Aggressive Love - V1.2.
DarkDragen
Chapter 4: Chapter 3
Notes:
If you have read this chapter before, you don't need to review, I'm just spliting chapter one into three chapters, this is the final part of three of the split. I'm hoping that for future readers, this'll be easier to read.
Chapter Text
Chapter Three.
Harry's Third Year at Hogwarts:
When Holly found out what happened to her cousin, she was worried about Harry being at Hogwarts, seeing how this was his second time being in danger at the school. Harry admitted that the last two years were dangerous, but even though a few classes weren't all that good he was learning more about what magic was and how to control his own magic and teach her what he learned wandlessly. All he could hope for is that there was no more danger for him, as he wanted to learn more about magic, even though he did feel they had dumb things down seeing how a few of the books made some of the later years look easy to do.
Holly was forced to agree, even though she would want Harry to stay with her, as they could learn more on their own. But at the same time, Harry could read and get books that could help them out more, something that could be difficult if he wasn't attending Hogwarts. So all they could do was what they have been doing, learning wandless and getting stronger.
When Harry informed his cousin about Lockhart and wondered why Dumbledore hired the man and not someone more suited to the job, Holly suspected that it is possible that Dumbledore might want to teach the students what kind of wizard/witch they shouldn't become. Harry had to call BS there, sure it would be a good thing to learn, but the problem was that the fifth and seventh-year students had important tests to take.
The fifth-year exams meant to decide which classes they could take for the last two years. Whilst the seventh year exams would decide what jobs they could do, and if they didn't have the right marks, they couldn't get the job they want. So having someone like Lockhart teaching them, whilst might make it so not to be like him, for fifth and seventh years, done a great injustice to them, they would not be able to gain the jobs that they wanted. Not unless they were smart or got extra lessons over the year.
As Holly thought about it like that, she could see what her cousin meant, having Lockhart as a teacher was a great injustice. She had to wonder why Harry's Headmaster allowed such a man near the school, even if the class cursed as Harry told her people thought it was, couldn't he find someone else to teach? Harry told her that the Headmaster was famous and well known. So couldn't he hire someone for a year who knew about defence like a magical policeman/woman, so the students could learn something useful?
So when her cousin wasn't doing chores for her parents, she was helping Harry learn from his books and learn what he did at Hogwarts wandlessly.
Harry had to admit, this was one of the better summers that Harry had with his aunt and uncle. The only inventful thing that happened was learning that a murderer by the name of Sirius Black has broken out of prison, and should anyone see him do not interact with him but call the Special Hotline that was created.
Not long after hearing this news, a problem arrived at the Dursleys, their Aunt Marge came to stay for a while. During her stay there, she tried to get a rise out of Harry by spoiling her and Dudley and insulting Harry's parents numerous times. The only reason Harry didn't snap at this was that Harry wanted his uncle or aunt to sign the permission slips to allow him out of Hogwarts so that he could visit the local magical village. But one night Harry got to his breaking point and accidentally caused Marge to inflate like a hot air balloon, and have her float away.
Not wanting to be punished by the Dursley's, he left the house where he had an alarming sighting of a large, black dog where he fell back and accidentally summoned a magical bus known as the Knight Bus. Harry had the Knight Bus drop him off at Diagon Alley, on the bus he learned the murderer on the news wasn't a normal one, he was a Wizard. It would seem that Black was a loyal supporter of Voldemort. Once he got to Diagon Alley, he was greeted by a worried Cornelius Fudge, the Minister of Magic.
It was strange, the Minister of Magic told him that he shouldn't worry about the accidental magic use, that he wouldn't get into trouble and that he dealt with the problem with his Aunt Marge. He told him that his aunt and uncle was extremely angry, but they are prepared to take him back the following summer as long as he stays at Hogwarts for the Christmas and Easter holidays.
Harry tried to tell the Minister that he didn't want to go back to his family, but the Minister wouldn't have any of it. sHe said he was sure they were fond of each other very deep down. Here the Minister rented a room for him for the rest of the summer, as long as he stayed in Diagon Alley and did not go into the Muggle World.
