey
All recognizable characters belong to J. K. Rowling, and I am not earning anything by writing this story.
I am not a native speaker of English. Please excuse my mistakes.
COMPLETELY AU! Partly OOC.
It is my story, and I intend to write it the way I want it. If you don't like it, don't read it.
Reviews are very welcome, as they inspire my muse. Thank you very much for the kind feedback on the previous chapter!
'What happened?' Harry wondered, however, the Gryffindor first-year did not further explain what his dilemma was before storming out of the Great Hall.
'Maybe the ministry has made a new betrothal contract for him,' Luna thought to him in clear amusement.
Soon after breakfast, the Wallace team gathered for a warm up before their match against Slytherin that was going to commence an hour later.
"Harry," Rosie Dumbledore cornered him, just when he was about to step onto the grounds together with his teammates, followed by the rest of the Wallaces.
"Professor?" Harry asked, inwardly groaning in annoyance.
"Harry, I trust you to stop flying immediately if you feel bad," Rosie said in a stern voice. "It doesn't matter if it's in the middle of the match. The reserve players can take over at any time."
"I know that, but it'll be all right," Harry replied in a firm voice, resolving to try catching the Snitch as soon as possible.
HP
In contrary to the almost completely new team from Gryffindor, the Slytherin team was used to play together, even if they had lost their captain to Wallace, and the Slytherins played anything but fair.
During the first thirty minutes, Harry spotted the Snitch twice, however, each time, he had to evade a Bludger coming straight towards him, so that the Snitch escaped from his sight.
To his enormous annoyance, Harry felt that his limbs began to tingle five minutes after he had taken into the air. Ten minutes of flying later, the tingle slowly turned into pain, which intensified over the time. However, he was not going to allow Cedric to replace him as reserve Seeker. It was almost an hour into the match that he once again spotted the Snitch.
Confirming that the Slytherin Seeker was just hovering near one of the loops at the other side of the pitch, he went into a deep dive only to pull up shortly before reaching the ground and catch the Snitch out of thin air.
"Harry Potter caught the Snitch. Wallace wins 330 to 180," Madam Hooch announced, and the team gathered on the ground.
Like the Wallace students had decided after a longer discussion the previous evening, Angelina addressed the Slytherin team and invited everyone to the victory party in the Wallace common room. After a short debate with their teammates and their head of house, the Slytherins decided to accept the invitation.
As the Potions Master and his wife approached Harry, he heard Snape utter, "Fifty points to Wallace for improving the relationships between the houses."
Seeing the questioning look from both professors, Harry said, uncomfortably, "It's all right." However, he gratefully accepted the pain-relieving potion that the Slytherin head offered him.
HP
At first, the Wallace students were not sure what to talk about with the Slytherins. However, the Weasley twins easily managed to get a conversation running by offering their newest product of a joke candy.
"You better not try these," Fred whispered to Harry, who nodded in understanding upon seeing the first students wearing teddy bear heads.
By the time the Slytherins left, Fred and George had received sixteen orders of joke candies and were happy beyond belief.
"Where and when are you going to brew these candies?" Hermione asked in a stern voice, causing the twins to grin.
"As soon as we get to know that the teachers have a staff meeting…"
"… which is at least every Friday evening after dinner…"
"… we're going to brew them in the Potions classroom," the pranksters informed their house-mates in their usual funny sing-song.
"Is there any way you can make them as liquids instead of candies?" Daphne suddenly spoke up, blushing upon realising that everyone looked at her. "I mean, we could ask the house-elves to mix a liquid into the teachers' beverages at breakfast or such," she added in a small voice.
"Of course we can," the twins replied at the same time, grinning broadly. "Who's going to ask the house-elves then?"
"I'll do that," Cedric offered. "I know a few of the kitchen elves."
Fred and George exchanged a glance, before Fred dashed to the third-year boys' dormitory, while George explained, "We still have about two or three phials, which we brewed during the summer holidays. You can take them to the kitchen right away. Maybe we can have some fun during dinner."
Cedric glanced at his wrist watch as he accepted two phials and hurriedly left to make a detour by the kitchens on his way to dinner.
'That's going to be fun,' Harry happily thought to Luna, who laid her own, small hand into Harry's and pulled him out of the common room.
