Harry Potter is not mine. This is a story from a fan.
When you're done, You're DONE.
Ch 24 In the middle of the night two.
Harry was the first to walk back into the kitchen. He didn't say a thing and only sat down. It was a second later Tonks sat down next to him with a smile too big for her face. She had gone back to her purple hair and heart-shaped face. The last thing she wanted to do was to show her original face. It was something she would save for a special occasion.
"Look at what the Pixy dragged in, finally thought enough of us to come down" Molly sneered.
"Molly", sounded through the kitchen.
But the last thing Molly wanted to do was listen to her husband. She just turned back to her pots and pans as she made herself ready to make another remark. "In my days we would keep it to the night and be with family the rest of the day".
"Yes, we know, six nights at least. Harry does it six times in one night".
Harry was tapping Fleur's back because she had trouble swallowing her drink. "Six times she whispered".
"Seven or eight if I would have let him go on, but I needed my beauty sleep," Tonks told her as she took another bite. "You know you do get hungry doing it so often so I better have a little more, You know what it is like, don't you Molly".
Fleur was just sitting there looking at Harry and Tonks. her mind was working overtime. Tonks could see that the Girl was thinking the worst so she had to tell her Later she was wrong. The red face of Molly was worth it so she leaned over and kissed Harry on the lips. "If we go back up, we can do it again before the meeting".
This time the pot Molly was holding dropped to the floor and Tonks just smirked.
Ch 25 the night and morning before the trial.
"Harry looked at her and smirked a little. "Do you want the full treatment or just a quick one".
"Make it quick and we could go again".
"I WILL NOT HAVE THAT HAPPENING IN MY HOUSE" Molly screamed.
"Your house," Sirius asked, He was now looking at Harry, "Are you two doing it save".
"Well, we were thinking about expanding the family but it will at least take another nine months. So if this works Harry has to be free or I will bring a little Potter into the world without a family" Tonks told him as she rubbed her belly that she had made to look like there was a baby inside. The others were looking at her with an open mouth and Fleur placed her head on the table. Tonks knew that the girl had figured out they were playing.
Sirius did too and went on, "Why are you two putting such a hurry behind it".
Tonks wanted to answer him but she didn't know the right words. "Well, Sirius" Harry started. "Tomorrow I have to stand before Madam Bones because I have read that you have to deal with the head of the D.M.L.E when it's about things like this. Fudge will be there too but she has to deal with me. It was something Albus could have told me, but I think he wanted me to learn it all on my own. It might be his way of teaching me, you know keep me in the dark and figure it out on my own. Then when I do he can tell me I have done good and he is proud of me. Or when my wand is snapped he can tell me he is disappointed in me". Harry looked at Molly to see if she would speak up, but to his surprise, she didn't. She is learning he thought to himself. "Now I do think that my wand will be snapped and I will be thrown in Azkaban. If that happens I can not be the Lord Potter and the ministry can take it from me when I have done twenty years. With Tonks carrying my child, the Potter line can go on". It was at that point Harry stopped as he looked at Tonks.
"No," she said. "You don't think". Harry gave her a slow nod.
"What, what" Sirius called out.
"Harry is right. Suppose the heir to a Lordship is locked up in Azkaban. Then the ministry can take it away after twenty years. After that everyone who thinks he has a claim, can claim it. If none go for the claim the ministry can give it to another Lord or appoint another person" It was at that time that Tonks snapped her fingers. "It explains a lot. Lucius has been telling everyone that Draco will get the Black Lordship because Narcissa is a-black".
"Never, If there is one who has the claim it is Harry because his grandmother was a-black. But it does explain why they want me dead. The blacks play a key role in the Wizangemot. If Lucius gets his hands on it, you might never know what he does with it. In his hands, the Darkside gets the upper hand and that will mean a whole lot of trouble for all of the wizarding world".
"Never going to happen," Harry told him. They all looked at him but Harry just smirked. "I do not know what tomorrow will bring, But I will make sure we will get to a point where I can bring Lucius into the discussion".
"Harry it is a trial, and it will be kept to the reason why you have done magic," Tonks told him.
"Well, I have seen Voldemort return," Harry said, Ignoring the people who flinched away. "That might have given me the fear to think someone was after me. I did see Lucius there so there are a lot of ways to get him into the trial. If any of them say I'm lying I will take an oath that I'm not. Will he do the same".