This alone seemed strange, but it got stranger when Harry mentioned Black, as the Minister got somewhat worried for some reason. Harry didn't ask why seeing how he dealt with adults long enough to know that he more than likely wouldn't get an answer.
But something wasn't right, why would the Minister of Magic of all people be looking for him, why would he be worried if Harry knew about Black. No, something was going on, something connecting him and Black. This worried Harry, as he wanted one year without trouble and if this Black person was out to get him, Harry wanted to know.
So the next several days, when Harry wasn't finishing his schoolwork, looking around the Alley, admiring a new racing broom called the Firebolt he was in the only library there, looking in some old newspapers to see if he could find anything about Black. Strangely, all that he found was that he was a Death Eater, a name used for those who followed the Dark Lord, that he killed a street full of Muggles with one spell and was sent to the only magical prison Azkaban. Nothing to explain why he would be after Harry.
Although he did find one strange thing though, out of all of the Death Eaters that were captured, he was the only one that was sent to Azkaban without trial. The other Death Eaters got one, some named names to get a lighter sentence or if the names were big enough or found forced to be one, they got off from going to Azkaban. But not Black, he was sent there without a trial and forgotten about until now. Harry didn't know what was going on, but he feared that sooner or later he would be pulled into something. So he decided to get a few books on defence and learn a few spells to defend himself just in case.
A few days before going back to Hogwarts, he met his friends Ron and Hermione who recently returned from their own holiday aboard with their family. Harry want to tell his friends what he had learned but waited until they were at Hogwarts seeing he didn't want the Elder Weasleys to worry about him. During the last few days, Hermione brought a magical cat named Crookshanks, who didn't stop chasing Scabbers, Ron's ageing pet rat.
Not that Harry was surprised, cats were known to chase rats and mice, so this was no surprise that Crookshanks would chase Scabbers. But Ron was displeased about this, even when Harry told him that this was normal for cats, he wouldn't listen.
The night before they all head off to Hogwarts, Harry overhears Ron's parents discussing the fact that Sirius Black is after Harry. That he was after Harry as he lost everything the night the You-Know-Who was defeated and wanted Harry to pay, Mr. Weasley wanted to let Harry know, as he knew that he and his son often go out sneaking about and so wanted to warn Harry, but his wife didn't want him to know, as she was worried how he would deal with knowing that a mad man was after him.
Harry was on Mr. Weasley's side on this, he would want to know for sure so that he could prepare himself just in case he did face Black. He could be more careful where he went and if he saw something strange, had a different way out of danger and report it, even if he got into trouble. It was better to get into trouble and not die than not saying anything and getting killed.
Now the following day they go to Platform 9 by the Ministry providing a couple of cars for them, or as Harry knew better, for him so that Black wouldn't get to him. As they got there, Mr. Weasley pulled Harry to one side and informed him about Black, even though his wife didn't like the idea of it. Harry thanked him, but told him he expected as much and heard him and his wife talking the last time to get something, so he didn't have to say anything. Mr. Weasley smiled and told him to be careful. Which Harry told his friends later on.
Apart from his yearly talk with Malfoy and his goons, the only interesting thing that happened on the train was that they met with an Azkaban Guard, a Dementor. It would seem that they were a dark magical creature that wore a dark hooded robe, that had the ability to pull the soul out of someone and make those with dark memories to relive them over and over again. If you didn't have a dark memory, you would feel cold and feel as if you would never be happy again.
For Harry, though he didn't know it at the time, his dark memory was reliving the night that his mother was killed and hearing her scream and begging for her and him not to be killed. His head couldn't take it and fainted, something that seemed to be normal for those with very dark memories.
They were protected by Professor Lupin, the new defence against the Dark Arts Teacher, who also revived Harry. Although this helped to gain some trust in Harry, the young teen was wary of the teacher, seeing so far two of the three Dark Arts Teachers that he had wanted to hurt him in one form or another.
Soon afterwards, the students arrive at Hogwarts and Malfoy and a few of his friends make fun of what happened on the train with the Dementors.
