Chapter seven

That night Albus once again had horrific dreams, and once again he heard the angelic voice. This time the voice told him that hundreds of lives have been saved by the death of Severus Snape. The voice told him some of the things that Snape did and would do again in the very near future. But the voice told him more, it told him there was a death eater who would murder and is planning a kidnapping, is inside Hogwarts right now. The person was using polyjuice potion but had studied the person he was impersonating so he could fool even the great Albus Dumbledore. The person planned to use the triwizard tournament to kidnap a child, and that child would eventually be killed. The voice said that Albus was not doing enough to ensure the safety of not just the child who would be kidnapped, but every child in their world. Once the voice stopped speaking, the visions of murder and torture began again.

Harry and Megan did not like to use the time turner unless they had to. But having to wake in the middle of the night to make sure Dumbledore saw what the future could be like meant they had no choice if they were going to get enough sleep.

After the death of Snape and the voice saying lives were saved, they hoped this last dream and information would have Albus Dumbledore uncover Crouch. The visiting schools were due to arrive the following day, then it would be the selection of the champions. Crouch had to be taken care of before Halloween. If Dumbledore didn't uncover him, then Harry and Megan would take care of the death eater. They weren't going to kill him, even if they would like to. Harry was going to switch his flask while Megan sent a letter to Amelia Bones informing her of a dangerous criminal at Hogwarts who was planning kidnapping and murder. She would only send the letter if Amelia Bones had left Hogwarts. Megan thought about slipping the letter to Susan who they hoped would go straight to her aunt but they decided it would be best to just send Amelia Bones the letter that way she would get it and hopefully, read it.

If these plans did not work then Harry was going to destroy the goblet of fire. He knew it was an ancient magical artifact, but he also knew that if his name was selected, then they might not be able to stop what had happened in the future. Destroying the goblet was better than having thousands killed and tortured.

Harry once again snuck up to the seventh floor to meet his girl. Even though he knew she was a grown woman, just in the body of a fourteen year old girl. Harry liked calling Megan his girl, and it helped to keep them from being discovered.

'I was watching the map this time. You were followed again, it was Ginny. We don't know if it was her before, but I'll make sure to keep watching the map next time we meet.'

Harry sighed as he sat beside his wife, 'Hermione spoke to her, it doesn't seem to make any difference.'

'We'll be letting everyone know after the champions are selected, hopefully she will realise you're off the market.'

'It may not but at least everyone else will see us together. I know we can't be affected by love potions but I still wouldn't put it past Ginny to use one, not when her own mother used one on Mr Weasley. We both know it was luck that we found that the unspeakables had anti-dotes for everything, including love potions. So taking the anti-dote once a week isn't a problem even if it tastes terrible. Anyway, let's hope these last dreams and the information will get Dumbledore to work out its Moody. He will not only be saving me and thousands of lives, but he will also be helping his old friend. I hated leaving Moody in that trunk.'

'I know sweetheart, but we had to. Having Dumbledore work it out takes any suspicion off us. If we had to do too much someone could have figured out we came from the future. At least we were able to sneak him some food and potions. He'll be fine.'

'Yeah, I know he will. Okay. We have until tonight, if Crouch is still Moody then I will destroy the goblet after everyone has gone to bed on Halloween. So even if he put my name in it, the goblet will be gone.'

'Good, now how did your talk go with McGonagall?'

'As expected. She mentioned the Weasley's. So I told her about Mrs Weasley's yelling and about Ginny's crush. I also said I would rather stay at the Dursley's. They won't know I'll be with you at Crescent Fields. But it makes sense to allow me to be there with Sirius. He will be safe until either the aurors have Crouch or we get Peter, but that's not for another week. If they get Crouch then he will give the information on Peter which will help Sirius and we won't be discovered.'

'It'll work out Harry. I told Susan about Sirius and Peter, and I mentioned how Fudge wouldn't even investigate. I saw her writing a long letter that night, hopefully it's the start of Madam Bones finding out the truth then she will investigate. But having Crouch will make it easier and faster. So we deal with Flint, Malfoy and Astoria soon?'

