DISCLAIMER: I do not own Harry Potter, Doctor Who or the Chronicles of Narnia. I own this plot only, and any OCs. My depictions of real life characters are based on stereotypes or suppositions and no insult is intended. I have no desire to own the series this story is based on, although if anyone could give me either a wand, TARDIS or wardrobe portal into Narnia I certainly wouldn't say no.
IMPORTANT: This is a rewrite of my story, You Are Not Alone and, as such, any resemblence to that story is intentional. No offence is meant by my portrayal of the Royal Family. I have the utmost of respect for Her Majesty the Queen and her wider family.
From Chapter 16...
'Where on Earth are we going then Harry?' she asked before realising just how stupid that comment was between two people who had crossed dimensions.
'Somewhere I've always wanted to go, but have never had a chance to. Next stop...' Harry paused for dramatic effect as the TARDIS shuddered onwards...
Chapter Seventeen: Summer Part 1 - Narnia Calling...
'Narnia may yet have need of you.' Aslan, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (FOX/Walden Media)
Location: Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall, London, England, Earth
Time: June 1953 CE
…and then came to a stop. Harry left his last sentence hanging until he walked out the doors and onto the streets of the Whitehall. 'London, England, June 2nd, 1953. History lesson for you. When you left your original time stream, in 1943, George the Sixth was King. By 1951, King George was extremely sick, and he had to cancel many public engagements and his Christmas address was edited together. On January 31st, 1952, he saw his daughter, Princess Elizabeth off on her tour of Australia and New Zealand via Kenya. Six days later, he was found dead. Elizabeth left England as The Princess Elizabeth, but she returned little more than a week later as Queen Elizabeth the Second. Now June 2nd, 1953, today is her coronation, and the psychic paper the Doctor gave me is going to get us in to Westminster Abbey. Today we will witness the crowning of one of Britain's longest serving and best loved monarchs.' Harry said at a high speed.
Throughout Harry's spiel, Lucy revelled in seeing London much more as she had remembered it. There was not a skyscraper in sight, the city had clearly thrown off the shackles of war, and the whole of the city it seemed was adorned in Union Flags, and Lucy could almost feel the oncoming pomp and ceremony that the British did best.
'So what do you say, milady? Shall we attend the coronation?' Harry tried his best to be pompous about it.
Lucy, however, remembered the movie Harry and several of his friends recommended she watch, and putting on a Cockney accent she replied, 'As long as you get me to the church on time.'
As soon as she finished speaking, the pair promptly burst out laughing, before Harry reached out and grabbed Lucy's hand and the pair ran off towards Westminster Abbey. Once they came within sight of the Abbey they slowed to a walk and began to act regal. As they approached a guard, Harry flashed the psychic paper and they were waved in and directed to a seat. Harry looked and found that the paper named them as the Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark!
The St. Edward's Crown had just entered the Abbey when Harry and Lucy felt a slight pull of magic, growing gradually stronger and stronger until they found themselves suddenly lying in the forest, and Lucy became vaguely aware of the lamppost in the nearby clearing.
Location: Lantern Waste, Great Western Woods, Kingdom of Narnia, Narnia
Time: 2309 NY
Harry and Lucy struggled to their feet and took in their surroundings. Lucy would recognise it anywhere. The mythical Lantern Waste, where Narnia was created, where Lucy met the faun Tumnus, where Lucy had led the Kings and Queens of Old into Narnia, and indeed where she had led them out of Narnia. Out from behind a thicket walked the great lion, His Most Excellent Majesty The King of Kings, Aslan himself. Both children tackled the lion who merely rolled to his side and chuckled at the children's enthusiasm. 'My children, dear one,' Aslan said tenderly looking first at Harry then at Lucy, welcome back. You have been called back to Narnia because Father Time's great tapestry has become unwoven. The Calormenes have attacked before their time...' Lucy looked strangely at Aslan as he said this. '...Caspian and his queen, Lilliandil, require the assistance of the Kings and Queens of Old and other friends of Narnia, and so I shall take you there now.' Aslan rumbled.