Now for the classes, he was thankful that Hermione talked him out of Divination. It would seem that Professor Trelawney loved nothing more than to protect the death of one of her students from her class each year, this year it would seem that it was Ron's turn. Harry feared because of him being the Boy-Who-Lived, if he was in that class, he would be her target until he left the class.
The next class was Magical Creatures, this class was another reason to wonder what Dumbledore was smoking, seeing how he had Hagrid teach it. Don't get Harry wrong, he liked the half-giant very much, he was his friend, but the problem was that Hagrid was that although he was great with most types of creatures, not only was he expelled in his fifth year, thanks to Tom Riddle aka Voldemort, but he had no idea how to teach. In Harry's eyes after having shity teachers over the years, although you might know your subject, it doesn't mean you should teach it if you don't like teaching students or know how to, Snape came to mind.
In Hagrid's case, his first lesson was a prime example of why he shouldn't be a teacher, as he introduces the students to Hippogriffs, large, deeply dignified crosses between horses and eagles. Now, this alone wasn't too bad of an idea, showing them some awesome beast, but what happened next wasn't. You see he wanted each of them to stroke and if possible, fly on them.
The problem here was students weren't used to these beasts yet, and if insulted, they would attack. So having students who were fearful, or disrespectful like most of the Slytherins, it wasn't wise to use Hippogriffs to be stroked or rode on. Like Malfoy showed all too well, after Harry tried first, he insulted the beast by saying that it was dumb and wasn't so bad if Harry could do it. Insulting the beast like that, the Hippogriff attacked the young Malfoy.
Now the School Healer was able to fix him up, but Malfoy was milking it out as much as he could, trying to his injury in an attempt to have Hagrid fired and Buckbeak put to sleep.
As for his first Defence Against the Dark Arts class, it wasn't that bad, in fact, it was much better than the last two years. Professor Lupin led the class to the Staff Room, to a defeat of a Boggart, which changes shape to appear as the viewer's greatest fear. For Lupin, it turns into a white orb, for Ron, a spider. The last two were Harry and Hermione, but when it came to Harry's turn, the Professor decided to stop the class so that they couldn't take their turn. Harry felt as if Lupin did this because of him for some reason.
As for Ancient Runes, they spent time learning to read runes, as not understanding them could be very dangerous when using them, people had ended up being killed because of it. But during that time, the teacher taught them that runes were used for brooms, some limps and other stuff.
Harry was shocked to hear that at the same time as he and Hermione were taking Runes, she was taking Divination at the same time as Ron. Harry would love nothing more to know how she was doing this but decided not to ask her unless it became too dangerous for her. He knew everyone had secrets, just like he had, he hadn't told his friends about how he could do wandless magic, just like his cousin could. So he wasn't going to pray in her business.
The year started off well, no hints of trouble or reasons for Harry to be worried about anything. But then came Halloween, where just like Harry's other two Halloweens, shit hit the fan for him. The day started off fine enough, third year and up were able to visit the local village, Hogsmeade. Because his family wouldn't sign the permission slip and he wasn't able to convince McGonagall to let him go, he wasn't able to go there. Although when he was talking to McGonagall about going, it felt that if he did have the permission slip, she would have tried to stop him from going.
Instead, having nothing else to do, he had tea with Professor Lupin who invited him to his classroom. Here Harry discovered that the reason he wasn't allowed to fight the Boggart, wasn't because Lupin didn't think he couldn't deal with it, but he had worried that it would take the shape of Voldemort. Harry admits that Voldemort was the first thing that came to mind, but he was reminded of what happened on the train with the Dementor. So his new fear wasn't Voldemort, but the Dementors. Lupin was amazed that Harry's fear was fear itself. During their talk, Snape came by to bring Lupin a steaming potion, which Lupin drinks, much to Harry's alarm seeing the dark look that Snape was giving the new Defence Professor. But Lupin reassured him that it was alright, that it was a rare potion only Potion Master's like Snape could make.
But things got worse, later on, when everyone was at the Halloween Feast, Sirius Black breaks into Hogwarts and destroys the Fat Lady portrait that guards Gryffindor Tower, when she wouldn't allow him into the tower without a password. Whilst Harry spent the night in the Great Hall with the rest of the students from all the Houses, as the teacher's searched for Black, Harry thought about the event.