"When is the potion going to wear off by the way?" Hermione whispered to the twins, once everyone had taken their seats at the Wallace table.
"It won't last very long…"
"… just about two hours," the twins replied, smirking.
Just a couple of minutes later, one after another, the teachers' heads turned into teddy bear heads, and the students at the Wallace table tried hard not to laugh. Only when the laughter spread all over the Great Hall, they Wallaces happily joined the others.
"I hope it'll have worn up before Professor Dumbledore comes to the common room tonight," Hermione spoke up, when the first-years arrived back at Wallace house.
'Well, if not, we're still going to have fun,' Harry thought, feeling very amused at the very first prank that anyone had played on the teachers ever since he had come to Hogwarts.
To Harry's and his friends' slight disappointment, Rosie was completely back to normal by the time she joined her students.
Curiously glancing around, she enquired, "Does anyone here know something about the prank that was played on the professors tonight?"
'If I was the teacher, I'd immediately know that something is off,' Harry thought, when everyone stared at the professor with blank expressions.
"No one? All right then. I think that it was a wonderful prank and, if my husband's assumption correct that it was a potion, it was really well done," Rosie said, grinning. "Don't tell the older professors that I said that though," she then added.
"Thanks Professor…"
"… it was us," the twins finally admitted, causing another discussion about pranks and potions.
HP
Ever since his Potions accident, Harry had not been allowed to actively participate in any duels during the Defence Against the Dark Art classes. He only practised when they learned new spells and realised that he could easily manage each spell and apparently more comfortably than several of his classmates like, for example, Neville. However, this made him even more upset that Rosie had forbidden him to participate in duels.
No one seemed to have noticed that Quirrell was a completely different person ever since Halloween, although many wondered why the professor had suddenly stopped stuttering. Harry found that Tom was a much better teacher than his predecessor and relatively enjoyed his classes.
It was during one of the last Defence Against the Dark Arts classes before the Christmas holidays that the professor suddenly told him, "Mr. Potter, detention with me tonight after dinner. Your laziness during this class is intolerable."
'What?' Harry thought, horrified, however, he knew better than to protest, even if his housemates tried to convince him over lunch to complain to their head of house about the unfair detention.
"It's all right. It can't be so bad," Harry replied, shrugging, and decided to keep quiet about the matter.
HP
Wondering if his detention really was a detention due to his laziness as the professor had voiced it, Harry slowly made his way to the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor's office.
"Potter," the teacher greeted him, motioning him inside. Once the door was closed behind him, he added, "Harry, I'm sorry for giving you detention, but it seemed the best way to speak with you in private."
"Good evening, Professor. I understand," Harry replied, smiling.
"In private, you may just call me Tom," the teacher told him. "By the way, since we spoke last, I've made a couple of plans, and first of all, I wish to inform you about these, and secondly, I need your help."
"All right sir," Harry replied, nodding.
"You're still aware of what our goal is, and you're still willing to work together with me, is that right?" Tom enquired, giving Harry a sharp look.
"Yes sir, that's correct," Harry confirmed in a firm voice.
"Very well. Now for our new ministry, we need a completely new ministry building, preferably built on a charmed, historic ground, and we need allies, especially among the members of the old but not bigoted magical families," Tom continued to speak, making Harry listen with interest.
"Do you know Stonehenge?" Tom asked, causing Harry to give the older wizard a thoughtful look.
"I've heard about it in primary school," he replied in confusion as to why Tom would ask such a thing.
Tom pressed a book into Harry's hands. "Read this until we meet next time. Stonehenge will be the clue to our new ministry. I've already planned it out, at least partly. The entrance will be through the Heel Stone."
"All right sir, thank you sir," Harry replied as he accepted the book, feeling even more confused if that was at all possible.
"I need you to introduce me to people who you think will believe me," Tom then changed the topic. "Together with the new ministry building, we also need new staff respectively supporters. I'd like to begin with your family. Since Lily can confirm that everything happened like I told you, maybe you and Lily could convince Sirius and Remus to begin with. Since they seem to get along well with Severus and Rosie as well as Xenophilius, maybe they can help me work my way through to them as well."
"Yes sir," Harry said, pensively. "I'll speak with my family during the Christmas holidays, and if they believe me, you can join the discussion."
