Chapter 31 – Captain Hook zero, Potter two

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"Harry Potter Sir Miss Grangee didn't show at the place required."

"Thanks Dobby you did a fine job, don't worry. Why don't you help the Grangers in Australia until I call you?"

"Yes Master Harry."

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Hermione had made her decisions and would have to live with them. It was not my job to save anyone but me and Gabi. We needed a place to stay so I headed to Gringotts to see if there was a shack or tent that I owned. Otherwise I would have to buy someplace and I was thinking of Hawaii.

"Ah Lord Potter what brings you to Gringotts, short of the coin of the realm?"

"Sort of Lockjaw, do I own any property that I could live in?

"In which country Lord Potter Black?"

"Huh?"

"You own properties in most countries or businesses that could produce living quarters for you."

"How about close to England."

"Well there are several."

"Something that I don't have to spend all day cleaning, I am known as a slob."

"Well you could take Potter Manor that has a few elves to clean or cook. Then there is Black town house with one elf. The wine vineyards are comfortable with around a hundred elves tending the fields and the houses."

"Stop, enough, let's start with Potter manor. How do I get there?"

"Just tap you wand to you house ring and …"

"Lockjaw you know I don't have a wand."

"How about a finger?" Lockjaw offered.

"God help me. Is there ever anything that's simple for me?"

I tapped my finger on my house ring and said "Potter Manor". Why would I ever think it could be that simple and still work for me?

I arrived in an entrance hall. Just being in the room was enough to make me feel like I was inferior to this entrance hall. I had just felt that thought when in popped an elf with a smartly tailored butler's uniform. This alone confused me, where was the tea towels they usually wore.

"Welcome your Lord; I am Alfonzo head of your many."

"Err I was just here to see if the place was alright to live in."

I left as soon as I could. The place was too plush with too many elves. This was not my life style.

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A week later I had my cottage in Hogsmeade Village. Since I was neither a student nor champion Captain Hook didn't keep track of Gabi and me. They were after Harry Potter for his attack on Draco and company.

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Hermione cornered me in the Great Hall demanding what was going on and why her parents were not writing and her mail came back to her.

Hasn't Captain Hook told you what's going on after you took your problems to him?

Don't give me your double talk James Jones I want to know NOW!"

"Your disregard for their safety by notifying Dumbledore most assuredly lead to the attack on your house, Captain Hook did tell you it was burn to the ground.

"What happened, are they safe, why didn't you tell me?"

"I'm just a dumb seer. You best ask Dumbledore." I left the Hall.

The next day Hermione showed up mumbling I'm sorry, that last for a short while before she was livid because nothing was done over the attack. In her rant she said that she was attacked by Draco and Dumbledore had done nothing, now her parents were attacked and he said he knew nothing.

I had Dobby hand carry a letter from her parents but I made sure it did not contain there location or other important facts that Hermione would give to the teachers.

I once though that killing people like the Malfoy's was wrong because of the new time line they might be good. Again I was wrong. It was time for action. The many secret tunnels into Hogwarts was at my command and I would use them.

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The big night at Hogwarts still played out as before with minor differences. Gabi and I were sitting together as the Goblet lit. I was laid back as best I could with the seats that were provided for the Goblet of Fire's big drawing. The feeling of doom struck me as I felt a chill run up my spine and then the Goblet started sending out the champion's names. Fleur was the Beauxbatons Academy champion and Krum came in as the Durmstang champion. Diggory was chosen for Hogwarts and at the last-minute Harry Potters name came out.

I started laughing aloud and then said in a louder voice. Man I'd best send Potter a letter telling him to show up before he looses his magic over a binding contract. I wonder who wants him here so bad that he would put the whole wizard world a risk.

"You know where he is at?" McGonagall inquired with a demanding voice.

"Of course I do." That got the hall quiet very quickly. "He is in Never-Never land with Tinker Bell hiding from Captain Hook, you know the one with the long white beard. Someone should send him an owl before the first task." Several muggle born were snickering but the majority of the students looked lost.

The Headmaster took umbrage with this, "You should not talk about things you know nothing about, and you're only here at my suffrage."

I gave Dumbledore a mock salute and said, "Aye, Aye Captain Hook." We left the hall for our room. That was dangerous but it was fun.