Why did Black go to the tower tonight of all nights, Black once came to Hogwarts so he would have known that they would be at the Great Hall. It didn't make sense to Harry, it was like he was searching for someone else apart from him, but what? Harry wasn't sure, but he knew that whatever is going on, there's more to this story than meets the eye.
After that night, things went back to normal and not long after, Quidditch started up again. Normally it would be Gryffindor House against Slytherin, but thanks to Malfoy still acting that he was hurt, they had to play against Hufflepuff instead. During the game, Harry spies the large black dog, and seconds later he sees a hoard of Dementors. He loses consciousness and falls off his broomstick.
Later, Harry would wake up only to find out that his trusty broomstick had flown into the Whomping Willow and been smashed, and the game itself had lost. Harry wanted to know why the Dementors affected so much and so went to see Lupin, where he learned about the Dementors and how they affect people. Harry asked for help to defend against the dark creatures. Lupin agreed but stated that he couldn't help until after Christmas as he had a few things to deal with first.
During the next Hogsmeade visit, seeing how Harry was still unable to go, Fred and George Weasley give Harry a magical map called The Marauder's Map, written by the mysterious quartet of Moony, Prongs, Wormtail and Padfoot. This map showed the user all of Hogwarts, apart from the Chamber of Secret, it showed all the secret paths that the castle had or at least the ones that the creators knew of. The map also showed the ways out of the castle, most were blocked or sealed off, but there was one secret passageway that led into Hogsmeade, where he rejoined Ron and Hermione. Hermione wasn't happy about this and tried to tell Harry that he should hand the map over to help find Black, but Harry convinced her that it was better in his hands and if he saw Black he would tell someone.
Whilst he was at The Hogsmeade Tavern, whilst making sure no one saw him, Harry overheard Cornelius Fudge discussing Sirius Black's responsibility for Harry's parents' deaths. Not only that but for the death of another Hogwarts student, Peter Pettigrew, who was blown to bits, leaving only a finger. How the group were best of friends, in fact, they even made him Harry's godfather. This upset Harry, that someone so close to his parents, his godfather, was behind the death of his parents. If he was thinking clearly, he would have thought all they found of Peter was a finger, strange.
Back at Hogwarts, Harry learns that Hagrid received a notice saying that Buckbeak, the Hippogriff who attacked Malfoy, was going to be put on trial, and Hagrid is inconsolable.
The winter holidays roll around. For Christmas, Harry receives a Firebolt, the most impressive racing broomstick in the world. Something Harry wanted to buy if he had the money during the summer holidays. Much to his and Ron's dismay though, Hermione reports the broomstick to Professor McGonagall, who takes it away out of fear that it may have been sent (and cursed) by Sirius Black.
Hermione thought that she did the right thing and wouldn't apologise for it, as she was worried for her friend. This made it so that Ron and Harry stopped talking to each other. Ron stopped talking to her mainly because of the broom, but Harry stopped talking to her for another reason, her betrayal. Sure he understood her reasoning, but he was upset that she didn't even try to talk to him, to allow him the chance to take the broom McGonagall himself once she talked to him about her fears. Sure he wanted the broom, but if someone mentioned that there might be a problem with the broom or someone trying to use it to kill him with it, he would have listened.
Although, he didn't think that Black sent the broom, as to how could he? He couldn't go into the bank and get some money, seeing how the place was being watched just in case he went to the bank. And the shop keepers would have informed the Magical Law Enforcement. So he couldn't see how Black could have sent the broom. He tried a few times to talk to her, but she didn't see that she was wrong in her actions, she didn't feel like she had to say sorry for what she did. Because of this, Harry couldn't talk to her for a while, not if she couldn't see what she did was wrong.
Either way, once the holidays are over, Harry begins working with Professor Lupin to fight Dementors with the Patronus Charm. He was moderately successful, but still not entirely confident in his ability to ward them off. During this time Harry learned that Lupin and his father were friends, but when he tried to learn more, the Defence Teacher didn't want to talk about it.
