Slide by Slide: The Series.
Pilot episode: Into a Twisted Mirror
Starring
Harry Potter as Harry Seven
Jane Granger as Hecate the cat
Ron Weasley as Ron Campbell
Hermione Potter as The Boss
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Hermione Potter was standing in the briefing room at the Granger Institute going over the notes for the world she had recently scanned. The protocols and sensitivity of the Interdimensional device had been increased by the addition of several other runic crystalline lattice matrix chambers. She could was beginning to develop a sense of how strong magic was, who was alive on that world, where they were chronologically speaking and how much life there was on that world. Beyond that she would still need to send teams across to actively explore the world.
Unfortunately she had only managed to develop one team so far. The fact that her husband Harry Potter, her friend Ronald Weasley and an other dimensional counterpart of herself that was naturally a cat girl but could turn into a human or a cat named Jean Granger were the members made her sigh. Not that they were lacking in skill, bravery or ability but that no matter what it seemed like fate enjoyed playing games with them.
Harry came in with Jane beside him. She was at least wearing a sports bra and skirt today. Not that she wore much else most of the time. Having spent several years as property and prohibited from wearing clothes she had lost her nudity taboo. Hermione had tried to work with her to get it back but to no avail. Especially as she was outvoted by most of the rest of her crazy clan of counterparts and contemporaries. Ron came rushing in late. Lipstick still on his cheek and hair mussed.
"Sorry Selene said she was ovulating and wanted bred right now."
Everyone looked at him then went back to what they were doing. He was the one who had married multiple versions of Luna Lovegood after all...
"Hey dear. You look pensive. Anything wrong with this world?" Harry asked as he took a seat and put his booted feet on the table.
"No not really. I'm just curious as to some of the indicators."
"Oh like what?"
"Well Today is June 20th 2008 here right?"
"Well yeah. Its been twelve years since Sirius died."
"Right well there, in that world, its June 20th 1996."
"What!" Harry said sitting up with both feet slapping on the floor. Ron looked at Jane with a sigh and started going over his equipment checklist in his mind.
"I know Harry. We might be able to save a Sirius at least. Spare that Harry from going through what you did."
"Yeah assuming that its not one of those fixated points things or that world's Sirius didn't get killed earlier or he really was the bad guy or.."
"Not helping things Ron." Jane hissed at him. "Even I know how important Sirius was to Harry. Mine was well a lot of things but he was close to Sirius."
"Right so if we can save him. Even if I don't get to know him my counterpart will."
Hermione sighed, "I know. But there are a few other oddities I want to make sure to warn you about okay?"
"Like what? Are the clocks running different there or something?"
"No the time dilation ratio appears to be a 1 to 1 equivalence, what I'm talking about is that the only Weasley's that show up on scans are Arthur, Molly, The Twins, Percy, Ron and Ginny no Bill or Charlie."
"Okay so we're short two Weasleys for some reason." Ron said with a frown, "Maybe mom and dad started late."
"Maybe. Also the number of magicals is off slightly lower than what the population numbers for our world for 1996 were. But not so low as to indicate a major event."
"Okay well when do we go?" Jane asked
"Well you'll need to go in cloaked at first to make sure what is going on. I'll have a team assembled hopefully. The three of you are the initial reconnaissance team. I can trust you right?"
"Of course you can Mione. We'll be stealth itself."
"Right." She said with a skeptical look.
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"Ok now remember your auras are scrambled by the bracers now. You've been practicing your accents?"
Harry spoke in a passable neutral british accent. "But of course I have Mione."
"You still sound like an upper class twit but I suppose its better than your horrid American one."
Ron laughed then said in a sort of scottish accent, "I at least got help from Minerva on mine."
"Much better. Since your cover is Ron Campbell and Harry is Harry Seven this will work."
"Well what am I supposed to do?" Jane asked.
"Well your bracer has a translation circuit that when you're in cat form will let you speak to Harry and Ron so I guess be Hecate their p..ersonal cat?"
"Nice save." Jane said with a snicker.
"Yeah okay getting ready to open gate. It'll be about 4 in the afternoon. If things go the same way there you should be in the forest with Umbridge heading for the centaurs."
"Right I remember that. Okay let's go."
Hermione and her team of Padma and Cho opened the gate.
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Stepping through under their cloaks Jane, Harry and Ron looked around. They saw ahead of them the pink devil herself following Harry and Hermione with her wand at their backs.
Following carefully they caught up enough to hear Umbridge hiss, "Stop."
"But it's just a little bit further."
"You're trying to trick me. Do you think I'm stupid. I know there are creatures in this forest that you have allied yourself with. We will go back and get the others before we go any deeper into this forest."
"But no Professor Dumbledore will come and get it tonight. We were supposed to be getting it ready for him."
"You are such a little liar Potter." The fact she spoke that to Hermione made Ron almost groan.
"Hey leave her alone!"
"And you will be silent you abhorrent little reprobate!" She said swinging her wand back only for a cloaked Harry Potter to step up and yank it from her hand.
She spun around in confusion and fear, "What was that? Who was that?"
A bright red bolt of light appeared out of nowhere as Ron stunned her.
The local Harry and Hermione looked at each other then looked around. "Hello?" She called out.
"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth Hermione. Lets get our wands and meet back up with the others. Sirius is in trouble."
"I know. But what do we do about her?"
Local Harry grabbed his and Hermione's wands from her belt and after giving Hermione hers cast an incarcerous tying Umbridge up tightly. "We'll dump her off with Lupin in the Greenhouse."
"Good idea. Maybe she'll wind up fertilizer." Hermione laughed.
They levitated the woman towards the greenhouses.
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Entering the greenhouse Local Harry called out "Professor Lupin!"
Harry had smiled hoping to see how his lycan friend turned out when a tall black haired Bellatrix stepped out from behind some plants calling back, "Back here hun." He almost stunned her where she stood.
"Blimey is that." Ron hissed over their subdermal communicators.
"I think that's the local Bellatrix."
"What in the world are you doing with that toad all tied up."
"She was going to torture us in the forest. We needed to get to the Ministry to save Sirius."
"What!"
"Harry had a vision or something that Sirius is captured at the Ministry."