His words might have been a matter of fact. But Tonks knew that they were true even if he did like they weren't "So you want me to keep an eye on him, and blast him when I can".
Harry looked at Tonks and just nodded.
#*
Apolline knew that tonight was the last night she had the chance to go to get her stuff together. Tomorrow, many High-priestesses had one more thing to do for their leader. So as she stood before the church she waited for the insect to meet her. "Hallo Miss Delacour" Rita called out as she held open the church door for her.
Apolline walked in and looked at the upside-down cross. "You all know it is only a symbol and does not have a real meaning". Rita looked at the cross and frowned, it was clear she didn't know any of it. "Well, it has many stories. Some from Christ and others from Satanic rituals. Morgana used it as a symbol to say that her coven was here. If another would comment about it".
"The priest would say they were hanging it but were looking for another nail," the pastor said as he walked up to Appoline smiling all the way. "It is a pleasure to have you here this night. Shell, we go to the alter" Apolline nodded.
It was down in the basement, that Apolline saw all of the members of this coven. She looked at all of them and smiled when she saw Bathilda standing next to their Priestess. "Sybill Trelawney, How is it that you are here of all people? I thought you had left when Dorea Potter died".
Sybill took off her glasses and gave a soft smile. "Dorea Potter didn't die, she and Charlus went on. It was at the start of the war that Dorea Potter came to me. She told me I had to take her place and that she was called. Lily had become pregnant and she knew it was time to go. She told me they would die from Dragon Poks. But we all know that the people with Morgana's blood will go to Avalon. So she went on because she knew Lily and Harry would take over".
"Are you still playing the drunk teacher at the school".
This time she nodded. "When I met Albus in that pub I had to call up the Prophesy I have called out a month before I went to him. We knew the Potters were working with him and we needed him at our side. By telling the Prophesy again I thought he would help us. He didn't and took away the only hope we had. Some of us knew Sirius was his godfather and Harry would be placed with one of us. That all went downhill after Dorea Potter went on. So we had hope Walburga would help us".
"Walburga may have been one of us, but she never went all the way. She placed a Dark Wizard before the kids. He was killing children, children we were told to save. The coven was created for that part only. The only one he has now is Tonks and my daughter. He still needs at least one more to start a Coven".
This time Rita stepped to the front. She had kept her word and called a meeting to get Apolline to her Coven. When she was allowed to speak she swallowed, "I think he already has his coven. At Hogwarts, there were a couple of Witches who were already starting to go towards him. It was clear in their fourth year when they didn't go along with the bulling".
"Do you think Harry has seen them". Rita Skeeter shook her head. The last thing she thought about was that she knew that Harry would have been oblivious to those things.
#*
The clock on the wall told Amelia that it was time for dinner. She knew that Tonks was with Harry for the last night before his trial. There wasn't much they could do before it. His stay in the hospital had been long enough for a report about his medical past and current health. It told them enough but not everything. The reason why he had been in that state at the hospital was that it was less ideal. It had taken Andromeda a fair amount of time to get him back to ideal. His body had been through a lot and he had not been eaten enough. So after she had given him a couple of nutrient potions he had been healthy enough to get back. But to get him to that point had taken all the time they would have needed to talk to him. Something that didn't happen in the time they had. So in the words of Susan, they had to wing it.
Just as she had thought about Susan she remembered that she still had to talk to her. So she got to her feet and went for dinner. She expected Susan to be there, but she hadn't expected Hannah to be there too. "Aunty we are ready for tomorrow. We will all be at Neville's when Miss Longbottom wants us to be there. She got the letter today telling her the Trial will be at Ten Thirty" Susan looked at her aunt and started to smile. "Aunty what are you thinking".
"Well, that is wonderful news. I know Harry will be there at eight in the morning because Arthur was going to bring him it is what Tonks told me. It will give me enough time to get him and prepare him for what we need him to do". With no dinner, she got to her feet and went to her office to prepare herself for the next day. It had been something Susan had seen before so she made a plate and brought it to her. Her aunt would eat when she got hungry and it would all be okay.
"So, Susy" Hannah started. "If Harry is going to be there that early, should we be up and ready at that time too" Susan looked at her friend and frowned a little. "Think about it, when did something go right, when it was with Harry".