Soon before the game against Ravenclaw, Harry's broomstick is returned to him, and as Ron takes it up to the dormitory, he discovers evidence that Scabbers has been eaten by Crookshanks. Although Harry tries to tell Ron that this was what cats normally do, his friend was furious at Hermione.
Soon afterwards, Gryffindor plays Ravenclaw in Quidditch. Whilst Malfoy and his friends tried to throw Harry off his match to pretend to be Dementors. But thanks to his Patronus training, Harry was able to use it to defend him. It helped that Harry had his Firebolt, so he was able to triumph, winning the game.
That same night when all the students have gone to bed, Sirius Black breaks into Harry's dormitory and slashes the curtain around Ron's bed. This was strange, why would he attack Ron? Their chests have names on them so that whoever took their things knew where they went, Black would know which bed was his. This made no sense.
Several days later, Hagrid invites Harry and Ron over for tea and scolds them for shunning Hermione on account of Scabbers and the Firebolt. They feel slightly guilty, but not terrible. Unlike Ron who acted foolish for something that was national, Harry told the half-giant that if Hermione seemed a bit sorry for going behind his back the way she did, he would be willing to talk to her. He wasn't a person who wouldn't listen to reason if talked to, Hermione, his friend, to do something that he couldn't forgive so easily. If she thought she could do so with no consequence, she would think she could do so again and the next time something worse could happen.
Soon Harry, under his invisibility cloak, meets Ron during a Hogsmeade trip; when he returns, Snape catches him and confiscates The Marauder's Map. Whilst Lupin was able to save Harry from Snape's rage, he reprimands him severely for risking his safety for 'a bag of magic tricks.' Harry knew he got off lightly and didn't want to get into more trouble so he didn't put up a fight, but before handing it over he explained that he wasn't sure if the map was working as it should. As he explained that he saw a name on the map that shouldn't be on it, Peter Pettigrew, as he heard that he was dead.
So Harry asked if Pettigrew was really dead, as he found it strange that all they found was a finger. As what kind of spell or curse could do something like that?
As Harry leaves Lupin's office, he runs into Ron and then into Hermione, who informs them that Buckbeak's execution date has been set. Because of this, the three of them reconciled in their efforts to help Hagrid, but Harry did ask Hermione before she does something like this again, to talk to him first before doing anything. If she didn't, they might not be able to fix their friendship.
As they started to hang out again, Harry began to see that Hermione was looking rough, bags under her eyes, warned out. Harry felt horrible for not noticing this beforehand, although they weren't speaking, he still considered her a friend. But before he could say anything, with how stressful she was by all of her work, in a day she slaps Malfoy for picking on Hagrid and she quits Divination, concluding that Professor Trelawney is a great fraud.
That day Harry sat her down and talked to her and sight out asked her how she was doing all the classes, as however she was doing them was slowly making her ill. At first, she didn't want to tell him, but Harry told her that if she didn't tell him, he would go to the teachers and tell them how ill she was going. She told him that she couldn't believe that do such a thing. Harry told her that he was doing it for her own good, as he didn't want her to get hurt and unlike her, he was willing to talk to her about this before he went to the teachers.
Hermione was shocked and angry he would compare the two things, saying that they weren't the same thing. But Harry told her it was, as if she continued, she could hurt herself in doing whatever she was doing, like as she believed he could hurt on the Firebolt. At least his broom wasn't jinxed and he didn't get hurt, but with her she was slapping people for no reason, calling out teachers as fakes and getting ill slowly, so yeah he had the right to do this.
Hermione felt like someone slapped her across her face at this, seeing how her friend was right about this. So she explained about the Time-Turner she had, that allowed her to go back in time for a few hours so she could take her classes. Harry was shocked at this, he couldn't believe that McGonagall and the Headmaster would give Hermione such an item just to take more classes.
Leaving out his thoughts about the teachers giving a young girl a dangerous item, Harry could be stupid in how she handled things. That she should have used the Time-Turner, to get extra hours to do her homework and to get extra sleep in so she could stay healthy. But Hermione told Harry that she was told that she could only use it for going to classes. Harry told her that he didn't think that they meant it like that, it's possible that they wanted her to use it for homework and sleep too so that she wouldn't end up like this.
