OK finally finished this chapter after battling some writers block. But, it's finished =)
This proably my darkest chapter yet and the chapter is based partly off Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix chapter 9, The Woes of Mrs. Weasley.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did writing it =)

Chapter 5

Danny sat cross legged floating three feet in the air relaxing after a tiresome day of cleaning in the House of Black. Though it wasn't the most glamorous thing in the world, Danny didn't mind helping with the cleaning. It gave him something to do while he was staying here for his safety.

Danny had considered leaving and going back to Amity and try and take his chances against the Death Eaters, but the risk of exposing his family and friends to the Death Eaters was too much for to do anything to rash.

But right now, he was content with just sitting here while Harry and Ron tried to explain him the wizard sport of Quidditch.

Just as Ron was explaining how to score points in Quidditch Fred and George apparated into the room with loud crack carrying a big stack of letters. "Hogwarts letters are here." They said ecstatically.

Ron and Harry took their letters from the older twins and read them a bit. "Well it looks like Dumbledore found a new defence against the dark arts teacher. Poor old fool must not know the job is cursed." Ron said.

"Wait what's cursed?" Danny said puzzled.

"Well in the past four years we've had a different teacher for defence against the dark arts" Ron said looking down at his parchment as Fred and George picked up where Ron left off.

"One's been sacked" Fred said.

"One's had they're memory removed" George said.

"One's dead" Fred said.

"And last year's teacher was trapped in a trunk for 9 months." George said.

"Wow, the teachers I had just had to worry about obnoxious teenagers with cell phones."

Fred and George gave Danny a weird look saying "What are seal phones?"

"No CELL phones" Danny said with an exasperated face palm.

"Don't worry about it Danny, most wizard families don't know about muggle technology." Harry said.

"Oh, ok..."

"Hey what's up Ron?" George questioned the younger Weasley.

Danny looked over at Ron with his jaw wide open looking at the parchment he was holding, it was like the red head couldn't believe what the page said.

Fred looked over Ron's shoulder to look at the parchment. His mouth fell open just like Ron when he saw the writing on the page. He looked over at George. "Prefect!"

George dashed forward grabbing Ron's envelop from the boy's and turned it upside down, only to find a gold and red badge fall out onto George's palm. "No way, there must be some mistake."

"No one in the right mind would make Ron prefect!" Fred said in disbelief.

Then they both looked at Harry who was also in disbelief but was trying to mask it. The twins began to tell Harry that they thought he'd be a prefect.

Just as Ron was being teased for being a prefect, a hysteric Hermione burst through the door and started to hug Harry who was holding the prefect badge.

"Oh I knew it; I knew you would be a prefect too!" Hermione said in excitement.

"Uh, actually, it's Ron's badge" Harry said in a dark tone.

Hermione turned to Ron who looked surprised as well, and started to congratulate Ron, trying to hide her embarrassment of the mix-up.

Fred and George went over to Danny who continued to observe the scene around him. "Hopefully you're not a goody too shoes like those two" Fred said pointing at Hermione and Ron.

"Actually no, I constantly got detentions for being late and slept in class constantly." Danny said

"Really?" George said in disbelief.

"My English teacher was so dull, it was unbearable." Danny explained

"Well at least you're not a goody two shoes like them" Fred said while pointing to an overexcited Hermione jumping up and down in the air while Ron seemed to be embarrassed to be standing beside her, his ears getting steadily redder.

As expected Molly was ecstatic that Ron and Hermione became prefects and made a party downstairs in the dining room, with a banner reading Congratulations, Ron and Hermione, New Prefects in bold lettering. Danny even made an ice sculpture of the prefect badge so he felt like he had contributed to the party.

Molly invited tons of people from the Order that Danny did not recognize at the party though he did see Lupin.

Danny was very unnerved when he was introduced to Moody or Mad-Eye, as Ron called him. After seeing his artificial magical eye, he could understand the nick name.

As the party went on, Danny decided that it was time to go to bed after he'd yawned the third time in the last 5 minutes. Danny noticed Hermione talking to Lupin so he approached her. "Hey Hermione congrats on becoming perfect. But, I'm going to upstairs to my room." She nodded and acknowledged what Danny had said. Danny started to walk towards the exit when he remembered something he needed to tell Hermione. "Hey, Hermione can you tell me when that owl comes back as soon as it gets back."

"Yeah sure thing Phantom" Hermione replied with a small smile.

Danny smiled back and started to float towards the exit of the room.

When Danny floated past the second floor stairs he heard someone sobbing in the room down the hall.

When Danny approached the room he heard a faint voice repeated the same word over and over again. "Ri-Riddikulus, Ri-Riddik-RIDDIKULUS!"

