Pamela Potter – The Darkness Returns

This is Book 3 of the Pamela Potter series.

Summary: An idle threat puts Pamela on edge as she has to deal with a potential murderer and soul sucking demons. Join her as she is forced to face certain truths about herself.

This story will contain some mature themes, you are forewarned.

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Sorry for the delay, I didn't have access to my PC last week.

Marauders

Pamela opted to stay at the castle during the next Hogsmead weekend, Hermione however really wanted to go. Pamela wouldn't budge, she really wanted to spend some time with Hermione, but there was a crisis in the greenhouses that she needed to attend, sure Sprout said it was nothing, but she couldn't hear the plants screaming. In the end Hermione begrudgingly went to Hogsmead alone. Pamela was halfway to the greenhouses when she ran into the Weasley twins who frog-marched her to sit on a surprisingly snow-free set of stairs.

"Ever since Sirius entered the castle we were debating on whether or not to share the secret to our success with you." They said in their roundabout way. "The temptation was there since we saw your own map during the first year. We however figured that there wasn't enough incentive back then."

"If you share this secret with me, wouldn't that affect you too?" Pamela arched a brow. "It would be easier for teachers to catch you in the act, will it not?" Pamela had seen witnessed them using their secret before using her plants.

"Ah, but that is the beauty of it, we have memorized every thing we could about this object or else we wouldn't hand it to you." They smiled at each other. "May we present to you an advanced version of your own map, made by the best pranksters this school has seen since the founders, before we showed up that is?"

"If you are sure about it, my good sirs," Pamela did a curtsy.

"This is the Marauder's map. Messrs. Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs have helped us out over the last few years and we feel no remorse in passing it onto you. If Sirius Black is in the castle it will assist you in getting to safety. We however suggest that you do not use the map to actively go and find him. Someone who is able to enter the castle unseen requires some respect, even if he is a raging murderer."

Leave it to the twins to twins to find some respect for the mischievous side of the man trying to kill her. She bid them a farewell and cleared the map before making her way to the greenhouses. Once there she closed her eyes and released her magic and connected with every plant. There was a disturbance in The Green. The plants inside were safe, but they were trying to reach out to their kin on the outside. Since they couldn't they were screaming in pain. Pamela offered them the medium to reach out.

When Pamela opened her eyes they were devoid of white. She also temporary overrode the rune necklace's power with her presence, making her green skin come forth. She had never done this before and it felt good. The flow of the plants ran through her and into the ground where she connected with every plant on Hogwarts and Hogsmead grounds. And then she found the distress, Dementors. She may not have found a happy memory of her own yet, but she pushed her knowledge of the Patronus to the plants.

Over the next few months the plants would have a mist around them, most would shrug it off as nothing, but very few would recognize the mist as a form of Patronus. One such person was currently standing outside Hagrid's hut, breathing in the fresh air when the light mist crept out of the Bleeding Heart Lily Hagrid planted in the flowerbed. His attention for some reason turned towards the greenhouses and he took off in a sprint. Hagrid soon caught up with him and in the run they decided that Hagrid would go to the castle while Lupin would deal with what was going on in the greenhouses.

Pamela's eyes glinted with the pure power that coursed through her veins at that moment. She could take on the world and they wouldn't be able to stop her. No! Pamela took in a deep breath to calm herself. She wasn't evil. The power she is wielding currently is borrowed from the plants and has to be returned to them. Pamela took a few more deep breaths and released the borrowed power and reeled in her own. She passed out just then. Luckily for her someone was there to catch her. Lupin took her up to the castle and into the Hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey assured him that Pamela was just exhausted, but she didn't drain her core.

Inside the Shrieking Shack at that same moment another person felt the overwhelming sensation wash over him. He had to resist the urge to run up to the castle to protect his goddaughter. Why did Dumbledore hire Lupin? If the old Marauder wasn't in the castle, Sirius would have been able to stroll inside as Padfoot, or as Pamela called him Snuffles, and be with her.

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Hermione Granger didn't know why dread spread into her stomach when the plants got coated in mist. All she knew is that she had to get back to Hogwarts as soon as possible. She knew leaving Pamela to her own devices was a bad idea. The girl was a magnet for trouble. Although Hermione didn't run she walked back at the fastest pace she could.

When she reached the castle she took a deep breath and turned towards the Hospital wing. When she arrived she wanted to hit something or someone, because Pamela was there lying on a bed.

"Came to see your girlfriend, Granger?" A snobby voice asked from one of the beds. It was Millicent Bulstrode.

"Why are you even here, Bulstrode?" Hermione didn't have time for her insults.

"I got cramps." Hermione grimaced at that, no girl wants that.

"Sorry to hear about your pain, I hope it goes away soon." Millicent looked taken back by the word.

"Thank you, Pamela is on the end bed, from what I heard she collapsed in exhaustion, nothing too serious."

Hermione was conflicted when she saw Pamela lying there. On the one side she wanted to slap the girl into next week for being reckless, but on the other she wanted to hug her and never let go. The girl was just so frustrating to be around with.

"Somebody got the license plate of that truck?" Pamela said her eyes still closed.

"Yes it was a vanity plate, UR5TUP1D." Hermione replied.