"Good point, lets Floo call Neville".
#*
Sirius was looking down and thought about the way Tonks and Harry were talking. It was clear to him that the two of them had gotten really close in the last couple of days. His Dog animagus gave him a k9 nose. So he did smell them on each other but he didn't smell sex on them. They had been together because he could smell both of them on each other. This time he had to speak up, "You think you can make it so that he will have to take the floor".
"I only have to say that he is a pussy to kiss the ass of a half-blood and he will curse me. If he does he has to be arrested. I will make sure it will be on the wireless one way or another. If Tonks is right Minister Fudge wants nothing more than to be the best he can be while he can call him the minister".
"And there you have the spoiled brat again" Molly screamed as she walked back into the kitchen followed by Ron.
Harry gave a little sigh as he looked from Molly to the clock. Slowly he got to his feet and stepped behind Sirius and Remus. As he placed his hands on their shoulders he shook his head a little. "I will leave you all alone for tonight. I know Albus will only string me along so there is no need for me to be here. But you can tell him, that if I'm in a fight and he is in my way, I will go through him".
"Like you can beat the headmaster," Ronald said.
Fleur had pulled her wand again but she didn't point it. Harry just looked at his old friend and stepped a little closer. "I might not beat him, but I have one thing he has not. I now have friends who will not stab me in the back". Harry knew he had hurt Hermione when he said it, but he didn't really care all that much. She had made her bed so she had to sleep in it for a while. Tonks had told him she tried and he knew she had this thing with Adults and authority figures. She was looking and opening her eyes, that is what Tonks had told him. He also knew Fleur was looking out for her, but he wasn't ready to forgive her just yet. It might be done someday, but not right now. "Ronald, I also have faced Voldemort four times and Albus doesn't want you to know that. I have flown a dragon, did he do it? I have killed a Basilisk, did he do that? I even drove away Dementors last year when I was still in school, As far as we know it was his first time too. So you just keep on sucking up to him, while I save the world. If the ministry snaps my wand tomorrow, Then I will not help the magical world anymore. and you can stand behind Albus if he is not hiding behind you".
"Harry you can stay tonight" Sirius called out.
"Yes, I could, but he will just walk away again. So I might not be allowed to defend myself, That does not mean I will not keep you all from the things he thinks needs to be done. You have to get into it with open eyes. At the same time, I will find my own way. With him, without him, or through him, Because I'm done".
#*
Allan Croaker was still looking at the arc or the veil. He still didn't know who the woman who was standing on the other side was. She was still laughing at him and she had been doing it for the last two days. He knew the reason why she was laughing because he could not get through. It was clear that the Veil was a doorway to another place but he didn't know where. He had to laugh a little himself. If he had been a Muggle he would have freaked out. Because he was not he wasn't that surprised by it. They had trunks that were small on the outside be a mansion on the inside. So this doorway was kind of normal. On the other hand, it was not because it had never been a doorway like this, only an arc with a mist inside of it that killed people.
So while the person on the other side had laughed at him, He had been looking at every inch of the thing but could not find anything that was different than three days ago. He even got a couple of his Unspeakebles to help him find anything that could explain it. It didn't help one bit. So as he sat there looking at the arc, he knew he had a couple of people to tell what he had found. There were three people and two of them were not on his friendly list. The first was the Minister. If he would tell him, then Lucius would know and all the other Death Eaters would know it as well. He never believed he was impressed that time, and he believed that if that Potter boy was right. Then Lucius would be standing by his master again. The second was Albus Dumbledore. Now he could trust him because he was on the good side. No, his problem with Albus was that he wanted to know everything, but that would not be the other way around. The last was Amelia Bones. Now that was a firecracker. She was right to the point and would not take a no for an answer. She would help you, but you had to give as well. It was his kind of person to have. If it was up to him she would become the next minister and all would be put right. For now, he could not talk to her, because she had enough other things to do. One of those things was to prove if the Potter boy was right or not.
The other thing was Sirius Black. He never believed that that boy was a Death Eater. He never expected him to last as an auror either. Now Azkaban he was expecting that in that boy's future. Not for being a Death Eater, but for getting a pureblood daughter pregnant and making a runner. That boy was horny all the time and it would have landed him in that place somehow. It brought him back to his first person because that person wanted him dead for nothing more than the money of the blacks. He was sure that if that would happen Lucius would have gotten the seat in the Wizangemot and that would have been the end of it".
