Chapter 27
Author's note: I'm going to use parts of the movie scene for this as well. The part where Harry is hung upside down by the Troll is not in the book, but it was well done in the movie. Direct quotes taken right from the book. I just tried really hard to remember the quotes from the movie, so if they are wrong, oops.
Disclaimer: No copyright infringement is intended, Harry Potter and his world belong to JK Rowling, not me. I'm just playing here since she's so kind to let us.
James, Lily, Sirius, and Minerva all watched as Harry and Ron realized Hermione was missing and decided to ditch Percy and go find her themselves. Heading towards the girls lavatory. They all gasped as they watched Snape rush past the boys in the hallway and then creeping out of their hiding spot only to find a stinking, hulking mountain Troll heading into a room at the end of the hallway.
"The key's in the lock, we could lock it in," said the memory Harry, making the adults wince.
"Good idea," said the memory Ron.
"You were the ones who locked it in with her?" asked Minerva in shock.
"We didn't know it was the girls bathroom!" Harry said defensively. Just then they all heard Hermione's scream and they headed towards the bathroom. They all entered just as Ron threw the metal pipe at it. Ginny, Lily, Minerva, and Hermione all gasped when it turned and headed toward him.
"Come on, run, run!" shouted the little Harry. The Troll roared and started towards Ron when Harry ran up and jumped onto the back of the beast sticking his wand in the Troll's nose. All the adults and Ginny moaned.
Lily screamed when the Troll reached around and grabbed Harry and swung him around holding him by the ankles. Even James and Sirius looked like they couldn't believe Harry had lived through it.
The Troll swung his Harry sized club at the boy and winced as they looked away fearing the worst. Not hearing a thud or grunt of pain, they peeked back at the Troll and saw Harry hanging again.
"Do something!" Another swing at him and they forced themselves to watch as Harry swung himself into a difficult crunch and the club missed his head by inches.
"Anything!" Harry shouted at Ron before completing another awkward stomach crunch and avoiding certain death by club.
"Wingardium Leviosa!" shouted little Ron. They all watched as Harry did another crunch and only miss a fist, the club being above the Troll's head. Lily screamed again when the monster dropped Harry after the club fell onto his head making him sway and fall towards Harry. Harry, having scooted out of the way, looked up at Ron when the dust settled.
"Is it dead?" asked the memory Hermione, Ginny, Lily, James and Sirius simultaneously.
"I don't think so," started little Harry. "I think it's just been knocked out." The current Harry smirked as his younger self pulled his wand out of the Troll's nose.
"Urgh-troll boogers."
"Well," started Minerva but was cut off by her own younger self, Snape, and Quirrell coming into the room and looking around cautiously.
"What on earth were you thinking of?" she asked furiously.
All the adults from the current time laughed. They watched as Hermione took the blame and lost five whole house points. Then the boys getting only five each for 'sheer dumb luck.'
The memory ended and they all ended up back in the drawing room of Grimmauld Place.
"Well," started Minerva again. "I never did fully believe it was your idea, Hermione, to go after that Troll. I must say though, I'm glad none of you were hurt and a little proud that it was three of my own students. Thank you for sharing that with me, Harry."
"No problem, Prof…Minerva," Harry said gaining laughs from everyone but one person. Lily looked at Harry.
"I can't believe you jumped on the back of a Troll. Do you have a death wish?" she asked a little sternly. Minerva, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny all looked at her in shock.
"Excuse me?" he asked her.
"You just…you jumped on the back of Mountain Troll! It was swinging its club at you repeatedly! What were you thinking?" she asked shrilly.
"Lily, dear, he was helping a friend," James started.
"No, James, do not act like your okay with this. Your son went looking for a Mountain Troll when he was eleven! You cannot be okay with that!" said Lily loudly. Harry was dumbfounded and shocked that she was acting like this.
"Yeah, actually he can be okay with that, because it happened over six years ago! I'm sorry, mum, if that frightened you a bit, but seriously, you have no right to get angry at me over it."
"I have no right?" she asked scathingly.
"NO! You don't! You weren't there at the time to yell at me, so you don't get to now!" Harry shouted. Everyone just sat still, shocked at his outburst. Lily stood up and ran from the room.
"Young man," James started.
"No. Don't you even dare think to yell at me for that. She wasn't there. She can't yell at me for something that happened six years ago. You can't yell at me for defending myself against that. You may be my parents, but you haven't been here for the last seventeen years. Don't act like you have been. I showed you this memory as a fun story from my first year but if I'm going to get yelled at for my life story, then forget it, you can go clueless. I won't show you the memories of my life just so I can get yelled at. Because believe it or not, my life was kind of dangerous. I'd fought Voldemort and his Death Eaters more times than you can count before my seventh year, when he took over the whole of Britain's Wizarding world and I had to run for my life and hide in a tent for almost a year.
"I'm not a child anymore, she can't treat me like one, no matter how hard it is for her. Grounding me isn't going to work, yelling at me for being reckless six years ago isn't going to happen. She's got to get used to that!"
"How am I supposed to get used to that?" screamed Lily from the doorway. "Only yesterday to me, you were small enough to hold in my arms and rock to sleep. Now you're a grown man! I can't just forget you as a baby Harry, it's not that easy!"
The others watched this not knowing what to do or say. So they didn't say anything and just watched.
"I don't know how you're going to have to do it, but that's not my problem is it? I'm not the one who decided to abandon my child for seventeen years!" Harry yelled. Lily and James gasped. They stared at Harry for several moments shocked that he felt that way.
"Would you rather we were dead?" asked James thickly.
"I…" started Harry as equally shocked at his words. "I…don't know." He shocked everyone with that sentence. "For the last seventeen years, you were dead to me. I was too young to remember you, so it was like…like you had never existed at all before that. It wasn't until I was almost twelve that I finally got to see a picture of you even. How am I supposed to just…get used to having parents overnight? For you it's only been a day or two. For me it's been seventeen years of no parents."
Silence reigned as everyone thought hard. Which would be harder, suddenly getting parents after so long? Or suddenly having a grown child seemingly overnight?
a/n: I told you it would get a little intense!! i love writing angst, but it won't be dragged out! What do you think? I'm glad so many people liked the last chapter! thank you so much for all the wonderful reviews, i can't thank you enough! Keep up the reveiwing and i'll keep posting! I start my final semester of my Associates in fine Arts degree tomorrow, i'm super excited! Despite the fact that i have to take...*gasp* math...just means that on tuesday's if i feel vindictive, i might write a horrible cliffy, you'll just have to withstand it, if i have to deal with math...you can deal with a cliffy! I'll try to keep posting at least once a week, i'll be working again soon too, but i can write while i'm at work, no big deal. REVIEW! thanks!