Tom immediately agreed to Harry's suggestion and released him from his so-called detention. "Don't worry about your housemates, Harry. Let them believe that I'm an idiot who gives unfair detentions," he said, smirking. "Good night Harry."
"Good night Tom and thank you," Harry replied, grinning.
HP
'Last time he asked me to keep everything to myself, but now, things seem different,' Harry mused, as he returned to the common room, deciding to inform Luna about the matter before speaking with anyone else. 'Too bad that I can't simply summon Mum to the portrait in the common room,' he thought, feeling almost amused at the idea.
After a short discussion with his housemates, who were eagerly working on their homework, he asked Luna to accompany him to his dormitory for a moment, not wanting to use as much telepathy as would be necessary for the conversation that they were going to lead.
Sitting next to the girl, who had become so much more than a best friend during the seventeen months since he had got to know her, he told her everything about Tom. Only when he was finished, he looked up to see her smiling through the dreamy expression which she was wearing often as a sign of contentedness.
"That makes sense," she spoke up, still smiling, as she admitted, "I've seen many scenes involving Tom, and I was wondering who he was."
"My wise Luna," Harry replied, smiling, as he pulled her into a gentle hug.
"Your Mum will help him make everyone in Wallace trust him, and Wallace himself will assist planning and fighting the old ministry," Luna blurted out, looking at him in confusion.
"All right dear. That's good to know," Harry said, however, decided to stick to his plan of telling his family during the holidays before speaking with anyone else.
"Harry, are you going to stay in Sirius' and Remus' quarters during the holidays, or shall we just remain here in Wallace?" Luna suddenly asked, making Harry look at her in surprise.
"I haven't even thought about it yet," he admitted. "Would Sirius, Remus and your father be able to visit us here?"
"I think so," Luna replied, matter-of-factly. "We only have to ask Nena to let them in or give them the password. We can change it after the holidays anyway."
"That's true," Harry agreed, and the two decided to ask Gwendolyn what she was going to do during the holidays.
Needless to say that Gwendolyn was all for staying with her best friends, especially since she could see her parents along with her brother at any time anyway.
'I just hope Sirius will believe Tom,' Harry thought, knowing that Sirius had suffered badly from the events around his parents' death, considering that he had been put into Azkaban for a whole decade. He admitted his fears to Luna, who, as so often, was able to completely destroy his worries.
"I have an idea," she told him, when they returned to the castle together with Gwendolyn after seeing their housemates off to the station in Hogsmeade. "Why don't we invite our parents, respectively godfathers, as well as the other younger teachers to a Christmas Eve party in our common room? That way, we can ask your parents to join Wallace's portrait, and we can explain about Tom to all of them. Tom wouldn't have to out himself if it didn't go well for some reason."
Harry grinned. "Knowing you, everything will go well," he replied, noticing in concern that Luna's expression was not dreamy as usual in such cases but rather tense. However, the girl did not further comment on the matter, and Harry decided to fill Gwendolyn in about the matter with Tom.
"Is that really true?" Gwendolyn asked, incredulously. "Wow, I mean, that's big."
"Please don't tell anyone for the time being," Harry said in a firm voice, "and yes, it's true."
HP
With the help of the house-elves, the three Wallace first-years and the Weasley twins, who were the only students who had remained in Wallace over the Christmas holidays, turned the common room into a party room for their Christmas Eve party together with the younger teachers.
Just when everyone entered the common room, Lily and James joined Wallace in his portrait, and Harry watched in amusement how the wizard who usually spent much time sleeping greeted his parents in apparent enthusiasm. While everyone settled down, Harry spent a minute in front of the portrait letting his mother in on the secret of the evening, feeling very much reassured when his mother gave him a comforting nod.
Harry, Luna and Gwendolyn had decided to enjoy dinner first and speak about Tom's matter after the meal. The house-elves had overdone themselves, seemingly happy to have something to do during the otherwise boring holidays, and Harry tried to enjoy his meal in spite of the unsettling thought concerning the upcoming conversation.
'Don't worry, Harry. Everything will be fine,' Luna suddenly thought to him, slightly squeezing his hand.
To Harry's relief, it was Lily who finally delivered the news to the party guests.