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I had a life to live, my life and I was in Hogsmeade village again with Gabi and the rest of Hogwarts students. The day was sunny and mild and the taste of a butterbeer was on my tongue. It all ended with a half dozen 'Avada Kedavra' curses being yelled at the same time. My world went black.

What was different this was this time I awoke in pitch darkness and absolute silence. Thoughts were flashing through my mind but my last seconds of life kept echoing in my head. I knew if this absolute nothing didn't end shortly I would become a screaming lunatic in just a very short time. The voices of the AK senders at first seemed to be together but slowly they seemed to separate and I could hear each one clearer and clearer. I recognized three of the voices, I then awoke in my cupboard under the stairs.

This was insane! I was being…teased…manipulated…ill-used covered the rest but why? I knew the answer wasn't going to come from my current location. My mind flashed to Lora and then to Gabi and the loss hurt. I knew that I was feeling sorry for myself but what else was there to do? Then there was the though of reliving 'again' all of Dumbledore's manipulation, not to mention Snape's abuse. I would find the whole lot of them and kill each one in the most gruesome slow manner I could think of…"Boy get out here, I want my breakfast."

I made up my mind in those few seconds.

Vernon Dursley and his wife Petunia were in the hallway of the boot cupboard. Vernon was picking up the mail while Petunia was getting ready to snatch the Freak by the ear and drag him to the kitchen. Both required Para-medic sedation to bring them out of their approach to complete hysterical shock. What they did see was the cupboard door and part of the wall supporting the stairs explode outward and the Freak stepping out with blazing eyes surrounded by a multi-colored Aura. This was followed by the front of their house exploding outward and the Freak disappearing. They never heard the squeal of car brakes.

Frank Howard of # 60 Privet Drive was driving down the street of his quiet neighborhood heading for his overly boring job and an all too bossy boss. His eyes caught the front of the house he was passing explode outward and towards him. He did what his panicked brain said, "Get the Hell out of here" and his foot hit the floor board. He prayed that his overly priced car with the super large engine would deliver him from his sure death. When he saw that he indeed was outrunning the wreckage he looked forward and saw two things. His overly priced car was doing 120km in a housing development and a child looking to be about nine years old was standing in front of his car and smiling. He hit the brakes and heard the wet impact.

Albus Dumbledore was contemplating September 1st and the arrival of Harry Potter. Albus was patting himself on the back as his plans had gone like clockwork. He wondered if a spider enjoyed spinning his web as he did and all the results that it would bring. Albus had the first year all plotted from Hagrid good natured bumbling to the Weasley's. Molly was overbearing but loved children. It was too bad she never realized what damage she did to those children of her's. Molly had expressed her worries of how her youngest son would behave around Potter as Ron was jealous of everything everybody else had. The youngest daughter would be woven into the web as soon as the Leader of the Light could devise some way to have total control of her compulsive obsession with Harry Potter. Smiling Albus Dumbledore looked up to his silver instrument to see how weak Harry's status was. As he looked at the health meter the tracking device exploded, followed by the heath meter and he watched the ward monitor melt.

Albus Dumbledore was shocked. The instruments just told him that Harry Potter was dead. Mrs Figg's head in the fire-place, seconds later, confirmed Potter's gruesome death. Albus Dumbledore's greater plans were all for nought and the shock caused him to keel over dead.

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Yep I'm back to no-where-villa. That car hurt a bit but I was not taking it anymore. I just don't care. Somewhere there must be a door or veil to the next great adventure. Returning to repeat the same thing again and again was crap. I had made my mind up on a couple of things. The first was death was preferred rather than getting on that stupid merry-go-round of manipulations. The second was that some people had used up their chances. If they bothered me they would die.

Plop…I am an eleven year old in the Headmasters office and being told that Draco would not be punished for whatever he did. I just kept my mouth shut and walked to the Astronomy tower and jumped. The ride down was thrilling but the ground hurt like hell. I wondered where would be next but my consciousness was returning and I was wondering to when and how old. The voices seemed a ways off and as they seemed to get closer I recognized that they were speaking a language I had never heard. Then the dark got clear. Where I was had been uber-dark but here was just dark. I appeared to be sitting in the pits of someone's deranged mind. Dark creachers were hanging off the ceiling or slithering around the floor. Things were winging their ways around the room to be sometimes gulped down by some other thing that appeared. Making a grand appearance and letting light flood into the room was a young man dressed in a white suit and large white wings, Thanatos had arrived.