"It can't be Lucius is on duty there. He'd have sent word if there was trouble."
"All I know is that it felt as real as possible. We tried to contact him but got caught."
"Oh dear. Well I suppose I can keep her here for a time. But you'll have to see if Severus can help. Just make sure to stay out of sight. Minerva was just here looking around."
"Okay thanks. We'll try to stay out of her way."
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"Harry Bellatrix was wearing a Hufflepuff uniform. Did she replace Sprout here?" Ron communicated in confusion.
"Yeah. So it seems. We might want to make sure what's going on a bit more before we jump in."
"Good idea. I'm already confused. By the way WHY DOES SHE HAVE YOUR LAST NAME HERE?" He hissed emphatically.
"I guess they're already married for some reason."
Ron groaned out loud in frustration that time causing the two teens to freeze and look around. "What was that? That didn't sound like one of the ghosts."
"It might have been the wind."
"Hey there you are!" Draco Malfoy said running across the lawn with Neville and Luna.
Harry hugged Draco when they got close enough, "Yeah. IS everything okay on your end?"
"Yeah we got the Weasley bitch tied up in a closet. Her damn brother got away though. Last I saw he was heading for the dungeons, probably to alert McGonnegal." Neville declared.
"Well Professor Lupin has Umbridge on ice in the greenhouse."
"Good. She needs to be on ice in the morgue." Luna hissed.
Harry looked at the uniforms they were all wearing. Harry, Hermione and Neville were wearing the Gryffindor and Luna was in Ravenclaw colors so that was not unusual but Draco was in Gryffindor as well. Ron was heading for the dungeons. Harry's head was starting to swim a bit.
"So how are we going to get to London?"
"There's always the Thestrals?" Luna pointed out, Harry was having a weird sense of Deja vu but twisted around.
"Really Luna? Do we have to fly?" Neville paled.
"It's either that or figure out the pass code she put on the Floo."
"Pink kittens I still say is it." Draco snarked.
"Shit here comes McGonnegal!" Hermione said leaping for cover on the bare lawn. The others all scattered as well.
Harry, Ron and Jane all took cover as well. Jane dropping into her cat form and scurrying off into the shadows.
Minerva McGonnegal wearing a Slytherin coat of arms prominently on her robes strode across the lawn followed by Ronald Weasley, Cho Chang, Katie Bell and Millicent Bulstrode. Filch brought up the rear with an ancient blunderbuss.
"Why does Filch have a gun Harry?"
"I don't know. But we take him out. Let everyone else deal with the others for right now."
The battle was soon engaged with Ron and harry circling around to stun Filch just as he brought the ancient Blunderbuss to his shoulder. Jane had taken a shot at Minerva and dropped her just as she transfigured the shrubbery Luna was hiding behind into a multi-headed hydra.
The Local Harry had taken out Cho with a knock back launching her tea over kettle for a few yards. Hermione and Millicent were trading spells with Millicent using more dangerous ones by the moment. Local Ron and Draco were dueling While Neville was holding his own against Katie Bell who was slashing at him with a sneer.
Harry took out Millicent with a stunner just as she had knocked Hermione down by turning the ground under her feet to mud and making her slip. Ron transfigured the shrub back to a standard Hydrangea bush to free Luna from its clutches.
"Wait and let them deal with this."
Local Harry spun and worked with Draco to disarm and knock Local Ronald down. "Damn him and every Weasley to hell!" Draco spat on him.
Hermione was looking around casting Homenium Revelio.
"Mia what are you doing?" Draco asked.
"We had help. I saw several spell effects generate out of thin air."
"Yeah somehow Umbridge got stunned in the forest. I don't know how."
"Maybe it was a spirit or ghost?"
"No Draco I think we're not alone here." Hermione said determinedly probing for hidden people. Harry felt his cloaking shield get hit a few times causing his bracer to vibrate a warning.
"Harry. Is this a code 8?"
"Yeah it might be. I'll go first they don't seem to like the local you."
"Well he's in Slytherin. So yeah."
"Okay here goes."
Speaking out loud Harry said in his normal voice, "Hello. We come in peace. It might be a bit odd though."
"Harry how are you talking from over there when you're standing here?" Draco asked.
"I don't know."
Dropping his cloak a wary Harry smiled and said, "Because I am Harry Potter from another dimension. We're here to help you."
"The hell you say!" Draco declared emphatically pointing his wand at the revealed Potter.
"Wait a second. Another dimension? Like in Doctor Who?"
"Well technically he travels through time and only occasionally through dimensions. This is my second trip through time but I've done multiple through dimensions. Hermione."
"Well pull the other one." Draco said stepping front of the local Harry who was staring at his older version in shock.
Bellatrix had come jogging up to stand behind the teens silently, "Why is there another Harry here?"
"He claims he's Harry but from another dimension."
"Right. That's possible. I suppose." She said walking around in front of the teens.
"Be careful Professor."
"I have a feeling if he wanted to we'd already be his prisoner or worse."
"Expelled?" Harry couldn't resist.
The Local Hermione frowned at him while Draco and Local Harry snickered a little bit. Even Neville briefly flashed a grin.
"You just had to go there didn't you?" Ron hissed over the communicators.
"What do you want me to do Harry?" Jane was asking.
"Just hang loose for right now. If this goes wrong you two can rescue me."
"Good idea. Although Harry as your friend I have to ask. If you die can I have your stereo."
"Ron! You know I already called dibs." Jane joked.
"Great guys. Glad to know you have my back..."
Having a Bellatrix staring into his eyes made Harry uncomfortable. He had not felt any probe on his mental shields yet though. He took the opportunity to study her as well. This one had her hair neatly pulled back in a simple ponytail. She was well fed and had little lines around the corners of her eyes like she smiled a lot. At least that's what Harry had heard them called.
"If it is poly-juice it's going to wear off eventually. If its transfiguration its an excellent job."
"Look we don't have time for this Sirius is in trouble."
"Uh actually he isn't. The thing in your head. Voldemort used it to implant a vision in your head that Sirius was being tortured. As of right now he is very safe and sound inside #12 Grimmould Place right now."
"Now how do you happen to know that address?" Bella purred at him.