When Danny reached the open door way he saw Ginny Weasley in a bloody heap on the floor while Molly Weasley was sobbing in the corner with her wand pointed at the dead body.

"Oh my god, it's ok, Molly, it's ok." Danny reassured as he went to Molly's side getting in front of the bloody heap.

As Danny was trying to reassure her from her constant sobbing he heard a deep dark voice come from behind him. "Well hello again Daniel."

Danny froze, he knew that voice and he was afraid of turning around to confirm if it really was him.

When Danny turned around he saw a tall muscular man with flaming white hair with red eyes and blue skin. Right on the ghost's chest was the same symbol that Danny wore and the ghost wore the same jump suit except there was a large black and white cape.

The ghost teen tried to keep his composure at the sight of Dan Phantom but was failing as he skidded himself away from Dan.

"You really thought that thermos would trap me forever? You're so gullible." Dan said while laugh to emphasise his superiority over Danny. "You should know that the future I want is inevitable. It's only a matter of time Daniel."

"No, I stopped you before and I'll do it again."

"Is that so… if that true, then how am I still here?"

Danny froze on the spot, more and more fear growing inside him. "No, I made a promise"

"Ohhhhhhh, you made a promise... You're so predictable." Dan said in a mocking tone.

Danny glared in anger at his future self, making his green eyes to glow brightly in the dark.

Molly was backing away from the two ghosts in fear of an upcoming fight approaching as the two glared at each other.

"Why are here?" Danny said in a growl.

"Isn't obvious Danny? Oh right, you were away from all the fun." Dan said with an evil smirk, pausing his speech to mock Danny.

"Isn't it strange how much damage highly combustible condiments can do?"

Everything froze to Danny, his thoughts broke like a pane of glass, "No, NO! You couldn't have. Clockwork and I stopped you; it's not supposed to happen." Danny yelled in sadness.

"Without you being there, it all too easy to seal the future I want." Dan said mocking Danny who lay crumpled in the ground.

"This wasn't supposed to happen!" Danny yelled on the verge of tears.

Dan started to laugh manically at Danny crumpled form of defeat, adding to Danny misery.

'They're dead! It's my fault that there dead, just because I was here in England, not able to protect them!' Danny thought in anger and sadness.

Danny closed his eyes that were building up tears. They came streamed off his cheek; there was no way to hide it, no way to show any strength. As Danny held his eyes closed he heard someone running from the side and yelled "Riddickulus!"

Danny heard a faint pop and a loud slam. "Molly, Danny, it's alright it was just a boggart" Lupin said calmly.

Danny slowly opened his eyes to find an empty room with Lupin holding his hand out to pull Danny up. Behind Lupin was Harry with a confused and stunned look in his eyes.

"Wha-What's a boggart?" Danny said very shaking, in complete disbelief of what just happened.

"It's a magical creature that display's someone's worst fears Danny. Everything you just saw or heard wasn't real." Lupin said trying to reassure the distraught boy.

"It wasn't real?" Danny said silently to himself in disbelief.

Lupin heard what Danny said and tried to reassure him some more. "A boggart tries to display your worst fears. That's the nature of a boggart. It's alright, it wasn't real."

When Lupin noticed that Molly had also started to silently cry, Lupin went over to reassure her as well. "What did you see Molly?"

"I see them dead, all of them dead. I dream of this happening all the time but..." croaked and started sobbing again into Lupin's shoulder.

Danny's stomach started to tighten at the sight of the sobbing woman. It made him sad that one man was causing all this despair just out of fear. Then Danny noticed a difference between Voldemort and his normal foes. Most of them still had some humanity left but Voldemort was inhuman, even less than a ghost.

The person Danny would compare Voldemort to the most was his nightmare of a future self, Dan Phantom.

Danny started floating out of the room, trying to get away from the sobbing. He passed by Harry not even making eye contact with black haired teen "What was that?"

"A bad future" Danny replied.

He continued floating and went up to his room and made sure he was alone.

Once he got underneath the sheets, he started to grip the bed sheets. The thought of losing his family and friends and Dan Phantom's return was almost too much too handle.

A small silent tear crept down his cheek as he lay his head down in the bed. He gulped long and dry trying to steady his breathing.

'It wasn't real, just some magical creature.' Danny thought in reassurance constantly as he lied in bed until he fell asleep.

Edited and Posted May 9th/2012

See, my darkest chapter yet. Agree or Disagree?

Hope you enjoyed the boggart scene cause it was pretty one dimensional when I wrote the first time it was Danny fearing only Dan. Then I watched Ultimate Enemy to see if the dialogue with Dan was ok. Then I realized that Danny's worst fear wasn't just Dan, it was losing all his loved ones. So, it was rewritten to incorporate that.

Remember to Review, because I love your opinion on my story and writing so I can get better =)

Until next time,

Prophet =P