"I deserved that." Pamela smiled shyly. "On a kinda related note," Pamela opened her eyes and there still weren't any white in it. "I can now hear the plants all the time, not just when I concentrate."

"Pamela, your eyes are green." Hermione said trying not to stare.

"You only now noticed? I was told that my eyes were as green as my mothers." Pamela said in a playful tone.

"No I mean your sclera isn't white anymore!" Hermione was panicking by that time.

"Calm down," Pamela was freak out too, but she didn't want to show it.

"Yes Ms. Granger calm down or I would have to ask you to leave." Madam Pomfrey said with an air of finality. She was carrying something small. "According to Healer Tonks this has happened before. The green recedes slowly, but it does go away. In the mean time, Ms. Potter you should wear these, it is charmed to make your eyes appear normal."

"Glasses?" Pamela asked outraged, she never needed glasses.

The glasses had a thin green frame and tinted lenses. Pamela knew that it was meant to hide her connection to the green, but did she really want to hide a part of herself. She hardly heard that Madam Pomfrey said that she should tell the those who asked it was because her eyes were sensitive to light for a few days that she had to wear the glasses. She put them on with a sigh and followed Hermione back to the common room.

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That night as Pamela sat down on her bed she pulled out the Marauder's map and spoke the password, I solemnly swear that I am up to no good, and tapped her wand to the parchment. The familiar web of ink extended to the corners, numerous dots with names appeared all moving across the map. That was what separated Tonks' map from the Marauder's map.

"Peter Pettigrew," Pamela whispered the name when it appeared on the map. "Do ghosts appear on the map?"

Pamela tried looking for the numerous ghosts and found none. That was odd, the official report that Tonks received listed that Sirius Black killed Pettigrew in the middle of the street with a dozen muggles watching the scene. If they were mistaken about Pettigrew then maybe, just maybe Sirius was innocent. She scanned the grounds and rested on the Whomping Willow. Sirius Black just entered it, how nice.

Pamela did a double take. Sirius Black just entered the Whomping Willow. So the Whomping Willow held a secret passage. What did Lupin tell her after she lost her broom, wasn't it that they planted it the year he came to Hogwarts? Combined with that ridiculous essay on werewolves Snape gave them when Lupin missed that one class it all added up, but then that would mean.

"Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs were my father and his friends." Pamela said suddenly not aware that her curtain had been opened.

"What are you talking about Pamela?" Hermione asked looking down at the map between them.

"The Weasley twins gave me this map to avoid Sirius Black. I was comparing it to Tonks' map when something suddenly dawned on me. Do you want to prank the twins?" Pamela smiled.

"How?" Hermione was normally a stricter for the rules, unless she could one-up the twins.

"By telling them that we know who the Marauders were."

"But do we really know?" Pamela smiled even more.

"Mooney is currently in his office on the third floor sitting where his desk should be." Hermione looked at the map to see Remus Lupin where Pamela indicated Mooney was her eyes widened in surprise.

"Do you think he got the name because of his condition?" Pamela nodded. "If he is Mooney does that mean that your dad was Prongs, because of his stag Patronus?"

"That is my guess and since everybody is tightlipped about Sirius I think it would be safe to assume he was Padfoot, because Sirius is also known as the Dog Star isn't it?" Pamela looked hopefully towards Hermione who nodded.

"And lastly we can assume that Wormtail was Pettigrew."

"Is Pettigrew," Pamela pointed to the little dot indicating the name. "I already checked. Ghosts don't show up on the map."

"No Pamela you can't!" Hermione suddenly shouted, thank goodness for privacy charms. "What if you are wrong?"

"I'll have you there as back-up, won't I?" Pamela had that glint in her eye.

"I'll always have your back, but crazy is crazy." Hermione was cute when she got serious, Pamela thought. She knew that she loved her friend, but she will never act on it.

"There is another way, silly." Pamela gave Hermione the letter that Sirius wrote her. She suddenly connected the paw print to Padfoot. "If there is nothing wrong with the broom that Sirius is sending me, then we know he is on the up and up."

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It was a week before the broom arrived, and like Pamela promised, she walked up to the teachers table and deposited the broom in front of Flitwick and Lupin. She told them that she didn't order it, and that it might be from Sirius Black, she didn't want to tell them that it was from him. Then they would know that he contacted her, and she wasn't sure if he could be trusted yet. Ron Weasley however protested the exchange very vocally.

The broom returned a few weeks later in as pristine condition as it was before. There was nothing wrong with it. That was enough for Pamela to reach for a spare bit of parchment and write the letter.

Mr. Sirius Black a.k.a. Padfoot

Thank you very much for the broom. I would never have suspected that it would be quite as expensive as it was. I naturally looked at a few brooms and would've replaced it with a Nimbus 2000, like my previous model not a 5000G Firebolt. Since there wasn't any malice done to the broom I felt that it was safe to write back. Sorry for the delayed response.

I believe that you have been framed for the murder of Peter Pettigrew and offer my condolences. I would have liked to meet up at one stage, but my best friend is still not convinced of your innocence.

Hope you are well

Pamela Lillian Potter a.k.a. Palm Lily the daughter of Prongs

Pamela drew a picture of a Bleeding Heart Lily under her name and sent it off with one of the owls in the Owlery. As predicted it flew towards the Shrieking Shack.

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