"Because in my world I own it. I'm from the year 2007. Your world the clock is running a bit behind mine."
"I'd say. 12 years is a bit slower." Draco snarked.
"Yeah well at least it's a 1 to 1 ratio. So we won't have any issues there."
"So how did you wind up owning there?" Local Harry asked.
"Because my Sirius, My godfather, named me his heir before he was killed by my world's Bellatrix Lestrange in the Death Chamber at the Ministry. I led my friends into a trap that Voldemort had set up over the prophecy."
"Why would he do that? I already know the prophecy. Professor Dumbledore told me that in fourth year when Hermione and I got married."
"Yeah okay. Mine didn't. So there has been a few obvious differences in the worlds. Like why is Ron Weasley a Slytherin and Draco Malfoy apparently your best bud?"
The local Hermione sighed, "It's a rather long story. Maybe we should take care of these people so we don't have any more issues?"
"Right Jane can you obliviate the uh Inquisitorial Squad?" He said looking at Bella. She nodded as Jane gathered the four Slytherins and began to erase their minds.
Jane dropped her cloak in her cat-girl form. Wearing just bracers, a sports top and a skirt definitely got everyone's attention.
"IS she me?" Hermione asked in concern.
"A you. We rescued her from a rather bad predicament."
"How many mes have you met?"
Harry laughed, "Uh counting mine you're the 8th one."
"Nice." Draco huffed crossing his arms. "Don't tell me you and her are together in everyone of them?"
"Actually the one I came from harry was with Cho." Jane said laying the four Slytherins out side by side. "Anything in particular you want me to put in there?"
"Uh they spent the evening bullying and torturing first years. That should be believable enough they won't question it." He said looking at the locals who had all gravitated to each other. The local Harry nodded.
"We can also take care of your Umbridge problem too. If you don't want to claim precedence on her."
"No you can have her. She is the worst most annoying excuse for a person ever." Bella sighed.
"Oh okay. I'll call Hermione to open the gateway so she can send someone to get her."
"Gateway?"
"Uh yeah. An Einstein-Rosen bridge. She calls it."
"Awesome!" Local Luna and Hermione both giddily said.
"Careful Harry I think this one might be getting the moves on your wife."
"Yeah what the frak is with that." Ron said out loud forgetting to use the communicator.
The wands all came up pointing at the empty space to Harry's right.
"That is my best friend. Ron Weasley. In my world he was one of the good guys."
Bella had them put their wands down. "Remus must have taught them to keep at least a few of their packmates in reserve."
"Yeah something like that. Ron might as well show yourself."
Ron dropped the cloak with his hands out. "Hey. I come in peace."
"He said that."
"Yeah but I thought that was rather important so I'd repeat it."
"Luna you better take Jane? Up and deal with Ginny and the others too." Local Harry said shaking his head.
"Sure. C'mon kitty."
"Meow" Jane said as she shifted to her cat form and followed the blonde.
"She's an animagus?"
"Uh sorta. Its complicated. Now can I phone home?"
Hermione snorted, "Go for it ET."
Harry laughed as Ron helped levitate the Slytherins back to the castle with Neville.
"Harry I was just about to signal. Is everything okay?"
"Yeah its all good."
"You got captured didn't you?" She sighed accusingly.
""No I willingly revealed myself helping out with the Umbridge situation."
"Right sure. So let me guess you're standing in front of the locals talking to me?"
"Yeah. Harry and his wife Hermione and their best mate Draco are here. Jane and Ron went up to deal with their Ron and the rest of the Inquisitorial squad while Professor Bellatrix Lupin is standing here too."
Harry was about to check the circuit it got silent so long before Hermione replied, "Okay. Noted. Selene is here do you need her to come through?"
"Well yeah they said we could have their Umbridge. She is apparently just as big a..unpleasant person here as she was back home."
"Understood. Opening gate in three. Base out."
"Wow. You get captured a lot?"
"Not that often Malfoy."
"Hey sorry. Just she didn't sound surprised. And whats with the tone?"
"Ours was a marked Death Eater who died in the final conflict. Sorry. You're the first nice Draco I've met."
Draco looked horrified and Bellatrix looked disgusted at that. The other two local Potters both looked at Harry in disbelief.
"A marked Death Eater? Draco?"
"Yeah. Him and his two buddies Goyle and Crabbe."
The wormhole opened before anyone could say anything else. Selene stepped through in an all black leather suit with knee high boots. She smiled when she saw harry and came over giving him a kiss. The wormhole stayed open, "So where is the toadie?"
"Come with me and I'll show you." Bella said carefully.
"That was a Luna?" Hermione observed.
"Yeah."
"She kissed you."
"Yeah she is a free agent. She kisses a lot of people. Has sex with them too."
"Oh. Nice." Local harry said before his wife smacked him on the shoulder.
Selene came out floating the Umbridge in front of her. They got to the wormhole and Selene tossed her through. The bridge shut after that with a slight hissing pop.
"So care to introduce me."
"Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy and Hermione Potter this is Selene Lovegood."
"Hi. Wow. Pleased to meet you." Draco said with a grin.
"Yes. I'm sure you are. Harry he is in Gryffindor."
"Well spotted. There hasn't been a Malfoy in five hundred years that wasn't in Gryffindor."
"Curiouser and Curiouser." She intoned.
"Yeah and the Weasleys?"
"Those people? They are the darkest of the dark. Between them and the Prewetts. They are the backbone of the dark lord's forces." Bella shuddered. "Its sad that my sister Andromeda married that filthy arrogant prat Arthur. Glad my other sister Narcissa married someone nice and kind like Lucius."
Selene raised her eyebrow but said nothing.
Harry's bracer beeped, "Yeah?"
Ron's voice came through the comm panel, "Hey Snape, Dumbledore, Remus and Sirius are sitting here with Lucius Malfoy in the Headmaster's office. They'd kinda like to talk to you Harry."
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They reconvened in the headmaster's office. The locals on one side with the tourists on the other. The headmaster looking from one group to the other carefully. Sirius and Remus looked mostly like Harry remembered but Snape was a totally different person. He had his hair cut short in a popular muggle style. Wearing a polo shirt and khakis under his robe he was sitting casually with the two marauders. His robe had the crest of Gryffindor on it. Remus was sitting with Bella in his lap in a stuffed chair on the other side of Sirius.