Location: Castle Cair Paravel, Cair Paravel Island, Kingdom of Narnia, Narnia
Time: 2309 NY
As Aslan entered the throne room of Castle Cair Paravel, he was announced by a herald as 'His Most Excellent Majesty, Aslan, King of Kings', but that was not why he was here. As Caspian prepared to stand and bow to him, Aslan somehow told him to sit and wait without even opening his mouth. Aslan stood to the side and announced his guests, 'Her Imperial and Royal Majesty High Queen Lucy, the Valiant, of Narnia, Empress of the Lone Islands, Duchess of Glasswater, Countess of the Eastern March, Lady of Cair Paravel, Queen of the Silver Crown, Lioness of Narnia, and His Royal Highness Harry the Lionheart, Prince Consort of Narnia.'
There in the doorway stood Lucy and Harry, both giving off an aura of strength. Caspian was greatly relieved to see these two. Lucy was a legend as one of the Saviours of Narnia, but this Harry, was somewhat of an unknown. He had voyaged with the Dawn Treader and showed himself there as a formidable fighter. He managed to regain himself quickly and was able to greet both with a warm handshake.
Soon Caspian was explaining to Harry and Lucy just what had been happening in their beloved Narnia. It was three years since they had last been in Narnia aboard the Dawn Treader, and while the peace Caspian had wrought, had mostly lasted, the Calormenes had in the last few months made their first military move against Narnia and Archenland since Rabadash's Folly in the Golden Age, thirteen hundred years ago, and the first battle fought on Narnian soil since the Second Battle of Beruna, six years earlier. The Calormene Navy, led by the Tisroc (may he fall down the stairs and break his neck) had, in just five days, captured the whole of the Lone Islands, with Lord Bern only just escaping the slaughter of loyal Narnians as he had been at Cair Paravel at the time. And then, just two days ago, the Calormenes had come ashore at the Northern March, the northern border of the Kingdom of Narnia and had slowly been making their way south west, quickly capturing most land north of the Great River until the new northern frontier of Narnia ran just barely north of the Great River, with Cair Paravel and Beaversdam being the first two settlements to truly withstand the Calormenes and Caspian and Lilliandil despaired at the speed at which the Calormenes had captured large swathes of Narnia.
Just by bringing the Valiant Queen back to Narnia, however, Aslan had brought hope to the Narnians who believed it was only a matter of time. And has had been proven the three previous times Lucy had been in Narnia, hope is a powerful thing.
Location: Narnian Army Camp, Aslan's How, Kingdom of Narnia, Narnia
Time: 2309 NY
Shortly after the arrival of Harry and Lucy in Narnia, the Narnian Army had started massing at Aslan's How, near the strategically important Fords of Beruna ready for a counter attack against the Calormenes, just as they did in times of great peril.
Location: The River Rush, near Aslan's How, Kingdom of Narnia, Narnia
Time; 2309 NY
Not far from the Narnian's camp, a young boy pulled another and a young girl coughing and spluttering from the River Rush, as this second boy went on mumbling about 'why do we always FALL into Narnia?' The first boy stood straight and looked around, recognising where he was immediately recognised it. He'd know it anywhere having travelled the area widely as King, and having also been here just three years ago (from his point of view). The boy, Edmund now pulled his cousin Eustace and Eustace's friend Jill to their feet, and unsure of another plan, set off towards Aslan's How.
Location: Narnian Army Camp, Aslan's How, Kingdom of Narnia, Narnia
Time: 2309 NY
Edmund and Eustace soon came upon the How and found it to be a feverish hive of activity, and Edmund's keen mind very quickly recognised an army on a war footing. He wondered to himself just who the Narnians could be at war with as he approached.
'Halt! State your name in business!' A voice with a distinctive accent rang out from behind Edmund, and he turned, to stand face to face with Drinian, Captain of the Dawn Treader. 'King Edmund? Eustace, my boy? Who is the young woman with you?' Drinian asked when the boys turned, and seeing that it was them, knelt before them.
'This is Jill Pole.' Eustace introduced her to the Captain of the Dawn Treader.
Not five minutes later, Caspian came striding out of the How and greeted Edmund and Eustace warmly, and Caspian was followed out by 'Lu? Lucy! We thought we'd never see you again!' Edmund ran up and hugged his younger sister, before she surprised Eustace somewhat by hugging him too.