"So you are finally going to let me take on the next great adventure? I am surprised that I would deserve hell as my resting place." I didn't think that being polite to him would improve my final resting place, if that's what I got.

"Harry, long time no see, no this is your place of arrival. Please follow me as we have plans to make with a few others." I fell into step with him.

"You guys are planning to send me back aren't you?"

"Oh there is no doubt Harry."

"I just want to move on; I just don't care any more."

"Not in the cards Harry. Do you want the whole boring tale of how the entire world will end or how your friends will be horribly destroyed without you?"

"What part did you miss Thanatos? Dying is easy but caring and losing hurts to much."

"Well the crew has livened up this new attempt now that Riddles fragment has been dealt with."

That got my attention, "What fragment and…"

"I thought that would get your attention. You woes are due to a mass breakout of Riddle's fragments. The short of it is one piece stayed here and caused havoc with your timeline and developing this warp around your life. We got it on your last death as it tried it again. We recalled all the Horcruxes except the ring and the locket and the one in the Snake will have to be used to bring Riddle back to life."

"Why didn't you recall all of them, why are you causing me all these problems?" I could imagine all these little Riddles running around like a Mini-Me or would that be a Mini-Him?

"Some things cannot be changed if the desired outcome is to be reached. You lost your animagus capabilities and now you will lose you Elemental capabilities."

"Whoa! You just committed yourself to failure. I may be powerful but my basic capabilities have always been marginal. Dumbledore insured that I never learned advanced spell and I definitely don't know how to use them if you gave them to me this second.

"Oh! But we will and loads more. Topside is fire spitting unhappy 'Fates' they are determined for a certain outcome and my realm is ecstatic. But more on all this later let me introduce these three who will remain nameless."

"Yep that makes perfect sense in my life or death or whatever." I moaned.

So the whoever's put their plan on the table which set me off but my wand-less magic just didn't work, they did say I could keep wand-less abilities but that was also for later.

"I have had enough of that stupid Tri-Wizard tournament and I am definitely not going to participate in bringing back snake-face."

"No one said you had to win or bring Riddle back that's his problem. Oh! One warning while here. Some of your more descriptive verbiage may make a few of our citizens a bit upset. Your call but they have very long tails and poison stinger."

"So I am just going to wake up in the Great Hall while the Goblet of Fire is spewing names?"

"Almost correct, however, there are a few oddities that will deviate from your previous stroll through time. So if you would accompany us to the other room we are going to show you part of your previous but now current life."

I was thrilled beyond words. To start my first train ride Ron made a glutinous pig of himself by eating most of the candies that I bought and by the time we arrived at the castle I had punched him in the nose. Draco had also in no short time learned of my tendencies to punch. I was left totally alone even when I sit at the Gryffindor table. Hermione appeared not to be attending Hogwarts this time around. There also appeared to be other oddities. The first was the time-line seemed to be off. I was going to be sixteen that year and everyone was calling me Lord Potter Black. I did get a quick journey into what they had kept from me in this past life. While I was not liked by the teachers, student males or the Ministry the girls appeared to love me in one secret tryst after another. I had just finished a torrid affair with the ice queen of Slytherin.

"The female parade was to keep you out of trouble. There is no greater problems if you forget who, when or where when it come to girls. Now just before you go we have someone we want you to meet."

Whatever the thing was I somehow don't think it was human, I just named it "the thing". It just walked into me and knowledge started loading up in all the right places in my brain. Half of all this knowledge of spells, curses, combat etc I'm not sure even existed on earth. It goes away and they hand me my Thestral wand and I am now sitting in the Great Hall while Beauxbatons Academy girls enter the hall followed by Durmstang's boys. The Tri-wizard tournament has begun.

I really am popular as there are no students sitting close to me. I see that my hair is black and long and tied in a pony-tail. I have a gold dragon earring on my left ear but I can tell that I have a glamour on which shows a scar and glasses. Guess I best thank death the next time I see him that I don't have to fix all that all over again. Enough of analyzing what can't be changed so I start piling the French food on my plate the elves have made for welcoming the Beauxbaton students. At least Ron is down the table, his complaining about the food doesn't stop his shoveling it into the bottom-less pit.