"So MR Potter you came to our world hoping to save Sirius due to the inability to save the one in your world."
"Uh yeah so far Sirius has died in 8 different worlds we have gone to. I've never had the opportunity to save him until now."
"Wow. I had no idea I was that important to you Harry." he said looking at the local one.
"Uh yeah. I I" The local Harry grabbed his head and started groaning in pain, "HE's trying to get in my head, he's..." He shrieked in agony
Selene leapt over and slapping the local Hermione out of the way grabbed the Local Harry's head started chanting in her strange Gaelic dark tongue. Hermione had drawn her wand when she did that but Dumbledore shook his hand stopping her as he saw Harry's face go slack and his screaming stop.
"He is asleep. Voldemort tried to use the link to take him over since he did not come to the Ministry. He saw that his trap had failed."
"Since you have no doubt removed it from your Mr Potter can you remove it from ours?"
"I will have to study him. It will be non-invasive." She said turning to Hermione.
"Will it hurt him?"
"No but I will have to make close magical contact. To fully exam his soul."
"Oh uh okay." She said looking at the older Harry.
"She'll be okay. She doesn't poach."
"Thank you." Hermione said showing the insecurities of a teenager finally Harry noticed.
"So I have your permission?"
"Uh yeah. Sure."
Selene laid local Harry out on the floor then straddled him holding his eyes open then touching him on his scar and probing it. She whispered the same words Harry recognized when she examined him so long ago. He wasn't sure how they would react to her method of removing it.
Selene stood up sighing. Levitating harry into his chair. Hermione immediately sat next to him holding his hand.
"The souls have intermingled too much for an easy removal. The killing curse at this juncture is the only way to ensure complete separation."
Harry exhaled loudly as the others in the room all began to talk at the same time except Hermione and Dumbledore.
"ENOUGH! How did the part in your scar get removed Mr Potter?"
"Selene hit me with an AK. It stings a bit."
Sirius barked out a laugh, "Well he's James' boy indeed."
"That is for certain." Snape drawled with a honest smile.
"So he can survive it?"
"Well I did, a couple others did as well. Selene can explain why its not a real Horcrux. More of an accidental one. We have a list of all of the Horcruxes we found on the various worlds. Most of them involved some item of the founders of Hogwarts."
Dumbledore looked disturbed. "So it is true that he made more than one."
"Uh yeah. We have discovered most of them he made seven. 6 purposely and myself accidentally. That's why it kinda smeared the soul with mine."
"A crude but accurate explanation. Unfortunately unlike in my world there is no hard limit for how many times a soul may be split however it does seem to diminish the soul with each time the spell rips it so that by the time he attacked harry his own soul was so unstable that a piece of it broke off thanks to the ancient magics Lily Potter used to protect Harry."
"Ancient magics?" Remus asked.
Selene pointed her finger and said several words in her language before several glowing runes floated over Harry. "Ancient blood magics Lily Potter discovered."
Remus and Snape both looked in awe at the runes, "That's what her and Pandora were doing all that time."
"Yes. I recognize some of these as my mother's work, some of them must have been Lily's."
"Okay so if we hit him with an AK he'll survive?" Hermione asked softly.
"Yes his soul as the one that is supposed to be in the body has the greater link, as well as the reinforcing of the bond due to the blood wards so it will be very difficult to remove his soul against his will."
"Against his will?"
"When I got hit. I met Sirius. He drew the straw between mom and dad. He told me I had a choice. I had to choose to come back or go on. I obviously chose to come back but it's up to him."
Hermione smiled, "I'm sure he has plenty of reasons to come back."
"I will have to awaken him to ask his permission to hit him with that."
"That's going to be an interesting conversation." Severus said wryly.
"Hey Harry's got a good heart he'll make the right choice. And I mean that's the only way?"
"Yes Lord Black. At this point it is too intermingled and smeared. More so than our Harry was. If I tried to perform psychic surgery on him to remove it I would have to remove great swathes of your Harry's soul. More than just his personality would be altered. His magic and memories, his mental capacity. He might even be a vegetable."
"You really don't have much filters do you?" The local Luna said in an annoyed voice.
"No. I can tell you about my life later."
"I think I'd like to hear it."
"No you won't." She simply said.
"Well perhaps we should awaken Harry and get this discussion over with."
Selene woke the local Harry and told him what she had learned. What had happened and what they needed to do. What would happen if they didn't and what could happen even if they did.
"So let me get this straight. If I let you hit me with a killing curse. I will go into the in-between place probably meet mom or dad or both of them, be given the choice to come back or go on, and then come back without this in my head?"
"Yes. I can tell he is already trying to break down the shield I placed there. If I make it any stronger though it will block your own magic from getting out."
"Yes it feels like there is a pounding rain in my head."
"So?"
"Uh can I talk to Hermione alone for a moment."
"Please, you only have the rest of your life to wait."
"Not helping Selene." Ron sighed.
Harry and Hermione stepped off to the side. Selene stared at Bellatrix.
"IS there something wrong dearie?"
"No I am just trying to figure out how things changed in this world that you are married to Remus Lupin and a good person. In my world you were regarded as a highly skilled interrogator for the Ministry. You could get anyone to answer any question and not even leave any marks on them at all."
"Oh dear no. " She said clasping a hand to her bosom. "I'm a, well a pacifist. I can't stand the sight of someone in pain. I get physically ill at it. I can't even stand the sight of blood. One reason I'm not a healer like my sister Narcissa."
All of the visitors to this world looked at her in varying degrees of shock and surprise.
"I take it the ones you're familiar with are a bit different." Dumbledore queried.
"Ours bloody well used the Crucio as a sex aide." Ron grunted.
"Yeah she enjoyed it." Harry confirmed.
"Oh that's rather disturbing." Bella said slowly in disgust.
"The one in my world was quite.."
"That's okay dearie. I'm not overly keen to know anything more about any other versions of me."
"Very well. So how did you wind up marrying professor Lupin."