The biggest surprise for Edmund was when he asked just who Narnia was at war against. 'Calormen.' Caspian had answered him pensively. 'They attacked as from the North and have captured most of the land north of the Great River. They have currently staged at Chippingford and their plan, it would seem, is to use the River to make a lightning attack on Cair Paravel. Which is why, we will be waiting for them at the Fords of Beruna.' Caspian explained.
Two weeks passed and news filtered down that the Calormene Army had started to travel southwards along the Great River Narnia from their staging post at Chippingford, and the Narnian Army stood ready. Queen Lucy the Valiant and Lady Jill Pole (as Caspian insisted on calling her) joined the archers on the high ground above the Narnian Army, while Harry, Edmund, Eustace and Caspian were leading the Army on the ground.
The Narnians waited apprehensively as the Calormenes approached, and then almost in slow motion, the battle started. Lucy commanded the archers to loose the first volley and hundreds of arrows rained down on the Calormenes, but through sheer weight of numbers it made little difference to their ranks as the two opposing armies charged each other, the boys were soon in the thick of the action, and try as they might neither Lucy nor Jill was able to keep them in sight.
Down below the archer's posts, the battle was raging and Harry soon found himself in close combat with a rather large and hulking Calormene, but with careful and selective use of the Deep Magic, Harry was able to even the odds and eventually, when his opponent grew over confident, he stabbed the man through his unguarded stomach. Eustace was soon felling opponents in a similar way, silently thanking Reepicheep for the sword fighting lessons he had given Eustace while they sailed towards World's End.
The tide of the battle ebbed and flowed backwards and forwards from one side to the other, neither looking like getting on top for several hours, all the boys defeating many opponents and escaping injury many times each.
But then, Lucy from over 100 metres away from the front lines, took aim at the Calormene Tisroc and with a shot that even her sister Susan (famous for being the greatest Narnian archer) would have struggled to reproduce, loosed an arrow and from long range watched with a strange satisfaction as the arrow crossed the distance rapidly and embedded itself in the Tisroc's neck piercing his jugular, the gurgling scream which erupted from the dying man's throat sounding the death knell for the Calormene invasion of Narnia.
Location: Various places across Narnia
Time: 2309 NY
Over the coming weeks, the Narnian Army continued to push the remaining Calormenes out of Narnia and within a month, all of the Kingdom was returned to the rule of Caspian the Tenth, the Seafarer.
Location: Castle Cair Paravel, Cair Paravel Island, Kingdom of Narnia, Narnia
Time: 2310 NY
By the time the Narnians had driven the Calormenes from their borders, the new year had begun and Caspian's reign entered its seventh year.
Caspian presented the High King and Queen Edmund and Lucy, the Prince Consort Harry, and Knight and Dame of Narnia Eustace and Jill to the Narnian public and put on a great feast at Cair Paravel in celebration of the victory over Calormen.
Soon though, it became time for Aslan to return everyone to their own time and Lucy and Harry said emotional goodbyes to everyone before Aslan roared and they were in Narnia no more.
Location: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England, Earth
Time: June 1953 CE
Harry and Lucy found themselves back in the Abbey the moment they had left, just as the crown made its entrance into the Abbey, and Harry especially watched in awe as his grandmother was crowned while Lucy smiled, remembering the feelings she experienced at her own coronation in Narnia years ago.
Location: Buckingham Palace, Westminster, London, England, Earth
Time: June 1993 CE
'James, dear! How was school?' The Queen asked once Harry was seated in the small private reading room within the palace that very few members of the household knew about.
'It was ok, Grandmum...' And so Harry launched into a massive spiel about his entire year, and then added a question to the end. 'And do you know what I did before I came home?' He asked, subtly laying a Polaroid photo on the coffee table between them.
The Queen looked at the photo and chuckled. 'I had a feeling you would go to my coronation at some point, James, I'm actually surprised you didn't do so earlier. Now, the Quidditch World Cup is on this summer, and I have 10 seats in the Royal Box for the Final. I would like you and 8 of your friends to join me.'
'Yes, Grandmum. I'll send out invitations straight away.' Harry said, hugging his grandmother before running off to his bedroom to send the letters with Hedwig.
Author's Note: I'm working on getting more chapters out soon, but I have a couple of assignments that need doing for university which take priority. Please read and review and stay tuned for the next installment.