'Yes, they will go to Hogsmeade then just disappear. I know we originally planned to set Malfoy and Astoria up but it's easier this way. And even though there are others and more could turn to the dark, we have to stop Voldemort first. I know the bones are gone and I know we'll add the venom if he finds someone else to do the ritual. He should die, but we just don't know how this will affect him. I know the book on venom explained that it should kill anyone within minutes once it's in his system, in any way, but things could still go wrong for us.'

'It won't. The venom will be mixed with the blood, flesh and the fake bones. It will be there as part of the body he gets. His body and soul will be destroyed, and he can't return since we've dealt with the other horcrux vessels.'

'I know love, I just can't help being a pessimistic.'

'You have plenty of reasons to be pessimistic. Nothing went right for you back then, this time it will, and it already has.'

'Alright, I'll try to be optimistic from now on. We did get rid of Snape easily, those three will be dealt with soon, and hopefully the old man will take care of Crouch.'

Whenever Harry or Megan saw Dumbledore, they could tell he was concentrating on something. They knew what, who the imposter was they just weren't sure if or when he might deal with the death eater. Crouch had breakfast, and he was seen not long after. Harry had no choice but to go to room him and his friends had found to practice spells, they just hoped Dumbledore would uncover Crouch.

During the day students would get a note delivered to them that the aurors needed to question them. So far Hermione, Ron, Neville, Fred, George, Lee and other Gryffindor's had been questioned, but not Harry. He knew it could take days or even a week before he might ended up being questioned, but he was ready for it.

The friends from Gryffindor walked together to the great hall ready for lunch. They were talking about what the aurors asked them.

'So you haven't been questioned yet Harry?' Angelina asked.

'Nope, I'll probably be called tomorrow.'

'We figured you'd be one of the first,' Fred said.

'Yeah, since everyone knew that Snape treated you worse than everyone else,' George said.

'To be honest, I thought I would be one of the first as well. I haven't hid the fact that I hated him just as much as he hated me.'

'I'm sure they are just picking students at random, like picking a name out of a hat. Yet they wouldn't be using a hat,' Hermione said.

'Do you think it was a student?' Neville asked shyly.

'No idea, but I would say at least half the students hated him, so it's possible. You know what I'm curious about?' Harry asked.

Everyone said no at the same time making them all laugh, 'Tell us what's in that little head of yours Harrykins,' Fred said.

Harry rolled his eyes, 'Can't you come up with a better name than Harrykins?'

'We use that because we know it annoys you,' George said.

'Yeah, like we annoy Ron with Ronnikins.'

'Fine,' Harry shook his head, 'Anyway, I would like to know how he died. Did someone poison him? It would be poetic justice in my book. How often did he threaten to poison us?'

'He didn't threaten to poison us,' Hermione huffed.

'Okay, he threatened to use our shitty potions on us, which would poison us, so in a way he was still threatening to poison us.'

'Someone could have used the killing curse,' Neville whispered.

'Yeah, but think of that. It would take someone powerful to use that curse. As Moody said, you need power but you need real conviction to use such a dark and powerful curse. I doubt many of us could do it, maybe you older ones could. Also, using a curse could be detected if they checked our wands. I read about how they can do a spell over our wands which will show up what spells was used. It said in one of the books we got for defence that many dark witches and wizards would either use a spare wand or clean their wand by using a lot of spells, sometimes up to twenty times so the unforgivable wouldn't be found. I think it was poison.'

'Someone could have stabbed him,' Katie said, 'There are a lot of students who were raised in the muggle world so using a muggle method might be harder to trace.'

'You could be right. The aurors would have to find the knife, with a wand we all keep ours on us. A knife could be thrown in the lake or taken into the Forbidden Forest,' Hermione said.

'I doubt we will ever know how someone offed the great greasy git,' Ron said.

They entered the great hall. Harry again made sure he was facing the Hufflepuff table as he took a seat. But the group kept throwing out idea's on how Snape was murdered. If they were being monitored in some way then all of them just kept asking how it was done.