"Well when Jamsie ran away from his parents abuse and moved in Remus started hanging out with us. And Lily brought Sev along with her so Bella and Remmie hit it off." Sirius explained.
"Whoa my dad ran away from his parents?"
"Well of course. The Potters were an ancient pure-blood dark family. Using potions and spells to assassinate others for a price. James was trained from his youth to be the next generation of leaders of the Assassin's Guild."
Harry sat down hard in shock.
"Obviously it was different in your world."
"So why'er you such a muggle lover Snape?" Ron glared at the potions professor.
"Because of Lily. She redeemed me. I almost fell to the darkness but she brought me to her friends and we became like brothers." Snape said staring at the red head in confusion.
"Except for Peter." Remus growled. His eyes flashing a feral glare.
"At least that's constant."
"Yes Mr Weasley. I must admit seeing you as polite and friendly as you are is a bit of shock for us. I have to ask you have not had sexual relations with your sister have you?"
Ron's disgusted and repulsed expression made Harry chuckle softly as Ron shook his head, "NO bloody way her and Neville are quite happy and I'm not that kind of pure-blood. That's just plain sick. Oh naw that is just wrong."
Draco sniggered, "Well you and your sister have been dating since third year. Open and hexing anyone that says anything bad. But then its no surprise. There's never been a Weasley that wasn't in Slytherin and messed in the head."
"Oh and your family is the perfect ones?"
"Well yeah we're Gryffindor Legacies. 8 generations and counting."
Ron stared at Draco in confusion.
"Well I think if our two worlds continue to have contact there is going to be a lot of adjustment to things."
"This is almost like the one TV show Daniel Granger watches with the star ship and the people with goatees."
"Star Trek Selene?"
"Yes that one. I did not like it very much. They get too talky. Although the one character that keeps snapping his fingers as he apparates is rather nice. I preferred the one with the hero who had the tall hair and the multiple sexual appendages."
"Right okay." Draco said.
Harry came over "Uh Selene?"
"Yes?"
"I'm ready. So how do you want to do this."
"Well as this room is rather crowded we should go to the seventh floor corridor and zap you. Also while we are there we can look for the Diadem and destroy it."
"The lost diadem of Ravenclaw?" the Local Luna gasped.
"Yes Voldemort used it as a Horcrux."
"Oh he needs to get ended badly." She rumbled.
"HE will. Oh yeah he will." Sirius declared.
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Harry had remained behind as had Jane and the local Hermione and Bellatrix.
"So uh how did you two wind up married?" Harry asked with a grin.
"He got me pregnant and dad said wizard or not we were getting married."
"Oh. Uh. Well. I mean you two do love each other don't you?"
"We've gotten used to each other. I liked him as a friend. I liked him a lot. I rather fancied Draco though. But I got a bit caught up in the whole princess thing at the Yule Ball after harry had asked me and we uh. Went a bit too far and the next thing I knew I was in the family way."
"Oh so you've got a baby?"
"Yes my parents are taking care of her. Lily Rose."
"That's a lovely name." Jane said with a smile.
"Yes My grandmother and his mother. Mum said that Lily didn't go with Emma very well."
"True I suppose." Harry smiled thinking of his kids names.
"So how did you and your Hermione get together."
"I about got her killed during the battle we prevented tonight and kept apologizing until she kissed me to shut me up. I told her I loved her and she told me she loved me and things went from there."
"Oh. Do you have children?"
"Well Hermione is finally having our first in a couple months. My other wife Rhonda has given me two and Selene has had one with me."
Hermione looked at him inquisitively, "You have more than one wife?"
"Its kinda complicated but yeah. One for the wizarding world, one for the Black bloodline and one for the muggle world. Plus a few girlfriends that the wives are okay with. Its kinda complicated like I said. But it works for us."
"Oh."
"You don't regret marrying him or the baby do you?"
"No, not really. I love Lily and wouldn't get rid of her for the world."
"Is she a magical too?" Jane asked.
Hermione smiled, "Yeah her name is already in the book."
Harry noticed she hadn't answered the question about regretting marrying her Harry. He left it alone as pushing a Hermione usually ended badly. Bellatrix was nodding softly behind the brown haired girl.
"Harry must love and be proud of her too. Having kids must be nice." Jane sounded wistful a bit. Harry wondered if Jane was going to want to be next. She had said she didn't want kids due to her furry problem maybe being genetic.
"It can be. I wish we could see her more but mom and dad take good care of her. And yeah he is a good dad. He just has a lot to deal with right now."
Harry was about to say something when Selene and the others came back supporting the local Harry as he seemed rather woozy. Hermione jumped up and took him from Selene guiding him to her chair causing Harry to smile inside as that answered his question of if she loved this Harry or not at least a little bit. The look on her face spoke volumes.
"So it worked?"
"Yeah. Bloody hell the diadem thing is gone too." Ron said shaking his head.
"Okay well Hufflepuff's cup was in Bellatrix's vault in our world so whomever his right hand witch or wizard might have it."
"That would be Arthur Weasley or his wife Andromeda." Sirius flatly stated.
"Dad is a. Er yeah. Wrong world." Ron sighed rubbing the back of his neck.
"Sorry mate. I guess it is a bit of a shock." Draco empathized. Harry figured there must have been a discussion as they had walked.
"Well what shall we do now?"
"We can offer training. Material and personnel support. We've already removed Umbridge from the equation."
"And what would you want in return?" Dumbledore asked warily.
"Friendship, trade with you, information. We want Voldemort and his followers destroyed too."
"We will have to consider it, although I will need a defense teacher to finish this year and perhaps next year as well?"
Harry adjusted his bracer until he was a sandy blonde haired male with light blue eyes behind gold rimmed glasses. Jane transformed into her cat form and leaped into his lap.
"Hello my name is Harry Seven. This is my cat Hecate. We would be pleased to be your new professor."
Sirius and Remus laughed. "Yeah that's our boy." Severus and the Local harry simply shook their head.
"You know Mione is going to need a full report man."
"You two go back and fill her in. I'll stay here with Jane."
"Okay."
"The rest of us should return to Grimmould. Severus you can handle the situation with the Ministry?"
"I believe so sir."
