Evelyn looked at Harry Potter, as she was holding his hand. She had been away from Pacific for a few years now, and had asked to return to the castle to continue her medical training. Doctor Alan Richards had been very happy to have her working in the hospital wing. For some reason, Harry Potter would come in frequently. Now the young Veela looked at Harry as he lay in bed, his eyes closed, but awake. She had asked Harry to memorize what had happened, and if the professors would need a memory, they would be able to get it pretty easy.
"Harry, they are here" Evelyn said, and Harry opened his eyes as Professors Lupin, Flamel, Flamel, Summers, the Headmistress and deputy Headmistress entered the hospital wing.
"Mister Potter, what can you tell us? Asked Alexandra, as she looked Harry directly in the eyes.
Harry took a deep breath and exhaled. "Pain. That's the first thing I felt, then I saw visions of some place with many children on four tables. Anger that 'I' was not there? And a picture of a red stone. That's all I remember, Ma'am." said Harry. "Very well Harry, we'll find out what happened. You'll take it easy now, okay?" Said Alexandra as she and the rest made their way back to the headmistress office.
"Professor, there was one other thing" Said Harry, as the headmistress was almost out of the hospital wing. She turned around, her face asking what it was. "Purple, the colour purple." Harry said with certainty. Alexandra nodded and left, followed by the other professors.
"Well Harry, It seems you like to stay here in my hospital wing. Maybe we need to change the name to Harry's medical wing?" Said Alan. "Nice joke, doc." Said Harry dryly. Exhaling softly, Harry looked at Evelyn. "How's it going Eve?" Harry asked. Harry was one of a very few people who could call Evelyn 'Eve' and get away with it.
"Well, I've had some rough spots. But I'm getting there. It's just that my husband was accepting of me taking up a career. Otherwise, I'll probably be nothing but a baby making machine." "Well, we can't have that happening, now can't we?" Asked Harry, holding her hand.
Evelyn smiled. "Ohw Harry, to be young and naïve again. How I would sometimes long for that time. But now is not the time, or the moment." She slowly placed Harry's hand from her own hand up to her stomach. "Harry, what do you feel?"Harry looked at her, not knowing what she meant. "Eh... You?" Harry asked, and both had a slight moment where they both blushed.
Then they heard laughter coming from behind Evelyn, and looking around they could see Doctor Alan Richards standing there, a big smile on his face. "What she's trying to say Harry, is that she's pregnant." the doctor said. Harry looked at Evelyn's face, and a soft smile confirmed Alan's words. "Yes Harry, I'm pregnant. I'm only six weeks along now, so you don't see much of it yet. But in about seven month you'll see a very big belly walking."
Slowly, Harry started to rub Evelyn's tummy. He could not believe that a baby could come out of something like that.
Evelyn enjoyed the sensation of Harry rubbing her tummy, before she slowly removed his hand from it. "Harry, the doctor would like you to drink this. After that is done, you'll be discharged and can return to the Homestead." As the doctor gave Harry a potion, Harry felt his energy levels rising. Leaving Harry alone to get changed, Evelyn was talking quietly with Alan Richards, and as Harry came from the dressing room, Evelyn walked towards him and hugged him. Harry, after a few seconds of surprise started to hug her back. "Harry, I'll hope to see you soon, but not to soon" Said Evelyn as she released him from her arms.
Harry nodded and walked from the hospital wing to the Homestead and entered his own room. There he saw Hedwig sitting on her own perch. "Hello Hedwig." Harry said softly, hoping not to wake her up. There were a few hours left that Harry could do his homework. Thankfully, Bianca and Damian had put a small piece of paper on his desk so he knew what to do. Putting some pen and paper from his schoolbag, Harry sat down for the essay of Potions.
Taking his book with him, Harry started to write about the Pepper-up potion.
"And by adding three anticlockwise turns with your wand, you are able to increase the effectiveness of the Pepper-up potion. Making it a thirty-five percent more effective."
Harry closed his potions essay and looked at his clock. "Seven, maybe I'll walk through the garden before I'll take a bite." he said softly. Waking up Hedwig slowly, he and his phoenix started to walk outside, towards the garden of flowers Harry and a few kids had made in the summer. Harry had enjoyed the planting and that showed in the garden, where many flowers were standing. Harry somehow just loved to look at them. Inhaling and exhaling, Harry plucked a few flowers and held them close together, while he used a small string to tie them close.
Hedwig, who was watching Harry working with the flowers looked bored, until a vibe told her to look to her left. There, in the tree of remembrance sat another phoenix. This one was red, with a black beak and, if Hedwig could see it good from this distance, the phoenix had black eyes.