Although that was what he said, he didn't believe it for a moment, but he knew that Hermione didn't like people talking bad to those in authority. So he had to be careful here, not letting her know what he really thought. If he was honest, he didn't think that they really care one way or another, not after all the shit that happened in the last few years and no one did anything about it.
Thinking about it Hermione realized that Harry might be right, that McGonagall and the Headmaster might have wanted her to use it like that and took what they told her too seriously. Harry informed her of two options, stop doing at least one more class seeing how doing four extra classes would be too much for her. From what he heard about the other classes and how Mr. Weasley acts about Muggles, it was best to stop taking Muggle Studies seeing how outdated the class was. The other option was to use the Time-Turner to get extra hours for sleep, homework and relaxation so that she wouldn't burn out and have a break down as she did with Malfoy and Trelawney.
Seeing how Hermione loved the classes, she decided to go for the second option, at least until the end of the year so that she could decide what to do over the summer holidays. Over the next week or so, Harry noticed that Hermione looked less stressful and more healthy than she was. Whilst Harry would have liked her to stop doing at least one class, he was happy that his friend was doing better now and hope she doesn't fall back to only using the Time-Turner for classes only.
In fact, whilst she told him that she wasn't allowed to take anyone with her, when she used the Time-Turner for sleep and relaxation, she took Harry with her. For the time she was asleep, to make sure that she didn't oversleep and miss classes, at which point Harry would practise with his wandless magic as she slept. As for relaxation, she wanted someone with her to have someone to talk to and play games with. They would only read for relaxation, not for their school work.
A few days after learning about Hermione's secret, was their final Quidditch match, who they were against Slytherin. The match ended up with Gryffindor winning, and so allowing the Gryffindor Team to win the Quidditch Cup for the first time in years.
Soon enough, exams came about. Apart from the two sightings of Black, Harry heard nothing about him, Harry didn't know if this was a good thing or not. Harry feared that if he ever met Black, he wasn't sure if he could stop himself from attacking the man for what he did to his parents.
Now not long after Harry's and Hermione's Ancient Runes Exam, a strange professor came up to him. From Ron's description, this professor was Professor Trelawney. Her eyes were blank as if she didn't know where she was. Just before Harry could ask her if she was alright, she predicts, in a strange voice, that before midnight a servant of Voldemort's who has been chained these twelve years, would break free and set out to rejoin his master. In doing so, the Dark Lord will rise again with his servant's aid, greater and more terrible than ever he was.
Once she made the prediction, she seemed to go back to normal and wondered how she got there, as the last thing she remembered was that she was in her tower. Not noticing Harry, she left to return to her tower as if nothing happened. Harry wasn't sure what happened there but decided to let it be, seeing how he was warned that she was a nutcase who made things up.
After hearing that the appeal to kill Buckbeak was turned down and would be killed that night, wanting to comfort Hagrid, Ron, Hermione, and Harry shield themselves in Harry's invisibility cloak and head off to Hagrid's before the execution. While at his cabin, Hermione discovers Scabbers in Hagrid's milk jug, here Ron awkwardly apologises to Hermione for how he acted.
Whilst he was glad to see them, Hagrid didn't want them to see what was about to happen and so sent them back to the castle. But as they were heading back to the castle, they heard Buckbeak being executed, seeing how Scabbers was making a fuse trying to get away. But as this was happening, a large black dog approaches them, where it pounces on Ron, and drags him under the Whomping Willow.
Harry and Hermione and Crookshanks dash down after them; oddly though, Crookshanks knew of a secret knob to press to freeze the flailing tree. They move through an underground tunnel and arrive at the Shrieking Shack. They find that the black dog has turned into Sirius Black and is in a room with Ron. Harry, Ron, and Hermione manage to disarm Black, and before Harry could stun and question Black, before he decided to avenge his parents' deaths, Professor Lupin enters the room and disarms him. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are aghast as Lupin and Black exchange a series of nods and embrace.