"It is unfortunate that we could not lure Tom out into the open tonight."
"It would have caused more issues. As useless as Fudge is he at least is keeping the Ministry from falling."
"Personal experience?"
"Not my world but a couple of others did."
"Well we will need to discus the situation and plans once school is done for the year."
Ron and Selene gave Harry a hug and Jane a scratch behind the ears as she was already in character. Severus, Remus and the Potters had an emotional parting as Dumbledore shook their hands.
"Harry, Hermione perhaps you could show our new defense professor to his office."
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As Harry walked with the local Potters he noticed they were walking side by side but not holding hands, not quite touching but not apart either.
"Hey look guys if you ever need to talk to someone about, your relationship, Jane or I can listen. I'm not entirely sure what good my advice might be but maybe an outside perspective could help. At the very least I promise to stay awake and not repeat what you said."
The two of them looked at each other then sighed.
"Thank you sir but I'm not sure what there is to talk about. Besides Aunt Bella and Narcissa are good listeners too." Local Harry chuckled.
"Okay. Well I'm not used to that. So uh. The local Dursleys how are they?"
"They've been okay. Aunt Petunia gets along well with the others. Uncle Vernon is not overly thrilled with the magical world but he at least keeps quiet about it."
"Oh. So no abuse or anything."
"Abuse? Did you get abused?" Hermione was looking at him intently.
"Yeah. Verbal, physical, mental, emotional. About the only one they missed was sexual."
Local Harry considered that for a few moments, "Oh. Uh Sorry about that."
Harry shrugged, "Don't be. Things got better. I dealt with a lot of the traumas I experienced. Maybe that's partly why I wanted to do this. To try and help prevent anything bad happen to a me out there somewhere."
"So you want to be an avenging or guardian angel?" Hermione sounded like she was accusing him of something.
"Maybe. It would be nice to know that somewhere out there is a Harry I helped save. Okay?"
"I guess. What if we don't want you to save us?"
"Then ask us to leave and we will. I'm not going to try and force you to be my friend, or anything. I can tell you though that I am a big supporter of the Harry and Hermione relationship."
"We're working on it. I do care about her and am happy to be her friend but..."
"The rest of it is hard to explain, express or even understand? Yeah I had that. Took me forever to tell Hermione I loved her." Harry said with a fond remembrance. "But once I did it was worth it. She confessed she had loved me too but was too scared to tell me. So in the end it all turned out well."
"Okay. Well we need to get back to Gryffindor. You should be able to figure out how to get to the office from here?"
"Uh yeah. No problem. This seems to be pretty close to our castle. Some of them have been pretty different."
"Oh well I suppose that makes sense. Uh thank you for helping us." Local Harry said holding his hand out to be shaken.
Harry shook it then pulled his younger self into a hug.
"Sorry Rhonda turned me into a hugger."
"Rhonda?" Hermione asked with her eyebrow raised.
"Uh alternate dimensional version of Ron that is a girl and my wizarding world wife."
"You do have a complicated life."
"Yeah but its pretty nice. I wouldn't trade it for anything."
"Oh well good night sir." Hermione said politely.
"Oh well good night."
As they turned and walked off Harry sighed as their body language was one of two people who wanted to be close but didn't know quite how.
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"I think they'll get it figured out. They just have a lot of things going on right now."
"I know just got a funny feeling watching them that it could go either way."
"Isn't that always the way with any relationship?"
"I guess. Then throw the chosen one, the boy-who-lived and all that on top of it. I'm surprised sometimes that none of me have gone screaming off the deep end of the pier yet."
"Well its a big multiverse give it time."
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The next morning Harry and Hecate went to the great table. He was sitting next to Bellatrix Lupin chatting with her about the classes when the students started trickling in. He thought it odd to see Ron and Ginny wearing Slytherin robes and mildly disturbing to see them laughing, holding hands like lovers. The golden trio of Malfoy and the two Potters came in laughing about something. Harry and Hermione almost holding hands when they came through the door, their knuckles brushing.
Looking around aside from Cho and Lavender being in Slytherin there wasn't much else different. Luna and Padma were still in Ravenclaw along with a glasses wearing Romilda Vane. Colin was a Hufflepuff as well as Susan Bones and Pansy Parkinson was a Gryffindor. He had found out that Hannah Abbot here was Megara Snape. She was still a Hufflepuff and apparently friends with Susan as usual.
"It was definitely a different universe." Harry leaned into Bellatrix.
"Yeah. I have the feeling if I went to yours I'd have the same if not worse reaction."
"Assuming anyone who knew our version of you didn't uh have a rather bad reaction."
"Oh. Well that could be unpleasant."
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Aurors came by mid morning looking for Umbridge as they had received a suicide note from her claiming she couldn't take it anymore and confessing to being a Death Eater.
"And you are whom?" Auror Captain Dawlish asked Harry.
"I'm Harry Seven. I was hired to finish out the year by Snape."
"Seemed a bit presumptuous of him don't you think?"
"I don't know. I showed up last night. You'd have to talk to him."
"We have been. Well MR Seven we will be watching you."
"I'm sure you will."
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Harry and Jane took their lunch locked in the defense office. He set up the communicator and called back to base. "Hello Harry."
"Luna?"
"Yes Harry. Hermione said you might need some extra help with this task."
"Maybe. We had aurors crawling all over the castle looking for Umbridge this morning. I think they bought the cover story about her running off to join the Death Eaters. They didn't seem to be putting a lot of effort into finding her."
"She does not seem to be a nice person no matter the universe."
A sudden pounding on the door broke their discussion, "Hey Luna get Hermione on standby. We may have a problem."
Jane shifted while Harry opened the door to find Snape and the golden trio local edition on the other side. "We have a problem. He learned of the Potter child and kidnapped her this morning." Snape said striding in with the three behind him.
"What how?"
"Probably before your Lovegood version managed to shield Harry's mind."
"Great okay. Where is everyone?"
"At the comfy house." Draco said.
Harry looked at him.
"What that was dad's idea, not mine."
"Okay. Anyhow. Take us there." Turning his comm beacon back on he said, "Luna you still there?"
"Yes Harry."
