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Chapter 6: The Other World
AU James POC
August 1980
James was sitting alone in his kitchen. He was remembering what happened yesterday when Hugo learned he had to kill the darkest wizard the world ever knew.
FLASHBACK
The boy hadn't said anything for a while. He was looking totally lost and he had make him look ever younger, if that was even possible.
-"So you call me to save you…." Hugo's voice was distant, he probably still didn't believe what was happening. "–Can you tell where I am…or when?"
- "You are in August 1980, in James's house, at Godric's Hollow." Dumbledore answered. He was looking at the boy with his blue eyes. James new he was trying to explore Hugo mind with legilimency, but as he shook his head, James knew he had not learn anything probing. "-Can you tell us more about you? When are you from? Did you attend Hogwarts?"
-"I was born…around two years ago I think…And yes, I went to Hogwarts."
Something was wrong, James could feel it. Was the boy lying? Maybe, there was no way to be sure. Maybe Hugo was a death eater in disguise? No, that wouldn't make any sense…All the Order was in the room when he landed. But something was wrong.
-"In which house were you sorted in?" Dumbledore asked again. James understood Dumbledore had the same doubt he had, and he was testing the boy. Maybe, the old man still hoped that Hugo was a powerful wizard able to help them.
-"I was in Gryffindor." Hugo's answer was short. He was looking at Dumbledore with a suspicious look.
The conversation between the two went on for a little while.
-"How many NEWT did you get?
-I never pass my NEWT.
-How many OWL?
- I got eleven.
- Where are you working since your graduation?
- I work in a little restaurant near my home.
For the first time James saw a little smile, as Hugo mention his job and home.
-Which year is it, there?
-2001"
2001! Hugo was 25 years old? Well, that was surprising James chuckled. Dumbledore and Hugo stared at him, before Dumbledore continue with his questioning.
-"Have you ever heard of Voldemort?"
Hugo sighed but he didn't jump out at Voldemort's name as the majority of the wizarding population was this day.
-"Yes, I have."
This time, it was Dumbledore turn to sigh, looking slightly annoyed with the uncooperative boy.
-"Can you tell us more, please?"
- "Well, Voldemort is dead. He has been killed during my time in Hogwarts. In fact, the last battle took place in Hogwarts, when I was a student there. So I was there when he was killed."
Hugo's voice was toneless. His face was a cold mask. He was there. Voldemort attacked Hogwarts. Dumbledore gaped at the boy, astonished. And he was probably looking the same.
-"Do you know…how he was killed?" The question was full of hope.
-"Yes, I may know how."
END OF FLASHBACK
James sighed. Since this conversation, he hadn't see Hugo. He hadn't looked for him neither. There was a meeting of the Order tonight, Dumbledore was going to introduce Hugo, and Hugo was supposed to tell them what he knew about Voldemort death in his time.
He soon heard the voices of Sirius and Remus, when they entered the house. Both of them was staying here most of the time, even if they both had their own place.
- "I don't like her!" That was Sirius voice, sounding annoyed.
James smirked. They were probably talking about Mia. Mia was a customer to the muggle library, where Remus was working part time. Sirius had saw her once when he was visiting Remus and was now having a bit of a crush on the young lady.
When they entered the kitchen, they immediately changed the subject of conversation. James had called them earlier to tell them Hugo was up. He gave coffee to his friends and told them everything that had happened in the last 24 hours.
Harry POV
Harry was angry. REALLY angry by all that happened. He couldn't believe what has his parents done? Because he was pretty sure they were his parents and not impostors as he first believed. When Dumbledore was interrogating him, the old git had try to get on his mind. Harry would recognize his mentor legilimency between a thousand. He was a good legilimens, but he was maybe one of the best occlumens in the world. Dumbledore had not a chance against him, but not willing to show them his power he had shown the headmaster useless memories.