Once the three students calm down enough to listen, Lupin and Black explained everything. How Lupin is a werewolf who remains tame through a special steaming potion made for him by Snape. While Lupin was a student at Hogwarts, his best friends, James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew, became animagi (humans able to take on animal forms) so that they could romp the grounds with Lupin at the full moon. They even created the Marauder's Map together partly because he was a werewolf, but to sneak around when they wanted.
Hearing that Lupin was not just friends with his father, but best friends, Harry felt somewhat betrayed by the man. As a best friend of his father, why didn't he check on him when he was growing up. He would like to think that if Ron or Hermione were dead, no, murdered, and they had kids, he would check upon them to make sure that they were happy and see if they needed his help or not. To tell them stories about their parents.
A few questions went through Harry's head, why didn't he check on him when he was growing up, was there a reason why he couldn't content him then? If so, why didn't Lupin contact during his first and second year? He would have known that Harry was at Hogwarts at this point, and so easier to contact with. Then what about this year, they had many times alone together learning the Patronus Charm, he could have said something to him. He could understand that if it wasn't for learning the Patronus Charm, the man couldn't treat him any differently to other students, but when it was one or one, that was a different story. Maybe hearing about his parents could have given him the happy memories to power the Patronus Charm.
But Harry had other things on hand to deal with that right now, he had to deal with this matter first. So Harry listened to Black and Lupin explained how Snape once followed Lupin toward his transformation site in a practical joke set up by Sirius, seeing how Snape was always sticking his nose in things that he shouldn't and trying to get them into trouble. Thankfully, Snape was saved by Harry's father, but Snape thought that he was behind the so-called prank.
Now whilst Harry believed that Sirius was wrong and should have been punished, even expelled, for what he did, but if Snape was anything like he is now, Harry might have done the same thing. He more than once wanted to do something to Snape. Although, it would explain why Snape seems so hostile towards him because he thought his father was behind the prank too and so wanting payback he took it out on his son.
As Sirius and Lupin were explaining their past with Snape, the man himself revealed himself from underneath Harry's invisibility cloak that he dropped when he was running to catch Ron when Sirius took him. Snape wanted to take Sirius to the Dementors so that they could take Black's soul. He wasn't willing to listen that Sirius might be innocent, he just wanted to pay the man back for what he did all those years ago.
Thankfully though, Harry, Ron, and Hermione disarm him, rendering him unconscious. Lupin and Black then continued to explain that the real betrayer of Harry's parents wasn't Black, but Peter Pettigrew, they explained why Black was suspected this in the first place. Sirius told them that when he learned about the death of his best friend and his wife who was also Sirius's friend, in his grief, he went out to capture and possibly kill the rat, but the rat got one over him.
Harry admitted that this was a foolish thing to do, seeing how he had a godson to look after now. But Harry could understand Black's thoughts, he was grief-wakened by the deaths of his friend all because of another friend, so in that moment of grief, he went after the person who betrayed them in the hopes to bring him to justice in one form another. Harry felt that if it happened to him, one of his friends was behind the death of another friend, he might do the same thing. So he couldn't really be angry at Black in doing that if he might have done the same thing.
They told the teen that everyone presumed that Peter was dead, but really, he was hidden all these years disguised as Ron's rat, Scabbers. When asked for proof of this, Lupin transforms Scabbers into Pettigrew, who squeals and hedges but ultimately confesses, revealing himself to be Voldemort's servant, and Black to be innocent.
Finally knowing the truth, they all travel back to Hogwarts, the problem was that it was the night of a full moon and Lupin, who has forgotten to take his Wolfsbane Potion (the steaming liquid), turns into a werewolf and loses control of himself. When everything was all done and dusted, where Harry could take time to think things clearly, Harry had to wonder why or how Lupin forgot about the potion. If he has been using it often over the last year, he would be used to taking it by now, so why forget to take it tonight of all nights when he knew how dangerous he could be without it?
To protect them, Sirius Black responds by turning into the large black dog. As Black returns from driving the werewolf into the woods, a swarm of Dementors approaches, and in turn Black and Hermione become paralyzed with fear. Harry tried to use his Patronus Charm, but it wasn't powerful enough to drive it away. Just as one of the Dementors prepares to suck the soul out of Harry, out of somewhere, a powerful Patronus drives the Dementors away. This was the last thing Harry saw before he faints.
