Chapter Twelve; Tobey's Confession
Thanks a lot guys for your wonderful reviews! Who would have ever known that a Harry Potter (Snape) story would inspire me so much that I would want to get even closer to God? There's no doubt in my mind now that the Lord gave me this writing talent for a reason. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the next chapter and it's so pleasing to see so many Christian Harry Potter fans out there! HP rocks! Scratch that, HP AND HS rocks! (but Jesus rules!)
"Are you alright Harry?" Hermione asked him, but before he had time to answer her The Doctor started to groan and slowly opened his eyes.
"Wh-Where am I?" he questioned slowly moving his head from side to side when he saw an upside down image of Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny and shrieked. "Who are all of you guys!?" he exclaimed quickly leaping to his feet. "What am I doing here?" he asked them.
"That's the part that we've been trying to figure out since Harry brought you up here." Ron began. "Hogwarts is supposed to be invisible to muggles." He told him.
"What?" The Doctor questioned anxiously before glancing over at Harry's scar. "Harry Potter." He realized. "That's impossible how can I be standing in the same room with Harry Potter, you're just a bunch of stories that some woman made up." He said.
"Oh yeah, well if we aren't real then what do you call this?" Ron asked him while withdrawing his wand and pointing it at the bookshelf. "Wingardium Leviosa!" he exclaimed levitating some books off the shelf and directing them over to the coffee table before dropping them down on top of it as The Doctor shrieked again.
"This has to be a dream." He said.
"Trust me Doctor it's not a dream, I'm just as sane or perhaps crazy as you are. Either way we're really here and in this together." Rose told him as he took a deep breath and then let it all out again.
"Alright," he began with a rub of his eyes. "so if we're really here in Harry Potter's world and this is really Hogwarts, then it's pretty obvious that the TARDIS had a malfunction." He said.
"Oh yeah, big time." Rose agreed.
"First thing in the morning I'll go look at her, but right now we'll need to find some place to sleep." He said.
"Well you can't sleep in the boy's dormitory that's for sure, all of the beds are already taken." Ron told him.
"Oh that's alright Rose and I will probably just make ourselves comfortable on the couch." The Doctor said as Ron glanced over at her.
"Really? Wow, you have a hot girlfriend." He told him as Hermione scowled and looked at him with disgust before she started walking away. "Oh c'mon Hermione! Don't be like that! You know how much I love you!" he cried as he hurried right after her.
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The next morning Harry woke up and had his breakfast before he and Ginny went to go visit Tobey in the hospital wing. "I've got to say Harry that I was pretty shocked when you told Rose that you were alright with her and The Doctor being atheists." She told him.
"That's right, I said that I was alright with it. I didn't say that God was." He told her with a shake of his head. "Still, they seem like very nice people, or aliens or whatever,.. and I believe that the Lord wants His people to come to Him willingly, not forcefully." He said as they entered the room and Harry walked over to the bed where his little brother was lying in sound asleep. Harry sat down beside him and took ahold of his hand rubbing the back of it with his thumb.
That's when suddenly Tobey coughed and slowly opened his eyes. "Harry?" he questioned him.
"It's alright Tobey, I'm here." He reassured him soothingly.
"I just wanted to say that I'm sorry." Tobey told him.
"No, I'm the one who's sorry. I shouldn't have been so tough on you and have made you feel like I didn't love you. Now you don't have to tell me if you don't want to, but I really want to know. Why do you hate God?" he asked him as Tobey took a deep breath while tears formed inside his eyes.
"I didn't mean that, not really. I was just scared. I can't see as well as I used to be able to, and I don't know what's happening to me." He admitted with a sniff as tears started rolling down his cheeks. "And now that Mum's dead, I don't have anyone to talk to about it. I feel so alone." He told him shakily.
"Oh Tobey, haven't you paid any attention in class? Jesus has told us time and time again that we're never alone. Even when we feel like He isn't there He is. And besides that we're brothers and we've always got each other." He told him as Tobey sat up and threw his arms around him and embraced him.
"Thanks Harry, I love you." He told him with another sniff while Harry hugged him back.
"I love you too." He told him planting a kiss on the top of his head and rubbing his back soothingly in small circles. "And don't worry, we'll get your eyes examined as soon as we can. My guess is that you probably just need glasses like me." He said while they broke out of the embrace.
"I hope so." Tobey said with a sniff before wiping his nose on the back of his hand. "I really want to play Qudditch like you did." He told him.
"Listen Tobey, if you want to play Qudditch because it makes you happy then by all means do it, because you should always do what you enjoy. But please don't do it because you want to be just like me. I mean I appreciate it but God made everyone different, and imagine how boring the world would be if He had decided to make us all alike." He told him.
"I know, but I still want to play and I want to be just like you. I mean you truly are an amazing wizard." Tobey said as Harry smiled warmly at him.
"Well thanks but so are you. You see God doesn't play favorites, we're all special in our own way and He loves us all exactly the same." He said as Tobey embraced him again wrapping his arms tightly around his middle and resting his head on the top of his chest. Harry rested his chin on the top of his head and kissed it again. "It's alright Tobey, everything's going to be alright. I promise."