"Harryman" Hedwig called. Harry almost dropped the flowers, shocked that he heard Hedwig so clearly. "Hedwig?" Harry asked carefully. Never before did Hedwig talked to him directly. He needed to write this in his journal. "Yes Harryman, I'm Hedwig. There is a new phoenix looking at you at the tree over there" Harry looked at the direction of the tree and saw the phoenix as well. "What shall we do, Hedwig?" Harry asked, not hoping that this was one of the tricks of Dumbledore himself.
The old man had made an enemy of Harry, and only his current 'unknown' location had been the thing holding Dumbledore back. If Harry's location had been known to Dumbledore, Harry was sure that he would be coming this second, to drag Harry back to England and his parents school. Harry didn't want to go back. He liked it here at Pacific and the weather was much better than there in England, or wherever this 'Hogwarts' school was.
"Hedwig, I'm going back very slowly. If that phoenix tries anything, I want you to flame me away to DADA classroom five" Said Harry softly, hoping that the new phoenix was not listening in. Hedwig nodded and slowly, Harry made his way to the castle.
Harry was on edge the whole time, thinking that the phoenix would attack him and Hedwig would not react in time. Only when he was inside, Harry called Hedwig, and the bird flew from it's post near the gardens to Harry's shoulder. Nodding to his human, Hedwig urged Harry to find Headmistress Summers. She had to know about the new phoenix. Stopping at the nearest painting, Harry knocked gently at the frame. "What can I do for you, young man? Asked the inhabitant of the frame. The witch looked like she had lived in the seventeen hundreds, and with her walking stick where she leaned on pointed at Harry.
"Please, ma'am. I need to find the Headmistress, can you please show me the way to her room?" Asked Harry. The witch in the frame only lifted her walking stick and pointed to a point behind him. Harry turned around and looked right at Headmistress Summers. Turning around slightly, Harry offered a "Thank you" to the framed witch before he started to tell the headmistress about the strange phoenix. "Show me, mister Potter" the headmistress said, and moving with her, Harry showed her the place where the phoenix had sat. It was gone now.
"Was it here that you saw the phoenix, mister Potter" Alexandra asked, as she started to use her wand to cast several magical detection spells. "Yes Ma'am. It was right here. That bird was sitting on one of these branches." Said Harry as he pointed his hand towards one of the lower branches.
Casting extra near or on the branches of the tree, Headmistress Summers shook her head. "I'm sorry mister Potter, but I can't detect anything. It seems as if the bird is... Harry, Get behind me" Harry turned around and came face to face with a black robed, black haired hook-nosed man, with a sneer on his face, as if he was looking at something very, very nasty.
Harry moved quickly behind the headmistress, and as he looked at the headmistress, she stepped forward.
"You are unwelcome here. I'll advise you leave now, before we'll have to duel."
The man's sneer increased, but it turned into a cruel laugh. "Ohw, how I'm going to enjoy this" the man said, with a nasal voice. "Allow me to introduce myself. Severus Snape, Potions master extraordinaire, Hogwarts head of Slytherin house, and your worst nightmare. CRUSIO"
He had pointed his wand at Harry, but before the torture curse hit, a pile of dirt appeared between them, and the curse bounced off. Leaving enough time for Harry to grab his wand, and cast his strongest spell. "Expelliarmus" Harry yelled, and Snape had to conjure a shield to protect him.
"You little brat. When I'm done with you, you'll wish you never were born." Before he could curse Harry again, Snape had to dodge, as several high powered spells were shot from Alexandra's wand.
The duel was on, with Alexandra using transfiguration as defence, and Snape relied primarily on his protego shields. Harry sometimes got a lucky shot in, with some small pranking spells. His most successful hit was that with the fingernail growing hex. Snape knew his was in trouble, he had never thought that Harry 'fucking' Potter was here at this school with such a strong defender. From the corners of his eyes, Snape saw several teachers moving out of the castle, and he recognised one of them the moment he saw him. The other teacher saw him to, and snarled before he joined the fight.
"Lupin" Snarled Snape, as he kept dodging curses. "Snape" Lupin snarled, before he started to use highly explosive curses to cover Snape's side of the battlefield with rubble.
With the help from Lupin, and sometimes Harry, Alexandra was able to shoot several curses at the black robed intruder. "Avada Kedavra" Shouted Snape, and as the killing curse barely missed Alexandra, Harry went wild. Focussing his wind elemental powers, Harry sent forth a massive wind wave. The wave totally obliterated Snape's conjured shield, and he was blasted from the ground and flew twenty meters before he handed. Hearing a pop, he looked up, seeing the same face of his opponent waving his wand. "Ohw Fuck, Twins" said Snape as he fell forward again and was out cold. "Well, when I hope for a good duel, it's my sister who gets all the fun" said Alex as he looked at the man at his feet.
"That is Severus Snape. He was here for Harry" Said Alexandra, as she kept Harry behind her.
Remus looked every little bit the werewolf he felt stirring. Snarling and making other animal noises, Remus turned the black robed idiot so that his face was skywards. Remus pointed his wand at Snape's face. "STUPIFY"