After he had learned what they did, and the fact that he couldn't go home, he had stormed in his room with his daughter. Hope, she was stuck with him. He almost cried when he had realised this truth. If he could not get back home, neither could Hope. The little girl had fell asleep, and Harry paced in his room thinking again and again. There was no way he would fight in another war. He started trashing the room, after putting a Silence charm it. He had no envy to see his parents right now. After an hour of trashing, he calm down and sat on his bed. They was nothing he could do now. And even if he had no intention to fight Voldemort, he had better learn the exact situation here, and he was curious of the spell that brought them here, maybe he could do something about it. After all, in his world, he was said to be the most powerful wizard alive, stronger even than Dumbledore. And Harry new it was the truth, he had trained for this. Sick of seeing his friends fall one after the other he had took special training from very special teachers. He had even learned some of the muggle's way to fight. In a matter of fact, his cousin Dudley had been really good boking teacher. But he was in anyways telling that to the old man. As much as he loved him, he would not be a puppet, nor a soldier for the headmaster once again. He wouldn't go back to the field. He may tell them some things, give them hint to kill Voldemort, but that's all. His only priority right now was his daughter.
He exited the room, and start looking for someone. He met Lily first. His mum was on a vast room, full of books, with two desks, probably where the Potters were working. Lily was sitting on a couch, a baby in her arm. The baby had dark hair and He was sure that his eyes were green. Just like his. Harry stopped, looking at the peaceful scene he had no memory of. Her mother was looking at her son with adoration and the baby was playing with his mother long hair and giggling.
-"Hi." He said shyly.
Lily looked up and seemed surprise to see him here. She anxiously stared back at him.
-"Hi"
-"…."
-"Were you looking for something?"
Lily's voice took him back to reality. He shook his head. He was here for a reason.
-"In fact, I wanted to learn more about this time and about the spell you used. I never heard of it before and I want to study it. Maybe, you can help me."
Lily smiled sadly at him and told him to sit in a chair next to the couch. Then she started her story, from the moment Dumbledore asked for help to the realisation of the spell itself. Harry was listening to her, without looking at her. When she finished he asked her a few more details, which she responded with passion. She was a lot like Hermione. What was she doing now? She was probably looking for him and Hope by now. He missed his friends.
-"Hugo?" Lily was calling, and it was probably not the first time.
- "Yeah? Sorry…..Can you show me the book? The one with the spell in it?"
Lily bit her lips.
-"It disappeared. The book, SALVATOREM. It disappeared the moment you arrived."
-"What do you mean by disappeared?"
-"I don't know…it just vanished out of thin air…"
That was problematic. But once again, they was nothing he could do about it. Harry cringed his teeth. It was not good.
-"I can give you my notes if you like, and I can ask Andromeda to take hers to the meeting tonight."
Harry looked back at his mother. At least that was something and if Lily was half what Remus had told him, it would help a lot. The meeting! He still had to check papers and else to get an idea of the situation before he told them what he knows.
-"That would be great, thank you. In the meanwhile, can I check the papers?"
Harry spend the rest of the afternoon in the Potter's library. Like most of the wizard, they only had the Daily Prophet, but they had kept all the papers from the moment they moved in, six month after graduating from Hogwarts. Probably Voldemort influence. By reading he came across few interesting fact.
The first one was about the Black family, so soon in the war, they shouldn't have been able to use it at the headquarters of the Orders. But it seemed that Aurors had, on an anonymous tip, search the house for dark magic and have found lot of illegal stuff in the house and the proof that Regulus was an active death eater. The Black family had fought back and Sirius and Regulus parent's had both been killed. Narcissa Black too was dead. Bellatrix had escaped and was serving her master. Regulus had been condemned to a life sentence in Azkaban. Reading this had been a great shock for Harry. If Regulus was in Azkaban, then the locket was probably still there, in the cave. And if Narcissa was dead then it means that Draco was never born. Even if they had hate each other for six long year, he and Draco had grown pretty close when Draco sided with the light. Doing this he had lost everything, his family, and his friends. Despite everything he did for the Light side, every risks he took, some was still suspicious of him. At the end, Draco had killed his own father, before being tortured and killed by his own aunt, Bellatrix. He was sad Draco was not here but he was glad the man was not going to suffer anymore.