"Tell Hermione we need a strike team. Alpha priority one full tactical load out. Hostage involved."
"Understood." She said then broke the link.
"You seem rather well prepared for this sort of thing."
"Its Hermione, she believes in being prepared. I think Batman learned from her."
"Batman?"
"Muggle comic book. Never mind."
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Soon they were standing in a rambling sprawling house. Bellatrix was holding a chubby, crying version of Narcissa on a couch as Lucius paced.
"I'm sorry Hermione. They came in too strong. I tried to hold them off but they knocked me out and took her."
Hermione hugged the crying woman, "Its okay we'll get her back."
"How they took her to Weasley Manor. I'm sure of it. That bastard Arthur was one of them. I managed to knock his mask off."
Harry shook his head looking at this bracer. He had received the message that the team was assembling and would be gate ready in five minutes. "Professor Dumbledore. I have a strike team available in five minutes. We can get her back no problem."
"But the wards to get into Weasley Manor are set at death levels. You'll never get through the wards quick enough." Lucius despaired holding his wife's hands.
"We have a way to do so."
"I'm going with you. I'm going to get my daughter back." The local Harry said standing up.
"Our daughter back." Hermione said.
"We'll have to go over to Alpha to get through their wards. You ready for that."
Sirius, Remus and Severus jumped up "We sure are."
"No you guys need to be a distraction. They'll expect you to attack from the outside fo the wards right?"
"Probably. We will be occupied trying to bring down the defensive wards while they attack from within them."
"Right you guys try not to get killed. Especially you Sirius. It would be rather annoying to have saved you form one battle only to lose you in another."
"Hey no problem. I'm rather fond of my skin."
"Okay well you two ready."
"Three" Draco said stepping beside the Potters.
"Okay. You're on MY team. I've been through this several times before so you stick with me, listen to me and don't go running off half cocked got it?" Harry said poking his younger self in the chest.
"Got it." Local Harry angrily stated.
"Base we need a wormhole open now my location."
"Opening in 10."
As the hole opened everyone looked at it with awe and wonder. "Shall we?"
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Stepping into the transport chamber Harry and the teens saw a half dozen armed and armored wizards and witches.
"Here's your gear Harry. What's with them?"
"They're on my team. You'll take team 2 and go after the death eaters. Neville?"
"Yeah. Here Harry."
"Okay you'll go after the big man himself."
"I thought the Horcruxes were still in play?"
"They are but if we can destroy this body he'll have to reform again and that'll delay him."
"I can take a team to Hangleton and destroy the riddle bones." Selene cheerfully said.
"Okay. Do that. As for these guys get them a vest at least."
Ron nodded then headed for an equipment locker.
"Harry, Hermione, Draco this is Neville, the pregnant lady behind the window is my lovely Hermione with Padma and Luna. You already met Selene and Ron."
The trio stared in confusion as Ron came over handing them an armored vest. Draco looked at it like it was a crochet bikini. "What's this?"
"Its a special Dragon Hide vest backed with kevlar and poly-ceramic coramid polymers that are thaumically charged to be magic resistant." Ron explained.
"You know hearing you use big words keeps amazing me."
"Keep snarking Malfoy and I'll forget you're one of the good guys."
"Easy Ron. They aren't used to all the neat toys Hermione has come up with. These vests are supposedly spell resistant up to the the AK. Since we haven't tested it yet for that ducking is still a good idea."
The teens looked at him like he had turned neon green.
"They still work for a lot of other stuff including cutting charms and swords as well as bullets. So they are not bad. And they are required if you're coming." He finally said.
The teens immediately started shrugging into the vests they had been handed. Ron and Harry helping the three of them get adjusted. Handing them communicators Ron gave them a quick tutorial. "They aren't as good as the subdermals we use but they are bone conducting and sub-vocal. Just kinda make like you're talking without talking."
"Right. That makes perfect sense." Draco smirked.
"Does he ever shut up?"
"I haven't noticed it yet." Young Harry said with a grin.
"Why is Neville walking around with a sword?" Draco just seemed to notice the long sword strapped on Neville's hip.
"Because he's really good with it and we don't want to try and take it from him." Ron joked.
"Okay Everyone. I've made scans of the world. I'll drop team 1 near Arthur, Team 2 is going near Molly. Remember in that world Weasleys are hostiles. So Ron keep your helmet on!" She admonished as Ron buckled a head covering helmet on before giving her a thumbs up.
Harry turned to the teams, "Okay I'll be pops I guess, you'll be lightning, brains and ferret."
"Why do I get to be ferret?"
"Because I said so."
"Okay Team 1 go in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, go" Hermione's voice over the loudspeaker rang out ending all conversation. As the gate opened and stabilized Neville and his team ran through Ron with him.
The gate reopened and Harry ran through followed by the teens. Harry knew he was taking a big risk but hoped that since they had had the DA they would be able to handle this.
They came out into a hallway done in dark stained oak and marble tiled floor. They heard a baby crying from somewhere ahead of them. Lightning had to grab brains to stop her rushing down the hall.
Pops glared at her briefly before she calmed down and nodded, though he could see the tears in her eyes.
"Lightning you got your cloak?"
"Yeah."
"Ok you stay left I'll stay right and we'll go scope it out. You two stay back until we call for you." Pops said activating the cloak on his bracer. Lightning pulled his cloak around him and they set off. Pops bracer showed three life signs in the room ahead. All magical which was not helpful.
As they got close enough they heard Molly's voice shrieking at someone, "Can't you shut that thing up! It's really beginning to get on my nerves."
"I think its hungry."
"Well you feed the disgusting little worm then."
"Why can't you?"
"Because I'm not ruining my body for one of those filthy things. Besides it came from a mudblood's womb so I don't know why we're even keeping it alive. Might as well just put it down for " That was as far as she got as Brains had moved up behind lightning and heard her.
"Not my daughter you bitch!" She said as she launched a vicious cutting charm that the harridan Molly Lestrange was barely able to parry away. Pops knew this was going to go bad so he dove into the room popping several spells at the tall black haired woman who must have been Andromeda Weasley to push her back. Lestrange and the other two teens had begun to duel.