"Might I sit here Monsieur? I looked up and there was Gabriella Delacour. They said that she would not remember me and I should not attempt to contact her.

My French is basically non-existent but the first sentence was easy, "Fleur it's him!" Followed by French flying all of which I didn't understand. I did understand that someone just sat down next to me and when I turned I almost choked on the bouillabaisse. Hermione of the Beauxbaton academy was sitting there.

Last time they sat elsewhere but this time Beauxbaton were trying to sit at the Gryffindor's table. Colin was up taking pictures while Dean was trying to push everyone down the table to make room for the rest of the girls. Ron was sitting with his mouth open, the mouth that contained half chewed food. With Veela at the table there was going to be trouble.

The confusion had almost settled down when the Headmaster voice boomed over the tables. "Mister Potter how is it that you know these young ladies?"

Now that was a good question that I definitely was not going to answer so I reverted to what I said once before, "I met them in Never-Never land while trying to escape Captain Hook."

"After the feast you will please join me in my office."

I just couldn't pass it up, "Aye, Aye Captain Hook.

While many looked shocked many were giggling and that included Hermione.

"So you are the Famous Harry Potter?" Hemione asked.

"I don't know about famous but that's my name." I then persuaded her to start translating. I needed to know if my idea that Thanatos had just pulled a prank or just one lucky guy.

Oh it was a prank all right but I was sure I was in real trouble. My best guess was he was trying to insure I had a reason to stay alive this time so he gave me something I loved and that was Gabi. It wouldn't take long before Gabi would start to mature in the next couple of weeks and I would be lost. I could already feel the pull of our souls. In a fit of temper at being used again, I slammed my fists down onto the table on either side of my plate and said, "Dam". Gabi on one side and Hermione on the other reached out to calm me and laid their hands on my fists. I was then laughing as I lifted each hand and kissed first Gabi's hand and then Hermione's. I think somewhere someone was laughing like hell or saying "oh shit". If I was not mistaken we three had just started a three-way bond as the feeling was a unique one that I had felt before. The next time Hermione touched Gabi it was her turn to say, Mon Dieu. That got the Beauxbaton healer involved with some very disturbing news, the kind of news that you either laugh like hell at the absurdity of it all or just jump off a cliff.

Things got to be more and more hilarious. Draco was following Gabi around while Ron was drooling over Gaby but following Hermione most of the time. The girls schooled in the Beauxbaton's carriage and only went to the Great Hall for eating. They could be found lying around the lake studing with many Hogwarts boys drooling not far away. They also went as part of a group, the Beauxbaton no boys allowed group.

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One thing they did not take from me was my Karate capabilities so I maintained a physical training program. Soon Gabi and Hermione were joining me for jogs around the lake. It didn't take long when the first of the stupid approached me just outside of potion class. Draco liked that place because Snape was always there to catch Harry Potter doing something wrong and dock points or give detentions.

"Hay Scar-head what's that slut Veela see in you? She could make a good bit of gold working for me as a hooker." Draco left with a bloody nose and a broken arm. He was limping significantly from when he was tossed into the wall. Snape would unfreeze in about ten minutes after his class was over. Thanatos had indeed left me with wand-less capabilities while "the thing" had reinforced word-less casting not to mention a ton of super curses.

I headed to the library to fill in some specific references for an essay; Potions wouldn't have a teacher available for the rest of my potion period.

"Come on Harry Madam Maxime has agreed so we want to show you our carriage and our rooms. I had a girl on each arm dragging me to the carriage. I was an easy pick-up date.

This life was fun to say the least. Between Gabi being a Veela and Hermione's book knowledge I got the full Monte of charms and giggles. Right now I could run for the hills but that was far from my mind. I did get some surprised looks when I asked them if they wanted separate rooms or wanted to sleep with me as a group. The blushes got going when I asked when they wanted to start to cohabitate and were they on the potion. I got the bums rush out the door as I asked if they had told their parents yet.

Ron stopped me in the halls the next day. "You are to stay away from my Hermione do you hear? You have enough fame and a Veela to boot, she is mine and mine alone." He took a swing at me but had the grace of an ox and was on his butt before he could finish the round house punch. I know his nose was broken and bleeding but he leaped up and charged as an outraged bull. His momentum found his head meeting the wall and two students escorted a dazed Ron to the Hospital wing.