The second one, was about the person that had been killed. The person he knew was in the Order. For example, only one of the Prewett was dead. From what Ginny had told him, both of them had died together while fighting for the Order. It didn't make any sense. That and the Black family situation, it was not right. Then he remembered something Hermione had said years ago, somethings about dimension travel. He had looked for books about time and dimension travel and found was he was looking for. He was not in his past. He was in another world. Well, it didn't change the fact that he was stuck here but at least he was not able to change the future of this world as he didn't know it.
Otherwise, from what he learned in the papers, the situation here was bad. Maybe worse than his own world situation at the same time. The terror was here and even the ministry was far more infected with Voldemort followers. The minister of magic was Milicent Bagnold. Harry had heard of him and he was a good man. But he was young and he just accessed to the post, so his hadn't enough authority the kept his men in lines. Lucius Malfoy and Rodolphus Lestrange was working in the ministry as well as some well-known death eater. The papers had although reported some exploits of the Auror in their fight against Voldemort and the name of James Potter and Sirius Black had been mentioned quite often.
This evening, the meeting of the Order took place in the kitchen of Grimmauld place. Harry got there with James, as Lily was watching over Little Harry and the Weasley children, so Molly could assist the meeting this time. They had arrived first, except for Sirius and Remus, and Harry sat in a chair in the darkest corner. The members started arriving one by one. Harry did knew a few of them, like Kingsley Shacklebolt, Molly and Arthur Weasley. He had saw a majority of them in pictures but it felt really strange to see them: Amelia Bones, Fabian Prewett, Franck and Alice Longbottom and more alive, young and full of hope, eager to fight.
The meeting started with the arrival of Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall. First, Dumbledore listed all the last action of the Order and about some ongoing mission. Harry was only half listening, until he heard the name of Peter Pettigrow. He should have known it. He hadn't betrayed the Potter yet so he was probably still a member. He growled at the name and brought on him the attention of the room.
-'You have something to say?" asked Dumbledore.
-"No, Sir" he answered, taking care to protect his mind
-'Well, I was going to introduce you anyway" grinned the old man as he shifted awkwardly under the look of every people of the room.
For about twenty minutes, Dumbledore talked about every things he had learned about him. He saw the hope disappeared from their eyes as Dumbledore aid he never took his NEWT and hope came back as he said he was there when Voldemort was vanquished.
After that Harry stand in front of everything and started talking about the fact that he was not from the past but from an alternate dimension and that he had to check things before he could tell them anything.
Most of the people were stunned to find out about inter-dimensional travel, like his mother and some other were looking rather curious, like Dumbledore.
After the meeting, was left in the kitchen Dumbledore, Sirius, Remus, James, Lily. Franck and Alice. He had asked both of them to stay after the meeting to everyone surprise and they had agreed. The first thing he had to check was the Prophecy. If they were no Prophecy in this world, that would change everything. When they were all sitting around the table, Harry spoke first and his question was address to Dumbledore.
-"Is there a Prophecy in the world" If there was one, Dumbledore would know what he was talking about.
And the Headmaster look surprised when Harry mention the Prophecy.
-"So there is. Will you enlighten us with it content please" he asked "They have the right to know and more, it's vital they know."
The other people around the table looked like they had absolutely no idea what he was talking about and it was probably the case. Harry was sick of the manipulative side of Dumbledore and it was not letting this happened again.
With a sighed, Dumbledore told them about what happened almost two month ago, in a room of the Three Broomstick.
So here is the sixth chapter. I am having some trouble with my computer so the next chapter may take a little longer to post but I will try to update the story at least once a week.
Thank you for the reviews, and enjoy the story