Harry reached the bed they had the baby laying on and scooped the fragile thing up while hitting the emergency recall on his bracer. The gate opening startling Andromeda briefly as it opened right on her location blasting her into neutrinos and 57 assorted other sub-atomic particles. He blinked as that had to be a one in a billion event.
He dove through saw a medic and handed the baby to them, "Keep it open. Don't close it." He shouted out before diving back through. He almost took a spell to the face but ducked in time as he came out. The three teens had been able to hold their own but she looked like she was toying with them. Draco's vest was smoking with burning embers while the Potter's were busy taking turns to parry and strike.
"Hey Molly. I bet you don't cook do you?" Pops said dropping his cloak.
"What kind of trickery is this?"
"Oh you wanna see a trick? I can show you a trick." Pops said as he reversed gravity in her location with a spell Selene had taught. As the older woman fell upwards to the ceiling he used a spell he developed from a video game to launch a hooked line from his wand to impale her in the abdomen and yank her hard out of the reversed gravity causing her to fall once more. Pops jumped over the furniture to land with both feet on her wand arm before he spun and mule kicked her in the head.
"And that is why you should always do physical training as well as spells. Your daughter is with the medics on the other side. Go on back. We got this."
The three teens nodded as Brains had already begun running through the wormhole. Harry made sure that they were gone before calling, "Okay. I'm going to go help the other team. Shut it."
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Following the sound of battle Harry came to the main hall of the mansion. He was behind several death eaters so he had clean shots which left the three of them falling beside themselves from cutting charms. Such a simple spell harry thought a first year can do it, yet so dangerous in the right application.
"Baby is safe. Report."
"Hey that's good. Nev's got the big V and I'm kinda dealing with some daddy issues at the moment."
"Okay. I'll see if Nev needs help."
"Yeah I got this. Though looks like a few more weeks of therapy after this."
Harry was moving through the side of the hall as he saw Ron fighting the local Arthur. The man had his long red hair pulled back in a tight pony tail, a cruel sneer on his face. His skill as a duelist showed by his economical spell gestures and steps to dodge and parry Ron's efforts. Harry threw a spell that turned the floor to ice as he ran by heading for the dining hall where he caught a glimpse of Neville parrying a spell with the sword.
"Nev! Hang on!"
Harry tucked and rolled as he came through the doorway. Seven spells in a row striking the door frame. He stopped behind the stone wall that Neville had built in the end of the room.
"Hey you okay."
"Yeah by the way we can tell Hermione the vests will stop an AK. But it still hurts."
"Nice. Cover me."
Popping up Harry made sure his face was visible. "Hey Tom what's cooking?"
"Harry Potter?" the nose less being hissed.
Turning to Neville harry asked, "You did get the snake right?"
"Yep. Okay I'm going."
"Hey Tom. Wanna hold up for a minute while we parlay?"
"I am always willing to grant mercy to those willing to surrender."
"Yeah so lets talk your terms."
"MY terms are unconditional."
"Okay you unconditionally surrender to me and we'll call it even." Harry called back as Neville moved off carefully.
A high pitched hissing laughter issued. "You seem to be under the misapprehension that I need to surrender."
"True it would be better if you'd just drop dead you know."
"I do believe the phrase is you first!" He said as the stone table blasted into pieces.
Harry had already begun to roll and twist out of the way. "Hey Ron if you've finished your family reunion we could use a bit of help."
"Sorry just making sure dad was resting comfortably."
"okay any day now." Harry said as he leaped over an explosion that left a crater on the floor. Neville had launched an attack from the left so he and harry had the dark lord in a crossfire. Not that it mattered as he seemed to be able to spin and strike multiple directions as well as defend from them simultaneously.
"Not bad old man. Jolly good show." Harry taunted transfiguring a group of stones into a steel darts as Neville launched the sword to attack under an animis spell he had developed. A dancing blade as he called it.
Ron announced his presence by the sudden attack of hundreds of rubber ducks falling from the sky. When they struck though they exploded like grenades. The sudden strangeness of that managed to cause riddle to make a stutter in his spell dancing. A momentary stutter Neville and harry were more than happy to take advantage of as the Sword crashed through Riddles back just as Harry cast a cutting charm to cut him in half while Neville went vertically down him. The twin red beams The resulting quartering of the body caused a large whirlwind of evil black smoke to be released. "I'll be back. I cannot die!" As it flew out the nearest window into the countryside.
"You know. This is just not as much fun as it used to be." Ron sighed.
"Exploding rubber ducks?" Neville looked at Ron incredulously.
"What? I'm married to three Lunas."
"Enough said. At least he didn't explode." Neville said poking one of the quarters of the body.
At that point the Order of the Phoenix burst into the room. "Hey we'll let you guys clean up. We'll come back once we've cleaned up and grabbed a bite to eat. Oh by the way Andromeda is vaporized."
"Harry and his daughter?"
"They're back on our side of the gate safe and sound."
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The three warriors came out of the gate tossing gear to technicians who were waiting. Hermione and Luna came up to hug everyone.
"How're the kids?"
"She's feeding her daughter in the briefing lounge. Harry's in with her while Draco's over with Padma getting something of his own to eat."
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Knocking on the door he heard the voice of Hermione saying enter.
Coming in he saw her finishing tucking her shirt in while Harry held the sleeping girl.
"So how is she?"
"The medic said she's okay. Now that she's been fed and changed."
"How're you guys?"
The two looked at each before she took her husband's hand. "Better."
"Good. Sirius is okay. He's waiting over there for you. Or we can return you anywhere you want."
"Can you put us with my parents? I think I need to talk to them. Apologize for a few things."
"ok no problem."
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As the three teens and one baby walked through the gate Harry sighed.
"I heard that."
"I know. We destroyed his body and a few of the Horcrux. We'll be involved with them for a time won't we?"
"Probably but we can let them handle most of the day to day stuff. We'll provide logistics and other support." Hermione said running her fingers over the settings on the control board.
"I hope they get things worked out."
Hermione turned her chair around her own swollen belly rubbed by her. "I think they will Harry. They love each other a lot. This is going to turn out to be a good world."
Kneeling down to listen to his baby Harry sighed, "Still not as good as this one."