When Harry awoke in the Hospital Wing an hour or so later, he heard Snape and Cornelius Fudge discussing the fact that Sirius Black is about to be given the fatal Dementor's Kiss. That Snape would get the highest reward possible if Fudge had his way.
Harry and Hermione protest, claiming Black's innocence, but to no avail, Snape made it out that Sirius had put them under a Confundus Charm to make it seem that he was innocent. That he was the hero of it all, that he saved Harry and his friends from the mess murderer. Harry couldn't believe that Snape's hatred would allow an innocent man, well innocent in the case of the Potter's death, get killed and the guilty get away with it. They tried to tell Fudge that Snape was knocked out and that he didn't have all the information but to no avail.
Not long after waking up and trying to defend Sirius, Dumbledore enters the room and shoos out the others, where he mysteriously suggests that Harry and Hermione travel back through Hermione's time-turning device, where they should be able to and save both Black and Buckbeak.
Hermione turned her Time-Turner back a few turns so that they would be back an hour before Buckbeak's execution, where they rescued him. After this, they had to hide so that no one would see them. Before long, they saw themselves coming out of the Shrieking Shack and back to the castle. Making sure not to be seen, Harry and Hermione followed their past sleeves.
Before long though, it was the time where the Dementor meant to suck their souls from them. He hadn't said anything before now, but he thought that it was his dad who saved them. But within the last few moments, he realized it wasn't his dad who saved them, it had been him who conjured the powerful Patronus. It took the form of some kind of stag, but it was much bigger and more powerful looking than the normal stag Harry knew of. And did the impossible, it threw them about to protect Harry.
He would later find out that it was an extinct animal known as Irish Elk. What Harry didn't know was that the Blood Protection made the Charm stronger, so that these Dementors would pay for trying to hurt its host. If it was at full power, the Charm would be able to kill these damn things.
Although it wasn't a stag like his father, Harry sort of thought it was, here to protect him, so he called the Irish Elk, Prongs.
After saving his past self from the Dementors, Harry and Hermione fly to the tower where Sirius was imprisoned, where they rescue him and send him away to freedom on Buckbeak's back.
The next day, Harry found out that Professor Lupin was leaving Hogwarts because of the previous night's scare, not that Harry didn't feel this was the right thing to do. Sure he had mixed feelings towards the man, he was still the best teacher the school had for the last few years. But if he could forget to take his potion one night, how can Lupin say that he wouldn't forget it again. The next time he might not be so lucky, next time he could kill a child and so would create a lot of problems.
But at the same time, he was sad that Lupin was leaving, now he knew who Lupin was to his father, he wanted to hear stories about his father and mother. To learn what they really were and what they like. Harry was upset and slightly angry that Lupin didn't tell him about this sooner, as he would love nothing more to know about his parents. He knew nothing about them other than they died for him. The only good thing that happened in talking to Lupin for a bit was that he handed The Marauder's Map to him. Lupin said that his father would be saddened if his son didn't know some of the short outs in Hogwarts, and use the map for fun.
On the train ride home, Harry receives an owl-post letter from Sirius that contains a Hogsmeade permission letter, words of confirmation that he is safe in hiding with Buckbeak and that he was, in fact, the sender of the Firebolt. Also, seeing how he felt sorry that he was the reason that Ron lost a pet, he told Harry that the owl that delivered the letter was now Ron's. Harry feels slightly uplifted as he returns to spend his summer with the Dursleys.
Harry just hoped that next year would be much safer than the last three years, as he really wanted at least one peaceful year at Hogwarts without fear of his life and health. Little did Harry know, but by the time he finished his fourth year at Hogwarts, things would be different for
To be Continued!
Author's Note: Here ends another chapter of Aggressive Love - V1.2. I hope that you enjoyed this and like the little extra details I added to this year. This'll be the last chapter where I'll be telling you what happened, starting from the next chapter, I'll be showing you what happens. Not only that, but the smut starts in the next chapter, so be ready for that