As Croaker was sitting there he was looking at the woman. She had sat down and was now getting back up. To him, it looked very slow as she did it. Like he was looking at a woman moving in slow motion. It had been three hours ago that he saw someone walking into the doorway. Yeah, that was a good word for it a doorway. When he saw the person he knew he had seen her before. He had seen her walking these hallways and it had been about sixteen or seventeen years ago. He had been shouting at the doorway but he was sure his voice didn't carry through it. So there was no need for him to call out again. But the woman he saw was a woman he thought had died. As he looked on he knew she wasn't or she was. Was he looking at the great adventure, the world after? Was this arc the doorway to the great land beyond? Was this the place where the goddess ruled the world?
Croaker shook his head and got to his feet. He first went to the arc and looked at the woman. He was right and she was the one he had seen so long ago, so this was the door to the next great adventure. He turned on the spot and made his way to the office. Tomorrow he would wait outside the Wizangemot chamber and the moment they were done he would drag Amelia back here and let her try to make heads of dragon tails off it.
#*
It was around midnight when there was a sharp knock on the bedroom door.
Tonks had been lying with a sleeping Harry in her arms as she looked up at the ceiling. It was then there was a soft knock. Tonks had been looking on. Harry had literally thrown his hand back and pushed her down, and he pointed his wand at the door. She grabbed him around the shoulder and whispered into his ear. "Stop it, Harry, It is not an ambush, It is Sirius who wants to talk about the meeting". Tonks looked on as Harry started to shake. He didn't only shake his hand which was holding the wand, his whole body was starting to shake.
"Harry, Harry calm down" Tonks was talking but it didn't seem to help him at all. He was only shaking and he was not thinking clearly. As she looked on she could see sparks flying from the tip of his wand. "Harry calm down," Tonks called out again.
"Tonks, can I come in" Sirius called out from behind the door.
"Sorry Sirius. I think Harry is stuck in a vision or something like that". She heard him saying something that sounded like I would be in the kitchen, but her mind was more on Harry. "Tell, me Harry, Talk to me".
The wand of Harry started to drop down slowly. "Tonks he killed again, He killed four people, four muggles near the house he had grown up, He is checking on his Horcruxes".
Tonks listened and her mind was slowly fetching on, "How do you know where his Horcruxes are". Tonks had just asked the question and saw Harry point at his head before he lost his lunch. Tonks looked down and realized why he didn't eat so much. He was sick of the things he saw. It made her realize he was seeing far more than she knew or she could imagine. It took him a little longer to get himself back together.
She took him into a hug and held him closer than he had ever been held before. Well held in a loving way according to her. "I, not only see the things he is doing through his eyes, I also see the things his snake is seeing. And somehow I see the inside of a closet. A box I think I'm buried somewhere. I also see a very big room with all kinds of stuff. The last place I see is a smaller room like the inside of my trust vault".
She heard the words he was telling her. She also heard the things he said, but it took a while before she realized what he was telling her. "Harry" she asked softly to get his attention. "What are you talking about" The moment she said it, she knew she had to be more clear or she could make him doubt her again. "I believe you but I'm not sure what you mean, can you be more clear".
Harry looked at her and his eyes were searching hers. Tonks knew he was judging her by looking at how she looked back. She could only hope he could see that she was not leading him on. His magic rubbed over her and wrapped her tight. It wasn't hurting her it felt like a blanket she had missed for a very long time. Her hair shifted back and she felt her face morphed to her basic form. His magic was making her turn back and her eyes became big. He was making her do it and it felt right. It felt like she had to be like this. His little body in her arms felt just as right and like it was a glove she pulled on. In her mind, she knew that if he was healthy it would be the other way around. She would be melting into him and not he into her.
"I don't know, I just see those things and some more than others. When I'm here I see things like I'm in a closet, I even thought I saw Kreacher one time looking back at me. That can't be right but I swear he was. When I'm at Hogwarts I see the big room with all the stuff and when I was at the graveyard I thought I was buried somewhere. I see his snake, or me because I look through its eyes, attacking a person and eating it".
Tonks had to Shiffer at the thought of it. She would not know how to feel when she saw herself swallowing a person.
"When I look through the eyes of Voldemort, something I do almost all the time. I see everything he does, like shouting at his Death Eaters and him killing people. I also see some things I like very much". Before Tonks could ask what he was already telling her. "I see how he puts the cruciatus-curse on Lucius and his other Death Eaters".
"Wait Harry do you think you can name them all" Tonks asked him and he nodded. For a moment she kept her mouth and just thought about the things they could accomplish with it. Just knowing they could wrap it up in one go was almost making her giddy.
"But most of the time it is only hurt and torture I see him doing. It is so sickening that I can't keep anything down and I think it is because of the thing I have in my head. We have to find a way to get it out of me, or you have to kill me. I will give you all I know and then you have to end it. You can not let me be taken over because I would kill you all. so we just have to end it before that even happens".
"Harry, I'm not going to kill you. I will throw magic-suppressing cuffs on you so you can't use it" It was then she got a wicked smile on her face.
"Harry looked at her and raised his eyebrows. "Do you think I have to tell you to get that dirty mind of yours thinking clearly".
"Are you telling me I have dirty thoughts, I tell you this Mr. my thoughts are wonderful, even if they are a little dirty, very dirty most of the time". So both of them landed in a fit of giggles and after that, Tonks asked them to go to the kitchen. They still needed to eat something and had to hear from Sirius what Albus had told them all.
#*
Sirius had walked back into the kitchen and shook his head slowly. "They weren't in the room," Remus asked him.
Sirius looked back at the kitchen door while he sat down on the chair. "Tonks told me something about Harry having a vision. I do not know what is happening in that room. But I'm sure something is very wrong with Harry. He is looking worse every time he comes in here. I do not know what is wrong with him but we have to find out. We did promise Lily and James to take care of him if they could not".
Just before Remus could say something Harry and Tonks walked in. They could see the looks they were getting and while Harry was oblivious, Tonks knew what the both of them were thinking. "You need to tell them, Harry. They are on your side and after tomorrow we might have them on our side. You do know my boss will try to get Sirius free, right after we get you out".
It took a while before Harry started to nod slowly. It took him a couple of minutes longer before he started to tell them some of the things he told Tonks. Tonks listened but she did hear that he was keeping a lot out of it. She found it hard to hear that he didn't trust them enough. It felt good that he trusted her more than them, but it also hurt her a little. He needed them to be at his side but he didn't trust them enough to have them there. The reaction Sirius gave him wasn't a good sign either. His screaming bloody murder was not really helping Harry in trusting them a little more. It was an hour later that Tonks took Harry back to his room and crawled next to him where they would sleep until Molly screamed and Arthur tapped on the door.
#*
It was late in the afternoon that Amelia walked back into her office. She had all the memory files from Harry and threw the first one into her pensive. She looked at how Harry had defeated the troll and it turned her stomach over. It wasn't the fighting that turned her stomach. No, It was the thought that an eleven-year-old boy had to do it. After she had seen it she wanted to rush to Hogwarts and give all of them a piece of her mind. She had seen the memory and the details in it were astonishing. He really lived through it and she was sure that if the pensive had a smell function, she would throw up from the smell of the Troll. Most of the time a memories from a fight would be about five minutes. This time she had seen it all. Not only did she see the fight. No, she saw the start of the fight in the lesson. It told her Susan had been right when she said Ronald started it. Not only that but she could see the trouble Harry had with it. He wasn't a part of it but he knew instantly that something was wrong. It told her his home life wasn't that great to begin with. It was a trade she loved to see in her Aurors, but not in children that young.
When she got to the evening meal she saw two things. She saw Harry realizing that it had been the night his parents had died and that everyone was celebrating it. She hated the fact that a professor of Defence against the Dark arts dropped down in the middle of the great hall. But also that Dumbledore had the balls to send his students into danger head-on. It warmed her heart that Harry ignored the order and went to help someone who wasn't his friend at the time. The fight was remarkable because of the way he thought on his feat. Hermione did help them with the spell that made it all happen in the first place. His Power was remarkable and he didn't even know it. So it was very late in the evening before she went to Andromeda to show her the memory but she did it with the middle cut out of it.
This is it again for this time see you all in two weeks.
Gr Winmau